skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cryptocurrencies are not used as currency anywhere in the world, because they have properties that make them highly undesirable as money. People who live in countries facing monetary problems will use a foreign currency if they can, but the thing is, using a foreign currency and avoiding some of the problems of hyperinflation is just a marginal improvement, it doesn't solve 99% of the problems that these people are having.
At a certain point, arguments like this become out of date. You don't need cars, electricity, phones, email, citizenship, or even a name to survive. The only essential things are being able to forage/hunt, find running water. But as a civilized society we strive to raise the bar. At this point social media is an essential service, people just haven't caught up to it yet.
> after I wrote a bit of criticism that got popular.

Nah, you was just jumping on the bandwagon of hating on Tailwind without even trying to understand the fact you are meant to use components with it.

Given that this bandwagon regularly attacks Tailwind (or anything modern in fact) and the fact that you tweeted completely antagonistic and unneeded "refactor tailwind out of your codebase" to someone who was showing an interesting way of doing animation in Vue, I can't blame them for blocking all the N number of accounts that are harassing them. Anyone is in their rights to block someone that is antagonistic or nasty or just generally hurtful on a constant basis to them.

Arguing against something knowingly in bad faith (e.g. stating incorrect facts about X to hate on X) is 100% antagonistic. Actions have consequences?

https://twitter.com/wolfr_2/status/1280949237820383232

And even now you continue with "Now, getting blocked by a person, that’s one thing. I guess Adam’s coping strategy with criticism was an “I don’t want to hear it.”. Yeah, again, I can see why he blocks accounts of people like this. Flippantly phrasing it as "Oh, I guess they don't like being criticised" shows a lack of appreciation for why someone might block someone. Because they just don't want to put up with someone's shit. Who can blame them?

> I don’t know if I was entirely productive at first because I first had to shake up my dev stack to add in support for PostCSS, PurgeCSS and figure out all kinds of Tailwind specific things.

Fortunately you don't need to purge anymore, as it instead creates the CSS file you need upfront instead of purging it after.
It's true that there's no good reason to, say, drop out of geostationary and visit a tanker in LEO. Plane changes are always expensive, altitude changes are what they are, but if your orbit is reasonably compatible it would take a whole lot less delta V to reach a tanker than it would to come back to the planet's surface and re-launch!

This depot is in a sun-synchronous orbit. There are a ton of long-term, extremely expensive, Earth-observing satellites between 600 and 800 km with inclinations of 98 degrees in this area. Yes, it's a large volume of space, and yes, it's not like you can just point yourself at another satellite, fire a thruster, and coast over to it, but if you could extend the lifetime of your billion-dollar meteorological satellite for a few million you might want to have this thing fly over to refuel you.

I doubt that they'll be moving massive satellites with huge telescopes, radars, communication dishes, and solar arrays to the tanker, rather, they'll fly the tanker to the satellites.
The spread betting companies in the UK work very much like bucket shops and are not only legal but tax free. Unlike these blockchain things they are regulated and unlikely to run off with your money.
You're right, I'm sorry. That was uncalled for.
Interesting angle and this telescope really is a time machine.
It is out of line for starting wage in the region. And it isn't just that particular chain which is having issues. Construction is also getting hit hard. Most food service in town has now hiring signs...and some places are closing for multiple days a week due to lack of staff.
Just an observation. As a business owner I need to keep track of what the people are expecting as pay if I hire them (assuming I can find people to show up). The last 6mos every single business owner I know local is struggling to find people. They are turning away business due to lack of staff.
Ah sorry, I was being unclear.

Facebook definitely has a "real name" policy, but it isn't clear to me why a unified messaging experience means that your real name will now be shown to other users. That seems like a product decision, rather than an inevitability.

As an aside, I don't like this feature and have not opted into it because I actually dislike interoperability. If there was a hypothetical way to get Twitter DM / IG Direct / Messenger / iMessages all in one unified inbox, I would never use it because I actually prefer to keep things in context. My persona and networks on the various platforms are different on purpose, and I like to keep it that way.
See, this I don’t understand. Before the age of mobile phones, an usher would appear by the politician’s side and inform them of urgent messages.

I don’t quite understand the need for phones in parliament.
Detailed read from two contributors on the project- https://www.ibm.com/cloud/blog/database-deep-dives-janusgrap...
>Edit- is there some sensitive nerve I hit?

Probably the nerve that's tired of people going out of their way to be offended over terms that never were offensive when used in context such as this subject matter.

Context does matter.
My mistake, thank you kindly for clarifying. Seems like no matter what side of the tobacco coin you land on, the lawyers in tobacco are quite good.
It’s called the Robinson-Patman act.

The legislative purpose was to amend the inadequate Clayton Act so as ". .. to curb and prohibit all devices by which large buyers gained discriminatory preferences
over smaller ones by virtue of their greater purchasing power." [1]

It’s now interpreted based upon cost of manufacturing, so the FTC has this Q&A [2]:

> Q: I operate two stores that sell compact discs. My business is being ruined by giant discount chains that sell their products for less than my wholesale cost. What can I do?

A: Discount chains may be able to buy compact discs at a lower wholesale price because it costs the manufacturer less, on a per-unit basis, to deal with large-volume customers. If so, the manufacturer may have a "cost justification" defense to the differential pricing and the policy would not violate the Robinson-Patman Act.

Note as [1] describes, this act was done in reaction to chains causing much distress. The nature of manufacturing changed, and as the notion from the 60s/70s that consumer pricing was the most important trait in anti-trust law, so enforcement stopped and now we have chains everywhere.

[1] https://scholarship.law.stjohns.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?arti...

[2] https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/competition-guidance/guide-a...
Millions see sky wizards, should I?

I get the difference. It doesn’t absolve our culture of ignoring it’s deficiencies. But look what happens at a university in 2008 when students simply sit on the ground.

Is there a difference? Or have we just accepted our fate?

I don’t think I’m the one that needs to take tour advice.
So my point remains. I'm not saying there's nothing to learn. I'm saying that we cannot go deep. That we currently cannot understand the brain to the degree we understand other systems. And that there are fundamental difficulties because we're dealing with living beings.
Different circumstances. Israel received large amounts of foreign aid particularly from the US. South Korea's growth coincided with the Vietnam war and was a combination of domestic changes, and economic growth indirectly supported a lot by the US via aid and purchasing its exports (ex. textiles) - also part of Cold War geo-politics. (both of these are very handwavy summaries).

Similarly for Haiti the summary is: post independence country was in debt as most are. 20 years later France demands payment. By late 1800s 80% of GDP is going to paying back that debt and loans taken out to cover the debt. Top holders of the debt are France, Germany, USA. Early 1900s US businesses (mainly banks) want to ensure they'll be repaid, so convince govt to invade Haiti. US occupies Haiti for 20 years. Takes over the national bank, takes the national gold reserves moves it to Wall St for "safe keeping".

US puts in place propped up presidents from the mulatto elite vs the black majority population. Causes more economic issues, introduces things like Jim Crow - all of this leads to more racial and class strife. Great depression hits. US and and mulatto elites still controlling the country in the 1940s. This eventually causes the backlash and revolution of 1946 of which Estime then is the first elected on a platform of helping the working class and supporting the poor. Papa Doc rides this same platform of resentment of external intervention particularly in finances, and the poor and black working class being ignored and takes over. He's incredibly corrupt and horrible, but raises to power given the circumstances. Their family rules until the mid 1980s.

The country shows some growth, then a massive earthquake hits and it hasn't fully recovered economically.

Summary, US banks wanted to be ensured they'd get paid back so convinced US govt to take over the country. The violence and racism of the US occupation along with poor economics lead to a growth of populism in the country, which set the stage for Papa Doc whose family was a disaster. And there hasn't been much time since then to get back on track.

So while not the same, a story that rhymes with the US propping up the Shah of Iran and setting the stage for a worse govt, and Batista in Cuba and then getting a worse govt. Here post the US occupation it took longer to develop, but the movement that Papa Doc rode was born out of the US occupation of Haiti.
Note that because blocks in Julia are expressions, you can do multi-line expressions in comprehensions that you wouldn't be able to do in Python:

[
let y = x + 1
z = 2y
-z
end
for x in 1:5
]
If you actually look at the list he plans to not prosecute for

https://www.alvinbragg.com/declination

they make sense.

Contrast that with one of Boudin's policies

https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/12/24/da-critics-say-anti-d...

and then think about the drug abuse problem that is prevalent in SF.
nah, just your regular old paradox of tolerance; in order to have tolerance you must not tolerate intolerance.
Also the way you structured your statement implies that President Trump was de-platformed for no reason, do you believe that?
Thank you!

edit: we're going to move to this. My implementation is a is a file with cve to ignore | reason | jira ticket but I think we can slam all that in there. And our expiry is manually checked monthly, so this is a big improvement.
People can speak their mind, it's just that nobody else is obligated to host you speaking your mind.

The issue isn't Donald Trump being silenced, the issue is wannabe tinpot dictators like him trying to coerce private business into doing his bidding. That's the actual free speech issue if there is one. Nobody should be compelled to host anyone else's speech.

Social media sites are not 'de facto public squares' in any way. It's trivial technically to create an alternative site to the incumbents, that's why there's already like half a dozen alternatives spawning around Trump's political ecosystem. It's just that the content on those sites is so godawful within days of them going online that everyone runs for the hills who has a few brain-cells left.

It is so ridiculous to paint people like Trump, literal oligarchs, as victims of private business lol.
> If you get big enough, either you get broken up, or you have to become a regulated monopoly.

Some products cannot be easily broken up without disrupting the actual product. For instance, Facebook could not be broken up since the value of the product is in large part due to having one significantly sized and unified user base (network effects). But these companies can't have it both ways - they can't claim that they operate in a competitive environment with few barriers for new competition while also claiming that splitting up their user base would destroy their unique product offering.

We also need to be wary of market share arguments, especially given that these companies largely operate in the Bay Area and reflects its values/political culture/etc. This is why we regularly see them enact censorship in lock-step. Even if several companies operate with less-than-majority market share, they can behave as a cartel. That's why we shouldn't treat Twitter and Facebook and Tik Tok as alternatives to each other.

A better alternative might be to simply envision and implement new regulations based on minimum user bases. If your user base is larger than X (to be defined) then you are subject to regulations. Some suggestions could be user bases larger than the [smallest or largest] state by population. A social media platform that has more influence and power than a state government seems like a reasonable target for regulation.
Infectonator: World Dominator was much, much funnier. And it was a bit scarying how realisticly it served as a model. I stopped playing in 2020, for obvious reasons (Flash stopped updating :) ).
I must have missed it in the article but a hardware peripheral for interfacing with IR remotes is common in microcontrollers and can be very versatile with the right configuration. It's often used for driving addressable RGB LEDs, for example.
except walmart didn't operate at a loss in most cases. they figured out early on that they could operate profitably on the float between when they took delivery and sold items (usually a few days) and when they paid their suppliers for them (weeks, sometimes months, later). in effect, these were continual short-term zero-interest loans that, combined with predatory labor pay rates with socialized costs, often exceeded operating needs, so stores often generated profit entirely from finance rather than operations, and thus could offer cut-throat prices. it's become a classic business case study in cash flow management taught in business schools and employed quite sucessfully by other mega-retailers like carrefour in france.
You can take the cross entropy between the the probability distribution and the dirac-delta distribution for the actual data. This will equal the log-likelihood.

Things get a little iffy with continuous probability distributions, but that's just because both your cross-entropy and your MLE estimate will depend on your choice of variables if you don't pick a prior. Just as for MLE you can blindly plug in the probability density and it'll work just fine.
I wached the video again, the guy that is leaving is asking in Spanish "is this one of us?" about the guy in the floor, I think.

I think it could be Dominican Spanish accent, but I could be wrong. I suppose it would make sense to hire mercenaries from Dominican Republic to something like this.
Relevant and civil discussion can be found here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27762145
Amazon scaled up leveraging their monster positive FCF 2002-2015 . They didn't need equity raises.

Amazon is brought up often with regards to this, but somehow I've always encountered this argument when it was made as a rebuttal to a critique towards the business technique used by the Celebrity CEO at the helm of a particular car manufacturer (as well as battery manufacturer and solar panels manufacturer, oh and flamethrower manufacturer)
>Those companies are making GD, Raytheon and Lockheed look like kids playing in a sandbox.

Maybe because >Microsoft, Amazon, Google and Facebook are extremely useful consumer technology companies. I don't know about you but I won't be buying fighter aircraft anytime soon.
Every economy has information networks like roads, broadband, shipping services, etc, and government’s role in the economy should be to keep those networks fair and efficient. Free market competition is the best way to handle price discovery, but it becomes a problem when one company can take over the full information network.

Most of the massive companies today have successfully captured an entire network or a huge part of one, Facebook with the social graph, Microsoft with OS, Amazon with AWS and online shopping, Apple with mobile devices. Any antitrust legislation should focus on opening up those networks, but without introducing the inefficiencies that show up any time government takes something over because of misaligned incentives.
You make good points on paper, but in practice (in my own life at least) I’ve almost never needed to reverse a transaction where the merchant couldn’t do it himself.

And the one time I had a dispute, Visa claimed that the transaction was out of policy somehow (timeframe, region, etc)

So no, that better alternative doesn’t favor the customer
Isn't this also a criticism of open source software? The final paragraph says if you do it yourself, it's OK, but concerning if Facebook does it. So all the open source software mainly built by big tech companies is also predatory pricing? Where do you draw the line?
I said no to a smartphone entirely and it's been working out pretty well for me except that dumbphones are becoming such a specialty device that the quality has been dropping while prices have been steadily increasing.
That's not how nuclear batteries work.

The one I linked is radioactive carbon 14 formed into diamonds. That'd be fine in a crash.
Still does not make sense to me:

OrigTableA = {(ruby, 5), (rust,7), (php, 3)}

OrigTableB = {(red, 5), (black, 7), (purple, 3)}

OrigTableA \cap OrigTableB would be empty, makes no sense

OrigTableA \cup OrigTableB would conain all 6 elements, would be a SQL UNION, makes no sense for join

OrigTableA \times OrigTableB would be the the cross product:

{
((ruby, 5), (red, 5)), ((ruby, 5), (black, 7)), ((ruby, 5), (purple, 3)),
((rust,7), (red, 5)), ((rust,7), (black, 7)), ((rust,7), (purple, 3)),
((php, 3), (red, 5)), ((php, 3), (black, 7)), ((php, 3), (purple, 3))
}

Yes the cross product is what happens on a cross join (with the nested tuples being flattened) but now you have a single large set of all combinations and the filtering of only matching tuples (eg where the second element each tuple-pair matches) is simply not a binary operation on two sets but a unary operation on the single cross product set. Or if you tink of it as a binary pairing operation on the two original sets it is neither a set-union nor a set-intersection.
Ask HN: Experiences with VDI-like platforms, but used by developers
Do any developers here work with VDI-like solutions (virtual desktop, virtual machine, remote accessible, usually with some sort of graphical client like Citrix or RDP) in their day to day job? How much freedom or not do you have in running your own tools, install your own software, IDEs, compilers, containers, etc?

Or is it usually a heavily locked down environment? What about performance (especially in larger environments where the VDI platform is shared with potentially many developers?

Looking for experiences good and bad.

Personal experiences and those of colleagues have been universally horrible and our team is being forced to work on yet another incarnation of this, whilst we are currently happily working BYOD style. Thanks in advance for any shared (horror or uplifting) stories.
Cool DIY guide to make a smarter fan!

I was playing around with upgrading my own fan last year and ended up adding person-tracking capabilities so that the fan automatically stays pointed at me when I move. I ended up started a company, Following Fan, that builds and sells these tracking fans!
Weird, how does that work? Is the mobile browser simulating the click and then noticing the next image to be loaded? Maybe the js is simple enough to prove that it's safe to do so, but wow.
Yes, but in order to attract tenants, they would have to offer lease terms competitive with WeWork and thus lock themselves into a similarly unprofitable business model.
Why are people so obsessed with picking some parts Tesla revenue and claim that what makes it profitable. What makes them profitable is all the ways that make revenue and all the ways they spend money.

Bitcoin was relevant for 1 Quarter. And trading in fuel credits has been a thing in the automotive industry for decades and are simply a normal part of the business.

You might as well point to specific spending and say 'they are only not more profitable because of XY'.

They have a ~20% unit margin excluding credits so clearly they are making a massive amount of money selling cars. If they weren't selling credits they would likely spend differently and still show moderate profitability. Their goal is not maximum profitability but maximum growth while showing consistent profitability.
Chinese social media giant WeChat shuts LGBT accounts
You seem to lack all historical context on the social dynamic in Crown Heights and South Williamsburg, the disproportionately massive political power of the Hasidim voting block, and how this leads to disproportionately one-sided arrest and conviction rates whenever ethnic violence occurs in these neighborhoods.

The severe 1991 Crown Heights riots occurred directly as a result of a Hasidic rabbi's motorcade running a red light and striking two black children, one fatally. Ethnic tensions in this area had already been simmering for a long time, and while they've improved since 1991, there are still lots of problems. But this is just two Brooklyn neighborhoods, and has absolutely nothing to do with liberal-run cities or widespread "severe social dysfunction" in NYC, a city of over 8 million people and a combined metro area of 20 million people.

So, no, I'm absolutely not going to waste my time researching some arbitrary ratio that is completely orthogonal to the topic at hand, just because some random person on the internet is trying to gaslight me from 2500 miles away.

As for looting and "the data" and "the videos": two NewsCorp-owned publications put the estimated number of looted businesses at 450. As NewsCorp skews far-right we can assume that's the worst-case (highest possible) number. Among the approx 220,000 businesses in NYC, an estimated 32,000 are retail businesses, but this number does not account for how many of these are businesses with multiple storefronts.

From this, as well as daily personal observation in various parts of the NYC metro area, I would conclude far less than 1% of storefronts in NYC were looted. While this was a significant event, it's FAR from a "major riot". It's also not an ongoing problem.

In all the videos I saw, the perpetrators were large groups of teens on bicycles. Meanwhile NYPD has 36,000 officers and a nontrivial amount of military-grade equipment. One can either conclude that somehow they were incapable of stopping groups of teenagers on bicycles, or one can more logically conclude that they chose not to.
As another data point. A few years a go I bought a sim card in Germany (mediamarkt I think). They asked for the Anmeldung document (proof of residence, needed also to open a bank account) and photocopied it.
It's a little bit more complicated. Some companies only provide support through Facebook, WhatsApp etc.
Even some governments use them as their main information channel.
In the pandemic the only way to watch the live press conferences was on Facebook. Only ours later they were available on YouTube.
> The Netflix catalogue, and the movie rental/streaming ecosystem in general, was completely different when the AI challenge was going on.

With Netflix producing its own content now, and with the cost of acquiring content rights much higher than it used to be (all major streaming platforms want to offer great content), I'm wondering how much the business imperative impacts the recommendations we get -> eg. Netflix giving priority to its own content over licensed shows/movies.