skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If economics were the main driver, you'd see a strong correlation between crime rates and the economy. But by and large you do not: http://pricetheory.uchicago.edu/levitt/Papers/LevittUndersta....

> Based on these estimates, the observed 2 percentage point decline in the U.S unemployment rate between 1991 and 2001 can explain an estimated 2 percent decline in property crime (out of an observed drop of almost 30 percent), but no change in violent crime or homicide. The sharp increases in crime in the 1960s—a decade of strong economic growth—further corroborate the weak link between macroeconomics and crime.

Violent crime rates started trending up in the 1960s, more than doubling by 1971: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/U0YlrTTCYi550Z4py1MNVenNt-...

Meanwhile, the economy was quite strong until 1969, with unemployment below 4%: https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL33069.pdf (p. 5). Poverty rates went down about 40% from 1960-1970, and then were stable until about 1980. Over that same period, violent crime tripled. From 1982 to 1990, poverty went down by 15% and unemployment dropped in half, but violent crime increased 36% to historical peaks.
I think what's amazing about the Peppa Pig franchise is how it appeals to both sexes and even parents. The only thing lacking before was the toy line.
I have this other idea, force VC's to point their firehose of cash elsewhere for a change.
You still haven't named a single Racket "darling" that needs to be killed off, nor suggested any changes to make it "stupider".

Yes, DrRacket is the developer-suggested editor, but VS Code, Atom, Emacs, Vim, and Sublime Text all have Racket integration [1][2][3]. More options for tooling is Not A Problem. In addition, you didn't even point out any problems you had with DrRacket in particular.

Interoperability is completely irrelevant to any problems of the language being "too smart" - FFI is a near-universally-desired feature that is only not present because the devs haven't gotten around to it yet.

Racket does not rely on monads, conceptually or otherwise, to do anything critical. What "very powerful but hard to understand features" are you referring to?

[1] https://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/other-editors.html
[2] https://atom.io/packages/language-racket
[3] https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=karyfoun...
How much are they paying you?
Specifically with LTT, I love how they make it incredibly obvious when something is leading to or coming out of a sponsorship spot. As soon as I hear the trademark pause after the opening, doubletapping the screen to skip 10 seconds or pressing right arrow a couple times on your PC just skips right through the sponsor spot and you don't have to see anything.
Why would you want to work at a place that does such bs in the first place?
Do that with your mba buddies and define okrs or whatnot but please let us just build awesome stuff. Thats my okr at least.
Dont need some manager breathing down my neck that the estimate was wrong
> Something like Mickey Mouse is probably past the end of its lifetime now

Is that true? I only know a few toddlers but they love Mickey
> Censor them, and prevent them from recruiting more. Wipe them off of Youtube, Facebook, and Twitter. Ban hate-speech.

Again, not possible unless you repeal the first amendment. Not really possible even if you do, since TOR exists.

> And take down these communities as they pop up. Its like weeding, you gotta keep knocking it down. I don't expect perfection. But make it a hassle for them to organize

Do you realize that part of the reason why these people hate immigrants is because they think immigrants hate them and want to get rid of them? Referring to them as "weeds" that need to be purged is playing straight into their narrative.

Knock down their communities and they will see it as proof of their persecution, and use this censorship to appeal to more peole. Deprive them of the ability to use words, and they will use violence.

White nationalism has been around for over a century. The attacks only started to accelerate when they started getting deplatformed. Make no mistake, this approach has been making them more violent and it will make them even more violent if it continues.
I think the solution is transforming a segment of incarceration into medical help, or expanding medical conservatorship.

If you smell like crap and can't sustain a life because of drug addictions or mental illness, and your behavior causes problems for society, you need to be helped, and maybe against your will.

The vast majority of homeless are actually not visible and look like and act like normal people. They often get out of being homeless in a few years. It's the chronic homeless who need help, might always need help, that ruin the public space for everyone else.
The company's a lot more than just Peppa Pig, though.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/may/24/peppa-pig-on-t...

> The character is owned by Entertainment One, which makes and distributes TV and films including Grey’s Anatomy, Spotlight and The Hunger Games. The company said Peppa pulled in more than $1.1bn in retail sales, adding that it struck 500 new or renewed deals with TV and product licensing partners in the year to the end of March.
It's almost like Google wants to track and deliver advertising.

Almost like they have some financial interest in determining user behavior so they can deliver more targeted ads. Almost like they are an adware company.

Nah, can't be that. That would be like a conspiracy or something......
Thinking that everything is about you and your diesel F-250 that you genuinely need for work is the very definition of narcissism. I am willingly to guess, however, that a very large number of people I saw on the way to work here in the 'burbs this morning did not require a two ton wheelchair to get to their place of employment.
Love the product through and through, my only annoyance is "live tail" and log lines in general show up from the top scrolling down, aka the opposite of how regular logs scroll.
As noted below, the political Left worldwide has decried the sanctions on Iran, Venezuela, North Korea (and Syria too!) as imperialism aimed at advancing American companies' economic interests.
> What's wrong with being hit on (assuming that it's not sexual harrassment)?

Regardless of the intent of the pursuer, it (sometimes) makes people uncomfortable. I believe that people deserve to be able to grocery shop without having to worry about letting someone down easy or dealing with someone who gets aggressive when rejected.
It is hard to imagine what it feels like to be hit on all the time, even if it is sometimes wanted.
From Page 59

> Furthermore, our dollar-based gross retention rate, based on a cohort of all of our customers, has been in the low-to-mid 90% range as of the end of each of our last eight quarters.

> A further indication of the propensity of our customer relationships to expand over time is our dollar-based net retention rate, which compares our ARR from the same set of customers in one period, relative to the year-ago period. As of June 30, 2018 and 2019, our dollar-based net retention rate was 146%, and as of December 31, 2017 and 2018, it was 141% and 151%, respectively. We calculate dollar-based net retention rate as of a period end by starting with the ARR from the cohort of all customers as of 12 months prior to such period-end, or the Prior Period ARR.
> Seattle Police ignore just about everything except active shooters.

I've been away from Seattle for a while, so excuse me if it's changed. But I still remember quite well in 2010 when Seattle police gunned down a native american for crossing the street downtown, I think it was off of Howell. That guy used to ask me and my wife for change. His big crime was making a very young officer, I believe a recent arrival from the eastern part of the state, uncomfortable due to his skin color. Shot dead, in the back.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_John_T._Williams
NYC has a right to shelter law. They also have enforcement of basic public space issues like camping and being in parks overnight, or petty street crime.

Those two things together are a good starting point for discussion.
Once again big media companies are just making up new rights for themselves. The idea that the properly licensed spoken word version of a published work does not intrinsically include the text is laughable. What's next? Kindle books are infringing on copyright because they reformat the text of the book into a version that fits the user's screen size and preferred font? I mean why not?

And I suppose YouTube is infringing on copyrighted videos when it adds machine-translated CCs, right?

Modern copyright is indistinguishable from rent-seeking.
Mickey Mouse is anything but past the end of its lifetime. He and his associated characters are refreshed often. Mickey and the Roadster Racers is a relatively new show and quite popular with my own child and those of our friends, and we're far from the over the top "Disney people".
I know that a lot of activity on Shopify is from ambitious but deluded people setting up dropshipping businesses. Shopify is just selling picks and shovels to a lot of prospectors in a particularly unfruitful gold rush. I'm wondering whether they'll see a contraction as the enthusiasm wears off.
I try to view political discussions as helping to spread information and confront one's own biases. Most people don't seem to though. I've had people that I agree with politically on a subject yell and curse at me because I don't believe every bullshit "fact" they sling my way.
Well, Google only changed when they reached two orders of magnitude the size of Goretex, so maybe the answer is that Gore just didn't get big enough.
What does that have to do with revenue vs profit?
Ridiculous effort to help avoid answering an honest question.
I don't have data to back this up, but I wouldn't be surprised if someone who gets married today is more likely to meet their husband / wife online. There are a few reasons for this.

- Lower risk of looking bad. Date didn't go bad? No worries.. none of your friends have to find out it was your fault.

- Less pressure from family and friends to pair up with someone. They'll only find out when you're ready.

- Fewer couples meet at work - there are many reasons for this, and some may even argue that this is for the better. But, this does mean that more people will meet online.

- Fewer couples meet at church. There just aren't as many church goers in Western countries as before. Again, there are a few reasons for this.. but the result is that more people end up online.

- People move more than ever. And it becomes more difficult to meet someone as we get older (no school to be a common connection), and one day you just want to meet your next relationship. So you get right down to business: get an online dating account.

- More choices to find that perfect someone online.
I agree the content is actually funny in that reddit tread. I wonder how good it can become with a really large good database. I read in some article of OpenAI a dataset gets better by for example replace names by pronouns.
In the pre-internet days, there were matchmaking services that utilized video tapes and classified ads. Current online dating firms are the spiritual descendants of those services. It’s reasonable to differentiate between those methods and meeting someone in a more organic way, say on a message board dedicated to a mutual interest.
BOE's Carney Urges Libra-Like Reserve Currency to End Dollar Dominance
My parents have one and you can feel it all over the house. Works great if a little loud.
It's a good question; I may not have a satisfactory answer. There is something uncontrollable about the political. It always stands in relation to the rest of humanity, and we can't control or necessarily even predict what they will decide. Whereas, even if I take inspiration from other humans whom I treat as ethical exemplars, my sense of ethics comes ultimately from myself.

Whether one sees a distinction between these two concepts may align with one's position on the spectrum between individualist and authoritarian. Or maybe not, I really don't know...
Thanks may take you up on that after running some new tests. It was years ago we had performance issues (approx 3-4), so will see if time has healed all wounds.
This is silly. Evil people get away with hiding their true nature all the time. Should everyone who associated with Epstein before his true nature was revealed quit their jobs and live out the rest of their lives as penitent ascetics?
Homelessness/drug use has indeed become a problem in Boston over the last few years - see [1]Methadone Mile and the problems in the [2]Common.

[1]https://apps.bostonglobe.com/graphics/2016/07/methadone-mile...

[2]https://www.bostonherald.com/2019/08/21/boston-common-jewel-...
> Something like Mickey Mouse is probably past the end

Anecdotally, that's not true in my house. My daughter loves Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.
You dropped this:
https://longurlmaker.com/
What typically works for me is just pencil and paper. I have a notebook that I use to log notes for each business day of the week. If I'm having trouble figuring out what I was working on during the previous day, I simply look at the previous day's notes.

Writing notes helps commit things to memory better for me too. Also, using paper to write notes is less of a distraction than using an electronic medium to write notes in this day and age.
I said in the later comment that the Economist is in no position to judge. Can I be surprised that they made the judgement? Or my surprise has to be only about whether the safety concern is real or not?

Let me make it crystal clear: I didn't necessarily believe that pilot protests / speech is a safety concern but I disagree at the use of "absurdly" in that sentence, because personally I think the Economist has no expertise to judge.
I feel like Google did this to themselves. They had the adpocalypse, so creators had to resort to patreon and sponsorships, devaluing the paid version of YouTube. Why pay to avoid ads when the ads are now in the videos? Then Google puts 2 ads in front of some videos. Now people are writing tools to block out the in video sponsorships. If there hadn't been an adpocalypse we wouldn't have patreon begging, in video VPN commercials, etc.
I don't get it at all. In my model, Shopify spends 75% of Gross Profit on sales to simply maintain existing customer levels. It doesn't seem like customers are very sticky, so they constantly have to pay huge amounts for sales to get new customers.

So, what's the best case scenario? They go from $800m in revenue now to $5bn? Even if they don't increase R&D, that means they're profiting $500m a year. That's an 80 P/E for what I consider to be a very optimistic 6x revenue growth extrapolation. Is there some other huge business (like Facebook's untapped user data in 2012) that isn't making itself known in their financials?
SF cuts to long-term mental health beds at Zuckerberg SF General prompt protest
I'm probably not going to use this extension, I largely watch YouTube on my Chromecast, but I pay for YouTube Premium already so that I don't get ads, so it's a little annoying that the creators are getting paid from my subscription revenue and still putting ads in their content.
Note that "meeting online" includes things like social networks, games and chats, along with actual online dating. In 2017, 39% of new couples met met online. Online dating itself only accounted for about 24% of all new couples.

https://twitter.com/dkthomp/status/1149701645070155776
Point of order: Does the US president have authority to "order" US companies to move out of China?

(My instincts scream: no. At least not by tweeting...)
Then differentiate! My point is "online dating" is a non-sensical way to differentiate Tinder from www.MutualInterestForums.com. Maybe use "algorithmic dating" as a term? And even then, the algorithm is also often informed by your list of friends.

Also, "organic" doesn't exactly describe much of what used to be traditional dating, either. Your parents setting you up isn't organic.
Keep in mind it has becoming controversial to say that the world #1 women tennis player, Serena Williams, would be rank #700 in the men's circuit:

https://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/breaking/ct-john-mcenr...

This is the world we live in.

EDIT: added link
I suspect if this happens, Apple products will be more expensive in France...
SmileDirectClub: Tooth-Straightening Startup Runs into Resistance
I agree, after living in NYC my jaw did drop when I got to Seattle. I found Seattle to be incredibly clean, open, and welcoming – far less dingy and polluted than where I lived in Manhattan. Green everywhere. Never felt unsafe or taken advantage of. Eventually I moved from NYC to Seattle, and I don't think I'd ever move back.

Since I've been here, over the past 8-ish years, the homeless problem hasn't (in my opinion) become much more of a problem so much as it's become much more of a political issue. It's hard for me to tell if drug use and violence are actually up, or if reporting is up. When I visited in 2011, we were looking at an apartment that was listed on 1st Ave in Pioneer Square. We were charmed by the tree-lined street and the quaint shops leading from the Fairmont downtown toward Pioneer Square, but when we turned toward Occidental Sq (maybe 8 or 9am) we were suddenly in a mass of transient/homeless peoples waking up on the cobblestone. There were dozens of people, rolling up sleeping backs, loading backpacks, congregating. This was before the food trucks and the Weyerhauser building and the tied down tables and chairs and open-air ping pong tables displaced them, and even though it was jarring it also felt humane in a weird way that there was a place, out of the way, where they could go and be undisturbed. Pioneer Square also, of course, is where most of the homeless help centers are located (clinics, food banks, shelters).

But as the city has grown denser and real estate developers continue to squeeze every ounce of oxygen out of the city, these people have nowhere to go so they are forced out of the margins and into everyone else's line of sight and that's really the problem. In NYC it's not such a big deal, because NYC is already acclimated to this density that the homeless problem there is simply ignored. The indifference I witnessed toward the homeless in NYC was crazy to me when I moved there at first from the 'burbs... people walking around a guy masturbating on the sidewalk as they hopped out of their cabs, moaning about the delays in the subway when a homeless person was killed in a subway tunnel or soiled a car in the middle of summer. If only all of the U.S. cities could just "look past" these people instead of focusing so much on what a drag it is to see someone begging for change on my way to have bottomless mimosas.
In that case, does it need to be a property of the class to play the "Toot toot" wav file instead of the "Honk honk" wav file? Or is that a property of the object. Distinct classes make sense when they have distinct behaviors, in this case they have the same behavior (play a sound) but with a different effect (tooting or honking). Make it a parameter to the class constructor.

Would you make distinct classes based on the amount of damage creatures could inflict on the PC? Or would you make a parameterized class that allows the amount of damage to be changed?
I too worry about this general attitude. Not only is flirting fun, it’s built in to our species. It adds a lot of spice to life. If you don’t know how to flirt without “hitting on” someone and making them feel uncomfortable then you have to up your game. I have no desire to live an algorithmic life.
That bucket can fill in a day and click off the machine sometimes.
Google doesn't like sponsorships, they don't get a % cut.
Personally, using apps diluted the spark of dating for me so I stopped using them. The most intense part of "mating" for me are the initial stages of attraction, trying to suss out whether or not the opposite party is attracted to you and reading the signs, that and flirting can generate a great high because there is such risk.

At the end of the day once the app sets you up you'll have to flirt anyway to generate attraction -- but if you've ever had a spontaneous flirtatious interaction with someone you're attracted to you know what I mean.
Shopify grew revenue by 50% in Q2, eBay by 2%.
It is (in theory) capable of transmitting the entire quantum state.

It's the star trek transporter version of teleportation for quantum mechanical systems.
I'm asking if buying something on eBay technically means paying eBay (revenue) that they then pay out to the seller in a way that it wouldn't with Shopify's Stripe integration.

OP didn't say anything about profit.
That is really impressive revenue growth for a SaaS company that is roughly breaking even. Most SaaS companies growing that fast are operating at a substantial loss.
Judging by the comments in this thread & the way the media is writing headlines this makes it sound like Hasbro is buying Peppa / a one-off cartoon studio for $4b

When in fact what Hasbro is actually buying is Entertainment One (EO) which is a massive media conglomerate . (1)

EO acquires stakes and licensing rights in dozens of properties, including the studio behind Peppa that they paid ~$210m for in 2015 (2)

For Hasbro this acquisition lines them up with a licensing rich catalog to push out their wares and open new worldwide markets.

Beyond that EO is a:

- 50 year old company
- Generates >$1b in revenue / annually
- Thousands of employees
- Hundreds of entertainment properties with more than 80,000 hours of film and television content and approximately 40,000 music tracks.
- Mini-disney model of robust acquisition and then licensing / merchandising

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entertainment_One (1)

https://www.crunchbase.com/acquisition/entertainment-one-acq... (2)
Yea, or if you are supporting them on patreon. It is like CGP Grey's "adblock absolution"
PH Post-Launch Reflection
The problem with the "abstract" keyword is it's more normative than descriptive. If there's not an actual useful abstraction involved, and/or if the abstract class doesn't actually represent a more abstracted generalization of a mental category, it's just code re-use.
eBay has also been around for how long? That is not really a proper comparison.
There are many episodes and the target audience continually renews as they land in the age range for the show. Plenty Hasbro can do to improve product lines I guess, but there's also the opportunity for more theme parks, there's only one in the UK (quite wonderful, full of toddlers mobbing the main characters).
My real issue is they started as a non-profit supposedly developing AI for the benefit of humanity, then quickly became a for-profit with technology so dangerous only they are allowed to wield it.

If they just said "we are developing AI because AI is awesome" I would have a lot more respect for them than I currently do. I wish they would at least change their name.

As it stands, it's hard for me to see their release process as truly an experiment and not as just a clever marketing ploy - because people are talking about them a lot more now than before.