skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's an ad, but it's the sort of ad I sincerely desire to see. C'mon, this is immensely cool.
Deutsche Bank says robots are already replacing workers plan to axe 18,000 jobs
In 2018, Intel spent $15B on share repurchases and dividend issuances... if more cash could improve their offerings, they aren’t acting like it.
It's an opt-in program. I'd be upset if it were mandatory or opt-out. But opt-in doesn't bother me.

> How do I participate in the Intel® Computing Improvement Program?

>When you download and install the Intel® Computing Improvement Program, click Accept on the invitation to join.

> What if I don't choose to participate?

> System performance information is not collected or sent to Intel. As a result, performance information from your computer cannot be used to improve future products.

Usual disclaimers: I don't work for Intel, never have, no plans to, no direct financial interest in them, etc.
Furthermore, the data may be static, but de-anonymization capabilities are not and may improve over time to identify someone.

For example, if they're tracking all instances of various ailments seen by some doctor in some time period. Suppose you are the only person of a given age and gender with that ailment, so that bucket would one entry for anonymous you. Fine. But then suppose the aggregating party begins to buy and correlate against credit card and location records that place you at the doctor's office in that time frame, bingo, they have a match to tie all three data.
Not in the US. The property owner is liable for injury in the property even if the person was trespassing or committing a crime. People have legally shot intruders in their home and then been successfully sued in civil court for the injuries to the intruder. I had a freight elevator door pin my hand and damage a bunch of nerves while I was helping someone move furniture into his illegal Brooklyn loft. I got $50k for it. I carried $1M liability insurance on my Brooklyn townhouse because some visitor could slip and fall and sue me for all sorts of hardship. The system is broken.

On the flip side I now live in a country where the law guarantees public access to the river running alongside of my property. The locals don’t actually know how the law works, only that they are supposed to have river access. So they jump fences, walk through my property, steal things on their way by, cut down my trees to make smokey fires for their bbq, piss and shit all over, leave empty beer cans and bottles and trash on the riverbank or in the river, and then swear that it’s their right to do so. So when they enter my property, they get a shotgun in their face and they are encouraged to find one of the myriad of other points of entry to the river. The law says they can access the river, but not that they can trespass to do it. Enter from the abandoned field on the other side. It’s the same river.

The public don’t respect public places. They treat them as private places they can destroy and leave. The article talks about the place where homeless people would shelter from the wind but fails to mention that they also piss there until the spot reeks from 3 meters away. Is that their right too?
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There, that wasn't so hard.

Take a lesson, OP, list specific verifiable arguments instead of ad hominem "yeah those guys suck as usual".
Can they see the oil? I read mobile fish can avoid it, but shellfish and such can't move that fast if they're already in it.

https://www.itopf.org/knowledge-resources/documents-guides/e...
I wonder when the middle class and the entrepreneurs will realize the price was too high for the promise of reforms.
I won't comment on other countries but the 2018 elections in Brazil are a warning for all people that think voting for an "outsider" is the way to solve problems. Fun fact, Bolsonaro has been a politician for 28 years but still ran the campaign on the "outsider" message.

Reason #1 I'm avoiding the news, I just want 2022 to be here soon.
So, just like if it's banged unloading it at the shop (ie store), or dropped by a member of sales staff?

If the seats are rendered useless/unsafe by unseeable damage then shouldn't they have integral g-force indicators (like you get to indicate proper parcel handling)?
Paged Out Issue #2 [pdf]
2001 was a silly time. Obviously, in any domain, there are times when we must judge a book by its cover for sake of there being only so little time in the world; but it seems so bizarre - well, maybe not bizarre for Paul Graham, but whatever - for someone to write this long-winded article talking about why "XYZ technology I've never used sucks." (Of course, Java sucks IMO, but this is a very poor critique)

I find it amusing Paul regards C's origins as being "hacker" and Java being apparently not. How exactly was Java's original design (as Oak) by James Gosling that much different under the circumstances by which C was developed by Dennis Ritchie when Bell had been reworking PDP-11 UNIX?
Which facts about FedEx were misrepresented?
Ask Ethan had a great answer to this question "Can Stars Escape From The Galaxy, With Planets Intact?":

https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2016/09/10/ask-...
Some what relevant

https://ungleich.ch/u/blog/how-to-run-your-browser-in-the-cl... (which will ultimately lead you to https://guacamole.apache.org/)
You’re right on. Chemical analysis has already confirmed that the oil comes from Venezuelan fields, and the quantity is smaller than you’d expect, they are currently investigating a handful of suspect ships, but most likely the responsible one would have had its comm equipment turned off and hence not recorded by radar.
Exactly when I went to college (Mechanical Engineering) some of the machine tools we had in the labs where WW2 vintage
The kind that's an awesome person?
Page 60 of their 2019 annual report will show you (link below). The TCJA (Tax Cut/Job Act) removed $1.354 billion from what they were expected to pay. They had several other benefits against their overall tax rate, but that was by far the highest in 2018. It lead to them owing -5% in taxes or $219 million.

http://s1.q4cdn.com/714383399/files/doc_financials/annual/20...
Booster seats are cheap, so it isn't worth evaluation. Car seats get expensive fast.
Disable javascript and your time on the internet will improve substantially.
Your code doesn't seem to have any tests?
The Three Personalities of America
This is blogspam. Here's the original post: https://patrickcollison.com/pollution
You might want to take a look at my repository:

https://git.shivering-isles.com/container-library/dns-over-h...

It's not that complicated to run DoH, one just has to do it.
Thank you, that's precisely what I've been looking for but have not been able to put into a google search!
> (supposedly) makes law enforcement difficult

You don't need that parenthesized qualifier, and putting it there seems unfair. If we are to have a fair, honest discussion focusing on the merits we need to recognize when the opposing side makes a valid point, and it is pretty obvious that secure & encrypted communications does make law enforcement materially more difficult.

Once this point is accepted we can focus the discussion on whether the trade off is worth it.
>Did anyone say no?

>Two people declined to re-license their contributions to Racket.

Although it is entirely within their right, it baffles me why anyone would say no. At the end of the day, it's still open source, and the more important bits are still LGPL. I'm personally within that camp that prefers MIT licensed code. I don't think forced freedom is truly freedom (thinking of the GPL here).

Edit: I much rather have the right to allow others to copy over being forced to allow everyone to copy even if I rework an entire project.
It's not truly voluntary unless it's opt-in.
The FedEx statement seems like a classic example of corporate deception. It seems very carefully worded, probably by a team of attorneys, to be technically true but grossly misleading.

The tell is that FedEx calls the NYT article "factually incorrect" but never states exactly what assertions they dispute.

It's as if they want the reader and the media to infer that FedEx actually did pay taxes on billions in profit, or that FedEx actually did increase their investments as the phony rationale for the tax cut promised.

But since FedEx never actually says any of that, and instead just tries to infer it through clever wording, I'm going to trust NYT over this corporate snow job.

When FedEx twists the argument to accuse the NYT of also not increasing their capital investments, the whole thing reeks of Facebook's disinfo campaign to "deny and deflect" fundamentally factual reporting.
They also keep it after you eventually opt out.
Normal Short termism for listed companies not just PE
Luckily speech (math, algorithms, etc) are protected in the US and many other developed countries so even when the PGP code was considered a 'munition', at the end of the day they couldn't/wouldn't bother charging the creator of PGP with exporting munitions[0]. Currently the same shame 'investigation' is occurring with 3D blueprints to print firearms[1] but it's almost certainly going to fall under protected speech as well.

The difference between the two is that encrypted data can also be considered speech while the actual manufacture/printing of a gun can be regulated. The big IF at least in the US IMHO is whether the government can force private companies to not offer E2EE but there is 0% chance that encryption in general could be criminalized. i.e it will always be legal to send PGP encrypted text through WhatsApp or a private Chanel (self-hosting IRC, email, etc.)

So the hypothetical law you proposed wouldn't be legal in the US. On the other hand, if major companies are forced to break their E2EE, it will make the rest of us stand out like a really sore thumb.
Agreed.

Anything not dealing with politics is pretty decent, but nearly everything they print now has to have some political slant or cheap shot at the current administration.

I remember reading a recent article about the drought in California. Pretty well written article, but of course about midway through the article there were two paragraphs highlighting Trump's opinion that climate change isn't real, blah blah blah. Even though the whole mess has been a direct result of the state government completely mismanaging their own resources.

It's no wonder most people on the right just completely discount them now as a reliable new source. It wasn't always the case, but from the time of the beginning of the 2016 election to now, it's all been downhill.
More of the "but what about them" logic, or "they did it too so it's fine".

NYT should put out an article criticizing themselves AND FedEx, maybe they're both shitty but doesn't excuse one or the other.
TL;DR

Why relicense?

... First, it is unclear how to apply the LGPL’s statement about dynamic linking to a language like Racket, where macro expansion can copy code from libraries to applications, and where applications are typically bundled with the Racket runtime and libraries. Second, some organizations unfortunately are unwilling to use software licensed under any variant of the GPL.

The first, dynamic linking exception, could maybe be patched up with some effort by FSF resulting in a new LGPL license. The second is more of a developers voting with their feet thing.
>I have ridden a fairly large amount of Amtrak. I have never seen the boarding process cause a delay. I find the boarding process to be much preferable to airplanes.

Same here. I frequently ride between Boston and New York.
In New York, I've seen over 200+ people leave the train and another 200+ board the train, especially on Sunday evenings. The whole process takes < 15 minutes.
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> people will use less water, they won't even notice any effect

These are mutually exclusive statements in this context.
I don't think this is even "somewhat" justified.

The legitimate way to acquire this information would be to purchase it from partners who have a legitimate reason to collect it. If you want to know how popular 4K streaming is, for instance, Netflix, Twitch (etc) can provide that information.

My uninformed guess is that the information would be far less costly and of far better quality than using some large-scale spyware deployment instead. Unless there's something more that can make it worth Intel's while.
As a general rule for necessities, if you want it to be cheap enough for the poor to be able to comfortably use what they need it has to be cheap enough for the rich to waste it. For water specifically, Private use is a drop in the bucket compared to commercial and agricultural use.
From the article this statement is responding to:

> Companies that make up the S&P 500 index had an average effective tax rate of 18.1 percent in 2018, down from 25.9 percent in 2016, according to an analysis of securities filings. More than 200 of those companies saw their effective tax rates fall by 10 points or more. Nearly three dozen, including FedEx, saw their tax rates fall to zero or reported that tax authorities owed them money.

> From the first quarter of 2018, when the law fully took effect, companies have spent nearly three times as much on additional dividends and stock buybacks, which boost a company’s stock price and market value, than on increased investment.

This is concrete, relevant data (unlike the argument made by the FedEx CEO, as others have already mentioned). I'm curious if anyone in the pro-Fedex crowd can provide evidence to the contrary.

The increasing share of wealth that is moving from the bottom 90% into the hands of the top 1% in the US is a real concern to me. And I suspect a big part of that has to do with the recent trend of stock buybacks and dividend increases, which benefits shareholders and not workers. How many people in the bottom 50% (or even 90%) actually own a significant amount of stock, do you think?

The first source I found on this topic states: [1]

In 2016, American households headed by someone aged 32-61 averaged $120,809.40 in retirement savings, or $264,453.30 using an expansive calculation. Using the same calculations and definitions, American households have a median of $7,800 and $17,000 saved, respectively.

[1] https://dqydj.com/retirement-savings-average-median-percenti...
(obviously) the same post 4 days in a row...
I agree that typical debates are far from perfect, but NY Times and many other media outlets are reporting a very biased slant on this topic. There’s effectively only one voice on the debate stage.

We’ve seen this many times before. A cartoon character of a complex issue is created, and the media pump out clickbait stories based on that.

What’s the most effective way to motivate a more accurate discussion of this topic?
The "car" evacuation plan seemed to have verged on failure in Fort McMurray. People didn't have enough gas and the roads were clogged. The 25,000 people who fled north ran short of supplies quickly.

So the assumption that "90% of people won't need government help" clearly failed to hold true for this relatively small evacuation of 88k people.
I like this. My neighbor is a billionaire and I think I'll replace my fence with one of these so I can see his property better. It's very nice!
Gett Shuts Down Juno, Partners with Lyft in US
Yes, but it's also ridiculous to have the Switch spam IPs in the space like that. Boo on both of them.
It has an ordinary display and a lenticular lens on top of it.
Why is it that now AI is a hot topic all these physicist and other scientist are suddenly all chipping in with their opinions like they have substantive opinions about the subject? Sure they understand maths, but there is a lot more to the subject than that, get off our bandwagon!
Or more analogously, how the agricultural lobby opposes legislation on immigration, animal welfare, and food standards.
Because I'm aware of their history and the positions they've taken on privacy issues. They've always been the actual pro-privacy group, unlike the others which represent tech industry interests.

The EFF, popular with many tech workers, also falls into the latter group. They've started to pivot post all the privacy scandals of the past few years, but in general they've taken positions that align with the tech industry. There's a reason why they've been preoccupied with government surveillance but have been silent (until recently) about corporate surveillance.
> Corporate taxes are just reflected to consumers as higher prices or to workers as lower wages.

The United States has had a corporate income tax since 1909, but in all the years since there is a major question about it that economists haven’t been able to answer satisfactorily: who pays it? [...] Probably most people assume that the corporate income tax is largely paid by consumers of its products or services. That is, they assume that although the tax is nominally levied on the corporation as a whole, in fact the burden of the tax is shifted onto customers in the form of higher prices.

All economists reject that idea. [...] That leaves two remaining groups that may bear the burden of the corporate tax: workers and shareholders. [...] Most economists now agree that the burden of the corporate income tax falls on labor to some extent, but there is disagreement over the degree. [...] People should be aware that even the best academic economists disagree on the basics of who actually pays the corporate tax.

https://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/19/who-pays-the-c...
I suspect most second hand car seats are immediately traded in. If you watch the market most second hard car seats are sold at the time of the target sale.
The "whataboutism" is the crux of the issue though. Everyone does their best to minimize their tax burden every year - this is completely rational behavior. I don't know what point the NYT was trying to make, other than maybe showing that FedEx has some good accountants. The debate that we should be having, and the one that FedEx is perhaps crudely trying to edge us toward, is whether these tax policies actually "help". They are going to say it does, and that they invest that money in the broader economy. The NYT would probably say something similar with regard to the value of journalism.
this also happened in 90's drum and bass/jungle when Ed rush started using distorted bass following along the sub bass so you could actually hear bass solo's/breakdowns on small speakers. before that you would have like a 30 minute silence if you did not have proper speakers
This is really useful advice, thank you.
Ampere EMAG (Arm64) vs. Xeon/EPYC (x86) Benchmark on Kubernetes
I think it’s more that Americans culturally tend to the “extreme sports” mentality in many aspects of their lives. Biggest baddest loudest most intense most successful mosh committed hardest working are all excessively venerated here.
Do you have source for the chemical analysis? Curious to read...
Does Honda need to know the categories of addresses I drive to?

Does Pentel need to know the categories of ransom notes that I write?
Reminds me of an old plumbing trick: got a really stuck toilet? Pour a little dish soap into the bowl. It makes everything slippery so dislodging debris is much easier.
Sure thing.

So most of the problems I have with using NoSQL type databases for financial data is related to the default settings and examples encouraging a model of programming, that will result in data loss, migration problems, race conditions, duplicate transactions. It's a bit like PHP in my mind, where you can write solid software, but in order to do so, you have to have very good discipline. I would rather choose a more constrained model, that forces you think about these problems and provides some safety out of the box. So in that sense you are right in your observation that my main issue with it is, that you have to mitigate problems, that shouldn't be problems. Then again MongoDB was never designed with those kinds of problems in mind and targets a completely different set of problems, which in itself is fine.

Edit: I'll add a few more thoughts. Financial data in essence is relational. It is also well shardable if scaling is an issue. There are many constraints that need to be validated and it is a natural fit in my mind.
I'm sorry about that! That's sounds like a really terrible experience you had trying this out today. It must feel really uncomfortable to not be in control of what's happening on screen.

Edit: the HK site is back up. https://hk.cloudbrowser.xyz

There's a couple of factors that could be playing into this. Primarily it's likely just the application itself. It is more slow, and less responsive than using a regular browser on your device.

The frame-rate is capped very low, the image quality is lower, and there's more lag to each interaction since it involves (at the very least) a WebSocket round trip and a screenshot.

Secondly, you could be affected by geography, which has a very significant effect. If you are close to the primary server (US East, Virginia) you'll have a faster more responsive experience.

In a few minutes I'll have the HK server (Asia Pacific) back up ( I was just resizing it down, it was seeing significantly less use than the US server), and if you're closer to that you can try there.

Also, the free demo has many caps (so as to control costs). I cap the outgoing bandwidth of each user to a very low 3Mbit/s, and I use multiple ways to cap CPU usage, including (in extreme cases) killing the process. All of this means that if the page you are using wants to eat a lot of CPU (happens sometimes) then the app will slow right down for you (to preserve resources for everyone else on the system).

I can say confidently that it is not about the number of users. We had More 100s at peak before and a single browser still felt snappy. So if you're getting slow down I think it is (to summarise), either:

- You are experiencing the app for the first time, it is different to using a normal browser, interactions are slower and more choppy (but page loads should be as fast or faster).

- The page you are browsing is hitting the resource monitoring and being downregulated.

- You are link-wise far from the server (which is often, but not always, related to geography).

If you're interested to give it another try I'm at another time I'm happy to arrange that. Would you be unwilling to leave your email at this form, and I can let you know a quieter time? Also, if you just email me at cris@dosycorp.com and let me know your approximate location, I can set up a server near you and we can attempt to work out any leg issues still occurring.
Enemy at the (Billing) Gates
I think there should be a big (maybe red?) disclaimer at the very top explaining that this should only be used for fun, experimental and learning purposes. No real money should be invested into it too.

Just in case somebody thinks it's real and go full retard with it.
The NYT piece seems to be a great example of factual statements not telling the full story. I'm a NYT subscriber and value their reporting, but I think they fell short here. It's easy to get a sense from the article that tax reform simply saved FedEx about $1.5 billion (the amount they owed the previous year). But it's more complicated than that.

Yes, tax reform helped FedEx lower their tax bill. But a huge chunk of that was due to temporary behavior changes FedEx made in response to the bill - not a permanent reduction in how much they will owe each year. One of the ways they saved a lot of money was investing a lot into assets for which they could deduct 100% of future depreciation immediately. This is a temporary part of tax reform. They would have been able to deduct that value eventually anyway, just over a long period of time.
Looks pretty cool! I'm always unsure of separating my buy and sell side logic. Was there a deliberate decision to separate those functions, rather than passing the side as an argument?