skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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OP did not say a single thing about the size of the company, nor anything to suggest that they have been hired in a significant management role. It's entirely possible that they're going into a junior role in Amazon for all we know. Your replies, in contrast, don't even admit those extremely-common possibilities, and I find that omission baffling.

So, confused, I'm trying to think of explanations, such as that all your experience has been with smaller companies... or that were your born into upper-management Jeff Bezos is a golf acquaintance.
> if we all agreed that Internet

Who is the 'we' in that exactly? This is like saying 'what if we all agreed that a fancy car or trappings of wealth don't mean anything' or 'what if we all agreed that an Ivy Degree doesn't mean anything'? [1]

[1] I am offering some marketing help gratis for a wealth advisor today (side project). I am going to tell her to buy a fancy car because it will work better than the soccer mom vehicle she now drives in landing and impressing clients that she is trying to tap. I don't need any research to prove that out either. I know people respond to cues like this (I own said cars) so I know it's a fair bet that 'we' is never going to get together and not care about that type of thing. So it's an investment in marketing and advertising not a cost of transportation. Now maybe you or hn readers don't think the same way and it would sway you and you don't care. Doesn't matter. Enough people care to make it a viable strategy. If I see a large amount of twitter followers I might browse the first page or so and quickly determine how 'legit' they are. But most people don't do that. They focus on the number only, right?
Yes. Take a look.
I’m confident that it will happen. It’s actually easier to understand tabs on the side for new users. And it makes more sense in general.
Additionally, it's just unpleasant to use, even if it's not obvious enough to you that having dirty water blown all over you in a public toilet is extremely unhygienic... it's just goddamn unpleasant, I suppose it's users aren't it's customers, so who the hell is buying these things?
Ford's patent application puts focus on autonomous police vehicles
More like slavic, but sure, let's go with that - the native British are more like German people.
> Yet the door to Joe’s apartment—which argues with him and refuses to open because he has not paid it the obligatory tip—sounds ominously plausible. Someone, somewhere, is pitching this as a viable business plan to Y Combinator or the venture capitalists in Menlo Park.

And that's the sad reality. When we look at what the Internet has become, who did it that way - it's us, developers working for small and large companies, driven by profit, and willing sacrifice a thing or two on the way. And, there is no way back.
I made something similar, didn't take off: https://pushboard.net/
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This makes me wonder if it might be possible, for certain commodities, to buy out the entire market (across all retail websites) and immediately offer the items for resale at a higher price in order to expose naked offers. Though unlike doing the same on commodities exchanges, it would probably never be a profitable enterprise, as these naked sellers will simply cancel orders they can't fill.
His writing is generally awful, but his thoughts are (no qualification) the most profound I've ever encountered in print - and I've read quite a bit over the years. His short stories are also really worth-while, from his campy early stuff through to his later stuff - there's a vein of "what is reality" throughout, and they provide a relatively soft landing into his worlds.
I think they answered it by putting "cough lamborghini cough" above the second instance of the "Buy Robots" button.

At least, well enough for the SEC to take an interest.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2475854.

2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10289742
My wager is people are fixated on coming up with an addictive killer app that at least guarantees ethereum will stick around a bit for the app alone, regardless of ethereum or the value of ether.
People who like Perl are weird.

:-)
As a seller:

Yes, sometimes they'll suspend an offer if they think it's a mistake, they send a pricing notification. However, it's easy to relist at that price if you really want to, you just need to put a min and Max price in their system, and as long as your price is in between they'll accept it. The reason for this is if sellers make a fat finger mistake, so it makes sense they have a way to override.

Separately, they sometimes suppress the buy box if the price is over MSRP or more than other retailers. For a current example, see https://www.amazon.com/CollEGGtibles-12-Pack-Egg-Carton-Seas...

You can still buy, it just shows up as other sellers and needs an extra step to purchase. And it definitely hurts conversions, as I have seen on products I sell.
Plenty of private for profit providers in europe too.
In Abrahamic ethics, evil is the absence of good, you describe all of it negatively: lack of love, lack of respect for life, lack of belief, lack of generosity, etc. So from that perspective, God created evil but only in the sense that he created vacuum by putting matter next to it.

> "Well, we're gonna just wrap this up now but we could have at any point" is nutty.

That's explained in 2 Peter 3:9: "The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance." From that perspective, God has the motivation of a captain refusing to launch the last lifeboat until the last ensign is in it.

People construct ethics different than biblical ethics, sure. Biblical ethics is entirely about fidelity to God. Some people hate that ethical framework, but good literature is allowed to be divisive.
Valis is great, but in terms of general atmosphere and the final (or not so final) revelation Ubik is definitely a better choice, in spite of a spoiler in the article.
Meh. Last year I spent ~500 hours playing JRPGs. Enjoyed all of that. It's only a waste of time if it's getting in the way of your ogoals. For me, I had nothing else I wanted to do with that free time.
Did they shutdown Lyft Line or are you talking about something else?
Growing up in central Michigan, followed by career years mostly in the mid Atlantic, I see both sides to immersion in white winter and its short days.

In the north, Winter is an opportunity to shift gears, don different threads, and turn your attention to cold, footing, visibility, and gloom.

But there's also skating on prepared rinks and for miles along snow covered frozen rivers, hiking and cross country skiing through thick stands of snow covered pines in dead silence at 15F, and cold play in a wealth of activities that exist only where cold and ice can pile up and last for months. And then you return home, slip into toasty togs, and warm yourself from within with a host of drinks that can't fully be enjoyed any other way.

Winter does have a certain magic to it.
> these naked sellers will simply cancel orders they can't fill.

And risk the negative feedback?
I don't get it, Everclear is literally vodka (pure grain alcohol), maybe a bit stronger?
This discussion could be superficially projected onto the Erlang domain, and I think in some sense it shows how wrong it is. Syntax, in my opinion, is the least interesting critique one can mount against a programming system, for the simple reason that it is generally learned the quickest (even if you could argue it takes "longer" to learn). A programmer who understands process isolation the way Erlang meant it is will be far more productive (and correct) than one who doesn't. In comparison, a "few seconds" more to type are nothing.

But I see the point about the internals of a system (I assume this is the crux of Dijkstra's point) leaking into the process of teaching it, hence making it harder to form a coherent high level understanding. I continuously see the same problem with Git, which faces the same problems. It is a great system, but one that does not make it easy to form a generic overview without having to bombard the student with the lower level machinations.

Edit: grammar.
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Ask HN: Any open source project which you have used to make some passive income
It's not "about" good vs bad people, but it has a lot of them in the stories. But in that way, Star Wars isn't "about" aliens and robots.
One of the reasons I love public transportation is that I get a good amount of reading time while commuting. While yes, I'd prefer a shorter commute time, getting a long period where all I can do is read has been great.
Smart people moving into cryptocurrency and cryptocurrency being a bubble aren't mutually exclusive in another way: the long term potential of cryptocurrencies could be valid, even if it's in a short term bubble.

I think there are a lot of parallels between cryptocurrency/block chain tech now and the dot com bubble in the 90s. During the dot com bubbles fortunes were made and lost over nothing and there were many scams and vaporware business, but the underlying tech was sound and if you could identify the real businesses (e.g. Amazon, eBay) from the trash you could still make a lot of money in the long term even as the bubble popped and the market crashed. In a way, the bubble popping was good in a 'creative destruction' sort of way for clearing the brush (scammy and terrible companies) so the real ones could emerge and thrive. I think something similar will happen with cryptocurrency and blockchain tech.
It's easy for each of us to look down our noses at how others spend their leisure time, but there's an important point to be made here: leisure time and wasted time are NOT THE SAME THING. Leisure is actually quite important. Grinding away constantly can lead to burnout, poor health, frayed relationships, etc. The trick is to find balance, to fill each part of your life in the most satisfying way but not to let one part overwhelm the others.

Between paid work, house/family work, exercise, etc. I work as hard as anybody else I know, and I still enjoy a good video game session. I'll be playing Horizon: Zero Dawn in a few minutes. It's a better hobby than sneering at others.
"... prohibited from designing..." isn't going to past 1st amendment muster. You can design and publish designs to your heart's content.

Manufacturing is often performed outside of the state of WA.

Bans on imports, not sure.

This bill is going to have a rough time if it reaches court.
> arb'ing out-of-whack algorithms

How would you arb this?
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10773214
> Why is a failure of the cluster readout display, during driving, a big deal?

It's true that you probably won't die immediately. But for most people, driving a long distance without a cluster display would be extremely dangerous. Especially at night on an empty road. For me, I start relying on the readouts for speed and rpm around the four hour mark. Tired brains don't work well.

Which means you probably have to get it fixed ASAP. If that happened more than a couple of times with a car, I'd sell the car / not buy it in the fist place.
Definitely not roughly equivalent to sitting on your couch reading if you are driving. On the couch, distraction rarely ever endangers someone's life. When driving, if your attention moves from the road for even just a few seconds, that could kill.

As a bicyclist I've felt hyperaware compared against a large fraction of drivers who are clearly distracted. I imagine this is even more apparent to motorcyclists due to the higher speeds. Phones are bad, and audiobooks can clearly be distracting as well.

My suggestion if you have a long driving commute is to reduce the length of the commute, not do anything which endangers other road users. Alternatively you can switch to public transit or carpool and rotate drivers.
> How could the UK government possibly think letting an adult company collect user-data is for their own citizen protection.

Well it's the same country that let business lobby the ICO (the regulatory office that deals with the Data Protection Act etc) to permit social landlords to pass on rent-payment data to credit agencies on an OPT OUT basis, because it would "help them build up a credit score". (Presumably to take on more debt and to also report payment failures for landlords to filter our undesirables in the future?)

The same country that has a government that is creating a blockchain implementation with the aim to track benefit recipients’ spending. (Google "DWP" "blockchain")

The same country putting immense pressure on tech companies to install backdoors because terrorism.

It goes on and on and and on and on...(notice the paternalism?)

The third-party point: we've had a Conservative-majority government since 2010 who enjoy outsourcing and privatisation. (Nobody need waste keystrokes mentioning PFI/academies/tuition fees nor to accuse me of being pro-Labour ;))
I've bought Amazon out on some items when they have a sale and then sold later for a profit.

The best items to do this on is discontinued items that will still be in demand, as you can sure that eventually there will be no stock. Or when they have a significant sale on items that still sell reasonably well at regular price. The significant shipping fees for reselling mean you need to have a large discount.
You also have costs of returns, storage, etc. You typically want a minimum of 15-20% gross ROI after those fees.

For example, I've bought shavers at $180 and resold at $290-$300, from Amazon and on Amazon.
> Having standards doesn't mean a good/evil dichotomy.

I guess we have a foundational disagreement. If you don't think that virtue/anti-virtue pairs, e.g., courage/cowardice or honesty/deception, are essentially good/evil dichotomies, then what are they?
Note that you can read the current fight between the more enthusiastic members of right vs. left as a struggle over which sets of foundational myths take precedence.

The fight over political correctness (especially in academia) can be seen as the attempt to establish a new sacred narrative that is not allowed to be questioned, at the risk of an individual being cast out from the community.

This narrative is a replacement for the earlier understanding of the sacred rooted in Christianity, which no longer holds force with many people today in an age of technology and science.
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Google doesn’t necessarily need innovation – Steve Yegge
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To further my point (in case of additional downvoting):

You can get a quality 200W subwoofer for $150. Pair that Mackie or JBL studio monitors for another $150.

One homepod costs $349. And you need TWO for stereoscopic sound.

Its just another vanity item, much as all Apple products of late - they add no real value.
That's not a good argument at all. Thinking that legalization should happen in every state has nothing to do with thinking that it will probably happen in some states before others. Why would a legalization supporter want to make it a federal issue when fewer than 50% of states support the idea?

If people with different views are concentrated in different areas, we can maximize total democracy (i.e. representation of citizen's opinions in government) by allowing them to pick their own local laws.
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Still takes 2 days to cash out to bank account though right?
Samsung Galaxy S9 Images Leak Ahead of Its Release Next Month
On top of this, getting access to this data surely required ethical approval from multiple institutions (IRB). I am getting pictures from a few patients and I had to have a whole security audit on how the information would be stored and secured, along with who would have access.
> That has nothing to do with what I quoted from the article.

This has everything to do with your characterization of those quotes. "We don't know for certain, but shit could get bad" is a perfectly reasonable basis for precaution. The precautionary principle is not "anti-scientific".

> It would benefit you to suppress your religious fervor for a few minutes and examine the facts for yourself.

What are you trying to accomplish with this sentence?
Those projects were done and ran in actual hardware.

I am making the counter point regarding OP statement that Python is suitable to fully replace Java ,regardless of the implementation. Lets not mix languages and implementations.

So given that even PyPy does not match the performance of most Java implementations, it seems a bit hard to consider the scenario of Python fully replacing Java's use cases.
You need proper blackout curtains where the fabric is in direct contact with the framing of the window. Typically curtains have a lot of space between the fabric and the frame/glass so you'll get a lot of light coming in.
I've found http://highscalability.com/ & https://stackshare.io/featured-posts to be really useful. I constantly refer to these at work for design inspiration.
Finding a good idea is the easy part.
I think it's the inverse. Good-vs-evil narratives are not some progression, rather the inverse.

Whereas ancient peoples and older eras saw war as a necessary evil in some cases, and could see the enemy as regular people that they just had to fight (even down to the Iliad, the most heroic figure, Hector, is on the enemy side), the Good-vs-Evil narrative doesn't come to prevent war (except in dire circumstances), but to refuse the enemy its humanity and justify total war.

Good-vs-evil was used to justify the pillaging and goring of the colonial era, to the Nazi's extinction of the Jews, and so on.

That's the route of modern diplomatic terminology ("axis of evil" and so on), and behind the dehumanizing of the enemy. And even civilian casualties don't matter much when you're fighting "evil" (e.g. Dresden, Hiroshima, modern Middle East, etc).

Another such trick is to promote (with articles, movies, etc) the "inner conflict" of your side (how they fear they're fighting an unjust war, the pain they get from the killings they had to do, PTSI, etc), thus humanize them more into good guys, while still painting the other side as caricatures. This faux-critique of war is an excellent way to say "we might do bad, but we're ultimately the good guys, the ones who actually do question what we do".
I feel like I'm missing the context for this. Can you elaborate?
>>Some could say that the pre-Facebook blogging era was better, but I don't think those times ever had a chance of growing to encompass regular people.

Agree entirely.

>>the truth is that the only Android that could become a market standard is the Google Android, and Linux has no chance in hell as long as Microsoft and Apple have money to better tailor (and market) their OSes to end users (regular people and corporations).

Well Google Android has a much less entrenched position than Windows did, and it's precisely because it is open source. One can run non-Google Androids that are fully compatible with other Android apps, and Google would never be able to charge for its version for that reason.

>>Open source, by its nature, avoids attracting money, and money is exactly how you win mindshare.

While that's often the case, there are times where its nonproprietary nature facilitates its adoption. The fact that no one group owns an open source project can be an attractive feature, especially when disparate parties are looking for a common protocol or platform to collaborate through.

Cryptocurrency is both open source and attracts money. That's why I think blockchains might succeed against traditional web companies.

All-in-all I think our chances of being to solve the market monopoly problem with technology is good given the space of possible solutions. Of course this is just an opinion and I can't prove that it will work.
Amazon's trademark lawyers may see that differently.
Awesome post! Always happy to see more committed infrastructure. We made this move a while back and were really happy with the results. Check out Packer for AMI builds and you're all set.

One suggestion re: TF files is to keep each service in a separate TF file/state and keep all your state files on S3 that way if someone does an apply it's always consistent. Keeping things separated means that you don't have to worry about hitting other services when you do an apply
TL;DR — Phillip K. Dick's writing anticipated fake news.

:P

Alright, that's too much of a simplification, and the article is worth a read—but I'd warn that it's plagued by the annoying (and all too common) use of 'reality' in place of 'belief' or 'theory' or other more appropriate options, which magically makes all kinds of statements sound more interesting than they really are.

> ... Yet they were also based on a keen interest in the processes through which reality is socially constructed. Dick believed that we all live in a world where “spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups—and the electronic hardware exists by which to deliver these pseudo-worlds right into heads of the reader.”

Now imagine if instead it were simply said that, "the media, governments, big corporations, religious groups, and political groups attempt to conceal the truth and tell their own versions instead."

The term 'reality' is kind of useful because 'creating a reality' isn't quite a simple as telling a lie, since it's more like a network of lies used to present an alternate account of the state of things. But, it also carries with it the implication that there isn't any objective reality, and that when a political group 'creates a new reality', that it is somehow ontologically equivalent to any other 'reality' available.

I know this is kind of a side rant, but seriously, I can't wait for the day when it's no longer socially acceptable to talk about 'constructing reality' in random contexts, whether the reader is aware of its particular meaning (it's jargon from Sociology and spread to other areas) or not. I can just imagine how it would have felt to read the article if I didn't happen to know the origin of that phrase ('social construction of reality')—it would seem mostly coherent and would appear to be talking about something of the utmost significance, and yet with some kind of vagueness I couldn't quite place (that's my recollection of running into it years ago).
Vodka is typically 40% ABV.

Everclear is sold in 75.5% ABV and 95% ABV varieties.

So, quite a bit stronger.
As a heads-up, in case anyone checks, I’ve moved this to its own repository so I can use it in other projects easily:
https://github.com/dnbaker/vec.
Hi KurtMueller, get yourself a new AWS account with the free tier, find out exactly which resources ARE NOT included with the free tier, and get down with a simple Terraform file. Terraform code has a one-to-one mapping with AWS resources, so it's easy to follow. One code test that my previous company had was to create a simple load-balanced web server in Ansible or Chef, but you could also do it with Terraform too. Two servers and a load balancer in front, simple but teaches you a lot of fundamental stuff.
I believe that local control is a very important aspect of a free people, especially in a country as large and diverse as the United States. States right is not a convenient excuse, it is a protection against totaliarism. The Constitution and Bill of Rights protected blacks, and States had to comply, and States right was a specious argument. It was a matter of Constitutional protection.

But I firmly believe that most laws of governance should be state and local so there is choice, reasonable chances for an individual to effect change, and a lower bar to experiment with policy.