skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, noone really cares if some lone Chinese sailor "discovered" America, or some other land, if the knowledge about this discovery was lost. The reason Columbus is considered the one to discover America is because him landing on America's shores started a new era in history, not because he was first human there (there were Native Americans there, after all).
Flutter probably wins in performance, but for smaller apps, React Native might be faster to develop.

You should read on articles about apps that convert from React Native to Flutter to learn why they chose to do so.
A QR code or something similar I could scan and get the receipt in csv would fix receipts for me.
Sex != Gender
In many of those past cases, the new way to do something involved new machines, which required new or expanded manufacturing to build, new or expanded supply chains to provide the materials to make the new machine, and created new jobs to operate and maintain the new machines.

Much of the new present day automation does not involve new machines. It often instead involves just interfacing a computer to an existing machine and writing software to let that computer replace the human operator of the machine. Those computers and interfaces are commodity items, largely built in automated factories.

This seems to me to be a fundamental difference.
Power law is the term you are probably looking for
My only concern about right to repair, is that it would make security significantly harder.

A user would need access to low level components, and this also means hackers.
These articles and posts confuse me. Aren't most people dealing with these problems?
> So it's charting the price of everything relative to the most expensive item in the ticket?

It seems so.

> What happens if I buy a $100 bottle of wine and the rest is small priced cheeses and vegetables for a party? It becomes useless.

Sounds like an atypical every-day purchase for most people, and not what this is optimized for.
I don't feel very bad for any taxi medallion owners who were exploitive, as I've heard some have been, nor for officials who let medallions become capital assets, but at least they were playing within the current local regulations. (And, even within the worst taxi medallion systems I've heard of, you'd occasionally hear of a driver who'd been saving up for a medallion, which they saw as their ticket to the American Dream, so they could keep more money from their fares.)

Then Uber comes in, knowingly ignores regulations everyone else played by, spews "sharing" nonsense, pricedumps on fares, temporarily attracts drivers and gets many hooked on loans for the recent-year cars Uber demanded, uses money and popularity of pricedumping rates to lobby politicians for official acceptance, then IPOs to keep the scheme going (and so some people can cash out).
I know Italy has Lamborghini. Put that sticker on the back of your work truck: "My other vehicle is a Lambo."
I don't suffer much from that kind of anxiety. I found the challenge pretty compelling actually. Built in was the recognition "You're certain of this, but why? Is your tower built on shaky foundations? Check it again, because if you're wrong you'll fail the challenge". Does that seem like anxiety? It didn't feel that way to me, because I could always just pair back my certainty in such cases.

Again, I enjoyed the challenge, I just didn't enjoy the effect it had on me socially, or in my career. I'd rather have friends who believe I'm smart and competent on a good career path than always be right.
There are no other browser engines in the app store.
Tax on labour (or housing) is quite weird if you look at it with fresh eyes. Don't we want to support people working and living in a house? Then why tax those? Is it a relic from the past?

Thought experiment: what if we (only) tax pollution? All taxes end up being paid by the consumer anyway. But this get the incentive straight to deliver products/services "cleanly".

Just a thought...
just came here to confirm this started on IRC for sure.
Probably used to distributing a generic kernel and libs to run everywhere for organizational simplicity, and haven't bothered optimizing intel or amd specific ones yet. But, they certainly could. Architecture on most boxes is x86_64 or the 32-bit version. Don't believe they get more specific than this.

Yes, with these tests showing some ~10% improvements, some distros getting regularly spanked in benchmarks probably will.
You claim falls apart that, joebiden.info seems to have better SEO than the real site. Just because you or I disagree with it, doesn't make it Google pushing an anti-left narrative, it could just be organic.

The other article from 2017 doesn't give me the fake MLK result, so does that mean Google DID adjust their search results?

Should Google be manually currating results? Sometimes, but I think they've proven they don't draw the line exactly straight.
How did we ever get into the situation where we cannot repair our own stuff—stuff that we have actually purchased ourselves? The situation that we've now reached where technology is now being locked up and out of sight in large corporations is frankly damn disgraceful and we really need to act and to do something about it ASAP. This new trend is deskilling the workforce and population generally and it's not in the national interest for society to allow this to continue. …And that's just for starters.

There was a time early in my career when anyone who purchased any hi-tech equipment would have expected to receive a comprehensive operational manual with the equipment and optionally a proper service manual with a comprehensive description of equipment's operation and procedures to fix it. And of course spare parts would have been available as a matter of course. It was so common that no one would have ever thought it possible not to be able to get maintenance manuals.

My introduction to electronics and technology generally was by way of equipment manuals and I learned a great deal from them.

Home appliances such as radios and televisions often had the circuit diagrams inside the back of the case at the time of purchase. Mechanics manuals were always available for cars and other vehicles and so on.

I recall quintessential examples of this with manuals from companies such as Tektronix whose oscilloscopes manuals were a remarkable sight—they were truly wonderful.

For the younger generation who has never experienced what is was actually like to be able to get detailed information from a manufacturer then download this Tektronix oscilloscope 7834 manual dated 1977 from the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/tektronix_7834. (I actually purchased several of these instruments so I've firsthand knowledge.)

Even if you don't understand a word of this manual nevertheless even just a glance at it will show you what we've actually lost as a society by manufacturer's refusing to release information.

It's a nonsense when manufacturers claim that they shouldn't have to release proprietary information as it would aid competitors. Clearly, the release of this information by Tektronix never affected its bottom line. In fact, this instrument reigned quite supreme at what it did for years. In fact, hiding circuit information and obfuscating source code has been detrimental for security and other reasons. If Volkswagen had not obfuscated its embedded code then it wouldn’t have faced the multibillion dollar fines that it's had to endure.

BTW, IBM provided circuit schematics and BIOS source code for its first PCs—the XT and AT.

Oh, how times have changed for the worse.
I wonder if this means I’ll stop receiving boxes the size of a small house containing a single small item, or if it’ll be even worse.
> they are always going to be entering the environment
they'll end up in land fill or recycled? The environment will never see them, at the very least they will never end up in the sea...

If I recall correctly most of the plastic bags come from developing countries that do not dispose of any of their garbage properly anyway.
Even if you give that Google is a platform, as Tyler Cowen artfully put it this week:

> You might be worried that, because of deplatforming, the remaining sites and writers and YouTube posters have to “walk the line” more than ideally would be the case. That to me is a genuine concern, but still let’s be comparative. Did you ever try to crack the New York publishing scene in the 1990s, or submit an Op-Ed to the New York Times before the internet was “a thing”? Now that was deplatforming, and most of it was due to the size of the slush pile rather than to evil intentions, though undoubtedly there was bias in both settings.

What do you think was happening before?

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/05/ro...
Two years after WannaCry, a million computers still at risk
You describe a textbook case of the tragedy of the commons, which is exactly what is happening. If we really wan't to address the problem then there needs to be new legislation, customers changing their behavior adequately is probably never going to happen. Regulations which ban certain goods or make them extremely expensive (like gasoline taxes) are politically impossible (see yellow vest movement) due to their uneven impact on the population. So the only alternative is probably massive government subsidies for anything that reduces CO2 emissions.
Not really, I would bet that twitter, reddit, facebook, and links from other news-like content generate the lion's share of traffic.
I don't think the implication was that there is no data out there. I think it's more about the popular conversation. I have this same problem all the time when I discuss this topic with people. It's very common for people to respond quickly about nuclear with "but what about the waste". To which I typically respond "what about the solar waste". The problem is, the question is generally only applied to one side while the other side gets a pass.
Here's the longest most explicit story on the incident I could find.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2010/dec/17/julian-assange...

It definitely paints a picture of him being a dirtbag but I don't know if this would even be illegal in the U.S. or what people would conventionally describe as rape.
a) " a lower clickthrough rate" - the click through rate to news is not the only concern of Google.

b) It's not an argument to suggest that Google should be carrying some random student news paper. As if Google can't tell the difference between 'The Burlington Vermont Times' and random noise.
> Automation is a scary specter off in the distance but it's not as actively harmful to people's livelihoods.

http://nber.org/papers/w23285

> According to our estimates, one more robot per thousand workers reduces the employment to population ratio by about 0.18-0.34 percentage points and wages by 0.25-0.5 percent.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/11/opinion/trump-robots-elec...

> No single factor such as tech-driven worker anxiety determines local political behavior. But there’s no mistaking that districts that voted Republican in the 2018 election are subject to higher levels of automation exposure.
Let's talk about a fair dice roll to make it concrete, and let the rolled number be X and let the event that we rolled an even number be E. P(X=6|E) = 1/3. P(X|E) is a distribution where 1,3,5 has 0 probability mass and 2,4,6 have 1/3 each.

If we consider X|E as a random variable, what is its value if we roll an odd number? Undefined? What does that mean? Random variables always have some value.

Sure you can build a new event space (sigma algebra) but then you can't use random variables over the original one.

Let's consider two independent rolls, X and Y. You can't compute the joint distribution P(Y, (X|E)), it just doesn't make sense as the two "variables" are defined over different spaces. Note that this is not the same as P(X,Y | E). The latter is simple a conditional probability, without any concept "conditional random variables".

Again, this is totally obvious to people who have experience with probabilities, but could be confusing to students. Such cases are where students who try to understand the details may be left more confused than students who just want to get the main idea.
To enable better performance on Intel processors, to encourage folks to seek them out, and sell more of them, would be my guess.
Engineering Lead needed for the fastest growing fashion marketplace in Europe
Killer Cars
Relying on corporations to be the arbiter of fairness is dangerous. I certainly welcome the new progressive agenda of regulation to keep markets free and fair.
Sure. They probably had an idea of what was going on. Don't really see why that is important though. What I was replying to stated "The charge and extradition request was made shortly after the release of the US diplomatic cables." which is incorrect. There is not anything suspicious about the timeline as I see it, the arrest warrant was issued after Assange left Sweden during an open investigation, which he was quite aware of. The only thing that would have been strange is if an arrest warrant hadn't been issued.
Exclusivity deals are pretty complicated under the Sherman/Clayton acts. It's hotly contested - hardly "tolerated in just about every industry." Here are some links:

https://www.businessjustice.com/is-exclusive-dealing-illegal...

https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/competition-guidance/guide-a...

https://www.theantitrustattorney.com/exclusive-dealing-agree...

That's why this is going to the Supreme Court - we all recognize that the App Store uses exclusive dealing, but it's non-obvious whether or not it's lawful.

>And places that sell things are well within their right to choose their vendors unless you want to demand that the BMV dealership be leglly required to sell Ford trucks if Ford desired.

Not sure what that has to do with anything. Apple's point was that they aren't selling anything - therefore appstore customers wouldn't have standing to bring an antitrust against them.
I’d like to see Google impose a “clickbait” penalty and derank clickbait articles, as long as they are imposing editorial control over content and not simply being a conduit.
Ask HN: What overlooked class of tools should a self-taught programmer look into
15 years ago I learned Python by studying some O'Reilly books and I have been a hobbyist programmer ever since.

The books went into detail and since reading them I've felt confident writing scripts I needed to scratch an itch. Over time, I grew comfortable believing I had a strong grasp of the practical details and anything I hadn't seen was likely either minor quibble, domain specific, or impractically theoretic.

This was until last year when I started working on a trading bot. I felt there should be two distinct parts to the bot, one script getting data then passing that data along to the other script for action. This seemed correct as later I might want multiple scripts serving both roles and passing data all around. Realizing the scripts would need to communicate over a network with minimal latency, I considered named pipes, Unix domain sockets, even writing files to /dev/shm but none of these solutions really fit.

Googling, I encountered something I hadn't heard of called a message queue. More specifically, the ZMQ messaging library. Seeing some examples I realized this was important. The step of then plowing through the docs was nothing short of revelatory. Every next chapter introduced another brilliant pattern. While grokking Pub/Sub, Req/Res, Push/Pull and the rest I couldn't help breaking away, staring in space, struck by how this new thing I had just read could have deftly solved some fiendish memorable problem I'd previously struggled against.

Later, I pondered the meaning of only now stumbling on something so powerful, so fundamental, so hidden in plain sight, as messaging middleware? What other great tools remain invisible to me for lack of even knowing what to look for?

My question: In the spirit of generally yet ridiculously useful things like messaging middleware, what non-obvious tools and classes of tools would you suggest a hobbyist investigate that they otherwise may never encounter?
> November 05, 2009
How Much Money Do You Need to Be Wealthy in America?
All products? That would be 12 million different products according to this site: https://www.retailtouchpoints.com/resources/type/infographic...

Even as big as they are, I don't think they have that much power. So maybe they could do that with some items, but they're still going to have to package some items.

In some cases, it might even be less efficient to do it this way. It means spending more up front on packaging, so the time value of money is a factor. Also, some products never sell, so why create packaging for them that will never be used? And an already-packaged product may take up more space on warehouse shelves. It might only be 10% more space or something, but 10% of everything adds up.

Also, sometimes people order more than one item. It is probably more economical to ship everything in one box. (Postage would be lower, and it might still cost less even if Amazon does the delivery themselves.)
That seems tough to determine. Does an autonomous bulldozer count as one employee because you would have had one person driving it? Or does it count as five employees because you run it 24/7? Or does it count as five hundred employees because that’s how many people you’d need if they were using shovels?
"government's ability to carry out even its most basic functions."

by looking at the current political circus it certainly seems that way.
That's usually due to delivery/packing requirements, not a human unable to find the smallest possible box.
"Tractor" is something of a loaded term, implying simplicity and so on. It sounds like some of the products JD makes today could be more accurately thought of as "Robot Tractors".
Uber Misses the Enchanted Forest
>Obama had no authority to do this beyond simple prosecutorial discretion.

DACA was differed action, it was not amnesty.

>creating non-individualized discretion decisions

Prioritizing deportations and prosecution based on criminal history has been done for ages, that doesn't seem much different and isn't questioned much at all...
The most insane part to me is that (in my experience) Taboola/Outbrain pay peanuts compared to other networks that in theory deliver better content.
ssh'ing into an AWS box to share a tmux session is a great way to pair program.
It's not that simple when everything runs on software including cylinder firing and timing.
A waste of ink, no, but somewhat a waste of thermal paper.
nice FUD. South Korea has no problems + Bitcoin is not a steady currency.
My introduction to this was when I went to work for a solar manufacturer and had to take blood tests to measure cadmium levels.
You're thinking about Section 230 wrong. Censorship is a government only thing. But even if we accept your definition of censorship, in google's case, there is no censorship taking place. Because google always lets every user know about every hit it found for their search at the very top of the first page of results. So if google knows about 1,690,000,000 instances of, say, "chocolate cake", it tells you that up front. Crucially, given enough time, google will always present to every user all 1,690,000,000 instances of which it is aware.

You are not required to present all of the information on your platform at once in order to be considered a platform. Indeed, it is generally accepted that platforms, by their very nature, are not able to do so.
A few months ago I would have dismissed what you are saying, but now I could have written it myself. It's getting easier than ever to test the bias for yourself.

I actively wanted to read some of the extreme right wing stuff. (I believe strongly that we do everyone a disservice by silencing people. It harms the rest of us by isolated us from anything not "mainstream" and it further pushes the silenced into radicalism and vindicates/bolsters their argument that they are mistreated). I literally could not find it on Google, but just moving over to Duck Duck Go I found what I was looking for right away.

To everyone down-voting the parent, try it yourself. Think about some polarizing political topic and plug it into Google and then do the exact same search in Duck Duck Go (and maybe Bing, I haven't tried that but I will). You'll be shocked at the difference.
I was at an insurance company upgrading old systems to use less old technology. I had an information science degree and was a pretty lousy programmer.

HackerNews helped to demystify working at a software company. It just seemed more and more in reach as I kept reading and contributing. The most important thing though, is it taught me to get my shit together before making a comment. That extended to being more rigorous in all the work I did, leading to success. I also came across tons of articles about how to level up, and cool resources where I could practice coding challenges. Looking back, it was like having a rich community at tech-oriented company without being able to work at a place like that.

It's really hard to draw a line, but I think I just gained familiarity with the industry and learned to tell when an technology idea is bullshit or legit. All that led to more confidence and that shit is gold when it comes to leveling yourself up.
+1 for Farnam Street. They just published a book based on their blog posts about mental models. You can find the book here: https://fs.blog/tgmm
> Do we really want debt-limit style brinksmanship around murder statutes?

Do they? Or do they think they're somehow immune to murder being suddenly legal?
The biggest european tractor are case new holland (cnh) and claas.

Then there are other in eastern europe and china, but not available in europe
#hack checking in
A question: if you can make one assumption about Uber (or fix one thing about it) such that Uber will be sustainably profitable in the future. What will it be? Why do you think the assumption implies sustainable profitability in high probability?
Here's my opinion:

What she got right

- see items within categories from most expensive category to least, each category showing a percent of your total grocery bill

- see relative price within a category at a glance (even if you buy wine, that's within your alcohol category, so it won't mess up the relative pricing of your dairy or snacks)

What might not go so well

- the bubble chart is less universal and intuitive (and it's "quirky")

- does volume (of what's printed) matter for thermal printing costs?

- would waiting to print the receipt at the end cause a big slowdown vs printing as you ring items up? (I believe with most current systems, items can be added and removed, and they show up as 'add' and 'remove' line items, because it does print as you scan.)

Many people mentioned digital/CSV breakdowns. I know Home Depot quietly connected my credit card to my email address after asking me if I wanted a digital receipt, and I typed in an email. So this seems like a reasonable option, for anyone that grants permission. (Home Depot annoys me because I say "Yeah! E-mail me!" and then they hand me a receipt anyway. Ungh!)
At some point in the near future won't many of the tractors be fully automated?