skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yea, I mean, it's extremely unlikely that Facebook will be "switched off." But, I think there are some possibilities that range from "extremely improbable" and "illegal / probably illegal" to merely "improbable."

1. Current admin declares "fake news" to be a national emergency. Demands Facebook turn over all keys to all databases. Democrats in Congress cry foul, Republicans are "concerned," until Facebook doesn't turn over the keys. Justice system gets involved, and then the debate turns from "extraordinary government overreach into free speech and privacy" into one about how a corporate is spitting in the face of American sovereignty and security, and "activist" judges, etc. Probable outcome: nothing happens because a Federal Judge in Hawaii says no. Possible Outcome: Facebook gets scared and hands over their data, tanking trust and usage.

2. Current admin orders a massive investigation into Facebook ties with Russia, throws around accusations like "spycraft" and "treason." As servers and documents are seized, Twitter et al step up recruitment and snipe staff terrified of FBI agents constantly roaming around. Possible outcomes: Facebook quality drops significantly as they lose valuable staff; Facebook service gets disrupted and usage plummits as servers get taken at random, or entirely; Facebook gets a big, fat, "This Website has been serving Illegal Content" notices with the US seal on it.

3. Current admin uses social media to strongly promote the idea that Facebook is working against American interests. Pushes on Silicon Valley location, "presidential harassment," censorship of conservatives, etc. Starts a smear war. Facebook afraid to push back and thus "confirm" propaganda. Possible outcomes: Usage drops from a boycott (oh well?); radicalized militia/crazies start bombing / shooting up Facebook offices, Facebook forced to shut down US operations out of security concerns / staff flee en masse out of fear.

I'm not claiming any of these have even more than a 20% chance of happening, it's just fun for me to explore the possibilities.
But then when regulators finally realize what's going on, there's weeping and gnashing of teeth, and "would someone think of the poor startups?".

The wild-west Internet was fine at the beginning, but then the marketing people came and fucked it up.
Smart extraterrestrials know not to interact on land and with humans

Just like most of us dont interact with sharks and tigers
Market cap is just the number of outstanding shares * price.. It says nothing about the quality of the business. Your explanation doesn’t make sense in that regard.

Even now, looking at the results, Amazon retail is not a great profitable business. It’s still low margin. No one could have predicted AWS - the true success story.

And look no further than YC backed companies. Have any of them become profitable? Even the one company that has gone public - Dropbox - isn’t looking to good these days.
The War of 1812 is a fascinating study in the ways we record and teach history. The US teaches it as a US victory because the US got everything it went into the war looking for and repulsed a British invasion. Canada teaches it as a British/Canadian victory because they too got everything they went into the war looking for and repulsed an American invasion.
Because adults sometimes watch children's programming too (yes, really), and as far as they can tell, that's what's going on.
google sheet is locked.
How many US officials were tried, let alone convicted, for their role in torturing people from 2001 to 2014?

Hint: zero.

(The 11 soldiers who were torturing detainees in Abu Ghraib were not tried for torture. Only watered down charges like dereliction of duty, assault, and battery.)
True.. old folks like to mention that kids take things for granted.. if they didn’t they would just be staring at cars go by all day going “wooooowwwww.... you guys seein this shit??”
The actual career ladder document linked from the post is in a private Google document so we can't read it.
I'm sorry, i can't hear you over the sound of how enormous my hothouse is:

https://www.nts.org.uk/visit/places/the-pineapple
It's like keeping track of pirated content. You're assuming Google is on top of everything happening in the world. They're not and simply can't be.

I would not be surprised if this was a manually curated whitelist that a human has to add to a table.
I don't live in the US and we don't use the term HVAC here.

I'm aware of the difference between the colloquial use of the word 'heat-pump' and the technical one, on the off chance that you really did not understand me I meant the ones where you use an in-ground heat source or sink to cool or heat a building by the movement of a working fluid.

The basic idea is that such a device can save you money because it does not need the same amount of energy that you would be using in a more traditional heating and cooling setup.
Are you thirsty? Try drinking some water.
Interesting article, but the sporadic bolding of a few words is killing me:

>The International Maritime Organisation has codes governing...
I'm sure you were wondering if ChromeOS supported floppy drives? It does
Oh yeah don't get me wrong, I think it's a great piece of gear. I probably would have gone with it over the Deluge if not for the price hike.

I have a pretty similar approach in that I wanted a sort of all-in-one portable sketchpad mainly so I can detach from the computer painlessly and avoid the device daisy-chain you described. I think the OP-1 basically nails this use case and the design reflects that. The Deluge has a more Swiss army knife approach with its focus on providing a variety of functionality rather than a streamlined design, but both are great if you don't want the kitchen sink of specialized devices and can live with the performance sacrifice. They are coming out with live looping in the next release so it will be a very powerful companion to my guitar. I'm really looking forward to it.
I made a faulty assumption. As others have pointed out, the settlement site is run by a third party.
procfs predates Plan 9: http://lucasvr.gobolinux.org/etc/Killian84-Procfs-USENIX.pdf
No, that’s not what $14bn of goodwill in Amazon’s balance sheet are.
Obviously you are wrong since literally 100s of billions of $$ are being spent on digital advertising and they are driving downstream conversions. Don't generalize your experience.

Advertisers (especially Direct Response) are some of the more analytical folks you'll meet. They won't spend a cent on a channel if they are not making it back in downstream conversions.
P/S is also hard to use unless you did that for just AWS. Better to look at price to operating cash flow and better yet to capitalize R&D and leases.
No doubt Jair Bolsonaro hasn't helped. However, this has been going on for a long, long, __long__ time. Tipping point or not, such spin on who's accountable is irresponsible.
Maybe there's a compromise. Enjoy what you have, but recognize that externalities do exist rather than trying to hide from them.
I think there's two reasons:

First, its a trend. Other languages have trained us to not see them so much (as pard68 said), to put much more weight on other things. Its not complete though, many programming languages do use them: to separate elements in a list, to separate parameters, as method.calls, and in numbers 1.0, so that's probably a very minor reason over all.

Second, programming languages are very symbol heavy: we use all kinds of operators and special->symbols and (various [brackets]), it just kinda drowns out small symbols that are at the bottom of the line like a , or . and they're just not as obvious as keywords or ink-heavy symbols.

But overall, I guess I'm just not used to seeing them in that context and I'd get over it really quickly, just like I very quickly got over Python's significant whitespace or Lisps parentheses. It seems like a big deal until one day suddenly its not anymore.
Laravel Vapor
I realize I missed the explanation (piracy stack over the legit options I have).

I log and just say "I want to watch this".
Similar to how you'd have previously used a Tivo that sat over all your potential TV channels.
I turn on my PC in the morning and get some push-bullet notifications of new episodes, I load up Plex on my TV and see them all sat there in a single "Here's what's new" place.

I guess it's similar to what Android/Apple TV are trying to do - but it's better.
It really depends, I think. If you are accessing the eMMC at the lowest hardware level, then you can write OS/filesystem-level code to maintain consistency when power is lost. Meanwhile, an SSD, like the SD card, is doing a bunch of internal operations that the OS can't control, so it's up to the hardware to maintain data integrity. I imagine that SSDs include a capacitor large enough to finish housekeeping, or use integrity-preserving operations internally (journal, etc.), but micro SD cards don't.
A lot of what's in here reminds me of what we do at PlanGrid, and as someone who has been around to see our system evolve (and add my own feedback to it), I generally agree with the principles that it lays out.

There is one thing that bothers me here though.

> Promotions don’t unlock new responsibilities; the new responsibilities and increased scope come first and then we recognize it with a promotion.

To some extent I agree with this. The part where I don't agree with this principle is that it's essentially saying "do the job of position XYZ, and after you prove to us that you can do it, we will recognize and pay you for it."

If people are taking on additional responsibility and having a bigger impact, pay them for it. Maybe Square does, but normally comp+promotion go together and so I'd be interested to hear evidence to the contrary. If someone has been operating at a level for 6 months, then why not retropay them for 6 months at their new salary? :)
You need permission to view the document! what!?
Good point. It may be another case of "consciousness of nothing", as during sleep or maybe before birth.
OK sure that might be an exception, not least because the Nazis were, like... Nazis. [EDIT: The "might" is intentional. If USA had stayed home, the war might have ended in 1943. Isn't it possible that fewer people would have died in a much shorter war?] If you don't like Nazis, however, I don't think you can support Wilson's lying our way into WWI. That certainly cost lives, and by forcing Germany into an untenable position it created the Nazis, the Holocaust, the horrific casualties suffered by the Soviets, etc. None of those things were actually prevented by our entering WWII, either.
Peter Thiel discusses this often, and recently on The Portal with Eric Weinstein-- where all these sorts of breakthroughs are perpetually right around the corner.

previous hn discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20465053

youtube interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM9f0W2KD5s&t=8941s
There's a reason this got no comments when it was posted 9 months ago.

Mental illness is fascinating.
It's quite simple:

1. FB's market cap is $573bn. 10% is $57.3bn. 2019 Q2 profits were $1.6bn.

2. By your standards, it is perfectly fine for a government [entity] to tell a private company: "If you don't do exactly as I ask, I will get all your profits for roughly the next decade." That, according to you, would be teaching FB "good behavior." To quote you, it will "really make 'em feel it".

3. Communism is a system of government in which the state plans and controls the economy and a single -- often authoritarian -- party holds power.

Maybe you should rethink your views.
I completed the request with specified damages from the breach. I recently received a letter saying my claim was denied as I had "failed to mail the documentation," however, there was no notice on the webform that I completed that required mailing the documentation.
Water + electrolyte imbalance are pretty big together. Unfortunately, people have been told to reduce salt, drink more water... etc. combined with refined, heavily processed foods. Confounded by the fact that too little of one electrolyte has similar symptoms to too much of others.

Most people don't even understand how to listen to their own bodies anymore, and doctors are more concerned with prescriptions that treating underlying issues.
Do you ever wonder how crazy ideas like "the Earth is flat" or "the Moon landing never happened" get started? Well, it might look something like this. It all depends whether or not this thing collects enough followers to expand it and keep it going (hopefully not).
What do you most people use their computer for? Web browsing, word. Maybe some foto or video editing. With the exception of word all of these things MASSIVELY gain from having lots of cores. Not sure where the myth that most people have single threaded workloads comes from because it's not true at all at this time.
This is precisely what I'm planning to do, +/- Plex (I'd prefer a FLOSS alternative; I'd prefer to avoid routing through third-party servers, and I have a good enough uplink with static IP and Wireguard to back it up).
We probably don't need to impose birth control, population is stabilizing and will probably decrease after peaking.

The faster we get people out of poverty, girls educated, and reduce child mortality, the faster we stop population growth.
It's written, but there's still a lot of work to publish it: copy-editing, page layout, cover design, etc. I don't want to get distracted by that until all of the chapters are done.
I found out because they shared on Facebook. I would normally not share it, but apparently his experience was shared on the news. https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/stories/3d_griffin.html
> What are some $200B+, publicly-traded companies that the government has "turned off"?

Forget $200b. What are some legitimate $1b+ companies that the government has turned off like a switch? Essentially it has never happened before in US history, because it's not a power that the government actually possesses.

If your whole business consists of running a massive medicare fraud, or you're a ponzi scheme shell with no assets, then sure the government might raid you and you instantly become insolvent and non-operational. Cases of that sort are about the only time such a switch is thrown (and even then, there is a well defined legal process involved).
I agree with you 100%.

But:

> If someone has been operating at a level for 6 months, then why not retropay them for 6 months at their new salary? :)

The answer is: because they can.
Only 20% is why the stock is down after hours, at 100 P/E AMZN is speculatively priced where they're expected to achieve infinite growth until they deliver financials that justify their valuation which Investors are betting on to happen before they hit any growth ceiling. There's also no room for an economy downturn which expensive stocks like AMZN are extremely volatile to.
Defenders of drug monopolies often argue that removing the monopoly will reduce our intensive drug research spending. This may be true. However, I'd argue that the focus of this intensive drug research spending is perverted by economic incentives and overinflated because of the artificially constrained scope.

For-profit Pharma companies have a fiduciary obligation to only invest in research which they can profit from. This leads them to only invest in research in the tiny proportion of "interesting drug candidates" that can be monopolized.

Ex. - Imagine scientists find that saffron can be an effective antidepressant with few side effects. They research the active molecule and find that adding a bromine atom would make the molecule patentable, but it is slightly less effective and has more side effects. The drug company has an incentive to spend great amounts developing the less-effective patentable drug, and no incentive to research the other. Drug company has incentive to try to convince the public that their inferior molecule is actually preferable.

Now, we have a lot of data about the safety of saffron - people have included in their diets for hundreds or thousands of years. If this can be used to treat depression, it will likely have a much better safety profile than a novel molecule which has never been ingested by humans before. The therapeutic index of saffron (delta between effective dose and aversive side effect dose) is huge! Likelihood of getting it through safety trials has very high bayesian prior.

(Saffron as antidepressant is an area of recent research - all papers I've seen published by academics https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=saffron+antidepre..., I made up the bromine part for the example. Saffron may also be useful as anti-tumor and in ADHD treatment)

Pharma Co's may be investing intensely in researching a tiny fraction of drugs, but this fraction is less likely to contain the safest candidates and thus I don't think those dollars are being spent very effectively.
Oceans Are Melting Glaciers from Below Much Faster Than Predicted, Study Finds
The legal system has a well developed notion of jurisdiction to del with that. A movie shot in California will follow California’s laws on child labor, not New York’s, even if it’s shown there.
This is kind of like what New York did in the 1800s by consolidating all the towns around it into a giant metropolis. And that's clearly what many people wish the Bay Area were today - a giant megalopolis from San Jose to Petaluma. The problem with that is that while it would be a great idea for getting one's way on a given issue, there are a lot of people that don't want to live in that kind of place, and are fighting to maintain their towns as the small towns they want them to be.
That's comedy gold. Thanks for pointing that out!
The practice of greasing the skids with lavish events ended a while back. Drug companies can't even give free pens to their doctors now.[1]

[1]http://phrma-docs.phrma.org/sites/default/files/pdf/phrma_ma...
I seem to get dehydrated quite frequently as well. I simply forget to drink water and rarely do I get the thirsty feeling.
Seconding the Organelle as the OP-1 alternative. I haven't got one, but I have definitely considered pulling the trigger.

(The "ultra-budget portable" option is to get a Casio SA and a digital FX pedal. Combine that with a line-in to a DAW setup, and a lo-fi instrumental album is totally within reach.)
Quick search, first hit: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10675072/is-the-register...

I know, hardly authoritative. But it matches precisely what I remember from when I was hacking on perl with an eye to performance at the time.

Maybe drop that bit regarding 'register'? The rest of that section is still perfectly valid. That is, assuming the compiler doesn't actually perform the local variable/keep in register optimisation itself, but I think it can't do that at least in the general case. I only remember vague things about this. At least aliasing may defeat the compiler optimisation.

Caveat: Like yourself, I picked this stuff up without studying it as part of a degree. Anybody with a proper compiler background want to jump in and enlighten maybe?
+1, but also: I don't want their CEO to walk away free, and with a $20M severance and healthcare for life.
I hit this wall, but what I've decided is that it makes a fun adjunct instrument to play in real-time; using the sequencer is basically something to occupy time on transit or whatever but not a productive music-making idea. Just use it to collect fun samples over the course of your day and then mix them into other things in your DAW of choice.
About the only thing people are likely to drink in liquid form where you lose more than you take in is alcohol.

Most people shouldn't be taking in refined sugars more than a couple times a month. That's a somewhat separate issue. There are of course other factors at play, but that has less to do with hydration and more to do with nutrition and disease.

Being an asshole won't really help your position. I tend to be snarky myself at times, but misinformation+snark == downvotes to oblivion.
They don't need data for that; the right thing would be to not show ads on kids content, and disable the garbage recommendation algorithms too.
I don't get it. The IMO is the organization that regulates international shipping.
A huge part of Amazon's business is retail where it never is going to have the same margins as any of the tech companies you listed. It's not really useful to compare Price/Sales in those contexts.
Not questioned, the best approximation we have for now. As for all theories attempting to describe empirical truth.
Good reading. It reminds me of the wave of big banks implementing 'Lean management', supposedly listening to the employees in a bottom to top fashion, while announcing a 5% cut in the IT workforce.

We got the whole package, daily stand-up meetings, problem management sessions, whiteboards, you name it.
The whiteboards where maintained for 2 years. The 5% workforce cut was compensated later on.

But more importantly, It managers could brag about implementing lean management at cocktails, and laugh at the old cranks who had not yet done it.

Now those mid-level managers are implementing 'the cloud', mostly by using shitty tools provided by the service provider they are in bed with, be it IBM, MS or HP.
Milions are being spent.

It leaves me wondering if everybody is within the bounds of the law during those transformations.
Reminds me of all of the "innovation" grants and credit schemes the Canadian government keeps trying to do to "foster innovative companies and entrepenuership" and "create jobs" but on a much, much bigger scale. In Canada almost all of it gets siphoned off by useless projects started by ex-executives from big name mega-companies (ie IBM) or by people who are experts at navigating gov grant processes. Meanwhile the actual startups who lack access to angel/venture capital in Canada rarely see any of it and continue to flock to America.

10yr run ways and massive amounts of capital sounds like the perfect recipe for black hole a money pit.

I'd rather leave 'innovation' to academia and private industry. If they want to help then make those two things easier, don't try to do it yourself (like trying to pick the winners).
> In any case, if VR is ever going to become a full-fledged medium in fine art, it will need to come with observations like this.

Being the one who invented this art genre I beg to disagree. Esp. with the "You have to be an artist to be recognized as artist".
Seconding Reason. The built-in soft synths are incredibly versatile and will train you up so that you will know what you want and how to use it when you buy hardware.
Rejoice, the Earth Is Becoming Greener
This is a great explanation, but who would sell their share back to the company for $1000 if the value of the other shares will increase immediately after the buy-back?

I assume that if it's expected the company shares will go up in value due to the buyback, then they will have to pay a premium and buy the shares at a price that is close to the post-buyback share value.

So, perhaps at $1010/share.

However, I think there's no premium price equal to the post-buyback share price that they can pay to buy back shares that doesn't result in the company total value increasing as a whole from the buyback. This seems to be a contradiction.

I can only conclude that it isn't known that the buyback will raise share prices, because the loss of capital from the company should balance the increased fraction of future earnings that each share represents.

(edit: rewrote post after working through its logic).
I love it. Everyone’s claiming a $5 billion fine is insignificant, so there’s no room to argue the tax savings from writing it off is meaningful.