skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That moment when someone unironically recommends full-life-cycle logistics tracking for foodstuffs as a solution to simply checking the expiration date or examining raw ingredients before preparing...
I don't actually use the convertible form factor on my Asus much--really only when I'm not traveling without a dedicated tablet for some reason. It makes for a somewhat heavy and awkward tablet. I like the specs and looks of those higher-end models but you're right that they're pushing into laptop range with their pricing.
It's the same group of people, they just may be in different moods at different times.
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That's kind of interesting problem. We did thought about it, but since it's just a quick demo project, we didn't bother.

1. How to measure a credibility of data people submit?

2. How to take into account ageing of data? E.g. due to inflation.
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This will teach him electronics AND the core fundamentals of programming.

i just ordered it for my 5yr old.

https://www.primotoys.com/
Hour-plus is one way...
But fresh fruit in particular doesn't rot at a uniform rate. You can pick two peaches from the same tree at the same time with the same appereant ripeness, store them in identical conditions, and have them go bad on different days.
I usually try to plug the political compass [0] and hope people are curious enough to check it out and learn something new, I know I did.
The site might not look like it but there's regular new content, like a chart for the upcoming German General Election, it's a great educational resource.

[0] https://www.politicalcompass.org/

Edit: Just noticed they now even have an intro video on YouTube going through the basics in under 5 minutes, good stuff: https://youtu.be/5u3UCz0TM5Q
That "Beats" teardown was with a counterfeit pair of headphones.

Even so, I don't think a large difference between the BOM and the price the consumer pays is necessarily a ripoff. There's more to a product than simply how much it costs to manufacture.
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You mentioned that only Americans felt this way. I've traveled and, I kind of agree - as a generic statement. A very generic statement. (Not even all Americans feel this way and some individuals elsewhere think this way.)

My question is, I can't tell what your views are by your post. I tried, and I can't really tell. I can't truly infer them, either. So, do you support this way of thinking? What are your personal views on the freedom of expression?

For those not from the area, the ACLU has gone to bat to ensure that people representing the Nazi Party (of America, I think) had the right to march down predominately Jewish neighborhood roads.

I don't think it is clear, but I really don't like Nazis. I do, however, like the freedoms to speak, assemble, and believe - I like those more than I dislike Nazis.

(This is kind of hard to articulate.)
I expect that the moment we operate in the US (next year), someone will want to press conspiracy charges against us, regardless of where we are or local laws. Plus living in a place where this is fully legal (very few places) is not a viable defense strategy. We must rely on anonymization technology, limited trusted humans (core cell < 5 people), and probably rotate our core team within a year or two.

High risk, decent reward, and really making a positive contribution to humanity (sex workers are often victimized -- did you know some places won't even recognize rape against a sex worker?).

It might be illegal (hence us operating as an anonymous EJC) but it is very ethical.
as in the supply of great devs outstrips the demand by a large margin

No, no, no. Not even close. At my last gig, we would interview for months to find a decent candidate. We were no AmaFaceGoog, but our pay was decent and the work was interesting. The supply (here in the Upper Midwest), definitely does not outstrip the demand!
How does Über, Deliveroo, etc work? They pretend spending in marketing but actually subsidizes market acquisition with VC money (for instance Deliveroo pays the delivery guy at least 7.5€, but charges the customer 2.5€: it just doesn't add up), with the assumption that they can form an actual monopoly and eventually reimburse investors by ripping off workers and customers in the mid term.

The only upside I see is that they actually spend money from quantitative easing and market bubbles in the real economy. They're a symptom of a sick financial system and a sick economy.

This business model doesn't belong to companies, but free association of workers. They all (Über included) should be closed down, the sooner the better.
as well as Twitter
> Then, put it on the bare minimum architecture that it can run on (be that a 512MB instance from DigitalOcean or a medium instance on AWS).

Or just test it in a VM and stop wasting money on side-projects.
There are amateurs successfully manufacturing ancient Kodak photographic processes; given that, "insert apples into bag" sounds pretty easy in comparison. The problem is my real juicer juices better than I can likely make this machine juice with homemade bags, and to keep my carb load low, I generally eat pieces of fruit not juices so I'd not use it personally, although its an interesting challenge.
I noticed you're asking for salary. Many well paying companies have a significant non-salary component, so you're going to get some people who put their base salary and some people who put their total comp.

I don't know shit about survey design, but it might be worth thinking more about how you collect your data.
The website owner has added markup to a document that states:

"Hey useragent, if you understand this markup, please send mobile users to this other URL that I have provided."

Twitter then respects the website owner's markup request.

If the markup was "here's a mobile optimized page", we wouldn't get this kind of strong reaction in HN. If the markup was "here's a the language X variant of the document", we wouldn't get this kind of reaction in HN.
SEA is in pretty much the same bracket when it comes to compensation. I've heard some rumors that recent new hires have been getting less stock than people in the past. Are you also including bonus (15-20% of salary)?
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Wow.. that's a real bummer. They often had some of the best prices on books.
Not to rain on their parade, but... sweet Jesus, the leading, kerning and tracking in that show-off pdf is absolutely abysmal!

No ligatures, apparently no math support whatsoever, no support for floating figures, no cross-references, no bibliographies, no table of content, no tables even...

Apart from printing bibles (which they mention), I'm having a hard time seeing where this is an improvement over TeX for the end user. Also strange that their comparison with (luaLa)TeX doesn't mention ConTeXt.
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The LE issues I meant that Uber had a blacklist for LE agents using Uber. They actively prevented LE from using the service. This is one of our core features.
Why oh why hasn't Mike Judge parody this yet.
Now I'm disappointed, I was hoping for actual rubber ducks as a service. Find a nice pond or interior fountain. Fill it with rubber ducks. Add tracking cameras to track a random one for the length of a call. Soothing, random bobbing.
> The fact that it's a juicer

The biggest problem is Juicero isn't a juicer. Juicero's market was limited because the average customer doesn't want to pay a premium for juice press theater. Shoving juice into packs that are hard for the consumer to access is simply a worse experience than the status quo containers of juice.
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> to make housing the same fraction of your living expenses

And when housing is the same fraction, the disposable income after that fraction is removed is far, far higher. As Bill Gates says, once you can afford the $30 burger, there's nowhere to get an even more expensive burger.
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Nice! I've been thinking lately about moving away from Neovim back to Sublime or VSCode. More IDE-like features in a modular package (instead of a monolithic application like PyCharm) are always welcome.
So what's the job-market-equivalent of a HFT or broker to reconcile the bids and asks?
WTF? HN is allowing humor now?
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Given how overenginered it was, was it really magnificent? I don't think it's hard to make a quality Mechanism if you're willing to spend 400% of what's necessary for 108% of the benefit.
Yes, it was what passes for a joke attempt on a Friday afternoon.
Power is big iron reliable. if you can pay for it it likely pays off. Probably easier to manage a handful of million dollar Power/AIX setups than 1000s of servers.
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Here's a 3d graph showing this as a function of upvotes and downvotes. I think it's clearest with

x: [0, 100]
y: [0, 100]
z: [0, 1]

https://www.google.com/search?q=graph+((x+%2B+1.9208)+%2F+(x...)
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This video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2orn6T2QFM is a good DIY experiment along those lines and is interesting if not necessarily correct at the nuclear scale.
What do you mean? Not being an employee doesn't mean you don't pay taxes on income.
RIP Juicero, the $400 venture-backed juice machine
I'm literally working one something that's exactly that, right now. Connected by HAProxy joining APIs from both sides. Weird.
Shoot the messenger?
Well that's stretching the meaning of second sourcing quite a lot. Normally it means that you can get an exact replacement part from someone else. For example, industry standard things like nuts, bolts, ball bearings, SRAM and DRAM (most stuff specced by JEDEC) can be sourced from many sources. There is literally no difference at all between a M8×20 8.8 bolt between manufacturer A and B. Similarly, if you have a design with a LM358 (a non-standardised part), then there are multiple manufacturers that will sell you a part with identical specs under a slightly different name or even the same name.

This is also the way it started with x86 and other second-sourceable processors. An Intel 8086 and an AMD 8086 are drop-in compatible. This is not the case with modern processors, they don't even fit the same sockets.
That is a good idea for a lot of reasons. It would be a platform that could be built out to incorporate drug sales too since a lot of times someone might want to buy weed in a city they are visiting but not want to root around the streets or the internet trying to find a source. So, there is a lot of potential. I think you should do all of the transactions in bitcoin though, giving the fact that transaction processing is going to be a huge hassle. I can't believe Uber is able to process transactions at all given the illegal nature of what they are doing in most cities.
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I think you might have forgotten to type a post to go with those links.

Later iterations of Ryzen are undoubtedly going to fix some of the teething issues (segfaults, memory clocks, etc), and probably get the clocks up too. But they will also be going up against Coffee Lake and others - Intel can iterate on their products too.

Consumer Ryzen is basically just Haswell with an AMD sticker on it, and it's just so transparently fake to see all the fanboys cooing over a product they wouldn't even give the time of day to when it was released under an Intel badge. It's an incremental improvement on pricing, but not really that drastic except in a few special cases (the 8C and 10C Intel processors had very steep pricing).

As it's on a newer stepping with a better platform and fully-validated ECC support, Epyc is much more interesting product to me. But it's also a market that doesn't care about throwing money at the problem if that's what it takes to get performance/stability - there are plenty of companies who are not even using COTS hardware let alone off-brand.

Also, bear in mind that "nm" measurements are pure marketing. It's now the spacing between features that determines total density, not feature size. Intel is at least a full node ahead of everyone else in density, even if others claim to have "14nm" nodes.
I think that the Lofstrom loop is way more realistic than an orbital elevator, mainly because the cables "only" need to span ~100km, rather than the ~36,000km required for a geostationary elevator.

Also, I see that there are improvements in that part of the design: the cables could be replaced with counterweights, and those counterweights could be accelerated upwards and dropped, in order to dampen the waves generated by the release of vehicles.

http://launchloop.com/Counterweights

I don't see why this has a flattened middle segment at all - wouldn't it work better if it was a continuous parabolic arc, like an elliptical orbit that intersects the Earth at the locations of the base stations? That way, the working mass wouldn't have to make sharp turns wherever support cables are pulling on the loop.
There's the other half of the chain as well - the suppliers. If they know selling to NewFancyStoreWithLessFoodWaste leads to an end-game where there is less demand for their products, why should they bother?
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It does convey about the intended amount of sarcasm though.
I've asked all of them except an early few rides in 2012 when it was only Uber Black in Los Angeles. Talking about Uber is almost always how every conversation has started.
Drink, drink of the dark nectar of schadenfreude.
(ongoing discussion with a better title: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15151012)
A "collection of words in a relative ordering" is "a sequence of words".
No one is saying the vetting process should be done away with. They are saying it should be reformed to not be so god damn stupid.

There's like 50 wall of text posts in here that don't seem to be understanding that
use an overlay network like i2p or cjdns. problem solved
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I've pondered replying to this, for about eight hours. I don't actually have anything nice to say - if I let myself be brutally honest.

I'm not sure you understand what freedom of expression really is. I'm not sure that you value it like I do. I'm not sure if you have the same views of the right of the individual as I do.

That's okay. I accept your views. I think you're fundamentally wrong, as I've demonstrated in this sub-thread. To put this in perspective, I still respect you - even though we fundamentally disagree.

That's the root of freedom of expression. You'll note that I don't tend to refer to it as Freedom of Speech, or the First Amendment. I speak of it as a social goal. I speak of it as something to aspire towards.

If you're curious, the EFF and ACLU both agree with me.

I need to be very, very clear. I don't like Nazis. I like the freedom to express myself, and any infringement on that is an infringement on my future liberties. Some things, such as credible threats of violence, are worth suppressing or penalizing. Others? Not so much.

Sort of related, I am sorry that your comments have been moderated so poorly. I had nothing to do with it and, though I don't agree with you, I respect you, as a human, enough to pay attention to what you've said and to respond in kind.

Without the liberty to express ourselves, most other enumerated rights lose value. In all but the rarest of cases, I will support the ideal of liberty.

If you want to disagree further, this is not the place for it. I'm freely available at uninvolved@outlook.com - or we can pick a site of your choosing and keep it public.
This isn't a problem for me, but I run gnome-shell and lightdm.
Thanks, I'm glad you like it and use it. If you've got a moment, I have a few Qs that would help me understand what you're describing here.

What would be an example of the notification you're thinking of here? Like domains matching a keyword? Or a specific one?

The idea of a marketplace definitely does make sense. Were you thinking as a buyer or seller?
Wow! This made me think deep thoughts man.
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I'm impressed that destroyallsoftware is able to put their screencast library behind a $30/mo paywall. Am I the only one who thinks that's high?
Yeah, not in the US :)
If you look at our offering, I think we have found a great spot between "lol bitcoin sex workers over Tor" and a full SV startup with a HQ on Market St.

We accept cash payments, so that eliminates a huge barrier to entry. You can use our app, verify yourself, make a date, pay in cash.

The anonymity part applies to the core team and servers so we can continue to operate the platform. We have strong privacy guarantees for workers, unlike Eros.com/Backpage/etc. (For instance, we watermark each picture with the viewing client's ID, so if they leak or repost photos, we know who to ban.)

Our gateway-to-Tor approach lets users access it without using Tor directly. (In the Android app, we will bootstrap connectivity so we don't rely on a domain as a SPOF.) [1]

Talk to sex workers: We offer real solutions to real problems. We aren't just some nerds in a basement thinking blockchain and code can solve any problems.

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Adding items to a shopping list is actually one of the relatively few things I end up using my Amazon Echo for. It's easier to add and I don't forget my phone when I go to the store (or end up going when I didn't plan to). I'm not a huge Echo fan overall but I do find it good for that.
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Yeah the false positives are such a pain.

I've been maintaining a manual list (thanks for the @wood addition) but otherwise haven't really figured out a way to definitively sort through these.
Huh... I would have argued not doing it the way I described was prematurely optimizing. Specifically, it's about throwing 'processing speed' at a problem before checking whether that actually speeds up the solution.

If someone is roadblocked on all their work, yeah, that should be solved immediately. Even if it's less theoretically efficient than some customer service system, it's necessary in terms of treating people with respect.

But if someone has a specific task blocked? I'm not at all convinced escalating that to a programmer or DBA is a reasonable step one. Partly because the problem might be simple, mostly because switching time causes real inefficiencies.

Of course, I'm assuming competent systems here. If "IT" is an outsourced department that just tells you how to plug things in, then yeah, everyone should escalate past them quickly. But if IT is actually knowledgeable, devops has sensible workflows, and so on, then I worry that out-of-band solutions are faster on each individual issue, but end up net-negative on overall company efficiency.
Oh crap -- not again!

Holding the line against censorship is very, very nerve-wracking.
Looking into this, hang tight!