skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two thoughts:

First, using pellets intended for heating rather than cooking is a health hazard.

Second, low-quality pellets that disintegrate, are improperly sized (aka too big, clog the auger, too small, cause burn temp inconsistencies) can damage the machine.

Odds are, it's standard boilerplate to cover them in case you use it improperly, and would only be invoked if that is obvious upon inspection.

Yeah, the wording sucks, because it seems like they would turn down repairs that aren't caused by the pellets in use. Maybe there's a better way to word it- IANAL.
It’s also flawed for business when applying price to the wrong "user role". Especially in saas business intelligence where some companies want to charge service per users. This seems nice on paper and might work for big Corp with too much money. But for smaller business paying 50 licences while in reality there is 2 publishers and 48 readers is really messed up.

Anyone even slightly computer literate known that it’s a simple as fk login system that won’t cost more for 2 than for 50 users. So how exactly I’m supposed to suggest your product to my boss? He will just laugh. You must provide free "reader only" accounts or at least propose a bundle offer for small business. Unless it’s not your target, but really why go with per/user plan in the first place then?

The only worst business model for BI is bandwidth based payement for anything that involve open-data. Because I would then fear that my dataviz make some buzz on Twitter an that I blow my budget.
Yes, but the difference between an investment and a bet involves the amount and type of risk. Investments generally don't disappear. Bets do.

Also the expected rewards are higher too. If a company bets $20k in an employee, the best they can hope for is that the employee does a good job. Not that that bet doubles in value.
They define what blockchain is in the first two sections of the paper. Their model of the blockchain applies to both Bitcoin and Ethereum, for example, and seems general enough to apply to most networks people today refer to as "blockchain".
I think Inbox is great, why do you say it's a failed attempt? I don't think it tried to replace Gmail, it's it's own thing.
Also Gmail's spam filtering is still unparalleled.

I actually pipe my Fastmail through Gmail just for the spam filtering. Sigh.

Kinda wish they released their spam filtering service as a stand-alone service.
Ah okay :D

I don't know, but when using AWS, SNS is the push based solution.
Sorry if it came across like that. Not trying to dismiss his claim, just trying to give a wider perspective. Similarly, in the same way you are right saying it's easier to find information on nearly everything nowadays, it might also be relevant to remember that we still have limited time and attention spans.
I don’t know about where you are, but here there are two cellular networks that give you a 480p Netflix account for the life of your contract.

I mean it’s not gonna cause you to cancel your netflix subscription but you might cut back on the simultaneous streams to save a few bucks.
I disagree, as we are not doing anything sneaky. He is well aware of it and it actually was his suggestion.

I often ask him for advice on how he things I should handle a situation, and after reasoning things out, he usually comes to the same or a similar conclusion as me.

He has impulse control issues, and while he needs to learn to control them, he also needs to be protected from any significant harm as a result. I'm okay if he gets burned because he touched the stove after I said it was hot. Some things he needs to learn the hard way.

I'm not okay with him getting 3rd degree burns because he was playing with a lighter and accidentally set his clothes on fire.
I'm wondering how Apple will handle this regarding third-party parts.
unlikely or likely that Zuckerburg is misleading? Could you please clarify?
I wouldn't be surprised if commercial dumping is a factor, but I don't find the idea of 10 large rivers transporting that amount of waste in a minute that hard to imagine?
> Can we just agree to throw wads of cash at Thunderbird

No, but go ahead and throw wads of your cash at Thunderbird.
Fred may as well be describing the turboencabulator[0]. I get that VCs should swing for the fences, but this seems like they are totally ignoring first principles when it comes to cryptocurrency/blockchain apps.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac7G7xOG2Ag
It's unalienable because a reasonable party would just refuse to pay for the privilege of linking to you and a reasonable content creator would realize that losing 50-80% of traffic coming from the people who you think ought to pay to promote you would be a bad bargain.

Its inalienable to short circuit the normal results of negotiations between big companies because they don't like the end result.
Almost all of it is single-use plastic containers for food.

Goodie bags and bottles. That's what killed Earth. Great ain't it?
Okay, you're right. I thought they were. But, someone clicking on a link to pornhub pretty well knows what to expect; someone clicking on a link to jwz.org probably isn't expecting someone's nuts on their screen. I'd figure there are at least a few folks here browsing from work environments that would frown on that, and at least a few other folks who find it petty and obnoxious, like me.
MZ was getting grilled this AM about if FB would implement those GDPR features to protect US citizens and MZ said it would be available to all users.

Which is funny to me that a congressman (it was a man, I didn’t catch his name) would push for that since they obviously aren’t interested in protecting citizens data with laws or regulations.
I hope they add all possible sandboxes and spying codes also. They could ask from facebook advice how to deal eith privacy issues
Apprenticeship has been a thing as long as professions have existed. A common way to justify training an apprentice is to indenture them - they agree to work for you for a set number of years at a given wage, in exchange for training. Then you get professional organizations who negotiate on behalf of trainees/apprentices to make sure that the training wages are fair and the conditions aren't too onerous. Membership in the professional organization is contingent on keeping your indentureship agreements. Programming is such a young profession that we don't have any of that, and I think we need to evolve it.
Minimum Cost Path Analysis
I had a Husqvarna lawn edger attachment that broke during the warranty period. After a back and forth with customer service, their only solution for me was to bring to an "Authorized repair center". I would have no problem with that if there wasn't a diagnostic fee, that would be waived if the repair was going to be covered under warranty, or I would have to pay if it was not. The potential fee was $50 on a $100 item. The thing is I could literally hold the broken part in my hand and say "this is what is broken, here is the part number, is it covered?". They could not answer that unless the repair center looked at it. It is a known issue with the flex shaft that many people have documented online. Husq doesn't care, in fact most of their twitter feed is filled with customer complaints.

Credit Card warranty couldn't help because it was within manufacturer's warranty.

I got the Attn. General involved who basically arbitrated the conversation, ultimately did not help one bit. I even cited the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act mentioned here by the FTC.

This has re-invigorated me to try going down the FTC complaint route. It's not about the $100 now, it's about Husq standing behind their products and fixing known issues, and not lying to consumers with BS warranties on the box.

Not helping my case: I bought another one because the attachment is basically the best on the market. I fully expect the same thing will happen again, armed myself with a better 3rd party warranty this time. I hope it at least makes it through 1 season.
Perfect example of how not to use plots. Y-axis simply says mean, mean of what? I can't tell if lower is better or worse.
> However, hiring a problem solver for their experience with nearly irrelevant tools is comical

How far down the rabbithole does this go?

I have never programmed iOS, but I'm completely positive I could program for iOS.

10 years of occasional programming, from python, to school projects, to database development, to android apps, to full stack react-native development.

I'm confident that I can build an iOS app.

Programming and understanding how computers handle inputs are tools. But programming is more mindset than anything. The only benefits of knowing the specific language or framework would be skipping the 1 month of learning syntax.

I'm a recreational programmer mostly, but at some point, you realize you can do full-stack and you realize that everything is possible with google and stack overflow.
Joy. Doesn't really entice me to leave the startup I work at.
Officially it can be any employee other than "an attorney-at-law or legal paraprofessional". I imagine most companies would send whoever has the best chance of explaining the issue away: some sort of expert or PR rep.
> - most popular packages are now compatible with Python 3

And if one isn't, then it's another incentive to update it or abandon it.
The article paints a picture of how hard Mark has it - just remember for all the suffering he is going through he has billions of dollars. It's tough being at the top :-)
Install Linux on it.
> Most of them took me a couple hours to a few days.

Since 2008, the automated tooling has vastly improved. I'd bet most of those "few days" issues would either not exist or take hours given today's advances in the automated code translation and new knowledge on stack-exchange.
Why does FreeBSD have virtually no desktop market share?
You can choose how you will end.
GDPR compliance limits the data they can collect, which makes their product (ad space) less valuable, which reduces order volume/price, which reduces stock price, which means they will avoid if possible.
Deleting Your Google History for Real – Dylan Curran
Precisely define "alive" and you'll have your answer.
It is definitely a concern. The company would have to prove that the third party component caused the problem.

With your example, this would be fairly clear as the screen wouldn't be covered. It can clearly become ambiguous in some cases, though.

Also, this isn't a new law. It is just them stating their intent to enforce the Magnussen Moss Warranty act (enacted in 1975) against companies that (often intentionally) mislead customers.
I think if you can show that the alterations did not cause the failure, yes, it follows that the warranty would still apply. I'm not sure whether the burden would fall on you or the company to prove their case, however.
That's not proof of anything...
Facebook is not the problem we need to fix, it's a symptom of an underlying problem.
I assume Waterluvian is using the term to refer to a mac laptop with Windows or Linux installed onto it.
Absolutely. My experience with Georgia was that everyone was lovely and friendly my entire life. I didn't love the politics but I could see that people were for the most part coming from a good place in their beliefs on the matter.

There will always be a part of my heart in Georgia.
How are people still obsessed about facebook. Where was all this rage for the equifax hack? It boggles my mind.
Raspberry Pi engineers designed a custom power supply chip for the RPi 3B+
Of note, Prototool has a binary-to-json command, so assuming your Protobuf files are in path/to/proto/files, and you had a newline-separated log file of Protobuf messages foo.bar.Baz, you could do:

cat /path/to/log.file | prototool binary-to-json path/to/proto/files foo.bar.Baz - | jq .search.term
You can customise your Fastmail spam filtering if needed, however after 15 years of Fastmail email, I still get virtual zero spam.
The first warranty I checked had clear violations.

> 4.1.1 Exclusions. Customer has no warranty rights with respect to defects or non-conformities caused by (i) use of the Products with hardware or software that Company has not specified as suitable; ... (v) installation or maintenance of Products by someone other than Company; ...

https://www.seagate.com/css/terms-us/hardware-sales-terms/
> do you have any advice on contracting?

If you're ok with employment gaps and the consequent lack of income, go for it. But if you have dependents and/or mortage and/or other constraints, I'd definitely put a whole lot of thought and financial planning into it first.

With that list of skills, I reckon you should be able to find some interest in London, yeah. Might have to lowball the daily rate to start with just to get going but people are definitely hiring those skills.
My cellular network cost 25$ a month, I don't see where they would fit the netflix contract cost in there.
He Ate the World’s Hottest Pepper, Then Landed in the Hospital
Undoubtedly... hence why I said "or ends up in a landfill if it can't be recycled."

I'm certain a lot of the stuff I put in a recycling bin doesn't get recycled. But I would be flabbergasted if it's being dumped in an ocean...
Yeah, my biggest fear is that they will take away the "compact" display settings in favor of something more design'y.

The first thing I do on any new phone is make the text size as small as possible so I don't have to scroll so damn much.
Says "Handle installation of protoc [...] behind the scenes in a platform-independent manner without any work on the part of the user", doesn't support Windows yet [0]. Granted, as pre-1.0 I should probably read the features as goals.

0 - https://github.com/uber/prototool/issues/9
Sure but every line? You increment a loop counter, i+=1; and you say that in a comment?

The best rule of thumb is, make the code so clear that it is itself a comment, and only if the code cannot relay the meaning, then add a comment.
See this is why I don't do stuff like decentralized Reddit. What I proposed was my first idea but this is much better.
not bad, but four(4) config files for a single code file?
Ah, that is kind of the opposite of a Hackintosh. A Hackinlinux, perhaps? :)
I recognize it's difficult since I literally said that. But programming is simplified mathematical modelling of a sort (for instance, via Curry-Howard), hence my "spherical cow".
Right. I understood that sustainably was intentional, but I kind of feel like if you don't already know the context it was subtle enough that you might not get that an Asimov robot was at least once involved in (very likely) a mass death event.

And I think there are at least some implications that Daneel was at least peripherally involved in much larger events than the person-by-person manipulation we see in the prequel books directly (ie. famines), but he saved himself by keeping himself more remote from them than literally pulling the switch.

Had the master robot in I, Robot actually suffered for its implementation of the zeroth law I think that would have been at least a little more in keeping with Asimov's vision, so I think it's a bit important to recognize that robots CAN do great harm with the zeroth law, there are just consequences.

(and we can probably ignore the fact that the three-Bs extended books resurrected Dors and iirc somewhat even Giskard)
"There is no cure for apathy. If they don’t want to work they won’t. They’ll blame whatever they can regardless of format."

That's a little harsh, and also doesn't even acknowledge that the teacher has any responsibility to engage their students and spark their interest in the subject.

Students might not do their homework and engage with the subject for all sorts of reasons apart from apathy. They might have depression, be too stressed out, or have a host of other emotional problems that affect their performance and engagement. They might have taken on too large of a course load, or might not be getting enough sleep because of work they're doing outside of school or be preoccupied in taking care of their family. In some schools, the students' own safety, or that of their family, might be their overwhelming preoccupation.

When I was young, I had a lot of trouble motivating myself in subjects I didn't find interesting, but excelled in those I did. You could call the cause of my performance in the former subjects "apathy", but the teacher also has a role to play here, and need not be just a helpless bystander.

On occasion I was lucky enough to have talented teachers who were able to interest me in subjects that I found completely uninteresting before I took their class. But way too often I had teachers who would read straight out of the textbook during class, who you could tell really did not enjoy teaching, or who just weren't particularly good at it.

In those cases, the students have to rely on whatever interest they have in the subject to keep them going. If they don't have that interest, then they have to find motivation some other way. This can be difficult for kids who are still maturing and finding their way in the world.

My own performance at university improved tremendously when I went back after working for many years, and I was able to harness a tremendous motivation that I just didn't have when I was younger. I was also able to eliminate distractions, focus completely on performing well at school, and over the years had finally learned how to learn (a skill usually not taught at school). As a result I greatly outperformed virtually all the rest of my much younger classmates.

Finding a sense of direction, becoming effectively self-motivating, seeing academic performance as more important than partying or other outside interests, knowing how to learn, understanding how tough it is as an adult in the "real world" and what a difference having skills and knowledge could make, having a genuine interest in the subject matter, valuing knowledge and learning for their own sake, and many other things that could help students perform academically are things that schools could help students with, but unfortunately usually they don't.
This is so true. I was watching a Congressional hearing with the head of the SEC and FCTC about Cryptocurrencies about 2 months ago and I clearly remember Elizabeth Warren asking a completely unrelated, derailing question. I remember thinking "What the hell is she doing?" and then "I bet that you're going to find some Youtube clip: 'Elizabeth Warren totally GRILLS head of SEC!'"
The midwives who worked with my wife are full nurses with an additional two years of med school. They are very quick to point out that their main job is to recognize the 10% of the time when there is going to be trouble and get a better trained doctor involved.

Note that you can find "midwives" with less skill than the 1900s midwife. There are a lot of quakes out there doing awful things and getting by with it because ~80% of the time you don't need any medical intervention.
Will Graphcool be around in a couple years? That's my first consideration in selecting tools like this to build a business on.
Netflix and Amazon's margins aren't that great. How are they able to afford these salaries?
If you separate everything, I dont expect lawyers to take your home upon something awful happening.

Ive heard the stories of LLCs going bankrupt, but I dont know of people losing their personal assets.
> You can go to school to learn how to be an architect, then go and get a job as an architect and be immediately productive. You can go to school to learn how to lay bricks, then go to a job site and immediately start building something.

Do you actually know anyone who's worked in these fields? Because that's not true. Wanna be an architect? Go to school + get 2 years of experience + take a professional certification THEN you can be employed as an architect. Wanna lay bricks? Get a job and you'll be taught there.
> several who have taught CS for decades tell me that most students simply can't "get" pointer arithmetic or recursion

Or maybe they're just bad teachers.
Having used graph.cool I can say there's a significant amount of lock-in. Authorization can be pretty specific to the implementation and often impacts your schema. Secondly the extensions that have a lot of the logic are implemented differently every time. AppSync uses Apache Velocity Template Language (VTL), seems like a huge lock-in there. Don't be fooled by the GraphQL sticker, there's a significant amount of lock-in if you go with any of the SaaS(BaaS) products.
Inviting suggestions on rationalizing curriculum/ syllabus/ subject contents
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I'd place a lot of money on a bet that this kills Inbox. Inbox on iOS still doesn't support iPhone X, 6 months later. This tells me that engineers aren't doing any new work on it. (It has had updates every couple weeks with "bug fixes").
Relevant link concerning attenuating Alzheimer's by a fat rich diet: https://www.mdedge.com/clinicalneurologynews/article/145220/...
HN linked your twitch link incorrectly, so here's the correct link: https://www.twitch.tv/washingtonpost
I understand why it's important to emphasize that programming skills can be learned and that we aren't just a bunch of god-given talents. But how far are we going to take this? Surely we can admit that for any given set of skills some people are going to take to it more readily than others, and we can't account for the difference simply in terms of amount of practice or hard work. The top mathematicians or violin players or whatever in the world probably do work harder than others in their field, but that's not the same as saying that the difference between them and others is simply the amount of work/practice.
Things are only as strong as the legal cases behind them.

Apple recently told me that my battery, despite being well within it's advertised number of charge cycles, needed to be replaced, and that it would cost some absurd amount of money.

This is obviously bait and switch, but am I really going to take them to court over $300? Just the lost time of filing any paperwork about it would end up costing me more money.

So yeah, this stuff is all great, but who cares if none of us actually have the time to take them to court.
There is a treadmill effect where someone builds a site without all of the terrible misfeatures of the old and starts gathering huge numbers of people. Then they need to pay for staff/servers/bandwidth/shareholders/etc... and have to start monetizing and pretty soon they have all of the stuff that people hated on the old site.
I'm not sure that you disagreed with anything I said.
I'm convinced this is a media-created tempest in a teapot. From what I've seen, regular people just don't care all that much. The media latches on to any issue with facebook because it brings in more eyeballs.
Maybe so, but please don't post unsubstantive comments here.
> Kubernetes: canaries and automatic rollbacks

Hot off the presses: https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2018/04/introducing-Kay.... Though you have to use Spinnaker.
Oh, great so someone just needs to save $18k per year plus an extra ten percent of their income. That will be easy to accomplish for a typical person making the median wage of approximately $30k per year.
I wonder if Keurig will have to change their brewer warranty:

"Only the use of Keurig® K-Cup® brand pods and accessories will guarantee the proper functioning and lifetime of your Keurig® brewer. Any damage to or malfunction of your brewer resulting from the use of non-Keurig® pods and accessories may not be covered by this warranty or may result in a service fee if the damage or malfunction is determined to be caused by such use."

http://support.keurig.com/article?id=kA036000000CJGOCA4
Ha. Good question, actually.

The simplest option would obviously be to just show a conventional candlestick when zoomed out. There might be an option to do something interesting with rendering the stick when min/max have the same higher-order factors... but it might also end up looking like a royal mess.