skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’d expect amazon to email you a receipt with an easy way to dispute payments. I realize this is not the same as seeing the aggregate cost at the time of purchase but I’m skeptical this alone will create lots of friction in ppl adopting this.

To me, the biggest thing that has kept me from trying it is that I need to open my app and scan a QR code. Looks like they’re addressing this by left you swipe your card.
Those seemingly horrible jobs were better than what they had before. You can tell because people voted with their feet. They left their farms to take those jobs, and didn't go back.

Something similar plays out with "sweatshop labor" these days. People talk about the abuses, but there's often the same flow of people from the countryside lining up for the openings.

That's not to say that stopping stupid abuses and unsafe conditions isn't important, it's just important to keep in mind how bad things often were. Simply having a job with a salary that guaranteed you wouldn't starve was a huge improvement for some people.
Hopefully the same tech used to measure when someone takes or replaces something on the shelf can be used to monitor when stuff is in the wrong spot, making stocking easier.
Why should AI be employed? Why is fully-automated superhuman scale something companies should be allowed to achieve?

I mean, let's be real: How many new pornographic video uploads per day does PornHub actually need to serve it's audience? And the vast majority of content on PornHub likely falls into two categories: Major brand videos, in which they can work directly with the legal entities responsible for them, and user uploads of primarily copyright-infringing content. The former can be streamlined by connecting directly with brands, making sure they have all their legal ducks in order and that all of their performers are properly employed. For the latter, a slower, non-automated approval process is probably perfectly fine. Individual/amateur users who want to publish their own content could enter into a business relationship with the site, to achieve a pipeline closer to the first group, establishing a channel/brand that identifies the performers in the video and verifies their consent.

Fetish/BDSM content is arguably pretty important to the platform (and sex positivity in general), but again, my guess is a large portion comes from established adult film brands. If PornHub works directly with the actual people filming the video, verifies performer age eligibility and consent, and then approves the videos, there is no problem with the content of the video shown itself.

Unchecked open upload of whatever content a user has on their computer has no real need to exist here. At the very least, every video should be associated with the performers present in the video, and upon the revocation of consent from that performer, all of the videos containing them could be removed and prevented from being added again. This not only prevents abuse of non-consensual performers, but ensures the revenue generated from a video actually makes it back to consenting performers, as piracy is no longer possible using the platform.
What other countries have police sending nastygrams to doctors, telling them to hush up?
Online sales are a very small (~25%) part of the eyewear market. No DTC brand (Warby Parker, Zenni, etc.) is anywhere close to the market dominance of EssilorLuxottica.
Working from home without feeling alone: Remote Mob Programming
Unbelievable. Due diligence for Series A rounds is pretty comprehensive. How in the world this process, especially in such a solid VC firm as Sequoia, could miss a potential significant conflict of interests is beyond my understanding.
Fiber v1.8. What's new, updated and re-thinked?
build it then and become a billionaire. We'll be waiting.
"redesigning the entire system" was an exaggeration. They have a serious problem if that's really what they need to do.

Rolling out fixes fast, even if they require intensive changes, is completely reasonable and expected in many industries though. They should have the talent and procedures to get it done. This isn't some startup web app, it's a multi-billion dollar broker managing millions in client funds. It's bordering on incompetent to have 3 outages in 2 weeks.

EDIT: What exactly is everyone disagreeing with?
It's true that such comments are annoying, but they're necessary as a feedback mechanism to regulate the site. Otherwise the site guidelines would have negligible effect.

They're more tedious to write than to read, if that helps at all.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Toll-free link for the full debate (which is actually more nuanced than the title suggests): http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/bmj.m769?ijkey=wQFPxA0MpG4ta...
I have absolutely no problem trusting a Turkish CA for a Turkish domain. I don’t want to trust it for .com.

I cannot fathom why browsers can’t pull this off.
More research seems to indicate that continuous tracks do have significant maintenance drawbacks compared to tires (a tire can be expected to last significantly more miles than a track between repairs/replacement).

However, it definitely was a design defect as the cruiser was unable to travel reliably on the snow, and Byrd had previous success in Antarctica with tracked vehicles...
Much thanks for the Tiller recommendation.

I was initially using Mint for a bit, but got turned off due to their sketchy login authentication and business model (selling data).
Right, a few users don't make something mainstream. Big companies have thousands of developers - even non IT companies - that someone inside some big company uses a programming language doesn't make it an indicator for widespread (most people use something -> mainstream) usage.

Mainstream: large relative and absolute numbers of users.

For example the Porsche Taycan (-> Microsoft) is not a mainstream car, even though Bill Gates has one and Porsche is an incredible profitable company. https://www.economist.com/business/2019/09/12/porsche-is-sma...
> Private trackers solve this issue by rewarding people that does keep seeding them

Exactly. Why don't you think this would work if things were more legal?
The error, actually, is in the first part rather than the second. We don't know where it will be in a day or a year, but there's good reason to think we know where it will be in ten years: about twice where it is now. It might be only 1.5x or it might be 3x, but it's not very likely to fall very far outside of that range.

Given that, if you have ten years to wait before you need your money, it's as good a place as any to put your surplus earnings today. Not to sell your car or borrow money, but as a reasonably safe long-term thing to do with money that you will use for your retirement.

And then forget about it. Buy a broad index and don't worry what it does on a daily basis, even days like today. Perhaps especially days like today.
Only company that was up on the first day of market panic so the puts were super cheap.

Ended up printing me money today though :)
> What are your goals?
Maximize salary over the next few years.

> What work do you do now?
"IT Inhouse Consulting", but basically I'm making myself familiar with the IT department of the firm.

> Why are you posting about an investment finance exam in a tech board?
My employer is an asset management firm, which I should have mentioned.
> we replace with a software layout called microG that can still receive push notifications and have geolocation data for apps (using Mozilla geolocation service)

It's good that they set up microG for you; that's one of the hurdles with using Lineage this way.

I'm very curious about their Maps app. That was one of the very biggest problems when I tried to use Google-free Android a couple years ago. The open-source options at the time were bad. If they've made a decent alternative, that would truly be a game-changer.

One other random thought: the name "/e/" is terrible. Hard to search for, hard to meaningfully verbalize, hard to interpret.
I think that's a vision of OO that not many OO programs that I've seen actually follow. It's more common to see OO programs where object methods represent the computations, not the whole objects, while the bundled data is used to store resulting state of the computations, with much or all of the data hidden to preserve invariants for that state. Just acting directly on the data like that without an intermediate representation of the computation itself is just the sort of liberty that the video I mentioned in the sibling post, warns about that can turn into unwanted constraints in some cases.
> but long term, the economy grows, and adds many more categories of jobs.

Perhaps, but if history is any guide, that "long term" will span over multiple generations. That is of no help to those being hurt now.
How does that help vs simply having short lived certificates?
The cash registers at a normal store has to calculate the tax on items, so I don't see why this would be very hard for other computer systems to do. It will know where you are.
They are normalized but also they've run this chip on Geekbench 5: https://browser.geekbench.com/processors/708

[Technically, that's an Opteron 275 instead of a 250, but they're quite similar. 250 was clocked a bit higher but had slower memory and no SSE3]
How many deaths will warrant taking preventive actions I wonder? (preventative actions like quarantine, which, was the only way it was stopped from spreading before China "went back to work")
Should have used apng, sure, but the difference is still very visible on those hard color lines.
Maybe because your comment didn't mention anything specific to prove wrong. Just saying Capitalism and Reasons doesn't mean anything.

Could I just say "Communism" and thereby prove you wrong?
Why Doesn’t Everybody Have Dark Skin Today?
FWIW, I've been using Amazon Go stores regularly for a while and have never had any issues.

There's a link to dispute the receipt should something happen, right on the receipt itself. Now this is specifically Amazon Go app, but I would expect it to be same for other retailers.

Edit: I see that this is a little bit different than Go stores. It's far less convenient, but you can still get the receipt in your email by visiting a kiosk it seems.
> You're thinking of it in a light that doesn't help you understand; don't think of it as a variable, think of it as a definition. "jk is defined as..."

I was just trying to read the code for "file" and see if I understood a little bit of the implementation they did. In this case I don't even know where even is the function that opens a file or writes to a file. I don't think that's good code and I don't believe that thinking of it in terms of a definition is going to help.
Autofill on Browsers: A Deep Dive
Do we have an accurate count of cases? For example if most cases are determined based on hospitalization, then the hospitalized death rate is the same as the estimated actual death rate.

I haven't been able to find studies on the hospitalization rate to know.
> Go take a look at how many CAs your browser trusts, and tell me with a straight face that you absolutely trust every one of those CAs to always do the right thing.

OK. There are 52 of them, listed here: https://ccadb-public.secure.force.com/mozilla/CAInformationR... although perhaps don't bang on Salesforce's poor server, it seems like for some reason this isn't trivial for them to do?

I do in some sense trust them to always do the right thing, but, as the saying goes "Trust but verify". As well as trusting them I also pay attention to what I see and other people see and press them to do better when they fall short.

I actually think their record has been fairly good, and is gradually improving. It could always be better, but on the whole what I see from CAs is exactly what I'd expect from humans generally, they are lazy and incompetent and so we have to design things to take that into account. I'd expect no more from any of us.
If you keep posting flamebait to HN we're going to ban you. I've lost count of how many warnings we've already given.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I wonder if Finix should have raised the issue? Article oddly remiss.
So Amazon can now control the brick and mortar as well.
Are you in the US? Because in the US it happens more often than elsewhere because you can't actually know the full price until you check out due to taxes not being included in the price on the box/shelf. Plus, especially with groceries, some items are taxed and some aren't in some states.
Please don't break the site guidelines regardless of how bad another comment is. Also, please don't feed egregious comments by replying. That's also in the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Personal attacks will get you banned in particular, so please don't do those.
I bet people said the same thing about credit cards — “how do I know there won’t be an error that causes my credit card bill to be wrong at the end of the month? I’ll stick with cash thank you very much”
What, in your own words, did they do that was illegal?
Yes. Amazon will know every item you buy, how much, and when. But not much different than grocery store discount cards already used by most everyone for decades. I'm sure that info is sold, traded around, and aggregated.
Not sure about the 2k+zip, but I do think that there will be a LOT of progress in wasm+canvas for interactive programming... of course this leaves out accessibility, so hopefully it's done with some constraint depending on the space.
Show HN: Sales for Founders
Come on, this is a trivially refutable opinion. If masks don't work, then why do healthcare workers need them?
feynmanliang's BachBot and hexahedria's biaxial-rnn also have very good melody generation, and these deal with polyphonic music which is quite a bit harder than simple monody/monophonic music.
Yeah - actually, it does happen often enough... I'd say it's much higher.

I know a lot of HN is full of people who don't pay attention to prices (for whatever reason - probably the inordinate amount of obscenely high incomes) - but it's really common outside of this crowd.

When I was poor - I thoroughly examined prices and only bought things that were on sale. If it rang up and wasn't the price that it said it was - I put it back. An example in my mind would be something like a block of cheese being $12 instead of $10. It's only $2 but it's also $2 that I was not willing to pay. Sometimes the staff at the store were not removing the old sale tags - thus it looked like it was on sale but it wasn't.
I don't believe there's any studies on that. The virus was only discovered at the beginning of December.

Most likely they are referencing this study showing 40% of people who had SARS had long lasting effects https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullar...

While COVID-19 mutated from SARS it has a number of characteristics that are different so I don't think it's reasonably to assume it'd be the same. Could be worst or better.
You've gotta be kidding me. The vast majority of Americans are constantly managing a battle between their means and their desires. The total bill matters immensely.
This seems to be advocating to turn program programming into compiler programming. Like it took "every sufficiently complicated program reimplements half of lisp" and said that was an admirable goal and here's how to do it well.

I only skimmed the initial algebra talk linked out, but it seems to mirror what any given programming language does with your code. It takes your text, does some processing to turn it into an AST, then turns that into a compiled program and runs it. AFAICT the initial algebra suggestion says to basically program directly with your AST wherever you can, and then write code to turn that into a program. Now you've written an AST and a compiler, but naively interpreting that AST will probably be slow, so maybe you work in some optimizations. And you don't always write correct code, so you have to add a debugger too.

Now you've just written a programming language and toolset. Why not just use an existing language and mature toolset? Is it because your DSL might be constrained to the original problem well enough to be simpler than anything general purpose?

Replacing e.g. `map` and a native function with `MyMap` and a few of my own functions seems to be throwing out all the good that comes with a mature language ecosystem.
> It's fairly common amongst poor people.

Are these people shopping at Amazon boutiques?
Just switched to TDAmeritrade as a result of this crap.
Technically, "mild/moderate" means literally anything short of being in a hospital bed.
There used to be a saying, something like if you missed the best 20 days of the market in the last century, you would just about break even.

Missing out is very, very expensive.
OpenSilver looks like a fun effort. I wonder, though, if it's commercially viable (just out of curiosity.)

Wikipedia [1] says:

> In July of 2015 a Microsoft blog post finally clarified matters: "...we encourage companies that are using Silverlight for media to begin the transition to DASH/MSE/CENC/EME based designs". Microsoft plans to terminate Silverlight support on October 12, 2021.

How widespread is adoption of Silverlight? Could OpenSilver become someone's bread & butter by 12 Oct 2021?

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Silverlight
You will be downvoted to oblivion but you are correct. HN discussion on topics like this has descended into utter childish conspiratorial giberish.
Ask HN: How physical server boots are done scale with disk encryption enabled?
Just want to understand how physical server reboots are done at scale when the disks are encrypted and requires a boot password.

When your data center has millions of devices, how this problem is solved at scale ? Any readily available tools ? Have a big operations team who will do only patching/rebooting ?
Or when you are a Rocket Internet company.
> The way other commenters describe it makes it seem like it's fairly often.

There's almost always a line at them when I walk by in the stores in my area. Usually, the line there is about as long as the lines at the manned checkouts.
I thought the nuanced explanation is something more like "technically it's possible that a bit of material in front of your face could stop a droplet carrying a pathogen, but unless used as intended (which generally requires training) the masks are largely ineffective and you'll actually be less safe if you inaccurately estimate your risk due to thinking that a mask is an effective preventative device for you."

In other words, it's actually unnuanced for you to say "the masks are not useless." It must also be technically possible for a wide-brimmed hat to happen to block a pathogen-carrying droplet and prevent you from inhaling it. It's probably even possible that wearing a magnet around your neck could just ever-so-slightly nudge a single droplet and cause it to not enter your mouth or nose.
Wouldn't that incentivize people to sell before the pause/end of the trading day, creating a snowball effect?
> Counterpoint: My friends/family/co-workers are not trolls.

Sure, mine are simply uninteresting and that's why Facebook isn't a viable place to get content.

> Twitter is optimized for fake identities, and for virally spreading the most sensationalistic content.

This is the common sentiment about Twitter spread by outsiders, but I don't understand it. As I said, it only has to be your Twitter experience if you situate yourself in those conditions. The difference with Twitter is that it's the best place to avoid that experience if you choose to put in effort. And if you don't put in effort, your experience anywhere is going to be chosen for you, and bad.

If I wanted to get on Twitter and complain about Hillary or Trump all day then sure, I'm either going to be preaching to a bubble or fighting with trolls. But that's just one way to use Twitter, not the one I'm interested in, and I don't understand why it's become synonymous with the Twitter experience.
I've seen people do just that often enough. They'll sometimes sort their items in order of descending importance, and ask to stop when the total exceeds some amount.
It might lead to a false sense of security.

I don't think it'd be overkill to send a request to all 52 CAs (and fail if you get conflicting answers). Then the most a trusted CA could do is DoS some sites.
Agreed. I feel like the point of this is to separate the buyer from the notion of total price. They may as well change the unit from dollars to "credits".
Abandoning equity is relatively common, but not like this. Usually its because a VC cannot realize a capital loss until it abandons (or sells) the equity of a worthless company. Finix raised $35m about a month ago. There's no way Sequoia thinks they're worthless already.
Automation-First Strategy
To add. When I was poor and in college I definitely had a few instances where I had to put something back because the total was more than I could afford.
I wish I could hack my Lexus RX350's LKAS. It's pretty bad and seems to bounce left and right between the lanes. It gets to the point that I just shut it off since I don't want to fight it when driving long distances as it's very tiring. It's probably a timing issue as the computer isn't getting updates fast enough and has to keep correcting which causes the bouncing between the lane. A Tesla this is not!
I have bad eye sight too and I find the high index lenses from WB are still super thick compared to other providers.
They can, and Mozilla (in Firefox) does:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/CA/Additional_Trust_Changes

> The Turkish Government CA is name-constrained to a set of turkish toplevel domains - that is, .gov.tr, .k12.tr, .pol.tr, .mil.tr, .tsk.tr, .kep.tr, .bel.tr, .edu.tr and .org.tr.
Almost nobody is drilling new oil wells, they stopped last year sometime. Almost nobody because there are still investors keeping one skeleton crew running just so they have expertise for when the oil price recovers.

Once a well is drilled the cost to drill the well is a sunk cost. You keep pumping oil if the cost to run the pumps is less than the price you get. Most people with oil are large enough to shut down some wells to keep the price up a bit - they harm their own profit in the short term though and still need to sell enough oil to break even.
Yeah, I should have known better than to say that given that I work in the vaccine field, but not as a scientist. I guess I deserved that :P
I don't see compression speed / performance / time mentioned anywhere in the article.
FWIW, I did the same thing. I used to routinely take a Vitamin D supplement anyway, and had gotten away from the practice, so I figure it probably can't hurt to take it up again.
What Is a Brownie or a Ghost
Masks are currently in short supply. At this point it's more important for medical personnel to have access to masks, than it is for individuals. Because if the hospitals get overwhelmed, we're all screwed — this being a classic tragedy of the commons.

Also it's pretty hard to wear a mask correctly. I've seen plenty of people wearing surgical masks with their nose out. If you aren't going to wear that mask correctly, then what's the freaking point?

And even if you can train yourself to wear a mask correctly, to properly dispose of it, etc, the price of masks, even surgical ones, has gone through the roof and even if you can afford to wear a new one each day or two, the supply of masks isn't reliable.

So I'm afraid that at this point, even if you have a cough, the best you can do is to isolate yourself, because masks are in short supply and expensive.
There's a contact email address in the FAQ at the bottom of the page specifically for retailers who are interested in this.
Yeah, the article put Warby Parker in the title, and talked about all these businesses failing... but didn't really have much to say about what made Warby Parker different, why are they doing so well? You have one theory that seems likely to me, but that seems to be an interesting part of the story!