skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was an article here a while back about a bike company having lots of trouble with damage during shipping. They changed their packaging so that it appeared that there was a TV in the box and not a bike and the damage claims dropped.

Found it: https://www.theverge.com/2016/9/25/13048668/vanmoof-shipping...
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I think your comment was intended to be funny, but it does point out a serious problem: what to do with accidentally funny comments not meant to so be?
fuck you robinhood
I just don't believe "low-level grunts" have serious problems that way. It wouldn't be rational.
Do you have any sense of what the simplest conscious system looks like? Can we construct one from legos in an aircraft hangar?
> 2,000 milliwatts of charge
> 500 milliwatts per hour

It's bad enough journalists confusing watts and power and energy but better not in the middle of a post explaining the difference between energy and power!
When we moved back to Switzerland, we encountered an example of this: During the Mad Cow epoch, alternatives to beef like kangaroo and ostrich meat became somewhat popular here.

So in a Mexican restaurant in Zürich, we saw "Kangaroo Fajitas" on the menu, a dish that has the distinction of being unknown in both Mexico and Australia.
The problem with this solution is that washing and sterilizing makes a heavy demand on the country’s own water sources, which may already be facing depletion. It works well in, say, Northern Europe which is very wet, but in Peru or India such a system is not so environmentally friendly. There, it may be better to use plastic containers that are recycled at a facility elsewhere.
Ah yes, ISP's; the most beloved of corporate entities, and not in any way aided by regional duopolies.

RH isn't an ISP, and being down for an entire day of trading is a big deal. If I don't like my ISP... welp, I'm pretty much screwed. If I don't like RH I have plenty of options.
There are two reasons why you would ever want to use something more complex: determining when the triggering happened (ie. who to blame) and ascertaining after the fact whether the trigger event was really meaningful for the package contents. You can build such an electronic sensor and it even can be cheap if reusable, but it mostly is not cost-effective.

On the other hand trying to build such an thing is good source of interesting stories, like sales reps of three different semiconductor manufacturers calling you at 4AM and wanting to know what the hell you are designing and whether it in fact is not missile guidance system or some other ITAR covered thing...
What makes you think that being around for decades makes it impervious to being hacked? You're on hackernews.
This person is probing an API which is already down so of course there are errors.

Robinhood would be using a proper date library anyway to handle timezones. The system was fine on the 29th, 1st and even this morning pre-market. Seems more like a capacity issue that cascaded into failure.
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If the shipper doesn't want to have to deal with it, a pinhole with some cyanoacrylate will keep the ball in place, and will be very difficult to notice. Resetting it after a tilt will be much more challenging.
Well... That just got cancelled
That must be hyperbole, I haven't paid much attention, but compare to Carlos Ghosn.
My biggest surprise: even meat eaters can have Vitamin B12 deficiency.

My doctor recommends all his patients supplement with B12, regardless of whether they're vegetarian, because of the above mentioned potential for everyone to have B12 deficiency, and, according to him, tests for B12 aren't reliable.
Maybe you’re one of today’s 10000 https://xkcd.com/1053/

But it’s been widely accepted since West Wing first aired that corruption in America’s electoral system (and politics generally) can be traced back to campaign finance reform as patient-0.

Representatives are constantly campaigning and raising money for the next election and the rest follows from freeing them to actually do their job.
Staying within the "standard of care" basically immunizes MDs from malpractice liability. They are the only profession that has such a carve out. Other professions and industries have to live by a reasonableness standard and cannot hide behind "everyone else does it this way" as a defense.

Thus, MDs are disincentivized from being creative or innovative outside of pure research settings.
It's an HN tradition to link to the S-1.

This is not the post I upvoted, and I can no longer undo that action. The replacement changed my upvote history to an unwanted version.

I would also disagree with the second part of your statement -- I've never understood why two threads on the same 'topic' is in any way harmful.
There was a really bad flood in the bronze age that wiped out the records of a few civilizations. For a lot of people, it really was a reset of the world after the water receded.
Doesn't that mean they're not using third-party libraries?
Well I've gotten allergic to the term 'XY problem' itself. All too often it's tossed around by people who think they know my problem better than I do, and then dismiss me by saying 'don't do that' or 'just do something else' (this is mostly in the context of 'community support' like Stack Overflow).

It happens mostly when I distill a problem down into its most basic, abstract form, because otherwise it's too difficult to explain (I mean I can't fault people for not wanting to take 30 minutes to understand all design nuances and trade offs that were made over the last 10 years in my particular case). Then they take that abstract example as the real use case and find reasons to not answer the actual question. Then again, I'm probably in the 'cynical' category mentioned up-thread.
3.5" or 5.25" :)
5 gigaseconds is about 150 years, so your "graduated early" indicates some serious life extension technology.
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Strange thing: I saw the Waymo cars in the press release photo being prepped for the photoshoot on Valencia Street in San Francisco last month.

Now the random sighting ("why is that guy polishing a Waymo Jaguar on a Saturday morning in SF?") makes much more sense.
I would not be surprised if this is the case. I am fairly sure the corollary is true: Facebook has more people working on iOS than Apple does.
There is a surprisingly large amount of people that agree on the psychonaut wiki's (I'm not sure if it originated here) levels of hallucinated geometry. I say it's surprising because of for descriptions of subjective experiences that could seemingly manifest in infinite ways, it's eerily specific.
I'm surprised that your manager hasn't assigned specific tasks to do.

If I were in your position, I'd take some holidays. That would be the best way to recharge.

If you still have to go to work, then brushing up on some skill in an area that will help you be more productive in the next project is probably a good idea. That could be increasing your proficiency in a language, framework, libraries. A small side-project to automate some rote task could also be very beneficial.
I see you deleted your first highly abusive comment and re-wrote it to be (only slightly) less so. I hope you see the irony in doing that while at the same time calling out other people for being "unhinged".

Remember to breathe.
I tend to blame the tech (or lack of indexing-resources) since often it's not finding something I'm sure exists despite plenty of exact keywords.

To use the restaurant example, I'd be putting in the city-name explicitly.
That makes me wonder if I should just manage my audiobooks with the Music app. I wonder if there are any downsides.
I looked up his post, seems like he codes complicated systems in Javascript rather than being a typical UI developer:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20589013

I can see a lot of companies being willing to hire a person who can do that even if he doesn't want to use a specific UI framework. Just write down the javascript and you can integrate it in whatever codebase you have, so he is a lot easier to work with than your average JS dev.
Project lightspeed required 23.94 MB / 11.83 MB to download the webpage and made the browser crawl on a i7 32Gb PC. Oh the irony..
I agree with this in general, but a couple of points:

1. Suppose a vehicle operates in revenue service for 8 hours per day, 365 days per year, that's a labor cost of $44k. If the hardware lasts five years, you break even if the hardware/upkeep costs of the self driving part are less than $220k, which seems very doable.

2. I think that Alphabet's golden goose is more vulnerable than ever. Google's search results have become so ad-infested that the mere willingness to dial down the number of ads is enough. What good are great organic search results if the user never sees them because there are only one or two on the entire first page?
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Wonderfully said. It's scarier to think that people like this work at restaurants and make your food. I recently left a job like that, where one guy would sneeze into the back of his hand and then keep working. I left that job recently but I'm pretty sure he's still there.

While coronavirus won't survive cooking, cross contamination between hot food and uncooked food happens, so it's best to not go out to eat in these delicate times. If you do, make sure to get something that comes out still cooking like a hot bowl of noodle soup or something.

You are right that people won't change :(. A lot of these people literally see nothing wrong with how they act because they aren't even conscious about when other people do it to them. You bet they'll be angered if they actually thought about it. If anything positive is to come out of this crisis, it's that people will become a little more self-aware.
"The money isn't gone."

I'd suggest...the vaporized market capital isn't the money that is gone. The money that is gone is their cumulative operating losses, right? Not as much but still substantial.
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Because trucking isn't Uber. The company that is shipping out million-dollar medical automation robots calls the same trucking company every day. If they ever found out that the sensors had been tampered with, and it would be obvious right away, then the robot people would never hire those truckers again. That's your reputation. In real life, that's how people do business. The real world is not a big puzzle.
How are the photo organizing capabilities? I like to organize everything into nested folders.

One thing I like about Lightroom is that I can right-click on a folder and get a shareable, private link that people can go to to view the album. Great for sharing photos from a trip or an event without having to go to some other services.

The link opens a minimalist, unintrusive, functional album app where people can optionally download originals and even rate and comment on the photos, which is nice when you want to work together to whittle a larger set of candidates down to a smaller set.
Perhaps you confused it with JavaScriptCore?
The path outside the standard of care are clinical trials. The best way to get adjunct therapies tested is to start a foundation, collect money and push pre-clinical and phase 1 studies via grants.

We've definitely lost the cowboy culture that basically cured leukemia. I don't know if that is a good thing or not. Trump's new FDA law allows for some more experimentation but it's not clear it'll work.

Hopefully, the new FDA personalized precision medicine approach will allow for individual treatment that can still be aggregated into clinical trials. I think there are a lot of re-purposing experiments going on with AI/big data that should translate into preclinical work and possible new clinical trials.
> Hustlers that stand on city corners pushing junk flyers onto passers-by, creating a pile of discards 20 feet down the street, are in the same boat.

Paper degrades naturally, and most paper in the West is now produced from sustainable sources. So, paper littering is not as deleterious as plastic that doesn’t get properly recycled.
> The SLoC of IPSec kernel code are comparable to the SLoC for WireGuard kernel code.

I haven't checked whether this is true, but even if it is, that's a damning indictment of IPsec, because on Linux, the entire connection establishment is in userspace, and the kernel only handles per-packet encryption and authentication. WireGuard has the entire negotiation sequence, authentication, routing, timeouts, rekeying, etc in the kernel. With IPsec, you need to have a userspace daemon to manage all of that, with significantly more LoC than the bare per-packet essentials. With WireGuard, you just load the keys into the kernel and you're done. I bet that you're also counting Zinc against WireGuard, but not counting the entire crypto API against IPsec (which, unlike with WireGuard, you might end up actually using).

I suspect that it's not actually true though in the first place, once you add in all of the other stuff like iptables -m policy that only exists to support IPsec.
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Saying that it's mostly cultural IMHO misses the point - having certain days happening in the same season is the whole point of having calendars; unlike the length of weeks and months (which are arbitrary and cultural) there are practical reasons to require an accurate metric for years that doesn't shift seasons around because that affects our agriculture.

For much of human history, farmers needed to know that (for example) this spring is later or earlier than usual, because that affects the length of the growing season they'll see - if they would just start planting solely based on the weather conditions, that's not the best way to go.

Nowadays we could just "directly" make weather predictions based on all kinds of factors, so today we could decouple calendar from seasons if we wanted to, but historically having a calendar that is (for example) two weeks off of traditional seasons would be a bad thing. Sure, you could just learn to adjust, but if you're adjusting anyway, why not adjust the calendar directly - since the vast majority of people were either farmers or derived their income from farming (i.e. landlords / aristocrats), the practical needs of the farming industry outweighed pretty much every other factor.
Not quite on the same day as may be seen that it didn't fall on the same day before or after.

But he wanted it to stay close to the equinox.
"A startup will never be as impactful as public policy with nation state fiscal policy backing it up"

These involve selling to different sorts of people and different incentives once you get going.
The facts seem to indicate that it's floundering if nearly half of its indie titles are from one minor developer. Indie devs often readily hop on new platforms (given that development isn't unreasonably difficult) since it's a wide open market and they have a fresh chance to get in before it's too crowded.

Nobody is eager to put anything on Stadia. As an indie developer myself, Stadia would at best be an afterthought long after I've comfortably released my games elsewhere. It doesn't seem worth the time investment.
It worked in 2k... used a customized litestep (iirc) theme with win2k for a long time. Definitely made use of the transparency bits.
This is responsive to essentially nothing I wrote.
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Last I heard, Facebook was running into the limits of the Objective-C runtime because they'd register a bunch of classes at startup and overshoot their launch time. They factored a bunch of stuff out into dynamically loaded frameworks off the startup path or something like that.
English already has the same names. Wednesday is Woden's day. Thursday is Thor's Day, Friday is Frigg's day. These are just English translations of the planets associated with the gods.

The names of the days of the week are fairly uniform on Earth. Monday (Moon-day) = lunes (spanish) = 月曜日 (japanese - getsuyoubi, moon day). Sunday = 日曜日 (sunday, or almost "sun sun"). These came through China and are very old names -- tying the seven objects you can see move against the background stars (ignoring Uranus if you know where to look) is an idea going back the the classical era.
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Doesn't work in a private browsing window on Firefox. It could be that local storage is disabled, IIRC?
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