skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Companies that are swimming in cash reserves are using their money to artificially boost "

There is nothing artificial about it

CFO's are reacting rationally to the credit situation that they do not control.

Consider that labour markets are tight, and 'productive investments' are not easy to make. They are generally very risky.
Nothing strange about hunter gatherers evolve eating a lot of fiber. Think about the other extreme, what if you took in all your energy and nutrients through fluids. How well would your bowels work with nothing in them but liquids? I know my bowel movements are much easier after I've eaten some salad than after a low fiber meal.

There's plenty of articles about fiber, here's just a short list I just found.

https://www.pharmacytimes.com/news/how-fiber-helps-prevent-c...

https://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletter_article/Dietary_fi...

https://www.bmj.com/content/343/bmj.d6617

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4588743/
Agreed. People who don't lift like a dockside gantry should never base their intake on the diets of people who do. And people who do should refrain from advising others in general spaces based on what they consume, because almost everyone does not.
Is there ever a plan for GC?
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" How the hell is a robot dog that does flips or whatever supposed to improve their advertising business exactly?"

Because a robot that does flips can also flip burgers, pick inventory, sneak up on people (i.e. military) and ultimately that stuff will be worth a lot.

One of their lesser goofy investments.
Cycling. Getting out on the bike for an hour or so does wonders for me. It's very meditative.
It used to be that more internet/TV providers offered HBO, but apparently one bought exclusive rights hoping everybody would switch to them. I certainly didn't.

As for Pirate Buy, it's blocked in Netherland, so Kickass Torrents seems to be the place to go these days.
> People also tend to want their jobs to provide meaning to their lives. That is a luxury. For most people, a job is something you do to enable the rest of your life.

This desire is a coping mechanism. Because the latter view, that the job is just to pay for your life, makes you discover that it also robs you out of all of it. Even the 9-5 job is way more than 50% of your wake time, after accounting for commute and energy drain.
Buybacks are equivalent to dividends, but with less taxation.
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Plus, there's absolutely nothing stopping anyone from taking their Git repos and putting them on another Git host. Or hosting their own. Or using multiple hosts.

Sure, they're doing things to further their own popularity... But it doesn't appear to be at the expense of anyone else.
Or a boat.

Or an anarcho-capitalist hyper libertarian micro-nation perched on top of a spar buoy.
Excellent, thank you! Her setup looks impressive … I guess I was looking for an MVP of getting going: "You have a Macbook with a built-in webcam? You have a code editor? Great; you're all set. Now do this." This video — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yh5LI_d_JKM — seems like a solid intro to streaming with OBS. Will give it a shot, and will poke around the belly.io streams and see who might be good to connect with.

Thanks again!
Look for a job in a company similar to what you want to do. Make sure the company is small but on going and is growing. Your job is to learn useful skills from your experience. There are many parts to a successful company and it helps if you learn from one that is successful. Do this for a few years but plan for your exit and how you will use your experience to run your own company.
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True. Although, that does only apply on disposition and you can plan accordingly, borrow against the assets and pay off your debt through dividends.
The firms have been big enough to control who is appointed to supervise (and bail out, when necessary) them for a long time. Nothing that happened in 2007-10 was going to change that. All the promises were bullshit, because that's all they possibly could have been.
If it's never been easier to be a CEO, perhaps the author should consider it. It's the easiest job title to legitimately acquire. You just need to pay a few hundred bucks to incorporate in Delaware, and boom, you're a CEO.
Yeah I used to love the Programming category
AsteroidOS – an open source OS for smart watches
> Building sighting histories gets computationally intensive with scale.

Can you talk more about why this is difficult?

My very naive assumption is it would be pretty easy to partition/index the data by plate number and location/time and use something like Storm or Spark (?) to run various types of queries.
Not if they've been sitting on a pile of cash for years and doing nothing with it. What are they supposed to do with money they don't need? Store it in a mattress forever?
Interesting that this was just on HN a few days ago: "What Happened to Hovertrains? (2018)" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19944382
PillBot using a social robot to help manage Crohn’s Disease
Not really a guide. Just a few bullet points.

Start messing around in OBS (https://obsproject.com) and get as comfortable as you can using it. You can compose scenes, transition between them, set up your audio and video encoding and preview everything without streaming. You can make local recordings test things like volume levels and audio sync. It's fantastic software and it's how you will operate your stream.

For programming, things are as simple as they come: Have a main scene that does display capture and perhaps overlay a camera. You can add more bells and whistles if you want; the tools are pretty intuitive. I recommend also making scenes for "Starting Soon", "BRB" and "Stream Over". Having a browser in guest/incognito mode is a good idea. Be mindful of stuff like API keys, secrets, passwords and personal information.

Once you are ready to make the leap, you can link your Twitch account to OBS and when you press "Start Streaming" you'll be live shortly on your channel.

Before you do though, you'll want to spend a little time in your Twitch dashboard to set up stuff like titles, categories, tags etc.

There is a lot more to it that you'll figure out along the line. Live streaming is an iterative process and a skill / hobby that you perfect over time. Have fun!
Yeah, you're missing that I was there really early.

I was in charge of all the programming and system administration for pathfinder.com, at that time the central web site for all of Time Warner, starting from spring of 1995. At the time I was hired I already had a lot more experience than a lot of other people around; I had been a sysadmin and webmaster for the computer science department of a large university.

I think “pretty new” is accurate. Both the CGI standard and NCSA Mosaic had been released in 1993, with the <FORM> element specified in 1994. I had been running a popular personal web site with innovative features since very early 1994.
To help foster more local connections, I've started inviting everyone I know (plus everyone they know) to Saturday morning kickball. It has been a great way to bring different groups of people together and create/strengthen bonds in our community. Plus, it starts the day with being outdoors which I think is good for the soul.
The article says it’s too deep to cause a tsunami, at least where the quakes are now. If seismic activity starts moving towards land and a big quake is close enough, a shelf-collapse could cause one.
While interesting, how does this differ from open source solutions like Monica[0]?

[0]: https://github.com/monicahq/monica/
Obviously, this means that we need to advance technologically to the point that we can fix that problem.

By building a GSV and naming it Kind Of A Big Deal.
Isn't the drone ship video problem on the "ground" side? That is, the vibrations and motions the rocket induces ends up messing up the satellite dish's targeting.
Seconded. There was actually a study related to this: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S019188691...
If they don't know high(-enough)-RoR uses of the money, then paying it out as a dividend is exactly what they should do as good stewards of the investors' capital.

And share buybacks are just a tax-efficient version of dividends (since they don't trigger a taxable event for the investors that don't want to convert shares to cash yet).
Not to the level that China is doing it, that's for sure. Just by the very nature of how closely companies in China operate with the government, you'd be fooling yourself if you think that's equivalent.
It's a requirement to drive people towards torrents? Why do they keep making it hard to us to pay them for the content we want?
For those interested in classic game dev, the guys at the Computerphile YT channel did a series with a guy that wrote a Genesis game a few years back using an original dev kit on a mid-90s PC.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GH94fKtGr0M
> In addition, subtitles, secondary audio, descriptive video, and multi-view video etc. are all things which we mandate by law which do not work well in a file base expierenced.

Since when are subtitles mandated by law? "Multi-view video"? Maybe I'm just missing something, but I've never heard of any law mandating any of the things you listed above (except maybe from a government-funded project, but I'm not sure either, that just seems more likely to require it).
Moving open source beyond the scarcity paradigm
Many people won't. Many other people couldn't care less about Snapchat or Instagram. That latter set of people almost certainly still constitute a large enough market to be worth addressing.
After the 2017 tax bill this was bound to happen. consolidating stocks allows greater control over the corporation by the high % owners, minimizes activist investors, reduces accountability, and further funnels profit to the top. Whatever that "poll" advertisement is at the bottom with a caricature of AOC was misleading and dishonest at best. What agenda is this site pushing i that's their biggest ad on this article?
It contained strategic Al-Qa‘ida’ documents, but news outlets loved writing about the unlicensed anti virus software, disney movies, anime, porn that was also on the hard drive.

https://www.cia.gov/news-information/press-releases-statemen...
I guess it depends just how motivated and technologically advanced said autocratic nation was. If sufficiently so, they could probably interfere with the operation of the satellites somehow, or just threaten to shoot them down, if they don't "come into compliance".
Why view or do anything in person if you can do it easier in VR in the future?

And if virtual reality is so real, why replicate what we already have? Why not create something entirely new? I think this is the premise of more than one movie recently.
In this case, one side is citing at least one source from a world reknowned organization that is respected to actually know what health is.

The other side has no sources provided whatsoever.
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Executive order to mandate the disclosure of prices in the health-care industry
Once you get to a certain level of success in the business world, you can't fail. CEOs who run a business into the ground easily find work leading other companies. CEOs who commit crimes almost never get punished. There's a serious issue with "moral hazard" because they can't fail or be punished.
Oh man, the Fire Phone has so many problems as a product. As someone who turned a large Android Google Play app into a Fire Phone compatible one, I think it took me literally a day to swap out the Google Maps implementation with the Amazon Maps one and that was very nearly it. I'm convinced that the hijacking the swipe to go home was the real killer of that thing. I honestly don't know how people actually used that thing because scrolling on any list in any app basically left you with 50:50 odds of heading back to the home page.

I'm not stating that the problem isn't hard, just that the Fire Phone had other issues.
"National defense" is such a poor example that it throws everything you've said into doubt. It is not a great deal to spend more than every other nation on earth combined, just to murder lots of people in other parts of the world. Those murders are of negative value to decent Americans.
That's not exactly correct. There are several factors here. A big one is that prosecutors (whose jobs depend on police cooperation) have been reluctant to go against police; this probably won't change with video evidence. However, another factor is that jurors are currently inclined to take the police officer's word for it in he-said-she-said type cases, and this may change if bodycam video evidence becomes more plentiful.
Is there any intention of using cameras to categorize people as opposed to just looking for specific criminals that are on the loose? What would be gained by categorizing you as a male or not?

I.e, someone robs a bank, their face is captured, get an alert when they are seen else where.
Another perspective— that "little bit of overhead" for starting up the Space Force is almost as large as NASA's annual budget. At least that's if you believe the budget numbers from Heather Wilson (outgoing secretary of the Air Force). Unfortunately, I doubt that standing up a new military service is something that the government would actually be able to accomplish without going over budget.
Searching by language would be cool too
Is there something about hackers that would make you expect them to like overhyped technologies that have a very limited set of cases where they're actually a good choice in the real world?
Haven’t blockchains become tools of big banks and scam artists nowadays? No part of that is the same as hacker to me at least.

Especially when this is a proposal not a real product, I think it’s very appropriate to tell Oasis Labs this is a dumb idea. At least from a technical perspective, maybe not a scam artist one.
That would be scary, seeing as I believe the largest tsunami ever was created via a similar mechanism.

Edit: not the largest, but large. See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storegga_Slide
when you read a function call

foo(bar, baz, bajinga);

Which of those are pass by value, by reference or by const reference? I say it would be useful to know that by inspection from just reading that line of code. You don't have to agree. And you care about by value vs by reference because copy constructors exist and you need to reason about performance or if you don't need to why are you using c++ anyway?

You mostly care whether it's by value or by reference because what is passed could be altered with the latter unless it's marked const. But which is it? Stop! Stop what you're reading right now and go and look at the foo() signature. 9 times in 10 you won't be surprised, the arguments should not be altered by the function call but you might want to check that, then get back to whatever you were actually trying to understand with a break in the flow of your understanding and the prospect of some context fading slightly from your short term memory.

But yeah some people are so smart that there is literally nothing in coding readability they need and sneer at those of us who take a different approach. Such people never make mistakes. Twas ever thus, well before C++.
Well I did also have kids so I wouldn't look so dodgy hanging around by the play equipment in the park, so it wasn't just as a means to speak to people ;)
I also had a Vive and a Rift and also sold both after a few months.

I just picked up a Rift S yesterday and started playing with it.

When I had the Vive I was pretty disappointed in the Rift (no touch controllers at the time, leaked light through the nose, just generally worse).

The Rift S is a lot better. The tracking without base stations, the touch controls work well, and they've really nailed the little things with the experience (easier setup, better menus, better hardware, fewer cords etc.). The price is also pretty good at $399.

The much more expensive unreleased Vive with the new strapped on controllers looks interesting, but it's really nice not having to deal with putting up the room sensors. Also since the new Vive will be more than double the price it's not really a fair comparison anyway.

I'm pretty impressed with Oculus' progress.
Tend my garden. Puts my back and neck in a good position.
They normally focus on carbs as the main calorie producer, one of the popular diet movements is to reduce the artificial sugar ramping up the carbs in foods. I've gone that way, reducing sugar/carbs in almost all my meals. To get enough calories and feel full, and not be full of carbs is trick, I find eggs, mushrooms, cauliflower and broccoli to be the trick to bulk out meals at a more affordable cost.
> Nobody gets fired for buying Oracle

I can think of environments where you'd get fired. Oracle these days screams "legacy", and especially if you're working on low-latency projects like trading systems it would be a huge, expensive mistake.
I think there must be some kind of tradeoff between waste and decision paralysis in large organizations. In other words, there's some kind of "waste quota" that gets distributed between productivity and decision making.
I think we have very different definitions of the term "center-right".
Written in 2016, it is the only entry on the blog. Odds are slim, at least coming from Sid.
It wasn’t for me, so I went into public service and the management/business focused side of digitalisation.

The pay isn’t great, but we do get opportunities to work with cutting edge tech because every change doesn’t need to be billed by the hour.
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I recall it being the common go-to for file-sharing (piracy) uploads on Usenet. I'm not sure if it was because of repair-ability when you were missing some of the RARs, file-size limitation, resume-ability, low bandwidth, etc... Probably a combo of them all I guess; wasn't aware it was still used nor that it might be more common in RU.
English being my second language, I picked up vocabulary from random places. The word "disrupt" will forever be associated for me with "disruptor", a weapon for "disrupting" the matter of ships and people, used by murderous Klingons and backstabbing Romulans.
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Everyone has a right to their own opinion, no one has a right to their own facts though. I get what you're saying but there are consequences to certain types of misinformation (ex.: anti-vaxxers). It's a complicated issue.
> via their own shares increasing

This isn't any more true for the executives than any other shareholder, and doesn't really work that way anyway. Buybacks don't increase the value of shares unless the company was undervalued or making less efficient use of the cash than their other capital, and in that case they're smart to have done it.

> via contractual bonuses

The way to solve this is to do accounting for buybacks (and, for that matter, dividends) when calculating bonuses. You obviously don't want to have executives choosing whether to do these things based on that, so don't.
> I don't know if it's correct to characterize Github's model as a power grab.

The important question would be if Github forks and pull requests are an open protocol or attached to the platform. I’m not aware if I can make a pull request from - say - bitbucket to github. Can I ? Then it’s not a power grab. If not then redefinition of fork/pull request is an extend and extinguish move.

Edit: okay, extinguish is too harsh. GitHub doesn’t want to extinguish git.
So far Tuple is answering my needs well. It is early in its life so I expect it just to get better, especially since its focus is on Pair Programming, and not all the other things that Slack is trying to solve.

BTW, thank you for setting the Gold Standard in pairing tools. I remember my Screenhero days very fondly and was sad to see what happened when Slack took over.
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So VAAPI support can soon land in Firefox for Linux? Cool. This is great news for me.

Can you give us some details? When? Can I somehow help in testing, for example in Firefox nightly?
What hardware can be supported? What formats, h264 or/and vp9?
Well, it does matter, in the sense that the government gets more expensive (and in the particular places where it is wasted) when people think the things they're doing are what's helping. When the government gets more expensive, the people get poorer, especially the people of the future.
Thank you! I plan to buy some after work. I want to try to incorporate fish into my diet. Final question: raw or cooked? Does cooking deplete some of the good stuff inside?
Have you tried lactose-free milk and/or lactase pills? I've tried various types of plant milks, but I'm never satisfied by the taste.
Specifically for diet, I feel exactly like this every time I try to get nutrition advice, online or elsewhere. It seems like everyone disagrees, but in the end I don't have a concrete answer to "how do I not die" and have to choose something as eating is an obligation. Eventually I decided to stick to simple foods like lentils on a daily basis and to stay away from processed things. I feel hungrier on average, but I guess it's a tradeoff for not dying too early. I tend to remember Michael Pollan's mantra: Eat food, not too much, mostly plants.
I never said it is; it's a bad design decision.
Issuing shares is borrowing money.

Buying back shares is repaying that money.

It's a good thing that companies can repay the money they have borrowed, and a good thing that they are doing it.
> What the US govt is doing is completely legal

Maybe.

Trump is doing all this under the authority of national security. That is not a blank check, though, and there is an oversight mechanism that can be employed to determine if the authority is being used appropriately or not.

Unfortunately, that oversight mechanism lies with Congress, and given that the majority party currently in the Senate is taking the stance of "anything Trump does is right", we can't reasonably expect that the mechanism will actually be used in the next couple of years, at least.
I can't imagine doing pull requests over email, which this article notes is an original feature of git. Maybe kernel developers could handle it, but there are a lot of people who don't even know how to send plaintext emails and this would not be conducive to reviewing PRs on mobile. I definitely like the GitHub flow better than SourceHut's.
Point-to-point Wifi is powerful and is being deployed as an alternative to fixed lines in some places. E.g. see the Ubiquiti products. https://www.ui.com/products/#airmax
I am new to Twitch (via this submission) and I was trying to navigate the Twitch site to find more coders but came up dry.

Please make programmers more discoverable!
“put technical details of product on package in a way that is quick and easy to digest”

Ah, but from the other comments on fruit juices here we see that "easy to digest" is bad for you, so Coke cares about your brain health! :)
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Non-American with no position in Chipotle here. Could you elaborate a bit on how they did their buyback wrong? I see their stock have climbed in the past year, so wasn't the buyback worth it?
GPS is kind of a stretch
> Effortlessly handling hundreds of terabytes of data on a single machine

Single machine, because it can't handle parallel queries, at all, and there are no options to scale it.

Every financial institution I've worked at is busily unwinding their investment in q/kdb. It's legacy tech.
Just looked that up -- I think you are right. It seems primitive now, but it was mind-blowing in 1980 or so..
> Nobody gets fired for buying Oracle.

Nah, even when Oracle was more dominant than they are today, that wasn't entirely true:

https://www.cnet.com/news/california-cancels-oracle-contract...