skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That doesn't seem like a realistic answer. It requires a lot more knowledge on the part of consumers than consumers have or can readily obtain, and puts the onus on those least able to affect the behavior of those companies and puts the cost of making the change on those who have little responsibility for the choices that led us here.

We have environmental regulations, they just aren't strong enough and they often have loopholes specifically for the worst offenders (e.g. animal agriculture and shipping both externalize tremendous environmental costs on everyone). There's also differences between nations that make it possible to outsource environmental impact, which needs to be balanced.

It's not realistic to tell consumers, "Don't buy products made overseas", because for most people in most parts of the world, most of the products they need are made overseas. I don't think it's a bad thing for manufacture to flow to where it is most efficient, but it is a bad thing when environmental impact explodes because of it. There needs to be pressure on the companies hauling those goods, from every nation they ship to, to reduce emissions dramatically.

And, while I've been vegetarian or vegan for 24 years, and I encourage everyone to do so, both to reduce suffering and to reduce environmental impact, it turns out asking people to become vegetarian or vegan doesn't actually work. There have been organizations encouraging plant-based diets for decades, and yet only a small percentage of people eat a plant-based diet. The industry has to be made to internalize those costs, so they change their practices. It'll also raise prices to more realistic levels, which would shift consumption to plant-based alternatives which have orders of magnitude lower environmental impact (though still high, when talking about feeding a few billion people, but certainly more sustainable than feeding a few billion people beef).
This was probably your intention, but I really want to know what it is.
>> The biggest factor that predicts walkability is the presence of actual destinations in walking distance of where people live.

Refrigeration. In days past people needed to make regular trips to buy food. We needed lots of stores, butchers, bakers and such within walking distance. (Think a metal shop is a nuisance? Imagine living downwind of an open-air butcher's yard.) Today, largely thanks to refrigeration, we can purchase larger volumes and keep them safely in our homes. So we don't need to go to the store every day, and when we do we purchase more than we can easily carry. This isn't a bad thing. It has freed up countless man-hours increased our dietary options. Not every urbanization problem is about cars.
I think that the cost of the phone is financed really helps here, too. It hides (mostly) that you are purchasing ~$1k worth of equipment.
>even though they’re not competitive in price

Explain to me how having the fastest silicone in the business is not "competitive" in price? I mean if you are the top dog, you kinda get to set the stage, no?
My fault, for reacting more to another headline about "blackouts", than to the specifics. I've tried to clarify, a bit, in my original comment.

Customers make commitments, both contractual and personal in terms of time and effort and availability, to media distribution purchases. I think they have a right to receive the product they paid for. If that product fails or changes substantially, they have a right to recompense -- to a corresponding adjustment, at least.

They get jerked around by the big media companies: Programming and distribution.

Make those companies absorb the costs of their own machinations and failures, instead of passing them on -- financially and otherwise -- to relatively captive customers.
There are many cases where parsing of Lisp code is necessary. A compiler will need to parse it. A compiler might even generate an internal AST representation (Example: https://github.com/clasp-developers/clasp/blob/master/src/li... ). An interpreter will need to understand the syntax, to be able to traverse code. A tool like a code walker will need to understand Lisp syntax and even may create an AST representation (https://gitlab.common-lisp.net/cl-walker/cl-walker/blob/mast...).
I presume you're making a distinction between services from private businesses and services from the government, and I feel like there are also nearly equivalent succinct arguments for how terrible government services are for certain groups of people (particularly poor people and minorities).

So, yes, you can call that a succinct argument against privatizing everything, but very few people actually advocate for that (and those that do generally have ideas about revolutionizing the entire social and/or economic system, not just "eh, just turn off all the public services overnight."). It's easy to pick and choose certain services where private businesses seem to provide better access, and other services where the government seems to provide better access.
I doubt cost would ever be a primary concern that drives people to Android. If cost is a concern for me, I could still get the iPhone 7 ($449 - new from Apple).
Right now, as I look out my window, the sky is grey.

So, since you made another assertion, how is what you stated about human governments and history as apparent as the sky is blue?

That's two hills to defend, and two questions unanswered.
He knows they can charge anything. When the iPhone X dropped at $999, even as a total iOS person with the money to afford it I scoffed. But I knew they would sell like crazy. Apple has a brand beyond any company's wildest imaginations. It could be $2k and people would still want the latest iPhone no matter what, if not just to be seen with it.
Well this has gotten weird.

The various Amish sects use differing oral guidelines based on myriad interpretations of a dubious collection of contradictory historical anecdotes in order to come up with the rules for their particular outpost at that particular time.

This leads to situations where cars are used, but not owned, as distinct from your 'so they went back to horses' summary. (I'm sure the car thing varies between sects.)

Similarly, some sects realise phones are important for business and ensuring a viable lifestyle for their offspring, so they may be installed in some business locations, but not in homes. Unless that home is where the dairy farmer lives, and it's deemed important they have quick access to call a veterinarian. (etc)

Rules around button usage based on gender, day of week, visibility of the button itself, and village you're in at the time?

There may be post hoc explanations and fascinating (mis)interpretations of some short stories published around and after the 2nd century, but I think it's safe to call it arbitrary.
Tangent: Are there other people here who just refuse to sign up for any of these programs?

Right here. I was asked the other day if I had a rewards number at 7/11 and if I wanted to sign up for one, if I was "really sure" after I said no twice. 7/11. I buy coffee there getting off the train. It's a convenience store. This....is getting ridiculous IMO. Amazon is getting their tentacles wrapped around so much (mild sarc), but the retail experience out in the world lately is just as awful.

I'm either bothered endlessly to "hey go get one more of those things it's only 2/$4" when I only want one, I'm asked to sign up for a rewards program, or calling support means I'm hounded for a "customer feedback survey" when all I wanted was a dang cup of coffee.
Google grants RSUs. So $60k is 12 RSUs for someone hired in 2014.

In 2018, RSUs are worth twice as much as 2014, so people hired for the same role in 2018 get 6 RSUs ($60k) while the people hired in 2014 are still getting [at least] 12 RSUs ($120k).

This is what I'm talking about with regards to stat inflation on this reporting.
Apple Q4: $62.9B Revenue, 46.9M iPhones, 9.7M iPads Sold
And they do that with just 127,000 employees (but probably many more than that in contractors, suppliers, etc.)

I wonder what the per capita GDP (or GCP? Gross Corporate Product) is of apple vs other companies/countries.
Several years ago I used to frequent a sandwich shop about twice a week for lunch. It was literally a mom 'n' pop. The wife worked the counter and dining area, the husband made the sandwiches.

After a few months (and me ordering the same damn thing every time) it got to the point that I'd walk in and—if there was a long line—one of the owners would just point me to an empty booth. It was awesome.
I think it's equally problematic if you simply trust everything you read on New York Times (or any other media)
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No, but that doesn't imply they've also pulled off the above.
> Basically this is my app that may break every 2 to 6 weeks as the Chrome team changes stuff outside my control.
Welcome to the glorious life of a web developer :). It's not actually that bad (APIs generally don't disappear over night), but the principle is still true.
> Also, arguing quantum-level behavior by analogy with macro-scale objects is superlatively misguided.

Indeed this is how we came up with the Saturnian model, for which there are a ton of expected results that have been trivially proven wrong by experiment.
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Steko's comment might be a good place to continue that particular conversation. Such an approach would require careful design of incentive structures so that patents remain accessible without making the status quo of bullshit patents even worse.
this is on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18354066
An interesting counterpoint is that the stock is down ~5% in after hours trading on weak Q1 guidance. Apple’s guidance is always pretty conservative though, and the market hasn’t gotten used to it.
You're not going back far enough though — personal computers, the transistor, microprocessor....
yes. i understand.

also: some types of sexual harassment that are not crimes in the US are crimes in India.
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The dataflow analysis libraries in QL have significantly improved since 2015, and were used to find the ICMP vulnerability mentioned in the article. See the blog post for the query used. [1]

Dataflow analysis is a form of execution simulation that estimates the flow of control and data from one part of the program to another. Of course, there are many forms of simulation, and they vary in accuracy and the expense of computing them.

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I haven't needed it, but Streisand looks very nice.

https://github.com/StreisandEffect/streisand
I'm not sure that there really is a choice between letting machines make decisions and having humans make decisions. Human decisions require machines to implement these days, and machines are programmed at some level by humans, so all decisions involve both components.
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> I wouldn't expect them to fix anything. When you have the ethics of a company like Facebook it's much easier to claim you're going to fix something and then keep doing it.

For companies, if there is no punishment there is no solution. Even when there is a punishment. If the punishment is cheaper than to not break the law companies chose the later.

Harsh on companies, keen with people. That is the way. But the system works in the opposite direction. Human beings go to prison for light misbehavior while companies get a way just with a warning when they put the entire country at risk.
No, he responded with a 12,000 word article with over 60 references. Your reply was nitpicking a single thing that you feel is something important. Its not, the discussion is wider and deeper than that. By the way your point is dealt with in the article itself. The one you definitely read
I once have sat at the war room table in such a dispute.
Typically a carrier has a weapon which it can use abet reluctantly ( because it can only be used once every few years ) -- it is dropping the multiple channels associated with the content provider. Since typically a carrier has a local monopoly on access, such drop impacts cash flow of the content provider, which needs the cash flow to create new content.

The problem is that this weapon does not work against AT&T which owns DirectTV -- Dish would need to drop all AT&T controlled content a the worst possible time for AT&T - such as right before the elections ( CNN would take a major hit ) as well as channels such as TBS/TNT/etc, which may not be possible due to other contracts while betting that AT&T's campaign to switch Dish users to DirectTV won't be successful ( it will - there's really no difference between the two providers it is just a question of AT&T having the installation operation ready )

Dish is a dinosaur of the carriers - it has too many channels and no content to put on it. Its only long term play is heavy investment in creating its own programming. Even Netflix and Amazon realized it.
Ask HN: Would your company do business with Google given thier rouge workforce?
From the outside it looks like mob rule over there with the numerous protests and press leaks, doesn't seems like the most trustworthy of business partners.
I certainly don't care about being seen with a cool phone, but for somebody like me who doesn't want Google tracking my every move, I don't see any alternative to iPhones. So yes, they can charge whatever they want and I don't have a choice.
I’m sure you could get some grad students to volunteer to sit around in the lab and play on their phones, if you wanted to up the exposure in a way that mimics realistic patterns...
Unpopular but entirely correct. The study used power up to ten watts per kilogram. Your phone uses around a watt or less compared to your whole body mass. Let's say the average of 62 kilos. Your exposure is less than a fiftieth of what was produced in the experiment, probably less because you aren't irradiated 24 hours a day--you take it off your person to charge at some point. And the radio produces far less wattage when it's idle, which is going to be the vast majority of your day. Compared to the amount the rats were getting constantly, this would be a truly minuscule fraction of exposure over time.

Even with such extraordinary amplitude, the correlation was very slight. Trust me, everyone has much bigger health risks to worry about than radio. If you've ever had a drink in your life you've done worse.
I remember when I first installed Linux and was trying to find my way around (1994ish) and I couldn't help but feel hopelessly behind, like everybody had way more experience than I did, and knew way more than I did.

Funny thing was, of course, that WAS true at the time, but it wasn't a reason not to do it. Let that be a lesson to anyone who hasn't learned the lesson themselves yet!
I noticed that in cultures where violence is a more accepted form of behavior it is much less likely that someone will bump into me on a busy street. In places like Split (Croatia) or Istanbul there is more natural inclination to grant some space when passing. The most bumps I get in Germany with Munich claiming the first place. I used to joke that the citizens of Munich simply aren't afraid enough of getting stabbed or beaten up and hence use any minor inconvenience as an opportunity to make a statement.
One might say they're raking it in, but I do wonder how many people with rakes it would take to rake up 0.7 billion dollars per day. Top of my head says, "a small city". (Alright, back-of-the-napkin whizzes...)
Seems like marketing for his other projects. He got lazy with this - AI read his emails and somehow learned something to scare him? Please.
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"Congrats to the team" for their effective "ecosystem lock-in"?

Congrats to them for effecting a 30% tax?

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In cases where food isn't cut up, I'll often use both the chop sticks and pocket knife.

Once my chop sticks competency reached the point where they started feeling like finger extenders I started using them quite often. I much prefer putting bamboo sticks in my mouth over anything metal or plastic.
I love Alan Kay but a significant portion of this talk is TEDx-like garbage:
The wars, revolutions, and genocides of the past are about power not mental health.
Conscientious objectors also not by default good people.

If you define most people as mentally ill what does that say about your own diagnosis.
The human brain has been selected (in an evolutionary way) and its errors if they exist at all are likely going to be related to its unnatural environment.

His example with the dentist and the plastic is actually just an example of skin in the game.
The dentist doesn't have the skin in the game, the patient does, so the patient notices.

Sure older educated people could help the next generation but given the financial inter-generational put they have participated in I think its obvious how much they actually care about the future. As the thought leader of their time said "Its not me who will die, its the world that will end."
Hide it in their food?
It's something I feel Windows Hello gets right some of the time, but not enough recognition for. Windows Hello can be set to (and I believe defaults to) require PINs/passwords on the first time a device boots up or asks a security challenge, thereby the face rec or thumbprint ID challenge itself is only for "repeat" checks / secondary factor.
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Hell, they'd want it more if it was 2k. That thing must be premium.
It is curious how carbon based life that existed in the past (dead plants and animals in the form of oil) is the catalyst for carbon based life wiping itself out in the future.

I wonder if this ultimately also happens on other planets with carbon based life (if they exist) - a short period of hyper growth once life learns how to unlock energy from the past, followed by extinction.
The person you are responding to was talking specifically about political advertising. Your response is defending all advertising?
Do you re-roll it around something smaller to make it easier to carry?
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I still don't understand why ATT would pay anything here. Dish customers aren't going to be paying for HBO any longer (until it returns), and this sort of logic would never allow any supplier to raise their prices.

Let's say I'm a lumber supplier and happen to be the only supplier in the world capable of manufacturing AwesomeWood. I want to raise my prices, but some contractor/land owner decides they won't pay. But they really like AwesomeWood. Does the manufacturer now owe the contractor/land owner compensation? Seems silly.
Since now AT&T has the content it makes no sense not to squeeze everyone who needs this content.

Turn on your cable or satellite TV and scroll through the channels. Notice everything that is on. Should you do it every day for a month you would realize that it is the same recycled content that is being re-pushed. That's because for all big talk there's just not enough broadcast quality content that is being produced to fill the available slots. Production of the content is not just expensive, it is time consuming.
Hipcamp is hiring a full time Head of Engineering in San Francisco.

https://jobs.lever.co/hipcamp/699d44e1-eece-4b85-8532-942334...
Apple actually could charge $2k.

For most people their phone is their only computer, television, ebook reader, camera, watch etc. It's their life. And so if you think your phone delivers you far more value than your car then you can appreciate why Apple is able to push prices up.
Finding the nearest three light sources is the main bottleneck, and in scenarios with many lights, is highly dependent on having a broadphase algorithm to filter them out early. If they did it the naive way, the algorithm becomes O(number of sources * number of lit objects).

But that doesn't seem to be their concern here, either. Optimizing broadphase collision is a well-understood problem, and the scenario of finding the nearest is only slightly different from that.