skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You might ask yourself, "What's already happened at all of the places that have already banned single-use plastic bags?"
Great explanation, thank you :-)
I don't think it's an unreasonable point to raise. I would however reply that, in a world where most people's primary computer is some form of SOC with peripherals soldered to it in god knows what way, the term "IBM PC-compatible" to refer to an x86 system with a BIOS and VGA graphics and the rest of it is still meaningful and useful.

The "IBM" part simply means the standard that IBM created, and doesn't have to imply that the software runs on an original IBM PC - rather, it implies that software that could run on an IBM PC also runs on such a machine. Hell, DOS still runs on bare metal on a modern machine.
Why bribe your way into a school when you could just buy or build your own?
ThinkOrSwim and trade in a practice account.
I knew something was wrong when my son was assigned homework in KINDERGARTEN. He had to do some totally absurd assignment, designed to be "fun" by the teacher. It was something like describing part of a Curious George story on a home-made kite.

I was livid. Our son could not even read at that point, nor did he have the motor skills to assemble a hand made kite at the age of 5. The assignment was clearly aimed at satisfying the parents who thought that homework should start early.

We put up with that public school for another year, then we got him into a private school that did not believe in homework in elementary school. Our lives were much less stressful, and he spent more time playing outside when he changed schools in 2nd grade.
That's actually Jim Keller's M.O, he doesn't hang around for long. He does the bit he's interested in and then moves on. In the last decade he's worked for Apple, AMD, Tesla and Intel.
> With respect to Matt Levine, the exact opposite is true.

You may want to re-read what he wrote then, because you're literally just restating what he said. He even covered the history of the tax break, noting, as you did, that the law changed decades before the first ETF appeared in 1993.

Levine is explicitly saying that this whole thing came about by accident decades ago but today it has become "embedded in the system", and everyone, up to and including the regulators, believes that the point of an ETF is to be tax efficient, so they're going to let them be tax efficient, even if that requires some legal gymnastics.

> I'd argue this is like frequent flyer miles -- the IRS basically gave up on collecting them as taxable income because everyone thought of them as free.

Exactly. What exactly do you think you're disagreeing with Levine about?
do you care about performance? PHP, Go, C#

you'll "figure it out later"? anything else that floats your boat
Think about two dark matter clouds crashing into each other.

Each cloud just continues with the same speed in the direction it had. They dont interact other than gtavitationally.

After passing each other they start to pull on each other gravitationally and slow each other down. Eventually stop and accelerate towards each other again.

And so they can oscillate forever back and forth, if left to themselves without other clumps. But at no point would they "clump"... they are only close to one another in space when their speeds are most opposite one another. Being clumped means being im the same location and having the same speed.
> key optimisations such as scalar replacement of aggregates

Can u give an example or link to a relevant article.
Context: my area is more of high-level program (e.g. shape) analysis
FWIW I can think of at least two non-IBM-PC compatible x86 platforms (the NEC PC-98 series, and SGI's Visual workstations) manufactured past 1996.
> John Podesta ... always think someone else is the target

You’re aware that Mr Podesta flagged the email as being suspicious, sent it to their security person, and was given the all clear before following it?
A radiologist applying evolutionary principles to cancer research
In Keller's case, that's his MO. He did exactly the same thing with Zen which basically saved AMD. I'm fairly bearish on Tesla and don't read anything in to it.
It doesn't change lanes when it knows it's changing lanes. If the Tesla thought it was staying in the correct lane, it wouldn't ask for the confirmation.
1) The PRC exerts indirect control over Taiwan's economy by pressuring its trading partners, so the distinction is academic.

2) That's a historic stance and not one claimed by most Taiwanese people today. Meanwhile, PRC passports devote a page to each province of China, including a page for Taiwan.
SGX only guarantees the isolated memory region remains isolated. It doesn’t guarantee the code running in it is secure or even leak-free. Microsoft Research has studies this and release a compiler for making stronger claims about code running inside the enclave but I think this is still very much an open problem.

You will always want layers of security and even then security is an illusion .... there will always be a way, just with different costs to exploit and thus risk/reward frontier.
This could be a part of GitHub. Imagine there was a '$' button beside the star button, and each time you clicked it you gave one dollar to the maintainer of the repo, with a counter beside it. The '$ counter' would only be visible to the user and the repo maintainers.

GitHub is the de facto hub of open source/free software, and if it was as easy to donate to a repo as it is to star it, I imagine more people would do it.
> Rich people don't even know what skill means

Saying this is no better than saying "poor people are stupid".
Nah, get on to Blind. That will make you feel poor.
> the extracted payments are personal information---which is not captured in any economic theory I've ever seen---and the moat blocking competitive pressure is the combined result of network effects (bigger databases win) and extensive financial capitalization.

You might take a look at Carl Shapiro and Hal Varian's 1999 boom Information Rules:

https://books.google.com/books?id=z0hQ12PrERMC&printsec=fron...

As well as their (along with Joseph Farrell) 2004 book The Economics of Information:

https://books.google.com/books?id=-dcLAQAAQBAJ&printsec=fron...

It is perhaps surprising that Varian in particular (Google's Chief Economist) hasn't had more to say about data as a raw material in the years since those books came out.

BTW, your "extracted payments are personal information" formulation may be part of your problem in finding relevant economic theories. At least in part, what is being extracted is actually a capitulation to being locked-in to a system that continuously extracts information. So looking into the economic theories of technology vendor lock-in, as well as the perverse economics of information security may provide some insight.
Is Google automated in this space, like most everything else Google does, or does it have actual people to make the same threats that Yelp reportedly does?
Google has plenty of issues on the consumer side, but from my experiences and everything i've heard they treat their advertisers well. At the very least, they're not an outright protection racket.
Would you please stop breaking the site guidelines? You've been posting political flamebait, which is against the rules, as well as name-calling, in the sense we use the term here.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting to HN, we'd be grateful.
I suspect the average person using a car won't pay 10 cents extra for a plastic bag given the choice, and the data seems to bear this out. A surcharge ensures only the people who need a bag will use one.

> But one question here is whether that matters at all? Even if the distance is much longer and doesn’t involve a car, isn’t a single use bag/carrier still ridiculously wasteful?

The fact of the matter is that without a car, I need something to carry my groceries. Another commenter posted this article downthread: https://theconversation.com/plastic-bag-bans-can-backfire-if...

> A shopper would need to reuse a cotton carryout bag 131 times to reduce its global warming potential [...] below that of plastic carryout bags used once to carry newly purchased goods. To have less impact on the climate than plastic carryout bags also reused as trash bags, consumers would need to use the cotton bag 327 times.

I'm legitimately unclear why the second number isn't "infinity". By my estimation, plastic shopping bags + zero trash bags should have the same (or worse) emissions as reusable shopping bags + plastic trash bag. Regardless, I am also unconvinced I'd be able to reuse a cotton bag more than 300 times before it tears, or I somehow lose it, etc.
Authoritarian policies thrive alongside tragedy.
Please don't break the site guidelines by insinuating astroturfing without evidence. Despite the countless accusations people have posted, we've never found any evidence of that on political topics—and we've looked closely. Meanwhile it's a toxic trope that poisons discussion, one that arises for psychological reasons rather than factual ones.

I've specifically written about this recently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19485935

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19403438

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19404162

That last link is an example of how these accusations hurt the community and individuals.

Plenty more explanation here for anyone who wants it: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme....
>This isn't the way to find the next Steve Jobs indeed, and that's not what I'm searching for. [...] This isn't the way to kickstart a $1bn company

I get your clarification now. I think some including me were thrown off by your "Premise 1: Investors/Incubators over-estimate their ability to pick good ideas/startups."

In your business opportunities of "consultants who notice a workflow inefficiency but would rather pay 80% to someone else to do the programming work for a new product", that landscape doesn't have "overestimated abilities" of investors. Instead, they don't even look there at all. They need to put more than $2000 to work on a single deal to make their due diligence time worthwhile. For their fund sizes, they're scouting the arena of potential huge $1b businesses. No non-techie founders of that type of business that had any street smarts at all would ever give up 80% equity of a company in exchange for an MVP. By design of your 80% cut, it would only attract desperate losers. That was the "adverse selection" I was talking about.

However, now that I've seen your other replies, your deal feels more like paying a "finder's fee" to the consultant for his/her business idea rather than attracting a cofounder that will share the workload of doing multiple years of hard work with you. Nothing wrong with this but I misunderstood earlier what you were trying to accomplish. In this case, maybe tptacek is right and your 80% is too low and you're underpaying yourself.
I would choose the "machine" driver if it is two ( not one ) orders of magnitude safer.

By the way, your examples are not very good as the drunk/texting driver makes a choice and to some extent her passengers too. No such choice is given with the car is autonomous.
It's a sad but predictable pattern you see from everyone from the Better Business Bureau to more recent companies.

Being established isn't enough, eventually they have to push on those whose information / access they provide.

Personally I gave up on Yelp as years ago I could see so many reviews for places by people who clearly had no clue what that place even was. Such as if you go to a Neapolitan pizza place... you really shouldn't complain that the pizza is "just thin crust". Or the always great "this place isn't as good as X" where X is a place that costs 3x as much....
This sounds like a scam call. Did the user verify that the agent was in fact in any way associated with yelp, and not just someone trying to blackmail a business owner? As a domain owner, you get these scammy SEO agents pretending to be affiliated with google all the time.
Right. their territory, ie what they carved out, for free, and what they can catch, for free. Malthus, on the other hand, started the blight of economics that gave all Commons to some self-proclaimed 'king' who would then graciously sell it back to us for money with his picture on it.
My girlfriend has it and it just won't go to sleep even with tlp installed :/
It's a form of bikeshedding, in that it involves discussing the superficial details that are easy to form an opinion about.
If that were the only options, we could choose the second.

But you have the option of assistive technologies. Have the human drive and the machine supervise it. The mistakes made when the human falls asleep can be prevented. The mistakes that the machine makes, well those won't be made at all as human is the active driver.
I am aware that problems can be solved incrementally. I haven't the slightest idea what any of this has to do with what Austin, Texas actually did which was the question asked.
I hate GMail and G Suite spam filtering.

I am an freelance consultant, and a number of times I have seen my business email (hosted at FastMail) go to spam in a Google hosted mailbox. As a single consultant, I don't send a huge volume of mail because a number of my clients set me up with their internal email for business communication. The mail that I do send is invoices, and setting up contract signing; that sort of thing. The mails are always expected communication. I have SPF and DKIM configured and validated by FastMail. Mail somehow still goes to spam.

I set up with google's postmaster tools, but it shows nothing because I don't send a big enough volume of emails for it to care.

I set up dmarc to get reports when mail is delivered under my domain to a GMail or G Suite hosted address. Every single dmarc report (it's easy for me to keep on top of them because my mail volume is that low) is "spf: pass; dkim: pass".

I really don't like that the only way to get this looked at is through publicly shaming Google like this; I have not seen any way I can talk to somebody at Google to solve the problem. FastMail support said they were unable to help me solve it either, suggesting I need to send mail into the Google garden and have the recipient click "not spam" until their filter learns.
It's the funny side of what is called late capitalism.

I never miss it. Also there is no need for finance background knowledge. He explains option, short, the relationship of bond price to yield, etc every time they come up.
You don't have pockets? A bag? I have one on my bike, wrapped around the handle bars.
The innocent goodness you're talking about is embodied in the hobbits (and, indeed, in Tom Bombadil). But it tends to be driven out by the acquisition of power, like oil from water. Holding both goodness and the power to act on goodness within oneself at the same time is incredibly difficult and pretty much impossible to do perfectly. It takes great strength and constant struggle, which is what Aragorn in the movies represents.

History has shown us that any powerful figure whose sense of inner direction comes without struggle or conflict is probably incredibly evil, even (especially) if they don't see themselves that way.
Nothing about this seems credible or interesting enough to be posted here. These stories emerge every so often, and they rarely seem to exist beyond Reddit. I’d be interested in this if it could be verified, but as it is this is internet rumor momgering.
I use boxes from Amazon or similar. I have far too many of those already.
Wizard of Oz experiments don't work if you tell the user (from a user study perspective). You could tell them afterwards, but depending on the product / service that may not make sense.
This is a pretty silly conspiracy. Do you think the manufacturers of those products have some sort of lobbying arm to convince politicians to make draconian TSA regulations?

The much more likely scenario is that the politcians, who sometimes have ownership interest in the companies that get government contracts, want to be able to sell new equipment. This is also supported by the constant equipment updates we see at TSA lines.
I didn't learn programming until I was in my 40s. I taught myself and went through one of the coding bootcamps. It took a while but I did eventually get a job.

Probably the three biggest takeaways I have from my own experience:

If the company is big enough to have an HR department, it is going to be hard to get hired as a non-standard applicant. Too many people would have to agree to take the risk, and HR is NOT about risk taking.

Some type of personal connection is extremely important. Meeting someone at a job fair/meetup/hackathon/whatever is going to get much better results than emailing a resume.

Recruiters are probably not going to be of much help. Companies do not want to pay recruiters commissions for jr devs.
> I live in SF and hardly ever see a plastic bag lying on the sidewalk or blowing around.

I haven’t noticed any difference. SF still has tons of litter. Less of it is plastic bags, but that wasn’t much of the volume of litter anyway.

If we’re going to tax things based on their negative externalities, how about starting with hypodermic needles? The SF DPW picks up over 13,000 used needles per month.[1] They’re often left in parks where dogs and children investigate them and risk contracting hepatitis or HIV.

If a plastic bag ban is worth it for the visual improvement, then restrictions or taxes on needles should be a slam dunk.

1. http://www.ktvu.com/news/discarded-dirty-needles-on-sf-sidew...
That doesn’t prove my statement wrong.

By the way, smooth move using an alternative account to circumvent the HN rule disallowing negative voting on replies. However I suggest next time you do this, you vary your timings a little. You make it obvious when every time my karma goes down is seconds after you comment.
> Except these institutions are not paying taxes on the gain??

Why should they? They are not people.

When you buy an item for $50 at a store, as a consumer you would pay sales tax on it. But every transaction made from the buying of raw materials up to the time the store sold you the item is done tax free by the businesses, only at the time of sale to the final consumer, a tax is due.

Here ETF is kind of similar, except that the consumer provides the raw materials: A consumer buys the ETF at a share price of $100, and sells it once the ETF reaches $150: $50 should be taxable to the consumer. Instead of it being categorized as "sales tax" it's "income tax" or "LTCG tax", but the principle is the same.

If the institution made money off that transaction, by charging someone a $5 fee for instance, then tax should be paid on those $5 by the institution, but I don't see why amount the fund grew should have an impact.
It goes both way obviously, if the consumer buys an ETF a $100 but sells it at $75, the institution should not be able to claim a loss on those $25, but that doesn't seem to be something claimed by the article.
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To make such a business profitable, you'd need to invent a slew of new techniques for bringing down the cost of pen-testing. This would have applications far beyond the scope of your business idea.
PHP has made huge strides with 7.0+ but honestly a JIT was nowhere on my list of feature requests. We use it at work (with CodeIgniter) and it gives the company a big pool of reasonably qualified talent. For anything outside our web apps, we switch to Python. I find it unlikely that new PHP shops are going to use it to do all the CPU-bound things we aren't using it for now.

But who knows? I wouldn't have thought it would be as popular as it is now, if you'd asked me 5 years ago.
It's never right when a handful of people get to decide what communities of thousands get to see and talk about.

The whole peer-voting system should have eliminated the need for moderators, instead it's become just another means of homogenizing opinion and stifling dissent.
>Sigh, I know I should be composting, but it's difficult. It's not oferred in my area, and I don't want the smell in my tiny apartment.

Even if composting isn't offered, you could still 'fake' compost (i.e. use a composting bin anyway to reduce the need for plastig bags, but toss the food scraps in the main trash bin outside) I live in a small apartment and cook most my meals and haven't noticed much smell. You may need to double check your local rules, but last I checked mine there was no requirement by the waste-handling authority for apartment tenants to put their waste into separate bags.

>The numbers in that article were pretty striking to me, btw

Yes, wish the article did a better job of measuring it in years or months though it gets very subjective. Assuming you grab groceries weekly, the par is reached within a bit over two years. That doesn't seem too bad.

The comparison of trash bags to reuising a cotton bag 327 times doesn't make sense as that's not generally something one would do. I interpret that as saying that you can retire a cotton shopping bag, assuming shopping weekly with it, after a bit over ~6 years.
Serenity Now!
“A year here and he still dreamed of cyberspace, hope fading nightly. All the speed he took, all the turns he’d taken and the corners he’d cut in Night City, and still he’d see the matrix in his sleep, bright lattices of logic unfolding across that colorless void. . . . The Sprawl was a long strange way home over the Pacific now, and he was no console man, no cyberspace cowboy. Just another hustler, trying to make it through. But the dreams came on in the Japanese night like livewire voodoo, and he’d cry for it, cry in his sleep, and wake alone in the dark..."

Neuromancer. William Gibson 1984
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Follow-up feature requests: Hey, can we get 1. awesomeness, 2. dangerous insanity-free and 3. decent person verification too? ;)
It's a rent stabilized apartment. The savings have been passed to the tenants even before something was actually saved.
SGX doesn’t guarantee results, just isolation. You would still need a protocol for confirming that the code was error free, didn’t leak data, not to mention side channel attacks and timing analysis.

Oblivious RAM, FHE, ZKSNARKs are to be considered when you don’t trust the hardware, the users, the cloud, administrators, etc.

Some combo of TEEs, formal verification, binary verification, FHE, etc. might keep your data secure for a little while...maybe.
Adversarial attacks with low friction for the attacker e.g malicious software updates.
> To know the public opinion

But always remember that you're only getting to know the opinion of the twitterverse. That may or may not track public opinion overall.
This is a really shitty attitude to have towards your fellow human beings. Do you also shame people working at McDonalds for enabling their rich corporate overlords? Do you hate gas station attendants for contributing to global warming?

If you really want to make a statement, stop flying and stop paying money into the TSA.
If you find the documentation wrong or confused please let us know. https://bugs.php.net/ We do our best. I was granted access some ten years ago and whenever I find a confusing page I fix it. I know there has been terrible pieces before but for the last oh five or six years I don't really find anything too bad. Please let us know what you found wrong. Thanks!
I had an electronic module that worked in our lab, but failed at the customers, but then worked again in ours.

Turns out one of the pins in a space grade connector (MDM-25) open-circuited exactly between 68F and 70F. Our lab was 70F, and the customers was 69F. The way we caught it was to be watching the temp chamber when it slowly ramped from cold to ambient.

Turns out the connector supplier had shifted production to Mexico, and they were contaminating the contacts with RTV when sealing it.