skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So if Amazon and Kohl's have the same item for the same price, you could buy it on Amazon, return it to Kohl's, and then buy it again at a 25% discount?

Seems like hardly worth the hassle but could be nice if that promotion lasts.
The President of the United States of America for one
I looked into a bunch of these too for my ceramic grills and ended up going with a standalone oven too (Ooni Koda). Couldn't be happier. Perfect Neapolitan pies every time in about 2 minutes, and super portable.
They did not get fired for speaking up. One has come out to “clarify” and if you follow his timeline, he himself stated he was a bad employee for several months, THEN his brother passed away, THEN several months later he was fired for still being a bad employee/unproductive, AND at the time of firing they asked for an NDA in exchange for $, THEN he brought up the incident (for more $ maybe??). He brought up the incident to mgmt AFTER finding out he was being fired for poor performance.
> OpenShot uses ffmpeg, so I'm always concerned patents like h.264, h.265

If these opensource projects were infringing on these codec patents, they would have been shutdown a long time ago ...
It's probably quite small. Press journalists don't realize that Bitcoin has created an arbitrage market for power, such that miners travel the globe to find the cheapest sources of available power, which are renewable sources like overprovisioned hydroelectric where there is no demand for excess output (think: dams in rural China, far away from a city that the power could be economically sent to), and the mining reward lowers to compensate for that power cost. Today, the reward is now lower than the cost of mining using fossil fuel power.

So, Bitcoin's contribution to fossil fuel power use is small because it has become unprofitable to mine Bitcoins using fossil fuels. The electricity would cost you more than the reward. It would be irrational to do it.
The dichotomy between our pride in the power of the individual to cast their vote and be represented in government, and the facts of how voting and vote counting happens (the security of the systems and the conflicts of interest involved) is so stark a contrast that I can only assume there are forces at work which have achieved full capture.
> The MITM proxy issue makes Rust a non-starter in many corporate environments.

IMO those corporate environments are reaping what they sow. We shouldn't be so quick to disable TLS. Who would be to blame if those corporate environments found rustup as an attack channel for getting trojans? My guess is that rust would be a convenient scapegoat in that case.

Also, I believe that some of them may create intercept exceptions for 'legitimate' software distribution channels (like pip/npm/etc). Maybe they just need one for crates.io.
> Private insurance, which is required. Lots of out-of-state policies aren't eligible, so we see ads on TV for competetive policies from Progressive, Geiko, ect yet nobody in MA is eligible to buy them.

I grew up in MA and was very angry about this, so even when I moved out of state [and am still out of state] I paid attention to this.

It is my understanding that [frmr] Gov. Deval Patrick changed this specific policy somewhere around 2006/7. I distinctly remember writing in a letter [for whatever little that was worth] encouraging him to do so.

Has time in MA been rewound? Is one of us not paying attention?
I've used chromium-vaapi on Linux with some success. I don't think those patches have been accepted in upstream chromium though.
Having been a customer in this exchange, it looks like all Amazon systems. Amazon sold goods seem to be eligible - All? I'm not sure but that's handled by Amazon, so no load on Khol's and everything is shipped back to Amazon - presumably in bulk so as to save on shipping/packaging materials and labor.
Yeah, haters gonna hate - it's human's nature. Give a man a powerful tool that solves lots of problems with two* most popular platforms today: Java and Javascript and they still will be complaining.

* actually three - if you include CLR
With Spectre, malicious processea doesn't need to have code execution cross a SIP boundary in order to break confidentiality of other colocated SIPs. As a malicious SIP, I can just read out the rest of the hardware visible context.
Probably an RMA scanner and bin for Amazon to pickup from. Then its verified in the warehouse.

Maybe amazon will pay kohl’s to directly send things to the dumpster.

Probably saves Amazon some return shipping cost, especially for bigger/bulkier items.
We'll see! From my experiences with reporters after being the math consultant for "A Beautiful Mind", I share your cynicism. This crew nevertheless impressed me. They'll certainly open with a closeup of my chalk attache case. The Catalan diagrams just didn't fit the prejudices that she imagines of her audience. I was interviewed with these diagrams behind me, so it will be hard to use anything I said without them appearing past my ear.
It’s a red herring anyway. All processes owned by a user can influence all other processes owned by that user, either directly or indirectly. It’s basically impossible to prevent. Don’t run code you don’t trust and don’t let things you don’t trust connect to your display server.
Copyright enforcement "wisdom" is that if they don't stop this they lose some of their power at stopping the next copyright infringement.

It does circle back though that Copyright was (constitutionally, in the US) meant to only be a temporary reprieve from the public domain/public access with the express purpose to make it likelier to entre the public domain/public access afterwards, but at this point we've pushed "temporary" beyond the span of a human lifetime for the benefits of inhuman entities (corporations).

Why should 30+ year old things remain in copyright? Corporations collect nice rents on even 30 year old properties. I'm sure Nintendo appreciates how many people need to (re-)buy Super Mario Brothers every couple of years on a new console's "Virtual Console" store every few years to play it legally. Recent game Super Mario Maker even provides a legal way to remix Super Mario content in Nintendo-approved ways. But what is our culture missing out on that public domain won't see access to Super Mario until sometime nearing the end of this century (under current laws, who knows if someone might fight to expand them again), and subsequently outside the lifetimes of many of the folks that played Super Mario Brothers around its original release? Would people even remember Super Mario Brothers? Would what is left to turn back over to the public domain be archived well enough to even be useful to the public domain at that point?
It's not "historical cruft" that makes it slow. It's the fundamental architecture of X-Windows that makes it slow. Computers these days are network bound, not CPU or memory bound. It's not sluggish because it's executing too much code or running out of memory or too complicated. It's sluggish because it's making the wrong decisions to do the wrong things at the wrong times in the wrong places.
Saudi Arabia beheads 37 for terrorism crimes
Hard limit at 3. Never more. That's it. You don't need more than 3 in a night. Enjoy those 3. Never cross it.
This is exactly the root of the problem, it's so ingrained in our culture that everything has to be done "for something" that you can't even grasp that someone might want to do or give something without asking anything in return. I do a lot of things or give without expecting even thankfulness.
Just to be clear, I meant to say "a good, non-Google bot".
Cut your losses and let your winners run.
And a good way to possibly build towards a buyout if Amazon decides it wants a larger retail presence. I'm not saying they should do so but it sure seems like a starting point for Kohl's.
> information funnel

I’m not sure I understand how an information funnel can be objectively good or bad. I’d have appreciated the article to elaborate on this.

Information is not good or bad, harmful or useful in itself. Its effects depend on attributes highly individual to the recipient, such as media literacy, cultural background, and personal circumstances.
I think a lot of these are agreeable, even some of your prophecies seem reasonable.

I wonder why you titled it "Things that are true", however, and don't have a single source to any of your claims. Especially when a lot of these points are opinion based.

It would be nice if you either title accurately, or source your "truths".

>There will be a trillion dollar cryptocurrency within 3 years, likely Bitcoin.

Source, please.

> Remote work will become the default for most people. 9 to 5 will largely be a thing of the past.

Source, please
> My gut says this is ridiculous and I can kind of rationalize how putting chalk on something might be like GPS tracker but not really

The legal issue isn't that it is like a GPS tracker, it is that it is a physical trespass (a fairly well-defined legal concept) for the purpose of establishing information to be used against you by the government.

Now, this is also a feature of the GPS tracker case, but it's not the comparison back to the GPS tracker case that is the main issue, but the same underlying principles that have governed the GPS tracker case and a wide range of others.
Video processing is generally a parallel bandwidth-heavy task with predictable memory access patterns whereas compilation is NOT. Thus video processing lends well to hardware implementations. Additionally everything h.265/VP8 or later was designed with people from HW companies on the committees and thus the algorithms were adjusted specifically to benefit HW impl. Compilation is extremely configurable, Chrome wants to push out updates to its JS parser every month, there are like a million reasons this isnt done in hardware.
Nice article. That's how I learned matrices in high school in Germany. Maybe it's different here in the US, I'll have to take a look at my daughters' textbooks.
Have you tried telling Chrome, Firefox and every other browser the same? They all do "the insecure thing", showing you a green lock for intercepted content.

Because it's signed by a company certificate in the certificate store.
I know for searches you need to have a reasonable expectation of privacy for the search to be illegal.

For example, I saw an article a few years ago where a cop was literally walking a drug dog around a house. The dog detected drugs so they busted the door down. The courts threw the case out, there was no reason for a drug dog to be searching around his house.

I’d expect if you had a drugs or a dead body in plain view of a window then your expectation of privacy is gone.
Philip Rosedale on Creating and Running a Successful Virtual World Startup
This is great. RECs are not enough but they are damn sure directionally correct.

However they have only covered the energy generation related footprints of the PoPs and offices.

My bet is they have a small army of sales reps that fly one or more times a month, and that they consider frequent fly-togethers a core part of their embrace of remote workers. Probably something on the order of single digit million miles per year total?
Graceful Athiest – What If I Grant You That? (2016)
That's a great example! It illustrates the point in a better way than I tried to.

A necessary part of why types are so useful is that understanding the types is easier than understanding the code itself.

If the types become so complex that they start to get harder to understand than reading your code (e.g. C++ template errors can sometimes get this bad), then they are no longer helpful.
Basics – Minimize for Loop Usage in Python
This is something I guess I cannot understand about people who consume alcohol to the point of blacking out... For me the consequences are so harsh I just never seek to near that point. I achieve a certain level of buzz, and simply maintain it, sipping throughout the social event. It's quite pleasant, doesn't take many drinks to uphold, and I don't feel hungover in the morning. Maybe some of it is just "brain wiring"?
For Rust development I use CLion with the Rust plugin, and it is getting better and better all the time.

It is interesting seeing the difference in peoples expectations on what an IDE can and should be able to do for you depending on what they are used to working with.
I tried Blender for many hours. It's not even in the same galaxy as a dedicated screencast editing tool like Camtasia.

Even adding something as simple as a good looking text overlay in Blender was a massive undertaking and it didn't look anywhere near as nice as Camtasia out of the box.

It was also extremely slow when editing videos. Like the timeline and preview were super laggy on a basic 1080p recording of my desktop.
Reading Books Changes Your Body
Obesity and insulin resistance can impair cognition
Sure, we check signatures too. (At least, Cargo does. I think rustup may not in some circumstances? I forget) It's about defense in depth.

I am a Windows user, I know that. That's why i said "if" :)
Lots of things don’t jive with human nature, like not murdering/stealing/etc, and yet we create systems to change that in ourselves rather than surrendering to our base instincts. If it's better that way, then we can always use a similar approach. All I'm saying is that 'human nature' isn't always good, and I'd rather keep it out of the decisioning process.
Thanks to everyone for the kind words and encouragement. It's been very gratifying. Now I have a good number of suggestions, and a handful of bugs to fix!
They mean the same thing.

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=Diction...
this is a big day for chalk stories on HN
In a sense, yes. The argument would be that they're not really compelling you, because you don't need to park there. The city is allowed to make all kinds of crazy rules about who may park where and when on public roads.

In another sense, no, because what the chalk does is establish that this car has not moved since the last time the officer went by. If you chalk the tire yourself, the officer cannot know when you did so.
It is an apples and oranges comparison because they are. Python exposes it's feature fairly readily in a relatively similar context. If I can open "Erlang Studio", plot my nodes, write my recursive functions and run them to some effect on some "Erlang Application Server" then Erlang would be as well. But as far as I know I can't. And I think that makes the application of Erlang somewhat inaccessible.

One could of course "just" use Erlang the language, but that use case has a lot more competition.
Bicycle Day Revisited (2018)
Requests III: HTTP for Humans and Machines, Alike
Brand is more than aesthetics
I assume it's pretty good for flatbread, too? If I could get meaningful contribution to at least one other thing (naan, say) out of this it starts to get really tempting.

...oooh, how about tandoori-style meat? Any other high-temp cooking work well in these things? Thinking the opening might make it tough or cleanup make it impractical.
Well. I can tell you that the article is demonstrably wrong.

It makes it easy to do things like user identity. Authentication. Queueing. Email. Notifications. Seamless databases. These are all lightweight services that can save you a lot of time, but only if you’re using AWS. The magic (for Amazon) is that they deter people from migrating despite mounting costs for storage and bandwidth.

All of those lightweight services have publicly accessible endpoints that can be used in conjunction with self managed infrastructure either over the public internet, a VPN or a direct connect.

But, your contention that you quoted was that AWS/Azure “wasn’t willing to provide it”. Yet you posted an article where the cost of providing it wasn’t conducive to their business model.

Then I could always post about a little streaming service you might have heard of called Netflix that has all of its infrastructure besides its caching servers (that are colocated at ISPs) on AWS and the reason they decided to move to AWS.

https://www.se-radio.net/2014/12/episode-216-adrian-cockcrof...

But really what does it say about a company that is growing fast unprofitably? Were they profitable when they were spending $20K a month?
I love Mac's music. The single/album name clash sounds like a huge waste of time, can't believe anyone even mentioned it.
It's easy for social drinking, I did it to.

There are some great 0% beers out there in Belgium. I personally recommend "Brugse Zot" ( with alcohol) and "Sport Zot" ( without alcohol), nobody will see the difference and it will make it a lot easier. ( Both taste great)

If you go to someone at home, just bring 1 pack of each with you and drink the 0%. It's the best trick I found out to reduce social drinking.

Just drink 1 of 2 without and try it out. It's actually not much different, the social "vibe" is the same.

The biggest difference seems to be when you drink water ( socially)

Ps. Only drank 1 evening in the weekend. But it was mostly when I had a lot of stress from work, that I drank too much
Having not taken a linear algebra course in college, does anyone have a recommendation for a book/course to follow?
In low cost of living markets jr engineers are making much less than $118,500 in fact they make about half that in median markets.
I just use a software in the desktop that will tell me if there's any available update, if so i can put it on an SD card and just pop it in the car and that's it, I believe i can do it directly o the unit through wifi but never tried.
Don't whiteboard them.
The one I've done my returns at, near LAX, has it at the front of the store.
show me a trail where a defender cannot go?
Look, here's the core of it. Suppose I fly long haul airplanes. Long haul electric planes don't exist, so I have to burn fuel. But I care about the environment, so I contract Carbon Engineering to remove an equal amount of carbon from the air. Thus my planes are carbon neutral- every pound is later removed- and it's all priced into my airline tickets.

REC's are just a bit more abstract. Emissions avoided are as good as emissions removed from the air. First rule of conservation. So instead of contracting Carbon Engineering, who is still working down their cost per ton, I pay out of my pocket to install solar panels on the roof of somebody else's factory, averting the carbon emissions their electricity demands would create. So again, in net, flying my planes produces carbon, but buying a ticket on my plane also pays for solar panels that save carbon.

Wait, sorry, it's one more level of abstraction- I didn't actually install those solar panels, I just paid a chunk of money to somebody to help them install solar panels when they couldn't otherwise- it's a pain to do things in units of "one whole solar installation", and I don't want to worry about the details like which roof to put them on.

Sure, it would be great if we could halt all carbon output today, right now. But we can't. So REC's help send more money to the renewable energy industry, bring more capacity online faster, and advance their R&D quicker than would otherwise. REC's aren't a tool for getting us to zero; they are part of getting the ball rolling in a downward direction.
I loved this piece. I'm from Florida and Vidalias are a staple.

Whole wheat bread, lightly toasted with a smear of mayo and a thick slice of Vidalia. Mmmm... So good.
What's best about black/whiteboards for me is precisely the nonlinearity. Numerous times I've seen professors realize near step 10 of the proof that something they said in step 3 isn't quite right; then a sidebar is opened and arrows start to be drawn to piece the puzzle together.

The point of going to classes versus studying alone at home is that you get to watch mathematicians doing mathematics. It's apprenticeship learning, the same as carpentry. Watching the professor reason and make mistakes and second-guess himself is invaluable. The typed class notes where everything is neat and theorems are numbered gives the impression of an immaculate birth that the student can't fathom arriving at. The best maths classes are the ones that teach you how to be a mathematician.
Depends on the state. In Colorado passing on the right is legal (though I personally find it barbaric).

However, Colorado has a "left lane law" that applies on two+ lane highways with speed limits above 65mph. It is illegal to impede traffic in the passing lane, even if you're going the speed limit.
https://codes.findlaw.com/co/title-42-vehicles-and-traffic/c...

A different law requires drivers in the passing lane driving below normal and reasonable speed, to change lanes (move to the right or pull off the road). If you're driving at the speed limit, it's by definition not less than normal or reasonable. And prior to the "left lane law" state patrol couldn't do anything about impeded left lane traffic so long as the impeding vehicle was moving at the speed limit, but since the 2004 "left lane law" you can be ticketed for impeding traffic in the passing lane even if you're driving at the speed limit (and you were always subject to ticketing if you were driving below the speed limit in the passing lane).
I have the Kettle Pizza with Baking Steel, and honestly, it's garbage. It's not worth the effort to set up once a week to get mediocre, not very repeatable results. Pretty sure I've ruined my Weber Kettle by using it too.

I got a RoccBox last summer (after watching Kenji's review videos) and it's freaking amazing. It's not much more effort to setup. So easy to just turn on the gas and wait for it to heat up.

I've been making VPN-ish style pizzas for 10 years at home and have a lot of experience with gadget and tips and tricks, and the Kettle Pizza just seemed too gimicky after I got it, and tried it once. Was honestly disappointing I spent so much money on it.

This is my go-to guide: http://www.varasanos.com/PizzaRecipe.htm ; Jeff is a great guy; talked with him for few minutes in ATL.
Does the announcement of a Pope have any advance notice at all?

From the other perspective, the only unique part about Japan is that they use a name for the calendar.
Fantastic.

Now explain how that works to non-programmers. You may not hand-wave, you may not ask them to trust a black box, and they must truly understand and trust your system.

And then you can compare that explanation to the explanation for paper ballots, envelopes, and voting urns.

The public's trust in a voting system is a very important feature of that voting system. That the public can participate in voting is also a very important feature. If voting is relegated to a black box that everyone should trust, because, pinky promise, a very clever person designed the black box, then people will stop trusting voting.
> Mathematicians like to believe that we're smarter than average, but we're actually just very focused.

Serious question: does this spell doom for people with ADHD?
Yeah... that's to prevent blight, having a neighbor who has a de facto junk yard in their front yard is really bad for property values.

If your unregistered car is not in disrepair and you aren't storing multiple cars in your front yard, you're very unlikely to be cited.

I just looked up my town ordinance and it only applies to "junk motor vehicles."
I'm a Christian but this is a particularly well thought out and fair anti-apologetic piece. I thought it would be interesting to see what HN thought of it (as a long-time lurker :)
They were in the textbook in my high school, but we always skipped that chapter.
I've written a detailed blog post about my experience:
https://medium.com/@navatm/fake-airbnb-apartment-fraud-2c187...

I'm still in touch with the fraudster. Trolling him.
Yup, in fact I have used mine more for flat bread than pizza so far lol.
I don't mind if it exists on the Pi, so long as X is still an option. I use the remote desktop facilities X provides even more with Pis than with any other platform, and to the best of my knowledge, Wayland doesn't have anything like that.
It's probably restricted so that certain items and brands do not qualify.