skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Even trying to find something like an ultrasonic cleaner on Amazon is like straight going through AliExpress.

I would argue that it's considerably worse. I've been buying from AliExpress for several years. During that time, I was ripped off (with a fake USB stick) exactly once, and within minutes after I complained, got a full refund from the vendor (though they were entirely unremorseful).

Apparently, whatever AliExpress does to keep their vendors in line works. Plus, they don't suffer from Amazon platform problems like commingled inventory.
I tried multiple ones and always got eyes very dry, life was a pain, then I switched to the most expensive I could find, « Dailies total 1 » is the name. No more dry eyes, problem solved. Each lense cost 1€, but I would even pay more for it to be honest.
What a great analogy!

I think this is a great analogy to bridge the gap between individualistic vs systematic thinkers about US education and healthcare
Pricing for the v8 is identical to the NUC7i7DN. v6 is identical to NUC7i5DN.

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/AMD-Ryzen-Embedded-V180...

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/AMD-Ryzen-Embedded-V160...
It's nuts that this is possible— I mean, it's obvious looking at just a handful of the reviews on either page that they're for a totally different product.

I wonder if there's some shady marketplace where positive-review Amazon product pages are bought and sold, so that the scammer can grab a bunch of them all ready to go (say, from a merchant closing up shop), rather than having to play the long game upfront.
Again, nobody in this entire page has said anything like that. How did you come up with this statement?

And no, the vast majority of people don't consider those characteristics to be political at all and really don't care. Come in, do work, go home, and don't hurt anyone. It's not a complicated political argument.
Ah, I saw something akin to this in like 2012 (but I guess the Ship of Theseus was a change in username only) when I used to buy WoW gold on eBay (yeah, I know..). At one point the seller quit selling WoW gold, changed their name, and started selling sunglasses.
The case of Classic Liberals opposing universal freedom of speech (originally largely aimed at "papists", a/k/a the Catholic Church, ~1600 - ~1800), is not entirely novel.

It's a power relation, and one which recognises that a sufficiently empowered majority (or oppressive, empowered, minority) can itself be inimicable with, or at least effectively portrayed as same, free expression.

The story of free expression is more complex than virtually all treatments acknowledge.
Depends on the minutes. I've seen some where the entire minutes where things like "Heard the report from the director of X on the state of Y". I would like to know if the department in question is a useful use of my tax dollars, so I really want to know what the state of Y is, but I'll probably need to do a FOIA request to get it.
No, that's not quite correct. Positive feedback can either increase or decrease the variable under control. As an example, consider an inverted pendulum. A small swing to the side of upright causes the weight of the pendulum to drag it further to that side of upright. This occurs in both directions of the stable point and is always positive feedback, regardless of the direction.
> It's better to wait and go to a top-tier school rather than to start college super early at a medium-tier school.

I can actually agree with you from experience. I was homeschooled from age 13, but my parents didn’t know enough math to home school me in it, so my mother got me into a dual-enrollment program with a community college for math and CS. Overall I did ok, but calculus really threw me for a loop, and I ended up scraping through calc I & II with C’s. I often wonder if I had taken those classes when I was 20 rather than 15 if I would have done any better. My own son took the test (at his math teachers urging) to get into high school algebra while he was still in middle school. He didn’t pass the test, so he had to take plain-old middle-school algebra, and he was actually a little bummed out about it. I told him that when you’re 30, the only thing that really matters (if anything) is where you went to school, which depends a LOT on your test scores… not how old you were when you took the tests. He knew some of the kids who “made the cut”, and they struggled with high school algebra, got B’s and C’s, and one actually dropped out of high school last year while my son is still a straight A student.
Study finds link between inflammation and mental sluggishness
In my mind, the big difference is advertising.

I hear Lasik ads regularly. They never/rarely mention side effects. Just "hey, come get Lasik and see better!"

I never hear ads for boob jobs, nose jobs, or lipo.

And medication ads are always ended with a listing of side effects. "Complications include bleeding, puking, bloat, pimples, and death."
Google is a major media company now in that decisions they make about content influence political and social thought. That power leads to it becoming a target of politics and political activists.
I work at one of the largest, oldest agencies there is and have worked before in big tech and in startups, and to be honest people in ad agencies are pretty open about controversial opinions around politics. I'd say the workers are, in general (as in, if you pick one randomly) more to the left side of the spectrum as in any arts-related organization, but as in any company there are different people from all sides - a left, liberal, atheist director hiring a right wing, conservative, Catholic worker is just normal, people don't bother too much with this kind of personal stuff.
My take is that the difference comes from the business model - agencies (as consulting firms) are client-facing and don't scale as pure tech companies so there's always some big, influential clients to please, so people tend to stop personal opinions from getting in the way of business, while in pure tech where engineers are far from their customers, politics become something relevant in the workplace.
I think it depends on what your goals for the startup are. If you want to bootstrap it and keep the company smaller, charge. It will keep your growth rate more manageable.

If you want to get VC money, go for the users.
Dude, it's OK to say you agree with him. He was well-intentioned, and was trying to fix an actual problem, that spaces created by men aren't necessarily as welcoming to women. That's not wrong, even if you disagree with his approach. He was crucified because he dared to suggest that differences exist between men and women in any meaningful way.
I stopped by my local Apple store today to try out one of the new keyboards, and I was _really_ surprised with how nice it felt. It's physically not a lot of key travel, but it _feels_ like it is sort of in the same way that the trackpad doesn't actually move when you click it. I think some of Apple's most underrated innovations are these tactile tricks that make your brain think something different is happening when you push a key or "click" the trackpad. I wish they would have started with this as a more incremental step instead of the weird butterfly mechanism.

The mic and speakers are also really impressive. Even if you're not interested in having a MBP as your daily carry device, it's really worth it to stop into a store and hear the speakers for yourself -- and then demand that quality from every other computer you ever use. IMHO, that's how laptops _should_ sound.

After several years away from the macOS ecosystem, I think this is the machine that's finally going to bring me back.
My IQ was only a few points lower than 145, when tested in middle school. I was praised and never pushed hard all the way to the Ivy League, where my ass was handed to me by a couple thousand other kids who had only gotten there through hard work and perserverence.
I have decided against LASIK due to the potential for halos. I am susceptible to optical migraines and when I have one I see halos and it drives my nuts. I would hate to have even a fraction of that experience every day.
I resisted TDD at first and then became a firm believer and then dropped it to then turn around again to practice it again.

The major thing is that the tests becomes a boundary of sorts which enables you to do a lot more then if you didn’t have it. It can also be done horribly wrong which was the reason why I stopped using it.

I see it as a tool to see how good your code and abstractions are. Large tests => leaky abstraction. Many details (Mocks/stubs) in the tests => leaky abstractions.

Also it reminded me that sometimes I’m trying to satisfy the language instead of just solving the problem. As soon you are trying to satisfy your language, code style/principle or architecture, you are now trying to solve something that has nothing to do with the problem and just causes the code to be designed wrong, or that I should move it somewhere else. Though if I need to tweak the code to make it more testable, I always do that.

I also have a rule, never test data, only test functionality. This have worked very well over the years creating pretty clean code and clean tests and I believe less bugs, or at least it’s hard to be sure. Though my perception that during the periods that I switched between the practices the TDD code had less bugs and I could confirm them faster than the code which had no tests. Also the code that was produced with TDD was a lot easier to make new tests for, where the non TDD code were really hard to write tests for, if I wanted to for example confirm a bug or a feature.
You may be right but I went ahead and signed up for wt.social and paid for a year's subscription. Who knows - maybe something interesting will come from this.
So Google is a ' left to far left' company except when it's being 'right to far right' sometimes?
Do they really not provide a link?
> There's Acuvue and there's everything else

That helps confirm someone else's comment that this differs by person, not manufacturer. I kept trying Acuvue and found them very uncomfortable, instead favouring Focus Dailies. Now I am on Costco own brand which seemed even more comfortable.
Don’t buy supplements.
s/employers/employees/ ?
Pirate Parties worldwide. Sometimes they even get seats in parliament.
This, though there is a very real problem of a mass-adopted online payment method where that $1 transaction is a net profit.
While what you are saying is obviously correct on some level, degree of control matters. If you ask google, they will happily tell you a story about a vast inscrutable "artificial intelligence" that soaks up wisdom of the internet and that they can control only in the broadest terms, when in reality the degree of control is much more granular.

Why is this distinction important? From the article itself:

> THE JOURNAL’S FINDINGS undercut one of Google’s core defenses against global regulators worried about how it wields its immense power—that the company doesn’t exert editorial control over what it shows users.
Thoughts on Ford Electric Mustang Mach- E vs. Tesla Y
It is also the best possible way to find toxic employees. When someone just simply will not listen to logic, will not listen to your viewpoint, or uses your time listening to them as their time to dish about everyone around them, you have a choice to make.

Most times, being heard is all people want. Some times, being heard only validates a false sense of superiority and correctness.
I tend to buy from Amazon whenever I can for the pain-free returns.

You’re not wrong - the reviews are utter trash and have no credibility at all anymore - so I look elsewhere for reviews on what I’m buying. I mostly avoid the counterfeiting problem by sticking to branded goods that aren’t easy to convincingly fake. Any problems and it goes back for Amazon to deal with.
I've always wondered about that, because a few savants like Kim Peek are/were able to recall everything they read.

"He could speed through a book in about an hour and remember almost everything he had read, memorizing vast amounts of information in subjects ranging from history and literature, geography and numbers to sports, music and dates. Peek read by scanning the left page with his left eye, then the right page with his right eye. According to an article in The Times newspaper, he could accurately recall the contents of at least 12,000 books."
This is spot on. Unfortunately in my (long) experience often the aspiring motivators do not understand the context, leaving it to the underlings to attempt to reverse engineer it.
Or convert the meetings into a vehicle for press disclosure.

"The purpose of a system is what it does."

(Hold my Beer.)
More than a few. Also, all the benchmark algorithms I've seen in papers have been trivial so this is very much still an active area of research. The idea is tantalizing though, and I'm looking forward to new breakthroughs in this space.
Why does everyone dismiss the first one? Why do we need a new bill and millions more spent for what we already know? Is it because it does not align with the anti-gun agenda?

Priorities for Research to Reduce the Threat of Firearm-Related Violence
https://www.nap.edu/read/18319/chapter/3#15

https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/cdc-gun-violen...

https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/15941-cdc-s...
The word racist has lost its meaning and most of its power. Fascist is the new catch all insult/accusation for primarily the same groups. I'm a bit perplexed why the word bigot hasn't entered the common lexicon since it actually does apply to many of the situations where neither racist or fascist is correct.
I suspect this is orders of magnitude more common than kids graduating university at 9.

For instance everyone in my extended family speaks 3 languages at least, some 4, due to historical circumstances. It's simply a question of exposure.

If you go to Fribourg in Switzerland there's a whole area where people speak both French, Swiss German, and High German. And these days English as well. The rest of the Swiss at least learn several languages in school, though perhaps not using them constantly.
I supported my educational habits working as a network and system administrator. That route is now screwed by universities outsourcing these tasks.

There's a HN posting in why there is such a dearth of technical support hires in the modern era and it starts with killing the pipeline and ends with eviscerating the entire career in the outsourcing binge of the early 2000s...
Will the downvoters please comment about what part of these statements you find wrong? I am trying to offer an honest assessment from how things look from the other side of the glass, er bubble.

I put in my comment that my opinion is biased, and I think it is obvious what side of the issue that bias is from. I will add that for a couple of years I had a site in the number one position or top 3 of some cool search results and it was a site that gave the searchers what they were looking for.

For a long time google was good. I even took my love of google and content creation to other businesses in town, got them to make better web sites and even partnered with them to spend more than $100k on adwords over a couple years.

When things are good, they are great, but when cracks start to show - the algorithm changes to enhance national publishers, there is little help when you discover fraud clicks, customer support is a 'volunteer top poster not a google employee' kind of thing.

as was said at a hearing recently; "“Small businesses cannot survive on the internet if they cannot be found.”" - https://www.marketwatch.com/story/tech-giants-google-amazon-...

knocking people out of business with hand wavey 'make good stuff, don't do seo' - knowing that they will be screwed forever and knowing they most likely will never know about the secret manual that some know about and how it actually plays out, it's worse than mean.

imho
Due to the frequency split there are fewer upstream channels available and changing that would require replacing all the filters. Downstream bandwidth inside the ISP is definitely cheaper than anything.
Based on uploaded photos that product seems to have a past life as a cutting board, a drying rack, a canopy for a kids bed, some type of dagger (letter opener?) and a lancet.

That’s incredible, and the fact that someone hasn’t seen that inside Amazon and said “we have a huge problem” makes me suspect Amazon doesn’t regard it as a problem at all.
Many people here will nod their heads along with you and then go back to their dayjob of warehousing as much personal data as they can get their paws on. Every time GDPR comes up the wailing and gnashing of teeth from HN is obnoxious, and yet every time there is a breach people are tutting.

These breaches are the personal fault of many of the people who frequent this site. As the FTC says - the first step here should have been not warehousing data they didn't need for their business purposes. Which is the mandate of GDPR as well.
This might be a way of weeding people out.

It's an insane amount of money.
I've owned several Ford cars/suv's before. I know their build quality is good. Combine that with their years of experience, will this be the 1st real challenger to Tesla?

One thing I do see standing in their way is batteries. Tesla is building their own, while Ford is sourcing.
Sure, once you classify anyone who opposes, for e.g. illegal immigration, as a racist, everyone is a racist.
I can't edit, but you're right, implications should be bidirectional (expressed in z3 using == instead of z3.Implies)

You can limit the number of true answers with "atMost" "atLeast" and "PbEq"

I mostly wanted to show off how cool z3 is (especially with python imho), the subtleties of the wording of the problem itself don't seem too important
Seems to require a phone number? Won't be for me...
Yes, I frequently encounter references which have no DOI and often aren't even online. A system which is based entirely around DOIs is going to be of limited utility to me.
I'm a refugee from the late, lamented CiteULike.

I have tried to like zotero and mendeley, but neither of them grab me like C-U-L did.

Dinosaur that I am, I am currently using JabRef to maintain a BibTeX database, semi-manually.

Now I'm going to have to play around with the ScholarRef scripts to see if they replace/augment my current somewhat clunky method.

What have any other C-U-L refugees settled on?
You shouldn't use political outliers to represent a party. In the same state that Sawant is a city council member, there is a state congressmen, Shea, that advocated for a religious war and training children in a Holy Army.
Yeah, well, the code will prove otherwise.
Earth's odd rotation may solve an ancient climate mystery
SFO has an outdoor terrace complete with tables, and chairs, and loungers
The side effect of having all meetings on slack is that you get note taking for free and will always have the discussion and data points logged down and searchable forever. I find this to be extremely useful when looking back on decisions made and finding context on why they were made.
What I want is a decentralized Reddit not under the control of advertising needs. Reddit redesign has been bad for quality content. I actually find Reddit to be a better source of information and knowledge than Google at this point, mostly because Google has been inundated with paid blog-spam. It's a bit harder to get away with that in Reddit (for the time being, and for whatever reason).
Brother laser printer. Then an HP Selphy for photo print.
They should make a movie about this movie ...
Congratulations, you're an outlier. Do you think society will improve if we just hope hard enough more people turn out like you?

It won't, or it already would have. Like it or not, we have to structure society for the people we have, not the people we wish we had.
Up to 46 percent of participants, who had no visual symptoms before surgery*

Why would you undergo elective surgery if you had zero symptoms?
While the decision is only binding in the 2nd circuit, the precedent is admissible in other courts. If this goes to trial in a different circuit you can bring the finding to the judge who will consider it - it won't be binding, but he will consider it. If it goes to appeal in a different circuit the next circuit will reference this in their decision - if they decide the 2nd is wrong they will be very clear why the they think the 2nd circuit is wrong when they make ruling (and this can in turn be re-submitted to the 2nd circuit who might change their mind if the reasoning is good enough). If this goes to the supreme court in the future they will read this decision and it will influence them - again they can decide either way.
> We will never sell your data.

I can/want to host my own data.

> We will empower you to make your own choices about what content you are served

I decide myself what sites I visit. Although in recent years I mostly use HN for discovery.

There is only one problem though: Web authorization/id. When I publish family photos I don't want the whole world to see, only our relatives.
I've setup basic HTTP auth and sent out username+password to all relatives.

That however doesn't scale! And it's impractical.
What we need is a public/private key that is generated by the browser, and which can be shared between many devices. You can have many keys, one for work, one for personal business, another one for gaming or what not, as many identities/keys as you want.

When you visit a web page that wants to know your identity, like any websites that right now asks for a username/password. You get a dialog asking if you want to identify on that website, and what meta-data the website request and what you info you want to give it. Kinda like installing an app on Android or iPhone where you need to confirm the app permissions.
Upon accepting the identify request, you pick an appropriate ID, then your browser sends the public key to the web server, and answers a challenge to make sure you are the owner of that ID. No more username/passwords to remember.

As for me who is a content hoster, I simply chose from a GUI, depending on what server/app i'm using, which group or individual id/public key I want to give access.
If an unknown id/key authenticates, depending on what server/app I'm using, I get a notification, asking me to add that ID/key to contacts or what not. Kinda like with social messenger apps.

At this day and age, we need something better then usernames and passwords!
> I hate glasses as you don't get an undisturbed field of view and the lens distortion at the edges usually give me motion sickness

The reason I switched to contacts was because this effect was so bad that I felt like it was difficult to hold eye contact with one person, and any group conversations had me swinging my head around to point my chin at whoever was talking because otherwise I couldn't meet their eyes. It was very isolating.
Or, just accept that it takes a long time to build a successful business.
Is there any good reading or critical biography of this? Assuming your account isn't a gross exaggeration of Gates' misdeeds, this sounds like it would make good reading
American freedom is the ability to earn a living and raise a family without paying a price for your political views. _Especially_ political views that you, zorpner, find reprehensible.
I have the same notions about such cases. Can anyone think of child prodigies that went on to do notable things? (not including the unabomber)
Can someone ELI5 how this differs at all from normal binary? It's the same thing, just with a different name, right?
Gloo Ingress Gateway with AWS App Mesh
Another way to look at this - you've (parents) tried to fast-forward the time for ending up on the job market earlier - why the rush?