skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Speaking as the son of a trucker who spent a summer helping my dad negotiate and optimize his freight rates and schedules, the freight brokerage business is not one I would consider getting into. There is also a ton of competition in the freight brokerage space and the problems associated with shipping are due to poor warehouse management and unreliable truck drivers.

Unlike hailing rides in a taxi, manufacturing and shipping generally holds a regular schedule. If you build a reputation as someone who always shows up on time, you can make a lot of money as a truck driver (more than most programmers). After building a good reputation you cut out the broker and work with the manufacturers directly. All you need to do is find two manufacturers in a high paying industry, (pharmaceuticals, chemicals, specialized plastics) whose pickup and dropoff points are near one another and you can be set for years.

Most poorly run warehouses can be backed up for 4-6 hours before you can begin unloading. Most standard contracts allow 2 hours from the point of arrival to fully unload your truck. We would negotiate our billing like a lawyer. For any additional time after that grace period we would charge in hourly blocks at over $100 per hour. Companies try to abuse their power by wasting the time of drivers by not paying them to sit idle at their warehouses. Amazon and Walmart are notorious for these practices.

I think there is a lot more money to be made using technology to run a high tech fleet of trucks than there is a freight brokerage company. Trucking is an information game for sure but there is too much competition in the freight brokerage space and you can be easily side stepped by savvy truckers.
You only have to tow your boat to the lake a few times a month before commuting in a pickup truck is the best option.

You only have to go on a road trip a few times a month

Fielding a fleet of the minimum number of vehicles that do everything poorly is almost always cheaper than fielding a fleet of anything but the minimum number of vehicles. Throw the non-free parking that HN seems to love into the mix and it disadvantages specialized vehicles even further.

This is why crew cab trucks and crossovers/wagons are so popular.
not only would it be hard, but using a blockchain (a type of database) to represent a functional SQL database using smart contracts is a mind-numbingly bad idea.

(insert "should i use a blockchain" infographic, which is amusingly impossible to google image search for, because this question evidently does not often occur to people...)
> I'm not saying you shouldn't do it (I wouldn't but you do you) or that you must have more exp to do it. I'm just recommending to be careful. Have fun and good luck!

OP should also definitely consult a lawyer before making this public. Eth advocates love to parrot the 'code is the contract' slogan, but the actual law could very well disagree.
Hey, Thanks! Our main goal is to keep the image as familiar as possible for humans so that companies will still want to use these images, and not to prevent people from taking selfies of course. For the time being, we can’t drill down on the details, sorry :)
I do think Walmart is paying attention to this.
> what else should they be doing?

They should be peering freely with anyone that is responding to requests from the ISP's end users.
Those questions are also not that easy to find.
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Ah yes indeed. I suppose I was looking moreso for an example of how technology has helped create a net positive effect against misinformation and other major social problems.
> How is a new entrant to discover what is being suppressed by the MSM?

The MSM isn't the only way of acquiring information about current events, so it isn't necessary to discover what they withhold. Not that that wouldn't also be valuable—I'm just trying to get at the potential range of approaches here. I'm only advocating that resources get put into a serious search for solutions. I think it's highly unlikely any of us would just be able to produce the solution in a few minutes of thinking about it.
Nobody "learned" Flash. You opened it up and you already knew what to do.

That's the real value it provided.
Sure, smoking can be considered as a social habit. But you can say the same of any drug. If it was only the social part which was important, you shouldn't have any problem starting a new habit of taking a break for another arbitrary reason (go for some fresh air, glass of water, just want to take a break, etc.). This type of break can work, but it's definitely not going to have as much success as would a smoke break. Hence I say that the mean reason for those breaks was not social interaction, the social was just a side effect (albeit a pleasant one).
$60K is the minimum salary for a H1B visa, it is not the minimum salary for a H1B visa in a technical position.

I would be very surprised if the "H1B prevailing wage" for any meaningful technical role in the SF bay area is less than $100k.
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> It's harder to sleep on the streets if there is nowhere to go.

I'm puzzled by what kind of psyche underlies a statement like this. I'm sorry to frame it in these terms, but honestly it seems... evil to me. Do you not understand that for many people, sleeping on the street is last remaining alternative to death? Take away the ability to sleep on the street, and you are killing people. If that is your intention, there are faster and more humane ways to do it.

Or do you believe that that were it not for the myriad comforts of the streets, the homeless would simply go back to paying off their mortgages or at least crashing on friends' sofas? Because if that's what you believe, you're simply wrong. Homelessness is a last resort. (And no, the government services which one ought to be able to avail oneself of are no longer always available. Particularly if you are a working-age male, it is often virtually impossible to prove to a social worker that you are not "voluntarily homeless", which then disqualifies you from receiving help.)

I'd like to believe that nobody participating in this discussion is that malicious or that ignorant. If you can show me a third way, I'd genuinely appreciate it.
True. But the body shops are a huge percentage of all H1Bs
> The benefit of this approach over the alternative (making people encrypt and sign with a lot of keys) is that once received, the content does not give away the key names of the other mailing list members.

The other benefit is that membership management is a lot easier. Usually the first time you tell members to add or remove a key, things start falling apart quickly. Schleuder makes that easy.
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shrug, the reference books for all those things are the standard resources. i think they've shown up on hacker news a couple times each.

if i were aware of any material on formalizing solidity or the EVM, honestly i'd keep it to myself and use it to identity vulnerabilities in your contracts. in that hypothetical world, my question was a means to check and see if you were a good target.

good luck. :)
Ask HN: Is there a payment provider for monthly changing subscription rates?
Im testing a new subscription service where customers pay for the amount of leads they get, every month. So this number fluctuates and I'm looking for a way to charge customers at the end of each month based on the number of generated leads. How could I make this work?
I've been using schleuder through various mailing lists over the past years, it's always been doing what it says on the tin :)
Yes, of course they do. The H1B program is critical for American competitiveness.
Different cultures have different definitions of the loanword. For East Asian Buddhists, Dharma generally means the teachings of the Buddha. As in the phrase, 'Turning the wheel of Dharma'. I guess if you pick that one section of wikipedia and say that's what it means, then sure.

Dharma is also used by Hindus--I'm not Hindu, so I won't comment on what the word means for them.

Saying "it's just a name" is a valueless claim. Of course it's just a name. Names have meaning, and in this case, the word has four thousand years of history in Asia. I just don't understand why this particular name was chosen, and why borrowing something fundamental to two major world religions is the logical choice for a protocol.

"The Gospel", in my understanding of the Christian term, is also a concept, and not a book.
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Facebook, Reddit, hacker news.. all are addictive.

I started with slashdot in 96/97? then Reddit, now hacker news. Twitter might be the same but I don't partake.

The fundamental problem is you read yesterday's news instead of inventing the future.
It was just this past week that was reading up on Alzheimer's and texted my brothers (all of us played football) that I'm glad we all stopped when we did. I think there are twenty-six cumulative football-years between us, all on the line too.

That being said, football is football. After seven seasons I knew my IQ had dropped some points. But if I could go back in time, I'd do it all over again. What I would give for just one more play. When people say football will eventually become this archaic sport because of the risks, I just laugh.

Head injury concerns are the single reason I am not playing right now. I've had a good run, but it's important to know when to stop and prioritize the latter half of your life.
It's a matter of push versus pull though. If I know I want a product, I can search for reviews and recommendations, (half of which I assume are astroturfed, but I'm counting those as "ads" which would disappear in this hypothetical.)
That's the forward component of the velocity vs the component that's normal to the ground, though - the collision with the Earth is much lower speed than the lateral motion (sliding along the surface after the fall). If you're skiing aggressively, you're frequently quite close to the ground, and a fall is frequently where you end up grazing it because you lean further than the centripital force can maintain. You fall a much shorter distance toward the Earth than a timid skier does.

If you're skiing at the level I'm talking about, falls are probably not that frequent, though.

In my earlier comment I was talking more about the explosive vertical compression-expansion cycle that characterizes skiing really hard with very tight turns on short radius skis. Those are much less violent than hitting a lineman though.
I was talking to a professional landscaper about this (a relative of my significant other) during a family event earlier this summer. The casual spouting of information about keeping the garden in color all summer was intriguing. It of course helped that he had done the entire backyard at her mother's house.
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this turns the stupid up to 11....
A big theme in the class was the importance of understanding the real experiences of potential beneficiaries. The specific team in the picture wanted to understand what it was like to be in SEAL training since their project specifically dealt with that problem area.
Haha we’re actually about to publish our new website - the photos at the bottom are not protected and I agree that they are in bad quality... they’ll be changed in the following days. Thx!
No. It's proprietary. And you can't even save without paying! :O
At the risk of going offtopic a bit, do you guys have some advice on where to start with a
basic home EE workbench? I've been playing with simple Arduino circuits/servos/simple control
and would like to improve my workflow a bit to make it more efficient. Some things I have:

- soldering iron and supplies

- "helping hands"

- misc parts/supplies like wire, breadboards, switches, LEDs etc.

- batteries, USB chargers, couple of PC power supplies for power supply

- using a simple 2x1 .1 inch header convention with red and black wires for plugging in DC power

Desk is a basic folding table from Staples.

I would like to figure out where to find a better table/desk (I assume with outlets/etc.) and what other things
I don't know about you'd recommend.
This is really interesting. I've thought about this. If you live in an area where a living wage is low enough to make this work, it could be really great for everyone.

Say for example, you hire a college student for $15/hour in an area where minimum wage is $10/hour and their rent is $400/mo to work part time for you buying food, cooking food, doing laundry, and cleaning your house. They make $1,200/month, plenty to live comfortably as a college student while still having time to study. They need medical coverage from their college, but this seems to be offered.

Then you don't have to worry about those tasks anymore and life becomes much better. If you make good money, that $1,200/mo is no biggie. Win/win.
Others have said build a better mousetrap, but that isn't your problem.

You just need to solve somebodies problem. It could even be yours.
The one that stood out to me was identifying which pet is at your door. It sounds like that was a problem (probably pretty minor...?) that you wanted to solve yourself. Show people how you solved it, and others might comment on it and say, "That's really cool! Can you make me one?", or offer some new feature idea that would make them say it's really cool. Boom! First customer. Hell, don't even tell them you made it, see if they ask you where you got it! Basically find a need or want from somebody else for something you find fun. People like cool things.

An example of something to probably not do again would be the Boulder tubing thing. Was it a problem you or others had? The flow rate can be visualized by looking at Boulder creek, which runs through much of Boulder, and by going outside... which it's almost always nice anyway ;) So I don't see how it would solve any problem you had even.
Cool project, congrats! As you speak of the "20B worth of value" I have a question:

I always ask myself what the total monetary value stored in ETH actually is, as the 20B $ is the market capitalization (as far as I understand), which in my opinion is NOT the value. Drawing on my Economics classes (from a long time ago), my thinking goes like this:

Let's assume I create 100 million items of a new cryptocurrency. At first, my coins have no value whatsoever. Now, you offer to buy 1 cryptocoin for 200 $ from me. This would instantly give my currency a market capitalization of 200 $ * 100 MN = 20 BN $! But is my currency now worth 20 BN $? I would say no, as there is probably no way for me to sell the remaining 99.999.999 coins for the same price for which I sold the first coin. And even after distributing a large amount of coins (say 50 % of the total), I would probably not be able to sell my remaining coins for their market value, as my offer volume would rapidly drive down the price of the coins by creating an oversupply (depending on the transaction volume of the currency of course).

Following this logic I always thought that speaking of 20 BN $ of value stored in ETH as misleading, as the real monetary value of the currency (as determined by how much value you could actually extract when liquidating it entirely) is probably much less than that. And given that most people invest in ETH purely for speculation, I would even wager that a single seller who puts a large number of ETH on the market (as compared to the average daily volume) could cause a massive price drop, since there is no "fundamental" value in ETH (contrary to an asset-backed currency or a company stock).
I'd argue 'social' in media and in beings are different things. And regarding the very nature, we're all dopamine junkies. That little kick after a cigarette and a fresh like on FB do the same thing to your brains, google 'social media addicts' - you'll get the picture. Facebook and social is just like Marlboro and independence.
I feel that for most companies playing in this space, freight brokering is just a transitional step. It can't work long-term, just like Uber can't be viable without self-driving cars.

However, it's the best way to understand how the industry operates - if you're serious about disrupting it.
I've been skiing plenty of times. Runs where I'm at a high rate of speed and hitting countless variation changes (not moguls, just normal skiing) and my head is shaking so much that my vision is blurry. Landing a jump at best (when you absorb with your legs) is a 19G+ event. Every minor mistake in absorbing can tenfold increase that. Walking is not a relevant comparison.

We evolved to walk with a limited brain suspension that just wasn't adapted for 100kph wax shoe runs.
I've found (the hard way) the same thing.

Testing of individual microservices in isolation is insufficient. Interaction between services has to be tested as well (because real APIs never work exactly as documented/mocked). Proper integration tests aren't any easier than testing a monolith.
I see one of the investors was the BBC - so that's where my licence fee goes :)

" neverending treadmill of having to implement obscure features that they didn’t even know they were relying on,"

I been coding emulators for fun (i.e. NES, Scratch) and it's been an interesting journey with all the gotcha's involved - however I don't think I have the motivation for any flash based ones, the only exception I've worked on my scratch2apk emulator (javascript) which has plenty of games going for it!
I'm not just being flippant, but GEDCOM is a dinosaur. Can you imagine Facebook storing its relationship data in GEDCOM? Unthinkable. Genealogy most certainly needs a new standard.

Also, I know people who work for ancestry, and the general thinking is it's hard to update old interfaces for a newer generation when a very important public is 50+.
With all the bs blog posts about using an rpi to turn on-n-off a light using javascript, this is a pleasant surprise.
Although I agree with what you're saying, I personally find it a little irksome beacuse we're calling some kind of lending/contract/whatever system 'dharma', not that it's adharmic, but it's like when you see someone wearing a Che Guevara t-shirt, or buying soap embossed with "Fight Cub". Instead of focusing on the impermanence of phenomena, dispassion and the attainment of peace, we're... making contracts or borrowing or something?

Yes, I'm being facetious, but I think GP has a point. It seems as though a cool sounding word was chosen and used for the fun of it. And this is what words become, it just feels somewhat irresponsible to start a potential change in culture to favour your hot new tech over sage advice to better the human condition. So while the original word isn't gone, it is always at risk, and with the loss of words comes blunted ability to explain concepts. So while I would not describe it as 'yanking', I would more describe it as 'eroding', which doesn't have to be a good thing or a bad thing, but it's happening.

I'm hardly one to talk about "cultural appropriation", as nobody in particular really has claim to ownership of culture, but the naming does sit somewhat off with me, though it's just a personal preference of course.

Adorno wrote about the commodification of art in The Culture Industry. Can the same be said about our ideas? Gramsci wrote about cultural hegemony, can the same be observed in our replacement of the meaning of words in this way?
The other benefit is that users can send to the list without the (possibly huge) administrative burden of getting a full and complete list of public keys for all subscribers. A similar setup is used for e.g. the (linux-)distros lists[0] at openwall for discussing embargoed security issues.

0: http://oss-security.openwall.org/wiki/mailing-lists/distros
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I think Z-wave has been or is in the process of being superseded by just using Wi-Fi. I do not recommend investing in Z-wave gear.
Only because Adobe decided to lay down and die after someone said something kinda mean and kinda true.

They could have fixed most of it. Instead they were like "Nah, fuck it"
This is an oversimplified answer. Dharma certainly has religious significance to many millions of people. So, it's not "like any other name". It's evocative, and if you are unaware of just which feelings you are evoking, your product is at risk.

Consider the case of the javascript test runner, Karma. It was originally named testacular. Possibly a play on spectacular, but also close enough to testicular to make female consumers of the library a bit uncomfortable. Ultimately, products have to be sold to someone, and this is a problem that makes that job harder.

Dharma does carry a secular sanskrit definition, but sanskrit is not a precise written language like English. The meanings of words are often only discoverable in context, and approachable only with a prior familiarity of common illustrations and allegories depicting the concept. Westerners, unfamiliar with such depictions as the Bhagavad Gita, which MOST Indians are familiar with, are severely disadvantaged in discussing the true concept behind the word. Relying on a particular English transliteration is risky.
why not just use community driven services like libraries.io or versioneye.com?
> once received, the content does not give away the key names of the other mailing list members

This doesn't present a problem, because you can construct anonymous group signature schemes.
How far did you get? Were you delivering shipments?
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It is humorous to me that the miscreants are always first to cite the HN Guidelines, as if it's their shield for their utter obnoxiousness.
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I understand the historical origin (though claiming it has a single original meaning is an extremely strong position), but the common understanding for Buddhists refers to the teachings of the Buddha and the eightfold path, which is very much a religious term. I generally don't mind people taking things from religion in the punk rock sense, but I guess I just don't get this one.
What defines graphics? There is linear algebra in all sorts of things. I can use OpenGL without rendering to screen. Is it still graphics to you?
What, even if violent crime is up you know the downward trend will continue so pointing it out is fear mongering? Given the down votes we can consider the point made; people enjoy being outraged by things they disagree with
In college social media consumed me. Instead of going out and having fun I was watching my friends go out and have fun. It got to such a bad point that I was lurking enviously across random profiles.

In 2013 I gave up Facebook and it felt like a deadweight lifted. I stopped worrying about what acquaintances were up to. Friends and I kept in touch through conventional conversation. I endured the same awful feeling with Instagram when I moved 3000 miles away from my friends and family.

Everyone is crafting an online identity of how they want to appear and we all know we're doing it. There's little room for raw, unedited perception. Every moment has to be post card or else you don't measure up. Networks like Facebook and Instagram are a self-fulfilling prophecies of low self esteem.
AFAIK you can use a normal provider like Stripe to collect the card number once and then make multiple charges.
I don't see how this could lead to extinction. The drop in sperm count is only a statistical observation. There are, and will likely always be men with good sperm count, just as there are still human groups with high fertility rates.

How severely could a decline in average sperm count lead to a population decline is probably a complex subject, considering that population dynamics by itself is complex. However I'm pretty sure it is presumptuous, and uselessly alarmist, to conclude that it could "lead to human extinction".