jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Though I've never tried a Swedish self-checkout system I'm fairly convinced that it can't possibly be as fast as the Amazon Go stores. However adept you are at manipulating the self checkout machine and paying, that can't compare to the greater speed of not doing that at all and just walking out the door.

Shopping at the Go Store is much faster. When you're grabbing a single item you can have times of ~10 seconds. Grabbing more items and you save more time by not having to check out. No checkout, no lines, no figuring out why your phone or card isn't accepted, or what error message is on screen etc. In and out as simply and efficiently as possible.

I wouldn't say it is revolutionary, but it does cut down the time it takes to go shopping. It's like a perfect version of self-checkout.
> people who are targeting kids will almost definitely classify theirs as kid-safe.

That's the goal - if this is checked by the creator (for the specific video or for the entire channel), it will have personalized ads disabled for the video plus disable whatever tracking systems Google has for regular watching.
Via Family Link[0] you can create a Google account for your child that's younger than 13, I bet this in particular does comply with COPPA.

0: https://support.google.com/families/answer/7101025?hl=en
When I browse European sites I'm always having to click through permissions - I imagine most folks are on autopilot by now in terms of saying "yes" especially in Europe - how can you even browse the web if you don't click yes one everything in Europe?

What's the data on folks actually saying no to these popups / clickthrough alerts?

I used to skim the relatively few permission / yes agreements (ie, this will auto sign you up for XX), but now they are showing up so many places it's not practical anymore I don't think?

Even https://europa.eu/ (the official EU website) has a cookie banner at the top of the very first page you hit. And instead of the website asking me - I normally just block cookies if I don't want to share them.
Thanks for the feedback, the dsl's are kept simple (sacrificing customization flexibility) so non-technical users can benefit from it. Visual quality of the output has lots of room for improvement, so that's what we'll be working on next.
I guess my point is that multiple values are transparent; lots of times there are functions for which it's sometimes useful to have auxiliary values, but most of the time the primary value is all that is needed.

There are certainly arguments for why this might be a bad idea (if your the sort of person who likes rich type systems, you're unlikely to like this), but there is no way to do this in WASM efficiently, while there is for pretty much all real machines.

FWIW, I'm not sure about CLISP; I haven't used it for almost 20 years. Sbcl and ccl will both omit the calculation of the modulo when it is not needed. The ergonomics of a thunk or a tuple are different.
I hear it's powered by cold fusion and Half Life 3.
No - companies invest a lot of resources into their software development processes, and changing processes often involves a significant investment of it's own, not to mention a slow down in productivity.
That was the "one" link I tried clicking into. Thanks for being awesome bigmac.
All examples of use are indoors. Rough outdoor floors may prove too much. In any case an impressive device.
And i'd hazard a guess and say the rate of growth in the consumer smartphone market is growing faster than the corporate smartphone market.

(Don't run for where the ball is, run for where the ball is going to be. Or however that saying goes.)
Any complex task goes quicker with more than one person, simple statistics. If you are very good, and will only be stumped on 1% of your issues, pairing up with another founder with the same stats reduces your chances of getting stuck (or going down the wrong path) to 1 issue in 10000. Your mtbf goes up by several times! Even if your partner is wrong 10% of the time, you still improve by 10X. MTBF goes way up, and MTBF is very important in a low-budget startup.
I used to be very frustrated by this. I have a shortlist of about four sites (gmail, reddit, HN, google reader) that I keep reloading obsessively. Some times I would catch myself closing reddit, just to open it again. Entire days could be wasted in this fashion.

Recently I've stopped doing this as much, I half suspect it's a mixture of exercising more at the moment, going out in the sun and the fact that I don't think there's much new material out there. Maybe I've simply become bored of it.

So much of what we read on these social sites and on our RSS feeds are just people vying for our attention. It's like being in a room with people all shouting at you sometimes. Newspapers want your eyeballs, bloggers want you to read their opinion. CLICK MY ADS!

You're right, it really does trash your attention. Now that I've eased my use of it I find myself working away and then being surprised (and a bit disappointed!) that it's going home time!

Look at the top entry here on this site at the moment - it's about a guy responding to some other guy about some Apple stuff or other. Do I feel more enriched by reading this or getting on with some work? Does what he said have any bearing on my existence? Do you really need to read articles like "10 jQuery widgets that will change your life!"?. Do you really need to read the 200th article on the oil spill? Is reading it going to magically clean it up?

So in response to your actual question I would suggest working out some sort of routine - only spend an hour or so during lunchtime and after work so you have set times you should be working. Just have a quick skim over the first page of these sites to see what's going on. Longer articles can be saved for later and read when you really don't have anything better to do. It'll still be there.
I'm currently running vanilla Ubuntu 10.04 on my Linode, but this looks like a solid offering, bringing together a lot of services so that things work 'out of the box'.

Have any HNers used this? Is it good enough to switch?
i guess that's why such technologies take a while to get broadly adopted. i think in 10 or 20 years almost everybody might use those, and segway will look kinda old-school.
IMHO, the person selected to run the original project was a beneficiary of the Peter Principle, and on top of that, left the company before the project was completed. I wasn't directly involved, but I specifically remember the hero of the story complaining about having been "sold a bill of goods" -- i.e., the company was promised the new system would perform screamingly, but when push came to shove, it didn't.
> That might be the deal-breaker here.

I would think it's surmountable, but point taken.

>Credit card purchase authorization over SMS might be more sturdy

How is this supposed to work? They send you a text, and you reply to confirm? The inability to make purchases without a signal seems fatal.

Thanks for the feedback.
Sorry, I was wrong, it was reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/dppw8/i_need_a_sug...
That's a super piece of work! Thank you, I'll probably become one of your users.
If you don't have time, fine. If you don't want to talk, fine. But I have some strong words which, out of respect for HN's guidelines, I won't say. Being dismissive of a newbie's concerns while killing their interest in the field isn't great, especially after they've put hard work into giving you a clear-cut example of the technical reasons why something looks hard to them.

And I still don't understand how your solution wouldn't leak air into the hyperloop unless the steel sleeves were pressing very firmly into each other. Like the inner sleeve forcefully pressing into the outer sleeve.

I have no idea why you refuse to admit this is at the very least a nuanced problem.
Thankfully I am a programmer and not a social worker, because that perspective seems totally unacceptable to me. It feels like the Windows 98 solution - instead of figuring out the cause of infrequent bluescreens, just reboot, save often and hope that the problem is resolved in the next release :)
I've used both services and used Car2go mainly for short one-way trips. I'm curious at how Uber and other ridesharing apps have affected Car2go since the costs might be comparable with added benefits of (1) not having to park, (2) getting picked up and dropped off closer to your destination, and (3) being more relaxing.
As a heads up, this isn't a really useful response, and triggers some red flags while evaluating services.

It's probably worth spending some time on figuring out how to explain to a prospective customer that is familiar with the marketplace what makes the product different.
And here is a point-by-point response from the authors of the paper it criticizes, which I found convincing:

http://compbio.mit.edu/calcifediol/Response_to_Pachter_criti...
Thank you very kindly for the nice words! Appreciate it!
> Its protocol author argues that TLS is just a simple dependency no different than a TCP server module, so it should be trivial to implement in any client or server. But if your computer’s CPU is so slow that a modern TLS negotiation would take so long as to be unusable, or its platform doesn’t have a TLS 1.2 library available, that makes it impossible to write a client without depending on an external modern system.

This is asking for everybody else to put in the time and effort for you to do the computing equivalent of restoring classic cars. Someone proposing a new Internet protocol in 2021 doesn't need to include compatibility with freaking _System 6_ Macs.
OK, no spam magnet here. That kind of defeats the purpose of doing nice things for free up front.
Simple projects!

Projects where the client isn’t programmer-savvy and wants to make changes themselves and immediately upload them over FTP. Sites like self-hosted WordPress or hand-maintained static websites.
Sorry, this is not true :)

The Ubuntu bluetooth stack has been misconfigured for a long time, and it still is (specifically, the pulseaudio bluetooth module is misnamed; there is an open bug). I use an Ubuntu MATE, but I think this applies to the other Ubuntu distros as well.

It also had other misconfigurations in the past, and anyway, the bluetooth stack has always been poor quality (nowadays is much better though).

Even the Dell XPS, which is supposed to be perfectly compatible, has minor niggles (in other areas).

So, Ubuntu/Linux works acceptably... yes, but perfectly, definitely not.
Someone also uses notepad as a debug console [1]. There is even a Rust crate for that [2].

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/gnazif/ray_tra... (I've first seen this from Steve Klabnik's tweet https://twitter.com/steveklabnik/status/1263190719721766918)

[2] https://crates.io/crates/notepad_logger
Most of your point was about problem with Intel Fab though. AMD Xilinx doesn't have any of these problem, not to mention they shared the resources and tool set on TSMC. Which is a net positive.

Basically if AMD dont do anything to Xilinx, leaving it to them continue on their own, both Xilinx and AMD will gain benefits on design cost reduction. Which is important considering leading edge design cost is forever increasing.
Murray may not have asserted this, but by the time his ideas make it to the street level you get racist tiki torch marches and cops murdering black people in public.

A thinker cannot simply wash their hands of the manifestation of their ideas, especially once that manifestation becomes stupidly obvious.

Sometimes an unrelated example helps:

Marxists do this all the time when they hand wave away the awful history of Communism. “Marx advocated evolution toward communism, not dictatorship.” Okay, maybe so, but virtually every large scale society to attempt to adopt Marxism ends up as some kind of totalitarian state that oppresses people at huge scale. At some point it’s reasonable to conclude that there is something very wrong with Marxism.

Maybe Murray didn’t intend to help resurrect Naziism, but he played a central role in doing so.

Back to the Rationalists, this is one of my huge problems with them and it’s evident in that paragraph about BLM. They reason in an absolute vacuum. They never seem to look down at the street to see what their ideas are doing down there.
If you want some more good 80's-90's silicon valley stories, Jaron Lanier includes a lot of tangents like that in his books.
In the US the "elite" is literally drafting laws: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Legislative_Exchange_...

> The ALEC website states that its goal is to advance "the fundamental principles of free-market enterprise, limited government, and federalism"

It's right there in the open but I would guess most people never heard of it. A rich people private club to steer the country's legislation. I can't even imagine the level of corruption and self-serving interest
While Jeff is a great programer, writing code has not been his primary contribution at Google.
Seems like you're equating superstar developers with years of experience and that hasn't been my observation. PyTorch was created by an undergrad. I've worked with senior devs that have let engineering pass them by and are now the equivalent of non-programming programmers: https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-nonprogramming-programmer/

I agree that the pool of superstar devs is tiny.
We don't need a clearing house at all. A simple blockchain fixes this and provides 100% of the settlement service that this company provides.
Interesting list. Does anyone know of more than the ones on that page?

Thinking about it I have encountered some of these even in the software world, well perhaps you could call them emerging Hiden Champions. Companies that specialize in a 'thing', and only focus all their efforts on that one aspect.

One example is helping companies migrate their Atlassian stacks. Yep, all they did was help clean up Confluence space or Jira projects, sort out their issue templates and whatnot, and run a migration tool to do the transfer. That's it. And they charge a lot. And their employees have all worked there for a long time. And just as it says in one of the criteria, I can't remember their name now!

As for Embraer, I've definitely heard of them and I'd think it has more public awareness, but I can see how they fit the criteria.
Great questions.

There is actually a secretive business model. Once you think about it - there's no need to harvest data, or bill consumers once we have market share. Unless the incumbents make life difficult - there's no reason why this service should not be possible.
I wonder why electrowetting based displays aren't more prominent?

They presumably wouldn't be covered by the e-ink patents, as they seem to work on a different principle.
>Frequency is so low that in the past hour any power line time base has fallen over 5.5 seconds behind. That’s a massive drop in frequency.

Out of curiosity, where did you find this?
> A bad actor could create a really good open source library or package, wait for everyone to use it and then introduce malware into it.

This often happens with Chrome browser extensions that change hands and the new owner then injects malware or crypto mining or keylogging etc. into the newly acquired extension.
Hello - I am the person :)

You're right of course - 6 of the 11 parts in the book are dedicated to chord diagrams. Shortly after starting the book I started exploring chord diagrams again and was enjoying creating visualisations with them a little too much.

Please bear in mind that it's an early access book that I'm still working on. I can see you grabbed a copy when it was listed at 7.49 (it increases as I add more), and I have to defend it a little and say I don't believe the book is crap, just incomplete! I have been working on custom visualisations which will be working their way into the D3.js and Data is Beautiful book soon.

Anyway, thank you for the feedback, I have sent an email to offer a refund, because selling the books is supposed to support further work, and I don't feel comfortable if someone feels unhappy after doing that.
The studies will eventually come out with "proper longitudinal studies". Some countries are choosing not to wait for that. I do hope they do those studies - it feels like half the current dose size might work fine
Agreed. I don't understand why iCloud backup is not a thing. When I broke my phone and needed a replacement, I lost all my groups.

It's not even the message history I care about. It's the fact that people sent me texts in the group while having no idea I was no longer receiving them. If there was a way to back up just the group memberships, that would be great.
Prices of software can be adjusted based on the user's location. Steam does this. It is of course subject to abuse but most people pay the asked price.
Perhaps it's fine as it is.
They listed Shanghai - Taipei as "international route", let's hope that site stays up.
Lets pretend Tether has no backing what so ever. They could still defend the peg 1:1 completely. How? Well if someone wants to sell a bunch of tether, they simply print even more tether, use that to buy crypto on exchanges, and sell that crypto to anyone willing to buy it that generates dollars to pay of the person selling their tether. But that also leves them with the tether that was sold back to dollars, which they can then buy more crypto with an either just hold or also sell to generate dollars. The visuals of this from an outside ends up looking effectively like there was just ton more new money coming into the system when in fact the exchanges and new money took a hit, and the money printing people just raised their perceived holding without backing. That is to say, that in this case the event of someone wanting out looks like the market is rising. You can keep this going as long as your un-backed coin can be exchanged for other liquid crypto.

As long as they have a blindly trusted money money printing machine, they can use it to defend the illusion that it's printing real money. This is thes standard playbook for a pyramid scheme. You use new money to keep the illusion of a big holding and you can keep that going as long as the illusion holds.
Anything above level 3 in the osi model is pretty useless distinction, and even the useful levels the distinction is just a bogus description of the status quo, rather than something truly useful.
Well, the fact is, the version available on opensource.apple.com in macOS 11.0.1 is 123.40.1 and the version in 10.15.6 is 118.40.2... and they slightly differ.

Interestingly, the new version removed the dependency on the unavailable rootless.h header, making it (probably) buildable out of the box, now.
that's why I love Matrix
Yeah, I'm musing abotu the possibility of using monotonic time. Right now, our time system conveys implicit information about the "solar time of day" (whether or not its daylight in the locale) as well as season (January is winter in the Northern Hemisphere). For monotonic time, you would have to use some sort of conversion function to recoup that information. As we both noted, certain monotonic time systems could be used which deviate very little from solar time such that the accumulated error would only make a difference (for the purpose of recouping that aforementioned implicit information) at very large time scales, which is a problem we already face with inflation (1950s dollars are not the same value as 2021 dollars and we all seem to manage alright with that).
Have you breastfed before? I'm married to someone who has, and suffering is an apt description of the experience, for at least a large fraction of the time. Moderate discomfort for the rest. The days when we started weening the kids are, by my wife's report, some of the best days she's ever had, because of how bad the days before were.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6400324/#:~:tex....

"Over 90% of women experience pain during breastfeeding initiation and lack strategies to self-manage breast and nipple pain."
Eating meals was also practiced in the Soviet Communist Party
It would be insanely easy for the US Government to shut down bitcoin, if they wanted to. All they would have to do is make bitcoin illegal and have ISPs block bitcoin P2P traffic. They could also shut down the exchanges and prosecute people who were found to be attempting to buy or sell stuff with it.

Bitcoin's value would plummet to almost nothing, virtually overnight.

The ONLY reason bitcoin exists is because the government LETS it.
Yes! Non-profit and academic use case is currently free.

It's worth noting, the use case you are mentioning is interesting, but not exactly the workflow we are building for.

We are focused on improving the workflow around a marketer/demand generation/sales person at a company who needs to use existing content to get attention on social media/blog/email.

One of the ways we are thinking about this is around increasing the "shelf-life" of quality content, which doesn't get discovered because its long. This is very much a problem that appeared when businesses became content creators, as opposed to individuals.

That being said, if you have any questions, please email either Ross (ross@milkvideo.com) or me (lenny@milkvideo.com) and we will be happy to help!
There is clearly one area where your ethnicity/race matters: genetics. Your ethnicity can can be used to approximate genetic clustering and that is done to some degree within pharmacogenomics.

Apart from the that one carve-out, their point is correct.

However, ethnicity is only rough approximation for genetics as clustering is not perfect (obviously). Thus the cure for even this area is improved NGS testing.

So actually, their point is completly correct as-is.
Replying to myself because I can't seem to find an edit button: If you're interested in Cassandra, the free online DataStax training is highly recommended. You'll learn all the gotchas ahead of time instead of after you went to production, and you really, really don't want the latter.
This matches my experience with a 2-in-1 Thinkpad. Obscure bugs (WiFi driver periodically crashing when Thunderbolt is connected) still there after 2 years now.

I think the best bet is going with as much of a run off the mill device as possible. In my experience a separate tablet works much better than a 2-in-1 compromise anyway. When your sole input device is a touchscreen, UX is (unsurprisingly) massively better with a touch-first UI compared to a mouse-first UI.
Pretty sure in HTTP 1.1, there was a max amount of concurrent requests per server/proxy. So using different domains allowed more rq/s.
That's a fair point. It's true my job has shifted much more towards being like a professor than being an individual contributor SWE. Still, lots of differences with academic life: Far lower overhead, far less administrative work, much greater assurance of success (not being subject to peer review for everything), etc. So overall more satisfying although the day-to-day schedule might look roughly the same.
Unfortunately Rust itself has limited space to secure a kernel. We need a major change in operating systems to have a safer environment that is not trivial to exploit.

My list goes as:

- kernel memory and userspace memory is hardware separated as it was originally with some early architectures

More about it here: http://phrack.org/issues/64/6.html#article

- microkernels

Having a formally verified ring0 execution block and everything else is running in a less privileged space, this would allow kernels to protect themselves against bad drivers and other parts of the operating system that can be used as attack surface today

- safe userland

this is I guess where Rust could help the most, having a memory safe low level language
More like 1/8th. That benchmark isn't indicative of real-world performance.