skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could depend on where the markup is and whose margin.

If all those retailers are themselves buying from a small number of suppliers, they could be paying a lot of that markup, while their own margin is razor thin due to cutting each others' throats.
The question I responded to was what made it hard and/or expensive to obtain, which I think I answered.

Commercial viability of doing so for profit is a different issue, but I see that's the other part of your original comment. It's not an obvious answer, partially because there are a lot of different scenarios within that blanket "medical imaging", and what the putative customer might want to do with it.
I would argue that trying to find flaws is flawed (atleast in this context). Much better to use a neutral approach where you are equally open to strength and flaws.
> The details and complications aren't the general taxpayer's problem, though. It's Google & Facebook's problem.

It's everyone's problem who wants to start an Internet business. And by extension, it's the taxpayer's problem because presumably they use the Internet.

Passing laws is like fixing bugs live on a production machine, because we don't get to go through a testing phase. When you're in production, you should almost always do the simplest, least invasive fix you can.
> not the boots on the ground

True, but the "boots on the ground" are OK with it enough to go along with it. Their hands may not be quite as dirty, but they certainly aren't clean.
True. But some of us are worried about what will happen if the rates increase. Also, any kind of liquidity problem seems more grave if your debt, which cost you the same despite 5x lower rates, is 5x more.
> The problem with this opinion is that you forget what powers these platforms: Money. Section 230 allows platforms to profit off illegal and harmful content with no responsibility whatsoever.

That's phrasing it in a way that makes it misleadingly clear who's in the wrong: of course all good people will not want something like that to happen.

The devil is in the details. How much does that "illegal and harmful" content help their bottom line? Is it making 50% of their income? 10%? 1% or less? After knowing the percentage value can you still make a general statement like "companies are profiting on illegal and harmful content"? Or the more correct statement would be "companies make extremely little profit on illegal and harmful content"?

On the other hand, before proposing mandatory moderation for all user content on all platforms we have to ask more questions. How much would it cost if all content is moderated in order to catch that X% that is "illegal and harmful"?

Everything has a price.
Exactly. If you want to save money on a foam mattress you can literally just buy one or two pieces of industrial foam and cut them to fit your bed. There's no special material, no magic formula.
Completely wrong with regard to current US law. First Amendment rights apply to corporations without distinguishing based any attribute. There is no such legal concept as a publisher or a platform. No legal scholar has argued that publisher/platform exists in current law, the academic community speculated it might be nice to change the law to make the distinction and then it gets misreported.
Is there a reason they can not walk to school? It doesn't really take long to walk a mile and it is very good for them mentally to get a walk in before and after school anyway. There may be times when inclement weather might make it a little miserable but proper clothes can address that in all but the most extreme cases. I grew up in MT and had to walk about a mile to my elementary school and almost a mile to my High School bus stop. I enjoyed those walks and the time to think it afforded.
I was always small until about age 16, and I always sucked at sports and never really got into them - partly as a result.

I wonder if we shouldn't group kids by size for sporting activities instead of by age.

There's a famous statistic in Canada that NHL players are much more likely to be born in January and February than September-December. The reason being is they were nearly a year older than other kids they were paired with, so they did better at the sport and thus kept it up as they grew.

Seems silly.
There are a few years of this course. I list them here:

https://github.com/melling/MathAndScienceNotes/blob/master/m...

Direct link to 2018-2019:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5v1JnYv_yWs&list=PLtBw6njQRU-...

2017: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkkuNyzb8LmxFutYuPA7B...
"Business folks" :)

But all kidding aside, the numbers just don't make sense. AWS is doing $30B in revenue and has tens of thousands of engineers.

Google which many can argue has some of the best engineering on the planet is going after AWS investing billions in datacenters and again using thousands of engineers.

So to think that DigitalOcean with a $300MM debt line and 250+ people in engineering is going to go after AWS just doesn't add up.

Certainly when you have 500+ people in a company everyone has different opinions and view points on where a company should be headed, or who it is competing with and so forth, but for me the priority has always been clear. Focus on the SMBs, and developer teams, that need the flexibility that AWS offers without the complexity because you aren't managing a $10MM hosting budget.
> They really weren't into this "treating people humanely" thing.

As opposed to all the other ancient empires who were.
Actually I love the name. Seems tongue in cheek, a small criticism to "extreme" data-driven decision making that makes unfounded assumptions and oftentimes mistakes the forest for the trees, or over-optimizes the short term to a detriment of the long term.
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> The details and complications aren't the general taxpayer's problem, though. It's Google & Facebook's problem.

Actually, it's any company's that wants to do that problem. And between multi-billion dollar established companies and smaller/starting up companies, who exactly do you think will be most impacted?
> As far as I can tell, revoking section 230 would just result in people putting up fake content themselves and then suing the platform they posted to. Is there a reason why this wouldn't be possible?

Maybe not themselves, but they could get someone else to. Or any competing site could post stuff that would increase legal liability. It would be the end of forums.
The problem is that the basket of goods is not representative of a real family's actual expenditures.

The basket of goods may include the price of gasoline, but does not include the cost of car insurance, car tabs, toll roads, or a parking space.

The basket of goods may include the cost of an X-Ray, which doubled in 20 years, but does not the cost of buying a health insurance plan (Which quintupled in 20 years).

In this way, the basket of goods is an accurate, but completely misleading metric for inflation.

I don't care how much an X-ray costs, I care how much health insurance costs. I don't care how much buying a new car costs, I care about the total cost of ownership of a car. I don't care about how much a 3-bedroom house in the Mid-west costs, I care about how much I pay my landlord for a tiny apartment in a coastal economic center. I don't care about how much the tuition-only part of my degree costs, I care about the total cost of going to college, which includes unresellable textbooks, mandatory housing, mandatory meal plans, and student fees that fund a new stadium. I don't care about how much an analog land-line phone costs (About 29 bucks, lasts you for life), because everyone I interact with expects me to have a $300 cellphone that breaks every 4 years.

But if you only look at a basket of goods which is based on the cost of an X-ray, a bottle of aspirin, a monthly payment on a new car, rent for a house on the outskirts of JoblessTown, Nowhere, the cost of a single credit-hour of college, and the ammortized cost of an analog telephone, you get a fantastic metric.
We have got the ability to do grouping in the backend at the moment, but the UI isn't quite there yet - we definitely want "team" level analytics as a good starting point as we've already had this question several times. We know that's important for B2B SAAS, a world we have come from before.

We don't aim to go "data science" deep with analytics, as we suspect you'd rather just integrate Metabase/Tableau/etc. We can see some cool ways to use it for attribution though - as you can host it we don't need to charge you enormous fees if your MTUs are very big... we see lots of B2C companies using product analytics on the product, but not the website, and struggling with tracking say UTM tags the whole way through.

There are two "out there" areas that we're really interested in right now...

1) We're thinking of focussing more on precisely what a developer (not product, not marketing) needs, as we think there is an underserved and enormous group here. Imagine when you're building something being able to run a command in your CLI, then being able to open a browser with a good understanding of which pages/features are being used as you work. The point being - give developers user data so they know how to build for impact.

2) We also want to explore integrations with other platforms to push stuff to them. I can't stop refreshing our own product, so I think pushing an Action to Slack, for example, would be helpful and would get it into everyday workflows a bit more easily. We don't want to do too much here and kind of hope the community spot these kinds of things and run with them :)

What's your reaction to the above? I'd love to know if you had a specific pain point in mind
The way this happens today in the real world is that I send you an email with an encrypted zip file attachment (and I make sure I've chose an appropriately secure encryption method) then I call you (or meet you in person) and tell you the password.

Symmetric encryption has ergonomics which are actually easier than asymmetric encryption with the tools we have today.
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It's worth considering that the scale argument is exactly why it didn't require a warrant before. If you only have the man power to invade the privacy of ten people, you'll do so with thought and diligence.

However, if you can use the same manpower to invade the privacy of ten- or one-hundred-thousand people, the thought put into who you monitor so closely drops precipitously.
How about just get kids to go to bed earlier?
Actually we are trying to create a platform called Jooseph, which is basically playlists for learning. You can follow modules curated from different resources.

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Fascinating, but this article needs a proofread, damn...

"The virtual world on the LED screen is fantastic for many uses, but obviously an actor cannot walk through the screen, so an open doorway doesn't work when it's virtual. Doors are an aspect of production design that have to be physical. If a character walks through a door, it can’t be virtual, it must be real as the actor can’t walk through the LED screen."

Not to mention the multiple paragraphs that are basically re-stated immediately afterwards. It's like they hit publish in the middle of editing.
We have cars that can drive themselves at speed under normal conditions. That's pretty huge re: "useful". Extending satisfactory performance under fringe conditions is just a matter of improvement.
Agree to disagree? You still haven't explained the moderation thing, and I'm curious how you arrived at that point.
Why 12.5?
The Economist recently had some more detailed plots on the crack cocaine discontinuities: https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/01/18/smoking-...
Makes more sense. I guess you are free to charge the partner whatever you like. I live in a more left leaning part of sweden so here the partner is also charged 100 sek.
The real feature I would want from an IoT candle is to be able to turn it off if I leave the house or go to sleep. You have to phyiscally put a lid on this candle to turn it off?
I bought a casper mattress. I now wish I had started "return proceedings" and gotten a refund, because it sounds like they just tell you to donate it.
> Who determines who is or is not a journalist?

Whom pay for the message. Politics are strongly infiltrated in journalism. Often to the point of being undistinguishable.
I had a tenant who did this to a batch of furniture. Wound up in the front yard where it got nice and wet in the rain and then froze.

Made it even harder to get rid of it.
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It's highly relevant to the author's specific methodology. The author is not "look[ing] at the basket of essential goods" and comparing their cost over time. He's comparing household expenses to a single man's earnings over time. That overlooks that, as women's earning power increases, couples might choose to spend that money on more housing, more cars, etc.

I grew up in an 1,100 square foot house with 1 car. My mom was a stay-at-home wife and my family could afford to live on just my dad's income. My wife and I, by contrast, earn about the same amount. But we can't afford to live on just my income. We have chosen to spend my wife's income to increase our standard of living. So we have a 3,000 square foot house and 3 cars. Under the author's methodology, my earning power has gone backward compared to my dad. But his analysis completely misinterprets the situation.
I was speaking at a company event at the BMW facility in SC. We did some driving on their track. My takeaway was:

1. I do get the attraction of some of these cars.

2. Nope. Not worth it to me even though I could afford them if I wanted to.
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I’m sure someone has previously had the thought.
"You can pay your CEO whatever amount you want so long as it isn't 50 times more than the lowest hourly wage times 2080 that you pay any employee of yours, any contractor of yours, or any of their subcontractors."
Where, and how do they handle someone who can't do the job properly?
Can´t wait to read the "Hacked Smart Candle starts massive fire in California, again" headlines.
I have always had noon school..so the timings were from 10-5 pm. Many of my friends had morning school from 7-3 pm. I do not see any difference in sleep or performance due to this.
The Mandalorian was probably a very likely candidate for this kind of approach, since it's essentially a western, meaning a lot of wide landscape shots.

The LED screen approach works nicely for fairly uncomplicated background geometry, like a plain. Try shooting Spiderman climbing up walls on that, and things will get tricky fast.

As the article notes, slow camera moves are a plus as well. The reason given is technical, but I also wonder how far you could really push the camera motion even if tracking lag wasn't an issue. The background is calculated to match the camera's viewpoint, so I expect it would be very disorienting for the actors if the camera was moving at high speeds.
Ha. I do this too: as a cyclist who generally follows traffic laws and vehicular cycling behavior, I get annoyed when cars that obviously have the right of way at an intersection want to wait for me to go through first. So, I just stare at the ground and don't move until they do.

I know they're trying to be nice, but it ends up slowing everyone down: suppose a car and a bike are approaching a four-way-stop intersection with the car clearly going to arrive a couple seconds before the bike. As the cyclist, I would assume the car will come to a stop or almost-stop, wait about a half or one second, then start moving. With that assumption in mind, I'll adjust my speed so that I slow down for the stop sign (prepared to stop in an emergency) and roll through right behind the predicted position of the car, without losing too much momentum.

If the car takes their right of way, this is great. But suppose they decide to stop completely and wait for the bike to go through first (against the right of way). Now as the cyclist, I also have to stop completely, since I don't know when they're going to start moving again. If we make eye contact, I'd feel safe to go, but I feel like that's reinforcing bad behavior. Instead I refuse to make eye contact and force them to go first, as they should have initially.
That’s a fair point. In today’s capital rich environment they could stay private for a very long time.
Who are the San Francisco-Bay Area’s NIMBYs–and what do they want?
Do you really thing a charity can afford that? And mattress companies have exactly zero incentive to fund this.
Paying more only motivates higher level people. Lower level only respond to the stick. That’s how a lot of people seem to think.
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"raising funds" is used for large companies and debt, see this article as an example "Apple raises €2bn in green bonds" in the Financial Times: https://www.ft.com/content/918c648c-01ae-11ea-b7bc-f3fa4e77d...
Fair point. I wouldn't have done it that way, but sounds like you're on track. Good luck.
POSIX compatibility was mainly driven by FIPS 151-2, which required US government agencies to only buy operating systems which were POSIX compliant. Quite a number of proprietary operating systems during the 90s - e.g. System/390, OS/400, VMS, Non Stop, OS 2200, etc. gained POSIX compliance for the same reason.

Of course, being POSIX compliant is very differnt to providing a usable Unix-style programming environment.
Mostly because Larry Ellison, Oracle's CTO hosting a fundraiser for Trump.
Could they walk to a stop that’s 0.01 miles further away? Surely there’s another stop nearby.
The original article (posted below) hits the nail on the head:
regardless of 'inflation' or 'quality increases', a single breadwinner (assumed male in this case) can't support basic parts of the 'American Dream'.

They could in 1985, with some money to spare.

That's a HUGE difference in social structure and the 'feeling' of society.

A part of the socialist mindset is the idea that people in fact should be able to live in an economic system and afford the things that everyone wants. Socialism doesn't deliver that exactly (see Spain, Greece, France, etc.) without huge amounts of natural resources, but it's similarly clear capitalism has driven out most people's abilities to do that too in the past 30 years.

Thus the impasse (political and economic) the US finds itself in right now.
If it's perspective corrected for the camera, it would probably look very distorted for anyone else on set -- whether there's depth or not

And that's certainly not the goal with this. Something along those lines has been around for a while (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_automatic_virtual_environ...). This system seems specifically targeted for solving challenges for film production, as it probably should be.

I am pretty impressed that real time rendering has gotten good enough to use for these purposes. I certainly wouldn't have expected that those backgrounds in the show were coming out of a video game engine.
DO's branding and a lot of their offering is pretty good, but their locations for non-US customers are much worse than many of their competitors. For instance (and a particular point for me), they still don't have any presence in Australia after over half a decade of it being marked as "under review" on their customer feedback page.

Having geographical locations to back up the quality of the offering is a step forward IMO.
Yes, I should have followed the thread better. My mind is focused on a particular kind of commercial viability which is niche markets (in the 1000s to 10,000s) willing to pay for access to data.
Which is fine. It's the same "abuse of power" I get to enjoy when I decide whom I allow in my house and who I don't.
That's my point. Businesses care only about profit, even when its clearly detrimental to everyone else. There's no consideration for happiness or quality of life and no ethic if you only chase profit. For how much we've been pushed to believe this is perfecly normal, to me it's insane.
The idea is that, if you have neighbourhoods with many things conveniently nearby, people do less "driving to places" and more "making use of neighbourhood features by walking to them."

Every one of those satisfied-demand pedestrians is one less driver out there taking up parking spots (and therefore generating demand for parking lots.)

Sure, that person might still need to own a car for some things (it's still America, some things will still be very far away); and so they'll still need somewhere near where they live to keep a car. But if they need their car for fewer of their daily-life tasks, then they can leave that car at home more. (Or get closer to a car-sharing service being viable for them; or, in a multi-adult family, get closer to downgrading from needing to own two cars, to only needing one.)
If I am at a 4 way stop and there is a car to my left my prediction is that it's ok for me to go through the intersection regardless of the status of their turn signal because the rules of the road require them to yield to their right. I still pause to observe the trajectory of their vehicle, though, because a lot of people don't seem to know that rule.
Sure, I understand you aren't forced to store them in inodes, just pointing out (since it's part of the sales pitch here) that doing so might have unintended consequences since people don't usually load small icons from many separate files or web requests. It seems like a savings if you assume using single separate files, but if you store your assets in a zip file, then switching to keeping them in inodes might actually slow down the app. All the production games and web apps I've ever seen and/or worked on personally store many assets packed into single file.

It is worth thinking carefully about the tradeoff here. You are taking a functionality hit compared to SVG, and adding a new indirection and more tool dependencies to your pipeline in order to use HVF files. Ideally the payoff should be worth the effort, but if you zip all your SVG icons, how often is the compressed data averaging considerably more than 500 bytes per file? I just checked Google, and the first hit for free SVG sets is Feather, a 132kb zip file containing 282 icons, which clocks in at 480 bytes per icon on average.

Regarding storing icons in the data section of the binary, that is certainly one way to pack assets, but not one I would use or recommend personally. That locks you into shipping a binary if you want to update assets, it doesn't apply to web dev, or scripting languages, and it's pretty OS/platform specific. Typically what I've seen in production really is some kind of zip-like container file that is compressed and loaded separately from the application.
But that tool is also paid by the business to ensure that the database stays up and performant.

Seems kinda rude to ignore the motivations and incentives of the people who are responsible when problems happen.

Yes devs and infrastructure are often at odds professionally by design. Making it personal ignores the reason that different parts of the app have different owners that must agree to make changes.

“Those damn developers won’t just let me push my hotfix to master and make me have to do a code review when our severs are getting hammered.”
Company asking employees to work their personal contacts is usually a big red flag.
>Sure, warrants aren't necessary, but the concept of mass, automated surveillance is so new that we simply haven't figured out what to do about it yet.

We haven't? It seems like we have: we're embracing it wholeheartedly. We're just careful to only use it (for now) on groups of people who don't have much power to push back on it.