skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my recent US experience, gas pumps are the only things still using magstripe. Everyone with a card reader at their register seems to be using the chip reader.
Traditionally it has been unions that have placed a check on employers' perpetual quest to trade humanity for efficiency.
Fedex has their own margin of error.

If they can't deliver it within their margin, they shouldn't claim they can.
No immediate, concrete reason to care, but it's not like we're not paying for that fraud in the long run. Costs go up to account for the losses.
I'd just like to point out that Apple isn't anywhere near a monopoly in any way at all. Nothing is forcing you to use Apple devices or services: there are lots of alternatives. In fact, in the mobile phone market alone, Apple is actually a pretty small player globally, at maybe 15% or less. It's very easy to avoid being an Apple customer.

It's not that hard to avoid using Amazon either. Anything they sell can be bought somewhere else. But Amazon is frequently the cheapest and most convenient option, so it might feel like it's hard to avoid unless you're willing to pay a premium to buy somewhere else. But this just isn't the case with Apple: you have to pay a huge premium to be an Apple customer. Apple is successful solely because of marketing and brand cachet, not pricing like Amazon.

Finally, there's no monopolies in farm equipment either. John Deere customers lock themselves into that vendor somewhat willingly (though there is an argument that in many places, the only local equipment dealer is a JD dealer). There are alternatives: New Holland, Kubota, etc.
The link I posted isn't predicting what the future looks like. It's about dealing with flooding and storm surge.

You asked how it can be mapped. It absolutely can be mapped.
There is no way the CCP is going to legislate that into reality. There is no way the US Congress is going to further handicap American industry with what then amounts to another subsidy to China. It's not a solution. Nor is barring e-waste exports a solution. That material will end up in landfill. Terrible idea.
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There's really no reason to worry about it. Battery replacements (at least from Apple) are $70, and all modern phones have sophisticated battery management controllers.

Also, fast charging your battery more often could be better since you're not fully discharging and recharging your battery.
Right. So of course we're supposed to solve homelessness. Know how this can be accomplished in Seattle?
You see the same about notebook computers with soldered RAM/storage - hand-wavey arguments about socketed hardware coming loose.

Like with most of the half-truths you find on the internet, it seems plausible but without evidence such as how often Apple were reseating RAM in laptops we have no way of really knowing how accurate it is.
Well, duh (1996)
What does money isn't an issue mean?

Also, I would personally get on LinkedIn find 5-10 sales reps in the area your looking for. Buy them lunch and ask them.
I know a common line for vehicles was basically:
3rd party parts (and service) can't be guaranteed to be to the same quality as 1st party parts (and service) which can cause extra wear and disruptions to other parts of the vehicle even if they're not immediately apparent. Since we can't control what part 3rd parties use (or level of service) we restrict repair to our licensed repairers (via drm, patents, custom tooling, and/or lack of documentation).

It's somewhat justified in that it theoretically protects customers and the companies reputation.

Personally I don't disagree with this argument but I don't believe it to be sufficient to justify the extra cost and inconvenience to customers over a percentage of poor acting repairers and part suppliers.
Last time I encountered this issue (in LA) the attendant correctly advised me that 00000 would work instead. Worth a shot next time!
There is no better way for a software engineer to learn about the perils of poor software and machine learning than to go under the knife (literally). Cambridge Analytica and the constant fearmongering about data collection ultimately has very few immediate and direct impacts. The designers of Canadian/French radiotherapy machines never had to dogfood their own product. This on the other hand, has a very quick and immediate feedback loop. If one were to graduate from building robots to building e.g. airliner control systems, a bit of skin off the tip of the ear or scalp would pay for itself several times over if you factor in the loss of an airliner.

https://www.imgur.com/gallery/r2fW2o7
Who at Boeing made the final decision? Was there a debate?
Boeing to Temporarily Shut Down 737 Max Production
Not anymore. A peer-to-peer network was used to avoid the massive network egress costs, while the creator worked on a cost-efficient hosted app.

https://twitter.com/nickwalton00/status/1203843111287316485

https://www.patreon.com/posts/update-32193930
Personally I’d love a (competent) hair cutting robot because I simply don’t have time. The only day of the week I can get my hair cut is Saturday; I meant to get it done last Saturday, ran out of time, now I’m going out of town next Saturday and I am stuck looking terrible for the rest of the year.

If there were a robot at the mall I could get it done at 9pm on a Tuesday or whenever I have a moment.
Abe’s New Word Order
>Now I see the Amazon delivery people, and they look majorly stressed out as if they are on the edge of collapse. Many times they are delivering things at 10pm desperately trying to meet their quotas.

Even UPS sounds.. not great. I have a friend who's a delivery driver for UPS and especially this time of year he has days where his truck is loaded with 250-300 parcels and they're basically all supposed to be delivered by evening. They even hire temp guys as runners who ride along in trucks to help the drivers get the packages dropped off quicker. Not only that but if they do clear their truck and they have fellow guys in their route who still have a load to clear, they tend to be asked to stick around and help take that load. But it means 10-12 hour or more shifts in some cases.

It's the Amazon/online shopping craze, and seems like it isn't a very easily scalable problem.
Agree with this. I love my kids like crazy. But I see other parents here that are doing circuit boards and such with their kids, and mine are just not interested at all, and I can't help but wonder what it would be like if.
I think they created the expectation of vertical integration too. “Amazon does it better and quicker”, a retail customer might think, as they peruse possible cloud providers.

Amazon is an incredibly sticky brand because they created expectations that you almost have to be vertically integrated (or at least one of the largest customers of the post office, the electric company, the computer hardware company, the software vendor, etc) to fulfill.
We are targeting Android end of Q1 next year.

To some extent I'd agree with you and eventually I'd love for this to become a consumer product. Here are some of the reasons we haven't taken that approach though.

- We have relatively limited resource. We would have to be choosing between features targeted at consumers and features targeted at factories tracking 1000's of tools.

- We currently can track things to within about 10m. That's about the size of a house. In a factory 400m by 350m on the other hand it's a massive help - people actually spend hours looking for things. Products like Tile solve that problem with a buzzer - our form factor and price point make that very difficult. Sounds also don't work in a noisy factory environment - you usually can't hear the phone in your pocket.
So do the Canadian ones, you just skip the letters and add zeroes. Try 00164 or 16400 for SE16 4EP.
My barber always leaves a TV running in the corner. If you're in a talkative mood he's more than happy to chat, but if you're the quiet sort he's content to work quietly and listen to the TV instead. (I'm not a huge fan of TV, but it's prompted some interesting conversations about motor sports, of which he's a fan but which I know fairly little about.)

Before I found my current barber, I used to go to a 'hair salon' sort of place that had very talkative hip young hairdressers. They were always friendly but I found them harder to relate to. It was also a lot more crowded which didn't help, and they always seemed a little disappointed when I asked for a regular haircut.
Those arguments don't work in the automotive market. Modern cars are just as complex, yet anyone is allowed to change their own oil or do anything they want really (though they can get frustrated by anything requiring a proprietary scan tool). And car owners are allowed to mode their cars however they want as long as they don't run afoul of emissions laws (yet many of them do anyway, because enforcement is poor).
What I wonder about these schemes - why don't any of these "Money mules" just keep all of the money? If these guys had any enforcement capabilities in the US, they presumably wouldn't need money mules.
That was an eye-opener. I don't think you'd use a word like that on a UK gameshow. I'm not sure how the producers would react if you did.

Mind you, Countdown, in which a series of random letters are placed onto a board, has had its moments:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTrSUiHm4YY
> The argument to be had is how much the government needs to watch out for the citizenship, because every "protective" law they pass is a restriction on the aforementioned freedoms.

This doesn't work. It might in a "history" book that is intentionally written to espouse pride and nationalism in your nation's ideals, but this is not the reality of human beings.

The above __might__ work if all parties worked with good intent, but that's not what corporations are. They need to be governed, otherwise they will infect your government in order to produce a reality that is better for their existence.

This is not theory, it is practical knowledge of the world we live in.

I really really wish the pro-corporate Americans are able to divorce themselves from their fantasy of what corporatism might look like when padded by bullshit about "freedom", as opposed to what it has already done and will continue to do to their government.
Interestingly, in some cases the amount of subsidy required may go down by eliminating fares and the associated collection and ticketing infrastructure. (That doesn't account for changes in ridership level. On the other hand, it also doesn't account for speeding up pickup times by not worrying about fare collection.)

On balance, it's likely more efficient to pay for public transit via approaches like taxes on businesses served by that transit (who will get increased business).

At this point, I don't think fares serve much of a revenue function; they serve as a filtering function, excluding people who can't afford them, and as a PR function, making transit get more votes.

Also, I have a lot of sympathy for "should we subsidize this or not" arguments, but any such argument also needs to take into account how much we subsidize roads. Gas taxes and registration fees don't fully cover the costs of roads, any more than transit fares fully cover the costs of transit.
Ya, because your network connected, computer controlled, self driving car is and will always be completely secure.
So same trust you put in any 3rd party DNS service. But I agree there's less contractual bindings to this service than an account somewhere that you even might pay some money for it.
Boeing to Suspend 737 Max Production in January
"1) I ask why this applies to most industries
2) You point out it applies to FAANG"

That is a lie because I said "often" in "You see that from papers published at top ML conferences. Top contributors are often from FAANG. Some papers are clearly applications." without saying that FAANG = most industries. Instead, I said you can see that from these conferences. Thus, you made it up.

"4) You say most industries must only include those better than the S&P 500"

That is a lie. I didn't say that. I said "If you find no paper from that company, chances are high their stock price is not beating S&P 500 over the last 5 years." I only mentioned a correlation and said nothing about your "most industries".

You misinterpret the text. Fortunately, the text is written so it was easy to prove you are liar, boy.
What software did you use for the 3D reconstruction?
> It sounds very unlikely that the reason for stagnant and too low wages is inadequate prosecution of the most vulnerable people in society.

That's a pretty loaded statement presented without evidence. Vagrants are aren't "the most vulnerable people in society'. They're criminals. If we punish them like criminals, they'll stop their criminal behavior or spent time in prison where they can't cause problems for everyone else.
Except Amazon owns ring and all that cloud based video footage, so good luck getting far with that evidence.
And doing and performing exactly as Amazon demands.
Apple pulls app that let you turn your phone into virtual iPod with click wheel
Better and more frequent service is the number one ridership driver. Free transit is a nice perk but there's some convincing argument and survey data indicating that most people aren't avoiding transit because of the price, but because of perceived lack of utility or reliability.

(And yes, obviously continue to use tax revenue as well, just like we charge tolls for some roads but that doesn't pay for all their upkeep.)
I feel bad for the UPS guys whenever my door cam catches them sprinting to the door and back to their truck.
Let them breath a little for god sake. Yeah they aren't up to the task of hosting a video that goes viral, for two simple reasons, first they are way too new to have the kind of infrastructure to support that and second, it's not even the goal of the platform.

This is not a free video hosting website, this is only allowing paid subscription. If something goes viral enough enough paid subscriber watch it, I'm pretty sure that the amount paid by theses subscribers will be more than enough to support that wave. Having more channels will certainly make theses peaks smaller too, and that will only happens once they grow bigger.
For a gritty SF version of Guiyu e-waste recycling, check out Waste Tide[1], plot is a little convoluted, but it's certainly got lots of atmosphere.

1: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39863294-waste-tide
Cheers, really appreciated
Cashing in on Fintech Unicorns Is Harder Than It Seems
Zswap was announced before Mavericks was a thing.
If it's a #2 all over you'll have no problem finding the remaining patches with your hands. No mirrors needed, just feel your head. This is true for most guards about #4 and below. Above that and the length of the hairs are not different enough to feel the differences.
I think we're all guilty of contributing to this problem. We all say we're for livable wages and then don't vote with our dollars as often as we should. I'm definitely guilty of going to Amazon because a book is a few dollars cheaper there and I can get it in two days instead of a week.

If we care about workers and corporate behavior, we need to be willing to pay a little more for products that are made by companies who's ethics we can get behind. Purism and System76 are good examples of this in the laptop space.

When we do vote with our dollars, the results are often impressive, as seen by the surge in availability of organic meat and produce.
The Dangerous Business of Mining
> If it were possible, I'd have Amazon block their own shipping service

They can. Next time they mess up, gather your list of prior order numbers they've messed up and put on your super irate customer voice.
Oh I misunderstood what you meant! That's a clever thing to have tried. Fortunately, I have local cards in all of these countries so I haven't tried anything like that. How interesting that it works!

One of my British cards (Capital One?) has me use all zeroes.
Because it slows things down by 3 or 4 orders of magnitude?
> Economists have been casting around for the answer, a theory to explain their inability to peer accurately in the months ahead, let alone the years. ...

No mention of "quantitative easing" anywhere.

QE ran in various forms from 2008-2013. Short term rates were held at zero in the US from 2008-2015. Several industrialized areas now have negative nominal rates. The Fed has started QE back up again to prop up the failing repo market, insisting that what's happening isn't another round of QE. None of these unusual activities were considered worth discussing by most economists prior to 2008. No wonder why their predictions are so off the mark.

Can ultra-loose monetary policy lead to marketplace distortions? Can it lead to malinvestments like we see in the tech sector? Can it lead companies into a false sense of security, delaying and scaling back layoffs, because the usual economic signals have been swept under the rug by government policies?

Of course. The only surprise here is that the WSJ chooses to completely ignore these completely obvious distortions.
A Design for Death
Bezos is thinking like a manager. People are resources. If one resource quits ( beccause he/she/it does not like working for the military^W^W democracy) than he/she/it is replaced by another resource. It is that simple.
I've been using the MYN system [1] for the last couple of years for work-related todos. One aspect of it is what you could call a "priority stack". That is, it behaves like a stack, except when you reprioritize items by pulling them towards the top of the stack (upon daily/weekly/monthly review). Items that turn out to be not important/urgent will tend to sink towards the bottom of the stack, and the further down the stack, the less frequently you review them. The algorithm is based on the insight that (a) you can't possibly get everything done that you capture as a todo item, and (b) you don't know beforehand which items are the ones that you can (or will have to) discard. The staggered review process however automatically sorts them out.

Like GTD, MYN is a commercial product, however the book is affordable and the main chapters are well worth reading, even if you don't use Outlook or Toodledo (the two main tools used to present MYN).

[1] https://www.michaellinenberger.com/AboutMYN.html
This is one of the reasons I like my Galaxy Note 10. Samsung Pay supports Magnetic Secure Transmission (MST). You can use it to pay at the pump without risking your actual credit card number as it creates virtual rolling card numbers.

This feature won't be too useful in a few years when every payment terminal has NFC, but until then it is nice to have backwards compatibility.
Reading Seawater
The chip readers in the US don't do chip and pin. It's just chip or chip and signature. Wondering if the article just got the details wrong, or if something is changing.
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[0]: for anyone interested in looking its at https://www.kickscondor.com/

[1]: I am not in any way shape or form affiliated with the author, just very impressed!
You leave out the possibility that they could run much better service with the money they have and they need to plan better. I don't know if that's the case here, but it's always the first thing to ask. Too many poorly run transit systems skip right over that to dumping more money into a poorly planned system and wonder why it doesnt work.
> The active capitalist stuff going on, is mostly the frothy but as water fills up the reservoir - it the deep water is public, social wealth.

Even privately held capital is underpinned by public, social "wealth" in the form of a system of property rights and the means to arbitrate those.

Society, as manifested in government and the courts, is protecting all our claims to ownership of property with the threat of force. If it stops doing that, the value of much of our property/capital will plummet quickly.
I love programming languages that are case sensitive. So easy for each programmer to have their own programming style on naming variables and then errors galore, which in the end will result in hiring an outside senior to clean-up the mess - that's me of course, and all for heavy money.

Somebody please invent another case sensitive programming language, we don't have enough of them already.
Yeah, that was part of what I was trying to communicate. I think another political aspect is the corporate influence on political media that heavily influences the average voter's stance on many issues related to corporate governance. I.e. CNN/Fox/NBC etc. have vast and diverse corporate goals but also control much of the political discussion that influences voters. The fact that many media companies exist under the same conglomeration only exasperates this effect.
Go, Postgres and a dirt simple React/Typescript/Parcel app as the frontend. 99% of the time you won’t need anything else.
Lots of reasons going to gas stations sucks. It's one of the reasons I plan on going electric soon. (You still have to deal with charger stations which have similar issues but only when you are traveling, not day-to-day)
Interesting info but what an annoying video. A good intro, and then an over-the-top montage. Skip to 2:00, ah wait at 2:29 he thanks about his sponsor. At 3:08 the content starts. Of course he rambles too much because I guess he needs to fill 10 minutes for more $$$?
If there is a cost associated with producing content and that cost can’t be recouped by the presentation of that content (speaker fees at conferences, advertisements, sponsorships, etc) then the content should be sold for a fair market rate.

That’s basically the entire point of GDPR. Stop making people trade personal information for “free” content.
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FedEx and UPS are likely hit by this as well. Given driver behavior in the past few years (throw packages at doorstep, buzz all units in building and don't wait for an answer before speeding off), they're probably judged on packages delivered, so they're optimizing for quantity, not quality.

I wouldn't blame Amazon's logistics group for this, but simply the rise of delivery shopping (in large part fueled by Amazon). It's really hard to scale that, especially at the low (or zero) shipping prices customers have been trained to expect.
Related, though a bit earlier in the news cycle: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21799845
It's not a hard chicken/egg situation though - put money into making transit a viable alternative for these roads, then start charging for the roads when there's another option. We don't think twice about spending billions eternally digging up and reconfiguring our highways, so we could do the same to transit, for much more bang for the buck.
Interesting... birthworks.org: "From outward appearances, by three months, our eyes are the same size that they will ever be as the corneas have reached their full width"
I guess the point of all this discussion is "don't trust a random guy on the Internet that offers to host DNS for you", but also we place way too much trust on DNS.
You don’t need to solve it. But there are numerous tried and proven ways of significantly reducing homelessness. We could start by evaluating and employing some of these.
This is factually incorrect.

DMCA claimants are required to consider whether or not actual copyright infringement is occurring, including whether or not the use of copyrighted material is protected by fair use. See Lenz v. Universal Music Corp.

As far as I know no one has litigated this with respect to the perjury penalty specifically, but civil DMCA penalties for filing false DMCA claims absolutely do apply, and it seems likely that if a prosecutor would actually prosecute this criminal ones (perjury) would too.

(The grandparents point that youtubes copyright system these days doesn't really involve the DMCA is still valid).

IANAL