skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Hey, you poor people can't afford to eat healthy food! We're going to tax the cheap food, so now you can choose between unaffordable off-brand Lucky Charms and unaffordable broccoli! Now it's your fault, not the job market, if you're fat."

Taxing sugar is not an incentive to sell more nutritious food, unless we're taking those taxes and subsidizing produce with them. Those sweet, highly-processed foods are also a way better purchase for grocery stores, which don't have to worry about the food going bad before it's purchased.

I do think banning these types of stores is likely to cause more harm than good, though. To take it to extremes, there's simply never going to be a farmer's market where my closest Dollar General is.
Too many “fall of”s in the title
This is great for Amazon publicity wise.
I'm always a fan for RPi4
If your pictures are the sunny outdoors and not indoors, a long slow lens is almost certainly a better value than the typical 75-200 2.8.
Shells do it with "" and ''. Unfortunately Py and Js decided to allow both for regular strings, so there is not such an easy way to delineate them.
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If you don't want junk food, you can enjoy simple healthy meals at home for cheaper than delivery. Even if you get your groceries delivered. But people like junk food
The facts shall be interesting indeed.

The larger question will be the Rule of Law itself: are these fat cats going to buy them some "managed justice", or what?
I wasn't trying to be weirdly antagonistic.

Your original comment sounded like you were trying to reconcile the common HN views of "developers don't get paid enough", "big corporations are soul-crushing", and "startup equity is a scam". At the time I didn't see how it came together as a cohesive whole.

You've add some detail here about this business model, which involves giving developers commission directly correlated to the performance of projects they work on. This gives me more of an idea of what you're talking about. Commission tends to work really well when you can easily quantify someone's contribution, for example sales.

I suppose this might work alright for developers in a consultancy, although it would be hard to separate the developer's work from the work of whoever landed the sale. A developer could do a terrible job on a project, giving the firm a bad reputation down the line (although their manager might not be aware of this at the time of completion). If the project was big and lucrative, they would get paid a lot. On the other hand, a developer could do a great job on a small project, that led to a much bigger contract which that developer was not able to work on for some reason. They would miss out on the benefits of their good job.

For a product company, it sounds even harder. How do you compensate the people making internal tooling for example? How do you compensate devops people? What's the split between the developer who programmed a feature and developer who runs it in production? My suspicion is that for a product company this compensation scheme would start to look really similar to the normal practice of using market rates and negotiating for raises, since attribution of revenue would be really unclear.
> What if you accidentally included an extra 0 on the check you wrote?

Regarding this particular example, I would hope the bank and/or other party would read the text and notice the discrepancy...
> After just reading that recent article about working conditions at Tesla and the struggles there to produce at high enough quality levels, it is surprising that he is working on this as well.

You are reading to much into random news articles. Detailed breakdown of the Tesla (done for other car companies) actually show that the were incredible innovative and have the highest quality of software, electronics, batteries, electrical engine and so on. All aspect that are way more important then that the panel caps or the plastic covers on your car are perfect.

I don't think he is involved with Neuralink at the same level as Tesla and SpaceX. Those are his primary projects, everything else is a small part.
It's not about experience vs inexperience... it's about code readability and being unsurprising.

m = re.match(...)
if m:
... do something ...

is verbose, but quite readable. Given that it's the way things have been done since forever, it's also unsurprising.

if m := re.match(...):
... do something ...

Without knowing what the walrus operator is, it is not entirely clear what is going on here. := is only syntactic sugar, which is not what Python has ever been about.
I remember something similar happened at Best Buy 15 years ago with a high end nvidia card. I bought one, but Best Buy obviously chose not to fulfill on the glitch. I wasn't surprised or disappointed. I was surprised at how many people felt entitled to it, though. The number of calls to boycott Best Buy over it seemed insane.

I wonder how many people will feel entitled to Amazon honoring this glitch.
Hardiman
> First off, you should capitalize the name of the Bible.

Why? It's just a random work of text. There are several variants of it, and other people like theirs better. Why should yours get special treatment?

You can assign more importance to your particular flavour if you want, no stress. But me... I'm not going to.

Personally speaking, I rather like this book:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chasm_City

If you felt inclined to capitalise that too, then sure, go for it.

But again, like the book you're taking about... it's just a work of fiction. Nothing more. Don't read too much into it. ;)

> fiction books are based off the animation

???

> ... then I will disagree and say that you can not do that.

No worries. I'm just going to point out the "then I will disagree" bit. That's very clearly your opinion. As such, it's of equal weight to your preferred magical fairie text, and everyone else's opinion. No more.

Or if you think your opinion is of more importance than the above magical fairie text... well hmmm. That seems to be the opposite of what you've been saying before.
Thanks, yes, interesting.

A problem is latent networks. Obviously linked accounts, no (or little) visible activity.

A couple of cases from Ello:

https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/h8qw86ripbtk1jj-lkrera

https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/vlxuta8e4sjrmvjwbenmsw
600k is different than 13k. People were buying it at the advertised price, and a few camera losses is almost nothing financially to Amazon
If you owned a trillion dollar empire of similar homes, no, I don't think it's unethical to buy the house.
Re: [1] District 3 is usually more progressive than some others. So that’s weird.

Re: [2] I think LRVs work when they complement a subway/commuter rail ala U-bahn, S-bahn. But I think your observation is right, they’re often in settings where they don’t need to be fast. (Serving an inner core).
San Francisco ranks as the best city in the world to be a woman entrepreneur
If you reap the rewards of automation, you also accept its risks.
The result will be few german corporations (Siemens etc) receiving non repayable direct money transfers.
As to Reading in Bed (1904)
The title is misleading although technically correct. They did respond just not with anything more than a "we'll get back to you".

I do like the basics of his questions "who is committing code to Libra" and "why are using nightly build of Rust". I get the feeling he is not happy with it given his mention of "not how we usually did releases in the DOD" and pointing out the non-US coder. It will be interesting to see the technical response and his response to that.
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Should I feel bad that my healthy produce is subsized by suckers who buy boxed junk from the shelves?
Honestly amazon would be better off honoring it. It’s a drop in the bucket and good publicity for prime.
All subscription plans auto renew. That’s basically what a subscription is.
I thought there were advertising laws that required stores to honor their flyers, but I don't know how that translated to the online world.

The idea was, print a "price glitch", people come into stores, "so sorry that was a mistake", people still buy stuff... Then laws were enacted.
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More space = wasted spaced. Better fonts = bigger fonts wasted space, markdown support = no one asked for it

In web 2.0 or 3.5.. We hide information from the user and fill up the page with space for full screens while designing for mobile. Wikis want to expose information / link ideas.. encourage browsing pages. Most sites want you to scroll down aimlessly.
What is 'carbon tablet pipe'? I tried to google it, but nothing useful turns up.
The bigger problem is NATINADS: how do you integrate NATO equipment (IFF especially) with Russan SAMs?

And, removing Turkey from the F-35 program is both political retribution and to stymie intellectual property from finding its way to Russia/China. In the past, it would've been unthinkable to sour relations with Turkey because of its geostrategic importance for NATO/US land-based missiles and airbases.. but sub-launched ICBMs and other countries more than/almost make up the difference. It's sad Turkey-US relations are souring at present.
I truly wish this would become a thing. It's really frustrating having to update my installed packages and my code for some stupid change the language designers thought is sooo worth it. Just stabilize the bloody thing so I can do some work. Updating code so it meshes with the "latest and greatest" is _not real work_.
Ask HN: Arcesium Culture
hi everyone,

Lurker here for a bit, but wanted to ask if anyone had any insight as to the culture of working at Arcesium. I saw they list themselves on the who's hiring for several months in a row. Any current or former staff willing to give some insights as to working there, compared to other shops ?

Much thanks
Did they resolve lawsuit over stealing tech after NDA demonstrations? lets google ... https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/google-loses-bid-to-del... guess not
Actually, if you read the article, one item was $13K. That item could have been ordered a number of times for $100.
Here’s the way around it as someone who has subscribed:

Cancel right after signing up for annual. Day it will terminate or day prior, can’t remember which, you’ll receive a “hey, don’t let your access expire” email and then you can either sign back up again or let it lapse.
Wow, I never thought of stealing fonts via github.

Thanks, Barbra Streisand.
With same day shipping the first few people can get lucky. Anyone living near a Amazon fullfilment center should keep a look out for such deals.
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What do you mean it came without warning? It’s a subscription plan that you pay for yearly.
"We've already seen that in XYZ" seems like a really bad argument for disliking something. That's like saying that Game of Thrones shouldn't have been made, since we've already seen a medieval / fantasy show in the form of Lord of the Rings.
Does anyone know the status of pep-582 : https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0582/

It's still marked as a 3.8 target
Subsidized produce sounds good to me. Or just a universal basic income funded by sin taxes.

Also, healthy food is cheap, but people buy junk because it is superficially more fun. Compare what you get from $10 of Lucky Charms vs $10 of veggies, beans and cheese, and, if you must, simple bread and low quality cuts of meat.
Please see some of my other comments. The issue isn't with the fact that there is a renewal (despite my poor explanation that might have made it seem that way) but with how they go about it.
True, although not to the same degree as seniors by far. I'm struggling to find much data, but https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1950160/ claims +55% male infant mortality rate in Paris and +12% in the rest of the country (females were unaffected, which I guess ties in with male infants generally being more fragile than females) during the 2003 heat wave in France. They don't give baseline rates, though, so it's hard to tell what this means in real numbers.
What is the difference between each team owning a microservice and owning a part of the monolith?

There is common release process, but with proper infra in place, that shouldn't be a problem.
To further this point a bit...

I grew up in a small town with a mostly local mom and pop shops.

As our population grew, so did the store size. Eventually Walmart came in and wiped out several local shops.

We watched business owners who lived, worked, hired and spent money in our community close up shop.

Walmart & others are a vacuum for money, sucking up local dollars and redirecting it to shareholders.

I have nothing against naked capitalism, but these large companies aren’t producing the results we want.

Unless you’re a shareholder...
Why investors all hate the “If we only capture 1% of the market ” line
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Terrible relative to where? Austin has an average commute of 25 min. Stockholm is 34 minutes: https://www.thelocal.se/20120528/41090. London is 37 minutes each way: https://www.businessleader.co.uk/how-long-is-the-daily-work-....
This is one of the strongest arguments against climate alarmism. If the science itself was really so one-sided (and not just the government funded studies) the CEOs and other elites who hire their own experts wouldn't still be flying around in their private jets and running oil companies while pushing climate austerity on ordinary people.

On the other hand, the big tobacco co executives all smoked prodigiously.
Given the algorithmic pricing on a lot of things (everything?) sold on Amazon there’s probably money to be made building some bot that checks for pricing mistakes and buys when one is found.
> Only serious offers will be considered, and money won't influence maintainer-ship decisions
The potential of this...You could wire up a group of dancers and everyone would mimic the lead dancer perfectly. China would absolutely love to engineer a feeling of nationalism that would be always switched on and monitored. People could have telepathic sex. You could pay for NBA All Brain Access and feel what it's like to dunk as LeBron, live. Your speech could be auto-corrected as well as your outlook in life through your AI personality filter. You could switch between cartoon theme and real-life theme as you go about your day. Healthy food could taste amazing...
You clearly haven't read the rest of the article. It's not even especially far down that it's mentioned that the accumulated error for the orbital calculations has resulted in errors for satellite positions into hundreds or thousands of meters after a few days.

They made the time fields short because the information would have no value on timescales larger than that.
Totally agree with you there. If I were on the other side of something like this it would SUUCK! But you know people, even honest ones find it hard to resist “sticking it to the man”, i.e. the one with advantage, the baddie. Many rationalizations will be made. “It’s peanuts to them”, etc.
I don't think I've ever heard of a Congressman going to GitHub, poking around in some open source code, and then asking very cogent and relevant questions about it. This video is incredible if only because of that.
I had the same thing happen to me late last year. I cancelled my Pluralsight account the moment I got the payment notification. I will never do business with them again.
The argument was about mostly about the syntax.

In the link above, the "as" keyword would work with (very close to) all of those lines and arguably more readable.
Agreed 100%. Unfortunately, environmental responsibility seems to have no intrinsic value on Wall St, outside of it becoming a part of branding like in the case of Apple.
Too late I think.
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Isn’t that one part of what control tower does now?
That's cheapest compared to median income, which is a valid thing to measure but probably not what GP meant.

And also it's only comparing very large cities in ~8 selected countries (no Paris or Rhine–Ruhr, for example).

(Source of your data, 2019 edition since I couldn't find 2017: http://www.demographia.com/dhi.pdf)
It's more like 50k throughout Europe, but that is still awful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_European_heat_wave
This congressman (or his aides) is surprisingly knowledgeable. I'm impressed with whoever thought to ask about nightly builds.

Edit: for reference, this is the congressman who was accused of writing "Bigfoot erotica" during his campaign.
> Others also reported that they successfully price matched gear at retailers such as Best Buy and Walmart.

Wow, this is incredible if true. Not just as a sign of how much these traditional retailers will stick to their promises, but also how the ostensible safeguards of brick-and-mortar/human-touch can still be subverted by algorithmic error. I've never worked at retail but if I saw such a drastic reduction I'd call my manager.
Not sure if you realize this but google doesn’t build android for you, it builds it for the carriers so what is in your best interest is not really considered. You aren’t the client.
I have had access to a limesdr, bladerf, etc. They are finicky. They're great tools, but it took me a long time to go from toy examples to doing useful things with them.
A father and son were walking down the street. The father tips his hat to a woman they pass.

The son asks: "Father, why did you tip your hat to her? She's a prostitute, not a lady."

The father replies: "Son, you are correct, she is no lady. But I am a gentleman."
I believe this was common on eBay. People also looked for common misspellings of items, misspellings that would lead items to get fewer ids and usually end underpriced relative to similar items.
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This is very cool. I wonder if the Graphblas and the Dask team should collaborate.

Dask has a production grade distributed computing system (that is cloud compatible with kubernetes, yarn, EMR, Dataproc,etc).
> I also don't think it's ethical to take advantage of such mistakes.

I don't think it's the customer's responsibility to decide whether an advertised price is genuine or a mistake.
This is what I'm thinking. Take a small (for Amazon) that will be dwarfed by people who sign up for or renew Prime memberships hoping to luck out on a similar deal in the future.
Lesson: Reverse 25 year-old design decisions at your own peril.
> Australians had established Italian coffee bars and you could finally get a decent cappuccino.

A fun parallel here to the classic startup story where the megacorp stagnates while ex-employees leave to create a startup that does it better and eventually beats the megacorp at its own game.

Italian immigrants brought a love of coffee with them to Australia, but that's developed into a culture and standard of coffee that's better than the original, that's now being exported back.

I live in Melbourne, and was surprised on first visiting Italy and France that the coffee was utterly inferior. Same with the US: There's certainly decent coffee to be found, but you have to seek it out, rather than taking it for granted as ubiquitous everywhere.
Progressives seem no less conservative when problems are at their doorstep. And never underestimate the depth of racist--specifically, anti-black--sentiments in the U.S. or most places in the world, for that matter.

It's hard to dispute their fears. Considering the profile of crime in SF, especially property crime, they're warranted. This is more true today than when they killed the extension.

Of course, the proper response is to address the underlying problems; to stop the self-perpetuating cycle. But that's intractable in the short-term. Alternatively, the city could just beef up crime enforcement so that we can all enjoy better transit, which is itself a small (tiny) step in dealing with the deeper problems. But we're too busy enabling street addicts and pandering to extremist progressive fear mongers (e.g. anti-vaping, etc). It's difficult to blame anyone for not trusting the city to maintain law & order.
I just tried to build libra on stable rust. At least the first thing that failed is that it's depending on futures 0.3. So it's almost certainly using async/await.
So allow for greater density.
1-bit recording is in fact a common thing for very noisy signals. You're actually aggressively over-sampling and using correlations over many samples (in time) to get the signal out from under the noise. I've only glanced over it, but this looks like a fun related article, but driving the opposite way (oversampling to get more effective bits) https://thecavepearlproject.org/2017/02/27/enhancing-arduino...
Microsoft to Explore Using Rust
What are the guesses as to how this happened? At the risk of sounding conspiratorial I propose that sometimes these "accidents" are less accidental than they claim. So much hype over this has got to be worth something.
Interpreting OSM as if it mattered would anyway be a mistake. The data does not have consistent or reliable accuracy and precision.

Edit: Someone has downvoted this. It's an important point to remember when using OSM. Many GIS datasets are developed in a way that the accuracy and precision of the data is consistent across the entire dataset. OSM doesn't bother with this, because it's really hard to do, especially globally. That doesn't make OSM less useful for making consumer maps (there's no problem if data is off by 2 or 4 meters or whatever), but it can be a problem if say you were trying to make a legal determination about property ownership. OSM isn't a useful source for the latter task and would have to fundamentally change to become so.
> Sounds like the real problem is some part of the system can't be bothered to persist its state.

Persistent state is hard. For example, some systems run with read-only filesystem.
More comparable, if you write code for high speed trading algorithms and something goes wrong, nobody will roll back your transactions. This is a matter of size and connections though, but usually you've automated losses with no going back. Amazon seems to be somewhere in between.
What camera was that?

I was very happy when the Canon 5D Mark III (released 2012) added a 2nd memory card slot, even though it was "only" SD (much slower at the time), because I could shoot to two cards once. And that was $3500!
Whereas I am aware of thermal throttling issues across most thin-and-light laptops, and kept that in mind when purchasing it. I was not defrauded. Perhaps though, I'm more sensitive to it, as I used to write my own throttling scripts for my weird AMD APU "netbook" years ago.
In California, at least, Amazon does not need to honor erroneous prices. Per CA Civ Code § 7103 (2018): https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displayText.x...

7103. Improper pricing on the shelf or on the item due to unintentional error shall not constitute a violation of this division.
> Also I’m curious about the 1-bit recording. Is that a thing?

I'm no expert, but sounds like what you'd do with sigma delta modulation[1]. Basically you use a 1-bit ADC (a simple threshold comparator), but sample at a rate much above the Nyquist rate. The idea is that for a given value of the source signal, the noise inherit in the recorded signal will make some samples register as 0 while others 1.

You then basically average samples to extract the signal you're after.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta-sigma_modulation#Oversam...