skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fedex weighs packages at multiple stages and this is accessible for the shipper. I suspect USPS and UPS weigh packages at least once and this could be requested if there is a dispute. These don't do a lot to prevent fraud, and it would be difficult to provide authentication without specialized training. There are services that provide authentication with more expertise. StockX does it for new sneakers. The real real and a few others do it for luxury goods. Even with authentication by experts it is not 100% certain that you are getting authentic goods and there will be some dispute process. In practice few buyers would use a platform that completely blocks returns.

You could sell your camera to a company like KEH, and they take on nearly all of the seller side risk when dealing with consumers.

The real problem here is that Amazon is not following their own policies, and refunded the buyer when the buyer did not provide proof of delivery for the returned item, not anything else about the system in general. The recourse for that is small claims(or arbitration, but small claims is probably better for you, and it is allowed as an exception to the required arbitration)
Eh, I don't think it's difficult so much as a situation where the writer did not weed out ambiguity for some reason. The fix is simply to use different words, especially since there's nothing particularly technical about this to constrain word choice.
ACA is not universal healthcare. It only made things worse overall except the fact that people cannot get denied due to pre-existing conditions. Obama should have pushed for a public option with ACA at the time. In 2020, fuck that. We want to go straight to Universal healthcare, single payer. No middle ground. Only 1 democrat supports that so I am voting for him.
How to Build a Hack-Proof Garage Door Opener
Now employees of these stores have to consent to being recorded on video and their videos shared with strangers?
JP Morgan is out to make money... either someone paid them to write the report, or they’ve gone heavily into renewables in the past few months and this report is part of the pump.
> Or he paid too much attention to the reality of the situation.

That assumption doesn't hold to scrutiny. If he was half as attentive as you portray him or if he actually cared about reality of the situation or how to fix Greece's economic problem, Varoufakis wouldn't have repeatedly pinned Nazi comparisons on Germany's government has he did, not to mention the Russia stunts.

In fact, Varoufakis' erratic political behavior and systematic diplomatic and political screwups are more in line with a political plan to render a solution within he scope of EU and the euro completely impossible, and in the meanwhile create conditions to force Greece out of the euro, EU and even NATO, which incidentally line up with his ideals and contrast with the will of the Greek people.
I believe that recursive CTEs make sql a turing complete language.
And all the free electrons produced in that target are helpfully just sitting there, right?
If there's no way for people to access those emails (as they were silently deleted), it's basically censorship, or am I wrong?
Robert C Hermann
I thought this would be part of their $99/year subscription, well that's unfortunate. Thanks again for your project.
>Chile's Project Cybersyn was coordinating productivity

should be pointed out that it was coordinating economic activity not in a 'command economy' sense. The project actually aimed to drastically decentralize economic decision making by applying cybernetic principles to factory work. The goal was for local managers to be able to respond to data in real time. De Beer's so called 'cybernetic factory' was even received positively by Hayek, who was not known for being a fan of command economies.
OneHandWizard brings true one hand use to the iPhone
It seems that the fairest way to compensate employees at a startup is to pay them in cash, but also allow them to invest at each funding round with the same terms and conditions and liquidation preferences that the VC's are getting.
Got a good laugh out of "He would go to the police to" and "provide all the information regarding the seller and buyer on this issue to the police"

Thanks for that.
[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22379373 "direct link to that PostHog comment"
As phone screens get bigger, I have struggled with full one hand use that reachability and other features have not solved. With my friend Janosch, we built OneHandWizard which allows full one hand use with dynamic scaling of the screen. Hope it inspires phone makers to make something as good since we can only achieve this currently through jailbreak.
Except, kids in the UK seem to manage fine. Here, both primary (4/5 to 11/12) and secondary (12/13 to 17/18) start at 09h00 and have done so for a long time with no detrimental effects. Although, there are apparently plans for some secondary schools to instead start at 10h00, so there is that...!
Hmm. EU members get advantages from each other that non-members do not get, so by leaving the EU, the UK looses said benefit, which hurts both even if everyone else in the world retains exactly the same trading rules with each as they did before Brexit.

I’m not going to be too precise with terminology, but I didn’t realise you were being precise either or I would’ve at least looked up the concept before my previous reply.
ARC's power density is only 40 times worse than a PWR, rather than 400 times worse like ITER.
https://outline.com/qJvRN6
TIL: My boss works the exact same way as Jeff Bezos.
> What's wrong with selling people on "Use the best available data and expertice to make logical policy decisions" ? There hasn't been much of that in this area, to date.

Because it amounts to "you have no choice, look at these graphs, do as I say" and people don't like hearing that.

You have a scientist's bias against politics. Most people on HN have it. But we're stuck with politics and politics is about persuasion. You have to convince people and people are not rational automatons. You don't convince people by "showing them irrefutable evidence". First, because no evidence is actually irrefutable and second, because it frames the conversation in terms of "I am smart, I have knowledge, I have research, you are ignorant, you need my knowledge to choose correctly". That's not going to convince people even if it's true.

Finally, it's a good thing that politics is about persuasion. The only alternatives are worse.
This is precisely true. The ozone hole is what sparked us to build the global earth observing system that we now have. It was originally not known how to observe and monitor atmospheric chemistry at a global scale.
Extended Interview with Myst Co-Creator Rand Miller [video]
> I've also read a lot of stories from people in Canada and the UK saying that it's almost impossible to get same day medical care, even from a general practicioner. Like, they'll have to call as soon as they open, and hope they aren't already booked for the day.

It highly depends on the situation.

If you're trying to see your family doctor for something routine or non-urgent, yes, it can take a few weeks to get an appointment, as they tend to be booked up.

If you have a non-critical issue that needs to be taken care of sooner (eg, an ear infection), many practices run an "urgent care" or "after hours" clinic, and there are also dedicated offices (often co-located with a pharmacy) that do the same. I'm not sure how exactly these work, but they don't cost anything, and you can generally get in within minutes to hours, depending on your situation and how busy they are.

If you are in need of emergency care, you go to the ER (and/or call an ambulance), and get triaged. If you are having a heart attack, for example, you will get treatment immediately, but for lesser problems you can sometimes wait several hours. This is also the one case where the system can actually cost you money of-out-pocket, because if you're waiting that long you'll probably want to buy something to eat.
> You cannot have price competition when buyers are frequently forced to immediately purchase a good or service if they don't want to die.

The number of instances where this dire case occurs is minimal compared to every other instance. Sure, when its life and death its not practical. Perhaps those sorts of situations is where single payer or insurance makes sense.

For humdrum things like physicals, wellness visits, cold and flu checks, vaccinations, routine labs and imaging, etc. a free market could work very well.
> due to the sheer exposure you're getting in the meantime.

This helps less than you'd think. Many of my leeches are due to word similarities. Sometimes I'd have an issue of erroneously swapping two similar words, and my brain would get "stuck" following that circuit. If that makes sense?

The fix that I found was suspending one or both of the words and making up a lot of sentences for them. And physically writing them.
I absolutely agree that a semi-public or public community built on irc would not be the way to go in 2020. In my use case it's for much smaller groups of individuals who all know and work with each other, within private companies and small work groups.
Can someone provide a list of how much each item that is relevant to this technology is likely to cost?

I’d really like to know how much each laser, pellet, metal case, etc will likely cost in this and how difficult it will be to create each one.

I would have to imagine that these lasers will be the most difficult part of all of this. It will also be good to know how long each laser lasts and how much power they require to operate effectively.
I hate gigantic URLs, but not as much as I hate extensions that want to access my data for all websites.
It is unlikely that your email catches his(his team's) attention. However, if it does, rest assured that he will shake things up to fix the root cause of the issue and likely get the team to refund your money as well.
Awesome! I'm not on Twitter, but would like to be a beta tester. Do you by any chance have a mailing list or RSS feed? If I buy a subscription will you email subscribers when the beta comes out?
I sometimes hardly ever have room to pull out my phone during rush hour on the train. Packed like sardines. And they say everyone drives in LA...
> If economic policy

OP stated monetary policy, not economic.

Furthermore, Greece's problems were primarily caused by the way Greek governments systematically mismanaged the Greek state, having resorted to a perverse and continuous push for a combination of massive accounting fraud and overspending fueled by collosal levels of sovereign debt.
A thread from 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15180581

2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9284655

(Links for the curious. Reposts are ok after a year or so.)
GoboLinux at a Glance
So travel to the jurisdiction of the buyer and file a small claims? How much time and money are you willing to spend?
Sorry not so. Here's a graph that breaks emissions down by economic sector:
https://ourworldindata.org/co2-and-other-greenhouse-gas-emis...

Here's the breakdown within the US by economic sector, and then the Transportation sector broken down by vehicle type:
https://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/fast-facts-transportation-...

Clothing and red-meat are particularly acute impact activities of wealthy western lifestyles, but its very hard to top cars. The very thing they do is oxidize hydrocarbons.
I'm still waiting for someone to do a study of a three-day (24-hour) work week.
Recent and related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22254793
That sounds like a single-edged sword to me.
My SO has insurance through/at her med school and has to dispute bills every time she goes in because they bill them as non-covered. Oh and imaging in the same building / under the same hospital wasn't covered. It's crazy that even medical professionals can't get good/clear services.
Eradicating JS would probably solve our climate crisis.
Why is ACA not universal? (Ignoring technical problems it had that prevented that from actually happening). It guaranteed affordability, coverage, and prevented you from opting out.
Anyone know the original year?
Many categories on Craigslist are also full of bots, spam, and scams.

Honestly Facebook having such aggressive “fake profile” enforcement makes FB marketplace one of the better ways to buy and sell online
I feel burned out from time to time.

Then I found this really works for me: don't spend vacation all at once, instead, spend it on every Wednesday. It's not just one day off, it actually changes the workdays from 5 days to 2 days.
This problem is going to get more severe as available datasets get bigger and bigger. The more data you have to mine, the more likely you are to find something that looks like a signal but isn't.
Not sure, I haven't actually tried other methods because I've always heard that they were unreliable or got "fixed" in later versions — never had to worry about the other one ceasing to work in the future.
Don’t see a security issue here. Only the domain is sent to DNS, not the full uri.
TFA mentions that Mattermost's source is AGPL and the binaries are MIT. It's absolutely free software.

It's also $0 software, in that it being free software and open source, you can simply and legally patch out their license checks and recompile, if you so wish.
> Unless, the UBI is highly distributive,taking money from the well-to-do and giving it to the poor.

s/highly distributive,taking money from the well-to-do and giving it to the poor/Forced wealth redistribution
https://www.orionpsudb.com/corsair

The OEM for most of their PSUs is CWT, but they are "Corsair custom" designs instead of off-the-shelf. Seasonic is only used for relatively few of Corsair's models.
A crappy computer can run programs just fine. I don't see a contradiction. It was poorly made, just like the rest of Eastern Bloc stuff.
What's the answer to the confusion around the Jane Street stuff? Do you recommend it for newbies?
> Somehow, the current US health system is the most expensive on the planet

You know why? Because we pay for most of the R&D, done by industry, that the rest of the world benefits from. For example, other developed nations like Canada have been able to benefit from new drugs invented in America's more capitalist system by restricting prices in their country even though we don't.
Ask HN: How to handle one cofounder not being committed?
We’re a growing startup with 3 founders equal in equity but one of us is not able to commit as fully as the rest. We’ve been building a product for about a year and self-funded the efforts. We’re seeing some promising traction and modest profits of about $2000/month.

At this point we need someone to really promote the product and get our revenue numbers higher but the marketing cofounder isn’t able to fill the role due to personal obligations.

Given that we can’t afford to hire someone for marketing, what is the right path at this point?

Some options we’re considering (would require agreement from all of us):

- Restructure the company so that equity scales with commitment. This way the less committed cofounder would free up some equity to bring on a 4th cofounder for the marketing role

- Bring on a 4th cofounder and everyone reduces from 1/3 to 1/4 equity

- Bring on a cofounder for small equity (~3%) which comes out of our equity amounts equally

- Seek seed investment, use that to hire an employee

Are there any options I’m missing in this situation where an essential cofounder isn’t putting in enough effort?
Daring Fireball-Style Linklog with Jekyll and GitHub Pages
But the same might be true if you filmed the entire transaction. The only way you’d have proof is if you hand deliver it the entire way and as you validate with the buyer that everything works at that point and the transaction is over. Even then, the third-party holding the funds in escrow has to be satisfied or you could have a buyer disagree and say that was a different transaction than the one it applied to, a different camera...
Service sector does not want you working 40 hours a week for benefits purposes.
No, you wouldn’t have to fight for everything.

With a single payer, there would be a list - this is what we pay for, this is what we don’t pay for.
The problem is that when you break those costs down into buckets and then compare the buckets with other countries, we're overspending in all of them, by very large amounts. Pharma and admin is nibbling at the edges of the problem. We pay way more for inpatient and outpatient procedures than other countries do. We prescribe more procedures than other countries (possibly as a consequence of how well we've gotten at delivering procedures on an outpatient basis; the UK, for instance, apparently fixes fewer hernias, but that's probably a result of the fact that they do a lot more of then on an inpatient basis). Our doctors also just make substantially more money.
A lot of very old government services are like that, they hail from a time before everything was expected to be "free market" and needed to turn a profit to justify its existence.
Maybe for return fraud that’s an issue. But for buyers, the issue is usually more subtle problems with quality. (DOA, poor quality, counterfeit)

The question is, can a platform protect sellers in this way and still afford to compete with other services? Most buyers like buying from Amazon/eBay where they always get their money back. It’ll be a tough sell to get them to use a platform with higher barriers to making a return and higher overhead costs.

I think that you need to address the concerns that buyers have in order to be successful in attracting buyers.
The most interesting part for me is that sudoku is a NP-complete problem, and it can do it rather quickly.

I wonder how effective sqlite is effective at solving SAT or other similar problems. I mean, there are solvers that are certainly much better, but the advantage is that you may have sqlite for free in your work environment. The same can be said of regexes BTW. PCRE are NP-hard and have them solve SAT is relatively straightforward.
Who decides what is "greater good" though? Some unelected bureaucrat in the Brussels? A globalist cabal? Frau Merkel? Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Why do you have so much trust in these "negotiations" that you don't even want to see what transpired in them?
And how is writing paychecks for government bureaucrats any different? I would like to pay my doctor, and my hospital, and my pharmacy for my healthcare costs not some borg.
> If you go see a doctor in Greece he will ask for cash.

Yes? Cash is the standard method of payment, what is the issue exactly? Regardless of that, employees (who are the majority of the workforce in pretty much every country) can't tax-evade.

> What do you mean the population wasn't asked?

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22385367

And at the end of the day, even if there was true democracy it would still not make sense to blame all the population for the choice of the majority. In the same way that you can't blame every American for the killer drones, or every German for the election of the NSDAP.
An article with a similar title from 5 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9926192
That example seems not to be grounded in reality?
dBase II, III+ and (ugh) IV developer here... Nice to see some of these earlier interviews with the likes of C. Wayne Ratliff and Anders Heljsberg etc. I remember one of my favourite interviews back in the day was reading a Wayne Ratliff one in what I think was 'Byte' magazine.
> I went out and bought lots of books on natural language and artificial intelligence. I kept getting drawn from one place to another, and I did lots of experiments.

It's amazing how some things in computer programming never change.
If they fail to show to court and/or lose, your state doesn't have much recourse or ability to rectify the situation, right?
If during rush hour you can leave work at 5 then do a workout or an errand to get home by 6, then you either live in a village or you're a winged animal.
Linux is not UNIX os. Kindly update the title.
Around 5 years back, I went from 5 days a week to 4, taking a 20% paycut in the process.

It was one of the best decisions I've ever made - it feels like I have so much more time for family, side projects and hobbies than I ever did before. And for reference, I work around 90% from home.

TBH, the company I work for has got a pretty good deal out of this, as I'm sure my productivity hasn't dropped at all. (it's a mega corp, so there is zero chance of negotiating back to equivalent of a 5-day salary)
A Glass or Two of Wine a Day May Decrease Your Risk of Alzheimer's
It’s been over two years since Net Neutrality was repealed. I remember at the time there was a lot of talk about how the internet was going to be ruined by throttling, paid “fast lanes”, etc.

Have any of these things happened? Or did that turn out to mostly be fear-mongering?
> Because it amounts to "you have no choice, look at these graphs, do as I say"

It doesn't, though. I'm not saying you can take the politics out of something like this, or that you should. The last thing I am is a technocrat. But policy makers should be working from good information when they can.

What I am saying is that the politicians, for the most part, are choosing avoidance and the arguments being made for the most part are superficial and often naive, both for and against. It's up you and I (and everyone, at least in a democratic society) to insist they hold themselves to a higher standard and actually do the work.

The (actual, not media) science, for the most part is not contentious - but that doesn't actually mean that the scientists know what is best from a policy point of view.

However, the politicians are mostly operating in a way that avoids too much contact with what is known. It's the easier path, but incredibly unlikely to lead to anything useful.
Correct. Censorship is a tool, it is not inherently good or bad.

You want your email server to censor all entirely-obviously-over-the-top spam messages, for example (e.g. SA score >20). Most people want Facebook and Discord et al to censor spam postings.

However, when censorship veers from basic utility into editorializing (e.g. Facebook and Instagram's algorithmic prioritization/deprioritization in user feeds, Discord banning the legal and regulation-compliant /r/guns subreddit's Discord, or Facebook banning posts with male nipples, or Youtube banning instructional/educational videos about computer security, or Apple and the Taiwanese flag, or Gmail spam-foldering emails from smaller email providers not part of the deliverability cartel, or a million other examples), then it becomes a social issue and a potential problem that we need to address.

Email that is not 100% not-a-false-positive should never be silently trashed.
Do whatever you can to support the free and freedom of the press
Make your own VPN in 30 SEC
Grab the source code, review it for AJAX or DOM manipulations and install it via Developer mode? Also, set reminders to review diffs and update it as new releases occur...
I started working 4 days/32 hours I think about a decade ago. Never looked back.
"managing serves and databases"

I can spin up a new Rails-based set of droplets (aka VPSes) on DigitalOcean in about 30 minutes with some shell scripts, so that's not really an issue for an early stage startup IMHO. I've used Next.js and while it's nice as a way to bootstrap a React app, I would never use it to quickly build a robust startup product as a solopreneur. I would also never use a single data store platform like Firebase over using good ol' PostgreSQL + Redis.

Majestic monolith frameworks such as Rails and related proven architecture have never let me down in 12+ years of web app development…whereas I've been bitten many times by attempting to use the latest hotness because of a mythical future where it will have been worth that effort!