skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's an interesting observation, because I've perceived the opposite trend. I eat very differently from a typical American (for one, never been big on rich, greasy food), so, 20 years ago, very few fast food chains offered anything I'd have eaten. Since then many of them have started offering fresher foods that are moving in the direction of how I like to eat. But they're just not moving as fast as my eating habits are changing.

I'm not even certain if they should try to keep up. Sure, they can offer me hummus and crudites for a light lunch when I'm on the road. But grocery stores already have that covered, and at a price point that's probably much lower than McDonald's could manage. And they can offer me beans, rice and fixins, but Qdoba will already sell me two meals' worth of that for less than twice the cost of a single meal at McDonald's, so again, there just isn't a lot of gold for them in them thar hills.
C/C++ macros are particularly horrible as they are essentially text replacement on the source code. Other languages (such as Rust) have macro systems which work with ASTs and can used in isolation without interfering with other stuff.

For example there's a library in Rust which provides a `json` macro with syntax like so:

json!({
"foo": "bar",
"qux": baz
});

where `baz` can be a Rust string or integer. Note: this will typecheck, so if you provide something weird as `baz` then it won't compile, but otherwise the syntax is identical to standard JSON syantax.
I couldn’t agree more. I almost want to call it the iceberg metric. If 90% of your complexity is hidden underwater it’s still there, you just don’t notice it until your boat crashes into it.
Is this a sign of an asset bubble, a consequence of globalization, increased trading sophistication, or something else?
Not sure if you're agreeing with me or not. Yes, I think KeePass is the best way and I use it myself with SyncThing to sync between machines. That's still trusting a third party to some degree: you're trusting that the code doesn't have many bugs that someone could exploit to bypass the master password. But it minimises the risk.

The part about Troy was in response to the OP's claim about public shaming.
Really? That never even occurred, since I've never seen that option on a menu.
The 13th salary exists in other countries too (example: Switzerland). It's a dumb thing to complain about because you have to be able to pay an employee's yearly salary in a year. It's not a surprise. It comes every December.

FGTS also has its equivalents in several forms of unemployment insurance. It's a bad thing only in how the insurance is mismanaged by the government, not because it exists at all. I guess countries that do not have unemployment insurance are rare and extremely poor?
I've only heard of him through his twisted ideas on trans people, but I suspected that only scratched the surface.
Talking about "colo'd execution" makes me think you are thinking of a particular strategy which the costs make sense for but not the rest of the majority.
Not password checks, but rather "does my email appear on haveibeenpwnd.com".
Space comes with a price too. If you ignore all costs, a traditional checkout that is read when you walk up is probably faster most of the time vs an available self-checkout.
Has there been any allegation against Rice University professor? So you are willing to undermine every professor out there due to one encounter of yours, but you are willing to trust the government all too quickly. On top, you dole out 'fake news' moniker generously too. Pretty rational.

Also, the plagiarism example: Guy had already obtained his Ph.D from a UK university, and the said Ph.D. was not obtained on basis of that plagiarised paper. Pretty big allegations you have been levelling on basis of something that you are not even comprehending correctly.
Ask HN: Are Reddit comments being manipulated?
I have recently noticed a pattern on some specific subreddits, in particular r/Canada and r/Toronto, that suggest its comment upvote and downvote features are possibly being manipulated.

It has happened to me more than one occasion now that my comment to a topic would initially receive some upvotes at the beginning, then it continues to receive steady upvotes over a timespan of 5 to 6 hours which suggest these were all coming from real users. Then all of a sudden my comment would receive a series of downvotes come flooding in, all occurred within a timespan of just minutes, effectively rendering its voting count to negative. These comments were almost always related to topics about current government policies.

The first couple of times this happened, I didn't pay much attention and just assumed people were ignorant to what I said. Then one day I happened to click on one of the users who replied mocking my comment. I found out this user only posted all their replies exclusively in r/Canada and nowhere else. The history and content of this person's comments clearly suggests he/she is a government employee. Everything suddenly makes sense to me that there's a real possibility that the upvote/downvote mechanism on these particular subreddits are being manipulated.

One thing to point out is that I've never experienced this anywhere outside of r/Canada and r/Toronto, and it occurred almost exclusively in comments related to government. The pattern doesn't quite make sense to me, how could a comment receive steady upvotes within a timespan of a few hours and then suddenly got flooded with downvotes within minutes? It's almost as if the comment got flagged, then someone reviewed and decided that the comment needs to be struck down, and activated the downvote bots to do its job.

What do you think HN? I'm posting this here to avoid any influences by the invisible forces behind reddit.
I've not seen this in many places, actually. I also don't think it would really work for me, as I would never be able to guess whether a half-portion wouldn't be less than I wanted to eat.

It would be so much easier if it was just what I'm used to here: if you just order food, you'll get enough for a 'normal' eater. You can always go bigger or smaller, depending on if you are a 'big eater' or not. The default in the US seems to be that the size of the standard order needs to satisfy a giant construction worker who hasn't eaten for two days.

I remember ordering blueberry pancakes for breakfast once, and got a pile a that was almost a foot high. Even though the pancakes were actually pretty good, I think I finished less then 1/4th of them. That just makes no sense.
by including an older, less-physically-capable team member, it was no longer an option to do fun, youth-oriented team events

No disabled people nor pregnant women either then? This company is practically begging to be sued into oblivion.
Thanks. :) That was the last thing I wrote before falling asleep... TLDR is that many (not just FaunaDB) cloud databases have a security and connection model that's suitable for connecting from the browser. I know Firebase has been doing it forever, and you can also do it with DynamoDB if you don't mind complexity.

It takes a little bit of thinking to set up the security rules so that users can only see what they are allowed, but it's worth it for the performance and runtime simplicity. And of course you can always invoke a Lambda for code paths that need to run with privileged access.
Being Intentional with Personal Development (1 Min Video)
So you saved $4.40 to go to Walmart.

* There's a non-zero chunk of the population not near a Walmart or similar.

* It costs time to go there

* It costs vehicle depreciation

So if you were going to Walmart anyway, or walked there with nothing better to do you saved the money.

But if you didn't then let's say the average wage is $25/hour or so and you spent 30 minutes there and back, and fully loaded vehicle depreciation is 50 cents/mile and it's 5 miles away then you spent $17.50 to go there.

I totally realize we could argue all this back and forth but just pointing out that most of the time the "savings" aren't real if you value your time and transport. And yes, I realize most people don't value their time and treat their transport as a sunk cost even if it isn't entirely.

edit: I was assuming going to walmart in person as opposed to online, because that's what most people appear to do but I'm happy to be wrong :-)
Hi Brad, the site is down right now but this looks really interesting.

From the video, it seems like you are also using some visual recognition to match the correct answers on the scan.
How are you doing this?

Are you calibrating the position of the sheets with some markers or are you expecting specific coordinates?
Is there some AI involved? How accurate is your technique with real-life students filling in the boxes?

Is there some way to correct individual answers (and is there some feedback mechanism involved to do better next time)?

Anyway, congrats on shipping, looks super interesting!
As with splitting a plate between two people, it's not something you'd typically see on a menu, but they're usually happy to do it.
And pwSafe (based on some of Bruce Schneier's work), FWIW.
Ikea LEDs are pretty darn good for the price. Also note there is a lot of debate and quandary about the CRI as it applies to fluorescent let alone LED. Basically the CRI as it stands is like your kid coming home with a single grade for their report card, they got a B+. Little do you know they got A's in everything but got an F in earth science. The full spectral power distribution is almost too much information, but you can at least visually see how the sun and near black body radiators like incandescent are similar, whereas not at all the case with fluorescent and LED. LED has the potential to have really good color rendering like those used in the graphic arts, but those bulbs are still expensive and you're not gonna find them in Amazon or Ikea.

But just from a casual, pretty good for the kitchen without making clothes or food sometime look weird? At least the higher lumen MR16 style floods from Ikea are pretty OK. And I also am not worried about them being fakes.
So can anyone offer an explanation why that's the case? As a German Amazon customer since 2003 I've took it always for granted that every european country has its local Amazon.
My view as a (6 ft 0 inch tall, 170 pound [182 cm, 77 kg], slightly athletic, frugal) American:

If I order an entree at a restaurant, I want that meal to be my biggest meal of the day, with rare exception. A meal at a restaurant is a special occasion, and should be a source of hospitality. The prime way for the restaurant to provide this hospitality is to accomodate my hunger! If I am still hungry at all after ordering and finishing an entree, then I am not satisfied.

I'm totally fine with eating a bunch of cheap filler sides (fries, rice, etc) to make me full. Often times, I feel like more expensive restaurants do a worse job at actually filling you up with the entree, because they want to tack on appetizers, small plates, etc. I leave these sorts of restaurants angry sometimes. Just give me food, dang it!

To reply to your thoughts, I always had read that restaurants and food in general were cheaper in the U.S. Curious that you found the opposite to be true.
That doesn't make much sense as an argument. Adding DNSSEC verification to a library is probably harder.
The incentives to develop Tor exploits, target Tor users, and the attack surface of the browser could seem to make using it at all an exercise of poor judgement.

You basically add some anonymity but change your threat model to include an extremely high likelihood of injection attacks, and practically provoke every state level agency to monitor you, where they might have previously ignored you.

This was the pgp problem in the 90s where you would essentially be sending a tracer round across the network saying, "hey everyone, these two people are using encryption!"

Tor is a great effort and it gets people involved in privacy, but onion routing to exit nodes on the internet has diminishing efficacy, and I think everyone needs a clearer articulation of what and whose problem it solves.
> What can be changed is how the next meltdown/booming economy will affect our own personal finances. It's a life skill, one that should be given more attention in school.

It's sad that this is the first mention of this in the thread.

Ever since graduating high school and finding myself in college for a useless degree, during the Great Recession and trying to come away from it intact; I've been a big proponent of financial literacy K-12, living within your means, having a "plan" and not being afraid to wait for it (read: college isn't for everyone, and alternatives exist; also taking a year or two before you start is sometimes a great idea), and knowing what a budget is and how to use it.

Overspending and under-making will always lead to catastrophes when the well runs dry.

Trusting the parents to do this on their own time can't seriously be more important that some of the superfluous credits taken before graduating high school.
The food is the smaller part of the cost - think about the brick-and-mortar, the employees waiting for us to come in and order, the insurance etc. A little flour and canned blueberries is peanuts. So by offering 'too much food' there's a perceived value by some
If you don't scale up at 80% usage you either have extremely non-volatile workloads (in which case, yes, of course, use EC2s), or you're doing it wrong.
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As someone who had such a chemical imbalance that was corrected by medication, I can assure you it's definitely not nonsense (although I thought the same as you until I went through it myself).
The dictionary definition of "restaurant" would seem to clearly include McDonalds.
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All the time around here - half a sandwich and soup for instance at lunchtime
Ask HN: Recommended Kanban books
I’m interested i learning about Kanban. I know agile and Scrum. Which books about Kanban do you recommend?
>> Self-checkout is all about cutting labor hours, period.

That is exactly the case. If you pay 10$ an hour for 3 shifts 8 hours each, this makes 3x8x10 = $240 a day. That is $7200 in 30 days per one checkout spot.
To setup equipment for self-checkout and maintain it order of magnitude cheaper compared to self checkout.
Another factor is eliminating managerial overhead while dealing with human beings, as one store manager told me referring to self-checkouts:
"They are never sick, they do not have an attitude, they do not quit and they can't be rude to customers".
I could definitely see a "shrinking middle class" argument here— poor people are cooking at home and rich people are eating out at nice restaurants— fast food is set up to serve a demographic that's just not as prominent as it was 10-20 years ago.
For certain, the US couldn’t just skip the wars and pocket exactly $1.5T, but we definitely could’ve avoided spending most of that, or spent it in more economically useful ways, even if subsidies to Boeing to compete with airbus is one of them.
Real-Time Sensor Processing
Crimes have different sorts of consequences. A drug felony will usually haunt folks for life.

A doctor or pharmacist will likely lose their license - even if they don't, most places won't employ them. Slews of places won't employ them after that drug charge. Some places withhold benefits and some will turn them down for housing. Yes, some of this happens with other crimes as well, but there are special restrictions for folks convicted of drug crimes in many places.

Most folks caught for piracy wind up with a lawsuit instead of a felony from the government. I couldn't find numbers with a quick google search of how many folks actually got a criminal charge instead of a lawsuit, honestly - most of the articles talk about getting sued and being "guilty" in that respect.

Getting sued has completely different consequences. You might not pass a background check (so you might not have your research position), but it might not affect you much. You do not have to check the "have you ever been convicted of a felony" box that is popular in many states. And so on.
Let me guess, you don't even own a TV.
You can order online from walmart right? I assume that's what he meant
How do you actually prevent this? It seems impossible to prevent that information from leaking via timing attack.
> they've also raised many prices, to the point where they're far from the cheapest price in many cases

I've been loyal to Amazon, but am certainly willing to buy items elsewhere if the top to bottom price + experience is better.

For example, camera equipment and many electronics, I've been finding prices better at B&H photo -- and you don't have to pay sales tax if shipping outside NY. Also, their customer service is at least as good as Amazon's.

Sure, it's less convenient to purchase across more ecomm sites, but I'm fine with it if Amazon's value prop begins to diminish.
I hope that comes with Facebook integration.
Oh they can be rude to customers all right! And their attitude - push this button! Scan again! Put that item back on the scale! Alert! Alert! I despise them with every fibre of my being.
I've never really understood the search results in amazon or how anyone could even browse it without knowing the exact item they are looking for. Often the results it returns only has a tenuious link to what I searched for and it just feels like a list of what they have most of in stock that they want to flog off quickly.
How would you solve the counterfeit goods and preventing people from gaming the review system problems?

It seems like a hard problem - eBay suffered from this too for their goods,Yelp with reviews. I doubt it's just a "I don't care" kind of thing.
Now that I think about it, price manipulation is probably illegal in most countries.
The very passwords:

"k-anonymity" model which works like this: when searching HIBP for a password, the client SHA-1 hashes it then ... sends this to the API.

https://www.troyhunt.com/were-baking-have-i-been-pwned-into-...
Walmart actually has a pretty good online shopping experience. They even give free 2 day shipping on orders of 35 or more IIRC.
This shows the derangement of the people in charge.

Why is this? Why this derangement on the subject of cannabis? I've read a fair amount, and every time I've brought it up, I get downvoted to hell. So, I'll ask:

Anyone have a hypothesis on why a large number of our leaders, who happen to be older white men, are insanely against this plant?
That's just stunningly bad (both the 90 days reset, and the silent (!) truncation to 14 characters...)
Completely worthless is in the context of my degree in actuarial science. As someone else said, it’s an exam prep major. I learned more problem solving and critical thinking skills in mathematics, and I’ve found that much more helpful in my career.
Ebay purchases should also have sales tax, it's just that the onus is on you to report it on your taxes rather than being taken automatically. I don't think it's very fair to add that as a negative to Amazon purchases. Other than that, I agree, many things have 10%-15% markup.
I've been checked out for a bit. Did they finally come up with concrete evidence? Are you saying they actually altered vote tallies?
This is the usual perspective I heear from fellow Americans, but I can't agree with it. What ever happened to a satisfying experience that didn't involve stuffing oneself?
The stakes for the decision are high, even if they are not high for any jury member personally. This is true for any jury.
Honestly between peyote (mescaline), LSD, and marijuana you've got half of schedule one being ridiculous punishments against drugs that can be used relatively safely. Half of the schedule 1 drugs hardly even need regulation.
The point where negative emotions become homeostatic dysfunction is the point where they've become a legitimate health issue. Yeah, sometimes life hurts, but if you're getting hypertension because of work stress, fuck your job.
I don't think so. A lot of people I talk with just don't want immigrants/refugees in the country. This is the most important issue for them.
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I had a similar experience. I had DLP bulb burn out in less than a year. The original item claimed to have a 1 year warrantee. So I went through ever means possible to find the contact info for the seller to make a claim. Sure enough, there wasn't any. I wrote up a review indicating that it's falsely advertising a warrantee. In no time it was rejected. It seems that Amazon has a policy or practices that makes it really, really hard to post a negative review and not have it rejected.
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Terminal editor fans: tmate

https://github.com/tmate-io/tmate
Pretty sure users all see the same price, because otherwise reddit would be up in flames on things like r/mechkeyboarddeals, r/buildapc, r/ultralight, etc.

Camelcamelcamel (price history checker) scrapes or pulls data from an external API, its going to be the same for all users
Why the EU Is Furious with Malta
to c/p an old comment of mine:

Another interesting application of blockchains could be to the yelp/foursquare/tripadvisor/opentable/dining-rewards/loyality space. One protocol to handle menus, reviews, and reward points, instead of a separate incompatible reward app and shitty non mobile website for each damn restaurant. Another, and different component of trust in this ecosystem would be verification of authenticity vs spam.
Walmart has a major online shopping portal that competes directly with amazon. My assumption is the OP was talking about buying online from Walmart, particularly given the other example was eBay.
Interesting point on why increased correlation hurts traditional stock pickers and market timers. Does this make a case for quantitative hedge funds doing better?

Quant funds are in a good position to put on a large basket of long and short positions (with leverage), and therefore can separate individual stocks from their confounding market factors. Of course, it presumes the fund has a strategy giving them enough conviction to bet on individual stocks / securities.
You are correct, but from my (admittedly anecdotal) experience, none of them became as commonly used as Uber/Lyft were, before or after. This maybe would have changed eventually, had the situation persisted longer.