skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or it means that you're selling $2 of goods and services for $1 of cost to the customer. In traditional markets, this kind of predatory pricing was considered a form of anti-competitive behaviour, but usually only large near-monopolies with deep pockets had the money to pull it off. VC allows a startup - that can't possibly be considered a monopoly - to price a product/service at below-cost for years to grow its user base regardless of ultimate sustainability. See also: Groupon, Movie Pass, WeWork, and maybe Uber.

In the end it's often the VCs that choose the market leader, not the customers. Competitors that enter the market without VC backing are forced to be profitable from the start and have no way to compete on quality or price. This is especially apparent with "gig economy" startups where offering subsidies/incentives to the service providers increases the quality (timeliness, availability, coverage) of the service for the customer.

In many ways it resembles a command economy, with a small number of VCs deciding what "the next big thing" is ("oh, looks like everybody wants scooters, let's pour all our capital into scooter companies").
Xdebug is great, but the setup process is not friendly. There's tools that try to automate the install process, but it's very far from having an OOB experience.
It was just a shell company, nothing but a social monetization machine. Like most startups of that time.
I'm procrastinating so hard today that I don't even feel like reading procrastination articles on HN!

Yesterday was decent, I started off a bit sluggish but okay, but by mid afternoon I really got going and got a bunch of good things done. I was actually on a productivity high!

Today I came in with that same good energy, and then an alert came in: "user suchNsuch has been blocked due to high volume of suspicious emails sent!" Damn! Total derail. I've been able to do the basics to mitigate that situation, but lost all of my enthusiasm for other projects.

Maybe getting out of the office for a second lunch will help! If I feel like reading these articles after, I will know some progress has been made.
An Unexpected Note That Brought Us to Tears and Made a Lot of Hard Work Worth It
I think their unpublished argument is that they can make money by forcing people to use their own filters by making the argument publicly that they shouldn't have to provide support for people putting consumables that they don't have any quality control over into their machines.
correct me if I'm wrong, but couldn't a site easily defeat a pihole by return a page with links to ad assets that have IP addresses rather than hostnames?

Resolve the hostnames on the server and simply substitute them in the links/scripts/assets
It doesn’t have any mode that’s not encrypted.
The Saudis trade oil in USD. If they were to switch to the renminbi you would see a huge shift in US foreign policy.
In usual fashion, Wikipedia links sources where they can. In this case, this is the source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/glasgow_and_west...
> there was a movement by postmodernists to try to claim that science is just an ideology no better than religion or magic.

This is such a paranoid fantasy.
I really don't understand this kind of behavior. In the real world, this means that there will be a bunch of GE fridges out there where the ice / water doesn't work and only the person who decides the filters are too expensive really knows why. That can't be a good look for the brand...
Where are you located? Getting involved in SAR looks a lot different depending on where you are. In my community most people spend some time outdoors, but there isn't any one focus like rock climbing or kayaking or anything. So we'll take just about anyone who's interested and has reasonable judgement, and find ways they can contribute. You can take someone brand new and have them stand at a trailhead and interview anyone who's coming off the trail, and brief anyone who's heading out onto the trail.

There are some communities where it's competitive to get onto a SAR team. This typically happens in large urban areas right next to popular outdoor locations. If there are 10k rock climbers in an area, there might be so many people interested in climbing SAR that they have limited spots available. That's pretty unusual, though.

SAR is usually administered through the local sheriff's department, although it can differ. Here in Alaska the state troopers are responsible for SAR, but our team is based at our local volunteer fire department. I would encourage you to get in touch with the people responsible for SAR in your area, and ask what it takes to get involved. Often times there are many different ways you can contribute, and it's a tremendously satisfying endeavor. It's also a really nice balance for sitting in front of a screen much of the day!
Personal capital is amazing for investments, but it's shit for budgeting, and that's why Mint still rocks.
Straight out of the Black Mirror episode Be Right Back[0] which is 7 years old.

[SPOILERS] In the episode the episode, the main character uses a service to reconstruct a chat bot (and eventually a lifelike avatar) built from her dead partner's social media history. Eventually she becomes frustrated by the lack of depth (since it's only trained on social media data, it falls into a sort of uncanny valley of comprehension and personality), but can't part with it, confining it to the attic of her home.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Right_Back
I have used the note system (with google calendar) and it worked for me in meeting deadlines(most of) and being objectively more productive. I am currently a graduate student and it has helped me to maintain good grades and complete assignments.

The trick is not to let the notes and calendar act like a "master". I usually view it as a friend who suggests things to do in a given time frame. The friend(calendar with notes) and I are symbiotic, our interests are linked.

Changing the view from an "authoritative master" to a "benevolent friend" would help. Sometimes I would discard the note and keep binging youtube video/or hackernews. Other times, I would reschedule the work for some other time. But most of the time I am able to get things done on time, without any help.

It does require some discipline, but once you get a hang of it, it becomes easy.
I always thought the bet is not rent vs mortgage, but whether or not you can sit out the mortgage. Of course it's cheaper to rent if you plan to sell within twenty years.
I struggle with this too. I think it's people applying the "jack of all trades, master of none" saying too far or too literally. To be a truly successful (backend, frontend, web, mobile, crypto, etc...) developer, it is a requirement to have firm grasp of nearly all technologies, methodologies, and practices at play in the ecosystem.
The idea is about increasing expected value.

I give you a machine, once per year say, and put it at the entrance to your home. It's broken. If you fix it, it will, with 5% probability, give you a ton of money. In the other 95% of cases you get nothing, it disappears, wait for next year.

Is chance a major component? Of course. But not tinkering with that machine is lower EV than tinkering with it.

If you stay in bed all day, ignore the machine and do something else instead, you're not going to get anything, ever. It will never spontaneously open by chance.

You post below that "you can do everything wrong and still succeed". No, you actually can't. If you're picturing a startup founder that makes a lot of seemingly silly decisions - well, they still made the (high risk) decision to start that company.

If you lay in bed all day, or work your corner shop job forever, then you are not increasing your EV.

I work in a field that is very heavily based on probability; I literally bet for a living. Luck is a considerable component, but if you want to tell me skill is irrelevant, then I'd like to show you what happens if I just tweak this parameter here...
Bought out. Lack of innovation. After a while it feels a lot like lack of trying (in a relationship sense). I'm looking at you Evernote.
The author, @ShaneMorris, says "Sound familiar?" and links to the Doctorow "Unauthorized Bread" short story[1].

But you don't need hypotheticals! The defunct Juicero required a wifi connection to "check the packet's expiration", but was enforcing use of their proprietary fruit packets. (Can't find an authoritative source atm but it was what everyone assumed and what their business model effectively required[2].)

And IIRC Keurig seriously considered doing this or had already implemented it.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/01/unauthorized-bread-a-...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15154723
Of course it's possible that in April the folks working for MBS realized that Bezos was not going to place his thumb on the reporting done by WaPo so they hacked his phone primarily as a means to spy and get ahead of future news, then they found compromising materials and used AMI to try and blackmail Bezos, but that is all speculation.
They didn't lose their soul. They never had one. It was a financial scheme from beginning to end. There was never any intention to produce anything useful. Probably one of the founders had a rich daddy.
your success is the mostly the result of a massive amount of luck and privilege you've received. just imagine that you had an accident that reduced your brain capacity by 20%... you could then have worked three times harder but sadly not achieved the same success. While your hard work is an element of your success, it is not at all the foundation of it. It's more akin to a chef putting the correct seasoning on a fully prepared dish. It's definitely needed, but it's not the basis.
Um? if ballots aren't secret, then individual voters can be bribed to vote the "right" way or punished for voting the "wrong" way. Ballot secrecy is an absolute requirement.
I just switched to libre despite having 2 different office licenses, because I got way too annoyed with an issue. Basically, at first my excel died in a way that actually set back saves on some of my files. I was surprised this is even possible. Nothing worked to solve the problem except a reinstall, but you can't just reinstall Excel, you need to reinstall the whole package.

I did that, but now there is no simple way anymore to have compartmentalized logins with different licenses on the same system. At least I didn't find one. I'm used to setup directories, servers etc. but this kind of bullshit is extremely off-putting to me.
Infinite Storage in Confluent Platform
This study uses 24-hour dietary recall. Pretty much "What did you eat yesterday." Dietary recall studies are notoriously the least reliable method of measuring effects of diet on health or mortality. They will pretty much say whatever you want them to and are used mostly as filler for scholastic papers and headlines.
Colorado has an interesting approach to these concerns.

https://www.colorado.gov/dola/search-and-rescue-fund

The state has set up a voluntary contribution system where hikers and other recreationalists can purchase a search-and-rescue card. Hunting/fishing licenses, off-highway vehicle permits, and other similar permits also contribute to the fund.

These cards are not mandatory for rescue, but rather, if a card/permit-holder is rescued, the localities' rescue costs are defrayed by the state fund.
Can't say I'm surprised, with all the junk that comes preloaded and cannot be uninstalled.
You can't train the full thing, but you can freeze everything except the transformer layers (which is what shawwwn and gwern do anyway even though they do have the memory). You also need gradient checkpointing of course.
Graviton here - Teleport and Gravity actually both have open source editions (which are naturally free) that you're welcome to download. https://gravitational.com/teleport/download/
I see little conflict, there is little reason the military would observe restrictions in the battlefield. now they could limits its use only while deployed or simply run it under an exception only policy, as in you get to use it for this period of time and not otherwise.

there has always been separate rules applied to the people and government, the issue comes down to the simple matter elected officials should always be considered public while in office.
Survey: Nearly 4 in 10 Americans would borrow money to cover a $1K emergency
Jim Lehrer Has Passed Away
I heard this word used in a meeting just this week, and it was quite shocking. I almost just got up and walked out. It's sort of like calling someone a "deplorable"--if you want to get people on your side, it's not a word to use.
Another fun take on this:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36510196-old-man-s-war
If they really want to reach zero the only answer is a combination of self-driving cars (remove the idiot monkey) and proper pedestrian management to have dedicated crossings, away from the automated intersections.
How does a community support organization/forum meant to help an underrepresented group of people participate in an industry increasing the discrimination of that industry? They're not stopping you from applying for the same jobs or committing to the same open source projects.

Might as well bark up the AARP tree for discriminating against people under 55.
Why not keybase?
Congrats! This is awesome.
I am surprised that nobody has yet mentioned HP inkjet printers and the RFID chip embedded in the refill cartridges.
It's more UK-centric perhaps, but I've had a great time with Money Dashboard[0] for tagging and multiple-accounts overview. The In/Out chart is great for checking that I'm not spending too much each month.

[0] https://www.moneydashboard.com/
[0.1] affiliate: https://share.moneydashboard.com/71926HSZ
“This guy” is just acting out the ideology the mainstream right carefully cultivated in the electorate for decades (the mainstream right mainly did it, arguably, to get maneuvering room for more modest substantive policy, but once it's cultivated you can't contain it that way if someone is offering them the whole deal they've been conditioned to see as ideal.)
I'd go check the YNAB forums, there's a lot of v4 users who really hate the cloud version. I tried to switch and gave it up for two reasons:

- Import from v4 is super broken for credit card accounts and I ended up with weird positive balances that don't add up based on any combination of transactions. Forum advice was "start over".

- You cannot tag income as "available for next month", instead all income must be immediately budgeted. Which is different than the old YNAB advice of being a month ahead. Forum advice is to earmark it a special category then fix it when the next month lands (https://support.youneedabudget.com/t/63pgpp/budget-using-onl...).

- No side-by-side month view. You can only view one month at a time.

The differences were too much for me and the import was so borked that I immediately gave up and stuck with v4.
Quite a few things are compostable in industrial scale municipal compost systems, where there are higher temperatures then the bin in the back yard. We compost food scraps to use in the garden, and it generally works great.

What we found was that certain items just never broke down, like certain tea bags that have what looks like a plastic tetrahedron instead of a filter-paper bag. The bags end up getting scattered about by our chickens, and eventually picked up and thrown away by ourselves. So, we don't buy those any more.
This seemingly constant ratcheting up of anti-customer behavior by product manufacturers is starting to feel more and more like symptoms of the end of an economic cycle where executives desperate for One More Good Bonus are willing to risk damaging the company's reputation to hit the next quarter's sales target.
It sounds like you just disagree with its contention. I don’t see anything gratuitously provocative here at all.
> It’s as if Mint, with 13 million-plus registered users, were a resource-constrained startup instead of a property of Intuit

Somebody doesn't get how business units work. Your OPEX has to constantly decrease while the revenue has to constantly increase, but your revenue mostly goes to other BUs' CAPEX. So there's no money to fix tech debt, unless it's buying crap to scale with, if you can show growth. Doesn't matter if your daddy is M$, your allowance will still suck unless your lemonade stand is making bank.
Out of curiosity, is Monarch using Plaid for financial data aggregation? I have been wondering how long it would take for a standalone budget/asset tracker to emerge using Plaid's services. It seems most Plaid users are selling other financial products, and tack on aggregation as an additional feature, like Personal Capital.
I just wonder what happens to everyone's DNA data as the company faces financial trouble and/or sells itself. That's in addition to any concerns about possible security breaches that might occur.
It's one thing to watch experts you don't know excel at things.

It's a very different thing to get the notion that your peers/friends on social media have everything worked out while you're struggling due to their selective sharing.
What Neapolitans understand about death (better than most)
Ask HN: What are your favorite writing resources?
Building a collection of free writing resources. Asking for a side-project about long-form writing (essays, deep-dives, reviews etc) Thank you!
Is Anti-Woke Becoming the New Woke?
Well, the Japanese were happy to use chemical weapons against the Chinese but not against western powers for fear of retaliation in kind. The same reason they were never used in the European theater.

The situation was a bit different in WWI when only Germany really had the capability to make extensive use of them.
This is still an aaS, no, at $4/mo? If the apps still work if the company’s servers stop working or bug out, then why pay monthly if you don’t need the syncing?
Yes, that is such a great read!
Imagine if you had to fill your car at a Toyota Certified gas station or it wouldn't run.

Who knows what's in that gas? It could explode!
I use Bing regularly, I made it my default search engine just for kicks about 2 months ago just to see how terrible it was and for the most part I can't even tell the difference. Sometimes I can't find what I want and then I search Google and it can't find it either. I can think of exactly two times in the last two months when Google found something Bing couldn't. One was when I searched for Hearthstone cardback browser and Bing couldn't find the link to it, but Google did, but it was like halfway down the page. I actually prefer not giving Google any more info about me and still getting decent search results.

Honestly the worst part about Bing is coworkers seeing I use it. It's kind of embarrasing, but it's stupid that it is because it's actually a good search engine.
The definition follows in the next sentence of the article.
Does anyone have suggestions on an alternative to Mint that simply aggregates data into a CSV / XLSX export across all of my accounts? I understand that Plaid's technology is designed to do this; I just wasn't sure if anyone had implemented it. For the record, I'd pay probably $10 - $20 per month for a service that does this with no privacy implications.
Maybe one day they will make a rain jacket with an air compressor in it :)
Can you expand on this? Trusting a VPN is equivalent to trusting the VPN provider. As long as you believe the VPN provider is more trustworthy than the network you're tunneling through, I don't see why trusting VPN is bad practice.
> It's probably the best voting system, hands down.

The disadvantage to this system is the erosion of the secret ballot. Someone (e.g. an employer, spouse or friend) can now ask you for proof of your vote.

(I think absentee ballots should be voidable in person.)
>Even that seems to 100% be prior party lines anyway.

The non-partisan GAO seems to disagree: https://apnews.com/9127109f325778490fd40c5f98be1817
You are under no obligation to read that content either... seems like the abuse actually come from you that did made the conscious choice to go there.
Yeah, except that who decides if the filter is finished? Perhaps the 'smart' fridge will note that this filter has been used for NN litres and therefore must be replaced...
How about shaping countries like Venezuela, Iran, Vietnam, Iraq, Syria, South Korea, Japan, etc etc etc, all in ways (intended to be) economically beneficial to the US?

If you can stage a coup or rile up and train a militia to fight your proxy war, there is no need for an outdated notion of "imperialism".

The US has the most powerful military the world has ever seen, and that power is not simply being tossed into the dumpster.
There is a full list here: https://schema.org/docs/full.html
"it is warmed by an Aga stove and an enormous open hearth, over which dinner is typically cooked" I guess this produces way too much greenhouse gases, as compared to more modern ways.
Millions of people might not have died unnecessarily. The horror!
Is this one of those things where if they fail you can point to this post as validation for your genius, but if they succeed you get to claim credit for motivating them?
I am 57 years old. I love new technology, but it has to be ready. I think I'm a good judge of what's "ready" and what's not.

Also, we've seen the same thing re-invented over and over and over again for decades, so we're skeptical
The US military has no need for Stellar.
Splitwise might work for you. I've used it for parties that multiple people contribute to. Everyone just adds what they've spent and at the end you click a button to "settle up".

It's not really a budgeting app, though.
It has been https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22083121
I don't know which model this is, but my GE fridge (bought 1.5 years ago) works just fine with a third party filter, and they even include a bypass cap which is just a plastic piece that goes in place of the filter and lets it work without a filter.
I don't know about the general attitude, but I tend to view the nonstandard gTLDs as suspect, and tend to be hesitant to go to such sites.
That would be super annoying, I concur.

I would say the article nicely highlights the problems with ADHD diagnosis, because when I read it, I thought for pretty much every point "oh I also do that sometimes"
I find it ironic that genetic modifications like this, which are inherently risky, are described as some kind of privilege reserved for the wealthy.

If the upper classes want to risk their health by doing genetic experiments on themselves, I’m fine with that. It is a “privilege” I will happily forego.
Building a scalable, fault-tolerant Shopify import / export pipeline with AWS
Vote is the new app that makes voting easy. No more paper booklets full of legal mumbo jumbo. Just press the Vote button and Vote does the rest, done and done.

Vote automates your votes by choosing the best candidates for you using SocialAI technology.
There's a bypass cartridge included with the fridge, whose RFID can be attached to a generic filter. (I found that out in a reply in the linked thread.)