skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I now doubt IQ, values, beliefs are even a factor.

A relation of mine went from studying marine biology to full on fundie. Creationism, climate denial, etc. Huge Trump supporter too, of course.

Can any one explain to me how a one time scientist now doubts evolution?
The "real" N-word is also similar to or identical to today's equivalents in Germanic languages (e.g. German, Dutch).
> short term, flexible office space more

This is more appealing to businesses who don't want large capital expenditures, which could or could not be related to a recession. It's more related to market trends and access to a lot of cheap capital.
The problem is your neighbourhood soccer moms have no idea what 1TB is, they just see that ISP1 costs $80 and ISP2 costs $130. You'd need all the ISPs to switch to this "discount" scheme all at once, which won't happen.

Basically every service provider in every industry uses the same "extra fees" model over "discount". From mobility networks to drycleaners to restaurants. Customers just aren't used to seeing things the other way around, and will immediately balk at the sight of higher initial prices.
For what it's worth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-vW9ByuXTE
It's not out of date. It merely references a specific case. But, it has little bearing on other cases, those detailed in the documentary.
No one pays that. This is the realtime spot price, which is only paid by retailers who have an "oh shit" problem with their advanced purchasing. (I should note, there are actually retailers who will sell you spot priced power, should that be your desire).

The vast, vast majority of power is purchased years (via PPAs) to days ahead of time at much more reasonable and stable prices.
America has robbed it's own population blind for the last 200 years, all cultural works have been sucked up into an international criminal oligarchy.

Software is being stolen en mass and coded fraudulently to remove your basic rights and freedoms to own what you buy because the masses are technology illiterate.

All apps on mobile spy on you and are controlled centrally, and stupid gacha games are defrauding a tiny minority and they don't even get acopy of the game they are spending hundreds of dollars gambling for virtual characters in.

We live in a lawless world, that's reality.
It's been obvious for years Google is moving in this direction of favoring "big brands". I mean I think they even said it out-loud about a decade ago when they made a Google search algorithm update.

Then the whole thing with AMP and them "partnering with big publishers" to show you carousels of big brand content at the top of the search page also happened.

And the same thing with YouTube happened the moment Google decided to turn it into "web TV", also many years ago.

There's also the trend of top of all these other trends of Google trying to do everything by itself, which the European Commission noticed a while ago and started investigating it in multiple antitrust lawsuits. But I fear even several multi-billion dollar fines won't be enough to actually stop Google from going down this path even more.
Thanks. I'm also toying with the idea that it means that realizing it's about values could possibly engender greater respect for the other's conclusions. Because at least then the person isn't "wrong".

Although maybe that's only true if you find their values tolerable. Otherwise I suppose the advantage is in knowing you'll have to start strategizing if the conclusions from their values are incompatible with yours.

Either way it does seem valuable to know the other person's complete reasoning, just trying to quantify as many reasons why as possible.
Because his batting average, while not perfect, is still pretty good.
And "deep state" brings out the lunatics.
Apologies, I read too quickly and thought that the GP was referring to focus as well as exposure. The rest still applies, however.
> Anyone from China who given the chance does not surrender is fair game.

Given what chance? from whom? Surrender to whom? It seems there's some authority that ppl have to comply with, and they should be "slaughtered" if not? This doesn't sound like democracy at all.

> If a party you have no prior social contract with endevours to threaten your existence you have every right to threaten theirs. Such people are undeserving of civility.

Who is threatening your existence? Is the victim in the video threatening anyone?
Why a monolithic data warehouse is the right choice for most organizations
But I thought corporations are people too?
In my opinion, as a computational researcher, Python was not really meant to be a Scientific Computing Programming environment. It was a big historical mistake to go in that direction. In the near future, hopefully, it will be replaced, by a better alternative. and believe me, for most people who do not speak highly of Fortran, when it comes to developing a new language for scientific computing, they pretty-much end up reinventing Fortran.
> WeWork's locations are wonderful

I strongly disagree. The ones I've been to are shoddily built and badly designed. Door handles break after a few months. There are gaps in walls between offices. And bathrooms have sinks that are borderline unusable because light fixtures are in the way. Sure, everything is new, so it feels kinda fresh and nice at a glance, but I can't imagine the spaces aging well. Or, they'll have to spend money overhauling the interiors every few years.

And that doesn't even touch on their branding and design choices, which, to me at least, don't even begin make up for the cheapo low-quality interiors.
Not irrelevant. One is a monopolist trying to force down free market prices by fiat. The other is a free market yearning to force down prices by monopolists.
> the vast majority of increase in overnight temps is due to sprawl and concrete/asphalt acting as heat batteries

That is exactly my recollection of what the story covered.
Craig Latta did something very similar in software for visualising the object memory of a running Smalltalk: https://thiscontext.com/a-detailed-description-of-spoons-obj...

"When I got the current [Smalltalk image] down to about 450 kilobytes, I realized that I could render it as a reasonably-sized picture (within 800 by 600 pixels). I was interested in doing this mostly because I’d never seen a graphical representation of the Smalltalk object memory before. As I proceeded, I found it enabled some pretty useful things."

There's a video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Uh8v7IzXJk) and even a 3D visualization of the object graph.
>Part math book, part online event, Punk Mathematics is an introduction to mathematical thinking for people who question everything.

And for my first question (cribbing from Russell)

Well, what about people who question "question everything"?
> I know almost no professionals who shoot on manual mode outside of studio settings

Absolute BS. You have not come across enough photographers. A computer is NEVER better than a human at evaluating light, unless you are looking at a uniform 18% grey card.

There is a child comment about manual vs auto focus. I would say even for manual focus, I have consistently beaten at focus accuracy with a split prism on my Hasselblad 501cm (a camera that does not even have a battery inside) than with a 30 something point focus of the latest Canon 1DX Mark something that I rented when shooting at sub 1.4 aperture openings.

> Leave manual mode for the studio.

Actually, a studio is the best place where auto mode will have consistent (and probably correct) exposures. Every. Single. Time. :)

Now if we talk about speed, yes, a computer is no doubt better at it.
Yep, and SDN is also possible if you get switches that support things like being an openvswitch-slave or OpenFlow/NetFlow/whateverflow switch. You basically replace the control plane.

That's why a lot of engineering is based around getting data planes working, and ignoring most of the control plane that runs on the application processor. Even if you only get that to control the ASICs and run a simple REST server to accept data plane control commands it's already enough to turn a switch into something useful forever.
I absolutely fucking love trance, though my current favourite is downtempo stuff. It is the most friendly large-scale group event genre. I think it's just that the way it all started keeps it going. Like how software just managed to coincidentally have the open-source movement early on and that shaped what it would look like. I think having PLUR get in so early really made it look like what it is today.

Also, I'm not wholly unconvinced that maybe more LSD-use would make us all so much better as people.
It's the revenge of the nerds. Who needs those self-important people with guitars?
I’m afraid that’s pretty close to my initial reaction too. When I read the headline, there was an implied suffix of “so we can more effectively intrude on your privacy”.

It’s a great shame. There are clearly some very talented people at Facebook. But all that work is paid for by a dystopian business model that has moved effortlessly and insidiously from connecting people for benign social good (or at least relatively so) to one that facilitates erosion of privacy and social manipulation on a global scale. As a software engineer I’m deeply troubled that the craft I’ve loved since my teens is being wielded to such negative societal consequence.
Couldn't agree more about action shots, they're my favorite!
It's important to note that the Liberia outbreak was a strain with a particularly high survival rate as well as asymptomatic carriers. This is part of the reason that it spread while most outbreaks tended to burn themselves out due to a much higher mortality rate (80-90% is not uncommon).
Lincoln's Second Inaugural is good on how insufficient this is.
That’s so counterintuitive once you get used to all company returns (both privately and publicly held) being public information in Sweden.

Here’s Spotify’s complete financial history from its inception for example:

https://www.allabolag.se/5567037485/spotify-ab
Maybe this is just me speaking as someone who shoots with a camera that doesn't have a dial with the P, M, etc. letters on it, but I wouldn't consider auto-ISO a manual mode (and I'd use it in precisely the sort of situation you describe).

I can't watch the video right now, though, and maybe it really does mean "the dial setting with the M", no more and no less, when it says "manual mode". But I think that is a bit silly. Lots of cameras have different controls.
Oh you've been bitten by the Elektron bug. I have 6 myself.
Our customers have 2 options. They can choose to sell, at which point, the 20% is based on gross profit realized.

Or they can choose to buy us out. At which point the 20% is based on the "on paper appreciation" calculated by using the rate of change for the median home price in their neighborhood.

If they use the latter option, they of course, will not have to pay the fees associated with a sale.

We are also looking into whether we can partner with listing agents, who will share some of the commission with us, which we will then refund back to our customer to offset their fees.
Seems pretty steady:

https://i.imgur.com/wF6PCnU.png

2019 is not over yet, so maybe it's a little higher this year.

This is only for "parcelhuse", which wikipedia defines as: "Single-family detached home".
> We provide our members with flexible access to beautiful spaces, a culture of inclusivity ...

Honest question,

Does that mean anyone may come in and work in, or otherwise use, the spaces?
Direct graphical mapping of the Smalltalk object memory
It is because the gas is not worth much right now. Cheaper to burn it off. Since most of the demand is for oil and not natural gas, it makes sense right now to just burn it. If natural gas doubled or tripled in price then you would quickly see the natural gas being brought to market. Also Natural gas is heavily pipeline constrained commodity so it isn't easy to transport like oil is. No one wants a natural gas pipeline in their backyard.
For small values of "thriving". "Its vegan line, first launched in 2011, rose to 5% of its global footwear sales in its fiscal year ended March 31."
That seems like quite a stretch: neither of those is a global statement, simply an accurate summary of how the culture in one particular country developed. Most countries with universal healthcare are capitalist to a large degree so it seems pretty clear that an explanation for the difference between, say, the U.S. and Canada is going to have a different answer than “capitalism!”.
My favorite pufferfish just keeps getting better. I remember my brother installing OpenBSD m68k on an LC II when I was younger. I should install it on a vm and take it for a spin!
Leather, as a secondary product, is subject to big price swings, depending on whether there's more demand for leather than meat.
Or anyone who uses a VPN for work. ...
It will be interesting to see if that is in fact how it plays out.

A lot of the unions that are tied to trying to make progress in tech related fields are not at all like the screen actors guild. They often operate in a way where benefits are tied to simple things like seniority or prescribed certifications and etc.
> data caps (which make sense given the limited actual frequency bandwidth available for radio in free space)

Time -- or better, demand-- based rates would make a lot more sense than caps for that purpose.

If you note most cellular data caps ignore the providers own services or various partners (like youtube). I'm not saying that the cellular rate structure has nothing to do with the limitations of the last mile physical medium, but it would be an error to assume it has too much to do with it either.
Second point sounds like a nightmare
The favorite pair of shoes I ever owned in my life were a pair of Doc oxfords with light-brown hemp uppers, I tried to locate a pair years later only to find out that they were a limited production run in the early 90s. A new run would make a good marketing pairing with the pleathers; they both have that granola/crunchy feel, and pot's gone mainstream now. I'd love to own a pair again.
I Published My First Alexa Skill – Profession Finder
My even more unscientific observation (n = 2) - I live near two Walmarts, one of which is in a more upscale area than the other. The one in the upscale area is the better Walmart in terms of cleanliness, keeping things in stock, etc.
Go check out the ads on some non-mainstream or adult sites. They're the epitome of This is why we use ad blockers.
Hey thank you for your reply.

"My point is that Youtubers can start their own sites and go elsewhere if they get tired of a large company controlling their content."

I don't fault people who try that, nor do I fault anyone who tries to stay and fight. In many ways, Google "owns the well". It makes sense to me that the economics of the situation for some makes staying and organizing the easier course of action. Taking on Youtube as a competitor.. building a website, attracting advertisers, etc. Especially doing all this while making cat videos, now for no money, seems like a tough play.

You'd have to have some systemic luxuries, and lots of grit to take on the risk of such a feat. I wish anyone who tries the best of luck.

"Unionization usually means they will now need to be paid a 'fair wage' and benefits..and your relationship changes to more of an employee..with more restrictions on what you can do."

You're already restricted to whatever rules of the road Google sets, by fiat. 99.999% of Content creators who work with google have ZERO negotiating power right now. They can, and do change the rules at anytime. Companies can submit fraudulent DMCA takedowns depriving these small business owners their revenue during its most important period. You can appeal, but it doesn't undo the damage to your revenue even if you win.

These are dirty tricks! Those affected should maximize their voice to do something about it, in my opinion.

"This is is kind of crazy when you think about it: Independent business is now considered an 'alternative viewpoint' here on HN..a site dedicated to hackers, startups, and the tech business."

It's alternative to put 'independent business' contingent on employees never organizing. Businesses can make partnerships, why not employees?

"My guess is that the majority here work for large companies and really don't care about (or have even tried) running a business/startup."

I've worked for a few startups. We weren't aggrieved anywhere close enough to consider Unionization. We were all well paid, treated well, and close enough to management that they listened to concerns as we brought them up.

I wish I had some stats on how many startups are brought low by unions, I bet it's a vanishingly small number. If you consider unions to be a response to be corrective feedback from aggrieved employees, some of these hypothetical blown up startups probably should have gone under.

Honestly, I've only ever associated unions as responses against sufficiently-large-to-be-dehumanizing companies. Maybe it is a problem? I'm open to the possibility even though I would be surprised.

"Everything isn't deserving of a 'revolution'."

Those rebels decide what deserves rebellion, power dynamics decide if they succeed, I bet most don't. Treat your people better to make it harder for them to justify the risks of unionizing, imo.

Thanks for the chat!
After reading through the thread I'll give it a go too.

Tolerance: Hardly Easy
I own an xps 15. It gets mega hot and can't run anything without having to slow down performance because it is too hot. Whatever the optimal battery solution is XPS15 is not doing a good job of it.
In what way is Latin powerful, compared to other languages? Or elegant?

I've had to learn a little Latin, because it's the root of half the English language, and I would not describe it this way at all. It's overly complex and arbitrary. The https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_spelling_and_pronunciati... article is full of tables of exceptions. Over its lifetime, they not only couldn't agree on pronunciation, but whether it had lower-case letters, whether to put spaces between words, or which direction to write it.

C is Latin. It's revered because of its age and the the works written in it. It was in the right place at the right time. Half the world who came after tried to make their own improved version, and those improved versions are the languages that are actually popular today.

What spoken language is powerful and elegant? When I was in college, a friend was taking a language (I think it was Swahili but don't quote me on that) that was so simple students learned all of the grammar in the first semester. Everything after that was just learning vocabulary and getting comfortable with it. Turkish has a completely 1:1 mapping of letters to sounds, and perfectly regular conjugation. Korean also has an extremely consistent writing system. Any of those seem more Lisp-like to me than Latin.
I think the major advertisers, that is those that bring in lots of money, generally want family friendly, uncontroversial, middle of the road. They don't want war, violence, crime, extreme politics, mental illness etc associated with their brand. Google is likely just making the decision that niches aren't worth the (potential, legal) trouble.
Maybe we should use wood instead of plastic.
The bond yield curve inversion mentioned in the article has led every recession in the last 70 years by 12-24 months. It's an indicator, because we don't know the future, but it's historically accurate to a T. On some level it is self fulfilling but the evidence of past crashes is there too.

Auto loan defaults are at a high, as is student and household debt (higher than 2007). Those auto loans are often bundled almost exactly like junk mortgages in 2007 leading to a similar investment risk. More americans live paycheck to paycheck than ever before possibly increasing the number needing support should unemployment jump back up to 12%, where it was when Obama took over in 2009. It won't be as bad but the federal government under Trump/GOP has cut taxes and drastically pumped up the deficit putting us in a worse position to weather a recession of any length. Cuts to social programs will also extend a recession or at least increase it's effects as people will still need food and affordable housing. The number on social security will increase while less will be employed to pay in and as SS was used as a piggy bank for GOP spending decades ago that system could go from failing in a few decades to gone.

It could be 6-12 months of job losses and stock market falls like the .com bubble but it could quickly complicate as the government may be slow or unable to respond in traditional ways due to lack of funding, lack of staffing (an existing issue in the current admin), lack of experience of the current staffing, and continued conservative/GOP attacks on social programs and minority groups most likely to be hit hard by any recession.

It's like Jenga. In 2007 a core lower block was pulled and a lot of pieces went with it but we had the leverage federally to hold some in place or put back others like auto manufacturers. This time, the piece may be much higher up but automakers are already suffering under tariffs and the federal government won't have the funding capacity or push by the GOP led government to react in time and, like midwest farmers, that could be the end of an era for some industries.
>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 was referring to its use in the context of an election, which is often limited to the citizenry (in any democracy).

Also, where I live, public figures who use the word "citizen" to refer to ordinary people often don't use it in the literal sense of the word when discussing public-interest matters. They're often using it to emphasize the responsibilities and rights that all people have in relation to the broader society. In other words, where I live it's not often used in an exclusionary xenophobic way, but instead in an inclusive common-purpose way that emphasizes our shared humanity. The xenophobes here tend to prefer "taxpayer".
private companies pay for the pipelines.
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I agree with you, while it is called "Manual" exposure mode it is absolutely an auto-exposure mode when using auto-ISO. The thing was that GP specifically mentioned pros using aperture priority:

> "I know almost no professionals who shoot on manual mode...Instead, shoot on aperture mode...Use ISO setting to adjust further for light..."
When I bought my Docs in 2015 I paid a few extra dollars for the ones made in the UK.

At the time, Vegan was an option, but why skimp on the real thing?
Best rational approximation of the second kind (as defined in the text higher up on the page). Partly a joke, as there's already a natural idea of “best rational approximations” (the first kind), and these (the second kind) are even better than that.
50 years ago they were saying the same thing about "shockingly vulgar." Maybe culture will go in a direction you don't support, and you will end up as one of the nay-saying voices lending a counter-cultural air to the stupidadaists.
A discussion with veritas is guaranteed to feature lies, making it not a useful discussion.
I can vouch, this mix is great for coding!
I think it falls into the same category as 'not at all sustainable' and maybe vegan. But I have a backpack who's outer skin is made from recycled bicycle inner-tubes sewn together to make a watertight surface. After years it's worn almost like leather, though I suspect eventually it will break down into a powder like an old rubber band.

It start off as shiny but eventually developed minute scratches and turned quite matte and more plyable. It does not, of course, have that earthy leather smell and will forever smell somewhat of rubber inner-tubes.

Sadly it seems like they no longer make the backpack I own but here is an example (https://www.alchemygoods.com/collections/upcycled-backpacks-...)