skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You know what you're buying. You're buying a share of the earnings/monetary value of the company, and are valuing it based on your belief in zuck as a leader. You are not buying any control in the company, and that's pruiced in. I'm sure shares would be worth more if zuck didn't control the company and you could gain control by buying shares.
I mean, it depends on ratio of usage.... this is kinda like optimizations in programming. It might be the case that as you optimize one thing, a new thing becomes the bottleneck... but it also might be the case that the one, current, bottleneck is such an outlier that it is STILL the bottleneck, no matter how much you optimize.

It could be the case that leather usage is such a small fraction compared to beef that even if you reduce beef consumption 90%, you still have excess cow hides.

I don't know the actual numbers, but your scenario won't always be the case is my point.
As I mentioned in a sister comment, it's far more nuanced than that. NVIDIA makes the better card for the money, so they get my hardware sales. That's where it ends, however, as I do not partake in their ridiculous licensing scheme. If and when AMD finally catches up, I have no problem making the switch. That is voting with my wallet.
No, they get fined, limited in where and how they can act, broken up, dissolved.

Cells make no sense for the business entity, however justice definitely does.

When we regain sanity and quit insisting corporations are people, and recognize them as the constructs and devices they are, then these discussions can make more sense.
Vegans are in there primarily for the ethics (climate or health reasons usually are secondary). In one way veganism is a boycott, not to pay for products that clearly require animal to be harmed. That leather piles up shows it's becoming less in demand, thus less valuable, thus animal farming becomes less profitable. Vegans rejoice.
The problem is if a plastic bag ends up in the ocean it never really breaks down or degrades. Turtles tend to eat them since they look like jellyfish, and this causes enormous knock-on problems when turtles start dying from eating too much plastic.

Turtles could eat paper bags all day and probably be fine.

They may not be the #1 contributor to the Pacific Garbage Patch, but they're a component of it.
Commercial solar plants in Texas take advantage of the market by aligning themselves a few degrees off the optimum for total power, so that they can produce better in the heavier demand/higher spot market rate time periods in the evening.

A few percentage points lower in total mWh produced but more profit.
PowerPoint is best and easiest graphic editing tool that I have come across.

I routinely used to recommend that (before online tools like Canva) to design challenged when they wanted to learn "Photoshop" for creating simple graphics.
If a career grifter manages to skate free while leaving a heap of rubble behind, we should surely praise them for their ingenuity at extracting money from their workers, suppliers, investors, or customers. What mastery!
Fundamentally I think the problem is that these platforms are not neutral, when YouTube's algorithm hoists your video to the front page they are "manipulating" the system.

Personally, I would not be surprised to see Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act challenged on this notion and it as the basis for other challenges.

Internet providers just serve bits, any effort to "manipulate" those bits based on who is providing them is looked at with great aversion (net neutrality), tech platforms have done a good job so far distancing what they do to other times of platforms but I believe we are all awakening to the power that these obtuse algorithms have on us.
Re: your link, I agree that we would do well to find better ways to produce non-animal-sourced clothing that doesn't produce the number of pollutants some of our current options do.

But I take issue with this quote:

> The holy grail of sustainability is a closed-loop system. “With leather, nature has created its own sort of closed-loop system,” says Hustvedt. “The carcass of an animal can decay in the ground and nurture plants that are eaten by the next generation of animal.”

Yes, and that's great for the environment if you look past all of the environmental harm created by raising the animals needed for that leather. But CO2 and methane production, deforestation, runoff from factory farms... all of these consequences take a serious toll on the environment.

There are a lot of bad choices for clothing - cotton is notorious for requiring a lot of pesticides to grow as well. And that many clothes are made in sweatshops in poorer countries, not uncommonly made with child labor. And it's all shipped across the ocean using fossil fuels.

It doesn't have to be this way though.
Off by an order of magnitude on ad revenue, more like several thousand $ per million views.
I feel like OP's quote was saying that the "seller" is beholden to amazon because it's 20% of their business. Amazon realizes this and then puts the proverbial squeeze on them and forces them to lower their prices. What I was saying was we were nowhere near 20% and amazon still tried to squeeze us to a point not being profitable. So what I'm contesting is that amazon is smart about when they try and get more money out of you. They are trying to do it constantly on the 1p platform regardless of the size of your involvement with them.
Data leak exposes unchangeable biometric data of over 1M people
Happy Navajo Code Talkers Day
Isn't that also why economists think excessive inflation is bad? Because it undermines the "time value of money"?

So to avoid inflation, instead of printing money, we lower interest rates.

But once interest rates go below 0, that also undermines the time value of money.

Oops.
> This reminds me of a time I needed a blower fan for my refrigerator and Amazon’s recommended one for next day delivery seemed suspiciously underpriced. I ordered it despite my trepidation that the item was going to be made out of silly putty by a Chinese pirate. Upon receipt, I discovered the serial number was filed off and I rested assured that it was a quality OEM but probably stolen. The motor is still working great which is more than one can say for Amazon.

Did you notify Amazon or any authorities about this? Would be curious to hear the response.
I wonder if this means that amateurs who casually make videos are going to be considered Scabs?
Project Mu, like EDK2/Tianocore lacks everything coreboot has - and vice-versa: coreboot doesn't care too much about OS-side or user interfaces but delegates that to something we call "payload".
EDK2/Tianocore on the other hand (and Mu, by extension) is extremely weak in the actual hardware initialization department because they only care about OS-side and user interface matters.
If you dig a lot, you'll find one memory init driver there (for the now-dead Quark SoC).

Project Mu is an attempt to make something reasonable out of EDK2, and I commend them for it (EDK2 _really_ needs an effort like this).

But to get a useful (UEFI style) firmware image without signing NDAs (and not the ordinary NDA, the more secret ones) you'll need to combine Project Mu with... coreboot.
Data Mining Home Water Usage; Your Water Meter Knows You a Bit Too Well
Project Veritas has broken laws on several occasions, and also seems to attempt to entrap people. They tried to sell a Washington Post reporter a story about sexual impropriety from Roy Moore and then planned on outing the WaPo story as a hoax. I'd question literally anything from them as they go out of their way to entrap and falsify things up to and including breaking laws. Instead, WaPo taped the interview and did a series of stories on Project Veritas, and the things they're doing to try to smear the left.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/a-woman-approa...
> What they should do is collectively take their content somewhere else.

This will have almost no effect. YouTube does not have a quantity problem. They have enough content that every YouTube user could watch YouTube 24 hours a day for the rest of their lives and never see the same video twice. They wouldn't even have to go deep into their back catalog.

Worse, viewers have relatively little attachment to any particular content producer. They obviously love some YouTube celebrities, but if a given artist disappeared, people would get over it quickly. It's not, like, say books where people really want access to the last Harry Potter book.
Your original post used the term "rational" when I read it, which is usually used to describe a library in which numbers are represented as arbitrary-length integers, expanded as needed to maintain accuracy. Those tend to explode pretty quickly in real usage as the arbitrary-length integers grow quickly.

In this post you say "fixed-length fractions", but I don't know exactly what that is: https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=fixed%2Dlength%20fract... Some of my natural expansions I can see how they'd have algorithmic complexity equal to floats, but they're going to have similar (not identical, but similar) pathological cases.

Based on what you sketch in your post, if you mean, two fields of fixed-length integers, that's got all kinds of problems that will be a non-starter; redundant representations means the equality operator becomes more complicated than a bitwise comparison involving factoring (IEEE floating point has some issues here but they're at least designed to be amenable to hardware, this factoring thing is going to be a problem at base silicon levels), plus redundant representations means you're wasting valuable bit patterns, you can't represent anything bigger than a MAX_NUM / 1 so you're going to pay a lot for larger numbers, etc., and you still have the problem that your operations won't be closed and you'll be approximating anyhow; you're going to end up with most of floating point's problems anyhow.

I know there are alternatives to floating point, such as "universal coding": https://insidehpc.com/2018/05/universal-coding-reals-alterna... They would also have similar complexity to floats, but move the pathological behaviors around. (The question in terms of trying to replace floats isn't whether you can get rid of the pathological behaviors; you can't, just by the nature of the beast. But nothing says you can't hide the pathological behaviors under the carpet, under the couch, in the corner of the room, instead of having it pretty close to sitting in the middle of the commonly-traveled path.)
"Koch Brothers and Robert Mercer funded Project Veritas"
https://observer.com/2017/12/koch-brothers-and-robert-mercer...

"Project Veritas’ YouTube sting was deeply misleading — and successful
James O’Keefe’s stunt playbook keeps giving conservative lawmakers ammunition, even if the evidence is all phony"

https://www.theverge.com/interface/2019/6/27/18760463/projec...
Easy is not always appropriate or best.

That patch in has had grave consequences.
Insiders at Google are losing their jobs to tell us something. Pretty big news.
I think management has gone full-soulless-corporation, but individual engineers still carry ideals and in today's job market they carry enough bargaining power to affect actual change. We should all take note.
Google is an evil corporation that invades your privacy, monopolized internet and meddles in the democratic process. You can down vote me, but all these statements are true.
It’s due to the government not being able to compete on salary due to federal salary schedule limitations.

The joke is they can easily pay a contractor 150$/hour though. But can’t pay an employee hourly wage of 100$/hour
But was he top notch back then? He's most well known for "creating" Lisp. And I put that in quotes because he never meant for anyone to implement it on a real machine.
I mean, he obviously was aware of lambda-calculus as a thing that existed (since he used lambda notation for functions!), but might not have bothered to study it very closely. Nowadays the lambda calculus is considered very elegant, but in the 1940s I think it was considered quite weird and not very well known. (I forget who, but I think some famous logician complained that people did not read his thesis because it used the lambda-calculus formalism, or was adviced not to use it for that reason, or something like that.)

I think, actually the main reason it became so popular is exactly because it was implemented in Lisp/Scheme...
Would be nice if I could view these in the browser instead of downloading an app or downloading the document itself.
Isn't "vegan leather" just plastic? Doesn't pumping all that oil, a non-renewable resource, negate the ethics of not killing a cow, which is a renewable resoure?

Or is this one of those cases where people latch onto one side of an issue, and can't see the other?
> “ Here, some argue that, to achieve at best a slight incremental improvement in security, it is worth imposing a massive cost on society in the form of degraded safety. This is untenable.“

I’d suggest if they really want to push this line of reasoning, then we should also abolish the 2nd amendment. It is there in order to revolt against the government. But it’s place also degrades the security of the country, as evidenced by the constant shooting and mass shootings that occur in American life.

Encryption is much the same way. It protects individuals against government spying, whatever their situation may be. And these products exist not just for the US, but are made by Americans for export with the American ideal of individual liberty in mind. If we remove that, it’ll get moved for China, Burma, Russia, etc.

It’s quite a price to pay for society.
This is not true. Anecdotally, Comcast has caps in the Seattle area, where they have multiple competitors, including Frontier FIOS.
Microsoft: Cloud gaming is “inevitable” but “years” from mainstream
I thought you where the one that drilled the piano and made the electrical connections and software to make it work.

(I hope it's a flat screen or a projection onto the surface, not a million of leds in a million of holes in a real piano.)
> So there are a two issues here, 1) whether or not it was McCarthy's intention to realize the Lambda Calculus in LISP, and 2) whether or not LISP is such a realization. Or at least some kind of close realization.

This would fit in with Graham's suggestion that McCarthy more "discovered" Lisp than "invented" it.
Project Veritas? Seriously? Are these from that Qanon and conspiracy guy who is claiming he was unfairly fired?
according to the site, you keep 80% of the profit, so their cut is 20%.
Not for 90 minutes per year.
Beyond at least seems like it's a company with a strong path to profitability during a major shift in the food market towards meat alternatives. IDK what wework is doing...
I think you get the effect wrong.

Notice that these are fixed rate loans:

>0-year deal at -0.5%, while another Danish bank, Nordea, says it will begin offering 20-year fixed-rate deals at 0% and a 30-year mortgage at 0.5%.

Increasing inflation would help those who have taken fixed rate mortgage loan because the real value of their loan will decrease faster.
Formula 1's underdogs struggle with the technical challenges of the sport
Do you have resource recommendations for learning about the Taiwan/ROC-vs-PRC situation? My father's side is ROC Taiwanese, and I'm looking for more objective perspectives on the conflict.
That's exactly my point. You'll pay out the ass because the service is that valuable to you and the alternatives -- using public internet, cellular, satellite, becoming your own ISP, paying another provider the build-out costs to run a line to your house, or just going without -- are worse.

I mean it sucks when a company has so much leverage over you because you need what they're selling but you're not entitled to cheap high speed internet. You would have a case if you had no means to get internet access at all but that really isn't the case here.

Like this thread is hilarious because a bunch of hackers whose lives are on the internet and are deriving probably thousands of dollars of value from their high speed internet connection are mad when ISPs realize this and charge more appropriately.
How can you fully defend/understand your own beliefs if you don't fully understand your opponents beliefs?

It's pretty arrogant to assume there is only one way to look at things - your way.
Really cool visualization!

Talking about visualizing Earth. Does anyone know of alternative visualizations/projections of Earth (other than globes and maps)?

For example, what would it look like if we could image Earth, entirely, from pole to pole, continuously, like a panoramic picture? (imagine the result as an impossibly wide picture that starts with one pole on the left and ends with the opposite pole on the right)

Thank you.
Redefine: their earning from capital investments alone are enough to put them in the top 10% of the population.
what ever happened to the HN rule against middlebrow contrarian responses? maybe at least not having them almost always be the top reply?
I tried it years ago, but I think I had too little experience to understand the use case back then. I hadn't ever done any functional programming at that point so it kind of went over my head.

I still hate Haskell. But maybe I would like Lisp? A lot of people here seem to love it so that's why I made this thread :)
We (Automattic) already run our own ads business: https://wordads.co/
It is of course true that arguments should be evaluated on their own merits. However, we rarely have time to do that, and so we trust authoritative thinkers based on their record of producing good reasoning. The commenter who quoted aristotle invoked his authority to lend credibility to the quoted statement. You would have discarded this statement unless it was shown as a quote of airstotle. The next commenter reduced the authority of Aristotle by calling his record of good reasoning into question.

When appeal to authority is invoked, it is perfectly reasonable to question the validity of said authority.
Plastic particles falling out of sky with snow in Arctic
Truth or not, this is valuable information. I understand skepticism of Veritas but let people make up their own minds before removing it. Why flag?

Edit: I really want these documents to be false, I do.
In the United States, you can resell any product you legally acquired from any source, you do not need the permission of the original producer/brand owner.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine
eBay is too high barrier for me. For Amazon- the fact that shipping is fast and cheap/free and returns are easy outweighs any other seller for me.

My ebay thought process, which makes searching a chore..

- Returns will probably be a hassle so I really better want it.
- Is it buy it now or do I have to bid?
- Exorbitant shipping price or it's "freight" with no price
- Shipping may require signature and I have to be at home
- Checking seller reputation
- Checking seller location
See my edit above. Tuesday's power bill was $14.65 and of that $10 was during a three hour period where usage was less than 1 kwh per hour.
Modern lisps do realize the lambda calculus, but this was not immediate. In particular, in order to exactly match the lambda-calculus beta-reduction rule, you need to use lexical rather than dynamic scope, which did not really become popular until Scheme in the 1970s.
Show HN: Music to Help You Focus. Musical Pomodoro
C-Suite in the hot seat – Execs' responsibility regarding digital security
WRT to the votes he did get, it's pretty obvious- people dumber than he is, who are apparently blind to seeing his completely obvious con artist act and voting for him, that's how.
There's no option to view these on Linux -- no application and no browswer supports their NSAPI plugins.
Yamaha (and probably others) sell pianos with light up displays and keys to help people learn to play piano. Probably most snobs will tell you it’s a terrible way to learn and you’re not going to sound any good playing the piano like guitar hero. It’s a $5k toy to try to get someone interested in thinking about learning to play.
I see people flagging this and accurately questioning project veritas’ agenda.

My question is -
Are these documents genuine? Isn’t that that what matters?
I acknowledge whole-heartedly that this is a difficult topic, but I really don't think it's that off-topic. The articles available so far focus a lot on the economic incentives involved in slavery and how the American economy was boosted because of it. The observation that those same incentives are still sustaining slavery and that the economy is still boosted by it seems relevant to me.
In many markets they offer you a $50/mo upsell for unlimited data usage.
Yes, actually MusicBrainz and AcousticBrainz are part of MetaBrainz (see https://metabrainz.org/projects)
There is even a ListenBrainz project :)
Why Broadcom is spending big bucks for aging enterprise software companies
Mitch McConnell and the Republicans have a non-nuanced view that taxes == bad. It seems to lead to a lot of motivated cognition.
Unfortunately, there's still a time lag for this to take effect. I recently moved across town from somewhere where Comcast was my only option (and I had gigabit) to a neighborhood where I had the option between Comcast gigabit and another gigabit fiber provider. The latter had no data cap, free install, free gifted equipment, symmetric gigabit (as opposed to Comcast's 80 Mb/s upload), no contract, and was $25/month cheaper (with a lifetime price lock).

I called Comcast to complain and try and avoid paying the ETF (it was at $180 because I signed a 2 year contract) with some kind of benefit: remove my data cap, drop my rate, something. They wouldn't budge an inch. Told me I was already getting a promotional price from them and that the data cap (which I'd already hit 2 out of their 3 grace overages) was non-negotiable.

Switched to the alternative provider, and I can't be happier. Looking forward to Comcast dropping their rates and/or data cap, but I'm hoping that I never have to be their customer ever again.
Down-voted for what? Honesty? Truth? Or wasting time stating the obvious? God bless you HN.
It's not big news. The guy is a Qanon conspiracy nut.
Exactly, very creepy that this keeps getting flagged. Super interesting news about a company we wall work with. These are google employees and I want to hear what they have to say, and talk about it with all of you, my unbiased HN friends.
What is the second bullet point referring to?
The feds make ISPs spend money on rural areas which aren't really profitable; that's likely a part of it. But there's no competition because there are a limited number of lines available; they can't tear up the street for every one that wants to.
Jair Bolsonaro: 'Poop every other day' to protect the environment
But the content creators don’t use Youtube for engagement (except for some cases where video comments are used). The problem is that they aren’t sysadmins, and they have no idea if any change would lead to a long-term improvement (which won’t be hard since Google takes 45% (?) of ad revenues).
In other research, scientists found that approx. 100 microplastic particles fall on a dinner plate during the course of a meal. If that's a long meal (1h) and a very large dinner plate (0.25 m^2), it gives us a lowball estimated rate of 10 000 per square meter per day, every day inside the house where you live.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S026974911...
Fortunately, CenturyLink explicitly exempts their gigabit service from the cap. Hoping that never changes, but it's a good step.
Yes, it maybe be very very hard to sport disinformation but that's still my failure and the failure of other politician that fail to convince me.

Not the failure of democracy.
Citation needed, and by that I mean his tax returns and financial statements.

The public at large does not know how much Trump is worth because he won't disclose much of anything.
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Ok - the messenger is bad. But are these documents real?
The man being interviewed does not work with Google?