skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> preordering on an unsure thing is a gamble

Even though you are trying to warn people, you've accidentally fallen into Kickstarter's "dark pattern in broad daylight" by using the word "preordering."

Kickstarter donations (I consider it a charity) are not pre-orders. If I preorder a book on Amazon and it is late, tough for me. If the publisher closes down, Amazon gives me my money back.

Kickstarter donations, on the other hand, don't even have that recourse. We're giving them money out of the goodness of our hearts, and if everything works out for them and they feel like giving us our reward, we receive a nice "thank you gift."

Kickstarter transactions are charitable donations. We don't get a tax receipt, but if things line up, we do get a reward. If we think of it as charity without the tax benefits, we won't go wrong.

But the moment words like "preorder" or "purchase" enter into the conversation, we've fallen into the trap of thinking that we're consumers purchasing a good or service.
I grew up in Rural Southeastern Ohio, where PBS was the only thing that came in clearly. I vividly remember watching Sesame Street, in black and white, every day -- along with Mr. Rodgers Neighborhood and Square One -- and that's what started my love of numbers and math.

Through PBS, Jim Henson and Fred Rodgers helped shape me to who I am now -- which is why I'm so apprehensive (and honestly, quite upset) when they talk about cutting the funding to PBS.
The reason to use crowdfunding platforms like Indiegogo or Kickstarter is because you are not liable to pay people back who give you money for your project. By accepting credit cards directly you forego this release from liability. Not only is there personal liability for damages, there would also be a criminal investigation. Lily Robotics had a similar situation. A warrant had been served to collect information for a criminal investigation, but Lily paid everyone back since they held all the money separately.

It is fraudulent to take payment and not deliver product regardless of the intentions of the founders to be successful. Lacking mens rea, perhaps makes it a misdemeanor instead of felonious, but courts will push the founder all the way to bankruptcy and potentially to jail if they cannot repay damages.

Seems like other comments may not understand what constitutes fraud. I have experience with this situation and discussed it with my lawyer when my company eschewed kickstarter/indiegogo and opted for direct sales instead. We even used our rejection of crowdfunding for PR to boost sales (thanks techcrunch!). Our sales spike was such that PayPal held our money in reserves, which led me to take on all sorts of awful loans to pay for scaling production and made for a slow and painful fulfillment process.
Baiju is a great love of mine. I've gone through countless bottles of it while in China and in the famous Chinese Mai tai a la LiPo Lounge in SF.
wow a single data point. how convincing. the market has already risen substantially since the repo spike so had you sold you would need the market to fall 8% just to be vindicated
I feel you pain. But how would it have been any different if the library had been in Python?
> Now, we need workers who can manage the machines.

Is managing a machine harder than driving a car? If not a few weeks similar to how long it takes to learn to drive should be enough education.
Wow thank you very much MartinHeinz -- I've been using Python for years and the only two of these I knew were the __enter__ and comparator dunders! Saved, bookmarked, and shared with friends.
Lol, ninjaed, see above.
Indeed the servers can be cheap! The inherited configuration used a redhat image with support that added a premium cost on top of being a slightly beefier server to run a few dozen containers simultaneously for testing. With the configuration change we optimized the choices and dropped support.

That said, it really wasn't much work to drop the 6pm-6am costs to effectively 0 unless a developer decided to work late (it automatically scales up)
As in, it doesnt render the buttons at all. Just leaves a blank area where the button is supposed to be. I wasn't detailed because I assumed everyone knew about it based on the many comments I encountered online while searching for a fix. Anyway, I only bring it up because thats what is preventing me from going full firefox.
Not if you want the Windows 10 stuff.

And that whole JDesktop stuff from Sun is unfortunately unmaintained since years (still left to rotten under Sun's stewardship).
It sounds like they do fine; only beer in 100 miles is a pretty good business proposition. They also go through 1200 pounds of pinto beans a year, so somebody's buying food there.
I didn't realize scamming was a legal business venture.
Maybe it's affordable for merino, but I disagree that it's not comparable to regular cotton shirts. A shirt is a shirt.
Stuff like this is why I have a problem questioning the value of a college degree. Even if you never need what you learned during college the degree is still an entrance ticket to a lot of jobs. If you don’t go to college you are handicapping yourself. It’s just bad advice not to go to college.
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If it were found to be fraud then you would be going after the officers of the company directly.
I don't remember exactly when I started using it but it feels like forever and I have forgotten about all the VPN nightmares that I had before.
I can't wait for Wireguard support in all kinds of routers and other appliances.
Shrinking spinning fire ant rafts
BadSSL – a tool for testing various errors with SSL/TLS server
This is why I think Keybase is so awesome. I've gotten some of my friends on it and so far the encryption/exploding messages and all is working great.
I think for some conservatives it's about the philosophical question of the Fed Gov't should actually be doing. But IIRC most are supportive of Medicare/Medicaid so they're not totally against government run healthcare.

I find that Libertarian leaning people definitely look at the universal healthcare as something that shouldn't be a public good.

Each state could make its own laws and to that point I think some will make some movement on that front if universal healthcare efforts falter.
How An Icy Moon of Saturn Got Its Stripes
It's naive to assume only the current author has or will have exclusive access to your data.
As the author noted after you posted this, it’s not a given that the ML algorithm is O(n). It may be constant time (by looking only at column headers and a sample of data, say).

That said, I was really more interested in practical runtimes. Like, in practice the ML may have a high startup cost (e.g., due to cost of loading a model), whereas for most sized datasets linear complexity may be fine...
I agree with you when it comes to the model: the model should be as accurate as possible. The big question is what to do with the model. The way it's being used now, the model is kind of a self-fulfilling prophecy. A prediction of high recidivism risk leads to a longer sentence which increases the likelihood of recidivism. This creates a feedback loop which increases real recidivism risk and the model changes to reflect that. If your goal is to reduce crime in society, then this may be a flawed approach.
"There is a sucker born every minute"
Perfect place for witness protection gig?
There's a long history of making war in the middle east for profit. See: the crusades.
Or you could fix the real problem and stop the lunacy of requiring four year degrees for positions that can be taught while on the job.
I feel horrible for the people who had to scrape together the $700 for a Christmas present for their kids, who won't be getting their scooter (like the person in the article). For most middle class people, that's a lot of money. I second the comments about successful chargebacks, because this will probably be ruining some kids Christmases out there otherwise. :(
Hmm. Well perhaps the price could have to do with the liquor license and the fact that that license could be used in another location?

I don't know that is the case here but that thought comes to mind. Could be geographic restrictions (county) but maybe not. County is about 9500 people.

http://www.mtrules.org/gateway/ruleno.asp?RN=42%2E12%2E209
At my college, we have an airgapped network for security classes, and when assignments are due, we often run out of ethernet cables. I had just mentioned I would bring a switch with me the next day and people were confused why I'd be goofing off with a Switch so close to the deadline.

Now we can avoid that kind of confusion! :)
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Not really. You'd really just be paying for the history.

Spending a quarter million dollars on a four wood (edit: brick) walls and a door in a podunk Montana town that is about a 100 mile drive to the nearest town isn't a business purchase. You likely wouldn't recoup the cost in your lifetime.
The biggest wealth transfer from low to high tax states tends to be low-GDP areas like the midwest spending tax money to educate people, and then having their best and brightest move away to generate tax income for New York and California.
I think most parents are exhausted to their knees with kids. But they also ~all say that it's their life's blood (I mean the energy, not blood ties obv.).

A job rarely gives you that much meaning.
The CEO of this company was the co-founder to Tile. I'm sure he could have paid out refunds if he tried to plan this out more responsibly.
Hopefully all those 14 patrons are loyal and healthy and plan to continue frequenting the establishment.
This is pretty awesome. Might have to use this for various purposes
Self-cleaning solar panels: why nanotexture and hydrophobicity matter
>A misguided marketing strategy isn't fraud. That doesn't sound like deceiving people for personal gain by itself.

Quite right. It's potentially an dereliction of duty and could be seen as being dumb enough that shareholders in a company could force an officer out (of course, here it doesn't matter b/c the company is bankrupt), but unless you can prove malice or untoward gains (like, the person making the Facebook buys was getting a cut from Facebook or money was being funneled from the ad buys into someone else's pockets, which does NOT appear to be the case here), there is no fraud.

When a company is going bankrupt, the best that can be done is that the backers can try to fight to be higher on the creditor list to get whatever scraps are left (assuming any scraps exist at all).
I hate to start sounding like a shill for this app, but this is also one of my favorite parts of https://git-fork.com/. When you are looking at changes you can easily stage any lines you want. I am able to work on multiple feature branches at the same time this way: you can make all the changes at one time stage only the lines you need for this branch commit, switch branches and repeat. It’s also great on a single branch when you want to make the changes as you go but want to commit things in more logical groupings. Helps for example when you are refactoring a few functions and want to stage each piece separately.
For safety, an AI Lego sorter should have a whole fleet of these:

https://robots-blog.com/2018/03/21/finally-never-again-step-...
If you move there to run the bar, you'd be in a remote town and therefore I think "REMOTE employee" would be an apt title. So... yes?
>The content of the song is that the singer just had a breakup, ...

Oh, I wasn't disputing that part, I just thought you were describing it as being about a message someone left on someone else's machine.
Seems like the associativity is different: in English "must not foo" groups as "must (not foo)" while German's is like "(must not) foo" (taking 'not' as postfix there)?
You don't really "sell" products on kickstarter, you try and convince people that you'll actually follow through on your vision.

I've backed a dozen or so, and I've got about a 50% hit rate of anything coming through. The failures are always interesting. Trying to guess, ahead of time, which ones are failures (or scams) - is an education into itself. They always seem so earnest in the beginning.

But, yeah - go into kickstarters with your eyes open. Particularly with people who don't have a track record of deliverying - that, in my mind, is the best signal around. If they've come through more then 3 or 4 times in the past, that's a good indication they may come through on this one.
Completely agree... but the most serious issue is that it does not read well.

Consider how you would read it: "if grass is green ..." is effectively shortened to "if grass ...".

This makes no sense.

I always use explicit conditions and consider "if(x)" and antipattern and have done since I was learning C back in the mid eighties.
Serverless Containers with Google Cloud Run
Economic status cues from clothes affect perceived competence from faces
The confluence of lots of degree-holders looking for work and the decline in companies investing in internal training programs has (IMO) rendered the 'firm handshake and a job for 40 years working your way up the ladder' boomer story just about a fantasy on par with a Disney film at this point.

Cynical view / hyperbolic not researched opinion ahead -> Many companies see The Perfect Employee as someone who is overqualified and will burn both ends of the candle, drink the company kool-aid wholesale, do all of their training on their own time and never ask for raises or move to another company on their own, all while doing so for peanuts.

Each particular company adjusts that spectrum back towards reality just enough to hire people to meet their own staffing needs. That's why the particularly grueling companies like restaurants or entertainment venues have such trouble hiring people when the economy is doing well.
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To be annoying, Company C.

I'd definitely recommend working for a startup at that age and (almost) no matter the startup it will really level up both your software dev and business knowledge but I think the salary is a sticking point on option B as it stands. (though I'm not sure what your pay is like relative to the market in your location but generally I've found startups able to make better offers than large companies)

You're early enough in your career that it's probably not worth moving backwards in salary at this stage. Find a startup who offer an increase or at least a match while coasting in your current role.
Ha! States have been eroding local ability to make local efforts (our state minimum wage forbids counties/municipalities from choosing any other); feds have been eroding States rights to choose. All this under a party that pretends to support local small government. Of course they panic when that local small government tries something that they don't like, so they squash it.
My biggest annoyance with Signal is that getting a new phone ends up wiping out all conversation history with apparently no way to transfer it.

This loss of user data is not advertised well enough up front, and leaves users feeling tricked. In many contexts loss of user data is an even bigger sin than weak security.
Whenever I visit someone with a landline that actually rings, I remember what an obnoxious interruption that used to be.
It depends severely on how much individual corporations demand workers managing the machine be able to successfully troubleshoot and repair failure modes.
Unencrypted data/keys should never be in the backup, only data encrypted to some passphrase. It's perfectly fine (and necessary) to require a passphrase to recover backed up logs on the new device.
As a dev I care about many of those things and feel like a voice in the wilderness.

So far as weird numerics are concerned, it's astonishing how complacent the microcomputer world is about that.

I think that 0.1+0.2 = 0.3000000000000004 or whatever it is is a distraction from "it just works" and if we want to offer more functionality to the "non-professional programmer" we should do something about it.

Mainframes have had decimal numeric types from the very beginning since the people involved realized that fuzzy math meant you cut checks for the wrong amount. In the micro world there was the time that Apple had an Integer basic which schools thought wasn't good enough, so they licensed a basic with (bad) floating point from Microsoft.

The people who care about numerics tend to be people who care about performance, those people can deal with the weirdness but they don't want to give up any performance for it at all.
An equivalent quality speaker + amp system, etc will cost you about the same or more, take up more space and create a wire mess.
The NYTimes article on the study has more numbers. What's odd about DC is the number of losses seems high but it's hard to tell how big that is in proportion.

For example, Silicon Valley and San Francisco gained a huge number. However, Madison Wisconsin was in the top ten and is a much smaller metro area. Washington lost 7k but it's a big metro - especially compared to Wichita.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/09/business/economy/innovati...

And North Carolina is just weird - Durham lost 6k but Raleigh gained 12k? Are people just moving from Durham County to Wake County?
"Fixing the real problem" is huge - you need to get hundreds of millions of people to change their behavior. Leading your life as if you may not have the ability to materially change the world isn't a bad idea.
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There's a Germany company, called Relocatly that took money from hundreds of people shipping household goods from Europe to the US -- they went insolvent, our goods were held in port by the actual shipping company and now we have to pay the shipping company despite having already paid Relocately.

They took money for shipments even after they already knew they were insolvent. Now our original payments are trapped inside the insolvency account and the managers of the company? No consequences at all even though they took money for a service they knew they wouldn't be able to provide.

Small anecdote, but the claim that "European company founders are much more likely to be held responsible for their companies' debt" is not true in my experience. If anyone is interested in reading some of the customer stories of Relocately: https://www.international-movers-reviews.com/company/relocat...

My point isn't to complain about that specific company, but to provide a counterexample that the idea that European corporate governance isn't necessarily "better" at all. They scam and fraud just as readily as anyone else.
Always learn. Even if you think you know it all, you don't.
> real company

This is a bit nebulous. Every consumer, especially where the expense is a lot of money for them would do well to give this idea more thought.

A pretty website, a few employees and some prototypes doesn’t hit a meaningful bar, let alone millions of dollars in capital (which this joint didn’t even have), TBH. Too bad fuckedcompany is no longer around, it did a great service.
> Apparently, money is meaningless.

I am not going to argue in favour of the banana. But I am going to argue in favour of (expensive) art.

If I had only $10 and $1 would buy me food and shelter, then I would pay $9 for a Monet or van Gogh. Why? Because if I never see or possess an actual Monet or van Gogh, how can I verify things about the past? How can I verify anything? How can I have a physical and complete connection to the past?

To take a more historic example, if anything new (and real) about the man called Jesus is discovered, it would be equally valuable to nonreligous people as to religous people. Suppose for a moment that you find Jesus's diary and in it he wrote: "Can people please stop writing four separate accounts of how I am the messiah; I am not." Wouldn't the change that would bring about be more significant than the amounts of money spent in various contexts? For the record, I don't think the Jesus example matters much in 2019. But back in the Renaissance, our connection to the past (and the past's knowledge) was critical. Maybe Euclid's elements is not "art" to you but it sure as hell should be preserved as though it were art.

Art and artifacts are to history as experimentation is to science.
I have a different theory. There will be a capped total of 21m BTC. In say 10 years, there will be a number of BTC "users". By "users" I mean people who in their ordinary business use BTC for value exchange. To facilitate that use, we need to have a certain freely available amount of BTC per user at any time, say $1000 in USD equivalent. Call this "float"

Then, assuming no BTC lost or locked in long term storage (I suspect these cause upward corrections of 5-10x from below estimates), the price of BTC will be btc_px ~= float * users / 21m.

I do not know how to estimate "float".
For users there are two scenarios:

1. Low adoption/high government restrictions, BTC is used for mostly illicit transactions: say 50,000 users worldwide

2. High adoption, legal use: perhaps 50m users worldwide.

Assuming my float = 1000 USD we get btc_px ~$20 for scenario 1 and ~$20,000 for scenario 2. I may be off by an order of magnitude in the "float" assumption. Would love to hear your thoughts.
No, New York Is Not Getting an Amazon Headquarters Anyway
Not everybody has the privilege to burn trucks of money like ie. Uber.
Mr. Spinney narrated the audiobook of Street Gang, a book about the creation of Sesame Street. While listening I realized that his "regular" voice sounds almost but not quite like Big Bird's. With Oscar though he disguises his voice very well.
You have to understand that our perception of fashion pricing is completely skewed by fast fashion. It is payed by slave labour and extremely poluting processes.

The 2000$ jacket is not wierd. The 50$ is.

I am not saying Acronym is super ecological or ethical (i dont know them). But with that pricetag there is atleast a chance. There is so much suffering behind new cheap clothes it is scary.
ReSpeaker was a shame, though. The v1 hardware was horrifically unstable (and then they quickly moved on to v2 and swept v1 under the rug). But, I went into it with the expectation that things might work out, so, while I was disappointed, I knew that was a possibility from the start.
Are the tools curated by you ? How can one submit new tools ?
Its an old American tradition, the Perfect Employee: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indentured_servitude_in_the_Am... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartleby,_the_Scrivener
Who is generating the fake likes and fake clicks (even if anecdotally)? Facebook itself?
I was using nslookup for decades, but all the distributions were threatening that it was going away.. Looks like that decision got reversed? :)
Maybe in factories, but we’re seeing a real need for craftsmen in Denmark after three decades of university being the only “cool” education path. Mean while white collar students with less attractive degrees struggle to find work.

I’m not sure if it’s really blue-collar if you’re a plumber, nurse or an electrician, because my English is lacking, but we need those a whole lot more, even compared to people who studied the soft-IT educations.
"Basically all"? I disagree. I think that state taxes total about half of federal taxes.
Missing All Bookmarks from AgileBits, which is probably fine because it isn't available and probably isn't on anyone's radar anymore :)

https://web.archive.org/web/20110511105926/http://agilebits....

But for posterity and to remember it, there's the old page via the way back machine.

Kyle

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Keybase is awesome, it's really improved over the years.