skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More central planning for a global economy on the brink of ruin thanks to decades of central planning. We already "lock" capital into state-sponsored companies (GM, Ford, Boeing, all banks)...how is the working for everyone?

With a Democrat sweep in the elections we'll see all of this pushed into overdrive, "locking" $10 trillion of new stimulus into our moribund, debt-riddled corpse of an economy. Don't worry, markets will go crazy.
ah, that probably accounts for the discrepancy. I think the in-state figures may be more relevant to the discussion at hand though. why would someone paying their own way through school choose to forgo the in-state discount?
Isn't fining a company for misleading investors a kind of strange remedy anyways? Ultimately, a big fine would end up hurting the company's investors anyways...
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That's still not very helpful to me. You might want to explain it a bit more in the README.

For example, taking this line from the first example:

this.peek = +(this.a: this.b:)

If I replace this by:

this.peek = +(this.a: this.b:

(note the dropped closing parenthesis) and leave everything else as is, that will not be a syntax error?

I know that Forth is "loose syntax" in that Forth code is just a sequence of white-space separated words, so your comment and mine are both syntactically valid Forth, but without meaningful semantics. But Forth does not use parenthesized function calls the way Copper does.
Apple does fix and refurbish their phones. Presumably the phones sent to this recycler were deemed too broken to refurbish (at least to Apple's standards.)
Pretty sure that either the user is not aware at all of the scraping, or anyway the scraping is not done in the user's interest and the user is not in a position to fully understand the implications, so it is a clearly malicious operation.

In other words, they are abusing the user's trust to access the user's private data for their own profit, hence defrauding the user, and engaging in unauthorized access to the data shared between the user and Facebook without either party's full informed consent.
> Exactly, Americans seem to have this weird view that no-one's culture should mix.

90%+ of the people who think that are liberals. Moderates and conservatives can mix cultures pretty freely.
Tesla acquires German battery assembly line maker supplying BMW and Mercedes
My first thought as well. IIRC I believe they accepted some of my patches way back when. Means more in those pre-GitHub times.

But Boa the web server was discontinued in 2005 so i guess it's fair to reuse the name.
>So the 4 biggest payers in 2018 were New York, New Jersey, Massachusets and Connecticut. Aren't these all "blue states"?

Yes, but my point is that those states are subsidizing almost the rest of the country, no matter who those other states voted for.

>The 4 biggest recipients are Alabama, Kentucky, Maryland, Virginia. Aren't those all "red states"?

No. Maryland is a very Democratic state, and Virginia is a swing state that has recently voted mostly Democratic, including for Hillary in 2016.

>Actual numbers: https://rockinst.org/issue-areas/fiscal-analysis/balance-of-...

Why are you linking this URL as if I needed to see it, as if I didn't cite it in my previous comment?
> 20 years, I still dont understand how most developers dont understand.

Look at the tools developers use throughout their careers: Powerful version control systems that support nearly every operation you could imagine. Command line tools with pages and pages of documented switches. Server software with configuration options for every little thing you could ever want to adjust. Well documented open source software that can be changed to your liking with a simple fork. Websites full of fellow developers freely asking and answering almost any question you might have.

When dealing with complexity is the story of your career and you spend 40 hours per week doing this for years on end, it's easy to forget that your customers aren't in the same boat. Most of your customers are using your products to get their job done. They want to learn it quickly, get in, get out, and get back to their work as quickly as possible. They might not even know if they're going to use the same tool at their next job, so taking time to learn it in depth isn't appealing.
> To believe that borders are conducive to peace sounds like a bad case of internet-brain.

There's an old saying about this: "Good Fences make Good Neighbors". A fence (border) make it easy to say "you can't plant that tree there."

Borders (largely) define where one government can affect resources claimed by another government. For example, it would suck if it was easy for the US to send loggers into Canada's forests because the US claims that those forests belong to them. A border makes it clear that "forest X is within Canada's borders, and thus belongs to Canada".

The location of the border may still be disputed, but it simplifies a lot of other interactions.

On the flip side, borders also make it easier to create accountability for a resource (like who maintains roads near/between countries).
Also... man, as a junior staff member, the opposite is true.

Establish yourself as someone capable, eager, and motivated.

Don't come in to a new org and be like, "No, I'm going to be successful by telling people no." Oof.

This advice is really for senior people, and it's to prioritize so you get the important things done.
I agree, but obviously it depends on how many people is "too many". From the article it looks like 10% of those who went to the doctor were diagnosed with a cardiac condition, but what if it was 1%? A 90% false positive rate is already fairly high.
Samsung owner here. I use an Apple TV so I don't have to use the smart features of the TV and see ads, which I find offensive.

But I'd rather reward a competitor for my next TV. Which brands don't do this?
I don’t think it would matter if Apple made a TV. It has made little difference for phones and computers. No one else cares and Apple just get blamed for reserving privacy for the wealthy.
Caring about privacy is the luxury. Not privacy itself, neither does it imply that privacy is less important. Just that people who have to care about more urgent dangers won't always have to capacity to take in account something like privacy issues. But these people still deserve of privacy, and we should try to build solution that embrace both privacy AND helping them with their unemployment, poverty, or other more urgent issue.
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Facebook should lose this one. Secret shopping isn't illegal, and using tools to secret shop isn't illegal either. Going after camera manufacturers because they are tools used to secret shop certainly isn't illegal, even if the camera was called the "SecretShopper 3000" and paid you to do it.

The users on the other hand, if they were unaware of what the extensions were doing in exchange for that money, might have a case against the extension manufacturers. But how could Facebook possibly have standing?

Not a lawyer, the above are feelings.
If they don't want google to display a snippet, then they can "Use the nosnippet meta tag to prevent Google from displaying a snippet for your page in Search results, or use the max-snippet:[number] meta tag to specify the maximum length for your result snippets. You can also prevent certain parts of the page text content from being shown in a snippet by using data-nosnippet". [0]

[0]: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35624?hl=en
> practically most packages on Ubuntu or Debian, for example, are outdated.

Some reasonable level of quality control does take time. There are distros that are much more up to date with upstream versions (Arch Linux, Gentoo, etc), but by living on the bleeding edge, you will eventually get cut.
Or you can service a small region and spend little time driving. That's what this guy does. Stays in a 10 mile radius. His phone is constantly blowing up.
houses have gotten much larger since 30 and 40 years go. They've almost doubled in size since 1980, but adjusted for inflation, are now cheaper per sq ft
That's what the rich countries did to get rich. Germany, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, China, and the US. The US was the most protectionist country in the world from 1814 - 1914. Alexander Hamilton's "American System" (tariffs, national banks, infrastructure investment) was basically national policy for 100 years until the US got rich enough to compete with the other great powers and then adopted free trade. It inspired Friedrich List and Germany, which inspired Japan, which inspired Korea, which inspired Deng Xiaoping and China.
I spent around $1,200 on my 4K HDR Samsung TV a few years ago. It was great, but lately has been unbearably slow and frustrating to the point where we'd stop watching TV in the living room all together. Not a great experience.

To try to remedy the issue (knowing it was slowed down by the disgusting ad platform), I installed a Pi Hole in the house to see if that would alleviate the problem. The TV felt a bit less clunky but Pi Hole seemed to have some issues with some of the installed apps - primarily Hulu, so I needed another solution. The Pi Hole statistics were terrifying at around 12,000 blocked Samsung requests per day (around 6-7 hours of shared TV usage).

I researched Amazon FireSticks, Roku's, etc. I needed something easy for my family and kids to use (they are not as techy) and I wanted an interface that was buttery smooth. While I am very much not an Apple fan, last night I picked up the 4K Apple TV to test and so far it seems to be decent. There are some things I would change with the platform for sure, but it is overall pretty intuitive so my family can just pick up the remote and go.

I factory reset my Samsung TV and completely removed the network from it. It was sad to see how responsive the TV was again after the reset. You can be sure I will not be buying another Samsung TV!
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Then I guess we need to double-down on allowing this, in order to normalize second-hand/recycled hardware across the society. Then Apple's reputation will be invulnerable, as any random complaint about iPhones on the Internet will be counterable by "surely you bought a third-party refurb from your local recycler".
Last TV I bought the salesperson wanted to push a Samsung TV on me, despite my very clear telling of "I dislike samsung". Guy insisted over and over and over. Ended up in the store opposite the mall, where Good Salesman approaches as I walk in:

-I want a new TV.

-I have this great Samsung model.

-I hate Samsung.

-I have this great LG model!

Funny thing, the that TV came with webOS, which after being bought and sold over a few times, ended up at LG. It works pretty well, never had an issue with it.
I feel like this is an example, but the root causes are multiple structural problems.

1. Poor integration between government and money.

2. Poor integration between different governments.

My impression is that many people are opposed to both of those things on the basis that governments have historically been horrible in many ways.

Probably will just get buried, but I would like to suggest that we don't have an alternative.

Unless, maybe, you want to create something high-tech that can replace government. Which I think would really be a new form of government.

It almost seems like we are moving towards one bad version of that. Look at the power of companies like Google or Amazon etc or the ability of Uber to successfully ignore laws. I guess this is another instance of #1.

I feel like somehow you need fair, functioning governments with control over money that work together globally. A new type of high-tech money integrated with a new type of high-tech government might be possible and if so maybe it could solve those problems.

Or you need a totally new paradigm where somehow the omnipotent mega-corporations (including the banks) start looking out for the interests of the people. That doesn't seem workable given the motivations and structure of corporations.
Climate Change is.
Even still, the debt is held by people who eventually expect to use it to find their retirements. They can avoid external driven shocks, but at some point a smaller population can’t produce enough care for a larger one. That will play out in the debt markets, either with defaults or inflation.
Not allowing the resale of used devices should be illegal.

Not only because of the environmental impact but also because this is a way for Apple to control the market.
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I have 15 years of experience as a driver developer and computer architect. This comment is spot-on. As an employee you will have very few potential employers in the semiconductor industry and it's very unlikely that we will see a significant change.

In the software world not only you have much more variety of work and potential employers, but it's much more likely that new exciting startups/unicorns will succeed in the next few years.

While I enjoy my current job and I have a great boss, if I could go back to my college years, I would steer my career in a different direction.
It generally helps to read multiple perspectives before adopting such an extreme view. Obviously that's not true.
Latency has no relevance to FPS (frames per second, not first person shooter)?

Why do gamers care about not just TV frame rates, but how many frames delay (latency) come from the TV's video scalar / processor?

When dealing with round trip times (RTT) for TCP or video gaming, latency limits the number of round trips or control loops per second and the gap between input and action.

To your consistency point, agree -- jitter matters a lot to human perception and response too, why so many games "lock" to 30 or 60 fps rather than vary at rates above 30 or 60.

Also, it was not an example. It was an analogy to put the differences in milliseconds into amounts of time that matter to a broader set of people than networking times matter to.
"The Marketer’s Guide To ACR" has a rundown: https://www.adexchanger.com/ad-exchange-news/the-marketers-g... . Of those who sell the raw data, Inscape (Vizio) and Gracenote (Nielsen) are the largest: https://www.inscape.tv/, https://www.gracenote.com/video/media-recognition/
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You are falling into the developer trap of thinking the quality of your code matters. Customers don't care as long as it's reasonable stable, works and solves their problem.
sure, I'm not saying the market is a perfect indicator of the economy's trajectory. I'm pushing back on the idea that it's completely disconnected from the economy, or at least that pointing to current unemployment figures and an S&P all time high is not enough to prove the point.
Probably this is really it, I would just rather spend my play time futzing with code on a computer.
"And they are not truly achieving the alchemists' dream of transmutation, just changing the behavior of the material."

Is there really a difference? Isn't the name we give a material essentially just a shorthand for describing a pattern of behavior that its constituent particles are (mostly) adhering to?
I keep seeing people who argue that TVs would be notably "more expensive" if they didn't come with ads.

Yeah, ad revenue couldn't possibly be just "found revenue" to layer on top of existing profits. Why folks are so willing to carry water for corporations, by making unsubstantiated excuses for them, mystifies me.
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Explain? Most Central Banks use inflation targeting (2-4% for rich countries and 4-6% for lower income countries). What you said is unrelated to socializing losses.
One of the hard truths about dealing with customers is that they don't care whose fault it is. They're just angry and they want a resolution.

In practice, you can't simply divide customer problems into self-inflicted and company-inflicted and decline to support the customers' self-inflicted problems. The line between the two types of problems is too blurry to enforce, but the reality is that customers don't care either way. They just want you to fix it, and they expect your product to prevent them from shooting themselves in the foot in the first place.
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> A much better solution is to overhaul our immigration system

Why not instead fix this problem?

> Most undocumented workers in the US come from countries where their next best alternative is being exploited by cartels.
E pluribus unum also comes from a time when we mandated that Native American schoolchildren cut their hair and not speak their native tongue. The melting pot ended up having a very WASPy complexion in the end and harmed those who were different from that ideal.

The salad bowl allows the individual to maintain and celebrate their heritage while coming together in a spirit of national unity and civic pride. Coming to America doesn't mean you lose your heritage or your history, it means you're part of something new - you've come to a part of the world where the entire world has come together, an example of what the world could be. People living in peace where elsewhere in the world they live at war.
Open source is not just merging anything in
Ask HN: Anyone else miss spontaneous conversations at work?
Considering it's been 6 months since most office workers have started WFH, this is a question I've been thinking on.

Of course, remote work has many benefits such as cutting down on commute times, being able to work at your own schedule, and less office distractions. But one thing I find sorely lacking & so far irreplaceable is the spontaneous interactions that used to happen. You know, water cooler talk, catching up with a friend you run into, side conversations before a meeting etc.

I was wondering if there's a way to build an app that can help you "bump into" your coworkers again, only when you're on break, but I was curious if people even had this problem in the first place?
I've always wondered how people who advocate for
more open borders justify their position.

To me, it seems like the default position, as long as one believes in liberty and, obviously, doesn't hold essentialist views about culture.

Mind you, my position isn't "open all borders now, and damn the consequences!" It's a goal for the world to work towards, not something that we can do without accounting for economics, law, and xenophobia.
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> This is a great way to divert people's attention and hide actual problems.

Erm... if highlighting the abuse and rape of half the population is “hiding actual problems” then you’re part of the problem.
I got bit by a Bash-ism late last night (-ne vs != causing a CI test to silently fail) and that was kind of the last straw for me.

I drive zsh but still use bash scripts a lot cause "portability" and "it's available everywhere" but that argument just doesn't hold up when I'm already in control of most of my stacks and have docker access on pretty much every host I'm in.

I'm forcing myself to use Xonsh more, which despite having all its own quirks, is so much less mental overhead going between Python development. Yeah maybe it's a few more steps (than zero for bash) to provision, but it's worth it.
I’m wondering if you could just engrave into these devices that they were “reclaimed” or “recycled” so that it’s clear that Apple no longer is on the hook but people can still use if they choose to do so.
I wrote the first 10,000 lines of ROMlib on a Mac+ with no hard drive or even a second floppy drive. I had Think C on multiple (IIRC, five) floppies and enough room to have a few portions of ROMlib and tests on the rest of each of the floppies.

Backups involved copying floppies, which was a bit time consuming with only a single drive.

Good times!

(ROMlib was my clean-room reimplementation of much of System 6; it was a big part of Executor [0])

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executor_(software)
Interestingly, the situation where labor can't move as freely as capital might not hold in the case of remote work which is why working from home is, or should be, scaring the hell out of some people.

If it doesn't let me paint a picture. CEO comes in and checks their email. There's an email from his development team lead. "Dear CEO, The team and I had a discussion and and we no longer have confidence in your ability to usher this project to a successful outcome and have decided to work for company X in country Y. We have ceased development for your project at 8:17am and will be working for X as of 8:18am.
Sadly, that's only in .svelte files though.
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that only covers one of the bases though. medical devices are not the only area where software defects can cause catastrophes.
It doesn't really matter whose fault it is, it's still your business.
Other people are pointing to the actual fundamental reasons these things exist and are valuable, you are pointing to a bizarre false authority as a desperate rationalization for not liking C++.
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Did Google change how they do this recently? Because I'm not seeing what you describe. All I see is a headline and an image without any snippet at all.
Please explain how the wikipedia page says the opposite of what I wrote.

Here I will spell it out verbatim from the article:

- By 1916, the Ford Motor Company had accumulated a capital surplus of $60 million. The price of the Model T, Ford's mainstay product, had been successively cut over the years while the wages of the workers had dramatically, and quite publicly, increased.

- The company's president and majority stockholder, Henry Ford, sought to end special dividends for shareholders in favor of massive investments in new plants that would enable Ford to dramatically increase production, and the number of people employed at his plants, while continuing to cut the costs and prices of his cars.

- The minority shareholders objected to this strategy, demanding that Ford stop reducing his prices when they could barely fill orders for cars and to continue to pay out special dividends from the capital surplus in lieu of his proposed plant investments.

- The Court was called upon to decide whether the minority shareholders could prevent Ford from operating the company for the charitable ends that he had declared.

The court ruled in favor of the minority share holders.
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Not 100%. About a third of people recover fully within 3-4 months, but if it's beyond that, you're likely stuck. I am, however, one of the few that got up to 80-90% of normal a couple of years afterwards. My primary cardiologist said in 20 years of practice, I was one of the only three patients that he treated that did this.

I credit returning to long distance running. I don't recommend it as a treatment. Not scientifically studied and was/is definitely against doctor's orders.