skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would they benefit? Assuming it's amazon packages that are being returned (I can't see any other approach that's remotely logical), then either:

a) they re-attempt delivery, and it's zero-sum (with slightly raised logistics costs)

b) the package goes in the returns bin, and they send a new replacement (at a loss, returns aren't sold at ticket value)

c) the package goes in the returns bin, and the customer is refunded (also at a loss due to the devaluation of the return).

None of these options actually has amazon benefitting. The latter two just have them lose less.
This is explained in the SP.
Seems down for me

edit: well this is weird, it seems accessible through a SOCKS proxy

Looks cool! I might suggest making it very clear upfront that it is an email based service - I didn't read much of the copy before signing up and was expecting there to be a search UI. Cool tool.
Does SecureDrop run on your AWS infrastructure?
Pong was released at the end of 1972, so let's say 1973 minimum. That's 50 years from now. In practice, the "awesomeness" we remember wasn't really there before the '80s, so it's more like 60 years.
> In quantum field theory, the lie algebra elements of certain lie groups (U(1), SU(2), and SU(3)) play a fundamental role. For example, the 8 quarks correspond to 8 lie algebra elements of SU(3).

Those are symmetries of the gauge fields, which apply just as well to classical fields as quantum ones.

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/352649/does-clas...

The fields describe possible physical configurations, which is the same for classical mechanics and quantum mechanics. In contrast, the numbers determining the chance of different configurations being realized are complex for quantum mechanics (amplitudes) but real and positive for classical Liouville mechanics (probabilities).
How about instead we say "everything is death of the artist + 20 years, except for Disney, who will pay the government $50mm a year to keep that deal in place" and then if people want to fight a Disney battle, no one else has to care.
Good point. I think the underlying message they’re conveying is “as an employee you don’t get freedom, and that comes with fair compensation/benefits”. The implication being that the pay/benefits for them is not as good, but compensated by “freedom and flexibility”. However as you astutely point out, they don’t actually provide those things.
I wonder if there's any Monsanto-esque funny business going on in this debate about EM radiation and cancer. If there was, how could we tell?
> I think you're asking the wrong question. The question should be: How did MongoDB become so successful?

Marketing, marketing, and more marketing. Mongo was written by a couple of adtech guys.

> Not only that, their marketing/outreach efforts were also aimed at younger developers. When was the last time you saw a Postgres rep at a college tech event?

I remember being underwhelmed by two things at the one MongoConf I went to earlier this decade:

1.) My immediate boss was an unfathomable creep who was there mostly to pick up women

2.) Mongo was focused on how to work around the problems (e.g. aggregate framework) rather than how to solve them.

I can't recall ever seeing a Postgres rep, but I can recall having worked out a PostGIS bug with a fantastically tight feedback loop. The Postgres documentation and community are nothing short of amazing.

Meanwhile with Mongo I watched as jawdropping bugs languished. IDGAF what the reps say, anyone with even a few years experience should've been able to see through the bullshit that Mongo/10gen was/is selling.
Sounds like we are on the same path ;-)
you can be noncompliant if you have no jurisdication inside the eu, i.e. if hn has nothing inside the eu where the eu can actually send a fine.
also I doubt that the eu would penal hn, because you can delete your username which will impersonate yourself and also hn does not really save that much personal data.
> I wonder if it will take legislation to solve.

Some people simply need large cars - how are you going to legislate that?

If I routinely carry 9 people, I need a large van. I don't have the option of a lighter car.
Even more budget, a Behringer UCA202, and Sony MDR-7506. Total cost is about $110 for a huge upgrade in sound from where you start.
While adaptability as a device for expanding applications and market makes sense, your example of picking stuff up in a generic fashion also requires expensive and dexterous actuators, a reliable power source, plus knowledge of material properties and estimates of things like weight to facilitate an appropriate grip. Right now, that pushes costs higher than a manual deployment of dumb robotics (which will be generally faster, more reliable, and easier to maintain and hire for), which is why IMHO industry prefers dumb robotics. The reality is that most environments simply are not that dynamic, especially in industry.
Ubuntu runs on Windows now, why would you ever need to leave ;)
Awesome! What kind of metrics differences have you seen from the change?
It’s probably better if they didn’t answer this question...
Why exactly do artists need copyright for 20 years after they are dead, again?

... why exactly do they need copyright, again?
> It's too late now, but it would be lovely to go back in time, say 50 years

I can think of a billion or so people who would disagree with that proposition.
The raw averages are less interesting than the distributions here. Facebook is the prototypical example of the importance of network effects. The mean bids here are in the thousands, but the medians are $100-$200.

That means you could pay its users $100-200 to leave for a year, and it would lose about half its users immediately. But after the first half of users leave, it's probably worth a lot less to the remaining users than before the first bunch left.

Even if 90% of their users are willing to pay some price to use it, charging that price might lose them most or all of their users. I think that's super interesting.
It really doesn't rule out all AC equipment, quite the opposite, mikrotik PTP and ptmp radios and small routers are wildly popular in developing nations like the Philippines, Pakistan and Nepal. People on very limited budgets do some highly creative things.
Kaiser, who has a plausible claim to expertise in this field, puts the overhead cost of Medicare at 2%.

This is exactly what I'm talking about. I'm sure that number is accurate, if you're looking at Medicare's books. I'm telling you that when you look at the way Medicare forces the industry to handle their charges, it makes the industry much less efficient, both in terms of administering the provision of care to Medicare's "customers" as well as more generally across how the industry handles its accounting in general.

Every hospital (and skilled nursing facility) has a small team of people whose job is to compile the statistics that Medicare demands, and report it annually in what's called "The Medicare Cost Report". Add up 1 or 2 or 5 FTEs across every hospital and SNF facility in the country, Medicare's claimed efficiency is quickly turned upside down. There is some work that providers have to do for other payers, but its scale doesn't approach the order of magnitude of what Medicare forces. This isn't a matter of opinion (like my wife's); this is absolutely factual and objective.

It gets even worse than that. Because the care paid for by Medicare together with that of Medicaid (which is a separate program, but rides on Medicare's coattails for a lot of its reporting mechanics) dwarfs any private payer, hospital information systems (at least the parts that deal with finance) are structured around the way statistics need to handled for Medicare. That squeezes out the ability to do any more traditional cost accounting. This is the reason that the fee for a given service varies so wildly from hospital to hospital: because they're not doing normal cost accounting (but instead tracking Medicare statistics) the don't actually have a good idea of what any given thing costs, so their fee schedules are all over the place. (I'm generalizing here, there are hospitals that do it better, but my anecdata from hospitals we've had close association with show that this problem is quite widespread.)
It's worth noting that a critique doesn't need to have a positive element to be a valid critique, nor does a critique necessarily prescribe a particular method of action; the critique of capitalism has inspired various ideas for post-capitalist society, each stemming from the exact nature of the critique itself.

I do not think that a post-capitalist society would be capable of producing with the efficiency of the capitalist system, but I also don't think that such a level of production is necessary or even desirable if we must also balance efficiency and productivity with a happy society. In particular, it's up to us to decide which are false needs and which are true needs. Marcuse critiqued the nature of technology in capitalism as using the worker (i.e the worker is merely an appendage of the machine) rather than being used by the worker, and the fact that the benefits time-wise are captured by those who own the machines, not those who are replaced by them.

On the other hand, technology is continually improving, and a post-capitalist society must necessarily be placed (if it is to exist at all) at a later point than capitalist society, and capitalist society carries with it a great many inefficiencies, such as the multiple reproduction of research due to firms holding trade secrets, Bitcoin mining, cycles of overproduction etc.

I also don't think it's merely an issue of equitable distribution; the critique of capitalism isn't focused on what's "fair", since as Marx pointed out, doesn't the capitalist or liberal say that the current distribution is fair? The issue seems to be much more with ownership of productive capacity in society and the qualitative nature of the production process, in particular concerning abstract labour.

As such, I think I'd go with (b), but there are elements of (a) and (c) is worthy of consideration because perhaps "wealth" in the terms we'd think of as comparable with capitalism (ownership of money, individual ownership of capital) would not be good measures of "wealth" in a future society, especially given the current crisis of [capitalist] wealth at the cost of ecological damage.
Second degree theft is a Class A misdemeanor in Oregon. It will likely have little, if any, effect on his future prospects.
In some ways they are. The WeLive brand takes liberties with zoning laws that are in place to prevent SROs, for example. I wouldn't call it disregarding laws/regulations but they are potentially violating the spirit of those restrictions. It's not unique to WeLive - all of the co-living companies are doing similar things.
>"Firmware as a Service optimizes UEFI and other system firmware for timely quality patches that keep firmware up to date and enables efficient development of post-launch features."
sounds like an excuse to deliver unfinished software. remember that Microsoft got rid of its Windows testers and moved the burden of testing on the users.
There is a lot of evidence, long term studies, showing they do not do cancer. So the question is why are they listed as a possible cause? It invalidates the entire list. My car keys may well "possibly" cause cancer if the bar is so low.
>Oh sure many will say they want an EV but that drops fast when costs go up and so on.

EV prices are going down due to falling battery costs, increasing economies of scale of manufacture, and improved understanding of how to design them. The experts say around 2023-2025 they will become as cheap as ICE vehicles, and then they will take over the market. Oh, and Tesla's big problem is working through its huge backlog of orders, and that is even though just started selling in Europe.

You know, you say you are an EV owner and supporter, but your comment is so negative I have doubts that is actually true.
It doesn't seem necessary to have a program like he's claiming - it's easy to see who's not delivering packages and not returning them, and it's easy to then never work with that person again. So I doubt his claim is true.
Square re-applies for banking license
There are plenty of places in America, but they are all far away from the source of the trash.
Sounds good in theory, but I haven't specifically checked it out. Does it produce less/no pollution/toxins when creating it? Is it truly biodegradable with 0 contaminants/toxins left over? How much energy is required to produce it vs other plastics or paper/cardboard? How much corn does it take, and is it economically feasible if we shifted, let's say, 50% of current plastics to biodegradable where it would make sense (I imagine there are scenarios where biodegradable plastic couldn't/shouldn't be used)?

I'm more of the mindset to just eliminate plastic where it isn't really necessary to begin with, like in packaging, where it's just more convenient for the manufacturer to wrap it in plastic as a theft deterrent.
But now you can do it with opensource firmware.
The average person is much better off than they were 100 years ago. That is a direct, inalienable consequence of growth.

I believe what is at stake here is that another possible direct, inalienable consequence of growth is that the average person 100 years from now is worse off than we are now, because we squandered their future in the name of growth. To ignore this might lead one to miss a lot parent’s point.
Blog posts from companies are always reviewed by the marketing team, that frequently changes what the author initially wrote, or adds random stuff to make it sound more like a company effort.
That sounds interesting. Are there any particular sites you follow to find out about bonuses? I like Bankrate but don't think they have info on signup bonuses.
On VBScript
This misconception, or common statement, will never go away. You'll have occasion to post this sentence forever.
> Across all the different means of interacting with a database I have experience with (from full-fledged ORMs like ActiveRecord, to sprocs in ASP.NET), I've found that it offers the best compromise between providing an ergonomic abstraction over the database, and not hiding all of the nitty-gritty details you need to worry about in order to write performant queries or use database-specific features like triggers or window functions.

Ahh Elixir. My favorite language that really just tries so hard to shoot itself in the foot. I'm currently in the protracted process of trying to upgrade a Phoenix app to the current versions. Currently I'm at the rewrite it in Rust and try out Rocket + Diesel stage.

Diesel is... interesting and makes me long for Ecto (which is often used as an ORM although the model bits got split off into a different project).
Poor, starving Nintendo and their substantial revenue stream from Super Mario Brothers 1 might be three generations from now Disney when it comes to copyright extension.
Looking for China's Spies
Or to put that in context of a basic data structure:

C = Actual content to be published

MS = User accounts, user permissions, user authentication options, user authentication logging, meta change logs (user X removed tag Y at time Z), behaviour logs (user X viewed revision Y of article Z at time A)... and that's just scratching the surface of a very, very basic CMS.

I'm being generous and assuming articles, tags, bylines, and attached media (with full change history) is all "C".
Perform Angular Server-Side (pre-)rendering with Cloud Build
> You can't just appeal to people's better nature because humans are humans.

You must live in the alternate universe where everyone litters.

No, some people just don't litter. Whole cities where people don't litter! Sometimes, there is a clear protagonist and antagonist.

As an aside: an* effective means of keeping that cup out of the ocean is also to buy all the cups and not use them. Pretty much the exact OPPOSITE of a "pigouvian tax." Isn't that crazy?

What if we bought all the oil and didn't burn it? What if we buy all the land it's under? Or more realistically, what if I bought carbon credits in cap and trade and didn't use them?

Greg Mankiw has doomed a generation to inside-the-box policy with his inane textbook.
In Boston, I found a $100k job straight outta college and I know my seniors are paid twice me. Basically, you're wrong.
The only copyright extensions that affected Micky Mouse were the 1998 Act mentioned in the article, and the 1976 Act.
"The repairability market was small peanuts compared to that, and I genuinely believe that no one wanted iPhones to be harder to service vs other phones."

You've contradicted yourself a bit here. You said that Apple was willing to forgo repairability in order to chase a new market. So, while making the devices hard to repair wasn't the primary goal, it certainly was something they wanted to accomplish in order to service a goal that was more appealing to them -- so they did want the devices to be harder to service.
Really?? So there were no libraries either at your school or in town?

I dunno when I was in highschool we read things from lots of different time periods, including things after 1923, and there was no mention of copyright worries in the slightest.
Ask HN: Opinion of thinking of startup ideas vs. not thinking of startup ideas?
Paul Graham states that not thinking of startup ideas leads to good ideas. Whereby, one develops a way of thinking of ideas unconsciously. Thus, the idea of working on side projects because they're plain interesting.

The other alternative is to constantly think of startup ideas. PG warns against this mode of thinking.

What is HNs opinion on thinking of startup ideas, vs. not thinking of startup ideas. There are many examples of successful companies using the latter strategy, but are there examples of successful companies using the former idea?

Overall, which is the more viable strategy?
This ignores a huge array of practical reasons why people stay where they are.

Family networks are probably the number one reason. Child/elder care, food/housing/etc. sharing and a lot more are all major factors that by definition do not show up in economic reports.

And that's before people's "psychological conditioning" (which some people refer to as "being part of a family") is considered.

I, too, have moved around a lot - across the US three times, overseas and back once, with smaller cross-state moves in between. And it has worked out for me. I am also not married, have no kids, am not very close to my family, have a high degree of risk tolerance and high attraction to novelty, and seem to need a smaller community of folks in my life than many others.

I'm also well aware that I am an abnormally-unattached person. Most people have significantly more difficulty uprooting and moving somewhere else. Writing that off as conditioning that interferes with economic concerns not only fails to recognize very real economic aspects that don't show up a bank account, but also fails to recognize that humans value things other than money.
I've lived in several rural states.

Nothing smells worse than a turkey farm. They are the absolute worst!
One interesting bit: If an attacker-controlled data is interpreted as a VBScript variable, this can result in a lot more than just infoleak and can easily be converted into a code execution. This issue is a good example of why, in general, an out-of-bounds read can be more than an infoleak: it always depends on precisely what kind of data is being read and how it is used.

How leaks can become RCE.
Why the world will lose trust in Australian technology
We've been seriously discussing it for 30 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergovernmental_Panel_on_Cli...

The question is when does a particular side of politics stop actively sabotaging any effort to actual do anything.
Is that evidence that dealers are ineffective, or that government incentives are simply more effective?

That said, the fact that dealers do try to push customers away from electric provides a competitive opportunity for new entrants whose sales people aren't doing that. Which is going to be a challenge for established car companies.
Every small company I've every worked for has renovated their new space.

Often, when the old tenants leave, the space is beat-up and unpresentable. Relative to the aggregate cost of rent over a couple of years, spending $10-20K to buff it out, put some walls in for meeting rooms and offices, etc... isn't a problematic spend.
Yeah I would argue this is actually something that drives up WeWork's costs. If you're a smallish business, you'll typically find an office that's already got an acceptable look and leave it alone. But WeWork always renovates their space to a high standard, which is very expensive.
Not a terrible idea, although it obviously penalises individual authors vs big business. I would argue that it should only apply to businesses and inheritors, so that an author could still behest his IP as a worthy inheritance. However, I fear it would result, in practice, in another immediate bonus extension for existing IP (i.e. the Mouse would continue to be owned by Disney for free until 2060). After all, it wouldn't be fair to tell a company they have to find an extra $22b per year from next January.
Treasury Targets Russian Operatives Over Malign Activities
Theory of the second best - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_the_second_best

Basically economics talk for how the second best solution might not be close to the best solution (i.e. there are local maxima).

A perfectly free market might be theoretically best, but socialised healthcare might be better than a badly regulated private system.
To promote the progress of science and useful arts.

Estates are things. I'm sure a fair number of artists have been encouraged to publish towards the end of their life to support their children or causes they believe in.
Some artists die tragically early and leave behind families to support
> But he left the company in 1997, selling his ownership of the product for $50,000.

You are spreading misinformation, you should edit or delete your comment.
The US has lots services that are provided by regulated monopolies. My garbage company, power company are all regulated monopolies. A key thing is you're required to have garbage and power service but the rates are negotiated by a public utilities commission or the city or county.

However Healthcare in the US isn't a regulated monopoly like that.
There are "I've used Go for a week and here are my strong opinions on it!" posted to reddit (and elsewhere) every week.

Frankly, it's just tiring; especially as a lot of the same points and misconceptions are repeated. Some points are valid, but it's repetitive at best. It would be like discussing Python's significant whitespace with inexperienced Python programmers every week. Sure, it's quirky and arguably not a good idea, but the discussion had been done a few times already.

Turns out that filtering stuff that uses "golang" instead of "Go" is actually a pretty good heuristic for determining if an article is worth reading. Is it perfect? Of course not; it's a heuristic.

Reading your article, this is exactly the sort of "been there, discussed that" kind of example. Your article isn't bad – I think it's mostly on-point – but it's also pretty much a repeat of what many others have said/discussed.
> Individual initiative is maximized when people have sole responsibility for their tasks, not when every decision needs to be approved by ten committees.

> https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/03/19/two-stories/

But there's a big gap between "Option A has worked better than Option B [Spolsky, anecdote]" and even "Option A is always better than Option B", much less "Option A maximises the desired outcome."
I think Cassandra would be better choice
Hacking DigitalOcean's New Kubernetes Service
HP used a 8058 (iirc) as the first stage amplifier in some of my RMS voltmeters; they're from the 60s though.