skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's also a really common thing that people do.

Like, I buy stuff on Amazon for my parents, friends, and family all the time.

Not to mention the common cases of shipping to work address, having multiple residence addresses (e.g. students who have a home and a dorm address), shopping while visiting family out-of-state.

It's a really common fraud scheme because it's not uncommon for regular people to do that. Otherwise, we would not have a need for a "shipping address" at all: all the purchases could go to the belling address, right?

So, basically, you are exactly the kind of bad seller that ruins it for everyone else. Your inability to deal with fraud adds so much more headache to the experience.

I hope that, as an independent seller, you have it in bold letters on the front page that you only ship to the billing address. This way, people who you won't ship to anyway won't waste their time (and people who you won't ship to will not be inconvenienced anyway).
My theory at work is that this is arbitrage. Docker wouldn’t sell to Oracle. So instead, Mirantis buys the Enterprise side and in 6 months will sell to Oracle. At which point everyone who has ever looked sideways at a Docker download will be subject to an Oracle licensing audit...
There are two kinds of things that happen in life. The ones you can control and the ones you can’t.

By definition, it doesn’t make sense to worry about things you can’t control.

It took my a while to accept that, but once I did life got better. Give it a try.
It's the marketing.
When I married, I suggest that we should spent the same amount of money to buy something that's looks like a diamond but it's not a diamond.
No go. The price would be the same. So the expensive signal was there. Nope. She wanted a diamond. If it's not a diamond, it's not real.
Yeah, but we really need to know who would win in a lightsaber fight between Carmack and Jeff Dean.
Arguably he got started on this years ago. The story goes that Quake 3's AI was so sophisticated, that when left alone for 4 years on a bot vs bot server, the units learned pacifism as a self-preservation strategy.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2013/07/02/quake-iii-a...
Maybe, but I have doubts. Not so much about the distros as such (although there is risk there, too), but more about the utilities and applications.

I've already stopped using several applications that I've been using for years because of this sort of thing. If it keeps up, I fear I'll run out of alternatives.
Thanks for the heads-up! Happily, my battery doesn't have that feature.
Chromebooks in schools are enrolled in a corporate enrollment, even replacing the (small) SSD won't enable you to run an alternative OS unless you reflash coreboot or get the corporate administrator to release the device.

This manageability that is omnipresent, very hard to bypass and included for free is why Chromebooks are so popular, despite the ridiculously short 3 to 4 year software support lifespan of each Chromebook.
I've never understood software engineers and organisations who contribute their code to the open source and free software worlds and then think they're owed compensation for it. We're writing this code because we need this code and think others might also need it and we have empathy for them and we benefit from their empathy for us - that's why we share. That's why we're here. Why do you share? Why are you here?

It might be an unpopular opinion but - to all you disgruntled open source/free software developers threatening to take their code closed via licencing shitfuckery ala "Commons Clause" nonsense and/or engaged in shady shit like this:

If you feel you're owed compensation for your time beyond other people using and building on your code - this is not the place for you and your toxicity makes the open source and free software world a worse place. Please leave quietly and quickly. Stop saying "uncompensated time" - nobody owes you anything. You don't owe anyone else anything either - leave and let other, more reasonable, people maintain and carry on with the code you once freely gave - just as they should, if they find it useful. That's how it's supposed to work - that's how it should work. Thank you very much for your time and code. It is deeply appreciated; now go away and stop being an asshole.
Don’t dance around your point, make it. What are the reasons?
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I think you’re arguing semantics a bit. What you’re saying checks out, but one could say that overfitting was occurring but the test dataset distribution was not wide enough to catch it.
You know I meaningfully contribute more than most people here, right?
I'm not so sure about that. If anything, Shopify's more recent success is due to an expansion of consumers buying online from sites that are not walled gardens like Amazon.
Find My Friend is so unreliable for me it is nearly worthless. Apple isn’t really delivering what I need.
Not sure how others are viewing this page -- I get NET::ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID and a big warning page.
Brave's internal ledger for micro-payments can measure dollars to however many decimal places they wish. Sure, when you actually transfer money out of the system there will have to be some rounding, but those transfers are minimal as Brave can batch them.

You only need one transfer for each user and one transfer for each content producer. You don't need and/or want the O(n^2) cross product transfers.
I'm ready for this post to disappear, strange things start happening in cyberspace, and Carmack abruptly cans the project and doesn't want to talk about it.
The best tool to challenge children is a Raspberry Pi. They can build an entire computer from scratch for less then $100 and an old TV. Price is not what makes a tool great.
That isn't even remotely what the person that sgslo was arguing with said.
I'm always confused with these types of articles. "Will AI cause job loss" or "Will AI create jobs" aren't really the important questions. Because those questions are about net gain and loss, because yes it will cause job losses and yes it will create jobs. But that's not what's important to the average person.

If your job is automated away, what are you going to do? Hypothetically let's say that AI can accomplish everything that an X-ray tech can (or that with the help of automation a single tech can do what 10 techs do today). What happens to those people? They spent a lot of time and money getting that training. Retraining programs suck and are shown to be really ineffective. So do these people just go underemployed the rest of their lives? What about people who are 10-15 years from retirement? Even if retrained you go from peak earnings to starting wages. That's a huge disrupt in life.

Job loss is extremely important to consider (assuming you care about people), even if the total number of jobs are increased. We've seen this in the past and we're seeing it today. Lots of automation came into farming and many of those jobs disappeared. Family legacies were lost. But at the same time it is inhumane to not allow the progression of technology (like we could even stop it...).

My concern is that people aren't discussing the transitions of economies. We all want to live in a post scarcity world like Star Trek. Where food, housing, and basic essentials are effectively trivially obtained (for the most part in the show). But transitioning to that kind of society is extremely disruptive and has a lot of pitfalls on the way. It isn't unimaginable to ask "What if 10% of your population is unemployable?" (several scenarios: jobs just automated away; only existing jobs require high skill and training; transition period where those people are trained for jobs that recently got automated away; etc) What do we do? How do we handle that? We're a society where people still believe your worth correlates with your wealth (diction intended). I see very few people talking about this, and these kinds of scenarios are plausible within the next 50-100 years.

Net gains or losses of jobs is a distracting question and the wrong one to ask.
That's kind of the thing though, I want one as well. If you didn't get one 11 years ago you have been out of luck since then.
This is some nonsense.

> So if you read your corp email on your home computer, or access employee only services from your phone or laptop etc

I know literally no Google employees that use Google corp resources from personal computers. Phones are common, but as you're hopefully aware, the security considerations are different.

> As for how? It was left unspecified but we speculated they could drop a keylogger or other bit of surveillance kit if you logged into your corporate gmail account from a device where it wasn't already installed.

Who theorized this? Because it's certainly not a thing that's ever happened. It would be trivial to detect, either as a client, or by looking at the source of Gmail.
What aspects of NeXTSTEP ended up not making it to the Mac?
They didn't suggest he invented some new technique.

Figuring out the basics of the math and how to use whatever tools they use at FB is doable in a week.
> his operating system simply works, while all Linux distros do an extremely poor job at simply working

Irrelevant. Regular consumers didn't install Windows - indeed before Apple's rise they didn't even know there was an alternative. They bought computers with it preinstalled because Microsoft stitched up corrupt deals worldwide to ensure this was all people had access to.

If Linux had been preinstalled, it would have 'just worked' to pretty much the same extent Windows does.

> How about this, under the Capitalist Manifesto I hereby declare that all open source developers be jailed for their crimes against humanity. If you sell your labor for free you're a menace to society as you're distorting labor markets and you should be stopped for causing all this harm.

There are millions of poor people in all the developed countries in prison today for having committed 'crimes' miniscule in scale compared to those of Microsoft. Marijuana use, non payment of parking fines - you name it, if you're poor, you end up in prison. If you're rich, you get a pitiful fine at best. Even the exact same crimes are treated entirely differently for different classes -- here in Australia, if you're poor & don't pay your taxes, the ATO will hound you to prison if necessary. If you're rich, or (better still) a huge multinational, they 'negotiate'!
How many people actually pay for news? I certainly don't, not in the traditional sense of paying for WSJ or NYT subscription (I donate to youtubers that cover current affairs).

Most revenue from news must come from advertising, and I think advertising is a poisoned chalice. It makes the news organisations beholden to corporations they should be reporting on, and fulfils the adage "news is what they don't want you to hear, everything else is PR".
The Touch Bar is still there and horrible. The price on the 16" model is downright insane. Add some customizations past the bare bottom and you are up in the stratosphere.

I'll be sticking with my 13" 2015 MBP for the foreseeable future. I'll just build up a home machine that I can log into and do some heavier workloads on.
Humans optimize for activating the opioid receptor. These receptors are distributed all over the brain and tied into all sorts of subtle neural networks. That's why opioid addicts don't do much when they're high. As far as the entire structure of the brain is concerned, an opioid addict's brain is done optimizing and the fitness function is pegged at 1.

I think an AGI will end up being like an AI that plays the Sims except we're the Sims and it's optimizing for our happiness probably by remotely monitoring our opioid receptor activation and some parameters of general health.
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Probably money to be made grabbing hard to get hold of open datasets and listing them here until someone complains?
> such as if Nike chooses to collect and sell customer/transaction data.

Assuming that Amazon doesn't? They have reciprocity agreements with credit card companies.
Your argument is a bit like: here is this amazing long-distance runner who trains for years at a time, had he put all that effort into painting he would be a new Picasso.

For what is worth computers are unique tools unlike any other tool that mankind has invented before - thus it is much harder to tell what other jobs would a good programmer excel at.
He migtht ignore that object for many years, decades even, but keep it around and he'll be very grateful in the future for sure :)
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I can confirm. When my wife was working at the University of Padova, she had a colleague from Venice. We'd go visit him once in a while and he'd show us around some of the more 'normal people' places. I mean, yes, it's very touristy, but "real people" do live there.
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> I'm the first to my knowledge to have made a syllogism (and more) checker for English.

Either what you actually mean by "syllogism checker" is extremely specific and unpractical, or this is 100% BS.
If he's marking up by 1.25x, he's actually only taking 20% of the total (0.25, his cut, divided by 1.25, the total charged, is 20%). Dunno, it's probably not too bad. And it is his client after all...
Don't worry we will build a PC simulator on neuralOS, with a backport of linux, docker and Windows 95. That way you can run python2 in linux in docker in PCSim in neuralOS and i can play minesweeper in windows95 in PCSim in neuralOS.
I think you're missing the point of the fee. The company (Visa, Discover, Apple) that processes the transaction charges a fee (flat or percentage) for each purchase. This is why they add the fee.

Of course apartments charge high fees for rent - they want to ensure they collect the full amount of their monthly rent according to the contract. A $50 fee on say 1000 dollar rent is 5%, ensuring they cover whatever Visa is going to charge them on the transaction. And if they get a little extra income for themselves - then all the better for then as you got some convenience out of it by not having to write a check!
The bigger question, imo, is how we handle those job losses. Retraining doesn't really work. So what do we do with those people? Just say "whoops, your job is automated away. I'm sure you'll find some new equally paying job."? Because that seems like a good way to start a very bloody revolution.
Any info on the difference of latency of register access vs. L1 cache on x86_64?

When looking at compiler output of gcc most of the time it puts variables within a scope on the stack and rarely populates all registers or even any at all. Wouldn't using the full 12-14 available first be faster?
Wow did that send me down a rabbit hole. I had no idea. I used to be pretty active on SO, but not for a few years now. This would have done it for me.
Nothing like what they cost.

Paper is, what, 44-50% carbon by weight? Imagine a ring with the weight of even a small stack of bills.

It wasn't long ago that the paper was worth more than the rock.

But if you burn it, you lose the carbon. Char it instead.
This is probably the best explanation available of this: https://www.bigmessowires.com/2019/05/19/explaining-4k-60hz-...
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That’s the plan!
...maybe I misunderstood this statement then.

"That's because the issue of men vs women in programming really is an all-or-nothing topic."

Was there subtext I missed?
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Browsers ask permission first. Also I don't see how having to install an app is any better other than being better for devs to track you.
Tips for growing SaaS business targeting 5.4m micro businesses cost effectively?
Does anybody has tips for growing a SaaS business by targeting micro business owners cost effectively?

Which advertising/social channel works best for acquiring micro and small business customers for a SaaS business?

This month, I have launched AXSAR Solo - 'One app to run your small business'. The idea is that small businesses can use ONE app to manage all aspects of running their small business (customers, sales, help desk, tasks, invoices, files, notes, diagrams and more).
https://www.axsar.com/axsar-solo/

I have got good feedback from startup founders, other product managers and colleagues. I have few actual small businesses/startups who are using the platform, and they love it. The challenge I have is how do I find and get several hundred/thousand small business owners to try the platform, and provide genuine feedback around product experience, pricing and features?

On Betalist we got few hundred visitors to the site, but only a few dozen signed up. Apparently many of those users are not small business owners. I have to still try ProductHunt, have been keeping it for the end to improve my pitch in the meanwhile and was waiting for creation of AXSAR Solo promo video which is ready now.

I have tried Facebook/Google but the paid ads are way expensive as AXSAR Solo is partly a CRM. Currently I am trying Reddit Ads.

In UK alone, there are 5.4 million micro businesses (less than 10 employees).

Ideally I want to target these micro businesses as the product will simplify running their business (one app) and also cut down on their subscription costs. Micro businesses wouldn't have to deal with integrations across different systems.

As a solo tech founder, I have found a process to develop and bring a new product to market rather quickly, but now the challenge is how to find a repeatable and sustainable process to reach those micro businesses cost effectively.

Any suggestions/articles regarding these questions will be highly appreciated.
A former Al Jazeera America journalist/coder literally just published an A1 NYT investigation.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/11/09/us/internet-c...

https://mhkeller.com/
Moissanite is actually much rarer than diamond in nature (the only sources are meteorites and rarely diamond mines); it should be much more expensive if we couldn't cheaply synthesize it.
Surprising that you can pay with a credit card to begin with. You could probably turn a profit by using a reward/cashback card (in a lot of cities that's easily $10k+ a year in spend).

Though presumably that's $50 a month.. So perhaps not.
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> I respect their ability to make a ton of money, but I don't like a majority of what they create anymore, nor how they treat a majority of their employees.

That's a really good summation of my views on Disney. It's obvious they know how to build consistently polished stories that will be consistently enjoyable to a wide audience. I respect that.

But it's not clear to me that's a goal worth pursuing, or that the artistic value of their movies has gone up because of that. It's good to have some media that's safe and predictable and that is primarily motivated by market trends. But when that's all a company is making, then behind that nice facade lies a deeply cynical way of looking at the world, where creative choices are calculated for broad appeal rather than for their inherent value.

I'm not going to say that's all Disney makes. Just that the percentage of films Disney is making that fall into that category is growing at a rapid clip.

It's a jaded view in the sense that I'm cynical about Disney, but it's really not me trying to crap on popular things. There are a lot of popular things that are really, really good. But I know when a movie actually feels special and honest to me, when I feel like the author genuinely had a good reason to make it, and made it because they loved it. And Disney movies don't feel that way to me. They're glossy, and pretty, and impressive, and they know the right things to say, but they're made of plastic instead of flesh.
That's the one I linked to right? =)

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uidevice/162...
That's definitely one way to look at it. And I hope that's what happens. But is it really wrong to speculate that that isn't going to happen? I think it would be naive to not speculate how we would handle such a situation. Contingency plans are important.
If you strongly need 100% guarantee of authenticity instead of 99.9%, then yes, go ahead and pay more to buy directly from the company.

Of course, many companies add returns back to inventory, and some customers commit return fraud.

I assume you don't buy from Walmart, in case someone resold them counterfeit products?
Yeah, I'm ambivalent about this issue.

I've been significantly contributing to the OSS world for a very, very long time. I never did so with the expectation that I would see a dime from that activity -- that's not the reason I put the effort in. So, my instinct is to say that OSS devs knew what deal was from the very start, and if they're not OK with "unpaid work", then they should stop doing it rather than complain.

On the other hand, OSS has become critical infrastructure, and as such, the stability that comes with people being able to earn a living with it seems like a desirable thing.

So, I don't know. I think there are valid points all around on this.

That said, I also think that what happened with Fritzing is simply wrong regardless.
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We've still got BAT enabled on PortableApps.com with the standard custom Brave browser header and donation ask you setup via their program. We got 31.35 BAT (about $8.08) for around 2.7 million page views in the last month. We also got a single 0.95 BAT (about 24 cent) donation. It seems that - right now at least - the only way a site will make enough money to be worth it is via Brave referrals (advertising Brave to your users to get them to switch).
Pretty much what I wrote. Providing context, interpreting what was said, providing additional/opposing data points.

Reporting on an announcement still has value if you position it relative to other products/market even if there's no secret information. Bringing in other perspectives.
Not that it matters, but if you're worried DARPA funded the internet you should be more worried Radio Free Asia (founded by the CIA during the Cold War and currently funded by the US government) funds Tor development right now.

I don't think this means there are back doors. I did find it amusing Jacob Applebaum hung around in Berlin pretending to be in exile because of American repression while being paid a $100,000 salary by the State Department, funneled indirectly through the military industrial complex.

Source: https://pando.com/2014/07/16/tor-spooks/ (I think Pando's core facts are correct but some of their conclusions are overblown)

Edit: mixed up CIA and State Dept
Like stolen or leaked data?
Exactly right. I do the same when dealing with YAML in general.
He's already a legend, and he's not even 50.
I wonder how many historical figures went through the same thing? Who do we know for their contributions to field X, when 99% of their life was spent contributing to field Y?
What happens when everyone makes the same choice in this prisoner's dilemma as you? Are you ready to lose all of the content that is supported by advertising (regardless of whether you view ads or not)?
I understand this is still under development and I can't full judge the content unless I paid to unlock it. But this looks like a pay version of what is available on the freeCodeCamp[1]. freeCodeCamp is not only free, you can see the entire user story[2] before you take on the challenge, but for Workouts, you have to pay first to see the steps/user stories...

[1] https://www.freecodecamp.org

[2] https://www.freecodecamp.org/learn/front-end-libraries/front...
I think in term of UX issue, is how one would switch context, between plain old trackpad and contextual touchpad.
I've read a lot about data structures and nothing's ever stuck, but this "did it" for me. Thanks so much, you're a really excellent writer.
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