skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your statement is wholly incorrect.

https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/business/vat/what-is-v...

That page says that VAT is 'a consumption tax because it is borne ultimately by the final consumer. It is not a charge on businesses.'
That should be the goal of any browser vendor: collaboration towards getting new tech standardized.
Just that they need to have a visible warning. If you go to Zen Magnet's website there are big warnings telling you that if you eat these you could die and that you definitely don't want to give them to children. I think that's reasonable.
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What’s the smallest HD in production these days? 500GB?
Drivers already don't pay for the infrastructure they use. Both public and private are subsidized by the government, hence everyone.
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> Parking is expensive

Not expensive enough to cover the costs.
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Then you have 2x the capital costs, plus less room for seating etc.
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when I think "low cost shovelware" my mind is drawn to the Wii. Keep in mind developer unfriendly isn't entirely a bad thing...
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> Neither Chrome nor Firefox's JSON.parse accept JSON5. I'm not sure what browser API you mean.

This is a typo, I meant "can't" not "can". Off course browsers don't support JSON5 or my message makes no sense whatsoever.
guest/pass if you're finicky about log-ins
This is good to know if I ever find myself working at this scale.

I don't have skin in the game but it makes sense that a much older, tested technology would have more people who know it well.
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The humans sub-systems compliment each other and at the same time feels like backups of each other. The hardware of genes get adjusted by the software of epigenetics.

And who knows what we have yet to find. But it's making more and more sense in a why didn't we see this sooner sorta way.
I had the idea for the Sub sandwich version of this on my way home from Iraq in 2010. I wanted a sub sandwich, and was still on middle east time, however Baltimore airport didn't have anything open at 2AM when I landed. So the thinking was, why not have a completely automated sandwich shop, that cut everything fresh as it was ordered? The thinking goes, that if you automate the ends of the farm to table process, cooking/service and Growing/picking, then automating the logistics (transport) will make more sense.

After about a year or two of engineering sketches and business planning I gave up on it because it would take a few years for the technology to be capable and people to be ready for a wholly automated restaurant - with one person there for QC/fixes. Plus it would probably be 1-2M just for a prototype. Sure enough in 2011 Momentum machines came out with their prototype, and now 7 years later they have a new brand and a working shop.

Kudos to them. If they do it right, these guys could automate field to table and drive food costs to zero with minimal waste.
If I'm not studying for any particular cert (I'm just looking to fill some gaps in my knowledge) then it looks like BIRD is the way to go.
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Microsoft was in PRISM according to Snowden, so also have ties to the NSA.
McDonalds is a real estate company that sells hamburgers...
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In my opinion it is very disingenuous to talk about suicide and ignore the medications these people were taking.

In many cases the medications have been reported to be correlated with a strong increase of suicidal tendencies when interrupted abruptly or without warning.

This is the case for some prescribed anxiolytics, and also for the drug Bourdain was allegedly taking to combat his tobacco addiction.
Can I have multiple profiles open at the same time?
I strongly disagree with this idea. And the romanticizing of of the "maybe joined the army, married young" path. For one, the world is a little different now than when this path was normal - things are mass produced and menial jobs are outsourced to third-world countries, work that doesn't require specialized training is being automated. You can't open a mom and pop retail store around the corner and expect to survive in the age of Amazon and Walmart. It's also more expensive than ever to start a business - healthcare costs are through the roof, and big businesses have managed to finagle tax breaks that you won't get. Also since OPs comment was referring to the businesses started by those with master's degrees and higher, factor in student loans which have skyrocketed (increasing the risk you're taking on). Also, factor in housing costs in cities, which is where you need to be if you want to start something niche and technical. The fact is economic incentives are set up so that it's just way way more beneficial for a 25 year old to join a big company than to start their own (and definitely more so than joining someone else's startup...which makes hiring for startups harder - and round and round it goes).

You can reply with polemics about the joys of working for yourself etc., but clearly there must be a point where the financial beating you take from doing so makes it not worth it. To me, this data indicates that we have reached that point.
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Honestly, I hope he gets competitors. How great would fast food be if it was all made exactly the same way every time, with high quality ingredients?
I remember a service already available in the 1990s to compute and collect proper tax in every US zip code. Its not rocket science folks.
They couldn't find out why I am procrastinating. We are on par.
The Juicero 2.0 fails as expected.
> I'm going to act like I don't know how anything in the real world works so I can go on a moral crusade against this guy I heard is bad.
It's not a very rigorous answer, but I sorted HDDs on Newegg by price ascending, and the cheapest one was 1TB @ 44USD. There were several 128 and 120GB SSDs below that.
The article is citing the SemiAccurate report directly. I actually read some of the SA authors other work on the topic, and he's done some detailed analysis. This one was interesting.
https://seekingalpha.com/article/4181940-asian-aib-read-gpu-...

It seems he has been tracking the AIB monthly revenue data out of Taiwan as well as trying to reconcile 2017 numbers with what Nvidia/Amd have reported on mining.And in Nvidia's case he seems focused on the CEO attributing gaming revenue strength in q1 entirely to Fortnite/PUBG when gamers had virtually no access to cards. So, the way I read it is he took the SemiAccurate report as evidence that CEO has gotten it wrong, and that this explained the very vague 'not for a long time' comment at Computex.
I use higher-level APIs built on top of restartable sequences. Here's my understanding (could be wrong):

> I suspect that something like a heap implementation could use this.

Indeed. Let's say you want to have lots and lots and lots of threads, as described in the video schmichael linked. [0] Per-thread malloc pools become less attractive:

* too empty (lots of contention for the global pool) or
* too full (lots of wasted RAM, probably poor CPU cache utilization as well) or
* lots of sloshing

More generally, people sometimes do per-thread stuff to avoid lock contention. Some types of state might be reasonable to keep per-thread when the program is written in a thread-per-core / async style but might not be it's written in a thread-per-request / sync style. It might use too much RAM. If you ever have to access _all_ the threads' state (say, if you are doing some counters for a monitoring system: increment just the current thread's state on write; sum them on read), that path might get ridiculous. So per-CPU might work better.

Per-CPU stuff doesn't require restartable sequences. You can just use the CPU number to decide which shard to access then lock it or use atomics as you would with global state. You get less lock contention and cache-line bouncing. (Alternatively, you might get some of these benefits by picking a shard randomly, if the rng is cheap enough. Or a counter.)

Restartable sequences let you entirely avoid atomic operations for per-cpu stuff.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXuZi9aeGTw
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Honestly I don't think there are
Counterpoints:
1. It's not concentration, it's creation. There's probably not an active conspiracy to make the rich richer. (Your phrasing seemed to connotate that)
http://www.paulgraham.com/ineq.html

2. We tried forming a broad spanning coalition and charging it wit public transportation (among other things). Then we gave it 30-40% of all economic activity. And yet, people apparently still feel like only excitable billionaires can fix public transport. I don't see how taking more money from the billionaires and putting it into the government would help.
The problem is not the general idea of paying sales tax. It's the complication of having ten thousand different sales tax jurisdictions. Complying with the law should not be such a nightmare you need to hire a middleman.
If you cared, you could have expected that lifetime for the CD-R you talk about. The effect that hit your discs, is not one that hits tape or BD-R (except LTH). It is actually more closely related to Flash, i.e. USB sticks/SSDs/memory cards.

The part about plain paper is not true, we know how to make anorganic storage that can be read out with easy technology, think just a small piece of glass.
I am specifically speaking about application of the Milleniata technology, i.e. sandwiching a thin carbon layer between glass, and then using a strong laser to change the crystal structure of the carbon layer, to something used like microfilm. If you compare it to a good, solid book, this should be at least as cheap as the book, likely cheaper.

The only real risk for normal BD-R is delamination, which should be comparatively easy to fix (at least if looking at the difficulties with creating a dye that neither rots nor returns to it's base state without a lot of light).

None of the high-density analog storage formats I know has a significantly better outlook that a single-sided, single-layer gold DVD (actual gold, not a dyed substrate). That one can only be made by either surface ablation or direct molding of the data into the substrate, which requires a mask to be made beforehand.

Short of something that eats the substrate, this should last _very_ long.
I was wondering why there's a building site in downtown Palo Alto that's a dirt lot with a single short wall held up by a lot of props!
Unless they speed up the machine (possible with future versions) or add multiple machines (which increases the required retail space as well as capital expenditures), they're limited by the robot's 5 min throughput. Serially cooking is no way to run a restaurant.

A grill at Red Robin operates in parallel and can easily beat this thing at throughput.
Entirely. There is no superior substitute for either.
Works for me out of the box! spellchekc too.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/348mh6wlmuayflp/Screenshot%202018-...
So how do you purport to have a global electronic payment network?
I'm a little disheartened that nearly everyone so far has immediately jumped to finding flaws in this stories and ones like it.

I get it, there is a long history of such robots failing economically.

However, automating food assembly could free a huge number of people from menial restaurant work.

Perhaps we would see an explosion of food culture and personalization that simply doesn't exist when you have several fast food chains operating tens of thousands of stores worldwide and the cost of opening up a unique restaurant is greater than many people's lifetime earnings.

I hope this problem is solved one day in my lifetime, and that we all benefit from lower food assembly costs and increased dietary options.
the CPB is dying under Trump. So it's not really a victory; but i'm sure they are happy they can sell their magnetic balls of death.

> I bought a pair of bucky balls; it was fun but once you start loosing them and if you have pets... best not to buy them

small enough that it's easy to loose
Yes, the next edition will allow breaking changes, while still allowing you to use crates written in the older edition.
So they finally came out with the rumored restaurant, with 8 years + USD$25M down. Spyce[0] (slammed by HN[1]) beat them to it, on a smaller budget, with the same 'restaurant with partial automation' model. By all accounts (including the friendly founder of Bistrobot, who was unfairly slammed in the article), US regulations are not friendly toward innovation in this space making a restaurant-based launch an effective requirement.

Previous statements from the company included Our alpha machine replaces all of the hamburger line cooks in a restaurant. It does everything employees can do except better and that US restaurants can save USD$150,000/year on staff salaries. Current reality: many staff, USD$16/hr each, manual finishing, manual preparation of sides and drinks, manual cleaning.

In 2016 I founded Infinite Food here in China. We're developing a fully automated model more akin to a wholly owned and operated network of futuristic vending machines and logistics fleet than a restaurant. Consumers order and pay through an app. Starting from fresh ingredients stored in a fridge within each unit, we cook noodle, pasta and soup dishes to taste, with an average 3 minute hot meal preparation, packaging and retail time and mere seconds for cold dishes. Think ramen/soba/udon/nyangmyeon/pho/pad thai/laksa/various pasta/various Chinese noodles with total customization. In addition, we provide real time nutritional feedback on personalization, allow for ordering in any human language and 24x7x365 availability. Our core idea is to get physically closer to the high density Asian urban consumer than any other food retail option, and offer a broader choice of fresher food.

Early on we looked at the whole problem took the strategy of simultaneous innovation at the appropriate layer: central facility, logistics network or service location based upon available technology and allowable tradeoffs. There's no public evidence any of the US players have much investment in this area, whereas we have a provisional business method patent filed for our solution with more on the way. Currently we are relocating across the Pearl River Delta from Shenzhen to launch operations in Zhuhai and take advantage of the new HK-Macau bridge while hedging regulatory risk across three launch markets (HK/Macau/Guangdong - China's most populous province) and are raising Series A to deploy 300 locations next year.

Total relative spend vs. MM/Creator: ~5% + 1/3 time. Some of the things we've achieved they haven't: full personalization, zero in-field maintenance, true self-cleaning, automated packaging and cutlery provisioning, logistics innovations. Estimate net profit/sale in initial markets: ~USD$2+. Max hot sales/hr: 80. Max cold sales/hr:200+. Meals/restock: 200+. Parallel meal prep.: Up to 4x. Footprint: 2x1 square meters. Prospective investors are welcome to check us out at http://infinite-food.com/ or email in profile.

[0] https://www.spyce.com/

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16792371
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It's probably something about seemingly random nonce generation being (selectively) not-so-random after all.

The "not-so-random-but-seemingly-unrelated" nonces possessing relatable properties that permit discovery of secret keys, through little known, obscure relationships, preferably difficult to establish computationally, thus placing them on a shelf that not only few would look for, but also few could reach.

With this capacity to force the selective production of relatable private keys, given a public key generated according to said relationship, only a small audience would know to search for the related private key.

Ideally, the production of linked, discoverable public/private key pairs would be the default for the open public, and thus a deniable "accident" but with options to enable select, preferred chipsets (e.g. intel/amd brand only) to activate buses that will produce hardened, secure, unrelatable keys to those that have extra solder in all the right places.

Meanwhile, figure everything focuses on primes for integral quotients to prove clear relationships in most crypto problems, because it's easiest to reason correctness, so stacking tons and tons of layers on top of a desirable quotient will usually obscure such a fact from most snoops.

But, now we have new technology which binds massively parallel calculations (mostly by way of fast fourier transforms) to speed-of-light waveform oscillations. Such calculations that were not previously trivial, are reduced to, perhaps smallish functions with only the number of iterations to perform-and-test-output, before returning.

Determining whether the introduction of quantum computing is the only way such back doors could possibly be exposed to the general public, would be a necessity, prior to making advanced technology widely available.

If it does result in a high probability of exposure, then a narrative of controlled exposure also needs to be crafted, so that the old back doors can be retired in an orderly fashion, while ramping up new covert information vectors compatible with powerful quantum waveform calculations that put an exponentially larger amount of calculation cycles in the hands of civilians, which were previously unavailable with 20th century solid state electronics. Whether people have a clue how to use all those extra cycles or not.

Probably.
I know it's not quite what you're asking for but Java's annotations allow for pretty reasonable and compose-able preprocessors to implement things like this. Checkout lombok's @Builder annotation https://projectlombok.org/features/Builder
I used atom for so long and at work we were kind of forced in a way to use vscode which opened my eyes that vscode really is better in terms of speed and auto formating etc, meaning you have plugins but it doesn't seem to add weight to it where atom just chugged. I have a 3 year old macbook pro, a spanking new macbook pro and a 2 year old mac pro. It was severely noticeable on the 3 year old one for sure and always noticeable although considerably less on the spanking new one.
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Notably, if tuition slowed down (forcibly, incentivized, or through other methods) this would also alleviate the problem.

Since the late 70's / early 80's, its been rising at 3-3.5% above inflation every year. Median income has basically just tracked inflation. So the relative cost has effectively more than tripled for normal folks.

https://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user5/i...

Even if we allow people to discharge loans, we can't keep giving them the loans in the first place. Paying back school costs that in inflation adjusted terms almost quadruple what your parents paid is not feasible unless real, after inflation incomes are quadruple. Which is almost, by definition, impossible. IE, education costs really need to be flat with inflation for this system to remain stable. Right now we have behavior that looks more like speculation.

Admittedly, its kind of self correcting. You have more debt. Take longer to pay it back. Work longer before a family is an option. Can afford to have less kids. Can afford to help them with college less. Or ... someone comes along with a needle and it all deflates - likely rapidly.

Unfortunately, in the middle there we have an Idiocracy situation, with a whole generation of indentured servants trapped through debt bondage.
The big reason I still use Atom is that it's both more visually customizable (VS Code is somewhat locked to its core layout) and that it BY FAR has the best ESlint support. VS Code is nice, and definitely faster, but it just has rougher support for addons at this point, and is just a worse UX for more complex integrations.

In general I use Sublime when I need fast editing of a one-off script, or basic work on things. I use Atom for JS development, and VS Code for the rest. If Atom was faster for starting up and handling larger projects, I'd much prefer it, but for now, I make due with VS Code.

Really, one of my biggest gripes with all of them, and VS Code especially, is that the addon ecosystem has a serious discoverability problem. If I want to find a new theme, or find a new addon for a specific language or whatever, it's much easier in Atom than almost anywhere else. When one of them fixes that, I'll be happily in on it.
In my area Sonic uses AT&T pipes and accepts an AT&T requirement that they charge the customer a high monthly fee for the rental of a modem, imposed as a policy even if the customer owns and uses their own modem. Not to mention that they bundle service with extra charges for an unwanted land line. So Sonic isn’t looking so great from here. Were they bought up by someone?
Technical feasability aside, I really cringed when the founder started talking about how this gives their employees time to do more meaningful things, like reading books.

Just face it - you're automating a job. If your company succeeds, more people will become unemployed. That's not to say you shouldn't do it, but call it what it is and take responsibility.
You know what really boggles my mind? You are the only person so far who has had a sane reaction to this. All these other people saying "this sounds like fun" are making me cringe in revulsion.
Emojis make your code a little more like math formulas. In math formulas you use single letters. This makes the syntax easy to parse, but has the drawback that the letters are mostly meaningless and so not very suggestive. Names in programming language tend to be words. This makes it easier to remember what they are supposed to stand for but also make the syntax hard to parse and other occurrences hard to spot

Emojis combine the best of both worlds. Like the letters used in math they are easy to parse and it's really easy to find other occurrences of the same var when the name is an apple . But like the more verbose names in programming languages they can carry meaning. Eg I use the dango emoji for arrays and the monitor emoji for window instances.
I'm not sure if it is more horrifying or beautiful that we inhabit an internet culture where we can't immediately write off "I use emoji as function names" as sarcasm.
are they related in a hidden way?

Sometimes, that's all you need to hear.

Probably.
Oh, I didn't know that: this is also great for serializing code where you might have an array of `Class`, it would still be a POD-type to use C++ language.
> they're limited by the robot's 5 min throughput

5 minutes is latency. The article says nothing about throughput, but the video shows multiple burgers pipelined on the machine's conveyors.
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There is such a thing as 5d memory storage, which I understand basically uses etched glass and is thus super mega stable, although I'm not too sure about the costs involved in heavy use for things like day to day archiving https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/5D_optical_data_storage
> Tax-shopping is done by everyone

And that includes Elon, and he can be judged for it.

As for my other claims, I'm from Reno and I know what the labor situation is like up there and how Tesla lied to the city and county about their plans.
Here in Colombia the plastic bags in stores cost some (very little) money now.

Suddenly, people discover that are not as necessary!

Now, people take stuff with their own hands (before EVERYTHING was put in a plastic bag, event single units that are already in plastic bags!) or use bags made of fabrics or just get one with them...