skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that the key difference here is the function/purpose of individual companies vs the sector/industry in aggregate. So yes individual companies should be working to maximize profit, but at the systems level of abstraction they should be adding value to the economy.

When you see one without the other it indicates that the system is not functioning properly.
I didn't understand what the article wanted to say. I feel than rather than explaining what a source wanted to say, it namedropped 4 papers (and 1 with conflicting results with one of those 4 for intellectual honesty), and tried to fit some narrative to it, which I didn't understand very well.

I did understand that the title means "A great number of companies drain value from the economy", rather than "Having too many companies drains value from the economy".

Did anyone understand the message the article wanted to communicate aside from the title? What was it? Is it a valid message based on the sources it linked?
It's almost as if most Americans depend on 401Ks for their retirement and therefore are the shareholders you decry.
The term "Arduino" is for the ecosystem; it doesn't refer to any singular microcontroller.

At one time, long ago, it did - mainly the ATMega8 platform that was at the heart of the Wiring project, which ultimately begat the original Arduino (and Processing).

But the ecosystem expanded; first via different Atmel microcontrollers (many which became so-called "official" platforms), then eventually to other microcontroller platforms (and Microchip, maker of the venerable PIC microcontroller platform, eventually purchased Atmel).

The ESP8266 is a part of that ecosystem today, along with other so-called "ESP" controllers:

https://github.com/esp8266/Arduino

https://www.esp8266.com/wiki/doku.php?id=start-with-esp-12-a...

https://github.com/espressif/arduino-esp32

It wouldn't surprise me to find out there is a core available for the Raspberry Pi - or at least for the SOC on the board...

Hmm:

https://github.com/me-no-dev/RasPiArduino

I looked to see if I could find any kind of "real" core for the Raspberry Pi or Broadcom SOCs but I didn't find anything other than the above, which seems to be in active development. Honestly, though, you wouldn't really use a Raspberry Pi that way; more likely you would use the Raspberry Pi as a development platform for an Arduino ecosystem platform, that would likely be attached to the Pi via USB or some other method.

People, especially beginners, are often confused by what the name "Arduino" means; as I've noted, today it's an ecosystem composed of many different platforms, some "official", but many more that are not.

...and this of course doesn't get into the whole "real" vs "knockoff" vs "counterfeit" debate (which is a whole 'nother story).
Systems, particularly safety-critical systems, are tested in specific configurations (inputs, users, integrations).

If you change the configuration, you encounter the possibility of finding new bugs. When someone's life is tethered to the device, this will make engineers (and lawyers) properly twitchy.

For a perfect example of this, have a look at the the Ariane 5 [1]. Existing software was used in a new configuration and when it encountered an untested condition the software crashed, resulting in the rocket self-destructing.

Now, consider, you're adding bluetooth to a safety critical device - this is a protocol stack where people can't get their phone to connect to their car, and my Android phone occasionally needs to be rebooted before it will connect to my headphones.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster_(spacecraft)#Launch_fa...
Could it also be consumers are less cost sensitive and more brand sensitive?
Complain? Swear? Or air a grievance without any other input? Wondering what exactly is crossing the line..
Have you actually driven a Tesla?

Most of the stuff that I want to do is steering wheel, or is controlled by voice after hitting a button on my steering wheel.

If you have to look at the screen while driving, you're doing something wrong.
This might bite a little harder if you could look in any direction in Los Angeles and not see new construction. The current amount of space occupied by low density housing is something we could improve on but its just that. Occupied!

Hopefully all this commercial space rezoned for multi-purpose use (shops on the ground floor, apartments or offices above) will free up some of the low density real-estate but its not over-regulation keeping those houses high priced and full.
Buy a second internet connection from your ISP if you're going to do that.
Why did you call it Usher and not T-pain
To nitpick your nitpick, strength training will increase bone density as well as tendon and ligament strength, but not nearly as quickly as muscular strength.
Blames free markets. Describes non-free markets.
Go isn't the only language that scales, it just happens to be popular amongst the scripting language crowd as a next step. You're by no means limited in your choice. You could do Java, C#, Rust...
> I've found most of the best resources for actual text in smaller languages comes from religious translations, which can be a bit outdated but usually offer a fair amount of text. And beyond that I've gotten lucky with a few google drives and other repos mostly containing educational packets put together by various volunteer and missionary groups.

This weird source bias affects ML models; the results can get portentous:

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/j5npeg/why-is-google-tran...
Google Maps uses the Canvas API to draw the map. If you disable it, what do you expect to happen?
Interesting way to frame it, but I'm not sure if I agree... If the net benefit is less death and injury, shouldn't that be the obvious choice?
By ISP cache, I meant fbcdn running off a dell server in a rack at your ISP...
True. But I wouldn't be surprised to see additional verification required for new Facebook accounts (or those with little to no history/network) to use Libra. We shall see.
For a number of years now you have to give a phone number to make an account. Doesn't need to be a one-to-one mapping, but it still connects the accounts.

It can be evaded by using multiple phone numbers, but if you're working that hard to not be violated by Google then chances are you aren't using Google in the first place.
I believe global economies have fundamentally changed post GFC, so previous indicators may no longer be relevant. Interest rates have already gone below historic levels so it's not clear how economies will be turned-around. One of the few suggestions I've seen is https://www.smh.com.au/business/markets/the-world-needs-shoc...
You omitted the important part: "...with the intent that the teaching, demonstration, or information be used for, or in furtherance of, an activity that constitutes a Federal crime of violence." The teaching alone is legal. The intent to set up someone to commit a crime is what makes it illegal. I can legally teach you how to make a bomb if I do not intend for you to use it for crime.
Just insert some emoji into an older mysql database that doesn't have the proper collation and UTF8 support setup.
> Ad tech was extremely profitable

That was the era when marketers were dumb, drank the internet look aid and were taken for a ride by the industry. That's not quite true anymore.
not only do workers loose jobs, but people turn to hard drugs, families break up, kids grow up with out a stable family, generational wealth declines, social mobility is hurt... for millions of people. then you get the “populist” politicians with “easy answers” like blame the immigrants etc and more political instability...

economic downturns are looked at like they are just numbers on a chart, but they have real visceral and sociological results for millions of people and can be felt for a generation or more
A giant heat dome over Alaska is set to threaten all-time temperature records
They can't currently but that is the end goal. That's kind of why I feel Uber drivers trying to organize is just going to backfire on them since they are just temporary drivers until automation can take over.
California's property tax is less than half of that of Texas, New York, Illinois, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. Combine that with the fact that CA has prop 13, and one of the highest GDP per capita, and... Does anyone really think it's the regulation that's making prices high??

Sure, they're not helping. But high incomes and low taxes are a recipe for high prices. The only other state with high incomes and this low of property tax is D.C.

And D.C. and California both have average home prices roughly double everywhere else in the country. I wonder why. Maybe because incomes are 33% higher and taxes are 50% lower.
Corporations spend a lot on lobbying to make sure those government rules work only for them. They should absolutely not get to avoid blame for corrupting the government with the tired excuse that government is supposed to be incorruptible.
> for all its warts, MS Word has an excellent formula editor

This just isn't true. The problem is that the domain is complex, and it is difficult to support both simple and complex expressions well in way with good UX. MS Word's editor is good for simple expressions (although the typesetting is never good, sometimes terrible). For complex things, latex is much nicer.

Honestly, if you are taking the time to write something up properly, the time spent on the equations is a small fraction. And in most contexts it's just more efficient to use LaTeX anyway, at least for papers, manuscripts, thesis etc. So you save more time. If you are collaborating with multiple people you can use a revision control system and have much less pain that track changes, etc. And no more 30s rerendering loop in Word for no obvious reason once you've added some complex content.

More Anectdata: I've watched multiple people give up on writing a thesis or paper in word due to too many issues, and then moved to LaTeX. I've never seen someone go the other way due to limitations they hit in LaTeX.
> if a product is originally developed for China, not being able to sell it in the US isn't an issue.

If it's a commercial product or an academic research project under national grant, it may be the case.

But for free and open source project, banning U.S. developers from participating is (still) suicidal.
There was a book about it in 1947 that was never really refuted. But basically, the famous writing style of the declaration doesn't match any of Thomas Jefferson's pre-1776 writings at all. Nor anyone else on the committee of 5. And the "original draft" of Jefferson's contains copy errors indicating itself was copied from another source. There's also the fact that the content--very anti-slavery, and very anti-monarchy--doesn't much resemble Thomas Jeferson's contemporary philosophy either.

There is one thing it does resemble, very closely: Common Sense, written by Thomas Paine and released in the same year. Here you can read them side-by-side:

https://richardmasta.liberty.me/wp-content/uploads/sites/582...

One of the other reasons we know the "original rough draft" of Jefferson's that you mention was a copy of another document is that John Adams also made a copy of the original draft, and his is different. Notably his draft includes a lot of weird (by American standards of the day) punctuation, spelling, and word choice which is typical of Paine's writing but was edited out of Jefferson's "rough draft."

In any case I did point out that this is not a universal belief. But I will be bold enough to say that we can divide historians into two groups: the vast majority who were taught that Jefferson wrote it and believe it, and the few who have actually looked at the evidence and concluded that someone else did, quite probably Thomas Paine. The evidence is that compelling.

(Thomas Jefferson never in his life claimed that he write the declaration. He in fact played down his involvement numerous times. It was, however, necessary in the sphere of global politics that the declaration be perceived to have been written by the continental congress, which Jefferson was a member of, and not a dirt poor recent immigrant who was the editor of a failing newspaper that and happened to be friends with Jefferson, Adams and Franklin.)
"So it’s possible that big companies are increasing their market power by using lobbying to capture politicians and regulators. If this is true, it’s very bad news for free markets and capitalism."

So, they managed to blame capitalism and the free market for the effects of lack of free market and the will of politicians and the public to accept regulation that causes less free market?
What the hell!!!!
This is the kind of culture that makes it possible for estabilished companies to lobby for increasing regulations. If there were a "free market at all cost" approach, maybe even punishment for those who attack the free market with lobbying, there would not be this kind of problem. There would be other problems, of course, but not this one.
Of course, they had to blame even the lack of free market on the free market. Come on!
Heroin dealers are mixing in fentanyl because it’s extremely dense (in terms of doses per mass) and therefore easy to smuggle. People are ODing on fentanyl because those same properties make it hard to dose accurately. None of this would happen if opioids were legal.
I'm not sure I understand the question. You might be right if there is no passage of time, but thanks to time, the effect of one instant can be a cause in the next instant. The choice of reaction develops with time.
Animal testing should be illegal and banned
nvm lol I got it (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)
Mostly only the "united" part, and amendment 10 still says that stuff not in the constitution (e.g. amendment 13 or 16) ain't in the federal purview. Hence weird contortions like stretching the interstate commerce clause, tying drinking age to highways funding, and the like.

And just look at the presidents who got the job without winning the vote.

I think things would have been better if things had ended up less federal as a result of 1865, but things ended up the way they are now.
My customers don't care that the network is down, the servers are down, or aliens have landed. The severity is the same and our infrastructure, regardless of the cause, was down.

But the people who have to fix it, desperately care about which specific part is down. That's just about the highest priority information they need. Honing in on where the problem is, is one of the few ways to get to fixing the problem. Having a boss shout that "everything is down, it's all broken" is the opposite of identifying the problem.

find the idea it was "a ridiculous time to nitpick" hilarious.

What? You lost critical business functionality for 5 hours, and you'd rather the boss was shouting at the workers because the wording used doesn't accurately reflect the boss's understanding, instead of the workers working on solving the problem?
http://objective.st gets a 100% score. No SSL, no CDN. Hosted on a single Digital Ocean droplet.

Mind you, also virtually no traffic and very little and lightweight content, but still...
Are you suggesting it’s faster or slower when you wiggle the mouse? If it’s slower it could be because you put more events in the event queue that have to be pumped.
The radars can save lives by detecting an imminent collision and sounding an alarm ("pay attention!") or automatically breaking.

The buttons on the steering wheel are also a safety feature, since it lets you keep your eyes on the road.
Nope. I'm a big fan of scifi. How does haecceity come into Mars?
Well not the best, but at least the 95th percentile probably.
This is exactly the reason why I'm stuck with Deezer. The random selection, which is called Flow, it's just a never-ending stream of music from the track I tagged and similar songs.
Calls for violence is indeed against the law in the US, overt racism is against the law in some countries so global companies must adhere if they want to operate there, at least blocking it in those countries.

The problem is also how do you define what is racist, what is just facts and what is just blocked because of political reasons. That's why the American constitution approach is much better on that issue. Calls for violence on the other hand is much easier to define.

I wish all those tech companies would just define their policy as whatever is legal is ok, they are too big and more like an essential platform like electricity or water monopolies. You don't want a phone company to create their own guide lines about the content in their network as if they are some private club with its own rules.
YouTube has never been anything like a free for all. Why is this suddenly a problem?
Not on mobile perhaps?

When I click it I just get a sign in page.
BIOS?
I'm curious to hear your reasons for PoC being superior to PoS. I don't have a strong opinion, but PoS seems really compelling: If I have more to lose then I have to gain, than dishonestly is simply not profitable.

PoC feels more efficient than PoW (I'm not familiar with the details though) but still requires a massive amount of physical resources and computation compared to PoS.
The keyword here is organizationally.

Technically speaking you can build scalable systems using anything you want. But if you need to hire a couple of hundreds developers, you better go with Java 7 or Go than Ruby, Lisp or Perl. The dumber and more uniform the better.
(my opinion of course) but that’s a shame to attach something like retirement benefits to an unstable crash-prone system
I don’t get your reference, but we chose the name Usher because it’s the software equivalent of the person at the theater who looks at your ticket and shows you where your seat is— it doesn’t actually handle any of the video data, it just knows where you should go to find it.
I'm pretty sure this data is kept in MySQL and memcached.
My friend, Tiana Baldwin, focused on the statistical correlation between Nursing Home costs and survival metrics. She got an award for her master thesis (and graduated), before becoming the city planner for Anaheim, CA. I would have thought it would be easy to look up. Now she works at Cal State University Fullerton as a Professor under her married name. I'm sure she can point you to the specific study. Sadly, I cannot find it casually.
"Free Market" is a terrible term, the freedom of the market needs to be defined. Does the market a business exists in give you the freedom to not be burgled? Does it give you the freedom to not have to pay for healthcare for your employees? Does it provide some level of free training to those employees? If you're a fisherman and there's another fisherman does the market ensure that other fisherman won't exhaust the ecosystem?
Since money is free speech (via anonymous PACs), I don't know if it's fair to hold all Americans equally responsible for what has happened to our economic system. Money provides access to your government and wide influence on the laws that get passed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tu32CCA_Ig
I noticed that, too. I don't understand why Octave is this "dark horse" when it comes to these kinds of things...
Sounds like a good plan, can we start by only granting driver's licences to the most capable human drivers?
On the flip side regulations are in place to protect the ill-informed consumers (either due to mental capacity or lack of information). I figure consumers enjoy being in their position anyways, they just want something to work without having to worry about any of the details. i.e. Using Salesforce instead of rolling your own solution.
From hours and hours of studying math, those symbols are imbued with implicit meaning - in a way, they are simultaneously a data type, a name, and often a purpose or context (e.g. delta-x).

That's a lot of information for such a compact representation. And that's mostly unconscious, which is great. I really found the Julia example above to be far, far easier to understand than the linked JS (though I think that JS was not particularly great).

To me, it seems like it'd be nice-to-have, but alone, I don't think it would be enough to make me switch languages.
Even better, heh heh!
Related -- a tool for creating fractals:

Context Free Art - https://www.contextfreeart.org/
A lot of my vacation destinations don't even have cellular signal. Taking a laptop is often not an option on some trips either.
Whose goal?

The goal of the people who own these companies is to make money with it, or carry out whatever other purpose it has.

The goal of the government in providing a legal framework which allows these companies to exist as legal entities is to benefit society in some way.

If the latter isn’t working out then maybe it needs to be adjusted.
I personally wouldn't want launder money (or really conduct any business) through a system with an immutable, public ledger.
Amazon, Grubhub, and the Turf War over My Meatball Hero
Jumping Ship for Career Progression
Would it make much difference for a standard developer multi-screen workflow?
> The touch screen is filled with insanely small targets

I'm running the latest iOS beta. One of my biggest complaints is that they changed the CarPlay interface and made all the targets smaller! I had a hard enough time hitting them before, now it's even harder, especially when the car is moving and bouncing.

Luckily the worst outcome is that I skip a song or something, and not safety related, but still, come on Apple. You should know better.
Because users never wanted mathematical randomness. They wanted variety.

Not that saying "random" is wrong, but users mostly mean it in a colloquial sense, while programmers are apt to interpret it in a technical sense. But one leads to math.urandom() and the other to shuffle algorithms.
It's enough to bankrupt hundreds of thousands of Americans - every year.

Your ill health and bankruptcy become someone else's yacht or private jet.

It's pure vampirism. There is no other word for it.
Yeah, that's exactly how it was. Then we pushed for the rule of law, a set of fundamental rights, democracy, and a social safety net and while this stuff still happens it's a lot better than it was.

Time will tell if we're able to keep it up. Certainly there are new threats and opportunities.
This is mentioned, actually:

> This project serves mostly as a prototype in order to
determine what kind of bytecode and compiler is required to efficiently evaluate code and emit useful diagnostic messages, paving the way for a future fast, potentially JIT-ed, interpreter.
This is one of those unfortunate situations where the the problem is clear, but the solution isn't, and proposed solutions can always be attacked from either end of the extreme perspectives. So we get stuck with semi-dysfunctional regulatory bodies at best, and captured extensions of corporate interests passing anti-competitive regulations at worst.
Use Firefox and/or DuckDuckGo.
The commercial real estate owners are also to blame. They used to have to build out the office space to a tenants wishes to attract tenants. It is much cheaper and easier for them to take out the walls/offices and tell the clients to furnish it how you want. While open offices are cool and there are more tenants than space, the owners refuse to do anything else.
You missed a 'k' in 'KacperSzurekEN' - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDbNNYUME_pgocqarSjfNGw
Air travel definetely got cheaper. As as a software engineer (with a bit for search hacking) I can now afford flying across globe (26 hrs) in business (which used to be first) twice a year.
According to information in the article, some economists found that increased regulation reduces number of market participants and increases power of incumbents, who improve their fortunes through lobbying. Rather than let the narrative be what the data says, the author injected a somewhat BS interpretation about how the data agrees with Bernie - when it points to the opposite of what Bernie wants, namely that we need less regulation, not more. This was possibly done for clickbaity purposes.