skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All outstanding gift (and loyalty) card balance is counted as liability because they represent good/services (and in some cases money) that the business currently owes to customers. I worked in the gift/loyalty industry, and the article gets most things right, but the specifics depend a lot on the jurisdiction and the nature of the program.

In markets that don’t regulate otherwise, a typical program will count unused balance as breakage 12 months after issue. The typical balance on such a card would amount to unspent change from a purchase. In regulated markets, they’ll just follow whatever the regulation is, which sometimes requires charging an “account maintenance” fee, instead of just removing the balance.

What happens to the money before it is either redeemed or taken as breakage depends again on the specifics of the program and the jurisdiction. Sometimes it will be required to be held in a trust, or in some other form of escrow. Often this will preclude the possibility of earning interest.

Sometimes the gift card provider and the merchant are different parties. An example of this would be a mall that sells a gift card that you can use to redeem at any store in the mall, or a visa gift card. In this case, the program operator does not simply exchange the balance for stock, they have to settle cash with the merchant.

Loyalty liability is different again, because that’s liability that you never received a direct payment for in the first place.

The one huge mistake that this article makes is that it claims the breakage income is 100% profit. This ignores the costs of operating the program, which is usually millions of dollars. Small retailers would receive trivial breakage income, and would not necessarily even cover program costs with it. Medium size retailers may or may not generate a profit on breakage, large retailers likely do, but their program expenses are also enormous. The real value to the business is customer acquisition.
Just further lols for you to consider-- the data shows a large difference with the processors in slot 0 being significantly slower than the processors in slot 1. Clearly silicon variation /s.

> Third, the median processor performance (shown by
the green, blue and red lines) between processor 0 and processor 1
on Sandy Bridge show up to 1% difference. However, that difference
in median processor performance increases to up to 5% on Broadwell

This socket 1 vs socket 2 variability alone explains 1/3rd of the magnitude of the difference measured in the study-- which makes it quite clear we're not just measuring silicon variability.
Even if you, specifically, cannot check the entirety of the Linux code, at once, right now, the Linux kernel code is open for checking and auditing. Anyone can check what code is written in it, and numerous experts have done so independently. Moreover, every single change in the Linux kernel is incrementally recorded and documented, so every change was audited and evaluated all on its own, when its commit was introduced. Like a blockchain, you can at some degree trust that the code written before you started checking things has been adequately audited by experts, and you can continue the trend from this point onward.

None of this can happen or has happened with Windows. You gotta trust a company firmly shut to the outside world.
Sure, but it adds an illusion of portability, which is partly what GCP is taking advantage of in focusing it and definitely what Microsoft here is taking advantage of in promoting K8s to dark matter developers:

Part of Microsoft's implied message in heavily marketing K8s is that they know GCP is heavily K8s-based, and know GCP is heavily competing with them on price, and they are counting on some of that "dark matter conversion work" wanting to move towards the "more portable solution" in order to "maybe when the moons are right eventually shift over to GCP or something cheaper than Azure". By offering that conversion path at all, and knowing Enterprise's weakness for sunk costs development over from-scratch rewrites, they are playing a very different game than what GCP can offer.
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It seems to be an extract from "Foundations of Field Computation" by Bruce MacLennan, if you want to read the whole thing: http://web.eecs.utk.edu/~bmaclenn/FFC.pdf

He and Dr. Marcolli have a bunch of interesting stuff on their websites if you like this sort of stuff.
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Basic question: Why is this relevant? I've never heard of media.ccc.de, so what's so interesting about it that, as soon as they have a Roku channel, it's the top link at Hacker News?

I'm assuming that this organization is somehow controversial? Are they streaming pirated content or something that's politically controversial?
From reading the appeal, it appears a restaurant use is by right in that location.
I remain unconvinced that Cambridge Analytica had any material impact on the election. Please give me some hard evidence to the contrary. This whole scandal seems like a red herring onto which people project their a) anger about their losing candidate or b) their personal and often unsubstantiated beliefs about the "harm" they could experience due to "big data".
it's not really my point. the law is deficient in the sense that it doesn't cover this edge case. so why not address the edge case?

IMO Khosla should present some numbers on how much it would reasonably cost to maintain whatever land he owns that would be used by the public to get to the beach and the gov't should agree to reimburse some reasonable expense on a quarterly basis.
Parent's HN profile indicates a 2009 registration date and whose Keybase reveals they're a software dev... I'd bet he knows how to block javascript and/or maintain a host files block list. But I'm being assumptive.
A cynical comment that has some roots in truth, but really needs some metrics defined to be useful :-)

By time spent? Not on anything but the tiniest projects which are likely to be loss-leaders anyway.

By value added? For consulting company, sure, that's one way to look at it; for the customer, probably not :P

For the purposes of my post, pre-sales/sales/RFP/whatever were assumed to be done prior to start of implementation.

Though I will agree that how ERP project is pitched/sold may well have an impact on the delivery:

- the IT vs BT categorization per above is likely implicitly or explicitly setup at these early stages

- who the stakeholders/champions are / who signed off on purchase and why - the CIO because their previous product is EOL? The VP of functional department (HR/Finance/etc) because they want to realize value in changing processes? Etc

- are the timelines and deliverables reasonable

- is the goal / value realized / ROI well defined and agreed

- are the requirements and scope well defined and agreed

- etc

(edited to change nested brackets into bullet points :P )
Context is aviation software has been in the news lately so yNews is geeking out.
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How about Shiva Ayyadurai's suit to try and kill TechDirt when TechDirt wrote that he didn't invent email?

https://www.thedailybeast.com/gawker-killing-lawyer-charles-...

Or Barry Honig's penny stock charades where Harder represented the fraudster in suing people who wrote about his fraud and then represented another alleged penny-stock fraudster John Hurry in his suits against journalists who wrote about his fraud:

https://www.teribuhl.com/2019/03/28/about-that-insider-story...

Harder is a bad dude who sues journalists for seriously troubling reasons. That many people agreed with his takedown of Gawker is unfortunate when the rest of his 'portfolio' is so poisonous to the first amendment.
McCLIM is and has always been a total mess (stability, look and feel, speed, platform support, feeling of robustness) and I would definitely not recommend it, at its current state, to non-hardcore Common Lispers (since it's likely to do more harm than good and turn people off CL entirely).

A big reason for that is its X dependency and focus on X/Linux as the prime development platform rather than a cross-platform base by default. Other projects (Pharo, Squeak, Factor IDE) have done a much better job at tackling similar issues.
While I agree with some of your sentiment, I think it's worth pointing out that the recently-fired CEO on whose watch this debacle happened, was a lifetime aviation employee with an engineering background:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Muilenburg
And American agriculture is likewise heavily subsidized by the federal government.
> (unless the beach is on a lake rather than the ocean).

And there I see why he has hopes. If it is legal on a lake then someone would wonder why not on ocean. Rather than asking the nice people on internet one might as well go to a court of law.

Why are people angry that he went to court. Where I come from people settle these kind of questions in less civilised ways. Court is better i think.
Does anyone have any way to illustrate to me the physics of how he is actually blocking access? Like how does this road run through this property, where is the beach in relation, etc.

EDIT: I suppose this helps: https://www.google.com/search?q=vinod+khosla+road
"Hello, I saw a sign that says you buy houses for cash, can I set up a meeting?"

"Yes, when are you available?"

> Ladies and gentlemen, we got him.

Surely can't be that hard to find out if the business owner set up that sign, right?
> Its perfectly reasonable to view $48,000 if it gets me a job paying $60,000 a year for four years as being a better deal than $10,000 unconditionally.

True, but I doubt you could find hiring data that supports a 4x higher employment rate among ISA cohorts.

If bootcamps wanted to publish they're employment rate and average salary for both cohorts so students could do the math that would be better.

My guess is employment and salary are much more tied to ability and location than thyey are to wether you opt in to an ISA.
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Right, relational databases only return flat tabular results but that seems minor compared to performance increase you gain.

Clickhouse is fast but not as operationally friendly as the others. It's more much work once you go beyond a single node so I'd suggest looking at those other options if you want something easier to operate, or use one of the cloud data warehouses like Bigquery or Snowflake to eliminate ops entirely.
Of course, you are correct.
Cars are a bit of an anomalous category here. Driving is a pretty dangerous activity, so it's pretty sensible to give up some reliability & repair-ability in order for a safer road-coffin.

This is much less true for something like a fridge/thermostat/tractor.
Lenovo Enters the Foldable PC Space with New ThinkPad X1 Fold
Your argument is wholly incorrect, though. Manufacturers aren't making things easier to repair. Those things you repaired? They were already easily repaired. In the case of your argument, the only thing that has changed is whether or not people know how to repair things. And these days most people don't and most aren't willing to try without step by step instructions on how to.
The title of the page might be a little snarky, but it's in the introduction that transactional queries are not supported:

https://clickhouse.yandex/docs/en/introduction/features_cons...

Sure it's not specifically about `fsync` but presumably this is what the consumer of the database actually wants to know.
Alcohol is known by medical science to be

- neurotoxic.

- carcinogenic.

If that's not persuasive, I don't know what else could be.
I'm intrigued by the electrodes they claim to be having 4 times better SNR than conventional electrodes. AFAIK there has been numerous attempts at dry electrodes (electrodes w/o gel for impedance control), but due to higher impedance, SNR has always been worse than wet electrodes as a result. The main advantage of dry electrodes has been faster prep time & convenience at a cost of signal fidelity. I'd be interested in technical details, but information on their website doesn't really let on much. Wonder how they actually compare to market leaders in research grade electrodes (e.g. BrainProducts, Neuroscan).

The founder's previous research seems to be focused on topics related to consciousness and sleep. I was hoping if he published articles about electrode materials, but can't find any. Maybe it's a trade secret.. Anyone with more info on this?

Also, their electrodes seem to be mostly focused on the occipital area. I get the impression they'd be focused more on visual components rather than cognition and decision making (e.g. P300).
Could you expand on that for those who dont follow the news industry closely.
I see an SDL dll file in the repo, and on my mac the build fails with `library not found for -lSDL2` -- is there something special I need to do to get this to build, or is it Windows-only?
Well, I hate gifts. Because very few just come out and ask what I want. So I mostly get something that reflects their image of me.

And about selling gift cards. You can get more than 50%, if you sell for Bitcoin etc on /r/BitMarket.
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They do, all the time. You have no expectation of legal council outside of criminal law. Debt collectors are running roughshod on the poor and vulnerable.
The moment you started to see any real success with a company like this and become significant competition, John Deere would reverse their equipment-as-a-service DRM-based model, and you would be instantly crushed by their far more familiar and established brand with all the accumulated knowledge and trust people already have. It's so certain that you have essentially no chance of long-term success. John Deere can operate like this because there's no competition, but the second there is competition than can revert to how they were and you are dead, so there's no point even trying.
When I tried to stop drinking in college, I used to fill empty beer bottles with water to drink at parties. This helped a lot with social pressure. I reckon one could do the same in a pub if the bartender is understanding and discrete, but I never tried it.
Ok so lets say they do nothing, the business receiving fake negative reviews closes as a result and people lose their jobs. Was that the morally superior choice?
> LIDAR cannot see though fog

Simply depends on what wavelength of light you use.

Water-absorbing frequencies are nice because the atmosphere then shields most light, giving you nice SNR from your laser illumination. But better sensors could work around this, using other frequencies that can 'see' through fog.

It's certainly a technological limitation of current systems, but it's not an inherent limitation.
Wi-Fi 6E
> but as you literally state yourself, the security system does not even help. I repeat, it does nothing.

My first sentence said I agree with your overall point.

In my case, the main reason we have the cameras is because my wife felt they would help her feel more secure. They have been somewhat useful and/or worthwhile for other things:

* We can see who's at the door and ignore them if they are solicitors.

* When we're not home and someone knocks on the door, we can respond to them since the camera also has a speaker. When our friends dropped off a few Christmas presents while we were out at dinner, it was cool to be able to say thanks right then.

* On the off chance a more serious crime is committed, we may have footage of it. The police don't care about package theft, but they are likely to investigate trespassing, breaking and entering, etc.

* Sometimes we see bunnies and baby raccoons meandering around the alley, which is always cute.

I'm not a big fan of the system, but it is occasionally handy or rewarding to have access to a live camera around my house.
Just to be clear, this is not Vinod's mindset.

It's more like Vinod is extremely stubborn, especially when he believes something is a matter of principle.

From his POV, the principle here is around free enterprise. He believes the state is requiring him to pay to maintain an unprofitable business (a private road and parking lot), which he doesn't believe they have the right to do.

As far as I know, he doesn't care much about restricting beach access.
How I think about back propagation
I was thinking the opposite: I have no idea what Roku is, but CCC talks are often posted on HN. I guess two worlds collided somehow :)

For what it's worth, CCC organizes the "Chaos Communication Congress", which is a fairly large tech/hacker conference, with over 15,000 participants (https://events.ccc.de/congress/2019/wiki/index.php/Main_Page)
Neuro-symbolic A.I. is the future of artificial intelligence
The implication is that clickhouse can't easily support transactional queries. That's why it's an OLAP not OLTP database. (On-Line Analytics Processing vs On-Line Transaction Processing).
It is relatively easy.

You can look at stack as a list:

type Stack = [Int]

Adding two values at top of stack is easy:

add (a:b:stk) = (a+b) : stk

Dropping and duping is also easy:

drop (_:stk) = stk
dup (x:stk) = x:x:stk

double stk = add (dup stk)

You can encode list using Church encoding [1] and voila! You just connected lambda calculus and stack machine (not Forth, but close).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_encoding#List_encodings

Forth include more that just stack machine - return stack, vocabulary, definintions, memory, etc. This means that these simple definitions will not be as simple as above for complete Forth. But they also can be represented as Church encoded data and they still be representable in lambda calculus.
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INB4 people complain that this is "entrapment"
You assume that super successful people don't read Hacker News? That's an interesting thought, but doesn't hold up to scrutiny. What he said is likely true. Furthermore, I'm not sure why the stock market should necessarily be tied to U.S. GDP save for the outsized influence that U.S. has on the world economy as a whole. A company like Apple, for example, sells products all around the world. Their market cap is pretty detached from the U.S. GDP.
But but but "journalism"! You're talking to the fourth-estate here, have some respect!
Absolutely. If there is a direct link between wilful negligence and death, executives need to go to jail.
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the point is you think of the other person when you use their gift. it makes an item that would have been mundane, had you purchased it for yourself, a little more special.

your system sounds nice too though, just a little more effort than I want to put in.
FWIW I went through one of the more reputable well-known in person bootcamps this past spring/summer.

I'm in a unique situation where I've been in tech in non-eng roles for a number of years and did it more for the mental model rather than becoming a full time engineer so did not do the ISA and rather paid up front, but just off the top of my head most people have found jobs by now, including at Twitter, AWS, ServiceNow, Yelp, Branch, some smaller YC companies, etc.
Completely agreed on all counts.

By "reform from within", I mainly meant the NIH, NSF, big funders, etc, need to pay more than lip service to this before Congress gets involved. Although there are people who have built careers on irreproducibility itself. Ioannidis for example. But that requires a lot of dedication and tends to piss a lot of people off.

Another counterintuitive possibility is that scientific publication could go more of the PLoS route and actually lower standards for initial publication -- and then rely more heavily on post-publication peer review. Then irreproducible papers would get publicly "downvoted". And conversely, papers that didn't seem useful enough at the time to make it into Nature, but turned out to be pathbreaking, would get the recognition they deserve.

Further incentives for publishing as much raw data as possible and, where applicable, code, would help too. The NIH has done a good job here. They require a lot of high-throughput datasets to be made available raw if they were collected with NIH funding. They provide hosting for this. It means people can go back and re-analyze it, and you don't have to trust the authors' analyses.
Circumstantial.

Go watch Zodiac to get an idea of how circumstantial evidence is insufficient
For us Americans that don't know anything about this: it seems that this is done by the Chaos Computer Club[0], which runs the Chaos Communication Congress[1] which is a sort of German DEFCON.

0 - https://www.ccc.de/en
1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_Communication_Congress
> So you can say "fuck you, I'm not drinking that shitty poison"

It must be great to be your friend
Just for a counter opinion: I only drink on the weekends in social situations, but have gone 2-3 months without as an experiment.

I didn't notice any difference other than it completely resets your tolerance. After the break it only takes one beer to feel buzzed, whereas before it was 2-3. In a big city, I'd recommend trying it once regardless of the benefits because it is challenging from a social POV. A surprising number of events center around alcohol, and people think it is strange that you're not drinking.
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"The Chaos Computer Club (CCC) is Europe's largest association of hackers with 7700 registered members."

Also they are organizing the anual hacker chaos communication congress. All talks are available at media.ccc.de.
Take the problem at the source and ask yourself why do you need to get wasted?
Some food for thought: https://youtu.be/ZsHMHukIlJY?t=633

For example, this is the best way to define functions with argument lists long enough not to fit on a single line:

fn doThing(
argument1,
argument2,
argument3,
) {
<code>
}

Visually clear, doesn't have any spaces/tabs issues, produces minimal diffs when adding/removing/renaming arguments.
I wasn't suggesting that the customers could have known beforehand that the Boeing planes had issues that would cause crashes. However, we do know NOW that Boeing planes have quality issues. If customers still willingly get on those planes, then where is the incentive for Boeing to do anything differently? That's really the point I was trying to make. We don't need perfect information to now decide to not fly on Boeing planes. That would send a very strong message to the entire industry that putting profits above customers' lives will be met with very negative consequences such as reduced or loss of profits and possibly the company going out of business.
This is partially self-inflicted. Cheap air travel incentivizes more people to move overseas because they know their families are just a flight away. I once knew a person that lived and worked in the UK, but studied in Poland - she flew back and forth twice a month(!). I guess it would be fine, if not for the environmental costs.

Anyway, I have this feeling that you could justify just about anything if you dig for nth-order effects, but it doesn't change the fundamental point: a race to the bottom sacrifices everything that can be sacrifices. Environment is usually the first victim, quality the second, but safety trade-offs are eventually made too. At some point in a product category's lifecycle, one starts to wonder whether it's so degraded that it would be better if it didn't exist anymore.
By whom?

Solicitors get paid for work done until that point regardless, and I doubt sellers have that information when deciding whether to accept an offer, and they are who makes the choice to accept.

Sellers also pull out frequently - had that happen to me a few times. It's frustrating but it happens.
Nowadays just get some Topo Chico (carbonated water) or you can drink the Heineken Zero.