skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read it but didn't read it extremely thoroughly (it is long and feels like it kinda sits too long on points).

Do you think Costco will rise in popularity any further? It looks like it's at a maximum of ethicalness to profitability in terms of food goods. (It offers bottom barrel ethics on clothes as far as I've seen) Do you think if the economy tanks then costco will just immediately switch to less ethical options because consumers will not be able to afford all their more ethical options? Did anyone study what they did during the recession?

I feel like a lot of their more ethical food options are more recent in invention...
Mainly following upper class trends. A lot of the things there seem like they're trying their best to imitate what the upper class has. It's rare to see a high end good by itself at a good price. They offer thermoflasks instead of hydroflasks. Only one or two Le Creuset pots but they're really high priced still. Kirkland versions of kitchenware instead of the cuisinart ones that are just knockoffs of the all-clads everyone wants.

Personally - Costco feels like a slight improvement over Walmart but only at certain goods. It feels far lower than Whole Foods when it comes to ethical choices. I think that ethical gap is far greater than the image you posted gives off.

As far as price goes - I think Costco only feels like a good value to consumers who aren't savvy at shopping. For me - an overly savvy shopper - I feel like I'm getting ripped off when I go there as I buy most goods for less or equal to what they offer.
The trajectory is the second integral of the acceleration, so if the local acceleration were pointing exactly straight down at all times, you'd have to be moving along a vertical line.
"The simple idea is to do stuff like train your model on randomized subsets of your data and then compare its performance to using all the data you have."

How do you do this when you cannot verify that your data, in subset or in whole, is accurate? And furthermore you don't know how inaccurate it is?
Apple is enough of a behemoth to finally drag this industry forward. I use Apple Pay whenever possible. Mostly because it’s fast and secure. And I don’t mean “fast and secure” like a marketer, but actually fast and actually secure.

I can’t believe that the best thing the credit industry could come up with was chip and pin. Slow, insecure[1], and awful experience. Begone, parasites.

1. https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/chip-and-pin-cards-insecure/1...
not sure if this fits the bill but Car Hacker's Handbook by OpenGarages http://opengarages.org/handbook/ helped me to understand CAN, the ECU, and mess with my car in ways I never thought possible. The security lesson is an added bonus.
Why don't we get the news we need?
I heard it was because Rome was a military society. In March the weather was good enough for new military campaigns (hence why it's named after the god of war).
The thing with people is that we all share the same brain architecture - we mostly think alike. As a species, we have a hundred thousand plus years of experience dealing with each other; as a civilization, a couple thousand. We've explored most corner cases, designed our infrastructure around those, and built systems protecting us from outliers. For instance, people deemed too unpredictable will not be given driving licenses (and extremely unpredictable people tend to get locked up). And DUI is severely punished; while the execution isn't perfect, the threat of consequences goes a long way towards reducing it.

That's the bar an AI system has to meet today. And one big hurdle is that, viewed as minds, AI systems are completely unlike our own. They're extremely unpredictable. On top of that, they lack self-preservation instinct (this may be indirectly a side effect of how we structure companies - the level of effort put into an AI system is a reflection of how much people working on it care about getting it right vs. getting it to market).
That is remarkable art. Thanks for sharing it!
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What I, as a long time Firefox user and evangelist, would like to know is how we can have Firefox thrive and grow

Probably the same as anything else: find a USP that resonates with a large number of potential users.

It used to be customisation and extensions, but it's been more than 2 years since Quantum and there are still numerous ways that my everyday browsing experience is worse now than it was before. I suspect that for a lot of people, Firefox is no longer particularly associated with being more customisable than any other browser, even if it was before.

Today I suspect the best shot for a solid USP is the privacy/security angle, which is what kept me on Firefox as my default browser in the end despite it being much inferior after 57. But the marketing for that is inconsistent and gets drowned out in all the who-cares features that Firefox keeps introducing.

Ironically, the breakage of extensions has probably contributed significantly to the loss of confidence in the security/privacy side, since it took out a lot of useful enhancements in those areas. Normal people don't understand tools like uBlock Origin, which are powerful but have UIs that make Git's look intuitive and well-designed, and in 2020 a simple, effective ad-blocker is entry-level for a decent browsing experience.
> Apple Pay accounts for about 5% of global card transactions and is on pace to handle 1-in-10 such payments by 2025, according to recent trend data compiled by Bernstein, a research firm.
Executive order: for every new regulation, two must be revoked (2017)
I've reached an age where I have trouble reading small fonts, and often zoom the web page to be readable. In fact, I have HN permanently set to 125%.

Yet even I thought the font was too big in this one. I _didn't_ have to shrink the text to be more readable but I had to scroll more than usual.
I'll have to give this a try. I do something similar but with gnome[0]. However, I have run into some weird issues when opening the gnome control center which results in it crashing.

[0] https://github.com/i3-gnome/i3-gnome
Good grief. What a bunch of territorial behavior! I really don’t understand where their arguments are coming from either.
BART and Muni need to start accepting Apple Pay ASAP. You can already do it in the UK and many other countries.

Adoption of technologies like NFC payments in public transport is a good metric to see how competent a local government is.
Help me get 10 subscribers to 10K
I believe the exception ban at Google these days is justified more on the grounds that integrating with existing code would be problematic, rather than on performance grounds. I seem to remember reading something to that effect.
My free N26 has five free ATM withdrawals per month. However, that is about five more than I use in the median month, so I don't really care about it. I really only need cash when buying second-hand and really even second-hand transactions are increasingly turning to mobile payments.
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If MSFT can make Excel run on my iPhone, then I have a lot of hope.

When I can edit a freaking PowerPoint presentation on an iPhone (in a pinch - I wouldn't want to do it all day), then I have to think it's not only possible, but already done.

Email is probably the best example. Every major email app is on multiple platforms, and I'd be very surprised if most of the code is not already the same among platforms except for the UI.

So I'd submit that it is a solved problem.
Two tools: an annual budget spreadsheet and GNUCash.

The annual budget spreadsheet has a tab for every year, and every December I duplicate the tab and adjust for the coming year. It focuses on cash inflows (salary, equity grants, dividends) and outflows (expenses, taxes, investments). This is what I use to verify I can afford to max out 401ks and similar, as well as gifts/charity and maybe the occasional major purchase.

The other half of this equation is GNUCash. If the spreadsheet is a strategic plan, this is the tool I use to tactically manage cash flows and track assets on the ground. There are accounts for the typical double entry categories: income, expense, asset, liability, equity. It tracks in multiple currencies, including ticker symbols and custom currencies, and tracks conversion rates between symbols and my default currency. I have a variety of recurring transactions programmed in and created 90 days in advance, which is useful when paired with the 'minimum future balance' column -- if transferring money now would result in a future balance going negative (perhaps between a paycheck and rent being due or a CC being paid off), I can adjust.

What I don't yet have is a portfolio management layer. I have a few ideas in that space, but it gets complicated quickly with taxes.
It’s an illiquid market, I remember during the peak I needed to unload amounts several orders of magnitude lower than the amounts being discussed here. It was not as easy or straightforward as some would have you believe on here. What kind of a fool would trade real world fiat currency for an asset as volatile as Bitcoin? That’s the real question that should be asked.
If I understand right, if you put CloudFlare in front of Backblaze, you get free bandwidth thanks to Bandwidth Alliance: https://www.cloudflare.com/bandwidth-alliance/backblaze/
I unabashedly love apple pay and use it preferentially whenever I can.

in the US, it's faster than chip-and-pin cards by a LOT. It rolls a new number every time I use it, so i can pay at sketchy gas stations at 2 AM and not care about skimming. More and more gas stations are upgrading their pump POS pads so i can refuel my bike without digging under my armour for my wallet.

On websites, my only quibble is that it's often very hard or not possible to enter discount codes or other special checkout options like "pick up in store" when using the apple pay button(s); when I don't have any codes, I dearly appreciate not having to make an account for that merchant and i'm significantly more likely to spend money at websites that support it.
The seats didn't even recline!

I'd actually pay a little more for seating that didn't recline (or rather, for the seat in front of me not to recline, but more than happy for that to be the case on all the seats). Genuinely would. Not a lot, but a little.
Do you have any examples of what you would put in a bullet journal? I don't think I've ever heard of it.
I'm always surprised to hear that the government, rather than the people of China are credited with the recent lift in quality of life in China. It was Deng Xiaoping's decision to reduce government control of the economy and people's lives, giving Chinese people greater freedom to make their own decisions that has unleashed some of China's potential. We shouldn't be surprised if China becomes the wealthiest nation in the world. We should expect a nation with China's cultural and intellectual wealth can draw competent leaders that govern with competence, what should be surprising is that it was once so brutally and chaotically governed that it was ever poor.
> We shouldn't use them on:

I’m thinking back to my school days, where my fellow students had non-tiling animated gifs as the background image of their Geocities accounts.
> the spammers are both [...] and [...]; they faked a conversation with themselves to look legit.

I see that sometimes on Show HN posts. New account whose submission gets praised within 5 minutes by other new accounts. The worst so far was 6 users who asked detailed questions. Something didn't look right, one answer was long and posted within one minute (so prepared). Quick check on LinkedIn and the names matched employees (and one investor), the whole conversations were faked. The proper handling is HN contacting the moderators (link in footer) who can check/comment/ban.
Nope, still tinfoil hat. This is just apophenia.
Because Augustus Caesar wanted his month to have just as many days as his predecessor's month. After that, the regular alternating pattern continued, until the end of the year (February) came up a day short.
I think the original macbook pro keyboard was the best for my fingers.

Nice comfortable curved keys with a decent throw. The curvature let your fingers know they were centered over the keys, and spread the force over the entire surface of your finger instead of a hotspot of pressure in the center.

flat keys are dumb.

Older thinkpad keyboards are nice too.
They will accelerate if they could roll out Apple Card around the world.
> unclassified documents

That part seems odd from the article. If they were not classified, seems the FOIA request would have had an easier time getting them released... or they would have been released already. The Navy generates enough paperwork that it's not reasonable to expect all unclassified documents to be released... but these seem to have been a little more closely guarded than that. They are releasing them in batches after they are reviewed too - which is usually part of a declassification process.

I'd wager they are being unclassified as part of the release here.
Study: 1 in 5 patients get a surprise medical bill after surgery
Dynamically changing, partially-stateful data-flow database written in Rust
$3.75B Food Safety Company Enlists Blockchain Startup to Track Sourcing
Contextual Sentiment Analysis API Out on Amazon Marketplace
nope,thanks.
Python Crash Course [1]

This book is especially good for beginners in python, it feels as if the author is teaching you in person. All the exercises in every chapter builds to a mini project by the end of that chapter.
One can skip the basics section and jump into the projects section which has: Alien Invasion (game programming with pygame), Data Visualization, and Web Development (using Django).

[1] https://nostarch.com pythoncrashcourse2e
> What if you could easily answer the question "what is everything currently known in mathematics."

I love this. I work on this problem a lot. More generally of the form "what is everything currently known in X"?

I would love to be able to make statements like "I am familiar with X/Y/Z% of the nodes in Computer Science/Medicine/Arrested Development Season 2". I would love it if the abstract idea of the "dent" (http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/) a researcher makes could actually be concretely measured as nodes added/updated/subtracted from some corpus of knowledge.

Have you thought about moving the content to a git repo and allowing people to contribute via a pull request?
The world’s scariest facial recognition software, explained
Looks like a simpler version of Pixi.js without webgl support. I would imagine its probably nicer to use for small games when you don't need webgl performance.
Internet killed the video (star)?
Yes I should have said: art, generative art and retro-nostalgia sites are excepted.
Using a throwaway for obvious reasons. I just got rejected by Netlify after a coding assignment, but the last thing in the rejection email was an offer to set up a call to discuss feedback on the assignment and interviews. Other startups, take note. (The rest of their hiring process was equally impressive--no hard feelings at all.)
The patents underneath Apple Pay are mostly Mastercard...
> ... but the person who had the idea of exposing an api endpoint to get admin user and password in cleartext ....

I'd be hesitant to call out one person. A process failed. Where were the code reviews, design sessions, pentesters, QA, UAT, automated tests?
The admin is now making noise about 'disciplinary action' against him, I read just now. That seems to be very recent, so we'll see if it's the full story.

FWIW, his brother was turfed out, too.
> Culture is copyrightable.

From a purely moral perspective this argument just makes the entire situation even worse. Individuals should not be able to own culture. Culture is collective, and culture ought to have the freedom to build on top of itself.

I have never had anyone explain copyright to me in a way that made internally consistent sense, and I have come to believe that the reason for that is because it doesn't make internally consistent sense. People either give explanations that don't stand up to mechanical scrutiny, or they give explanations that don't stand up to moral scrutiny. Usually both.

Copyright does make sense from the perspective of, "we want to incentivize a behavior, so we have arbitrarily decided to artificially monopolize certain things to incentivize it." When you try to break copyright down into something more inherent or natural, the structure falls apart because (I'm convinced) there's nothing there to examine. It's just an incentive structure, and that's the only level we should be discussing it on. It's absurd to claim that any individual has an inherent, moral property right over culture; their only moral right to culture is to participate within it -- ironically, the very right that copyright restricts!

Hacks like music databases don't get around copyright by exploiting its inner mechanisms. The point isn't to out-argue judges, it's to showcase that copyright isn't an internally consistent, naturally occurring right.

> And the Cage estate doesn't own the copyright on silence - it owns the copyright on silence framed within certain applications in certain cultural contexts.

Which is similarly bonkers, just with more words added. The Cage estate doesn't own anything: we have temporarily granted them an unnatural monopoly over a certain kind of cultural expression in the hopes that it will somehow posthumously encourage John Cage to write more.
I have actually started preferring 76 stations because they all support the 76 app which lets me pay without credit card. My card was skimmed (and recreated into a new physical card!) earlier this year, which almost certainly happened at a gas station.
Branchy code where the branches are statically known to be very unlikely ought to be practically as fast as the branch-free equivalent. You're probably forgoing a few optimization opportunities since you do have to build a proper exception record (and perhaps a stack trace) if the code errors out but other than that, it just doesn't matter that much.
In Romania we have Visa PayWave for years. For small amounts you just wave the card in from of the POS and you are done. For bigger amounts you are asked your PIN and I find that reasonable.

I don't see how waving my watch in front of the POS would make this easier, it would actually be more cumbersome depending on how the POS is presented.
I've used Pythonista on my iPad and I adore it. The physical keyboard is a personal must-have, but the experience is great otherwise.
Because most people are not techies?

What would they do with it?

Which format is easier to read and write?
California 'refugees' moving to Idaho to avoid vaccinating their kids
I wonder why this is. Maybe it's because there's some limited number of markets outside the US Goldman Sachs can legally do business with? If so, I imagine Apple has to find a card partner for those other markets.

Edit: I realize Apple Pay in other markets would be hard if they wanted to keep the 1%/2% daily cash feature due to transaction fee limits, as the other comment has said.
I don't think it's necessarily more difficult to read, especially with the mindset of the "recursion goblins" mentioned in another comment here, where one only looks at the current iteration and does not care about, where input argument comes from.
But of course, if what one wants to do can be expressed using map and filter and such, why write some recursive procedure.
This is really nice book. It assumes you are a developer/good with computers, though, so some of the things like dev environment setup are ommited
Apple Pay makes many purchases almost an impulse buy for me. "Hmm, that looks interesting...and you take Apple Pay? And I am buying it from someone other than Amazon, without my credit card getting stolen again? Take my money with a single click!"
New York is very quickly rolling out OMNY, which does support apple pay. It makes me happy, and I can't wait until I can buy my monthly that way
Cellular automata = computer architecture
From a brief skimming, this seems like a good list.

Only big asterisk is that it seems to paper over that you need a strong and trustworthy relationship to have these questions be answered sincerely and honestly. Otherwise you'll get shrugs and/or non-answers to keep you happy.

The hard part isn't what to ask, it's how to build and maintain an environment where people feel secure enough to speak their mind.
I'm holding out; i don't want to install yet another app, i want to wave my watch at the thing and have gas come out without mobil knowing more about me.
Strongly disagree. ML is traditionally deployed in low-risk scenarios like image labeling or recommendations where 1% or 5% error rate is totally "routine" and acceptable. Doesn't mean this kind of ML pipeline can translate to cases where errors are literally fatal.
I thought Apple pay was really dumb... and then I started using it. Especially with an Apple Watch: when I get to checkout, I can fumble with my wallet, dig out a card, wait ten seconds for the chip to read, and then put the card away.... or I can tap a button on my watch twice and wave it near the reader. Done.
Wow I always thought this was a gimmick that no one used, I'll have to evaluate. even 5% doesn't sound right to me (of course the headline is an estimate).

> Apple Pay accounts for about 5% of global card transactions and is on pace to handle 1-in-10 such payments by 2025,
There are also countries that thrived economically after the fall of socialism. Why yes, I'll gladly take an apartment in East Berlin if you're offering me one.
A big part of this is that apparently US credit card companies decided not to include contactless when they switched over to chip cards, in order to save money. Ironically, contactless was becoming fairly common before the move to EMV, but is now pretty rare. I think about half my cards had it a few years ago, but now none do.
What is, in your view, the best approach? Please enlighten us.

edit: I guess I should also clarify that I believe artists are entitled to total control over something they've created until they say otherwise. If they want to license it as creative commons and go live in a wine cask, great. If they want to milk it for all (the money) it's worth, also great, at least for as long as we're living under the capitalist ethic that celebrates such exploitation of intellectual property and provides no safety net for those who are unwilling or unable to extract value from what they have available to them.
Germany has huge numbers of banks compared to other countries and so the system is inefficient. In addition the low interest rates mean banks find it hard to make money. My previously free German account now costs some money.
I've wondered -- does slack harvest/share/sell employee data?

Is slack a tool that an employee can turn down?