skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Had a toaster that would detect when you put bread in & start. Issue: walk away & if you don't take the toast out within a dozen seconds of it finishing, it'd go on to toast toast
"because freshly toasted bread is a lot better than cold toast"

Whilst I do agree with you, there is somewhat of a bathtub curve to toast temperature.

'hotel' cold toast, with very nearly melted butter is almost as nice as fresh hot buttered toast. Tepid toast isnt so good.

Ps a good overhead gas grill (broiler) is the best for toast, unfortunately most seem to be rubbish these days :(
Late Pentium 4 in a pretty much random standard PC motherboard, I think it didn't even have EFI (even the broken 2001-vintage one that was common for years on x86 Macs).

Xeons arrived with Mac Pro.
Found it on maps [0] (well 50m down the road, looking at the camera pos of the article), but it looks totally different. Way more conventional with both tram tracks in the middle of the road and cars outside. StreetView is dated 2014. I wonder when this picture is from.

[0] https://www.google.com/maps/@47.3838561,8.5483138,3a,75y,188...
At USAA the basic checks are free. I average 1.3 checks per month. One box will last 9 years.
That assumes that rich people eventually spend all of their money. They don’t. They let their children inherit the accumulated wealth.

Poor people who spend all of their money every month pay more in sales taxes, as a percentage of their income, than rich people who invest and save most of their income.
And despite that, Graham's Number is still in the countable set. :-)
WeWork could have been successful if they focused on the core business and operated lean and mean. While they didn’t invent the co-working space model there was certainly room to improve it.

However the company was just simply not run very well, was very unfocused on all sorts of random side businesses/acquisitions, and was massively bloated in terms of its team.

Ultimately it was a good idea poorly executed from a business standpoint. The market has clearly turned (for the better most would say) in that people want to see real businesses with real sustainable business models. Fruit water on tap and glossy marketing materials don’t replace the core fundamentals of a good business. It’s refreshing to see the market finally calling BS and expecting more.
You just give the printer your account details. A check is just a piece of paper at the end of the day. Of course, many people will only accept an official looking check but you could get one printed with any arbitrary info you cared to.
Just follow the articles referenced in the wikipedia articles. When I had read about it, I concluded the claims were credible but unproven. I consider it likely true. I am interested if you find out more about it.
There are many cultures with higher fat (French) and higher sodium (e.g. Japanese). So at least they can’t wholly explain the difference in health.

While sugar consumption is markedly higher in the US, I do believe that a good portion of the health outcomes can be explained by the total unwalkability of most of the US. If walking is part of the regular routine, you don’t need an app to hit 10,000 steps per day. But most Americans only walk the distance from the parking space to the front door on a daily basis.
Compare that to Eduard Pernkopf‘s Topographische Anatomie des Menschen[1] still regarded by many as the most accurate anatomy book and highly sort after by surgeons.

The history of how the book was created is so disgusting that it’s no surprise that it’s no longer in print (that I know of).

I find it very hard to decide what I think about that. I’m glad that any personal opinion I have has no weight.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Pernkopf
No, but there are other ways or other business areas. Pump and dump is easier with medallions but don't believe that pump and dump is abolished together with medallions.
It is a problem today.

Evidence suggests that the market clearing price for taxi services is below the subsistence level for the people doing it, and above a tolerable level of cars and congestion.

Your basic premise is also unsound. Markets produce failures and unstable situations constantly, and the government steps in to address what would otherwise be a market failure.

We license hairdressers and financial planners, we inspect airplanes and meat, and a million other things. In nearly every case it’s for the same reason we regulate taxis, which is that we tried not regulating it and were unhappy with the outcomes.
That's for ideological reasons that I am looking for an alternative. I am just wondering what would be the additional cost. Is that more than 2x the cost?
i.e. set your kitchen on fire. How the hell does something like that pass basic safety testing?
I bet it wipes clean.
There's a simple reason why this toaster was discontinued, and that's because it can't be made from commodity components which are used by all toaster manufacturers, as well as in a variety of other domestic appliances.

Plus, assembly looks quite intricate and probably highly manual.

It's beautiful, sure, but go and buy a toaster today and see how much premium people are willing to pay for a designer brand with no functional advantage.

Sadly toasters all work "well enough". This is a textbook example of great engineering being trumped by globalised economics and fickle consumers.
Synthetic data will help solve machine learning's cold start problem
Yeah, and here upon receiving the cheques you have to register them with the bank before using them.
This is identity politics and tribalism in it's most basic form. Rationality and individual thinking being pushed to the margins, lest you be labeled a "tinfoil" person and become a social outcast as well.
If it’s just a shopping list, what does fax offer that SMS wouldn’t?
What’s New In Python 3.9
How are the CEO's actions not illegal? Renting your own spaces to your own company, cashing out before IPO, loaning yourself company money - none of this is illegal??
Nah. P4s, a gig of SDRAM, either a GMA 800 or GMA 900 for graphics, a 1x and a 16x PCIe slots, a 160GB disk and a DVD drive all running on the first Tiger service pack (10.4.1). Yours for 18 months for only $999! (‘Twas a rental.)
London is extremely walkable and doesn’t seem to have that great of a social mobility for its residents.
And this is how fascism spreads. Thanks EstoniaTechLead for trying to seduce people into giving up their morality.

These are bad actions but for "the greater good"? You don't get to have it both ways. Protecting yourself without torturing people is 100% feasible and your argument should only be heard in a war crimes tribunal from the defendant'a lawyer to ease their sentence.

Morality isn't hard, but the implementation can be.
Python links to sqlite3 dynamically so you just need to sub in a more recent sqlite3 (>=3.25.0). I don’t think it has anything to do with the Python version.
In Street View [0] the area looks totally different from the article. I'd love to learn more. What is more up to date? If the article, why were those changes made?

[0] https://www.google.com/maps/@47.3838561,8.5483138,3a,75y,188...
Do you know if there is any decent plastic molding industry in Vietnam? I have something that needs off the shelf electronics (may buy them in China) but will have to meet manufacturers in person for the final assembly and plastic casing, which on a small series is probably going to be a sizeable portion of the cost (and seriously, that's more about ideology than cost anyway).
Someone should introduce this guy to the Teasmaid, I think he'd be equally impressed

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teasmade
Under-Investigated Fields
And the Navy's pilots are just making up what they saw?
> Q.E.D you are admitting that non-contradiction it's an axiom of language and not an actual law. As in law of physics.

But it was you who introduced the law of non-contradiction in this conversation, then wrote a program that had nothing to do with it, and when called out you started with this nonsense about physics, cubits and what it means for "you" to be "you" and other unrelated topics. Either your program is about the LNC or it isn't, and if it isn't (as it turned out to be the case) why bring it up in the first place.

The CPU thing is nonsense and I don't see what I have to answer about it. In contrast, the Expression Problem is directly related to your initial assertion about extensibility, but instead you talked about something else. Getters/setters aren't about extensibility, by the way.

Finally, Haskell excels at IO, network, API calls, etc. People write distributed sysyems in Haskell -- why on earth would you think otherwise?

> It's so pedestrian, it's probably your home page.

I don't understand this. It reads like an attempt at trolling but I don't understand what it means. In which sense should I be offended? Google is my home page, does that help you somewhat?
My Commodore Amiga used to give it a shot now and again.
>Governments that do this are either clueless or thugs.

See hogFeast's comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21165893

You've basically dissed the governments of the US, the UK and the EU, plus every country mentioned in the SCMP report that Malaysia feels it has to keep up with. Good job.
> No, the startup scene is a side effect of a lot of money floating around in a place where there is little job security and surplus of people ready to gamble a couple of years of their life in return for a very small chance at success.

That makes no sense. Did Gordon Moore have insufficient job security at Fairchild, so be went and founded Intel? Startup founders are disproportionately from the upper middle class—people who have plenty of security in the US.

> Consider also that inside the United States many places have already tried to imitate SV and it didn't work there either, and yet, the economic, political and social conditions were identical.

Other places in the US can’t imitate SV because of freedom of movement. There are zero barriers to relocating from any part of the US to any other part. So people who want to do a certain kind of tech startup relocate to SV to maximize their chances. The economic and social conditions in the rest of the country don’t really matter. (Which is why government efforts to try and become the next SV are destined to fail.)

Why is American country music concentrated in Nashville? The musicians are from everywhere, (but they move to Nashville). The major record labels are in New York or LA, and so is the capital. What’s special about Nashville?

Silicon Valley and Nashville are best understood as markets. They’re markets for connecting capital to talent. If you want to sell your startup idea (or music act) to investors you go to where the biggest market is, for the same reason you sell your used laptop on eBay instead of somewhere else.
I agree it is a regressive tax. Re-reading my comment I can understand that it may seem that I don't agree with that. Sorry about that.

However, I fail to see why regressive taxes are bad in general and why VAT is bad in particular.

I was originally interested in the question by someone else before me:

> I'd be interested to hear your reasoning for why you think sales tax is so bad.
I actually had one of these for a good long while. I was too terrified of it to pull it apart and understand the mechanism, but it was a great example of UX.

Removing just the step of pushing down and fast return actually did make me appreciate it more.

But he is absolutely right when he pointed to the paper insulated wire as a truly hideous and terrifying thing. My toaster did eventually burst into flames, and that's about where I think the fire started. Hard to tell when looking at twisted metal.

I think this is a great example of the kind of things that planned obsolescence has killed. The design could probably have been improved, and the safety brought up to modern standards, through research and iteration.

However, why invest in making a better toaster when you can sell a $2 worth of toaster for $5 that will expire in less than two years?
Do you have better support for this statement than what the authors of cited paper have?

You did, after all, dismiss a whole paper with a glib remark.
This article is baffling. It's full of very loaded language (e.g. prey, seized control, squeezed, etc). And the evidence and explanations they provide is even more baffling and contradictory.

> Some adopted an especially aggressive approach, according to documents and interviews. First, they purchased medallions at bargain rates and established big fleets of cabs. Then, they pumped up medallion prices. Finally, they sold their medallions to their drivers and to rival fleet operators just before the collapse.

Take each claim one by one:

> First, they purchased medallions at bargain rates

How did they get them at bargain rates?

> Then, they pumped up medallion prices.

Again, how? Did they somehow drive the population increase in NYC?

> Finally, they sold their medallions to their drivers and to rival fleet operators just before the collapse.

Did they sell the medallions or finance them to drivers, because earlier in the article it says:

> They inflated medallion prices, provided high-risk loans to buyers and collected interest and fees before the bubbles burst and the markets collapsed.

If they financed them, the drivers defaulted and the collateral was worth a lot less than originally valued at.

The whole article is a weird hodge-podge mess of trying to find victimizers and victims. People who bought medallions between certain years are victimizers but those that bought them after the peak are victims and New Yorkers (?) in Chicago are especially bad.
The main problem in the US with food is not the type, quality, or purity -- it's the quantity.

https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html

>The prevalence of obesity was 39.8% and affected about 93.3 million of US adults in 2015~2016.
Bursa Malaysia (the local stock exchange) classifies public listed companies into the following sectors:
1. Basic materials;
2. Consumer cyclicals;
3. Consumer non-cyclicals;
4. Energy;
5. Financials;
6. Healthcare;
7. Industrials;
8. Technology;
9. Telecommunications Services; and
10. Utilities

So, Bursa is largely composed of commodity businesses. It works but shouldn't there be some progress? Is it okay to stick with the status quo?

It's true that there's a potential in these VC schemes for leakage due to self-dealing. But let not the perfect be the enemy of the good. The article mentions several government funds that have been disbursing funding to tech startups for decades, so this is not a totally new thing run by idealists rather than realists.

I understand the skepticism when I read the responses attached. But I've always been confident about Malaysia. Maybe it's just that I'm a patriot.
I can also heartily recommend watching Alec's videos. He also has a second channel for the "DVD extra"-kind of content that doesn't quite fit into the original videos, or is cut due to time constraints; I find these also interesting (link leads to "Filming CRTs", demonstrated on the Trinitron used in parent's video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j0IC0bu3dg
> Why would you have a letter near your toaster?

The standard American household with 2.3 kids has everything on the counter near the toaster.

For the "oven" style toasters there's an significant chance that there's something made out of either paper or plastic atop the metal roof ready to melt as well.

> Also why not unplug it when done?

And plug it back in every morning? That'd be unnecessarily annoying.
You might be not factoring in how long of a time 10 years will be.
This is a general pattern: see stories of bridges falling down for the canonical example.
Eating less meat is enough reason for me, so if I somehow end up at a Burger King, I would quite probably buy it. (Note that I plan to continue eating meat, just less of it.)
Scaling the Hotstar platform for 50M users
> Now if you’ll excuse I’m off for some afternoon crumpet.

Don't forget to bring her some of your toast ;)
> “Fallacious arguments abound for the carnivore group all the way over to the militant vegans who would want to tax or outlaw meat eating altogether, while telling us to shut up and eat our processed patty of canola oil and isolated pea protein. For now, I’ll keep eating like my grandparents ate - you know, real food.”

It sounds to me like just more bullshit food nostalgia nonsense and you’re just perpetuating your own brand of unscientific nutrition opinion. Researching that a bunch of other hypotheses are wrong or partially wrong doesn’t mean your idea is right.

“Eating like my grandparents ate” for a lot of people in the US means a wildly lopsided diet of mostly meat and a slew of convenience foods foisted on consumers during the advent of mega supply chain processed foods. “Eating like my great grandparents ate” usually means “eat whatever you can and don’t complain” with no serious regard for nutrition or balance.

There are likely confounding effects in rate of disease, obesity, early death etc. due much more to lifestyle differences, general sources of pollution, sedentary habits, prevalence of jobs requiring hard physical work (where even the same job in the same company today is likely partly automated or handled differently to reduce physical labor), lack of good medical screening or testing in past generations obfuscating knowing true rates of disease or health problems due to diet back then, different structures for ensuring screening in schools, etc. The sheer volume of confounding effects that would have to be convincingly controlled for to compare causal impact of past generations’ diets is staggering. If we can’t even get good science on simple studies across cohorts today, it seems like a ludicrous stretch to claim universal positive causal effect from eating “like my grandparents ate.”

The tone of your last paragraph also makes it sound like you would not give credence to ideas of choosing food options that reduce water depletion or CO2 emissions, or even the philosophy of just animal welfare and cruelty in even small-time farming (not saying we know with great certainty what those choices or green impacts would be, only that you seem to have made up your mind that some Norman Rockwell Americana picture of green beans and chicken on the table represents The Right Choice).

If you don’t actually feel that way, you may want to consider writing more charitably and not invoking food nostalgia as the alternative to flawed modern nutrition science.
Scrivener used to be Mac-only, until demand was such that they made a Windows version. It's the Mac app for novel-writers.
To me, a big part of the problem is that investors are all trying to find the next super unicorn to make their fund numbers work out, so there’s a built-in incentive to bet on big visions even when they’re likely to be bullshit. This gets compounded by the fact that you don’t actually have to build a sustainable company, you just have to pump it long enough to get your investment return courtesy of the public markets and then who cares about the company’s fate? See, for example, Groupon. I distinctly remember doing a startup incubator back when it was about to IPO and everyone was breathlessly encouraging us to be more like Groupon.

The VC model is fundamentally susceptible to this stuff.
Ask HN: Digital Piracy Insurance?
Given the current state of streaming services, region restrictions, and increasing costs, piracy is a natural free market alternative. However, there is the ever present element of risk in the form of unlikely but egregiously disproportionate punishment. This seems to be the exact problem insurance solves. Given what people already pay to access media, something on the order of $1 per month for piracy insurance seems quite reasonable.

In the broad sense this seems like a meaningful way to disrupt the market and push costs down for everyone, while driving adoption and innovation for p2p technologies. Does anyone with legal or insurance background have a sense of if this would be possible to implement legally? Whether it could be commercially viable is a separate issue.
Cable is by all accounts perfectly fine in areas with multiple providers and real competition. Airlines were for the rich in the 70’s. Now they’re flying buses. Unpleasant and cheap. Competition in airlines is so brutal that it’s uncertain whether the US airline industry as a whole has ever turned a profit or if on net it's just burned investor money. In social networks I remember Friendster, Bebo, Google+, MySpace and many others. Snapchat still exists. This is a contestable market and it’s absolutely contested. Search engines likewise. Bing and DuckDuckGo are perfectly serviceable for most purposes, if not academic search, and the switching costs are non-existent.

In industries with little relevant competition it’s either because the government gave one company a monopoly, the Comcast effect, or because they’re just crushingly better than the competition, Alcoa or Google. The dangers of monopoly are in oversold to a completely ludicrous degree compared to the historical record. Look at Standard Oil, the poster child for the trusts. It drove competitors out of business through expertise and economies of scale while increasing quality and decreasing prices. Then the government broke it up after it had started to lose market share anyway. Monopoly gets an insane amount of coverage in economics compared to how often it arises in the real world outside of government mandates[1].

[1]http://png.cdn.mises.org.468elmp01.blackmesh.com/sites/defau...

The Myth of Natural Monopoly

It is a myth that natural monopoly theory was developed first by economists, and then used by legislators to "justify" franchise monopolies. The truth is that the monopolies were created decades before the theory was formalized by intervention-minded economists, who then used the theory as an ex post rationale for government intervention. At the time when the first government franchise monopolies were being granted, the large majority of economists understood that large-scale, capital intensive production did not lead to monopoly, but was an absolutely desirable aspect of the competitive process.
Considering the hit and miss (lots of miss) nature of startups this seems like it is ripe for corruption. I'd be really worried about direct government involvement in such things.
You never quite notice how stupid the word 'gentleperson' seems u til someone actually uses it.
Only if you neglect the huge externalities of tanker ships, with the extremely dirty fuels they burn and the occasional catastrophic spills.
As per another comment, the visualization software can be configured to send the card data via wifi. Anyone on the same network knowing the password (assuming one is set) can receive them. He also worked with the casino beforehand, so there is a good chance he knows the infrastructure.

Some way of transferring the info to him is rather easy, then, either by his phone or hat.
depends on your thread model.

the main point though was that people make such statements without thinking of the potential consequences.

the comment added nothing to the discussion (that's not my complaint, just an observation) and thus reveals personal information for no purpose. the risk may be small, minuscule even, but it is greater than zero and, that is the actual point, the risk is greater than the value that the comment adds to the discussion.
Do a GROUP BY, and then try referencing a term which hasn't been either aggregated or mentioned in the GROUP BY clause. The result should be "abort! this query can't make sense!". The result (last I tried) is instead "sure, here's some arbitrary value from this group".