skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep. The only equitable way forward is if we make a national debit card, that runs on a national payment network where everyone is allowed to have an account.

Say- take Discover (which is a bank and payment provider network) and recharter them as a government owned corporation or make them wholely owned by the Federal Reserve. Then, give the USPS the ability to act as a simple bank frontend for these accounts- giving you overnight a national footprint that everyone can access. Make the transaction fee on this network near Zero, and allow anyone to have an account with you. Get rid of the credit ability, and you get a true alternative to cash.

Anything less is Visa/Mastercard forming a chokehold on out financial lives. I would love to ditch my credit cards for cash, but right now I'm being bribed with the great benefits that Visa/Amex are forcing merchants to pay for.
And your shoes would be wetter and breed more bacteria if you tend to leave them on that much. Your feet and shoes probably smell much worse than they need to. Regardless of hygiene you are also rolling around in grit in your bed which doesn't seem very comfortable. Yep, I am also mortified!
Yes. I think it's easy to understand most everything SpaceX does.

Musk wants humans to become an interplanetary species, full stop. Everything SpaceX does is in support of that.

Vast amounts of money and resources will be required for the final goal, likely more than SpaceX will ever have or control. So, in order to get others to spend big on the main goal, SpaceX needs to demonstrate realistic capabilities, such as bootstrapping a permanent settlement on Mars, though dependent on regular shipments from earth.

To accomplish that, SpaceX needs a lot of cash.

Crew Dragon is about the cash. Starlink is (mostly) about the cash.

I'm less certain about the following, but it might be accurate: Tesla is about the cash necessary to bootstrap a Mars settlement. If Tesla really goes big, Musk's shares will be worth many more billions than they are worth right now. I would not be surprised if, at some time in the future, he cashes out of Tesla and drops it all on SpaceX.
> If Alaska isn't a good place to live for humans but great for other inhabitants, the humans should move.

The indigenous populations in the Arctic are often very poor.
Who is going to pay for them to move to Ft. Lauderdale, or even as far as Juneau? House them, find them jobs, etc?

"Just move" is a non-solution also offered up for pretty much every factory closing in the rust belt, coal miners in WV, etc. It vastly overestimates the mobility of many families, especially those near or in poverty.

That said, Prudhoe Bay has double the national unemployment rate, so I don't buy the argument that drilling is a magical answer to unemployment. (And we should stop burning stuff for energy)
I have to chose to eat things I don't want. Is that what your are saying? cuz I want sugar.
I don't know why this is being downvoted. Agree or disagree, it's a reasonable contribution to the conversation. To me, downvotes are for bad-faith arguments, axe-grinding, comments that raise issues answered in TFA, and other things that worsen the quality of conversation.
Basecamp started a “Facebook Free” movement for businesses who pledge to not use Facebook in any way. Their original announcement: https://m.signalvnoise.com/become-a-facebook-free-business/

Some press coverage of it: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/06/some-advertisers-are-quittin...
Well you're one of the few. So many packages are still on 2.7, and Dropbox -- even with Guido working there! -- took three years to move to Python 3, just finishing last autumn.
What do you mean by this? I'm not a Python expert by any means.
That was mostly never part of the package if you flew first class in the 70s or so though.
> One interesting note particular to Nintendo is that other than the very limited "Nintendo Selects", their first party games basically never go on special. This means that if you want a deal on an older game, you have to buy second-hand physical, because the digital game is still $60. (Don't believe me? Twilight Princess HD, a 2016 remaster of a 2006 game, still retails for full price: https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/the-legend-of-zelda-tw...)

Actually, this is not particular to Nintendo if you extend it a little bit. Disney does the same thing with their classic animated movies. It's a statement from the company about the quality of their brand.
Pi can be as it's (thought to be) normal (all digits appear with uniform frequency), but like anything, it's how you use it. Imagine you selected a digit from pie and used it to decide rock, paper, or scissors (3 options, so let's take a digit and mod 3)

0: 0 Rock
1: 1 Paper
2: 2 Scissors
3: 0 Rock
4: 1 Paper
5: 2 Scissors
6: 0 Rock
7: 1 Paper
8: 2 Scissors
9: 0 Rock

Now, let's check the frequency of each option:

0/Rock: 4
1/Paper: 3
2/Scissors: 3

Your RNG is biased towards 0 here. The same thing happens, and is very common, when people just take the system random number generator and mod it by the number of values they want. They always end up biasing the bottom section of their distribution.

The common way of dealing with this is to "ignore" any number that would make the set biased. Here you would ignore 9 and you have an even distribution. So, you're playing 7 rounds of RPS and you go

3/R
1/P
4/P
1/P
5/S
9! SKIP! 2/S
6/R
the thread about this in the kernel mailing list: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190305145717.GD8256@zn.tnic/
I agree. But if we are going to split up the store platform and the store brands, now youre going to have to split up Target, Walmart etc. Anyone besides Ikea who sells their own store brand and runs as a platform for others to sell their products.

Any grocery store can do the same thing amazon is doing, use data about sales to push clones and store brands of popular products. What percent of products at Target are store brand now? Target is like an Ikea with 3rd party products sprinkled in it, which is what Amazon wants to become.
> Money doesn't do much good when the food and water are poisoned, the air is toxic to breathe, and vast portions of the continents are under water.

Unfortunately, those who stand the most to profit are also those who can mitigate the damage for themselves with costly workarounds such as fresh bottled water imported from the opposite side of the world, high tech air filtration systems and secondary homes in remote places. In other words, they don't care.
The argument that it is morally wrong seems to hinge on the argument that meritocracy promotes selfishness. However, I find the examples used to be problematic. It's shown that when people are led to believe that their success in a game is based on their skill, they are less likely to support redistributing the rewards. This is an example of selfishness. However, what about all the other participants in the game? If they believe that they lost because of someone else's skill, are they less likely to expect redistribution of rewards? If this is the case, it could be shown that meritocracy promotes selfishness in the person at the top but selflessness in everyone else, and therefore a net gain in selflessness in society.

As a thought expermiment, what kind of world would most people prefer to live in, one in which success and rewards can be gained by skill and hard work or one in which success is distributed randomly? This article seems to imply that most people prefer the former. If that's true, then meritocracy is an ideal to work toward, no matter how perfectly or imperfectly it exists today.

The other subject discussed is people's perception of effort and skill in success. Most people seem to think that it's an important factor. But isn't this true even if luck and circumstance are large factors as well? It's a well known fact that people who win lotteries often lose their money and end up less happy than they expect. Anyone can be given the world and waste it. It's not wrong to believe that sustained success requires both effort and strong external support.

Therefore, what I learned from this article is that most people want to live in a meritocracy, and I suspect that most people are happier with their lack of success and reward if they believe that their cicrumstances are somewhat under their control and there exists opportunity to better themselves through effort. We should work toward a more meritocratic world so that more people can realize these ambitions.
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Such as what? Say, change strict evaluation to lazy?

Core semantics can be wrapped in an operator that is in some namespace. We develop (lazy ...) and everything in it is lazily evaled.

File-level annotations are possible. Emacs Lisp introduced lexical scope instead of dynamic scope as a file-level option.
π is normal in all bases, so in the end it doesn't matter, you're just using up more data.
It should really be more about convenience than a boycott.
Why not use less oil?
I would argue that as a way to describe a selection process, "Meritocracy", warts and all, works great.

By warts, I mean that merit, as shorthand for "assessment of skill, talent, or capability", has other factors mixed in because flawed people decide who gets life's prizes.

The Gates example shows the missing ingredient - not luck, but recognition of luck's role in success, what some might call humility. The article referred to gratitude research, which probably means the same thing.

It's a missing ingredient because it doesn't seem too valuable anymore, especially when compared to other qualities, such as the ability to "talk smack."

And it's associated with sackcloth and ashes, or being a "loser." Moreover, it's often called false.

Coming back to meritocracy, what do we have as alternatives? Random selection? Suppression of individual differences (aka C.S. Lewis' "Parity of Esteem")? I don't know.

Parity of Esteem ref = http://www.samizdat.qc.ca/arts/lit/Toast_CSL.pdf
Ignoring the cleanliness aspect, why wear shoes in bed? That just sounds uncomfortable.
You're speaking of ideal scenarios. Explain all the past accidents that have led to massive raping of the wildlife and environment, then subsequent "cleanups" which add additional issues.
And this is why you should never, ever, choose your own password. You just aren’t as random as you think you are.
He wants to build a western WeChat right? Isn't that the core idea of this supposed shift currently in progress?
> If you convert Pi to base 2 you won't be penalized for those long sequences of odd numbers

That doesn't seem correct. How do you fairly map digits 0-9 to base 2? Assuming pi has an even distribution of digits, you are going to get a disproportionate amount of 1's.

There are 2 ways of mapping digits to binary: fixed width and minimal.

With minimal the digits 0 and 1 require 1 bit, and 8 and 9 require 4 bits. So then 0:9 maps to (0, 1, 10, 11, 100, 101, 110, 111, 1000, 1001).

Tally it up: 15 ones, 10 zeros. That means you will be encountering 1 50% as often as 0, which doesn't seem random to me.

So then let's try fixed width:

0:9 maps to (0000, 0001, 0010, 0011, 0100, 0101, 0110, 0111, 1000, 1001).

Tally it up: 15 ones, 26 zeros. That means you will be encountering 0 >60% as often as 1, which doesn't seem random to me. Also, with this scheme you can never encounter more than 4 ones in a row ("78"), which is also unrandom
That’s not really Premium Economy, that’s more like Economy Plus. Long haul PE seats are similar to domestic US first class seats.
I really enjoyed the Soylent cafe shakes as a breakfast replacement. Other diet things pulled me away, but those chai ones are amazingly nutritious.
There are lots of sales jobs that are going to be this way.
Good to see this silly question off r/lisp for once. :)
I blame the game genie for killing my nes. I never started getting the flashing grey death screen until I got one.

Then again...it could have been because I was a careless child.
NASA has somewhat larger versions linked on this article, though they aren't really sufficient for larger wallpapers or prints:

https://www.nasa.gov/centers/armstrong/features/supersonic-s...

The photos aren't yet listed in their image database[0], unfortunately. They also publish[1] high-resolution versions on Flickr, so it's possible the photos might make their way there in the near future. Alternatively, they give a phone number (202-358-1900) to inquire about media use of specific images.[2] Maybe I'll give them a call later if someone doesn't beat me to it. Or the high-res photos will make their way onto Flickr, since they already posted to Instagram as of yesteray.

0. https://nasasearch.nasa.gov/search/images?affiliate=nasa&que...

1. https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto/

2. https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/guidelines/index.html
Sounds like some of my own work, I hypothesized that the body doesn’t need food itself, merely the chemicals and elements it contains. So, what if I consumed only the raw ingredients the body uses for energy? Soylent was the obvious choice because our bodies do not need food.
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They've never made a profit in any year. And the last two years in a row their top line sales have declined. Furthermore, their stock price has gone from $10 to <$1 since they IPO'ed. I'd definitely call that a failure regardless of whether they are still in business or not. Is it possible that they turn it around? Yeah, it's possible. But as of right now, I think the label "failure" is more than appropriate, at least from an investor perspective. Just because they can, for the moment, continue to sell their product/service at a loss to customers is no great accomplishment.

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/APRN/financials?p=APRN
People downvote things that make them angry. The closer one gets to an uncomfortable truth, the greater the anger.

I honestly think that the majority of downvotes on HN are from people silenced by the posting limit. Lacking the ability to respond in text, their only agency is to downvote. The calm and considerate people who read more and speak less don't hit that limit.
That reads like Graham is poking fun at Google/Larry opposers, am I missing something? He's saying fighting poverty by bringing up the bottom is noble, but fighting inequality by capping the top end is foolish.

BTW I agree with him in the sense that indices like Gini coefficients etc. are not comprehensive enough, and optimizing for simple numbers leads to distorted outcomes. I also agree with you in the sense that top heavy players in the economy are harmful to the extent that they seek rent and prevent competition.
Wait, business class and first class aren't the same? Never seen a plane with three classes.
Aren't splashdowns bad for re-usability? Doesn't all the saltwater do more damage than a falcon-style landing would do?
> ISPs would never charge customers depending on the product because measuring that is practically impossible. They never even wanted to do that nor advocated doing so (this was a major source of misinformation put out by the pro-net neutrality camp)

That is exactly what zero rating is. Some data costs more than other data.

Also, Netflix the company isn't using the data, Netflix's customers are using the data.
The simple reason is because a pseudorandom number generator is a complexity theoretic thing, but an information theoretic thing. In order for it to be robust, it must be indistinguishable from true random for any polynomial time algorithm. Since we have algorithms which can calculate Pi in polynomial time, as long as the computer recognized the sequence (or the deterministic seed of the sequence as Pi), it could with certainty predict the next digit of the sequence.

As for why converting digits in this way matters - a lot of randomness is expressed by the entropy. It's harder for you to correctly guess the sequence {1,7,9,3,6,8,2,4} than it is to guess the sequence {1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0}.

If I ask you to guess a decimal digit I've chosen "randomly", you have a 1/10 chance of being correct. If I ask you to do the same for binary digits, you have a 1/2 chance of being correct.

Basically you want to think of these as subsequences, not individual numbers. If Pi is normal (which is a big if), then Pi is normal in every single base, including decimal or binary. But it's not generally true that a normal number generates another normal number by mapping each digit to the digit's parity.
I think you are the one trying to say something but I can't figure out exactly what.
I don’t believe Facebook will ever offer true end-to-end encryption. They will hold the master keys and allow themselves to inject whatever they want into “your private living room” while giving users the perception of privacy and secrecy.

Or they will try to monetize the metadata but keep the message body encrypted.

This feels like Zuckerberg embracing the backlash he’s ignored and dismissed for so long and now trying to use it as a selling point because his traditional growth model is beginning to show signs of slowing.
Knew a couple, had a stack of frozen dinners delivered every week, put them in a standup freezer. Whoever got home first had to take the top two dinners, put them in the oven for dinner. No picking thru the stack; no arguing over who got what. Does that count as 'the same dinner every day'?
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Nah, they'll vote for anything their party tells them to. Most people don't have any sort of guiding principles. Their decisions are mainly based on tribalism, identity, and partisanship.
Sez the guy with the Duke MBA.
IT workers' salaries would fall into 30% income tax rate category anyway. Should be noticed that french taxes for EEA residents are made of household total income divided for spouses, so one might pay less.
This article is pure socialist trash.
Who is John Galt?
> we'd stop them by all means

Fully agree. This is not an issue where we just have to hope that one day someone in charge will fix it.
The message to China behind Singapore's US F-35 jet plan
> The implications for stuff like sports competitions could be nasty.

After the murder of Israeli athletes by the PLO/Black September at the Munich Olympics, that seems a long way off.

Eurovision-wise the story is a little sad: Lebanon wanted to enter, but since the country forbids broadcasting Israeli content (!) and the EBU refuses to let countries cut the programme, this was impossible. I believe this rule was inspired by a previous incident where an Arab country cut away to a vase of flowers for 3 minutes to avoid broadcasting the Israeli entry.
But the companies will all still have the same owners. So one wonders if splitting them actually helps with anything?
> funnel into QA

That is, the lowest paying and least respected "tech" jobs in the company.
That's only true of some airlines on some planes.
Man, that persistent white toolbar at the bottom of the screen is really annoying when I want to check my phone in the middle of the night.
Space X Dragon returns to earth
That's the definition of insanity!

Mr Einstein would be so disappointed.

In other news, Americans stopped buying sedans because they want bigger vehicles.

https://www.cbtnews.com/people-arent-buying-sedans-anymore/
I agree you need significant amounts of resources / capital to do it. I disagree you need megacorps to do it. It's inefficient for the means of production to be held by a private company looking out for its own interests and wealth and not the good of society: even if you want the military to be more capable, the military-industrial complex is a bad way to do it. And the argument that startups need to spend money on their own fabs is an argument these shouldn't be in private, competitive hands.
Can someone explain why this is a problem? I'm not an "AI apologist", but I would consider it a good thing that the model pegs it as a rabbit when it is in more of a "rabbit orientation" and a duck when it is in more of a "duck orientation".
Porfiry
Thanks for linking this. Looks very cool.
If Monty City needs the services of LaLa Corp, then another Corp can be created to provide those services, possibly by former employees of LaLa Corp. There is clearly a profitable market already clearly identified, so it should be no issue getting private investment or debt financing to start New Corp.
Not a huge disagreement here, but I think Facebook is completely trivial to avoid, while Amazon is much less so.

I couldn't care less about Facebook. Yet, while I certainly could live without Amazon (or Whole Foods), their service is very nice and WF has things I can't buy at other grocery stores around me.
It's been 20+ years, so I'm a bit fuzzy on the details. I do recall having to at least build a new kernel with ELF support, then a compile a new libc and ld.so. My system had a mix of both a.out and ELF binaries for a while. This was a "heavily customized" Slackware, circa 1994, where I installed the base system then upgraded things from source...
Typically the premium classes subsidize economy where people taking personal trips in particular tend to shop for the lowest price. Business class seating (many airplanes don’t have first) do tend to be full because if there’s available space passengers with status tend to be upgraded or they use miles/co-pay to upgrade.
There is a children's book about this pairing: https://www.amazon.com/Duck-Rabbit-Amy-Krouse-Rosenthal/dp/0...
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BA premium economy has wider seats with more leg room as far as I can tell, the same food as club (ie. upgraded from economy), your own arm rests and better in flight entertainment (a larger screen).
As a society?

Since when the common people have much say in any nontrivial large-scale policies?

Name one that the behindscen motivation isn't cooperate profit?
if they are going to break up amazon why dont spin out AWS?
Frozen food sounds like poverty dinner.
Correct, they aren't the same, but usually only larger airplanes (747-400, A380 etc.) have a first class and only for very long haul (> 12 hour?) flights.

See e.g. https://onemileatatime.com/emirates-a380-first-class-vs-busi...
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> People who say economic inequality is bad and should be decreased don't realize they're saying this, but they are. Which is my point.

Sounds like Paul Graham was saying that stopping founders is some unstated but believed goal, and is a poor one.
Take a set of wire cutters to the pin on the 10NES chip that runs to the reset line of the CPU, and you'll be good.
Not all planes have 3 classes. Some have 6. It's all pretty arbitrary, I don't think it's actually set in stone anywhere what "class" means.

Like I've been on flights with value economy, economy, economy plus, economy premium, business, first, first (premier? Or something). I've also been on flights that were "general," but if you paid 44$ extra you get a giant padded seat easily as big as or bigger than some first class seats I've seen.
She's lost my support with this - too far off the rails.
1st class is different from business class
Yeah, a "nice" and slow dinner.
There's a few hard/soft products that are grouped as premium economy.

On domestic flights there's "Comfort" seats, which give you more legroom (and free snacks and drinks on US domestic flights). On international flights "Comfort" seats still exist, but on some flights there's true premium economy, which does have wider seats (e.g. the A350 on Delta's fleet is 2-4-2 seating in premium economy vs 3-3-3 in coach).

You get better meal service (my experience on Delta is it's plated and brought out in a similar fashion to domestic first class) and domestic parts of the journey will sometimes book into first class.

Comfort pricing is usually $50-150 more per leg vs coach. Premium economy is usually somewhere in between coach and business, leaning a bit more towards the coach side.
Is this Tier 1 visa the same as, or similar to, the earlier HSMP (Highly Skilled Migrants Program)?
> on both sides

That sounds familiar? Oh, wait: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-defends-organi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_autodidacts