skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazon seller here. It is against the terms of service to ask for positive reviews. It is also against TOS to offer a free product in exchange for a review.

You can, however, ask customers for a review in a neutral way. For example, "Would you be open to leaving us a brief, honest product review?" That is how we ask it.

Some companies, especially supplements companies, have a funnel that gives you a "second month free" in exchange for privately sharing product feedback and your email address with them. Here's how it works for one brand I purchased from recently:

- You receive your first purchase

- You go to a landing page and enter your name and order ID

- They send you an email after 2 weeks asking for your private feedback of the product.

- Once you provide this private feedback, they will send you the free product.

- Before you leave the survey, they ask you if you are open to leaving a product review. They ask in a neutral way and are explicit that it is completely optional. This is to be clear that they are not giving you a product in exchange for a review—you already got your free product for sharing private feedback.

You could argue that this is a gray area, for sure. But for small brands, reviews are incredibly important, and it helps to be able to market to past customers (which Amazon does not allow you to do through their system). Getting a 2nd month free can help build brand loyalty.

Personally, I don't have a problem with this type of funnel, as long as it adheres completely to Amazon's TOS and doesn't annoy or deceive the customer. The customer has to feel right about writing the review, not like they were manipulated. It's very easy to get that wrong, and most sellers who try do get it wrong.

Note that we do not have such a funnel set up for our product as of this writing.

[Edited one sentence for clarity]
An example, for flashlights: https://www.reddit.com/r/flashlight/
It's a real shame warranty canaries are illegal in Australia, it has on several occasions made me feel less confident about software, services or people involved in them here.

src (there are many but...): https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/03/australia_out...
> FINALLY

Identities in comment sections have always been fake and anonymous and this is a good thing even if it results in occasional spam reviews. Legal action to enforce real IDs would make the internet worse.

I don't get it. I'd expect highly technical forums to value anonymity despite its drawbacks but I'm continuously disappointed.
A road that's never driven on suffers damage from the elements, and the passage of time.

A truck does more damage then a car? Great. But there's an upfront road maintenance (not to mention construction) cost that you have to pay, regardless of who uses the road. Gas taxes do not come close to capturing that.
Anecdote warning - I have been studying Old English this year and have found Wiktionary invaluable.
* USB 3.2 Gen 2 10 Gbps
* USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 20 Gbps

Therefore, If a motherboard has two USB 3.2 Gen 2 10 Gbps port, can it be labeled as USB 3.2 Gen 2x2?
Explanatory post of the new parts (inc. ARM64)

https://headmelted.com/visual-studio-code-for-arm64-67c19625...
1x2 requires lower frequency electrical signals I suspect? That might be preferable in some scenarios. Still insane.
This is cool, but I'd love to hear what others have setup as far as developer setup with their Chromebooks? Do you use VS Code locally and actually run your servers/terminals on a VPS? Something more clever locally with Docker or a VM?
The article is about traditional Japanese soy sauce, or shoyu.

An article about traditional Chinese soy sauce, or jiangyou, would be very different. And the products are quite different as well.

Most of the Western world is thinking of Japanese style soy sauce when they just see 'soy sauce', though, and the BBC is targeting a western audience. They do explain in the article that it was originally imported to Japan from China.
I wrote a parallel image processing tool (in Swift) that essentially uses Grand Central Dispatch on macOS to process all files in a directory.

I hit the problem that GCD would happily let me enqueue tasks for processing, but each task would need quite an important amount of memory and GPU resources (because it would use CoreFilters that support GPU acceleration "when available"), which made the computer hit swap and slow to a crawl once the available RAM was exhausted.

I had to create an Admission Control component that would let me enqueue tasks only if there was enough memory left to process the image without risking swap, and that part isn't as trivial as it seems, as getting the amount of available memory for a process is a bit vague on UNIX/macOS/Linux since many OSes of this kind assume you can allocate an infinite amount of memory (see linux's overcommit system) and that the Virtual Memory system will do the right thing for you. Also nobody can guess if physical RAM is going to be allocated by some other process somewhere, so I used a fairly conservative heuristic that probably left some small amount of resources unused most of the time, but would almost never slow to a crawl. Not perfect, but "good enough".
I've never tried any of these devices, but the one thing that comes to mind is that I wonder if you might get eyestrain trying to use it for 8 hours a day. When working on my laptop, I'm constantly switching focus -- looking out the window, then back to the lap top, then at the wall, etc, etc. I think that kind of thing might end up being more difficult.
I setup a Pi hole about 6 months ago and I love it. It has never caused me grief and it has never gone down.

One of my favorite parts is being able to show people who come over to visit all the queries their cell phones make to ad networks while we're just carrying on a typical conversation.
Not only that, if you look at plates, a good portion of the cars around Manhattan besides taxis and hire cars (T-plates) have out-of-state plates. Why should residents pay hefty city/state taxes AND pay more to use the roads (through the new Uber/Lyft tax) so that there is less congestion for people who live out of state and drive in? What behavior is the city trying to incentivize?
This is a huge problem and major source of frustration for legitimate sellers on Amazon. I've had it happen and had to threaten legal action to get a fraudulent seller off of my listing.
> However a statement that "Tesla is going to begin shipping a new model of car" or "Tesla is going to begin shipping the Tesla truck" or "Tesla is going into the solar business by bailing out my other company" or other statements would be material (and therefore subject to pre-approval).

If those are all things that were in a recent public report, I don't see a difference. They're all public information about the company, and they all matter. Anything in the quarterly report should count as fully obvious in a "reasonable investor" context.

> Note that "Tesla makes cars" is itself materially different from "Tesla expects to ship around 500K cars in 2019" (even before considering that the former is true and the latter is false).

How so? If anything, "Tesla makes cars" is vastly more important than their production expectation. Is the different that it's in future tense? That again would only make his tweet less material.
A Reasonable Default Timezone for Every Country
I respect the exciting new direction, but some of these orifices aren't even topologically correct :/
How can AG Becerra seriously contend that it's a crime for the newspaper to have this info, which was inadvertently leaked to them through legal channels?

Didn't the "NY Times vs the United States" SCOTUS case resolve that sort of question?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times_Co._v._United_S...
You say cost optimization, I say safety feature.
Yes, totally agreed. Wikimedia is over funded, yet they beg for donations all the time, and then go spending our money on tens of side projects that have no clear direction, purpose, or goal.

Edit: That branding research is another avenue for wasting our donation money.
We are talking about California. What rain? :-P
I was in a small crowd standing around top fueller being tuned for the next race. The apprentice sat in the cockpit but he accidentally nudged the accelerator for a fraction of a sec. The whole crowd was pushed back as a wave. It was stunningly loud. I spoke with the engineer later: idle to 8000 and back in less than a sec.
Well, I believe that all criminal arrests, trials,convictions and sentences are public records in the US. So in theory, given lists of police officers -- and lawyers, judges, doctors, teachers, or whatever -- you could create such databases.

In practice, it'd be a pain. Because you'd probably need to request records from, and perhaps visit, individual courts.

What's different here is that these are personnel files. Do we want all personnel files to be public records? For lawyers, doctors, teachers, or whatever? For lawyers and judges, that'll never happen. Would you want your personnel files, from everywhere you ever worked, to be public?
Because the flavors are extracted from fruit. (Does it make a difference, given that the chemicals are the same? No.)
Sorry, I didn't intend that you'd use false data filling the CLA. Didn't realise you relied upon the Google Account data in the CLA. If that's the case then yes, don't do that.
I use Gobble and still like it. Unlike BlueApron etc, Gobble is intended to be quick and easy. Like, rather than giving you potato and expecting you to mash it, Gobble gives you the damn mashed potatoes and you microwave them.
Most teachers still making far less than the average U.S. worker
A friend and I just launched an MVP a couple of weeks ago so people in New Zealand (and kiwis abroad) could have a VPN with PiHole hosted here in NZ: https://expatvpn.co.nz - however from the early users it seems everyone's just been using it for their phone mainly. I'm thinking I might rebrand it to be more for secure mobile browsing or something...
Making a display with that high a resolution that stays in the same place with normal head movements and has a 60fs refresh rate and something like ClearType is far, far more difficult than what is being done now. This IS “obvious first baby steps”.
I would also recommend Niki Segnit's Lateral Cooking which aims to teach you how recipes associate with one another. So you just remember core ratios and what adjustments have to be made get other dishes. It's a very lazy-hacker way of approaching cooking that a lot of technical people will enjoy.
pretty much this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psw9G9Lp7ac
There are counter examples like the federal and some state (e.g. California) tax breaks for trucks over 6,000 pounds, providing relief to all of those orthodontists who needed a Hummer to get to the office.
Alright that sounds fairly reasonable. I’ll give it a shot. I’ll probably start by just putting my devices on it and see how it goes.
The situation becomes a bit clearer after drawing a distinction between a broad mission ("feed the starving") and a specific mission ("maintain wikipedia").

I'm ok with donations to a specific mission or a group with a very clear this-is-what-we-need-to-fund style goal and budget, and obviously if they are achieving their mission then they don't need more donations.

I'm not normally comfortable with the broad-mission style organisations. A large pool of money to be spent on an amorphous goal, by a group of essentially unknown people of unknown ability and beliefs? That is a scandal waiting to happen, and probably going to be mired in admin fees and corruption over the medium-long term if it isn't already.

Any charity that isn't struggling to keep the lights on is fundamentally suspect.
I live there; don't know if I could say I was "from" there.
This worked great for a while, but in the last few years reddit has become corporately dominated, regardless of moderation attempts (admins have removed moderators of certain subreddits to accomplish this, would guess based on the spend).
A Chrome plugin that reads and summarizes
These two books have nothing but good recipes. The Food Lab also explains why to cook something a certain way. My food is so much better after buying these two books.

https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Americas-Test-Kitchen-Cookbo...

https://www.amazon.com/Food-Lab-Cooking-Through-Science/dp/0...
The Dangerous Spread of Extremist Manifestos
What are some of the biggest app development agencies used by celebrities/BIG5?
Jumpboxes? You need at least two for it to work though. Update A from B and then update B from A.
Vertex displacement with a noise function using GLSL and Three.js (2012)
And to your point, they absolutely could solve the chokepoint issues with eminent domain, and adding additional arteries, but they choose not to.

For people who think a congestion tax will improve traffic, it won't. Congestion taxes work if they can shift behaviors to alternate modes of transportation. If there aren't any alternatives, it's just a levy.
Thawing permafrost releases significantly more methane than expected and it supercharges the acceleration of climate change, and the earth itself supplants humans as the primary source of Greenhouse gases.
I'm really sorry to hear, but the advice to just keep trying is accurate.

I have had a very successful on-paper career (worked in finance, then dev at FAANG, then co-founder with exit) and have been looking for my next role for over six months. I thought it would be a breeze and I've got rejection after rejection — even for low-level roles I am easily qualified for.

You may be being rejected for reasons out of your control — the recruiter may be biased, your salary requirements may be too high, the company may prefer less qualified candidates they can 'mold' (e.g. over-promise and underpay).

What I found is that no matter your resume, connections are everything. Have you reached out to as many former co-workers for referrals as possible? Basically all of my applications that haven't been referrals have been outright rejections or silence, and all of them with referrals have gotten me at least a recruiter phone call.

Have you lowered your standards a bit? I had to. Maybe you won't work at a FAANG or even a big startup, but that's OK. Expand your options to 'boring' mid-level companies, smaller startups, anywhere you can get a referral.

NEVER NEVER NEVER discuss personal drama or problems at the interview. It's not fair at all but your interviewers just don't care and will only see it a huge red flag. Make something up if you need to. You wanted to take some time off to travel. A family member got sick and you needed to take care of them. You wanted to try to launch some personal projects.

Make sure your application volume is high (50+ applications) and don't stop applying to new roles even if you start making progress. I've made it to a lot of second or even final rounds for jobs that I was sure were going to work out and they didn't.

Make sure you are taking care of yourself — get good sleep, shower every day, eat properly, no drugs, and go outside and walk around and get some exercise. Dress decently. This WILL help you feel better and make a better impression on others. These are seemingly subtle changes but people DEFINITELY notice when someone is sloppy vs. well put-together.

Good luck, you are not alone. Just take it one day at a time.
Probably it’s for cables, in that a 1x2 cable can (I assume) be longer for cheaper than a 2x1 cable.
That was one of the original goals of Zeroconf. In 2002, Stuart Cheshire said [1]:

> My hope is that in the future — distant future perhaps — your computer will only need one wired communication technology. It will provide power on the connector like USB and FireWire, so it can power small peripheral devices. It will use IP packets like Ethernet, so it provides your wide-area communications for things like email and Web browsing, but it will also use Zeroconf IP so that connecting local devices is as easy as USB or FireWire is today. People ask me if I'm seriously suggesting that your keyboard and mouse should use the same connector as your Internet connection, and I am. There's no fundamental reason why a 10Mb/s Ethernet chip costs more than a USB chip. The problem is not cost, it is lack of power on the Ethernet connector, and (until now) lack of autoconfiguration to make it work. I would much rather have a computer with a row of identical universal IP communications ports, where I can connect anything I want to any port, instead of today's situation where the computer has a row of different sockets, each dedicated to its own specialized function.

[1]: http://www.stuartcheshire.org/TheIdeaBasket.html

Sadly, instead of using existing successful networking systems and automating the configuration, we've created a new union-of-all-possible-protocols with a new connector (or 5) and made understanding the compatibility matrix a nightmare.
That’s a shitty situation. Sorry to hear that.

You were doing the lords work.

did you ever consider saying that you work at Wikipedia?
Why not just tax single riders, if congestion is the issue?
Q&Video Answer app for today’s fast-paced creators and professionals
I tried a couple of blue apron kits when they were in Costco. Some nights you have the time and energy to cook from scratch. Some nights you order pizza. Other nights a meal kit is just right.
It’s almost worth it to me just to force a single source of truth for data shape and type.
Are you a creator or professional that loves to share knowledge with others?
Even if archive.org wasn't willing to host the installers because of copyright, they could list known good hashes couldn't they?
Thank you for bringing this up. Uber and Lyft are already taxed. Taxing them more doesn't solve anything.
640k ought to be enough for anybody.
That's not consistent with my experience at all.

Maybe there's a significant diet/lifestyle component? For example I don't derive much of my happiness from the food I eat when not fasting. I have known multiple people over the years who eat almost exclusively comfort foods and it's the only thing keeping them out of depression. They would probably be very agitated by a multi-day fast.

My diet is pretty restricted in general, there's not a whole lot missing after the transition into fasting in terms of my daily life experiences and rewards. It's mostly a small burden has been removed.
You would think that, but as someone who has been in the Natural User Interface R&D field for a decade, I’ll tell you that this is what walking looks like. Our tools as of this year are just on the edge of being able to deliver what a consumer expects. Adding a 3rd dimension makes everything harder and none of the existing assets, let alone functional principals from the 2D world translate.

To get what you just called a baby step is an act of barn raising. By thousands of dedicated professionals, tinkerers, artists, scientists, and large corporations. If we could have willed the “baby step” into being before now we would have. Actually many people have, but then quickly notice what’s lacking and get back to raising the barn.

Here are a couple projects I pulled with a quick google. I have a bitbucket wiki with dozens of similar projects, some in AR, VR, projection mapped, single user parallax, with gesture tracking, with custom controllers, etc... This is definitely one of those problems where it's easy to imagine so people imagine it's easy. Maybe we need you to help! Get a spatial display of some sort and lets get to work!

https://github.com/SimulaVR/Simula

https://github.com/letoram/safespaces
Fuel tax revenue and other direct user fees like annual registration in California amount to less than 25% of what the state and its cities pay to maintain the roads and streets. Roads are massively subsidized from general revenues.

Which is why I always laugh when I hear people complaining about evil subsidized high-speed rail in America. That's just talking points from the airline and trucking industries, which are already far more heavily subsidized than rail.
I think maybe the author extrapolated a moral opinion ("too stubborn"), and then edited out everything that supported that opinion until left with just the confusing title.
What stronger proof is there than direct experience?

Edit: I would never want anyone to "believe" me, nor would I recommend anyone "believe" anything. There is only direct experience which brings knowledge, this is the standard for consciousness work.
That they were in a recent (but not within 2 days) public report is not in compliance with the prior consent decree entered into with the SEC from his prior misleading tweets in the late summer of 2018 which required the company to institute and executives to follow a policy designed to prevent such misleading tweets in the future. The company elected to enact a policy that clearly requires any edits to previously released/approved material to be re-approved and any disclosures more than 2 days after the approval to be re-approved. It is obvious that Musk violated that policy.

The filing is a very quick and clear read (probably less than 5 minutes to understand the essence of their straightforward case): https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5750664-Show-Cause.h...
Agreed twice a week. I purchase two dinner meals each trip along with other items. I eat out the other 3 days. I can load up my large back pack and a few reusable bags and I am easily able to carry everything.

I really don't mind grocery stores and I've never understood the meals thing. But I'm also a pretty boring millenial on my s6 and 17" massive laptop. So who knows.
you can configure what dns servers to use for the “upstream”. you can choose between a series of ones included by default (gooogle, etc) or specify your own
I absolutely love Kaya Toast - I had it every time I stayed in Singapore!
Exactly. Go to any retailer with these green screen Point of Sale systems and watch them wiz around the keyboard.
They actually do this all the time in all sorts of things, it's fascinating. One day they'll be proficiently grabbing things with a full-paw grasp and the next they'll be dropping stuff left right and center because they started using pincer grip or something.
I was worried for a moment since the company, "Cure Encapsulations" sounds familiar to the product line I frequently buy "Pure Encapsulations", luckily they are not the same.

What's interesting is that they only seem to have one product on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2Ef2XH9, for which they are Amazon's top choice for the category. I wouldn't be surprised if one of their competitors made the complaint to the FCC.
This is essentially about cleaning up debt (though brand debt, rather than technical). Read atdt's comment:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19259543
Might as well buy a Thermomix or equivalent
My first thought too. Aw yeah, rod logic!
If I were being cynical, I'd say their motivation is to get people to throw up their hands and say "I don't understand USB any more! Just give me the latest version of Thunderbolt. I know it supports the highest speeds and highest power, including displays and eGPUs, and all USB devices, and works on any new Mac."
So much of my life has been wasted because people want their dates formatted mm/dd/yyyy in their browser..

;-)
2 things to consider: 1) any additional latency is on the 1st request and after that the response is cached for the duration if the record’s ttl 2) because it’s blocking all the crap you have more bw

so overall in my experience it actually speeds things up considerably (even in the scenario of an already fast dns resolver)