skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I sold something online and was paid in cash a week ago. Since then I've tried paying with that cash in three places, all of them told me sorry, they don't take cash. This is in Copenhagen.
A haiku shamelessly stolen from elsewhere:

It's not DNS

There's no way it's DNS

It was DNS
How to Use Particle's Powerful Bluetooth Low Energy API
A guide to recognising font styles
All modern digital radio networks (cellular, police/fire, etc.) rely on GPS signals to discipline high-stability frequency oscillators. If you look at any cellular antenna you can always see the white mushroom-shaped GPS antennas, usually lower on the tower or sometimes just sticking up off the equipment building. Those oscillators are used as references to generate the transmit/receive frequencies and also for very tight timing between separate transmit locations (many digital networks actually broadcast the same signal on the same frequency from multiple places at the same time).

Without GPS, these reference oscillators can free-run for a while but they will eventually drift out of tolerance.

Basically, without GPS, most/all cellular/digital radio networks will fail in some manner after a while. Precise failure modes will depend on a lot of things including exactly what is wrong with GPS and the type of emission, how the base station software is written, etc.
Precisely. Kentucky did the same. Though, I mostly found it beneficial as I received a lot of coupons from home stores..
I personally would not worry if my next flight is Boeing 737 max, the probability it will crash still very low, even if it do crash, I will be dead anyway it won't matter.

Doesn't mean I trust Boeing, I trust market force, I trust that other people will keep the uproar to keep airline in check.
Same here. If this happens, and my company is forcing me to business travel, I'm refusing to travel unless I'm put on an Airbus.
Almost all of those businesses tie back into their main business which is advertising.

Who is going to sell those ‘neat silos’ cheap advertising to survive with no other business model? Google?
And then next thing ,people will want an API into this index because it gets updated frequently... tadaaaa GOOGLE SEARCH 2.0
It's not fraud to drop a toxic brand name. It's been designated the 737-8200 internally and in regulator documents for years.
Ryanair never flew 737 MAX commercially yet.
yeah, don't buy that ticket.

in ryan's case, its fleet is 100% 737, so you need to switch airlines to be sure you're not on a MAX unless they tell you somewhere.
Don't worry, i'm sure someone will make a Hawking Coin.
The second coming of Eve: Why crowd-designed hardware is still the future
I think that meaning was probably pretty tenuous when it was introduced and more or less gone today.

I drive a FWD Ford Focus ST, which also has one.
> That's probably a key issue here though. Providing an API potentially makes it easier for spammers to identify ways to boost their content in a well automated manner.

How so? Unless you give reasoning for the scores, or provide live updates etc, just putting an API on search wouldn't change much - you can APIfy search now, there are multiple services offering it as a service. Granted, at some point it's getting expensive, but for SEO research, you're probably not running a million queries.
“Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility; it results from some ecological or naturalistic wisdom, and is not always bad -- at an existential level, it is my body rebelling against its entrapment. It is my soul fighting the Procrustean bed of modernity.”

― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Similarly I've been considering lately that the only real easy to break Facebook's monopoly is to target it's network effect, by forcing it to interoperate on some standard protocol, like ActivityPub.

So, say, people could use Google+ (if it was sticking around) to see Facebook content without giving data to Facebook.

Not sure how that would work with Twitter, I guess they'd just show media and clips of text posts.

Honestly I think I'd love it - just choose your favourite social network and only use one.

Up to each network to implement an interface that makes sense.
I actually own a car where the handle is on the side away from the cap but there is also an arrow pointing to the correct side! I’ve always thought it would have been easier to just put the handle on the correct side...
the Pure function pipe data flow completely conforms to the JPL coding rules.

[The Pure Function Pipeline Data Flow](https://github.com/linpengcheng/PurefunctionPipelineDataflow)
There is a legal defense, where you can argue that the disparate impact is caused by practical business need instead of by implicit bias. An example (using gender instead of race) is that women have less upper body strength than men, on average, so they are far less likely to meet job requirements that require being able to carry 100 pounds of equipment on their backs.

Even then, however, you still have to demonstrate in your defense that the requirements are actually justified and not a backdoor proxy. In the example I gave earlier, you have to demonstrate that employees actually need to carry 100 pounds of equipment on their backs, and furthermore that there is no workable alternative to that requirement. If I were a legal compliance officer, machine learning for applicant screening would scare me, because I would have a hard time arguing in court that the results constituted a legitimate business need and not racism-by-proxy, especially if the plaintiff found that some of the metrics highly correlated to race.
What would the argument be that some workers in the economy but not these people specifically deserve a minimum wage? I get that they are designated contractors but it seems pretty arbitrary. People would lose their minds if they found out Amazon was paying warehouse workers $2.50 an hour but couldn't they just arbitrarily assign prices per package and call them contractors as well?
Client-side JavaScript to detect bots seems doomed to fail, unless it's some sort of proof-of-work kind of thing.
Ghislaine Maxwell, the Socialite on Jeffrey  Epstein’s Arm
You may also like to know that a Macpherson Strut is not a catwalk modelling technique.
Every house a beer can house!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_Can_House
We canceled Prime about 3 months ago. It's been quite tough (relatively speaking) having to re-train ourselves. You realize exactly how dominant Amazon is. Every other retailer either takes 5-7 business days or charges you the earth. Home Depot messes up your order about 10% of the time. Things come in 3-4 days from Amazon instead of two days now. Not too bad.

We got a free ShopRunner subscription through Amex and I was excited about that but they seem to be mostly for clothing.

But the biggest annoyance is that we no longer go straight to Amazon to buy something, we actually have to shop around, google for things, etc. And Google Shopping isn't as useful as it used to be. A good shopping aggregator would go a long way in helping.

Edit: We were frequent users of the shipping, by the way, and never used streaming. Unlike others that use mostly streaming and not shipping.
And I've worked with and for Italian people and they were just as lazy or hard-working as any other nationality. No reason to value them more or less.
I think the main benefit is your orders get higher priority during holiday season when it's busy and regular orders may take a long time to fulfill.
I wish that there was a tool that calculated whether Prime was worth it in the past year and month, using my playback and purchasing history to determine whether the $10-13/month is delivering value. If I use Prime Day deliveries (which offer no financial reward compared to Prime 1-2 Day) then I could save a lot of money not using it, and if I haven’t watched any Prime media content this year, the tool would be able to show me that too.

Amazon surely has this tool internally, and just as surely would resent anyone else developing it to show consumers how many of them are paying for a service they don’t need.
Just to add watches were extremely important for sailing. Maybe as important as a compass. You need an accurate clock to calculate longitude at sea. Here’s a book I’ve been meaning to read about an eccentric guy who solved the problem[1].

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longitude_(book)
Sorry for my shorthand, but "MBPr" is usually used to refer to "Macbook Pro Retina", so the c.2015 model. That one they very much got right from a usability and aesthetic perspective.
Amen to that.

Took a job on the basis of "it'll look great on your CV". Most stressful job I've ever endured.

Went back to working for less-well-known, smaller places... night and day difference.

And I'm nowhere near the Bay area ;)
I think you're getting downvoted because you're not really linking the content of your comment to this submission. I assume you are referring to the author as the elite? It sounds like you are criticizing the piece (or him?), but I have no idea what that criticism is.

>These people's outlandish claims will go unchallenged and will be etched into global media's output.

Can you tell me which claim is outlandish in this story? The appeal for positive news? The killing of the journalist?

Getting to your comment:

>Pakistanis are addicted to 'conspiracy' theories and he who can garner most attention in this circle will ultimately get most media limelight within Pakistan and hence most money.

I'm not sure the conspiracy theories about the US and/or the Jews gets people much money. In my experience, those who most vociferously push them in Pakistan are usually those with the least money.

>Pakistan is a simpleton Country and Society in many respects and it is quiet easy to herd the masses and profit out of it.

They've had far too many people killed by mob violence. Someone I personally know was severely beaten by a mob on the basis of a rumor (thankfully not killed). Yes, if by profit you mean gain the upper hand in a personal vendetta by the one spreading the rumor, I can see your point.
This Cell Tower in the Swiss Alps Is Struck by Lightning More Than 100 Times a Year

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/energy/environment/an-of...
> Once every three weeks or so, my father catches me up on the latest in the alt-right scroogery. There's always some grand reveal just over the horizon, and the time shifts from 'real soon now' to 'in a few years', to mine and draw out that human feeling of being in on the conspiracy as much as possible.

Is he a watcher, or a believer?

> On a lighter note, a friend and I often refer to the concept of the mondegreen, misheard lyrics or dialogue that winds up being more iconic than the original

"Excuse me while I kiss this guy" and "Rock the Catbox"
I tried mTurk after reading an article like this years ago, and it was the biggest waste of time ever. It was ungodly tedious for like pennies per task. I don't know how anyone could be doing so well at getting tasks that average out to $0.47 ($45k/95k tasks) like this guy is claiming; this is an absurd outlier.
Someone linked to an interesting site talking about how to make homemade hot sauce here on HNs. I partly read it and thought it was a great clean site and something I wanted to try. Later going back to find it again I literally spent hours searching, even though I'm pretty sure I remembered some of the exact phrases. For some reason recipe related search results are really really terrible on both Google and Bing.
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/vox/
I see your point. I think I might have failed to express my point of view clearly.

I was talking about reason Boeing chose to rebrand the 787-MAX.
The cars stolen start in the mid $30k range.

Your average AirBnB probably has under $1k worth of stuff with any sort of resale value - a TV or two, maybe the smaller appliances.

You could cause plenty of monetary damage by smashing holes in the walls, but that doesn't benefit the thief much.
Ownership and Borrowing in D
Agreed. In some Canadian provinces, tipping is taxed. There is even a "minimum assumed tip" by the government, so restaurants can't declare having received $0. It's draconian, but it's a sector that has been caught again and again doing systemic tax evasion.

Payment terminals have a tip $ or % option, which is more convenient than pen and paper which we often still see in the US.

Unless it's a low-end restaurant, most restaurants in Canadian big cities pay well. There are huge staff shortages and lots of turnover because it's an exhausting and difficult job.

re:Europe and Internet: Bavaria has pretty terrible service outside of towns.
> I don't get why IRL mail spam is still allowed.

Because bulk mail makes up the majority of the USPS operating budget.
> If one insists on using Windows for uninterruptible tasks they should be using a server edition.

The server edition can also be configured to perform automatic updates.
if you think that's terrible, check out the mobile browser version... It's full of pop ups that remind you to download their app, and none of the v.reddit or giphycat links work :/
> Sometimes a big old RDBMS housing all of your data which is actually already related in reality makes the most sense.

Which is all fun and games until some intern gets asked to add a 'most popular' sort to the search page. He quickly figures out where the 'OrderProduct' table is, throws in a quick count and a group-by to the search query and the whole site gets taken down by it.

Of course I take your point but there is somewhere between everything in one monolithic DB and every bit of data has its own microservice. It needs good judgement to divide it appropriately.
If you 1) don't plug it in at all for several weeks, including 2) ignoring low battery warnings for multiple days near the end, then you're looking at like 15min of making coffee and taking a walk around the building to let it charge enough to finish out the day, if, say, you sat down at your desk in the morning and it was already dead. Or 15min of using your trackpad if you're using it with a Macbook. But it's the kind of thing you'd have to be almost trying to do to have it happen even once a year. The crazy-good battery life and very fast charging are what make it such a non-issue.

If it had an edge plug I'd probably have started off using it plugged in all the time, though, just because I'm so used to battery powered peripherals being so shitty that not plugging them in when there's an opportunity is a bad move. Kinda like how it took a period of adjustment when I started using Macbooks to get used to my laptop being usable long enough on battery power that I didn't need to constantly be looking for power outlets, or carting my power supply everywhere I went.
Infected palm trees localisation using satellite images and CNN
I was interested to see if my memory was correct- the group was set up by David Abrahams. Which then sent me down a rabbit-hole of why has he seemed to have faded from the scene the last few years? It seems he has been working on Swift for Apple since 2013.

Its amazing how well gmail works, instantly finding emails from ten years ago.
Without any fix the plane is not safe. The MAX variant has not been around long enough to have 2 crashes, let alone 2 with no corrective action.
> The same truck would still drive arround though if you didn't have recycling program, it will just be a black truck instead of a green one.

It might not depending on the system in place. Many recycling programs require two truck routes to separately collect the trash and recycling. This doubles the amount of trucks and human labor but the trash load produced by each property stays the same.

In NYC there are separate routes and trucks to collect recycling. Saw the same thing in San Diego. One truck does the trash route, and some time later comes the recycling truck.
I very rarely carry cash now. Very occasionally you get a place which is cash only, but in London at least there are vastly more places which are card only (small stalls etc which have a iPad EPOS and a card reader, which avoids the need to worry about cash being counted/stolen/paid into the bank).
Nominally, yes, but the positioning error (according to the spec) is expected to be up to 425m after 14 days, growing worse over time until it hits a positioning error of ~10km at 180 days.

(later generation satellites have an 'autonav' mode that presumably makes this less severe (by using SV-to-SV ranging and such so they're not completely blind to changes), but Galileo may not have that capability or there might not be enough SVs to use that capability yet)
I order frequently enough, have the card, and shop at whole foods. It would cost me money to get rid of it at this point.
Way back in 99, before all the prime BS, amazon sent me a can of popcorn for being such a nice customer!
> Milton Friedman quote

This meme was actually popularized by Robert Heinlein in The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, ten years earlier than Milton Friedman started using it.
What large, secured loans are not a matter of public record under UCC[1]?

My understanding is that if it can be repossessed, the lender must have recorded the debt.

It applies to assets other than real estate, too.
It’s said she carries cash. She gives money to the collection plate at Sandringhams church at Christmas.
Really shows how much impact one person can have if you just go out and make noise about something. Ideally supported by real data and a legitimately interesting story.
> macOS Sierra added tabs to Cocoa apps, and applications could get the feature without additional modification. (I’m not sure if it’s absolutely none or if recompiling was needed, but I think it’s the former.)

Tab support was added without linking against the new SDK: apps would get it "for free" when running on macOS Sierra.
Here are some indicators I've seen from 10x and 100x:

The 10x person fits very well in their organization. They are admired by upper-management for their ability to quickly comprehend, estimate, and deliver solutions to problems. They mentor everyone that asks or needs help. They provide 95% test coverage on all code. They show up for work well dressed, clean-cut, and on-time every day. Their code isn't 'brilliant' because they understand it must be maintained by the whole team. Their code reads well across difference experience levels but also includes clever tricks. They have an absolutely rock-solid understanding of the operating environment, platform, and modules. They don't document their code. They are the smartest person you know.

The 100x person seems to fit very well into the organization at first, and appears to be a 10x. They take on several seemingly-impossible tasks up front and eat it for breakfast. They automate large portions of the business and their own processes. They provide 99% test coverage on all code. They create production-quality docs after their public interface solidifies. They know security and implement it correctly. They spend months to years on self-driven projects to master different categories and build their tech-tree. They have invented tech and patented it. They bump into the intentional barriers of the organization. They break through and create a billion-dollar product, or they are removed from the organization. They are the smartest person you know and without explanation they appear to be insane.

It really seems 10x is a stigmatized term. It used to mean a developer that could produce 10x lines of code, but at this point I've taken it to mean a single developer that can leverage technology, their department, and organization to manifest a 10x positive impact compared to someone just cashing their check delivering story points. I don't think this term really fits for someone on the spectrum wreaking havoc in their organization.
> How exactly "do* you break up a Google or a FB so that (only one possible reason, but the one cited here) they don't control too much media/mind share?^

The problem isn't so much that google has a monopoly on search as that they abuse the monopoly to force their way into new businesses. Force google to spin search off as a separate entity from the rest of the company.
I do exactly that with pails/buckets and plastic beer cups.
suggest 'on your iPhone' if it is not also available on the Android platform.
Prime has the things I want to watch much more often than Netflix, and it's how I watched things like Game of Thrones or Ash vs. Evil Dead without needing cable which was nice.

I also find their `x-ray` feature to be very valuable. It's not on every movie, and some movies utilize it better than others.

But it's really nice when I see an actor and go "Wait a minute, I've seen them before, who is that?" Like Laurence Fishburne in Ant-Man 2, who I knew I recognized but couldn't place because he looks so different now.

I also like seeing the trivia and production errors, I assume they're just sourced from IMDB but they're synched up to the current timestamp so they're usually relevant when you see them.
I do the same as you, but was just thinking that if most users search using full sentences then Google will spend most effort optimizing for that, so maybe we're the ones getting the worse results?
I'd say we do see that. It's the business model of Sand Hill Road - find talented 10x Devs and shower them with VC money. It seems to work often enough that there are many funds all searching for such people.
According to this article, a 1x developer is the least productive developer. So logically there's no such thing as a <1x developer.
Apple's already on it's descent, and at most you'd break off their cloud services, which would immediately die without the support line from the hardware.
Dactyl https://github.com/adereth/dactyl-keyboard is split and curved. Been thinking about building one, though I'd probably use wood as casing material and I know it will be a lot of work, so it may or may not materialize...
Article on bloomberg wants to make something public and wants money from me simultaneously.
My biggest frustration is how many orders I make get email replies telling me the item is not in stock. I think a lot of retailers just aren't very good at syncing their inventory to their storefronts. You would think everything would operate off a centralized inventory database, but there pretty clearly are multiple systems that don't check in with each other nearly often enough given how often this happens.
To shreds you say!
I've been working on a method for adding ownership and borrowing to the D programming language, and people kept asking me to explain how it works, so I wrote this article about it. I had originally thought it would be impossible to add this to D, but the more I thought about it, the more tractable the problem became.
If only :(
Kai-Fu Lee: AI Superpowers – China and Silicon Valley
> If the data cannot be published for privacy reasons, the private parts must be seperated and not used by google or it's competitors.

As a user that notices the impact of this data: please no, thanks though.

Have you ever visited youtube's home page in incognito mode? It's... bad. Really bad. Not allowing any company to use this (obviously very private) information in ranking would simply make their products suck, horribly, compared to today.
I've been using http://www.redditp.com for years, it's great for when you don't need to read the comments. If on mobile, you can simply swipe left or right :)
https://www.politifactbias.com/
There's a large trash can right next to my neighborhood's mailboxes that everyone dumps the junk into with barely a glance - really illustrates how wasteful it is to be delivering it in the first place. It's a disgustingly huge trash can that has to be emptied daily.