skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
10k are almost their own language. If you have any questions, feel free to ping me. It took me a long time to learn to decode their language.

The three sheets of importance are:

1. Balance sheets -- Assets vs Liabilities. A listing of all of the debt, factories, cash, etc. etc. and an estimated dollar value on everything. Add everything together, and you have the rough value of the company, the so called "Equity".

2. Income Statement -- Calculates Profits (or in this case, a loss), which is roughly a "Change in Balance Sheets". "Net Profits" means balance sheets are more towards +Assets, while "Net loss" is balance sheet had more +Liabilities.

3. Cash Flow -- How much money is in the bank. Start with the Income Statement and "reverses" the calculation to get to actual $$ flowing in or out of their bank.

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When a business-folk says "profits", they talk about #2 being positive. But when colloquial people mean "profits", they typically mean #3. Understanding the difference between colloquial "Profits" (which is really Cash Flow) vs "Business profits" requires a good bit of study.

If Tesla pays for a $5 Billion factory (ex: Gigafactory Shanghai), you'll have -$5 Billion Cash Flow, but $0 in income. Because -$5 Billion cash becomes +$5 Billion factory in the asset sheets.
@mods title is incorrect. It's a post by someone else that was re-blogged by Neil.
Recognition of one side or another in a foreign dispute is a little different than having your own dispute or claim.

Guantanamo Bay (disputed between US/Cuba) used to be marked as US territory in Google Maps at least when viewed from the US, although interestingly, I'm looking at it now it doesn't say Cuba / United States along the border anymore.

I can't imagine the amount of crap they must go through on the backend to deal with these idiotic human politics. Humans suck.
Rich people avoid taxes by converting their income into capital gains, this is often done using not talking big salaries but keeping money in the business

Secondly, rich people often create network of companies where on company is pending to friend's company and some other friends company is lending to your company - using this, you improve credit score of whole network and you can lend harder public money. Then you can simply use it as leverage, this is creating money from thin air.
Experimental design is just a t-test? At least accord to that picture it seems that way. There are no ANOVA or interaction test?

Do websites usually just use t-test only? Like adding one feature at a time?
macOS 10.15 Catalina: The Ars Technica Review
Dapp transaction volume down 40% & gambling is still No.1 use-case
It's not just Stallman. This is an attempted systematic ouster of old-school hackers (and new-school hackers with old-school values) from positions of leadership. Stallman is just the latest target and also one of the softest. They have also called for the removal of:

* Linus Torvalds (after he apologized and approved the adoption of their code of conduct)

* Ted Ts'o

* the entire FSF board

The problem is that while the old-school hackers were mainly left-liberal or libertarian, more and more open source developers these days come from the San Francisco web dev community and were immersed in the ideals and principles of the social-justice left, for whom "scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds" is an unstated truism. More struggle sessions and purges are likely to follow, if this contingent is allowed to gain ground, and I fear for a GNU project led by, instead of Stallman or someone who espouses Stallman's liberal ideals, a commissar who strictly polices the use of gender pronouns and scrutinizes every code commit and mailing list post for hidden signs of bourgeois consciousness.

These people do not even support free speech. What makes you think they will give a milligram of respect to free software?
Fuck Catholicism- for a Couple Reasons
Could a Z80 do these things effectively? Honest question.
China wasn't a signatory.

You're right that it was corporate captured but the original goal was geopolitical.

Edit, cite: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Pacific_Partnership
Thanks! There is actually a ton of technology behind the scenes here and there is a whole team working on it too. Definitely not something to do on your own! :D
... unless you preload the cheat setup, right?

IOW you start to suspect that the client may execute a multi-region transaction. Then you can prepare by syncing data across regions.
I bet IWG is still music-free.
Not bad if we believe this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuAya0hRjwU
The idea that a U.S. city in 2019 would just let a bridge fall down and not replace it, is absurd--especially in the context of a new development. "This would lead many to assume" is doing a ton of work here to make this seem like a reasonable concern.
Employees should always be paid for their time, regardless of volunteering, or it allows employers to negatively evaluate and find parallel reasons to fire employees who don't 'choose to volunteer' as a method of institutionalized wage theft
Dealing with Camera Axis Skew
Censorship has a natural way of forever expanding and broadening in scope.

Often because it’s the only power some groups can exert on others (in this case China's gov to western companies) so they push it as far as they can into the realm of ridiculousness. Plus people get job promotions or feel-good emotions about "doing something".

Eventually you run out of legitimate things to ban so you expand the scope. Then you can start banning people who complain about bannings, which naturally generating groups with victim complexes warranting more bannings, etc.

This is not unique to China.
But the lynch mob is still there and defends its cancel culture. You can see them all over Twitter. They are ruthless.
Not sure if that list is comprehensive. Neither Ludovic Courtes or John Wiegley are on it (and they are both signatories of the open letter).
I don't buy into this particular conspiracy theory, but the answer to your question is really simple. Try to imagine the US government as a mob. "Helpful" services it runs are like fronts. So when the government builds a library, it's like the mob running a garbage collection company. The helpful services are fronts for complex murderous organizations with many factions. Once you see it that way, it's easy to see why one faction might tattle or fight against another faction within the mob, even though they are still all kind of in on the game together.
Speaking as a dev, the single most exciting, motivating thing one could offer me (assuming a baseline of e.g. knowing what you're doing, having a compelling mission or product, etc.) is my own office with a door that closes.

Other than that: ergonomics. Don't skimp on the chairs and keyboards. Big monitors are good but an aeron chair shows that you know what's up and give a damn. YMMV.
You are switching stats again, and I can't tell whether you're doing it on purpose, or are unaware that you are doing it.

The stat under discussion in the article is not "share of all taxes", it's effective individual income tax rate by income percentile. The latter has definitely become less progressive over time, as the article makes clear with data.

If "share of all taxes" since taxes is a statistic you think is illustrative of something relevant, notice that since 1980, real family income for the top 5% has dramatically outpaced the median real family income, so it only makes sense that their "share of all taxes" would go up:

https://www.cbpp.org/income-gains-widely-shared-in-early-pos...
The core premise of the story is that the people who have tech have access to a copy of WikiPedia, or some portion of it, which is like a super power in a post-tech world. Even if it is only used periodically (to prevent wear and tear on the computer), it would still be incredibly valuable to have an oracle that can answer questions like "how to nixtamilize corn?" or "how to preserve food without refrigeration" in a world without grocery stores.

This, of course, presumes libraries are also mostly gone, since you don't need WikiPedia if you have a library.
No blacklist here: https://mxtoolbox.com/domain/www.elyfornoville.com/
combat zone pay, as well, perhaps?

seems like a general with a 40 year career who could (and did) save all of his money could have accumulated a few million dollars in cars without very many shenanigans, if that was their sole financial goal in life.
Apple is basically saying that Hong Kong is ≈ to China which is Chinese propaganda.
I would suggest GNU people to not rush into decisions, the things are too heated at this moment, I am afraid we get a fracture of the project.

I am also having a bad feeling that Linus Torwalds is next, that a list of 20 years old emails is already prepared and some people are ready to tweat something that maybe happened long in the past that made them uncomfortable. Maybe that public apology Linus did this year was a defensive move.
Researchers are using 1/10th-size models to test self-driving tech more easily
The GNU project still allows you to use, read and modify all their work with no restrictions other than you must not place restrictions on your derived work.

How have they stopped you from doing so in their signed open letter?
There are vastly more Z80's in circulation that Raspberry Pis.
> This seems to suggest the populace is at fault, wanting and buying cheap gadgets no matter what the consequences are?

I'm sorry it came off that way, as I do not blame people for the propaganda of their government (U.S. or China).

I do absolutely believe that we shouldn't be able to off-shore environmental/worker's rights policies. If you want to sell something in California, it should be made with the same environmental standards that making it in California would require.
That's not really relevant to what the folks who wrote that letter means by "all computer users".
I've often wondered if a low-end food hall might be a good business idea in the U.S.

In many parts of Asia, there's the concept of the "hawker center" [1] where food vendors each occupy a single stall and sell particular types of food (specific dishes) at low prices. Many of these businesses are intergenerational, so the food is refined over decades. The quality of the food is usually very high despite the dishes being inexpensive (vendors rely on volume). There's even a hawker stall in Singapore that's holds a Michelin star.

The late travel host Anthony Bourdain was so enamored with the idea of hawker centers (from his travels to HK and Southeast Asia) that he tried to start one in NYC but the conditions just didn't align for him. [2]

It is happening organically elsewhere however. In Chicago, there's a Chinese restaurant startup incubator in Chinatown where upstart restaurants rent a small space in the basement of a building where they try to build up their business hawking regional Chinese cuisine. Some succeed and eventually move to larger spaces. This is food entrepreneurship at the grassroots level.

However in order for hawker centers to really succeed certain factors need to be present: willingness of vendors to slog for years at a low margin high volume business, low cost of doing business (cheap labor), consumer culture of regularly eating out, relatively mild winters, etc. Not all U.S. cities fulfill these conditions.

Few people know this but many hawkers of popular dishes in Asia tend to end up being financially well-off after paying their dues (early mornings, late nights, kitchen heat, repetitive work, scrimping and saving for years). Your regular soup noodle or chicken rice guy may be humble-looking in terms of dress, but many have Audis and Benzes parked in the back. They're a bit like plumbers in that sense.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawker_centre
[2] https://www.thedailymeal.com/anthony-bourdain-market-cancele...
So these people speak for all humankind? Wow. I wonder how that works. Is there a certification process? Truly this is a brave group of 20 white men.
And when it's your head that Sarah Mei and Sage Sharp are calling for, will you hold the line?
Bezos is with about $110B. He is "tangentially related" to far more than 110 people. There is a solid track record of inheritors of massive wealth pissing it all away in a generation or two so you don't have to worry too much about it.
> This seems to suggest the populace is at fault, wanting and buying cheap gadgets no matter what the consequences are?

I didn't read GP's "others" as "populace". One reading would have the U.S. and other [governments] have given in to excessive demands of China.

Now the "devil" in the question doesn't necessarily have to be China. It could be Global Finance -- an abstraction which believe it or not is reasonably reducible to actual people and families, the fabled "1%" [sic].
Exactly. China’s reaction is far from petty.

They had a civil war and the other side fled to Taiwan. This is a major issue for China.
Due process is for the court.

If you ousted yourself as an asshole in public, people not wanting to associate with you isn't legal, it's civilized society.
I don't show respect to people that throw their leader under the bus at the first sign of trouble. They have achieved some cool technical stuff but that is no excuse for being a sad sack of a human.
So basically Waterworld but for computers instead of water? I like it.
I use Sansa Clip Zip with Rockbox daily and mostly for audiobooks.
My favorite feature is possibility to increase playback speed while keeping pitch intact
People should be using more than one design, but that's not as commonly taught as it should be. I'm going to give a talk about that to my company's ML group in about a month, and hopefully that'll improve things where I am.
> keycap business is booming

If you have any links related to this I would love to read more!
This is a bit of an odd release, no? I did not see an advance announcement of the date, there is no feature in the Mac App Store indicating that the OS is now available (though there is one for Apple Arcade), and until a moment ago, clicking "How to Upgrade" on the Apple site still led to a link to Mojave.
> Here's [1] the list of contributors to GNU. Note that it also includes past contributors.

For the curious, this list contains roughly[0] 242 names.

The number of maintainers is surely much smaller than the number of contributors, however.

[0]: More specifically, the `#content` `div` on that page contains exactly 242 `h4` elements, all of which appear to be names of past/current contributors
Or just a̶s̶s̶u̶m̶e̶ be vigilant about it, corporations are amoral profit machines and have no incentive to care about replaceable workers.
David Bowie really is neat guy. Him and Trent Reznor used to best pals too. He helped Trent come clean from his smack addiction.

I would also hands down believe this man's story knowing the issues David went through balancing all of his personas.
Every metro system everywhere supports pre-paid value cards.

If you find different prices for different services confusing, how do you grocery shop?
Anybody know how these stand up to earthquakes?
The thing that RHEL is trying to fix is to prevent customers from being tied to the system python/perl and should install a version that works for them and the application they are trying to run. People installing random modules into the same perl/python as is used for system startup/critical software has always been a problem but it is also one of those things that makes having a long term LTS nearly impossible because you can't separate the user needs vs. the distribution needs and trying to fix anything turns into backports to weird ancient versions. This way distros can package and update the things they need independently from everything else and not disturb the user, and also provide a more comprehensive suite of packages that also don't disturb the system space. This is similar to how Amazon Linux is setup a bit.

A better example is a user I should be able to install python 3.7 and use it, even if the system libraries for the core packaging is based on python 2.x. Traditionally most users would just build their system scripts on python 2.x (because it is there), which means that if you upgrade the distro from RHEL X to RHEL Y (which brings a python 3.x) you break a user's environment. This was a constant problem when you were trying to go through the RHEL 5-6-7 upgrade paths among other things.

It hopefully will be resolving the issues of people and packaged software using weird old versions because it is there and breaking when something changes. My favourite example is having to write in ancient bash just to support MacOS which still ships bash 3 something.

In a shorter version, the interpreters are still there and buried, just not on $PATH and given to the user as a what they should use.

(This is opinion based on how I have seen people abuse systems and try to upgrade them over the years).
From having played with/worked on profiling and optimizing Redis in the 2.6 timeframe, I can confirm that at least for small/simple operations, this is true, the data structure access is a small fraction of the cost.

One related choice that Redis makes (or made at the time) is to rely extremely heavily on the malloc implementation, rather than doing work to manage it's memory internally. Even a very trivial, naive free list provided a modest speed-up, for example.

There are a lot of these choices in the code base, largely owing to maintainability concerns (though antirez can surely speak for himself). Given how easy it is for an otherwise uninitiated C programmer such as myself to hack on it, I struggle to disagree with the prioritization. :)
I'd push the blame a little further on. Many, many people are just struggling to get by, and they pay as little as they possible can for their luxury goods.

If they weren't struggling to get by on the wages they make, they could afford to be a little more picky about what they buy and how it's created.
Steel performs more poorly than you would expect in a fire
The flash in the Pi will eventually die. Other high density ICs may also die from the laws of thermodynamics.
Well said, and this is exactly why we should murder all of them.
Tax rate is figured off of gross. You could easily inflate your tax burden by taking it as a percentage of net income.
> I can't imagine that we're doing our federal accounting in the 21st Century on paper that's stored only in one central location.
I'm not a conspiracy theorist, nor do I even remotely believe the idea that there's some sort of cover-up. But I will say one should _never_ assume the federal government doesn't do almost everything in the most backward, ancient way possible. Certainly they have tons of meetings, task-forces and plans to update things. Yet mostly they just flounder and keep on using ancient technology... like paper.
I thought the big thing would be getting early warning on problems, but what I'm hearing is that the team really likes having a forum where they can express their sentiment anonymously and seeing how the rest of the team is feeling.

I think that second piece is more about having a common metric that can be tracked sprint to sprint.
I always feared this day, I also fear the day Linus steps down / passes away. I don't know who can fill their shoes without them getting too lenient or too carried away.
So I guess this is just an opportunity for you to get rid of Stallman.
Yes, plenty of people have assets that don't appreciate a ton over a long period of time. Even with stock — you don't know in January if it's going to be worth more in December. So you make some calculation and sometimes end up holding it. Also, people hold onto things for sentimental reasons (inherited from relatives, etc.). But the bottom line is that anyone who holds any asset for 20 years and then sells it is going to pay tax on the inflation that occurred during that period.
>I'd never in my life have thought I'd have bought a car > $50,000 and here I am with a AWD LR Model 3 and loving it! My other car was a 2011 Ford Fiesta. If you don't want to purchase one, don't do a test drive

What about the Model 3 swayed your opinion enough to spend 2-3x more on a car than you previously had? I love that Tesla has finally brought "cool" electric cars to the market that don't look like they were purposefully designed be a science experiment (Honda Insight, older Priuses, etc...). However, as a long time auto enthusiast I can't help but wonder how many people who share your sentiment of "once you drive it you'll need it" would end up in a different car if they had also test driven other similarly priced performance cars like the M3/M4, RS3 and C63 AMG.

I find it interesting that a tech company has been able to convince people to spend significantly more on a car than they ever would have, and the only two reasons I can come up with are the convenience of charging at home and the big screen. I'm not suggesting Tesla makes sub-par products by any means, only that exciting cars packed with features have been around forever. Many driver's assists like auto pilot and self-parking that people rave about have been offered by Mercedes and BMW for longer than Tesla has even existed, so I don't think that's it, but of course people could be unaware of those features. I'm excited to see what other boundaries Tesla pushes, because every other manufacturer has no option but to play keep up now.
This sort of quid pro quo on infrastructure funding is not uncommon and big developers are familiar with it as a concept.

The city where I live made re-development of an old railyard contingent on funding a new bridge over the tracks that were still active. It worked out great for everyone; now there's a nice new neighborhood and fewer accidents on the new bridge, which is wider and straighter.
Can you mention the tags you are experiencing this in? I see this complaint all the time and yet I don't observe it myself despite being quite active on the site (but in only specific tags)...
Satellites That Can Pinpoint Methane and Carbon Dioxide Leaks (2018)
The ultimate "hack" is to hack your own brain. It's how the metaphorical man riding the elephant [1] gets the most mileage out of his efforts, figuring out how to manipulate the elephant any way necessary.

The intelligent, rational part of the brain sneers derisively at the invisible mask. It's obviously not there. It obviously can't do anything. It is, in its own way, entirely correct. Yet the elephant does not think that way, and to it, the mask is there and effective, and in its own way, it too is entirely correct.

This is how you break bad habits, make good habits, deal with procrastination, and any number of other life goals the rider may find desirable. You don't just sit there futilely trying to kick the elephant harder directly in the direction you want to go; you figure out how to lead it to want what you want it to want. The rider has an immense amount of control, once the rider embraces how little control the rider has.

(At least for a while, one of the YCombinator entrance questions was to describe a time you hacked a system or something. I think if I were ever to apply, I'd pull my answer from this. One of my biggest personal ones is just telling myself "Look, literally millions of other people have done this (in some cases billions), surely I can manage too?" Is, for example, the first day of college scary in some ways? Sure. But how hard can it really be? An awful lot of people make it through the first day.)

[1]: http://sourcesofinsight.com/the-elephant-and-the-rider/
It's not about the difficulty of raising prices, it's about the impact to the bottom line profit to shareholders when a few cents is extrapolated over a billion transactions.
The big problem for Netflix was that their data was all from DVD rentals, but by the end of the contest, their business model was very streaming oriented. As you might imagine, people have beliefs about what they'll want to watch in a few days that don't exactly match up with what they want to watch now. That difference killed the model.