skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How many users don't have home internet? You could also pay money for someone else to run it for you and later decide that paying $100 once was better than paying $10 a month forever. Note $10 a month x 5 years = $600.
That's what we thought about abalone, dodos, passenger pigeons and buffalo.

Fugu isn't exactly easy to process for eating, but people are willing to pay a LOT of money for the privilege of eating it.

All you need is the right marketing, and purple urchins will be like hen's teeth within 10 years.
I'm so glad his parents are focussing on ensuring he gets to be a child. degrees can be done later. not Childhood.
Speculating like this is useless and generally counterproductive. It’s just a way of stating your internal biases, it’s best to recognize that bias and consider how that impacts your perception.

For example, you could say, “I’d like to think these failures are a result of lack of skill or experience on the part or the doctor, careless errors, or perhaps poorly maintained tools/equipment, and not a fundamental issue with the procedure itself which could effect even skilled and diligent practitioners. I wonder if the study accounted for the experience level of the practitioner?”
China was 168 days so I agree and comment stands.
Why Do I Love to Share My Knowledge?
A very good strategy if the stuff you do is actually any good. For many ethically questionable fields obscuring or misreptesenting the context or the actual bussinesmodel is the only thing that allows you to keep a workforce. The best way to do this is to give them the tools to lie to themselves (this usually contains a flag to wave against the “other team”).
What does this have to do with the topic at hand?

"Cash bail" going away doesn't mean they're requiring a check or credit card.
> What you get out of school is social experience and how to learn.

My social experience in middle school was horrific, and school in general tried its best to beat any interest in learning out of me.

If those are the stated goals of school, most of them do a piss-poor job at meeting them.
For the US only, but I didn't realize that so few people took public transit, walked, or biked. Given the amount of advocacy and public policy surrounding those transportation modalities, I find it curious that there isn't more advocacy around remote work/telework.
Since you got to interact with college students as a really young kid through being peers with them (I assume), did you also got to interact with the same group many years later when you went back and do you found the interactions to be similar?

I know that this kid was raised really isolated from kids around the same age, did you also have this and how do look back at this?
I reported a specific instance of this to Amazon before and they declined to take any action to police it. In the case I reported, it was a more subtle change. I had purchased some replacement brush heads for a Philips Sonicare toothbrush in the past which worked well for me. When I went to re-order them, I was shipped a completely different design and brand of brush head which was terrible and immediately started to deteriorate due to poor quality materials. Of course, all the thousands of positive reviews for this product referred to something that was no longer being sold through that listing.

I found it hard to believe that Amazon would allow this to stand, but here we are.
This looks useful but one thing I've found is that with papers with multiple meta-data sources, some sources are much better than others. That and chasing down references without DOI, probably leads me back to zotero pretty quickly.
I think this is a tiny number of people, but even then, how would an early username or URL on a hypothetically successful new social network benefit you anyway? Unless you are already a "big deal" yourself for other reasons, a particular username on a social network isn't going to turn you in to one.

Whatever one might think about social network "influencers", their influence is ultimately rooted in something about them (looks, charisma, knowledge, marketing dept strategy), not their username.
I agree with your comment. We tend to see our own achievements as through our own efforts, failing to see any advantages we have, and further failing to see the disadvantages many others have had.

(OP has fixed typo, so below snark can be ignored:

And English is a really weird language, on top of that.

For example, "excepted" means almost the opposite of "accepted," but in most instances will be pronounced roughly the same way.)
"The real question is whether the discovery is important or interesting. And whether it is surprising.
[...] OK, why does Wolchover claim that it is interesting or surprising? Because they gave that formula to Terence Tao, a Fields Medal winner, for him to say something and he didn't know the formula and even expressed doubts. [...] So that's how it works. If you want to promote a new chocolate candybar, send a formula – or the nutritional values from the package – to someone like Terence Tao, to a darling of the media. The popular science writers will do the rest."

https://motls.blogspot.com/2019/11/hype-about-formula-for-ei...
> What we need is a cloud platform that allows people to deploy code to computers on their home network, or any cloud, or any data center... one that encourages and assists with cloud native design and aims to reduce load rather than hope you architect incorrectly and happily charge for the waste.

Sandstorm tried this, and they got very very far.

I think it was ingenious, but the sysadmin in me was very skeptical about the HA/scaling story (there was none). I guess it's fine for self-hosting for yourself&friends, but there should be an easy way forward - after all, Kubernetes commoditised clustering (I mean - once you're past setup).

Where can I follow your efforts? You mention KubeSail in your profile, but that seems developer-oriented?
Two reason:

1) Pensioner debt in Illinois is about $250 billion, versus $65 billion for other kinds of debt. Any debt restructuring will necessarily have to see pensioners carry most of the water.

2) Defaulting on loans makes it very difficult to access the capital markets for things current and future residents need. (Long term bonds to pay for transit projects, etc.) Cutting pension obligations doesn’t have that problem.
Yeah, the fact that Google rolled up a fix in less than two days really shows how good they software engineering is.

I am sure that those multi million dollar enterprises affected by this issue have other softwares so reliable that this was the only time they lost millions on software issue /s.
The Problem With Disney Plus [video]
Must say my experiences with Amazon have been pretty consistently positive despite heavy purchasing. Plus I buy mostly warehouse open box stuff which is extra risky. Couple of lessons learned:

* Warehouse deal laptops don't get checked for batteries. So it might boot & be good but dies if you pull the plug

* Warehouse deal laptop have a increased chance of thermal issues (bad binning / bad thermal paste / whatever)

* Open box / used is basically untouched like half the time. They rarely show actual signs of wear despite a billion warnings about 1/4 scratch on front and 3/4 on back and what not.

* Pay careful attention to appliances that require both water and electricity. A cheap mini rice cooker was my 1 and thus far only genuinely sketchy Amazon encounter.

* Camelcamelcamel FTW
>It's becoming a huge peeve of mine when people seem to have forgotten what thread they're in and take a statement out of all reasonable context or nitpick about things that do not materially degrade the point (quotes are a little fussy that way, who knows how people will interpret them).

Welcome to HN
Apple could be forced to let Apple Pay competitors access NFC under German law
I no-shit had a manager that made zero decisions or contributions, but wanted detailed notes on what we were doing so that he could take credit for our work in meetings.
> if you are not having sex, _are you being sexual?

No.

> Or, if you are not discussing politics, _are you being political?_

No.
Can someone paste the article here? There's a paywall for me.
I think many of us like being busy because we use it as an escape. If you are not busy then the mind chatter will start about that side project you have been ignoring or that career move you have been planning. There is a huge dopamine hit in staying busy in your work and ignore more important things.

Btw if you have not read his boom “deep work” then I would really recommend it.
> Can you even enroll in university without a high school diploma? I certainly might have if I had heard more stories like this.

He finished highschool a year earlier (he only did a single year for his bachelor's). And by law you must have a highschool diploma to start uni over here.
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Well, I would say we'd also need a little more information about the 'dissatisfied' responses. It could be that none of them worsened the person's eyesight, they were just dissatisfied with the level of improvement, or that they still needed corrective lenses after the lasik. Or maybe not, but hard to tell simply from those poll questions, many people have unrealistic expectations.
> seems like it's meant for some sections of first world inhabitants

Perfect great!

Imagine it’s intentional and a pretty effective way of doing business

Now lets just critique why it isn’t a luxury brand
I'm totally the target market for this. FB is just f$$ing depressing, and I only check in every couple of days now. I would happily pay for a regular dopamine fix that didn't include a shower of muppets saying things I find mildly irritating at best. I'm also totally over the BBC, ABC (Australia, not USA), and other MSM. Again, shower of muppets etc etc.

What I really want is the early internet back again. I want some blogs to read, that are witty, intelligent and erudite. I want a feed reader that will let me know when they update. I want a news source that is likewise witty, erudite, intelligent and sceptical (the foremost asset of any journalist should be scepticism).

I think I'll just go and find a bunch of blogs to follow. And start my own again. F$ck Facebook.
More like "Welcome to teh Internet"
90% of the stuff I buy on Amazon is supplements, and they deliver the worse possible experience. First, stuff constantly goes off their Subscribe & Save program, second, often they can't deliver supplements, which are readily available elsewhere. They know exactly how much stock they need for the next month, but they do no effort to deliver it, which essentially forces me to leave Amazon. Other things are hit-and-miss. Recently, I get much the stuff being dirty from Amazon their own labels covering up FDA-required info for supplements. When you try to remove those, they are not made for easy removal and your supplement bottles get all sticky and even dirtier. This is the worse supplement delivery experience ever!
I would argue: leaders lead and managers manage.
This is spot on. This is basically how Netflix gets free colocation. Netflix's monopoly is what allows them to do this. ISPs would laugh if anyone else wanted free hosting of their edge equipment, but because Netflix is such a burden on ISPs, they're able to strongarm ISPs into providing free hosting of Open Connect appliances.
Less dubious than I feared. If you prefer:

"One will weave the canvas; another will fell a tree by the light of his ax. Yet another will forge nails, and there will be others who observe the stars to learn how to navigate. And yet all will be as one. Building a boat isn’t about weaving canvas, forging nails, or reading the sky. It’s about giving a shared taste for the sea, by the light of which you will see nothing contradictory but rather a community of love."

Thanks for the pointer, I love quote provenance research (well, reading it.)
Because for years, IT managers have been fending off requests from users to give them something other than IE6. Since 2008, Google Chrome has been the "winner" of the desktop browser wars, with IE falling away completely and Firefox's word of mouth impact plateauing against Google's relentless marketing of Chrome.
I'm in the same situation as you. Worn glasses/contact lenses from a young age.

A 1% chance of life-changing complications with something as critical as vision is, honestly, a shockingly high number for something I had assumed was far more safe.
The problem isn't the network. The problem is the social -- your social, i.e. your friends. You can get the same effect on existing social media simply by not having them as friends, or blocking them.

The people who enjoy fake news won't sign up for this. They'll stick with a network where they have "freedom of speech". They won't vanish, and they won't get any better educated. It's not as if you can make the urge to spread fake news vanish. Your racist cousin still exists, and he's still eagerly seeking out and re-posting obviously fake stories from outside what he dubs the "mainstream media" -- he won't suddenly come to his senses, and he certainly won't pay for the privilege.

I think a better approach, if you want to use social media at all, is to tell people "I won't be friends with people who believe hateful BS." That's the only thing that might help: force them to choose between their friends and their desire to reinforce their group identity. Going to a different site might achieve that, but you don't need to spend money and you don't need to reinvent the wheel. Just use the existing tools.
Youtube-dl is an incredible tool, and supports far more than YouTube. I was pleased as punch yesterday to discover that Shoshana Zuboff's talk (shared to HN) on a video site I'd never previously heard of was supported.

There are other related tools.

VLC, both the desktop client (Linux, MacOS, Windows), and to a somewhat lesser extent, the Android client, can also stream video, most certainly from YouTube. Given the superiority of playback controls and for Picture-in-a-picture / pop-up view, this is my preferred option for Android when I want video, generally.

mps-youtube is an absolutely amazeballs console-based YouTube client. It offers search (text, title, channel), playlists, preferred search context (music or all), playback (audio only, video, resolution), and local client(s).

My preferred mode is to curate a playlist off of various searches, and to play that back, either through mps-youtube, or another player capable of using a local file. A disadvantage of mps-youtube is an application-based API cap which doesn't seem to apply to other options.

mpv is a console multimedia player, successor to mplayer, which can integrate with youtube-dl via the '--ytdl' switch. This means you can stream any youtube-dl supported streaming service or target, from raw MP3s or Oggs, to YouTube, Vimeo, and numerous other online media platforms.

I've been making (slightly) increased use of RSS, but have yet to wire that into my media player(s).

All of the console options work in Android under Termux, a Linux-like console userland that's one of the very few things on Android which Does Not Manifestly Suck.
Paying customers should have an option to disable it, however unpaid customers should either rollout their own solution or deal with the consequences of running business with free, uncontrolled software.
Where would one use this ?
Binary dependencies that are already compiled, external template instantiation exists since C++11.

I deal with nullable types when needed, not for 100% of pointers, like C requires to.

A feature that requires linker support to work around third party libraries clashes, C engineering at its best.
...answering my own question: because Google pays these companies off! I almost forgot they pay Apple almost $10 billion to be the default search on iOS.
I would say losing your eyesight and/or feeling the pain of snowblind for months on end are hazards we should be averse to. You have no idea how important your vision is until you start to lose it, and snowblindness in particular feels like rubbing sandpaper on the back of your eyes with no way to stop it. I can see why someone who experiences either of those symptoms from an elective surgery that they were told is "safe and effective" would want to kill themselves.
"18 year olds don't know anything about anything"

Come now, that is blatant overstatement. When I was 18, I knew how to read, write, do calculus, use Microsoft Office, do a bit of coding, and even enough to work in a biological research lab.

The problem is most skills needed in the economy are not aligned with the skills taught in school. Is it necessary that a plumber can read Shakespeare and analyze it? Is it necessary that a nurse knows all about the Civil War? Well no, in a purely skills-based sense, their schooling was "not valuable" and they "don't know anything".
This is why the ad model works better. Local advertisers can bid on his data to show 5 cent ads where someone in northamerica may be worth 5 dollars. Trying to price this as a monthly service removes the ability to offer different prices per region without getting into fairness or causing people to get around the rules by signing up in different regions but watching from another.
According to the announcement on Twitter it is free, just donation-based:

- https://twitter.com/jimmy_wales/status/1192160194693718017

- https://twitter.com/jimmy_wales/status/1192635476726947840
Definitely, which is why doing it just to get small blocks of code won't work. It has to be part of the entire design, and sliced at real, logically separate spacings.

It's hard! But immensely rewarding if you get it right. You have to be thoughtful as you design and build.
We already tell all children what they should be learning, and apparently a huge portion of them end up without basic literacy and numeracy. That's as bad as it gets. It's hard to imagine how these adults would have been worse off if they hadn't gone to school at all. Perhaps they would have stumbled across something that interested them and learned something.
Well, at least that's easily fixed: require a local physical presence who can be sued or prosecuted. If I wanted untraceable disguised imports I know where AliExpress is.
No, its not the managers who are therapists. Everyone forced to go to their meetings are providing free therapy for them.
Don't buy supplements on Amazon. I've received supplements with poorly printed labels of popular brands slapped on them.
Well, I should be more specific. I think once you get into the sort of number theory where you prove things about modular arithmetic, and the sort of analysis where you are talking about abstract spaces rather than n dimensions of real numbers, those courses are notably different from high school courses, and all the focus on proofs is intellectually stimulating to advanced kids.

The courses which are typically boring for advanced kids are calculus, linear algebra, differential equations, probability, statistics, combinatorics. Most of an undergrad math degree usually falls into this bucket but it really varies by university.

Also, there’s a big difference between colleges. Not because of the curriculum as much as the other students who will set the pace of the class. Often the same kid who could attend Ohio State at 14 could also attend Princeton at 18, and that makes a difference even if the course titles are the same.
"USPS reference number" seems like it could work relatively similarly to a PO Box.

Main difference of course being that you want the ability to generate a unique "PO Box" per merchant.

Of course, there is a 3rd party (the post office in this case) that would need to know the mappings between real address and "reference number", but even in the case the post office got hacked at least they would only get your old mappings. Any new purchases would use new reference numbers.
I'm not a Facebook fan, but I am hugely grateful for their contributions of React and GraphQL.

I think engineers should be considered dis-associated.
I mentioned 150-700€ range 9 days ago, so i totally agree that i'd like some cheaper variants ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21463162 )

Thanks for Dokku, had it already starred on Github, but didn't remember it ;) Will definately try it out!

I also have a 8x RPi 4 cluster, to learn Kubernetes. The AMD NUC would be a standalone Docker host though. Microservices in dot net core .... and experimentation :p
At this point no one can be surprised when Apple decides to censor legal content on highly questionable whims. Facebook, Google, etc can collect and misuse every detail of our lives, but don’t worry, Apple will protect the public (and especially the children) from the scourges of pornography, nicotine, Hong Kong protests, and web browser extensions.
Reminds me of the military concept of "commander's intent". By knowing the broader purpose of a mission, subordinates are able to take initiatives if and when necessary.
"Many managers don't know what to do," he says, and when they are "unsure of their role", they respond by generating more meetings.

Another reason that we should have less managers and instead elevate engineers into dual engineer/executive positions.
If you'd like to mail me at cris@dosycorp we could discuss what you need.
Thanks, I didn’t know there was a 1password.eu. Unfortunately for me there’s no automatic way to change region [1].

[1]: https://support.1password.com/regions/#change-your-region
Bezos is famous for being a micromanager to the extreme (and a very good one reportedly, if rather tyrannical). So there is no question about whether he has been personally aware of this situation for years.

This follows a similar pattern (MS/Gates) where very unscrupulous business practices are employed until the company becomes a juggernaut and can do anything it wants, and the top executives become fabulously wealthy. Then one day, once the man is rich and successful enough that the thrill is gone, he switches to professional philanthropy. As time passes, _how_ he got to the top is forgotten and he is hailed a hero and American success.
From the video and article it doesn't seem like the kid is being rushed. The parents said that they're just "going with the flow" and "it's just who he is". It really seems like they're trying to do what's best for the kid and give him a balanced life. Maybe I'm just an optimist.
Oyo is yet another company that shouldn't exist. In India, in an event at the beginning of this year (2019), it said it has a new initiative where it would share hotel guest information with the police and the government in real time. [1] [2] This kind of facilitation of mass surveillance while also enabling harassment is one of the most damaging ways to run a business and contribute negatively to a country.

[1]: https://www.medianama.com/2019/01/223-oyo-real-time-data-sha...

[2]: https://www.huffingtonpost.in/entry/why-oyo-sharing-check-in...
Learning is a skill. If you can teach your children how to think and teach themselves whatever they need to know in whatever situation they find themselves in, they will be successful. It's what my parents taught me, and I'm grateful.
> That being said — and go ahead, call me a cynic — I just don’t buy the honor system as a viable long-term business model.

That's not what cynicism is. Good grief.
Engineers are special innocent snowflakes that would never do a bad thing?
I hope people realize these are 1st-generation Zen CPUs that are Not Very Fast(tm), not the respectable Zen2 parts you've been reading good things about. AMD's marketing is very confusing right now. There are not any Zen2 APUs.