skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I spent a while trying to work out if 42 in-a-circle was some kind of operator like 42! (factorial) or the like, because those three large numbers, cubed, didn't seem to refer to anything two-digit.
Which national policy discussions do you mean?
Am millennial. Fully aware of the PowerToys heritage. I used to run the win95 explorer.exe on Windows 98 back in the day along with a bunch of PowerToys tweaks.

Millennial were born 1981-1996 ;) There's no <19 year old millennial's left, I'm afraid.
Nope, just happens to be the same number.
Show HN: Gift Macro – Gift Giving for People Who Hate Giving Gifts in 60 Seconds
Excel can't to math on arbitrarly large ints, so tuncates all the numbers and gives you the wrong result
Datto is interesting. I suppose small to medium businesses and governments could just use off the shelf NAS products.
There is no such thing as "free shipping". On a site where people rarely make any bulk purchases, adding shipping into the base price is the right thing to do. It's just behavioral economics.

Case in point, I prefer "free shipping" despite being fully aware that it's not a real thing. Just because you're aware that's it bullshit doesn't mean it doesn't work on you.
Are they manually managed though ? isn't there an algorithm somewhere responsible for balancing these funds ?
Hey all, OP here. I've had this idea for a couple years, but finally blocked off time to put a MVP together with YC's startup School (I only audited).

What is it?: An app to give the perfect gift in 60 seconds.

Who is it for?: People (like me) who don't like giving gifts, but understand that others still appreciate receiving them. If gift giving stresses you out, you're too busy, you give bad gifts or always give gift cards (like me) then this service is for you.

How does it work?: Tell us the occasion, tell us a couple things about the person, tell us where to send the gift. Then we'll pick out a gift and send it. For now, the price tiers are $25, $50, $75 and $100. Shipping is free on gifts $50 and above.

How is it different? (special sauce):

Most gifting services make you actively pick a gift. Here you have no choice--you tell us the details, we decide for you.

Most gift services are also online only and have the same shallow collection of gifts. Instead, we've actually partnered with a real gift shop on Cape Cod that's been around for 20 years. They were even voted #1 gift shop on Cape Cod. I actually live near this gift shop and have seen the people who work here help real people carefully pick out the perfect gift.

Why not abstract that process into a handful of questions so anyone can leverage it? This way, your special person gets a special gift from a real gift shop. Meaningful, convenient gift-giving.

Why use it:

- Leverage real gifting expertise--you don't have to think about what gift to give.

- No preset gifts, all gift orders are handpicked to order based on details provided.

- It doesn't cost you more than you'd pay in store (sometimes cheaper).

- Free shipping on orders $50 and above.

- It's very fast, only asks essential questions.

- Gift comes from a real gift store without Gift Macro branding.

Other questions you may have:

- This sounds like a manual gift picking process--will it scale? Maybe. For launch I've limited orders to 100 per day based on what the gift store can handle (I waited until the end of the Cape Cod tourist season to launch so it’s less busy). Later even if we add capacity there's only so many gifts a real gift store can fulfill if each gift is custom handpicked. At that point I'd have to add capacity by sourcing other gift stores, but that's a problem for future me and a good problem to have. It's also an opportunity to send gift orders to different stores based on the details of the gift request for even better gifts.

- Are payments processed securely? Yes, they're processed through Stripe--no payment information is stored on the site.

- How is customer support handled? Before the order is made, I (Gift Macro) handle it. Once the order is placed the customer receives an order receipt with an order number from the gift store along with fulfillment updates. After the order is placed all support is handled directly with the gift store to make exchanges, returns, etc. easier.

- Can I really not pick what gift I want to give? Correct. Tell us the details, then trust our gift expert team. It's not for everyone.

I'd love any feedback, thanks!
>the fact that malls are (justifiably) regarded as a treasured social institution

Wait, people think malls are "treasured social institutions" ? I think it's just neat to look at creepy old malls that used to be full of people. I wonder if there's a name for that? Like the thrill of sneaking into school at night when no one was there.
There are others in this thread who are curious too, e.g.:

> Could someone elaborate on why this is interesting? The linked page doesn't have much context.

Just compare your question's tone with that, for example, and maybe that will explain why you're being downvoted [I did not, but I get why others are -- you deleted your other comment "Thanks for the downvotes..."]
Grumpy old sysadmin says that datacenters used to cause downtime, now it's dodgey deployments and kubernetes abusing dns as well as requiring more certificates than a small isp.
E*Trade’s mobile app does the same thing, but you can’t edit the password field since it’s a native app. Website allows longer passwords than what their mobile app allows and just locked you out of your account after a few correct password entires. To make things worse, support tells you it’s due to your network.
Ember used to require jQuery but recently moved to removing it by default; users can opt-in if they still need it. Once the project moves to a later version of Ember I suspect the jQuery bit will drop off. (Who knows, though...)
Or "The Number 42..."
That's a neat idea. So basically all windows must conform to grid lines. I wonder how well it resizes applications that don't want to resize.
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/set-rounding-precis...
And Paypal has been doing this (Paypal Working Capital) for about 6 years at this point:

https://www.pymnts.com/news/b2b-payments/2018/paypal-uk-work...
The adults in the room are the ones who aren't looking for some omniscient overlord to have all the answers.

If you've realized this, you are one of the adults in the room.
Because the numbers cubed are way larger than the numbers that Excel can represent precisely. Excel uses 64-bit IEEE 754 floats for all arithmetic. They can be used to accurately describe integers smaller than 2^53, or ~10^16. The first number cubed is ~-5*10^50, so you are very clearly outside the range where excel is precise.

You should not use Excel to do any serious mathematics, or really anything else where numerical precision is important.
Well the "Adults" in the room are the ones who don't run out "once the maelstrom of chaos and uncertainty arrives". Most people we call adults do.
Congress is paid a lot of money not to talk about the tax code.
> Yes, because non-citizen residents still pay sales taxes.

There's no federal sales tax, and 1/10 of the states don't have state sales tax.
>Japan being a fantastic place for a certain type of person

There's a heavy implicit qualifier on that, which is what your parent commenter is trying to get across.
There's this prevalent false position that Kubernetes is successful because of Google.

Yeah, Kubernetes initially learned a ton because of Borg and Google's deep investment into containers dating back a very long time. But, arguably, Kubernetes is successful because Google Let It Go. Its a true open source project, with governance by a wide number of industry advocates, underneath the Linux Foundation.

By comparison, Docker is a VC-backed profit-minded startup. Of course it was going to lose this race, for the same reason Windows isn't the dominant OS in the cloud.

Fundamentally: You can't build a hyperscale startup based on a technology. It doesn't appear to work anymore. The best case is the Docker/Kubernetes or Oracle/Postgres/MySQL case: someone else does it, maybe better, open sources it, community forms around it, you're toast. The worst case is the MongoDB/AWS or Elastic/AWS case; a cloud provider copies you, probably does it worse, but its cheaper and more integrated with the cloud, so they still win.

Docker was doomed; they could have been a very nice business, but the issue is taking on huge valuations and capital, scaling like mad, and then finding out you have no ground underneath your feet to support that valuation.
That assumes the work is repeatable.

It also assumes no one but the employees would have to put time into recreating the repeatable work.

For example, people turning in documents in order to get permits. Now they'd have to figure out which ones were lost and regenerate them. It adds up.
In bash

$ echo "print((-80538738812075974)^3 + 80435758145817515^3 + 12602123297335631^3)" | sed "s/\^/**/g" | python -
42
If we imagine a project with only MIT code that want to add GPL licensed code, the only significant additional legal action needed to be compatible is that you now need to give a patent grant that covers the combined work, and in the case of GPLv3 not distribute the combined work in hardware devices that use access control to prevent the installation of modified versions by the owner.

If neither aspects is an issue then the additional work needed to add GPL code to an MIT licensed project is practically zero.

There are however naturally implication for downstream which in combination of additionally third licenses (such as proprietary licenses) can cause real issues, and the relationship between such downstream and the MIT project could as a result lead to reasons why the MIT project feel like they can not include GPL into their code. There might even be contractional reasons involved which mean not only do you now have three different copyright licenses to follow but you also have contract law involved in order to follow the law and have a legal right to distribute the combined work. I can see how the permissive licenses in those kind of situation feel simpler since they do not interact much with the other legal stake holders.
I think the author meant the 3.5% was flat in the sense that it hadn’t increased in thirteen years.

It’s not very clear English either way.
There's a medium sized mall in my town and it's doing very well, it is always quite busy. Similarly there are huge malls in OKC and Tulsa which are doing great, they are full and have the most expensive retail space in the state. However Crossroads Mall in OKC became completely abandoned. I feel like there are lots of other factors involved in the success and failure of malls.
This can do with even simpler phrasing - Stripe carries the risk of the business underperforming in exchange for the business carrying the “risk” of over performing.

In a regular loan, the bank makes you bend over backwards to prove you’re risk free, and then charges you interest to give you the loan anyway, and you’re on the hook to pay back a constant amount whether you’re under or over performing, at risk of going bankrupt.
Couldn't someone just hand-load a different bullet into the same base cartridge? In the worst case scenario, swap out the barrel for one that can handle the standard rounds?
Guessing you meant "trivial". Do you have some info about how this helps break encryption?
Math is done for it's own sake. Read this article if you want to know more about people trying to spell out of justification for this.

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/07/22/the-aesthetic...
Apple isn't interviewing you to spy on you.
https://taken.photos/photos/woman-standing-in-front-of-mirro...
Either the password or the hash of the password is stored, which it is depends on the age of the application, the skills of the developers and probably other factors that do not readily spring to mind.

However I am quite certain that not every solution has hashes of the password stored because every now and then I still get sites that tell me the password I chose has disallowed characters in it.
This is a testament to the value of purposeful, scheduled, and task-oriented interactions.
same as Google.

https://www.google.com/search?sxsrf=ACYBGNQRb1b08L-cU-JY3GHr...
This kind of statement might as well be generated by a Markov Chain.
The title is sanitized on first submission, but you can edit the title afterward and put it back in. This works with some punctuation that gets cleaned out too.
42 is also the answer to the universe. ;-)
The chart that predicts recession [video]
From an EU country with 1 gig for about $30 a month (city with about 500k people) that doesn't look very cheap.
Oh well, all right all right.

I'll change my passwords to `1234567`.
Hallelujah. How long until the Prime Minister of Canada writes a glowing eulogy for him?
Other small things could help, like publishing failures, incentivizing duplication of experiments, increasing access to results.
> Im an engine mechanic by trade, and ive worked in shops with no adults.

For white collar jobs, that seems to be the rule rather than the exception. Dilbert wouldn't be as popular otherwise.
China close to releasing a Libra-like digital currency
> Even Amazon didn't succeed in prying away Android from Google (Fire).

They didn't? Amazon's phone failed because it had no reason to exist—it was a new product in a crowded market and offered nothing unique. Nothing to do with Google or Android. Amazon's tablet line still uses their Android fork, and seems to be doing fine.
Awesome. Sounds good. Best of luck! I know that it's hard to find time for any of this stuff when it's all a labor of love in your free time.
Then how do we explain the huge number of fossil reefs in the geological record from times when temperatures were much warmer and C02 levels were around 10 times as high as they are today?

Besides if the temperature warms 2 degrees won't corals adapted to tropical waters colonize currently colder waters that are at that point perfectly suited?
Likely to be reversed on appeal. Good or bad, I don’t think it’s going away any time soon.
It would be easier if Pepsi released the formula under GPL.
> FWIW: It's actually not. They've literally said they are trying to take big tech companies to task before. They don't actually try to hide their goal.

Is there a source for this? It's pretty bold to claim they've admitted to criticizing tech companies out of spite. Especially when there are justifiable reasons for trying take them to task, such as Facebook's privacy record.
I usually place it above the function.

Like this: https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/BJGhs8qGcr/
Yeah, I mean that pretty much the gist of how most laws work. The market for fan-art is absolutely massive which operates in a weird limbo of being de facto licensed as long as the copyright holder likes it or if there would be public outcry if it was taken down.

The current system is kinda stupid. Copyright holders have no incentive to license because reserving the right to sue but not suing is used instead. This is the problem that needs to be addressed.

I want to live in the universe where the resolution is that fan-art is not considered infringement and doesn’t need licensing compared to the universe where the resolution is that all not explicitly licensed art disappears.
You've mangled my sentence in your quote. The rest matters. It may not be a masterpiece of the English language, but I already said the first is not directly possible and I wrote the second as a description of p-values quite on purpose.

"Virtually all journals require rigorous reporting of p values along with averages, and the justification of the statistical test used."

That's begging the question. The entire topic of conversation is whether or not the standards of justification are adequate.
Mathematicians are interested in which natural numbers k can be expressed as a sum of three cubes. Prior to this year, it had been established that this is possible for all k < 1000 except for the following thirteen values:

33, 42, 114, 165, 390, 579, 627, 633, 732, 795, 906, 921, 975.

Earlier this year a solution for k=33 was found [1], so 42 was the next unknown value.

[1] Brooker, A., "CRACKING THE PROBLEM WITH 33", https://people.maths.bris.ac.uk/~maarb/papers/cubesv1.pdf
Indeed, and although it would sound silly to us, a lot of journalists are surprisingly bitter over the 'learn to code' meme-debacle of just several months ago. When the journalism bubble burst the success of tech was used to humiliate journalists. They won't be kinder when our bubble bursts.
The ASCII code page index for it anyway.
Postbox 7 Released
Reasons for Cancelling a Move to Microservices
In dc/shell/bash

dc -e '_80538738812075974 3 ^ 80435758145817515 3 ^ 12602123297335631 3 ^ + + p'
I'm just going to talk about something semi-related since the article is trash. This is all anecdotal btw. The concept of virtue. I find that people who are religious talk about virtue more than those who don't. I'm not saying that they are virtuous, just that they seem to think/talk about it more.

I see certain virtues on the rise like frugalness, humanity, wholesomeness, but then there are others I see on a decline like gravity, dutifulness, prudence, self-control, and not being petty (there is another word for this but I forgot). Any thoughts on the matter? Am I just biased and not seeing the whole picture?

I feel like people are really petty in general and growing drug use and obesity problems demonstrate a lack of self control. Whenever I broach the subject with people I find that many people do not think of morality in terms of a list of virtues to abide by. That isn't saying they are not virtuous, they just don't think about morality that way. I historically haven't either, but I find it easier when I have something concrete to refer to when I'm thinking about decisions or how best to accomplish a task.
I don't see the right incentives for companies here.

The only incentive could be that more investors (and therefore) more money exist on this exchange. That will take time.
Another tyrant bites the dust, and good riddance.
Is JavaScript still worth learning?
And even with all that optimization it still took 23 core-years to find one solution.
It's the answer to the ultimate "question" of life, the universe, and everything. This is an important difference. What's the question?
Ask HN: Would you block ads if
I, like many here, use adblock. However, I would not use it if ads were vetted independently to ensure they were not deceptive and (most importantly) to ensure they didn't collect your data (whether that be the ad or ad tech provider collecting data). My question is this: would you do the same?
https://taken.photos/photos/statue-of-cement-bench-3752798/
Yeah, again, it’s all in the article. That’s where the evidence is. I’m just repeatedly restating the article for people who didn’t read it.

I think it’s fairly uncontroversial that Amazon doesn’t publish data about its delivery contractors.

These types of articles were triggered by individuals being hurt or killed by Amazon contractors, trying to get Amazon to accept responsibility, and failing.
i cant seem to get it to work with additional monitors, what did you do to get it working?
Where do the images come from? The "About Us" page says they're all public domain, but this image has a copyright: https://taken.photos/photos/pink-flower-on-plant-3753020/
Welcome to numerical computing :D!

Btw:

julia> (-80538738812075974)^3 + 80435758145817515^3 + 12602123297335631^3

42
I agree with the content of this article, but disagree with the central metaphor. "Adults in the room" is used to indicate a responsible person who stops malfeasance right? I think it's just a matter of once you start work you realize it's not schoolwork, not only are the solutions never clear, the problems are never clear either.
Facebook is getting into the dating game because of data. Look at all the data you give all of these dating websites from Tinder to OkCupid. If you really wanna know what someone thinks, get the analysis of the dating website. Then you can sell that to companies, insurance companies, the government, anyone.
No, it's the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything.
Fireside Chat with Andrew Ng (Landing AI)
To me it seems about as useless/condescending as "Just stop drinking!" as a way to deal with one of the root problems of alcoholism.
i would show you the proof but it's arbitrary because it only works against the "sum of cubes" encryption system, which only i use.
You do realize its all software at one point right ?

It just that instead of running on main cpu, it would run on SSD controller's microchip. And will probably be binary only, that people wont be able to inspect or fix.

Samsung has good hardware, but not that great software.

I'd rather have the opposite. SSD hardware exposing their internals, to os developers.
Oddly enough, it works for Bing.

https://www.bing.com/search?q=%3D%28-80538738812075974%29%5E...
> It shouldn't be infringement... because you don't want it to?

Well, yes. That's how laws like copyright work; it's an agreement that we've made to try to achieve some result, with bonuses and tradeoffs. If we decide some part of it isn't working out, then we tweak it to alter the outcomes.
The JS frameworks benchmarks.

Here are the latest results: https://krausest.github.io/js-framework-benchmark/current.ht...

As you can see Ember 3.11.1 doesn't fare too well in either performance, startup metrics, or memory consumption. Glimmer does a bit better but that not much.
I've been using bug.n [1] which has all of that except for being able to directly focus a window, instead having to iterate through with next/prev window. But otherwise it has everything I'd expect from a Linux tiling window manager, even coming with a customizable status bar.

It has its quirks and I had to spent some time adding exceptions and the auto resizing it does is certainly not the fastest thing in the world, but I'm more than willing to put up with it for the auto tiling.

On the whole, it's more reminiscent of xmonad than i3, but wasn't too bad to learn since you can bind what ever keys you want to whatever operations.

[1]https://github.com/fuhsjr00/bug.n/
On that occasion, I didn’t want to risk my (Halifax bank) card not working when I arrived — that particular card has been somewhat unreliable in the USA, and I still don’t know why, so I cannot be sure it won’t be denied elsewhere.

I have since gotten some better cards for international travels.
The math is complicated, but the TL;DR is that you should already be selling your Bitcoins. Dogecoin should last another six months, seven at the outside.
Balloonfest '86