skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Free Market" is a terrible term, the freedom of the market needs to be defined.

Free market: A market that is free from government interference, prices rising and falling in accordance with supply and demand.

https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20...

> Does the market a business exists in give you the freedom to not be burgled?

Yes, it gives you that freedom.

> Does it give you the freedom to not have to pay for healthcare for your employees?

Yes, it gives you that freedom.

> Does it provide some level of free training to those employees?

Are horses brown? Depends on the horse. Does that mean “horse” is a “terrible term”? No.

> If you're a fisherman and there's another fisherman does the market ensure that other fisherman won't exhaust the ecosystem?

No, because the lack of property rights in that situation creates a tragedy of the commons.
Accenture Awarded Second U.S. Patent for Quantum Computing
Good analogy, but lets not forget Emperor G has to keep the Gods happy. Or at least the federal government(s) and to some extent the press and public.

If he keeps allowing blue houses the few people who want blue houses are happy but the Gods may become angered.

Given this, Emperor G's staff of highly paid lawyers have suggested cutting off the degenerates who want blue houses.
You are right. I don’t think it’s sustainable. A lot comes the other way too by way of industry and technology. It’s not a one way transfer.

But ..regardless..that is not a reason for a overpopulated country to compete with under populated counties and insist on rationalizing more children/person.
Power and interdependence in the Trump era
Can we please put to rest that canard that only people who did not drive a Tesla criticize it?

Depending on what you want from a car it is entirely possible and reasonable to discover that while Tesla is the best EV on the market, they do pretty crappy job of being a car as good as one that costs half as much.
> Why would I give WalMart $1 to forward to Children's Hospital when I could just give Children's Hospital $1 directly?

Perhaps you don't want people knowing who you're donating to, and the third party offers that privacy?
This is basically the point of decentralized systems. Foor bitcoin to work it relies by protocol on whoever is online, so effectively everyone using it would have to go offline for it to fail. Additionally, bitcoin really doesn't get updates that would dramatically change how things function enough for their to be an error introduced that would take things down. In comparison, FB and friends rely on a handful of servers that typically can be taken out by one poorly planned software upgrade.

This is a gross simplification, but the basic idea is that more servers and diversity of the servers (which you get from decentralised protocols) should lead to crashes not taking out the whole network.
Been throwing any cement-filled cups lately?
> that awareness may be a form of consciousness different than our own

the response requires no consciousness, only a mechanical operation

> what evolutionary advantage is being provided to the tree releasing the pheromones?

natural selection works in perpetuity; "this" tree benefited from the action/reaction it has, thanks to its parents having the same reaction/action. The reified response then promulgates because it helps the bearers survive, and becomes self-reinforcing.
I'm uncomfortable with this rehearsal analogy. I'd rather have a company pay me to learn new things than spend my free time coding when I could be seeing my family, pursuing a hobby, or vegging out. From my employer's perspective, I agree that boring is usually better, but as an individual, I'd rather learn on the job than having to feel the need to "rehearse" for my job.
IDK. I broke my shoulder a while back and once it healed I had lost some strength and flexibility in my rotator cuff. I did a little PT which did nothing for me. Eventually I just decided to hit the gym and start building up some muscle. I've been doing dumbbell bench press and one-arm rows and have been very slowly increasing the weight, but the bad shoulder is still noticeably weaker. I always quit my sets when that shoulder starts to wobble.
I don't think there are many who send €50/mo, kudos to you! Few of their corporate users give much back at all.

I used OpenBSD as my workstation a decade ago and also ran it on a firewall box. However, upgrading the system every six months is tedious: basically, you manually download the files, overwrite the kernel and userland core, and then do a three way merge of /etc. Plus there's a bit of manual work required to deleted unused files and account for moved files:

https://www.openbsd.org/faq/upgrade65.html

After that, you still have to upgrade the ports tree (which has gotten easier).

Note that skipping upgrades is not supported.

Security updates between the six month upgrades are handled by monitoring the security list and downloading and applying patches as instructed.

If you are running a bunch of identical servers professionally, it's not much of a burden, but it is if you are upgrading one workstation and a firewall box. I got tight on time and went back to Debian/apt.

Does anyone here know how to do this more efficiently?

(It is a really nice system, and the man pages are superb.)
This is the one IoT device I use...
They used MD5 too, great.

I'd really like to give them a prize....
Subreddit for Server-Side Swift
Mandatory matlab in coursework is usually harmful and should be avoided if possible.

Julia and python are full-featured languages that aren't marketing for mathworks.
I bought a new X1 in December and I'm constantly amazed when people praise the iDrive system. The User Experience of the car as a whole is horrific, and yet apparently it's a great example in comparison to everything else.

Like the article, I'm amazed at the dumb or careless decisions that have been made. No play/pause button anywhere for example (the on/off button is used instead). Music doesn't stop until you open the car doors after shutting it off. The backup camera doesn't turn off for several seconds - so whenever you take your car from park to drive, it turns on the camera and then just leaves it on for a while. Whenever my gas tank gets near to an 1/8th full an alarm which sounds like the Law & Order theme goes off and a [!] appears in the notifications. The nav system takes a while to start up, so you can't enter an address for a minute or so after getting in. The air conditioning won't let air just pass through from the outside (I'm in California, just let the Pacific chilled air in!). Also, when BMW says you need to change your oil (waaaay too often), you need to go through a secret reset method to clear out the message.

Even many of the physical buttons and functionality are moronically missing. Want to put the back seats down from the back? You have to go around front to pull the tabs. Such a pain. Why?? I want my Kia Sportage back.

It really does make you appreciate California tech companies and their attention to design and the customer experience.
In turn, I think that the reason that we have to make tons of laws is that we have setup a society where corporations answer only to their shareholders. If corps are expected to do anything to make money as long as it isn't technically illegal, then it follows that we would be forced to make more and more laws to constrain them.
" Ideally Congress would raise taxes to pay experts to tell them about things they have to regulate. "

You just showed how simple it is to switch the incentives. I'll add that taxpayers pay for the campaigns instead of corporations. Whoever wins at each level of elections gets a larger amount to campaign with. If contributions are allowed outside that, it's only individuals with a cap. It's a felony to violate these rules. Work from there.
For what it's worth, OpenBLAS is not significantly slower than MKL, at least for level 3 linear algebra on x86 on AVX2 downwards. I don't know whether it supports SKX well now, but otherwise BLIS does. (Also OpenBLAS and BLIS are infinitely faster than on POWER and ARM.) I don't understand "compiling down" -- the linear algebra performance is determined by the library, which is, or could be, the same in each case.

[I agree about the marketing aspects and the huge waste of university resources buying into that rather than funding development of free software.]
Yeah that seems fair. And like an opportunity for an insurance market. It will raise the price of goods on Amazon, but whatever, safety costs money.
> free markets require a ton of government-backed regulations

What’s this “ton of government-backed regulations” you’re referring to?

> Radical advocates of free markets... always seem to forget the violent nature of humans.

What kind of “radical” are you talking about here? Anarchists?
Diane Duane sells her books directly, as DRM-free epubs [0]. Was quite happy when, a decade after first reading it, I found out So You Want To Be A Wizard wasn't standalone and wanted to continue the series.

[0] https://ebooksdirect.co/
I want a cheap and rugged laptop. With access to kid-friendly Wikipedia, drawing and programming and a few educational applications as well as maybe some music.
It is still a big deal, because customers are going to be a LOT more hesitant to buy stuff if they realize it's sold by a random Chinese dude and not Amazon.
Lane(Lane assist does fell like it's trying to kill you! There are times where I don't want to be in the middle of the lane, like when passing a truck on a windy day
I agree. However, it is an interesting topic and milestone for this forum, imo. I'd like to try recommending a title edit.

~~Waymo gets green light in California to pick up passengers in self-driving cars~~

"California authorizes next step of Waymo testing, including picking up but not charging passengers."
These thinkpads are pretty good, and very easy to upgrade. I already changed my wifi card to support ac and I’m planning to flash coreboot bios. Last item in my checklist is to upgrade the display to full hd.
A year ago I had golfer's elbow and it seemed like it wasn't ever going away. After years of lifting very heavy I thought, this is it - I'm fucked. Well fast forward to now and it's pretty much gone. All I did was knock down my weights, did some physio and have slowly started building back up. I'm not back on the big big weights yet but I'm at least on the big weights. Sometimes things have a simple solution.
Okay, so if citizens decide to band together to petition their representatives, that isn't allowed?

Also, in the United States, you do not need shareholders to form a corporation. You are already a corporation in and of yourself. If you want to fund your activities via your own money, you do not technically even need any corporate body to conduct in business. Business is an individual right.
Iran threatens to restart reactor as nuclear deal falters
I said the other day that it's time to stop having conversations with climate denialists.

By denialist, I mean someone whose goal is is the establishment of a counter-narrative to the mainstream view of the causes, risks, and imminence of global climate change. Some argue that such discrimination will hinder sincere skepticism and innocent inquiry, but neither scenario seems likely to me.

Sincere skepticism is easy: simply respect the standards of the discipline, by arguing 'I disbelieve [scope of disputed phenomenon] for [reasons], which I have detailed in article at [journal or preprint]' and exhibiting a baseline level of respect and the same sort of good faith assumptions about others that one hopes to receive for oneself.

Likewise, sincere inquiry can proceed along lines like 'I don't understand [phenomenon], can you explain as I were in [grade/ college/ graduate school]' and a similar baseline level of respect for others' time and knowledge in assisting.

Insincere disputation is often characterized by disrespect for others' time or intelligence. Temporal disrespect most commonly manifests as endless questions, especially naive or simplistic seeming ones that become more and more technical while critiquing unwanted replies as unsatisfactory - a simple but effective strategy for manipulating a conversation by faking superiority. The lazier version of this is to simply abuse people by deriding their claims as hoaxes. Attacking the claimant proceeds by discounting their intelligence, integrity, or sanity without any basis in fact.

Of course, such 'critiques' are rarely persuasive to the target person, or to other participants in the discussion. They are not meant to persuade, but are a performative display designed to swindle the gullible, cause despondency in the frustrated, and humiliate the target for the amusement of sadists. Negatives reactions are equated to negative evidence and most if not all of the argumentation involves drawing logical conclusions from an invalid major premises which are usually epistemological nitpicks.

tl;dr it's not that hard to express or detect genuine doubt, curiosity, or confusion - nor bad-faith efforts to derail discussion.
Full disclosure: This is an op ed piece from a right-wing "free market" think tank funded by the Koch brothers.[1]

[1] https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mercatus_Center
"Recipients of emails cannot opt out....I would love to find better technology to solve this problem."

How about...put a notification of tracking in emails that contain it rather than making it invisible and then include an opt out link? That seems....not hard.
I am canceling YouTube red as soon as I get home. It probably won’t make much of a difference, but tech learning is the primary reason I bought Red.
Yes, not even a few hours ago a VC at Founders Fund tweeted “...there's a strong correlation between the people outraged by privacy and the people that I think are dumbasses in the valley.”

Source: https://twitter.com/zebulgar/status/1146430814374117376?s=21
Very interesting, thank you for sharing this!

To describe sequences, I often use grammar formalisms such as definite clause grammars (DCGs) that are provided by the logic programming language Prolog.

For example, here is a Prolog definition of van Eck's sequence that is discussed in the article:

n_van_eck(0) --> [].
n_van_eck(N0) -->
{ N0 #> 0,
N #= N0 - 1,
empty_assoc(E) },
remainder(N, 0, t([],E,0)).

remainder(0, Current, _) --> [Current].
remainder(N0, Current, t(Ls,A0,I0)) -->
{ N0 #> 0,
N #= N0 - 1,
I #= I0 + 1 },
[Current],
{ distance_to_current(Current, A0, I0, Distance),
put_assoc(Current, A0, I0, A) },
remainder(N, Distance, t([Current|Ls],A,I)).

distance_to_current(Current, A, I, Distance) :-
( get_assoc(Current, A, I0) ->
Distance #= I - I0
; Distance = 0
).

Sample query and answer:

?- phrase(n_van_eck(12), Ls).
Ls = [0, 0, 1, 0, 2, 0, 2, 2, 1, 6, 0, 5] ;
false.

The first 100 000 elements are computed within one second:

?- time(phrase(n_van_eck(100_000), _)).
% 5,571,815 inferences, 0.739 CPU in 0.748 seconds (99% CPU, 7542128 Lips)
true ;
% 4 inferences, 0.000 CPU in 0.000 seconds (96% CPU, 23256 Lips)
false.

And 1 000 000 elements take about 10 seconds:

?- time(phrase(n_van_eck(1_000_000), _)).
% 65,636,238 inferences, 9.135 CPU in 9.303 seconds (98% CPU, 7185063 Lips)
true ;
% 4 inferences, 0.000 CPU in 0.000 seconds (80% CPU, 173913 Lips)
false.

This seems comparable to the Perl 6 performance results that are reported in the article.
Think of lobbying firm like hiring a consultant.

You might pay them $1M to do research on a particular policy that is beneficial/detrimental to your business. That same firm will then put together a polish presentation or proposed language for legislation and get it in front of politicians where it makes a difference.

It's certainly not "Google hired this firm for $1M and they have $900K in donations to a politicians election fund". That's illegal.

A good example (that another poster mentioned) are organizations like the ACLU. They raise money and use it to lobby the government to get pro-ACLU laws written.
> Many industries become more capital intensive as they grow, and higher capital thresholds for effective market entry make market entry harder. Additionally, as industries grow, the scale of their externalities grows, requiring regulation.

None of that stuff is actually strongly correlated. Whether an industry's capital costs increase disproportionately with scale has little to do with whether that industry has significant externalities requiring more regulation as it grows. You can find major examples of every combination of those things.

Moreover, if the increased capital costs are a result of increased regulatory compliance costs, that's not actually disproving the original point either.

> The aggregation of capital in public capital markets supports this (Value of equities up, # of market participants down).

That would be expected regardless because the lower amount of competition would be expected to result in higher profits and higher valuations regardless of the cause.

> The fact that the legislature has been gridlocked for years also doesn't support the hypothesis that regulatory action is the causal root of the lack of competition in the 2000s

Whatever gridlock existed hasn't stopped them adding some 40,000 plus new pages to the CFR in that time.
That’s a shame because a lot of elements were copied from the Prius / Lexus CT200h for the IONIQ (I own the latter) and I was starting to think of switching up for the newer IONIQ hybrid power train since the CT200h has had a decade long technology stall. And the Prius is butt ugly.
Surely this a massive breach of GDPR ?
Libra will almost surely be fungible on Facebook marketplace. I can easily think of a scheme to list fake stuff and use the money to buy it between two complicit parties or one. Do it at scale with bots, you have a great, completely automated way of squirrel away tons of money $10-15 at the time. Nobody would be able to effectively trace all those transactions if it's done well enough, and budget is not exactly an issue for the people involved in this kind of stuff.
Corporations can be disbanded by court order. Stop with the lies: https://info.legalzoom.com/happens-shareholder-dissolved-cor...
Example: if we stop all trade. US/China/Europe can grow food, have enough water and take care of existing citizens.

India is running out of water. I think it’s time to stop having multi children families. Communal living should be in and nuclear families must be out.

FWIW: I grew up in an Indian joint family. Even as an only child, I never missed having a large family or siblings. The rationale behind large families is having kin and bloodline. This is acutely felt in nuclear families. I always say that I was raised by four mothers. All my cousins are my siblings, as far as I am concerned. Perhaps that would provide some psychological salve to the loneliness of nuclear families.
It misses other benefits of static typing -> being able to compile to efficient code. Also Sorbet is still not popular enough to apply to many gems - it's a lot of work to implement it at the moment.
The medical community always whines about this, but they still accept Medicare. They do walk away from Medicaid in many cases.

The problem with Medicare is that they don’t pay for ineffective treatment. This makes it slightly more difficult for medical networks to charge for higher margin procedures.
> calls to violence

Would you then agree that any communist leaning YouTube channel is by definition a "call to violence", since communist movements have resulted in deaths of 110 million people in 20th century? And therefore the channel must be shut down.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_killings_under_communist_...

No? Don't agree? Well now you see why slippery slope is not a silly argument.
> You absolutely need a code of conduct (laws) to solve a dispute between two people. That's the whole point of rules.

This is so counter to my experiences that I have difficulty responding. Have you really never resolved a conflict without appeal to rules? I find this hard to understand.

Rules exist only because systemic problems motivated their creation. You see a sign that says “no dogs” not because dogs aren’t allowed, but because of some systemic problem with dogs in the past. We shouldn’t invent additional rules to solve problems that may or may not exist. That way lies ridiculous bureaucracy.

For example, some organizations (non-profits, HOAs, etc) adopt parliamentary procedure for their meetings. Some don’t. The fact that an organization adopts parliamentary procedures tells you that the specific organization has had problems with people disrupting meetings in the past, or that people in the organization had that problem in other orgs.
I thought constexpr implies const: https://godbolt.org/z/u3a1pq

That is what bothers me about constexpr. It conflates compile-time evaluation with non-mutability. I want a keyword that guarantees an evaluation happens at compile-time, but doesn't by itself imply "const".
Rhetoric like that is actually indicative of how difficult those suggestions are to implement. Your suggestions are non-specific, which means that any practical measures suggested on the basis of them will be attacked by everyone for being too weak, too strong, too narrow or too broad.
My bad, there's a drop two years after the source I looked at. Seems like the problem is international. So I guess the question is: what can we do about it?
Blowin’ in the Wind
If you can afford them, some of the Lotus models are definitely in that spirit.
IANAL, but what happens when the third party vendor is in China, effectively out of reach from a US consumer? Would Amazon be the defacto responsible party.
Because 'systemic oppression' is a made up concept, just like 'Jesus'. And just like Jesus, it's a guilt-exploiting profit- and power-seeking concept.
The rational approach would be to license them when it was likely they'd increase the overall average safety of drivers.

That isn't just a question of the safety of the autonomous systems though, it also includes consideration of which drivers end up using them. Some drunks will use auto taxis, lots won't.
Employee sends his own job to China so he can surf the web
You might love Neal Stephenson's latest book "Fall, or Dodge In Hell"

It's not quite about a world war on the Internet, but it is about what could happen if the Internet suddenly stops working somewhere.
But react is all I know how to write...!
And they should be.
And as they get regulated, they also become government monopolies, because the regulations effectively mean smaller competitors can no longer even enter the market.
This sounds like it could be the well-known bug with Spotify Connect, where only the first 100 songs in any given playback context are submitted to the queue[1].

This particular bug has been around since at least 2016.

[1] https://community.spotify.com/t5/Other-Partners-Web-Player-e...
For deep and persistent reasons, a society’s highest-value economic activity and growth will tend to be in cities. The stakes are much higher than architectural taste, and decisions about access to those economies affect everyone. People getting locked out of an economy have a stronger claim to a seat at the table than people worried about shadows.

An abundance of land suited to agriculture or resource extraction is irrelevant in a dispute about access to the 21st century economy, which is essentially urban.
IANAL but this discussion of the topic seems to indicate that you are correct if any SuperHuman users send emails with invisible tracking pixels to anyone in the EU.

https://www.gdpreu.org/compliance/email-tracking/
The article mentions that Rhode Island did that wholesale: "The Democratic-dominated Rhode Island government recently eliminated more than 30% of its rule volume by setting an expiration date for its entire regulatory code, forcing state agencies to start fresh."
California’s Early June Heat Wave Cooked Coastal Mussels in Place
This is uninformed and off-topic.