skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was initially skeptical, so I went looking for some numbers. If the numbers I pulled off of Google are right (and I did the math right), that's something like $850 per employee every quarter. I've got to say, that's not nothing, especially considering many employees are in countries where with lower prevailing wages than the US.

Numbers:
Shares outstanding 768,000,000
Employees: 210,000
Percentage of McDonald's that are corporate owned: 20%
Dividend per employee: ($1.16 * 768,000,000 * 0.2) / 210,000 ~= $850
I am readying stories about legacy admissions.
Let me tell you about a little conversation I had about legacy admission to IvyLeague/Stanford.

A family I know (both mom/dad are children of immigrants) had a kid who got into Harvard and/or Stanford. (not specifying which one to protect identity). Both parents went to public college for undergrad and then went to top school for law/medicine.

Their kid went through K-12 in private school.

When their child got into the top college for undergrad, I asked how many from that same high school got into the top Harvard/Stanford.

Mom said 3 got into that college.

And later, dad said 6 from the high school got into same college, and mentioned 3 out of 6 were legacy admissions.

As far as the mom was concerned, the legacy admissions didn't even count as real admittance. :)
Please don't take HN threads into nationalistic flamewar. This is not at all what this site is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
lost me at “feat”
As a private company, Harvard can have any admission process it wants. However, it should have zero federal or state grants if their admission process is using race (or gender, or ...) as part of the decision.
When using VBA and Excel, I've found it easiest to just stick to XML for my REST calls and not try to deal with JSON. Talk about adding features to JSON to make it richer just makes me think everything goes around in circles.

What I'd like to see is an LLVM back-end that generates VBA, but I may never get around to it myself.
Please don't take HN threads further into nationalistic flamewar. This is not at all what this site is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Why should that logic only apply to colleges and not businesses in general?
Your package build probably never broke because you have an accented character in your name...
I want a robot that can make arbitrary meals, not one which can only make one type of dish (these already exist in factories in various forms and are nothing new).

And when you think about it, a robot cook would save more time per day than a self-driving car.
> I normally wouldn't respond to a post like this, but if you are thinking about hurting people that you disagree with, please seek out some help. This sentence honestly reads like a warning flag to me for someone who has reached their limit for debating peacefully with others.

Yeah, that "how little you've respected honest discourse and conversation" comment seems a little self-revealing especially when coupled with that latest edit.

This is definitely "I was just threatening you as a hypothetical, bro!" territory
> It's to get the companies to respond to their decreased revenue with greener alternatives.

They don't have decreased revenue though. They pass the taxes through to the consumer, and the consumer behavior doesn't change because you're taxing a necessity of life.

Like another reply said, their power company gives them the option of choosing "green" energy. Most consumers cannot do that. If there is actually a choice, then raising prices on one of the choices would affect consumer behavior. But for the vast majority of people, they can't choose between green energy or fossil fuel based energy. No choice = doesn't matter what prices do.
Thanks for the data.

Campus-wise, my anecdotal observation would be Irvine or Davis has most of international students by percentage, though.
I think making parents liable for violence caused by their children who gain access to their weapons is a reasonable regulation, and some states have already passed laws to this effect.
Do companies with ISO certifications ever get reviewed after-the-fact? Or do you just have to check the right checkboxes during an initial review process?
This is a really complicated question. Some things to consider:

1) Capitalism needs ever-increasing consumption to sustain itself. Imagine a metric: amount of stuff consumed by a person on average. If that number doesn't increase every year, you get a recession. Keep an eye on consumer spending and M1 (the velocity of money). (btw, this is why the long term view of capitalism is grim, it ultimately cannot be sustained. but who knows maybe we learn how to harvest metals out of meteors and we all have our own private jets in 100 years. that would be great for capitalism)

2) Most recessions are triggered by a catalyst. The most recent one was caused by financial instruments that over-leveraged real-estate. It won't be that this time, but there are others at play now. Student debt defaults could rise if unemployment dips, causing another lending crunch, but likely only debt holders would be hit hard (localized recession). I am also keeping my eye on the overnight repo market - banks are holding less cash and it's causing some interesting new problems at the fed, but unclear how that could ripple to the economy. Certainly the trade war could push up the cost of goods as well and cause consumer spending to dip. A lot of economists have been searching for a catalyst scenario but there doesn't seem to be one.

3) Slower growth could be the new-norm. There is a large chance financial assets won't see the kind of appreciation over our lifetime that our parents saw. It is possible that 1970's era stagflation could return.

4) Liquidity trap, maybe? The aforementioned fiasco that unfolded this past week in the repo market would signal a potential risk.

Are we headed to a recession? Hard to say.
Since Harvard receives federal funds, it has to play by the same anti discrimination rules as the Federal government.
I should have said "as much". My implication is that the gap between asian's and whites is both smaller and closing more rapidly than that between black's and whites, based on what I've read and experienced. It doesn't mean there isn't discrimination (etc).

> Basically all post-slavery discrimination against blacks happened to Asians. Can you please cite anything that can support the opposite claim?

I'm not arguing that point. I'm saying that the thing you are excluding from your argument -- hundreds of years of slavery -- has a legacy that goes beyond the discriminatory practices you highlight and likely requires a larger corrective action to fix.
No but it might be possible that an African american with the same grades as an asian american is much more likely to be successful in the future because they got the same results from what is likely a much more difficult starting point. The context of someone's acheivements matters and race is part of that context.
Microsoft > Netscape

Facebook > Snap

Luxxotica > Basically every glasses competitor
2) Isn't true any more. University enrollement peaked in 2011, and isn't expected to reach that level again for at least a decade or more. There are plenty of accetable state schools with 100% or near 100% acceptence rates.

https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d18/tables/dt18_303.10.a...
> feat: a commit of the type feat introduces a new feature to the codebase

instead of 'feat:', why not 'feature:'?

I dislike partial abbreviation because it is confusing; yes doc for document and max for maximum make sense but in this case feat is literally a different word?
Mainstream environmental organizations like Friends of the Earth are signatories to that demand: https://www.peoplesdemands.org. So is Rashida Tlaib's office. A group with a similar platform counts the Sierra Club as among the leadership: https://peoplesclimate.org/platform.

Of course nobody speaks for the "climate justice movement" categorically, in the same way as nobody speaks for "conservatism" or "progressiveism" as a movement. But if someone had said in 2008 that ACA was a stepping stone to Medicare for All, would that have been inaccurate?

Putting it another way: I don't think market-oriented environmentalists--for whom averting climate change is a matter of appropriately pricing carbon externalities--are driving the bus of that movement anymore.
An Intel 486DX4-100 had the same clock speed as the Cray-1 and ran the Gabriel benchmarks in similar times.
>The first part of your second assertion that "very few shootings were ever prevented by a citizen," is also easily invalidated by a google search.

Another contributing factor is that mass shootings themselves are rare, and the rate of citizens carrying is low compared to the firearm ownership rate.
That's one way to get security... not a very practical one though.
I expect this cop won't be meaningfully punished either
GPS will tell a device where itself is. The device still needs to go online to tell anyone else where it is.

This, IIUC, will tell you where a thing is without it being online.
Just do a carbon tax. It covers it.
Yes, it's built right into firefox. Press the `...` in the URL bar and select "Report site issue", or visit:

https://webcompat.com/issues/new
He was cleaning a loaded gun?
Race quotas are illegal in both employment and admissions but affirmative action is not.

The trick is that affirmative action is sold as an effort to negate other discrimination.

https://definitions.uslegal.com/a/affirmative-action/
About $4,400 per year per employee globally. A large amount of money to most McDonald's workers in the US and an life changing amount of money for a worker in say India.
This is hilarious: automating the creation of crappy pizza. Seriously, we can't even build a decent auto-espresso machine.
Does anyone know if Alibaba Cloud has a status page? All I can find is this list of advance change notifications: https://www.alibabacloud.com/notice
Haven't tried SuperPutty, but I find that Putty + ConEmu is good for a tabbed UI.
I mean, it's not like CPython 2 is going to disappear on January 1, either. You can keep using it.

What you lose is a) potential security fixes (you might not care, for your use case) and b) the ability to use other libraries that are Python 3 only, including security updates to libraries whose Python 2 versions are no longer maintained. Using PyPy (or any other Python 2 implementation) definitely doesn't get you b and arguably isn't much improvement on a.
Man I use the heck out of Z wave. Basically after buying my first home not too long ago I noticed the alarm system could update the weather without wifi... It intrigued me so I looked into it and sure enough its all z wave.

I bought a USB adapter for my Raspberry Pi 3 and installed OpenHAB on it. I can now control my thermostats (I have 2 AC units) from a web UI. Who needs a NEST? And its in other things too.

As for tracking... It depends on what I want to track but with a couple Raspberry Pi Zero Ws you can probably hunt down specific devices around the home if they have bluetooth / wifi. Whatever Pi has it closest to it is the one you wanna search near. Not sure if bluetooth can tell you signal strength but I am pretty sure wifi does since you see the signal bars. Those come from somewhere.
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> Jewish is not an ethnicity, but Ashkenazi is

This is, to put it mildly, an opinion rather than an established fact. Ethnicity is a social construct, and many Jewish societies do construct an ethnicity that crosses the intra-Jewish Ashkenazi/Sephardi/Persian/etc. lines.

The biggest example of this is of course Israel, but you also see this in other mixed-background Jewish communities like e.g. Los Angeles or France, where a single umbrella Jewish ethnic identity is overlaid on top of those more specific ones.
> Companies ought to have no morals, except in cases where required by law, because there are no common morals

Actually, I'm Catholic, so I actually do believe there are absolute morals and that everyone, including corporations, ought to follow them. And moreover, even more strongly than most authoritarians, I believe that if you eschew these morals, you may end up experiencing eternal damnation (unless you get baptized and go to confession regularly, ya da ya da ya -- you know the drill). So your reading of me as a libertarian is really quite far from reality.

However, when it comes to asking whether a government should punish a company (and thus a person, because companies are fictitious), then yes, you must be able to codify your morality so that no one can claim they are being unfairly treated by an arbitrary imposition of your morality on them. A fundamental part of Catholic social teaching -- the same one that says you have to love your neighbor and take care of planet earth by not dumping chemicals -- is that governments have an obligation to promulgate and enforce just laws. Without proper promulgation (i.e., announcing the new law to the world and making reasonably sure all interested parties know its contents), a ruling cannot be held to have the power of law. It would be immoral in this case for a government to attempt enforcement, even if the purportedly immoral party has committed a clear wrong doing.

I see this in the same way I see the trolley problem. Although certainly the outcome of a trolley hurtling towards 100 people would be very bad and unfortunate, under no circumstances can a moral actor willingly choose to sacrifice fewer people to divert the trolley's course. If a government cannot morally enforce its law, it ought to do nothing (other than make a new law). As I said above (and which should have been the first hint that I am not really a bona fide libertarian), in this case, the maritime commission has a clear way out by simply remaking the law to cover this case of chemical dumping. If they believe this dumping is bad for the planet, then they have every right (and an obligation perhaps) to do this. That is not a libertarian statement.

As for the companies... they should not dump if they know it to be toxic (I am personally not 100% clear if it is or not -- the maritime commission seems to not know either), but they certainly cannot be punished for doing it even if it is, until such time as a proper authority has actually made it against the law. Up until that point, that is between them and God, and if they knowingly commit a sin and don't repent, they'll probably end up in a real bad place.
who is this guy?
>I still believe, perhaps naively, that it's possible to maintain not-normal opinions without causing pain to the people around you. And this is something that everyone needs to do, whether you're in the majority or the minority.

At issue, negative beliefs are postulated to be the cause of social ills such as racism and sexism. Therefore, what Richard Stallman believes is the core objection, because simply holding a belief is now viewed as the root of injustice. To wit, you see, again and again, attempts to claim moral credit from the leveling the assertion that Richard Stallman is a toxic asshole guilty of no particular crime, but instead an accrued debt of micro-aggressions that together represent a pattern of behavior unambiguously identifying his as a thought criminal.

Seriously. He once messed up a hotel room, and had a sign on his office door, and clumsily asked someone on a date. From this we know that he has harmful opinions.

If it were just any one of these things, perhaps there'd be some room left to think it's all a misunderstanding, to wonder if he doesn't actually believe this or that... which we must indecently rush to exclaim that we certainly do not also believe! oh no! I, for one, think stigmatizing people for their beliefs is wrong, which is why I have never messed up a hotel room or caused anybody pain! Cancel RMS!

It is extremely painful dealing with this level of dishonesty. Perhaps RMS's thoughts on free software are more relevant than his opinions on other things, and we should ignore his thoughts on the age of consent, because, if we don't, we're going to find that there has never once been a good idea from a mind that did not also harbor bad ideas.
On point 1) you're incorrect. Services make up nearly 80% of the U.S. economy. Our economic growth in recent decades has not been due to an increase of stuff.

https://2016.trade.gov/publications/ita-newsletter/1010/serv...

I work for a multi-billion dollar company and we just sell ones and zeroes.
I strongly disagree: decoding and recoding strings to-from UTF8 was a monumental waste of time IMO. Never has one language gave so much trouble for simple tasks like reading a database. Python3 just works seamlessly.
“The growth opportunities communicated to me when my tenure began never materialized.”

Who stays anywhere more than 2-3 years now anyway?
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8519764
If you fly at night would the mass of the earth protect the night side from the storm?
In contrast to opinions of employers or employees, laws are the result of the democratic process. The process itself might lead to imperfect results due to populist election campaigns, lobbying parties, and lawmakers funding the next golf party by making the actual legal text a bit complicated, but it's the closest approximation of general consensus we currently have.

That being said, once it's law you have one thing to do and two options:

- you have to follow the law

Besides that, you should embrace what your fellow humans might have thought when bringing in this legislation, enabling you to either:

- Help you understand and embrace it
- Vote differently in the next election (or, sadly but truly bring in your net worth to lobby towards your opinion to greater effect)
Speaking as an Asian, I don't feel sorry for any of the disappointed asians, because they'll make a beeline for voting for Democrat candidates.

A dumber community of people, I have never seen.
A better plan would be to take over a decommishioning military base in the plains or midwest. As someone who lives in Nevada, the infrastructure issues are exterme.
I agree the expression "Free Software" has the same problem. However the alternatives also have some problems. He discusses that here: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point....
(I'm sure you've already read it, but it's always worth a re-read)

I'm partial to the term "Libre" myself, though in this case it doesn't matter much, since it's a concept that people aren't familiar with anyway and you have to explain it no matter what word you use.
Exactly! I think we agree that there are different "right" strategies based on individuals' circumstances, values and goals. I make no judgements on the strategies (or values and goals) that people choose to adopt.

However, generalizing that there's a "right" strategy for "regular entrepreneurs" is where I think the author gets into trouble. And I think more specific language would help.
i though the first one was mechanical turk.
That is called progress. Ever hear of the Industrial Revolution?

There will always be jobs. AI won't be able to do everything, we are far off from that world.

Think about it, it's the year 2019 and we can't even invent a robot to separate plastic bags from normal trash.
I agree, there's many problems in the world that need to be fixed. Food should be more sustainable. We should make smarter, more conscientious choices behind how we choose our food. I don't see why being plant based, a more sustainable and ultimately less cruel way of consuming food, should be rejected because there's cruelty to how we grow crops like quinoa. The amount of grain we feed to livestock would be enough to feed 800 million people -- we would consume less objectively if we were a plant based society.

The more I read this comment, the less I understand it. Following your train of thought, there'd be LESS people enduring that misery and LESS strain on the world's environments if we ate less meat -- we would need less land to grow mankind's food, and would require less imports from third world countries in doing so.
I don't think it's disrespectful to call out someone who has previously made the _exact same_ mis-representation of a highly contentious issue as acting in bad faith and thus untrustworthy.

There is a concerted and prolonged attempt underway to completely muddy the waters around this issue and either through emotion or insincerity this poster has been hammering away at what they are aware is at best a distortion of the facts.
I read quite a bit of the article, and a lot of it seems like ungrateful whining. It seems like the author found something negative about everything. It must be difficult living such a comfortable life.
"between 500m and up to a mile"

Nice combination of units.
>any cellular automaton that has something like 3-dimensional rotational symmetry

Kind of cheating : but a differentiable 3d field of real numbers following a local Hamiltonian evolution is a kind of cellular automaton : it has a lot of states 2^32 and local evolution rules are the mathematical ones for differentiable calculus so they encode the rotational symmetry, you can approximate to any levels of desired precision.
The problem being that the world, by a pretty long shot, can not withstand 11 billion people leading a Western lifestyle unless there are giant leaps in green tech.
Yes and no.

I agree with everything except #5. My marriage & kids are irreplaceable.

So if you have everything else, which is a more rational bet:

- Investing in a low probability, massive payoff

- Investing in a lower (yet still high) payoff with less variation in expected outcome.

There are huge segments of the economy where you can buy a small business for at a 3 - 6 multiple of annual earnings. Many companies in this space are unsophisticated, so there is massive potential for operational improvement as well (introducing basic process, tech, and marketing strategies).
feat of strength or great strength of feet?
>and then thinking of next step is the exact opposite of "being cautious".

I don’t think you fully grok the risk of code changes in some of these large legacy systems. EOL with no security patches on a closed system that processes trusted inputs is nearly 0-risk.
Sigh. This is going to break a lot of sites—especially the less than clearly documented behavior of SameSite=Lax with iframe content. If I understand it correctly, iframe’d content, even from the same domain as the parent frame, won’t receive any cookies set to SameSite=Lax or Strict.

Does anyone no the rational for this on non-cross domain frames?
Muzique Magazine Cap
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stac_Electronics#Microsoft_law...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Micro_Devices,_Inc._v....

Also, see Amazon vs any of the 3rd party Amazon Marketplace sellers subsequently displaced using the various Amazon home brands.