skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good find, although they're not out yet by the looks of it? And also pushing the price of a TX2 if you want the dev board plus a vision carrier (though it does have 3 VPUs).

I was referring to the Movidius Dev Kit which exists, but seems impossible to buy as a consumer.
Yes, all libs give you vendor lock-in, which means unless Next is a particularly egregious example, there's not much point calling it out as a particular wart. My argument is that it's closer to the opposite, because as far as web frameworks go, Next does this better than most -- very little of the code you write is different just because you're using Next, your code is just normal React code. This is a huge contrast to something like Gatsby, where the lock-in is much stronger.
You mean scale the renderer to infinite $$$$ ? It's a lol.
In a non-serverless environment, i could control that scale better without scaling $$$.
I think this is reasonably analogous:

My kids school has a "chocolate table", at their fair, you pay a pound and win chocolate, it sells out really quickly. Why don't they procure enough chocolate to meet the high demand?

Or, other are asking "why don't they price out the poor kids - there enough to seek only to the rich kids at a higher price?".
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> but that's just an engineering and motivation problem

Its a feasibility problem mostly.
Or lasers, standing in front of a radar installation, getting fried by a giant toaster. Take a tiny piece out of you and cook it in a microwave then put it back. Harmless? What if it came from your central nervous system?
I've had this experience with doctors so often it is chilling.

Elderly relatives writhing in pain, only to have doctors say it's indigestion (it was a perforated ulcer and an uncle had previously died from a wrongly diagnosed ulcer perforating). My partner was misdiagnosed with flu when it was pneumonia which then developed into pleurisy (I'd never seen either of the latter, but was telling the doctor that's what the symptoms looked like - 15 years later he still suffers pain from the pleurisy). I had an arm paralyzed through severe pain and the consultant doctor planned an operation "to cut the nerve" - I said I thought it was a frozen shoulder and that such a procedure was unnecessary; 6 months later the paralysis began to subside and the consultant agreed it was a frozen shoulder). Another relative died of bowel cancer that was said to be back pain (she died in the hospital where she worked). I know of several people who were telling the doctor they had cancer, only to have the doctors dismiss it as trivial, with most of these people dying because of their untreated cancer. As a child I had joint pains for years that were diagnosed as "growing pains" but turned out to a hip disease (younger cousins ended up with the same condition and because I'd already had it, they were more readily diagnosed by family members).

In both directions (treating trivial as serious and treating serious as trivial) I've seen so many mistakes. I'd be much happier to see a doctor google the symptoms rather than jump to a conclusion about what is wrong.

There's a famous anecdote where junior doctors are taught the importance of observation, by senior doctors tricking them into tasting urine. It doesn't seem to be a lesson they learn. Even when their own objective test results are contra-indicative of their pre-judgement I've seen doctors scratch their heads but stick with their incorrect pre-judgement.

When doctors I know have a family member go into hospital, you should see how attentive my doctor friends get concerning what is being said and done to their relatives. Some doctors will not even allow relatives to go into hospital for non-emergency treatment at certain times of year (because of timetabling there can be very inexperienced doctors on duty at certain times of the year).
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Roger McNamee seems to get it, the iPhone was probably the most successful technology product in history, and arguably the "most" successful in anything. It leads to a sea of other innovation across multiple spectrum.

On the Notes of Retail, Apple had ~430 Stores in 2014, ~460 in 2015. As of end 2018 it is ~510, all the stores opened in 2015 were planned before Angela's arrival, so effectively she has slowed down the opening of new Apple Store under her tenure.
During that time, Apple grew from ~800M Active Devices to 1.4B, that is 600M Devices increase, but less than 60 new Stores opened, if you are wondering why it is so crowed you cant even breath in Apple Store, that is why.

In 2015 I made a prediction that Apple could be aiming at 1B iPhone users by 2020. It seems crazy at the time, and a lot of people did call me so. But as of 2019 Apple has 900M iPhone users, so the 1B iPhone users doesn't seems to far off. I also thought Apple should be aiming at 1000 Apple Stores world wide. Apple Retail were growing at approximately 10+% before 2015, it was possible to reach ~750 by 2020, now not only have they not accelerated, they slowed down.

From reading all the latest Interview, it finally seems to me this luxury Apple idea didn't came from Angela herself. It came from Tim Cook ( or may be even Jonny Ive ), he wanted Apple to be more luxurious ( Apple Watch Gold Edition in 2016 ), and get Angela on board to try and help shaping the Retail part. Angela never wanted the job in the first place, but Tim Cook talked her into it. And one reason why her salary package were the highest in Apple.

I hope having Deirdre O'Brien meant Tim Cook gave up this idea of luxurious Apple. At least not luxurious in the normal sense, Apple is an affordable luxury in tech world, and that is drastically different to clothing or Jewelry industry. iPhone needs After sales services, and you cant rely on a small number of Apple store to provide adequate services to its customers and loyal users.
Humor is tough partly because it's a tough crowd, I guess, and partly because there aren't as many native English speakers as there are on, say, Reddit.
>"Before shoes were invented, demand for them 'didn't exist'. But I assume you wear them, and would be averse to eliminating them from your life, because they make your life better."

I don't wear shoes because I see ads for them, I wear shoes to protect my feet from the elements and to lessen the impact from walking and running. The demand has been there as long as people have existed, because all people who ever existed have experienced foot pain and damage. It was not some novel need that people only realized because of advertisements.

Please note that I am not against personal recommendations and word of mouth, unless it is deliberately manipulative and/or directly financially motivated.

>"Do you have a smart phone? How did you find out which smart phone was good? Did the idea for a smart phone emerge unaided into your consciousness, and then you set about asking every individual on earth whether there was a company that made such a device, and then lo and behold you discovered Apple? No. You didn't. You either saw an advertisement, or communicated with someone who did. That's how you found out about nearly every product you own."

I do have a smartphone. I found out which model to buy through reading the spec sheets and independent reviews, and by asking friends about their phones and trying them out. As a result, I ended getting a phone that wasn't bogged down by shovelware and actually had the specs I needed, most notably a long battery life.

Did some of my friends buy their phones based on ads? Maybe, but now you're severely stretching the definition of ads influencing my purchases.

So no, I choose not to let advertising unduly affect my purchasing habits.

Of course, this all depends on your definition. If I sign up for a newsletter from a band, and they tell me they have a new album out, is that advertising? Unlike the unwanted advertising you see on billboards, in magazines and online, I explicitly opted in, and I can just as easily opt out again. So I don't consider it advertising, I consider that a subscription to a newsletter. Similarly I also don't consider a manufacturer's product page as advertising, since you have to make an active and deliberate choice to look up the information in question, it is not presented to you unasked and unwanted.

I do obviously have a problem with those examples if the information is misleading or otherwise flawed.
In any case where a 'fuck you' is warranted deadpan silence works better.
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Here we can read: A thread full of thought-out responses and arguments why an option to close your account is necessary - on a platform that doesn't allow you to close your account.
It's 2019, and a PNG file can pwn your Android smartphone or tablet
I'm on salary, but I do feel similar pressure as well. Even though I'm being paid more than decently I'm still looking for additional gigs, but what is hardest on me is the feeling that I'm loosing time and a lot of money if I do not manage my side projects everyday and I do not grow constantly even though my main side thing is not designed to bring me any money I feel really bad when I'm slacking.
> asinine

"Asinine" means "extremely stupid or foolish", and it's a very harsh term. Are you sure it's the word you were looking for?
There are, what, 6 million or so voting age people in Switzerland.

6 million x 3 to 6 million CHF = I’m confused.

1 CHF = about 1 USD?

36,000,000,000,000 CHF four times a year. M

I know I’m very tired. Did I miss something?
https://www.volkswagenag.com/de/news/2019/01/VW_China_delive...
Very interesting point about the wire. Seems like a great idea and definitely worth exploring, but imagine if that wire got cut ;)

> but spinning asteroids isn't realistic

Ceres isn't an asteroid. It's a dwarf planet. It's not a pile of rubble. It's big enough to be round from its own gravity. The only object in the asteroid belt with that status, actually.

> That would imply that the ground/rocks etc literally floats away in space

Yea, but they considered that and planned accordingly. The entire station is underground and the surface is heavily reinforced.
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they've got their right to do so and I understand there's a huge pain body associated with the SJW term.

However, it was a shame that we got into a bit of warfare around the semantics of a word when both I and these people who were analyzing my use of the word are most probably against people creating hate-blogs against someone's product :(

thx for taking time to write the comment, I appreciate it
Mobile phones are a commodity now and the large majority of consumers use pre-pay phones, replacing them only when they die, get stolen or are lost.

So none of those benefits really matter.
People wouldn’t spring for the same exact deal at that price? Seems a lot of people are fine with throwing 70 dollars a month just on the service even with tons of alternatives that are a fraction of the cost.
Sorry but I disagree. Just take any of your a bit bigger React projects and transform them to Next or the way around. In. One. Hour. And production-ready please. Good luck, man (this is vendor lock-in).
It's really bad at first. I compared it akin to prostitution. It gets much better as you get used to it and make lots and lots of mistakes. Learning curve is about 5 years for me.

I've been tempted to write an ebook on the process, if anyone is interested, but somehow I feel like I don't know enough.
Had did you transition from the hourly work to weekly? Why do you think your clients are more accepting of 10K for 3 weeks vs a 20K quote?

When it comes to products do you have any thoughts on competing with big players? I have a few now, I am hoping being local will get me in the door and make the client more comfortable with me than a website offering it as SaaS.

My advice for consultants / freelancers. Setting yourself up as a general company with a name goes a long way. Not as John Doe consulting. Some larger companies don't like throwing money at a self employed consultant. If you show up as Compu-Global-Hyper-Mega-Net they treat you differently. Also people skills is spot on. Even if you do have people skills, it can help a ton to have a sales guy working for you as well.
That's not how finance works either. Moving up from one level of production to another can mean acquiring new warehousing, creating new distribution channels, etc.. Can mean need to increase head count (and thus risk). Risks being left with excess product - eg if a competitor comes on the scene.

Those risks are worth it, perhaps, to achieve higher profit. But if the risks are merely to satisfy some demand for cheap gadgets, rather than meeting the educational aims of your org, then "there's more to life, let someone else do that".
hahaha, just created mine yesterday and I didn't know that. I don't think it's as bad when all they require of you is account name and password (so no data to be sold, presumably) and it's free — I do get the "irony" though
I wonder what the effects would be if the airlines had to put a clear statement directly above the "buy now" button, like "You might not be allowed to take this flight if too many people turn up for it, see our compensation policy if this happens here". It shouldn't make a difference at all if it's actually "widely known" to all participants, but I suspect it actually isn't.
I'll check todoist as well — thx for mentioning it! Hopefully yeah, it will become the standard to facilitate even the churn process
Freelancing doing what?
I do remember Tandy. In fact I Nearly included them in my previous post but declined to because of how long ago they closed. However I hadn’t realised they were the same parent company as RadioShack.
I remember the painfully slow loading times as well as the excitement over these classic illustration
scans back in the 90s.

IMHO though we live in a "post scifi" age now (2019!) and should rather discard most of the mainstream utopian/dystopian fantasies already. At least until we manage to envision some pragmatic solutions to the very real and pressing problems we have on this planet right now.

We need to work together if we want to even have a slight chance to survive the next couple of decades collectively. We need some genuinely new utopian thinking if we want us all to survive.

Most of these billionaire "backup" plans as well as middle class "prepper" movements are dangerous distractions (and unlikely to "work out" for the cohorts pushing for them anyways).

If we like it or not we are in this together.
I love this saying.
You might find these results interesting: https://bjoernkw.com/2016/01/15/survey-for-it-freelancers-ho...

They're from a similar survey I conducted about 3 years ago.
oh damn, thank you. what browser are you using? I'll see what can be done
Got you. When I choose something as trivial as a barber or some other day-to-day service, I look at this— do they answer to complaints on Google Maps reviews?

I don't mind them making mistakes — everyone does. Will they blame it on me without even listening or will there be a mature human being with whom I can talk?
The rock960 boards do look nice, and tick a lot of boxes in terms of peripherals. My only concern is documentation.

There's a review here though: https://fossbytes.com/rock960-review-affordable-six-core-arm...
If your threshold for vendor lock-in is one hour, there's no point discussing this. But I could probably do it in a day or two, which is good enough in my mind.
You shouldn't feel confident in something just because it's a common belief. You should feel confidant in something because you've researched it well.

If you're feeling confident about something without having done your due diligence, that's a separate issue.
> What about: man foo | grep bar

I prefer to search from within the pager to see the option description in context:

man httpd
/-n

Then 'n' for the next hit or 'N' for the previous, like vi. This is for 'less' in general, not just man.
I have a different view. Add another column to your ledger labelled 'living a life'. Value every hour in that column above your rack rate for work. Now the whole equation changes; all the motivations change.
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Possible it’s changed since you cancelled but when I signed up last month the email address (which@which.co.uk) was printed in the jacket around the first magazine they sent. When I emailed to cancel I got a response literally within minutes (at 0044 — guessing its outsourced) confirming that they’d got my request and would process it.

Surprisingly painless, given their website says you need to phone [1].

1: https://www.which.co.uk/help/our-policies-and-standards/1973...
There is also an estimate of 50 million dead as a result of starvation as a consequence of the colonial invasions of China in the late 19th C

See Mike Davis' Late Victorian Holocausts

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Victorian_Holocausts
I just have to say that Gatsby has a lot of work to do to reduce the amount of boilerplate and tweaking involved for creating say a simple blog site. In some parts I feel they are over-abstracting maybe a little too much at the cost of simplicity. Eg. the spagetti required to render blog-pages from markdown is pretty ugly.
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For me it is exactly the opposit.

I started freelancing, because I wanted freedom over my time.

While I probably undercharged by a huge margin in the beginning, at least I only worked when, where and how much I wanted.

I still made 20% more than with my last employment job, so I didn't really notice.
They mean "3 to 6 M per vote" as in per election, not per citizen.
The interesting bit starts at https://sobolevn.me/2019/02/python-exceptions-considered-an-..., where it introduces a library for wrapping errors in return types, even if it got little to do with the headline. IMHO the article would be stronger with a title about what it presents and without the first half.
I tend to think exactly the opposite. When I try to cancel I want to see a page that lets me cancel, not a survey to ask why I'm cancelling. It feels like a last ditch effort from a clingy, depressive/low-self-esteem lover.
Very nice service, looks well implemented. Do you have plans to monetize this?
EDIT: Do you remember when a browser has already donated?
Speaking of GOT, I know for sure I'd love it to death given I've been through LOTR some years ago but I'm so afraid it'll get me addicted and I won't do shit until I'm done with the 6-7 seasons (idk how many there are)

Thx for the example. Surely we can learn from it. But as I mentioned above, I do see the value in it for those who do it in a dying industry. Obviously value for them, not for the end consumer — I naturally don't stand up for doing that given what I written in the article. It's as if they're trying to cling to every last penny they could get in the short-term because there's no more long-term
our investigative report about the e-voting at swiss post and its technology partner scytl:
https://www.republik.ch/2019/02/07/the-tricky-business-of-de...

> The Tricky Business of Democracy - For its prestigious electronic voting project, Swiss Post is relying on technology provided by the Spanish company Scytl. But reporting by Republik shows that the e-voting market leader has misused EU funds, bungled elections and encountered security problems during voting.

disclaimer: I work for Republik
I am not sure how much article is misrepresenting the seriousness.

I travel air Canada 30+ times a year. GTE strictly means what it says - you don't have seat assigned and you may get one at the gate. They cannot help you at the checkin until they know who all is boarding. So from that perspective strictly, I understand that sending them to gate to await their destiny,rather than try to resolve at the checkin counter. At the checkin,you are a Schroedinger passenger - just don't know if you'll make it or not. There's nothing they can do to you there.

I do not believe it is correct to imply that GTE absolutely means you WON'T be boarded and thus its a complete lie. I have had that on my pass and have boarded - granted I have a bit of priority (lowest status level). Colleagues without status have had same experience. You just don't know.

Article also doesn't advise strongly enough to do an online or early checkin.
This makes sense, if you got a job that you care about and like. If not, you're working 100% of your time on something you don't like.

At least with freelancing, there might be a chance that you might enjoy an odd project here and there ...
> Geneva doesn't want to bear the costs anymore.

Which is doubly unfortunate because their implementation was released under the AGPL[1]; now it's the only one that is any kind of free software at all. The Swiss Post, however, only gives the minimum possible license grant (that also requires you to sign up)[2] that applicable law[3] mandates.

[1] https://github.com/republique-et-canton-de-geneve/chvote-1-0...

[2] https://www.post.ch/-/media/post/evoting/dokumente/nutzungsb... sections 6 and 7: You cannot even redistribute the code!

[3] https://www.admin.ch/opc/en/classified-compilation/20132343/...
Hmm, well that's quite interesting then, because the ability to notice nuanced flavours should have more to do with the smell of food than whether the taste buds are desensitized or not.

If your sense of smell is still good, it is very likely that you do taste all of these things, and the problem is more one of attention. The simple thing to do is to train that. Simply eating more slowly and trying to focus on what you smell when chewing should already make the flavours noticeable to the brain. It is easier if your nose does not have to "compete for attention" with the other senses, so closing your eyes will help, as will being in a noise-free environment.

As for the taste, if you don't notice salty soup your taste buds are indeed likely t obe desensitized. But even if you "grew up" on food too rich in salt and sugar, that not a permanent thing. You could try a kind of "taste detoxing" month - reducing salt/sugar intake to essentials for a while by setting strict rules to what kinds of sugars are allowed. It's hard for various reasons, but it works - WheezyWaiter made a very entertaining and IMO "neutral" video showing his experience trying it[0].

So you should be able to address both if you want. I recommend it! In general, getting in touch with one's senses is an enriching and fun experience (not just for tasting food).

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBtslkL5nUA
Which we both agree, is a bad thing.
Paywalled. Any chance of a rough summary?

Most of your posts are China stories also?
Yup, same here.

Apparently I'm a moderate deutan according to one of the online tests, but the only time I have any trouble with anything is with the colour blindness tests, in real life, never - completely fine with electrical wiring, photographic re-touching, display reading etc etc.

I've never mixed odd socks, worn the wrong colour by mistake or anything else apparently colour-blind people have trouble with.

Quite happy to keep better night vision and ability to wander around in bright sunshine without squinting vs a completely non-impacting deficiency. :)
Why is there toxic waste for zero-knowledge trusted setup / MPC?
It's very hard to beat the traction that the Pi has. I think because it's explicitly targeted towards people without any embedded experience, there's been a lot of pressure to make things work and to make the documentation somewhat organised.

Intel made some nice little boards, but there wasn't much publicity and actually getting started with them wasn't easy at all because the docs were buried. They were usually modules designed for integration, not standalone devices.

With the Pi you can buy a kit, plug in the SD card and boot ot desktop in minutes.