skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
mostly agree except 3d touch which is clearly the most undiscoverable input method ever conceived.

oh, and shake to undo, which i not once used intentionally.
As carnivores, I wouldn't expect them to have a use for tasting sweet things. The article doesn't address that point, but I think anyone who owns a ferret could tell you that they have a crazy metabolism!
These talking points died in 2016. Now that Uber isn't subsidizing rides with investor's money and raised their fares, Uber is actually more expensive than taxis in NJ.

There's no reason ride hailing companies need to violate labor laws to do business.
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A 14 year old would have a hell of a time trying to 'set up' in a different town at all.

That an adult might find it difficult, or potentially end up in a worse situation, is besides the point.

And obviously I'm not talking about running away from a family.
Which is a huge hassle in a lot of places in the world, especially due to how cryptocurrencies are treated.
That's an exaggeration, there are still 8 countries not using Whatsapp or WeChat.
An "ok" password manager is surely a feature Microsoft will add to Office 365, with a pro upgrade to shared passwords, etc
Five Microservices Worst Practices
> It would have been vastly better, financially and medically, for MDACC to have continued with their in-house EMR.

...until they (too) fall victim to "a rogue engineer" (or a "patient") coming in and plugging something into an open USB port on the workstation.
Lockwise isn’t very polished in terms of UI. It doesn’t have 2FA support, it doesn't check if your passwords are good and different.

You also don’t have desktop apps in case you open an app that doesn’t support your password manager.
Society holds such jobs in low esteem, so the kind of people who take them are the ones that are not worried about their reputation. There are a few who buck the trend and keep it classy, but most are just the kind of people who will do anything for a quick buck, including double-charging paying customers.

It's a viscous cycle, really. We treat porn producers like dirt only only dirty people want to take the job which further reinforces our stereotypes about said people. Plus the barrier to entry is real low and brand loyalty is almost nonexistent so it's a prime industry for fly-by-night operators.
David Chaum and Guido van Rossum Awarded Dijkstra Fellowship
Sorry, but this isn't one of those cases. A RDBMS is objectively inferior for queueing compared to dedicated message broker technologies. This is blatantly obvious if you've ever used both for queueing.

You're applying generic heuristics against a problem where folks have specific domain knowledge that contradicts those heuristics.

I cannot stress this enough; you are flat wrong if you think Postgres is appropriate to use for queueing.
I'm making an objective statement about reality backed by basic, well-understood features of human psychology and personal experience with porn actresses.
You're replying to my original comment that states that this is tautological.

I don't think that the Linux Desktop will be successful, and I think if it ever is, that would be because it's moved away from the principles that make it interesting to people like me to begin with.

I'm not talking about the man on the clapham omnibus, so responding to me along those lines is kind of silly. I don't expect the general public to spanner.

I do have disdain for developers that moan about it though.
Around here it is still plain old VMs, thank you very much.
Yet sex/porn and esports are both addicting. How does that math add up?

Games maybe not so much by nature, but the publishers are trying everything they can to increase your time in game.
And WhatsApp could easily extend their app to move encrypted messages over RCS.
Thank you Paypal. Porn is a disease on the society exploiting on vulnerable people. Any company concerned with mental health of the society shouldn't let these porn streaming companies use their infrastructure. Also, a private company is not compelled to let anyone use their infrastructure, if anything, it violates that company's first amendment rights.
Oneplus is probably your best option.
Observable is an incredibly useful resource and deserves way more attention IMHO.

I'm currently using Observable/d3 to develop/test a time based graph of multiple analog channels being read in real-time from an IoT device (i.e. Arduino Mega).
I've wondered that too. One would think that religious people would have some aversion to harming others. Harm to the people you recruit is basically what direct sales amounts to.

Another question is, are religious people more likely to fall for this scheme? It seems Western religion almost requires habitual suspension of critical thought of all claims.
A friend of mine was born without the ability to taste sweet things. That doesn't stop their body from reacting to it, though. Most of their favorite foods are incredibly sugary.
Counterpoint here: all the SMS messages I receive are just 2fa messages. Everybody is on whatsapp
>wholly artificial legal concept of property

Property is an informational concept more than a legal one. The concept of "mine" is present at a very young age, and clearly present in various animal groups. The data-structure is a simple association of objects with an owner, and for the substrate animals use only their brains, but humans use paper and, increasingly, bits. Banks and local government agencies keep the most official of these records, but informal records count too. (My son may think my daughter's blanket is his, but she will protest loudly and vehemently, and there is not really a formal reason for her claim).

concept of property...is the sole mechanism through which massive disparities in power are achieved and maintained

Property is a necessary, but insufficient condition for inequality. Property is how you keep score; the reason some players win far more than others is not entirely known, but I'm pretty sure it has more to do with personality, talent, and luck than the jurisprudence of property rights.

It's not clear what a society without property would be like, BTW.
No, they just purchased a corporate license which people assumed was an indication Apple would eventually acquire them.

https://bgr.com/2018/07/10/apple-1password-acquisition-deal/
It is very much a bad technology sourcing strategy, and you will kill your business if you attempt it. Period.

It comes from a place of ignorance, and you're promoting ignorance. Learn why technologies exist and make an informed decision about tradeoffs, instead of being lazy and incompetent by blindly choosing technology based on what's a very locally maxima for you personally. It's selfish and damaging.

Edit since I'm rate limited: The folks landing on Postgres are not landing there after due consideration, they're landing on a technology they're familiar with because they don't know how to learn.

It is lazy, ignorant and selfish, and while of course people don't like having truth spoken to them, that's what it is; truth.

Edit 2: Making these poor technology choices will kill your business because you won't have the agility that using a specific message broker technology gives you. You won't have built-in solutions to common queueing problems, you won't have dedicated specific logging/metrics to monitor, you won't have the libraries in your preferred language to directly tackle your problem, you won't have the support community available to you (it will be much smaller), you won't be able to pivot onto related patterns as your needs change, your scaling will always be more complicated because fewer people are doing it and the tool you use isn't tailored for your use case; the list goes on. Your competitors will swallow you because they move faster than you do, and your business will die.

This is annoying to me because I've been in situations where I've had to maintain and write features against technology that was a poor fit for its use, but people like those in this comment sections bitched and moaned about a "new thing" existing in our stack. The reality was they didn't want to learn anything, and were fine pushing the hard work off onto the developers, so they could safely continue to do as little as they possibly could get away with.

Do your job, learn technology that actually fits your use case, and stop trying to push work off onto other people.
FWIW in the infantry, traditional land navigation is still considered an essential skill. Batteries can die, equipment can be broken but a compass is a pretty simple and hearty piece of kit.
I would totally call that Club Eel-even.
FYI, all password managers are integrated into iOS
The problem is that those systems are immature. Would you be willing to rely on them to earn your living, especially if you live in a poor country?
BlinkAI Is Training Sensors to “See” Like Humans Do
That would be $1T in cumulative revenue, not $1T/year of revenue.

It is a large number. But it's a different large number from the headline.
Both, although it's possible it's only "Raiser" in some locales[1] as a typo — Uber's liability insurance paperwork[2] and site[3] refer exclusively to "Rasier".

[1]: http://tsa1.nv.gov/ActiveCertificatesDetail.asp?cCertNum=TNC...

[2]: https://ubernewsroomapi.10upcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/...

[3]: https://www.uber.com/global/en/cities/washington-dc/

There's at least one document[4] where Rasier LLC forms a subsidieary `Raiser-CA, LLC`.

[4]: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/9kwjz5/unicorn-trank-and-... , specifically https://video-images.vice.com/_uncategorized/1500911986571-S...
No. Next question please.
> That's "very few" Google employees more than zero. I expect zero Google employees to have access to my medical data. Any number above zero is absolutely not acceptable to me.

Heck, people owning my medical data who are not my doctor/GP and related medical professionals is a big no go in my opinion.

Medical data is rather private.
Also CMU alum. Why anyone would WANT to rush a PhD, I don't know. I had to finish faster than my peers because I started a business half way through -- and I was either going to complete in 6 months or never. So I finished up in a hurry. I am a tenure track professor & CEO -- which works so long as you don't care about anything at all. But that's separate.

My point is, and I'm four beers in, is that my head of data science is so good, he has been mentored by me for years (fwiw), and he has published a lot -- I feel he is the perfect candidate for completing a PhD asap. I think he needs two years for acculturation.

In that paradigm, smart folk in industry could publish papers and then take 2 years to get a doctorate --- and I think the world would be better for it.
That's pretty glorious by cat standards. Total score. Smooth.

We had one that loved good, sticky bud.

One day, back in the 90's when good pot was hard to get, my brother in law set a big, dank bud on the coffee table. And he was all about having a smoke and good meal too.

Kitty perked right up! She could totally smell it, and from there?

Game on!

So, she jumped up on the table, snatched it and ran!

For the next 20 minutes we all watched this hilarious "get that cat" game happen. Brother in law went after the cat. Room to room. It escalated into closed doors and the cat still escaped him!

At one point, we heard crashing, yelling, and when the door opened, he started to apologize only to have the cat squeak through the cracked door and run out the little outside cat door with that bud.

He found it later, drool and hair covered after the cat had thoroughly mauled it, much like catnip.

Yeah, he smoked on it anyway. We all said, "pass."

The cat had an awesome time. Like, "this is what I DO!"

He was total mess. Loved that cat, but never brought bud anywhere near her again.

Yeah, that look. She had it, mixed with tail up, fur slightly puffed, eyes alight excitement. Total, "YES!" moment for the cat.
Is there any proof they hold $75mm in BTC? I didn't see any on the site. Why; I could have put this page up.
I wouldn't call Js a reasonably well designed language but at least it supports Unicode strings.
I still dont get why a cab driver must get a cab driver license and a uber driver doesnt. Same service, just another name.
The pixel 3a has been a pretty nice device at a good price (299 with Google Fi - you can cancel the latter after one day and still keep the discount according to their reps). It is a mid-range device though.
One of the things which blew me away as a yoot; reading about Alfred Krupp, who built a small family business into the Krupp empire ... starting at age 14.

For whatever reasons, no real english language Wiki entry (this is all there is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krupp#Alfred_Krupp), but there are multiple books on his incredibly productive life. Makes any modern entrepreneur look like a wantrepreneur. He did it as a teenager.

I don't think the PT article is exactly right, but history teaches us it is obviously true that teenagers are capable of much more than we ask of them now. Alexander won his first battles at 16. Augustus was active in politics as a teenager. Keeping kids cooped up playing video games and skateboarding is just keeping competition caged in, rather than unleashing human fire on the world.
The problem is that even if there is an innocuous sounding name, once it gets known as "the porn clearing house", it doesn't matter.
Interesting video, thanks for sharing.

Along the lines of your question, is anyone reading a display engineer who can shed some light on why we are seeing foldables now? What have been recent engineering developments that make these things feasible now, and should we expect the number of these foldable screens to be growing exponentially for sometime?
Wow, this is a lot more intuitive. gowld for BDFL!
Please don't quote with code blocks. It breaks formatting by forcing horizontal scrolling, and is especially bad on mobile.

Requoted:

> Employee and employer state Unemployment Insurance tax rates will apply to the first $34,400 of an employee’s earnings in 2019 (up from $33,700 in 2018). For 2019, employees are subject to a 0.0425% (.000425) Workforce Development Partnership Fund tax rate. The employee Unemployment Insurance tax rate remains at 0.3825% (.003825) of taxable payroll.
The plural of anecdote is not data. Also, do you have any credentials to back up your expertise in the field of psychology?
Also, this shows the massive disconnect between those who make money from said data and those who provide that data.
I found it very slick and cool-looking but not really conducive to absorbing information.
This map shows MA, MD, and VT as “red”. These are three of the most reliable Democrat-voting states in the country.

Something is wrong with your map.
Man you aren't thinking deep enough. Just set up your own FTP server!

The truth is that my grandmother needs a password manager and she barely understands what minimizing a window does. "Just store your vault in dropbox" is friction and that matters much more to the huge majority of users than the fact that the vault is stored on a cloud service.
There's almost no reason payment couldn't be handled with a reputable, totally decentralized stablecoin like Dai. The solutions exist, but they need to be socialized and streamlined.

EDIT: Would love some reasoning around downvotes.
Interesting! Now I have to try this.
Hyper-V containers and VM instances are already more than enough.
> because their key components are not the most dangerous substances on the planet

e-waste and tech-waste are much much bigger problems and a threat for the environment than nuclear waste will ever be.

nuclear waste, being very dangerous, are also handled with very high security standards, while every other kind of waste is basically treated like it is safe or almost safe.
Ask HN: Advice for someone seeking to raise his first round?
Hi every one!

I am working on a fintech startup. And looking forward to raising money for my first time.

I am looking to raise not more than $300k (seed round?) it may also matter that I am based outside the US.

My basic inquiries are;

1. How do I access VC funding if I don't know any VCs personally? Do I just email them?

2. What should I prepare?

3. What should I watch-out for?

4. What mistakes did u make when raising your first seed round & how would one mitigate them?

5. How do I increase my chances for making a VC invest in my project?
this is good. You can fight for the people by putting money into the right hands
Completely independent of storage. And that said, if you go offshore, you don't really need a lot of storage.
On the plus side, it's not like they can just grab money out of your wallet with Crypto. You have to initiate the transfer. No "typos" when running your card. No double charges. It actually seems like a valid use case for crypto. Downside is the high fees and/or long waits for the coins to clear.
I'd wager thousands of dollars that less than 20% of internet users understand this to the point that they won't blame others if they screw something up.
following this
This reminds me of pgqueue https://github.com/markokr/skytools as used at skype. It works and it works well but needs a plugin so maybe not so good for RDS.
Honey, why did you spend $400 on hotel coffee?
Your card issuer (at least in the UK) is obligated to block recurring payments from a particular merchant if you request it

https://www.fca.org.uk/news/news-stories/continuous-payment-...
Another potential benefit to use a RDBMS system as a queue is that it can make
it much simpler to express priorities in cases where it's not a simple FIFO,
i.e., if the next job a consumer should take depends on more than just the time
the job was added to the queue.

One place this has come up for me is when the next job that's picked depends on
currently running jobs, e.g., each job is associated with a user, and if a
single user already has N tasks running you may want to prioritize another
user's tasks for the N+1 slot.
Graves’s translation of The Twelve Caesars was a formative work in my teenage years and (along with Das Glasperlenspiel) defined my view of humanity for some considerable time and still rings true many decades hence.
Getting certified as a payment processor can take a year or two AFTER your product is built.
I may have misspoken and been referring to secure attachments - I'll check. (This is on my iPhone).

I'm sure I've been in situations where I am trying to download a travel permit for example at a check in desk overseas and there is no signal.

I'll see if passwords are the same - maybe those are indeed kept locally.
Help me out here, what am I wrong about?
Laminate your map and use dry-erase map pens. I did it for years in the dirtiest, wettest environments possible. A typical cell phone wouldn't last hours, much less a day.
I think this "solution" is the exact inverse of what is actually needed: Strong identity and attribution.

identity need not be just an "individual". It can be a group of individuals that agree to mutually sign data before dissemination.

Individuals, corporations and your toaster can create as many identities as necessary.

Right now we are all living seemingly schizoid lifestyle because we are forced to partition multiple selves into molds that are being provided to us.

The partitioning is necessary for organizing information. But the way it is partitioned should be flexible enough for the end user to have the ultimate say in what and how that information is curated. Currently, all we have are blackbox "algorithms." People are asking for transparency, thinking this will solve the problem. I think it will only lead to obfuscating the problem even more so.

Until the individual has unfettered control, we will always be playing this game.

I really wish conversations would wind back to towards discussing ideas tangential to the web of trust...

I think that problem was hard to solve for a reason. Being impossible not being one of them... but an easy position to sell if you feared the consequences ultimately lead to a loss of control.
Not bad at all, for something that has been possible in Java, Flash, ActiveX, PNaCL before.

Thanks to service workers, the miner won't go away when you close the browser, as by default settings (which normal users don't even know they exist) service workers run on their own processes.
Fast Tech Killed Culture
Agree re "have to have a cell phone".

When I check for an example of a person participating in society (US) without any phone, I come up empty handed. Then try with me to even describe a setup where a person could reasonably participate but not need a phone. I am vaguely certain this is actually not possible (credit/transportation etc). Perhaps the dire wolf citizen of privacy is pulling this off..but what a high bar to set on an entire population, without their informed consent. Similarly it may be an impossibly high bar on regulators to provide a "life doesn't require a phone number" consumer option.

I guess a person could fashion "phone number to email as a service" where you get an unanswerable "phone number" which just forwards transcribed content to an email?
If anyone reading this is interested, there's an app called kiwi browser that is Chrome for Android with extension support. Downloading extensions is a bit annoying (the web store hasn't been designed for mobile at all) but it's worked flawlessly for me for a few months now.

The only annoying thing is a lack of sync, but I also download chrome for when I need to look through my desktop history or whatever. If you use a password manager that's pretty much the only thing you lose
Modern Python lacks coherent design:

How do you define enums? with a superclass.

How do you define data classes? With a class decorator.

And then there's metaclasses too.
LA adds hundreds of EV chargers to streetlights
I'm still going to complain and not use the service. (I wrote the article a while ago: https://theexceptioncatcher.com/blog/2012/09/stackoverflow-i... ) [Which was after the first recalc]

It took them 7 years to change their minds on it. Sigh.

---

Side rant: This whole piss people off/break things and expect people to stick around is a dumb idea. Company does stupid things, I'm going to find an alternative company and not return.
I have a Pixel 3XL on Google Fi. Every time I try to enable Chat Features on Messages, it just grays out on "Setting up ...". If I try too many times in a day, it locks me out for 24 hours.

If Google can't figure out how to make it work _on their own phone carrier_, I really do not have much hope for Android's messaging strategy.
It's possible that reality at the scale of quantum mechanics is unintuitive enough to our ape brains that math is the simplest way to describe it.
I have always wondered how do they keep such sets from being covered by thick layers of dust? Is it special ventilation, or do they just clean and wipe everything every day?
Then again the German government seems dead set on also subsidizing coal/gas by not internalizing their societal costs. So just removing those "subsidies" would already make wind/solar more attractive. Turns out, energy needs to be more expensive, and we should probably save energy.
I remember working retail in 98-99 and an older couple came in. They starting to talk to me about starting an internet business and I was interested as I didn't know any better and the web was all the rage at the time. They came to my parents house and it was basically a version of Amazon Subscribe and Save where they would send you items on a monthly schedule. It sounds like the same e-commerce business idea you encountered.