skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Walmart is close to that $600B sales number (~$560B revenue in 2020), but not quite there. Their website claims 100M MAUs, though, so they'd be covered [0].

Comcast likely does meet that 50M number, depending on how you look at things. They have ~30M residential customer relationships, but that's likely only counting each household once (as opposed to per person in the household).

AT&T's Q1 earnings listed 44.2M domestic subscribers, just considering WarnerMedia (HBO + HBO Max). Again, probably counting customers as opposed to household members that use the service.

Verizon's Q1 earnings listed 94 million "total wireless retail connections".

(While we're listing subscriber counts for video streaming -- Netflix also meets the 50M threshold, and Disney+ probably does.

Netflix has 74M US+Canada subscribers, but there are only 10M households in Canada... Likewise, Disney+ "only" has 40M US subscriptions but again, subscriptions vs household members.)

[0] "Our largest website, Walmart.com, sees up to 100 million unique visitors a month, according to comScore, and is growing every year." https://corporate.walmart.com/our-story/our-business

edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_wireless... says AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile all have >100M US subscribers.
Hard to charge overly high price for something that is free.
> I've cut back on my fast-food intake quite a bit

Same here. I learned to cook and spice foods properly when I finally decided to go on a diet. I love making foods spiced just the way I like them. Now I can barely eat at McDonalds because the food is hideous - fat, sugar & salt that starts me craving and leaves me feeling sick.
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In sorry but I don't really see any crypto advocates talking about the tech at all. It's always at some undetermined point in the future, always products that solve problems created by crypto, and never anything consumer based or meant to actually reduce friction to make it a usable product for banking.

Crypto advocates' ideas of problems in the financial system have no mapping to the issues that people working in real fintech and its consumers identify.
Ohh you have a thing for Bret. Me too, I think he's great ;)

I recommend people to watch it too.
It's kind of like how social media warps our perception of what people (should) look like. Or how many vacations we should be going on [0,1]. Porn can affect how long we think sex should last and the positions we think we should be in [2]. Yes, even vanilla porn. While I think the anti-porn movement started with a religious-purity undertone, the secular explanations for why porn isn't such a great idea are convincing [3].

I would also ask anyone engaging in this discussion to replace the word "porn" with "alcohol" and see if it makes sense. Examine if it is useful to respond "well not everyone gets addicted to alcohol" when discussing the problems with alcohol. At least with me, there is an implied understanding that it's possible to use porn without getting addicted (even if I am becoming more skeptical of this assumption).

[0]: https://www.travelpulse.com/news/features/how-the-decades-ri...

[1]: https://www.travelpulse.com/news/features/traveling-for-soci...

[2]: https://www.npr.org/2019/05/25/723192364/what-we-dont-talk-a... (Consider whether the violence argument is useful in this discussion. I personally don't believe violence activates as many neural pathways as arousing images and orgasm.)

[3]: https://www.yourbrainonporn.com/research/
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I'm always amazed when people bring up things like "the tooth fairy", "magical sky wizard", "flying spaghetti monster" as some sort of intellectual taunt to show the ridiculousness of somebody's belief.

It's the Dunning-Kröger in action; people like you believe that somehow our universe, reality, the nature of humans, are perfectly definable. What you're not realizing is that the concept of God goes beyond any attempt to rationalize; I don't use rationalize in the context you're thinking, but in the mathematical concept of rationality. Language, how we code information into words, is based upon rational polynomials whose coefficients and values take on the alphabet; binary systems being something you may be familiar with. As soon as you codify 'God' as something rational ('sky wizard?') you imply a limit and impose boundaries on a limitless and indescribable entity.

But if you're trying to just mock people for believing something you don't understand, that's fine too, I've always found the most insecure and least intellectual to be the ones that try to show others how "smart" they are.
Can I finally compile those whiteboard interview exercises?
This isn't a great line of reasoning. We have evidence that even the smartest individuals can be exceptional in one field while being regarded as cranks in others. Failures and mistakes are inevitable as you try doing more things and branching out. Taking on this mindset forces brilliant individuals to remain in the safe lane without experimenting, potentially stifling progress. The expectation of perfection seems like an unreasonably high bar. Is it not better to try and fail than to have not tried at all? Perhaps the broader issue is that there's insufficient interdisciplinary communication and collaboration.

For example, the Nobel laureate Linus Pauling made outstanding contributions to chemistry in explaining the nature of the chemical bond. He also believed vitamin C could help cure or prevent cancer, for which there doesn't appear to be much evidence.
21 cantons (out of 26) voted against. Looking at the geographic distribution [1] it's evident support was narrowly concentrated to cities like Geneva, Zürich and Basel.

Conclusion: people who need their car on a daily basis think that gasoline is expensive enough at 6.492 USD/gallon [2] (as of June 7, when US drivers paid 3.399 USD/gallon according to the same site).

[1] https://www.bluewin.ch/de/news/schweiz/so-stimmt-deine-gemei...

[2] https://www.globalpetrolprices.com/Switzerland/gasoline_pric...
It's a subset of PoS.

It's totally marketing. "Our PoS is so novel it deserves it's own name."
Not totally related, but enough that I’ll give a shout out to tabula. It can ocr tabular data from a pdf. I’m not affiliated but I really need to get my company to contribute $$$ to the project. For now I’ll namecheck them.

https://tabula.technology/
> ...compared to a heterodox (read: quack) researcher

You do realise that it often takes heterodoxy - i.e. going against the orthodoxy in a field - to achieve a breakthrough? You also realise that the people Brett Weinstein is talking to are anything but quacks?

Why, then, this cheap shot of implying that what they are discussing is quackery? What is to be gained by such behaviour? It is not as if the orthodox approach to the treatment of SARS2 has been set in stone, nor is it a spectacular success. If the treatment they discuss - mainly Ivermectin as prophylaxis, Ivermectin in combination with Fluvoxamine and some other preparations as treatment - work they should be used given the long experience with and low cost of these preparations. They indicate these preparations help against 'long-term covid', they claim to have proof of their efficacy. What is to be gained by ignoring what they have to say? I understand that Pfizer, Moderna, Curevac, Astra-Zeneca, J&J, Merck and a few others potentially stand to loose a great deal should the emergency use authorisation for their vaccines be withdrawn prematurely because of the proven efficacy of other preparations - this is what would happen if the rules were followed which state that EUA is only given where there are no alternatives. That is not a valid reason for not allowing them to present their claimed evidence.

What is to be gained by defending the continued suppression of this information? It is clear that the information will come out in any case, most likely soon - it will be published no matter the hurdles which are being thrown up. Should their proof hold it will be yet another blow against the trust people have in the institutions of government.

I say publish this information, without censorship, without interference. The mantra of "trust the science" can only hold when the scientific method is allowed to function. Censoring anything which goes against the orthodoxy is not science, it is authoritarianism. It is what allowed Trofim Lysenko to push his Lamarckian nonsense which eventually led to disastrous famines in the Soviet Union and Communist China [1]. Just like Lysenkoism was not science, authoritarian dogmatic orthodoxy is not science.

Publish and discuss, in the open, without fear of repercussions, without censorship.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trofim_Lysenko#Consequences_of...
Didn't test its maximum temp, however connected to a laptop power supply (from memory: about 20V, 4A) it reaches enough temperatures to do clean shiny solder joints on fairly big contacts compared to its size. I think it's mainly conceived for portability and soldering small parts, however it seems powerful enough to be used as a general purpose solder iron as well.

edit for more information: all tests done with leaded solder.
I.e. it depends on how you define standard.

But in this case I didn’t mean low-quality. It just turned out that’s how his work in that moment was judged by other experts in the field.

Which is exactly why I brought it up, as I literally explained in my comment above - his history of non-standard ideas doesn’t have a great track record. I think that’s relevant. (But for some reason I’m here explaining it again.)

Your point about less-than-useless (so harmful?) scientists is still absolutely ridiculous, as much scientific progress (and many scientific careers) comes from improving non-exceptional ideas in straightforward manners with expected results.
Geez did ya ever consider that Bret Weinstein - the leader of that youtube Podcast - might have a gargantuan ax to grind?

https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jul/25/bret-weinstei...
>Etherium

You mean ethereum right?
Does that 50k tps come at the cost of any type of centralization? I don't know much about Solana, but that usually seems to be the trade off with other crypto that has advertised comparable speeds.
if the author were a federal employee, they would have a thrift savings plan; not a 401k and a 457. I'm surprised they have a 401k vs a 403b.
The thing is, even when it’s defined as some absolute measure, it ends up being a moving target. Defining adequate healthcare is one example. Food has continually gotten cheaper, relative to poverty lines. Education — we have public schools, and most impoverished kids, being stupid, spend way more time in education than is useful for them.

Really it’s all housing. There is a tenement shortage. But let’s suppose we free up the housing market and make rent cheap again, such that only the absolutely nonproductive lack a place to stay. NYT will still be talking about how there’s so much poverty.
I find the RPi tutorials great for tools and concepts I'm not familiar with, because the RPi blogs are often written for beginners. Debian is often more detailed and verbose, requiring more background knowledge and explaining more of the surrounding systems (which are a good thing if you're planning on deploying something in production).

There's a few exemptions though; Broadcom's incompatibilities, special bootloader setup and the Pi's deviating kernel headers sometimes make the guides not work for x86-based systems.
Nobody is talking about randomly experimenting on patients, so this is a disingenuous attempt at reframing.
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Why not just do like a 3-4 day retreat to "bond" every 3-4 months?

Or even monthly have maybe a 2-3 day mini-retreat work a day or two on-site and do some after-work bonding for those who are staying in hotels, etc... I mean if it's just about bonding. I had pretty good bonding with an agency I worked with and we'd do once a year retreats and it was really nice to hang out with the team, then go back home and hang out in slack.
> Installing another app store on their phone OS (which has no competition) requires several steps involving disabling so-called security protections and then side-loading the store.

Letting users sideload an alternative store the Android way seems like a pretty reasonable solution to me. The experience is pretty much identical to installing arbitrary executables from the internet on PC (in that sometimes your system will pop up a security warning but you can continue despite it). The key difference being people are used to doing that on PCs and not on mobile devices.

But the only alternative seems to be mandating that app stores host competitors, which feels too specific to make for good legislation in my opinion.

But there's another problem which is the Google Play marketplace has a nation's worth of advertising spend to throw at getting eyeballs on it while something like F-Droid... doesn't advertise? And while there are good apps there, the level of polish is nothing like what you see at the top of the Google Play store. People are just so conditioned by shiny trillion-dollar tech that human-scale tech seems old/shady/etc and no amount of legislation is going to change that.
Maybe. It depends on the classes you choose. Some OMSCS classes require VMs, and at least one uses Windows.
This last attack is possible regardless of whether content is addressed by hash or not, it only needs caching.
Parent said you could sneak in free will. I don't know that you can really combine determinism and free (autonomous) will.
d3 for example.
They must have language in their Terms and Conditions that allow this. McDonald's probably has one too. "By using our drive thru service you agree to have your voice collected..." Also, what about the message "This call may be monitored for quality control purposes." That's not asking permission, but it is warning I suppose.
> ENIAC could multiply two, ten digit numbers 357 times per second, and it required 150 kilowatts of electrical power to operate, which works out to about a tenth watt per computation.

What am I missing here? A watt is already a rate, joules/sec, so "watt per computation" doesn't make sense. But even assuming they author meant "per joule", the math doesn't work. In a second it could do 357 computations and use 150,000 Joules of energy = 420 Joules per computation.
Lee's showing signs of Malignant Narcissism Personality Disorder. People with that condition simply cannot accept failure. They _can't_ fail, it's always someone else's fault, and anything/anyone who makes it look like the narcissist failed much be punished.

Looked at in that light, everything Lee's done makes twisted sense. A new network was created by the IRCOps who left, so Libera has to be punished, and any mention of it must be punished. IRC Cloud dared to criticize Lee, no matter how mildly? They must be punished, who cares about collateral damage.

He's going to continue this pattern until there's nothing left, and he'll rant and rave continually that it's everyone else's fault, not his. It's going to get much, _much_ worse.
> If Amazon actually splits up its business, on the other hand, that’s fine! That’s good! No need for anti-trust action; they did it themselves!

Let's assume for a moment that Amazon spun out... something.

What specific problem does that solve? What specific benefit will the public/customers/clients/government receive? By what metrics is the split-up measure to measure whether it was a success or failure?

I'm genuinely asking. I'm not sure. If the metric is "no business shall have a market cap north of $X" then it's pretty easy to declare it a success! But that's not a very interesting metric imho. So what is the precise goal? And how do you know you've hit the goal and not made things worse?
A person sufficiently interested in exploring whether or not I'm right can easily use a search engine and find the research. If a person can't be bothered to do that on their own then I think nothing I post will change their mind. An intellectually curious person will delve into the issue once they see dissenting opinions being expressed.
Solana with its proof of history and performance sounds extremely cool. The performance relative to network size also looks really good. The general idea strikes me as a great insight, though I have just an intuitive grasp of the idea (I haven't looked into the white paper). Proof of history seems to be based around proof of time -- a fundamental problem in physics (inspired Einstein) is defining time and that usually is via synchrony. It seems here that's defined by assigning a function which takes a certain amount of time and something that can't be pre-computed. I'm not sure how the parameters to compute are determined every second or fraction of a second -- but it sounds like a modified proof of work where the computing and energy burn may not scale as the value or size of the network does (unlike bitcoin to date). Building a network fundamentally around timestamps also makes sense for a ledger. The price of Solana and every other cryptocurrency has gone wayyyyy up this year...no comment about any of that except that for almost all crypto (maybe excepting Bitcoin), it is driven by speculation with limited usage in legal markets and dominant usage in illegal markets. If crypto disappeared from the world today, the only thing that would change is cybercrime would reduce by at least half...maybe more hehe. That doesn't detract, though, from what look like quite innovative technical achievements by Solana!
> Further, I philosophically reject anything that cannot be side loaded or is so locked down you can't load software onto it from external media.

But they're not. You can, with the proper incantations of "fiddling keys you can't do remotely," boot anything you want on them. Just disable the secure boot stuff, which is a designed in, required feature for a Chromebook, and run whatever.

> Yes, security people may love that, but in reality, the entire point of processors is to run code.

If you let a computer, connected to the internet, run any code that is sent its way, it will eventually run mostly malware. Probably foreign, and while well behaved, still quite unwelcome.
Plus it’s a convenient way to never have to improve—we just have to be a little better than the worst caricature of the other side! “Why are you criticizing my tribe when the other tribe is literally Hitler?”
Nothing afaict. But only a small number of packages are supported.
I never hallucinated after trying shrooms, even at high doses. I found this odd, since I have read about countless people saying they saw stuff that wasn't there or saw colorful fractal geometry.

So my conclusion is that shrooms simply increased my perception and allowed in more information, and that all this fractal geometry is already there, just waiting to be discovered.

It's just like tuning into a higher frequency. It's not fake or generated by the brain, simply observed for what it is.
Interesting. It reminds me of Capitalisk https://capitalisk.com/ except without quantum resistance and harder to setup.
Nah, his arguments are not only compelling but scientifically proven.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/15291006124510...
An object reference :-)

In memory, high performance, no schema. Get the object to journal to disk and you are almost there!
Looking at the first page of one (https://cicilline.house.gov/sites/cicilline.house.gov/files/... ), it will make it illegal to:

"restrict or impede businesses users from communicating information or providing hyperlinks on the covered platform to covered platform users to facilitate business transactions;"

Does this make it illegal to ban spammers? (I havent actually read these. They are long).
It's adapted from Pensées II.139, which begins:

139. Diversion.--When I have occasionally set myself to consider the different distractions of men, the pains and perils to which they expose themselves at court or in war, whence arise so many quarrels, passions, bold and often bad ventures, etc., I have discovered that all the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber. A man who has enough to live on, if he knew how to stay with pleasure at home, would not leave it to go to sea or to besiege a town. A commission in the army would not be bought so dearly, but that it is found insufferable not to budge from the town; and men only seek conversation and entering games, because they cannot remain with pleasure at home.

http://www.leaderu.com/cyber/books/pensees/pensees-SECTION-2...
I posted this for several different reasons. I was one of the beta testers for Chrome OS and have used it exclusively for the past decade. I am always interested in how it continues to improve. Secondly, the terminal Debian is a dream come true for me. It is the best CLI I have ever enjoyed. It is also well integrated with the OS. Lastly, while I know that Chrome OS has made many inroads into public education, I had no idea it might be applicable for something like an MA in a technical degree...
Here, I have a video to fill you in a little about Ivermectin. It's only 12 mins long.

If you watch it, I have a question for you.

Based on the info in the video, do you think Ivermectin has potential to treat covid? Yes or no?

https://youtu.be/4O7uy4tzI8A

Another question. Should videos like this be banned by YouTube?
I can only remember two courses in my CS Master's program that had any actual programming whatsoever, mostly it was manual algorithms, proofs, and theory.
Knowing HN, it would not surprise me if the downvotes are because you used FLOAT rather than DECIMAL.

As far as the actual idea goes, better would be to (1) make it finer gained, and to (2) make it depend on the issue being voted upon.

Maybe something like this (numbers for illustration only--much more thought would need to go into determining the right numbers):

(1) If the life expectancy for an average voter of your age is at least 30 years, your vote weight is 1.00.

(2) If your life expectancy is not at least 30 years, your vote weight decreases as a function of how much under 30 years it is, reaching a minimum of 0.25 at 10 years life expectancy and then staying at 0.25 for the rest of your actual life, unless #3 applies.

(3) If a particular issue will likely have major short term consequences, your vote weight is based on the percentage of that short term that occurs within your life expectancy.

If I'm only expected to live 10 more years and we're voting on something that is going to seriously affect people for much much longer than that, it seems only fair that the people who are going to be more affected should have more say than me. That's what #2 is trying to cover.

#3 is to protect people against front loaded projects. Say the vote is on building something that will take 10 years to build and then have a major impact for the next century, and construction is going to be paid for by a 10 year tax increase. People with 10 year life expectancy would only get a 0.25 vote under #2, but they would be fully hit by the taxes in this case, and see none of the benefit, so they should have more say. #3 in this case would supersede #2 and give them a 1.00 vote.