skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting that so much consumer product is still packaged for retail, even some brands that I imagine sell a vast majority online. retail packaging translates to online-friendly packaging, but the reserve seems likely to be less true.

Not to be pessimistic, but I would guess that the added cost of managing two SKUs for each product is not feasible for many smaller retailers, especially since the cost (putting in a new box) here is born by those further down the supply chain.

All that said, I've seen a lot more Amazon orders ship in plastic bags recently. Even the car seat I bought recently which is ship-ready without another layer. My guess there was that adding the plastic anonymized the purchase a bit, which might ward off thieves?
That seems a lot less likely than either of the current hypotheses (it was carried there directly by Norse explorers vs. it was traded from one group to another across the distance).
> Google did those things to save face

Companies don't have thoughts or emotions. A company's actions are a result of the individuals that make it up. When you see controversy like the China thing or military contracts, that's just how decisions get made in big companies. Someone wants to get money from the military. Some other people don't. They discuss it and the company makes a decision by individuals taking action. People inside Google that wanted to do military contracts heard the counterarguments and didn't carry on. That's all.

Maybe Larry Page thought "hey, this is bad for our brand" and fired all in charge. But that seems very unlikely. What seems likely to me is that the people that wanted to do the project heard the controversy and decided on their own that it wasn't a good idea.

As the company gets bigger, there are certainly more and more of these controversies. It does get hard to manage when you feel personally responsible for what others have done and your voice is not heard. That is why people are leaving.
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Plastic waste in the ocean pretty much never comes from any western countries. The "pacific patch" comes mainly from Africa and Asia.
I don't think it could happen today. Reddit has too much critical mass and the community is too diverse. Back then Digg was a smaller and more close-knit community of mostly techies that mostly agreed on the same things. There was a movement a few years ago where some Redditors tried to create a Reddit alternative called Voat, which ultimately failed.
true, I should have gone more in depth with it, the missing bit is that, assuming the db schema is not completely borked, cores and ram and fast disk on a db get you a long long way, so the tipping point for performance is often when you hit a real scaling problem as a mature company while younger company can get by just purchasing more iops from a vendor, given the current total comp of a full time dba.

of course if one want to get serious on tuning itself all the kind of analyze toolings available in and around postgres are phenomenal, I think on par with those of oracle, albeit my exp there is stuck at 12i of the old times, which makes pg my default choice for any project.
Sometimes these images have been filmed during spring.
“DScript” – calligraphy/notation/cipher
Progressive PR stunt for CNN crowd, I guess. Of course, in reality, they are doing the complete opposite.
> should have called pass secr. instead.

Even if you used a pre-hashed (well, preferably key derived using scrypt, argon2, etc) password, the problem is that if an attacker dumped your database they can still login to every account on your system without the original password.

To perform a full challenge response system, you'd need to get some public key crypto going, be that deriving ed25519 keys on the client or going to a full PAKE algorithm like SRP. Anything short of that means your challenge response is going to prove almost as bad as clear text if an attacker steals the secrets.
I'm not a fan of Libra. But I don't think I would call the "Federal" Reserve a democracy.
Well the other companies aren’t hyped like Tesla, it wouldn’t be newsworthy, let alone be on the front page of HN. It’s the perception of Tesla that is biased. Countering all the marketing wank, that put them into the spotlight, is what I’d expect from a consumer report.
NASA robot uses fishhooks to climb rocks
that's a good example, not many situations like that near where I live.

that said, if I need to accelerate faster than my gti can handle at full throttle in 2nd/3rd gear, I will probably just wait for a bigger gap. everyone has their own tolerance for these things though; I play merges extra safe.
5k *model Rockets

FTFY
No pricing anywhere on their site either. Huge pet peeve for me. That usually means it is obscene for non trivial usage. Looks very promising but I'm unwilling to carve out the time and mental energy on the remote chance that it'll be something reasonable I can fit into our budget. I'm guessing this is aiming at huge corporations.
Same here, years ago--6 day silent retreats.

My experience, though, is that it takes about 4-5 days for all the "noise" in your head to start fading away, and then, boom, it's over. ;-)
As have done other frameworks for quite some time, btw.
I worked at Google. My project was cancelled and I quickly found a new one. I didn't like it, and wanted to have the same 3-6 months to find a new project that everyone else on my old team had. After much back and forth with HR, I was told that I was sick and to go on medical leave.

When I got back I was on the performance improvement plan, told any attempt to transfer would be blocked, and so I just stopped showing up. Never heard from them again. (I was there for 6 years and my last performance review was "Superb". Probably not the type of person they want to drive away. But it was time.)
> ... whatever we use for one thing we stop using for another.

I completely disagree with you here. Neither economies or governments (or "the public mind") are so completely focused and one dimensional as to only direct resources towards one endeavor.

The Apollo program didn't prevent the Soviets from drilling the borehole in the early 70's or Jacque Cousteau from exploring the oceans in the 60's.
Non-descrip boxes hides their content. Shipping in manufacturer packaging litterally tells everybody what you're buying.
So is the insinuation here that if she doesn't meet some arbitrary series of qualifications you put forth, it's okay for her to be illegally harassed out of her job?

I'm reluctant to engage further because it seems like an absurd line of reasoning.
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I wish that all the plastic packaging could be recycled through the normal processes instead of "store drop off".
The first article explains that the footage was not edited; the audio data simply wasn't being recorded until after the officer pressed the record button (the first 30 seconds were from a buffer with no audio).

And no, it's not a silly excuse. Just because current policy in some departments allows one potential witness's testimony (the officer's) to be tainted for procedural reasons (ensuring accuracy of the police report), doesn't mean we need to risk the same thing happening with _all_ witnesses. That's a ridiculous argument.
What is the difference between 'Calibra' and 'Libra'?

This article uses them interchangably, and does not seem to distinct between the two.

Edit: Looking more closely --

"That means that even though Facebook might not know how much money is in someone’s Calibra wallet or their other transactions [...]"

It seems that Calibra is the name of the 'wallet', and Libra is the name of the 'coin' itself.
> In the military they have tons of bodies to throw at things so everything gets triple checked. This is not the case in the commercial world.

I'm going to feel slightly less safe on civilian aircraft now. I have always assumed that the independent inspection of all work was standard.
Now imagine how bad it is outside of the SF bubble. I searched for coffee shops and the closest result to me is 7 hours drive away.
If you believe that the Chinese government will never use the AI talents/research incubated by google for military usages, then you also must believe when Beijing proclaimed they would never weaponize South China Sea, and has never stolen US technologies.
Be a Code Reusability Guy
Apple is updating Macs again to remove insecure software from Zoom’s partners
Maybe you should read her story?
Maybe but my experience on HN is that there’s sometimes a mentality of “fools never differ” on here. I’ve seen countless correct and/or experienced commenters get downvoted even when the comment is well written.

It’s also worth remembering that five people is still only a very small subset of the hundreds that would have read the comment and did understand/agree but didn’t bother to comment for fear of the wrath of those who have already expressed disagreement. For example I was actually voted up several times before the others commented (as well as a few times since).

So it’s really not worth blaming individuals for the comments of others. The only possible outcome from that is starting another, much stupider, argument.
My parents and one sibling did the 10 day vipassana retreats and praise the experience extensively. They would like to go back and also found it extremely difficult.

They all went vegan for a while after, all talk about turning off device notifications, and were extremely calm and confident for months after.

I read a vipassana book and think it’s a good perspective to gain for a lot of parts of life and makes me want to try a 10 day retreat at some point.
A somewhat related story about why text posts on reddit are called "self posts" (copy-pasted from a thread from 5 years ago where someone asked why, linked near the top of the explanation):

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It's actually a bit of a long story, but it's kind of an interesting part of reddit's history. Some of my details are probably off, but this is how I understand it.

A long, long time ago, reddit only supported submitting links. Link submissions were pretty much exactly the same as they still are now, including having a comments page that you could go to with an address like the page we're currently on: http://www.reddit.com/r/help/comments/2bmy3l/what_does_the_s...

If you look at that address, one thing to notice is that it includes the submission's ID in base-36, which for this post is "2bmy3l". If you go to http://www.reddit.com/r/all/new and look at the links to the comments pages of the newest posts, you'll notice that their IDs are increasing. For example, at the time I'm writing this, the newest IDs are 2bo3uw, 2bo3ux, 2bo3uy.

Since the IDs are increasing, you can predict which ones are coming up. You know that the next ID after those ones should be 2bo3uz. So some person decided it would be funny if they pre-constructed a link like this: http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/<id>/this_post_w... and then checked which IDs were coming up, filled in the "<id>" spot with one that should be used soon, and submitted it.

If they got their timing right, they'd end up with a link post that actually went nowhere. Clicking it would just take you to its own comments page, since they had managed to predict the url that the comments page would have. This was a "self post", a post that linked to itself.

So this was a pretty neat trick, and when it was successfully pulled off for the first time, it got a whole bunch of attention. Unfortunately, reddit's never been very good at just seeing some new popular thing as a novelty and moving on. No, of course pretty much everybody wanted to get their own "self post". The majority of the new submissions to the site were suddenly just people trying to make a self post, completely drowning out all the real submissions.

It was causing a gigantic mess, so one of the admins at the time decided to get people to stop by taking all the fun out of the game. They made it so that you could just choose to make a self post. You didn't have to guess the ID or anything, you just selected that you wanted to make a self post and automatically got one. It didn't have the option to add additional text or anything yet (that came later), it was just a title that linked to its own comments page.

So that's how self posts came about, and where the name originated. A quick solution to a mess being made by users that eventually turned into one of the most important pieces of reddit.
An SSR React site IS simple HTML.
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Well, MicroSD cards go up to 250 MB/s. ~100 MB/s reads and 80 MB/s writes are typical for good new cards.

I guess eMMC goes up to 500 MB/s. I do wonder how much that fast eMMC chips cost, though.

A bit below 50 MB/s on RPi4 is actually pretty ok for most cases and whenever it's not, one can use an SSD over USB3.

Just need to make sure you have a good power supply and good quality cards, and SD card corruption is unlikely.
Weirdly, "coffee shops in san francisco" shows a lot.
For what it’s worth, we also call eclipses those that happen in Jupiter when one of its large moons is between Jupiter and the Sun. Those are also real, and allowed for the first estimate of the speed of light: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rømer%27s_determination_of_t...
Facebook shareholder*. Zuck has 60% of voting power.
That is way outside of what is possible. The pressures and temperatures so far beyond what material science can cope with - the outer core is "liquid" - but just 100 miles down it's well beyond the melting point of aluminum (2000 deg F) and almost 1x10^6 psi. The outer core is 1800 miles down, 10,000 deg F, and 5x10^7 psi. Assuming you acquired unobtainium that would not collapse and/or melt under those conditions, you'd need a insulators and power sources that are probably also made of or powered by unobtainium.

I don't think it can be handwaved away, I think it's impossible outside of fanciful science fiction.
The Fed is not in itself a democracy. Why would anyone think that it is?

The US government is, though, and the Fed is managed by and subject to the government.
What's the point of AA and AAA when lipo already has months of battery life, better weight and weight distribution and don't have to deal with finding/charging batteries, battery recycling all the time, gunk from unequal cell discharge etc.
It's so much easier to just plug on a USB cable for all of 2 minutes.
I've been donating about 3' high pile of Amazon boxes every 6 month or so to local businesses. Well, actually was, before I got in retail myself.
I don't care much for planes but damn helicopters are cool.

There's something about being able to have that precision, getting close to the ground while maintaining velocity which is mind boggling.
Flushing drugs could create ‘meth gators’, warn Tennessee police
App Mining plans to pay developers $1M per month
Sia – Decentralized cloud storage network
I think there are real questions about what to do - if anything, because doing nothing is also a legitimate point of view - with some of these tech giants, but it's very disheartening to see it all get caught up in partisan politics. There's a lot going on already that makes it difficult to think about consequences and potential unintended consequences without making companies take "sides".
The article describes attempts to avoid an outer box entirely in favor of making the product manufacturer’s existing box “ship-ready” by itself. But that box is usually decorated to show what is inside.
It's this one: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3723481

I printed it honeycomb infill and no top/bottom layers (and also rotated it so it printed with the top and bottom on the bed, instead of upright; having to change that might be an artifact of the slicer I used, though; Simplify3D)
It is not clear that they are close.

I did the same thing with Japanese and Western movies, and the result was not due to the movies just being close. See https://strandmark.wordpress.com/2017/07/08/the-vector-from-...
Firefox's web developer tools are all react/redux now as well, and are much laggier because of it :(
Building Sentry: Source maps and their problems
There's also this site: https://calibra.com/
You might need to tweak the Drill JVM memory settings a little bit though if you're doing this on a netbook without much memory!
Or the university libraries.

What is happening now is the publishers are providing a “service” that puts the homework assignments online.

That means you have to pay in order to do the required homework. Eg the books being in the library doesn’t mean you don’t have to pay the publisher. Similarly second hand books are closer to worthless because you still have to pay to have access to, and to submit, your homework.

I suspect legislation that requires the university to cover all fees required for assessment would end this nonsense in short order.
Why not? There's no real downside when combined with SSR.
So does this mean that us universities who accept Chinese Nationals for phds similarly infiltrated and similarly aiding the Chinese military?
Teleport is open-core: https://github.com/gravitational/teleport
I've reported dozens of POI and route problems. It couldn't be simpler.

So what happens when it's clear the route is all wrong and you don't want to follow it to its completion? And, honestly, while I remember a report problems thing at the end of a route I don't remember seeing it recently.
Funnily enough it was claimed that whatsapp is encrypted and thus not mineable in the senate hearing when a senator explicitly brought this up!
Please don't post personal attacks to HN or call names in arguments.

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If all you can find is some year old complaint about the first cars out of their new production line have some issues, then can we say Tesla still have those issues, and has Tesla ignored those complaints at all?
>corporatist-authoritarian views

Well, we have a word for that. An Italian word.
Doesn’t matter if the school has the book in the library: you have to pay the publisher to access and submit the homework (the homework is not in the book, only online)
It's fair to bring it up.
> Chrysler built a car that will stomp the Model S, and it costs 20% less.

Which car is that?
The person at the fulfillment center had to do 7 other orders that minute and gets fired if they fall behind.
Her manager told her to stop doing it which is why she quit, wasn't that the whole problem? Or wasn't it her manager who told her to stop doing AI ethics things on work time?
I think we have just the (Open Source) solution for you: https://bit.ly/Keymaster
https://github.com/Symantec/keymaster
This issues MFA-ed ephemeral credentials: SSH certs, Kerberos compatible X509 certs, X509 certs for Kubernetes and well as being an OpenID-Connect/OAuth2 IDentity Manager.
Would you please stop using this site for ideological battle so we don't have to ban you again?

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What I really want is a hardware switch that disables any kind of input from the "self-driving" software. Something that cannot be overridden by an OTA.
You have a list of secret tests run on the public in the 50s (and one operation that was rejected and never run) but a surprising lack of proof that there were any 'conspiracy theories' regarding these events prior to the public release of the information about them.

Could you please reference the documented theories proposed by people of this era or soon after regarding the conspiracy? If not then all you have are examples of secret programs that would not pass a modern review board and nothing that suggests modern conspiracy theories are anything more than the ravings of people with rather obvious mental illnesses.
Well I just learned like 10 things, that was awesome and I am amazed it was on CNN :)
Unless you're assuming the socioeconomic class of the original poster to be upper-middle class and that that will extend to their offspring, then you are incorrect. Most people are not upper-middle class, so the odds are against any random person being an upper-middle class consumer.
Seems as adult you are not taught the difference between governed and employed.
This is a helpful utility for sure - but beware, joins between foreign data sources and local ones can be slow and very un-optimized, especially with bigger data sources.

I used to work for a company that made a data federation software platform. I am always surprised that people forget that management of external data is part of the SQL standard actually - SQL/MED ("SQL Management of External Data") [1]!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL/MED
In my experience, dual quaternions have little to no practical interest unless you need to blend rigid transformations, in which case they provide a cheap projection operator similar to quaternion normalization. (See that SIGGRAPH paper by Kavan on dual quaternion skinning)

On the theoretical side however, it is quite magic to see how rigid transformations arise from the unit quaternion tangent bundle.
If you are healthy, Kaiser is a good choice. Since they are an HMO they are able to give you a low premium with a low deductible. Service can be spotty, but if you don't need a bunch of care it can be a good deall.
Retaliation or not, if you are so publicly vocal about your employer what other path is there? In fact her activism is going to be more legitimate now that she is not getting paid by Google at the same time.
How to watch Elon Musk’s Neuralink brain control interface presentation live
Palantir's clients might be public info, but AFAIK, there is no evidence that Google has completely terminated their relationship with the NSA and the CIA. Also to be super fair, it may well be that Google has no choice in this matter. But in any case, the 'treasonous' claim seems to be a whole lot of hot air. Google will be shut-down before they give China any direct access that assists their intelligence ops.
My experience with Apple Maps in California has been great. They had my home address wrong for a bit, so I submitted a correction and the map updated in two days from my request. That was the only issue I ever had.
Thanks, I didn't even know Calibra existed. I had only heard about the Libra currency itself.
Ban on discarding edible fish caught at sea has failed
I would also guess that they don't actually know everything they want to use it for, but they know cryptocurrencies are hyped right now and don't want to miss out.

See also: VR.
https://substack.net
I want to understand this fully. You care more about me pointing out the obvious political context we live in than about the person downthread literally comparing being gay to pedophilia.

Will you, in your capacity as a moderator for one of the most influential forums on the internet, actively care about justice, or will you just protect the status quo? Pick a side.

(Keep in mind that Scott Alexander made the exact same mistake of trying to be neutral rather than choosing to be on the side of justice. Now his blog is overrun by fascist trolls. Hacker News is not far behind.)
That's not actually true; while the electoral system masks this somewhat, especially where further reinforced by gerrymandering by the dominant party, the major divides in the US our ideological divides where the major factions are relatively consistent nationally, , they are much less regional that at virtually any previous point in US history.
Yeah replace a monopoly you have a vote and moral grounds to demand changes in, with a dictator...eh.. a single board member majority ...
Great idea, monarchy was so awesome!