skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If large farmers are using unsafe growing techniques, that is an issue for legislation and litigation, IMO. It's not something individual consumers ought to be required to signal about in their purchasing preferences.

That being said, it seems your idea is a counterfactual. If it isn't, I'd love to know, but I don't see any evidence after brief searching that there are health benefits to eggs from small farms.
> For example, old lawnmowers lasted forever

These types of goods are still around today and priced the same when adjusting for inflation. Commercial and industrial buyers are their main market.

The best washing machines and vacuum cleaners aren't made by your brands you find in basic stores, they're at the specialty shops or catalogs. The Internet enables you to find out what they are and where to get them. They're just REALLY expensive compared to the cheap, Chinese-made alternatives today. But they're still around and the same real price as before. It's just that people race to the bottom and prioritize price first.

> is WalMart actually cheaper

This is pretty indisputable. I've done a lot of shopping there when I was poor and the differences are enormous, especially on boxed and cheap food staples.
> 7 million people counting votes.

> 193 million eligible voters

It won't takes them 10 days to count an average of 30 votes.
Depends on what you're hiking.

Boots protect against minor injuries and frostbite to shins, calves, toes, soles and ankles and reinforce the same if you do tear something and end up having to limp for miles (splint or not).
Harvesting Farmer Network
Hah, you think medical practitioners aren't already googling best practices right after they step out of the exam room...
Umm, I never said anything close to resembling that idea.
Murphy is a nice book, but I’ve always felt like it was more of a survey text and not one made for diving deep into a given subject. For instance, if you want to go from theory to writing code, Murphy isn’t necessarily the best book for that.
Are you saying that you can sing a little bit out of tune and still sound good?
The nursing portion of lambda school would definitely be accredited and licensed
I am still not getting the last part. I understand that if small number of employees only can take care of a vital function, then they must be carefully scheduled so that the vital function is covered all the time. How exactly randomizing is achieving this? If I planned it, I'd say randomizing is the worst method ever to achieve it, so I wonder what I am still missing - what advantage the employer gains in randomizing the hours? I can't see any.
I’ve had this feeling since I used my first Zebra label printer back in ... 2003? It wasn’t until 2012 I was working on the backend programming of Zebra printers that I realized Macs had very little support for designing and printing labels. I created a one off (as in still at version 1.0) native Mac app that used a transparent window and printed whatever was behind it. It is called LabelScope.

Fast forward 6 years and I come to this realization that the label printer software landscape hasn’t changed much at all. I start poking around Electron/React and native node modules for USB, fonts, barcodes and ... a year later this app is born: http://label.live

The problem is, it’s really difficult to market. 95% of my users come from organic App Store search...

My competition is either the free software that comes with the printer or very complicated and expensive Windows software.

Yep, it already exists... but no one seems to be doing the “any desktop computer, any label printer” solution.

It’s been a fun ride so far.
I've long been baffled as to why what I'm building doesn't already exist. Sure it's tough to actually design-and-make, but it's basically a holy grail of computing that a ton of people have, I think, generally wanted since long before I was born.

The weird thing is that I often do find people working on similar things. Sometimes they're historical projects I'll find a Wikipedia article on, or sometimes they're posted here on HackerNews.

Every time I see one, I think, "Wow! That's a lot like what I'm doing! How is this not a bigger thing?!". The initial surprise used to last a while as I started to dig, but further explanation tended to reveal that things weren't as they appeared.

For an analogy, say that everyone's still using horse-drawn carriages, not cars, to get around. Then, you want to invent a car. Then, you see what looks a lot like a car in someone's lab or in a museum. Then it's like, woah!, right? I mean, if someone already made a car, why are people still using horse-drawn carriages?

So then I'd look into the car and see that it doesn't actually have an engine inside. Or maybe it's got like a major piece of an engine, but still 80% missing.

Anyway, back to the thread's topic...

If you're building something that already exists, how sure are you that the thing that you think is a preexisting implementation actually does what you want your thing to do?

And maybe it does, and maybe your thing's a replication effort. But, my experience has been that things that look the same are off. That I'd see something that I'd think to be a car, and then mistakenly assume that surely it must contain an engine, only to later find out it doesn't.
I meant more in the sense that practically every town and city in North America was throwing tax breaks and incentives at Amazon to land HQ2.
Just torrent everything
What sort of shoes do you get for $10 and last ten years?
Definitely was one of my favorite classes at CMU. Absolutely loved it.
> What can you really do with 1 megabyte?

A ton. It's more than enough.

What can one do with 140 character limits?
Isn't it possible to convince most antenna tuners to effectively match "into themself", and dissipate most of the power internally? I accidentally did that with a matching network I was trying to use to tune a weird inductively-coupled plasma setup.

Sounds like he made a weird partially-shorted dipole antenna, and needs a good VNA to answer the rest of his questions.
There are just as many companies in Silicon Valley that do biotech right. Theranos didn’t struggle because of “Silicon Valley Culture,” it struggles because of fraud and outright lies.
That's the solution, yes. But without an incentive, we'll never get there. The first step towards creating an incentive is to make it economically unfeasible to not have an incentive. It's not like people will stop drinking coffee, they'll demand an alternative and one will be created. If a plastic cup costs $0.17 and a biodegradable cup costs $0.18, businesses and consumers will choose plastic. Making plastic slightly more expensive than the healthier alternative creates that pressure so the market will come up with better options.

Cleaning up waste costs money, money that the maker of the cup doesn't pay. Money that Starbucks doesn't pay. Money that the consumer doesn't pay. It's only cheaper at the cost of the person who has to clean up the waste. Plastic is heavily subsidized by not having to pay for its own cleanup.
ok, thank you for that, I admit I rolled eyes and skimmed that one.
> That's part of the Under-employed crisis in the US.

Let's imagine, again, the wishes of the progressive forces came true and the part-time jobs are banned forever, together with gigs and side jobs and contracting and interning and whatever it is that is not 100% full-time fixed steady job - all other ways to get employment is verboten. Would you think people that are now working part-time jobs would be better or worse off? If, say, someone is a mother working part-time because she needs time to take care of the kid (and she doesn't mind giving up vacation time for being able to actually spend time with the kid when she needs it) - would she better off losing the part-time job or being required to work full-time and hire a full-time (remember, no part-time jobs anymore!) nanny or give the child to the mass-warehousing facility for kids while she is working? Would the person who has a side gig because his main job does not provide enough income be better off losing that gig? Would we be better off is we solve the crisis by destroying the part-time employment?
Then yes, we’d say they’re still working in the “software” industry
In general I have issues with the Azure documentation. I can't put my finger on it as to why, but for some reason the information doesn't seem to be presented in coherent ways, it's often disconnected and gets outdated very quickly. I can't speak as to the performance of the drivers (in general using the database drivers or a gRPC/thrift equivalent should be better than REST), but I agree with the lack of SLAs.

The lack of SLAs in the documentation is one of the major issues we've had when assessing the suitability of Azure managed services (e.g. Postgres, Cosmos DB, Bus, Event Hubs, etc.). To Azure's defence (not sure I should be doing this), a lot of these services are new and they are made available before they are operationally ready. For example, I was looking at the SQL warehouse offering a few months back [0] and if you want to use it you'd have manually maintain the statistics of the DB to keep the query plans optimised. It just seems like more overhead than necessary.

[0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/sql-data-warehouse/sq...
You only do this in the places where you want everything to become skyscrapers. There is no real need for it in Des Monies or other places that already have reasonable housing costs.
This is entirely subjective. Aesthetically pleasing and "well known" may be factors for you in a purchase decision, but I personally prefer more open hardware and choice in my purchases so that I can fine tune each component and not be at least a year behind when it comes to modern hardware when making a purchase to get better performance than what Mac will offer for a fraction of the cost.

Also, if you care a lot about looks then I'd recommend checking out Razer, or aluminum chassis notebooks:

https://www.reinisfischer.com/top-20-aluminium-chassis-noteb...
No. And I think that creating something entirely new is overrated sometimes: one might argue that it's a requirement for a startup to achieve skyrocketing growth rates. But it's pretty feasible to build a healthy business creating a new version of something, specially on fields where customer relationship and after-sales services play an important role. That's been my experience at least.
Good thing I still have my massive media archive drives.
Intent to Implement: JavaScript Self-Profiling API
I think it will help if you know why what you're going to build is going to be better than what exists. Like Google knew its search will be better, like Zoom knows its conf is better than WebEx.

Apple is the quintessential example of "take a sad song, and make it better".
this is why california liberal culture is a giant deception for facism. never trust any politics of a californian. they are so ensconced in their bubble they can never have a clue how brainwashed they are unless they grew up somewhere else , or grew up in a rural part of california or are military.

the group think of your averaage Los Angelino is stunning. It's not that they are stupid , it's that they have zero ability to think for themselves. none.
It's also available for $199 right from Intel's site[0].

[0] https://www.intelrealsense.com/tracking-camera-t265/
There is a theory about the suicide rate among farmers (which has always been high) that I'm not sure I completely believe, but I don't think it's nonsense. It goes something like:

Farmers (well, I'm speaking mainly about livestock farmers here) spend their lives dealing with death, and doing cost/benefit analysis. When it's time to send an animal to slaughter, they do so. When the vet says some expensive procedure is not likely to work, they kill the animal, even though emotional relationships are built with what is also their capital. They have the weapons to deal with it.

So when a farm is failing, and they are in late middle age, they are more comfortable than average saying, ok, I gave it a try, it didn't work out, I can't start over doing something else. The skill I have spent my life learning is when to give up, and I've got the tool to do it.
> I've never accepted some behaviour to be criminal without a victim.

You don't have to. That's easy to 'solve' at least a few different ways, depending on how you prefer to look at it. (1) The victim is the same as the criminal. (2) The victims are those who have to pay for that guy's legal/medical/whatever bills later. (3) The victims are nearby/associated families who have to deal with the consequences.
6 months to a year is what I generally get out of "high quality" name brands like asics and nike, the only difference seems to be which part of the shoe goes first, with budget brands it's the sole, more expensive ones it tends to get holes around the top of the toe area.
Just utilities and roads alone are a massive cost that makes spread out living enormously costly and I pay as much for it living in a high rise building without owning a car as I do living somewhere in the suburbs or the country side with utilities and roads running very far to reach my lot. strongtowns.com is full of information on how we subsidize suburbs and rural living.
The guy has a point, and all you do is dodge and shame. Landfills take a tiny portion of space in the US. Why are we so concerned?
As the owner of several Apple devices with 30-pin connectors, which I replaced with devices with Lightning connectors, which it seems I will have to replace with devices with USB-C connectors in a few years, I would have been happier if Apple never invented either of those proprietary connectors and just went from micro-USB to USB-C like most of its competitors.
I think cell phones, not streaming, replaced cable, as far as monthly bills. Home Internet replaced the home phone bill, cell phones replaced the cable bill.

I bet lots of households are north of $200/mo between the two, which is probably close to (somewhat higher than—inflation, after all, plus we may just be spending a little more on this stuff) what phone + cable/satellite used to run for the some sorts of households.

A streaming subscription or two's nothing next to those, though tack a couple on top and we are probably paying more, inflation adjusted, for this stuff than we used to. It's cell phones that're really soaking up the dollars, though. We've got about the worst you can get and still have any data (very low data limit) and it's still almost $100 for two lines, and we own both our phones outright so aren't paying the monthly add-on for a phone payment.
I understand that, I also compare services / products and make a decision, even if one is a copy of the other, I generally don't really care about it. (Unless it's just a 1-to-1 knockoff)

But somehow with the products I work on, being seen as a knockoff is constantly on my mind.
For sure. I have concepts written down for things like a social network where the user retains ownership of their data and advertisers can offer them money for access to it. There are partial concepts out there like this but the biggest issue preventing me from creating a prototype is simply that I don't think I have the time to nurture a social network into being (which is probably harder than creating the thing). You need people on it to gain other people, a real chick and egg problem.

I still want to build the prototype. But, in trying to be realistic, I don't think it'll become a business or even popular.
This project is ran by a guy named Dalton (me), not by some big company with lots of funding. When you upgrade to Pro you’re helping offset hosting costs and validating the countless hours I spend developing this project. 1MB has been featured on Product Hunt twice: https://producthunt.com/posts/1mbsite & https://producthunt.com/posts/1mbsite-v2, has over 300 followers on Twitter https://twitter.com/1mbsite, and is hosting over 1,100 sites at the time of writing. What’s my point? 1MB is trusted by many :)
Good. They are a plague. However, I admit that occasionally, if I've forgotten my cup or couldn't bring it, I still use them. Rarely, but it happens.

The solution I want to see, for both coffee cups and shopping bags - is reusable shared containers.

I don't want to have to bring my bags to the supermarket. It's not just a matter of laziness or forgetfulness - sure, sometimes I forget. But it's also a matter of ability. Sometimes I want to buy food on the way home from work, but I don't drive there and it's not really practical to bring my reusable bags every time.

Let me pay a deposit to take some reusable bags with me, then let me just bring them all back at once and get a refund.

Coffee cups are a bit harder since they need to be washed, but I'm sure there's a solution.
Not that I want to encourage the sort of behavior described in the article, but the leg-up bit may just be a case of convergent evolution. The ladies pictures are trying to show off their shoes, which doesn't work well without a leg up if you're taking a selfie.
Awesome service! Thanks for making it available.

A small comment:
In the 'Edit Site' page, the preview is reloading with every keystroke. Would it be better to make it refresh on the click of a button?
A while ago, I was in the same boat. Why try to recreate GitHub, or Uber, or Salesforce, or Facebook? And once I discovered any competitors in my idea's field, I would chalk it down to "not worth trying" and call it a day.

But then I realized, if my town can have 3-4 Chinese restaurants with the same exact menus (probably supplied by the same exact distributors), and they've all operated continuously for over a decade....who cares about uniqueness? Sure, none of these copycat places are raking in millions, but it's enough to support the livelihoods of the owner and all of his/her employees, so who cares? Your business doesn't need to be a unicorn to make you happy, as long as you're happy with that outcome.

Of course, tech does not operate the same way as Chinese restaurants, and for that I point you to Accumulative Advantage:

>Accumulative Advantage is when a small advantage at the beginning of something, such as kindergarten, becomes a little difference that leads to an opportunity that makes a bigger difference a bit bigger, and that edge in turns leads to another opportunity, which makes that initial small difference even bigger.

Put in context: You don't have to follow the same path your competitors did. Uber/Lyft poured billions into normalizing the concept of being driven by some stranger who uses the same app as you, so any new ride-sharing platform can spend that money in other areas. Giants like Microsoft have decades of technical debt they need to tackle; you can start building with 2019 libraries, 2019 paradigms (wouldn't the cloud have been great for startups ten years ago?) and 2019 performance.

In order for the underdog to win, there first has to be an underdog. If you're brave enough to start, you may just be brave enough to win.

[1] https://educationinnovation.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/12/is... (yeah, weird source, but I'm just trying to define the phrase)
It depends whether you're building something for the utility of it or to make money.

You can do the latter in a crowded market as you said, but often if you think you would like to build something for yourself, which is often the best way to build a product, then it's certainly possible to be satisfied with something that already exists.
That's the first time I've seen that site, and for my city it's kind of frustrating if it's true. The Weather Channel rates the best (by far) compared to my preferred app, but I find The Weather Channel app to be an awful user experience for how I want to see weather presented to me.
They have conducted some of these studies some years ago. One of the was a study on the effects of LSD [0][1] on the brain, and I if I recall correctly they were also looking for test subjects for shrooms around the same time.

[0]https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/171699/the-brain-lsd-reveale...

[1]https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/early/2016/04/05/151837711...
I wanted it to be live feedback, but it is kind of distracting. I’ll add that to my development roadmap! Thanks for using my service :)
Who was the existing provider cause I could use that.
Is there any more detail here? What thoughtcrime did the authors of the "incompatible" projects commit?
Can anyone simulate this light bulb setup in HFSS or another antenna simulation software? I'm always on the lookout for comparisons on weird cases like this for the simulation code I've written. If I can find material property data on custard as easily as for tungsten (watch the temperature dependence!) I might give that a shot next.
They are trying to be authenthic and natural, because the "Instagram influencer" became a cultural trope thats too easily recognized(a polished walking ad): they are pretending to be indie, quirky and non-mainstream - capturing the DiY aesthethic to use as prop to establish their "common man" persona.
If it's "exactly the same thing", I personally wouldn't do it. It doesn't have to be something so significantly different, but it has to be a solution to some real pain points that persist on the existing solution.

On his book "From 0 to 1", Peter Thiel goes even more extreme. For him, if something isn't 10x better then the alternative solution, he wouldn't do it.

Of course, all the above doesn't apply if your goal of building it is for learning-purposes or just for fun.
Ask HN: Would a disposable metal cup be totally out of the question? Something like a coke can without the ring pull lid?

With a lip around the rim I can't imagine them being any more flimsy than paper cups. The lid and sleeve could be 100% biodegradable since their time of contact with hot liquids is minimal, and the cups themselves could have a 25c/p deposit scheme to dissuade litter/promote collection of discarded cups.

They must be cheap enough to produce en mass for coke/Pepsi et al, and I recently learnt that metal cans are apparently much better for the environment than plastic since they can apparently be recycled nearly an infinite amount of times (easy to mechanically sort too) compared to plastic and paper that can only be recycled a handful of times before degrading too much for reuse.

Just looked on Alibaba and you can get reusable rigid steel cups for less than a dollar a piece in quantities of 1000. Seems like the price for single-use recyclable steel/ALU cups getting gown to the 17-20c (apparently what a paper cup costs) range would not be out of the question?
Also, if it's really wet / swampy, you're gonna have a bad time without boots.
I’ve got tons of pages written for a similar concept, only you pay for it. Just as filters were the utility that drove the users which created the network for early Instagram, I think data ownership can be the utility that drives users for a for-pay social network.

This [0] kickstarter is trying to do a paid network, but I think they’ve over complicated it.

[0]https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/factr/factr-the-ethical...
whats with the flip.it url? it just redirects to short quartz article.
Shopping bags need to be washed, too. Meat juices, being set down on dirty surfaces (bus stop, muddy driveway), left for a week in a house with pests or vermin, etc. Most people are not going to want to reuse someone else's reusable bag without laundering.
Sounds like BB didn't stand a chance.

> iOS is basically MacOS-light

Yeah, I often forget that Apple had years and years of building engineering expertise around Operating Systems (MacOS) and Embedded Hardware (iPod) which they smartly leveraged into iOS. Google had something similar, but for different reasons (Google Research, ChromeOS etc.).

I wonder what the best course of action would have been. If the CEO's had recognized the futility of a fight, and had pivoted the company into an App company (BB messenger was extremely popular) or had adopted Android earlier ...