skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which is why Instacart is going to get crushed. Fee exists because instacart is not an integrated service. Supermarket margins are thin. They will only shrink more.

There's no reason why grocery store employees cannot fill orders - in fact grocery stores that do their own deliveries do exactly that. What those grocery stores lack is a platform to synchronize active inventory in a store and what is displayed which is exactly what Amazon brings to Whole Foods in addition to "intelligent" order routing:

There are three whole foods in Manhattan that are convenient to downtown - however, during the rush our one needs to be an idiot to send an order to the one on 7th Ave rather than the one in Tribeca, which is definitely not the case during the late afternoon.

What really amazes me is that both executives and people who work for companies like Instacart simply stomp their feet and say "But we are different! Why do you hate us?!" rather than address deficiency of the business model. Want to have a shot at competing with AmazonWF? Become a sub of Ahold, Kroger, Albertsons or SuperValu. Otherwise you die.

P.S. I dislike Amazon. I do, however, have to admit that buying WF was a brilliant move.
He ended up finishing his BSc and got a PhD at CS, works at Google now.
Demonstrating that the system can work as intended is the point of the test, and that includes recovery. The boosters in particular have different aero. Even though these won't be reused, they serve to demonstrate that future vehicles can be.
The time limit on copyright seems to be just an inefficient form of taxation.

If Disney keeps copyright of Snow White the government can tax Disney's extra profit to pay for cancer research. Isn't that more socially useful than giving everyone the right to watch Snow White on YouTube for free?
Malright. That was a dumb argument. Mine I mean.
This is one of the reasons why space travel will never be 'routine'.

A million and one things can go wrong, and any one of them can destroy the spacecraft. Compare that to commercial air travel - where a number of unlikely events have to happen, to down an airplane.

Some time ago, there was a HN discussion about traveling from continent to continent in minutes, using a sub-orbital hop. I don't know about anyone else, but I'll pass on being strapped to a skyscraper filled with LOX and RP-1.
I'm pretty sure, yeah.
Sure, but that system was in place for all the Falcon 9 relights as well. Presumably there's something different about the FH - minor architectural differences, flight profile, etc. - that caused this previously reliable system to run out.
I also had major issues trying to stream A.P. Bio on NBC's streaming website. I wanted to see the new show with Glenn Howerton.

The video was really laggy, skipped dialog due to lag jitters, and served up 15 minutes of ads for 22 minutes of content.

Ended up not watching the show because of NBC site not working right.
I've changed it to make full-screening a second explicit step. Thanks for the feedback. :)
> You can see how few people ICO impose fines on already, and that they have never imposed the maximum fine

Why would they have to impose the maximum to be effective?

The maximum sentence for arson in the UK is life imprisonment, something you are unlikely to see imposed. That doesn't mean that everybody is going to start torching their houses for the insurance.

> UK regulators really do take a light touch approach, aiming to get companies to change behaviour.

Maybe the German ones did too, but Facebook chose to ignore them?

Here is a recent DPA case against a non US company btw[0].

[0]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-42637820
On the "talent pool exhaustion" idea: it's common knowledge that almost no one goes to Amazon with the intent of staying there long-term. From what I gather, they're still grappling with people staying just long enough to get a healthy chunk of material benefits before moving on to work that they actually might _want_ to do (helped by having Amazon listed on their resume).
I think they cost on the order of magnitude of $1M each.

As I've heard it been put - "Imagine if there was a pallet of $1M in cash falling from the sky. And you knew where and when it would fall. And you'd expect the rate of 'cashfall' to increase to tens, even hundreds of times a year. Would you try to develop a system to catch it?"
There are a couple of documentaries on Netflix about "Competitive Endurance Tickling" and how there is something very off going on there...
What you wrote is pretty good. To wrap it up, you can offer an alternative, like "let's do LinkedIn instead" so they know it's not just them you say no to and that you are actually interested in connecting with them not just blowing them off.
The rocket plume plays havoc with the data uplink. It happens all the time.
Core booster reaches higher hypersonic velocities.
I encourage everyone in the Seattle area to constantly remind everyone of how much it rains. Hopefully it will slightly cut down on the number of Californians moving to the PNW.
Haiku Core is what our Mac app uses to render the stage. (Our app is built in Electron.) Here's the GitHub link if you're interested: https://github.com/HaikuTeam/core
>a few years ago TWC was going to offer 300mbps cable service, and then the Spectrum merger cancelled that expansion.

Are you sure they don't offer that? I live in Charlotte, and that's what I have.
Yes, I've also been curious about how the rainforest company can get away with treating its employees supposedly not as well as other top tech companies, and other than AWS, I don't know of any special tech they've got going on for them (maybe the stock options carrot is the materialistic but true answer).

Also, surprisingly, both Amazon and Apple aren't really known for prolific OSS contributions according to their size.
I have some sympathy for why people feel there's nothing in Fresno. For a major city, it isn't very urban. It sprawls tremendously. There isn't really an urban core with high rises anywhere. It lacks a lot of amenities that people expect when moving to a big city.

Music events at Woodward Park often attracted women in shorts or skirts and cowboy boots. Culturally, the city reads sort of like half a million farmers and ranchers decided to move to the suburbs.

It is a fairly unique city, with an international airport and multiple national forests nearby. But "check out the natural beauty of our great outdoors!" is typically a small town or rural marketing pitch, not the pitch of a major city.

Last I checked, it was the 5th largest city in California and I think the 34th largest in the US. So I think there are 20 US states that don't have a city of that size. The entire state of Wyoming, our least populous state, has about the same number of people as the city of Fresno, in the neighborhood of about a half million apiece.

Fresno is a very unusual city and I think most people can't really relate to it. I spent considerable time baffled by its terrible reputation and simultaneously trying to wrap my mind around the place. It isn't like most big cities.

It has a terrible reputation for air quality. I found that weird when I lived there because I could see the stars at night better than anyplace else I had lived. On the other hand, moving elsewhere has dramatically improved my health. So, in retrospect, I think there are serious environmental issues there, though I am not entirely sure what they are because I remain baffled by the idea that air quality there is extremely bad when the stars are so much more visible than I am used to.
> Musk said Monday that there wasn't enough ignition fluid to light the outer two engines of the booster "after several three engine relights."

I don't see a mention of whether the previous relights succeeded or not. I'm guessing they did succeed, but the center booster had to perform a higher number of relights than a Falcon 9 booster due to its higher speed.
Ask HN: A startup working on HR pre-screening or management?
Looking for something web based and affordable (ideally under $100) that can assist in screening applications for employment. Startups welcome! It doesn't have to be perfect, just cheap and effective.

Any of the following for example:

- Something that can administer tests such as Words per minute typing which can assist in pre-screening (key feature)
- Something that can assess candidates based on factors we determine
- Something that allows opt-in (NOT required) social media connections or similar
- Any additional management features (compare employees, maintain database, handle relationship, do follow-ups, employee reviews, exit interviews, etc.) would also be welcome.
- Open source or gratis would be awesome but that might be a bit too idealistic of me.

Thank you!
Titanium grid fins is a big reason they recovered the 2 side boosters. This launch and landing will be used to fine tune their simulation parameters.

The block 5 variant is designed for 10 launches in a row with 24hr turnaround. With service, over 100 launches is the goal.
you don't happen to have an invite for that?
I presume "247 bytes" is supposed to be "2^47 bytes".
He wasn't ready Lol
Are determinism and dualism considered to be one-in-the-same? I tend to think of dualism as being a sort of fundamental duality for example "nothing - something" or they way I prefer to word them, "something - not something". However, determinism tends force a cause-effect, or hierarchical, or directional meaning. For example, determinism in relation to my above nothing/something duality would be "from nothing came something" or something of that flavor. However, would could also say that there was no deterministic relationship and that both nothing and something mutually depend on each other to exist. i.e. there is not directional arrow of relationship.
(I'm not a professional philosopher)
Ask HN: How Evil Are YouTube? I.e. The Ministry of Truth
Are there any truth to the allegation frequently claimed by The Jimmy Dore Show that YouTube are intentionally unsubscribing people and hiding alternative channels away with their algorithm while pushing mainstream narratives forward?

Any substantial evidence out there that could verify such allegations?
Training.

That, and the best equipment to test out is equipment you know you won't need again in the future.

Case in point: It's much cheaper and less disruptive for them to lose this rocket and fix the issue than to lose a future rocket slated for reuse.
on the blockchain

Why? Everything else you wrote makes sense to me except for this.
If somebody says "X has money and an army of lawyers" the implication is they are going to beat the case, Microsoft didn't, they were slapped with the largest fine ever at the time ($794 million USD). They are fine despite the inability of lawyers and prep time to deliver victory, not because of it. No guarantees FB will fare better (or worse).
They're actually huge expensive carbon fiber things. Think "racing yacht hulls", and cost several millions of dollars each. A significant portion of the cost of the whole vehicle.

Plus they're slow to manufacture, so they can increase tempo if they can get them back intact.
Precisely. "We can afford to lose these ones on a test flight."
Legislating from the bench is not a bad thing, to the extent it doesn't contradict a fully valid statute. Indeed, most law in the US is judicially created, and always has been, dating back to the English common law system from which we inherited ours.

American courts continue to create common law today. This happens less at the federal level only because the scope of federal common law is narrower.

I too have concerns over the breadth of the EU right to be forgotten, but not over the concept that a court could combine premises with a process of reasoning to arrive at such a conclusion.

The Supreme Court's focus on ensuring that the cases before it are actually legitimate is primarily for three reasons: keeping their workload manageable, deferring controversial decisions they don't actually need to make, and complying with the Case or Controversy Clause in the federal Constitution.

Notably, the Case or Controversy Clause does not bind the state courts. Whether they are willing to issue advisory opinions or perform other duties is a matter of state law.
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sorry, vkontakte / vk.com
The center core has a different structural design than the side boosters, which are stock F9 stages AFAIK.
I think it's a safe assumption that search isn't broken, it's just presented whatever way optimizes revenue while still using your choice of sort column as a guideline to keep it from being too blatant a lie.
> They don't have to enforce it as strictly. Content owners don't specify the exact technical details

The deal can include whatever the content owners want it to include. And the content owners want it to include strict enforcement.

They can specify the specific technical details of enforcement, if they want. That's a legal contract, and one that they have a financial incentive to offer. Or they can specify an acceptable level of enforcement failures, or they can specify financial penalties for insufficient enforcement, or they can specify Netflix carries liability for infringement that it allows.

Or they could leave Netflix to do as they will, but threaten to pull their content or to sue Netflix for contributory negligence or whatever if Netflix doesn't comply. The fact of the matter is, the content owners have leverage and Netflix is not (yet?) in a position where they can blow off such concerns. Netflix is trying to get into that position, by creating its own content, but right now the majority of their content is dependent on other parties finding Netflix an acceptable content partner.
That make sense. In that case, wouldn't these boosters be useful in future Falcon Heavy launches? Why can't they be resued?
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Mozilla Will Re-File Suit Against FCC to Protect Net Neutrality
There are a lot of broken people out there.
Don't forget youtube-dl, the bridge between the streaming world and the download world of yore. Song you like on youtube? youtube-dl -x. It supports so many sites too - at least all the major video sites plus bandcamp and soundcloud.
Everytime I am reminded of these fizz buzz stories I can't help but bust out console and write a quick implementation of this to reassure myself I'm not utterly incompetent. I guess I have a bad case of impostor syndrome.
Somehow I ran across a wrestling team called "The Osirian Portal" searching for something totally unrelated. I'm not a wrestling fan, but that shit is hilarious. I think wrestling is way funnier when it isn't trying to be serious.
Maybe Bezos decided that on that front mediocre is good enough and decided to move on to other sectors where the competition is more astute than in retail...
Do you think devops and sre work are the same thing?

In my experience, devops interviews are mostly concerned with your ability to write scripts against APIs and operate puppet or similar tools.

SRE interviews usually assume you will be working with home grown configuration management, they test programming and a lot more Linux and Unix basics.

Just my observation from interviewing for both titles.
> I feel a little put off by people. I can't put my finger on it, its very nuanced.

New York: aggressive aggressive

Seattle or Vancouver: passive aggressive
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Wow! that's impressive!
And sometimes more important than either of those, the choice between directional radio and cable of any kind (fiber or copper).
In my experience, billing/invoicing/payments integration is the easy part of launching a SaaS. It's just code, and most of the work is already done for you in the form of libraries. Getting your product 'out there' and getting people to sign up, THAT is the hidden work if you ask me.
There were plenty of accidents in the the first couple decades and first couple thousand plane flights. Even in the 1970s, airliner crashes were a fairly regular occurrence - they've been made extremely safe by a robust culture of crew training and safety regulation, plus a hundred thousand flights PER DAY worth of practice.
My favourite:

https://isotropic.org/papers/chicken.pdf

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yL_-1d9OSdk
1970 here
During the news conference after the launch, Elon commented on being really happy to get the upgraded titanium grid fins back from the side boosters:

https://youtu.be/F7mw2_pfcz4?t=3554
I'm not a rocket scientist, but I think I can explain why this happened in a more general probabilistic sense. This error may have been "obvious", but successfully landing a supersonic rocket onto a floating platform probably requires hundreds or thousands of "obvious" things to go exactly right, and if any one of them doesn't, then it explodes. Even assigning a very small probability to each obvious failure mode, compounded together it gives a non-trivial chance that the landing will fail, especially in the maiden launch when there are still lots of "unknown unknowns". If it hadn't been the igniter fluid, it could just as easily have some other "obvious" thing.

Anyway, that's why they do these tests: to make the "unknown unknowns" known.
In addition to the several million dollar cost of the fairings they represent a production bottleneck - they're carbon composites which take a long time to make and require very expensive tooling. No matter how many reflyable first (and maybe in future, second) stages spacex has in stock, if they can't produce fairings fast enough they cannot go to space.
Not any type of student- you have to be enrolled or accepted for the fall term into an accredited university.

Students learning other ways are not allowed to participate.
> Why not just use Notes.app?

Because not everyone uses macOS.

This shell script works on most Unix-like systems unlike Notes.app
Vint Cerf started in 1965. He's moved into positions that are more management oriented, but I believe he's deeply involved in technology decisions.
> IDK how FB will ever be compliant with GDPR and survive that huge upcoming fines in the long term or in the worst case the withdrawal from these markets.

By limiting their use of personal data, according to the law? And by requesting informed consent from users, instead of silently opting them into all their anti-privacy features? And by not hiding this two thirds of the way through a 100 page TOS?

It's not like it's impossible to make a good faith attempt at all those things. Facebook isn't even trying.

When they make a good faith attempt, and get sued out of existance, you may have a point. They haven't, though.
> Just because you don't care about making your stuff lightweight and well designed, it doesn't mean nobody cares.

Just because you care, doesn't mean the majority cares.

> And in this whole discussion, you didn't even bring one argument for it

Yes, because I thought we weren't discussing about CSD vs. SSD, but if using Gtk+ to get window decorations in a CSD-only world is viable.

> CSD only makes things complicated

No, it makes things easier for the compositor / window manager.

But we're drifting off into the general CSD vs. SSD argument, which has been discussed countless times before.
Same. I have the budget for it, just there is no legit service that will give me the movies I want to watch. I have zero interest in the latest fast & furry or marvel movie. I'm rather: pull the filmography of Robert Duvall and let's watch the movies I haven't seen already. Easy to do on bittorrent, impossible on any streaming service. The only alternative is buying DVDs and Blurays on amazon which I also do, but that requires some patience/planning ahead which I'm not good at, and then I have to rip them on another machine, it's just not convenient.
You'd need more "settings" too because some people want only foreign language subtitles turned on (language impaired) and others want subtitles for everything (hearing impaired). And what if you're multi-lingual but hearing impaired? You might want all subtitles for languages you speak in the original language.
I don't mind that so much. My issue with skills is that there is a very limited number of incantations that I can keep in my head to summon the correct behavior from Alexa.
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Sadly we see tech as a threat more often than a promethean fire for the mankind.

Well I guess fire is a kind of chaos itself.
Kevin Lynch responds to dispute with Apple [video] (2010)
Recently a side project of mine required custom svg animations based on user actions. I built a nodejs api abstraction so that a client could send a json request which described which svg asset and what type of size/animation/timing/sequence (the api allowed the client to compose animations in a sequence) then the response would be the resulting json lottie asset which would render on the React Native client flawlessly. I also incorporated client-side animations with another css-type animation library so that standard svg's could easily have default animations with little-to-no additional coding. This works on iOS, Android and web with one api and pure json.

However, the process of building the svg animation asset library still required I use Adobe After Affects to design/animate then use the Bodymovin After Affect plugin to export to the lottie-friendly json format. With Haiku I might be able to replace After Effects with Bodymovin and have a cleaner, version-controlled process!

Awesome product idea, I hope to give it a try soon!
The 'Gravitas' thing is a running gag across the series. I'm glad they picked up on it.
Trying to see the inside of AWS’ data centers using AWS Device Farm
The Germans are treating VW just like the US was treating the bankers responsible for the 2007 subprime mortgage crisis: with a pat on the back.
Considering most microprocessors are manufactured in Taiwan and Korea and a lot of hard drives come from Singapore and Thailand, the EU doesn't even have anything to worry about on that front.
> Interesting business decision. Was the cost of compliance that high, or was your revenue that trivial?

the cost of having to pay VAT on all of my UK REVENUES (digital services, remember!) would vastly dominate the PROFIT (not revenue) made from my EU sales

compliance wise, I'd rather not have to fill in VAT returns if it is optional (this is a side business, not my main employment)

> Well I was having a conversation with one of the UK's foremost VAT specialists on Friday, from one of the UK big 4 accountancy firms. He was very clear that the general opinion is that the UK will align with the EU for VAT.

well I'm glad his crystal ball is operating well... saying that I'm sure we will have a similar VAT after leaving (payable to our exchequer instead of the EU), but unless something radically changes the EU's laws won't be directly enforceable in the UK post brexit, and it's unlikely the UK will go out of its way to collect EU specific taxes for the EU's benefit

regardless, all of my "is EU VAT optional outside the EU?" discussion in this post and above is only an interesting thought experiment, it's not worth the possible consequences in practice (especially if your main worry is the lack of UK VAT free allowance like me... maybe if you're a large US based SaaS provider it's different)
Aside from the actual costs involved in (lengthy) labour and materials, manufacturing fairings also takes up vast amounts of factory real estate.

The numbers are small compared to the rest of the game, but it's one of those things that would make life so much easier if they could just catch the damned thing.