skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many Linux utilities do things with the kibi terms, using the MiB, GiB, TiB units.

There have been a few lawsuits about this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix#Consumer_confusi...

The outcome is that hard drive manufacturers need to explicitly print their definition of a "gigabyte". IMHO, it's not a right or wrong discussion, just a difference.
How satisfying to watch that video....
So, Twitter shares of the article also use the current headline on HN, "Facebook, Google Donate Heavily to Privacy Advocacy Groups". It looks like Bloomberg Law changed the title, but the original submitter here did use the article title at the time.

Hopefully dang can update the title here as well.
Microsoft to Start Killing Off Cortana for iOS and Android in January
Whataboutism is justifying one party's actions by pointing at another party and saying "they do it too."

This isn't that. Fedex is saying that they do a lot more for the national economy that the NYT. They pay more in taxes, they invest more in assets, etc.
Are you saying that every time the New York Times publishes an article, and a corporation disagrees with the vetted, researched facts published by the paper of record in the United States, that we should hear out the corporation in a pubic forum?

I vehemently disagree. Facts are not up for debate, no matter how much money is behind the people who would like to debate them.

Additionally, implying that corporate executives don't have a platform to push their side of whatever argument they are fighting is inane.
I'm looking for optimization on money spent on SaaS, not cloud providers, but thanks anyway!
It's unsurprising it is a surprise?
Almost certainly regulations. There's a cafe/dispensary combination in Redmond, but all of the various parts are separated.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-point_harness you can follow links for more...
Streamlit 101: building sleek web apps for EDA/ML models using pure Python
Most so-called democratic governments are running the same game. They support the word democracy, but when it comes to all the parts that actually make democracy work they often take the authoritarian stance.
I think this is among the best reasons I've heard in this discussion to avoid Chrome. The other reasons to not use firefox (at least for me on OBSD for now, given that pledge/unveil support for FF are still in progress, and no way I know to use exception lists for images/cookies/javascript without an external plugin), might still outweigh it.
Seven years from now in the space future
Have you seen Kumu? https://kumu.io

It doesn't support standard UML diagrams but between sketch mode [1] [2] and icons [3] you may be pleasantly surprised. I personally use it to map out Kumu's own internal application structure and flows.

Full disclosure: I am the lead developer and cofounder of Kumu.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wX3kbCyOamQ (Gene Bellinger's intro to Kumu's sketch mode)

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFOz67co0yA (Benjamin Mosior sketching wardley maps in Kumu)

[3]: https://docs.kumu.io/guides/icons.html (Kumu docs on Font Awesome support)
I wear shirts with breast pockets and the part with the light extends past the top of them.
Could you explain why the restriction over selling user data would be a violation of first amendment rights?

Overall, isn't your last point also the source of problems? If the whole idea is to be able to exert regulatory control, to protect users, over companies that seem to have a huge share on decision-making in this space due to their unmatched wealth, how is their parting with a minuscule portion of their wealth so they can potentially influence a decision made on the topic of restricting them, solve any problems in the first place? It seems like a stretch to suggest that privacy advocacy groups need money from tech giants to support themselves.

I agree that every organization needs the money but the problem at hand is that every organization should not ideally depend on tech company donations because they have amassed the largest sums. Since this is the problem these laws are trying to address in the first place, I am not sure taking donations from tech giants would solve the problem, even if it doesn't exacerbate it (assuming for a moment that the tech giants are actually being a force of good here).
>as you pointed out Fedex is just following fed tax policy that it doesn't control.

That is incorrect. According to the article FedEx is referencing [1], the NY Times wrote that FedEx (along with UPS) met regularly with Congressional committee staff who were writing the tax policy and pushed hard for their own agenda.

1. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/17/business/how-fedex-cut-it...

FedEx spent $10 million on lobbying in 2017, in line with previous spending, with much of it focused on tax issues, according to federal records. Its team pushed hard to shape the bill behind the scenes, meeting regularly with House and Senate committee staff who were writing the provisions.

Mr. Smith met with Mr. Trump and Vice President Mike Pence in February 2017, and on May 26 he spoke on the phone with Steven Mnuchin, the Treasury secretary, according to Mr. Mnuchin’s public calendar.

EDIT: correcting formatting issues.
The problem is it isn't journalism, it's activism. People say corporate media is biased, but I think that falls short. It's not simply biased, it has an agenda. "Company follows tax laws" is not news. Whatever any individual company pays in taxes is not news unless there's criminal fraud of some sort. So it's completely fair to call them out in this way.
> it baffles me why anyone would say no

Because they preferred the original license?
They can strip the request down to the domain name, hash that with a OTP to do a fuzzy lookup on their end which would be difficult (not impossible) to reverse per reference, but would require APT to do en masse.

There is probably some flaw with this method... curious if others think there's a "safe enough" way to do something like this...
I have a feeling that the vast majority of transactions are from bots like this, from the naive "moneymakers" (like this one with a $3 return) to ones with extreme sophistication.

The naivete here is that it only makes money if the market is rising long term. If it is falling over the long term then you'll get stuck with a bunch of losses.

The results it generates are no different than buying at random times and selling random bets at random times.
They claim the story is factually incorrect, but provide no corrections.

There were two claims in the NY Times story:

1) FedEx paid $0 in tax

2) FedEx "has not made good on its promised investment surge"

In response, FedEx wrote in their statement:

1) our billions of dollars of tax payments whereby they dispute paying $0 in taxes

2) $6 billion of capital that FedEx invested in the U.S. economy

This directly contradicts what the NY Times wrote. And then they further point that the NY Times is actually guilty of what the NY Times is accusing FedEx of. How is their statement a farce?

Further, the problem is that the tax code, especially for corporations, is so complex that anyone's tax payments can be spun any way you want them.

For example, I contributed the maximum allowed to my employer's 401k this year. Someone could spin a news story saying, "300bps is avoiding taxes!" because I legally did not pay tax on $19,000 of income I otherwise would've had to.

I don't know the particulars of FedEx's tax situation and honestly it would probably take me days of studying it before I could scratch the surface of understanding it. If FedEx did something illegal, there is a nice tax bounty the NY Times could get for reporting them - https://www.irs.gov/compliance/whistleblower-informant-award

The NY Times is obviously not aware of anything FedEx did that is illegal so instead they put out a piece accusing them of paying $0 tax and not investing enough.
Water should be cheap, it's less expensive overall that society dealing with poor water sources (healthcare, developmental). There should be a two tier price system. Cheap up to a threshold, then expensive beyond that, like with mobile internet.

And even then, tech to reduce waste is great and should be celebrated and is not mutually exclusive.
More I just saw, haven't read thoroughly yet: http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20191118055603
Easy access to satellite imagery helps, along with always keeping an open eye and ear out for these things.

That being said, Germany has a lots of abandoned factories and warehouses to explore once one gets out of the major cities. You're looking for places with large former industrial activity. That's why Detroit had so many photos coming out of it in the early 2010s. I'm sure Poland is also rife with buildings to explore.
After 5 hours you can put then in the case for charging:

> 5 minutes in the case provides around 1 hour of listening.

Together with the case Apple quotes 24h.
Usually this comes down to individuals which refuse out of principle because the don't agree with the actions taken OR are not allowed to do it because of current or past contracts (with employers or similar).
A public debate would do much more good than outright suing the NYT
Clojure is unique in that its definition is contingent upon a host VM (CLR, JVM originally, JS as well now). It's not hard to come up with code that will work in clojurescript but not Clojure/clr or clojure/jvm.

For client-side I tend to use Parenscript[1] which doesn't particularly try too hard to look like Common Lisp, but does allow for macros to be written in Common Lisp. Since it's not trying too hard to look like Common Lisp, javascript interop is dead-simple, but since the metaprogramming is in Common Lisp, I find it to be a good middle-ground.

[edit]

If it's not clear, parenscript has design requirements that make it unable to ever be a full common-lisp on its own; the desire is that you could emit a webpage where e.g. the onclick property is generated from parenscript, and it will work, without any other javascript libraries being loaded. This obviously means you, e.g. can't have a lisp numeric tower available.

1: https://common-lisp.net/project/parenscript/
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I do this sometimes, and it still ignores the quoted words in favour of giving me whatever results they want. I'm not sure when it was changed to no longer require quoted words in the results, but I usually just give up on the search at that point.
> what are you proposing as a solution? That privacy groups stop accepting money from tech companies? What that would do is cause them to have less money for privacy advocacy. Ask yourself who benefits from that.

This is a classic case of zooming in too far with your politics. You can maybe make this argument if you put blinders on and only consider the next best option in this exact political system, but really this is a paradigmatic example of Google & Facebook attempting both regulatory capture & crowding out organizations who would authentically advocate for users rather than gigantic corporations.

If you wake up every morning and choose the least evil of the options directly in front of you without once thinking of the bigger picture, you go to some truly bad places.
> The FedEx statement seems like a classic example of corporate deception.

This coincidentally also describes the NYTs piece which was also misleading, bordering on activism.
If enough people are interested I'm happy to do a webinar specifically for the HN crowd and do a deep dive on the technicals. Built on top of CouchDB and pretty neat stack overall.
I have used UMLet since 2005. The diagrams won't win a beauty contest, but they are quick to edit and depict the necessary information. https://www.umlet.com/

From the UMLet web page:

> UMLet is a free, open-source UML tool with a simple user interface: draw UML diagrams fast, build sequence and activity diagrams from plain text, export diagrams to eps, pdf, jpg, svg, and clipboard, share diagrams using Eclipse, and create new, custom UML elements. UMLet runs stand-alone or as Eclipse plug-in on Windows, OS X and Linux.

UMLetino runs UMLet in a web browser. Refer to the UMLet FAQ and sample diagrams for help. http://www.umletino.com/umletino.html
This isn't very interesting. This is just showing who makes the most weapons. It would be more interesting to see where those weapons go.
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> Well, on the other hand if such a system was implemented in the US, prices would stay the same. For me as an end user I don’t care if Wal-Mart eats those fees or Visa does, except I get a credit card where, as you say, I get points and whatnot to keep using.

There is no reason prices would stay the same, unless there was collusion between all the retailers. And neither Walmart nor Visa eat the fees. Anyone not earning credit card rewards eat the fees.

Also, money transfer infrastructure is just as important as healthcare. As is water, electricity, and transportation. I’m assuming you wouldn’t want the electric or gas company to charge what the market will bear when it’s -10C outside for a few weeks.
How do you know EPIC isn’t representing the interests of its own donors? I don’t think you’re applying a consistent standard here.
As someone who writes JavaScript for a living, :(
When people go where they go, and where they go next. This can help to figure out which interventions are even worth trying to improve things for public transport. I can imagine this would be very useful and relatively cheap to do.
What is this stuff made from? I hope they think of the fish, that's all.
This is what I was expecting honestly. I assume a good chunk to America, another chunk to other countries with "2nd Ammendment" like rights, or at least where it's legal to own guns for hunting.

Edit: Another interesting bit of information would show which guns by type, company, how many they create and what have you.
Yeah but what I meant was that this is becoming increasingly frequent. I mean you would think that Google would try to include pages matching your full query in the top results and then when you keep moving to subpages it could give some less related hits as well. Now I often see these in the top 3 results.
If the effect were present, and as large as implied, you’d expect low IQ test results in ultra-polluted Chinese cities such as Shanghai and Beijing. And yet... http://www.city-data.com/forum/world/2348902-china-iq-map-pr...
Sometimes, it just doesn't make sense. For example, I write and maintain the Linux kernel modules for one of the largest, most popular, and most powerful land vehicles in the world. It wouldn't make sense for us to release these to the open source community because it requires specific hardware that we make, specific FPGA firmware that we interface with, and it will only work with specific software we make. So there's at least one case where it wouldn't make sense to release this, and that's not even getting into the security aspect of things.
By "free" I just mean not under the threat of physical violence.

I'm not sure about the grocery store example. I can think of several different grocery stores near me that have wildly varying prices for similar items. Whole Foods is a lot more expensive than Aldi, for example, and they don't really hide it. They're catering to a different market and offering a certain social cachet in addition to the food that some buyers appear to feel is worth it, as they are free to do.

> A logical explanation of that would be that as long as they guard their prices closely so you can't compare them easily online or whatever, once you go to the store, you are not completely free. If you are buying one thing because it's a good deal, it's easier to buy other things there as well.

Of course you're still free while you're at the store! Being mildly inconvenienced is not an impingement on freedom. Freedom doesn't mean everything is handed to you at maximum convenience. It means it a choice that you can make.
I'm of the opinion they should add FPGAs to everything. Every chip now has an insane amount of die area dedicated to the northbridge or the L3 cache. Anything else turns the junk we buy into garbage the moment everyone switches to a new standard.
This is an easily searchable answer:
https://www.tripsavvy.com/washington-marijuana-smoking-regul...

https://www.thestranger.com/green-guide-spring-2018/2018/04/...

https://lcb.wa.gov/mj-education/know-the-law

it might or might not be a good idea to do some research before asking others to do research for you
Office noise bothers some people more than others
Not the point of the article, but what's the idiomatic way to generate [1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1]? The author's [1 for n in range(10)]? [1 for _ in range(10)]? [1]*10?
Thanks! Do you have any idea how easy it is to integrate that kind of service?
Suddenly I see a consumer use case for Gb fttp.
Looks to be similar specs and price to Model Y. It will be interesting to see if the Ford dealer network really embraces and markets this.

Seeing them officially launch Mach-E does make the electric truck going from demo to reality much more believable (
https://www.teslarati.com/ford-f-150-ev-1-million-lb-tow-dem... ).
Particularly if the contributions are trivial (which seems likely, since they removed/replaced the functionality in question already), trying to hold this over a project seems petty to me, and expresses the exact irritation I have with GPL.

These contributors "contributed", but then, maintained the ability to pull back those contributions when it suited them to do so, or were used as leverage to try and prevent a change supported by the majority.

I like permissive licenses because when I contributed open source code, it's meant to be a gift, not a gift with strings attached.
But thanks for sharing!
So the facts are wrong because rather than selling the data directly they only exploit it themselves for profit? That only holds while ignoring the fact that most of that profit comes from third parties who they're effectively selling data access to (e.g. ads where the profit is from Google's ability to know which ads to put in front of which users, effectively selling that user's privacy for profit).

Pointing out that ISPs are worse is really neither here nor there. Just because big tech isn't the worst does absolve them of criticism nor is a compelling argument for why we cannot talk about them lobbying for the law to allow them to continue to do what they're doing or even expand it.

I'm not even going to try and address why we cannot have privacy because of "legitimate first amendment problem[s]" or because it would result in "law[s] against strong encryption." I don't consider those arguments to even pass the basic sniff test, they feel like throwing out every argument under the sun and seeing what sticks. Almost to Gish Gallop levels.

> This is gotcha journalism

That isn't what "gotcha journalism" means. Collecting facts, presenting those facts, and putting a negative spin on it isn't "gotcha journalism" because the journalist didn't trick Google or Facebook into doing these things, they're simply telling the public that they did. In fact the term doesn't really to apply to journalism outside of interviews, see:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotcha_journalism
Nice, I thought Sweden would be higher on the list. In Sweden we're always told that we're best and most in everything you know...

The blur slows my phone down though, and the scrolling of the map locks the screen. Maybe it's only a map though? Nothing after? In which case the large header is unnecessary.
Under that logic wouldn't a farmer farming for private gain have unearned money? They didn't make the land.

Not that there is never unjust rent-seeking activity but there are real investment of capital and work involved and merely "dependence on land" isn't a sufficient arguement.
Who is more influential?
There's a middle ground. They could require all of their employees to opt their households in. They have a lot of employees.

If that's not enough, they could also require all their contractors to opt their households in.
Yeah probably 90% of actors in elixir hold state that is relevant to a connection status. Think, tcp state machine or http connection state. It is veeery nice to have a state machine back your inbound http long poll or websockets connections if you want to do serverside rendering or serverside content streaming etc.

The other case is when you're doing something cqrs-ey where you can have competing load balances requests and you need to make sure that writes are logged, committed, then executed, and reads are cached. You should use an actor for that but ultimately your data will reside in a database.
There's just one response so I reposted same question.

In your experience what is the most viable way to make money online?
Sounds like they just want equal footing for responding to accusations. I hope it happens. It would be entertaining.
taxed properly and the fund being used properly, which might be just as hard as Facebook and Google only caring about social good.
I’ve read that one consequence of legalization in California has been an explosion of interest in CBD and low THC/ high CBD strains, along with greater interest from women. This surprised a lot of people. In an interview with the owner of Henry’s (sorry no cite), he said that originally the company devoted 5% of grow to such strains, now they’re close to 40%.

Things may be moving in the direction you’re hoping for, at least in CA. It’d be interesting to see what’s happening in other states. But there is some evidence that the market that emerges post legalization is mainly interested in the equivalent of a pint of Pilsner or a glass or two of wine
I didn't read all of this but "taxes" is a loaded question.

I'm assuming the $2B is about payroll taxes, their share of federal income tax for W2 employees. All companies with these type of employees pay some of these (along with SS and workman's comp, etc.)

There is another question of corporate taxes. Corporate taxes work different than individual taxes.
For individuals we: EARN > PAY TAKES > SPEND. However, for corporations they: EARN > SPEND > PAY TAXES. This means that all companies can choose to pay no corporate taxes ever. This is purposeful and the intent of the tax code is to encourage reinvestment and expansion and capital expenditures like new equipment because this keeps more people employed long term. This is always why people don't understand when company X paid $0 in corporate taxes. It is a choice. It should be expected from someone like Amazon who re-invests so heavily.

Now if a company wants to have cash on hand or do stock buybacks, they they must realize this money and pay taxes on it. The new tax laws made this a much much more attractive proposition. The "promise" was that this would be spent on expansion however most was spent on stock buybacks which is a large driver of the stock market up in the last year despite interest rates around zero and rapidly slowing growth. It seems to me that this is the jist of the NYT article. The $0 is just to grab headlines. Lots of companies lobbied for these cuts for "expansion" but none of them did. They took the opportunity to leverage it against stock price which makes sense for the C suite since that is a major part of their compensation. This is another reason that board members, C suite and VPs of public companies should not be paid in stocks or options or RSUs.
This is contrary to my personal experience so I would recommend people test it for themselves. The Sony to me sound far more balanced compared to the muddy, bass-heavy Bose.

I love the Sonys, with a couple caveats that have been mentioned: hand gestures are a gimmick (sometimes skips a track if you remove your headphones the "wrong" way), default charging cable is too short, and my number 1 pet peeve, the announcer voice (for low battery, changing NC modes) mutes the sound, and those announcements are slooooow, which means you sometimes have to skip back if you miss something you were listening to. All minor annoyances compared to the great experience of using the product, though.