skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Welcome to retail. Companies recognize that the best way to get a lead is to advertise the lowest base price out there, and the best way to make money is to have the most leads and then use every tactic in the book to extract revenue from them (close the deal, and then fees, upgrades, upcharges, rate increases, etc.)
Well, the pro stuff is a little different because on one hand it's being purchased by people as part of a business... I never wanted a high-end video camera, for instance, because I've never wanted to keep that capital equipment working as often as it takes to pay for it. But if you can keep the equipment busy then spending $2K/channel for wireless audio transmitters or something makes more sense.

On the other hand, the farther you get up into production trades the more money is riding not just on your performance but on the performance of the people that are relying on you.

If I'm making a short film with my buddies for fun and I get a technical problem that prevents to director from monitoring the shot on a screen, oh well... if there are 30 people in the production and everyone is held up for 5min, that gets really expensive fast.
https://www.educative.io/courses/grokking-the-system-design-... : I paid for it and found it to be my money’s worth.

It helped me figure out a template that I was able to apply for almost all system design interview questions - how to think, how to break-down the problem, what all I should consider, how to stay focused on the complete system instead of accidentally going down a specific component and such.
Don't let your dreams be dreams. Everyone would like this.
Which Healios switches did you get? I see Halo Clear 70, Halo clear 90, Halo True 70, Halo True 90, etc.. on Massdrop.
Just updated. Alas, the new viewer still does not provide nondestructive viewing. Open file, press PgDn, exit, and the viewed file is silently changed. The viewer writes current position in the viewed file itself (META-INF/calibre_bookmarks.txt).

UPDATE: just found out there is now a checkbox in the viewer preferences: "Keep a copy of annotations/bookmarks in the e-book file, for easy sharing". If unchecked, the viewed files are kept intact. Nice!
FWIW, archive.is being unreachable under Cloudflare DNS predates Firefox’s plans IIRC.
I'm on the hobby as well and I agree that the article reflects what we're seeing as of today, and even though I don't agree with the Vickrey auction from a buyer perspective, I do agree it's amazing for sellers since what they found is that a few people are really willing to go above and beyond in terms of money for a kit.

Shameless plug: I have a YouTube channel exclusively for the hobby - https://www.youtube.com/MrKeebs
Why do you assert it has a 'complete lack of design.' It's composed of standard qt widgets.
Yeah but some clueless hiring manager will read it and think he's a proactive go-getter or some shit like that
AFAIK wood can be made relatively fire-resistant via lamination & treatment. Plywood and Concrete can have similar r-values (depending on lots of variables). You get most your insulation from... insulation. I saw a wooden house with R60 once.
Betrayal at Krondor
Also, if you collaborate with data scientists and don't have the resources to use fully distinct systems for the production and research/reporting functions then Spark is very nearly the only game in town.
The device is populated by the cpu_freq driver, which is used to control frequency scaling. Most cloud environments have shared tenancy and disable the feature to ensure one user can’t scale down the CPU for other tenants.
Are you assuming they keep records on the PD measurements of clients who didn't actually purchase glasses there? At least at the opticians I've used, I don't think they do.
iTunes works OK for me :P
A big difference between Bohm Dialogue and "normal human conversation" is the size of the group. Bohm recommended 20 to 40. It's rarely done with groups that big, but it is significantly different than the "normal human conversation" around a dinner table of 4 people, or perhaps up to 8.

Ordinary conversations larger than that tend to break into different groups, in which each person spends a larger percentage of their time talking and less time listening. Bohm Dialogue is mostly about listening, not conversing. You don't have to "hold up your end" of it, which (supposedly) makes it easier to suspend judgment and engage.

It does resemble casual conversation in a lot of other ways, including its free-form nature and the goal of engagement rather than defense. But the numbers change it in kind, not just in size.
I've never heard of using "nukes" to refer to nuclear power plants. I assumed bomb at first.
The Republic of Venice restricted the use of masks in the 18th century.
Nothing new here.
It's totally reasonable and possible to get a beautiful aluminum case for well under $200. I was able to get a "b-stock" Tofu HHKB[1] from KBDFans for less than $100. My very plain GMK White-on-Black keycaps cost more than that.

1: https://jagger.co/downloads/tofu-hhkb.jpeg
Breakdown by industry:

B2B Software and Services 53

Financial Technology and Services 16

Consumer Goods and Services 11

Education 4

Automotive 3

Biotech 3

Consumer Media 3

Aerospace 2

Construction 2

Healthcare 2

Real Estate 2

Energy and Environment 1
From your analysis sounds like natural gas is the way to go. Consistent, cheap power.
>and literally nothing else

Why is this a need? The minimum unit you can purchase is a month of service. You are free to subscribe and unsubscribe as many times as you want. I'm not aware of a single service that costs more than either a single movie theater ticket or a single newly released Blu-ray/DVD. So you are free to subscribe to HBO watch Game of Thrones, cancel HBO, subscribe to Netflix, watch BoJack Horseman, cancel Netflix, subscribe to Amazon, watch Marvelous Mrs Maisel, cancel Amazon, and so on. That is much more control and choice than cable subscribers had a decade ago. We don't need to make perfect the enemy of the good.
That sounds like why eBay added the "buy it now" feature.
Why exactly? Netflix churns out more original programming than most TV networks, but like most VC plays, most of them fail and a couple become huge. Netflix has hit originals like House of Cards and Stranger Things but that's not exactly hurting HBO.
I agree completely. And I'd go a little further, and say that allowing unaccountable commenting is incompetent or negligent. If there is going to be government sponsored public comment, there needs to a penalty for fraud.
Lossless compression algorithms are vital to make sure that your big data doesn't become unmanageably huge. Compression algorithms help users save on hardware and storage expenditure. But the wrong compression algorithm can lead to poor performance. Kamil Braun wrote a great explainer on how this works in ScyllaDB, part one of two in a series. Stay tuned, because part two will get into performance characteristics!
Where is it largely concentrated? That sort of sounds like Vancouver as well. Toronto has its spots as well.

I just find much of the rhetoric makes it sound like the city is overrun and in shambles and that wasn't my experience. Of course, if I lived in those concentrated locales I might feel that way.
Of course the FCC didn't pay for it, they just looked the other way while it happened. There's just enough separation that people like you can make the argument that it's technically not "psyops".

The FCC is complicit in the whole damned thing, so the result is the same and the industry got it's way. We can argue semantics though...
Again, it's socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor.
In the military, this is also called PSYOPS.
Do you have a source for the likelihood of that, as well as the likelihood of it rendering those thousands of miles uninhabitable?
You rent your modem and set top box in America?

That's crazy.
From the study cited:

> The paper updates estimates of fossil fuel subsidies, defined as fuel consumption times the gap between existing and efficient prices (i.e., prices warranted by supply costs, environmental costs, and revenue considerations),

It's not necessarily a direct transfer subsidy or even lower tax rate for certain industries. So you can take that for what its worth
If so, why would they talk about pumping water? You don't need to pump water to store spent fuel, normally.
A simpler deescalation technique is to not misappropriate public funds to pay armed thugs to attack protests in the first place.
Methane emission, also: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/methane-emissions...
> Definitely arguable. My feeling is the quality is going down quite a bit, but I think that's because the demand for content volume has increased (in the era of binge watching, a single TV series is started and over in one weekend).

Which is sad because there are plenty of better things to do than TV. I love shows as much as the next person, but if streaming really does morph back into Cable, I will just end up watching little to no TV and pirating anything I must see, which is rare. I'm already most of the way there anyhow. Life's too short for modern brainwashing via advertising. Vegetation is death.
It took csc on my pc less than a second to disprove that that 3 pigeons fit into 2 pigeon holes. Iterating over 2^6=64 combinations shouldn't take that long.
> (having 0 crime is a good goal, but we will never get there and need to be realistic).

Actually, please stop there and think about this for a second.

Having zero crime depends extremely strongly on the precise definition of "crime". Much more so than other, non-zero levels of crime.

This is only a good thing if you are absolutely sure that the definition of what constitutes a crime right now is perfect and immutable.

Extreme positions are almost always a bad idea and I think this is one of those cases.
I'd say if you have food, internet and roof over your head and can get treatment when you get sick you are not in poverty. There are some official definitions though.
Usually it's not the US tech community that carefully nurtures it, it's the European tech community that hammers it at every possible opportunity.
Is there no way to disable setting the CPU frequency?
High availability setups are absolutely required to upgrade / patch running databases as well without significant downtime. The engineering and business costs in time to try to work around these issues are from the 90s and have no place in a modern business environment. Heck, they figured out HA decades before then in commercial, proprietary DBs. Things are much more reliable now with OSS tools than even 4 years ago to the extent few talk about it anymore. There are definitely mistakes and bugs possible but the number of _successful_ failover and failback events must be considered in the calculus.

Upgrades aren’t to be taken lightly of course but again, it’s now a cost of doing business and a reality that we need to engineer properly for.
My zone of genius is delighting users, demystifying the puzzle of diverse business, user and engineering needs into comprehensive specs, and strategically planning roadmaps. I enjoy designing efficient systems, articulating visions and goals to guide my work, mentoring, and continued learning.

Reach out if you'd like to chat about product management, adventure cycling, or connecting challenges with system-based solutions. I also enjoy creating and playing with cats.

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If you like MX Browns, give T1s a shot. They're a cheaper clone of the holiest of tactile switches: the Holy Panda.
I made a tool which wraps around youtube-dl to manage fine-grained subscription and automatic downloading of various youtube channels. When I want passive entertainment, I have a directory full of interesting, high-quality videos that cater to specific niches I like. The end result is much better than TV ever was- no ads, access whenever I want- even offline- and content made by passionate hobbyists rather than mass marketers.

I feel much happier paying a handful of content creators via Patreon than spending money on a cable or streaming service subscription.
It seems the best thing for a society to do is to promote stable families, since this is the indicator of success.
The police, the government, the intelligence agencies and so on are not abstract entities, they are composed by people at all levels, in a capitalist economy, with human biases and wishes. There are plenty of documented examples of abuse of this kind of access for fun and profit.

And besides those not-so-abstract entities, they have contractors from private companies and corporations that aren't abstract neither, but even in abstract mode are driven by profit, not respecting your privacy/security/economy.
Transatlantic Telegraph Cable
Rust looks pretty cool.
The nice thing about the kindle is that with both wifi and light off, the battery use is nearly non-existent between pages. So the difference between 30 mins / day and 6 hours / day of reading is not that large, tbh.
Calibre has a built-in web server, and it seems it improved a lot in this release:

> The server has gained all the major capabilities of the main calibre interface. You can now edit metadata, convert books, and add/remove books and formats just as is possible with calibre itself.
I don’t. As someone in the industry, almost nothing in that book is actually correct. Moreover, HFT is a very small part of the industry and is not particularly profitable.

Quantitative investing as a whole is becoming more and more popular, while HFT isn’t.
Just wear a burqa instead, they wouldn't dare complaining about it...
I think we should fight for private communication to be a human right, nothing less than that. So if terrorists have right for a fair trial, they should also have a right to communicate privately.
I always enable all warnings globally for a very simple reason -- they can be useful (particularly the more obscure ones). Enabling them all globally means that I have to actually investigate the cause. If it turns out that the warning does not actually indicate a real problem, then I can disable that warning locally.

That way, they act as a kind of "checklist" for potential trouble that, once investigated, are removed from the checklist.

This practice has, on a number of occasions, allowed me to avoid some problems that would have been very hard, if not impossible, to nail down during testing or after release.
Windows 2000! You've got impeccable taste!

I still use it in a VM to this day.
> When eBay first started, I loved the idea of auctions as a way to set market prices. From an economic and game-theory perspective, it is so optimal!

> Clearly as later examples like Amazon have shown, auctions don't make sense for most product categories. I believe this is mainly due to psychological reasons.

I've always loved eBay as a way to introduce sanity into the prices of old/used items. Especially computer equipment, where "regular vendors" would rather let it sit on the shelf marked at 10x what its worth than actually price it to a level someone would be willing to pay.

Of course for new items, it never made any sense. The eBay prices were sometimes even higher than regular vendors, hoping to catch people in the place they happened to be looking.
Stateful Stream Processing with Kafka and Go
There is a reason algorithms are considered a laundering mechanism for accountability.

I believe the blossoming buzzword for it may be Mathwashing.
>...those with a better pedigree learn things others do not

Yes, I agree completely. But what I learned from my own experience is that I could teach different things to my kids than I was taught. No one forced me to teach the same things.

And I agree there seems to be a general unfairness in the world. How to fix this seems like the hard part because of your other points. (force people to not help their kids?)
Water is just about the worst thing for “preserving” things. Especially in a hot dry climate like this.
Agreed. There's something to be said for coming home from work and just doing random channel surfing where you stumble upon a show 15 minutes into a Season 4 episode.

With the streaming services, there's no such equivalent, so if you want to watch something new, you have to start at Season 1, Episode 1. It feels like too heavy of a commitment. In my experience, many shows don't get good until after 6-7 episodes, and I will often start at Season 2 just so I can skip the "character development" arcs and go right into the plotline.
> no commercials

And yet Amazon Prime insists on showing me ads for their other shows before I can watch the one I actually tapped on to watch. Or the next episode of the show I'm watching. It really diminishes the value a lot.
I wish ebook-viewer added highlight annotation capability, I can use PDF viewers to highlight texts but not ebook-viewer, so I had to convert all of epub etc to PDF under calibre.

for technical books annotation is essential for me, it's my notes so I do not need re-read the book from start to end each time.
This problem has been thoroughly solved in the mechanical keyboard community with group buys. Take pre-order payment in advance over several weeks and Bob's your uncle, no underselling.
This is (edited to - regulatory capture. I had mentioned capitalism; I only mean we want consumers to figure out what choices they have and exercise them. But as mentioned below, when there's power, like in a monopoly, that power needs to restricted or removed i.e. by government or if at all possible, meaningful competition.)

Here is your recourse:

Try to become and remain among the educated. If you are in a position to do so, educate others.

Vote with your wallet. This, by itself, is not enough. The masses need to be educated and make this vote meaningful.

When the ones in power play dirty, try to remove that power or restrict their ability to play dirty. Our biggest, most profitable companies seem to increasingly have the ability to influence consumers with underhanded, manipulative means. In that scenario, there isn't enough educated consumer power to effect change.

This morning, I was thinking about Google, and how I personally feel like they have some of the absolute worst customer support in the world for many products. Because they will not fail to profit because a few hundred thousand people are unhappy with one of their services. Likewise, the cable companies can anger customers, but continue to profit, as long as they have some kind of power to reap those profits, such as being the only option in an area, or the only (or most direct) way to see certain content, such as live sports or broadcasts. There's definitely a difference in the analogy above - Google makes most of their money not from consumers, but from businesses wishing to advertise.

Anyway, I think cable companies will get worse as long as they are mixing pipelines and content subscriptions, and certainly as long as they hold the keys to the single wire bringing all of your entertainment into your home.
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Bitcoin Is Not Backed by Nothing
That...does seem to be a lot of the current research though.
Since you pointed out, I was lambasting everyone in this thread in my own mind.
I'll be brutal here: Robert's Rules of Order are a severely outdated method that creates divisiveness and polarization through majoritarian voting -- the same types of problems we see in politics today. It made sense as a big improvement in the 1800's -- it doesn't in 2019. Key quote:

"Its arcane rituals of parliamentary procedure and majority rule usually produce a victorious majority and a very dissatisfied minority that expects to raise its concerns, again, at the next possible meeting."

Anyone considering Robert's Rules should read this first: "Breaking Robert's Rules: The New Way to Run Your Meeting, Build Consensus, and Get Results" [1] by Lawrence Susskind -- an MIT and Harvard professor. [2]

That book is a "popular" condensed version of the ideas behind practical consensus-building. If you want to implement it in your organization, see his full-length "The Consensus Building Handbook". [3] It's textbook-priced unfortunately (for organizations to purchase, not curious individuals), but many academic institutions will have direct access to it online. [4]

[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0195308360

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Susskind

[3] https://www.amazon.com/Consensus-Building-Handbook-Comprehen...

[4] http://sk.sagepub.com/reference/the-consensus-building-handb...
Or worse, depending on the POV. :)
As somebody who has followed exactly one person before seeing these links, I appreciate the list. But wow, is there no better way to follow than a three click operation?

click one: click "follow" initially

click two: submit id to home server, "proceed"

click three: yes, really "follow" and click again

Also, those lists intersect quite a bit.
A few players using them effectively is different than 30-60% of the market being run by algorithms. Granted I can't read much of the article because it is behind a paywall which seems to be very common on HN.
Surprised I didn't see this already listed... But Bill Gates https://www.gatesnotes.com/ has a pretty great personal site
What I noticed when I lived in Manhattan is that I CONSTANTLY ran into people I knew, everywhere. Despite living in San Francisco much longer, and the city being much smaller, I ran into acquaintances far less often.
FCC didn't plant it, didn't pay for it, didn't orchestrate it, so not really complicit. The worst you can say is they didn't do enough to stop it because it was supporting what they wanted. Guilty of confirmation bias, certainly. Psyops? no.
But I don't want shiitake mushrooms in my pancreas!
I don't think I've ever had a free exam in Ontario— my insurance covers one (up to like $200 or something) every two years, so that's about the cadence I get them on.

So it's a paid-for thing; I don't feel bad about taking the prescription and buying glasses online. That said, the glasses from the shop last way, way longer than the online ones, so I really just use online for sunglasses or like to get novelty frames for a costume or something.
Not always. My place doesn't do it.
As one of those people (I didn't go to Stanford, but I did move a few rungs up the socioeconomic ladder), I take issue with your point. It's not helpful.

There is definitely a culture of anti-intellectualism and escapism among the poor in the US (my background). Sure, the rich kids have it easy and it's super easy to sit around feeling bad about that but in many, many cases people could better themselves with a modicum of effort.

I grew up asking everyone (friends, family, neighbors): Why won't you read book? Why do you "hate" math? Why are computers "for nerds"? Why do you spend all of your time watching football?

I'm now much more successful than the people who ignored or derided me during that time period.

Was it easy for me to get ahead? No. But it is possible; oh and I wasn't one of those people with parents who worked hard, a good family life or supportive community around me. I was on my own.
Any analogy has its limitations, but I think it is helpful for talking about things like "back doors" (and how that is no different from not having doors at all) or how a proposal is basically only "unintended" consequences and no gain. Feel free to suggest a better analogy.

The main difference where this analogy breaks down is that it is much easier to build practically unbreakable encryption (assuming P != NP), versus practically unbreakable doors or safes.