skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not true. Road to profitability and market cap are what matter.

Hypothetical: One business is making $100million in revenue, is losing $20million a year but has enough market cap to grow 10-100x and is spending most of its money on R&D/marketing, while a second business makes $1million in profit on $10million in revenue, but you've maxed out your growth and there's no more market cap, I'd rather be business 1, as you're on the road to potentially make hundreds of millions in profit later on.

i.e. I'd rather be Amazon some years back when they weren't profitable than some mom and pop online business that makes enough to pay the mortgage.
You can create your own national-whatever day if you talk to the right people and know about Chase's Calendar of Events.

https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?stor...

Or, just declare your day to be whatever you want. Nobody is checking and I don't think anybody cares.
Can you elaborate on what you mean by "those income taxes go to Scaramento"? I mean the state has to coordinate the money it collects, but doesn't it use that money for state-wide projects like roads, dams, and other infrastructure? I live in Los Angeles and pay CA income tax. I'm perfectly fine with the state using some of that money outside of Los Angeles. I often travel outside of Los Angeles, so I'm getting use out of whatever they make with it (assuming it's not just put into politicians' pockets). What is Sacramento doing with the income tax revenue that you don't like?

The big issue is that cities and counties don't typically collect taxes in California. There are a few statewide organizations (Franchise Tax Board, Board of Equalization) that do instead. There are also tight limits on sales tax (cities can levy up to ~2% beyond the base rate for specific things). Essentially what happens is that the state collects taxes and doles the monies out to cities and counties at their discretion.
They're not a Startup, they've been "going for growth" for a 1/4 of a century, eventually you need to make a profit to justify your Market Cap. Just because profit isn't a goal for AMZN doesn't mean it's not a vital financial metric.
Or, use youtube-dl and manually curate what your kids can watch, for a safe and ad-free experience. This is what my wife and I are going to do when our kid reaches the age we deem appropriate to expose it to children shows.

(I'm 100% serious, and at this point I wonder if there's business in selling a NAS preconfigured for streaming as a set-top box, with parents responsible for dropping URLs that youtube-dl will then download.)
Ok, so cosmic rays represent 20x the radiation dose of solar flares. That data is meaningless without relating the values to actual health impacts on human beings, which the authors don't even attempt to do. Would a year in space represent a 10% lifetime increase in the risk of cancer? I have no idea and neither do these authors. This is childish alarmism.
Northern Italy is like that, and we survive using exactly the same strategy.

Every year there are one or two weeks between the second half of June and the end of July where lows are 24-28C and highs are 32-36C. It's now midnight and temperature is 30C with 65% humidity. It sucks, but here it isn't a particularly hot summer and still there's no AC in most houses.
Why would you expect it to go up? The market was already pricing in the expected sales and clearly the number in the spreadsheets before the second quarter report was higher than the real actualized value that was released.
How do you accept the funding?
I have a little startup and today I received a funding proposal. Despite dreaming of it I feel highly unsure now.

How do you know it is time to raise the funding? Would you leave your wellpaid job for an initially-funded startup? How do you handle the emotional stress?
It appears to be a business that sells t-shirts and stickers.
> encourage each family to own a mostly-untouched >5 acres

There will soon be 11 billion people in the world.

This is a pipe dream, but if it came to fruition it would wreck the planet very quickly.
Alibaba’s revenue is (primarily) only the fees and commission they charge their sellers. They did $30B of gross sales on that day but probably only collected $1-3B in reportable revenue. Amazon does the same thing for it’s third-party sellers; only the fees and commission make it to Amazon’s top line revenue number for seller sales.
I don’t think anyone back then could have imagined property values going from say, 30,000 to 3,000,000.

Can you imagine it now? Could we ever reach the $10 million mark for a single family Bay Area home?

That’s the kind of leap you’d be asking them to make if you went back 40 years or so.
My kid learned to skip ads as soon as she was able to hold a cellphone in her hands to watch a video. Like 12-18 months old. I was surprised to see her noticed what were ads and recognized the Skip Ad button.

To me the worst are the stupid "Live" videos, which aren't really live and just parks the children for hours on a stupid loop with a worrisome Chat window that pops open.

For a while I only let her watch YT Kids, which I configured to only allow the shows that I personally approve. The Amazon Fire tablet for kids is OK too.
This article approaches the issue from the preconception that building housing is the best, obvious and inevitable decision for Bay Area communities. Because of this, any obstacles to it must be due either to a) fossilized regulations from a former age; or b) greed and entitlement.

As to a), I find that the democratic process is actually very engaged in making housing decisions. As a resident of Alameda, we are constantly getting new housing approved, because our voting populace happens to support it. In other towns, maybe that's not the case. But the laws and regulations that protect against development are not necessarily byproducts from a former age that are no longer applicable, but in fact still representative of the will of the people. And in any case, the will of the people can change them!

As to b), I think there are great reasons why someone would be against development other than greed and entitlement. If rich and powerful interests (such as Big Tech) threaten to change your way of life, don't you have the right as an American to vote your conscience, even if it goes against the tides of change? Or are we only allowed to vote in a way that would ultimately favor Big Tech in some way? People that think in this way remind me of the current situation in Hong Kong - where it's a "democracy," but you're only allowed to vote for the "approved" candidates. In other words, no democracy at all.

An objection has been raised that people who don't like the tech industry being here can move somewhere else. Well, the same is true for the tech industry itself. In fact, it appears that Big Tech is playing a game of chicken, and banks on the fact that the Bay Area towns will blink first. We have seen this before, where Uber deliberately broke the law by running a commercial car service without paying for the required licenses and permits. Then, they sicced their lawyers on the towns that tried to stop them until people got so enamored of the service they couldn't imagine life without it, and the political will was decidedly in their favor. All in the name of "disruption."

I have no issue ascribing legitimate motives to those who wish not to be "disrupted," and refuse to accept that as an inevitability. What would the answer be to a big corporation belching toxic fumes into the atmosphere? "Well, that's just the march of progress, we all need to adapt?" I didn't think so. Instead, we will continue to put these things to a vote (or fight for our right to do so where we wrongfully can't). That's how we make decisions in America.
its a meme launched from ig meme pages like worstigaccount

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Comparing their price to sales ratio with that of companies in different businesses doesn’t make much sense either.
I think I've seen a few people mention using youtube-dl to put content onto a file share with a Plex server watching it; and then sitting the kids in front of a TV with a streaming box attached that only has the Plex client installed (or giving them a tablet with the "locked into a single app" mode enabled, locked into the Plex client.)
> gives the government the authority

Not authority, the article just claims that Hughes is giving them information to use when building their case.
Reposted by the BBC from The Conversation:
https://theconversation.com/mystery-of-the-cargo-ships-that-...

Discussion of the original article:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17884382
Why would you think that your comment is relevant to their sales going up 20%? Maybe they would have gone up more if they didn't have a counterfeiting problem, or maybe they would have gone up less, I dunno.

But fundamentally sales going up has nothing to do with counterfeit goods.
Effectively zero net income or operating income growth ($2.6b vs $2.5b; and $3.1b vs $3.0b), despite 20% sales growth. The market generally dislikes it when margins contract.

Plus, AWS growth dropped to 37% from 49%, year over year. I consider that a great number given their size is approaching that of Oracle. However, every headline likes to hang on the persistent decline in AWS growth. It's a very large part of what's propping up the enormous AMZN valuation. As goes AWS, so goes the AMZN stock.
Happy Festivus.
It sounds like a lot of the problems you describe come from using software that assumes normal “HTTP web server” applications when you really have a custom web application.
I think this might be a spinoff from https://www.reddit.com/r/BirdsArentReal
Needs to be fixed in the title
Parent of one. Sign me in.
I don't know. I think there was a war of note which might have been around the 1940s?

Nitpicking your nitpick:

Contrary to the American tendency to act like we singlehandedly won WW2, we were a latecomer to the war and not a central power prior to that war. There were many countries involved in it.

It's possible that the US played a critical role in Japan's surrender. It's also possible they would have surrendered anyway, we just have no means to go back in time, run the scenario twice and see how it would go without the US.

In the United States, generations were taught that Japan would never have surrendered so quickly without use of the atomic bomb and that victory would have required a bloody invasion of the Japanese mainland, costing hundreds of thousands of lives.

Japanese students were generally taught a very different narrative: that Japan already had been defeated and dropping the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki three days apart was a geopolitical calculation to keep the Soviet Union at bay.

https://www.stripes.com/news/special-reports/world-war-ii-th...
>If you show value to the client and you build a trust relationship then you enter into a relational mode that is fruitful for both sides, and you skip/streamline all the tedious commercial topics (RFPs, competitors, beauty contests, the purchasing department demanding a 3% discount...). On the other hand, if you want to milk the cow dry then you end up on a very transactional relationship and you need to start cold selling from scratch after every project, which takes a lot of effort, time and energy.

This is greatly at empirical odds with the near ubiquitous distrust for consultants among almost everyone who has worked with them.

And there is certainly no shortage of willingness to repeatedly cold sell in order to advance one's own career in consulting.
How would it be, to be able to self declare something like "prime day" and make more than black Friday sales?
It was certainly closer to true historically that ads were a necessary and mostly harmless way to inform and educate consumers. Now we have advertisements being tuned with machine learning and marketers that fully understand memetics. Advertising is now dangerous and it will only get worse.
> either because they don't need THAT many cores, or because they value the more sophisticated instructions (like encryption acceleration, etc.)

The parallela was much more complex, had its own bus architecture which required an FPGA to glue the chip to the Arm cores in the FPGA SoC which ran Linux. Compare that to a simple x86 or Arm system where the tooling and software is mature and you don't have to do any extra fancy work. Just write a program and execute it. Same thing that killed the IBM/Sony Cell processor. Neat idea, PITA to program.
> I am not really a fan of "embedded" devices that have to be shut down properly.

the problem is the Pi is not an embedded device, per se.

It's running a desktop operating system that has to be shut down properly. This is the main reason SD cards get corrupted - there is an unchecked flow of writes to the SD card. This increases the chance of outstanding unsynchronized writes and SD card burnout.

I've said many times that raspi-config should allow an option for mounting the filesystems read-only, with an overlay ram based filesystem.

You can run openwrt on the pi, and the filesystem is set up this way. I run a pi like this and have never seen a corruption problem.
Their intention was very likely ruining Google (and other US techs). But the result is inadvertently protecting Google. There's no conflict here; you're simply confused.
To address 1, I think many of the municipalities between at least Palo Alto and Sunnyvale should be consolidated (and give Santa Clara to San Jose).
I imagined while reading the article that SVG must be implemented using these techniques. You imply it differs. How?
Costs aren't factored into revenue.
The $26B dollar company and their $15.00 logo
Man, I hope you do this for a living. You're amazing. Super clear explanation.
Perhaps the big difference between building these DOJ antitrust cases and the ones against IBM and later Microsoft is that today more members of the public can see how a company like Facebook can be harmful in conducting its "business".

There are many more people using computers and computer networks today and these companies play a more visible and arguably more significant role in more people's lives. It is plausible that more people are likely to care, even those with no stake in the industry or the litigation.
Seems to me it weakens any agrument as Hughes is not a neutral objective opinion.

Certainly the DoJ can make a solid case sans some outlier.
>If it were down to feature lists and price tags, Apple wouldn't be selling very many phones. It seems Apple might be explaining itself in a way that doesn't resonate with you, which is which is fine.

I wish it was just the Internet, but increasingly I have had people complaining about iPhone's prices in Real life, and they are not in the Tech Circle. A few days ago the podcast from Macobserver on Apple's prices had a section on it as well, more people are questioning the prices, especially when they have something else to compare to.

I could paid double the price simply because of iOS. But 3x is a little hard, and I cant explain to friends why is Apple so expensive either.
Perhaps this product by Teenage Engineering would wet your whistle. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/25/magazine/electronic-music...
In the UK most doctors have a copy of this book on their desks. Drugs and side-effects are also listed on the NHS website. (And on Wikipedia, sometimes.)

Of course the problem is the reliability of the evidence. I recently had to decide whether I wanted to go on a course of some fairly severe drugs with nasty side effects.

The original papers didn't make a lot of sense. The statistical conclusions seemed to be - if not nonsense, then certainly not very consistent.

My doctor said "Well, these are new drugs, so we're still learning about them." I didn't find that reassuring.

The real problem is that big statistical studies don't say much about why side effects happen. There seems to have been far too little research into understanding why/how side effects happen at all, and whether or not it's possible to screen for them.

That would probably require a level of personalised medical screening and dose control that big pharma isn't interested in providing.
That doesn't sound super unreasonable to me. Imagine if Amazon suddenly was a different company with a different name, holding everything else the same. How would this affect cashflows and sales? The difference in sales between this hypothetical company and Amazon is essentially what goodwill is. $14B sounds okay when you think about it like this.
Honestly, the Bay Area shouldn't have municipalities smaller than counties.
Partial out-of-order writes can happen with an SD card. Most filesystems do not handle partial writes well, particularly when they happen out-of-order. A redundant checksumming filesystem like ZFS might be better, but that's only because ZFS can totally handle up to N drives per vdev going totally batshit (where N is configurable when setting up the vdev), not because it is designed for SD cards.

Spinning drives can also have misdirected writes, but enterprise drives have for decades now (older than SATA) supported commands for flushing their caches, so proper barriers can be maintained.
The mystery of exchange rate determination solved (2015)
> 2) young children often do not have ad blocking software installed

evil parents
I'd imagine people wouldn't really pay for a permit to cut trees, the forest would just accidentally get burned or something like that.

If we'd make it not economically useful to burn it down, because agricultural products were less profitable, that would work, probably.
The only entity that benefits from this is a massive corporation. There is no benefit to individual humans or the public at large.

How do you feel about providing free marketing for Big Pineapple (Dole)?
Standard of living is a function of wealth, but wealth is not the sole factor. It also includes quality of the environment, crime levels, access to good medical care, education standards, civil rights, house affordability and so on.

Most people nowadays are poorer than Mr Darcy in a monetary sense, but probably have a higher standard of living.

The sibling post makes the point that in the past, being wealthy was a much bigger component of this - if you're rich you can afford a doctor (versus none), you can eat when others go hungry, you can afford to travel at all, you can be educated, etc.

As I understand it, standard of living is objective - you can quantify it fairly well. Quality of life is subjective.
The reason the stock market is hard to predict is because it itself is a prediction.
Outside of the older large northeast cities, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, etc, this is pretty much the norm for much of the east coast as well.
Tron isn't letting the last payment for BitTorrent get out of escrow
Kind of true, but the common use of distributing binaries means that one can also take care to modularize the application across lib, DLL or COM modules, thus reducing even more what actually gets compiled from scratch.

Naturally one can do that across UNIXes as well, they just historically seem not to have invested that much either in incremental linking nor in a proper pre-compiled header model, hence no one really uses them. At least that is my perception.

In any case modules are in now, so lets see how they evolve.
When is a VR installation a work of art? A veteran critic and curator explains
Sounds exactly the same as anything on the Disney channel.
I'd venture farmers make half or more more of their money on futures markets. Argi-business is a global market and optimal prices for your commodities don't necessarily conform to your local conditions/crops/etc.

I can't speak for all farmers, but my family owns a farm and the futures market is huge in it generating money.

You can use the futures markets to hedge against bad crop yields, lock in profits for accounting and cash flow purposes, inform what crops you are going to grow. It's immensely valuable.
My limited understanding from reading articles on the topic is that the SD card is doing things like wear leveling in a way that the OS can't control, so if it loses power while it's doing that, your data is gone. It's like a separate computer, and the integrity of your data requires running the program to completion.

It seems like a bad model if you ask me, but performance is what reviewers publish, not reliability under failing power, so this is what we get. It is obviously possible to fully journal these internal operations and recover them when power is next available (resulting in FS-level errors, instead of internal errors). But the cards do not do this.

With eMMC, you just have the raw flash cells available directly, so you can write this code. With SD, you don't have enough control to write correct code, so you are stuck with what the vendor gives you.
You've presented a concise and valid set of statements that argue that a 100 P/E ratio might be expensive, but don't justify calling it insanely expensive.
I'd kind of like to go to rural nowheresville, live cheap, and still make tech money. But my parents are here, my wife has health issues, and my kids need decent colleges.

We're getting to the point where maybe the work part works. College may be able to be fully remote fairly soon (Western Governors University is there already, but only has select majors). Specialized doctors, though... that might be a bit harder.

I mean, yes, you can do "face to face" via Skype. You can't do blood tests that way, though...
Yes I agree, I was thinking more in line with people like me, who can’t hold everything in their head, so these tools are sophisticated todo lists.

But if I find my self asking my kid “so... what went well?” or “I’m not sure that’s a 5 pointer” before they are working age I’ll book an appointment with a professional pronto!
One of the issues is that we, in the US, don't look at other successful cities or countries and consider implementing their solutions. Then in California, we don't look at other cities or states within the US who have solved similar problems. Tokyo has rational zoning rules that has lead to affordable housing in a growing metropolis. This blog post https://devonzuegel.com/post/north-american-vs-japanese-zoni... describes the differences in Japanese zoning versus North American zoning.
You should understand that clicking on ad is not how YouTube or your friend makes money. The ad needs to have a conversion for the advertiser to continue spending on it. Imagine, if you are an advertiser and all you see are a bunch of clicks from YT and no conversions. Would you continue spending on that channel? Likely not unless you are a brand advertiser in which case they are also not looking for clicks.

Secondly, even brand advertisers have specific demographics in mind. So while a kid video will appeal to a kid specific brand (think cereals or toys), many brands won't spend in that category.

Given this, your thesis here is not entirely accurate.
Revenue is up 20% year over year. The growth is real, not just a goal.
> auto repair shops

Apparently the city governments want lots of these. They call it PDR zoning; apparently auto repair shops pay more for non-college-educated workers than other jobs.
The other day I was standing in a Target checkout line and the guy in front of me asked the cashier "Where are the dead birds? Think about it, there are millions of birds, but you don't ever see dead birds. Well, occasionally, but it's rare compared to how many there are."