skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think that's a good summary. Yes, there were always enslaved people. But the transatlantic system was something new.

Why didn't the colonizers just use European serfs as slaves in America? Because the Europeans already had a norm against serious abuse of serfs. Why didn't they enslave the Native Americans? They tried, but the indigenous all were dying of European diseases. So they brought in a third party, the Africans. Sure, Africans had been enslaving each other, but it wasn't worse than what Europeans did to serfs. When the Europeans enslaved the Africans, suddenly things got a lot worse than it had ever been in the history of slavery. Just incredible cruelty, but even more than that, the new element of skin color based discrimination. That had never really been a thing before, but to justify being this cruel to Africans, you needed a powerful ideology. In some countries, this led to a color system where your proximity to power was roughly equal to your degree of darkness, but in the US, we evolved a "one drop" rule where people were either classified as white or non-white with no half-measures. (This was also bad for mixed European/Native Americans, as well as those of African heritage.)

"Capitalism" is a fuzzy term that is hard to pin down, but to the degree that it means something, I think it's fair to say: after the Columbian contact, the European economic system led to transatlantic slavery, transatlantic slavery was something new in the world and led to modern racism (which is distinct from mere xenophobia), and racism has lived long beyond the end of the legal slave system and taken on a life of its own. Capitalism inherited slavery but then refashioned it and birthed new evils.
Doesn't seem like it would be easy without a firehose of metadata and I doubt Google would be amenable to providing that for a competing service.

At this point to enable that kind of competition would have to have legislative protection (e.g. a law similar to the UK one mandating banks/gas/electric companies have to provide APIs).
They’ve built bridges (or at least a bridge) with this kind of wood.
The VC game seems a bit more... suspect than to clearly label it as a meritocracy. Particularly for serially bankrupt founders.
Ebay is the real long tail of selling anyways. I can almost always find the obscure thing I'm looking for.
Oh that I could bypass bootloader locks with "No. No. No." or "Red"....
But you still money money the opposite of how the market moved.

Rebalancing is really taking money out of whatever the better investment was and putting it into what was the worse investment. Consider what would happen if you rebalance an asset like a stock that’s slowly going to 0. Over time your portfolio also hits ~zero even if everything else was going well.

Sure, for a sufficiently diversified investment like the S&P 500 it’s unlikely to hit zero. But the question stands why take money out of the better investment for 50+ years? You could be moving from 10% returns to 2% returns. The theory is about timing the market, you get better returns investing after ups than downs.

PS: Though better may in fact relate to stability more than absolute percentages.
This is an insightful comment.

The reason why tech has done so well in the past 10 years is partially due to luck. While investment dollars continued to pile up post-2008, tech was one industry who had recently shown really impressive returns. As such, that's where the dollars flowed.

My concern is what happens when a few of those unicorns fail (e.g. Uber)? If sentiment shifts enough, you might see tech suddenly become the ugly duckling. Companies that in reality are doing reasonably well will be painted with the same brush.

When people start to see Uber failing and other unicorns struggling, it just become a self-fulfilling prophecy - "I knew a recession was coming". People get risk adverse, company's stop hiring and it spreads to the economy as a whole.
I wasn't exhaustive in my storytelling. Most of that growth came from M&A activity. Financial engineering.
> "Our Friend the Atom" is a 1957 episode of the television series Disneyland describing the benefits of nuclear power and hosted by Heinz Haber. It was part of the publicity campaign for peaceful uses of atomic energy, following Dwight D. Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace speech at the UN General Assembly in December 1953.

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They are probably on the other side of the issue. YouTube independent creators are in competition with Hollywood and big media.
> 355/113 is more precise 1/(113^2) ~ 0.00008 and the fraction is still possible to be stored in 16-bit

log2(355)+log2(113)≈15.3, so it seems like you could squeeze this into 16 bits, but what about a sign bit? And since 355>2^8, I think you also need to be reserving some bits to say how the remaining bits are partitioned between the numerator and denominator (see [1] for an interesting writeup of some experiments with "floating bar").

A fundamental fact of any fixed width number format is that you can only represent 2^n values with n bits, so designing a number representation is really all about deciding how you will distribute those values. Some properties you might want:

1. Enough dynamic range for your application
2. A smooth distribution of values within that range (clustering some values too close together implies gaps somewhere else).
3. Efficient arithmetic operations
4. Exact results in some important cases

Floating point optimizes for 1-3, somewhat at the expense of 4 although it is exact for (small enough) integers and fractions with a (small enough) power of 2 in the denominator.

Fixed-width rationals are less good at 1-3, but are better for 4. The distribution of rationals on the number line is pretty funky, and there's even redundancy because 2/4 and 1/2 represent the same value.

I don't think optimizing for exact results in more special cases is really the right move in most applications, so I don't think we should be surprised by floating point's dominance. On the other hand, I have worked on a project where we decided exact results in special cases really was important [2].

[1] https://iquilezles.org/www/articles/floatingbar/floatingbar....
[2] https://engineering.desmos.com/articles/intuitive-calculator...
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I'm not sure how useful that would be. Pi might be represented more precisely, but the result of every operation you do with it is still going to have the issue of varying precision (except for powers of your base/ratio for the representation).

It's not exactly what you're talking about but there is some use for "block" floating point, where you manually track the decimal point through your arithmetic via shifts, which allows you to explicitly control the precision you need for a given portion of your arithmetic. The code is disgusting however.

I wonder though if there's a numeric representation that could make trigonometric functions into a shift/mask operation, kind of like multiplying by powers of the base for integers/floats. That would be real neat.
Great/interesting demo. Does anyone know of more like this that demo other types of attacks or vulnerabilities? I know a lot of people that never grasp what happens in these attacks but this seems like a great illustration tool.
We assume the headlines are supplied by the original content creator, unless it's an Ask HN or Show HN.

When I see "Watch Out Google, YouTubers are unionizing" I don't think that's pseudolus saying that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20696702
So, I've read more and watched the doc. My take, those rebuttals may be accurate but they represent only a slice of what went on. The two stories in the doc may not be 100% credible either, but are quite detailed.

One thing I didn't realize, and which changed my thinking about the subject, was that the kids were alone with him one at a time in a serialized manner. From the descriptions I always thought it was more like a sleepover party atmosphere at Neverland and why I was not inclined to believe the allegations.
Timing the marking is a bad idea, but getting good value for your money is a good idea, and has some element of timing. Don't try to figure out when prices are low, figure out when value is high. For instance, relatively low P/E, high dividend yield, high ROI, high ROE, etc. If you're looking to invest in an index fund, check out the S&P 500 historical P/E: https://www.macrotrends.net/2577/sp-500-pe-ratio-price-to-ea...

There's no shame in holding cash when value is low. People like Buffett are known for doing it. There are no called strikes in investing, so don't swing at mediocre pitches. But when value is high, you'd better swing for the fences, because that doesn't happen all that often.
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For me that Deck basically says what I think will happen now and what happened in 2008. Some people will lose money, governments will panic, people with normal jobs will have a harder and harder time and people in IT will get richer as if there is no recession even happening.

It will also push automation to happen much faster meaning an even bigger underclass of people.

And finally you will still be able to raise shedloads of money (if your business is good) but it will cost you more of your business. Poor you.
IPMI does all of that and hundreds of more features. And it's licence-free.

https://www.supermicro.com/en/solutions/management-software/...
Eh? I'm the one who did the ABC list. While yes, I'm in half jest, its partially serious. Because that's what will happen unless there are better safety alternatives.

How about remote shut off and control by a gov body? Too expensive and a wonderful vector for remote hacks.

FAA tracking and interception on deviated courses? Holy crap I doubt they can scale fast enough if buying and using flying cars "takes off". See what I did there? Also interception will lead to the same fire ball of death problem.

No fly airspace, which would become nearly every metro and suburb the same day. Thus making the flying car useless.

Unless we do SAMs or antiair, the flying car will be dead in the water. And still would be. It's too large of a premeditated and accidental disaster precursor.

If they're k12 rated. Most bollards are not k12, especially in cities due to shallow dig depths. Even if the bollard or planter themselves are k12. Normally they're never dug deep with supports because contractors are lazy assholes if you don't stand over their shoulder. And those that are k12 are expensive as shit. I actually work in protective design. That, and I think I'm funny so :P
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Tastes vary, though reliability is also a massive concern.
Onde cheep phone per message and criminals are back. But hosest people are now under constant mass surveilence AND the agency only have metadata anyway because the message was encrypted
Not enough time to do a real comparison, but Uber feels a lot bigger than all of the mid-sized startups which dominated the dot-com landscape. They are a lot bigger than Webvan was (22,000 vs. 3,500 employees) not to mention Netscape (2,500 employees at its peak); Webvan and Netscape were the most famous big dot-com flops.
I think there are definitely systemic risks which could hit the US economy (small recession due to everyone cutting back spending to weather the recession, resulting in poorly profitable zombie firms - many of them retail firms - being unable to service bad corporate debt). It's noteworthy that we've been seeing retail bankruptcies like Sears and Payless in a consumer economy this good - what happens to other retailers when the sentiment turns for the worse? Note that low fed rates won't necessarily keep the cost of servicing debt low, if investors anticipate potential bankruptcies and flee from poorly-rated bonds.

And yes, the big tech companies would certainly see revenues hit hard by such a scenario - but the big tech companies have plenty of cash to weather the storm.
Their algorithm change really killed the recommendation engine for me. I don't mind new content for channels I'm subscribed to. I don't mind similar content to channels I'm subscribed to. I don't like revisiting YouTube after 3, 5, and 10 days later to see the same 3 videos recommended at the top. I don't want to watch a single video of prolific channel and then have their uploads clog my feed.

I want to explore. I want stuff that's familiar, similar and also unrelated that I would potentially like. Their "related" stuff is always so similar that it falls into "more of the same". You used to be able to explore without entering search terms via trending and categories, but the same channels and types of videos dominate those avenues. If you don't like the type of stuff there, you'll spend a lot of time being disappointed for maybe one video that was alright.

It's ok to recommend more of the same, but give me a way to see stuff that isn't the same.
no kidding - anyone truly surprised that their plastic boots sold at a vegan premium are very profitable?
There’s nothing wrong with trying to buy a dip... so long as you know that you’ve left off investing and started gambling instead.
Not related to the app, but I really hate the sliding pages website UI. I almost closed the site because I thought it was broken at first. My problem is that I don't have my browser at full screen and it starts flipping pages before I can get to the bottom of the current page. And its not like I just had a little slit of a browser either, it is 2/3 of my screen down and 95% the width. Although the only reason I don't have it smaller now is because all the websites with fucked up banner ads and popups that don't scroll at all.

But my screen is large, I don't want or need my browser to be at full resolution, it shouldn't be assumed that it will be.
https://scorpiosoftware.net/2019/02/17/windows-10-desktops-v...

It depends what level of the OS you’re talking about, but the clean separation is not so clear.
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I think Bernie and Warren are perfectly capable to work within the constructs of a free market than most people give them credit for. However, that doesn't mean that there shouldn't be transparency involved and if bankers begin manipulating the markets to try to control politics then they should be brought in for a public investigation in front of congress.
> When the yield between the 10-year and 2-year US treasury inverts, a recession is months away.

> Prepare for the inevitable recession. It's not different this time.

Just once can someone put their money where their mouth is? If you are going to say that with such certainty, I expect that you have pulled your money from the market. Perhaps you have even bought a few puts.
Most large video makers these days get pathetic amounts of ad revenue (less than $100 for a video with a few million views) and instead are making a vast amount more on patreon or similar sites.

Its those creators that have the most to gain at an alternate site, the restrictions of youtube are all downsides, and they receive no money directly from it, the only real upside youtube offers is audience reach.
You’re not crazy. The engines are bigger and quieter.
Hemp, yo!

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2017.08.181

Yeah, wood, too.

https://www.wired.com/2017/05/wood-skyscrapers/
For years the simplest heuristic I can find for finding up-and-coming places has been "Where is Starbucks opening new stores?" I assume Lofty's is much more complicated than that, but I'd be curious to see what the overlap is between the Starbucks Strategy (TM) and Lofty AI's.

I do have a few more questions though:

- Also, are you focusing on primary residences, homes as investments (i.e., rentals)? Do you consider apartments, duplexes, or commercial real state?

- Do you have an idea of how long one would have to own these homes for the appreciation to appreciate in a significant enough way for it to be profitable?

- You mention "some of the future profit". How much is that? 1%, 5%, 10%, 50%?
There's a couple reasons it matters. Unauthorized third parties rarely care about representing our brand correctly. When a consumer has a problem with a product they received the first person they blame is the brand, not realizing they bought it from a completely separate entity. The product breaking during shipment, the customer buying at a price just to go back and check days later and see a lower price, the product being expired...All of these things are outside of our control, yet as a brand we take the blame.

In my particular case, there is an "anti-FBA" culture at the company I work for. No one can sell our product for as cheap as we can because we make it. However, without access to FBA, it's much more difficult to have complete control over your pricing on amazon. With complete control over pricing you can ensure that your margins will be better than whatever distributor pricing is. Also the competitiveness of our products on the platform against other brands is directly affected by how much the seller (either us or an unauth)can afford to sell the product to the consumer. If a competing brand sells the same thing for cheaper, they will get more sales and thus more market share.

I say "my particular case" but in reality I know of several CPG companies where the anti-FBA culture exists, even though it is the most advantageous approach to selling on amazon with regards to pricing. I wrote this kind of fast so I hope it all makes sense.
Fair point, though it's also not untirely unsourced. I'd agree to "poorly".
Thanks for the comment. But what i'm trying to do is to figure out a topic for my master's thesis (about automatic speech recognition).
i've been searching for the latest researches about automatic speech recognition (ASR). Lots of work have been using Attention and end-to-end models. But I can't figure out a topic to explore on my master's thesis.
The other question is: better for whom? Ebay is less curated than amazon so sellers have more freedom. Sometimes this freedom results in a worse buyer experience.
Well that was nearly coherent.
But this is an expected consequence of any attempt to reduce demand for farmed cattle. It isn't feasible for consumers to reduce demand for all cattle products in perfect lockstep.

Consider an alternative scenario: demand for beef falls, but demand for leather doesn't. In that case the price of beef would plummet, and stock would pile up and eventually spoil, but the supply of cows continues unabated because of the existing leather demand.

In both the real and hypothetical cases, the reduced demand for one material should result in an increased price for the other material, since the price of producing a cow is independent of the sale price of its byproducts. This would eventually reduce demand of the popular product (to a degree depending on how elastic its demand is), which eventually reduces supply of cattle all on its own, which--in the case of people who already avoid meat but are now additionally avoiding leather, thanks to popularized alternatives--was the original intended objective.

[Disclaimer: I eat meat and am wearing leather right this very moment, but I've been slowly reducing my demand for each for a few years now.]
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First, thanks for leaving a great reply instead of questioning my motives! We need more of that on HN.

I suppose my confusion or perhaps contention would be that it isn't slavery that is America's original sign but rather racism, or perhaps more generically "discrimination" as the definition of "white" is rather fluid over history itself.

> full enfranchisement

Would that be in the sense of removing barriers to voting (simply showing up) or re-enfranchisement of felony convicts? I wrestle with the former, security vs. incidental exclusion. The latter I'm fully in support of, though I don't know about voting while serving time but that is rather driven by a fear of some kind of "voting your way out."

> desegregation of schools.

In what sense? We do not have explicit segregation in schooling and haven't for decades, but people seem to group together along socio-economic lines which furthers the problem.

I know that education is a severe problem, my home state has a "Corridor of Shame"[0] such that entire counties are just academic dumpster fires. I don't know that desegregation would help so much as simply adequately funding and reforming our dysfunctional schools. Unfortunately I don't know how to do that in am appropriate matter, when you run into children who don't care about academics from families that don't care about academics.

[0] - http://www.corridorofshame.com/
Because he was certainly aware of the literature and he was a top notch scholar. Your follow-up questions seem to be implying something, care to spell it out for me?
Are you saying my high school economics professor taught me something without verifying it's authenticity and just relying on social proof?

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<seriously>that was a good reminder though to revisit my cached belief, thanks :)</seriously>
I checked if it's something that's required by tenants law, but from what I could gather nothing like a "tenants right to a washing machine in their house/flat" exists in Germany.

And it's not like the situation is that perfect either, these past years rents have been exploding in most places with any economic development. Government response has been slow to non-existent on the issue.