skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm going to give some blind advice. I've never been laid off nor have I done consulting - I'm not speaking from personal experience here.

No matter which route you decide to go, work on some hard skills. Something. Anything. Whether or not you think you're going to use what you learn, what's important is that you're learning. If you start interviewing, you're going to eventually be asked, "What is something new you have learned?" It would be a great chance to pull out your computer and show them. Even if you land another role as a PM, it's going to be important to be relevant.

On a related note, someone I know was an IT Director. On the side, he started tinkering with Android development. I helped him learn how to use git. Eventually, he was laid off. The skills he learned helped him land a job at a decent sized company that I'm pretty sure you've heard of.
I'm measuring its footprint, it's too early for me to tell, I can refer back to you, after I've done some tests.
It should be simple to move your static sites if this goes away, don't you think? In fact, I can't think of anything simpler.
No company or government in the history of humanity has managed to foresee the myriad ways dishonest people will try to get away with dishonest things. Many, many, many, many, many companies have severely underestimated the high cost of fraud.

Also, employees trying to break the system are not likely to bringing young kids shopping with them.

The only question I have is who's liable when things are fuzzy: right now, the store bears the liability for things eaten within the store, destroyed while in the store, snuck out, etc. It's easy to see that this technology leads to the liability being pushed onto the shopper for all of those cases, but that will definitely lead to some serious customer-service arguments.
There is some uncertainty in the numbers, so the manufacturers quote fairly conservative numbers. In recent years flash cells have become a bit more fragile and the process technology has changed multiple times, so good past results on endurance testing are not necessarily indicative of future results.

I've personally burnt out a set of SSDs installed in a RAID-6. They lost no data and failed no writes, but they had become unusably slow -- less than a tenth of their original write speed.
It's an experiment. Experiments are good. They allow us to take risks and see if something good or bad happens.

Banning politics on HN is not what they are proposing, they are proposing a cease fire on HN. That is by no means a bad idea.

If they propose banning news on HN permanently I'll get out my pitchfork too (assuming the experiment goes poorly). But lets put them away for a week, then talk.
I thought there were rules established: upvote if a post is thought provoking and or informative; downvote if it's factually incorrect or doesn't contribute to the conversation.

The forums on the internet should not be solely to affirm your opinions, but also to challenge them and allow growth as an individual.

The problem isn't with politics -- it's with the people misusing the voting system.
If the system relies on tracking you constantly from the moment you enter they'll have as many cameras as they need to cover the whole store. For just tracking the person you really don't need too high of detail just decent coverage and if the system is using CV to determine what you're taking off the shelves instead of RFID(ish) tags (which makes sense given the cost of applying tags to every item) then they've already got way better camera coverage than they need to just track you around the store.

Really this whole thread is all just rank speculation that'll be mostly confirmed or denied once a store actually opens and people can look around and see what's going on.

Also as for scaling it's a fixed cost to cover a larger area compared with a variable cost if they're using RFID to scan when you pass through the turnstiles so really a camera based system probably scales better than a tag based system.
> I find this experiment a bit strange/disturbing, avoiding political subjects is a way of putting the head in the sand.

I wonder why it is called an experiment at all. In the end this just the mods upholding the part of HN guidelines [1] that I like the most:

If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

The problem with having stories and comments about mundane politics is also that they bury the technically interesting comments and they make stories on the the front page go away quicker. There are plenty of other sites where one can discuss about politics. Only on HN can one discuss, for example, with Animats (John Nagle) about the shortcomings and the history of the Nagle's algorithm [2,3] or getting lessons of public speaking from patio11 [4].

Mundane politic topics interfere with HN being the exception place it is.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9050645
[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10608356
[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6199544
for d) it could be a combination of rfid, closeness, and cameras detecting who grabbed it.
I would assume that the signature scheme uses some sort of public key system, so dumping the keys in the boot ROM wouldn't let you sign new code. Gaining access to the bootloader code would allow you to analyze it and potentially find vulnerabilities. There's no guarantee that vulnerabilities could be found, but the chances are a lot better than if you were just poking at it blind.

It looks like they did succeed in dumping the full contents of the boot ROM. They don't appear to have done anything with that dump (yet).
There seem to be multiple meanings to "political"; one in a broad sense (things pertaining to social governance) and a specific ideological axis along which certain general topics become polarized. The former is fine, the latter is damaging (at least in high concentrations or some such).
Fascinating how the dude says he has no way to validate the science because he's not versed enough, and goes on to explain why climate models are not credible because of their complexity.
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How about you put out this detox for the week after the electoral college has made it's choice? Instead of trying to silence the debate over the most important election in the history of the human race!

This time, the choice was between a candidate that is "politics as usual" and maybe let's slow down a little on the path to human extinction, and a candidate that said "let's annihilate the status quo, and anyway I don't believe in the fundamental equality of people of color or women; and science? pffff whatever." and who's motto is "you didn't vote for me? losers! sad!", whose "policy" is a run towards misery for the Americans that did vote for him (deregulation of ... everything!), definitely a trade war with the main partner of the American economy, or possibly an actual war. And who don't seem to care about the extinction of the human race (let's bring back coal!). And lies about everything.

But yeah, let's silence political debate. Cuz' we're totally not going to be affected by the results! Everything's fine, Tech dismal diversity is not a problem anymore, we'll get protected from all these Chinese copycats that steal our ideas. And hey, we might even get to build this registry for this two minorities, people of a weird religion or people that ensure that all our fresh produce stay so cheap. 2 sets of 2-3 million people, and maybe they overlap! Too bad it's too small for big data, otherwise there would already have been a hackathon! (or did I miss it?).

Did I miss any reason we totally should not talk about this election?
Awesome thanks. Let me look one by one.

> Increase your price. This may reduce the number of customers but increase the profit margin, thereby cutting back on the hours required of you and making the transition from job to business owner more manageable.

For sure, I am not entirely sure what the right pricing move is. I could likely do a 25-50% bump and end up better for it.

> Find ways to somehow free up time. This does not necessarily need to be in the form of business automation, though finding some ways to automate pieces of the business to lighten your load would be good. You could also look at your overall life and either do things like hire a person to mow your lawn or just simplify things in some way.

For sure. Today we just figured out "order groceries from the internet". Going to be a process,but every extra hour helps a BUNCH right now

> Take better care of yourself. Eat better. Improve sleep hygiene. Join a gym or fit more walking into your life. If you have more to give physically, this pace becomes more sustainable.

My running has gone from 30 MPW to 5 MPW. Thanks for the reminder, I shall go for a run in a bit.

> You seem to feel a bit trapped, like the business has a life of its own and you cannot corral it. Try to reframe the problem as one of you needing to get this dog on a leash and teach it some discipline. That approach has the potential to give you the breathing room you need to grow it on your own terms.

This is genius
> What evidence do you have for this claim? A study of some sort?

The fact that people go to supermarkets, to get their groceries faster and cheaper, instead of going to half a dozen small stores where the potential for fulfilling social interaction is much bigger.
sigh... after reading this, we probably should ban politics. sad.
As an experiment and a temporary detox, I am all for it. Totally worth testing. But something to keep in mind is that politics is something that needs the help HN community can provide with a thoughtful discussion
I'm saying that, in a forum dedicated to the practice of shaping the 21st century world by people who have immense power to shape the world, having a "We will be having none of that politics stuff in here!" policy is dangerous. The tools we build affect people's lives. The world we live in affects how the technology we build will be used, what our tools enable, and the problems we should focus on solving.

Feigning that we can have conversations in isolation from the world at large is a dangerous lack of recognition of our power and our responsibility.
> all computer languages are somewhat arbitrary

No, avoiding unnecessary repetition (god damn DRY at the syntax level) and avoiding visual noise is not arbitrary. It's just good practical taste. I don't live in houses where doors have 2 knobs that need to be pressed at the same time to open a door. And I don't eat steak with a fork that has a knife as a handle. Both of those could work and make sense for some, but overall they are bad taste and awkward for 99% of people.

Python gets it right. Ruby gets it right. Julia gets it right. Most lisps get it right etc. (Even Java and C# get them "as right as they could" considering all their history and past choices that seriously limited what kinds of languages they could be.)

And my issue is that I like the semantics of languages like F# and OCaml and Haskell after having played a bit with them but by god, they couldn't have chosen more infuriating syntaxes and name resolution systems or module systems or tools for them... like they tried as hard as they could to piss off "the plebs in the industry" who actually care about syntax and other such little details, because, ya know, when what you're developing is not that interesting, you should at least have the pleasure of writing code that you aesthetically enjoy to read! And it's hard to convince fellow industry plebs of the usefulness of advanced type systems when the first code sample they see elicits an "ugh" or "yuck" reaction. Most of us programmers are shallow and lazy and we should be proud of this and build tools that cater to our "virtues".

Or maybe I'm in the minority by liking dense and non-repetitive notations and finding them easier to read too...
> Plus, if we wanted to, we could certainly write our own wrapper for malloc that took two arguments and multiplied them together with overflow checking. And in fact if we want an overflow-safe version of realloc, or if we don't want the memory to be zero-initialized, then... we still have to do that.

Like reallocarray(3) does?

buf = malloc(x * y);
// becomes
buf = reallocarray(NULL, x, y);

newbuf = realloc(buf, (x * y));
// becomes
newbuf = reallocarray(buf, x, y);
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I'm very pleased so far, but as I said, it's too early for me to tell something.

> However, it didn't scale that well for us.

What kind of scaling problems did you encounter ?
Well, for instance, one might want to discuss whether it would be right that an unaudited private entity would have access to voter data - or is that on the taboo side of the line?
Evidently a large subset of the user base disagrees.
I'm not sure at all how you can make conclusions from just 9 houses. I've been house hunting recently. Even houses in the same neighborhood are very different, and there are a lot of factors going into valuing a house. Also may be very subjective - some people would pay a lot for things that other people don't care about. Maybe Zillow is uniquely bad at one or two out of 20 factors - e.g., it can not detect a house in a good neighborhood that has been neglected and needs a lot of repair (I've seen houses in very good places that looked great from outside and required tens of thousands dollars of work on the inside just to be livable - maybe that's what happened to that -75% house - maybe it had a recent fire or flooding). Or maybe it doesn't value having a pool correctly. Who knows. But it's impossible to figure that out from only 9 houses, 3 per huge market! You need hundreds of data points to smooth out the individual differences and cancel out noise from all different criteria. That's exactly what Zillow's advantage is supposed to be - to aggregate thousands of data points. Maybe they do a good job, maybe not, but I don't think you can evaluate it by just using mere 3 houses per market of millions!
Exactly. A good example of natural consequences:

You forgot your jacket. It rains. You get wet.

A good example of manipulation/constructed "consequences":

You didn't write your homework. You don't get to play video games.

And, by the way, if you want your kid to hate a specific video game, turn it into (home)work. This is the approach schools take to killing our children's creativity and natural curiosity.
I've been making little speakers out of old suitcases and boxes. Similar to what www.theboomcase.com does but not quite as fancy/powerful. I'm not trying to sell them but its fun to give them to friends as gifts and its enjoyable to work on at our makerspace with the kids.

I like finding sale components on www.parts-express.com and amazon. You can get small amps for $10-20. I've made them with a rechargeable lead-acid battery. Next goal is to figure out how to get a bluetooth module in the mix (right now they just have an aux port). I'm admittedly bad at audio electronics but I'd like to figure out how to use more powerful amps with a battery.

Sorry, no pictures on me at the moment.
Yeah, it honestly seems like HN should split into two forums effectively.

Tech (No politics, etc.) / Not Tech.

The trying to force it all into a single view seems to be creating some friction.
I've never used hex fiend (and have only needed that type of tool a handful of times), but from my understanding the reason this can be so much faster than a text editor is seeking for new lines. If you need to jump 50% through the file, with a hex editor you look at the size of the file and jump to the middle. For a text file you have to count all of the newlines (seek the entire file). Even if the text editor does clever things, many times plugins (like syntax highlighting) do things in naive ways.

Vim is /fairly/ fast even with very large files.
Scaling is hard and expensive.
me and my friend are working on something similar. We prefer to call it a drone though :$

My friend was looking into the material strength and feasibility while I was looking into the software.

We intend to use a 3d printer to build a small scale model and progressively keep making it bigger.

We would love to collaborate if that's ok with you.

Based in Canada (Toronto) and we put ~10 hrs/week max on this project.
BTW, never click a Jamie Zawinski link on HN when you are at work...
PXE support: https://github.com/rusher81572/picluster/issues/1
> downvote if it's factually incorrect

I would be surprised if this had much of an impact. I've encountered a lot of people even on HN who truly seem to believe their ideology is somehow 'fact'. Those who are sufficiently self-aware in this regard are probably not abusing the downvote button to begin with.
I think this is where good judgement comes into play. If there's an argument about Trump or Clinton, clearly it's off topic. If there's an argument about how a technology will be impacted by some element of the current political landscape, that seems reasonable.

Others have stated this elsewhere in the thread, but it's often impossible to avoid politics altogether. I'm completely with you about posts that are purely political in nature.
>The Chinese, meanwhile, are doing quite well. If they can hurdle some (admittedly big) challenges, they will challenge both Russian and US leadership in the world in a very serious way.

On the other hand, our incoming wildcard of a president seems to be ready to tilt away from China and towards Russia, though what really happens will be impossible to predict. I'm wondering if this rapprochement may come down to both nations' concerns about China.

Watching the US/Russia/China dance over the years has made me think that Orwell was eerily prophetic, even if he didn't get the year right. "But we've always been at war with Eastasia!"
Rollback on current mainstream distros isn't really possible because their package managers are rather primitive. Newer system package managers like GNU Guix and Nix feature atomic updates and rollback so breakage is easily remedied. Their associated distros, GuixSD and NixOS, feature rollback for the entire OS. I made a bad configuration change the other day that kept me from logging in to my desktop environment, so I just rebooted and chose the previous generation of my system from the GRUB menu and was back in action.
Sounds great. Another proof that stereotypes and sound bites are simply prolefeed.
Hybrid vs. Native – confessions of a native developer [video]
Is there data (say a drastically increased flag rate, number of flame wars, etc.) that show that today is different than 2 months ago?
wait, really?
And yet somehow, within a decade, we've redefined (almost out of existence) the single most fundamental human institution, an institution which has lasted for thousands of years and which virtually every great thinker prior to the last 15 years has understood as the prerequisite and foundation for any civilized society. This radical redefinition of marriage - and in its wake, of what it means to be human - couldn't have happened without incessant propagandizing and cheerleading from every element inside our popular and our news media. And yet how often did you hear this media allow through a coherent statement of the views opposing SSM, as expressed by, say, Ryan Anderson? How often was debate shut down a priori, as mere bigotry?

Careful reconsideration? I don't see how that played any part of this recent shift.
I think the problem of definition is that you opened with "slavery, or indentured servitude", and the article here referred to previously existing indenture systems where servants breaking their contracts would be jailed. Your wikipedia definition (which I find overly broad) doesn't include what is the salient part, which is what the consequences of breaking a debt bond are. (EDIT: I would say the caveat "within a system of unfree labor" would get the closest, but still leaves this unclear.)

A system where you take on a debt, and are jailed if you renege it, is very different than a system where you take on a debt, and can discharge it in bankruptcy. That's the crucial difference, and I think the text makes it clear that Cato are not advocating the former.

And I don't see how employment/training is so different from anything else for which you might take out a forfeitable loan. If you're saying that all debts payable to a single creditor are "indenture", then so are mortgages and car loans. The "servitude" part would come about solely as a consequence of it being a loan based on work, rather than anything else.
I recently made a tiny laser turret that's controlled by a video game controller.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlMuXKNZ748
Boring Wall Street Analyst Notes Are Out. Bold, Funny Are In
CT's first Unicorn looking to hire ZFS Kernel dev
I think there is absolutely no need for the system to be biological. A computer model can work just as well. As long as it solves the same behavior problem, there is no difference between brain reinforcement learning and artificial reinforcement learning.
It's interesting that comments seem to be either strongly in favor, or strongly against. I'll buck the trend and say that I personally don't actually care all that much.

I do like talking about politics, especially when it's polite and level-headed discussion (which seems to be the norm here in NH), and a lot of my comments are on that subject. So yes, it would be somewhat sad to see that go.

But the bulk of HN's value lies mostly elsewhere, and not being able to talk about politics here would still keep it a valuable platform and an interesting community to participate in.

So it's really not a big deal one way or the other.
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Amazon stole my $10k+ gift card balance. What do I do?
Regular here, throwaway for the obvious reasons.

Amazon closed my account with a gift card balance.

I operate a gift card marketplace that’s similar to other gift card marketplaces. You know, the whole “buy sell gift cards” thing.

Over the course of my time operating this, I’ve purchased a few on the spot. By a few, I mean about $10,000 worth from trusted customers.

I woke up one morning to find Amazon.com had closed my account.

I know my customers well. Almost too well. They're not carded gift cards. Their sums aren't in excess of $100, even.

In total, I had more than $13,000 in gift card balance. Based on one person who I know could look into my account, they were able to confirm that less than 1% of all the gift cards that I had applied to my account that had been subject to a chargeback. That’s well below the Amazon average.

What do I do? I can't be out this money.
True. I was talking specifically about the same Regexp package as the one used in the topic project though.

I assumed that would have been obvious given the context however I apologise for not stating that in my comment and shall amend it appropriately. [edit: i can't add an amendment to my previous post now]
Agreed, I'd rather have the condensed information the video provided today than to wait for a more refined version.