skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like this one better than people shelling out $200k to make the list because they exploited a bug in the system -- this didn't cost anything outside the manpower to place these orders which will never go through or be charged.
Yes, that was misstated. What I meant was that chunking is a realization of the principle of focusing on concepts instead of facts since chunks are the residual output of knowledge acquisition that actually sticks in the long term.
two kids, 2 and 7. They have a hard time having dinner without watching something on iPad. Otherwise the 2 year old doesn't use technology aside from TV, 7 year old has 1 hour of iPad time most days.

I like to give them some exposure to tech but much of it so addictive, makes me think how it must affect reward pathways in a maturing brain
Most Whole Foods stores I’ve seen aren’t exactly hurting for business and the parking lot is basically full. If their stuff becomes cheaper, that’ll drive demand way up, at which point they’ll need to have more ways to buy. That might mean building more stores but my guess is that Amazon is expecting online shopping to go up once it becomes a bit too crowded at the actual stores.
Can you point out the workaround to WSJ posts?
How on earth do you reach that conclusion? Every person has at least 16 years of high bandwidth sensor data experience before getting behind a wheel, plus millions of years of evolutionary training built into the structure of their brain.

A vast amount of data has produced every driver.
Spark and EMR spot instances for sure.
What would be the consequences of a conflict of interest in this case?
Depends on the location, I guess. In Houston, WF is about twice as expensive for many common meat, produce, deli, and bakery items compared to stores like Central Market.
Amazon paid 13.7 billion for Whole Foods, which has 470 stores.

If their interest was in low quality, inexpensive supermarket locations, why wouldn't they purchase something like Publix, with its 1,154 stores, for a much cheaper price?

Furthermore, if you want guaranteed ethical, organic and fair trade goods, Whole Foods was always more about branding than reality on that front, anyways. Their stuff is better than most supermarket chains, but the independent stores still have them beat by a far margin.
Ordered the phone and sent Matrix some BTC. Hopefully you guys can pull this project off!
This isn't a sodium cooled reactor, in this case the molten salt is the fuel itself, not the coolant. Plus there is probably no sodium involved but instead a fluoridated nuclear fuel such as thorium or uranium. Also this is a sub-critical experiment so pretty much all they have to do is turn it off if it overheats.

The best part of a molten salt fueled reactor is that in case of heat runaway the fuel would melt plugs and drain into separate containers. Essentially a meltdown would only require replacement of the plugs and refueling of the reactor to make it operational again.
I'll believe it when I see it.

"salmon, avocados, baby kale and almond butter" - sounds more like they're going to go the Trader Joe's route: have a few high-visibility loss leaders that give the appearance of generally low prices but higher prices overall.

That said, I'm looking forward to the 365 brand being available through amazon.com. But, like at Trader Joe's, I'll have to re-check packaging to see from where they're sourcing the food.
My eyes must be getting old, but black-background web sites are getting harder to read.
I miss the days when nobody used their real name online and certainly didn't attach photos of their face to it.

Most of us would be better off if we went back to those days, I expect a lot of HN users already don't have social media profiles.
"Buying your way onto the bestseller list is not technically illegal, nor is it that hard if you know how. Many CONSERVATIVE publishers have found success through bulk-buying books then giving them away as, say, subscriber gifts if you sign up to Newsmax or the like. "

hmmm, conservative only? Biased much? Is the strategy of buying placement somehow undiscovered by publishers of liberal persuasion?
Dave posted one about halfway through the release cycle, showing a small improvement. That was before the parallel-function compilation though, so things might have gotten better since then.
Every Trump supporter I distanced myself from got distanced for other things, not because they supported Trump. It was the cruel comments (usually in meme form) about me and people I care about that did it most of the time. They revealed themselves to be very different kinds of people than I thought they were.

Supporting someone who's either a very terrible person or panders to those who are raises a lot of questions, but that's not enough on its own. Plenty of good people fool themselves into believing a person like Trump doesn't really mean all the awful things they say and do, and that can be forgiven.

Are you sure it was because you supported Trump, and not because of things you said?
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Your sarcasm implies that you prefer we just abandon any attempt to do right by the animals (or their products) that we eat.

Is that what you want?
Considering Jeff Bezos also owns the Washington Post, he could sell the laid off employees at the butcher counter, and still get a raving article written about it.
The point is that all presumably happens "instantaneously" from a human perspective. Hence the claims that autonomous vehicles have no lag in responding to events.
My best friend in high school went to MIT and I ... didn't (it's okay, the state college I wound up going to was about my academic speed, and I would have been toast in a couple of semesters at MIT).

I also did a pilgrimage to MIT and saw the DEC-10s. Printed out a school project on the LGP, played around with a Lisp Machine for a few hours.

MIT's friendly, unparanoid attitude towards people using their systems and basically just digging their technology was very formative in my career. Zork was the hook. I came to play adventure games, I stayed to learn Emacs and a bit about networking and PDP-10s, and LISP. I don't use PDP-10s anymore, but I work in the games industry, use Emacs every hour of my working day, and wish I could write more production LISP (though if you squint at Javascript just right...)
This is big. I used to work for a manager who didn't even have a computer at home (and no smartphone in 2013). She definitely excelled at keeping tech out of her daily life.
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But it really is. You get a resource (human in this case) that usually comes with education and healthcare paid for in the X years before they came. Usually immigrant X has a higher level of education than the general population due to restrictions. Not to mention that said person has money (usually also a requirement), which adds to the economy in the same way that tourism does. How is that not adding growth to an economy?

Conversely, a mass exodus of educated citizens emigrating from a country negatively impacts growth.
Yes indeed this is totally awesome. It’s a problem that occurs on any platform, and not only for testing. I often see this problem with logging as well, where some validation/helper function logs an error separate from the context it occurred in, potentially making it hard to trace without a stacktrace logged as well.
I think static vs. loosely typed both have their pros and cons but that's the thing that's great about the Javascript community. It's not opinionated on things like this. So if you want statically typed, then you can code in Typescript.

This is in contrast to something like Rails which is super opinionated and doesn't give you much of a choice if you as a developer or even as a company as a whole were to disagree with these opinions.
It's worthy to note that the buildings of the Volkswagen factory near Bratislava were build during the old eastern bloc days (BAZ) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Bratislava_Plant

VW would have moved their equipment right inside those buildings during the 1990s period without having to build most of the facilities in use today.

In fact the whole place took years to be rebranded (logos changed to VW).
If you see one you like, you can use it by going to your profile and setting topcolor to the hex code.

Also, I found an easter egg. If you go to https://news.ycombinator.com/posts?id=nickb then you can see both comments and submissions for that user on the same page.

EDIT: Submitting this caused HN to grind to a halt. I'll claim my "I broke HN" merit badge.
> This is simply not true.

Alright, you make a convincing case that it's not tacked on and I'll give you the benefit of the doubt here. Unencrypted basically is just "dev mode".

Very glad to hear you patched up the hole with the unknown clients. Perhaps I'll try again down the line.

> Now, totally agreed that this UX is ugly and needs work, but this is NOTHING to do with the decentralised or federated nature of the protocol.

Well you have to design that dialogue that tells you new devices came on, right? And you have to deal with cases where some people accept a new client and some don't. And you have to explain to lay people what the heck an IRC bridge is. And so on. My point is just that you have a lot more things to explain to users, so you have a lot of UX work ahead that you wouldn't otherwise have. So I don't think it's unrelated. (Aside from the issue of explaining things, it's not particularly ugly actually, from what I remember).

> it's possible someone will fire up a buggy/malicious client and inadvertently compromise a room

I appreciate that you acknowledge that. It signals that you have things in perspective.

I actually think some people do consider freedom to be a security issue. They don't want Signal servers to go down, or get into malicious hands.

Also: Nothing strictly stops people from using rogue Signal clients either. There's just social pressure deterring it. By that same token, perhaps you could use social pressure to deter developers from lying about what client they are, and then have a vetting process for secure clients. And then warn users when an insecure one comes on. (And perhaps count web as "not recommended for especially sensitive discussions")

Anyway, thank you for addressing my points and accepting critique. I do hope to see you succeed.
They were the place to shop for me until I started actually cooking on a regular basis. I just can't justify ingredients for a recipe adding up to the same cost as a decent restaurant would charge for the meal.
Same here, they seem to do a lot for the community, and have items you can't find anywhere else easily.
>yet somehow humanity survived.

A very convincing and cogent argument can be made to the contrary.
There you go: that's a skill and specialty on the REVENUE GENERATING side. Bottom line, another recommendation is Don't be a COST if you want to go past $200k.
I feel like it should be to be "Whole Foods' prices"¹, which makes me feel like the headline writer did that so that they didn't need to add an apostrophe to the name.

Weirdly, the article has one use of "Whole Food stores" in the text too despite many other uses of "Whole Foods"

> Amazon said it will continue to lower prices at Whole Food stores and will eventually offer special discounts and in-store benefits to Amazon Prime members.

1: Or "Whole Foods's"? I get almost 100,000 ghits for that.
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I wouldn't call it dry. I thought the writing style was a little juvenile, but the ideas are generally interesting as you said, the descriptions of technology are fairly detailed and I thought of it as a rollicking adventure by the end.

Dry implies flat and drab to me. If anything, I think Stephenson's flaw as a writer is that he comes across as an excited boy who just wants to tell you everything he's been researching, rather than show you naturally with a well-written story.
> the remedy for a conflict-of-interest is disclosure

In what arena is disclosure a remedy for conflict of interest? Recusal is the remedy.
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It's not exactly a paper but I really liked "The Limits of Mathematics" by Chaitin. I wrote a blogpost about it a few years back (https://shebang.ws/the-limits-of-mathematics.html), I already submitted it to HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1725936).
Further discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15094529
The difference is itself: one universe exists, one doesn't. Notice doesn't define existence. Measurability doesn't define existence. Meaning doesn't define existence.
Storj: Not a Dropbox Killer
In 1998, before people had much of clue about what represents success and how big things can get given time, I built a software product and posted it to the net. Within a week or so there had been a handful of sales at $100 each.

That looked like failure to me at the time - "that's a trickle of money - extrapolating maybe $25,000 per year? Not enough to pay my bills. I need to get a job".

Today that sort of start looks like a whopping success.

I've been trying to replicate that start ever since.

The upside is that I did go and get a job, and through that job met the woman who I had kids with..... if that's that path to getting my fabulous kids then I don't regret it.
> I turned out great (married, kid, good job).

A lot of people would draw a distinction with your definition of "great". Great people are moral, intelligent and aware. Lots of worthless people are married, have kids, and make a lot of money.
Can someone explain to my why the salaries in Italy are so low? 28K?
Wasn't this the course also provided by the teaching company?
I've bought steaks there that were spoiled when I unwrapped them 24 hours later. A lot of their stuff is really not worth the price.
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Let's say you get 20 people to signup, all of whom think it is (rightfully) vaporware. Well, at least now you can be sure there's a real market (>>20) to justify development. Even if you drop those 20 on the floor... the validation is more than worthwhile.
I'm waiting for the Facebook reviews;

"I ordered non-dairy, gluten free, fair trade, ethical, lactose free, halal, sanctified, low salt, low carb, kosher rice but instead I just got a plain bag of white rice and no certificates. Literally shaking right now"
I don't know Amazon's plans but what you're saying don't make much sense to me.

If Amazon wants to target low end grocery retail, why do they acquire Whole Foods?

It makes business sense for them to let WFM stay high end, and start a Amazon Basics store to go down market.
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Let see here, a black woman will:

live longer than a white man.

Less risk to end up childless.

Less risk to end up homeless.

In average have bigger social network for support.

Less risk to end up in jail.

Less risk of being killed by violence.

Less risk to be killed at work.

How are those benefits weighted compared to the disadvantages? How much is a few extra years in life expectancy worth today.
Languages that are a minimum of 1 year of maturity behind nodejs for the specific use-cases that nodejs is typically used for.
Exactly. This will be decided by insurance underwriters and actuaries ultimately.

The safest option will be the way the market will be incentivised, despite all the noise around it this is the ultimate rational market.

Insurance is so boring it is interesting to me.
I was in a small bus on a switchback mountain road in Peru. The bus stopped at a low lying turn, and we could see that a muddy stream was racing across the road at its low point, pouring away into the valley off the the downhill edge it was eroding. The pavement under the stream was gone. The driver got out and found a couple of what looked like 2-by-8 pieces of lumber, and placed them across the stream, adding some rocks and rubble underneath like track ballast. He then slowly tiptoed the bus across these creaking muddy boards, leaning out the window to stay on track. We were not swept over the edge, as far as I recall.

Needless to say, not a situation for "auto-steer".

I'm sure this has been thought through, and I imagine the solution involves zones requiring different levels of autonomy and capability, some means of zone discovery or classification for unmarked areas, and self-driving cars refusing to continue automatically when overmatched.
44bbdd is really the nicest one ;)
Hey, imagine when that "glowing rectangle" exists privately in the visual cortex ;)
I wonder, does this aggregate exclude topcolors that have only 1 user? Mine's a rather specific, handpicked-in-a-color-picker value of blue towards the bottom, and while I don't doubt that someone else could've picked it, there's of course 16.7 million of these things, so it's not terribly likely. It'd be interesting to throw out completely unique colors and see what we're left with, or to see them on a histogram.
The reason for choosing i.MX is that it can boot with a mainstream Linux kernel.

https://github.com/etnaviv
Thanks for the detailed comments!

We do recognise that in a sense we are competing against the native features of the platforms we are running on. But this is always a risk when building on top of platforms. If you take the analogy of mobile - iOS and Android both have native apps for things like notes and reminders - but this doesn't stop 3rd parties creating better versions of them for people that want a bit more in terms of functionality. This is what we're trying to do with Life Bot.

Right now our differentiators may be small, but people are finding them useful and we're working hard to add more based on the feedback we're getting. (Stay tuned!)

Whilst Amazon and Google could have teams sitting there looking out for popular voice apps they could copy features from and implement natively, based on the big pushes they are making to try and bring 3rd party developers to the platform, in my opinion it would be a strange thing for them to do if they just constantly copied the popular ones as native features.

For example the way I see it is that for Amazon, the goal is to get more people shopping through voice. By building an great productivity experience on top of Alexa we're not going against this, in fact we think we'll aid it by the fact more people will want to buy the devices because of the features of Life Bot.

On the invocation --> Having to say "Life Bot" as well as Alexa or Google is additional work for the user, but we think that this is worth it for the enhanced features.

On monetisation --> there are definitely options available to us, for example premium features. But as I'm sure you've seen by testing the product we're still quite early and won't be doing this anytime soon. Amazon are also paying the top skill developers quite significant amounts (https://developer.amazon.com/alexa-skills-kit/rewards) if your a developer looking for a bit of extra $ I would definitely check that out!

On contact sharing --> This is something we don't do currently but are exploring as it's been requested quite a few times.

Hopefully that explains our view on all your points - thanks again for testing out the Skill and sharing such detailed feedback!
I've definitely seen people drive manual AND talk on their phones by holding them between their head and shoulder.
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> Your sarcasm implies that you prefer

His sarcasm does nothing of the sort, nor does his statement imply anything similar. I would really check that nerve he seemed to touch.

The only interpretation is about the weakness of labeling laws and ethical gerrymandering of commercial interests in the ethical treatment of animals (ie Lip Service).
I wrote in their forums suggesting they add air quality/pollution info and greenhouse gas emissions to their maps and it was done in about three days. I was impressed.

Btw I think they use Riot.js on their front end?
On vitamins vs painkillers: conversely, do you think if you are able to build a vitamin product that does make your worklife better/easier, wouldn't it be a harder barrier to entry for newcomers? i.e., greater entrenchment?

I'm currently doing customer development on such a product. I've burned my fingers previously building nice-to-have products and don't intend to repeat my mistake. With this one, I'm validating the market before I build anything.

There are ways people do this thing (inefficiently and poorly IMO) today. Their business isn't likely to suffer if they don't adopt my product but I'm hoping to prove a factor of efficiency improvement if they adopt it.

What would your advice to me be (aside from don't do it)?
Right, I totally agree with you! That's just how it was explained a couple months ago. shrug
Nice can't wait to run some of our benchmarks against this. Go has the awesome property of always becoming a little bit faster every release. It's like your code becomes better without doing anything. Love it :)
Any recommendations for quick and effective landing page solutions? I assume something like MailChimp for email sign-ups?
https://github.com/nodejs/board/issues/67 here is the statement from the nodejs side.

what exactly is this? what is the "behavior problem" actually? anything to do with 'political correctness"?
I was looking forward to the fix for the dreaded Linux namespace handling problem: https://www.weave.works/blog/linux-namespaces-and-go-don-t-m... which kind of makes Go suck for many important container-related tasks. But apparently the effort has stalled... https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/46033
This would all be magnified greatly if Elm Native were solidly production-ready.

https://github.com/ohanhi/elm-native-ui

https://robots.thoughtbot.com/elm-native-ui-in-production
Oh I see! I didn't know about that. Thanks for the explanation!

I totally agree that this was an unprecedented move by Apple, considering their past stance on such things. I'm hopeful for the future, though! They seem to have realized (at least a little bit) that community cooperation is valuable.
It’s almost always standard in new European cars. I use it when I am in a speed-camera infested area.
Self-driving' lorries to be tested on UK roads
There's a continuum. You could raise animals where you actively torture them, raise them in ways that are torturous but unintended and not maximize the torture, take steps to mitigate / reduce torture, avoid torture altogether, go beyond non-torture to actually have them live fulfilled lives as far as their species goes…

And then there's ethical issues like the pollution involved in raising animals and how that's handled…

It's one thing to insist that all animal products are inherently unethical or that ethics are irrelevant to the topic (most people would not agree with either of those dogmatic views) and another to draw some sort of fuzzy line where you think the efforts at ethics are adequate to call the production "ethical".

FWIW, I'm convinced we should be eating insects https://www.ted.com/talks/marcel_dicke_why_not_eat_insects

And then there's cultured meat which is coming soon and truly bypasses most of the really unethical aspects of meat production…
Your least resistance point is crucial. I suspect that social media likes/karma will act as a low-effort faux-earning that waylays young people. It's a sense of achievement, but one that doesn't pay the bills unless you're one of the few able to derive an income from your broadcast.
Thank you. The article is treating the NYT bestseller list as sacrosanct. Someone figured a (relatively) cheap way to hack it. Good for them.

As someone who just published a children's book if I thought this would work I would try it.
Don't be too quick to judge people in all of these situations. Not saying it was likely in your example, but I've had meals where I've just spent days out of range with someone, talking endlessly in the car and on hiking trails, and then got to a restaurant with wi-fi and used that as the best chance to communicate with other people for the first time in a while, or deal with work emails.
The new voice sounds a lot like Google's current TTS voice.