skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My brother in-law is the VP engineering of an competitor to LinkSpace. No they didn't steal it. They don't even have access of Google!

Private aerospace startups face huge push backs from state-owned agencies for two apparent reasons: (1) most of the engineers of the startups left their job in those agencies for these startups. (2) The progresses these startups made expose how slow, bloated and inefficient the government-run agencies are. As a result of the hostility, the startups have little access to suppliers and testing facilities etc., not to mention the technological know-hows.
Not a good news ?!!!
No price per gram is displayed, at least in the places I've been to.
UniFi is great for home, small to medium businesses, and anything up to a massive church or stadium. I use it at home and I know a few local installers who swear by it.

If you have a small network team UniFi would be a perfect fit. It’s very manageable and support is great.
You are making an assumtpion that your dsRNA is safe. The same type of assumption was made with Roundup where Roundup "only" effected a single pathway. We now know that this assumption was wrong and that Roundup causes cancer. Making assumptions is a very dangerous game.
Sorry to tell you there was a golden age...

The age before the internet and monetization where we owned are games and internet penetration hadn't allowed companies to steal videogames functionality with drm.

The 90's AAA game modding scene was heads and shoulders above the modern AAA space because there was no internet, there was no incentive to hold back free level editors, file specs, access to contents inside the game files.

The last 20 years has undermind that hugely in big budget games. How could would have it have been to have level editing and a programming SDK for Need for speed Most wanted 2005? OR mass effect 1 + 2 for instance?

We've definitely lost a lot as game companies are forcing games into the mainframe dumb client model. AKA literally preventing you from owning the game you are buying.

Given that has always been the end goal of these companies since the beginning. Game preservation is going to be a nightmare going forward for all these server locked games.

So to say now is the golden age, means you're basically clueless about game preservation and what the mainframe/cloud model means for your basic rights.

The agenda is to turn PC into a more heavily drm'd locked down platform like mobile and control your software remotely.

Software as a service is literally a scam to invade your privacy, get you locked in and then jack up/extort you.

Look at all the DLC for SF V or Guilty Gear for instance. Huge amounts of cut content, sold back to you at ridiculously inflated prices.

Nothing like that existed in the 90's because there was no internet and analyticis to target stupid spendthrifts. Internet Analytics to target the spendthrift gamers has seriously fucked up gaming.
Kumdang-2 (The North Korean medicine that cures AIDS, cancer and Ebola)
The central switch near this tower was the subject of mass surveillance during WWII. They basically employed a massive amount of women who were just listening in on phone calls trying to find criminal activity and national security concerns.

Source: W. Agrell, Vem kan man lita på?, ISBN 9789175452395
> I’m assuming they survive because there’s a group of users who are beyond the reach of new technology.

This thought experiment is fun, but based on a lot of assumptions like these.
>I remember how Amazon, in the beginning, was also non-profitable

I laugh out loud every time someone points to a terrible business and someone else defends it with, "But Amazon was also unprofitable!"

There are far more bankrupt companies than there are Amazons.
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This is why I started a blog [0] and pushed some repos at GitHub.

0: https://www.kashifaziz.me
Hi Nick! Received your invite request! Looking forward to speaking with you this week :)

- Yes, we're bringing workspaces & chat folders to Telegram (https://cl.ly/9d0ac52b55cf)
- Not something we're addressing yet
- Not something we're addressing yet
- Something we can address :)

Will talk more next week!
Provide me an example then. Organic pesticides that can be used on organically-certified farms are still poisons. White oil, soap spray etc. is all a poison if you're an insect.

I don't know of any modern production system that's free of poisons (if you want to refer to poisons as anything that kills an insect, which seems to be the case), but willing to be educated.
You don't need an app for 50% of that use case. You need taxi drivers hanging out at the train station/bus depot.
Right, I did not read everything he wrote. Amazon was barely a thing in 1997.
The UK, £9000 per year plus living costs is the current floor.

However it is more like a graduate tax than loan, if you don't earn much you don't pay it back and it gets written off after 25 years.
Just like room 641A, Folsum St, San Francisco.

Fascinating how technology changes but humans don't.
You're not meant to. It's minified and rewritten by the Javascript compilers. I believe this would be the place to find anything you want to read:

https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml
s/LPT1/COM1/ ?
Can you clarify modest income? The last time I read an article about living on one income the spouse was a high paid lawyer. The person in the article who talked about living on one income was a CEO.
Interestingly, considering how passionately you’re defending the “in Sweden” part, shops very often circumvent this law by simply folding the piece of paper that displays the comparison price so it’s hidden.

This is extremely widespread, if not totally universal when it comes to really expensive items.

No-one ever seems to care or notice - I often unfold the paper so the price shows again, as it’s one of my pet peeves.
Turns out it happens naturally when you're light on images, don't include gobs of JavaScript, and leave out ads.
I would say it's unusual but not unrealistic.
It's a mix of both. If you want to eat tomatoes in the middle of winter agriculture will have to use a lot of pesticides. If society didn't have ridiculous expectations my guess is that the industry would use more sustainable methods of growing food.
It is news because everyone else (Europe, Japan, Russia, India) have started RLV projects to catch up with SpaceX. And it shows who is moving fastest. No surprises that it's China. Just watch how long it takes for the rest to get to this stage.
I pay a premium for tasty, often seasonal fruit like strawberries and peaches because the difference in taste is night and day.

One tastes better than candy. The other will teach kids not to eat fruit.

A tip: Use your nose to sniff and distinguish between what’s ripe and tasty and what’s merely visually appealing.
If it helps the place where I’ve seen nature taking back was Chernobyl. Looks like radioactivity is far less toxic than humans.
The article agrees that it made the author a better programmer. The argument they're making is that it made them a worse C# developer. Their Haskell experience allowed them to see the specific problems with their C# code but didn't give them the tools to fix them because functional programming isn't (or wasn't) idiomatic C#.
You're right that he's right. 70% royalties - paid to the author - are (generally) reserved for ebooks priced under $10.
"Dry weight" is what you're thinking of.
Antibiotics are poisons for bacteria. Many life-saving medicines are poisons if you take too much of them. Should we call doctors poisoners?
Webvan.
The time limit was a bit too arbitaray. I think instead of failure, a time limit on extra rewards is more favourable. The Xcom enemy within expansion did it right by making a time limit hidden (with sound clues) for the extra "meld" reward. You could split your team and hunt for the reward, but risk trigger multiple enemies, or forfeit the reward for safe play. The player is in the control seat, not the game.
This reminds of the famous 'Whackings' scene from the movie The Casino.

Reference: https://youtu.be/m4NUFTwAlQc
The Amiga 3000 Clone
> After selecting a particular phrase using my cursor control commands, I say “clip [foo]“, and every time I want to enter the same phrase after, I say “paste [foo]“. I therefore only have to dictate a particularly obnoxious variable name once.

A simpler solution might be an editor with an auto-completion feature where completion items can be selected using abbreviations or full names with small errors.
The real problem is that you can sell your ebook anywhere - but Kindle is where people who pay money for ebooks are. Most of your sales are going to be on Kindle.

This is a problem for the reasons that relying on a single customer is a problem. In 2019, anyone can publish! ... on Amazon.
As far as I can tell/guess, if there is actually any product to what they claim, they are just taking standard encryption techniques and making them worse by applying buzzwords. Relating to my non-expert laymans understanding of cryptography, the process is:

- Generate primes. Practically, I understand that it's usually generating a number that's extremely likely to be prime. It sounds like they are using "not a multiple of 24" for this part (which is both obvious and obviously bad, for obvious reasons)

- Multiplex data with a sequence off of the original factorization, which is only as secure as the prime but slows down brute-force attacks. It sounds like they are using sampled waveforms of this-maybe-prime to AI-generated music (topical!) as the multiplexing sequence.

It basically sounds like cargo-cult mathematics - all the best mathematics are beautiful and use symmetry _ergo_ creating something with symmetry and beauty must be good mathematics.
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Why doesn’t matching in-store prices make sense to you? You are not taking up valuable table space, so it ends up cheaper for the restaurant. The delivery service is certainly taking a share of that benefit.
The same thing happens here in Bucharest, but I’d say it’s 80% bikes.
aren't they? here in France there are a few labelled varieties (not as many labels as apples, though)
Reminds me a bit of https://timecube.2enp.com/
Both, I suppose. The app is far enough along that I’m using it myself (for work and the project), but it’s still messy and I’m iterating on it. An “Export data” is on my TODO, but not done yet, so the notes are currently trapped.
Another distortion and subversion of capitalism by central banks. They are either stupid and naive, or colluding in the channeling of newly printed money directly into executives' pockets.

Sometimes before, and inevitably after, their stint at the Fed/BoE/BoJ/ECB, they will be executives at those same companies, or the banks that take a cut of the transaction (print, repo, bond, equity, option - rinse, repeat).

If those same CBs lose control and rates rise, and/or business turns down and margins decrease, those bonds will still be due, even when the shares they replaced would have fallen without any obligation. The company credit rating decreases. As they pass the BBB event horizon to a junk black hole, most fiduciary holders of those bonds will have to sell, thus accelerating the crash in corporate bonds as they all turn to junk and spreads blow out.

So CBs turn robust capitalism into brittle cronyism.
> go to the building #422 on the main road and turn down the unnamed road you see there; drive until you see the house numbered 35 and turn down the unnamed road THERE; then proceed to number 11."

There are 2 options for after 422 depending on which direction you are facing
How is that resolved and understood
One friend had a null modem cable, other one a parallel cable. Though they lived together, I was thinking about the latter friend for reasons beyond scope. He made a LAN with two computers. It could've been IEEE 1284, I don't know. Back then, cables were a tad more expensive and difficult to come by. Plus, we had to get it working in MSDOS, IIRC. The advantage of parallel cable was we could pump (other) data over it as well.
The divorce rate hasn’t been 50% for all marriages in a long time, and that was always inflated by second, third, Nth marriages.

The current divorce rate for first marriages where both partners have a bachelors is around 10%.
I think there are two versions of the simulation hypothesis. The first version is that we are in a simulation that is run in the future with ourselves as ancestors. The second version is that we're simulated by aliens.

The first version seems wrong to me. Time is not a random variable. Either it is really the year 2019 and no such simulations of 2019 exist yet, or it is really the year 2100 and the year 2019 doesn't exist anymore. You can't choose at random between different years since they don't exist at the same time.

The alien version doesn't have that problem but it's also implausible since aliens have not been proven to exist and there is no particular reason for aliens to simulate us.

This discussion reminds me of Elon Musk's interest in traveling to Mars. Imagine you want to go to Mars and are too lazy to build a rocket to go there. So instead you go out to the desert to a place that looks exactly like Mars. Then you say this place in the desert looks exactly like a million places on Mars. You pick a place at random, which means that you inevitably pick a place on Mars. Then you say, "The odds are a million to one that I'm not standing on Mars right now! Because I picked Mars!"

That argument is just as bogus as the simulation argument. Probability isn't a cheap form of space travel and it's not a cheap form of time travel either. If you want to stand on Mars you're going to have to build an actual rocket and go there, not a probability experiment. If you want to experience virtual reality you're going to have to build it. You can't just probability it into existence by wishful thinking.
Toynbee
Ah ok sorry, maybe some stuff isn't showing up on my rather old computer. By main page you mean pagedout.institute? Which doesn't sound like a main page, but it seems to be.

No, I do really mean I can't see one word about what the zine is about, at all. I count 174 words, but not one about that. Hopefully that's just me. Good luck!

Edit: I clicked both PDF links, they both said "The requested URL /asdf was not found on this server."

Edit2: Ah, in my old browser the '-- Gynvael -->' line of HTML didn't end the comment, which went on for another page! Weird. Tried a different browser and can see it fine. Sorry.
Hong Kong isn't part of SEA.
Take a look at SIG Cluster API for Kubernetes-native ways to spin up and down new nodes. https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api

Also see https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/external-dns.
Chinese will steal anyway, its engraved on their culture
Of course the future is uncertain. I don't know that if my going to work tomorrow is not going to rip a hole in the space time continuum, but I'll risk it anyway. I know that's being facetious, but the point remains. There are clear and obvious dangers with current practices. They are not sustainable. One can never say for certainty that any change may not have unintended consequences, but in this case, they are being actively identified and mitigated so a repeat of issues associated with synthetic and organic pesticide is less likely.

For me (and this is only my opinion), a highly targeted dsRNA, which is completely organic (it's not synthesised), has no synthetic modifications, is present in massive quantities in nature, is consumed every day by every person on earth if they're had fruit or vegetables, does not persist in the environment, is likely much safer than any existing pesticide, synthetic or organic.

As for selective pressure, current broad spectrum pesticides, synthetic or organic, would cause greater ecological disruption I would think. Again, my point is that this is an attempt to remove that pressure, not add to it.

Saying it's all too hard to predict, so let's do nothing, just doesn't seem sensible to me. The risks of not acting seem clear and obvious. Have a look at the talks in the OECD link I provided, and you'll see there's a pretty precautionary approach being taken. It's not a case of 'let's have a go and see if it works. What could go wrong?'
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Whether or not it's a reasonable practice, it's not really shocking. Amazon tried to hold the line on $9.99 Kindle prices for a long time. So it's not really surprising that they'd use a big stick to try to hold that same line where they have some direct leverage.
For perspective, you can critique the US government(s) (state/federal) and say that this is a bad thing, and you won't disappear. I doubt you can critique the Chinese government about the re-education camps.

Here's a major presidential candidate on the topic:

* https://berniesanders.com/issues/criminal-justice-reform/
Maybe it's not Singapore that's an outlier, but the US? Delivery in Spain, Portugal, and other European countries is by motorcycle.

I believe in the US, a car driving license is fairly easy to get and used cars are very cheap. Plus, given the driving culture, I assume that in the US people just don't think about motorcycles unlike in Europe or Asia as a viable way to get around.
I compare it to Morty experiencing “true level” [0]

[0] https://youtu.be/w-wbWGwZ7_k
Schedule optimization in various industries. Delivery, health care, public transit. Any industry that has a workforce that needs optimizing.
The problem with that is that the restaurant business is low margin in the first place. So Uber cutting into the restaurants' margins will quickly make it not worth it for the restaurants.

Kind of like how Groupon and Living Social often made these money losing deals with small businesses. Many of those businesses figured out that the one time influx of customers was not at all worth it, which is why both Groupon and Living Social are shells of their former high-flying unicorn selves.
Homer: A Text Analyser in Python
The c# code is ancient at this point and doesn’t use linq, which remedy his issues.

The language has added significant functional capabilities in the last 13 years...
Check the advertised site, https://amp.dev/, and look at the headers for v0.js.

I'm seeing an "expires" tag of "now", a cache-control header of 'private' and 'max-age' of 50 minutes. You'll also see the 105KB Javascript used to support animated gifs, 46KB amp-bind which allows documents to "add interactivity", and several others.
A conference not accepting a talk is not censorship.
What we can learn from things that never happened
In the case of discord, in my opinion, they won't be able to monetize anything if they allow rd party clients.
I have not seen that in France so I guess using the price per kilo or litre is mandatory.
I've never seen this happen, and I look at the price every time I buy groceries.
Did anyone back up the video before it got taken down?
Same, I often don’t bother buying alcohol or chocolate and spend that money on better quality produce, a good piece of fruit is better than any other desert in my opinion.
Current? I don't think the financial environment has ever (or can ever) encourage giving money away.
You can call it a "service to bondholders" but just because a company does something doesn't mean its profitable and there isn't much profit in this, as far as I can see.

It's like if you had 6 people who owned a pizza restaurant and one of them was the CEO. One day he calls a meeting and says, "Great news! I went to the bank to take out a loan, and paid Bob and Fred to buy their shares out. Now, as long as we continue to make a profit, we'll each make 50% more on our investment, the only catch is we have this debt hanging over our heads, and have to pay interest on that. Of course, if we start to lose money, your investment will lose out 50% quicker, but we won't talk about that. Also, I had to pay Bob and Fred enough that, in their opinion, it was more profitable to take the cash than own the company."

The only thing this does for the investor is make their investment more volatile. It's the same effect as if you opened an account at a brokerage, bought one stock, and took out margin so you could own more shares. Only the company is basically forcing you to take on margin in this way.

It's possible that it may make sense in some situations to do this, but given that it's so popular, I think the real reason is slight of hand.

The EPS goes up and the stock price goes up to a premium compared to the rest of the market. Take anybody that's not doing their DD, by either using a system, such as "dogs of the dow", or buying an index fund or simply choosing stocks at random. If you can sell your stock at a higher price, you make more money per share sold, and since these investors basically can't tell shit from shinola, you might as well sell them at the shittiest price you can manage.

If what I'm thinking is true, its somewhat hilarious that common wisdom is index funds and systems like "dogs of the dow" are commonly espoused as the best investments for new investors.
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This is in fact among the best signals, because ripe fruit is a perishable commodity that floods the market in season.

When I'm casing a supermarket looking for fruit I tend to start with price and then check the goods.
The conference accepted the talk. They gave the talk. The conference is now removing their videos after-the-fact. It's not hard to see how one could spin that as censorship.
micropython-lib packages aren't included in the base MicroPython (well, not the main one. The Pycopy fork does), and are published on PyPI under micropython-x. You've found the source for the package I named.
> Organic doesn't mean more flavor.

It doesn't formally mean that, but often it means that in practice.

I think some of the success of organic food is that it can in practice be a marker for attractive features that otherwise have nothing to do with "organic". Consumers learn the association and use it, even if they don't buy into the organic philosophy.
Multiple good points here! I should have said “useful in a year without context.” or something similar. The daily write-ups will always be directly available from the aggregated summaries. But pictures are another great way of providing context! Maybe it’s because I’m more of a backend person, but I haven’t felt a pressing need to add screenshots at work yet. All of the scenarios you suggested though make it sound like a great idea. Thanks!
Apart and separately from virtue signalling, i believe the demotion to a life of more struggle, even artificial, gives more purpose and meaning, and thus is pleasant.
This is pathetic. But good on the author for not taking that crap.
Upgrade your cargo cult for the win (2017)
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The worst sales promotion in history: Hoover's free flight fiasco
What food delivery logistics? Ubereats is not tackling any part of the food preparation, food supply chain, or even the problem of keeping food hot.

All they're doing is pick up and delivery. There's no moat there and there's not a lot of untapped profit margin there. Ubereats could win in this market tomorrow and it still wouldn't be worth billions.
The point that struck me was the assertion that American elites have become dysfunctional. And, that wokeness is more of a symptom rather than cause of that dysfunction. That is a very interesting idea and worthy of consideration. Historically, crises among elites are dangerous. Elites losing the confidence of the people, for example, is destabilizing. Severe conflict among elite factions (sometimes during a loss of confidence period, sometimes not) can also produce instability or worse.
TLDR: SQL injection vulnerability in Contacts app.
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