skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the main things it communicates to me is that the decision makers in these start-ups are no different than the decision makers in bloated old firms that survive with regulatory capture.

If you follow the money trail, it eventually bottoms out with the same musical chairs of people making the same tired business moves with overt and deliberate goals to manipulate people into product lock in before changing terms to be unfavorable.

Most start-ups, even fancy seeming ones backed by sexy VCs where you think, surely this one must be genuinely innovating in some way, are just the same centuries old bureaucratic anti-consumer bullshit, just dressed up with a sleek infinite scroll and using hashtags and the word lolz on the webpage.
When I was in middle school in the late 70's I was exposed to "Interp" - dramatic interpretation, a form of debate that is dramatic and improvisational. My school never developed its own team, but I envied the schools that did. Looks like it is still going strong: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNDZ9yblPpI
My dad was left-handed. He'd use ball-point pens that didn't smear, and when he was taking notes he'd flip the notebook so that the binding was on the right.
They have beer pipes in Belgium, too.
I think this is from the back of Physically Based Rendering[0] by Pharr, Humphreys, and Jakob (3rd ed). The book is also available online[1].

[0]: https://www.pbrt.org/
[1]: http://www.pbr-book.org/
When will electric airliners make sense?
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Currently using a mix of teamviewer and splashtop to fix remote client PCs, teamviewer seems to be getting more and more expensive, wondered if anyone had better alternatives ?
> The footage had a herky-jerky feel because it had been shot on hand-cranked cameras [...]. Jackson’s team retimed the footage, speeding up the frame rate, adding extra frames digitally and smoothing out the movement.

I don't know how they did this. Sure, I can understand filling in frames at regular intervals, to bring one speed up to another speed, say from 18 to 24 frames per second. But if it was hand-cranked, then the old speed wasn't exactly 18 frames per second, and I don't know how you can tell precisely what speed the cameraman was cranking at any given time.

Someone might suggest watching for when the movement of the subject or camera changed speed, but how do you know that it wasn't the person himself who slowed down or sped up, in real life, or that the cameraman's handheld pan wasn't really slowing down or speeding up?

Either this was a lot of manual trial and error, or software for this kind of thing is far better than I can imagine.
the blockchain is essentially a solution to the Byzantine Generals' Problem
We are successfully moving towards the next bug milestone which will put the new license in place going forward. This is likely among the most potentially disruptive steps as we need to ensure subsequent contributions are under the new license (additionally). We're targeting mid January pretty firmly now to make the cutover. We'll be sending a detailed message to the LLVM lists about this today.

And as the other responder mentioned, part of this has involved directly contacting all committers in the last two years (more recent committers more than once) to ensure we have everything we need to minimize disruption and make the cut over.
Hi all, actual lawyer here.

Shares issued to investors are considered "outstanding" shares. Shares bought back from investors reduce the number of outstanding shares, and usually the bought-back shares go into the pool of "reserved" shares to be re-issued later.

Stock of a corporation is not an indicator of % ownership, especially not for publicly traded companies or companies with multiple classes of stock. % ownership isn't particularly relevant to the corporate form of business; you're probably thinking of the partnership or hybrid business forms (including LLCs) where, due to the pass-through nature of the form, everything flows to the owners on a % basis.

For corporations, very little flows through to the owners directly, so % ownership matters very little on a practical basis. While allocations of dividends are generally based (directly or indirectly) on % ownership of outstanding stock, the stock that carries the most voting rights (i.e., control rights) usually has the lowest dividend participation rights (i.e., profit rights).
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To be fair three acts:

1. announcing the thingy

2. gather emails of people interested in it [1]

3. Sorry, not going to happen...

[1] and possibly interested in other products ...
The units used around GPS has always been interesting to me. I once received an email from you a vendor of a commercial GPS unit informing us of a bug "above Mach 15". For a scenario that pretty much only happens in space, talking about Mach 15 seemed very bizarre.

The bug ended up being that they stored Doppler shift information in a signed 16-bit integer, which is fine on Earth but breaks in orbit.
Put an untrained person in a bulldozer and there will be a lot of damage.
Apache 2.0 is not a great choice if you care about license compatibility, unless you include an exception as LLVM is doing here.

Another good choice is https://opensource.org/licenses/BSDplusPatent , which combines the 2-clause BSD license with the explicit patent clause from Apache 2.0. That gives you GPLv2-compatibility as well.

(Note that this is unrelated to the unfortunately similarly named license from Facebook, which is not a FOSS license.)
That's an emergency solution to not having any available seasonal workers, not a better way of running your logistics than hiring extra people that actually want money for working in your warehouse over the holiday season (who probably have more relevant industrial work experience than your accountants anyway)
There's a lot of debt from just ASN1 and X509 parsing itself. The formats are only popular because of their popularity: their payloads are what matters.
Good news for Andy Bernard!
If you can reuse the legal mechanics of the new LLVM license, maybe that helps? We spent a LOT of lawyer time trying to get this right.
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I agree with your general cynicism :-) Cornell Tech was established a few years back as an interdisciplinary grad school on Roosevelt Island that brings together a lot of STEM disciplines (as well as business. Cornell Med School is also in NYC. It's an increasingly common pattern; see MIT's recent announcement of an AI school.

Stanford tried pretty hard to get this campus but, among other things, it's probably fair to say that there was a pretty heavy thumb on the scales in Cornell's favor given that it's a significant university in New York state.
Regression testing for performance is checked via several test suites (Talos, for instance, with numerous subtests: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Performance_sheriffing/Talos/Tests) and monitored by our ever-dutiful performance sheriffs (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Performance_sheriffing).
Most people who learned to program on batch-oriented systems developed those habits. When you had to wait hours or even overnight for your compile to run, you spent a lot of time at your desk checking the code for syntax errors, and running the logic in your head.
Yes, up to $1.25 million through a sweep program [1]. They also reimburse ATM fees and let you trade anything inside them.

[1] https://www.fidelity.com/cash-management/fidelity-cash-manag...
I stopped trusting Amazon's review and stop buying unfamiliar brands.

I have seen too many "Amazon's choice" products with few hundreds reviews, all 5 stars, but the problem with these products are they were just listed a day ago and already got 400 or 500 five stars reviews. Looking at the review, they were all put on the same day and time. These 500 fives stars review push the product to the top of the search. Yet, Amazon did nothing about it as long as the products sell.

I sell only Amazon and I am telling you, I get a product review under 1% of the sales.
It would be nice if the LISP section was fleshed out a bit more with references to all the innovations in that.
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On a smaller scale, I know many introverts who worked retail or food customer service which brought them out of their shell.
Oh haha, it was an excellent joke then cause I lol'ed :-D
Sure. And that’s as true for juice, tea, and soda as it is for water.
What were the animals like?

http://www.earthexplodes.com/comics/070/
It's a fool's errand. There are people who spend 80 hours a week doing this kind of analysis at firms that pay millions of dollars a year for the most sophisticated data and analysis, and those folks still don't beat the market more than randomly. These firms pay hundreds of millions of dollars to improve their trading systems' latency by just a few milliseconds.

You don't have a chance unless you are doing the same amount of work with more sophisticated tools, with the same trading tools.

You might win based purely on chance, but you are extremely unlikely to.
Wouldn't you say the companies that asked her to help create these licenses "started it"? I think for the question if another effort is suspect just because it involves her the source of the motivation is IMHO relevant.
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Money ownership didn't change when money management switched to family offices. So distribution of wealth hasn't changed. How did family offices create inequality?
> It's quite possible that a sorted word count was easiest to do with bash and unix utilities in 1992. Now, it's easier and more comprehensible in your favorite scripting language

It'd be interesting to see how true this is in reality. I'm not at all convinced that most scripting languages can do this quite as concisely as bash and the Unix userland. (But, being honest, this problem seems very well aligned to that tooling's strenghts.)
> That doesn't work because liberals are unable to understand and empathize with conservative views.

Actually conservatives and liberals do share a lot of values. Let's call this the foundational set V.

Conservatives go on to add additional values to the set V: mostly concerns for purity, respect for authority and a heightened concern for security. Let's call this set A.

Conservatives could then easily predict the answers of liberals because they are both based on V, but it's not symmetrical, because conservatives are working from a bigger set of values V+A.
"Never" is a strong word.

Packaged water is useful when stockpiling for or responding to natural disasters (hurricanes, wildfire, tornadoes, earthquakes), emergency evacuation camps, places where safe, clean water and filters aren't easily accessible or used. Everywhere else, it's really unnecessary.
The article talks exactly about this, and it still doesn’t address the fact that waste is still generated when we have better infrastructure for moving clean water.
While social media usage is lower in France[1], it's laughable to say that it's not a force. Nor is agenda & social-media driven journalism less of a thing, it's just mitigated by government fairness doctrines[2] -- but certainly still there.

Hell, you can make a prima facie argument that this is totally true just by looking at the massive riots happening all across France.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/284435/france-social-net...

[2] https://www.extradigital.co.uk/articles/social-media/social-...
Why are NoSQL databases becoming transactional?
Shaming backfires.

Whereas snobbery works great. The successful (advertising) campaigns target the cool kids (opinion leaders).
Yes but the family office didn’t cause the inequality, the inequality caused the family office.
What does the full analysis of what goes into bottled water look like? Because it seems to me like, at this point, the "bottle" part of bottled water could be the least worrisome bit. Even if you get rid of the bottle, what does it take just to physically ship all this water around?

It's pretty heavy stuff. I'd assume its probably much more economical to transport in pipes than in trucks. Sort of like we do with things like oil and gas, when it's feasible to do so.
That is silly! I'm just not sure the solution is to switch to Powerade.
I used to work out of a lot of 16th century Italian manuscripts. After a couple of hours you don't notice it anymore.
Fidelity's cash management offering kicks ass. I use it exclusively. I paid the down payment for my house through Fidelity.
But tap water is contaminated with DHMO.
If we want to go there, modern tooling allows you to forget some of the details you used to care about and focus more on other things, the tooling is rarely comprehensive and there will always be more to consider until the entire programming process is automated.
Stupid is as stupid does
We saw significant performance gains when moving from GCC (6) to clang (6). I don't think it'd be particularly hard to switch back at this point; this article provides some solid data for doing so.
Hopefully the week field is longer than 10 bits. That was a headache.
From the list of implementtaions, microkanren in Prolog:

https://github.com/mndrix/microkanren-prolog

(By the indefatigable Michael Hendrix)
I agree with you however as "moonka" says below there are some legit problems with tap water in certain areas. Not to mention that they have basically removed public water fountains from most locations.
Even assuming that they moved-fast-and-broke-things on the legal side

Doesn't moving fast and breaking things on-as you say-"the legal side" in essence mean breaking the law, or did you mean something else and I've misunderstood?
but it's a relicensing which is fairly close in spirit, isn't it?

Sure, apache 2 has the patent stuff, but I fail to see how anyone would object to it.
Totally this! Int he past in the UK - you had a choice for something similar - maybe head to the local Garden Centre and pick up a garden light for an OK price, if nto head somewhere like John Lewis and get a really good one for maybe twice the price, or head to 'local discount store' and get something that might last the summer. But at each price point you knew what you were getting. You didn't have to mess around like this as other than the discount store, the other shops knew that the way to get you to return was to sell quality. At best you'd return the item, at worst you'd never shop there again.

My wife used to work in fashion, where they'd cut a square out of the back of every shirt sample that they went on to order, so that they could be sure they got the same material when they got the wholesale order - I wonder if Amazon is going similar?
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But is he really an owner?
The alternative is the government intervening to internalize externalities. For example, a revenue neutral carbon tax or deposits on food/drink containers.
They do make less expensive movies. Lots of them.

When GP said "I'm again left choosing between movies I don't really want to see" those are the movies he was talking about.
Assuming an investor owns the stock in a taxable account, dividends are taxed at ordinary income whereas if the stock appreciates due to stock buybacks, it could be taxable as a long-term gain (if held for more than a year).

https://mebfaber.com/2016/05/02/much-dividends-costing/

>>> In a taxable account dividends could have cost you anywhere from 0.3% to over 3.0% in returns PER YEAR since 1974.
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The Australian NBN was taking tenders and explicitly booted Huawei due to questions about their manufacturing.
Yes, but with mixed bins from multiple sellers, you don't know whose item you actually receive.
Heather is "just" a (fantastic) lawyer. She isn't providing the "here is what would be good for the project" direction, the community and the foundation are doing that. She is helping ensure that we understand the legal implications and requirements of achieving the direction set by the community. And she does (IMO) a fantastic job of that.

This also means that if we gave her really bad direction (for the community or project), she would also be fantastic at it. The fault there lies in the direction, not the legal advice.
“Does it have a VPN option?”

Isn’t asking to be MITMed a contradiction of items 1 and 2?

If you're using a VPN, it should be one you've carefully chosen and individually trust. We shouldn't be encouraging browser vendors to build a first-party mass-surveillance tool.
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Search for 'payment for order flow' if you want to know how robinhood gets paid and why you might want to pay trading fees instead of getting it for 'free'.
Even if I buy that (I don't), it doesn't explain the fact that they were marketing the account as SICP insured when it very obviously was not. They didn't say "we hope for these accounts to be insured in the near future!", they said that it _is_.
I think it's important to acknowledge our vulnerability to irrational and emotional manipulation in things like product design where product design shouldn't matter and in advertising; our own irrationality. It's hard to admit, at least for me... but denying it makes us more vulnerable to such manipulation, I think.
I think this is an insightful point. Lawyers are largely trained in reading and applying precedent. That said, one would think a responsible company would have received best and worst case guidance from a team of attorneys who could have easily expected this as a possible and perhaps probable outcome.

In other words, "this hasn't been tested in court" doesn't excuse them from apparently not bothering to get an opinion from the regulators who have the potential to greatly embarrass them after a high-profile product launch.
I was approximately number 601,000 on waiting list. Assuming typical financial product CACs (high) this was worth tens of millions at the minimum. Hard to see it not paying off even if it does have some negative repercussions with regulators.
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Tap water tastes different in every city. While I can't fault Indianapolis for drinking bottled water, Wisconsin Dells should never buy a single bottle.

The supply of the city I live in currently has a bit of a metallic tang to it, but it's fine out of the tap.
My favorite one of these was from a coworker having trouble getting his presentation up. "People outside the tech industry ask 'Will a computer take my job?'; people inside the tech industry ask 'why won't this damn projector work?'"
I think the author is suggesting that society would be better if rich people were to end up so mired in the principal-agent problem that they ended up with no more influence on the market than the average person. Of course, this appears to overlook the fact that if you don't like it when people accumulate power, then you actually want corporate executives to be beholden to an active stock market.
This sort of thing has always been prevalent even in more regulated markets. Index futures are a canonical current-day example. The industry is flooded with $500 daytrading margin brokers who sell order flow and (under the radar) margin utilization to big players, who can then perform similar manipulation to effectively steal money from uninformed, overleveraged small traders.

It's legal theft by the same people who made massive overleveraged bets and got bailed out by insiders. Humans are a joke primitive species, even in the limited galactic order.
Nukes are a different beast entirely. Quite a few of their safety systems are physical and non-networked. The only danger are hacking delivery systems such as subs and bombers. But that would only prevent the delivery of a nuke, and not set them off.
EDIT2: Retracted due to tone/presentation error, apologies.
How often does one do non-incremental compiles though?
> Companies with low growth have a few options

This is true. It is always better to return money to shareholders if there aren't any avenues of future growth.

But, on the flip side there are companies which are knowingly using their portfolios to create similar situations. A good example is Broadcom. They have cutback on R&D spending. Using huge amount of debt to grow via acquisitions and share buyback.
Just out of curiousity, does anyone know what kind of notebooks and paper he’s using in the photo captioned “A few notes”?
Lots of brokerages have money market accounts that pay interest, allow checking and debit cards, and are SIPC-protected. What makes this different? The name? The rate? The challenge to incumbents? Seems Like the salty response of regulatory capture.
Why attend predatory colleges in the US?
Trump would just be tweeting more.
Did you mean to include a link to the talk with that "[0]"?
I'm not excusing their behavior here, but just to clarify, they thought their existing SIPC insurance would cover this new account. So they didn't lie so much as they made an assumption and were grossly mistaken.
Your missing the key part. You can order from the manufacturer through amazon, and they will ship you the part from the 3rd party (that may or may not be legitimate) if the have the same ID number. Even though you ordered from the manufacturer, you may get a fake product. They commingle inventory, to make it easier for them to ship from nearest warehouse, but don't really put enough work into ensuring the products are actually identical.
Well, what about smooshing together three human brains?
From my basic knowledge of neuroplasticity, if the brain area is unused the nearby areas will take over and use it for their functionality (e.g. blind person's increased sense of hearing and smell)
For a similar concept, the US offers a Passport Card, which is a Federal Photo ID card, that is legally considered a passport by domestic law, but other countries may disagree. It can be used to enter Canada, Mexico, The Caribbean, and Bermuda by land or sea.

It is not valid for international flights. It is unclear why, as it is designed to meet the ICAO standards for ID card sized travel documents. My best guess is that it is not valid for International aviation to avoid the problems with people trying to travel with it to places that need to be able to stamp a passport.

(It is pretty much the only such Federal Photo ID card available to the general public in the US.) Obviously the passport card differs from EU National ID cards, in that they are never required to be owned/carried domestically, and full blown passports are not needed
He doesn't mean it's particular to Bezos, but that wealthy people throwing massive (to anyone but them) amounts of money into extremely speculative bets on large issues for the long run of society is a big deal.

The government and major corporations are slow and inertial, invested in iterative improvements on existing paradigms, as low risk small improvements are baked into the foundation of the incentive structure for their entire org. If you're CEO of a major company and make the company a tiny bit more efficient your life is great, but if you bet a billion dollars on pivoting the company towards a potential major improvement and the numbers come up wrong, your business is potentially structurally compromised and your life is relatively screwed. It's just not really worth it to gamble with your main game.

These extremely speculative, niche, very capital intensive, long time horizon bets on paradigm changes couldn't exist without large amounts of funding from contrarian and extremely risk tolerant backers.

Very wealthy people being willing to play with millions to billions of dollars in a way that is very likely to crash and burn enables risky exploration of paradigm changes like "can I get a rocket to land upright and use it again?", or "can I take a major publication and profitably revert its online funding model to subscriptions to retain integrity of its journalism in the era of the attention economy?"

That kind of exploration is important and interesting.
The Robinhood card looks to have some transparency to it. AMEX has patents on transparent cards.