skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Was in my local shoeshop in the sixties. Have used. Was removed pretty soon after I used it.
And before industrialisation the tendency was for everyone to inefficiently cultivate their own food whilst most semi-skilled tasks were carried out by small numbers of artisans typically organised around protectionist guilds, whilst the largest employers (preferring unpaid labour where possible) were religious orders and landowners conspicuously consuming and fighting their neighbours. I'm not convinced this arrangement involved less bullshit, but it certainly entailed less production.
It is because a lot of dealers in US are dishonnest. For example they never honor the quote they themselves have given in email. They never tell the interest rate or car price they are offering. They always ask you what is your affordable monthly payment! After buying they push to extended warranty so much. You need to spend couple of hours just saying no. It is just a frustrating experience overall.
Waving at Machines (2011) [video]
Additionally, useful surface structures probably would be made in part of lightweight materials transported from Earth; a useful base would likely be largely subsurface. There's no particular reason why an entrance to such a base need be durable or monumental, or even directly visible with human eyes (or artificial aids thereto) from many kilometres above (let alone from Earth).

Apart from radio beacons and similar navigational aids, there's good reason to think a predecessor terrestrial spacefaring civilization would see very differently from mammals closely related to humans.

(Along those lines, one can imagine a predecessor Earth civilization whose leading species is comfortable in a temperature or pressure that humans could not tolerate, and that their comfortable working conditions would drive the location and composition of a lunar base for them. Even our own species had (and has) mountain-dwelling civilizations in environments challenging to subtropical coastal people. If they had been in the Space Race, mountain-dwellers might have had some advantages in needing to haul around less atmosphere (being comfortable with a higher cabin altitude), and they're the same species as the first Americans and Soviets in space.)
everybody in Russia knows that the hole is a result of trying to hang a Putin portrait on that wall, unfortunately the curvature of the wall didn't allow to actually the portrait, and the wooden plug ( "chopik", ie. a piece of wood hammered into the hole so that an actual screw would be screwed into that wooden plug) probably just fell out sometimes later as result of the space end of it being affected by the space cold (the space grade wood wasnt used because the allocated money went the usual way of corruption).
> The problem is that they are corporate shills.

I really think the defining political problem of our age is campaign finance reform and to a lesser extent election reform.
Or basic 3D stereographic techniques or LIDAR. Visible light suffices here; just rotate the camera/laser around the feet and build up the 3D model.

This may be mostly irrelevant though because unless you have problems with your feet you can tell if shoes fit simply by the feel.
Note the publication dates on the books under the "Academic AI Textbooks": 2002, 1998, 1992. While many core concepts featured in these books (eg: backpropagation and genetic algorithms) are still relevant today we've come a long way in finding palatable explanations for them.
I think you could just use photographs to make a 3d model.

As someone with hard to fit feet, I have often wished for custom footwear made with modern materials and design. I envision a system where you go to the store, they create a 3d model, you pick a design, and it is sent off to a factory that has been tooled to efficiently build the footwear from the model.

I think you could charge 150 or even 200% over off-the-shelf versions for modern custom fit running shoes/hiking boots/ski boots, etc. These markets already spend extra money for premium products. I know I would pay it, gladly.

Runners seem to go through shoes like clockwork. You could setup a subscription service.
Not only are there technologies that could be used for this, there are working products in the market that do it already. I work for one of the technology providers in this area.

Having x-ray images or such would actually be somewhat helpful, as you could much more easily identify the metatarsophalangeal joints (the joint where the toe meets the foot), the locations of which do influence shoe fit to some extent.

However, the cost, safety, usability etc. of using x-ray machines in a retail setting makes it infeasible by a wide margin compared to optical measurement methods, and those generally take you far enough anyway. I'd rather go for dynamic analysis (i.e. scanning the foot while it is in motion taking a step) if more data on the skeletal structure is required.
I'm not from the first world and yes, there's far better fintech solutions than cryptocurrencies here.
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Scratch marks around the hole means that panel was likely not obstructed by anything [but possibly soft material].
Stacked panels is unlikely.

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Drill was hand-held - again due to the marks where drill bit was trying to find it's way around.

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No any markings from pen/pencil or anything that would show that any kind of measurements were done beforehand. Which means that the hole was not part of any specific fixture/attachment or construction element.

Which strengthens hypothesis that the purpose of the hole was the hole itself. Location and/or precision of the hole was not important as much as the hole itself.

At this point precise inspection is needed to find the tool used as well as determine which person's suit/clothing/outfit/personal belongings (astronaut's or technician) contain the traces of the metal that fall off as a result of the hole drilling effort.
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Medical/dental techs leave the room when they're taking these X-rays for precisely this reason. You could have a separate room in a shoe store just for the X-rays ... but realistically I can't see that happening. How many people would even go for this? I sure as hell wouldn't want X-rays taken in a shoe store.
What I would like to see is something where people could submit a small working program in one language and a Rust expert would make a program that does the same thing in idiomatic Rust. This doesn't need to be anything too complex. A wiki would be fine, the work would be in having volunteers to make the demos.

If you don't know the idioms you end up doing a sort of transliteration of the source language where the concepts may work against the nature of Rust. A developer can spend a long time barking up the wrong tree with few indicators as to which is the right tree.

As an example of what I mean. Here is a program that I wrote in JavaScript specifically because I could not find a way to write it in Rust that felt like I was doing it the right way.

https://codepen.io/Lerc/pen/yQxmob?editors=0010

I could come up with Rust versions that were basically emulating pointers with array indexes(and a mess when something is deleted), or map versions that incurred lots of run-time lookup. The crux of the problem, I think is either how to do a mutable graph of mutable nodes, or how to do map on a immutable graph of immutable nodes to a new immutable graph of immutable nodes in the next state along.

I'm sure others have this issue of "I know how to do it in X, doing it that way in Rust is a mess, what's the right way?"
One of your Quora links is notorious Internet anger man Michael O'Church. He hates everything about the Bay Area tech industry and so his views are ridiculously flamebaity. His statements have low signal.
This looks like trolling.

Blockchain was the first serious attempt at solving the problem of distributed concensus without centralisation. One application of this outside of cryptocurrency is to DNS (see Namecoin).

Cryptocurrencies at the very least make black market trading more efficient. See Silk Road.

Also, the analogy to alchemy needs a lot more explaining. I don't see any connections.
The few non-hyped uses for blockchain I have seen are specifically as alternatives for diverse supply chain tracking. You can in fact use other alternatives for it. They may even be cheaper in some situation but there could be other requirements that make it more or less viable like say standardization.

It should be viewed as a specialized tool and not a golden hammer like many of its proponents think.
They're still allowed, though. The shoe X-ray machines were banned.

Someone in fifty years could easily say "Can you believe they used to allow stores where you'd pay to go into a pod and purposely be given skin cancer?!"
We can have even more derivative movies and less new creations as we further dull the minds of the masses and keep releasing pulp 'creations' in safe doses like a slow heroin drip so no one gets challenged and has to leave their safe space?
The images are LORRI images; however, because of bandwidth constraints (about 1000bps), these are lower-resolution versions of the LORRI images for press and initial science work. e.g. a one-tenth-resolution image takes about 3 hours to download. See here for a description of the sequence of transmissions:

https://youtu.be/ymJRlUQfPfQ?t=586

EDIT: The full download of the gigabytes of data from the flyby will take 20 months to download.
Yes, we have all heard of Led Zeppelin. That is not my point -- my point is that I've seen roughly one million "Music from 1968/1969 is The Best!!!!111" articles / essays / etc in my life, and zero "Music from the 1970's changed the World!" articles, even though Led Zeppelin 4, Joni Mitchell's Blue, Songs in the Key of Life, Fleetwood Mac's Rumours, and a bunch of other amazing stuff all came out then.
Which is the primary aim of the new democratic house. I would not consider someone trying to limit corporate control of politics a corporate shill.
Is there a way for people to learn to be good negotiators?

Below was my last negotiation. I think I did pretty well because I put a lot of research into it and had some background knowledge already. Most people won't have those luxuries, and I won't always be able to research or know everything before a negotiation. I would like to learn to be a better negotiator in general.

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I recently just bought a new vehicle. I found the VIN I wanted, called up the dealership and asked for the Internet Sales Manager's email address. Sent a very short email saying I'm ready to buy a 2019 MAKE/MODEL in City, State. The dealership's website shows VIN in stock, is it still available? And without incentives, what is their best offer on that vehicle?

I got an email with a number, it was very close to invoice, and replied when I would be there to take a look at the vehicle.

(Dealerships do need to make some profit to keep the lights on and pay salaries. Even if you pay invoice, the dealership still makes money on dealer holdbacks and dealer incentives. Additionally, you do not want the dealer to include customer incentives/rebates when giving you a quote, because that's money you'll be paying directly into the dealership's pocket otherwise. Agree on a price, then let the dealership know what incentives you're eligible for. Also check with your bank and organizations you're a member of for additional rebates, I got an additional $1000 just for being a member of my bank.)

The only tricks the dealership tried to play on me was the waiting game, and the dealership's protection package that they "already applied" for $1500. I told them to take it off or I walk. They came back at $500. I said the VIN etching is a $20 kit that only takes a few minutes to apply, we're already breathing 78% nitrogen, and I'll offer them $100 because the anti-theft lug nuts actually cost some money. I was immediately offered $150 with no window tint (the 4th and last part of the package which I guess they didn't really apply yet). Later the salesperson said he looked up their cost for the VIN etching and it was $68 because they had a third party do it for them. I looked up the cost of the OEM anti-theft lug nuts, and they were about the same, so $150 does seem like the dealer's cost on what I got.

I only realized after I took the vehicle home, that it didn't have the window sticker on it (illegal for the dealership not to display the Monroney Sticker). I did thoroughly inspect every part (including the engine compartment and undercarriage) of the vehicle and test all of the features to make sure they worked (and that the manufacturer didn't forget to install something - it's happened before), but somehow I overlooked that. I knew everything about the vehicle prior and got the PDF of the window sticker from the manufacturer.
Idk. If the corporations cared so much they would be pushing a conservative message down our throats all day and trying to get more of their people elected in government

If they wanted “lower taxes” to be the biggest issues they have all the power to make it happen.

The only reason conservative groups do so well is because they are the exception to the majority left-leaning entertainment industry. Conservative thought is highly concentrated to a few sources (in the mainstream)
I can speak about turbidimeters as this is instrument I've designed few of (as in 2 commercial products). Getting into 30 USD would be hard if you want any performance out of it.

Just source of light is going to be some kind of NIR laser, VCSELs are getting cheaper, but it is still nowhere cheap as LEDs. Then you are going to need some form of amplification for your light sensor and most probably two of those. Then some ADC chip and related circuitry, power section and so on.

But thats just a board, you will need enclosure and you want something better than just a generic box as you are going to deal with stray light. Also add some vials so users have something to put the liquid in.

We are talking about DIY builds now, but if you want to sell those: you need to budget for packaging and sending products. But there are also going to be problems: some devices are not going to work or die soon, you will get returns, some products will get lost and you will have to pay for it.

It is dollar here, few cents there but those will add up quickly.
In many senses this is a style thing, but:

There is going to be a pretty sharp break between people who accept that working with a collection deserves special syntax support and those who don't. The readability issue for me isn't that the syntax doesn't look nice, it is that I've invested years into making a very efficient little mental space that deals with "data2 = fn(data1)" style constructs and I want to use it here like I do everywhere else.

Some silly-high percentage of for loops can be cast into this data2 = fn(data1). Why am I being told that it isn't readable? If this isn't easy to read, then something is wrong with the function syntax.

A chaining operator, to recast fn3(fn2(fn1(data))) => data > fn1 > fn2 > fn3 with reduce is much more readable, debuggable and easy to reason about than having to remember what syntax todays language uses to talk about collections and how that works in to the flow of data in my program.
Is "enkiv2" a spammer? It seems like they only post posts from Tedium.
The thing is, the X ray cannot tell you much about the fit, other than that your bones are roughly fitting into the bounding box. Which you already know from the ability to put the shoe on at all.

The X-ray image can't possibly tell you things like that the shoe's upper is too tight over the metatarsals, or that a seam inside the shoe is rubbing on your pinky toe, which will cause blistering.

At the end of the day, a good shoe fit is a simple matter of feel.
You would probably find this article interesting: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/are-we-e...

It starts out as a hypothetical between a couple of researchers that resulted in a paper on the longest-lasting effects of human civilizations.

It's a good read, but the summary is that human civilization has resulted in atmospheric changes which will be detectable 100 million years from now, and we've got that much atmospheric evidence buried in geology without similar evidence for a past civilization.
> They are unsuitable for projects with many developers though.

Please go tell this to everyone on the GNU Emacs mailing list, I think I am not the only one who missed the memo.
The intersection between the public domain and trademarks is pretty interesting.

For example, Marvel Comics recently paid to re-obtain the rights to publish Conan comic books, even though the character and original stories are in the public domain. This result is perverse, in my opinion.
In that case it would be better to inform future customers so they don't buy the faulty lock, rather than throwing together an in-depth tutorial on how to take advantage of the lock. Especially since, unlike a lock, software can be updated to fix the problem.

"There's a known exploit that has yet to be fixed"

But then there's an issue of trust. Without documenting the exploit to the public I suppose no one would believe you.

Nevertheless the consequence of releasing an exploit to the public is that you've also informed nefarious players. Actually it's worse than that. Likely the nefarious players are the only ones paying any attention to stuff like this.

Perhaps what's needed is a trusted third party middleman who can verify an exploit exists without releasing it to the general public?
I think major beneficiary would be the cloners and fake product manufacturers in China. You can expect thousands of questionable quality but very cheap toys with Mickey Mouse theme getting dumped on to Amazon.
Billionaires vs regular people is explicitly a right vs left issue.
As a fellow Gen Xer, I think we've got a healthy approach to our glory days. Did I like Nirvana and Red Hot Chili Peppers? Yes, yes I did. Do I insist that the world stop so I can indulge in early 90's nostalgia? No.
I don't understand why we should listen to him in the first place? Why would we pay attention to what a retired scientist says about a topic that he didn't actually work on? It doesn't sound like Watson actually did any research about possible relationships between IQ and race. It sounds like he's just making random remarks, and people only listen to him because he won a Nobel price some time ago, in a somewhat related, but still completely different field.
If you make the doctor liable, then I don't think any one of them will help in that regard.
I'm a smart person but when learning stuff I often feel really dumb because I ask what should be really obvious questions. It's some weird mix of ignorance and fear of doing it wrong in front of the boss.

"So fasten x to y with a screw."

"Do I drill through and into the workbench too?"

"Why would you do that?!"

(In my mind) well I saw someone else fastening a work piece to the bench temporarily like that and why would the screw be this long then? Oh wait yeah that makes zero sense. My logic centre isn't working fast at all.
I agree it would be way worse if Saudi Arabia had the power to censor globally. If only Netflix would remove VPN restrictions so people can still access it within the country. It was a great episode!
What's a good way to contact you? I agree with you that the majority of articles out there are more general than technical.
I don’t see anything but opinion here. The writer may be right, but doesn’t give any argument that can help readers make their own judgments.
I'm not sure... hell WB will have 3 services... WB/CBS/DC-Universe etc... Netflix, Hulu, some TV alternative (Hulu Live, Sling, etc). It all adds up, and may not be a value. I swear, if the GF wasn't hooked on Bravo, I'd give it all up and just pirate everything again. I honestly do some shows just because it's easier to use my seedbox and grab everything new that I watch once a week or so, and work through the new episodes.
The Tsetlin Machine outperforms neural networks
There is no law (in any jurisdiction, as far as I know) that states a corporation must relentlessly pursue profits. An owner is free to stay out of markets for moral or other reasons without any strategic or financial justification. The only thing stopping them would be other shareholders who disagree. Private, public, public-benefit, etc... doesn't matter.
A homeless person has more time for that. Their time value is lower and so the gain they get from the difference in price between the Android and the iPhone is huge.

They don't care about security updates and all that shit. They don't care about new features. Just not an efficient use of money.

I have an iPad Pro and a MacBook Pro. I only just switched from an iPhone this year. I'm not anti-Apple. But the idea that low-wealth individuals should buy anything but an older Android is ridiculous. I can still use a Nexus 4. It still works.
Because these movies being public domain just means these specific movies are public domain, nothing more. You can recut and remix them, if you wish.

You can’t do whatever you want with the character of Superman and the many elements of his stories that exist outside these works, however.
Have you ever downloaded a Linux distro installer from a torrent? They are lightning compared to not only all of the other torrents but even direct downloads from the hosting sites.
I see, thanks to you and @weego for historical context.

It makes me realize that git is probably some kind of append-only database too (and used for decentralization too).

I guess I can still thank blockchain for having introduced the idea to me.
> Not that it makes it any better

That makes it substantially better.
Very nice. Read the rest of the reply comments -- I'm particularly impressed with how you used a mutually beneficial arrangement to both you and the company to boost your effective salary: lower your expenditures and lower their loss to taxation by offering you perks you otherwise need to use. Forgive me if this is obvious (not from Sweden so not familiar with the regulations there), but is there any reason why you can't negotiate even further down to have them pay for your apartment? Or is it something that you'd prefer to have independent from your job, or perhaps something else?
> the idea of using append-only databases to build decentralized applications

The ideas of a write-ahead log, appended event identifiers as analogous to a monotonic clock, and of state/integrity checking by having log items "check" (-sum, usually) each other have underpinned the most popular databases for decades.
> Maybe "fit" is a better word? Point is, engineers are different and aren't too comfortable around the other employees.

But that's the point. Why do you need the same "cultural fit" between engineering and non-engineering employees? Why does that matter when requests from users should always be funneled through management (so that it can be triaged) and never go straight to the engineers (where it disrupts focus)? If engineering were internally cohesive and harmonious in your company, even if abrasive vs. non-engineering, this wouldn't be considered to be much of an issue.

> Problem is, the in-fighting and bickering is happening with pretty much the whole team.

So, divide and conquer. Split people up and put them with people they don't know. Subject them to strong authority in their new place and watch them fall in line. If they continue to be abrasive, you probably have cause to fire them, but that won't be the case in most circumstances.
I had a similar problem, with a much gnarlier insurer than Allstate, and the answer turned out to be to contact my own insurer (Progressive) and ask to have the claim subrogated --- Progressive paid for my damages, and then went after the liable insurer themselves.