skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lots of Chinese go to Italy to grab clothes that are taken back to be cloned. You don’t just do a design, you want to copy designs that are successful and already heavily marketed.

As for QA, if they aren’t trying to build a brand with repeat buyers, QA is simply overhead. Even if they are, they might not have the foresight or management experience to implement QA correctly. The lack of merit-based management talent is a huge problem.
Amazon should make it easier to filter away things with long shipping.. Looking for motorbike parts that i prefer shipped from Germany (to the Netherlands) i sometime go through 20-30 products before i find a local seller. I didn't used to do this and in 80% of the cases delivery of 2 months, with some 20% shipped within days. Amazon is terrible on tracking the objects too. After waiting for 2 months, the day come when stuff is suppose to arrive, only to wait another day and find out it was not even shipped yet.
I can't help but think this is another attempt to lock down people and devices into a Google-controlled platform where they can be spied on and sold to the highest bidder.

Does it seem suspicious to anyone that Google is pushing Fuchsia just as truly open Android phones like Puri.sm and /e/ are coming to market?
Rarely do we ask ourselves how short-term conveniences may harm us in the long run. Chores are important. Discomfort is important. Mild annoyances are important. Physically moving is important. Focusing on unexciting things is important.
So fascinating that American companies, in their race to generate profits, jettisoned their connection to American labor and created this situation, where the Chinese manufacturers could remove those companies as the middleman.
Being sustainable does not mean being a unicorn.

As said the issue is that the aim always to exit. And also that they approach this as a Silicon Valley tech company and not as a "standard" company... So spending goes out of hands and it's a billion dollars or nothing.
> you can actually use your time for something useful or enjoyable

I'm doing something enjoyable. I'm cruising down the freeway with the windows open, good tunes on the radio, and I can choose to go anywhere I desire.
Better yet - after the 'project' is done, charge T&M
Fiberglass insulation is used inside exterior walls and makes them better insulating than brick. Major heat/cold losses are through windows, the same kinds of problems you have in brick buildings. Put in a good enough window (and seal the edges tightly) and you will do amazingly well with heat/cold.

And Notre Dame is made out of hewn stone blocks, not brick, which is a big difference. Brick isn't stone; it's just baked clay, which isn't as good. There are actual houses out there that are made out of hewn stone, and that's another thing entirely. My relatives live in a manor in Tuscany where the oldest part of the house is stone from the 14th century.
Python for NLP: Working with the Gensim Library (Part 1)
Hah, I am afraid I'm the wrong person to ask. I did the one person consultancy for years and never had the courage to step up and hire someone to get to that next level. (Now I'm at a 15 person consultancy, but got hired in after they go to that level.)

Maybe another commenter can speak to your question.
Analysts predict where the stock is going in the short term based on "sentiments" and "emotion". I wouldn't bet anything on them.
This is overstating the case a bit, imo. There are plenty of smart home devices that are either objectively terrible or worse relative to their "dumb" alternatives–I'd happily concede that this is the majority of the smart-home market. But there are some genuinely good products mixed in there too.

In the same way that dishwashers and washers/dryers have endured while other 70s smarter-home tech didn't [0], I would guess that some modern automations that actually provide value (e.g. robot vacuums) will continue on even as the hype dies down.

[0] For example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeywell_316#Kitchen_Computer
And a significant portion of those 40% are spamming all of their competitors with fake negative reviews and/or false infringement claims to get their listings buried or removed. Both of those tactics are surprisingly effective and you can find many stories of people's businesses being ruined (or held ransom) by them.

Fulfillment by Amazon was a decent idea, but it's time for it to go the same way as the Dash button and Amazon pop-up stores.
For HVAC, it's data logging and more complex energy efficiency strategies.
Yup. Hashtag popularity period is basically proxy for growth of a) Twitter and b) world around it.

That said, maybe the (perception of) shortening attention span is also just a proxy for growth.
I've the same problem, but reversed: since I know my strong Italian accent can be hard for people to understand, especially in phone calls, I often ask if we can instead have a chat. But people rarely accept, with the result of having a hard time understanding each other.
Deepfake Salvador Dalí takes selfies with museum visitors
No, gwright is correct, and my guide fails to capture the nuance of this detail.

Each commit has a link to its parent, and represents the tip of a linked list. .git/objects is a heap of all commits (and other objects), and .git/refs contains a list commit IDs that define each head (e.g. master). git rebase will often introduce new versions of a commit to the heap and update the heads to reference new histories, but the old commits stick around and can be accessed through the reflog - with their full original history intact.
Learning Path for Philosophy?
I have been consuming philosophy/philosophical themed content for a while, but I am looking to make my overview of philosophical discourse more structured. I need a well-planned learning path.
The aim is not for me to become a professional philosopher, but to have an overall understanding that is deep enough to be useful. Naturally, as there is no set outcome, the journey should be preferably enjoyable :)

Stuff I have read/listened and enjoyed a lot:

- [PODCAST] Philosophize This http://philosophizethis.org/

- [BOOK] The Cave and the Light, Arthur Herman https://www.amazon.com/Cave-Light-Aristotle-Struggle-Civilization/dp/0553385666

- [BOOK] Platon: Apology | Sophist | Symposium

- [MOOC] Introduction to Philosophy: God, Knowledge and Consciousness https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-philosophy-god-knowledge-mitx-24-00x-2 <- this was great in structure, but there was no clear continuation

- [BLOG] Philosophy Bro https://www.philosophybro.com/ <- explains concepts clearly

- [BOOK] Camus: The Myth of Sisyphus | The Stranger

- [BOOK] The Logic of Scientific Discovery, Karl Popper <- loved the clarity

- these came into my mind

What I didn't enjoy:

- [BOOK] I tried reading Schelling's Philosophical Inquiries into the Essence of Human Freedom (got it as a present: someone thought I was patient/smart enough to read it, guess they were wrong) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_Inquiries_into_the_Essence_of_Human_Freedom

- I tried reading Kirkegaard, super depressing.

- Wittgenstein is the kind of philosopher who I really really want to understand, but the style of writing is so difficult I would need much more training to be able to follow it.

I enjoy Metaphysics, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Mind and some parts of Ethics.

Do any of you have a good learning path?

I appreciate any input!
i do wish that was move obvious (like eBay), or there was a way to automatically exclude results from abroad by default on all searches. bonus points for allowing me to specify some countries (like Japan) or exclude others. it wouldn't even impact Amazon's bottom line that much, as most people would never turn it on if it's opt-in
So... your whole complaint is that people use "rebase" as a trick for "edit history". You'd be fine if they just put a wrapper into the project for that? Seems like not much of a complaint to me. Why not just submit it yourself?

Git doesn't have "reorder patches" feature. Maybe it should. But the fact that its rebase tool can be abused to do this doesn't say anything about the interface value of "git rebase".

Honestly, it seems like the root cause here is that you don't actually do branch rebasing very often, don't see the value of having a rebase tool in the tree, and are just complaining that the trick you do need isn't well supported by the rebase tool you don't use or understand.
>Maybe they just know what they are doing?

the GOP is exactly about stupid money
That's pretty much dead on.
If it's being upvoted, people are interested... perhaps seeing it for the first time.
> I don't think that it's totally impossible to copy such keys and it will be probably even be harder to prevent copys in the future (think 3d printing). But you can't have them copied by any old shoe maker with a key copy side business.

I remember a story recently about a secure luggage key. And every luggage lock was supposed to use it, but you weren't supposed to be able to get copies. But then a newspaper article printed a full-page image of the key, so... yeah, it got duplicated on a 3D printer that day: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/09/11/tsa-master-lugga...
Uber chose the worst possible week to IPO – the bad timing will cost it billions
Wait, are Nest products no longer functional after this change?
It is not just a matter of ethics. I once had a colleague who suggested to me (in private), that I "adjust" a report I was giving to ensure a favourable outcome. At that moment, I realized that I could never trust the colleague again. And I never did. If you (OP) get caught with such a massive lie ("I live in South America") you reputation will be permanently damaged. Stay honest. Honestly.
I think you get used to it after some time, and even get, how should I formulate that, "addicted"?

I live in a heavily polluted city -- a couple of chemical plants, a coal power station, and the central heating system burning a few (dozen) tons of coal every day to combat -40°C winters. A lot of my friends/acquaintances (in fact, most of them) have moved to other cities and many of them report having trouble adjusting to less polluted atmosphere: trouble sleeping (after moving within the same timezone), constant headaches, rashes, the list goes on.

Also, you hear a lot of stories of older people (third world definition of "older", i.e. around 60), never having a single complaint about their health, moving to cleaner cities and dying in a couple of weeks of strokes and cardiac arrest.

It sounds like old wive's tale, but not when you hear it for the twentieth time from the relatives of yet another person affected.
Both your statement and the GP's ring true to me.

Here's how I'd parse it - Automation does indeed free up time for by choice activities, but it also removes motivation to do things that are both hard to do and good to do. Obvious example: cars have made tons of things possible that weren't possible before, but if I didn't have a car or live in a society built around them I'd probably get a lot more exercise.

The more automation we have the fewer things we're forced to do and there are drawbacks that come with that. Others have brought up that the experience of having done any hard thing may have intrinsic benefits, but fewer of us have had that experience. Not an argument against automation, just acknowledging the cons.
Maybe the notification heading should be bigger and/or bold? IDK about the app title.
Still, what's more likely? Rich children doing better because of overcontrolling parents, or doing better because they have access to enough resources to resolve almost any difficulty they face in their lives?
You know, I think my interpretation was wrong after re-reading, but I dont think I would disagree still. America has a very strong cultural thread of authoritarianism. You see it in places like a cops word being given greater weight in court than a citizens, or how people treat rights as something the government has to give you rather than the government taking rights from you
Presuambly you have to buy and maintain a half decent car to enter that market, which is difficult if you have the financial resources of someone earning 300 baht a day. And with rather less capital outlay you can also earn 200 baht from short tuk tuk rides for tourists...
I can answer that. It’s because when you order a four dollar bikini from China, it’s generally not the same product as one would order for $40 in the US. Merchants and wholesalers in the US have done diligence and quality assessments on their suppliers. You have no such luxury ordering from a seller on Amazon. Your only way of assessing quality is reviews and photographs, and then, the seller has essentially no liability or accountability. There are many tiers of quality for products in China, and almost always when you order a cheap one online, it is lower quality than the product you can buy for 5 to 10 times as much at a US retail store.

I’ve done small-scale importing from China for a retail business. The quality of the product you receive is generally related to whether the seller is concerned with repeat business in the future.
"If they have a legitimate and well managed supply chain, it's not actually that difficult. "

I don't necessarily disagree, but this is also really hard in practice for a lot of small manufacturers.

I happen to know a bunch about the childrens toy one for various reasons, so i'll go with that one.
About 30-50% of wood finish manufacturers certify the relevant things for their finishes, but the wood coatings market is not a huge one (They make their living off auto and oem coatings, etc), and so unless you are using thousands of gallons a year, you are using a local distributor.

What you can get there will be hit and miss.
In fact, it may not be possible to get a certified finish at all in your area.

(These are not paints, which are widely available).

Personally, i've had to order finishes from across the country in some cases, and i live in northern california (not exactly a small area :P).

(This wasn't for childrens toys, but it was to meet a similar regulation)

In very large markets, you don't have this problem because the components themselves tend to be plentiful.

Additionally, you are often required to test the combined product, not just the components.
Oh I don't doubt, that SOMEONE is using these nice languages. Still, the community of OCaml or Haskell is not nearly as big and diverse as the Python community.

And that counts in all sorts of ways. You'll have much more trouble finding answers to any questions you have. You'll have less chances for community meetings or educational content. You'll definitely have more trouble finding new developers for your projects, both in business and in open source.
It's still a short. The banks who sold the trade to soros still need to hedge their exposure by shorting the stock. The short position still gets reflected, if anything it probably amplifies the effect since it's created from a derivative
> aside from the knockoffs

They're essentially the same problem since inventory can get mixed together. You could have fake Nike shoes from a 3rd party seller mixed in with Amazon's Nike inventory.

Even 3rd party sellers complain about having their inventory tainted by other 3rd party sellers who send in counterfeits.
Tired: Calculus

Wired: automatic differentiation
>>OTOH, storage for binary UUID representation is just 16 bytes.

>Times number of rows

Still merely twice as much as typical int64 PK, which isn't terrible. Meanwhile - unless the programmer has been exceedingly careful - much more space is wasted on column (field) alignment in records.

Frankly I'd sooner worry about PK index size here; the larger, the more I/O is necessary on average for look-up, for insertion, and for maintenance tasks. RN I don't remember if typical BTree index size is strictly proportional to field size, or if it's optimized away to any extent, perhaps via prefix coding.
Problem is even if you only use safe parts, legally you have to get a lab to test your product. Using lead free everything isn't enough to LEGALLY prove your product is lead free.
If you throw purity out, then its no longer a language feature. You can write functional methods in any language.
It's quite extensive and great to work with. What features are you looking for that might be missing?
How can you say that Lyft is "stiffing" the drivers when they lose money on every ride? Where is the extra money for the drivers supposed to come from? Every passenger has the opportunity to tip if they want: would you also say that restauranteurs are stiffing the waitstaff?
Ask HN: What is the best way to quickly launch a website?
I am just trying to launch a simple static website.
How I Went a Year Without a Paying Customer and Took 3 Years to Hit $3k/MRR
No, I reject the update for non-trivial issues which I feel that violate my privacy or could pose some other serious threat and move to some other browser as soon as possible.

> look at how studies operates

It works on the background and without asking you anything. Is that correct?

> If you're using firefox, go to about:studies and see for yourself.

It says "You have not participated in any studies." - probably because I have them disabled.
Because the Chinese companies don't have the brand recognition. Most consumers would see a Chinese name and think "low-quality knock-off" and unable to distinguish a Chinese company trying to compete on quality versus one competing on price.
To take a real world example, Falcon 9 is completely autonomous during flight - the controllers on the ground can trigger an abort, and perhaps change the flight plan from a range of preselected options, but they're not going to attempt to take over the rocket and switch it to manual mode or something. They observe, they don't intervene during a normal flight, and if something does go wrong, they're not going to be able to save the situation. There is no pilot.
One small note on your mention of MacOS, and I don't know if this has been fixed. A couple of years ago, the certificates expired on some versions of the OS installer, like El Capitan and could no longer be verified. While there's the simple workaround of changing the clock, it did give me pause when trying to get an old Mac upgraded to the latest supported operating system.
Is lack of horizontal padding part of the KDE aesthetic?
>To think that the little nation-states of Europe can survive and prosper on their own... fantasy...

I'm a remainer but I think little nation states that are non EU like Switzerland or Singapore survive and prosper quite well.

I admit I don't know that much about the EU - I think of it mostly as an admin for free trade and travel between the countries mostly. Which I quite like.

One of the troubles with the 2016 leave/remain referendum was remain is clear enough but no one really knew what leave would consist of. When you clarify it none of the options are very popular for instance the polls on remain/May's deal are about 60:40 to remain. Even remain/no deal polls about 56-44 towards remain so to leave politicians will have to force it through against the wishes of the majority of the people and of their parliament. Which is kind of a mess.
Raycasting engine in Factorio game – Facto-RayO v1.0 [video]
How's Apu fit into the "yellow is neutral" thought, here?
Let's not panic too much here. A smart thermostat or garage door opener is modular, plug-in replaceable. The equivalent of a fancy toaster. You aren't locked in to anything.
I'm finding similar things.

Also I'm coming across a lot more garbage brands on Amazon that I'm having trouble plowing through to find what I want.

It doesn't help that Amazon seems to be pushing me to buy a lot of garbage too with their suggestions, their own promoted sales, and etc. It feels like there is a very Wallmart type push for "hey this is 30 cents cheaper and look at all these reviews (fake, or by morons)!"

Prime Day seems more like a garage sale than anything else ...

I'm constantly seeing promotions for highly questionable health products / supplements...

Lots of wrong categorized products that seem like spam almost.

I feel like not just a lot of garbage but fewer quality products. I wanted a good HDMI switch, but all Amazon has are inexpensive (granted I have a couple and they're "ok") but not great switches and that is it. They really want me to buy these flimsy things that are all the same with these tiny annoying remotes.

Oddly enough for me Amazon was a route to find a variety of BETTER quality things than I might find in a store, it is becoming harder to do that now.
You are making a lot of claims without any actual explanation what those things are supposed to be.

> It’s a presentation by an ex-hedge fund guy on a profit play

Yeah, the last 20 years almost of him investing in his dream that he has been talking about since he went to school is clearly a massive for profit play.
Maybe the equivalent of target in the US?
Ask HN: Methods and Materials for Organizing My (Old) Digital Life
I've got a lot of digital stuff. Photos/videos/etc.

I'm currently trying to work on my network administration skills at my full-time job.

Looking to purchase a Synology NAS or something similar to start creating a repository for all of my personal projects/data.

Thoughts on where to start? Considerations for organizing files and documenting what I have?

Curious to see how others have handled archiving years of data. Thanks HN!
i'm not talking about morals here. i'm talking about the nitty gritty of building things in a stupid way simply because the customer so demands it because they have an immature notion of their business or product.
> Does Silicon Valley not have data caps? I guess they never have bad reception, though.

Pretty much. When the developers only use the latest phones, on a company (or unlimited) plan, connected to 4G LTE with full bars, this is what you get. Google seems determined to hide network latency with its various prefetching efforts, but since I'm paying for bandwidth, I'd rather just wait the extra couple of seconds.
Thinking of aviation makes me remember the impact of doing things right.
As soon as one of them increase prices to generate profit ill just move on to the next ride sharing app, then the next, then the next.

You'd need a price fixing scheme worthy of British Airways make this work.
I have no idea what you are talking about
>In my opinion education is excellent up until high-school

In your opinion how much does the specific high school matter overall? (For those who don't know Romanian education allows to apply for any higher education example arts to polytechnics if you pass the exams, unlike french education)
Being meritocratic there is competition to be able to get into the best ones.
All the UI and UX in general looks like it's from 2007. I know that it's volunteer work and I don't want to downplay the generosity of those who contributed to it, but I do wonder what's causing the delay in catching up to modern aesthetics. Is it a technical issue? Is there too much bureaucracy to overcome? Is there a shortage of UI and UX developers?
if Analysts knew so much they would be rich instead of providing advice, which I've found to be hit or miss, to other people.
HN might be pointing the way to the future.

Or it might be overly focused on things that will never take the world by storm.
I'm mostly a high level dynamic language guy, but have played with hello works in Nim, D, Ada, C++, and C on Linux and Windows.

I believe most are in the 400kb range iirc.
Simple Questions to Get Your Team Started on the Right Foot
+1 on charging for specs.

We had some landscaping done and interviewed a few contractors. Only one charged for the upfront design work, but theirs was the most detailed proposal. We ended up going with them. I think they rebated most of the design fee, too.
I found the opposite -- textiles are much cheaper in Asia. It's only the "imported" brands that are more expensive.