skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you can see something pretty hinky right there in the article where they tout a massive $350 billion investment being made and then reveal that's actually what they intend to pay their suppliers for goods and services. They call $60 billion paid to suppliers last year an investment in those companies.

Another thing that is odd is that's about how much tax they are withholding from the US until a lower tax-rate can be forced.

One thing very strange is how the EU had to take them to court again and again and again to get them to stop advertising a one year warranty to upsell Applecare while the law compelled them to provide two.

How they have responded to hardware flaws in recent years - bent iPads, delicate cables, the keyboards etc has been a travesty - none of these problems triggered a replacement program until Apple had downplayed and dismissed the problem. Except exploding batteries they couldn't dodge liability for. I think the final verdict on bent iPads was you accept a warped tablet.

I think they are really struggling with honesty and ethics in some ways.

https://fortune.com/2018/01/18/apple-overseas-cash-repatriat...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/06/world/apple-taxes-jersey....
These photos are amazing!

I think Flickr gives you what you want. But you do have to pay.
That is the theory.

In practice, the optimizations compilers implement using the advantages of known lack of side effects and mutation generally just aim at recovering part of the performance lost through excess copying.
Those who left were the most at risk of persecution, starvation or disenfranchisement (due to the shrinking amount of wealth to be inherited, similar to how half-nobodies congregated around Norman adventurers to invade England or Italy).

The religious upheavals following the Reformation and the insane demographic growth following in the wake of industrialization drove the settlement of overseas colonies, not ethereal qualities like optimism and entrepreneurship.
Spending is bound to go up because of population growth and inflation. It would be more appropriate to look at spending and taxation as a portion of GDP (which also goes up with population and inflation). Spending:

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/government-spendi...

It has been going down since the Great Recession (44% in 2009 vs. 38% in 2016). Taxation:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYFRGDA188S

Taxation was going up a bit relative to GDP towards the end of Obama’s term (which is why the deficit was shrinking), but taxation is now going down (hence the deficit is rising again under Trump).
I wouldn't say that I prefer reading minified code over well-formatted code. Certainly minified code isn't ideal or equivalent to getting access to original source form. What I'm specifically pushing back against is the idea that if code is minified, it might as well be running on a server -- that "you can't realistically inspect or edit 99% of what you're running".

I suspect that's hyperbole; browser inspection tools are really good, and I regularly inspect and edit minified code. Even outside of the browser, I've patched and fixed bugs in minified 3rd-party dependencies where I didn't have access to the source code. It takes a little while to untangle the code, but it's not hard -- just time consuming.

I don't want to dismiss people who struggle with that, but I also don't think I'm that special or amazing of a coder. If I can do something, odds are pretty good that other experienced programmers can too.
The criticism isn't that he was shouting about how developers were the core to business. The criticism is just that he looked silly doing it.
> Closing trade to the extent that we're making our own underwear INSTEAD of satellite parts can't really be chocked up as a win.

If you remove the instead part of that (which doesn't make sense as an either-or), it's a big win if your goal is to remove manufacturing, jobs and capital from a strategic superpower competitor like China.

If in-sourcing underwear to the US results in only 1,000 net additional jobs - making a billion pairs of underwear per year - and results in the loss of 20,000 low paid manufacturing jobs, supply chain, infrastructure, tax revenue, etc. in China. That is a win, if your goal is to make China slightly weaker. If the US nets out to even and China loses, it's a win for the US - if you view China as a superpower competitor for the next century (which nearly everyone in DC does today).

If the US could use increased automation to pull back every bit of outsourced manufacturing, even in a fictional zero net gain scenario (ie no net job gains, no net tax benefit, no net capital retention benefit, etc), it makes the US more powerful versus the rest of the world, as the rest of the world loses trillions of dollars in outsourced manufacturing value (ie an enormous injection of capital to be used to build out their nations, as in China or presently as is happening in Vietnam). If you're a politician in DC you would view that as a useful increase in US hegemony.

Apparel in-sourcing, as one example, has already begun globally. It's only going to get more aggressive over the coming decades. Developed nations will pull back various pieces of their manufacturing chains, as substantial automation gains make it reasonable to do so. When you combine those gains with the upside of geographic location - being close to your customers, eg for rapid trend adjustment purposes in apparel - the in-sourcing advantage is strong.
The API hasn’t changed, and remains backwards compatible. However it has been annotated, so that when targeting it with a compiler configured to validate/verify nullability you get a better (read: safer) experience. It can configured as an error or a warning.

MS does this sort of thing a good amount, preserving backwards compatibility but enhancing the experience.
Not without government regulation.

Businesses never regulate themselves before the disaster because it is always more profitable to use the "there won't be a disaster" scenario plan.
List of performance improvements is mind-boggling:

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/performance-improvemen...

How could a mature standard library / frameworks have so much performance gains to be had?
We’re using Serverless where it fits and carrying on with our lives. I don’t feel the need to try and defend tools, because it’s exhausting. There are certain load graphs for which regular servers can’t follow the line in time, some for which regular servers can follow the line but would result in overprovisioning, and some in which request isolation is just a great thing to have. For these loads we use Serverless, for the rest we use normal EC2 or ECS.

Just understand the job and use the right tool for it. This fighting over Serverless and servers is like arguing over whether hammers or screwdrivers are better tools.
The Joshua Tree Quantum Computer Achieves Quantum Supremacy: Dr. Elliot McGucken's research group hath created a quantum computer capable of simulating over five sextillion atoms in the form of water molecules, performing massively complex calculations in a fraction of a second, leveraging quantum entanglement in the Hilbert Space, thusly tapping into the power of higher dimensions and the space of parallel universes. These highly complex many-body calculations would take classical computers over a trillion trillion trillion years to solve and simulate. The JT Quantum Computer leverages the quantum multiverse to generate random numbers and pattern distributions via the entangled interactions of five sextillion atoms.
Atoms in a drop of water = 3 atoms/molecule x 1.67 x 10^21 molecules = 5.01 x 10^21 atoms, or five sextillion atoms.

The patent-pending Joshua Tree Quantum Computer works as follows:

One obtains an eye-dropper and a glass of water.

One takes up a drop of water in the eye-dropper.

One drops said drop of water onto a flat piece of glass.

Immediately one achieves and observes the random pattern distribution based on the entangled interactions between the over 5.01 x 10^21 atoms (five sextillion atoms), as the combined wave function collapses and the universe splits a trillion trillion times. Using a classical computer, one would be unable to simulate this calculation even after a trillion trillion trillions years. The JT Quantum Computer leverages the entangled quantum interactions between the atoms, thusly mining the Hilbert Space of parallel universes and the multiverse in a manner that is at least several sextillion times faster than IBM's leading SUMMIT super computer.

And so the Joshua Tree Quantum Computer hath achieved quantum supremacy.

The Wright Brother's first flight lasted under a minute, and already we have crossed far further than that, with big plans for the future, and multitudinous commercial applications. A new era hath dawned.

We are currently seeking $200 million in funding to complete the design of the Redwood Quantum Computer, which will involve an entire bucket of water and which will be able to leverage the many worlds of Sean Carroll.

dx4/dt=ic friends, dx4/dt=ic :) :)
“Only 20%” and “unlikely to ever be rejected” are worlds apart.

Modern immunosuppressive therapy for, for instance kidneys, has dropped the five year acute rejection rate from 50% to 20%. About 8-10% in the first year.

You can get a 5% 10-year non-rejection rate only in the most hand-picked groups (adheres to meds, no underlying systemic disease, and no chronic nephropathy). That sub-population exists, but it’s pretty uncommon.
> it's simply not the case that it's going to turn the world into some unlivable hell-scape. There's just no basis for that belief in the actual evidence.

I think what GP presented is too mild. What I personally fear is this: increasing migration pressure from the most affected areas and contention for resources starts triggering wars, at which point the global economy collapses, at which point at least half of the world's population dies of starvation. Remember, cities everywhere are running on just-in-time supply chains; they have food and water for a couple of days. It's mostly harmless when one city in a country suffers a catastrophe, because emergency response can be put into place. But if the whole country goes into disarray, or the imports of food suddenly stop, things are going to get very ugly very fast.
Sequential UUID Generator for Java
"One thing vegans and vegetarians often gloss over" how very scientific of you.
and what happens to the shareholder value? /sarcasm
Anyone who wanted to deploy easy should either prefer a hosted/low code solution or something similar to GAE/Heroku.

The deal with server less is that while it looks attractive, it, like many AWS products, is great for starting out but often not helpful when running anything for large workloads. Then it turns really expensive.
You really need to recalibrate. Apple writes its own software for its own hardware and users buy it because they like it. There's nothing hostile about building a walled garden and staying inside the walls.

Microsoft charged OEMs even when they didn't ship Windows ("per-processor licensing"). Google dictated what other devices and software OEMs could build ("non-fragmentation"). That's not staying inside your walls.

As for great reputation, there's a reason Apple routinely is #1 on Fortune's most admired companies list.
The technology age isn’t the issue. The issue is how many projects have successfully deployed large scale reliable systems built with Lambda.
"Quantum supremacy" is a technical term that simply means demonstrating that a quantum computer can in fact perform some computation (something artificial like sampling from a certain kind of distribution) faster than a classical computer, not that the computation is useful for anything rightaway. This has not been achieved so far, but is expected to be around the corner. See this article from July: https://www.quantamagazine.org/quantum-supremacy-is-coming-h... and some of the better-informed comments on these other threads: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21047804 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21043659
> Im not sure we've ever been powerfull enough to be truly as in danger as we are now.

I mean when the Black Death comes along and mops up 30-60% of a continent's entire population in half a decade, you get a little more respect for how terrifying nature has manifested in history...

With that said, we've been two key turns and a button press away from total annihilation since the mid-1950s when the US and Soviets started assembling their nuclear stockpiles.

The fact society still exists past the Cuban Missile Crisis should be considered history's greatest miracle.
WeWork’s postponed IPO shows the hollow superiority of private markets can be
Those SRE infra skills pretty much crossover with knowing what your app is doing in FaaS environment.

How do you know those async requests are completing? What's the percentage of failures? Are you meeting those SLAs? Who's patching the code? How do you test and deploy new versions?

Those are all typically seen as ops tasks, now you're doing them.

Small bit of concern around you saying you're using the console, because good testing generally requires Infrastructure as Code, but I suspect the reality is your operational readiness meets your risk profile. That or you're winging it ya big cowboy. :p
That isn’t true. Medicare and Social Security were still pulling surpluses during the Clinton administration (and they continued to do that until very recently).
Brain on Comics: A Cognitive Model of Visual Narrative Comprehension
Is there ever actually a real point to filming at concerts on your phone anyway? I've never personally had a video at one turn out that wasn't just a bunch of noise, so I don't really see the point. I also can't stand trying to search for concert videos on YouTube and all that keep popping up are crappy cell phone footage labelled ridiculously labelled as HD. Sure maybe the video looks nice, but the sound makes your ears bleed.
Oh bloody hell. Another day another complaint about the morality of company X not paying tax.

I'm sick of hearing this: Tax is not a moral issue.

If the government says to corporation X "we're increasing your tax by 20%" they'll just put their prices up to cover it and in the end YOU will end up paying THEIR corporation tax.

Companies don't pay tax: people do!
Apple announcing they will continue to build mac pros in the USA is their signal to suppliers that they should follow them back to the USA. If the incentive to small-parts suppliers is good and the reverberating feedback are strong enough (small-suppliers bringing large suppliers, large suppliers bringing more small suppliers, rinse repeat), it'll lead other manufacturers to come back. If automation is going to take over labor, then location and labor-wages will matter less than supply-chain and the regulatory environment. If USA can get back the supply-chain, the USA rule-of-law environment, is probably preferable to China's rule-by-law environment.
Bush 44 wanted to turn SS into a 401K. SS is mostly invested in the federal government (ie congress spent the surplus).
The aggregate amount of savings by a generation is almost entirely irrelevant to the aggregate material conditions that generation has in retirement. They're not canning food and stashing it in their basement like a squirrel, they're generally simply acquiring financial claims on future productivity. And this is exactly what a bubble is - higher prices on financial assets, which means more assets per real dollar of future production.

>these Boomers are in for a surprise when it turns out we've spent their money on stuff like WeWork and other huge startups with no positive cash-flow, and rest was spent by the government.

Current misspending doesn't particularly impact future retirees. It impacts current retirees and workers. Current aggregate retiree spending is always equal to aggregate worker saving plus tax transfers from workers to retirees. This misspending means that material wealth that could have been consumed by either retirees or workers is instead wasted.

The only ways for Boomers to be wealthier in retirement, as a class, are for society to be wealthier or for a higher percentage of society's real production to be allocated to Boomers via taxes or sold for their savings.
OSCP Preparation HTB Bastard – Penetration Testing Tutorial
But they aren't. There is a language nowadays but it isn't nearly as consistent, and corrupted by so many dark patterns. Hamburger menu or three dots? Is this circle with color filled in activated or disabled? Is that a button/link or is it flavor?
Too bad FreeBSD support didn't make it into this version.
Well, that's one (unnecessarily rigid) way to structure it, one that (in the language of economics), is inefficient, meaning that it misses out on possibilities for gains for both sides.

To be clear, I don't necessarily advocate for classical libertarian views of economics. [1] I also think in terms of balancing economic power (i.e. leverage) with goals of promoting human prosperity. Just because a company finds market success (temporarily [2]) in no way gives them moral or political authority to define ethical concerns. They exist in a broader context of social expectations, which must include norms around how people are treated.

[1] I like the quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." To put a point on it, don't blindly follow the tenants of an overly simplistic theory of economics (libertarianism) when it clearly doesn't ring true to your own conscience.

[2] I say "temporarily" because let's remember that most businesses only last a small number of years relative to the length of written history.
Another reminder that bad press and community/customer pressure indeed works. And there's nothing wrong with that.
This is implicit in almost every acquisition though.

It's one of the first things any investor will ask you which is how you can you defend your product from duplication by a larger company. If you are a company that overly relies on a single feature e.g. Snap stories then of course you will be more sensitive to threats like Facebook presented.
Google Play Pass is Google’s own games subscription service
> Malena Ernman and actor Svante Thunberg ... her "fame-seeking", "stage-parents", particularly her "fading opera starlet mother" who performed internationally, were "pimp(ing) her out" without regard for Thunberg's alleged mental problems, which included Lowe's long list of disabilities, by which Greta and her sister were claimed to be handicapped. By so doing, Lowe wrote, they were subjecting her to "child abuse."[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greta_Thunberg#Criticism_and_r...
94 aircraft.
If you take China and India out of the equation you are removing a lot of goods which are used in the rest of the world, though.
You say that but we are also creating huge monoculture corps susceptible to a single disease wiping them out long term. Skipping meat is only part of the problem. The real solution is there needs to be long term control of meat and agricultural production to avoid self-inflicted devastation of the food supply.
>but you can see how the Chinese investment in it has changed it.

How so? I use reddit (and as a side note am pissed that my username was already taken) daily and it hasn't really changed, in my estimation. What do you see that makes you say this?
thanks for the link! completely agree. I strongly recommend libreoffice from a design perspective
No, DOCs and PDFs aren't necessarily software, they can contain software, just like a webpage. And just like a webpage, Stallman can choose to use FOSS to view those files, and that software can choose to not run any scripts in those files.

I'm sure he'd agree that people should also not include proprietary software in those files as well, but doing so is far less common than webpages, at least for stuff the average user is going to run into.

And how many people are actually programming in HTML/CSS vs JavaScript? A proof of concept is one thing, but most users won't run into it.
If your velocity enables you to stay in orbit, there's no problem. If not, then you're just falling, which is also fine... until you hit the ground.

As for your analysis of what happens when you receive payment for a bond, you seem to be saying that the government gets the money back, either by taxing spending or by you buying a new bond. I don't buy that analysis, for two reasons. First, I could receive payment for a Treasury, and buy some other investment with it. And second, your analysis would remain unchanged even if the result was hyperinflation (that's "hitting the ground" in my first paragraph).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement

I agree with you in like an end-state kind of way, but this issue was super ridiculous & used by nearly every multinational company over the course of decades. I don't understand why the EU has targeted Apple specifically other than that they're a big fish, but this was a colossal screwup by government and it went on forever. If you want to tax corporations, tax corporations. There's a million tools at your disposal to get it done. The reason it doesn't happen is because people are ill-informed, elect charlatans, allow revolving doors between biz + government, etc. People need to stop pointing the finger outward, problem is 180 degrees away.
To blame all the $#!+ that's going on Facebook et al is really either missing the point or willful misdirection.

I'd argue that fear not Facebook brings out the worse in people - fear about income or place in society.

In my view, the real cause of the recent rise tribalism is rising social inequality and corrupt politics doing nothing about it.

You could argue then why hasn't democracy acted?

I'd argue that it's paid for content - whether it's ads or partisan coverage, lobbyists, paid shills, or astroturfed pressure groups all managed by professional manipulators ( ad people ) - that's the problem, not the medium ( Facebook or TV/radio or whatever).

Why haven't politicians acted decisively on climate change? I don't think it's the Internets fault.
Well, in the traditional desktop space performance was not that critical as it is with cloud deployments. Also hardware intrinsics are a new toy they have available.
They abruptly shut down overnight leaving a very large number of people stranded away from home.

Now the government has to pay 150 million to bring them home.

Why not do a gracefull shutdown...???
Traveling without a phone is the way to do things. Actually being on vacation and unplugged from the world is such a respite.

You do have to actually plan things beforehand, which is likely a problem, if you have become accustomed to the "yolo, I'll just google it" on-demand information lifestyle, but you can still print out tickets and receipts and get physical maps. I mean, you should be doing this anyway, just in case the technology fails, but most people, in my experience, are not prepared for contingencies to that level.
If I didn’t then I wouldn’t be bearish.

I think the headache and anxiety over running Snap and the pressure to grow users quarter after quarter with a simple app that is easily duplicated will eventually get to Evan.
Do you have a reference for that? I assume they sold about as well as past MacPros, which would also be much smaller volume than iMacs and MacBooks.
Golang Logger with Rate Limiting
Pro Version of React Fullscreen Lightbox
I'd die laughing to see a concerted conservation campaign around this:

> Stop killing all the delicious things! Think of how many fruits, how many oysters, how many fish you havn't tasted! Save them all so you can eat them all!