skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 70 percent of global emissions come from just 100 companies

The first “company” on that list is China. I mean that literally, look at the actual report[1]. This article and the Guardian piece completely misrepresent the actual conclusion.

[1] https://b8f65cb373b1b7b15feb-c70d8ead6ced550b4d987d7c03fcdd1...
You'll go from being slightly tracked to tracked within an inch of your life if you use Amazon Prime.
> People can’t seem to figure out why inflation is so low with employment so high.

Because "inflation" only exists in the sense that someone has arbitrarily decided what to measure, how to measure it, how to add or remove items from lists, and how to weight everything...and the cranky codger economists that decided to create the index as it is are obviously not experiencing price inflation.

It is not uncommon for an older person who is 30 years into his career and 25 years into a mortgage to be paying less than 5% of his income in housing costs. Recent college grads in this economy have faced what could probably be called hyperinflation...my own rent prices have increased 3x from less than a decade ago, and while I'm relatively well off, rent is still 30% of my income. For some of my peers, it's closer to 50%. If rent goes up 4 percent again, some of those people will have outpaced the CPI on just their housing alone!

Young people have seen their health care expenses skyrocket as well. Old people, thanks to various legislative ways to spread costs around, haven't. Same goes for education: older people don't need it anymore, young people are breaking their backs trying to get it.

I think it would be fair to say that in terms of what the working population is experiencing, our official inflation figures are severely understated. Inflation is legitimately hard to measure. The fact that we take a handful of metrics that only a few people can barely understand, and we base our entire monetary policy off of it should be alarming to everyone. But it's not, and it won't change until long after it has broken an entire generation of voters.
I worked in ad tech for a number of years, so maybe I can address this one.

Ads that are annotated with tracking/targeting capabilities are in fact substantially more valuable. There's the obvious aspect (targeted ads in general) but there's also the ability to measure whether your ads are actually working. Analytics requires tracking too.

This is an oversimplification, but let's say you're buying ads at 10 cents per thousand impressions. But you have no ability to tell who saw which adds and clicked where. Would you be willing to pay... say, 12 cents per thousand impressions to get actionable analytics? Would you be willing to pay, say, 20 cents per thousand to specifically target people who looked at your product on Amazon? Maybe not at those exact numbers, but you'd probably be willing to pay some substantial amount more, because that strategy (retargeting) works measurably better for converting an ad view into a purchase.
> It's true and they're now mostly dead. Either gone completely or in a zombiefied state.

This is the fate of virtually all closed communities.

You will have to do better than that.

Torr3nt sites are pursued relentlessly by authorities and are aggressively closed in what people would call censorship just a short 10 years ago.

I know a few t0rr3nt sites in my country with semi-closed and small backbone communities and they are VERY functional and very lively.
I'm curious to know if DuckDuckGo promotes itself using privacy-invasive platforms. How much do they truly value privacy if they're willing to let others invade for them?

Reason I ask is because strangely enough, after reading this article, I hopped on Reddit and saw a promoted ad for DuckDuckGo. That can't have been a coincidence...
Simply, an "economy in equilibrium" is one in which there is no concept of Debt.

Once you introduce Debt you get cycles. If I make $50k and can borrow $10k, I can spend $60k despite $10k of that $60k being "created from thin air". This creates an exponential growth curve whereby if I'm spending $60k, the sum of all the people who receive the $60k I spent could borrow $12k, allowing them to spend $72k. And so on.

When spending (and thus growth) is high, the central bank increases interest rates to slow it down, because too much spending leads to rising price of goods, which leads to inflation, which is not something anyone ever wants too much of. When spending is low, the central bank drops interest rates to ramp it back up.

Its easy to say "we should just get rid of debt", but the issue there is that we know debt works, when used well, even over the long run. Think about it: If I want to open a business, there's no way I can afford that without Debt. So I take out $100k. In five years, lets say I've made $500k total. I can repay that $100k, even with interest, and have a bunch of money left over. My productivity (ability to generate income) increased, and it was only possible because of Debt.

So we can get rid of debt, but we know that over the long term the economy will grow slower without it than with it. Its the job of the fed to try and keep as much equilibrium as possible, which is insanely difficult given the complexity of a 7 billion actor economy, many of whom do not treat debt with the respect it needs.
Nice domain name: https://gpython.org/
The list of "maddening" items in this article are so comically low-budget it's hard to take this complaint seriously.

None of the 9 listed in the article sound particularly egregious. Almost all are grants to research institutions, which as a process has a lot of flaws, sure, but unilaterally cutting all grant funding is definitely not the solution.

The report totals at $5 billion, but the supposedly most egregious are not even in an order of magnitude near that cost.

Meanwhile, federal income is measured in trillions.

If you want to actually cut federal spending, you have to cut pensions or military spending—political suicide.
Uh... so the bottom one of the or is CSV 1.1?

How do you define headers? There's no header for the bottom csv version so I have to manually type headers for my data frame?

I got a dataset with 87 obs and ~8700 columns here. I'm not going to manually name those columns. What's the solution?
Because nobody agrees what to cut.

Democrats don't want to cut social programs like Medicaid and Medicare. I mean, everybody needs health care so those costs are not avoidable. Unfortunately, health care costs too much because the industry overcharges.

So what does that leave us with? Well mostly military, and the Republicans (and probably many Democrats) only want to increase it. It's over $700B a year now.

If I could wave a magic wand I would:

1) Tweak social security witholding rates to ensure continued solvency. Probably the easiest thing to do.

2) Bring health care costs (ie what providers charge) down to developed world standards.

3) Either raise taxes enough and/or lower defense spending enough to balance the deficit.

It seems simple to me. But it means some people in healthcare and the defense contractors will make less. They would fight it so that's why everything stays the same.
From a human rights perspective, I'd rather the journalist die (or a dozen or so) than the hundreds/thousands of civilians in Yemen. From a bullshit political perspective, the journalist wins.

Just because civilians do not live in a NATO nation does not mean their lives are worthless and expendable.
> Here's the actual status quo: after a decade of research into autonomous cars specifically (not to mention the decades of AI and systems research before that), we are barely at the point where a car can function safely with Level 2 autonomy, in good conditions.

It's even worse. I remember seeing prototypes of autonomous cars a little bit above 20 years ago. And I don't know when that research started.
Dude, I don't know you and this is not personal. Breathe and remember there's always someone wrong on the internet. Far as I've ever been able to tell, HN is full of rudeness. It's why I don't have activity. Bigger bunch of circle jerking, back patting, myopic pedants I've rarely seen. YMMV. And I just so happen to have different accounts logged in on different devices 'cause I lost the password to my more favorite username and had to create another. shrug There's not a sneaky agenda.

I really, with all goodwill this time, recommend you spend your limited time and energy on more important matters than my misdirected flames. You spent it less than fruitfully in a tailspin over this, seemingly, and I'm sorry for that; I've been there. I should probably remember those hours when I post, but I am a deeply flawed and bitter person.
Video+Marketing+and+the+Benefits+|+MY+MONEY+BIZS
My comment may have been unclear, but I agree with this completely.
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I was surprised by how bad Microsoft's CSV support is in Excel. So much that I use Numbers or text editors for everything CSV, never do I use Excel. Excel is still great for a basic level of intensive data analysis though, so can't get away from it.
While Ds and Rs are interspersed within states, I feel like there is a lot more acrimony between states than within them. I feel like Ds in Maryland wouldn't be so upset if they were just dealing with Rs in Maryland (and vice versa).
Ask HN: A company used my source code for their product. What can I do?
Context:

- My source is a library that this company shamelessly copy/pasted into their product (whose source is also publicly available) without even giving me credit.

- This library is a core component of one of their (I would go so far to say it IS one of their) products.

- My source is publicly available BUT it's not licensed, hence it's still considered under exclusive copyright (see https://choosealicense.com/no-permission/)

- Both I and that company are in the EU.

Normally I would never enforce anything like this but we're talking about a company that was funded using public funds (Horizon 2020) and is now making money from basically selling my library.

I want to make money out of this. Any suggestions on how I should proceed? Thanks.
I think you are both right as odd as it sounds. Their regulations are terrible, every time they have been asked to come up with an algorithm it involves a backdoor that comes to bite everyone. Meanwhile security and data usage has been a blindly obvious externality and impossible to ignore externality as of Equifax.

Arguably it goes back to identity theft being the consumer's problem in the first place and not the merchant who didn't properly validate. Since if Alice were to say that Bob the car dealer that Carol was the one paying for her brand new car when she wasn't even there it isn't Carol's responsibility. Alice would be the one guilty of fraud and Bob robbed - Carol isn't even a party to the transaction.
> PDF is (often) the only choice and PDF doesn't play nice on most readers

Yeah, that situation is the one that indirectly prompted this post. I don't really understand why the EPUB format (or .mobi, or .azw3) hasn't made significant inroads into technical books.

Print-formatted PDFs are just awful to read on anything but a medium-to-large monitor.
BIP39 and 12 word phrases to backup/restore your wallet is common knowledge in the cryptocurrency community.
It should be considered a form of child abuse.
I think he's right - the line between regular hacks and cyber warfare has been blurred to invisibility, and defending the nation is one of the most basic of governmental responsibilities.
Thank you for taking the effort to clarify your point. I think you would be received more openly if you approached it with a bit less passion. I know what it's like to be a passionate person though, so I can relate with that.
I just use Chrome's address bar. "map<TAB>" enters a maps-only search. Same for "you<TAB>" for youtube, etc.
Paul McCulley, the guy who called the housing bubble and liquidity trap first, had this to say (18 months ago):

McSquared - The Coming War between Trump & The Fed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnYZwxzxd9Y
The problem is the payment model is broken. I'm not going to subscribe to a site that I only want to read a single article.

We need a way to pay a few cents to read an article, ad and tracker free.
I agree that news outlets serve an important function. That's exactly why it is especially disheartening to see them turn into organs of surveillance capitalism.

Regardless, if you attempt to extort me with a choice between privacy or an uninformed populace, I'll happily share my view on where exactly you can stick that and spin. There are decent media outlets doing good work out there who can report and respect their readers at the same time [1].

I frankly don't care if the papers who can't figure out how to function without selling out their customers fail. Let their corpses be a cautionary tale.

[1] One outlet I subscribe to, Talkingpointsmemo.com, is in the process of offering ad-free options. I blocked them previously, and they've made no effort to break the site in the presence of blockers.
Do you find that ebook file formats like EPUB, .mobi, and .azw (when obtained from the publisher, not ones you've converted yourself) screw up the presentation?
Only because of the relative strength of the dollar. We are literally living off the backs (labor) of Chinese workers. Once it plunges, you'll see the real reckoning at hand. It will be stagflation, and people will dump dollar denominated assets faster than you can say BOOYAH! Inflation always lags.
I just ended up building a sous vide cooker with a dumb thermostat, heating element, water pump, and waterproof container. Cheap, and won't be subjected to the 'security' whims of any Internet of Trash manufacturers.
Really it is a problem of short-term greed. An impartial and accurate one has an inherit long term value that can't be beaten except by their own failure. The odd thing is that the big three responsible for lousy ratings didn't wind up supplanted by rivals after that debacle - perhaps I am missing something.
A commercial El-Al flight landed in Saudi a few years ago for emergency repairs.

Israel and KSA both benefit from people thinking they hate one another. But they don't.
Gas has been / is still low in my area.... not sure that has gone up much.

Are you saying the measurement is just for say a gallon of milk isn't for a gallon anymore or something?

I'm not sure that makes sense....
> Forgive a related question, but I have never understood why quantitively easing was used to get demand into the economy by buying back bonds. Surely the money will just get reinvested in stocks or other bonds and not stimulate demand?

It's better to think of it less as buying them back and more as not releasing as many into the market.

It allows Congress to have more spending (or more tax cuts) for a given amount of actual deficit. What Congress chooses to do with the extra money is their business rather than the Fed's. They could use it to make cash payments to everyone if they wanted to -- or middle class tax cuts, which are nearly the same thing but much easier to pass.
There are a huge number of cheap timing parts. You can even get an entire waveform generator in a 10pin MSOP.

http://www.analog.com/media/en/technical-documentation/data-...

There are many better alternatives now.

https://www.electronicdesign.com/boards/555-best-ic-ever-or-...
Nobody really takes the time to understand the political situation outside of their immediate surroundings. But the most important part of this is, the geography of partisanship is changing. States change "partisan affiliation" all at once. There are supposedly-blue states that will be red soon, and, in the medium term, several southern Atlantic states are going to go blue.

I think things are too fluid to predict any kind of clear geographic fault line.

What would be interesting would be if a state somehow broke up.
It's booming for some people. You and I are not those people.
Exactly. It's trivial today to purchase electronics without any required certifications (UL, FCC, etc) from aliexpress, etc. However, those certification programs are still alive and well, and knowledgable consumers can still seek them out.
This is a bit radical but here is a question - what is the public interest that copyrighting this data serves whatsoever - regardless of who it belongs to?
If only the $10 a month would actually give you a good value for your money then I would gladly pay them $50 a month starting today.

- They mostly host newer movies and series. If you want something older, tough luck.

- Ads for other shows. Annoying. I can go to the recommended section if I want to. They should be opt-in, not opt-out. Not to mention the clunky UX to turn them off (and I am pretty sure that's by design so less people opt out).

- Flaky connection sometimes -- and I have a gigabit link at home. Yes the internet is a complex graph and it might not be their fault, I know. That's fair but it's not my fault as well. And when I pay money I feel entitled to good service. The tech details are their problem, not mine.

Torr3nting is very often not done just because somebody is a scumbag and wants to see Brad Pitt go broke. T0rrenting many times is done because (a) you get the entire content and can later watch it anytime you wish, including repeteadly, without lags, buffering or quality drops, (b) because it gives you the option to watch offline when you are off the grid -- like I download gaming tournaments from Twitch and put them on my tablet, and (c) the paid services are not good enough.
You are probably right, but I kind of don't care, because it is not up to me to decide what others should pay attention to or spend their time on. I can only place my own bets.
Since we have fiat currency we must therefore have monetary policy. We can either adjust our monetary policy in response to changes in the economy or we can nail it to a peg and hope that it works.
> following verbal or gestured instructions from a police officer or construction worker.

If they don't broadcast it with a valid signature, just ignore them, they're not authorized to give any instructions.

> turn the road system into a closed system

You can turn it into a "closed enough" system, with every vehicle having a radio locator, and everything else being treated as an unknown obstacle... that someone could get fined for putting it on the road.
I don't disagree, but it's really really hard to determine what proper liability should be. It's easy with things like "Company X left their S3 bucket publicly accessible then put PII in it." It's much less easy when "Company Y got hacked because of a 0-day in their OS kernel, or in their web server that is an open-source project, or even a 0-day in a codebase that they own but have generally very good practices on (stuff happens, even very good devs write bugs sometimes)."

Does the Linux Foundation or a group of random devs on github that gave their code away for free get handed a massive and possibly bankrupting fine for that? And if so, why would anybody release code for free? If not, and you say that "GPL/MIT/etc. warrants no serviceability so it's on the adopter," then why would anybody use open source and open themselves up to the liability when they have zero control over the project and its associated quality control and process?

For this reason I don't think governments can do a good job at making fair regulation that doesn't have severe unintended consequences.

Something that might help tho, is providing easier civil recourse for those affected. For example, if Equifax gets hacked and leaks my identity and somebody buys a car in my name, it should be very easy for me to sue them to make it right. That's something that is clearly broken with our current system.
Or just open the CSV in a spreadsheet?
Many people working in universities could bring it back to life?

I mean I understand licensing and all that, but much of that code is past its commercial use.

Merely reading OnLisp and Let Over Lambda felt like some one opened up a new portal to a world most of the world's programmers don't even know exists.

I would die to read and learn from code written in the past.
"Nowadays, you’ll struggle to find a non-garbage TV much smaller than that"

I think that's an overstatement regarding 60 inches. I still have a 27" Samsung LCD TV that was high end when I bought it, but I did some light research and it appears that if I limit my choices to new 4K Samsung TVs that are in stock at a NYC retailer, there are plenty of 40-50 inch options. There are also 30 inch Samsung TVs if you don't mind a lower resolution.

I think it's assuming too much to assume that everybody has a $500-$1000 budget and gets the biggest thing they can afford. Some people don't have that budget, and some people who have the money still happily take the savings now that prices are down from a decade ago. And some people don't get a new device until the old one breaks.

I think an educated person should be aware of Jevon's paradox, but it's overused and abused because people cite it dogmatically to short circuit thinking or fact gathering. Risk homeostasis is another similar idea - there's something to it, but it's harmful to reasoned thinking when people go around assuming it applies 100% without checking.
How would this be represented in the "purple state" craze which started about 10 years ago?

The "purple state" deal seemed "within state purple" on a county level some comments around here seem that that this type of "purple" may erupt into a "next level purple" on a national level as if we don't have that already in terms of "swing states".

So we have "the purple" on the county level, and we have "the swing" on the state level. Out of this combined whirlwind, is there any sense to be made or had?
It wasn't removed, it was just moved to the concluding sentence. https://abc.xyz/investor/other/google-code-of-conduct.html
The Feds balance sheet is nuts. We all knew they’d need to deleverage at some point.
"The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Cybersecurity Framework is an excellent example of this... The Cybersecurity Framework — which contains guidance on how to identify, prevent, recover, and respond to security risks — is voluntary at this point, which means nobody follows it."

How "excellent" of an example could it be if no one follows it?

If he's worried about low-cost devices today that don't have security teams, it seems that fining companies for having security issues could lead to some percentage of them going bankrupt, which in turn would lead to more devices that are abandoned by their manufacturer post-launch.

I also think it would, to some degree, stifle innovation. Even if what's involved is paying some fee for some new security technology or license, that's still less money that a startup can spend on the part of the product that customers are paying for.

I wouldn't say we shouldn't have any sort of regulation whatsoever, I'm just skeptical that the government could do a good job of it.
Addresses reported with old trust root after KSK rollover
This is likely, you say... according to whom?

The author clearly expressed their lack of desire to deal with drama or toxicity. What makes you think they will tolerate it in another community?
Of course I didn't read your comment until several Google searches later.
The boom and bust cycle was actually a good thing: it gave badly managed companies an "opportunity" to go bankrupt before they grew "to big to fail". Now that FED tries to regulate market cycles it actually makes things worse. It's not a coincidence that The Great Depression happend mere 16 years after creation of FED. And while some people did loose their savings during "bust", they could quite easily make up for it during the "boom" that followed.

I don't expect economy to reach equilibrium, some mythical state of neverending growth. I want economy to stay dynamic, with boom periods interlaved with occasional, small crises.