skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not every human endeavor has to make a profit. However, most do have to make a profit, otherwise total wealth decreases until we all starve to death.

If an activity doesn't make a profit, generally people unconnected with it shouldn't be forced to subsidize it unless there is a really good reason, like specific and well-understood positive externalities to the activity.

I have no issue with people doing beekeeping (or skateboarding or painting or snowshoeing) as a hobby. But I see no reason I should be forced to do more work I don't want to do in order that someone else can do their hobby that they do want to do.
blockchain...something...insurance...something...HoneyCoin!
~>. High interest rates are a market failure.

Only if you think that unbridled growth is an inherently good thing. Let's take an example, and say we run out if oil without a good substitute. Suddenly interest rates go up, because with an uncertain future nobody wants to count of the future productivity of any given individual. Do you run around and complain that there's a market failure; interest rates are too high, we need to encourage more consumption to keep the economy running!!! Does that seem like sensible policy to you?

> 2. You accept the reality that wages are sticky, and most people actually like the thing that they know how much they get paid tomorrow.

That's fine but the prescribed solution is to devalue the notional amount people get paid. So basically you are force feeding a lie. Moreover, it's one which hurts people getting paid less more than people getting paid more. Also, lower incomes are less flexible to quit their job and find a new one because their current one isn't paying as much in real value. I'd much much rather put companies in a position where they give lower income individuals a pay cut (or find a way to make their employee's labor more valuable) as a signal that they should look for a better paying situation than boil the water underneath them slowly. Anything less is coddling businesses.
It’s definitely a factor to be aware of. We are legally not allowed to be exposed to image content, as developers, but personally I do have some exposure to text content as part of my role. Thorn has an excellent support / wellness system, with professional counselors, in place though for proactively staying healthy and processing what exposure we do experience.
> No matter how fashionable – or not – we consider ourselves, we all try to avoid wearing the same outfit every day. We regularly change our shirts, our pants, our suits, our jackets, our shoes, our hats, even our belts.

What an introduction!?! Is this true?

I wear the exact same outfit every day. I own one belt, one coat, and zero hat. I have a small selection of shoes but they all serve a different purpose. It would be extremely difficult for me to wear a different outfit every month, let alone every day.
Somewhat unrelated, but dear God do I hate self checkout lines. When I was in college a grocery store replaced two regular checkout lines with four self checkout stations and my god it resulted in the largest slow down I've ever been a witness to that was caused by a single action. If your care about your customers, please don't go self checkout
There's no end of people who have such low morals they'll exploit any situation for their personal gain; such cynicism (or realism) is born by contact with such people and their actions.

People who would do the exploitation can also be inclined to expect others to be sociopaths.
Thanks for the link. I missed it, but you’re right, the image of the egg with scales on it in the linked article says “representational image.”

I do wonder about that picture, however.
It's also possibly hard to estimate risk. My understanding is that insurers don't like insuring things they can't confidently assess.
Gotcha. That makes sense. I could see how over time that feature gets less useful. Looking forward to trying your tool, if you have a website or mailing list for it, please share.
A 3D design platform for education built on top of https://3dc.io, launching in January.
> Seems like there are fewer large companies that are willing to just let technologists "muck around for a bit"

I wonder if this is true. Many of the major computer industry companies have labs: Google, Microsoft, IBM ... (Apple? Facebook? Amazon?)

I wonder if it's more or less than before.
but in the first .com bubble, companies lived and died only on their stock activity. these days, the winners have enough cash piled up that a recession would actually be welcome; it would allow them to buy companies and employees on the cheap, and many of their flimsy competitors would fold.

if you think Apple, Google and Facebook dominate now, wait until the next recession. can your company laugh off losing half it's market cap temporarily? they can
I understand that H1B is a non-immigrant visa

While it's described that way, I don't think the statement accurately conveys the right kind of meaning. US immigration law uses intent as a principle: if you're in the US on a non-immigrant visa and you're suspected of having intent to immigrate, then that's grounds for cancelling the visa. That makes sense for tourist visas.

But H-1B visas (along with L-, V- etc.) are explicitly dual-intent visas, so intent to immigrate doesn't put them at risk. So calling them non-immigrant visas is potentially misleading because they don't carry the same intent risk. They're a kind of halfway house.
How to talk yourself into charging more
Thank you so much for sharing this!!!
Yes, most people deliberately avoid wearing the same outfit twice in a short period of time. Motivation may very, my reasoning is I don't want people to think I don't do laundry often
This seems like a pretty broad generalization, deriving an entire culture's adventure sport habits from a hill hike with friends. Not saying you're wrong, not saying you're right. For me, it takes a little more to characterize 300+ million people.
Stop Freelancing
Much of BCH's value has been in removing Core's 'improvements'
Preventing Segwit preserves a full chain of signatures on chain.
Removing RBF (replace by fee) has preserved practical 0 confirmation times of a few seconds for small purchases.

Segwit is not implemented on Core's main client.

Lightning has been 18 months away since 2015.
(It is still 18 months away)

Lightning will not work with the current block size that Blockstream is so fiercely protective of.

Please admit that if a credit card company wanted to maximally destroy the threat of Bitcoin, the last few years would serve as a pretty good blueprint...

*Edit: removed word that mangled sentence.
If anyone has received the report, can you please post a quick tldr?
Interesting to see how this develops internationally, and how dependent it is on standard wages.

Here in Switzerland, the two top supermarkets (which basically form an oligopoly) have had this system operating in every supermarket I have entered within the last 3 years.

This is obviously motivated by the fact that Swiss wages are really high compared to the US, even adjusted for cost of living.

I'd be interested to hear how far along this tech is internationally.
The outrageous things people do in real life makes the cynicism of HN seem trivial.
You can just run your own serverless cluster and get the exact same price as non-serverless.
In one sense, the repeated and total fiascos of Ethereum and IOTA (which has a hell of a lot more problems that just an ad hoc has function) are good because they make the costs of our industry's lazy and self-indulgent "artist" approach to software very obvious, and the cost of it becomes clear.
Off-topic: always interesting to see how referral links fare here.

I personally am not opposed if disclosed, since AFAIK (documented as of 2012 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4156414) this gives access to other items purchased in the same time frame (whether the specific item is purchased or not) and analytics for links with no orders.
Launched a tool I used in my other startups.
A tool to help companies reduce churn using sentiment analysis.
https://churnops.com
It’s an NP hard problem. Tracing beneficial ownership is tough to scale. That’s why our system does it sparingly, e.g. when investigating malfeasance. Every past attempt at systematising this trace function has run into hurdles which are now predictable. They aren’t easy to solve without creating unacceptable side effects, and it’s easier for the beneficial owner to adapt than for an exchange to re-write its rules.
It's noticeable because it's a surface feature (it's the color of the bikeshed), but it's consistent with the article's whole attitude: this is a man studying females on behalf of men (explicitly; see intro paragraph). In that context, I find the word choice unsurprising.
Given that they received medals, I'm not sure that's true in any practical sense.
I spent most of the year working my ass off consulting for one of America's most hated companies building an utterly pointless system. My only consolation is knowing that I wasted a ton of their money since there's no chance it will pay any returns.
This will only affect Indians and maybe Chinese. It's time to stop pretending the Trump administration isn't racist to the core.
Some expensive frames include a license fee for the designer’s brand name. Some indie-designer expensive frames use more expensive metal, acetate, hinges, rivets, etc. But they usually limit distribution to brick & mortar opticians, so there’s a sizable retail markup.
Geiger counter might happen to be very vulnerable to collocated attacks. Overwhelm counter with non-random radiation, compromise a batch of keys produced during the burst,
baking

exercise

relationships
Ask HN: Why does your company PII-wall software and documentation?
I frequently encounter websites that demand that I fill in some personal information (many don't authenticate it at all) before permitting me to download software or documentation. Frequently it's a hardware vendor (e.g., ST Micro). I find it an annoying waste of time and always fill out those forms with garbage.

Why does you company do this and what value do you derive from this anti-user behavior? I'm hoping to hear from folks working at companies that actually do this, rather than speculation from folks who don't.
Towards a bra-free Instagram experience
Soylent shakeup: Cofounder steps down as CEO
Seems like a waste of energy... I can imagine putting a weather station on the roof would be more useful (albeit less cool). Use multiple sensors for rainfall, UV, wind speed, wind direction, temperature, pressure and aggregate the signals from each... Surely the combination of localized weather readings would provide enough randomness.
Live-debugging an Elixir memory/process leak
If they want those taxes, they need to fix their tax laws. No company will freely donate their earnings.
learned RESTful apps in Ruby, Sinatra, and sequel.

built an api wrapper in Python serverless for our ecom website.

trying to smooth out the api for the new react frontend we built. imagine a 10 year old java api where every endpoint is extremely different and behaves in magical ways (or not at all) if magic cookies are present.

nightmare.
Does the White Working Class Really Vote Against Its Own Interests?
Playing around with combining music composition, math and programming.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxhopAH-8PKhcJ6pXkyc1Xw
Quality problems with code at this magnitude aren't really a technical problem (i.e. not something you can fix by asking the same programmers who created the problems to fix them.) It's rare that good programmers could write code as badly as these patches demonstrate. Even actively-harmful coding standards directed from the top down wouldn't cause this kind of code.

Instead, the kind of code that ends up in these driver blobs is caused by, in essence, a political problem: they simply hired bad programmers. The only way to fix that, is to demand that the driver vendors' management teams adopt higher standards for their software hires: that they fire many of the programmers they have, and hire new ones in a much more stringent process. And probably also pay them more, because that stringent process will likely choke their existing funnel out of existence.

It's much the same as, say, finding that a company is using a low-quality outsourcing firm. Would you say that there's a technical problem inside the outsourcing firm? No, you'd say that there's a management problem in the choice of outsourcing firm.
I suspect there’s a great deal of lobbying and support for weakening or strengthening it but not much for reforming it.
It's an interesting question - how many people do have those inner monologues?

I would recommend "The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind" if you're interested in this stuff. It's non-fiction but it's basically a story.
I've been making a soon to be released 7th Guest-esque haunted mansion puzzle game!
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> It's not a really a problem though because people can indicate for themselves in their profiles, either explicitly or implicitly, what type of relationship they are looking for; it can be different things for different people.

In my anecdotal experience (which means feel free take with a handful of salt), it never really worked out that way. I've gone on dates via Tinder where a profile explicitly stated "no hookups" or something to that effect that did, indeed, turn into hookups.

Also, and this is the more obvious thing, I think, is that a dating platform designed to not require you to actually read a profile before deciding if you're interested isn't going to be the ideal place for stating "preferences". Hence, my anecdotal experience.
There probably are no intricate plans for the future on an executive level, besides having some smart people enjoy their work while building something that may or not be useful in the future, depending on a) how their effort, and b) the future turns out.
I am in the process of wrapping up a static site generator I made. https://github.com/sachleen/Steady I used it as an opportunity to refresh my PHP skills and start using Composer. In the process, I also made and published my first package on packagist. https://packagist.org/packages/sachleen/twig-truncatep that allows you to truncate a block of HTML (say an article) to a fixed number of paragraphs in a Twig template.
Are those options for Warby Parker? Or do you mean are those options I purchased for my optometrist-bought lenses? I probably spent $200 on lenses alone so no doubt they’re better than what Warby Parker provides. It’s just that WP doesn’t seem to have other options besides standard and progressive. And the standard WB lenses give me a headache after awhile so the price savings is marginal for me.

FWIW I’m also super nearsighted so I might be an edge case
>“Who you are” is fluid. //

This hasn't been my experience, the opposite in fact. How we act is entirely changeable, however.
Not an expert on ChromeOS but it has more than simply Chrome right now, for example it can run Android apps.

It is although true that Google could replace the low layers of Chrome OS as long as it replicates most of the user facing features.

If Google intends to make Fuchsia some kind of Android successor (we have no way to know if that's the plan though), this feature is utterly needed anyway : an Android VM for 'legacy' apps and Flutter for the future.
Have you tried https://p2k.co/?
You just need to add even more self checkout stations.
Short answer: no. Long answer: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del's_incompleteness_...

There cannot be a program that can prove (or even help a human to prove) any true statement about programs written in a Turing-complete language.
That's sort of the problem with modern advertising, isn't it? Ideally advertising would earnestly connect people with products that might improve their lives. No harm, no foul.

But the industry is currently so ubiquitously predatory and deceptive that any sort of advertising sets off blaring klaxons in my head. At least, when/if I recognize it as an ad.
It's a cynicism born of experience when it comes to crowdfunding.
where are you doing this ?
The real problem is the absurdly long processing time for these green card applications.
Whatsapp down
Some interesting excerpts from https://newrepublic.com/article/126473/american-cops-100-tim...

- By contrast (to the US), national standards in most European countries conform to the European Convention on Human Rights, which impels its 47 signatories to permit only deadly force that is “absolutely necessary” to achieve a lawful purpose.

- Killings excused under America’s “reasonable belief” standards often violate Europe’s “absolute necessity” standards.

- In Europe, killing is considered unnecessary if alternatives exist. For example, national guidelines in Spain would have prescribed that Wilson incrementally pursue verbal warnings, warning shots, and shots at nonvital parts of the body before resorting to deadly force.

- In the US, only eight states require verbal warnings (when possible), while warning and leg shots are typically prohibited.
http://www.replayray.com/

A fun way to follow sports on your phone, when you can't watch the actual game. The game tracker always starts at the beginning and never 'spoils' the result.

I've put more work into NFL lately, but I'll likely improve NBA basketball next. There are a slew of other sports too -
soccer, MLB, NHL - although the degree of upkeep has been varied.
Three Years on Google App Engine
No one is being forced to remain on H1B visas for any length of time, you can always quit and leave any time.

This affects individuals who have green card applications pending and are being granted 1-year extensions while their applications are pending due to a country-based quota system and thus backlog.

The only way this would not affect these individuals is if they remove the quota and backlog and grant green cards immediately, but it doesn't sound like the Administration is planning to do that with the talk of "self-deportation" and all.

Instead, they just plan to stop the 1-year renewal and effectively kick these individuals out of the country, even if they like their current status and have been waiting for a decade for a green card.

I fail to see how this is a step in the right direction for these workers.
That's really neat, but difficult in places like California where there's a bag fee.
It's ~100 lamps for entropy that covers ~10% of the internet, energy consumption is a ridiculous complaint.
I would let you pay for it if it was ready

I can make you an (unofficial, free) beta tester if you want. I'll have most of the basic functionality by the end of January. If you're interested let me know here: alin.p32@gmail.com
SGI did it first
Wow, there's so much misinformation and outright lies in the comments here.

You do not have to "notify" anyone at AWS to scale your lambda up to whatever your account invocation limits or spending limit.

Also you can run whatever code you want, native libraries, etc. If you need a cache you can use the disk or connect to some in-memory data store. You can log to wheverer you like, or throw your logs away.

Local development is easy and there are several frameworks that abstract away AWS' wart-like configuration API.

The limitations with lambda mostly have to do with the fact you're basically doing distributed processing with finite resources, and under an ephemeral model. Many libraries aren't written in that way, so you'll need to do some first principles work here and there but I'd argue the resultant architecture, independent of AWS, is worth it. You can share databases, S3 files, whatever.

Generally speaking lambda is good for workloads that aren't always at 100% (basically almost every kind of long-tail application in computing). The cost per CPU cycle is made up when you consider this, and there's nothing to stop people from setting up lamda-style processing on their own clusters, machines, or bare metal if you think you can optimize for utilization better/cheaper than lambda/AWS.

If you're in the 1 or 2% of applications where your system is latency sensitive or always at 100%, you either need to consider other architectures or ways of solving your problem. If that's not possible, lambda might not be for you.

If you're someone that doesn't like new technology and is resistant to change, by all means continue to spend your time provisioning and tending to your flock of instances. You're just going to pass that cost on to your customer or user anyway.
That you and vertex-four disagree not only on the facts, but on the nature of facts indicates that perhaps his point has some merit. ;-)

FWIW, I've been that primary source for some major news stories, and the final story usually bears just a passing resemblance to reality as I experienced it. Assuming good faith on the part of the reporter, I have to assume that reality as I experienced it bears only a passing resemblance to reality as other primary sources experience it, which is congruent with other known facts like the difficulty of communication, the existence of cognitive biases, and the field of psychology. Objectivity is a myth; it's oftentimes a useful myth, but it's worth remembering that the reporter has his own biases and preconceptions as well, and as the person choosing what to report upon, these will necessarily make it into the final piece. The audience has their own biases as well, so they won't be reading exactly the same piece that the reporter wrote.
I like Ireland too!
I built and launched two projects:

https://docsift.com, which was a tool for journalists and legal teams to help smooth fact discovery from large document dumps. I ultimately benched it because I'm not a lawyer or a journalist and couldn't find a motivated group of users to provide good feedback.

While I was building Docsift, I'd built a Slack integration to get nice-looking cryptocurrency quotes, and it was growing on its own after sharing it in a single team; I decided to switch gears and work on that. It turned into https://www.CoinAlerts.io, which is a quoting tool and alerting service for cryptocurrency hobbyists, investors, and speculators. It's been growing pretty strongly on its own, and I'm having a great time hacking away at it. I'm building another thing in that space right now, splitting some of my time off from CoinAlerts to work on it; ultimately they'll go together. No comment on whether or not I think BTC or crypto in general are a bubble, but I'm really enamored with the space.