skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the bigger story here is whether or not Costco's chicken will improve with respect to the other players in the market.

Consider that the 'big players' have all extracted the costs they felt they could, with the choices they made, and that is the 'standard' product most people are offered. Now we get CostCo which is making different choices and perhaps getting a different result (size, flavor, what have you). In the event that CostCo chicken becomes the market leader and perhaps people are even incentivized to join CostCo in order to have access to their chicken supply, CostCo would likely open a second and third farm so that all of their chicken needs could be met. And what would that do to the profitability of the others?

To my reading, the article implies that these large farms conspire in their offering, otherwise CostCo could just move their business to the one that was willing to meet there terms. Sort of like McDonald's and their beating potato farmers over the head with demands for the specific variety and size pototato they needed for their fries. (which they could do because their purchases were a significant chunk of the market[1])

So without cooperation from the chicken cartel, or perhaps for other unmentioned reasons, CostCo decides to become an agricultural company too.

I'm really wondering if there is some way to disrupt these large agricultural interests effectively. Imagine the Uber for Chicken Farming where an app connects people with extra chicken into a chicken acquisition and slaughtering pipeline for resale.

[1] http://www.nbcnews.com/id/32983108/ns/business-us_business/t...
Yes, thanks! We've updated the headline from “WeChat taking over the world”.
Oligopoly?
A prudent consumer would read the terms of service.
Cool -- just took a quick look, downloaded and I'll be trying it out soon -- thanks!
Battleships were phased out decades ago.

Really, the advent of military aviation made them more or less obsolete in WWII.

There were almost no ship-to-ship battles involving battleships in WWII; they were used almost exclusively to shell inland targets close to shorelines, but there are much more efficient ways to do that and those ways aren't limited to striking targets within gun range of the shoreline.

So it's pretty much carriers and destroyers as far as combat ships on the surface these days. (Not sure the term "destroyer" is used much these days, but the non-carrier surface combat ships are roughly comparable in size to what would have been called a destroyer in the old days)

And then of course you have the many amphibious assault ships, support ships, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_currently_active_Unite...
Resources for a programmer to learn UI/UX design?
My manager has recently asked me to fill in for UI/UX design on my team.

Like most programmers, my design has a tendency to be very functional and not so pretty. I feel I have a decent eye when it comes to actually implementing designs and I am decent at suggesting changes that improve the design and flow of a given page or design.

What I feel I'm lacking is the creativity to actually start designs. I tend to focus too much on the technical side (which, in my defense, has been my job for the last 5+ years) and not so much on the user facing design.
I'm guessing I just need practice and I'll be able to learn, but as I said, the starting point is my biggest hurdle at this point.

I'm wondering if anyone has some suggestions for overcoming this? Resources, tips, stories, etc?
Well in my experience they are a waste of time, but that's just me.
You can use the cloud with confidence...

for anything that you don't mind being publicly associated with you.
This isn't a solution for most people, but I started using the "screen call" button on my Pixel 2 for numbers I don't know, and it's been great. The illegal telemarketers will just hang up, and the number of calls I get have steadily declined.
I think that’s inadvertant and doesn’t mean anything.
Last year I built an automated call screener using Google’s cloud speech APIs.

Extremely effective, runs headless on a $5 VPS box by proxying calls through VoIP, but the added latency is a bit of a no-go.
I added two entries to my contacts:

PHONE on

PHONE off

...when the calls reach a certain volume, I just forward all calls immediately to voicemail, which also says, "I don't answer this phone anymore -- leave me an email."

After a few days or a week, I turn phone back on and see how it goes.

It ebbs and flows.

For business calls, I direct everything to Google Voice.

For personal, my friends/family know they can still FaceTime me or text me and I'll call back.

I don't actually get a lot of calls to my cellphone, and would gladly pay for data without calling.

From a previous thread, here or on Reddit:

"You actually can turn off cellular network calling altogether, if you are willing to do that.

Dial (star)#67# (or call 611 if it doesn't show up there) to see what number your voicemail center is. Then dial (star)21(star)1(that number)#. That will automatically forward all calls, at the network level, to your voicemail.

To cancel this, dial #21#."
Sorry, it was a typo. I was using Chrome 71 when I bumped back into acid3, and the original title read "Chrome 71".

After checking in other browsers I edited the title but missed the 71. Fixed! TGIF
Well, if you used the app, you'll see that these components are largely independent.

IMHO, architecture wise, they are not particularly interesting.
I have never measured it. At worst the main power has gone down for a 2-3 hours and it lasted at least as much. I don't have a USB power meter to measure the power taken by the Rpi so I can not give you an exact number but I would guess it to be at least around 5-10 hours if not more.

Edit: Someone linked pijuice project. I went to their website and according to them, Their 10k mah version lasts 24+ hours

> Onboard 1820 mAh off the shelf Lipo / LiIon battery for ~4 to 6 hours in constant use! (with support for larger Lipo Battery of 5000 or 10,000 mAH+ to last up to 24 hrs +)

https://uk.pi-supply.com/products/pijuice-standard

So, I would say 2i would probably last about the same?
Probably, the cold has something to do with that.
With a couple exceptions perhaps, like Signal or iMessage? But I agree; unless the service is part of a very small whitelist, assume it's public.
This headline/article are pretty misleading. It makes the issue sound like if you had "Protect My Tweets" enabled, your tweets were still public.

From reading the original notice [https://help.twitter.com/en/protected-tweets-android] it sounds like the setting would just be disabled, which then made your tweets public. But not that Twitter's app would continue to say they were protected. That's a pretty significant difference (also by the fact that such a huge thing was not noticed for 6 years I'm guessing not many people were actually impacted)

Also just for fun, I'd wager how it happened is that the developer had some "default request object" that had "true" as the default setting for this and merged it with the updated property values ;) a classic
I thought american tech companies were used in most places outside of the US. From what seen facebook, google, amazon, etc are fairly global reaching at this point.
I think the original title was "Chrome 71 doesn't pass the Acid3 test anymore". Seems like it got edited, but incorrectly.
Deepfakes and the New Disinformation War
I know someone with a common name who was first on gmail with that name. He gets a lot of emails that are meant for different people of the same name.

One of those others was accused in the Lloyds bank libor scandal, and the email came from the law firm they had hired.

Non-software people don’t have the faintest idea how computers work, and more than non-lawyers the law or non-economists money.
Depends on which side wins.
There's a company that implemented this for email using cryptocurrency. https://bitbounce.com/

Any unfamiliar senders get an autoreply asking for them to pay a fee to send the email. You as the receiver get paid this fee (-30%) for each email received (not read)
> We generally know where our families come from

No, not everybody.

Even percentage that are a bit off are better than nothing at all.
Planet Money had a really good episode on the kind of shit the "chicken cartel" pulls off: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/05/09/609890025/epis...
The raw data is what's being called "shockingly similar" by the expert quoted in the article. He considers the final result confusing.
Supporters of Mexico’s Soda Tax Targeted with NSO Exploit Links (2017)
Works in Canada too.

But the more people do it, the less useful it will become.
My understanding with these kinds of tests is that the only passing grade is 100/100
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (Climate change edition)
A thread for companies involved with climate change mitigation. This includes: renewable energy (solar, wind, hydro, geothermal), nuclear power, greenhouse gas sequestering, electric vehicles, meat alternatives, energy conservation, forest preservation, etc.

Post only once if you are personally involved with the company. No recruiting firms or job boards. Explain how the company helps combat climate change prefixed with the usual header format: Name, location, FTE/Contract, REMOTE or ONSITE, INTERNS and/or VISA.

Commenters: Complaints and political discussions are off-topic.

Readers: Email if you, personally, are interested.
Hands down, my favorite living researcher, developer, demo-er, etc of mental, spatial orientation and placement etc is Marcin Maskow Kowalczyk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oU2tKYvDH2g
Facial recognition for chimps searches the internet for stolen baby apes
The modern "standard" is what's called "living". Which means that any part of it can change at any time. This is unlike the old standards that were fixed (if not always adhered to).

Browsers aim to be backwards compatible with popular or influential sites, not synthetic tests.
Safari is at 98, which I guess now means slightly worse.
Bitwarden is nice from a user perspective. I'm a former 1password user and switched because I felt that things in the 1password world moved slowly, even though it costs more than Bitwarden. Bitwarden being open source and audited also helps a lot for trusting it, even if it isn't perfect.

1password has a rock solid UX that looks pretty. Bitwarden is more practical imo. I prefer the latter these days. Guessing the 1password iOS app is probably better than what Bitwarden offers, but I don't know, because I use an Android phone, and I prefer Bitwarden on Android.
This is great, thanks! As someone who previously listened to Apple Music on Linux via the Windows edition of iTunes running using Wine in a Docker container (lol), a proper alternative is massively appreciated.
Acid2 is currently not passing either in Chrome (71.0.3578.98). I'm surprised these never got turned into automated unit tests.
>Most of it pushes these quit-smoking drugs or just different forms of nicotine intake (which is the very drug you're supposed to be trying to quit in the first place).

Wait, what? I thought nicotine itself was pretty harmless, and that most of the harm from smoking comes from all the other junk you suck into your lungs? Wikipedia seems to agree:

>The health effects of long-term nicotine use are unknown. The general medical position is that nicotine itself poses few health risks, except among certain vulnerable groups, such as youth. Nicotine use as a tool for quitting smoking has a good safety history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotine
Facebook employees caught leaving 5-star Amazon reviews for Portal
> You shouldn't imply that oligopoly is not a form of monopoly.

But the article said 'monopoly', not 'oligopoly'.

Monopoly is a form of oligopoly. But oligopoly is not a form of monopoly.

All monopolies are oligopolies. Not all oligopolies are monopolies.

This chicken situation is maybe an oligopoly. It isn't a monopoly.

If you think a situation with multiple supplies and limited competition is a monopoly, then I'd ask you... why do we also have the term oligopoly? What do you think the difference is?
I think among younger people watching porn is a given. It's ubiquitous, especially as production of pornographic media has exploded in the last decade. People post their nude selfies online for fun and seem to be fine. I've seen people I know post their photos on their personal Instagrams. At some point there must be diminishing returns for would-be blackmailers.
The issue with this approach is that if you learn just "the fun parts" you might be left with some huge gaps in your knowledge, all that in-between stuff - especially if you're not a genius like Scholze. Standard approach is perhaps less motivating and you learn a lot of stuff that frankly you'll never need and you'll probably forget most of it, but it ensures that you've at least heard about all the major ideas. One day when you run into a problem you'll know where to look for more details. This is IMO a common problem with self-thought programmers as well, they often end up inventing a wheel simply because they just never heard that solution to their problems already exist in some 70s CS textbook.
The wrist lag is the biggest problem I have with my Fitbit wrist band. It is OK for looking backwards of how my overall work out went, but it is useless for trying to hit a target heart rate.
Sometimes, I'm sad I quit using Twitter. There are some neat people sharing content there.

But the more time goes by, the less sad I get. Their tech stack is and always has been a bit of a garbage fire.
I found the issue. I was zoomed in to 153% which caused the "issues". I am leaving this here in case anyone else experiences this and is confused.
The meanings of words shifts based on their usage. I'm old enough to recognize that the meaning of words change.

Nonetheless, economic principles have a precise, technical definition for Monopoly, Duopoly, Monopsony, Oligopoly, Cartel, and Oligopsony.

Each situation requires a different policy to handle. So its important to choose the right word to describe any particular problem.
No More Deaths Trials
Why would you want to censor free speech? In the proud land where companies are free from unnecessary regulation in order to create unlimited growth, jobs and opportunity?

Snark aside, sometimes I‘m happy about that the bureaucracy monster EU I happen to live in simply forbids crap like this.
We use a very simple method: overlay the position of the head/arm
of the machine on top of the DXF file of the table.

If the supports/bars are in the overlay, the operator DOES NOT
run that part and takes it back to design.
http://acid3.acidtests.org/support-a.png is a resource that page attempts to load that 404's now. I'm guessing that's part of the reason it doesn't score 100%. Not the browser's fault.
Top Data Science Resources on the Internet Right Now
I'm not a communist by any means, I just dislike that the collective community in liberalized, capitalist first world countries diss socialism in countries that would otherwise have been exploited by their own country without it.

The issue here isn't so much that America has bad healthcare, but the fact that Cuba has one of the best medical systems in the entire world while still being a far less developed country. Both capitalist and socialist countries can learn a lot from each other, and it's this diversity of approach that has resulted in the greatest improvements to the living standards of people all over the world.
I have a free google voice number that I give out like candy in lieu of the main number I've had for years and all calls to it are automatically sent to voicemail. I also use the default answering message. This has cut down on 90% of spam calls for me.
We need to fight back and create AI to carry on a dialogue with the spam caller as long as possible.
What seriously there are 1/2 million users on here?
I honestly thought it was in the 10's of thousands tops.

I think it says something about how it is possible to converse with a few people in a crowded room but not notice the crowd.
The whole idea of “capitalism is bad” while the same person enjoys the fruit of capitalism is hypocritical.

It’s about like HN posters supporting “tax the rich” and aren’t self aware enough to know that if they have over $130K year of household income, they are doing better than 80% of the population and they are the statistical “rich”.

https://dqydj.com/united-states-household-income-brackets-pe...
Someone buying a tabloid doesn't necessitate that they believe what they're reading.

You could easily make the point that many people won't understand something without coming across as judgmental and elitist, but failed to do so.
Absolutely do not tell anyone. If you're confident the information is true, start looking for a new job for yourself.

If you tell anyone now and are wrong, you're going to either get fired or forced out. If you tell anyone and you're right, you're just going to be the bearer of bad news.

Keep your mouth shut.
But, priorities!
> Where on earth did I imply oligopoly is not a form of monopoly?

> But oligopoly is not a form of monopoly.

This is wrong, sorry.

It's the other way around, since we are talking about market economies, not literal meanings of words.
On my machine:

Chromium 71: 97%, blocks 2&3 silver, pauses at 24, 64.

Firefox Quantum 64: 97%, blocks 2&3 silver, pauses at 24, 64, 65.

From Wikipedia:

Bucket 2: DOM2 Core and DOM Events

Bucket 3: DOM2 Views, DOM 2 Style, CSS3 selectors and Media Queries

By April 2017, the updated specifications had diverged from the test such that the latest versions of Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox no longer pass the test as written. Hickson acknowledges that some aspects of the test were controversial and has written that the test "no longer reflects the consensus of the Web standards it purports to test, especially when it comes to issues affecting mobile browsers."
Good Point.

Reminds me of that study on the Internet which said that Humans = Monkeys who mated with Pigs; I'm speculating that the Abrahamic religions knew about the DNA link and made it sacrilegious.
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It loads fine for me. Looks like this https://imgur.com/a/lrTMBmE
I don't think government is terrible. I just think that if we want to tackle poverty via government, lack of funds is not the problem.

I think you believe I'm a libertarian and are arguing against their rhetoric, but I'm not - I still think the government should be responsible for most of these services, but if we're talking about them needing more money I'd say they should tackle the huge waste first.

Oh, and the reason I mentioned that number was to compare it against the average salary because it effectively means the government could employ half the country with its budget (not literally, but as a comparative measurement), which makes the huge number a bit more graspable.
Not sure how that helps people who's main number is already 'in the wild'.
I love finding new plant-based products at our costco, but sadly they rotate in and out and so sometimes we lose a product that I would have loved to keep buying. Hopefully I see some of my favorites back in soon. I understand Costco rotates products around sometimes, even if they did well.
Do you get a lot of phone calls from numbers you don't recognise that you do want to answer? I can't remember the last time I answered the phone when it was an unrecognised number.
If I recall correctly, the erroring code originated from the Ariane 4, where it was required to align the vehicle after launch. It was a bit of a perfect storm: the code was left in for diagnostic purposes, a steeper trajectory in the Ariane 5 triggered the bug, and the system had supposedly been battle-tested in Ariane 4.

It's been a while but I wrote about this here: https://blog.bugsnag.com/bug-day-ariane-5-disaster/
If you wget the file you'll see this:

--2019-01-18 13:46:40-- http://acid3.acidtests.org/support-a.png

Resolving acid3.acidtests.org (acid3.acidtests.org)... 75.119.197.251

Connecting to acid3.acidtests.org
(acid3.acidtests.org)|75.119.197.251|:80... connected.

HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found

2019-01-18 13:46:40 ERROR 404: Not Found.
> Both cartels and oligopolies are just more specific ways to achieve monopolies.

"Market Failure" is the word you're looking for. And there's LOTS of ways to achieve Market Failure.

Your vocabulary of economic terms is limited and imprecise. If you study economics more, you'll certainly appreciate the amount of work that the field has put into definitions and policies.

These details are important, especially in a democracy where we voters are the ones who ultimately decide upon the fate of our country. We all have to have basic economic knowledge of these Market Failure conditions, as well as the policies available to combat them.
If you're a foreigner, getting a functioning WeChat account is near to impossible these days. Validating a foreign account involves sponsorship from a local account. Local accounts can only sponsor one user every three months.

This is a policy that has been getting steadily more and more restrictive. I have partners who simply give westerners a telephone with a new account + Sim loaded and bound to a local to avoid hassles.

Life in China today without WeChat is a bit like life in the USA today but communicating only by postal mail and paying for things with traveller's cheques. It's possible, but it's not a world you want to live in.

If WeChat is taking over the world.. it's a world without foreigners.
Right, but once the devs release something valuable into the wild, well, the cat is out of the bag. The implications can be seriously damaging to the company. It can be as severe as invalidating patents or infinging patents belonging to other companies. Can be evenvia a dependency. I can’t believe devs make those decisions without any supervision.

However, if that is the case, I’d love to know how so one can implement similar processes internally!
mostly because we value our own time below the market price to have someone else do it for us. If shipping cost ever plummets then this upend warehouse style stores.
>According to Wikipedia, they still pipe your searches through Bing

So does DDG.
I don’t know why I can’t at least buy lentils from Costco. They’ve got the huge bags of pintos and rice already. They could definitely apply their business model to plant based options. Instead their shelves are prime examples of foods that could otherwise be great vegan but just have animal products needlessly included.
"The Cloud" is like storing your data with skywriting, you can see it from many locations, but so can your neighbors
Farms, More Productive Than Ever, Are Poisoning Drinking Water in Rural America
30 years ago read an article in a dead tree magazine by a firmware engineer. He mentioned clipping and flagging over and underflows. His example was sqrt(small negative number) better to return zero and set a flag than to blow up. Because small negative number is most likely 'nominal zero'
Switch to Linux =) Pop OS is great for laptops.

Joking aside, I wouldn't hold my breath for a decent mac version. Gtk is not really a cross plattform gui toolkit.
Lol keep whining
DNA fingerprinting is so different from whole-genome characterization that it's hardly worth comparing them.

DNA fingerprinting involves:

* Sequence amplification of polymorphic sites by a panel of well-characterized primers, many of which cross-check each other by amplifying over the same locus.

* These amplicons are then characterized by size via restriction digest and simple electrophoresis. No sequencing is performed, only the length of the DNA fragments is characterized.

* Due to population-level variation of short-tandem repeats, analysis of ~20 loci can uniquely identify an individual with a desired level of statistical confidence. The kind of data used to confirm a match in e.g. a murder trial will be absurdly robust.

DNA fingerprinting is limited by the quality of sample collection and handling (i.e. don't mix up or contaminate samples), but not the accuracy of the method.