skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At halfway through the article it becomes clear that the writer has kids to take care of and his own job. That’s what should have been in the title to clarify the scope, and I would have saved the time reading this article. It’s obviously a much different challenge with those factors present. Without kinds and him/her taking care of the cafe instead it would have worked out likely. I mean think of it, people who have a full time job and children usually have little to no time for anything else.
SE owner here. Total tech nerd, but I just want a small phone that fits in my back pocket when I'm cycling. It makes me very sad that they're all getting enormous.

When I'm out, I'm just sending messages. Maybe a bit of maps and occasionally Safari. But all of my proper browsing is done at home, on an iPad or my Mac. When I'm out, I'm out. The phone is a tool, it's not the thing I'm doing.
I have a friend who runs a brewery. They distribute a ridiculous amount of their product into stores around the world and have won many awards, yet they make very little margin from all that.

He told me they make an overwhelming amount of money off of the tasting room attached to their physical brewery because the beer itself is effectively water in terms of cost so they make profit by not having to pay any middle men in the tasting room.

My suspicion is that in the coffee world, if you source and roast your own beans and serve them direct in a venue you own you get a similar effect. I think it must be essential to run the roastery yourself to make it work. That work goes well beyond what is required to just open a cafe and serve someone else’s coffee.

Starbucks has simply insane process automation, training, branding, marketing, custom drink labs pushing out new flavors every two weeks, complete control of their global supply chains.

It would be more accurate to ask: “How the F can anyone make any money when Starbucks is on every other street corner and has the advantages of scale they have.”
>hobby, manner, ..., way you speak, way you act

It's fine to judge by these, depending on the circumstances, since these are actions people take, rather than things about them that are out of their control or out of their reach.
You would model that as a many-to-many relationship, with a People table, and a Races table, and a cross-referencing People_Races table that only has PersonID and RaceID columns.

Anywhoo, I'm not sure what the grounds would be for feeling schadenfreude here. "Ha ha, Harvard makes race-based decisions that are not-the-right-ones to everyone, and are surely-not-the-best... THE BLIND FOOLS!" A little esoteric for me.

I'm old OK - I grew up after the leftie ideals that started their ascendancy in the 60s had already kind of arrived in the mainstream. (But before they were set on fire by the likes of Reagan and then sold out by the unholy Clinton-era alliance between erstwhile liberals and 1-percenters.) I was taught, and internalized, values of racial equality, the ennoblement of all peoples, equality for all, one big group called humanity, etc. That picture of Earth taken from the moon by the Apollo astronauts - one world. All of us.

What makes me sad is that what people call fighting "for justice" nowadays seems to mean betraying and abandoning all that. Instead of seeing one big group with no subgroups, and treating everyone equally, some people seem to want to go back to looking out only for their own little subgroup and its interests, against all the others (or against one in particular). Who does that remind you of? Reminds me of the KKK. It was practically their mission statement - "let's look out for our particular subgroup." (white people) So you might say "No no no, we're different because unlike theirs, our cause is just." Are we so sure? The KKK thought they were just. It's in fact the very thing that enabled them to commit horrible acts against human beings. Justness of the cause is ALWAYS how you rationalize injustice.

Seems to me division and hate still lead to exactly where division and hate have always led.

Not that this has much to do with Harvard admissions but I thought I'd get it off my chest.
This is an important point. The implicit assumption of the OP, “if we’re going to judge in one thing” is bogus.

Why do we have to judge on only one thing? Why can’t we judge different traits and characteristics based on different metrics? What does material wealth tell us about someone? What is it about them we are judging?
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Actually, on relative terms I think he has given away roughly half the money he has ever earned, which makes him exceptionally generous relatively speaking.
This is a separate question. Thanks for your thought. There are other possibilities. Like, say, insatiable demand from around the country and world from people who'd love to move to SF to make their play in the tech boom.

But the fact remains that the tech boom has created a sudden surge in housing demand from people making a lot more than working class folks.
On CRT monitors the difference between 120 and 200Hz was very noticeable in fast arena shooters. On LCDs with their inherent motion blur there's probably less of a difference between 144 and 240Hz, but I'm not going to call it placebo due to my previous experience with high frequency CRTs.
Anandtech noticed error in power measurements and tested with another motherboard that provided better results
https://twitter.com/IanCutress/status/1053427417052798977
By the way, I see this topic as part of the fundamental human condition, that is, the neverending strife between the individual and his master, the legal organism.

Governments and their branches are legal organisms. These organisms exploit the individual. The individual has no power against his master.

In this case, the individual is the customer but he has no say about the quality of his commute. The legal organism in charge of transportation does not bother to ask its customers if they want recorded announcements of stations. The majority of the customers, probably over %90, take the same train everyday and know their stop by heart. They would get off in the right station in their sleep. They don’t need to be told where to get off. If the legal organism asked its customers if they want announcements, the majority would say "don't talk to us. Leave us alone. Let us read a book, sleep or daydream. Just don't bother us and don't try to be nice to us. Don’t make condescending announcements. Just shut up. Give us a clean, safe and fast ride and get out of the way.” But the master never asks its subjects and never listens. The individual accepts whatever the legal organism gives to him.

You may think that accepting the violation of your personal space by recorded announcements without protest is a trivial issue. But people who accept voluntarily trivial harrassments by their master will voluntarily accept big harassments. Like when the same organism will want to take his naked pictures while crossing its borders.
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Also comparing wealth to judge people doesn't make sense because many don't even strive for it. At least in Germany most people just want a middle class lifestyle (i.e. normal job and house) but have absolutely no ambitions for more.
Anthony Powell chronicled the languid world of the English middle class
Their primary target of those apartment blocks was to serve urbanization - to house millions that were moving (or were moved) out of rural villages, with their quite mediocre living conditions, to the industrialized cities. That process was quite ongoing 40 years after Soviet rule was established; lots and lots of peasants in 1950s-1970s USSR lived with a home environment that was quite comparable to early 1900s except with kolkhoz tractors and a propaganda radio. Moving to an apartment with running hot water, indoor toilet, and centralized heating was a major improvement for millions of people during Khruschev era, because their previous dwelling did not have those 'luxuries'.
I think that's a massive oversimplification.

You could definitely say that people starving feel entitled to food, and feel justified in stealing it. You could also say that an ideology that can be used to explain every power struggle and social ill is very attractive to those who are too smart for their own good.
This is good advice
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I wanted to add that I see thoughts that are similar to mine here: [1]

"I’m calling it now. Bloomberg is fucked on this story. The longer they drag this out before a full retraction, the more damage they’re taking to their long-term credibility. Read their statement closely — they’re not saying their story is true or that Apple and Tim Cook are wrong. All they say is they spent a year on the story and spoke to 17 sources multiple times.

And the bottom half of BuzzFeed’s story is even more damning than the top — no one in the security community has been able to verify anything in Bloomberg’s story. Anything at all. And no other news publication has backed the story. Bloomberg is all alone on this."

[1]: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2018/10/19/cook-calls-for-...
If this were in the United Kingdom, the local council would insist the building be torn down.
On the one hand, of all the big companies, Apple seems closest to “getting it” with respect to security.

On the other hand, NO entity is inherently trustworthy “forever”, nor should any entity have the power to be a unilateral Decider even on its own platform. Just like when a good restaurant may some day become bad under new management, we are just one “new management” away from Apple becoming something that maybe we don’t trust so much. This system is being set up to give “Apple” tremendous power for “all future definitions of Apple”, which is ridiculous. That wouldn’t make sense even if Apple were a perfect saint today, invulnerable to buggy software and disgruntled employees and other potential weaknesses.

We need a system whereby users decide which SET of entities they trust, one of which may include Apple, and which may even exclude Apple if the user so chooses. The complex mechanism for signing and verifying things should be open-source so it can be understood and validated and reproduced cross-platform. Then you decide who you trust, period. You can rely on others to help you determine what is trustworthy. Given this type of system, I would be fine with macOS saying “select at least one trusted source to enable software installations”, knowing that I ultimately decide what those authorities will be. I am not fine with their seeming “father knows best” approach.
The other similar in scale countries have performed much less atrocities against their own population.

China has a bit larger total numbers, but they're not similar in scale.
I really like that Die Sizes from Wikichip chart. For a quad core processor, Die Size went down from almost 275mm2 (Nehalem) to 125mm2 (Kaby Lake) over the last decade, but that didn't translate to cheaper price or much better performance, Intel worked so hard to prevent any of these to happen in their mainstream desktop processor product line.
When you want to knock down a one-story building to put 75 apartments next to a train station, the city shouldn't waste four years on stuff like "maybe that laundromat is historically significant?"
In a word, no.

To have a usable, stable exchange rate into something (other than a related cryptocurrency), there must be another party who stands willing to buy and sell the thing at that pegged rate.

Read up on the history of currency pegs. Generally speaking, even with the best efforts of nation-states with millions of citizens, actual gold mines, and literal armies, maintaining a peg is a fool's errand.
If you remove arbitrary limits like density(height) limits and requirement for parking spaces, and lower the minimum space requirements, then the same amount of construction costs can have much more small "housing units" that each would be much cheaper than now.

Another option that has been used elsewhere is 'dormitory-style' housing, where the residents have their own small rooms but shared communal dining/cooking/shower areas; it has it's own set of problems but it is much more affordable; for people who can't afford better living space it's much better than living on the street.
This is a struggle I can identify with. Settle into the company couch and pass the popcorn.

There is a reason why I return to contract work that has taken some soul searching to discover; I'm just not a Company Man.

The big picture isn't the problem for me so much as abiding by the glacial pace demanded as an FTE. Granted, every company runs at a different tempo, but to operate as a unit there has to be syncopation. Despite adjusting to the pace of a project, it's a temporary change, like vacationing in a different time zone. Freelancer/Samurai/Pirate - all suffer the same fate when it comes to community.
But things like gdb just don’t work unless they’ve been signed. So, if Apple starts blocking unnotarized aogned apps, whether or not these programs will run will depend on whether Apple considers them malicious
166w when fully loaded on a 95 TDP processor, for me, that is the textbook definition of dishonesty.
> . Individuals need skin in the game for their own care.

1996 a friend got lung cancer at 32 she lost everything and died. In 2002 both a friend and I got sick. He's dead, I lost everything but I'm still here.

Seems to me we all had skin in the game. But hell if I know what a 30 year old woman and two men in their early 40's could have done different.
Wait, so I can finally run Slack in a browser! SNES emulator targeting WASM.
Emma Willard's maps charted the evolution of the United States
While I can't speak to Starbucks, a similar coffee chain in Australia is actually a property play. They don't just own their cafe, but also several of the adjacent stores as well, which they lease out to other retailers. Much of the value in the business actually comes from appreciation in property values.
So much truth in this article. We closed down our hobby business, a dance studio, after 10 years of trying to make it work, and finally come to the realisation that we can do much more without the anchor weighing us down. The truth is a passion startup often defies rational analysis, almost like why people have children, it simply fills the part of them that fears regret.
The market wants mobiles phones and PDAs to be the same device. That is what phones with large screens are.
"earned" seems a bit loaded for this discussion--a lot of this is paper money, no? But 50% of wealth ever possessed, sure.
I love this! Thank-you for your venture. Is there any way I can subscribe to updates? Do you know what your final pricepoint will be? (Often changes from the Kickstarter promises)
Part of why you have less work than you “should” right now is so you can familiarize yourself with the added complexities, both technical and interpersonal, of working in a giant engineering org. So do that. Read documentation. Learn the automation flows. Learn the organization and the political sensitivities. Look at old code reviews. Etc.
If we disregard the geopolitics and foreign interventions, cold war UK, France or USA was a decent regime to its own people.

If we disregard the geopolitics and foreign interventions,
cold war USSR was a horrible regime against its own people.

There are all kinds of horrible things done by those regimes to their own people as well, but they aren't comparable in scale.
Amazingly you keep living under your dome of ignorance, blind to the obvious, spreading lies around.

Your half taxes are stolen by criminals all around Italy, most of them are your neighbors in the North.

Going around on a Ferrari, wearing Rolex and spending hundreds of Euro for an aperitivo. Your money too.

That money it's routed to the South and mostly goes back to "hard working" companies from the North. In inflated or just fake invoices, overpriced goods.

Most of the successful companies in the South are just plain mafia or subdued by them.
Who doesn't get burned to the ground.

Honest people in the South they have to either work for them for half your salary or just spread around the world.
That's why most of Italian ex-pats are form the South: they work twice hard as you, earn less and are forced to a very uneasy self-imposed exile.

You should take conscience how lucky you are.

There's the same amount of good & bad people all around Italy: those in the North are just lucky because the South is more beautiful and rich, perfect prey to ransack.

Thanks to the populist far-right extremists of the Lega nothing will change anytime soon.
They profited on this kind of ignorance to take power, accusing "Romans" to steal your money.

While spreading hate, racism, xenophobia and homophobia they took advantage of the system they promised were fighting and stole hundreds of millions.

That's their chunk of your half taxes.
and yet PR departments routinely resort to salami tactics or evasion even if they have obviously messed up. This isn't really out of the ordinary, and I think jumping to conclusions about the US government controlling Apple is a bigger leap.
I'm working on a self-hosted, automated testing service for universities. I'm designing it to be distributed and fault-tolerant, which I've never done before! Structuring the application around producers, consumers & queues has decoupled it immensely, and (so far) has made the codebase extremely easy to grok. I've just go to figure out docker-compose, so I can throw up a new instance in a few seconds ;)

Does anyone have any recommendations for a newbie to the distributed architecture space?
Odroid was never the cheapest option, but they provided outstanding software support and great product reliability.

Now, in the x86 space both of those things (software support, reliability) are not an issue. Besides, there are much cheaper options available on the market (e.g.
https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/cSJOvljS , same platform with 4GB ddr4, 64gb emmc, case, power supply for ~$140 shipping included).

So I reckon you're right, this product won't be too successful.
I used to do this!

An Olympus OM4 with slide film, in a darkened room. The camera's utomatic exposure worked best.

Experimenting with Vista Pro (the original landscape generator!), it was possible to generate stereo images of a scene. And the graphics - for the time - were incredible. With careful lighting and texturing, it was possible to get nearly photorealistic results.

So I had the thought to photograph the monitor image onto slide film, then use a 3D stereo viewer (like this 'Pinsharp Stereo Slider Viewer': https://www.berezin.com/3d/pinsharp.htm).

The views were stunning! A real sense of depth and place, looking past leafy trees, down into valleys and ravines...
Can’t say it’s much more than the US caused, when you count slavery, the extermination of native people, CIA backed coups, the prison complex and capitalism among others. But if the US does it it’s called “bringing freedom and democracy”, so those deaths dont seem to count.
How many people have the luxury of waking up without an alarm clock ?

Also waking up without an alarm clock can sometimes lead to oversleeping which is not optimal either.

Ever wake up groggy and with a headache on a Sunday morning after 10 hours of sleep?
In the wise words of the robot devil,

> You can't just have your characters announce how they feel! That makes me feel angry!
Perhaps, though it's hard to understand from the outside what could have had Apple view it as a success, enough to warrant an SE2. It appears to have got almost universally positive press, and surprisingly good sales if that press is to be believed.

My own circle of friends and their families must be ridiculously unrepresentative because the SE seems to have an outsize presence, and there's remarkably few huge flagships of any make. There's a couple who still hope every year that Samsung see sense and bring out another S Mini.
May I ask how old you are?
My primary criteria, way above anything else, is simple plain old 'good heart'. People that don't take more then they are given, are reliable, honest and don't have evil/selfish traits.

Traits you mention are completely irrelevant in face of those - at least for me.
It should be tested with an appropriate cooler. One that does remove 95W in the long term when the case reaches the maximum design temperature as this is what TDP intuitively means.
I stopped calling myself Christian as a result of reading the Bible, but it does have some interesting takes on this topic:

“””Amen, I say to you, this poor widow put in more than all the other contributors to the treasury. For they have all contributed from their surplus wealth, but she, from her poverty, has contributed all she had, her whole livelihood.”””

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesson_of_the_widow%27s_mite
Ask HN: Is it practical to pay an expert to design a PCB?
I would like to get an esp32 board designed to fit a specific size, with specific layout.

I'm technical, but electronics design is outside my expertise. I'm wondering are there people or companies who do this sort of thing, and what does it cost?

Of course how long is a piece of string, but I'm trying to get some sort of narrative around the topic to guide me as to whether this is practical or not.

Where would I find someone with expertise in designing computer electronics?
What? You don't need to charge for admission to rate limit.

Just give out a fixed number of free tickets.

I don't have a problem at all with selling admission tickets, but maybe if you have millions of visitors a little bit of the money you get from them which you use to maintain your own premises and employees can also go to maintain the roads and police and schools just like everybody else.

Nonprofits can be great, but there gets to be a level with so much money that the value to society of not taxing seems lost.
Do you have any photos of it so far? It seems like a really cool project
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The last week was exceptional for me, I took up the 7 day, 7 pay-it-forward tasks challenge and have shared my experience here - https://medium.com/@YourProductGuy/the-joy-of-giving-da976e9b7a13

Now, I want to take this a step further:

How about a uber-type model (though not on-demand to start with) where we can connect A to B, ie. those in need of food to places where there is excess?

What do you'll think about this? What might be the challenges?

Malnutrition is a huge problem in countries like mine (India) and I think this will be a step in trying to solve this problem. Did an offline validation with 3 cafes here and it seemed to work. Want to try reaching out to more now and need help building with a website for credibility and put out testimonials as well as reach out to volunteers, organisations and raise funds.

Non-techie here, so anyone got a weekend to spare?

Thanks again :)
This post is about making a time-memory tradeoff by precomputing some intermediate steps in font rendering.

Whenever considering a time-memory tradeoff, one needs to consider both time and memory.

This post makes absolutely no mention of the additional memory use.
The power measurements were correct. What was wrong is that the mainboard supplied a higher voltage to the CPU, something that you only do if your want to overclock and your system is not stable at the original voltage. So all the tests are somewhat suspect as we don't know what the CPU will actually do with the changed voltages and thermals. The CPU could clock higher due to the higher voltage or reduce the clock due to the increased temperatures. Nobody really knows unless you really rerun all tests.
Yes, some of the source images are tagged with ICC color profiles.

It looks like Firefox still does not treat untagged images as sRGB and the difference on wide-gamut monitors may be noticeable.

That was a matter of an option switch. It should be fixed now. Thanks.