skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The price of strawberries needs to reflect the real costs here which include paying pickers a living wage.

Replacing pickers by robots only masks the problem

What? If we had robot pickers then maybe we could get strawberries to be cheap enough that everyone could afford them, not just those who are wealthy enough to not worry about such jobs.
PSA: iOS has a feature that puts your phone into DND while you’re driving. Turn it on if you haven’t and you find yourself tempted to use your device while driving. Maybe it will save a life.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208090
Unprofitable if you exclude alumni donations, to which most come calling all the time.
Bootstrap-Sass Backdoor
>I haven't seen any company founded by university faculty that have survived and made impact

Bose, Broadcom, Qualcomm, Financial Engines, Genentech, MathWorks, Boston Dynamics, Pixar (I think it counts), Arista Networks, MIPS, Rambus, Duolingo, Sun Microsystems. Depending on what your cut off is for made an impact, I'm sure there are dozens more from Stanford alone.
You can memorialize the account of someone dead without too much difficulty, they get a "Remembering" tag on the profile. https://facebook.com/help/103897939701143
I did a little comparison between the bold weight of Helvetica, Helvetica Neue, and Helvetica Now, and the new typeface does look really, really nice. The letterforms aren't too noticeably different, but the kerning and relative positioning of the letters have been tweaked in such a way as to make the font appear more pleasing and readable (at least on my computer display). I'm also pleased this new font is available for use on websites via Fonts.com and in mockup work via SkyFonts. I'm definitely going to keep this in mind for future projects.
I'm with you. Its nice to remember, and it's nice to see the annual post when all the people who loved them can reminisce.
Birthday reminders are one of the reasons I've practically abandoned Facebook.

Seeing people wish you happy birthday on there by clicking a button encapsulates how false the narrative is; if the reason you remembered my birthday is that Facebook told you then we don't have a relationship where you should be sending me a birthday message.

The only thing more annoying is that now LinkedIn does it too. That's just weird.
> People who has aphantasia also report that not having dreams.

I can't visualise while awake, but I have visual dreams.
> it's still quite large for a native app

It's not native (as in native windowing toolkit), it's Qt based which is probably where most of that 30MB is going, MSN Messenger is/was built on win32. Still, in the age of electron apps that's a huge improvement, it's good to see real desktop developers still exist.
This is a good book on the subject: "Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective" https://www.amazon.com/Why-Greatness-Cannot-Planned-Objectiv...
At least if you're using the tax prep software I did it offers a 'payment plan', which seems like an upfront way of asking to have wages garnished post-taxes due, instead of before (like W4?s do)
I think it’s quite legible at intended sizes, though. Around 6pt or less.
Oh okay, so a better way to correct the behavior would be...

"Johnny it's really KEWL that you rigged the election, but it also made us sad. Please don't ever do it again."
Why is writing hard? We already use Filestore across multiple VMs in read-write mode. We ensure that writes are unique i.e no two machines will use the same filename. There are also no file modifications.
Ditto. I was twice nominated a while back, by existing MVPs, didn't get it, and had the distinct sense it was because I didn't tweet or run webinars or whatever to the glory of MSFT. What I did do was write and release some pretty decent free tools with .NET, and participated extensively on anything to do with Active Directory or ADFS. It was rather demoralizing.
Ugh..this is like a high profile humble brag and it makes me sick. Look at me I can't visualize things in my head (something very difficult if not impossible to prove) and I'm the head of an animation studio that visualization is one of the key assets of someone that is good at this, and I'm still successful.
But inefficiency can't get rid of $5,000 when less than that is left after simple transfers.
Whatever problems Udacity may have as a business, I will always be thankful bc they're responsible for me getting into software development as a career. CS 253, Intro to Web Development by Steve Huffman of Reddit, was an incredible introduction into full stack development.

Udacity has always taken bold bets about the future of education, and I sincerely hope that they survive and thrive, simply because of their willingness to push the envelope.
That isn't relevant to the context I'm talking about. Any kind of actual composition of text should only happen while stopped; E.G. at a red light (and ideally NOT while first in line).
Ask HN: Is there any good use for old Bitcoin miners?
I have a few old miners sitting around, they're 100% not profitable at this point. Is there any use for this gear beyond BTC? FWIW I have BFL gear, cointerra, knc, and some really old blade erupters.
> I would argue someone at Facebook should've been brought up on criminal charges for this "experiment".

What criminal law did they violate? Or are you saying there should have been a law against what they did?
If the developed countries really want to attract more talents, there is better way to specifically targeted on those individuals. Asylum is not for this purpose.
I don't do webdev, so my primary use for the inspectors built into browsers is to right-click-inspect-element and delete offending elements. I find myself doing this especially on Wired articles.
PKI, 3652 organizations that can read your HTTPS traffic and Netscape
Folks in Europe comparable to the ones you are talking about here (i.e. the 50th–85th percentile) are generally much more financially stable/comfortable than in the USA.

Varies a lot from country to country, but in general they have e.g. more-or-less functional healthcare systems, better parental leave, more vacations, easier access to childcare, stronger worker protections, ....
I don’t think it’s clear from the customer perspective what you really get for $1k. Sure, it’s a lot cheaper than going to school but if it means nothing to an employer than psychologically it feels like money spent rather than money invested. I’m sure they have partnerships with some cos to offer to their employees but seems like investing on enterprise sales for employee training could be a more fruitful route than b2c.
That's how it works in the UK too. By default taxes are taken from your paycheck, and that's the most interaction the majority of people have with the tax organisation. If for some reason you pay too much tax (e.g. you start/quit in the middle of the year) they will automatically send you a cheque with the refund.

Even if you are self employed or run your own company you can do most things online, with a nice easy to use form. Last few years when I've done it, it takes around 30 minutes to get everything done (including finding all the numbers I need to enter from banks, my accountant, etc).
There's a post on HN of Linus's first version of git (that I can't find). It's short.

There's another reason git is a great choice as a large project to build: you can get something that works very quickly, and then just add to it. Because that is how git was developed. It's like Gall's Law, but evolving only additively. And although Linus was inspired by BitKeeper, it was stripped down to its nakednes, til no longer anything to take away (like Exupery).

Also why git's UI design is so terrible.
1. This is false, and
2. Even if SF doesn't have this issue I know for a fact that NYC does. Someone told me you can go to central park and just look up at the skyline and entire buildings are just black because they are just parking cash for money laundering operations. It stands to reason if this is happening in NYC it can very likely be happening in other high housing price areas.
3. Why would my argument benefiet from setting up a strawman in this situation.
4. Do you know what a strawman is? Its where you set up a logical argument on a false premise and then knock it down yourself. My logical argument was that there are houses being used purely in SF for investment. What am I knocking down about that argument?
How long before they spot Gemini or Leo?
>What they offer is replaceable instantly by any single university in the world which offers a course for free and hosted on YouTube.

I completely agree with this.

>I don’t have a solution but I think online education has not been solved. Clearly there is a lot of innovation but nobody is making it.

I don't think the problem is online education, I think problem with these ed-tech companies is that they still are trying compete with the credentialing system of universities without access to all the student loan debt the latter have access to.

Gotta love the choices HS graduates can get funneled into/ reinforced by mainstream opinion today: bootcamps, nanodegrees, or loading up on student loan debt if you can edge out agaisnt the legacy/bribery admits.

I think what people are really trying to solve is a cheaper credentialing system, that get's distorted by some of the incentives involved.
I fon't understand how can you get there if you shouldn't be allowed to enter another try in the previous attempt, with a lower countdown.
>"In mid-1963, engineers in the Poughkeepsie and Endicott laboratories had begun exploring the possibility of adding special microcode to the control stores of computers to improve their performance when simulating earlier IBM computers.”

Does anyone know did IBM invent microcoded control stores then? This is pretty fascinating.
That they're not visible on mobile is a feature, in my mind. The mobile reader is on the go and wants the short version without flavour text.

At least, that's why I did it the way I did at https://two-wrongs.com.
This is not an Android feature being removed, it's about a dev. tool supporting certain features being deprecated (not removed, identified for future retirement) in favor of one supporting a more robust superset of features.
So just to be clear, I didn't know people were not like me, but writing this I realized it explains a lot.

I rarely forget a face, and routinely remember random people on the subway. I don't say anything but I'm almost always the person who remembers the other person first, and it almost offends me that someone doesn't recognize/remember seeing me when I remember them. I can usually tell who people are based only on gait and body proportions. I recognized a girl once just from her hair color, and it wasn't something noticeable, just a very muted blonde almost brown/gray hair, but I only knew one person with her height and hair type.

I have incredibly powerful imagery. I woke up once after realizing in my dream after breaking a window that the glass shattered with incredible physical accuracy, both material properties, and physics. It's in dreams that I notice certain things, like how did I know water/smoke/fire/cloth reacts like that? how did I know light bounces in that way? how did I know that subway tracks looked precisely like that? Like I never took the time to study any of it, but the real world accuracy and a high level of detail is there. I can visually take objects and rotate them in my head, I think someone mentioned this and I can confirm. And I always found it suspicious people couldn't rotate something they see in a 2D picture in their head (or at least they would say something that implies they have no idea what it looks like from another angle).

Having said that, I think there are parts of my brain that is so stunted I sometimes wonder how the hell I got to where I am. I feel like I have several streams of information coming into my head, and I have to process them asynchronously. I zone out all the time because I'm having a "Doug" moment (if anyone remembers the cartoon), where I'm vividly daydreaming. The images are so strong, it seems to black out what I'm really seeing (but not really, its more like getting extreme tunnel vision and being hyper focused on your imagination). Traumatic memories are terrible. I see and pretty much re-live bad experiences over and over again. I can sit still, not move physically and play movies in my head for hours. To be fair though, I'm probably closer to the other extreme, and to me the benefits outweigh the cons.
Ask HN: What Are Your Thoughts on Pre-Employment Testing?
Hi All!

Finding quality employees is difficult. The standard interview process is tedious, time consuming, and we have found ourselves spending hours interviewing bad candidates. We think all this time could be better spent, so why not test job candidates before you meet them over the phone/video/in-person? We searched for a solution online, but none fit our needs. They were all pre-packaged employment tests and weren't specific to the job requirements.

Recognizing this problem, we created https://employblue.com, a DIY pre-employment testing platform to help teams save personal and company time. What do you think? Anyone think this is useful or helpful?
The bill has dozens of provisions around taxpayer protections. One of them is to affirm the Free File program. That's not the only thing in the bill at all.
If he is walking 10 miles a day that's ~1000 calories. Assuming he needs another 1500-ish how is it possible to eat 2000+ calories in one sitting? I imagine in reality he is grazing on snacks/fruit all day or something but what do I know? I'm CEO of 0 companies...
I took one of their Nanodegrees a while back.

On the one hand, I wouldn't say it was a total waste of money. The production value of the videos was very good, the Jupyter notebooks were invaluable as practice, and the structure was passable.

On the other hand, I felt like they should've focused more on having deeper courses. It tried going into too many topics in such a short amount of time. To add, the amount of lecture material was far too small compared to a typical university course, which I was okay with since some university's posted related lecture material online.

In retrospect, it was a fine course as an introduction, but as a paid course for a Nanodegree I wouldn't have recommended it to others. I think people would be better off spending that money on books which go far deeper into whatever material they are interested in, alongside watching university video lectures on YouTube, reading personal posts by practicing experts and research papers.
Loved Trade Wars, it feels like at least once or twice a year I'll find a BBS that has it installed and play around.
Aurora 4X is definitely a descendant of this spreadsheet simulator genre. That's a great game, but I wish there was more variety in the genre for wanna-be beancounters.
I felt cheated by the Nanodegrees. They were taught by embodiments of the fake-it-till-you-make-it philosophy.

At least, the React one was. When I asked questions about the errors I was getting, Richard Kalehoff —- the literal face of the course! — answered and clearly did not know what was going on. He told me things that flatly contradicted the documentation and couldn’t do much more than to say “try copying the example”.

To my shame, I paid $800 to learn from people who weren’t much farther ahead on the material, and in some aspects were behind me.

Edit: earlier comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18596450#18601298

Link to the course where Kalehoff’s face is on the landing page: https://www.udacity.com/course/react-nanodegree--nd019
Because...there is a housing shortage. The definition of a housing shortage is that houses cannot be produced fast enough for people to consume them. Assuming that the supply is what it is, if a large percentage of that supply is being used for investment, then people can't live in them. You have to assume that the economic machine is doing everything it can to increase the supply because then those who benefiet from selling expensive house can _make more money_....
>Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg on Monday announced that the social network will use artificial intelligence to determine when someone has died, and stop sending those kinds of notifications.

Can't wait until the facebook neural net declares me dead because of my sclerotic post activity and my family thinks I've kicked the bucket when they don't get an announcenment on my birthday.

Maybe instead of trying to solve everything with 'artificial intelligence' we ought to design these systems in ways that are less prone to these sorts of misbehaviours. Seems like building systems that work 80% of the time and then hoping that throwing ML engineers at the issue solves the last 20% is the new hot design pattern.
I'm interested in learning more about where you work, what you do, etc. If you're Ok with that, my user page has my contact info.
Popular in some black American communities. It’s aka a sou-sou. Not sure if there’s an interest payment element. I believe the biggest benefit is the solidarity of doing something (saving money) that’s hard to find discipline for on your own.
I think that if houses could be built more quickly to satisfy both the investment crowd as well as consumers then this would happen because those who benefiet from selling houses would make more money...
> I can imagine the Mona Lisa, but not really the full image, just more like a sense of the painting

How do you think this compares to those who don't have aphantasia? How do they imagine the Mona Lisa?
Simply called "Jolt!"
Sure, but leaving without securing another tenure-track position? You can't reset the clock, still, leaving early is Not A Good Sign you know how to play the game.
I have seen at least a dozen car fires and had the car I was driving catch fire twice (same car, different causes), and none of these fires involved a collision. Anecdotal, I know but that’s what I have.
> if you know which boxes to color by just looking at the paper is the same as seeing the boxes colored in your mind, isn' it?

That's what I used to think it was for when people talked about picturing things. But it appears a lot of people actually see the shapes and some subset also see the colours with various degrees of fidelity as if they're in front of their eyes.

I know their spatial relation, but I don't see it.
> Another technique is to tap everytime a thought comes into your head, and dismiss the thought.

A bit off-topic perhaps, but: how? When a thought comes into my head, that means I'm no longer thinking of tapping...
It’s funny because inside google borgmon is deprecated for new projects and has been since nine years at least. Of course google has stretched “deprecated” to its limits.
Ha, don't feel bad. That skill is important for maybe less than a thousand people in the whole world to have. And it can be done with computer programs anyway.
Yes.

A 32-bit binary will work just fine on a 64-bit OS, but not the other way around, and there's no reason such an app needs 64-bit, so why unnecessarily restrict compatibility?
> Christianity has taught many to sincerely believe that Jesus himself would step into the room and heal their loved one, therefore every attempt must be made to save them.

This is a completely unsensitive and arrogant comment. Replace 'Christianity' with 'Muslim' or 'Jewish' and see if you still would've pressed the submit button.

Further, as a Catholic who has many friends and family of different forms of Christianity, your opinion-stated-as-fact is not accurate in the slightest.
Came to find critique. Left disappointed :(
I don't know anything about the business or cultural elements of Udacity, but they have such high quality of courses that this makes me genuinely sad. I hope they can figure out a business model - even if it leans B2B vs. B2C.
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California's water situation is not a "complete lack of irrigation sources", this is a big misperception.

There are big issues around distribution, water rights, allocation for farming vs urban areas, which crops to grow, and conflicts over distribution of water from (wetter) north to (drier) south and use of Colorado river water.

But it's not about to "face starvation due to lack of locally grown food", the situation is roughly comparable to Australia.
No. Not every A/B test.

> (6) LARGE ONLINE OPERATOR

> The term "large online operator" means any person that—

> (A) provides an online service;

> (B) has more than 100,000,000 authenticated users of an online service in any 30 day period; and

> (C) is subject to the jurisdiction of the Commission under the Federal Trade Commission Act (15 U.S.C. 41 et seq.).

Presumably there are definitions of other terms in that sentence (e.g. experiments, studies).

Here, it is:

> BEHAVIORAL OR PSYCHOLOGICAL EXPERIMENTS OR RESEARCH—

> The term "behavioral or psychological experiments or research" means the study, including through human experimentation, of overt or observable actions and mental phenomena inferred from behavior, including interactions between and among individuals and the activities of social groups.

Honestly, I don't think this is clear enough. Person clicks BLUE instead of GREEN may or may not fall under this definition. I don't think it should, but if I have 100M+ authenticated users per month, I'm probably going to put up a notice anyway.
Having experienced this myself first-hand:

It's not hard, but you need to know that telling FB that your friend is dead is even an option, then go search for that. For most of us that probably seems pretty simple, but we're definitely the outliers in regards to technical sophistication and knowing how a site 'should' work.

In addition, there's the 'etiquette' of trying to figure out if you, as a friend, should do that, or whether you should leave it to their family, and then wondering if their family even knows about their FB profile, etc.

As the article pointed out, 'there are likely far more accounts that haven't been memorialized' - which suggests that people don't do it.
This largely came about because of the "no name" craze started by Loblaws that was going on during this time [0]. Plain yellow packaged products with generic naming and no pictures, priced low, and of reasonable quality. Because when all you wanted was "Raisin Bran", why pay more? (Yeah, well, to get more raisins, but that's beside the point). I had a lot of yellow groceries in my apartment back in my starving student days.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Name_(brand)