skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very good points. I concur. WalMart's website is very poorly designed compared to amazon, but they generally have the same goods at the same price. WalMart will offer free ship-to-store that I can get faster than waiting for amazon free shipping, and critically, WalMart allows no-hassle returns of internet purchases at the local return counter. Amazon's return policy is good, but it's more of a hassle to deal with boxing, labeling, and shipping than just dropping off. And of course while I'm at a WalMart I'll grab other things as well, which doesn't happen at the UPS counter. So I assume others have had the same experience and that WalMart share of the online market will continue to grow, particularly if they can move their website to the same experience that amazon provides (a steep task). Their logistics and warehousing backend appears to be at least as good as Amazon's, possibly better, though that's an inference from just observing the customer end of it and not based on inside knowledge.
Sorry for that. I will be moving to a more permanent handle soon.
"Now you can do stuff that you could already do before, but you can do it with your phone. What it takes to make that work is incredible—venture capitalists have poured $672 million combined into Wag and Rover!—but the consumer impact is small. Instead of taking a number off a bulletin board in a coffee shop and calling Eric to walk Rufus, you hit a few buttons on your phone and Eric comes over."

The above is a very cynical interpretation. What it fails to capture is the idea that incremental benefits multiplied by millions of people is a huge NET benefit to society as a whole.

An anecdote: Arrived at the airport the other day and the baggage claim was backed up by about 30 minutes. While 30 minutes is not a big deal, multiply it across the 300 hundred or so passengers on the flight, and you'll get about 6 ENTIRE HUMAN DAYS were wasted due to an operational inefficiency.

But hey, who needs uber when it only takes a few minutes to hail a cab? ;)
Note that they are only shutting down pop-up stores that feature (it sounds like) all Amazon products like Kindle, etc. NOT their cashierless "Go" stores. It sounds like they figured out that dedicated physical locations for Amazon products don't make sense like it does for Apple, etc.
Hi, I'm a Microsoft employee and own the certification for apps. Electron is allowed. I checked with my team
it. The failure is related to browsing capabilities which have to comply with 10.2.1.
Interesting perspective. I've done a lot of black-box optimization, and the first thing you learn is that it's really good at breaking your model. What happens when the fitness function is evaluated on the global economy?
The service mesh era: Using Istio and Stackdriver to build an SRE service
A lot of people have Google / Gmail accounts, with which it integrates very well. Also, most people don't care about ads/tracking, as evidenced by the massive number of people who still have Facebook accounts. It is a leader in web standards and features (e.g. PWAs).

In my industry, it is a very secure solution (despite the vulnerability disclosed here), so it gets chosen for that reason.

I personally prefer Vivaldi (which uses Chromium), but I do choose Chrome over Firefox. I'm not sure if it's the UI or what, but it has never really stuck for me. The thing that would get me to move away from Chrome is if they broke the API for ad blockers.
Yep, chat makes sense. Thank you for actually stating a use-case.
I wouldn't call the arbitrary-precision may engine in that trivial, per se.
FxFactory Pro 7.1.1
If you are doing things right you never say the equivalent of "they're all white" - you give a distribution. Explaining that and what it means is a communications issue, not a data one.
Hi — can you tell me more — what would add more focus to this site for you?

Our mission is to tell untold South Asian stories, not just positive or feel-good ones. Some of what we write actually challenge existing theories, for example: is Netflix actually changing storytelling in India? Did Bohemian Rhapsody tell Freddie Mercury's story well? What does Hari Kondabolu have to say about a post-Apu world?

We're not selling our specific views of South Asia but rather soliciting stories from our writers and audience and sharing multi-faceted views. We welcome stories from all political views and walks of life. We started with a paywall to be able to pay our journalists well.
There are differences. Nobody said there weren't. The parent comment was making an analogy, not positing that the government and the mafia are the literal exact same thing in every detail.
I think you misunderstood me -- I agree with you. Hence, my first comment that kinship (and the culture I choose to belong to) is determined more by values and quality of character.

I too am a "third culture" child in some ways. Born in India, raised in a conservative state in the USA, moved to a liberal state in the USA (which feels like a different country at times). I've even had a liberal acquaintance mention to me after the 2016 election that she "couldn't imagine how much worse [I] felt". Why? Because I am a ethnic minority, I need to be extra upset at the result? I resist this trend of treating any "group" as a monolith that all of its members has to adhere to, otherwise be labeled an apostate.

The one area I kind of disagree with you on is that you come off as very individualistic, which is admirable. But at its extreme, it can become a caricature, much like an Ayn Rand novel. Every human willing or not is part of a community, and the effects of its treatment in that community will reflect on its psyche. I referred to the book on trauma because it shows that psychic experiences can become embedded in physiology (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics_of_anxiety_and_str...). And not every individual has the self-determination you do to craft their own identity and resolve their traumas without some level of communal support.

In the case of African descendants of slaves, I'm not arguing that they don't have control over their destiny. Rather, that ignoring hundreds of years of stress and persecution is a myopic way to address historic imbalances. In order to control your future, you have to know your past, and yourself. I think a good example of this in modern life is Kendrick Lamar, who has a beautiful song "i" which is about self-acceptance and the freedom to determine your worth. He even got in trouble for arguing that Black Americans should look inwards first and resolve their internal struggles before trying to change the world (https://www.npr.org/2015/12/29/461129966/kendrick-lamar-i-ca...)

I too am worried about people polarizing based on superficial qualities like race or sexuality. Where does it stop, and why draw the line there? Why not a "asymmetrical face" group or a "under average height" group? Both those groups also probably experienced institutionalized discrimination, but have no torch bearer yet. But we don't fix this problem by yelling at people to be more self deterministic (they would say you have some form of privilege and ignore you anyway). We fix this problem by acknowledging their grievances and usher them into the greater community so that power mongers don't divide and conquer.
Dehydration most likely.
Comments like this are horribly counter-productive to people struggling with mental illness.

Imagine saying to a diabetic, "Why would you want to be continually reliant on a designer drug for the rest of your life just to feel normal?" Or closer to target, to an anorexic/body image patient, "Just eat!"

For some people it truly is life or death with anti-depressants. Some people are in shitty situations with dysfunctional brains that are actively working against their best interests. Is it really that bad that literally taking a pill solves some people's issues. Perhaps anti-depressants are over-prescribed, but damn, a pill that aligns your brain to be able to rationally handle day to day issues seems pretty neat!

If you're successfully treated by a generic anti-depressant, please ignore the hyperbole of the above commenter. If you feel you no longer need the support of your medications, work with your psychiatrist to safely wean off them. There is no impending dystopian nightmare nor is there any shame is taking anything daily to manage your mental health.
Going forward, cops breaking the law will be an anachronism. Record keeping of human society will only perpetuate and render privacy obsolete.

You could grow the notion of comparmentalized information in such a society to create a kind of decentralized system of checks and balances. Eg you see footage with faces hidden and review the morals, vote etc

Could even crowd source such a thing. Surely, related AI efforts are in progress, for better or worse, e.g. FBIC (Facebook intelligence community) info gathering mechanisms

The law itself could eventually evolve to be more dynamic, decentralized
blockchain != exchanges holding your private keys
Oh yes - definitely related. And I would also say, sometimes those benefiting from it were able to leave, too
The thing is, exchanges pool funds and users on exchanges do withdrawals all the time, and sometimes send to these services.

The lack of an auditable cold wallet was a huge red flag. So was their multimillion ether loss (how would they cover that!?!?).

But even with public cold wallets, the public doesn’t know how much crypto or fiat is owed to users.
How much has the cost of healthcare, rent, and college tuition gone up on the past 10 years?

It's great that I can get a decent laptop for $400, instead of $1,600, but that's barely a blip on my spending.
What dose for cbd? Does it get expensive?
Unfortunately the "web" link doesn't fix this "thread"/x nonsense. How does one invoke the tool that makes these readable?
What is the basis for saying that two single people can deduct the same interest paid? How could this possibly not be fraud? You are double claiming the interest.
Don't know why you got downvoted, it's a good question.

A "protocol" sits on top of things like I2C, SPI, and CAN.

Protcols answer things like: "How do I send more bytes than the underlying transport can take in a single transaction?" "How do I exchange data when hardware has different characteristics." "How do I minimize the power or time needed to exchange data?"

Different protocols have different strengths and weaknesses.

Remember: part of my complaint about this "protocol" is its "verbosity". If you are on a battery or are bandwidth constrained (Narrowband-IoT, LoRA, ANT, etc.), you want a protocol that exchanges short messages. Time is certainly something that you don't want to require lengthy messages when you are trying to set up.

Too many people think "embedded" means "runs a Linux installation larger than the average computer in 1996".
1) Read the Snowden dump
2) Good job pointing out that those shady assholes keep their nasty actions as secret as possible. They do that so that we don't have solid metrics, so we have to go on the information available. See (1)
I'm just surprised it's opt-in for dev builds.
For people on mobile, the quoted section is:

> If he was building an experimental amateur-built (E-AB) category airplane, then there was likely no regulatory issue.
Just because all the other reactions are so hostile: even granted that some people are less susceptible to advertising, our susceptibility will vary. There will be times when we are tired, preoccupied, upset, distracted. Advertisers can afford to blanket us with advertisements, to lie in wait for our moments of weakness.
If you set the creator's Stripe account as the destination account when issuing a charge you can take a % and not be considered the paying party (don't need to send reports of payouts): https://stripe.com/docs/connect/destination-charges
It sounds like you're saying that acceptance criteria are hard to define when there's high uncertainty (a lot of activities are high risk of not yielding anything interesting), which makes sense.

In that case, it seems like...

* acceptance criteria over "explore" activities (e.g. achieving failure, we are running X high risk/ high reward activities per Y period of time; someone signed off on its value before running it)

* acceptance criteria over "exploit" activities (e.g. I need to produce these very clear things of value)

In retrospect, though, I think my research community (in psychology) was very open / interested in learning about dead ends. The weirdest outcome is when an advisor learns something from research, but then feels like its obvious, so the research gave them something, but is perceived as low value.
Do you expect anyone to believe the Tiobe index? They say Apache Groovy has risen from #60 a year ago to #16 now [1]. This is obviously wrong since software sites have been dropping Groovy for other JVM tech.

[1] https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/
'Stacked micro-houses' are probably related to 'blocks of flats' as 'tiny houses' are to 'mobile homes' - a way of selling traditionally lower class housing to middle-class hipsters.
> Does anyone actually use this abbreviation?

More common in plural (vulns). However, it sounds oddly vulgar in my ears.
Lloyds TSB used to do the same. No idea if that’s still the case.
Trump Cancels U.S. Report on Civilian Deaths in Drone Strikes
Firefox to add Tor Browser anti-fingerprinting technique called letterboxing
I feel like when someone has to count plus signs to see what the code is doing it's a bad sign.
I don't think that many are. Most people I know who live within ~3 miles use the T, bike, walk, bus or even rollerblade! (parking is expensive in the city). It's the middle to outer 'burbs that have to drive (unless you live on the commuter rail).

Interestingly, plenty of people who live in towns on the commuter rail do use it, but they all complain about packed trains, crappy service when it snows and of course if you miss one, you're waiting another hour for the next.
"An unkind summary, then, of the past half decade of the consumer internet: Venture capitalists have subsidized the creation of platforms for low-paying work that deliver on-demand servant services to rich people, while subjecting all parties to increased surveillance."

The whole "rich vs poor divide" angle is nonsense. Like the article admits, all of these services were available before, but now they have the form of an app. The money goes to develop and advertise the whole show (creating jobs), but also to subsidize the labor. In effect, these services are more affordable than before. Uber is cheaper than a Taxi. Having your groceries delivered can be cheaper than doing it yourself, even if you earn small.

All that venture capital comes from the rich and goes into the pockets of those who aren't rich. It's dumb money, the same kind that made pets.com (a ludicrous business) go to a 100 million dollar market cap. As soon as that capital dries up, these shops will close down, or raise prices. They will never make their money back, because nobody will be able to maintain a monopoly on a service that almost anyone can perform. That's also why the labor itself will stay cheap, no matter who the middleman is. It's not like these jobs were highly lucrative before all these capitalists walked in.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18817249

Maybe we should add something about this to https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.
Gaming is full of tricks - e.g. I liked how Bioshock developers said that they made enemies deliberately miss their first shot so the player has time to react.

Or how many shooters lower incoming damage and increase outgoing damage as you come close to dying to create those "I survived with 1HP left!" moments.
Amazon offers drop off returns at their retail locations as well. Also at their lockers, but you do have to box it for the locker.
> But isn't this exactly the kind of thing everyone expects to be doing

Apples and oranges. I think the scenario here would be analogous to a shooting range hiring and training an instructor, and then the instructor accidentally shooting someone due to willful negligence.
Super obnoxious paywall. You can grab the content by doing a quick Apple+A, Apple+C.

https://pastebin.com/572stP0A
AI and Machine Learning Invade a New York Art Gallery
that sounds like a drop in the ocean that is fb's massive and growing userbase
I have heard good things about https://www.inwx.com/
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News?

Also, going on about downvoting breaks the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Automated solar calculator. Point to a roof, get a 3D model and use some model to estimate how much of roof you can cover with panels.

Guesstimate the build cost + total solar input per year. Get instant payback number.

Use LIDAR to establish some sort of canonical clothes size format? Not just S, M, L, XL that only works for your region. Maybe you don't even need LIDAR, but I'd love personalised clothing.

If it's cheaper than thermal cameras - perhaps some use for lifeguards, especially in night?
What's the healthy amount of unwarranted wiretapping?

Let's not pretend the NSA is fighting a war on terror. It's an economic espionage machine, and an assault on the freedoms guaranteed by the constitution. The same constitution many men died to protect and uphold.

If honor, country, and integrity mean anything to employees of the NSA, they should perform their civic duty and do as the patriot Edward Snowden has done.
All good points. I think that Amazon sees this issue and working with retailers (Kohls) to set up locations that you can drop items without having to deal with the boxing, shipping etc.

It will be interesting to see how to two bridge the gaps from opposite sides. Amazon moving from online to physical | Walmart moving from physical to online
One consistent thing I've heard never to consume because it destroys gut bacteria is diet soda.
That's a silly way to evaluate utility, or at least your example is. Let's shave a minute of sleep off of everyone in the world. In just one day we will gain back 14 THOUSAND years of productivity.
Particularly the episode where 'Daisy' catches fire. This being some Disney themed car that is made of wood and came with lead acid batteries.

The dramatic fire happens after the Tesla batteries go in. Luckily some quick thinking saved the day and no buildings were burned to the ground.

Regarding his ambitions for a shop, I think that there is demand for the services of someone who knows the innards of the Tesla and happens to have a lot of spare parts. If a Tesla owner is going to have their car in repair for months and they have the choice of someone else having a look at it, to maybe fix it for less than what Tesla would charge then there is a niche there.

The crowdfunding is also about publicity. Sadly banks don't invest in businesses as a general rule, hence the crowdfunding option beckons for many people who should be able to go to the bank with a business plan, borrow the money at today's low interest rates and pay it off.

With crowdfunding you have to pay the funders something or be begging on a charitable basis. With the bank it should be a straightforward business proposition.

Anyway, I wish Rich the best of success and his willingness to show incidents such as the fire.
I convinced that neural network will never be interpretable like code. They will just get even more complex, so to employ them in critical applications (my motivation is more healthcare, where similiar constraints are present. People can die if there's a wrong prediction) we have to build a notion why we allow something and what we don't allow without some human in the loop getting convined that the reasoning itself is sound. I think this boils down to assumptions about robustness (like the l2-norm adversarial examples in image classification) and statistics.

to 1). Neural networks are code, they are always 100% the same if you ship it. So you can test them way more thoughly than some equipment, which (i hope) would allow you to minimze the chance of failure to a reasonable degree.

to 2) "you don't know when or why it won't work." I think a fundamental disagreement lies here. I am convinced that this is not possible with these complex function approximators, where we just optimize them until we are happy. If we adopt a thinking like above, we can retrain the networks with these additional inputs, adjust our notion of robustness and think whether there's a flaw in our statistical assumptions.

But these are just random thoughts. I am in touch with people working in healthcare with this stuff, so there's some exposure to these kinds of problems. But I have never read any work discussing these issues or really reflection whether my reasoning is actually sound.

Maybe I'm wrong and we can somehow make them interpretable in a sense that is actually relevant to verifying them.
So Tesla should, as they are expected to, by law, provide training and repair manuals to third parties.
The tradeoff there is that you can no longer depreciate the portion of the house that person lives in. Not sure which is bigger, but being able to effectively push current income into the unrealized capital gains on your home is fairly attractive.

On the other hand, you need to be charging market rents with the intent to try to make a profit in order to do this on your taxes, and that means keeping track of rent payments and reporting them. And any profit here could mean that what would otherwise be an untaxed sharing of expenses is now a taxed profit-seeking transaction.
Most of the registrars have been acquired by other companies and are only the previous name for marketing purposes. I am not happy with any of the US or EU registrars beyond Mark Monitor, and MM are not meant for hobby domains/users.

Do you prefer US or EU? For US, you might try out Cloudflare or Amazon route53. I don't care for either of them, but others I know have been happy using them.

When you get your domains back and if you can afford it, you can pay for up to 10 years. Most registrars will give a discount. If they offer more than 10 years, don't do it. 10 years is the hard limit, which means you would have to trust that registrar stays in business more than 10 years and most will not.
> lacking in human morality simply because it isn't human.

You seem to be under the impression that humans would do the right thing. This claim is repeated without justification. In fact, the claim is ridiculous on its face because corporations are certainly human, given that they are run, operated, and staffed by human beings. Claiming them to be 'not human' is simply copping out facing the depraved reality of human existence.
This seems so much more difficult than just giving people good 2fa options. oath totp, u2f, even SMS would all be better than this implementation
Facebook isn't going to lie on their quarterly filings on user growth. It's far more likely this random company's polling methodology is flawed.
Article discusses the differences in measuring what a user counts as, so the numbers are difficult to pin down exactly. Anecdotally, I still _have_ my account, but no longer log in. It has been 2-3 months now, so I ought to be counted as such - that is, not an active user despite having an account. I don't use insta or whatsapp or messenger either - but I still have my FB account.

I wonder how many people there are like me, with nearly dead accounts but could still be 'counted' if you wanted to.
Evan You (creator of VueJS) makes ~$16k a month on Patreon, plus an untold amount of fees for speaking at conferences. They also have an open collective which at the momement has a budget of just under $67k/year. It's hard to say what the money is actually used for, but at least some is used to pay for "VueJS maintenance" which probably goes towards paying Evan as well.