skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me that is easy. If used for personal use, make it free (and thus, more popular plus free bug reporting for bleeding edge versions). If used for commercial purposes, not free. Then go after businesses that use unlicensed copies of the software.
Yes, and indeed they were generally better than the two American choices.
> Yo, grocery store shopping doesn't suck bad enough to pay someone else to do both the shopping and delivering! I'll pick up the pre-picked-up/bought groceries. I don't need you to delivery them directly to my fridge; I think I can handle that part. Just bring them out to my car when I pull up.

Re: Pickup

Where I live (a huge city) this is easily an hour minimum affair. And I mean just going to, finding parking (the pick up spots are always full on weekends) and getting back home. And that's with the grocery store being a ~10-15 minute drive.

This isn't even considering the fact that I really don't enjoy grocery shopping. It's anxiety inducing for me. It was worth the $20-30 for me, personally.

I'd usually be at home doing chores I miss out on during the week while waiting for my order. Greet the delivery person, fridge the stuff and get back to chores/enjoying my infrequent time off.
OP here. FYI, I put this project off for a bit, but I am working on it again. Happy to get feedback or answer any questions.

ps. always interesting to see the HN traffic effect: https://imgur.com/yPMgwql
Yes it is a threat. Consider Hitler - democratically elected and serving the wants of the majority. Subsequently he dismantled the democratic institutions and sent millions to their deaths.

Democracy, in the modern sense of the word, isn't the unrestrained rule of the mob, it's a system of checks and balances that represent interests of various groups of people in order to make a more perfect union.
Technically the IRS gets a cut, but yes, no private entity needs to know.
Did you buy on margin? Otherwise I don't see how you could get rich from a 6% jump in the stock price.
>This is usually your right half because setters are usually right handed and will set routes that lead to you working your right half more.

This is not my experience and not something I have ever heard more advanced climbers talk about. Strong climbers climb outside which isn't set for any style and then go on to set inside based on that strength. If you are overworking one side it is generally a technique issue which can be overcome with practice.
As a consumer, are you surprised that your tip is being used this way? I'd operate under the assumption that someone was being paid some sort of fair compensation, and my tip was an addition to whatever comp they earned.

Also, it's not clear to me, are the drivers told their comp for the job before accepting? Did this person know they would earn $0.80/hr?
Whatever they're willing to pay and you're willing to accept. Likely less than they're billing your time for.

Just remember that the company has costs on that time. Both through direct tax on the income but employers also tend to pay out for things like your space, hardware, liability insurance, and other intangible benefits you get while employed.

The expectation of work from an agency is also significantly different than a freelancer. When you're talking to a lone wolf, you expect a level of flakiness, perhaps you'll need to be more hands on to manage them through your requirements. With a digital agency, I would expect that money to cover the local management of you. And if you screw up, I expect the work to be put right for no additional fee. I also expect their liability insurance to be a lot sturdier than a freelancers.

All this stuff is essentially what would be covered by introductory sales contracts. I don't think I've done work with an agency that hasn't tried to —on day one or two— laid out a vast document of everything that isn't going to be their responsibility. These cause endless fun in negotiations. And as part of this, I also understand that part of the $165 is going into the pocket of the jobsworth sales team who just happened to take my call.

I've worked with and for agencies. The bad ones are horrible places places for developers. Very rarely will an agency developer have enough freedom to do something good enough that it makes a sale. Not in the way that Art and Sales teams can. It's an unfortunate truth that managers are more than willing —IME— to exploit.

That is not to say you're not worth more than you're being paid. As I lead, pay is entirely negotiable. Understanding your actual value to the employer is critical to extracting the best salary though.
FaceTime (a little bit different case though) 2 days ago, GMail yesterday, and Office 365 today.
Service is defined by how satisfied the customer is. Being attractive and flirty is a component (maybe not absolutely integral, but still a value-add, I think most would agree)
That's quite a broad generalization. For sure a lot of the biggest names have done ethically questionable things. It's no doubt that growing that fast and gaining that much power is going to hugely amplify whatever ethical flaws the founders have. And no one is ethically perfect. That's not to excuse Uber, Facebook, Google, Amazon or any of the more egregious companies.

But it's just a case of confirmation bias if you didn't look for counter-examples to try to disprove your theory.

Are the following companies ethically perfect? I doubt it. But I haven't heard much bad about them and they have changed my life for the better significantly: AirBnb, Dropbox, Stripe, Rappi, WhatsApp, Square, Netflix. I bet I could find others.
It's not ready for release yet (in a week or two maybe), but I'm working off the idea of a pay-per-use email service. Instead of a flat per month fee, you're charged for resources used. It looks like it'll end up being about an order of magnitude cheaper than other paid email services so far. Hopefully from there it'll be a good base to try out other improvements to email too.
“McKinsey’s research found that diversity has the most obvious impact on financial performance when it is found in executive teams and roles that are directly in charge of generating revenue.”

Here are the ratios of men to women in the boards of directors in the top three companies by market cap in the world:

Apple: 3/15

Amazon: 2/9

Alphabet: 2/11
>I'm assuming you're recording at least 2 minutes worth of audio in each of these tests?

Occasionally I record hours of audio with Audacity without an issue, and don't hear any cracks pops, when I listen to it, and I certainly would have noticed absent words. So I'm pretty sure the issue is either not present or extremely rare.

You can hear for yourself http://s000.tinyupload.com/?file_id=08701491608992765221 Sorry, it requires amplification, and I clean in the background.

>Do you hear distortion and cracks if you touch it with headphones on?

Since I don't hear anything wrong with audio, I assume it's pretty sturdy. But I'm pretty sure your issues are not caused by the connection. Digital stuff either works or not.

Around the time it fixed itself I bought a new power supply. But I don't remember if it affected anything. I higly doubt it. What I remember distinctly is how I was amazed at the lack of latency/delay in Audacity after an upgrade to 16.04 from 14.04.

>Ubuntu or compile from source for everything

You can just try installing a different distro onto a spare drive to test if the issue goes away.

As for compiling everything from source -- how many super fresh dependencies do you really need for development 5? 10? IMHO it's reasonably tolerable with manually built libraries in a custom prefix. And programming languages have their own package managers pip, cargo etc.
Also to note: status pages are, by their nature, transient. Having a record of what it previously said is helpful context for any discussion regarding those prior contents.
> "The logistics of laser-guided-bomb-type delivery of groceries from store to fridge is asinine."

Eh, most grocery stores have offered delivery service for decades, but this service typically isn't advertised to the 'young yuppie/hipser with disposable income' demographic because traditionally it's been assumed that the people who need/want grocery delivery are the elderly and infirm.

If you go looking for it or ask about it, you'll probably find it's available. It's much less formal and digital than instacart; it's typically not as trendy and sexy as a smartphone app. But that's likely a reflection of the target demographic they have in mind.
This is in line with a place I worked at (more towards the lower side). It wasn't the sort of job you could just freelance for, it absolutely relied on a team doing "enterprise" work for large clients using very industry-specific tools and experience. Relatively easy work but basically impossible to get out there and do yourself.
> When people thought the Earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the Earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the Earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the Earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together.

- Isaac Asimov
Instacart is defrauding their customers, who believe the tips are going to the driver, not straight into Instacart's pocket.

Customer awareness is the free market solution to this, if that's the hammer you want to use to fix everything.

Maybe grade school should focus on reading comprehension.
The problem is that corporations have people beat in terms of being able to obfuscate their business practices. While certainly true that people can often cause a business to change its actions when a big scandal come out, it's usually only the very obvious or very stupid, or relies on quality investigative journalism or things to quickly spread on social media to a large enough amount of people - and despite this seemingly happening regularly, it's still a drop in the ocean compared to the amount of companies doing morally grey stuff.

However, laws and independent bodies specifically created for the purpose of regulating industry and researching consumer effects are much better than people at finding out the broad effects of company practices. They are specifically reviewing and analysing company practices and making targeted recommendations on effective regulation.

For me, relying on consumer driven action is ineffective, it certainly should be a part of any society, but with the pace of society today, you can't rely on people to be able to have the time, information and energy to vote with their wallets - especially when it often hurts their wallet to do so. Governments and independent bodies have to lead the way with the support of people. I'm painfully aware of being privileged with the time and wealth to be able to vote with my wallet, but I think the majority of people have neither for most of these boycotts.
Not rude at all! Appreciate the comment.
I don't rule out that there is a bug in there. I did not spend much time on that part of it. It was definitely a side track of that project and had nothing to do with the main model.
I do have access to real-time data, but not historic data. So cannot back-test it, that would be interesting. Real-time data can be scraped from ATG.se, the only bookie for harness racing in Sweden.

Also, I dont suggest anyone go out and place real money on anything like this.

The main point of the article is that its not that hard to get the basics of machine learning and actually doing things with it.
>Low probability is not 0%. Whatever the probability was, it was real that they could have given him 30 years. Unlikely? Yeah. But I'll bet you wouldn't play Russian roulette at those odds; whatever they may be.

But that's the question. The probability is not 0%. It may be %0.01, or %0.001. Can either of us find any existing cases where a defendant with Aaron's background received a 33-level sentence increase? I would propose that that has never happened in cases with similar circumstances to Aaron's. If you can find one, I'd be interested in the citation.

In the absence of any examples, my argument is that the chance of a 35 year sentence is not functionally different from 0%, and Aaron (and any other defendant in this situation) should have made decisions based on the 99% of sentences they were actually likely to receive.

One last note: you mentioned playing Russian Roulette at those odds. Russian Roulette normally has a 16% chance of death. I wouldn't play RR at 16% odds. Would I play it a 0.001% odds? Probably, presuming the benefits of playing RR were of significant value to me.

Aaron's chance of a 35 year sentence was not 16%. It was also not 0.0%. It's somewhere in-between, and unless you have evidence that shows otherwise, I'd personally guess it was below 0.01%, and his choice of suicide remains a tragic one. YMMV.
Or not funny. Suspicious coincidence. Hope it is just that and not outside actors testing things.
oh really? employer paying way less than minimum wage because employee gets to keep some of the tips is shocking news now? ever heard of restaurants? they have been doing this for decades.
This is absolutely illegal. They are defrauding customers. No one would voluntarily add money to an order if it was labeled as "donation to Instacart" instead of "tip". They are deceiving customers to get money from them.
The tip economy SUCKS. When will it stop! Now it's part of the future that is being sold to us as the new nirvana. Why can't things change?

Employers love it since they can underpay. Some employees love it since they can make a very good living but that's a fraction of the total. But overall it creates an economy subclass that's constantly struggling. They have trouble paying the bills. It's tough work plus they have to deal with upset customers even though they likely had no control of the situation.

I'm a fan of a permanent surcharge on the bill rather than having to deal with giving a tip. Pizza delivery places have a delivery charge now plus a fuel surcharge, as far as I am concerned they can add a service charge too.

Yes, services will become more expensive. But over time an economic equilibrium begins to appear at which time we can reevaluate and change. But the last thing we need to do is bring it into the future.
I will not use any of these gig economy BS companies.

They're often exploitative of workers and this is just exactly the kind of thing that reinforces my decision to never stay at an AirBNB, never take Lyft, Uber etc.
The google term you want is "tip credit" -- it is common and legal federally and in most states to deduct tips from your hourly wage. Washington state is one of the few where tip credits are not legal.

This is a very common setup in other pay structures as well, such as commissioned sales where you are paid a "draw" (such as minimum wage) and you don't paid get any commission until your commissions exceed minimum wage.

What's more, the tip money did go directly to the driver; Instacart just decided to pay less.

It's a pretty inhumane thing to do but on the face of it I don't see how it's wage theft. Welcome to the gig economy.
> What is there to be afraid of? Put it out there so it is open to criticism. Why suppress it?

Wasting time and money that would be better served publishing better science. Not sure if these articles qualify, but it's a legitimate concern.
Average per customer is based on the Apple ID. User base is number of devices. Don't have a quotable source though.
Democracy isn’t two wolves and a sheep voting on what’s for dinner.

(That’s populism)
> the rich, powerful and elite are also not responsible for anything either? Just individually?

The distinction is that money provides opportunities, poverty is the lack of them.

You can hold the wealthy responsible for what they do with their wealth, or what they don't do with their wealth. Because wealth is something they HAVE. The poor, on the other hand, don't HAVE anything, so you can't say they are using their lack of wealth foolishly, nor can you say they are failing to use their lack of wealth wisely.
Yes, this seems like the most logical place to start, especially with so much being shipped now.

Dumpsters are constantly overflowing with cardboard boxes. It has also basically been done before quite successfully with shipping containers.
When the subject matter involves autocrats and populism godwinson's rule applies a bit less since hitler is directly within the discussion.
He/she just means that if a bet is genuinely underpriced, the expected value of taking it will be positive. (So if you can reliably find these bets, you'll profit in the long run.)

The odds reflect the horse's supposed chance of winning or placing (or whatever else it takes to get a payout), not its expected position -- so this isn't a case where you can be aware that the horse is underrated, but have no way to make a +EV bet on that knowledge.
> More than anything else, what made the difference was time.

Because it's impossible to fake the age of a domain. If you have a long-running site with lots of old links from other long-running sites, it has phenomenal pagerank power.

I am aware of this because I have been a volunteer admin and the DNS contact for blogs dating back to circa 2004. My inbox is an absolute river of people sending me offers to write articles, infographics, helpful "corrections" for "broken" links etc etc et bloody c.
Where do the limits that are supposed to govern the behavior of a democratically elected politician come from? I will tell you. They must either come from law, or from ethical philosophy that has been reified, for lack of a better word, by the state into law. For this to be so, one of two things must have happened. Either the state imposed these restrictions with disregard to the will of people, or they were imposed in accordance with the will of the people. If the former, they are illegitimate. If the latter, they are arbitrary (the product of a particular people at a particular time) and therefore subject to change.
I downvoted this comment because it's got not one, but two complaints about being downvoted. Also, because it seems to be very low empathy ("Why shouldn't we reward thieves if they're effective thieves on your behalf?")
Here in Texas, grocery store workers often start around $10 / hr.

Borderline living wage, but a lot better than being exploited by some BS company like InstaCart.
Enforcing standards of scientific integrity is not censorship insofar as the rejection of a submission is based upon its failure to meet those standards and not because it contains an unpalatable but well-founded assertion. Accordingly, it's not a "lose" for anyone involved in the publication, including Thiel, to support the rejection of junk or pseudo science.

When you say "once the nutters get together and make a bad decision," you're treating it as if it was a single thing or collection of things that happened at a single point in time, but that's not the case here. It's an ongoing thing, which naturally raises the prospect of a pattern. Taken together with what appears to be solicitation of submissions from people known to traffic in junk and pseudo science, I think it would be naive to not suspect an agenda on someone's part.
(just tip in cash)
Hmm, what I should have said is I think Netlify modify image filenames to do cache busting on deploy so I'm guessing old image filenames eventually get discarded. As long as you're only relying on fairly recent image filenames from your API it shouldn't be an issue.
Thanks for sharing this! As someone who writes in Go every day but stopped following it a while back, I had no idea you could even call Go from C much less Swift.
but it doesn't have to be that way. even here in SF, we have DSG races that only cost 5$ for a 5K or 10K. Sure there's no timing chip or free bananas or trophies, but you get your time and a chance to compete against others.

As for shoes, I've been running 5-10 miles per week in the same pair for over 2 years and haven't worn them out yet. Yes, Nike/special performance ones do wear out much faster and fall apart in less then 1000 miles. But, if you get a cheaper pair from target or other department stores, they'll last a lot longer.
The 5s has the same screen as the SE.
Regardless of how one feels about Facebook, has anyone stopped to ask why Facebook and Zuckerberg are getting such an avalanche of negative coverage from the mainstream media? Why have they suddenly united against him?
PledgeMusic, Once a Crowdfunding Haven for Artists, Now Owes Them Thousands
Nope: http://www.dam.brown.edu/people/mumford/vision/introvision.h...

Tim Gowers is interested in automated theorem proving too!
They are also committing fraud by telling customers it is a "tip" rather than a "donation to Instacart".
Propaganda and asymmetric warfare trying to disrupt the information commons is something to be afraid of...we have some large events of the last 100 years that make us wary of people who use propaganda as warfare tactics.

In the short term, propaganda can get an entire country of people to do just about anything. In the long term, people come back to themselves and tell the charlatans to take a hike. The big danger, as borne out all across history, is to invest concentrated power in someone to take care of the problem. People like Cincinnatus are rare, and most people don't give up power once they have it.

The public discourse will eventually relegate the nutters. Lose Free Speech, not just in the letter of the law, but in the spirit throughout society, and you lose the public discourse. That's not somewhere we want to go.
> since age is a hard thing for black hat SEOs to fake.

You would be surprised.
Office365 still has a desktop executable, parallel to its online program. It's not all browser-only. I think that's why you two are talking past each other.
I jumped to the last couple paragraphs of that piece as most of it appears to be issues that do not have proofs within the theory of evolution. Assuming these issues are presented truthfully, they are valid and should be addressed. If they cannot be addressed within the evolutionary framework this does indeed mean an alternate theory is needed.

The author's alternate theory is that "the basic laws of physics have been designed to generate a cosmos adapted for life as it exists on earth." This theory is not falsifiable. It does not provide any insight into why things are the way they are, while evolution provides incredible insight. I see zero reason to believe this work is anything but ideological.
"software which demotes overheated discussions" is pretty noticeable. It seems as soon as a story gets more comments than it has points, it drops like a rock from the front page.
The advantage is having something more optimal than the web stack for application design, specifically than HTML, CSS and the DOM, which while surprisingly capable given their origins, are still a series kludges and necessary evils.

If we decide that the web stack is what Web Assembly runs in both on and offline, then we're stuck with the limitations of those formats forever, rather then at least trying to come up with something more fitting.
Backups and Restores of Linux Containers in Crostini Targeted for Chrome OS 74
Google in general doesn't like anything that intersperses an additional page between the searcher and their destination.

Part of that is user experience - their goal is to get the searcher to the information they need as fast as possible, and it's hard to slow them down more than by putting an additional page between them - and part of it is corporate strategy. Anything that helps organize the world's information - particularly information connected to a purchase, which is Google's revenue stream - is potentially competition.
GPUs have a very high memory bandwidth, and can be used to perform memory-intensive operations (think decompression, for example).

You can load compressed data up to the GPU, decompress it there, and run very complicated mathematical functions. This can be very beneficial when you run a JOIN operation.

See a comparison here, with SQream DB (a GPU accelerated data warehouse) vs. some unnamed data warehousing solutions - https://sqream.com/why-im-not-afraid-of-sql-joins/