skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Massive sanctions

Primarily withholding of highway funding again

Alabama didn't even get electricity without the feds, theyre very financially tied up with the feds to masquerade as representative of a developed nation

We can single out Alabama without mentioning Alabama specifically

They’ll get the benefits of being a state after conforming and dissolving their theocratic government
You're not thinking broadly enough. Crispr is already very, very useful for biological research. Thinking just in terms of medicine is far too narrow for such a game-changing biological technology.
Most garbage is not obsolete or broken equipment. Most garbage is packaging (cardboard shipping boxes, plastic yoghurt cups etc), which nobody wants or needs to last for a lifetime.
I would think by working together face-to-face. Learning by doing from a "master" knowing his stuff. Like an apprenticeship.

What answer did you find?
The food charity that I support (with cash) specifically takes and distributed safely edible but past best-by or sell-by date food.

Best-by and sell-by dates are not a food safety date.

https://www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/wcm/connect/fsis-content/inter...
> I'd love to buy one of these if I can get one that is in great shape.

What you want, IIRC, is known as an "uncirculated proof note" - at least, that's what I know it as when it comes to US currency.

They are fairly easy to get from the US Treasury, I believe - as they will typically sell low-denomination proof sets (with coins too) as "collectibles". Whether other countries do the same or not, I am not sure.

If you go to the Bank of England's website:

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/

There's a contact link at the top - I believe they are the organization that releases Britain's currency, so I would contact them to find out how you can obtain such an uncirculated note.

Indeed, I want to do the same, and that's where I plan to start. Hopefully, we can get it for the face value (about $63.00 USD at current exchange rates), plus maybe a tad more for shipping, handling, it being uncirculated, etc. I'm expecting - well, hoping - to not pay more than $100.00 USD for the note.

Seems a bit crazy, but then again, I've paid a lot of real money for a fake money note (it was something shot out as "confetti" into the crowd of a concert, and it was in great condition - I never went to that concert because I didn't know the band then - plus I doubt I would have been in the pit where those notes landed - price and danger (mosh) would have deterred my older self).
Source on that quote?
I had “plans” a while back to put together a cynically-named “Who’s Not Hiring” script that did just that. Look at which companies post the same or extremely similar jobs month after month. Life got in the way and I abandoned the project early, but it would be interesting to see the results of such an effort.
does anyone else feel that google results are useless a lot of the time?

Google doesn't make money from you finding what you're looking for. Google makes money from you searching for what you're looking for.
Maybe Toronto is way more expensive than Houston, but a cheese burger from McDonalds is $1 and 300 calories.

Pre-made Tasty Bites are like 2.40 and you can throwthem on a bed of rice and eat 3 meals for $10 a day.

And if you cook yourself and eat mostly vegetarian or cheap meats you can easily get your per meal costs into the $2 range.

https://www.budgetbytes.com/

I know the rent is more expensive, in Houston you can easily get a ~800 sq ft 1 br 8 minutes from downtown in a nice neighborhood for $850. If you live in a 2 br with roommates or an efficiency you can get that down to $400-$500.
I get the impression that food banks' needs vary greatly from region to region; and based on managerial style.

If you want to know what's best for your food bank, perhaps ask them directly?
Don’t Miss the Next Unicorn
my employer gives them out 2 weeks after Thanksgiving
To be clearer "Cognitive Dissonance" is the feeling, it's not an activity that someone engages in. So the OP has the feeling of cognitive dissonance between their "21 year old self" and where they are today.

My statement was meant to say that a common way people cope with this, in my experience, is to convince themselves to satisfice [1] instead of continuing to pursue their original goal.

It could be claimed that for certain things, this could be considered "growing up" or "maturing", which in many cases might be true. The child who gives up their dream to be a superhero is truly maturing because superhero was never really an option.

However falling into a stable local minima because you didn't become the CEO of a F500 company or become a championship tennis player etc...and convincing yourself that being a regional VP or a high school tennis coach is just as good because [reasons] seems to be how people cope with this dissonance.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satisficing
actually 1GBps
The reason for that is because Google's building for a mainstream audience, because the mainstream (by definition) is much bigger than any niche. They increase aggregate happiness (though not your specific happiness) a lot more by doing so.

It's probably possible to build a search engine for a specific vertical that's better than Google. However, you face a few really big problems that make this not worthwhile:

1) Speaking from experience, it's very difficult to define what "better" means when you don't have exemplars of what queries are likely and what the results should be. The reason search engines are a product is that they let us find things we didn't know existed before; if we don't know they exist, how can we tweak the search engine to return them?

2) People go to a search engine because it has the answers for their question, no matter what their question is. If you had a specific search engine for games, and another for celebrities, and another for flights, and another for hotels, and another for books, and another for power tools, and another for current events, and another for technical documentation, and another for punditry, and another for history, and another to settle arguments on the Internet, then pretty soon you'd need a search engine to find the appropriate search engine. We call this "Google", and as a consumer, it's really convenient if they just give us the answer directly rather than directing us to another search engine where we need to refine our query again.

3) Google makes basically 80% of their revenue from searches for commercial products or services (insurance, lawyers, therapists, SaaS, flowers, etc.) The remainder is split between AdSense, Cloud, Android, Google Play, GFiber, YouTube, DoubleClick, etc. (may be a bit higher now). Many queries don't even run ads at all - when was the last time you saw an ad on a technical programming query, or a navigational query like [facebook login]? All of these are cross-subsidized by the commercial queries, because there's a benefit to Google from it being the one place you go to look for answers. If you build a niche site just to give good answers to programming queries or celebrity searches or current events, there's no business model there.
My understanding is a CEO's main capability that earns them a large salary is being able to influence company salaries.
It's not a risk factor; it's a test outcome. You would be told that you've tested positive with the follow on tests and anxiety that causes.

There have been studies into exactly this: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22859786

Specifically on breast cancer screening, the National Institute for Clinical Evidence in the UK has published management guidance that is quite interesting: https://cks.nice.org.uk/breast-screening
I don’t know. But one should not be naive about it. The political machines have massive resources, strong connection to media and have nailed information campaigns down to an art.

I noticed a similar thing about a year ago when Facebook was in the crosshairs.

Having said that. These companies are obvious monopolies prone to abuse their power.
I was definitely hoping for a lot more based on the title.
I'm also not sure I agree with the phrasing that he "discovered" an alternative notation. Invented, maybe, but not discovered.
Artificial “muscles” achieve powerful pulling force
You don't need to scale. How many churches are in LA? When I was homeless over there when I was younger, there were spots all over the city that were feeding the homeless. You don't need one giant entity. You just need the community to care. If your community doesn't care no amount of money is going to fix it.
More than that: the US gov't has declared their own tech giants a threat. Meanwhile, the Chinese gov't is supporting theirs as a potential goldmine on all fronts: national security, foreign policy, economic.
Oh shit. Well then that's cool.
If you're attempting to manipulate the infinitesimals in a derivative notation, it's your understanding of calculus that's flawed, not calculus.
Graphene can do everything! Except get out of the lab.
> Epic Games Store and its DRM

EGS doesn't have DRM, it is up to each game to implement their own if they want, but the store itself doesn't provide any.

Which is great since most games do not bother :-P (although i'd prefer it if they had a DRM-free stance like GOG, but Epic is too publisher-friendly to allow that).
Craiglist = Cointelpro
Renting an apartment in Shanghai isn't necessarily that expensive, it just costs a lot if you want to buy one.

E.g. here are listings for 1000 yuan per month or less: https://sh.zu.fang.com/house/c20-d21000-n31/ I wouldn't believe any of the other claims made (e.g. the size is probably exaggerated), but behind each of these listings is someone willing to actually offer living space for that price.

The highest price category on that site is 8000 yuan or more, which is $1163.2 according to WolframAlpha.
It might just be newer, higher density NAND. It's cheaper, but slower and less reliable.
Is that the full list?
TLDR but 95% correct does not necessarily equate to 5% false positives: you can also have false negatives. The bottom line is the new algorithm increases the efficacy of the prediction.
"Extending the Algebraic Manipulability of Differentials"
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1801.09553.pdf
How does your tongue taste after polishing all those boots?
The MBA has Thunderbolt 3 ports good for "up to 40 Gb/s", so all you need is an external box to convert that to 10gig ethernet. Sonnet sells one: it weighs 3 lbs, has a 60W power adapter, and costs $500. It's the perfect accessory for your 2.75lb, 30W, $999 laptop!
Probably because that's a lot of extra work. And donating a can takes care of the obscurity problem and is dead simple.
These companies should be much more skeptical of the desire to make code quality similar to that of Google. It must have been different in Google's early years, but now there's reason to suspect that Google succeeds in spite of their code/product quality, not because of it.
The Psoriasis Strategy Review, Work or a Scam?
Vaughn's "normalization of deviance" involving the space shuttle was a top-down process of "We have a list of unacceptable risks that we have to accept, and having meetings to manage these." Given that the shuttle had fundamental flaws (e.g. it was the only manned space vehicle that didn't have an escape system) that was the best they could do other than deciding that they weren't going to fly it.

It was inevitable, however, that one of the unacceptable risks was going to bite them, and it did, twice.

The term "normalization of deviance" is frequently used in the health care context to describe something entirely different, a bottom-up process. That is, nurses and doctors don't wash their hands, skip steps, etc. Upper levels of the institution might fail to control this behavior, but it's a different horror.
I was thinking they were all guilt of this within the first paragraph. You use to have to beware on eBay, but the Amazon marketplace is just as full with counterfeits and bad products that it's like the new Wal-Mart. Newegg and Reverb both do the marketplace thing too, but their volume seems to be low enough to be hit with unsavory shops.

I heard about the problem with Google and locksmiths and was very careful the one time I locked my keys in my car without a backup a few years ago. I refused any locksmith that didn't quote an absolute price and found a local one that only charged $60.
This sounds eerily like what happened with the railroads, and I suspect it would have some unintended and unsavory side effects. At the very least, it would open up opportunities for the Wesley Mouches of the world.
Try downloading assets from the Unreal store on Linux.
That's one of the fundamental questions of mathematics. Are you discovering or inventing?
only on credit? if youre not a credit card person you can still use a redcard. and despite their cartwheel coupon games, it is nice being able to combine your card, gift cards, cash withdraw settings, and coupons into a single barcode to scan at the register.

I wish target let me add everything to the cart as I shopped and check out like Sams.
I asked the director of the food bank for my area and she said they welcome both cash and imperishable food items; there's a list of such items on their web site. So maybe there's variation on how they work? just go and ask your local food bank what they prefer or how you can help.
Most CEOs are quite detached from managing company salaries and have delegated that responsibility - CEOs do work, sure... but not a proportion of work in line with their earnings.
No, it's the opposite. They're packing more bits into each NAND cell, which causes both the IO to be slower, and the drive less reliable.
Good point, I've never thought about it that way. We usually see US tech firms supporting the govt (and the resulting protests from their employees). But I wonder how the climate were to change if the govt was proactive in supporting the local tech firms instead.
You're just repeating yourself with different adjectives. Why "absurd"? Why "meaningless"? Why "doesn't make sense"?

All I'm getting out of this is that you don't like it.
>I can only imagine if other companies with Epic levels of cash were doing the same thing.
You're not even trying to be subtle about shitting on Steam, are you?
A few exclusives is more than worth breaking Valve's near-monopoly and 30% toll on game revenue. That 30% is coming straight out of gamers' pockets and HN usually hates middlemen; it's baffling to see so many people in support of Valve.
>Our group made the calculations to ensure that our task would pay at least minimum wage. As a result, we had to throttle our participants because they would hit our servers pretty hard.

What do you mean by this? Do you mean purely requests per second or what?
Quote on that?

Also, there's Wine and ReactOS, no? Aren't those two alternative (even if somewhat incomplete) implementations of Win32?
The site logs each video to your browser's console in the format `Playing {0} in [object Object]`. You can rewatch by visiting https://youtu.be/{0}.
By the time you cut that out you are only going to get two cans worth.

Bullshit. In the US, charities are required to file detailed financial statements and tracked by sites like Charity Navigator. One that was spending 50%+ on overhead would be a major outlier.

For some real data, I typed in "food bank" on Charity Navigator and picked the first result:

https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summar...

97.3% spent on programs and services delivered.
Wouldn't help.

A classic antitrust breakup might.

- Google Search - no account required or offered.

- Doubleclick - ads on third party sites, not including Google sites.

- Alphabet Services - mail, docs, etc. - anything that requires a login or pay.

- Alphabet Heavy Industries - cloud, large scale business services, etc.
When I see the Google employee walkouts I begin to wonder what it takes to govern good people. Sundar Pichai must feel like the walkouts are a real headache sometimes.
Wow, that's just evil.
Webspam is a really big problem, yes. It's very unlikely that you'd be able to catch up or keep up in that regard without Google's resources.

Building the index itself is relatively easy. There are some subtleties that most people don't think about (eg. dupe detection and redirects are surprisingly complicated, and CJK segmentation is a pre-req for tokenizing), but things like tokenizing, building posting lists, and finding backlinks are trivial - a competent programmer could get basic English-only implementations of all three running in a day.
>But it's great for the employees and it's great for innovation.

In which way is Google innovative? They have good products for sure, but I haven't seen much innovation at Google since a while. If anything the past few years have been mostly disappointing (Loon, Calico, Fiber, etc)
>Overall, we rate Vox Left Biased due to wording and story selection that favors the left and High for factual reporting based on only one failed fact check and appropriately issuing a correction to a second. (5/15/2016) Updated (M. Huitsing 5/30/2019)
Amazon lets anyone crawl them, Yelp has a whitelist and no you can't get on it, Linkedin has a whitelist and no you can't get on it, Facebook has a whitelist and no you can't get on it.
The IDLE now has line numbers!
There is attention on all of them. And every time one of them gets bad press, someone is ready to point out that the current target is unfairly singled out from the others.
Sourceress (YC S17) Hiring Product and ML Engineers (Remote OK, No Prior ML OK)
Yeah, their revenue share isn't about helping developers, it's about hurting Valve. When Epic pays a publisher for exclusivity, a lot of the time it's actually "sell it anywhere except Steam". Their deals still allow the developers to sell the game on stores that take the same 30% cut that Steam does. Plus there's the issue of a game being developed with Linux support, then Epic pays the publisher for exclusivity and the Linux version goes away because the EGS is Windows only.
Indeed, and in that case you need to check the morals of that church since a religious organization is more likely to meter out aide conditional on an alignment to their morals.
I mean that they cannot produce a working solution no matter how much time or effort they use

Of course, but they don't represent the middle of the distribution. When people speak of the myth of the "10x programmer", that claim is meaningless if they can hold the reference productivity all the way to the far left of the distribution.

Any meaningful claim of "10x programmers" needs to be measured against the mean or median of the distribution - the so-called "average programmer". How many non-dysfunctional "10x programmers" who don't create messes for others genuinely exist?
There's been a substantial amount of criticism for fraud on Amazon's ecommerce arm, here on HN and generally.

Microsoft's market cap is largely software/services, where fraud's largely going to impact Microsoft themselves. Bing Ads are likely peanuts compared to Google's offering.
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It should be noted that for the Air Show, the Airbus had most of it’s software safety features disabled and on top of that, the pilots flying the plane actually didn’t know the airport they were performing at. The latter is a major red flag.

In the end, software didn’t bring down that flight (as in, the software didn’t pitch the plane down into the ground). Disabled safety features stopped the plane from correcting a situation it would normally be protecting pilots from. And the pilots where unaware of any obstructions past the runway. Coupled with long spool up times for jet engine (any jet engine, I might add), and that flight was basically doomed once it was over the runway.

Mind you, I’m not trying to put the blame on anyone here, but to compare that crash with the recent MAX crashes is just not right. More comparable would be something like Qantas Flight 72, where the autopilot did in fact result in an uncommanded pitch down. Although the pilots recovered from that situation and the plane landed safely.
My only point is that autocomplete results for arbitrary one-off queries isn't instructive, especially because many people see different autocomplete suggestions. As I've already pointed out, its possible to find strange results for anything if you look hard enough.
But the official Hacker News API is really painful to use. Specifically because each comment is its own API call (?! ).

I know the HN staff mentioned they're working on a V2 API, but until then the HN HTML tree is so clean, I think this is an exceptional case where scraping the HTML yields a cleaner result that's also less load on the HN servers.

EDIT: Like the other comment on this thread mentioned, using https://hn.algolia.com/api seems ideal here.
I've only ever freelanced as a developer but you could never charge 4x your billable rate. Good Sr. Devs make ~140k with benefits and there is no way you could charge out at 280/hr without a very sophisticated business model.

I could see how this could be different at lower hourly rates though. Clients are less likely to pay, they are less price sensitive to 16-32$/hr.
1. Speed is not all that important, as long as the software remains usable for the time it takes for the developer to recompile (in most cases) or move over their software to be fully ARM compatible. This will not take long, since Apple users are notorious complainers and developers in the Apple ecosystem used to moving quickly.

x86 emulation is already close to a proven technology. Even though it hasn't reached real adoption yet because there is no open source version, there are some commercial offerings for Linux. Microsoft has x86 emulation built into the ARM version of Windows. I have no doubt that Apple could build a version of this as well (they probably already have).

2. With x86 emulation this point is mostly moot, although it will be slower. But then again Windows is also becoming ARM compatible.

3. Thunderbolt 3 is not Intel-exclusive. It does not only work with the x86-64 architecture. It's an open standard.
This is awesome. I've been thinking for a while that this would be a good idea and it's great to see someone actually do it.

Why not allow individual developers with desktop GPUs to run the model locally? I don't want to run a reduced size laptop model on my machine with a Titan GPU. It would be awesome to actually harness the GPU power for coding :)
It depends on the contract. Some contracts do go to the lowest bidder (the technical term that the contracting folks use is something like "lowest bid meeting technical requirements"). For those sorts of bids, it's extra important that the requirements that the government puts out are well written and thorough.

Some procurements use the "best value" criteria. I think these contracts are more likely to be protested and have lawsuits filed by the losers. It's easy to say "I deserve this contract because $2 billion < $3 billion". Best value can be a bit more subjective.