skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are two completely separate issues here. One is the cost. No doubt the $1m (if that was what was spent) is what this type of work costs. There could be various phases, testing, steps, research, experts that go into coming up with a new logo design. [1] But the story would not have any interest (in a mainstream news site; 2009 or otherwise) without the 'dog bites man' angle in this case 'and it cost $1m'. Leave out the $1m (or some other large number that a common man would understand) and nobody would care.

Next are the issues highlighted. The document is apparently large so we have no idea of the context or what else was said. While on the surface it sounds screwy (and probably is) the outtake is clearly presented in a way to show the most interesting angle to grab attention.

[1] I am also reminded of military contracts with the $100,000 hammer the story then details how the same hammer would cost $5 at home depot and nothing else as far as why the hammer is priced at $100,000 (and there are reasons I say that as someone who has bid and worked on military contracts).
Any sources for this besides some assorted anecdotes?
Also, if you want to learn more about Oliver Sacks outside of his weightlifting, check out Awakenings (his book, later made into a movie starring Robert DeNiro and Robin Williams, with the latter playing Sacks) or The Man who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. He wrote a number of other books that are also interesting - exploring the way the brain works by understanding when it fails - but those two are probably the best known.
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"The more inferences are made, the more likely erroneous inferences are to occur."

Whoa. :-)
Predatory pricing is generally considered illegal. The US happens to hold a pretty skeptical view on the matter. The better truth is that startups/new businesses are just too small & by the time they get big their prices typically have adjusted to not be flooding the market (i.e. too late).
I wonder how this copes with long-running pages. What happens if the server is updated and the minimal update format changes?
I've never heard of a yellow booklet.
AOL had a highly competent mail administration outfit, at least compared to other big shops at the time. It could be annoying to deal with them at times, but they had fair, mostly sane processes and I could always get in touch with a technical person with authority there. (They may still be this good, I just haven't had reason to deal with them for quite a while.)

Google - well, I haven't had to, but can get in touch with a competent person there, but not officially. Which is not the case with ATT, with whom I have had a mail issue for over a decade. At this point I'm thinking either their postmaster died in his closet office back in about 2006 and nobody noticed, or they simply don't give a damn.
I don't think it's even that tbh - I mean, they are hardly standard in anything.

Their business works because they realise the world is big, so they focus on sales. They are amazing at selling their rubbish to anyone and everyone and know how to rack up billable hours. If a project succeeds (prob because it's easy), then great! If it fails, then move on to the next victim.

Also, the truth is that a vast number of very senior people are non-technical, which is why they get taken in by the machine-learning/AI/blockchain BS the consultancies have been spouting for the last few years. Once they get their foot in the door, they'll convince many a CEO to purchase their magic beans.
I'm not sure what Samsung is going to learn from Apple specifically. When Jobs demoed the iPhone in 2007, they had to hard-code the bars that indicate a full strength mobile signal. Up until the 3GS in 2009, people complained that their iPhone kept dropping calls. When Jobs, widely feted as a design and customer experience obsessive, was asked about it, he just said "You're holding it wrong".

The 2018 iPad Pro, the super-premium professional's device, still doesn't have mouse support. It's marketed with the quote "What's a computer?" which is a bit ironic.
Is it illegal to pay for one of the captcha solvers? Ones like this are the easiest, captcha solves cost something like 4 cents each, and all you do is send the image to an API, which responds with the solved captcha.
The infamous PDF goes by the name "Breathtaking". https://www.goldennumber.net/wp-content/uploads/pepsi-arnell...
Because companies like TurboTax work to ensure it remains as complicated as possible, and seems even more complicated than it actually is.
To be clear the filing says >$100K, I'm sure some are spending way way more, it beats the cost of hiring an engineering team to do all this (build, improve, maintain etc...)
> Using only one operating sensor (Airbus A320neo has three sensors)

I thought the boeing plane only needed the system because their engines were positioned so far forward, and that the airbus plane didn't have that problem, so shouldn't airbus not need the stall system?
We like it so far. It’s great to control our own runners and be able to size larger hosts. We came from CircleCI.
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Its super hilarious to me that nowhere could they find a picture where the background isn't completely grey from smog & pollution.
If you know how cities feel that look like that, you'll know that you don't want to live there for a second!

All this daily propaganda about city X,Y or Z in China being the next NYC or Paris, and yet, almost nobody who is not Chinese seriously wants to move there. Not for pollution, and not for the dictatorship/fascism of the PRC. At the same time, Chinese with enough money are basically full-on fleeing the country, to the tune of buying passports, capital and housing everywhere that isn't China like we have never seen before.
You're right!

With that said, might this be viewed as a distinction without a difference? If the provider puts a price on their service, the consumer evaluating this price must decide if they find it acceptable. This is necessarily going to involve some amount of implicitly calculating their price for the service, isn't it?
There are people who want to invest in ICOs, Ponzi schemes...others want to rape, murder...why should anyone’s opinions be forced on these people?
Apple only has a "bad rep" for tech lock-in and right to repair among the small "less space than the Nomad. No wireless." inward looking, geek crowd.
No, not if they expressly are finding a renewable source of electricity. Say they have enough rooftop space to install solar panels to cover their needs (don't nitpick that; just say it is true).

Yes, this company could have bought the solar panels and then sold their electricity on the market, perhaps displacing some conventional energy source, but that isn't their business.

Their business is this crypto market for carbon credits; they have a need for power, they fill that need with a renewable source.
> I dont think you are objective

If you're implying I'm pro-Biden, for the record, he isn't even in my top three. I don't read Nate because he supports my beliefs, I read him because I think he has a good-faith interest in accurate predictions (even if it is impossible for a human being to be 100% objective)
Fuck Intuit. Shame on engineers who work there.
The data-8 videos are online. Are the data-100 videos online too? Thanks.
And especially alarming when combined with this:

" In fact, this analysis estimates that the top 10% of tweeters are responsible for 80% of the tweets created by all U.S. adults on Twitter."
The biggest obstacle of course is dealing with deliverability problems. As most posters have commented here, getting people to accept your mail, and accepting mail from reputable sources isn't an easy problem to solve. At FastMail, a considerable amount of time is spent ensuring customers don't need to worry about deliverability problems or spammy inboxes.

To me, that's the biggest reason not to spend time running your own infrastructure for mail. Getting people to accept your mail reliably, is much harder than adjusting some postfix configuration.
Is it really "better" if the image is simulated nonsense? Better would be conceding that nothing is truly decipherable.
First result on google [1]. It's been a few years since I browsed the presentation, so I'm having a hard time deciding if this is a parody or the actual one, but the actual one is just about as silly:

https://www.goldennumber.net/wp-content/uploads/pepsi-arnell...
The quest to cut costs is worse than seats, it extends to safety and pilot training as seen by the Ethiopian airlines co-pilot who had less than 100 flight hours before being put into a 737.
Too bad their OS barely works on the hardware it was pre-installed on. Things like wifi, suspend, brightness control are all extremely flaky under Windows 10 on my machine, but on Ubuntu work perfect. Most people I know have ditched Office for the most part, except for hardcore Excel users. Trying to install any sort of development tools on Windows is a pain, unless it's MS tools. As for their services, heard bad things about Azure and they're definitely not on the level of Google or Amazon as far as market share. They've also capitulated to Android on mobile and somewhat to Linux in the server space, so not sure how those are wins.
Dinner party conversation comment for you all.

People who are into lifting are more likely to associate the term Weightlifting with the practice of Olympic Weightlifting. This article is about powerlifting.

Olympic lifting focuses on the two dynamic, technique-driven main movements. The clean and jerk, which is a two-part lift and the snatch, which is a single movement lift. Up until 1972, the press was also an olympic movement, but it became too hard to judge and was so removed. There are rigorous criteria in competitions.

Powerlifting, as the article goes onto state is centered around three movements, the squat, the deadlift and the bench press. Just like olympic lifting (or weightlifting), powerlifting has strict criteria for competition lifts. The aim of powerlifting though is to move as much weight as possible.

For people who do not lift, they typically hear the phrase "weightlifting" and think of the practice of bodybuilding which is concerned with hypertrophy of muscle groups to build a balanced and awe-inducing physique.

Context: I like to dabble in weightlifting as a fun pursuit and held a very minor title for a short time period. It was a hollow victory, as due to my only competitor weighing in 0.4kg too light, I ended up as the only person in my age/weight category. I won because I made all my lifts. I was competing against myself.
Agreed. But if Teams comes with Office365, Slack may have trouble getting CEOs to pay more per-user monthly fees.

And I pay for both Office365 and G Suite at my business, and Google just invited me to Currents. I know better than to dump something like Slack for any new (like, first 3 years) Google product, but... Slack's getting some real competition.
As almost always for cost reasons. What I am trying to say is that some things are more difficult to replace than others. Moving away from slack is doable. Moving away from Outlook is doable. Moving from 100000 Windows machines to Linux is harder. Moving away from SAP is really hard.
This is actually a really interesting topic. So interesting that at least one book was written on it (called "Save Women's Lives: The History of the Washing Machine").

The tl;dr version is this: doing laundry entirely by hand involves a high level of physical exertion, most of it highly repetitive and crouched over in an unnatural manner for a substantial amount of time. This alone caused a great deal of physical injury and deformity, sometimes leading directly to death.

The washing machine itself was not really invented as a time-saving device. It was invented primarily to make doing laundry less physically harmful. Any time savings was just gravy.

It is commonly held by researchers that the washing machine (we're not even talking about electric or automatic washing machines here) is one of the top 10 most important inventions in terms of impact on health and longevity.
I have been working as a male escort for women (gigolo). Seriously. It works quite fine. Just created my website and females contact me. I enjoy my work and also earn some side-project extra money. https://www.guysinisrael.com
Plantation is the city in Florida they are based in.
The cynical perspective is that direct listing rather than an IPO lets large holders get out faster after the stock begins trading, which suggests a lyft style pop and deflation
You have no idea how much I miss my N95...
I've gone from admiring Boeing all my life to completely not trusting anything today's Boeing says after this scandal.

It's very likely that they are overrun by a bunch of MBA-ridden suits rather than engineers (not claiming all engineers are benevolent but that cultural shift always results in an erosion of quality), like most companies of its type. And no good decisions will be made.

I have always said (although without any supporting data), that the safest time to fly is probably after a plane crash because most airlines are probably double and triple checking their planes to be safe.

But that's not true of the 737-MAX. You can't fix what they've screwed up. Because the fundamental design change was borne out of greed, and not good engineering. I'll continue to avoid the 737-MAX like I'm sure many others will.
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> The only two proven ways to cut this Gordian Knot are smaller sovereign jurisdictions.

I've heard this theory a lot but every time I hear of blatant corruption it seems to be in local politics.
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Mark Rippetoe, the author, is a broken old man as a result of his methods. He is also known as a loudmouth that gets more attention than he deserves in the community. I would not recommend his methods or book. Although his book got popular among amateurs, it has no place in modern powerlifting and is considered antiquated and rife with bad advice.
This is the dangerous allure of an authoritarian state and China has been here before -- many times. Replace "western medical infrastructure" with "a massive wall to keep the barbarians to the north out" or "a massive canal to connect the two rivers" and you'll get the same effect. Authoritarian states, which China really basically pioneered during the Qin dynasty, can accomplish great things when its powers are wielded correctly. The problem is that when the people or person in charge is incompetent, crazy, and/or lazy then the whole thing just goes to hell. The often tried and just as often unsuccessful solution is to have good court officials and properly educating the heir-apparent but the cycle of dynasties and the catastrophe that follow their overthrows suggests that it is not a good long term solution. In fact, these violent overthrows often erases many of the accomplishments of the peaceful periods. This is sort of the problem democracy solves: accountability allows the leader(s) to be changed in a non-violent way. The problem with democracies is that it is almost by definition very average in progress. It is slow and steady but the overall trend is positive. It takes a very long term view to appreciate the steadiness of progress in democracies. The US is on track to overtake the majority of Chinese dynasties in term of longevity.
Waldorf Schools show a number of times too, they tend to mix up science with romanticized fake spirituality, which would make perfect sense some of them would go too far. The parents are typically well educated, but also have a wishy-washy spiritual seeker tendency.
The Free Edition basically dark patterns you into a paid version of TurboTax at the end. My friend in grad school was confused and ended up paying for the deluxe version, even though she started on the free version and makes like a thousand dollars a month.
I've been using TurboTax for the last 4 years or so but I'm getting pretty tired of this story. I read an article a few weeks ago that mentioned CreditKarma has free tools for tax prep, so I signed up for it and I'm planning on using it next year.

I used to use an accountant because my taxes were kinda complicated, but once I sold my business they got really easy. Turbo makes it slightly easier, but honestly the IRS should just be telling me how much to pay or refund, given a small amount of input (like this year, change me from single to married with this other person filing jointly).

And worst, the last several years I've gotten letters from the IRS late in the year saying "You owe a few thousand dollars", this after Turbo got me a fairly big refund.

IRS: If you have a number in mind just tell me.

Oh, and you know that upsell Turbo does for "have your filing reviewed by a CPA and talk to a tax expert to answer questions on your filing"? I tried it this year: Couldn't find an option to have it reviewed by a CPA before filing, and when I asked one of their tax experts about a number related to an IRA disbursement last year, basically all he could tell me is "Yes, you have put a number in a box on the form".
Arguably their agreement to "offer" the free service necessarily requires it's discoverable by normal means, including search.

“But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?”
“Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.”
It can give you credibility to your customers. They can see your financial position which, assuming the company is performing well, can give them peace of mind that you're not a startup that will disappear tomorrow. It helps with recruiting, as you're more well known and the equity that folks get is more liquid.
I understand why "VC subsidized taxi rides" runs at a loss, but how on earth does Slack lose money?
Please don't post any more troll comments. Generic unsubstantive nationalistic or ideological comments are troll comments, whether or not you intend them to be.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I wonder what a stock portfolio based on shorting companies who sign contracts with IBM India, Accenture, Wipro, etc. for outsourcing would look like in terms of performance. Probably too much of a leading indicator to be truly useful.
I don't care what Boeing does, I won't fly the Max going forward unless it gets a triple-redundant redesign for MCAS. Yep, triple-redundant can also fail, but I expect Boeing to over-design the fix to raise consumer confidence.
Ask HN: How does one buy stocks outside the US?
I am in the tech market in a non-US country with already stock options, but our system allows only cashing out our vested stocks via wire transfer.

If I wanted to buy stocks, how should I do it? Is it brokers job? How would a foreign person trust a broker via internet? It seems so easy to be fooled and I would like to get an idea about what non-US people here does.
Sure.

And please note, I'm not prescribing or suggesting anything about the end of the world regarding a single missed night of sleep. I am commenting about the world of ignorance I had regarding sleep prior to a very recent education.

If you or other people reading this are unaware of the depth of what sleep research has learned in the past 15 or so years I will point you to this six hour conversation that Dr. Matthew Walker had with Peter Attia on his podcast.

Part 1
https://podcastnotes.org/2019/04/02/sleep-4/
Part 2
https://podcastnotes.org/2019/04/17/sleep-5/
Part 3
https://podcastnotes.org/2019/04/18/sleep-6/
Yep! I'm writing this from Elm in the Spring, the 2nd of 4 dedicated Elm conferences in 2019.

JS/TS continue to dwarf everything else, but it's possible that Elm is the most widely used JS alternative at this point. (Hard to know definitely though!)
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Referring more to just their campus in Redmond, including surrounding residences and corporate housing: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Redmond,+WA/@47.6425094,-1...
I learned a little while ago that H&R Block makes a substantial amount of its revenue from "refund anticipation loans" (no citation, I couldn't find it here: https://investors.hrblock.com/static-files/4293dedf-951d-454... maybe my information is overblown).

Is there a reason there isn't a "Robin Hood for Taxes"? A service that makes all of its revenue off of refund anticipation loads and provides all tax services for free to entice customers to join?

Ignoring the problematic conflicts of interest involved in issuing loans it seems like this would align a lot of incentives. The company wants tax filing to be as simple and easy and free as possible, just as long as you do it through them.
Happened to my mom once and it lasted a couple of days. Very scary. She didn't even know she was speaking nonsense and would get upset that no one could understand her.
This is just a copy-paste of
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19758373
(which is the original source and on a site that isn't down)
This is a start, though it's not complete: https://developer.puri.sm/Librem5/Apps/Gnome.html
5236.03 is not 4.7% less than $6500.

If those were the prices before and after, the drop was 19.45%.
Right I think the rule is "very large organizations are slow and bureaucratic". Government is one but large corporations are another.

But I've also been really impressed with government work recently. The people at the post office on tax day were much nicer and more helpful than 80% of customer support I get from companies.
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I recommend Wendler's 5/3/1. You can buy it on Amazon.

If you want an app, start with StrongLifts 5x5. He has a website, too.
As opposed to Windows 10's ads in the start button and lock screen, and data tracking in every part of the OS? At least Google only puts up (mostly) relevant ads when you search for something.
True, it's not a perfect system. But that would likely not be the case for a vaccination database, anyway.
That was a great episode, the guy funded a lobbyist from his own pocket to the tune of $70k but still lost
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It is useless to have a conversation with those who will not listen.
FYI Google offers free GSuite basic for nonprofits:

https://www.google.com/nonprofits/offerings/apps-for-nonprof...
Somebody has to be first
Crustacean has never been seen away from Lake Merritt, but it's not from Oakland
Edit: As a child comment pointed out, the issue was a brokerage account I opened in addition to the Roth IRA. (The Roth IRA deposit limit is smaller than the 401K deposit limit)

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The problem with that is there's often caveats.

Ex: in grad school I did a summer internship, and put my profits into an IRA. Later on, I found out I could not use many free file software, because they considered handling the dividends my index funds had generated as a premium feature, even though I was below the income limit.

Eventually I found out the AARP had a free tax prep program that did not have that restriction (nor was it limited to over 65s), but it took a lot of effort to avoid paying 50+ bucks just to process a tiny, tiny bit of tax because it was in the "wrong" category.

IMHO it's not cool to nudge low income people to not save for retirement.

If anyone else has had this frustration, bookmark this page: https://secure.aarp.org/applications/VMISLocator/searchTaxAi...
Some people have an allergic reaction. (probably 1 in a million). That is a scientific fact, and enough for them to get a lot of mileage.
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