skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe those big profit margins are paid for with debt.
Multinational corporations are extremely innefficient, so I wouldn't be surprised is reality catches up with them eventually.
Corporations are good at capturing money from the economy but they suck at creating value.
> Also, I don't think the stigma would just disappear for stuff like heroin.

Hopefully there's still strong sigma for life destroying drugs like heroin, meth, etc. But as for the others it's already disappearing for marijuana, and I could easily see it disappearing for LSD, mushrooms, cocaine, etc.
My first impression is that your Concepts > Overview section needs to go on your front page. Because it's not obvious just what the product is.

Other than that, looks cool.
Do you really encounter compiler errors that frequently? The compiler stopped barking at me for the most part after my first year or two.
I mis-spoke. I guess you would call him a media executive? Wikipedia says: "Bannon was a founding member of the board of Breitbart News"
France to impose new tax on tech giants
Soda Stream Jet is pretty heavily discounted on amazon right now
Right, I see water as particularly egregious as it's a natural product (literally pumped straight from the ground) and should be accessible in clean form anywhere in the developed world (aka most places where water bottles are commonly bought and thrown away). The solution to dirty water shouldn't be putting clean water in plastic bottles and shipping it around the world, it should be making sure water is clean enough that anywhere you go you can drink the local water without needing to buy a one-time-use plastic bottle.

It doesn't help that our solution to dirty water (plastic bottles) is making even clean water unusable (microplastic).
Mobile reddit brings my phone's browser to its knees. It takes ages to load, is unresponsive, and it also takes an extra 10 seconds to click the 8px font that dismisses their mobile app advertisment.

I can only assume that mobile app was the best solution they could come up with after they realized they made a horrible mobile site.
I'm surprised the article didn't mention this. Mining material for EV batteries is a very dirty process, and while I'm sure that progress is being made to make it cleaner, China doesn't seem to care about the pollution from mining. If I remember correctly, access to raw materials was floated as a reason for Elon choosing to put the Gigafactory in Reno due to the fact that mining is quite prevalent in Nevada.
Tesla says someone fired a bullet in Model S that caught on fire
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> A company regains the control and share of profit from the stock they buy back

No, a corporation cannot own itself.
Because water is fungible, can be produced locally, is piped into homes, and is the most abundant liquid on the planet. Shipping it around in tiny little bottles is phenomenally inefficient. A total waste. There is no reason why we cannot fill reusable water bottles on the go rather than purchase flimsy containers.
I remember this came up in an Oculus keynote that John Carmack gave. I believe the reason given was because a significant portion of users use the headset while lying down and so nothing can really be on the back of the head?
Why? Some of the best content out there is supported by subscriptions and deserves discussion as well as financial support.
The Postgres clustering advertised here[0] seems like a great reason to me.

0: https://kubedb.com/docs/0.9.0/guides/postgres/
Ok, haven't had that experience but I haven't really stayed in the very backpacker/touristy areas in BKK lately. Also I usually go to a phone company store and just buy the sim and top up enough for my short stay there.
Fully concur with both comments - for those who actively want to quit smoking, vaping can really help.

It just opens the pandora's box to youth vaping. And also full-on vaping addiction as well.

If I was king I would ban advertising for vaping other than as smoking cessation. In Quebec where I live , you can't even have vaping products in the window. All of the signage and rules are strictly limited, much like the limited packaging on cigarettes.

It's amazing to see that if you separate brand and advertising from a product, how hard it is for companies to be successful. Tells you a lot about human behaviour!
I think this is a false dilemma. It could be that social problems have no solution, and yet also the poor and downtrodden benefit when the rule of law is upheld.
Those elements exist elsewhere (in the USA, Australia, etc...). The problem is that digging them up and refining them is either very dirty or very costly, and China hasn’t minded the former, underpricing everyone else in the market.
That was quite unfair criticism, and even Doug McIlroy knew it (as he admitted later). The background is this:

- Bentley, the author of the column, invited Knuth to demonstrate literate programming using a program of his choice.

- Knuth insisted that to be fair, Bentley ought to specify the program to be written; else someone might object that Knuth chose a program that would be good for literate programming.

- Bentley chose (what we'd now call) the term frequency problem (list the top k most frequent words in a text file), and accordingly Knuth wrote a system program for solving just this one particular task. (Did everything from opening the input file to formatting the output, etc.)

- Doug McIlroy was asked to “review” this program, the way works of literature are reviewed. He happens to be the inventor of Unix pipes. Towards the end of his review, along with many other points (e.g. Knuth didn't include diagrams in cases where most of us would appreciate them, something I still struggle with when reading TeX and other programs), he used the opportunity to demonstrate his own invention, a shell pipeline using now-standard Unix tools (tr, sort, uniq, sed).

There are a few things wrong with this criticism:

- The main thing is that DEK wrote the program he was asked to write, so pointing out that he shouldn't have written that program is a criticism of the one who chose the program (Bentley mentioned this when printing McIlroy's review).

- At the time, Unix wasn't even widely available outside Bell Labs and a few places; it definitely wasn't available to Knuth or most of the column's readers.

- Knuth's program, fine-tuned for the task, is more efficient than the shell pipeline.

- Even if you use a shell pipeline, someone has to write the “standard” programs that go into it (the "tr", "sort", "uniq" and "sed" above), and literate programming can be used there. In fact, Knuth did exactly that a few years later, rewriting Unix's “wc” (IIRC) and compared the resulting program with that of Sun Unix's wc, and his LP version had, among things, better error handling. (He's explained it by saying that in conventional programming, if you have a small function and 90% of it is error-checking, it looks like the function is “about” error-checking, so there's a psychological resistance to doing too much of that, while with LP you move the error-handling to a separate section entirely about error-checking and then you tend to do a better job. BTW, TeX's error handling is phenomenally good IMO; the opposite of the situation with LaTeX.)

All that said, there is some valid criticism that Knuth prefers to write monolithic programs, but that works for him. He seems not to consider it a problem that to change something you have to understand more-or-less the entire program; he seems to prefer doing that anyway (he reads other people's code a lot: in Peter Seibel's Coders at Work, he was the only person interviewed who read others' programs regularly).
No, the argument is that debt-financing at times is simply cheaper than equity financing.

Equity carries more risk, because stockholder are paid after bondholder in the event of bankruptcy. Therefore, equity investors (stockholders) demand higher returns than lenders. Depending on a few other factors, borrowing is the better option to raise operational capital than issuing stock. Conversely, when your need for capital decreases, you no longer want to pay for it.

And just as you may repay a loan (early) in that case (if you are debt-financed), you may buy back shares, if you are financed by equity.
Reminds me a bit of Professor Neutron (Bob Newhart) in the Big Bang Theory!
That's a good lesson, but we shouldn't stop there. Knuth is a computer scientist, but also an artist: writer, musician, typographer, and creative programmer. His insights into programming-as-literature have infused an often-soulless industry with something soulful. He began with the popular notion that programming should be a creative, playful act, and tried to elevate mere playfulness into the realm of fine art. An incredible detour in an amazing career, and an enriching lesson of a different kind.
Video compression seems like a big one. So does FFT. Even if they were conceptually around for a long time (Gauss instead of Tukey probably originated FFT, Fano -compression in general, etc), particular implementations of them made for huge differences in what people could do with computers.

If not compression, certainly coding theory in general, which is so all-pervasive now, people forget it exists.
I don't really understand why most if not all bottles don't use aluminum instead of plastic. I get that it's a marketing thing, but I see no practical reason why aluminum couldn't be used more often. That doesn't fix the littering of the ocean issue, but I guess if I had to pick one over the other I'd rather the ocean get trashed with aluminum than with plastic.

Also, do you need Perrier brand specifically? I haven't seen that come in cans, but now there are more brands than ever of sparkling water that come in cans, which is what I most often buy.
Explain to me how a guy surrounded by Jewish people at Goldman Sachs could rise up in the organization and leave as a vice president of the company, if he was truly anti- Semitic.

He would have to be a better actor than Ben Kingsley and Laurence Olivier combined. After Goldman he worked in Hollywood btw.
I'm at the point now where I've gone from trusting a review consensus to seeking an individual reviewer on a product that seems thorough and reliable.

My favorite example might be trying to find outdoor solar-powered lights. Mountains of garbage, with a lot of sellers just re-branding the same garbage. The silver-lining is that there are power-reviewers out there doing complete tear-downs and reviewing wiring/soldering quality. These people are the true heroes.
Making Cyberglads 2: First Steps in Godot Engine
So if a company were to issue more stock instead, people would own more than 100% of the company?

The certificates says how many shares the person owns, not the percentage of the company they represent.
That sounds impossibly expensive; I'm sure there's some of the super-rich that do it, but it sounds more like a glossy story than something ubiquitous.

I would believe it if they "just" got tankers of clean water from elsewhere though. Plenty of people that have to survive off of water from tankers.
That is why adrianN said value comes from work (not from money).
I'm truly impressed how wide the response is. It makes me sure that this project is truly worth continuing. Thanks HN!
Deals outside the wider market likely carry more risk, but when they work out, more reward. The other side of the deal may have time pressure and also doesn't have so many investors to shop their deal to, so they may not be able to be that agressive either.
https://www.ft.com/content/00b2e3c8-e2b0-11e8-a6e5-792428919...

'The race to mine the deep sea’s riches '
The mods generally seem to disagree. You might email the site operators using the Contact link below, as discussing here won’t have any impact on general site policy.
I was also scared in the first year of college next to all these accomplished programmers and math wizards and it definitely helps!
For people wondering what that's written in: bash (394 LoC according to tokei).
How many Chinese EVs are being exported to the USA so far? Just some BYD buses? And Tesla is pretty popular in China among the rich (honestly the only American imported car I’ve ever saw multiple of in Beijing).

I don’t think this is far from decided.
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There is basically nothing mentioned about Amazon in this article. And it ignores one of the few unique elements that may have attracted Amazon, the Jacobs institute's new intellectual property policy.
> He has fashioned a sort of industrial-strength Fabergé egg—intricate, wonderfully worked, refined beyond all ordinary desires, a museum piece from the start.

Curiously, I independently came up with this metaphor in my review of The MMIX Supplement to The Art of Computer Programming [1]:

"You can marvel at its intricacies like one marvels at a Fabergé egg."

[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R25NHN9UP7PLJI/
Obligatory outline link: https://outline.com/k4V2Gt
The "Bart": sudden hundreds-of-Bitcoin pumps or dumps to burn the margin traders
Do top companies prefer recruitment from elite schools?

See the comment by the CEO of
Duo Lingo:

https://twitter.com/LuisvonAhn/status/1050426808393506817?s=...
Besides clean sources of water not being everywhere. Then again, drinks fountains are much more of a thing than e.g. over here. Of course, over here most if not all taps provide clean drinking water.
I had a recent scenario lately where I bought a small consumer electronic device through Amazon based off of reviews. There were thousands of reviews for this item at the time of purchase. Once the item arrived I realized it didn't work so I went back to the Amazon page and there was now only one 1 star review which was someone wondering what happened to all the reviews that were there a few days ago.

There are some questionable things going on with dog food as well. For example I recently purchased a case of a certain dog food my dog has been eating for years. If I click on the product link in my Amazon order history it says that it is sold by the manufacturer of the dog food, but in the Amazon order history itself it says a different store that I've never heard of. The inside of the can looked a little different, less gravy and it made my dog start vomiting almost immediately.
$1M as "small loan" in 1968, then becoming president of his fathers real estate company 1974 (shares divided among Donald Trump and his 4 siblings) estimated at $200M ($40M for him but not liquidated at that point), and then inheritance from his father in 1999 estimated between $20M and $300M.
Slightly more than the infamous small $1M loan then.
I think context is important for understanding the response. From what I recall at the time, the article that first broke this news and defined the narrative was this article from the Daily Beast: https://www.thedailybeast.com/palmer-luckey-the-facebook-nea...

Describing it as a $10K donation for a single anti-Hillary billboard misses the parts of the story that caused controversy at the time. The controversial aspects included his connection to Milo Yiannopoulos and moderators of r/The_Donald, and their connections to abusive online behavior and white supremacist rhetoric.
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch: Cleaning Up the Plastic in the Ocean
The real sad state is why is that site uploaded as a reddit video? Instead of linking to the original content it's a video of someone else clicking through? As for the Smithsonian site, I've got AdBlock, uBlock, and ScriptSafe running so I didn't get anything too obnoxious, but it is pretty pitiful that we need that many add-ons just to browse the web.
What sort of CS degree doesn't cover version control?
Researchers demonstrate teleportation using on-demand photons from quantum dots
> dramatically reducing the cost

Citation needed. Any datapoint to back up the claim that transport cost is very relevant?
There is purpose in discovery.
They also love to shoot the family dog. And they get to play with sexy SWAT gear after just one week of training, that's why SWATtings are so deadly. US police have a serious discipline problem, foreigners regularly comment on that.

It's unfortunate that average street gangsters are even less disciplined than the cops. You'd love to see a firefight between a properly trained squad and police. The cops will run even faster than that coward sheriff when the very disturbed fellow shot up Parkland High School.
Thanks for putting this together, it's great to have something that covers backups and restore and operation all in one package.

I'd recommend updating the name to be more descriptive. Anything xDB sounds like it in itself is a database. That's what I was expecting. KubeDBOperator or similar would let us know: it's related to K8s, it has to do with databases, it likely manages deployments with HA/failover/backups.

As other commenters noted as well, you have to click at least 3 times before you understand what the software does based on the above link. Linking to the home page rather than the welcome would be a better choice for those not currently familiar with your project.

Either way, appreciate all the work that went into this project!
Thanks for clarifying, not sure why I didn't think of that!
Although Apache-2 is sometimes seen as a license-of-choice by major proprietary software companies like Google, the license itself is actually well-written. It explicitly offers a patent clause to protect contributors and distributors from patent lawsuits from the copyright holder. I found even RMS recommends using Apache-2 as a permissive license for minor programs that don't need copyleft. So unless you explicitly support BSD/ISC, perhaps you could give some consideration of using it as a license for your next program.

AFAIK, whether ISC/BSD/MIT style licenses offer a patent clause is still unsettled.

UPDATE: See JoshTriplett's post, Apache-2 has license compatibility issues that prevent some code reuse, now I think BSDplusPatent license instead of Apache-2 is a better idea for small programs.
This has happened to me a couple times as well!
Apple sued for hiding the iPhone XS notch in false advertising lawsuit
One important thing that often gets overlooked though, before people start feeling super guilty about using plastic bottles and those can holders: most plastic in the ocean flows down the rivers in Asia, not so much Europe / the US. Probably because we have a good trash management infrastructure. Landfills and incinerators are pretty bad, but I think especially landfills are preferable about just tossing it wherever and having it flow into rivers / the sea.

TL;DR: Pay your taxes so the government can employ people to manage trash. Also, don't litter.
Native App Development vs. Hybrid and Web App Building
I mean this site about this software.

Probably both are under development. But it's hard to discuss about the software when it's description is lacking.
I got some good advice that I will never forget:

Always make sure you understand what is being said before you respond.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11644439

Edit: also good https://blog.mozilla.org/nfroyd/2017/03/29/on-mutex-performa...
Yes, corrections have historically happened far less frequently than growth periods. Unfortunately, they tend to have much greater impact on people's livelihood as they come fast and hard.
> [Yvonne's] kid, by the way, was calling Jeanne “mamzanne”, that is, Mom Jeanne.

Most french children call their grandmother mamie + something differentiating from their other grandmother. Mamie Jeanne? No child use mom + first name.

> Arles was one of the biggest French communes at that time with 38 thousand people (even now, not every Moscow satellite city has that many people)

Arles was and still is far from being one of the biggest french communes. It is not among the 100 most crowded cities in France.

> Jeanne was the first (by birth date) validated supercentenarian in France and that she is also the most long-lived person in the world. It is a very unlikely combination of events from the point of view of statistics.

Isn't it exactly as unlikely that the 1st is the most long-lived, as the 17th being the longest-lived?

This hypothesis of Jeanne Calment dying in 1934 may be true, but this article does not really convince me.
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When Managers Break Down Under Pressure, So Do Their Teams
Radio Fm: Free Radio, Fm, Am, Music, News, Sports
Check out https://github.com/grpc/grpc-web

protocol docs here: https://github.com/grpc/grpc/blob/master/doc/PROTOCOL-WEB.md...
Probably my favourite is along similar lines: read “The Summer Of 1960 (Time Spent with don knuth)” for a great story of Knuth as “this tall college kid” (consider the fact that Knuth first encountered a computer at college), from “Stories about the B5000 And People Who Were There”: http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/B5000-AlgolRWaychoff.html#7 (PDF scan: https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/10272464... page 7)

And about the story you shared, Knuth has elaborated in an interview (with typical humility, he plays it down): http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1193856
Couldn't Tumblr just put in more effort to filter and mod their community? The main reason they got removed from Apple store was because of CP that was flagged not removed in a timely manner. Doesn't this also happen to hosting sites such as Reddit and Imgur? how do they handle it better than Tumblr? and why are they still available on Apple Store & Android?
> I don't really understand why most if not all bottles don't use aluminum instead of plastic.

Because aluminium is a lot more expensive and difficult to manufacture at scale than plastic. It's also a lot more reusable, but reusing aluminium costs energy, and reusing glass bottles requires either energy to melt it, or an extensive recycling / reusing infrastructure (like with beer bottles over here).

Re: sparkling water, there's water fountains that can produce sparkling water on the fly now. Ask your employer to get those installed.
>experts

>people who drafted the law

Pick one.

Whatever passes for tech journalism these days left ZDnet long ago.

It's kind of a joke to expect an objective take on whether or not this law allows judicial overreach from one of the government staffers who helped draft it.
Ask HN: How to be more productive during waits?
During my regular work day I find myself often waiting for things to compile, build, then deploy etc.

When that happens I tend to have a habit of either reading the news, going to social media (FB, instagram) or watching youtube.

Some days, if you add that time up across entire day it ends up being 1-2 hours. That's extra 2 hours a day, spread out in 5-10 minute chunks, that can be used for something that doesn't degrade my brain.

What suggestions do you have to fill those gaps with more productive tasks?
Its not several tokens, its just use of the BAT token

User experience aside it makes it clear when you revoke permission to your data

You can point to the public transaction where you did that and show consent to that advertiser and whoever they copied that data to, massive liability for them if they arent playing along

A step towards cooperation, not a cure all

Tokens are also useful in bootstrapping any two sided marketplace, and people would also be aligned in seeing it become more valuable. To you, that means damning unobjectiveness, to others that means necessary skin in the game to know what theyre talking about.
>Plenty of them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_debt_crises

Reserve currency is the key word here.

Sovereign nations operating within the global financial system can certainly go bankrupt. But all US debt is denominated in US dollars. It's technically impossible for us to go bankrupt. In fact, you could argue that almost every single modern debt crisis on this list was only possible because of us, and enriched us at the defaulting country's expense. They are almost entirely fueled by foreign debt held in, you guessed it, USD.