skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Most shareholders now, in terms of percentage of voting stock ownership, are not individuals but mutual funds, who don't care what the corporation's goals are as long as its stock price and dividends meet targets; and CEOs, even if their share holdings are small as a percentage of the total, can easily get themselves special compensation packages and golden parachutes regardless of whether they improve the corporation's situation or not.

You stopped just short of what I think is the real issue here. Corporations these days are simply “financial paperclip maximizers”: amoral entities that do whatever is profitable, consequences beyond the bottom line be damned. There’s literally an episode of Black Mirror about this.

They “privatize profits and socialize costs,” as the saying goes, and they don’t blink at doing things that may be illegal, because the profit reward is so strong.

This is the kind of thinking that had oil companies suppressing climate change research in the 80s and tobacco companies suppressing lung cancer research in the 40s and 50s. A feel good statement by a couple hundred CEOs isn’t going to do anything about that.
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Another example: how people dress.

It's bizarre that for most employers in the U.S., if you don't dress professionally enough in your interview you won't get a job. Even in jobs where you have a uniform and can't choose your own clothing if you were chosen for the position!

This can cut both ways for folks who gather on Hacker News I think, where for some positions the way to signal you're the type of person who just cares about results is to INTENTIONALLY dress less professionally, weirdly enough. Dressing professionally shouldn't be seen as a negative, either.

And don't get me started on the "firm handshake" people...
“People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
He is correct. I don't know why you are getting downvoted.
That seems a sort of absurd scenario / click bait type story where any given conflict would be far more complex / nuanced.

Was there an assumption that US forces stationed there right now alone could somehow fight a battle and win vs the volume of China's forces in Asia? Seems unlikely.

I recall a US general testifying and noting that if N. Korea chose to cross the DMZ, just based on their sheer volume of men and material would take a great deal of territory in a short period of time. It was not a surprise, it's a known thing.

Even during the cold war I belive most plans expected that if the soviet union chose to move into the rest of Europe, they could do so to some extent.

What happens after that is what would really matter.
> The unmount should force the kernel to truly flush everything and do the physical write.

True, but this doesn't necessarily guarantee that the subsequent read will come from the card and not the cache.

It might as currently implemented; I don't know. But without specific evidence that it does and will continue to do so indefinitely, I wouldn't assume it for verification purposes.

I make the same point again: it's not trivial to ensure that you're actually testing the right thing.
We are actually using MaxMind at the moment, even though we are in the process of building our own GeoDatabase. Our API differs from the services you specified since we offer many more data points like:

- currency data

- timezones data

- user agent data

- crypto data

On top of that, our API is extremely easy to use with two simple endpoints to get IP and ASN insights. Also, we don't apply any data segmentation to our responses.

Last but not least, our prices put us on a league of our own with a massive Free tier allowing up to 250,000 requests per month. More info on: https://smartip.io/#pricing-section
Absence of a thick atmosphere on the terrestrial exoplanet LHS 3844b
I know I'll get downvoted but most of the time in my experience the people aren't actually lazy or underperforming. It's just that their manager doesn't like them. I'm going by what I've seen. TBQH! Usually if people are bored or lazy for too long they quit anyway.
It's possible to produce a self-contained executable with Python, there's multiple solutions for this it's just not a part of the core language.

I agree that the situation isn't perfect in the python world but it's actively being worked on and I think PyOxidizer looks like one of the most interesting recent developments in this space: https://pyoxidizer.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Some other alternatives (depending on your use case, e.g. target platform) are PyInstaller, py2exe, py2app, cx_Freeze, Shiv, PEX (basically tooling for native .pyz), XAR, Nuitka (compiles Python into a native binary), pyninst (creates windows installer), PEP 441 style .pyz (executable python archive, can easily vendor in dependencies). Then there's tools like fpm if you want to create packages for deb, rpm, FreeBSD, macOS .pkg, paceman, tar-archives, etc.

I've used some of these in enterprise settings building rich GUI-applications being distributed to end users who have no idea of what Python is and to whom underlying technology choices are invisible.
I clicked expecting an article about the Cordwainer Smith story.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scanners_Live_in_Vain
Northallerton to Leeds, work at undisclosed.
Even that spectrum connection is garbage because the upload will only be 2 or 3 mbps, barely enough for one FaceTime call. Anything short of symmetric fiber is a sham in this day and age.
Very playful and focused. The only issue I have is with the preview image.

The image shows islands of colors isolated by big white space. Most color combinations look good in this context. When two colored shapes touch each others, then things get tricky. Eyes can pick out subtle lightning clues, like darker colors moving toward purplish hues.

Maybe add another image that shows overlapping colored shapes?
Do you want every American to benefit from your corporation? Spread >50% of shares (with voting rights) to every American, and make sure they have an efficient way to pool their votes, and are represented on the board.

Want your corporation to be environmentally friendly? Give a significant amount of shares (again, with voting rights) to an environmental NGO.

Yes, that means giving up control, but it will work.
> I do see some women who don't own dogs, and will say stuff in there about how much she loves them

That's the scenario I was referring to. For potential matches that already have pets of some kind, I usually see that they ask that the other person be OK with dogs/cats, which is very reasonable compared to "you must also have pets".
Ah, what it is like to be a white person.
China’s path to AI domination has a problem: brain drain
Does the 10hrs / day of actual working time described in the post seem exesive to anyone else? Half this time would typically be a very productive day for me and much more usually leads to a very unproductive following day.
It's not what they're using, but Davinci Resolve also does chroma-key, as well as pretty much anything else in v16. It's also free!
The ratio requirements are a red herring. If your ISP says you get a certain bandwidth, it is on them to provide the appropriate pipes to get to where their customers want to go. How can the ISP on the other side of Comcast be responsible for maintaining ratios if Comcast's customers are the ones that are requesting the data?
Balls in Android's court to deliver some kind of p2p connectivity that works beyond Android2android. Can't happen soon enough. Stop playing with yourself & start doing real computing, Android.
The guy also liked Microsoft's ecosystem (despite coding for a Linux backend) and drove a Chinese-made SUV. I'm comfortable writing off the `switch` pattern as another one of his idiosyncrasies. It also annoyed everyone who came across his code, just as his political views irked people outside of keyboard-mashing time.
I found this page: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/201907/supplemental/pa... which shows the global land and sea temperatures for the ten hottest years and how July 2019 compares to them. According to this chart, July is not the hottest month or even the hottest July, so the claim that July is the hottest month on record must be talking only about global land temperatures. I wish they would have put this in context instead of trying for a click-bait type headline.
People who quote "premature optimization is etc." never provide the full quote. The full quote has a significant degree of highly important nuance.

> "Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts at efficiency actually have a strong negative impact when debugging and maintenance are considered. We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%."

"Premature optimization is the root of all evil" is incomplete without the surrounding context, and people unfortunately take it to mean "never worry about how efficient your code is," which is not at all what Knuth intended.
If there's a standard for this new thing, apple can stuff it.
I write C++ for a living but feel out of the loop. Do people still select C++ for new projects? Seems a waste when so many people have put effort into replacing it with something modern. I still learn dark corners and pitfalls almost weekly. It also feels hard to tell when something is going to be a performance hit.
When I pay for a carrier, I want to know what I should be able to count on, and what I can't count on.

I can't up vote this enough. I think false advertising really needs to be clamped down on across the board, but when it's something I understand the nuances of it really gets to me.

Why do companies find it so difficult to just say what it is they are selling in clear concise language, without being purposely misleading, or hiding things in fine print?
For companies there is competition. If a company is significantly more corrupt than its competitors, then it may not be competitive (unless it has some other significant advantage) and perhaps will go bankrupt. That is another reason why monopolies and oligopolies are bad (as this anti-corruption mechanism does not work for them).

Although it is in principle possible to have multiple competing unions, it is often forbidden (either by law or union contract) and many companies are anyways small enough market.
I agree that operational policy is important, but you're not going to get that (and you don't want it, necessarily) from the Business Roundtable. Rather, you'd want each company to execute on that kind of policy and share experiences.

It is easy to be skeptical here (and I am), but I think it would be folly to disregard the attempt as mere public relations fodder and instead see this as a starting point and continue to follow-up to ensure they're meeting their stated goals. If it's clear they're not, then happily disregard :)
or could it be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street ?
Most people don't get paid to post opinions on the internet, or any kind of public forum.
The US Army is developing AI missiles that find their own targets
I imagine it as a spectrum. One union has all sorts of power. Two or three unions have less, but still have way way more bargaining power than one union per worker, which we have today. There should be a balance.
On the other hand Vietnam could be summarised as black spends 5 pawns a rook and a knight to take out 1 pawn.

It isn't necessarily a question of who would win a fight to the death, and more a question of how big a bloody nose the US would accept. My guess is China would be willing to accept a much bigger bloody nose, who reaches their limit first?

Of course theres a fine balance here. Vietnam was never an existential threat to the US, could China be/ portrayed to be? That obviously changes the calculation.
Why do you want more HN Karma points?
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I post a comment but I realise when I log out my comment didnt show for other users, why? Is ycombinator have bugs on their system? Thanks
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That's a good insight. Never dealt with any medical stuff, but I dealt with paperwork in the military as it was going through a (long painful) transition to electronic documents back in the '00s.

And I don't think it's just that society is litigous, but that databases actually (mostly?) work in terms of enforcing the rules you give them.

One anecdote of how things changed was that you used to be able to arrive on post, and if you didn't like your orders, talk to a sergeant major of another unit and quietly get your orders changed, which no doubt drove PERSCOM crazy.

When things were done with paper, there was a certain degree of flexibility in the rules that gave people some amount of local autonomy. When those rules are enforced by a computer, there's much less possibility of someone being able to override the rules when it makes sense.

Normal human social interaction tends to create unwritten rules that are simply more flexible and realistic than the rules we're willing or able to write down.
That's a very important point, and i should have mentioned it in my comment. In 100 years the poor countries will be much richer, and we have opportunity to help improve their situation sooner which in turn would help everyone by making markets larger and increasing the number of people working on science. In some cases helping this countries directly will have more effect than wasting money on biofuel subsidies. Bjørn Lomborg have many interesting talks/writings about this issue.
Why are some of the Web's ugliest sites also the most popular? (2017)
Considering at least Coinbase is US-based, you may want/need to look into compliance with the guidance[1]. The tl;dr is that you're supposed to mark to market for each trade and denominate it in USD; if you're in the US and haven't been keeping records, I'd strongly consider retaining a tax professional for advice/service if you get one of these. I assume that the IRS isn't going to take your lack of records very seriously or kindly.

[1]https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe...
Newspaper sites are a lot of things, but too fast isn't one of them.
What distinction are you making between the two?
> wouldn't mind working hard to start something new from scratch.

Look for Problems to Solve. Problems are Goldmines. >https://www.diamandis.com/blog/problems-are-goldmines
All of the companies involved are seeking to make a profit. For example, Netflix and Youtube are seeking to lower their cost of bandwidth, thus increasing their profits.
It heavily depends on the goals of conversation, imo. If someone tells me he wants to practice his Russian, I have no problem with that. If I'm talking to a girl in a romantic setting, and she wants me to speak Russian to her, regardless of her understanding of it, sure. But if the goal is to actually exchange information, and their English is more suitable, then I don't see why they would be offended.

Also, there are a couple of nuances:

- sometimes people assume that if I'm Russian I always prefer speaking in Russian. I don't see why I shouldn't let them know when it is to the contrary.

- even if for some reason they want me to speak Russian when the goal of the conversation would be better served by using English, how should I speak to them? The way I normally speak to my Russian friends, or artificially slowing down my speech and choosing simple phrases? Which one is more offensive?

p.s. I see your point though (i.e. not appreciating the effort). I've heard it's common in some parts of France, where people don't want to you speak French if you don't speak it perfectly. Agreed on the "asshole'iness" of that :)
You think only White people have food allergies?

That's... well, it's racist, but it's so utterly bizarre I can't even get angry.
I think this is also known as the fallacy of the fungible engineer / myth of the interchangeable programmer.
Sure, the difference is that Tesla is aggressively expanding (sales have been increasing around 100% per year for the past few years) while Jaguar has its niche and is happy to stay there. The I-PACE can sell significantly fewer units than the Model Y (and almost certainly will) while still being successful. And conversely, Tesla sales matching Jaguar’s in the long term would spell doom for Tesla.
losing $1000 hurts a huge amount of people more than a billionaire losing a billion does.

How many billionaires are homeless after their ventures implode?
Interesting, thanks for answering. Is this object standpoint of yours from 3rd-party studies of response-time metrics, or anecdotal data from yourself?

Also, how substantial are these differences? Is it worth (in your opinion) being MitM'd by Kaspersky to realize the supposed benefits?
How can Netflix claim to sell streaming video without paying for adequate bandwidth to stream that video?
And Amiga had no memory protection which means that it would be very unsafe to use Internet with it.
That said BeOS was quite responsive and had memory protection, but still inadequate security for modern security attacks.
From the research article:

> A 1-mg/L increase in MUFSG was associated with a 4.49-point lower IQ score (95% CI, −8.38 to −0.60) in boys,

> but there was no statistically significant association with IQ scores in girls (B = 2.40; 95% CI, −2.53 to 7.33).

> A 1-mg higher daily intake of fluoride among pregnant women was associated with a 3.66 lower IQ score (95% CI, −7.16 to −0.14) in boys and girls.

I'm not sure about the notation, but the results look pretty close to include the null hypothesis, where the change is 0.
> Just because you work in a 'good' part of an industry does not mean everyone does.

Right, but the article in question is arguing:

> A union isn’t just right for Vox Media, but for everyone

And I'm questioning if it really is. I, for one, don't want yet another democratic system I need to invest time and thought into in order for it to be effective. Local, state, federal government + HOA is enough already.

I'm happy with the way the president of past companies I've worked for ran things and I'm glad I didn't have to research union candidates, run for union positions, and/or vote on union issues in my already limited free time.
Yes, I literally believe only white people have allergies.
I'm in Canada and the post you're replying to is pretty spot on in my experience.

There are no kids outside, except on halloween. To be fair, there aren't many adults outside either which I think is a part of the problem.

I have a 4 year old nephew. Once I took him to a park near where he lives. There were only 4 other kids there. In the time we were there, the cops showed up to shoe away 2 boys who were 10-12 years old. All they had been doing was sitting there chatting. If you can't even use a public park for its intended purpose anymore, why would you even try going outside as a kid?
I deal with biology researchers trying to install various analysis programs. Python has caused me some pain recently. Its not easy, some use python 2.7 some packages use python 3.0. Many use different environments (pyenv/conda..).
I ended up with a separate environment for each package..

To be fair java based software install isn't much better.

R is oddly a standout, in ease of installing packages. (Except the one time it didn't work, but in this case it wasn't much worse than anything else).

In general software distribution could be made much better.
The report they are citing (https://www.ussc.edu.au/analysis/averting-crisis-american-st... if you didn't see the link) is much more interesting. Though it doesn't seem to cite a source or give evidence for the claim that the missiles could overwhelm US forces within hours, and there doesn't seem to be any elaboration about that figure. Honestly I don't think they are taking into account ballistic missile defense systems in place, the rate of fire the PLA can sustain, the risk of escalation (depending on the scenario, some of the countries these bases reside in could be neutral in the conflict), and the fact that the PLA will likely want to hold on to their longer-range DF-26 missiles until they get the opportunity to take down a carrier.
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By the time reserve US forces arrive in theatre, China has troops on Taiwan. How well situated is the US to do a cross-Pacific amphibious invasion of Taiwan? How likely is the US political system to be willing to take on that project?
...and yet dog alerts (encapsulating handler biases) alone are still used to establish probable cause in the US to strip people of their rights to privacy, and has resulted in jail for thousands of people who do not deserve it.
I see where you're going with the grocery store produce analogy, but it's not a useful analogy for how markets work.

1. Those grocery store items (let's say tomatoes) are priced equally to each other, by decision of the supermarket. This is not true of securities, which are individually traded and priced separately, which allow differences to be priced in.

2. The market for tomatoes at your local grocery store is geographically constrained, limiting the number of participants. This is not true of publicly traded stocks that nearly anyone in the world can trade.

3. The amount of money that can be put to use finding efficiencies at your local market is small. In global markets, the payoff is in the billions, and so many people are scouring for similar efficiencies - and in the process, eliminating them.

4. The tomato market has high transaction costs. What are you going to do when you find a better tomato for the same price? Sell it to someone else for a higher price? No. The arbitrage opportunity for tomatoes doesn't exist.

Efficient markets is not a thesis that is required to be true of all markets by some sort of law. They are a consequence of liquid markets that are large and traded by many well-funded participants. The analogy must have the same factors to be valid.
It's a nice statement but as long as shareholders can sue corporations for not maximizing value regardless of externalities, the purpose of a corporation is defined de facto rather than de jure.

Joel Bakan's book The Corporation (and the documentary of the same name) lay out this case well.
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Yes, I agree that treating most documentation as project history is the practical way to go.

Another thing that helps is to write good commit messages giving the business context for a change. When code is reviewed, the commit messages should be reviewed as well. If they don't agree then that's a problem.
Their last Uber investment is under water... wouldn't be surprised if the $2b in WeWork stock they purchased is crushed as well at IPO time -- but at least they didn't follow through with the $8b they initially promised to Adam.
We long ago passed those boundaries.

It's good for an individual to sit in air-conditioned comfort while burning fossil fuels to move 1.5 tons of vehicle. It is very unpleasant for the public to walk, run, cycle, scoot or even just stand among dangerous, noxious and congested vehicles
It does, thought i’d never imagined the browser did any interpolation at all !

Neat trick, thanks for the share ;)
Drinking fluoridated water during pregnancy may lower IQ in sons