skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're making assumptions about the kind of information that's shared. The kind of example to think of is when you buy from Fitbit and your information gets sent to a payment processor.

Here's the whole paragraph:

We transfer information to our corporate affiliates, service providers, and other partners who process it for us, based on our instructions, and in compliance with this policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures. These partners provide us with services globally, including for customer support, information technology, payments, sales, marketing, data analysis, research, and surveys.
Who cares?

Amazon is a great company in a lot of ways, not great in some other ways, and none of that has anything to do with my opinions on local governance.

Or as Yogi Berra might have put it, this Amazon story isn't really about Amazon anyway.
Well, as long as they won't replace me and my job, or other people's jobs for that matter, then I don't see any problem with this. They could make our jobs easier tbh.
You're not gona like this answer. They need capital because they are making loses year on year. Without the capital, they will be run out of money.
Marketing, software development and subsidised rides until market penetration takes off ... there must be more, but I'm not sure.
Been on windows for 18 years now, never heard of this before. Sometimes I wonder if Microsoft really sucks at marketing dev tools
For different locations, yes. But if my wife and I, at the same time and same location try and buy the exact same thing, we are given the same price.

This is a case of Uber using a variety of algorithms to determine just how much they can get out of you. I prefer the old surge pricing model where it was a conscious choice to overpay.

But however clever they may think they are I’m not fooled by their fake market pricing. Only now do I look for cabs and have accounts on competitors when I’m sure Uber is mispricing actual market value.
The key difference with Facebook is that they aren't just a data transmission service. They actively choose what to present to you in your news feed. So while the phone company isn't responsible for a customer calling fifty people to organise a violent mob, Facebook is culpable when they choose to show their user an inflammatory post about why people should be organising violent mobs.

They can't have it both ways. Optimising for engagement is a poisoned pill.
That's not inconsistent with the effect.
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His name is Burnt Sushi I think.
I used to teach AWS courses and had the same experience. I haven't heard of any service that has been disabled for an existing account.

Yes, you are strongly discouraged from using some services (simple db) by them hiding it. Yes, new accounts can't use certain services (ec2 classic). Yes, some old features cost more than newer better features (rrs s3).

But I wasn't able to point to any AWS service that had been shut down.
Wouldn't it defeat the purpose of "donation"? Why would you pay someone who is giving you something without them asking in return? I can understand returning a favor, like helping them out or something. But a monetary payment is unnecessary, imo.
Everyone I know says Via is much better than Pool. I don’t really use either but my wife takes Via to work as it’s only $2.50 more than the Subway and often gets the front seat.

I don’t know if I could though. I have a certain love for getting on the crowded morning subway. It gives you something to legitimately hate anyways.
Can Motion History Images show the Info Wars video was more than sped up?
> Basically all aerospace engineering undergrads get taught early on that airfoil drag is just zero in 2D incompressible and inviscid flows, [...]

Don't you need some adicional hypothesis, like that all the path integrals of the wind field are zero? Most of the easy part of the analysis of the lift in a wing assumes that air is inviscid (except for the initial generation of the vortex around the wing). [And if the speed is much smaller than the speed of sound, you can approximate that the fluid is incompressible.]

For example see https://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/airplane/cyl.html
Sorry, I should've been much clearer, that was really badly worded as I was distracted also doing my day job :) As a sibling comment pointed out, I wasn't using any specific terminology as I was trying to talk at a layman level. There's not really a difference. I should've said 'hard enough and fast enough'.

Conceptually, there's two main methods of fusion - inertial confinement, and magnetic confinement.

In inertial confinement, lasers are shot at the plasma to squeeze it together so the pressure (and thus temperature) increases until fusion occurs. This is also what happens in stars, except they use gravity not lasers. Conceptually, this is what I alluded to when pushing it 'harder'

In magnetic confinement, the pressure/temperature is increased by shooting electrical currents through the plasma among other techniques that i'm not as familiar with. The volume hasn't really decreased, but the kinetic energy and pressure of the plasma has increased so it's the same principle, but this is conceptually what I alluded to when i said pushing it 'faster'.

In either sense, the idea is to somehow increase the plasma temperature which increases the kinetic energy of the particles enough that they overcome the electrostatic barrier. It was just really badly worded by me and I apologise for that!
I'll spell this out since downvotes seem to indicate some people do not get it. "You may also authorize us to share your information with others" is not an unexpected reason for information to be shared. For example, if you install Strava and authorize Fitbit to share your information with Strava, the sharing is expected.
It's quite simple really. You haven't seen the numbers the investors have seen. I used to work in the private capital markets and it was awesome to be privvy to information that gave you more insight than can be gleaned from the outside.
Isn't that just some narrow condition?

The lost items were returned, so the return process is actually successful. It's designed to work for many people under various conditions, not just you. Whether it was as quick as possible is irrelevant to the original claim of being charged for the wrong reason.

Perhaps try and remember your items if you don't want to worry about recovering them later. There are plenty of drivers who also immediately check for and return items before they set off. Saying a system has failed because it doesn't perfectly suit your exact life situation/mistake is disingenuous and unproductive.
Limited versions.

No experience with AWS China, but I taught a class to some folks who used one of the restricted AWS regions and the services and features were limited when compared to normal aws regions, according to the students.
Slight tangent, but Frank Stronach of Magna International, started his business smelting parts in their modified kitchen oven.
I am still not sold on templates. They look like they might help the Google's and Microsoft's but for most code bases they seem to be forcing a dual system of dependencies without much benefit.
Property is generally priced and sold vacant, so a property tax should be based on a fair market value of the real estate + improvements in a vacant state.

If a business is sold as a going concern, it's still priced as property (or lease) + inventory + the business itself.

If you want to tax a business based on its sales, income, inventory, or whatever, then pass legislation to impose that tax, don't try to call it part of the assessed value of the property.
yeah but comment is talking about zuckerburg building it for harvard ect. If not zuckerburg someone else will build it, like watsapp. Its a consequence of tech moving forward, not a guy making mistakes.
I agree, but in other industries, there are people that say that AI will be replacing humans in the near future. At least I think they mean when AI becomes smarter. Somehow, I'm not we'll see an AGI or ASI in our lifetime. One that is capable of "replacing" human labor completely.
I wrote this code the night of the twitter post, but was beat to the punch. I sat on it for a while and then the story changed Kellyanne Conway claimed the video was just sped up not doctored. So I sat a little longer and It did not seem like anyone had a good way to tell if frames were added or removed. Worse yet even if they claimed they had no way to visualize the data. Here is my attempt to do just that visualize the difference in motion.
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Yup, thanks! Typing too quickly. ^^
Shouldn't anyone who passes through the training be considered qualified? If training is expensive then you no doubt want to prevent people from starting if you don't think they're likely to finish, but the metric there should obviously be a bar on absolute student quality, not rank. It should also be measured -- confidence intervals, correlation between input metrics and output performance etc.

I bet the marginal student in terms of acceptance is more than likely great doctor material, and I bet it doesn't drop off sharply right past them.
I get that you can be skeptical of the press but to claim that anecdotal or hearsay from friends is more trustworthy is really odd to me. This strikes me as an easy way to fall for false rumors. I'd rather put trust in the fact that there is plenty of people who would benefit from reporting about the inaccuracy of the claims of other journalists. We saw this with the Bloomberg story about purported Chinese attacks on hardware companies.
Just tell them to fuck off. When you hand them money tell them how much you want back.

I assume they know I’m from here so I dont see that side but I’ve had them try some shit and you just need to do battle. In the end you’ll always win.

They have change. Their credit card machine works. If they claim neither then give them below fare and walk out. They will suddenly have change and a working credit card machine.
Pharmaceuticals represent about 10% of healthcare spending for Americans. Inpatient and outpatient comes out to around 52% of annual healthcare costs.[0-1] While there are many issues in the pharmaceutical industry, as a whole I think they get an unnecessarily bad rap. Most of America's healthcare problems are self inflicted. There are a lot of things that need to be adjusted in order to let markets run effectively.

[0]: https://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Sta...
[1]: https://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Sta...
Ironically I've had the audio cleanup filters get in the way.

I was trying to make a program which would FFT sounds from my mic and trigger on certain frequencies or combinations of frequencies. The ideas was to have audio files on my phone to act as a sort of poor mans remote control. Yes I know there are wifi and bluetooth ways to do it but I wanted to experiment a bit with sound.

Anyway I'm pissing around for hours with packages and settings and I can't get the damn thing to work. Turns out my computer came with some super fancy beats audio^tm sound system which actively suppresses a microphone input of constant frequency under the assumption its an unwanted buzzing sound.

All features are someone else's bug.
Bitfield support is far more useful for emulators and for dealing with binary file formats and binary network protocols.

Embedded stuff typically means kernels and drivers. For that, the bitfields are in hardware registers. This is troublesome because the hardware might not act like normal RAM. Issues you will encounter:

1. The hardware demands a particular access size. For example, a nice big array of 4-bit values may need to be accessed only by 16-bit operations because it is on a 16-bit data bus that lacks byte enable lines. Another example is that different access sizes may go to different registers.

2. The hardware takes an abnormal action when accessed. Reading and writing might go to separate registers. Reading could fetch a byte from a FIFO, so the language/compiler is not free to do speculative or repeated reads. Writing could output to a FIFO. Reading or writing could clear bits, possibly in a different register, or initiate a coprocessor action.

3. The bus might allow reordering that can affect the device. For example, the bus might cancel operations that seem to be superseded by later operations (write after write, or read after read) but enforce ordering in other cases. The compiler must respect this in some way, possibly by suppressing optimization or by generating a compile error when the constraints appear to be violated.

You also get ugly layout issues like split fields, but that hits emulators and file formats too.
"It's fiction in that it can be whatever they want it to be."

No, absolutely not. There are well accepted accounting principles.

If a company wants to re-invest, then they can do that - but 'profit' is a material, objective thing, of course it changes profit, but it also would change 'cash flow'.

Financial accounting is a real thing, not any kind of fiction.

It gets to be fiction when there are things that are difficult to account for, or intangible things like goodwill.

But if they book a sale on Dec 1 - then that's revenue, even if the money doesn't come in until 3 months later.
Ahh! I had not encountered that one for 20 years. Wow.
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"It’s difficult to show how much profit you had in Q2 2018,"

? It's right on their public statements.

The components of it are not known, but then again, same thing applies to their cash flow.
The order of headers mattering is very rare though and not indicitive of normal C++ code. It's rare, but not unheard of unfortunately as most C code is also available to C++.
Would it be fair to ask coal miners in the early 20th century if they shop at the company store?

Large retail companies are ubiquitous in our society. It takes a certain degree of socioeconomic privilege to be able to choose not to buy things from them.
+1 hahahaha
It really isn't difficult to search online for stories of people struggling with Apple app reviewers. Just because it hasn't happened to you doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
Yup, that's a normal house. Doesn't work in a basement, though, unless it has a vent or small window above the ground.
I had to double check the publish date!
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It's not 25k versions of the same web page. It's a page for each combination of app that they service.

"Connect Trello to Gmail" is a totally different thing from "Connect Stripe to Salesforce".
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People in the US have been indoctrinated by a lot of propaganda and not many see how things are outside the country. They just have never seen anything else.
The shadow profile is probably just as valuable as a real one when it comes to selling advertising.

And that's what matters. Everything else is just a cost of doing business.
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@Aquakor I am the lead developer of Bitwarden and was intimately involved in the security audit mentioned. I can understand that those two paragraphs may seem a bit concerning out of context. To provide more context, there were several points discussed between the Bitwarden developers and the auditing team about how we could redesign specific features (ex. organization user confirmations) so that the crypto implementations would be stronger and more resilient against certain attack vectors. A consensus was reached and that is what is being referenced here about re-designing things.

The purpose of an audit like this is to find issues. When issues are found, that is a good thing. We want to find problems so that they can be fixed. What would be bad is if we found issues that could not be properly fixed, or an abnormally large number of issues, neither of which was the case with Bitwarden. What I can tell you is that all issues referenced in this audit have already been resolved in very short order (the audit was only completed just last week), with relatively simple fixes, and that Bitwarden is even safer to use today than it was before.
Exactly, but the extent that's the case, it's captured in the market value.
That always seemed insane to me. The potential moat I saw was in controlling a two sided market (like eBay for collectibles). Drivers drive for you because you control the riders. Riders ride with you because you have all the drivers. This would be a competitive advantage because you’re getting your drivers to deploy capital (cars) for you.

But driverless cars change that dynamic. Now you need to own a fleet. Well, guess what: there are already businesses like this! They are called car rental companies. Last time I checked, they were shitty, low margin businesses.
You will probably get more responses if you prefix your question with “Ask HN:”.

The general consensus is that ideas are dime a dozen, and what matters is execution. I think ideas can also matter sometimes. If you can explain why an idea is going to be successful and what strategy needs to be followed based on user (in this case this is you needing a solution) and competitor research, then your idea is probably valuable.

I don’t know if HN is the best place. You might want to consider indie hackers instead.
We're technologically very far from that.
Exactly. All the "waste" is someone's profit and they will for it tooth and nail.
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One of the things I am noticing, at least in India, is that there are now lesser number of rides available at any given point in time. So, either the ridesharing demand has risen to match the supply or that the supply is dwindling. I think it is the former. But on routinely talking to driver they think it's the latter. Less and less people are now getting into the ridesharing game.

So, it seems drivers might be wary of driving for ridehsaring companies. What kind of knock-on effect will this have on Uber's profitability.
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Nope. I had two tabs open with different prices.
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A more exhaustive list is here:

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/fundamentals-of-algorithms/

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/data-structures/
Can we not stipulate the existence of a container breakout of the week?
I've created an account to try Azure last weekend, it took me 2 hours to sign-up due to issues in the registration on their end, and then once it finally worked, I copied an example from their documentation. 5 minutes after, I received an email that I was banned for "security reasons", so yeah if they can't even handle a sign-up properly, I wonder how they want to reach the top spot of the cloud market, I'll for sure try to avoid Azure in the future for any company I go.
> Yes, but symmetrically, the amount that a third party is willing to pay presumably has already subtracted their expected cost of relocating into the new space. Why should we privilege one valuation over the other?

We're not. The buyer values the property at $120,000 but has to pay $20,000 to relocate, so won't pay more than $100,000. The seller values the property at $80,000 but has to pay $20,000 to relocate, so won't accept less than $100,000. The market value is the $100,000 that actually gets paid. This also has the extremely strong virtue of being a known quantity.

> As a thought experiment, consider a custom-made many-billion dollar chemical factory that (due to IP or somesuch) can only be utilized by the current owner. Should the town be required to charge property tax as if it was unimproved land, or worse, as an unsaleable cleanup site?

What the state is obviously going to try to do in that case is use the market value of the property as it would be if it were alienable.

Try a different one. Suppose a communications company has built ground stations for a global communications network. The initial locations were somewhat arbitrary but had to be chosen specifically with respect to the other stations, so that once the network is built none of the locations can change. The value of each individual station is a million dollars but there are ten thousand stations and the overall network is worth billions. Selling off individual stations would compromise the entire network. Does that mean the operator has to pay property taxes on billions of dollars for every station across thousands of jurisdictions, because they wouldn't sell any of them individually?

You also get all the trouble with having to distinguish between having this property and having a property. A company might be able to make a billion dollars as long as they have somewhere to operate, even if it's not anywhere in particular. That doesn't make any particular property especially valuable if there are a large number to choose from and not a lot of competing buyers.

Suppose in your example that the billion dollar facility can operate out of the back of a large truck. The truck needs to be somewhere, but it doesn't need to be somewhere specific. And if you say the value inside the truck gets taxed, it's going to move down the road to where it isn't (or at least where the rate is lower). Which isn't what you wanted, because then you don't get anything.

> Property tax on businesses feels like a negotiation to me, and I don't see why a town shouldn't be allowed to use whatever rules it wants.

It seems like what you're after isn't really property tax. If you want to tax based on factory output or number of employees or sales within the jurisdiction, you can do that, but there is no need to pretend it's property tax.

The actual problem is that everybody wants tax revenue and nobody wants to discourage any specific activity by taxing it, but that's how it works. People will try to move the thing you tax out of your jurisdiction. This is why the better taxes are the really broad ones, like VAT, because the broader the base the lower the rate for the same revenue.
>Locally is in that case all opportunities you have available at your location. If you can get remote job that will pay better than GitLab than you can negotiate easily. In that case probably you don't have better options if you keep working for that company.

Or you work remotely for a year at a lower salary, then leverage documented experience excelling at remote work to get hired in a higher paying remote role.
The fact that you made a mistake doesn't absolve another party of all duty to act like a reasonable person. Is capital punishment for stealing a loaf of bread okay, because perhaps you should try to remember not to steal things?

I also question the assertion that this process is designed to be as effective as possible for anyone, unless you mean Uber. As stated in the original post, both parties were trying to resolve this, while a busybody middleman stopped them.
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