skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Scanners in distribution centers contain a barcode hierarchy that filter out unused barcode types. For example, after something has been picked, a UPS label might be applied to it. Subsequent scanners will be programmed to only read either the internal routing label or the UPS label (or both and let the software handle it).

The scanners in supermarkets are made by the same companies and I would assume run on the same software. However, it might be more difficult to ensure a specific type of barcode is used on 100% of products in the store. So if you see the scanner picking up the wrong barcode at the check-out aisle, it is most likely either the scanner is not programmed correctly, or the scanned barcode is the same type as a valid barcode used somewhere else in the building.

As far as handling faults, that would probably be done on the POS system, not the scanner itself. The scanner software is perfectly capable of handling errors in different ways (for example, sending a specific code to indicate two different non-matching barcodes were read in the same pass), but from a functional standpoint, the scanner is 'dumb'.
> we could have easily doubled our income if we were both working

How would the world work such that this was not the case? I suppose the government could pay one parent to stay at home with their children, but it seems like there will always be a sacrifice required if you want to be in a couple where only one person is working full time (particularly at a specialized career).
Maybe you'd rather a more direct policy limiting benefits. Your first kid has free access to school, health care, social services, but then subsequent children are your financial responsibility? We could call it a "one child policy." Oh wait, this has been done before...
>Is there any more context to OP's post? I guess someone just noticed in the mailing list, but it's not clear whether maybe John Carmark does this with all code everywhere in the universe.

I remember a story about Carmack going off the grid with a laptop and OpenBSD for a couple of weeks, and him being delighted about their documentation and the ability to build things without access to the web.

Carmack is a hero in the C community, and OpenBSD is also all about C and classic Unix, so he might just feel at home there.
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> I’m hoping once the next generation of CPU, motherboard, and GPUs come out things won’t be as scarce

New desktop Intel 10th Gen CPU are actually coming out pretty soon. It's got a new socket (LGA 1200), so new motherboards are coming out for it as well.

It's only marginally faster on single thread benchmarks than the Ryzen 3000s (ie Zen 2) chips, and consumes a lot energy.

Also, Intel is still using their circa-2104/ancient 14 nm process for these desktop 10th Gen chips, which is quite disappointing. No Ice Lake 10 nm desktop chips yet.
Happened twice, but we never went to court. The second time was the worst. First time it was mostly just ruined carpets and cleaning 4 feet of solid trash out of the 1/4 acre back yard.

It's 10 times easier to get someone to leave on their own accord by giving back a deposit. Tenants would rather have the cash in hand than squat. This was in California so eviction is a 6 month process that costs a lot in legal fees.
Christian Lambertsen and the Secret Story Behind Scuba (2017)
New List of Americans Tracked Without Needing a Warrant
I don't see how membership of a minority group is all that subjective in most cases. E.g., LGBTQ individuals are pretty clearly a minority, Jews were pretty clearly a minority in Europe in the 20th century, etc. Minorities tend to be more vulnerable to hate speech for obvious reasons.
"throttles"

Are you certain you don't mean "stops boosting" when you say that?

I'm running exactly the same: a 3900X with the default included cooler. Yeah, it hits 95C and at that point it's running at 3.8 GHz instead of 4.4 (I never see 4.6 unless I boot Linux in single user mode).

But 3.8 is the base clock speed, so I don't think "throttle" is the right word for "running at base clock."
It's more complex than that. Imagine that you are a US company operating in Germany that provides German citizens with an incredible amount of information that wouldn't otherwise be available. You have thousands of people working in Germany. Occasionally, the Nazis ask you to censor things, If you don't, your entire team is at risk and will all loose their employment and citizens of Germany will loose access to an incredible amount of information and services. It's not cut and dry.
It looks like Dara is executing the Jack Welch & General Electric playbook [1]. Essentially, it comes down to "Be the #1 or #2 company in the market or exit"

You can debate whether it was successful at GE. The criticism of Jack Welch was that his approach improved short-term financials, but he left a hollowed-out company to his successor that became irrelevant and lost value relative to the S&P.

The way I see this playing out at Uber is rapidly exiting categories like Scooters, Freight, Works, and AV. And doubling down on Ride Share and Eats with acquisitions in geographies where they have a leading position. I worry the most about Scooters and AV as those are arguably core to urban mobility.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Welch
The lockdowns are eroding the legitimacy and respect for authority.

Instead of leading the people, the authorities are fighting with them.
I am neither in favour of or against the lockdown. I consider myself ill-equipped to make this decision. I do not have the data, not the know-how. I hope that I can trust the people who have passed the job interviews in our institutions and have been elected to do their job properly or at least better then what I can do without know how or data.

So for every person who puts forth their strategy I get curious, why? So here's a few questions to you.

Can you explain your position?

Can you tell me your social context, what state and city are you in? What is the opinion of your friends and family?

Did you weigh the numbers for predicted economic impact and predicted deaths and health issues and contrast them? Did you consider factors such as that even pre-lockdown the economy was slowing and restaurants closing because a lot of consumers voluntarily avoided putting themselves at risk?

Without you putting any answers to these, or specifying your qualifications, the amount of time you spent thinking about the problem, the edge cases, etc. I can't trust your judgement anymore then I'd trust a coin flip.
> having a near-monopoly on various public communication channels

> Google's "We're a private company" get-out-jail-free card cannot continue to apply

You're upset that they have a monopoly on their own website/business? What the hell are you even talking about?

Do you even remember the internet before Google? I do. You know how I found new websites? By typing random domain names into the URL bar and trying different combinations of TLDs.

Then I used Yahoo. Excite. AltaVista. Lycos. Ask Jeeves. Dmoz. Alltheweb. They all kinda sucked in their own unique ways. And then Google came around, and I could actually find what the hell I was looking for in one go.

Your outrage is pure entitlement. You don't like the way the world works, so you think you deserve to change everything to function exactly the way you want. As if that's in any way rational, fair, or ethical. Presumably you think of yourself as a good person. How is it good to demand unreasonable things from people who do not owe you anything? Do you really think this is the best way to effect societal change?
The United States is also a country famous for its lax enforcement of labor laws.
My stomach dropped when I saw the thread and checked in with my pal at ATG. She's safe but half of her department (mapping) is gone.
Which is an untrue story that Trump trying to tell
Tell your House Rep to vote against letting the FBI access web history
kind of a weird quip. the point of WSL is to allow you to use existing linux tools and write code targeting linux from within windows. it's not intended to make administration of the windows installation easier.

maybe I'm not what you would call a "power user", but I do write code for a living. I'm sure you would have a bad time if you expect windows to work like your favorite linux distro, but I find it perfectly serviceable for my work. it gets in my way far less than macOS.
I would suggest to just install OpenBSD and try it (maybe in a VM?), one of the selling points is the simplicity of the setup process. It can be a one evening project.
He wrote awhile back about why he chose OpenBSD to get more familiar with Unix during a coding retreat. tl;dr: the offline documentation and quality of the source code were major draws for him working with slow/no internet.

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Zero-Interest-Rate Policy Explains the World
The source of the last few months of data is Pitchbook. Is this a comprehensive, reliable source for early deal financing?
I really wish they had docker-compose / Terraform support. Just not sure at what point that becomes "free" hosting.
So, if $17.7B were lost on one side, it would be interesting to trace the money and see in which pockets most of the money went
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In the US, bills (new laws) have to pass both the Senate and the House, and the House is population based. It's a system of checks and balances to ensure that large states and small states don't control each other. In theory, if a particular change is favored by one set and not the other, then it doesn't pass.

In practice it's a little murkier than that, but the way you presented it makes it sound like the system is just stacked to the benefit of the smaller states over the larger, when that is not the case.
> If anyone, be a male or a female has no mean of having a family due to poor financial planning, it is not my problem to solve.

I have a lot of trouble believing that people would time their pregnancies specifically to screw over their employer. That's so outrageous to me that it casts a lot of doubt, in my mind, to your entire reply.

Of course: if any business has poor relationships with their employees, it is not my problem to solve.
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I clearly stated my 2 concerns. The chilling-effect (by sending a message to would-be whistleblowers that they'd be tarred and feathered) as well as a "Lone-wolf" taking matters into their own hands, as it were.

I have no control what you (or others) propagate, as is your right - but I will not be part of it. I understand why Facebook, Wikipedia and others won't either (they too, have 1A rights).
That's neat to see. This may not be a big story but as a fan of OpenBSD who doesn't currently have time to read the CVS log I appreciate it.

OpenBSD source is one of the cleanest I've had the pleasure to work with. You (generally) won't be scoffed at for submitting a semantic change like this, fixing typos, or the like. It certainly isn't perfect but the bar feels higher than elsewhere. Clean code and as importantly the documentation kept in sync.
is any of that compute-bound? I would imagine that it's mostly I/O-bound.
You're right, I was a bit too harsh. You indeed mentioned that they make strong claims without solid evidence, which is a valid criticism.

However, from what I recall, they don't present the ideas in the book as facts or established theories like your critique seems to imply. They make it very clear that this is uncharted territory and that there is a lot of science to be done. In fact I think one of the main purposes of the book was to convince the reader that there is in fact tangible research to be done in the subject, and questions worth asking.

A large proportion of the book is indeed spent convincing the reader that panpsychism is a worthy theory, yes. And despite their lack of empirical data (which has proven hard to collect in this area), they make logically sound arguments that the theory is at least worth further consideration.

This is how many scientific theories start, as hypotheses that seem logically sound but lack specific empirical evidence. These hypotheses then guide how we design our experiments. The book argues that panpsychism is a worthy hypothesis, and it does not do so by referencing any woo or pseudoscience.
I really hope they figure out a good solution for this problem. One way I distinguish between a "real" computer and a toy or appliance is whether you can use the device to write software for it. With Termux, you can write Linux-style programs on the Android device itself or even build full Android apks.

One of the other awesome things about Termux is that you can use it to setup a pretty complete ARM Linux environment on an Android device in a few steps: https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/PRoot

You can even get a GUI running if you have an XServer: https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/Graphical_Environment & https://github.com/adi1090x/termux-desktop

I've used this in the past to get a pseudo-Linux dev environment running on an Oculus Quest: https://www.reddit.com/r/cyberDeck/comments/fc5sfr/oculus_qu...
Isn't hinting the worst approach in that case though? I can't imagine that the additional uncertainty helped with staff morale.
I always used to be for paid parental leave, and I still am, on an emotional and possibly practical level.

I do wonder, though, if it’s really fair to households that choose to have one stay at home parent ... so they pay taxes to then fund the leave of another parent who is also staying at home, but used to work?

It seems confusing.

Edit:
I guess I’m wondering, should we by this logic extend a salary, even if temporary, to all new parents?
I'm amazed by how thoroughly he wrote up the experiment.
It's a great book, and they're also turning it into a series. :)
That's a terrible company you are describing...
We need to understand that this large scale economy is very fragile. We need to reinvest in antifragile local communities. And no, I'm not talking about of going back to dark ages just to reduce the scale, maybe to the levels of 30 years ago.
That's a bit disingenuous isn't it? You're saying that the actual beef (vanishing Ask thread about google censorship) is okay to mention, and the reason my comment was silently nuked is because I happened to address the HN team? That's a bit strange.

I really do believe you have the best interests of the community in mind, but this chain of events is making it difficult. Using 'off topic' as an arbitrarily broad mechanism to remove high SnR content doesn't have the best optics, especially when a lot of the child discussion was pointing out seemingly inconsistent and arbitrary enforcement of HN guidelines.

Again, help me out here. You're acting in good faith. Maybe a more clear and specific set of guidelines would help?

You're not going to tell me with a straight face that the highest upvoted comment on that submission and the origin of some healthy debate was 'off topic' when the top 3 comments of most front page submissions are far less related to TFA, are you?
Google employees are more than capable of getting jobs at thousands of other smaller companies with narrower customer bases and clearer ethical stances. Nobody "needs" Google SWE money. You can still easily clear 6 figures while taking a moral stance so this "think of the starving" argument doesn't work.
That's not completely true.

The panel of experts estimated about 1k/day during the week ending May 16, ranging 579/day to 2292/day.

And while so far there aren't that many cases reported today, the data isn't complete due to the lag in testing results. In fact the lag is for 14 days. So we're still in a wait and see point.
> a better juror of freedom than our democratic society.

Almost anything is better at safeguarding freedom than allowing people to vote on what counts as freedom.
You may recall that ARM started out as a joint venture involving, among other companies… Apple!

Apple got rid of their investment around the turn of the millenium, which in retrospect might not have been the most savvy investment strategy.
To me this kind of stuff is fan junk news. I get that even hackers need celebrities, but front page of HN is a little extreme for a thing like this without context. If there was more context like, John C has re-written half of BSD, then we're talking - but this is very celebrity grocery list to me.
San Francisco / Seattle / Boston / New York

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They continue to operate fairly independently, and there business is still fully open source. IBM executives have also paid lip service to their model, suggesting they might move towards it. (Of course, lip service is lip service, and action is action. Two different things.)
>Taxi companies all over the world are profitable,

taxi companies also don't have thousands of software engineers or sales people, they literally just drive taxis.
Can any native Chinese speaker offer some additional context, like whether this is likely just a request from the CCP to mute criticism in general, or whether the phrase in Chinese has some specific meaning/implications beyond the separate meaning of the two characters?
Is it typical that soldiers carry mobile phones? It seems like it would open them up to all kinds of possible problems, and I can't think of a reason you would need a cell phone in a conflict when you have a radio, right?
> The actual nerdy economics joke there is in the second paragraph, which takes the form: Two economists are walking down the street. One of them sees a $20 bill on the ground. As she bends to pick it up, her colleague says “don’t bother, if that was a real $20 bill someone would have picked it up by now.” She replies, “no see this was left here by a consumer tech startup trying to maximize user growth; their Monthly Active Picker-Upper numbers are doubling every two months.” She picks up the $20 bill and the startup raises money at a $2 billion valuation.

Matt Levine truly is a poet
Fair point.
I guess part of this conversation also depends on what each of us believes society's goal should be (minimize suffering, maximize individualistic freedom, etc).

My thinking is more so from a position of minimizing suffering, and that finding a way to reduce the power of bad actors may help minimize wars and other conflicts and reduce suffering. There's obviously the big counterpoint that attempts to reduce power of bad actors may lead to increased corruption that in turn worsens society that if it hadn't been attempted.

But that's why this is just another example of a complex problem.
Minecraft: Connecting More Players Than Ever Before
Newspaper has editorial control, while Google and YouTube pretend to be platforms. Phone company doesn't censor your conversation, but also doesn't take responsibility for their content. YouTube has much more in common with it than with a newspaper.
While overall consumption remains the same (or similar, people need to eat) there's different supply chains involved in commercial and consumer consumption.

Say you've got a bottling plant that sells exclusively to commercial suppliers. The cost to retool to produce consumer packaged products is non-zero. Your shipping is all geared to commercial suppliers as well.

If you decide to reorient to produce consumer packaged goods this takes some amount of time. The farmers that supply you have a batch of milk right now they're storing and a batch coming up next week. If you can't take delivery, you don't have infinite cold storage for milk after all, they need to dump their milk because they've for another batch on the way they'll need to store. You may also have milk stored in your refrigerated tanks waiting for you to be able to reorient for consumer packaging. If your tanks are full you're not going to get new supplies.

There's a lot of supply chains that have a lot of momentum and they've been optimized for throughput because that's what gives everyone involved the best margins. When demand drops it takes time and money to slow down or adjust the supply chain because of the momentum. Things like milk can be more difficult because they need not just storage but refrigerated storage and shipping.

You might have milk and I might want milk but we're far apart and if you can't get it to me (safely) I'm not going to buy it. That's not to say it's good farmers are dumping otherwise good food. Dealing with perishable things is not the same as dry goods. You can't just add more trucks or warehouses and problem solved.
That is cool, do you have a timeline set out for this?
Isn't the word you're looking for omniscient ?
uber is not available in jakarta, only grab & gojek
Every damn day, I see more and more reasons why google should be hit with anti-trust.
Minor nitpick:

> b) the fact that people still use MongoDB.

Just because people are using something doesn’t mean they’re doing so legally.
What if those words they utter are death threats and call for violence against a group? Should that be protected against the First Amendment?
I was asking this question a few days ago, are any of these large food companies still going to exist as they do today? Everybodies basically annoyed with them except maybe the customer but then again he's being subsidized by underpaid gig workers, restaurants, and vc money, and all the while the company itself still can't turn a profit
For every day users, that is those wanting access to email, social media, an office suite, etc I will argue that Ubuntu or Mint is fine. Even for other users, the most frequent issue that I've seen being mentioned is Windows-only software. If there is no such thing then the aforementioned distros should be fine.

Also, there was never unlimited access in Android unless you had a rooted device. Probably there will be a way around no-exec for rooted users, probably setting up an app as trusted. Nevertheless, this change is really cumbersome and it seems Android is slowly turning to iOS lockdown-wise.
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I think the point is that it depends on their reasons. The U.S. government imposes restrictions on broadcast content, but these restrictions are on extremely shaky ground, and they rely heavily on not venturing into viewpoint discrimination and focusing entirely on content discrimination (i.e. sexual nudity on ordinary daytime television).
I don't consider Uber taxis an essential service, though. More a luxury. Internet is a essential utility service but Uber?
It's always easy to give away other people's money.
NC is hot and humid compared to the west coast maybe, but the average temp of hottest month is only a few degrees more than Chicago. In contrast the average temp of the coldest month is about 20 degrees warmer. Proximity to mountains and ocean moderates the climate significantly.

Austin, yes, its hot as hell in the summer :)
Not at this time, hands only. I imagine it might be difficult to distinguish a pointer from other straight lines in the room, hands are a little more distinctive.
And despite all these amazing reviews. AMD still isn't selling much CPU or APU at all. I am wondering why. On Steam Survey [1], AMD grew from November 2018 at 17.5% to April 2020 at 21.9%. That is less than 5% increase in total. ( I was actually surprised it had ˜18% in 2018 ) And despite EPYC offering, [2] it barely make 5% of the Server market even if AMD had zero revenue from console.

Why is that? Enthusiast has been overly excited they ignored the actual reality? Or what other factor at play? Inertia ?

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Softw...

[2] https://www.anandtech.com/show/15754/amd-reports-q1-2020-ear...
In some vague "regulations" way, possibly, but the published hourly rates of Tesla Fremont workers are not especially high. (I just googled the average as being less than twenty dollars, which can't possibly be right, but I do remember the figure being low by autoworker standards)

The thought that they might pay even less in Texas is depressing.