jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
You’re ignoring the consumer’s transaction fee for making the purchase in the first place. Who pays that?

Even if you turn this into a credit card that a consumer pays off once a month, how many consumers want to pay $8 for the privilege of paying their credit card bill?

Also, $8 is just the current transaction fee, with virtually zero vendors accepting Bitcoin. If Bitcoin became popular, the transaction fees would become prohibitively expensive. The transaction fees have been in the $60 range before, and that’s still before any widespread vendor adoption.

Bitcoin isn’t usable for transactions at scale. It’s by design. Bitcoin has rejected proposals to increase the block size. Bitcoin holders don’t want anyone doing anything with Bitcoin other than holding it
I agree that versions aren't worth worrying about, but which edition is something I would pay attention to.
"Marketplace took its results and questions to Dyson engineer David Hill at the company's headquarters in Malmesbury, England.

"We are, we think, delivering quite a good value proposition for the consumer," he said, stressing that Dyson purifiers can sense pollutants in the air as well as capture them, and also provide strong air projection."

I just want to point out the above:
Along with the picture, it gives the appearance that a reporter waited outside of a Dyson office and started interviewing an engineer.

I've literally never seen a piece like this where the company's PR department ALLOWED an engineer to be interviewed.

I certainly hope Mr. Hill didn't get in big trouble for this. At my company, if I speak to a reporter without explicit permission from legal, I'm a goner immediately.
I had pretty negative experiences with it. I'm not sure how much of my experience is _actually_ the fault of Podman and how much of it was around using it as a drop-in replacement for Docker. It baffled me though and I'm a long time Docker and Linux user.

I used Arch Linux and followed their docs[1], mainly because I wanted it to also run without root. Big mistake. Attempting to run a simple postgres database w/ and w/o root permissions for Podman resulted in my system getting into an inconsistent state. I was unable to relaunch the container due to the state of my system.

I mucked around with runc/crun and I ended up literally nuking both the root and non-root directories that stored them on my computer. I reset my computer back to Podman for root only, hoping that I had just chosen a niche path. It still would leave my system broken, requiring drastic measures to recover. No thanks.

After much debugging, finally switching back to Docker, I realized my mistake: I had forgotten a required environment variable. Silly mistake.

Docker surfaced the problem immediately. Podman did not.

Docker recovered gracefully from the error. Podman left my system in an inconsistent state, unable to relaunch the container and unable to remove it

Again, I'm not sure how much of my experience was just trying to force Podman into a square hole? I'm sure there are other people that make it work just fine for their use cases

Edit: I should note that I used it as a docker-compose replacement, which is probably another off-the-beaten path usage that made this more dramatic than it should have been

1. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Podman
i don't know, but -1 has the prettiest two's complement representation of all negative ints :)
I tried most top rated vertical mice, mx included, and ended up with delux wired one. My advise is to try them all before finding one that fits your hand
thanks for the twin love, love the question! :)

haha yes, we are not identical (although similar at first look) so no huge (fun) misunderstandings, but we have similar names and same initials so that caused confusion several times. Whenever I got more points on the exam Martin would suspect they mixed us up and go check :D.

Otherwise it is really rewarding to work with a brother! We can agree really quickly and can skip all the formalities and pleasantries when making decisions since we know each other so well. Would definitely recommend :)
Support can always be outsourced to a company like Foundkit
I don't think it really wound all the way to the ends of the tape, like my link said. I think it just wound forward for a set amount of time, and then back, to match the resonant frequency of the device.

Also, I think the point is that it's the Black Team's job to minimize bugs shipped, and they were really impossibly good at it. It was the programmers' job to write bug-free code, and this guy was inspired by the Black Team to write perfect code. It seems like both sides were doing exactly what they were supposed to do.
Did you do this under a doctor's supervision or just on your own?
As far as I know, Chrome is the only google product that has ever been advertised. (Y'know, outside google's own ad network.)
I'd say your choice between Quora's engineers being incompetent or AWS being dishonest/incompetent is a completely false dichotomy. Anyone who has been around AWS (or basically any technology) will agree that the things that can really hurt you are not always the things you considered in your design. I just can't believe that many of the people who grok the cloud were running production sites under the assumption that there was no cross-AZ risk. They use the same API endpoints, auth, etc so it's obvious they're integrated at some level.

Perhaps for Quora and the like, engineering for the amount of availability needed to withstand this kind of event was simply not cost effective, but I seriously doubt the possibility didn't occur to them. It's not even obvious to me that there are many people who did follow the contract you reference who had serious downtime. All of the cases I've read about so far have been architectures that were not robust to a single AZ failure.

As for multi-az RDS, it's synchronous MySQL replication on what smell like standard EC2 instances, probably backed by EBS. Our multi-az failover actually worked fine this morning, but I am curious how normal that was.
Too automated and surely it'll fill up with crap offers?

Big overlay on google maps: "Get 0.5% off your total bill at Joe's Pancake House when you order at least sixteen pancakes!"

PS. Man, I feel like pancakes now
There is no such thing as a free lunch. Foregoing of Groupon ad revenue is no different than buying the ads.

Of course, google can put an ad on the homepage. Since they don't sell that inventory, it is about as close to a free lunch as you can get.
Current 3D printed guns like the FGC-9[1] make use of standard metal parts that can be bought at a hardware store. The bolt requires a single weld, though people have made weldless bolts[2]. The barrel is a metal tube that you can buy at a hardware store and rifle with ECM. Ammunition can be manufactured from blanks or deactivated ammo (both of which are legal in many parts of the EU).

The end result is a firearm built entirely with parts that are legal to purchase in the EU.[3] This will only get easier as 3D printers improve and weapon designs are refined.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FGC-9

2. https://imgur.com/gallery/xZqXXuE

3. The FGC-9's designer lives in the EU. He manufactured the gun & ammo himself and shot it in his basement: https://twitter.com/freegunzone/status/1309896256760709128
You pick interesting examples.

Winston Churchill's mother is American and he is also one of 8 people in history to be granted honorary American citizenship. Therefore he is American enough that a case can be made for putting him on a US stamp.

Lafayette would, of course, qualify on his own merits because he was directly important to US history. But in addition he is another of the 8 honorary US citizens in history.

The full list of honorary citizens is at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honorary_citizenship_of_the_Un....

It is worth noting that Mother Theresa is also on that list and actually has a stamp. See https://about.usps.com/postal-bulletin/2010/pb22290/html/inf....
take a look at https://animagraffs.com/how-a-handgun-works-1911-45/ and tell me this ain't ENGINEERING
> Why must there be a conspiratorial astroturfing campaign taking place?

Regardless of how you feel about it, there is a conspiratorial astroturfing campaign taking place - it's a well documented NSA activity. Whether it accounts for specific comments is impossible to say, but it does exist. Why then is it so absurd to think that it may be in play?
Common Lisp would probably be the best counter-example to "language design by committee doesn't work." Despite being developed by a committee over an almost 15 year period and the standard document being over 1000 pages long and full of functions that are there just for backwards compatibility, the language manages to be both more consistent and feature rich than Ruby or Python.

The language most people know as C has been developed by a committee since 1983 (try reading pre-ANSI C). C++ has been developed by an ISO committee since 1993(?) and has expanded hugely in scope (standard library, namespaces, RTTI).

So successful programming language design by committee seems to be the rule and not the exception.
Well, Amazon does something like this for their original content (competing ideas that members of one of their subsites vote on), but with the difference being that Amazon puts up the money. Also, some existing production companies/distributors have been willing to handle pictures financed this way. Contrary to what you might imagine, nobody likes litigation except a subset of the many lawyers that work in Hollywood, and on most projects no litigation ever takes place.

The crowdfunding model can work to some degree but it suffers from three limitations.

1. It's not good for really big sums, like millions of dollars - not least because of SEC rules, but let's face it, that's a hard amount of money to raise more than a year in advance of release from the general public. For the same reaosn that many people would rather torrent than wait to buy or rent or stream a new film, asking them to pay up front and then wait around for the film to get made is not going to be easy either.

2. Besides the large sum, another reason it's difficult is that many of the jobs involved in film production are highly specialized and it's not obvious to a potential kickstarter buyer how the money is going to be spent. You probably don't want to throw down $15,000 for a 'Honeywagon driver,' for example, without the honeywagon there won't be much exterior shooting because that's the unglamorous line item for the delivery, maintenance, and removal of portable toilet facilities, the cost of which really adds up when you have 40 or 50 people who need to use them. Each othe sub-categories on this page generates further pages of accounting stuff and legal documents: http://www.indieproduction.com/sample-budget-top-sheet.php

3. It's especially not good for films that don't tap into an existing franchise, like a sequel or continuation of an existing series, or with the involvement of famous actors/directors. Few people are eager to invest in someone's first project or a film about subject matter that they're not familiar with, not least because few people know how to evaluate the quality of a script or estimate the credibility of a film proposal. So while you could probably find people willing to crowdfund, I dunno, Jaws in Space, you're going to have a harder time with anything original.

4. It's going to be a lot trickier to get it into theaters if you are also going to be giving it away, because theater owners won't want to take the risk of playing to empty seats. You'd still be able to do a limited release or make advance ownership of the tickets part of the crowdfunding reward, but then you need to include the theater's overhead costs and effectively rent the screen from them which is going to drive up the costs.
When they finally phase-in Deep Learning in Google search, the next step would be to apply that to email databases.
I did work on an Acer C7 ($200 with about $200 worth of SSD+Memory and a $100 23" LCD when I was home, total cost $500) with Ubuntu for about half a year. I initially bought the machine to travel with, and it became a workstation when another machine malfunctioned. I do a mixture of C, Python, Javascript, and Clojure development. It was absolutely fine. Clojure needed a settings tweak to bootstrap the repl properly (it was slow at over a minute), but I never left the repl, so it was a one time cost. C/Python/JS have compilers that were fast even on a dual-core Celeron. tmux/bash/vim were fast (as always).

I did everything on that machine up to and including playing TFC via Steam. It ran an IRC client, Chrome, Firefox, VirtualBox for Windows, and my xterm w/tmux. I don't know that I'd give up my rMBP for it, but I did a lot of work on the chromebook.

As far as a developer machine goes, a $300 special 14-15" screen plus $200 of RAM+SSD would probably be fine for 99% of what I do. This likely doesn't work for those who need Photoshop, do video editing, or need to rebuild their OS (rebuilding world in FreeBSD on the thing would have been a bit much). If you're slinging JS, Python, Ruby, Erlang, Clojure, Java or something similar and you can't get by on 16GB of RAM and a 128GB SSD, something is atypical.
Related article in today's washington post.

Google got it wrong. The open-office trend is destroying the workplace.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/12/30/g...
No need to get all carried away talking about rewriting compilers or pulling out statistical confidence intervals...

If a certain style has a slight performance improvement, and this can be manifested, and that style is equally as readable and maintainable, there is simply no reason not to adopt it as habit. That's all I'm saying.
>data centres occupying many hectares, filled with computers that are architecturally identical to a Packard Bell 486 desktop running MS-DOS long enough to boot a crippled and amateurish clone of Unix circa 1987, and an endless array of complex, kludged-up hardware and software components intended to hide all of that. I would ask for a show of hands from those who consider this progress,

that's definitely a huge progress. Successfully building a coherent computer size of many hectares out of commodity components... And that it doesn't matter whether it is 486 desktop or something else is among the great of achievements of today. Keith and the likes are stuck in the past when the content/architecture of that single box was important and thus they (and all their ecosystem) have been limited physically and mentally by a biggest box one can build (like SunFire 10K). Network is the computer - Keith's and my common former employer was saying. While may be not there yet, today we already have "AWS is the computer", "private FB datacenters is the computer", etc...
I love that idea. I'll help.
Twitter.com + Proxlet Chrome Extension = No more foursquare updates. No more annoying conference live-tweets. No more Brett Favre speculation.

It's so great. I want to give it a hug.
"I really liked how Obama seemed to get his money from small contributions by individuals. That is very different from the image of powerful special interest groups financing elections."

The key words from this quote: "seemed" and "image." You are absolutely correct: Obama "seemed" to get his money from small contributions by individuals. Many (most?) Americans shared a common perception of the "image" of powerful special interest groups financing his opponents (both primary and general). I am very skeptical of this. I would very much like to see some actual numbers on the share of his campaign dollars which came from small donors vs. large contributors, and how he stacked up against his opponents and previous presidential candidates. I strongly suspect that he was more or less average, and that these perceptions were the result of very good marketing by his campaign (which is more or less what political campaigns are supposed to do). Unfortunately, I think that sorting out which of his contributions came from large or small sources will prove incredibly difficult because of the lack of quality control in his contribution acceptance system:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/22/opinion/main453853...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10...
Sort of ironic that all of his concerns were proven out, yet Java still managed to prove his prediction wrong.

Though his definition of success seems to be "would really good programmers (wizards) ever use this language for sweet projects? If yes, than this language is a success." By that metric I guess he would be correct.
I've 1Password since the beginning of this year and it's definitely the best utility I've ever used for this problem.

Currently I'm using it on chrome, safari and iOS 4.2 using dropbox sync.

It works like a charme!
> "'What if it’s not the police’s tracker device?' asked Justice Geoffrey Slaughter. 'What if instead it belongs to the jilted girlfriend or the nosy neighbor? Is it also theft if he removes that device from his vehicle?'"

The thing to do is to call the police.
This is accurate. Various types of scanners and sensors are standard requirements for even the most basic SOC2.
It'd be interesting if they went with additional cameras for this. For example, the rear-view mirror is a video feed already. It could stream from a camera you attach to the back of the trailer instead.

I don't have a lot of personal experience with trailers, a few thousand miles maybe. But I've never liked clip on side mirrors. They bounce around/vibrate. A camera system that's optically stabilized and patches into existing displays would feel a lot more natural for someone like me with minimal experience.
Most investors are smart enough to recognize BS and pass. But they don't issue press releases announcing "We just decided not to invest in this much-hyped startup." It only takes one deep pocketed investor to buoy a deeply flawed startup for a while.
I like to take an information theoretic, model-problem fit stance on simplicity.
It's useful to reason about it in terms of overfitting vs underfitting, over-abstraction vs under-abstraction, high resolution fit vs low resoltion fit, and in terms of cross entropy between the knowledge embedded into a software system and the information relevant to solve the corner cases of the problems (https://medium.com/@b.essiambre/product-market-crossfit-c09b...).
Well tuned knowledge is not an easy thing.
Yes! As soon as wikipedia stopped being the first result for nearly everything it started going downhill. The decline in usability for me has been most notable in the last 5 years.
> Time to revisit the Racket programs and use places.

Please contribute improved programs:

https://salsa.debian.org/benchmarksgame-team/benchmarksgame/...
The std lib is not the paragon of go virtue as some people make it out to be. The maintainers have been frank with some of the mistakes and things they'd do differently now but because they place the Go 1 promise above everything else (a good thing), it has some patterns not many would recommend these days, error handling among them.
I think we're just arguing over implementation details at this point.
I'm even going to "double down" on my position on this, despite the downvote...

My position, on this, is that Scientists, Physicists, in the future, should create tables, matrices, where they test every single element and compound, and they test conductivity at all temperatures -- but they also do this with A/C current at different frequencies and voltages.

So we're looking at the combination of material, temperature, frequency, and voltage.

Now that would be one hell of a research experiment, should it ever take place.

But from the tables/matrices so generated -- now you could start to work on an equation or series of equations for those things, which should (hopefully) be simpler and more interrelated than the ones today, and could potentially give some insight into the atomic sub-structure of materials...

Oh, and then there are the crystalline patterns of materials -- that should be included as a criteria too in these tables/matrices.

Also -- if someone doing this in the future really wanted to "go for broke" -- they'd import the concept of electrical impedance, and the concept of circuit halving, too. Simple example, an LC coil (that is, a circuit which is broken into two halves, one half inductor/coil (L), and one half capacitor (C) -- is a circuit with two halves).

Well, different circuits have different forms of impedance along these "lines of halving".

The goal, if someone truly wanted to understand electricity -- would be to create as many different types of "circuit halves" within a whole circuit, then measure these with respect to material, temperature, frequency, etc., etc. -- as described above...

A person so doing... would probably discover some interesting things...

Or at least might be able to refine existing disparate formulas into something a bit simpler and more holistic...

So, downvote if you will!

Remember that in the history of scientists, yesterday's crackpots -- are tomorrow's genuises! <g>
This is measuring happiness, not optimism. There's probably some overlap, but they're not the same thing.
Yep, nothing against Wu.
> hunger and fullness are very much genetically determined and that that dictates to a large degree how fat you'll be

Do you have any good source on that?
Noether was a mathematician, not a physicist.
I think that depends a bit on personality, place/time in life, etc.

I could easily pull those hours in my early 20s,etc but nowadays I have family and other things so if I do those hours I'll be behind with other things so in addition to needing a bit of extra rest as I'm older, I'll also be in a "todo-deficit" that needs to be caught up with making for more stress in the near/middle term.
OP here. My app's rating is 3.4. I'm not gaming the rating system to my advantage, and I encourage you to check out my app, as well as competing apps with 4.5 or so stars.

Something that will never allow me or any watch keyboard to have stellar ratings is the fact that Apple does not support keyboards system-wide on watchOS, like they do on iOS. Yet my competitors casually had 4.5 stars - and one of them is still up.

As for some of the particular claims, there were a couple of days where the app was paid, and had an IAP - as part of my transition to a free app. Still, the initial paid download let you use the keyboard as long as you want on the watch, but without swipe, themes and other premium features. It was an awkward transition, unfortunately, and those are the battle scars.

Anyway, my point is that my rating truly reflects how people feel about my product - as it should. A 3.4 rating is currently preventing most people from even checking out the app, and I'm fine with that.
It's possible to design a standard library which makes it obvious to the user when a function allocates memory under the hood, for instance by taking an allocator argument. That way it becames very clear what "simple" functions are potentially expensive, and writing potentially slow code should be much less convenient than writing potentially fast code so that users are pushed to writing fast code, same as Rust pushes them to write memory-safe code.