skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You've got it ass about tit, Europeans can't create works based on US culture and sell it to them, but the US did just that to them 100 years ago but then forced crazy copyright on the rest of the world.

No-one can sell derivatives back to the US. The US can use elves, orcs, dwarves, vampires, werewolves, Repunzels, Thors, Lokis, fairy godmothers, Romeos, Juliets, etc. commercially all they want.

But we can't use Supermen, Wolverines, Mikey Mouses, etc. commercially.

I'm not saying it's a bad move from the US pov, but let's not claim it's done for the sake of artists, it's done for $$$ tax revenues and keeping US entertainment as a dominant export.

It's basically an extremely effective one way, heavily US favourable trade embargo that they've codified into international trade law.
No, we haven't really written anything up. I've always wanted to start writing about stuff like this, but never get the time (because I spend it all writing stupidly long comments on websites like this!)

But one example of how we use logging info to clean up our UX was just kind of "watching" what the users were doing by just following absurd amounts of logging (logs like "clicked x button" are short and cheap, as long as you can filter them out when needed, they are immensely valuable). Our application does a lot of barcode scanning, and we noticed just from browsing around individual paths in our log-shipping system that if some users had an error with the camera (lowend android cameras are a lot buggier than i would have imagined!), they would go into the settings, select the option to change the scanner to a wireless laser attachment, then change it back to the camera version before going back to what they were doing.

Overall the process took them a good 15-20 seconds, and when they should be scanning about 1 carton a second in the app, that added up in both time wasted and in user frustration. We added a "retry" button to the error screen, and instantly the long workaround stopped happening. Then we took it a step further and would attempt to re-grab the camera in the background before showing the error to the users, which cut down on the number of those dialogs significantly.

It was a matter of getting an alert that this "camera not readable" error was happening commonly enough to trigger an alert, and from there was about 10 minutes of browsing the "breadcrumbs" for a few users to see the pattern, maybe an hour of adding the "retry" button in the dialog box (and testing), and another hour to do the auto-retry a few days later.

3 hours of work when it's all said and done (of course, after the timesink of developing it all), and the product is better off. And that's something that i'm almost 100% confident that we would have never found out about without this kind of logging and reporting.

We use sentry.io [0] for a lot of this error logging, and we have found it incredible at being able to "walk in the user's shoes" for things like this.

[0] https://sentry.io
We're not far enough along in AI to address this yet and get anywhere. Philosophy will not help. Introspection and writing about "consciousness" goes back over 2000 years and hasn't produced all that much.

Humans don't really have that much "reflection", in the sense that we use the term in programming. We can't see our library of reflexes. We can't see what early vision is doing. We can't look at the rationale behind our own classifiers. We can't look at how our memory is indexed. Trying to understand the mind by introspection is thus inherently futile.
I'm not in favour of a dictatorship, but I neither think that our democracy is so much better in the current state, with border patrol with almost unlimited power for ex.
Eventually, as in SF, they will be in the majority and will take over, after which they can ostracize the people who resent them.
I'm not sure you have that right. I don't professionally engage with MOSS so I will not give advice, but I professionally do work with VAT and handle some millions in VAT a year, so I am pretty familiar with the dreaded VAT guide. All quotes are from the aforementioned resource

> the cost of having to pay VAT

Presumably you mean the higher price from charging VAT

> on all of my UK REVENUES

"your UK sales will not be liable, unless they’re above the UK VAT registration thresholds". So it makes no difference to your UK revenues at all, you either had to register for VAT because your total revenue was over the threshold, or you didn't.

> I'd rather not have to fill in VAT returns if I don't have to

Wouldn't we all love to avoid administering taxation.

> well I'm glad his crystal ball is operating well.

I think it is rather more than a crystal ball when you are the UK VAT lead for a big 4. This means you get consulted on it by the government, get to sit in on meetings with them, and work with the biggest companies in the UK who will also be lobbying the government. I think you rather trivialise their positions when you assume they know the same amount as me and you.

>(payable to our exchequer instead of the EU)

When did you ever pay VAT to the EU? I pay all of my VAT to HMRC despite trading extensively across Europe. It is possible as a consumer that you paid VAT that was passed on by the supplier to one of the member states tax authorities, but under what circumstances could it be paid to the EU?

> it can claim jurisdiction all it wants, enforcing it is another matter

Not at all, the UK government will enforce on its behalf, as we will expect them to enforce on our behalf.

> but unless something radically changes the EU's laws won't apply to me in the UK after the process is complete

The UK is in the process of bringing all EU law into UK law (where it isn't already) with the strangely titled Great Repeal Bill. So EU law will apply to you. Also the government have committed to an open border in Northern Ireland as mandated by the Good-Friday agreement. This will require a customs union, and a joint body of oversight (like the European court). The government has further committed that Northern Ireland will have the exact same terms as the rest of the UK under it's coalition deal with the DUP. Therefore the whole UK will be covered by that customs union. This is before we even discuss what EU oversight will be placed over a future trade deal with the EU. So whilst the government might bluster about what leaving the EU means, it is quite clear that it's options are

a) stay in the customs union and therefore under EU law

b) Leave the customs union and violate the Good-Friday Agreement, whilst also breaking the coalition agreement and therefore bringing down the government.

I wonder against that backdrop how you think you are going to be outside of EU law? You seem to have a downer on the EU, if you don't mind me saying?
Who should determine the will of this corporate-person? The shareholders? The board? The managing director? If I own a stake in an index fund, how do I propagate my will proportionately to the actions of these corporations? Corporate-persons is an area fraught with agent problems, and should therefore not be allowed.
The next update will bring a revolutionary new feature, an original invention by Apple, a courageous leap forward. It will bring STEREO playback to its homepods!
I think all positions (SDEs, Business Managers, Marketers) in Amazon's oldest retail businesses (books, consumer electronics, kitchen, home etc.). These are businesses where Amazon has significant market segment share (for example, according to some research out there, in books it is ~80%). So it is natural to think: how many people do you need to keep the lights on? Maybe 5 years ago these businesses needed 100s of people, but with with 80% market segment share, do these businesses need the same number of people? My thinking if I were Jeff would be: If I reduce head count in these businesses, how much more free cash flow would I generate (assuming there is not much room left for these businesses to grow)? In other words, in businesses where I have the highest market segment share, how many people do I need to continue to keep that share. And, if people can be moved elsewhere to higher growth areas, then why not? If I need to move them back to books and electronics at some point in the future, I will.

Disclaimer: I'm an Amazon employee, but the comments here are my own.
Mick Mulvaney, head of the CFPB: launch a probe into the Equifax data breach
Your edit is essentially the point of my original post. Yes, if we can get 100mbps for the vast majority of Americans, that would be awesome. But, if the vast majority of Americans would be fine right now with 10-15-20mbps, wouldn't it be better to analyze our national broadband capabilities based on that benchmark? From what I understand, 100mbps is overkill, so why use that as a benchmark?

I come at this with the thinking that, it's not "us" that's building out the infrastructure, but the telco companies. So, really what we are doing is analyzing the build-outs telcos are doing, and judging whether it is good enough or not. Is it really fair to say that, if there aren't 3+ telcos providing 100mbps, but there are 3+ providing 15mbps, that's not good enough?
Verizon to stop honoring FCC restriction, start SIM-locking phones
No, they are carbon composite.

The fairings are troublesome for several reasons. They have to be very large because they have to be larger than the payload, they have to be very strong because they have to protect the payload through the atmosphere at supersonic speeds, and they have to be very light because they ride on the upper stage, and their weight takes away from payload weight (not quite at a 1:1 ratio but not too far from it). So they are expensive because expensive fairings allow you to launch even more expensive payloads.

And in principle they are not terribly difficult to recover. The re-entry speeds are fairly low since they are only ever sub-orbital, and they are very light for their size so re-entry heating isn't a major challenge. But aerodynamically controlling them in a reliably manner to a precise location seems to be a problem.
What about the unhidden work, like "Describe your SaaS, i.e. what is kwoosh?".

Sry, that was snarky, but you really should describe your service, as I could not find out what it does.
Show HN: Read-Compile-Run-Loop – a tiny embeddable REPL analog for C++
Doesn't the supporting data etc. go into an Institutional Repository?:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_repository
Is the light refracting to make the atom appear bigger than it actually is?
Thank you, Aiden. I am very happy to see our longtime customers like yourself recommending us in HN. We know there is so much more to do to make things easier and better. I look at Shopify for inspiration to see how long it has taken for them to get their product right by polishing every aspect, feature-by-feature. :)

I am sharing this thread with the team. They will be thrilled to read the feedback. Cheers.
The number of bits in the length of the word should be a power of 2; thus the next logical 'full word' after 64 bits is 128 bits.

2 to the n...
0 = 1
1 = 2
2 = 4
3 = 8
4 = 16
5 = 32
6 = 64
7 = 128

For large files it probably doesn't make sense to worry about the size of metadata. For smaller files, particularly ones that haven't changed recently, it might make more sense to use some kind of compression scheme.

A decade later, we have a lot of decent compression schemes out of patent and, likely based on their now public methods, a revitalization of development towards schemes that are more optimal for different use cases. Some combination of pre-filtering stages and compression for large caches of small files (like a directory of source code objects or configurations that are infrequently read) might make sense today.
Fixed cheers!
A lesson of advertisement
Honestly, you are right, but it was nearly a decade ago now. We should have seen something.

We should have done a lot of things better, actually.

Maybe we really didn't have a microscope? The apparatus was built in ~1961 and had been used yearly for the next 50 years. Any semblance of a manual had long since disappeared. Perhaps a lens or two had been raided in the 1980's ans we couldn't figure that out in the soup of other problems. I've really no idea, a decade on, which of the problems we were having that was our 'show-stopper'.

All I know is that Advanced Physics Lab (2 units) continued the time honored tradition of the Physics major breaking you, and then kicking you while you were down and laughing at your idiocy, for 4 years straight.

Somehow, I miss those times...
> Why would anyone buy branded toothpaste when the chemically-identical supermarket version is half the price?

Doesn't really matter, they are both manufactured and sold by the same company, at the same facility. The difference is just to provide the illusion of choice (and the price difference is usually much smaller, just enough to trigger a response in a certain common kind of consumer.)
Think about it this way: every photon your eyes perceive came from a single atom.
What's your purpose for getting a side project going?
I have studied this last year. Yes there are some decoding bugs sometimes. I have seen them in After Effects in some special case that you can avoid, and in some Blackmagic hardware. No issue in in most softwares (Quicktime, FCP, Adobe softwares, DaVinci etc.). Note : we are not sure the bugs comes from ffmpeg. We fixed a bug last year in the alpha encoding of ProRes 4444, since then we didn't find anything wrong besides that you should use -q 1 (Quality 1, with 4 you can have a little blur in subtle background patterns).

TL;DR : everything is fine but don't use it for broadcast.
Ask anyone who's fled communism.
From the author:

"An update of contact forms unexpectedly disabled the recaptcha causing havoc. As a result, the site is suffering from a massive number of requests for books. Until I have managed to fix that, no copies can be downloaded. I apologize for the inconvenience."

Doesn't give any indication on when the problem might be fixed.
It does not sound like you are answering in good faith. A more considerate — and basically obvious — interpretation of "when [water] comes free from the tap" is that the writer meant potable water.

Sure, there are many regions where potable water is difficult to attain, and there _are_ reasons to bottle water, but your contributions are disingenuously oblique.
Do you mean branding must reflect ownership?

Banning the use of brands obviously won't achieve anything desirable, but requiring transparent branding seems like it will improve the consumer market's spending decisions.

Of course, pro-free-market legislation will never make it through Republican-controlled Congress...
We have them now! From your GP comment

> (available now as separate coins, coming soon-ish to ETH, and probably at some point to BTC)

See Zcash, Zclassic, Monero, etc. The tech behind Zcash is called ZKSnarks is available for use in ethereum smart contracts as well.
Thanks, fixed above.
INTEL BTFO HOW WILL THEY EVER RECOVER?
Amazon lays off hundreds of employees
North Korea is always looking for defectors if you want to live in a place that forbids the use of brands. No pesky bottled water, or other consumer goods either.
Seems to me like a person who has made mistakes and learned from them is exactly the type of person whose opinion matters here.
Sure, but there's a certain amount of sense in that the fix for "I want to see everything posted by the people I follow" is "go look at everything posted by the people you follow".
These companies see all of these goods as being part of the same category:
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/fastmoving-consumer-goo...
Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG)

> These are consumer goods products that sell quickly at relatively low cost – items such as milk, gum, fruit and vegetables, toilet paper, soda, beer and over-the-counter drugs like aspirin.
Some of the products do have reasons for existing, the brand versions might not be superior.

Bottled water: Because you don't always have a tap on hand and you don't always bring a water bottle from home. Some regions doesn't have water that can be consumed directly from the tap for sanitary reasons.

Hydrogenated vegetable oil: Because of lactose intolerance, and because liquid vegetable oil wouldn't be useful in the situation.
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That’s definitely not what made the iPhone unique. It was one benefit, but hardly the only one, or even the main one.

You hope that open technologies are the future, but it remains to be seen.

Regardless, a rapid shift to PWAs is not at all in Apple’s interest, and I highly doubt they’re going to do that.

They want all the best apps, developers, and customers to be concentrated on iOS. That’s how things are now (I’m sure many will disagree), and making it easier for users to exit the Apple ecosystem will only hurt them. Apple’s strategy is to invite users into a high-quality, comprehensive ecosystem, and then sell them more devices (and increasingly services) over time. The best way to do that is to provide a differentiated experience that can’t be replicated elsewhere.

Given that, why on earth would they shift to focus on PWAs over increasing their hold on the factors that differentiate them?
The video feed didn't stop working, or if it did, it was only for a brief moment.

If you watch this part of the YouTube stream, after it cuts back to the two hosts there is a monitor at the far right center of the video that shows the continuing camera feed of the drone ship landing pad. Only part of the monitor is visible, but after the smoke clears over the next few minutes you can see the empty pad:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbSwFU6tY1c&t=30m33s

You can also see the surprised reactions of the hosts during these few minutes, and how relieved they were when John Insprucker joined them to wrap things up. It would have been interesting to be a fly buzzing around their earpieces to hear what the producers were telling them!

People have speculated that with everything else in the mission being so spectacularly successful, they wanted the initial news reports to be about that success instead of the one core that failed to land.

Knowing how the news works - "Here's what's wrong with the world today!" - I can sympathize with that.
I weigh those ads very negatively. Looking at you, Grammarly. Seriously, why do they play the same ad over and over again, one after the other, to the same viewer? What with all that AI and machine learning and deep neural networks, they can't tell the same session has been served that same ad 50,000 times already?
Meh, that's not my experience with middle class folks. The only complaints I would hear about Walmart stuff is bad fits, etc.

I think you're referring to upper middle class people, which is a much smaller portion of the population.
This looks really interesting. Are there alternatives that are built on other frameworks?
Thanks for posting this. This message isn't anywhere on the webpage and I was confused as to why I wan't seeing a form to input my details in.
Then what is the competition for Magento ? I would like to launch a SaaS in the future and I really don't want to spend my life building a client database, stripe stuff and support platform...
I have a slightly different perspective (I worked on iOS 7 - 11). One of the things about Apple that's different to many of the other tech conglomerates is that engineering teams are given huge freedom to work the way they want (for better and for worse). Because engineering is so fragmented you should always take what one person says about the process with a pinch of salt.

So that means there are hundreds of source repos, patch review systems, and the like. When I was there I saw teams using Phabricator, GitLab, GitHub, plain e-mailed diffs, and more. In the same way EPMs and project process varies massively across teams, so what that employee experienced is by no means the norm. Certainly I didn't find this to be true at all:

> Nothing could be worked on if it wasn’t in Radar with a priority number attached and signed off by the teams’ EPM. No room for a side project or time away from your daily duties because there were always P1s to fix.

In fact, I worked on a major feature that was keynoted one year that came out purely because of my side project work. If anything it was a frustration to enter the "real world" where PMs had so much more power and influence than they did when I was at Apple (where PMs didn't really exist, and EPMs existed only to manage project timelines and drive features that HI / ID came up with).
A standard needs to have multiple open source implementations to be accepted. What you're asking is basically to reimplement sqlite, feature for feature, bug for bug, and keep up with it as soon as it changes. No wonder no one wanted to try that.
I agree. There are really only three things I can imagine caring about:

1) Receiving the exact items I ordered.
2) The time it takes to show up at my door.
3) The total price beyond what it would cost me in the store.

I know what I pay at the store, I know the value of my time, and I know the cost of driving my car. All I need from Instacart is the total cost for the service presented as simply as possible.
* Why would anyone want roasted grain coated in sugar as the first thing you eat each day?*

IKR? The tub of Ben and Jerry's Chunky Monkey is right there! And you don't have to pour the milk!
Groups. there are tons of groups, open, private, and secret, and it's easy and handy to build/organize a small community on there than through X or Y private forum website that people have to log in separately to. People frequently try to build groups up to a critical mass and then move them off FB for privacy and/or profit, but most people are in multiple groups and there's no discernible advantage in moving to a different platform for semi-casual socialization. That's why lots of other social networks for subgroups launch to great fanfare and are then deserted 6 months to a year later. They just don't have enough critical mass to overcome Facebook's network effect on a permanent basis so people keep going back to FB because that's where everyone else is for many practical purposes.
A step in the right direction would be to encourage sharing negative results. It's important to know what to avoid too.
I wonder. In my opinion more rules only means bigger hurdles for newcomers. The big companies might have a setback but will survive one way or another because they have the knowledge and money (lawyers, lobbyists) to adapt.

A good example is the VAT law of Europe. No problem for big companies, but small companies struggle to comply (its a returning subject on HN). Or the net neutrality law in the US: it will become harder for a startup to disrupt YouTube.
I'm referring to brands because you said this:

>You think using brands to signal status isn't normal?

We're not talking about social signaling in general. You are the one who mentioned brands and tried to imply everyone was doing it because you can see lots of brands. I pointed out why that was bogus and now you are changing the subject to social signaling in general, which is not the topic.