skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems pretty bogus to me, or something is unexplained.

ManyPixels offers unlimited monthly design work for a fixed price that’s less than what a good freelance designer would charge for a day.

This can only work if the customers rarely even use the service, or if he’s found some new source of cheap and easily available design talent.

In the article he already mentioned how hard it was to find talented freelance designers. I get that you can smooth out those costs if you aggregate demand. Maybe the company can get good at sourcing good designers. But then you need to guarantee their availability. Which means it’s just a design firm.

Seems hard to do when you are drastically underpricing.

The MRR, is that calculated on a few days of operation? Or have you really taken on ~50 clients who can demand unlimited design work in one month, with no permanent staff and where you probably lose money on each client?
I never understood the point of this when you have free fast delivery with Prime Now.
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Wall-E like robot may hold keys to future unmanned vehicles
Top tip; ask for the fries without salt. You can taste them properly then. I wonder if you can ask for them thick cut too.. I might have to see if there's a secret menu option for that
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If Perl 6 were a centrally managed and funded effort to create a popular language, I would a agree that the one who funds it would look at adoption numbers and time spent, and declare it sunk cost, and try to achieve their objectives through other means.

But everybody who's working on Perl 6 does it because they enjoy it, learn by doing it etc. Why should they declare it a failure? Usage numbers are slowly, slowly creeping up, and working with and on Perl 6 can be real fun.

If I'd work on it regardless on how much of my previous time I invested in it, why should I even consider sunk costs?
Oh, I was wondering why the prices on https://www.hetzner.com/cloud?country=de are higher than on https://www.hetzner.com/cloud?country=us, this explains it.
Allowing China this type of business hegemony is a strategic mistake.
This is another product type runnning on SSD-backed Ceph storage instead of NVME SSDs. Thank you for pointing out this hiccup in our user interface. I've passed that information on to my team members. --Katie, Marketing, Hetzner Online
This same article could have been written 120 years ago about Automats https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automat
But then their prices would go up because their income goes up, pretty much crippling their business model.
Netflix Stock Soars
If you want a small, USB-powered wifi device running OpenWRT, and you don't need the card reader, you might have a better time with a NEXX WT3020F[0].

[0] http://www.dx.com/p/NEXX-WT3020F-Portable-Mini-300Mbps-Wirel...
They had me at:

> Above-average raised floor system
No, it does not. I've pointed you at an explanation of how it does not twice now already, as well as laid it out explicitly right at the start of this thread by explaining what behaviours that programs avoid one has to actually instead adopt wholesale. I've also pointed out pretty clearly that next to nothing speaks this protocol, which would clearly not be the case if it were the behaviour of things that do. Please read properly.
You seem to think I'm rationalizing the morality of the act by pointing out the morality/ethics is really just another thing humans bend on when the incentives change.

If you want to argue incentives are fictional because "morality", I think we aren't going to have a productive discussion.
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> obesity (BMI > 30.0) puts you at risk

BMI>23 if you are South asian

https://www.diabetes.co.uk/south-asian/
Perhaps, the arc distance traveled for the wave is a
smaller than the plane's. The plane is flying 10Km in the sky.
True, even as a vanity project it could increase Amazon's share price by enough to justify the effort, even if it fails.
It's gradually typed. Which means there are dynamic type checks, and optional static type declarations as well.

If the compiler can prove the outcome of a type check at compile time, it can throw a type error or optimize out the runtime check, depending on the outcome.
Are you familiar with our server auction? https://www.hetzner.com/sb --Katie, Marketing, Hetzner Online
I take it you don't use a VPN. I often have to pass a captcha just to use google search when in an IPv4 address. (Considering that ISPs are now allowed to sell my data, using a VPN seems to be an obvious choice.)

It's annoying to the point that it's pushed me to use DuckDuckGo more often and I tend to avoid platforms that require me to continually take their captchas. I used Discord for a little while, but once it started asking me to verify my humanity again periodically per session, I booked it.
> Bitcoin Cash is the only 'true' fork that survived beyond the splitting of the BTC chain, but please correct me if I'm wrong on that.

There's at least a few more. "Bitcoin Gold" and "Bitcoin Diamond" come to mind, there's also something called "Super Bitcoin". They all seems like complete trash to me but somehow they seem to have a market value
> hard forks are actually much more likely to occur, at least until the inverse network effects you describe actually exist in reality.

I am working on an article that talks about the opposing incentives behind hard forks as a form of artificial scarcity. This seems to be the main objection from classical financial types, that its all virtual and you can make more at any time by forking so its worthless.

Your comment implies thoughtfulness on this topic. Do you have any good references on this from an economic theory standpoint?

I could argue that there are actually two kinds of hard forks, one where there is some change to the underlying protocol (Bitcoin Cash) or reallocation of funds (undoing the DAO hack) that, at least in the eyes of the authors, increases the utility of the new network more than the negative effect of the split. If the total network value rises then, in a rational market, it means that the utility did increase.

A second kind of fork is just a cash-grab fork. Split the bitcoin chain but don't do anything to the protocol, ala https://forkgen.tech. This is (I think) what concerns finance professionals more than forks which increase utility.
How much do you already know?

Do you understand any basic concepts like variables or assignment?

If you don't understand any of the basics of programming you need to start there.

I definitely recommend starting small. A webapp with frameworks is not the way to learn. It will be overwhelming.

Some basic things to understand before starting a big project:

-variables and assignment

-types

-functions

-branching
statements(if/else)

-loops and iteration(while/for)

-modules
-classes
I think it's pretty believable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_harvesting_from_Falun_Go...
Oh man, I've been waffling about whether to read it now, or to wait until the final book of the trilogy is written so I can binge the whole series.
Perl Pessimism: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=perl

I have happy memories of Perl, and it started me on the path that led to a nice career of Python awesomeness. Thanks, Perl! That said, I can't imagine a plausible scenario where I'd ever consider using it again. I almost certainly wouldn't use it professionally because it's not exactly going to light up a resume. Yes, there are still Perl shops. But no, there aren't very many of them, and I'd be highly suspicious of an engineering department still writing new code in it today without a very good reason.
Nice job! I love the performance of VS Code, now with Vue debugging capabilities it's rocking!
Somewhere on their forum (not sure if this has been made public somewhere) they said they're looking to open a datacenter in Finland...

Not sure if that helps with your latency problem or not, but options.... :)
I've TeXed it a while ago; scroll down here: https://shreevatsa.wordpress.com/2014/03/13/big-o-notation-a...
Well Perl 5 needs a spec in order to be supported inside Perl 5. Otherwise which version do you support? 5.6? 5.10.1? 5.16?
Netflix loved talking about net neutrality – so why has it suddenly gone quiet?
Who's bartering? Your original example was of a gift. Gifts under $14,000 don't need to be reported. [1]

If bartering is involved, then yes, it ought to be reported as taxable, or it's unethical for the reasons you state.

[1] https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe...
Even if we grant that evasion of some $20 filing fee on the will (the attny fees are probably tax deductible [1]) or 75 cent [2] tax on the flu shot is of the same magnitude of offense as the skipped speeding ticket,
note that the free shot or will isn't being given deliberately to avoid taxes. It's done to avoid paying the doctor or lawyer's fee. So, the exchange is considered as being between friends with no real governmental third party--a gift.

OTOH, the intent of the PBA card is aligned with the putative ethical wrong: you show the card deliberately to avoid paying a fine to the govt and to avoid the deterrent effect of the punishment.

[1]: http://info.legalzoom.com/legal-fees-preparing-tax-deductibl...

[2]: http://www.weeklystandard.com/house-to-consider-tax-on-new-f...
I'd say 2GB is a reasonable amount of memory for any application to use. Have you seen Slack recently?
it is a really interesting language, in the sense of having many unique and unusual features.
Internet Is Filling Up Because Indians Are Sending Millions of ‘Good Morning’
APL has used a huge set of non ASCII characters for more than 30 years in production by large companies.
Firefox Quantum: faster, always-on privacy with opt-in Tracking Protection
"And whether cutting out the variable costs of a cashier etc is really worth the trouble in R&D and systems."

No, it is not worth it... for a retailer. This is what makes it an effective moat. Fast forward 10 years and Amazon will have a cost advantage over all the other retailers. Amazon store's can be open 24 hours without any extra costs. They can be much smaller or hold items that are less profitable.This will eventually pay for the moat but it will take a very long time. Longer than most companies are willing to wait for it to pay off. Amazon will also you the tech in more ways than just these stores.
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I stand by the claim we have 2/3 market share in the self-hosted git market. The claim is now linked to a page that contains the details https://about.gitlab.com/is-it-any-good/
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So they are encouraged to recruit other poor mothers to become part of their downline and receive a percentage of what those mothers bring in.

Basically, a MLM but with milk and Jeff Bezos at the core.
You can have a smart city without assigning a unique identifier to each individual between collections of data (ie by relying on aggregate data instead), or using the equivalent of a session identifier.

For instance, a trashcan filling up can correlate to the number of people who use public transport, but you don't have to say person X took the bus then used the trash can.
Costco is known to be a pretty good employer.
Markov blankets of life: autonomy, active inference and the free energy principle
Please don't break the guidelines by posting like this again.

> Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> They all seems like complete trash to me but somehow they seem to have a market value

This is probably the defining comment of this age of blockchain. :-)
The value they're providing is to the forum owner, who has reduced spam-handling workload.

So the forum is providing you value, you are providing Google value, and Google is providing the forum value.
So, you're traffic is coming from some provider that purposefully obfuscates info and your traffic is mixed with a bunch of other people's? I can't imagine why they view you as less likely to be verified as a real person...
After a few years on GitLab I moved to GitHub for these very reasons. GitLab's UI was messy and it was slow to display (as in input lag and low FPS on my reasonably powered desktop PC).
It does not. But did you hear anything about patent or trademark protection sought by Facebook for flicks? Does releasing a BSD licensed implementation suggest to you that they intend to protect flicks this way?

I don't love Facebook's products, but I struggle to see the downside in them publishing this idea.
In a way, what Amazon is really testing here is how to make brick and mortar shopping competitive with online shopping. But rather than undercutting their online business what they're really doing is finding ways to compete with other retailers in spaces that are hard online, such as groceries and immediate items.
Retail with no employees was done in China last year, fwiw:

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608104/in-china-a-store-o...
Are you using Firefox Quantum? I used to whitelist cookies on a per-site basis, but WebExtensions no longer appear to have the necessary access for that, and the built-in settings page is too much of a hassle. Would be interesting if uMatrix has a way to provide the functionality anyway.
Replace "Ruby" with any modern interpreted language and then get over it. With the price of memory so insanely cheap, why does it matter? Gitlab isn't trying to be a lean Go microservice-powered app. It's attempting to be the centre of your source control and deployment world. So 2gb usage seems reasonable to me.

Any cloud provider will provide a VM that can comfortably run it for a very reasonable price.
Are there no prices on the shelves in an Amazon Go store? Surely people want to know the price before they buy an item? Not having a checkout doesn't change that does it?
Be assured malicious actors got plenty of stolen ids.
Mobile Money interoperability pilot in Kenya
> If drone deliveries are the future

Noone thinks this for 100% of deliveries. I think about 98% of my Amazon orders today would be too heavy for the first 10-20 generations of drones. Not to mention, many people live in places where drone delivery will never be allowed by law.

> and VR is going to be as good as real

Noone thinks this either, not for all people and not for all time. Amazon isn't making financial decisions based on thinking that 100% of people will eventually be in VR 100% of the time. Even if the technology is massively successful, that would not happen.

> isn’t offline retail headed for a decline?

Yes of course. It's declining from about 90% of money spent to about 80% over the next few years or so (estimates)

> Isn't that what Amazon wants us to believe?

What? Amazon wants your money. They don't care what you think the future will be like.
It may very well be the restrictions depend on products and location etc., but the point is anyway is that even when they ask for ID, it's always been for the initial order only.
>Discrete math is important because the universe is discrete. Continuous math is an approximation that sometimes, but not always, is rather convenient.

This is not true. There are "things" in the universe that are discrete (for example: matter). But whether the universe itself is discrete is something we don't know.

What is the smallest discrete measurable length in the universe? We don't know.
Again, if you're white. Any time black people have organised and advocated for change and especially if they tried to "store enough small arms to organize an insurrection" they were murdered or locked up for life. Look up the MOVE bombing, black panthers, and basically any radical black nationalist group.

So it's not really just my opinion, man. It's demonstrable historical fact. It's just swept under the rug and shouted over with jingoism and other propaganda about how much freedom we enjoy.
i ras running a NAS-based object detection model on my big-new MacBook and it was taking about 30s/image on an unoptimised tensorflow build. I then tried a model/net model which took about 3-4s/image.
Its cool -- the only coins that will survive 2018 will be the ones with segwit, and thus, lightning network support.

Instant, near zero cost bitcoin lightning transactions on the bitcoin network makes all other coins look lame.

This is not science fiction, it is here today. $2 segwit tx to fund the channel, as many tx's for 1 satoshi after that until I exhaust the channel.
Are most if not all of GitLab's future CI and CD improvements going to be focused on using Kubernetes and/or containers exclusively?

We're not using that method of either hosting GitLab or deploying our software at my company for various historical reasons, and while GitLab has been good for us overall in its basic workflow, it's a bummer how much of the future roadmap and CD/Devops improvement seems not to apply to our setup.
All definitions were invented. What alternatives are you suggesting exist?

It is fascinating to dig into definitions and conventions that we know, and to realize that much of what we think of as universal fact is actually an arbitrary choice of history, canonized by time.

It happens often in math that people decide on arbitrary definitions. One fun example is Donald Knuth was fond of defining 0^0 = 1, while some other mathematicians prefer to define 0^0 = 0.
AliExpress link if someone wants it delivered in the US: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Smart-Expansion-ZSUN-Wifi-Ca...
YouTube Boosts the ISNI Identifier
huh it outlines even through other objects
So they display the lowest price they'd accept (could even be automated) and have the checkout try to change the price to higher values based on the customer.

If the customer notices a discrepancy, they give them the lower price. They win out in the long run since it depends on the customer to notice the discrepancy and point it out.

Any minor advantage at their scale wins out as a pretty big deal.
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Language isn't prescriptive, get over it.
> It’s pretty easy to argue that the CIA is the antithesis of American idealism - unelected bureaucrats doing jobs that the public has no power to hold them accountable for.

I think I got that one, Alex: "What is Congressional oversight?"

It's not that it's an antithesis of the ideal; it's just that things get real messy when the idealism meets reality. Elected officials are supposed to represent the public and carefully vet before appointment, and then hold the unelected bureaucrats accountable.

Alternative interpretation: the system is working exactly as designed, and "American Interests" trump any idealism.
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> I'm really trying to get better with my discussion here, so what in my post could have been considered arguing in "bad faith?" I'm not trying to trick anyone into something here, I'm being pretty explicit about my POV.

Just to be clear, I didn't think you were arguing in bad faith.

However, if I were a casino owner trying to answer criticism of slot machines, I'd go straight to the argument that "enjoyment is subjective" and "who is the critic to judge," whether I really believed it or not. That's because I'd be looking to deflect the true criticism, because I like making money from them and am unconcerned with the truth or good social policy. That would be bad faith.

Those arguments basically amount to "stop searching for the truth, no criticism allowed," so I think they're usually invalid at the current level of discussion, even though they have some truth at a different level.
Because the batteries sucked. They take too long to recharge, don't hold enough charge, are heavy, are bulky, and cost too much.

As ugly as a gas engine is it does offer quick refueling, long range, and low cost. It's just more practical, especially with turn of the century technology.
We are actively exploring about how to incorporate vpn/proxy technology in while still maintaining the seamless experience.
>This is the result of incredibly complex specs being implemented by teams of dozens or hundreds, including offshore work and highly distributed teams. The kind of evil plots suggested here would be passing through not just executives, but architects, product owners, scrum masters, lead engineers, and the delightfully unpredictable hands of the cheapest programmers money can buy.

Perhaps that is the evil plan working as intended
Linus doesn't get personal when he calls Intel engineers morons? Are they not persons?
Thanks for advice.
I know nothing about programming. What are resources I can start with?
It doesn't mean cryptography either, it just means hidden.
Google won't do it. They are incapable of anything that doesn't involve selling ads. I think that's a major point in the article. No other company capable of executing this seems to be interested in doing it! Only Bezos!
Usually because they do the correct thing and have one line for 6 machines, while every other line is for one particular cash register.
Yeah, I don't know what type of world they live in. I know a lot of teachers, most of which work for 30-50k their entire lives.

After an entire life of teaching/putting up with kids, I don't think it's unreasonable for them to be rewarded with an actual retirement. It's not like their pension allows for them to buy a new car, even.

It's strange seeing this sentiment from an industry that routinely makes over six figures, many while still in their 20's or 30's.

Teachers never come anywhere close to that in their entire career.
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I heard LEDE and Openwrt just re-merged the other day.
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> --Actually charged money as a business model instead of using advertising.

Have you considered charging for premium DDG features? IOW, what's the long-term viability of DDG?
And then they get sued for breaking the law?

What you described is called fraud.
Thanks for the response!

I'm using Firefox 57 on Linux, with the default theme, using the Arc-Dark gtk+ theme.

I was able to fix it by applying a Stylus theme which sets foreground dark and background light, which I think is what your CSS expects.

Best!
Sometimes, there are only scammy businesses left, after they have out-competed any alternatives through dirty tactics that their competitors refused to resort to.
Google’s solution: a new app called Files Go that highlights files for possible deletion—with a special feature to search out and delete all good-morning messages at once. The company used its giant image database and artificial-intelligence tools to train the app to weed out good-morning messages.
It would be really great to be able to login 1) save stuff and 2) discuss articles. It doesn't even need to be threaded or have voting at first.
Wealthy people buy the cow.
Why I am leaving Google for blockchain endeavors
The Eternal September strikes back.
Proxies can be useful, but I'm not comfortable with sending all my traffic over a centralized proxy operated by a single entity. Just like Cloudflare, the entity that runs the proxy gets a free pass to MITM everyone!

A decentralized solution that can be easily configured to send traffic over any third-party VPN service, HTTP proxy, or ssh tunnel would be much cleaner. Bonus points if the proxy seamlessly kicks in only when visiting a site with a low privacy score or when browsing on public Wi-Fi.
Adding the current year to your search query often works if you want to find very new results.
If there's no appropriation to pay for say, hosting or electricity, you have to shut it off.
> If the customer notices a discrepancy, they give them the lower price. They win out in the long run since it depends on the customer to notice the discrepancy and point it out.

That kind of fraud is what the corner bodega does, not what Amazon does.