skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your alternative is competitor sites which usually don't even offer 2-day shipping or will charge you expedited shipping costs if they do. And even then they usually defer responsibility for delays to the carriers.

IMHO prime is worth it even if I have to spend a few minutes on chat to get it extended by 50%. What is truly frustrating is their "guarantee" that isn't a guarantee.

This lack of transparency and continual missing of their promises erodes my trust in them. Most of the time it's fine - whatever - I don't need those AA batteries on a Sunday....

But the fact that they guaranteed that they would be there, didn't tell me they'd be late, and didn't proactively offer anything to back up their guarantee is super shady. Either don't guarantee a date, or proactively offer recourse when you don't meet your own self-imposed guarantees.
>We still expect people to act morally, even in the absence of laws force them to do so.

Naive people do. However, part of the problem is what people believe is moral differs, it's not an absolute. Lots of people project their moralities onto society and the law and are just dumbfounded when they don't match. Is that a problem with society or the individual?
This, and the original link, base this concept on the idea that the task being monitored is subject to random chance. But the original link is talking about an act that requires skill and something that a person is trained for. So the analogy of the coin toss doesn't make sense to me, nor does the original link.

It's like saying that just because I was able to parallel park successfully this time in one maneuver without hitting the curb or either of the cars in front or behind me that I have some sort of increased chance of not being successful the next time. That seems kind of absurd, doesn't it?
Programmers have to remember a vast amount of domain knowledge.

It's even more elementary than that, I think. I've encountered lots of intelligent people who lack any sort of diagnostics skills - absolutely essential for being a programmer.

Things like.. the landline is broken. Well, then, get another phone, plug it in and see if it works. If it does, then it's the phone we need to look at, if it doesn't, we need to move further up the line.

It frequently boggles my mind how many people struggle with simple elimination, experimentation, and narrowing down to resolve problems, and I'm not sure such people could become developers without this ability.
Before we get to the fact that it's effectively poorly written pre-alpha garbage, let me make something abundantly clear:

There is no IoT use case for IOTA.

Let me repeat that.

There. Is. No. IoT. Use. Case. For. IOTA.

I'm not having a pop at the parent here, I just want to make it clear that there is no reason for IOTA to exist.

IOTA not only fails to solve a problem, it's failing at solving a problem that IoT doesn't have.

I'd be interested to see an actual application of IOTA for any IoT device that can only be, or is optimally solved by IOTA.

But there isn't one.

Because there's no freaking use case that can't be done more optimally using already production-level alternatives.
I run game servers. Our intra-day swing gives us about 10x traffic during primetime hours compared to off hours. Autoscaling sheds a lot of overhead.
Being poor and white is still an advantage over poor and Latino/Black. Look at conviction rates at criminal trials for example.

Now, it's not the kind of advantage that feels meaningful, but it really adds up over a lifetime.

Even +/- 1% sales can make or break a small business for example.
Because the other distances are less than 1m and measured in cm, like 20cm, 50cm, etc. See their paper.
The argument that people should be prevented from reading information that they may not understand bugs me..
S390 Architecture Gets Spectre Mitigation with “Expoline” and Other Patches
Just tried the v3.0 on Mac and still the video is stuttering. I believe the quality even got worse with the same settings compared to the previous version.

On the other hand, the UI has been improved a bit which is good.
What hashrate is this supercomputer giving?
want to calculate the profitability https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/bitcoin/mining_calculator
While IOTA is not anywhere near production ready, it is important to realize that the value of IOTA is based on the expected value of utility that the tangle provides. This form of valuation is not unique to IOTA; it applies to all cryptocurrencies (and assets like growth stocks, for that matter). For this reason, IOTA's current user experience is not of the utmost importance. The author seems to think otherwise.

It is clear to me that the author has an inclination to portray IOTA in a negative light, and that he does not understand how IOTA works. It will take time for the tangle to grow to the level that the IOTA foundation envisions, and it does not take a genius to realize that fact.

People in this thread are mocking those who call articles like this one FUD, but that's simply what it is. Nothing about this article supports the argument that IOTA will not be able to be used for IoT in the future.
Thanks! I see it. It was $69 earlier today.
Ask HN: PM life, salary  small startup
Hey there!

I am currently working @ big five company as a product owner (we don't have conventional PMs, but have TPM/EPM and Product developers who own a lot of what PMs do in other places. I am the latter.)

I interviewed at a few startups and found an interesting PM role at an early stage one (< 11 members currently). What is a good salary for PMs ? I am not a big equity guy and IMO it's pretty much paper money unless it goes big very soon and I am not counting on that.

Currently I make around 225K net (base + stocks) in my current job.

Also, PM's @ early startups - what is life like ? What is the learning potential ? Do you have like it ?
Are you including Canada in "offshore"? Europe?

That is implied, from the comment you replied to. You may need to rephrase.
This seems to be a common thing with aggregators in general. As someone who's seen their work posted to Reddit and other sites (or has posted it there themselves), the aggregator topics seem to get a lot more views and comments than the source article does.

I think in many cases, the system comes down to "upvote the topic and comment if I agree with the premise (or what seems to be it), or downvote the article and comment if I disagree with the premise (or what I think it seems to be)"
> In SF, the resistance to denser housing comes from the same people who are not paying enough tax for the land they are occupying.

You should be careful with "the same people" arguments. They're almost always fallacious.

> Ramp up the taxes and the incentive they have to fight the denser housing will dissolve.

Ramp up the taxes and the incentive they have to fight the taxes will increase proportionally. Why wouldn't they capture that just like they captured zoning?

The real problem behind zoning is jurisdictional. As long as it is done on a city-by-city level, cities only have to be held accountable to the residents, not the people that they displace across their arbitrary borders. A regional jurisdiction would force zoning decisions to take into account everyone in the region, containing all the suburban residents with terrible commutes that are made worse by NIMBY protections.
For me text is perhaps the most liberating means of communicating thought. Writing requires no investment or specials tools, and anyone can produce professional, groundbreaking work. And, of all the means of expressing thought, text is the only medium that truly frees the mind from the body. The quality of writing does not depend on what the author’s voice sounds like or what they look like or how fast they can think and react.

The internet promised to give everyone a voice and by moving away from text we would give up an important part of that ideal. There’s a place for audio and video sure, but I deeply hope there will also always be a place and an audience for writing
I really hope that someone from a phone manufacturer reads this: it's a textbook example of what you don't want your users to experience.

> I hate hate hate hate hate how much this phone cost and how vastly more inconvenient is compared to my last phone.

This, right here, says it all.
Totally agree. With UPS and FedEx I always got my packages. With the amazon delivery I seemed to miss them all the time. Until one day I got a call from this lady in my subdivision and said she had all my packages. Apparently she has he same house number as mine but a totally different street. She tried to reach amazon but they told her that since the packages aren’t hers there isn’t much they can do. So I called them. The dude at the call center said he’ll ship them again at no charge. After many mental wtf’s and facepalms I finally managed to get thru to him that his delivery person is going to the wrong house. He said “he’ll make a note”. The note seems to have worked for now.
Just anecdotal but all of my friends who majored in chemical engineering are somehow software engineers now..
The most fascinating part of all this for me is the way Musk thinks "past the sale". He, and others, are thinking about things like how the interplanetary internet would work while we are all still bound to earth. I want to do more of this type of thinking that focuses not on if but when.
I have been using DAUM POT player instead of VLC for a good few years.
Can someone who has used both, point me to areas where VLC is better ? (VLC's fast forward has never quite worked well for me)

I really like VLC as an organization and its open source nature. But, until now I have found it to be lacking in some areas as compared to POT player.
> What do you think this cannot do, compared to say, OpenVPN?

* Certificate management
* VLAN assignment
* LDAP, RADIUS
* Layer 2 bridging
* Multi-platform
* App deployment
* Host check
* NACLs
* DMZ
* HA
* Web UI
* TAP or TUN
* Stats, Reporting
* Scripted extensions
* API
how would it scale?
After going through a web dev bootcamp myself where we actually devoted a decent amount of time to algorithms and their time/space complexity -- this has been the thing I have used the least in my professional career.
I wonder if this is due to young people feeling like the status of previous generations (house, cars, kids, vacations, etc.) seem so much further out of reach than ever?
HEROIC.com Intends to Disrupt Cybersecurity with AI and the Blockchain
https://help.vimeo.com/hc/en-us/articles/224821167-Does-Vime...

It seems that it's up to the content owners as to how much they would want to enable.

https://help.vimeo.com/hc/en-us/articles/235694348-How-to-bu...

"When you buy a VOD, you will be able to stream its videos for as long as they remain on Vimeo. If the seller allows, you will also be able to download the videos to your computer and devices, DRM-free."
Sure. And similar, if in opposition, arguments could be made (and likely are), with regard to Soros. Some on the right probably view Soros as a socialist/capitalist that wants to control through party power or the manipulation of causes to his own end. The reality is likely much more similar to how you outlined the Koch motivations above.
It's one thing to do it for 6 months with a newborn that can't leave their crib (although even that's challenging). It's another to do it with one or two kids that have learned to walk.
Sure, but I don't think the differentiator in the bimodal distribution is technical ability.
We're all apes[1]. And chimps are indeed our closest relations[2]. The tiger and my housecat are both obligate carnivores, so that comparison seems accurate to me (though I don't want him bringing down deer, there's a problem of scale).

1:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hominidae

2: https://www.livescience.com/7929-human-evolution-closest-liv...
When you see someone mention Bosch, ask them what Bosch are actually using it for. Not in, but for.

What is the utility that IOTA provides, that Bosch are deploying at production, and where is this used?

You won't get a decent answer because as far as I can tell there isn't one.
I have an unsupported conjecture that critical thinking skills and financial literacy aren’t taught in (US) schools more or less intentionally. Financial literacy would harm the business models of institutions offering many types of loans, mortgages, lines of credit, etc. Truly educated consumers are harder to fleece.

Critical thinking dovetails with that, and would probably make it harder for ideological, religious, and political figures to “win hearts and minds.” In my experience parents want their kids to believe whatever they believe, politicians want vacuous morons, and ideologues only want to propagate their ideology. Giving people general tools to sort through the mess of competing ideas seems to appeal less than using the opportunity of education as a means of inculcation.

In short most people and groups want their own version of reality instilled as early as possible, and no others. A relative minority want critical thinking, financial literacy, and sound scientific principles instilled. It’s harder to take advantage of the prepared mind after all, and so much profit and power is gained through shallow blandishments and lies.
Is it not.
I was super nervous about buying the pixel 2 xl with no jack as I used to use earbuds that connect to the jack. I switched to some Bluetooth headphones and it has totally improved my quality of life not needing to manage that wire. I use headphones way more now that I ever did.
The name is taken https://impala.apache.org/ . Both are "distributed and scalable".
It kind of is, since this functionality should've shipped with the wallet, like it does with every other crypto.
Easy way to render nested HTML template in Go programming language
Most service companies are in competitive markets or niche markets which aren't going to be big enough.
Show HN: Convolutional Neural Net in Google Sheets
As a fan of Qt I've gotta disagree there. Qt looks native on X11 systems but looks really out of place on OSX.
The medium post above links to a Convolutional Neural Net that I built in Google Sheets. It was an interesting project, and thought ya'll might be interested to play around with it. Simply copy the spreadsheet into your own Google account and have at it!
In case you're confused, eterm was just proposing this as an option. At this time the Twitch app does support casting from the desktop, Android, and iOS [0]. This roundabout solution would only be needed if Amazon decided to remove that functionality.

[0] - https://help.twitch.tv/customer/portal/articles/1691460-chro...
I don't know about JavaFX, but I'm almost certain Swing uses its own UI components and doesn't use the native GTK ones, unless that has changed very recently.
Utterly insane use of Solidity – an Ethereum smart contract pyramid scheme
Just as spotify for music has almost everything, "spotify for journals" needs to have 80-90%+ coverage or it is an annoying waste of time.
Because at 100 Trillion, its unlikely that the Fed would be able to pay it back.
People have a problem discerning fake news in general. We just live in a society where so much noise is generated it's literally impossible for any individual human being to sort it out on a day to day basis. And that's only if you're consciously aware of the problem and flaws and weaknesses of human beings. If you're ignorant about either subject, or both, or don't accept that it applies to you somehow, forget it. You're relying on those flaws to guide your way and then it's just Garbage In, Garbage Out.
I think you've left out the side that is incessantly, one-sidedly hammering on the "fact" that government restrictions never serve any constructive purpose, and the solution is always to remove or relax them, but with that addition, I would agree with you.
Was the alternative, TV as an homogenizing force that entertained and dumbed people down to what big-money publishers wanted them to believe a better alternative?

I'm from a country where the TV and state are highly colluded and social media has come as a welcome alternative. Moreover, are these "polarization issues" the USA currently experiencing a product of social media, or its own cultural problems, surfaced by social media? You're not the only country on Facebook, remember that.
But maybe I can tell? If I installed the self signed cert, I know it is still secure.
In over a dozen years as a professional web developer, I've never once needed to use Big O notation outside of an interview. Sounds like this guy doesn't know how to interview, knows that he doesn't know, but still doesn't want to admit it. No wonder he can't find anyone.
I started down the electron path and will probably back out. So many get-started things in electron are just massive boiler-plate. Electron-vue is awful boiler plate with so much pre-made crap I don't understand how any of it fits together and some really simply stackoverflow questions have gone forever without being answered:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48337401/unable-to-test-...

Not to mention electron apps are massive (Slack is 90M+ for a fucking chat client. Audium/Pidgin anyone?)

Electron is a huge step backwards really. I don't see why people praise it so much.
This Is Why Google Maps Widget Is the Best Google Maps Plugin WordPress
The way a wooden structure behaves is very different from the way a steel (or steel reinforced concrete) one behaves, as the materials itself behave very differently.

Let's take as an example a "main" wood beam to support a normal floor (or roof).

It has been calculated to be sufficient with a cross section size of (say) 20x20 cm ( Width by Height, in some countries "square" wooden beams are normally used, in some other countries sizes with width half the size of height are commonly used), the dimensional calculation takes into account "exceptional" static loads, like snow (if a roof) or crowd (if a floor), and dynamic conditions (like earthquake) so they are over-dimensioned in normal use.

What happens in a fire is the same as if you were reducing the cross section by scraping some materials off the foot amd sides of the beam, let's say removing 5 mm at a time, so , after some time the cross section will be 19x19.5, and then 18x19, 17x18.5, 16x18, 15x17.5, 14x17 etc.

What gives a value of the resistance of a wooden (or however homogenous material) beam is its moment of inertia that is expressed in cm^4 and equates to WxH^3/12, so progressively you have:

20x20^3/12=13,333

19x19.5^3/12=11,740

...

If you graph it, you will see a progressive decline of resistance proportional to the reduction of the cross section.

Also you have to consider how carbonized wood (char) represents in itself a "defense" of the wood against fire, once the first layer of wood is carbonized by combustion, it becomes harder/slower to burn:

http://www.mace.manchester.ac.uk/project/research/structures...

Here a graph of charring rate is given:

http://www.mace.manchester.ac.uk/project/research/structures...

In practice, any wooden structure is fire resistant for 30-60 minutes, and the solution for increasing the fire resistance (if the wood cannot be protected by other means) is simply that of increasing the cross section.

"Modern" wood, like composite beams, plywood, etc., may behave differently given the presence of glues/resins, etc.

With steel the resistance is given by its tensile strength, that decreases very rapidly from around 300-400 C (easily reachable in a fire and roughly equivalent to the ignition temperature of wood):

https://www.steelconstruction.info/Fire_damage_assessment_of...
Said handset comes with earbuds included.
Keep in mind that property taxes are only soft linked to property value. If everyone's property doubles in value, and the city needs X revenue to run, it is still divided by the relative value of everyone's property. The only time increased property value causes taxes to go up is if there is a lot of other property that doesn't go up in value (or taxable value), which is what you have with Prop 13. Also, if one area becomes more affluent than another one (increasing its value), then they will pay more taxes.
Tangential: I follow cnn.com because they matter and I think we need to read widely these days. I just couldn't deal with the aggressive, auto-play video all over the place, so last week I wrote a userscript to monitor all of their pages for video and strip it. My cnn.com experience jut got a lot better.

https://openuserjs.org/scripts/braindongle/CNN_remove_video/...
The Falcon Heavy’s creator is trying to change more worlds than one
It's not about the content matter itself, it's about the activity: staring silently and passively at a screen for many hours every day, and the fundamental difference that Facebook makes people feel they are carrying on relationships, when actually the online relationship takes over the real-life relationship. You were watching your friends and relatives (their personal lives or otherwise) on TV.
"Dealing with the constant loss of people around you if you work in a retirement home or hospice is also hard; but those jobs aren't rewarded equally."

That is a completely different sense of the word "hard" from "programming is hard". Working in the retirement home requires enduring emotional pain and sacrifice. Programming (at least some kinds of programming) requires a high degree of skill, knowledge, and intelligence.

The distinction being there may be a larger number of people with the skills to work in a retirement home, than there are people with the skills to write particularly difficult programs.
>at market

Ah yes, the calling card of people that think systematic exploitation of workers in a global economy where only the top few are gaining wealth is fine because "free market rules" matter in a world full of regulatory capture and industries with too high of a barrier to entry to foster true competition.
Sure, but how much time does one need to invest to handle the constant loss at a retirement home.

I often get in trouble for saying things are easy or hard. For instance, building a website can be easy but costly. So what language would help here?
Said fee waivers are often for fairly specific requirements, and "I'd rather spend the money on something else" isn't among them.
I was not aware how freeing it was not to have cord connected to your phone till I got Beats X.
At one job I received 2 months, at another job it was just 2 weeks.

I read that it is common to get a month for every year you are employed with the company. I don't know if this actually works out for anyone. It never has me.
My own take on this point: for my neither trivial nor very advanced needs, K9 at least lacks:
- hierarchical display of email threads;
- search that actually works.

That being said, I'm rather happy with K9, and I'd certainly prefer to see energy spent in making it even better than in making a “Mobile Thunderbird” from scratch.
I'd be more worried about Musk being fined by Space Government.
Actually, VLC Updater is currently downloading the 64bit windows version for me. Download started 20 minutes ago.
I'm a medical doctor and frequently use sci-hub to review papers relevant to care of my patients. Prior to sci-hub, I would often have a clinical question, look it up, find a paywalled article, attempt to access it via the hospital's access, find it usually wasn't, give up, and then have spent 10 minutes of precious time doing this, feel like an idiot for wasting time, and just make a decision without the best information.

Now I get the DOI/pubmed #, go directly to scihub (or at least one of the scihub domains that isn't blocked by the hospital for being "unethical") and have the paper in 20 seconds.
Funny, my director at amazon laughed when I presented this idea in 2010, and guess who I see is working on this project via linked in?
Left-Hand Path Developer Hugh Hancock Suddenly Passes Away
Finders keepers!
It has a huge great rocket engine and fuel tanks attached. Does it still qualify as "production" with that minor modification?