skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
KFC became sketchy over the decades due to corporate penny-pinching. But our local grocery store (Albertson's) makes a better quality version for roughly the same price.
Given the limited geographic distribution of study participants, the study might suggest pervasive environmental contamination of hot-pot ingredients instead of a capsaicin effect
> Good luck for average Joe Farmer troubleshooting why the hydraulic valve doesn't work? Can be everything from a faulty valve or cabin switch over broken shielding somewhere along the CAN (or other) high speed bus leading to garbled transmissions to a software bug somewhere in the control unit. The farmer can easily fix a broken component - but good luck finding the issue in the latter two failure modes, I doubt it's even possible for a small freelance shop as it requires HF communications or IT knowledge combined with specialized tooling (signal analyzer, some kind of debugging tool for the CU).

If the machine was built for reparability, it could have built-in diagnostics that could greatly help troubleshoot those kind of problems.

For instance, couldn't broken shielding leading to garbled transmissions be partially diagnosed if error rates over the cable are tracked and a warning displayed that identifies the part in question?
http://archive.is/gpdQs
We (my employer, Refund Retriever) has caught them just outright lying about deliveries before.

https://www.refundretriever.com/blog/FedEx-Tracking-Error
What’s the use of “programming skills” in the abstract that doesn’t serve anyone’s needs?

“programming” is just a tool to me - not an end goal. I’m just as proud of the code that I was smart enough not to write and use an existing product/service/module for as I am for the code that I did write.
>If that's not you, you will have hard time.

Only if you're a buffoon with your budget. A non-rent controlled, very large apartment in SF proper will run you $3-4k/mo. You can even bump that up to $5k/mo if you really wanted to go luxurious or pay for a 2-3 bedroom, and you would still be under the recommended "30% of salary goes to housing" metric. If you purchased a typical 30 year mortgage on a $1.5million house, you would still be at only 40% of salary spent on housing, and that's with an entry level salary! Most people cannot even dream of affording a home until they are in their 30s.

An entry level worker being able to afford a sizable home and still take away several thousand dollars a month in savings is so well off compared to the vast majority of Americans that it's outright insulting to say that they are anywhere even remotely close to "scraping by" or "having a hard time".
This is cool as hell. Would love to see this re-adapted for regular end-user (non-business) use, as my husband and I use tile for this and it's sort of crap. Why is tile crap?

* the find-your-phone feature activates by accident all the time in our pockets, which can be pretty embarrassing. If I could I would just disable that feature as google home can find my phone just fine.

* when I actually lose my keys/wallet, the tile typically won't connect. In a meeting when my keys press against my wallet, it connects without fail.

* the batteries die pretty quickly, and the only recourse is to buy a new tile

* there doesn't seem to be (and should be) some sort of proximity tech based on roundtrip time -- make it beep rapidly as roundtrip time gets shorter (waiting for massive comments about why this doesn't necessarily indicate proximity)
It is actually even narrower, "States can't jail people for sleeping in public if there's no homeless shelters and they can prove they had no funds to provide alternative arrangements."

If you can pay for a hotel room or other accommodation you the city/state can make it illegal for you to sleep outside.
Like I said, the ability of the programmer is up for debate, but objectively, they created code that solved the problem.
What tweeting out that your product is on HN isn't exactly "manipulation"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis

If you're downvoting, please just reply with a reasonable explanation why, since I like to learn where I am likely wrong, and you hopefully like to educate someone having a differing opinion. Thanks.
The Myth of Well-Regulated Trophy Hunting
i am not convinced that wasm interpreter will be bug/vulnerability free.
as it was the case for every new piece of software there will be ton of vulnerabilties in the VM itself that will be exploited
One-Sentence Journaling App
Researchers out of Qatar University assessed the chili intake and rate of cognitive decline of nearly 5,000 Chinese adults aged 55 and older over a 15-year period.

If you are poor and in China, those chilis may be getting dried over an open coal fire. This is known to come with myriad negative health impacts.

At least 3,000 people in Guizhou Province in southwest China are suffering from severe arsenic poisoning. The primary source of the arsenic appears to be consumption of chili peppers dried over fires fueled with high-arsenic coal.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC34284/
Is this accomplished by ip6.arpa?

https://www.ripe.net/manage-ips-and-asns/db/support/document...
Jeff Bezos says firms should feel comfortable working for the military
> limited float, put the stock in friendly hands

That part is key. In order to short the stock you need someone to lend you shares first. If there is high demand from short sellers relative to the available float, then the cost to borrow the stock will go up, making the short position more expensive to maintain.
Some retrospective ...

Ten years ago browsers were capable to do pretty much the same but with Java on board that they all had at those times.

WebAssembly is conceptually close to JavaVM (JITed bytecodes) but due to its architecture Java allowed as a) reflection (JS to Java calls) as b) exposure of DOM model into Java execution space - DOM API even now is defined in terms of Java interfaces by the way.

WebAssembly is a step in right direction but the evolution looks as Waltz - two steps forward two steps back with the twist.

Now we are able to run ray tracers compiled to WA on browser side but we've lost an option to apply the results to DOM elements directly.

To say in CSS:

my-component {
behavior: my-native-event-handler url(controllers/my-controller.class);
flow: my-native-layout-manager;
}
Their point is to have enormous unpressurised volume ("oversized cargo"), their lifting capacity is not impressive compared to traditional cargo planes, especially for the price: each XL costs 200m (1bn for the entire program) for 50t, an An-224 can lift more than twice the weight for half the price.

However XL has more than twice the cargo volume.
Isn’t that part of the problem with Google? If they focused more on the actual user they wouldn’t have five failed messaging initiatives including three that they were working on simultaneously.

Developers not caring about the customer explains most of Google’s major failures outside of advertising.
Is communication with the ECU encrypted in some cars? Will it be in the future? If that happens, it will become much harder to replace components with aftermarket devices.
"make bad personal choices" - somehow, people in the US make bad personal choices in direct correlation to government economic policy. And in many other countries almost nobody "makes bad choices". I guess public welfare inspires astute personal choice-making!
Unable to Type, Google Engineer Creates His Own Voice Recognition Software
Suddenly whatever.has-a.name is pointing to a different IP address and that server has the cert installed. Oops.
Thanks for the link. I didn't really "get" the first part, as I don't really have a close relationship with the American West, but once it hit New York, I was impressed with how succinctly he summarized my impressions of the American East.

[edit] After familiarizing myself with the author's style on the topic of New York, it was well worth rereading the rest of the book.
Maybe research why Denver's program is not working is the solution?

This SC decision seems pretty clear in saying that if shelters are provided but not used, that can be illegal. It is only not possible to say people cannot sleep outside if there is no other options.
That sounds like something a theologian moving the goal posts in light of modern findings would say.
They’re often people who simply refuse to participate in society in a very basic way... which is fine but I also think that I have some
right to personal safety as much as they do. LA has experienced Typhus outbreaks in their homeless camps. They absolutely trash huge sections of most cities. Crime and disease are a huge issue in those populations.

Homelessness should be combated with compassion and understanding. We have a responsibility to provide shelter, food, and ways out of homelessness for people.

Vagrancy on the other hand should be met with something else. We have the right as a society to ensure that our cities and public spaces work for everyone.
Ethics already has a lot of very "quantitative" problems it deals with: for example, see all the variants of the trolley problem where there is a concrete number of individuals to save/kill on each track [0]. Or Hardin's lifeboat [1].

Further, CS is not the first quantitative discipline to need to deal with ethical problems attached to hard numbers of human lives. For example, Medical ethics deals this problem with eg triage in emergencies and engineering ethics has had to deal with it for as long as people have been building things. So there is a lot of prior art to be built on.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem

[1] http://www.garretthardinsociety.org/articles/art_lifeboat_et...
That's the problem. You read something and then a year later someone says the opposite and backed up by some university paper.
MetaRouter – Data integration for security-minded organizations
Nowadays it's becoming more common to become homeless despite having a job, due to stagnant wages combined with no affordable housing. There are many documentaries on YouTube covering this phenomenon, such as this one from CBS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0HcIJpWMDk, and this one from DW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHDkALRz5Rk
They might be running old equipment whose only electronic equipment is the spark plugs and headlights. The people who don't upgrade old equipment tend to fall very heavily in the "if it ain't broke don't fix it" camp, and this applies equally to legislation as well as farm equipment.
Simply put, yes, the app is currently setup to show a chain of custody over time, which may mean providing the metadata you mention. Specifically, the app currently shows who had a specific delivery at what time, and where, shown chronologically.

But this is also an example by which we’re building a platform for other more sophisticated tracking that could extend beyond just one carrier. For just in time supply chains, Got-it labels could enable automatic updates as deliveries go from one carrier to the next. The carriers themselves don’t need a specific scanning tool for barcodes or RFIDs. It’s all automatic. On the receiving side, when packages arrive on receiving docks, or even on a construction site, we can automatically signal into systems or directly to people that are awaiting the delivery.
It's all about Amazon's focus on customer service and customer satisfaction. By keeping customer happiness as a top priority, customers will continue to return for future business and trust Amazon in new categories.

They prioritize customer happiness above profit and put any profits made into growth, so they will continue to grow by making more customers happy and opening new categories.
Fedex is the absolute worst. They're never on time and I can't even go to a Fedex location to pick up my own fedex packages. They more or less simply get returned to sender if they require any kind of signature.

I'm glad Amazon is finally putting a stop to it.
The Upcoming 5G Confusion
Visa warns that hackers are scraping card details from gas pumps
> It would make sense, and all text in a user interface should be user selectable and offer the same behaviors.

How would you know? You have never used such a system because it doesn't exist, how do you know it's better?

If you had ever implemented something like a drag and drop UI, a context menu, or even a a simple button using plain old HTML, you would've immediately noticed that selectable text interferes with user interaction. It's the first thing you disable and it's the reason why "user-select:none" must exist.
Quarterly reports come out every, surprise, three months. Pretty much any action is going to be on the cusp of a quarterly report.

Further FedEx did a big public hoopla announcing that they were dropping Amazon back in August (not the other way around). Maybe they really don't work for each other. Delivery is a pretty big pie.

In Canada FedEx has never been a part of the delivery options they use, beyond more than a minute percentage.
No, ip6.arpa is for reverse DNS; this is forward DNS.
An Inside Look at How a Tape Measure Is Made [video]
Cybersecurity Skills: Vital Role in These 10 Tech Jobs
As much as I'd like all able-minded and able-bodied people to try to be productive in society to whatever extent feasible, if that's not an option, I would much rather they "abuse" government housing instead of living on the streets being a public nuisance and health hazard, as is often the case.

I really have no problem with the concept of "criminalizing homelessness" -- as long as we can provide sufficient housing for everyone, regardless of their financial state.
I'm surprised YouTube hasn't killed his account. That would seem to be the obvious next step.
They have a more accurate results by seeing actual performance numbers, not opinionated results. They see customer retention in certain areas, they see damaged, lost, stolen, late packages. They have numbers for every type of issue and every location.

If they let customers decide, they'd be a lot more limited in both their reporting and their testing.
And Korea Put SPAM ( As in the luncheon meat ) in Christmas Gift Box.

[1] http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20190122000585
Continuous learning and studying outside of work. I know being a workaholic is not good but if you really enjoy what you do and you have big goals, getting the discipline to learn something new every day, pays huge dividends short and long term.
Do you send your kids to daycare when you have a stay at home wife? Those numbers doesn't make sense, either your wife stays at home so no need for daycare or she works and earns money covering for the daycare costs and likely more.
The article is a little all over the place. It's no so much about interfaces integrating AI to figure out what your next move is, rather using AI to generate interfaces for the next-gen UI that mixed-reality could usher in.
Everything about popular task planning & tracking systems like Jira lead me to think that any aid they give the people actually doing the work is accidental and beside the point.
This. It's not science if it hasn't been replicated.

OT: does anybody know if there's a site that tracks which studies have been replicated and which ones haven't?
I don't think this was entirely sarcasm, it's mostly hyperbole. I am sure there will be some generally used configuration that will do basically that, and for a good reason. I just have no idea what the reason may be.

About speed, JIT optimized bytecode can be faster than what is possible to static binaries. The JIT has more information than the compiler to optimize your code. Currently I don't know of any that is that fast, but there is no inherent limitation here.
I suspect that Amazon does not want to put additional cognitive load on the purchaser right at the most critical point of the conversion funnel.

As a customer, I want a delivery time/date and let Amazon figure out how to do it. They're presumably way better at it than I am. If Amazon fails at that, I want to be able to complain without feeling like "oh, it was my fault because I picked Rickshaw Bob as the carrier".

When Amazon would willy-nilly give away a month of Prime when a guaranteed package was late, I would frequently wish I could get a package over to Mail Innovations or SurePost. Both would pretty reliably be late and for most packages, I'd rather have the $10 credit.
California 'porch pirate' caught after police use GPS 'bait package'
Thanks, never saw this before about Hinduism.
I'm sure that a decade from now you'll be able to do a much more convincing fake in a fraction of the time. We're getting deeper and deeper into a post-truth world.

Maybe I’m being paranoid but it seems that the public is being conditioned to believe deepfakes are so good prior to a certain cache of video recordings being made public
at least for me it complains my python is too new (arch) so I installed it on a nvidia cuda docker container (which is using 18.04) and for some reason it still complains it can't use CUDA but works fine on the CPU although slow
Which makes me wonder: why aren't there new An-224 or An-225 cargo planes being build for the logistics industry - shouldn't there be ample demand?
I work in a large urban hospital. Equipment belongs to a unit (a hospital bed belongs to Unit X and specifically in Room Y). Equipment gets moved around all the time and we often get All Staff emails saying "Has anyone seen equipment X, we are missing it and need it back for a patient."

I think the use case is obvious in hospitals and I know there are other RFID based solutions out there. Perhaps bluetooth might be a better solution as you won't have to install large readers at doorways etc.

Additionally we also have "Code Yellows" daily which means a missing patient (or patient that hasn't returned to unit on time).
Being able to monetize for quality content is one of the main purposes of this experiment. For our content as well as other people's content in future. I don't understand why content creators have to give away the content for free and "beg" for donations on Patreon. We will allow them to combine the two. There in-app purchases help quite a bit even though we end up losing 10-25% to the app stores.

There are some other reasons related to user experience. We can do a bit more in an app than what we can do in a browser e.g. push notifications for new titles and more control over UI. Also, I feel people like apps because people like to put things in "buckets" mentally.

But you are right - if/when we get some traction, we will provide a full-fledged platform on the Web also. People can choose where they want to read. Thanks for your thoughts.
The "cow lobby" is large multinational corporations... so yes it's an issue beating their lobbyists. Also, a side effect of antibiotics is weight gain in livestock - so even legislation that ostensibly outlaws use for the direct purpose of directly adding to profits, language in regulation is generally kept for medical purposes of "reducing disease" among herds. Disease that is at a high rate because of high density feedlot practices...
In no particular order the best ones I've read this year(so far) are:

Children of the Nameless by Brandon Sanderson - Probably one of the few very good magic the gathering books.

Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor by Anthony Everitt - excellent overview of the emperor

King Rat by James Clavell - fictional depiction of being a prisoner in a Japanese camp during WW2.

1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created by Charles C. Mann - talks about the natives in the Americas after first contact. Follow up to 1491.

Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship by Robert C. Martin - Good book for people looking to write clearer, more understandable code

The Elric Saga Part 1 by Michael Moorcock - Interesting protagonist.

Currently enjoying and will finish by end of year:

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern - It's about stories so far. If you liked the Night Circus, then you will like this. Great atmosphere.
The design predates broad availability of jetways at airports. The concept, in the 1960s, was that by being able to use stairs they'd be able to service many smaller airports. By the 1970s this was clearly the wrong choice -- smaller airports just installed jetways too. This was a design decision that didn't even last the decade, but was brought forward for the next 50 years because changes would mean a recertification. That is why the landing gear is short. There are essentially no operators who make use of the low height of the aircraft, and there hasn't been for longer than most of us have been alive.
Please email us (hn@ycombinator.com) when you're ready, because I'm pretty sure the HN community will find a ton to discuss about this.
Code quality is a poor measure of product success, commercial or otherwise.
AT&T are established utility monopolies. There is simply no comparison here. When Amazon owns the roads, or when they put UPS & FedEx out of business, then we can start making these comparisons.
People talk about the engineered perfection of Esperanto/Lojban, but perhaps so-called problems with natural languages actually have subtler benefits that we take for granted. People hate irregular verbs, but there must be some reason why they persist in natural languages. My personal theory is that natural languages contain emergent coding theory to allow native speakers to better understand each other when speaking in a "noisy" channel (including when the "noise" is just the fact that they're both chattering super fast because, you know, they're having a natural conversation).
Apparently the server costs are in the tens of thousands of dollars so they (or their university lab?) are losing money on it.
Newer Tiles have replaceable batteries. Also the app shows how close you are to the Tile and it seems to work. Also I seem to be able to find these, where with the older ones I had the same issue as you where I couldn’t find them when I wanted to.

I still press the button from my pocket and call my phone though. Grr.
It seems to me that it must be, since we're going to have self driving cars depending on all the components in the car working within a tight specification. How can manufacturers assure that the customer's car is still safe and won't randomly kill people or become weaponized? This is presumably a liability issue, and obviously a marketing issue as well. (And instead of "encrypted" I read "authenticated".) Does right to repair also come with feature reduction? By this I mean... go ahead and fix your car and put in whatever components you want, but know that as soon as you put in non-official parts, the car won't drive itself any more.
Mriya is a 30 years old one-off, a better comparison would be An-124 or 747-8F.

Though Mriya's cargo weight capacity is 250t, 190t is the heaviest single item it's lifted (a power station gas generator, from Poland to Armenia).
The counter-argument to that is that processors are ridiculously fast in human timescales

Until you actually have to implement your algorithm on a mobile device that is both memory, and power constrained and that doesn’t have a swap file. The OS will either lol your program for being too memory or power inefficient, kill another program running in the background (not a great user experience) and/or force the use of the high power cores using unnecessary battery life when a more efficient algorithm could have used the lower power cores.

Attitudes like this also explains why developers don’t think twice about delivering battery consuming Electron apps.