skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the honesty. When you realize that it isn't the 1% vs the 99% but more like the .1% vs the 1% it all starts to look a little silly doesn't it? Wealthiest people ever to live on earth complaining that other people have more than they do.
Those functions compose into programs that halt (if I read the linked Wiki right). The LC encompasses those programs plus more programs, which cannot be shown to halt.
I think it's a kind of path-dependency in how Anglo-American common law was agglomerated. It was easier to patch in corporations as "legal persons" than to create a parallel designation.
> only AdWords sponsored content appears in Google searches anymore.

Wrong, AdWords sponsored results are promoted (just in a less obvious manner than before), but other websites also appear.
Meanwhile it appears that leather is piling up unused:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-08-09/america-s...

The cows are still being slaughtered for their beef, which appears to be profitable enough for the practice to carry on even if the leather hides are now just dumped on landfills:

"Cattle hides, an obligatory byproduct of beef and dairy consumption, will be around as long as Americans like cheeseburgers, steaks and ice cream. And while dairy producers have been under pressure from declining milk demand and dairy alternatives, the rise of meat substitutes has yet to dent America’s taste for the real thing."

The implication would seem to be that products like these boots might have less environmental benefits than one might think.
Just bringing our duration in line with the rest of the world would be a massive improvement. Star wars and anything from that era should be public domain by now.
Project Mu is mostly about getting the messy parts of the UEFI ecosystem sorted out: Instead of hoping that IBVs ("Independent BIOS Vendors") clean up their act (because, to be frank, they don't), they get ready-to-use components that Microsoft is using itself on the Surface products and provide a certain baseline standard (security, UX, ...).

The difficult part about firmware in general (hardware initialization) is still under lock and wrap though: you'll have to get it from the silicon vendors and link it with the open EDK2/Tianocore (which is the UEFI base) and Mu (which is a toolset to extend that base) components to a full firmware image. In particular, those components aren't distributed as part of EDK2 or Mu.
It really does have a lot do do with field of view. High res satellites fundamentally can't image a very large area (that's how a telescope works). They also usually can't image continuously. (High res means you can't image at the rate you're moving without significant SNR drawbacks - you have to stay pointed the target so that you have a long enough exposure time. You can get around this to some degree, but either way, high-res sats are designed for bursts of targeted imaging.)

You need _way_ more high-res sats than are currently in operation to image the entire land surface of the planet even yearly. So, yes, higher cost, but probably beyond what a company like google could pay. (Think trillions, not billions)
That's my point. I spend at the very least an hour a day watching new content from ~50 channels.

But there is so much out there I could watch if they all got hit by a bus one day.
Comcast rolled out the 250GB cap in 2008. That's nearly half the time that cable internet has even been legal in the US, and the bulk of the time that broadband has been common.
Synthetic materials also make automation easier. I wonder if leather handling is one of the most expensive parts of shoe manufacturing. I've suspected that's why Nike (and probably other companies as well) seem to have fewer and fewer shoes with leather components.
I'm not sure the reduced engagement would move the needle that much. I suspect many of the most loyal fans would reduce their (current and future) engagement with the striking YouTubers' channels rather than YouTube as a whole.

Since the purpose of a strike is fundamentally to prove the employer needs its employees [nearly] as much as the employees need their salary, a strike which proves the opposite would be really self-defeating...
Presumed personality traits aside, there's more to it than ability to strike.

Google makes money from advertisers who are buying screen time with certain viewers.

If multiple high profile creators acted in a coordinated way it absolutely could disrupt the flow of dollars to Google and necessitate fairer policies in order to retain the creators who make them money.
During the dot com bust that was part of the problem. As the startups started dying, it turned out that the big companies had started to rely on them for their profitability.
Obsessed in bashing it? ;)

Really though, the majority of comments I have seen in every Lisp thread is about Lisp not giving you any advantages over the mainstream languages for "real world business apps", a common example mentioned is reddit switching to Python from Lisp. Also that stuff like the language ecosystem is more important.
It's hard to tell if this question comes from a place of genuine curiosity and an overwhelming amount of ignorance, or just trolling.
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I would be okay with that if the $50 discount were automatic, for any month where you stay under 1 TB.

Instead, you pay $80/month, plus a $200 penalty for each additional terabyte. You have to prepay $50/month to avoid the risk of a penalty. Comcast would rather make a bunch of money selling insurance, than put a fair price on data.
To add further clarification, Paul Graham was one of the founders of YC and built Hacker News in a LISP dialect named Arc (See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9270478 for more information).
I thought they EOL'd the free offering?
McCarthy not understanding it at the time
So, somebody with a more rigorous understanding correct me if I'm wrong, but I always thought it was a truism that any advice about the market appearing in print was necessarily useless:

If there is advice (e.g. Buy/Sell when X happens) and there is statistical proof it's a good indicator, then large companies with multibillion portfolios would act on that evidence. At which time their behavior would "correct" for the indicator. At which point there is no value to the layman.
> more cost effective and less environmentally destructive methods

There are few options that are both these things. Which is not an argument to not fund R&D to reach that point, simply that as of right now, precious few things have both these properties. And once you add in the requirement to be able to sustain the power grid, I'm not sure you have any options.

That said, arguing that Big Oil has a strangle hold on politics, while not wrong, is misleading. This simple fact of the matter is that it is the least of many evils right now. Its like salt. Very useful for meat preservation, and the best they had for millennia, though not up to par with modern preservatives. Some day we will have something that is a legitimate contender, and at that point we can go after Big Oil for its influence. But until we have a legitimate contender, taking out Big Oil will only cause problems.
Consumer spending remains strong. . .

From July:

Real GDP grew above market expectations in the second quarter of 2019, according to the advance estimate released this morning from the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). Growth was particularly strong in real consumer spending, which rose 4.3 percent at an annual rate in the second quarter of 2019. This increase is notably higher than the 2.5 percent pace set in the preceding four quarters.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/strong-consumer-spending...

Also, if the unemployment numbers continue at record lows, I would expect consumer spending to remain positive. A lot of the market instability has been due to the shaky trade stuff going on with China.
> If you're lucky you'll get what you pay for with no hassle.

Well, then I've been "lucky" thousands of times over!
VGA was still not common until years after it was introduced, though. My dad wrote and sold office software in that timeframe and most of his clients were still using machines without VGA and monochrome only.

I remember PC users still showing me EGA games into 89 because if how ridiculous it seemed to me that they paid silly money for a machine like that.

AGA definitively came way too late, though.
I heard a few key thinkers predicting a larger recession due to our inability of getting more energy out.

GDP and energy seemed to be correlated so far, as if our growth is directly or indirectly fueled by the cheap labor of machines and automation.

Gas and electricity production reached a peak which can only go down in a finite world. With a constrained energy supply, GDP should go down. At least that's what happened so far since the 1800s.

Germany and UK entered recession the last quarter.
This is potentially an alternative to Coreboot for open source firmware. AFAIK it's used in Microsoft Surface PCs and it looks more consumer-friendly with menus and such. The downside is that it's based on TianoCore which is reported to be very poor quality.
Back in 2008, just after the Lehman collapse had happened and when money-market funds had gone bellow 0 (I think in late October), I predicted that there was a very great chance to have a world war in the next decade because of that ongoing crisis.

Fortunately it looks like I was wrong, but it also looks that “liberal democracy” is on its way out in many former bastions of said democracy. I fear that a new nasty recession right now will throw us out directly into a war, we’re at the 1937-1938 moment when almost all of Europe had gone the wrong way in the previous decade (politically speaking).
I highly doubt anyone who was worried about being followed enough to use such a thing would be 1.) driving themselves and b.) riding/driving in a Tesla.
I was an XNA MVP ... worked on a bunch of community content/articles. Was working on a game towards the end, but then the windows phone era of XNA came in and diverted my attentions, and by the time I'd made more progress on my game the community was winding down :(

Still want to revisit that game idea ... someday
Ooh man this thread will be very interesting.

It would help to get a better idea of your current context with regards to programming. What’s your experience so far? That will help frame the discussion.
> It’s not clear why Facebook was paying to have these messages transcribed, though it seems reasonable that the human transcriptions might be used to improve its AI software’s natural language processing abilities.

It’s not clear? They literally follow up with why Facebook transcribed anonymized recordings. This is Facebook’s (and every other company that builds speech to text) publicly stated reason for doing this.
Why?
Lambda calculus is based on functions. Lisp supports functions. Both use lambda because that's a known notation for functions.

Lambda calculus can be modeled in lisp. But there are millions of things you can build with Lisp that McCarthy might not know or care about.
> what is it about collective action that triggers contempt so quickly and automatically for those attempting to organize?

One part "unions are evil mafia fronts", one part "if you organize you're no 10x $job_description, because otherwise you'd be interested in getting your 10x salary", one part "socialism", one part envy (that people actually try something to improve their situation).
...and wrote a couple of classical common lisp books. He has obviously contributed a lot to HN’s culture.

I personally found out about both reddit and HN by means of deeping further into lisp in the internet, beyond his “ANSI Common Lisp” book which I used in university.
> The internet has turned to garbage.

The ad-supported internet has turned to garbage. The academic and hobbyist internet is fine, and not that much different from the old days. The governmental internet depends a lot on where you are, but .gov.uk is really rather good, and vastly better at what it does than snailmail and Post Offices were in the old days.
You're splitting hairs and I'm not sure what your point is.

He's sane/rational. He has motives for most of his actions from what I've observerd. I'm asking what the motive is behind his initiation and escalation of the trade war with China.

I'm not arguing that it's an intelligent thing to do, or that Trump is intelligent. I'm asking what his motive is. If he was irrational I would concede that perhaps there is no motive because he's disconnected from reality.
Facebook and Google make their money off businesses buying advertising, people rightly see their profits as being very fragile.
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There's lots of relationships whereby the fortunes of one company can be effected by another. For example Tesla and Uber are total dogs snd I could see them imploding. Are there smaller startups that sell services to Tesla and Uber in a significant enough way that they could get hurt too?

Another relationship that has been mentioned before is that of mobile games and google and facebook advertising services. A recession and/or anti-lootbox legislation could harm mobile games, which would reduce ad spend on platforms like facebook/google.
What change if any should someone make if they have money in robo-investing services like wealthfront? Is shifting money to cash or lower risk robo accounts a sensible strategy, or have undesirable consequences crystallizing losses/gains, a somewhat expensive perturbation going against the robo algorithms that you have elected to trust?
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Try writing some larger programs in a modern Lisp.

Lisp causes you to think in different ways. It allows for metaprogramming in ways other languages don't allow. It is endlessly reconfigurable.
>McCarthy not understanding it is surprising.

I think he is commenting on the subtleties of it.

I think many reading here will say they understand it or have studied it in a course but I am not so sure everyone gets the subtle points. Myself I have always puzzled over the difference between what programmers call LC and what seems to be discussed by Church.
Scale.

Some opportunities can't scale to multiple billions in size, which means they persist as available inefficiencies.

So broadly speaking, yes. But specifically, maybe.

Additionally, one of the reasons bonds and yields work they way they do (per my understanding) is that all buyers aren't free. Institutional buyers (e.g. banks) are required by regulation to consider ratings.

So they have to park their large amounts of money somewhere, and they have a limited number of legal choices.
I call this "sociable vs social." I'm regularly out and doing things in public locations where I may end up interacting with people beyond basic greetings/nods/"tall Pike," but that doesn't mean I'm there to socialize so much as to get some undemanding human contact.
- you can make your own domain specific language in Lisp (e.g. imagine that you want to create a custom 'for' statement, or some kind of a new pattern matching operator)

- you can easily write programs that edit themselves
Why is it strange to you that the housing market is also roaring?

Cheaper debt means people take out larger debt to continue buying houses at market rate. Housing supply continues to deplete and people continue to pay a premium as more expensive houses are the only thing on the market. Lending drying up for the non-capital class will deteriorate the housing market.

I think a lot of headlines and people are conflating the negative interest rates with other unrelated signs.
> and an overwhelming amount of ignorance

I'm aware of god awful amounts of present-day adverse impact upon the black community, among others. What I'm not quite understanding is that slavery is the cause as opposed to myriad racist policies or otherwise dysfuntional systems between 1865 and now.
1. Novelty. We get bored easily at our jobs, and Lisp is different (but not Haskell different), so we're naturally pulled towards learning about it.

2. Nostalgia. A lot of people here have enjoyed Lisps for years or even decades (myself included) and we have a natural bias towards preferring Lisp-based blogs or articles or projects, partly in the hopes that something is new in the land of Lisp (it never is).

3. Chain effect. When one topic comes up that's very interesting, people often want to know more about that topic or similar topics. People who want more points are eager to submit related links.

4. Propaganda. Some people have bought into a certain Lisp full-scale, and really want to help spread it in the industry. There's even a full-time job title for this called "evangelist".
It's a difficult calculus...

On one hand, the hope is that you're making the margins slimmer on animal products. On the other hand, as you mentioned, you're buying new (often petroleum-based) materials versus (arguably more renewable) repurposed material.
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I had Vegetarian Shoes boots once, wore them almost daily for 10 years. Solid boots. At the time, they had Doc Martens as well, I was under the impression they had licensed the brand and model.

Here https://www.vegetarian-shoes.co.uk/unisex/airseal_10_eye_boo...
P(recession | inverted yield curve) = P(inverted yield curve | recession) * P(recession) / P(inverted yield curve)
Notably, Comcast does not have bandwidth caps in markets where FIOS or other high speed providers have coverage. These caps are purely a way to capitalize on a monopoly position.
Planet & others are listening to AIS transponder signals from space which I imagine takes out a lot of the need for a bandwidth-heavier computer vision approach. Ships turn off their AIS sometimes when they're doing naughty things, but from what I understand they're usually relatively close to shore when they do that.
Yeah, I think if a substantial group of popular personalities all announced they were moving to a different site, they would be able to move a pretty large audience with them.
> His base really can't put 2 and 2 together. You seem to think it's obvious that tariffs will cause prices to rise, but you seriously underestimate just how stupid these people are.

I don't think they are stupid. But they are gullible and have been brainwashed. Their world view has been warped into something that just is not based in reality anymore ("invasions", "climate change doesn't exist", etc). This is not unlike what happens to people who get suckered into joining a cult...

So when Trump keeps saying that "China pays for the tariffs" - which is an obvious and outright lie because American consumers pay for them, it is a straight up tax on consumption - his base believes it. And somehow they don't - won't - put 2 and 2 together and connect the rising prices with the tariffs, because that would invalidate their worldview.
There are many calculi
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They had a prototype console. Irving Gould nixed it when faced with the costs and risks of starting production coupled with the cost of cartridges of sufficient size for typical Amiga games.
I usually add site:reddit.com or site:news.ycombinator.com etc.
Actually google had a way to search discussion gruops, but they removed this feature as forums don't pay for their adds I suppose.
Huh? Clearly you are clueless about Tesla's financials.

Tesla's gross margin is a piddly 18%. They also need money to build and maintain service centers, super charger networks (all needed because Tesla doesn't have a dealer network or a gas network).

Then there is debt servicing, working capital, maintaining their plants, inflationary effects of labor wage (as their labor pool gain experience). All these are not discretionary R&D.

Tesla is fundamentally unprofitable and Musk suddenly has realized this and hence the major pivot to FSD (which is about 15 years away)
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[1] http://plurrrr.com/
> This seems a very unlikely chain of events!

No, not even remotely. It is a real problem.
The idea of repaying borrowed money never occurs to people. The idea that interest rates might rise and cripple those who owe too much never occurs to people. That seems very short-sighted to me.

But... what if they're right?

Interest rates have been low for a decade. That's pretty unprecedented. What if they're going to stay low for another few decades? Maybe they're actually acting rationally... if they're right that this is going to continue for a long time.

This scares me, because I fear that we're just putting ourselves in a worse and worse position for when things get tighter. But what if it really is different this time? What if they never do get tighter?
I'm not a Lisp programmer, and I probably never will be, but I respect the language and here's why:

As Alan Kay said, Lisp is the "Maxwell’s equations of software" https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1039523

> These were “Maxwell’s Equations of Software!” This is the whole world of programming in a few lines that I can put my hand over.

It's elegant.
Walk through there on your way home from work at 9pm and tell me if you change your mind.
Definitely a large portion of the high-value advertising content, whatever the viewership is overall.
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Citizen sounds like a pretty awful word choice in a country with so many non-citizen immigrants though (and non-immigrants for that matter). It's sound like they're deliberately being excluded.

I used to hate the word consumer too (I don't love it now either) but honestly basing your vote on it seems like a really coarse way to distinguish between good and bad candidates...
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autorotation
Which you can already do with existing small helicopters for rent, general aviation airplanes etc. Flying cars aren't a new threat in this respect.
There's nowhere better to put your money is the issue. That's why equities keep rising.
> democratically elected.

If this were true, he wouldn't be POTUS.

At best, you could say he was "elected according to the rules, procedures and processes of our democratic republic form of government, as defined by our Constitution".

That would be a fairly true statement.

It would also probably be a true statement to say that our Electoral College failed us in their primary purpose, which should be to assure that the POTUS which is elected nominally will serve the interest of all constituents, and not just some of them.

POTUS #43 could be said to have served all the citizens of the USA, even if they didn't agree with his policies; the same certainly cannot be said of this POTUS, not IMHO.
Have you tried it, just a beginner tutorial or something? But if you do, please use an editor that puts paired parens in for you automatically, otherwise there's a risk of thinking that it is painful.
Bollards and concrete planters can stop a tractor-trailer going 60 mph. Dead stop. They are fully passive defenses. And minimum collateral damage.

Anti-air artillery is not a reasonable civilian defense system. It's just silly, not in any way relevant to the discussion at hand, and you know it. Stop trolling and move on.
No worries. Just seemed like a disjunct somewhere and wanted to make sure to clarify how this model works since very few people have direct experience.

He's probably even crankier today :)

For additional context for others, our energy cost (not including other costs) for Monday were $1.24 for 14.4 kWh (88c for .3 kWh during the spike between 1pm and 4pm).

It looks like our Tuesday records showed up between my original post and now. We paid $3.18 for 15 kWh ($2.83 of that between 1-6pm).
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