skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have actually started adopting other online vendors because Amazon's quality control and customer support is so atrocious. I think Amazon will end up digging its own grave by building this huge adoption for online buyong, training competition how to do online retail right, and then die from a million cuts as thousands of specialty vendors step in. Their search sucks too...you just get fed paid advertisements for crap. AWS is amazing but I no longer trust Amazon as a place to buy physical items.
How do you figure? Doesn't that mean the squatters paid for it for 9 years and never ended up selling it?
I can't find anything in your comment that alludes to what being a terrible horrible utter piece of shit consists of. Do you mind elaborating?

Note that this is a sincere question, since I haven't had exposure to 4chan since before the Internet went mainstream, and even then it was fairly limited. I've heard horrible things about what it's become since, but I don't know much about it.
I did some pate de verre lost wax casting to make glass armguards a while back but they turned out too rough to wear. 3d printing might be the answer! (Check out my attempt here: https://www.instagram.com/p/Bk45IFqBhbL/?igshid=16fgxi4oubho...)
It's possible to both accept climate change and to legitimately be concerned about the hazards of nuclear power.
INB4 only pregnant white women are discriminated against.
The insurance for that one got complicated. It was destroyed in a static fire test that would have been a few days before the launch. Their launch insurance wouldn't cover it, because even though it was destroyed by a rocket exploding on the launch pad, it wasn't actually going to launch. They also had marine cargo insurance to cover the satellite before then. However, pre-launch static fires with payload attached are pretty unusual in the launch business and the insurer had no idea this was going to be done. Arguing that they were unaware of the increased risk and that the insured failed to notify them as required, they only made a partial payment on the claim. A lawsuit ensued (no surprise with ~$100 million at stake) and is apparently still ongoing.
Hostile Architecture
While it remains between a rock amd a hard place, people will be killed. I know that you're trying to steer the conversation towards the forum's purpose, but I'm not sure technology has anything to do with it, anymore than technology can stop the globe from increasing in temperature in its current state.

One of the gunmen was stopped within 60 seconds. People still died. Unless the tech can precisely point out terrorists before they leave the house, it risks being just a bandage. Even if it did, what whitepaper could possibly give you the confidence that the system's tolerance is effectively adjusted? That's some iRobot level stuff, and that was... not without quirks.

It'd probably be easier to just change the dang government.
https://ustr.gov/sites/default/files/enforcement/301Investig...
This was first implemented at 10% then pushed to 25% a few months later
The distinction in this case is that 8chan is simply a “poisoned well” which can be boarded up until the next one takes its place, whereas “Islam” is a whole ideology followed by a billion-odd people.

“Extremist Islamic terrorists” on the other hand, that is a narrowly defined enough population to feel justified in going to war against.

But the point is, no one’s speech in particular is being suppressed. To keep the metaphor, a “mosque got too radical” and was shut down. People who were practicing there will have to find another place to go.
That's a strawman. Author's own words, right in the intro:

"I might be wrong but would love some feedback. It’s an exceedingly complicated topic which has been researched for hundreds of years so it might be that this observation has been made before."

And that very important word "might", right in the headline too.
I would love to pick up the .com as well however it is up for about $3500usd. That’s a lot of money since I literally just grabbed my .ca domain with no website or business in mind. But I will try have fun with it. Thanks
Shift + Cmd + Ctrl + 4 for copying the screenshot into clipboard
IIRC, these are enabled by default if the text view is a standard NS* text view (don't recall the actual class). It's always a bit of a surprise when I find a window where these don't work, and that's a good indication that someone has implemented their own class for the text view. Little nugget holdover from those Unix-loving NeXT devs.
when you have a rolling blog like HN or a chan or pastebin
each post gets stale older and demotes until it falls off "the end" of the thread and selfdestructs.

stikkies are an admins/mods announcement and stay on top and are immortal so all can read it.
From what I've seen, compared to France, the UK and Austria, which aren't poorer countries, Germany still has comparatively expensive plans with less volume.
I agree. I think Bezos would too.
This is the reason whiteboarding gets a lot of hate.

It's really a great way to get insight into how people approach problems and how fluent they are in a subject. And if they get something wrong, but they thought it through, that's a problem that will fix itself pretty readily. The person who doesn't think stuff through likely won't start.

But the naive approach to whiteboarding is to do it as a test, can the person perform task X on the fly. The trouble is it's invariably an ad hoc test that generates ludicrously biased data. The really bad interviewers want to stroke their ego by stumping you with all the cool minutiae they know.
This is an attempt to divert attention from real monopolies like Comcast and healthcare monsters. What we really need in the tech space is UK-style laws to enforce competition between ISPs, GDPR-style laws to protect personal data and CA-style prohibition on NDAs. But politicans won't get paid for any of this. Instead they go for easy and profitable targets, such as pretending to care that Amazon is a monopoly.
Blockchain all the votes with layered encryption...

Top Level) General population can only verify their own votes

Mid Level) Counties can tally their county only

Low Level) States can tally up their states only

Ground Level) Federal government can tally up all votes.

The blockchain ledger will allow everyone to see votes without knowing individuals. To get name and location and other data, you need to be at a lower level.
It sounds to me like you've got two things: some hardware code, and some data code. You're not testing the hardware code, you are testing the data code.

If you split them into two places, you could get the same effect, with no mocks. And be more clear about what parts are tested and what aren't.
At what point does the rice just die from too much heat?
A few months ago I upgraded my system to 8GB RAM and I don't see the behavior you describe. It does require a little more care when choosing which programs to use[1], but not significantly so. However, you do need to make sure you have swap enabled to let the kernel efficiently manage its resources. It's not unusual for me to have 1-2 GB of stuff in swap; this doesn't affect performance significantly since it's parts of the system that don't need to run, but if you insisted that they all stay resident then it would put a considerable strain on the system in low memory conditions.

[1] The big one for me is that I can't run the Atom text editor, Firefox, and a virtual machine all at the same time.
I did wired wrapped electronica in college around 20 years ago. Wire running can easily become a dishrevelled mess. We also only had one color wire available, making non trivial difficult to follow and extremely difficult to debug.

Personally, I found my bread board circuits more aesthetically pleasing and easier to reason about. I had 4 different colors of wire, I always ran my wires in the cleanest manner possible using the most direct and shortest wire.

Probably the most complicated bread board circuit I wired up was an 8KB RAM bank for a 16bit microcomputer. My only real wire wrap project was when we prototyped an MP3 player driven by an AVR.
No it isn't? Which sections are you talking about?
I don´t know in which world you live where SW devs make that... some FAANG developers maybe - 5.000 to 10.000 people total? Compare to over a million doctors in the U.S. only.
Yea, sounds like a grubhub competitor.
Hardware-Software Co-Design Reappears
I got 9z.nz a few years ago. Without spending $$$, it is exceedingly difficult to find a short name. Fortunately, back then, gandi.net had a decent UI and access to many TLDs.
The fuck kinda metric is that? Politicians have no say in the legitimacy of climate change. You're calling bullshit on facts because a dozen people don't have a clue?
That sounds pretty terrible but I'm not sure if it relates to Amazon being a monopoly in the usual sense.

Ford motor company is huge and may have, for all I know, abusive practices towards it's suppliers. But Ford is certainly in the oligopoly, not monopoly category. Ford could be absolutely the only game in town for a given small or medium sized company but this doesn't mean Ford controls markets on the supplier end, which I believe is the measure of monopoly control.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly
Are you a founder (YC S18)? I think I have a good usage for your MVP. Provide an email to discuss the proposed startup we can build together.
Multiple counts that are corroborated is a common validation, iirc. That would be tedious, to listen to or correlate.

24-13 .... 25-13

25-13 .... 25-14

26-13 .... 26-14
Depends on a definition of "successful". My previous work mbp failed post warranty, but since the board replacement (Apple's idea of "repair") would cost close a new unit, I've been told to just order the new one. And mbp's the least bad choice I had for hardware, so I guess numbers are up due to non-repairability - success?
Its better than apps with in app purchases and ads.
I was wondering why these worked everywhere. I had no idea it was a mac feature.
Ask HN: What are examples of beautiful APIs?
Domain name generator (random, 2-word names)
Can't the file cache detect streaming loads and skip caching it? ZFS does this for its L2ARC[1].

[1]: https://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFSTuningGuide#L2ARC_discussion
"Nothing of value is here so please leave this place uninhabited and do not disturb it" sounds kinda suspicious if you ask me.
In their graphic, I count 7 15" ports and 8 24" ports, which at their before L-12 pricing is over $50 million. There's also the large port on top, which doesn't list pricing, but is presumably quite a bit more. The L-12 to L-6 pricing would be more as well. I believe their cost for a launch is something in the neighborhood of $30 million so they have quite a bit of margin to make money on this. Especially now that they're routinely reusing first stages and will probably use these flights as the final send-off for stages that are end-of-life.
> Or to esc. Saves my vim pinky a lot of grief.

FWIW, Ctrl-[ emits the ASCII code for ESC. So you can save that 'vim pinky' and have the remainder of control codes available to you as well :-).
OmniSci transparently caches data across the memory of the CPUs and GPUs on a server, so after the initial read, it is likely that the data for subsequent queries will be in memory.

We've also optimized our storage formats and multithreaded our disk reads, such that we can easily hit many gigabytes per second on flash storage. Plus, new persistent memory technologies like Intel Optane will enable even more instant reads from "cold" storage.
I think they’re talking about wire transfers. Those are $35 at one bank I use (which automates them) and free at another (which makes you call someone and fill out PDFs in triplicate).
They are aiming for the pro wallet users. Apple has dumped the power users that were so loyal in the last 2 decades in favor of making more money. Simply that.
It's telling that only the four biggest providers in Germany were able to take part in the auction because of how expensive it is. Not a lot of companies can throw billions at some spectrum before even building any towers or other infrastructure. It really distorts the market and makes it far less competitive.
Really, I'd be fine with anything dying as long as it does not freeze. As it stands, when this happens, the only option left is to force a poweroff.
Any insight as to why Matternet is using quads still? Just nearsightedness? Yeah, they might be a bit cheaper, but now they are grounded, that's never good for the bottom line.

Furthermore, safety critical systems are all about layers. Yeah redundant motors are good, parachute is nice, but what about passive measures?

Maybe drones should have stub wings which, in addition to lift boost, have deadman switches which cause one to spring 180° on power loss, forcing the hull to autorotate in the event the chute fails.

Ok, the gps dies, the motors fail, chute fails to deploy, and the wing ripped off, you are dropping at full speed. Well now the rapid descent causes a pressure differential (artificial eustacian tube, if you will) which trips some azide charge, inflating an airbag.

It's like they are putting in bare minimum of effort with the quad+parachute.
Some Netherlands internet is garbage too, even the 4G. And a whole lot of US internet is garbage.

Meanwhile, I've experienced reliable high speed (both direction) internet in Thailand and even Bali. Perhaps I got lucky, but imo there's no excuse for shit internet in US or NL (or Germany).
I think it’s possible to live car-free in many cities in the US but the difference is you can’t conveniently get very far without a car. In Paris not only can you live car-free but you can go all over the place, different countries even, by train, pretty conveniently. In the US you’ll be restricted to travel within the core of a city and that perk comes with a massive premium so it’s likely you can’t even afford it. Living car-free in the US might as well be a status symbol.
Yes, speed over quality
8chan is not the problem. Deplatforming 8chan is shooting the messenger.
The metric for whether people in power really believe the world is ending, as opposed to climate change being another problem they have to deal with while considering the political ramifications.
⌘+shift+6 (touchbar screenshot)
There's a great video from a few years ago on how SpaceX accelerates their CFD with image compression based algorithms and some GPU tricks.
Currently the Linux kernel computes a score for each process based on some heuristics. There's a good introductory article on LWN:

https://lwn.net/Articles/317814/
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I'm not exactly an expert on clearing, but isn't the reverse also true? FedACH's 24+ hour turnaround makes a whole slew of scams (e.g. fraudulent cash-in, legit cash-out[1]) possible that wouldn't be with an instantaneous system.

[1]: I send you, good samaritan, $500 "by accident" and ask you to return it. You return it, my original transaction never clears, and I'm $500 richer.
The Fed has been using same day ACH (which was really 1/2 day settlement) since 2016.

And they were sending signals pretty soon after the launch that they were wanted real-time payments.

I believe that pre-dates Libra but quite some time.
I used to sell a reasonably popular app on the Mac AppStore called Plain Jane that made that shortcut default.

Code https://github.com/i386/plainjane
Mob rule and mob justice is a powerful strong drug. The more it is shown to work, the more that these errant acts of violence will be exploited to obtain a desired political outcome.

Of course people look for something to blame, and there’s nothing quite a satisfying as shooting the messenger.

It’s also convenient when a site is small enough, there’s not quite such a backlash when companies fall into PR ass-covering mode and terminate their service.

Now, there’s no forcing CloudFlare to keep hosting any particular site, and there’s no convincing the mob that bowing to their demands is a really piss poor long term strategy for everyone involved.

It takes very strong leadership to stand up against the mob and say “that’s no how we do things” and these days most people would rather just pile on, than risk the guilt by association.
But not if humans were facing extinction, which is what the parent was talking about. Nuclear power hazards would not matter in that scenario.
Yeah.

Do you think maybe that’s why I said “compared to elsewhere in Canada” and not “compared to every single other place in Canada”?

I have no clue how you convinced yourself I was unaware of this obvious fact. Two different links in my post clearly spell out every community it’s available in.
Also, no one is talking about taking down Twitter, which is where the Dayton murderer hung out.
Clearly, I lack vision and have some research to do.
How to get your first ten customers (2013)
Do you live in Australia? I've lived in Sydney most of my life and I've found it fairly easy to get around with public transport. I'm currently living in Melbourne and it's even better, and has much better support for bikes.
For all those with Touch Bars - remap Caps Lock to be the Escape key
Alfred 3's Clipboard History.

I map it cmd-shift-v and I can bounce between all of my most recent clipboards. Saves so much time.
Astounding. Congratulations, Alex.

If I may, can you please tell us:

As your business has grown, what has changed the most in terms of how you run it?

What were some of the biggest challenges you've overcome and any major obstacles you see in the near future for the business?

Who are your mentors?

Thanks.
Azure performance data retrieval – step by step guide
Here’s a tip for avoiding adapters: just buy a cable that has USB-C on one end instead.

Or get a simple-ass dongle that has SD card USB ports on one end and USB-C on the other. These cost like $10, literally, without HDMI of course.

All this said, I miss the keyboard of older MbPs when working on my 2017 MBP. Enough that if I’m docked I use a mechanical keyboard OR lately I’ve been using an Apple wireless keyboard set directly in front of my laptop, ha ha.
>Without tolerance for differences violence is a forgone conclusion in the modern world.

What makes you think that violence is not a foregone conclusion if you start prohibiting people from expressing their genuinely held political beliefs or advocating for what they see as their interests?
Are there things beyond modeling where 3d printing is useful? The parts I've seen using dlp or sla never seem structurally useful to me. Sintered metal printing seems like although it may be less precise might be more useful structurally?
Hold option to remove the shadow
Most people are lucky to drive a year without a costly mistake. Put them in the air, and their mistake (or a self-driving mistake) means death.

And even if we can make personal air travel safe, how ever are we going to coordinate it?

I appreciate the advances we gain from the crazy/idealistic people who invest time or money on flying car ideas, but it is just never going to happen. The earth will burn and humans will die before that becomes a thing.

Some HN readers are working for auto driving companies, and they know how hard it is to be safe on the ground. Now add the whole of vertical space, plus aerodynamics, to the equation. These people might as well put their energy into teleportation (not really a pun intended, but it's kind of there).

s/trans/tele
Rotating prisms for scanning lasers are old technology, they were used extensively in photo imagers used to produce film artwork for the printing industry, the most famous of which was the Lasercomp. I was working with these devices in the early 80's. I suspect there is a lot of precident patents and prior art.

https://www.prepressure.com/prepress/history/events-1976
I am asking about the whether or not thr money created by bank loan and federal fiscal spending is ultimately created through the same process at the Federal Reserve.
Just ran across this article about another computer with the same issue... the TRS-80

https://www.fastcompany.com/90326271/in-macbook-keyboard-woe...
Anyone know what open source software he worked on?
Are you aware that sugar comes from plants?
Very few of us who own guns actually want this tech, for a variety of reasons:

* The reliability isn't there. These are weapons. They need to fire in an emergency, when the trigger is pulled, 100% of the time, or as close as is possible. Fingerprint readers don't work 100% of the time, or even close.

One of the major trends in handgun design over the last 40 years has been the adoption of striker fired guns without manual safeties. They are enormously popular. Many people are buying them because they don't want to worry about disengaging a manual safety when grappling with someone, or while injured, and while dealing with an adrenaline dump. A fingerprint reader even less reliable.

The litmus test is probably whether or not you can get police to adopt these. They're more likely to draw their guns, and likely to do so at close range, and if you can somehow make them reliable enough to satisfy police, then ordinary people are likely to start buying them too. But I don't think Police are anywhere close to accepting these.

* Nobody expects them to survive long. Guns are some of the most durable consumer goods you can buy today. With proper care, they'll easily last decades if not centuries. Consumer electronics, on the other hand, rarely survive long. I don't want to buy a gun that will be a brick in 20 years.

Optics tend to have a shorter lifespan, and gun owners accept that as a trade off because it gives them something far more capable than iron sights. And most people still opt to have back-up iron sights so that a dead battery doesn't render their gun useless. But a fingerprint reader doesn't offer much in exchange for the problems it brings.

* A large fraction of firearm purchases are by hobbyists who already own multiple guns. Smart guns aren't interesting to us, since we already need to come up with a way to secure all our other guns.

* There is a fear that once smart guns come on the market, they'll be the only thing we're allowed to buy. (New Jersey actually passed such a law in 2002). Because of this, anyone who tries to develop such a gun faces backlash. S&W tried, and the ensuing boycott nearly bankrupted the company.

* Finally, only about 1% of firearm deaths are accidental. The overwhelming majority of firearm deaths involve someone deliberately shooting themselves or others.
That's true, but the viability of other options limits their ability to set prices or exclude competition.
Option (or Alt) ⌥ + Down Arrow in Finder. Goes into selected directory.
Galvanometer based systems often suffer from acceleration issues at the start and end of the swing which limits the usable spread.
Amazon’s customer support “atrocious”? Literally only heard of great experiences with their customer support from people I’ve talked to.
You appear to be only referring to the retail side of Amazon, not the platform side where the article mentions Amazon has numerous restrictive practices in place and set the price through these by excluding competition and competing through their own retail lines, regardless of other (uncompetitive) options
I use it off and on and it works pretty well. Typically the caller (robot) hangs up almost right away before you get the satisfaction of screwing with them though and when that happens you don't get the easy option to block them as spam either because the screener quits right away.
I don't have alfred, but I've sincerely loved Clipy. Like, it totally changed how I use cut/paste:

https://github.com/Clipy/Clipy