skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Soft drinks aren't an arms race where most of the money spent is pure waste. When I buy a soft drink, I value it directly, so it isn't waste.

> that implies it's better for people to know about soft drinks, and how will they know? Advertising.

Are you really saying the only way you have ever known about a product is advertising? I honestly have trouble believing that, but if that's the case please consider that you're an outlier.

Me, I avoid ads vigorously and have for decades. I have no trouble learning about new products.
As a Sonic subscriber, I can
vouch that this is an accurate report, and that their business model is fundamentally to advertise a low price and charge a high one hoping you’ll like gigabit Ethernet enough to keep it.

Another way of looking at this is search engine- and eCommerce-driven price discovery hasn’t given us better prices or more accurate ones, it has just moved money from one set of bad actors (people who rip you off) to another (people who lie about the real price).
Well microbes have been discovered that break the plastic down, I assume that with enough time there will be additional microbes that will develop and evolve to break it down just as what happened with trees.
Based on my previous reading, I was under the impression that the atmosphere would be negligible until the perigee dipped much lower than the initial orbit. (Obviously, if you keep lowering the perigee then eventually it becomes important.) That's consistent with your second quote, but your first quote suggests I was wrong and the atmospheric effects are detectable even now. Thanks for the correction.
And Speakeasy to Covad.
The problem with Nuclear is it needs huge subsides to be cost competitive with battery backed Wind / Solar or Hydro, even more if you want it to load follow. With just a carbon tax and no specific Nuclear subsidies, Nuclear is rarely a good option.

In theory it seems like a great idea, in practice with decades of 10’s to 100’s of Billions in R&D it’s unlikely to improve that much within the next 5-10 years. (106 Billion and counting from the US government alone: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2018/07/09/nuclear-...)
The latter, definitely the latter. Although as much as I dislike the state government they kinda got screwed over by the federal government of the same party. There were reserved heavy rail corridors sold off by the Howard government that would have proven pretty useful.
I don't click on "unsubscribe". My standard procedure is to look up the sending IP-Address in WHOIS and send a note to the operator's abuse address. The good ones take reports about unsolicited mails seriously, and the bad ones end up on blacklists.

Based on the responses I (rarely) get, I've helped boot a few spammers from their servers by providing evidence to the operator.
I lived in Eugene for school a while back. It was a great town, lots of outdoor stuff, coast is an hour away. The college is a major influence on the town but the summer, when most students leave, is one of the most enjoyable places to be as long as you’re not allergic to grass seed
Great questions.

1. Codility (to my knowledge) skews more short coding challenges, whereas ours are more practical project-based assessments. We're trying to assess "can you build" versus testing computer science concepts
2. A few things have worked for us. One big thing is to position our candidates as fully capable of receiving full-time offers, but that if they move quicker (via one interview then an internship offer) you can sign with them quicker than they would finish up their full-time interviews, or else they may miss out on great talent. The other, is this "try before you buy" mentality around lowering the risk for full-time hiring. They already do it with students, why can't they do it with non-students?
Second paragraph:

"The perigee, or low point of its orbit, has dropped by a similar amount, which is consistent with pre-flight expectations for the effects of atmospheric drag on the spacecraft."

Basically, they're using the sail to boost their apogee while at the same time drag is bringing the orbit as a whole down.
Police to Recruit 40k Officers – Details
Eh the trams are cute, and smooth, but painfully slow. Better passenger experience than buses, but the tracks and overhead cables are a blight on the streetscape and impact drivers, pedestrians, and cyclists alike. Overall, not worth it. Real cities have metros underground, full stop.

Would I rather have trams than not have trams, absolutely -- but they shouldn't be relied on as a true solution to urban transport.
The NRMA campaigned for decades to remove the trams from Sydney streets and it was effectively done at their behest. Corporate vandalism at its finest.
The technology behind it all could actually function perfectly but in reality an overworked marketing intern grabs a csv file from their desktop, opens it in Excel, compares and manually removes the unsubscribes (from another csv file that's delivered to them daily by email because that's easier) because "that's how it's always been done around here", then saves it as "June email push (1)(1) copy 2 (1)(1)(1)(1).xls" on their desktop, deletes all their subscriber lists in Mailchimp, as per the usual procedure, and imports "June email push (1)(1) copy 2 (1)(1)(1).xls" from their desktop, and sends out whatever.
A substantial part of Maine's population...?
Damn! How can I edit the headline?
Really appreciate that you, as a non-traditional candidate, promote non-traditional hiring now that you are an employer!
That is not my replacement cycle nor the replacement cycle for most of the readers of this forum.

Well as long as it caters to you and the rest of the people on HN (have you done a survey?), I guess that’s all that matters - not the other 2 billion people in the world....

Android One and Pixel devices are more secure than iOS devices, and you appear to agree.

Android One phones still have to wait on the manufacturer to update their phones. Yes, but they pinky promise they will. From the article I posted.

I’ve never had to wait on a manufacturer to get updates from my Windows PCs. Heck I still get updates for my Mac Mini running Windows 7 and Apple definitely had nothing to do with it. Why is the Android architecture so piss poor that they can’t figure this out? This- an OS vendor licensing to OEMs and providing update - has been a solved problem for PCs for well over 30 years.

From the earlier article I posted.

While updates do still have to go through each phone’s manufacturer, there’s much less to check and update, so updates will generally arrive much faster. It won’t be a day one patch like you’d expect on the Google Pixel range

Each Android One phone is guaranteed to get at least three years worth of security updates from its release date, and up to two years of major Android releases, too.

Android One phones get security updates at least three years after release.

The iPhone 5s (2013) received 5 years worth of OS updates.

The 4s (2011) just received a bug fix earlier this month.

The 6s (2015) is still a more performant phone than any midrange Android phone released this year and can hold its own against high end Android phones that are two years newer. It would be a pity to replace it if it were an Android phone just because Google couldn’t figure out how to update third party devices. My son is still using it.
This is wild! I can already see hotels using this tech as large glass walls that later turn into movie screens or “smart” screens...
I was hoping there would be a discussion on this.

I identify myself as a transhumanist. My transhumanist goals are : anti ageing, enhancing human intelligence, furthering robots and AI, utopia and to a certain extent genetic engineering of the human DNA.

While there are transhumanists of various stripes, characterisations like this give the other transhumanists a bad name..as it’s already considered fringe’y and weird.
Google Chrome Hides WWW and HTTPS:// In the Address Bar Again
Pffft. The WEF is a celebrity getaway in the Swiss alps for the same people who caused the 2008 crisis and got away with it. If they’re making that prediction in good faith, it’d be a preemptive confession of guilt. If not, it’s just a distraction from their routine crimes.
I'm curious if you could selectively turn off the reflective effect in different regions of the material and steer it that way.
It's a cultural crime that psychedelics have been criminalized for half a century or so.

The expansion of certain mental faculties (3-D Visualization, free thought association, meta-thought) could have been harvested for societal benefit...

Oh well, wishes to the dust and all that.
Well, actually no.

The vast majority of bulk email is done via 3rd party providers like constant contact or mail chimp because delivery is important.

You can't just check an address--you have to check against the particular mailing list, email address and account which means you'd have to basically have to have the database. Otherwise, if I unsubscribe from "Megous Monthly Mailer" I'll stop getting the announcements from my kid's school with useful info like what the first day of school for my kid is.

So you need to know the account, the mailing list that was unsubscribed, the email address. Of course, the system is architected for high-volume, and scheduled email. Delivery volumes can be in the billions per minute. Anything too crazy and your service level is destroyed.

Queues are designed for high-volume queuing, not search, or retrieval. There's no "query API" for rabbitMQ, for example.

All of this is easy if we hand-wave away the requirements for high volume email delivery.
I do think there is huge value in internship/ trial employment at all levels. We've personally hired a senior engineer this way-- she was working full-time and trialed with us for a few hours a week so she could get a better sense of our environment and team, while we could also assess her skills and fit. It worked out great, and hope more employers/candidates can view this process as a mutually beneficial vetting process.
Truly new and novel ideas are rejected, then ridiculed and maybe after a long time grudgingly accepted.

The key is to implement ideas effectively, market them well, sell effectively and provide excellent support. Failing any of these and it will join the massive graveyard of failures. For every successful idea there are hundreds that failed.

As for IP protection, that is a very expensive game. It costs a fortune to get a patent and then if your idea does succeed then you will spend many multiples more suing the infringers, many of them being large corporations with even bigger funds to pay their lawyers.
This is basically the broken window fallacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window

If I go around smashing windows, I will make money move faster. The people who install replacement windows will have more money to spend. It's not like the money magically vanishes! But it's still a terrible idea, because all this economic activity is based on systemic waste. It's the same for most advertising.
You might not trust auto, but don't you trust the previous manual setting even less? It could have been under completely different lighting conditions.

Suppose you are up in a high desert. At night, you take pictures of blossoms by starlight. The next day at noon, you spot an interesting and rare bird of prey quickly flying by while holding an interesting prey item. Quickly you flip the camera on and take a photo. Oh bummer, the camera was still configured for starlight, and you'll probably never have another opportunity for a similar photo. All pixels are white.

Anyway, thanks for the mention of Fuji. That sounds better than normal. Why can't you lock the aperture in place? Why do you need to lock something in place if there is a separate dial position for auto? (if not auto, isn't it locked?)
Didn't Trump and the republicans just recently pull the US out of the Paris agreement?
In Thailand you can stay one year on a tourist visas. Every 3 months you have to go a Thai embassy outside of Thailand to get a new tourist visa. Then you have to go somewhere else for a few month and you can repeat the one year cycle.

I did got through the hassle and setting up a Thai company. This gives me a 1 year multiple entry visa and a work permit. Cost around 2.000 USD. An agency will handle the paper work for you.

It is a hassle no matter if you choose to do what i did or if you do the tourist visa, but it certainly is possible to stay and work for years in Thailand and many do although it is getting more difficult.

So yeah, it is possible to try to live here for a year on tourist visa, and if you fall in love with the place as I did, you have options in regards to make a life time stay and to get that work permit so you are legit.

I have been working remote from here for 6 years so far and counting )))
They're not focusing on retention. The author offers admittedly anecdotal evidence, but it's telling. Lots of these pubs that are "implementing paywall" like it's a feature that'll print consumer revenue may experience the same thing, especially the ones that start at $5/year and increase to $50/year on year two.
Most Melbourne buses are horrendous. They're unpredictable timing-wise, slow, noisy, uncomfortable and many of the routes are poorly thought out so they don't get anywhere in a useful amount of time anyway.

There are some express buses which at least are quick but they're still noisy and uncomfortable. Trams are a dream after using the buses.
That sounded a bit high, so digging around I found a source that in the U.S. Ground beef is 40% of the beef market, which makes sense given our obsession with burgers, but in the rest of the world, I doubt that the share is so high.

https://beef2live.com/story-ground-beef-united-states-0-1043...
Quickly Generating “Hello World” in Malbolge
I don't feel like anyone has addressed the fact that Sydney's new tram system is an absolute joke. There's no point comparing it to Melbourne's expansive tram network, ours covers less than a tenth of the distance and pretty much runs between UNSW ( incredibly wealthy private institution ) and the new casino ( incredibly wealthy private institution ). The NSW state government has been thumbing it's nose at the ICAC for years with some of shadiest dealing and poor infrastructure investment of little benefit to the public. This new tram network is just the latest in this tradition. You can't possibly say that projects like this, Westconnex, the shortening of the rail line in Newcastle, etc did not reek of corruption and keep a straight face.
Admittedly, transport to UNSW was always bad via road. The congestion in the Eastern Suburbs is terrible. I never found the buses to Randwick to be _that_ terrible, but I never rode them in peak hour on a daily basis.
Israel has already destroyed pantsirs with standoff missiles in syria.
Reflection can indeed be used! However, it's only useful for pushing apart two objects that you've built - e.g. a large station with a mirror and a laser, and a small probe with just a mirror.

This is called a photonic laser thruster (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photonic_laser_thruster) and is a variant of laser propulsion (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_propulsion). Like a mass driver, it gets around the rocket equation by separating the propulsion system from the spacecraft.
I wonder if there's a missing subscription model that allows for casual, not devoted, subscribers.

I'm never going to sit down and read the LA Times website like it was a newspaper. That ship has sailed. I will, however, occasionally check it for the breaking news of the day. I'm definitely going to read their annual 100 LA Essential restaurant list, and I will also visit articles that my friends post to facebook. That being said, I know from experience that there will be entire weeks that I will not visit once. In the end, it's just not worth $100 to me.

I know there's someone at the times screaming "But look at what you get", but that same person is ignoring my cries of "but look at what I actually use".
Very thoughtful and interesting. From the perspective of credit monitoring though, while they provide a social good with credit scores and risk assessment, they do so for a profit on the back of consumer information. For something like fraud monitoring, it seems almost an ethical imperative (in the social contract sense) to share information about potential fraud with the people whose information powers your business.
How is bison? I had a bison burger once and didn't care for it, but maybe a steak cut is better?
Whenever "blockchain" is mentioned there's always exactly these sort of comments popping up. They are always demos because verifying even 6000 signatures in a second on a normal CPU is not a walk in the park, let alone any other computation, network latency. The concept is as implausible as its real world applicability.

# openssl speed ecdsa
Doing 256 bits sign ecdsa's for 10s: 494208 256 bits ECDSA signs in 10.00s
Doing 256 bits verify ecdsa's for 10s: 161277 256 bits ECDSA verify in 10.00s
The Math Problems from Good Will Hunting, with Solutions
I'm a burger purist - lightly toasted then steamed bun, patty with the right fat content (and no additions, just salt and pepper) - not too lean - either smashed thin or a bit thicker and medium/medium rare, processed cheese (it really is the best on burgers, although swiss is nice too I guess), some kind of "special sauce" (even if it's just ketchup and mayo), diced raw white onion, dill pickle slices and lettuce.

Most places can't perfect the basics, but have some kind of truffle oil, bacon, foie gras (I'm exaggerating for effect a bit here) monstrosity on the menu to compensate.
If you can get a seat you've got enough room for a laptop, back when I was doing a cross Melbourne commute a got a 10" one that was perfect for coding, watching movies or browsing the web. Getting a seat is the real challenge but if you can adjust your hours then getting on before 8AM or after 10AM you've got a good chance. Once your out of the CBD it's pretty rare to not have room to use your phone.
I think they (management) viewed the job as a mostly grunt brute-force sort of problem. By automating parts of it I managed to save myself some time and hassle, but it's not like they told me to start taking half the day off or tried to leverage my talents elsewhere. Other than saving a lot of paper my system didn't really impact their bottom line in a way they could easily see. Even though I trained my successor on using my system neither they nor anyone else in the company was interested enough in computers to take on the ongoing maintenance of the system, despite being just a few hundred lines of perl that an amateur programmer could probably figure out (I was definitely an amateur programmer when I wrote it). When it came time to upgrade their POS software and the vendor refused to copy and reinstall my scripts they had no choice but to return to the vendor-approved process because they had no one technical who could own the system.

At the time I thought they were fools for abandoning such an improved process, but older-me sees the difficulty of the position I left them in. From their perspective they get roughly the same result from having some other cog do the grunt work and hiring a real-deal computer specialist at $$$/hour to be on call to fix problems has the potential to cost much more.

They may have been foolish after all, they ended up going out of business. I think their biggest mistake was allowing their POS vendor to basically lock them in (by being unable to export any of their data in any convenient way) and not demanding/being willing to pay for the sorts of changes I was hacking together to just be incorporated into the official system.
Are you saying that you should be able to borrow someone else's money, even when they deem you risky? Credit score is a proxy for a lender to determine your credit worthiness. You don't need one if you don't plan to take on credit.
Sonic customer here, but will try to be neutral. The value proposition was probably the best selling point, and they rarely raise prices. There is a certain satisfaction when the odd piece of Comcast advertisement comes by mail offering 2-3x the price for 1/8 the bandwidth from Sonic. Fiber customers can return the residential gateway and use their own router, which saves you $10/month. You have to agree you understand the implications of loosing remote troubleshooting, but I'm sure HN users are savvy in this department.

Prior to getting symmetrical fiber, I didn't have a clue what all that bandwidth could be used for, but again the value proposition was icing on the cake. Years later I still haven't a clue what all of this bandwidth was for. Imagine a kid on a fieldtrip to a famous chocolate factory imagining swimming in a chocolate fountain. The fountain is real, but you dip maybe one strawberry when you get there.

The only customer support call was easily enough to self fix. I just wanted to know if I had permission to touch the equipment in the outside service panel.

Hopefully, more cities push for municipal broadband. That would be if Comcast would stop suing to stop it.
My understanding is that Seldon and Kubeflow are more geared towards infrastructure engineers. Our goal is to hide the infrastructure tooling so that Kuberentes, Docker, or AWS expertise isn’t required. Cortex installs with one command, models are deployed with minimal declarative configuration, autoscaling works by default, and you don’t need to build Docker images / manage a registry.
If you play it right, sense may become secondary.
That totally makes sense, thanks for correcting me. :)
Another thing: for every digital subscription service, I always wonder if someone has tried a "the more subscribers, the cheaper the subscription" model. For example, I imagine a "If we get 1 million digital subscribers, we'll knock $10 off the annual price for EVERYONE" promo.
Apple is regressing to their 1990s identity
The Terraform provider idea is interesting, I'll think about it more carefully. Almost all of our deployment configuration under the hood is done with Kubernetes (which is focused on the declaration of deployment state). We modeled our configuration after Kubernetes for that reason, and we want to go beyond low-level infrastructure configuration by allowing users to configure prediction tracking, model retraining thresholds, and other more ML specific features using the same declarative paradigm and in the same configuration files.
(1) was in Hadano (Kanagawa), (2) was in Matsue (Shimane), (3) was in Nagoya.

Thinking back I left out a couple encounters.

4. Asked the police box staff if they knew how to get to my hotel (this was before smartphones were common), they helped me (Tokyo)

5. Filed a lost item report (my wallet was stolen, in Japan!) (Tokyo). Didn't turn up (duh) but I think I needed a piece of paper to get back my teikiken on my Suica card.

6. Filed another lost "item" report (a dog I was taking care of ran off. Man, that was nerve-wrecking). They actually helped me look for the dog I think! (No relation with the dog incident in Matsue.) (Shounan region, Kanagawa prefecture)

7. I was cycling to work and it was raining. I was holding an umbrella in one hand and a police car passed by and they used their loudspeakers to tell me to close my umbrella (but didn't stop me or anything). This was in a rather rural area of a rural town (Matsue). I think this is a recently introduced law -- someone holding an umbrella while cycling bumped? crashed? into someone and actually killed them. :/

8. Apparently police box officers walk around the neighborhood ringing on every doorbell and asking if anything's been up lately. That happened in Nagoya a couple weeks ago. I liked it.