skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except for rockets, everything in the air is gliding. Some things are also powered, but that does not makes them glide less, just more.
The first time it happened was very frightening for me. It felt like I was buried alive and was not able to move.
it has gotten better, now after few seconds I realise it is happening and I just have to wait for some time.
I guess it's easier to kill the penny than to divide all prices by a factor of 2.
>> $0.01-$0.02 per transaction * millions of transactions per day has got to make some accountants happy.

You'd think, but actually no. That's because it's per transaction, so the accumulated amount is well pennies compared to the turnover.

For example, say you always rounded in favor of the company. That means an average of 2c gain per transaction. If you do 2 million transactions a day that's... 40 grand! yay. Except that if the average transaction is say $50 (which seems kinda low) that means your turnover for the day was $100 million.

So, in short, if you are making a lot from the rounding error, well you're making a lot lot from the actual sales.
> Well you've been very purposefully deceptive in your defense of racists in this thread, repeatedly attributing words and thoughts to me that I did not say and think, so there is probably a very good reason you got in trouble at work.

Having read this and a number of your other replies I'm now reasonably sure you're confusing me with someone else.

Would you object to me sending you an email so we can get on the same page and we can talk without replies being scattered about the place?
You Can Make Millions Selling Masks to the Government in Three Easy Steps
Swiss-money is recycled plastic+paper, i even going to dive with 300sFr in my pocket, lots of hipster-micro-breweries down there...but crackers are not allowed.
Happened to me... twice.

Both time Apple replaced them quickly with no fuss.
Why is this controversial? Everything you do at work is owned by the employer, is that not how it always works?
About 10 years ago my friends and I made a Web site, removethepenny.com (no longer active) and starting calling around to see who would support us. I recall speaking to someone who was very angry that we cared so little for the metal industry.

I think this has been known for a long time but special interests have kept it on life support for obvious reasons.
Yep, it was an organisational issue with different work types.

To quote the CTO later on "I could see where the endless review discussions might end up heading so I split the team into product and project before we hit Godwin's law."

If they had become vile then someone would have been fired. CTO did a good job and stepped in before that happened.
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An old bass is almost guaranteed to be a Ship of Theseus.
Another great insight from him is that companies go downhill once a sales person runs it, not a product person.

While I'm sure he thought Tim Cook was the best choice to take over, he's just not a product person, and it shows. I wouldn't say Tim Cook is sales either, just operations. He is very good at that, and he's done a decent job at leaving the product with product people.

But after 10-15 years it starts to show. Apple to me clearly isn't what is used to be. The UX issues are creeping in. The products aren't that innovative. There's no industry disruption any more.
No. But I don't understand why a perfectly replicated painting by an art student is worth less than the aged original, I don't understand why new music instruments that sound better or equal are worth less than their antique counterparts.

No one can tell the difference, besides by using techniques like a ledger or scientific analysis. Both can be easily tricked by anyone involved. This means your perception of those items is strongly colored by completely external "facts" (rather, assumptions based on your trust into experts, at best). We could show the countless tourists that want to see her a replicated Mona Lisa and no one would ever be able to tell. Yet if we'd tell them there'd be at least a small outroar.

All of this is really off putting. Reminds me of placebo. And being emotionally invested in sports teams.
At least it would be bounded by the number of students and staff, ie around 10k / 2^14.
I feel you missed the point (or maybe that the landing page for this tool should better communicate the value and when you should use it).

If you're a relatively small company looking to use a plug-and-play SaaS product with a modest subscription fee to serve some business purpose this is a great tool to get some quick and dirty numbers on whether it would be better to use or maybe build in house or go another route.

If you're purchasing some large, highly configurable enterprise tool (with high implementation and support costs) that all 1k of your employees will use daily and you'd like to understand cost/benefit, other means of calculating this should be used (and it would likely require days to weeks of multiple people's time to make such a calculation).
> which can highlight some of the darker experiences, marked by extreme isolation, social anxiety, and depression

There are high rates of social isolation, social anxiety, and depression among school kids.

Close to 10% of teens have an anxiety disorder etc.

What would be interesting to know is are the home schooled rates significantly higher?
> I'm going for a swim with $300 in my pocket.

Money isn't waterproof where you live?
I understand that ANY corporation that has enough customers will have some of the customers unhappy, treated in error, etc. There is always possibility for bad employees, mistakes, missteps, etc.

What I look at is the apparent policy of the company. Claiming shipment of refurbished touchscreens (https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/9kxzpy/apple-is-still-try...) or waiting for huge number of customers cry out loud for a long time to even acknowledge a problem is a policy problem.
> It's however far more efficient to just copy other more diligent people's notes and memorize those.

I did this a lot and while it was the optimal approach for passing tests, my note taking skills are quite poor today. Though I don't know if taking my own notes would have helped improve that or not.
The Winnebago Heli-Home
In this case paper means polymer. Canada uses the same bills as Australia (and that the U.K. is switching to).

Much better than in the USA, where their cloth money always feels like dirty laundry.
It's unfortunate that the effort to get LXD packaged natively in Debian [1] seem to have stalled as this is definitely one of the last remaining drawbacks for me.

For example, when LXD was still available as a .deb from upstream, it was possible to run LXD inside a container and do nesting, but with the snap, that isn't possible anymore. (However it is now with the --vm flag, though that's really a different mechanism.)

As I understand it the big remaining difficulty is dqlite.

[1] https://wiki.debian.org/LXD
Over 40 years as a professional I have worked in tech companies in countries around the world, including Germany and Japan, and now in Austria - where the reduced work week is not only a cultural norm, but rather supported by the bureaucratic classes as their right and obligation. Kafka and Vienna, mmkay...

My anecdotal experience is that I think the most fun, and therefore most productive place to work in the Western world so far, for me anyway - was the good ol' USA.

Sure, the 80 hour work weeks were killer. But, the camaraderie, coordination, and just fun getting-shit-done'ness of the average American company exceeds most others.

But only if there was no daily commute, because a daily commute in America is a sheer kind of hell that nobody should tolerate - in which case, Japan or Austria are definitely the lifestyle/work balance leaders, even though they are far lazier cultures - Germany too, to some extent, but I could generalise about Germany until my holzhacker is burned to a crisp, and it'd still taste great.

Anyway, the reduced work week culture can be observed around the world. I think, the efficacy of the culture matters too, though. Germans admire rigor, Austrians reward laziness - Japanese, duplicity - and America, getting things done no matter what.
Sure, but all of those "virtues" have good and bad manifestations. I agree that arrogance can be terrible.

> Why would you expose your opinions to challenge if you know they are right?

You expose them to challenge because you know they're right; you don't act to protect them by keeping them hidden and not testing them. You "put them under load." This is basically mental and rhetorical dogfooding.

edit: I think the difference is between "I think I'm right" and "I want to believe I'm right." If you want to protect your sense that you're right, you'll be both hesitant to test your beliefs and vicious in their defense. Conversely, if you're attached to the actual state of being right, you'll trial your beliefs and abandon them if they fail you. Arrogance, or at least a moderate degree of it, can help you act like the latter by making ideas seem more reliable than they deserve, creating natural trials.

edit: I guess the common thread is that arrogance promotes exploration by suppressing fear of loss.
Did you have the sense that someone was in the room? Reports of an ominous presence often go along with sleep paralysis.
Animated PNG?
Correct http://dweb.happybeing.com/blog/post/002-safegit-decentralis...
But the foifraepller is still more expensive to manufacture the it's own worth.
"smart" switches which don't allow broadcast and direct ARP packets only to the correct destinations can fix this.
At least in the US, bills are much different from regular printer paper, closer to fabric. As long as you're not taking them for a swim regularly, they should be fine. (That said, when I've lived in Germany, I very much enjoyed the existence of €1 and €2 coins -- I've written about it on here before, if you're willing to scroll very far back in my post history).
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Easy, I give you X million dollars and take over your company if you stay at Google 4 years.

Sign here:
> Amazon itself proud themselves in claiming they're "the most customer obsessive company". Or Facebook's and its mission to connect the world.

Neither of those are really a product focus though.
Actually it was neither of those. Just because a discussion is approaching Godwin's law doesn't necessarily mean anyone is being offensive or, as you say, terrible.

Also, sometimes it's not anyone's fault. It can just be down to circumstances.
My first time I spent a few minutes trying with all my might to move a muscle. Any muscle. I felt like I was trying to thrash around to wake myself up but there was just no way to get a signal to any part of my body.
I've been an Apple user since the G4 days, and always have had great support experiences with and without Apple Care. I'm sure there are people who have bad experiences, but I don't think that is the norm. Apple routinely earns top support marks.

https://9to5mac.com/2019/04/24/apple-customer-support-rankin...
Damage to the Soul
And it probably wouldnt be all that wrong. All that tells you is that the same problem exists in multiple industries and sections of society. General patent law is another one.

The real solution isnt ignoring copyright like i do. That is just all i have available.

The real solution is to reign in the timeframes copyright and patent law lasts for.

Have it only long enough to recoup costs of development and provide some level of capital for the next innovation. Not an indefinite stranglehold on information for the benefit of only a few.

The thing people seem to argue is that these businesses have a free right to profit off of society. They dont, society should demand something in return.
My university had bad wifi and I think 50mb drive space per student. I ended up plugging in my laptop directly and spoofing a whitelisted IP/MAC combination (the PCi just plugged out) for several assignments.
One of the things that bothered me for years was the lack of clarity around Product-Market Fit. So far all the explanations are a posteriori - you can only observe or measure them. E.g. "You've found PMF when you sell it faster than you can make it", or "You can measure PMF by asking your users if they'd be sad if the product is taken away from them".

Can't we systematically get to it step by step instead of observing a big black box?

Last week, one model crystallized in my mind: Product Market Fit consists of 5 "fits" under the surface, each of which can be measured separately, which I summarized in the Twitter thread.

Would like to hear your opinion on if this makes sense to you.
It's a fringe view in most of them. Sure, quite a few people in many places don't drive or feel the need to, but I suspect if you asked the population at large what they thought of cars as an concept/invention/technology, they'd be at worst neutral to them, and often see the positive side.

I know for sure that most people around here either drive or want to, and that many peope consider it unthinkable to not do so.

The anti car ideaology is something that seems far more common on Hacker News and certain online forums than it is in the real world/offline.
wow, thanks!!
I think part of the reason teaching is the way it is currently is because if you create that space for kids to work with other kids then anywhere from 20-60% of them will slack off or disrupt others. Not that it doesn't happen with the current system but it's less visible.
Google "USB motor controller"
"Us" in this case is Canada, and we've had polymer notes for years. And it's not at all unusual for people to still call it "paper money" because it had been paper for so very long. Heck, we still call the stuff we use to wrap and protect things "tin foil" even though it's been aluminum for my entire life (and new consumer electronics were still being made with vacuum tubes/thermionic valves, with tube testers in every hardware and drug store, when I was a kid).
Canada (and many other countries) has polymer bills
Most people won't post about it though. I had this exact issue (replaced the left airpod 2 weeks ago) but hadn't posted about it. Until this post, anyway!
I really like it that they offer you, instead of a site with a lot of junk and JS, a plain text version! That's much nicer news than the story itself :-)

... that said - why _don't_ you guys cancel the penny?

> Penny defenders' strongest argument was that eliminating it would hurt consumers. All those $9.99 products? The prices would be jacked up to an even $10!

That sounds like an argument made up retroactively to try to justify something. Seriously?

1. The time and effort to handle penny change costs more.

2. Those bargain prices will become $9.95 , and some other prices will rise slightly to compensate; or not.
Trump's H-1B Ban: Boost for Domestic Technologists, or Outsourcing?
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I can understand strangers or acquaintances to some extent but you’ll have siblings and parents and children hanging their dirty laundry out in the open ???

Like WTF... it’s worse than having a yelling match out in the driveway for neighbors to hear because eventually the neighbors forget.
And making a copy of something that hundreds to even thousands of people worked hundreds of thousands of hours on just because you can also has some negative morals do it.

I don't know what analogy to make since all the physical ones fail. Maybe it's like hiring someone for a service and not paying. You get a haircut and don't pay. You hire a lawyer and don't pay. You have an accountant and don't pay. In all of those cases the only thing lost is the time the hair stylist, lawyer, accountant, movie maker spent. Yet we generally consider the first 3 morally wrong. Why not the 4th. That you can copy without getting caught doesn't mean there are zero moral implications.
Now that's a billion dollar startup.
Jokes on them, if my spam+<tag> doesn't have a tag it's straight in the bin.
Wow that text only version is great, can I have that of every website please? (Without an ad-blocker)
> Celcius

ಠ_ಠ
Mr. Robot vibe.
No one is safe from that. We are getting manipulated everywhere and might end up buying an item (washing machine, car...) that's objectively a worse fit for us. But isn't this something bad? Something we should avoid, rather than encourage? People throwing money at collectors item are relishing this.

But while writing this I did some introspection and realized that I would also buy all the name & brand based expensive stuff there is if I had the money for it. So my negative feelings are probably just jealousy at this (from my perspective) frivolous waste of money. So, nevermind. (-;
> without addressing the issue of equal opportunity, which might be the biggest factor when designing education.

Why would that be a factor at all?
That may be a reflection of current power structures in place. The driving force behind a lot of the open source is of white males because of historical suppression of minorities, so it's inevitable that some of these minor initial steps would come from white males or would need to be embraced by white males.
I'd recognized him from Battlebots since his robot Deadblow was a finalist from season 1, the final episode[0] starts with a short intro from Grant that shows his fun perspective brought to the table on Mythbusters. The entire Mythbusters team surely inspired the next generation of scientists and engineers with a can-do mentality.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTDrwWCJqAo
Hi doppenhe, we have that part already implemented using cml-send-github-check and dvc metrics diff. You can compare the metric that you prefer with dvc and then just set the status of the github check uploading your full report. Of course, you can also fail the workflow as your Github action does, but I think is more useful to see it as a report in the check.

disclaimer: I'm work with CML
Singapore & Brunei (1) had a $10000 bill until 2014 (worth ~7400 USD), and still have a $1000 bill (as does Switzerland with its better exchange rate)

(1) I don't know what the word is (linked?) but their currency is interchangeable. You can go to a Singapore bank with $100 BND and get $100 SGD (no fee) and vice versa.
Graceful Degradation
Show HN: Co-Occurrence of Type in Pokémon
Yeah but what will the gas pumps do? Their prices are “$3.29.9” per gallon, do they Mae it “$3.29.5“ now?

Personally yeah, I don’t think we need pence.
The Nazis were such a perfect example of his warning.
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Doesn't aerial deployment of fiber have the exact same benefits and drawbacks as aerial deployment of electricity, or anything else? In my neck of the woods (northern Europe) aerial deployment of electricity has been frowned upon for a long time: while cheaper, it is much more likely to cause outages due to environmental factors (or sabotage), so while digging down cables is more expensive, it's a lot more cost efficient in the long run because you don't have to send out technicians multiple times a year to climb poles, fell trees, patch lines etc. -- so pretty much all new deployments are dug down, and the most affected lines are converted to ground lines.

I would be interested to hear about these considerations from someone knowledgeable in electric and fiber nets, maybe fiber is somehow different?
Trashing money is illegal and sounds very unethical to me.
I like the idea, but a lot of other factors are missing from the analysis.

1. I’ve yet to find a service that saves 5 hours per week per employee. How do I estimate the actual savings in time?

2. Work expands to fill available time. Will my employee use that time to the company’s advantage?

3. How much does this increase or decrease my personal time required as supervisor?

4. From a financial point of view, I’m still paying the employee and the service, so either I need enough services and time savings that I can eliminate a job, or the service has to have positive ROI of its own.

And probably many more. I often receive proposals of this type, that I could be “saving” so much by buying something. The money goes out up front, the savings are supposed to trickle back in these hard to quantify and use ways.
As a college educator for 22 years in technology/compsci, I definitely agree with many of the early points in this article surrounding the benefits of the physical classroom.

However, I strongly disagree with the comments regarding distraction and focus for online and blended learning environments.

In my field, online is not a distraction per se, but something that is necessary for app development (think StackOverflow and IDE documentation!). It reinforces what I'm demonstrating and lecturing about, and encourages students to research and think outside of the box. For example, I actually expect students to Google topics and documentation while I'm teaching online, and this process is both motivating for students and key to being successful in my field.
I did write a bit about my experience packaging LXD for Arch Linux a while back.

I got a ping from a Debian dev telling me the Debian dev working on LXD enjoyed the article, and has been trying to pick up on the work again. The linked wiki page is the outdated one.

https://linderud.dev/blog/packaging-lxd-for-arch-linux/
Uniswap Interface and IPFS
No, I know it's common to hallucinate or something similar during an episode but I felt completely lucid. It was just as if the motor cortex was disconnected temporarily from the other parts of my body (which I believe aligns with the research that the brain stem "filters" or simply doesn't propagate the signals from the brain to the rest of the body).
Can't you just look up the hash on DHT? Since hash is the only mandatory field in a Magnet URI.
There's a list of countries which have removed their smallest denomination coins on Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cash_rounding
I had this problem with my AirPods Pro, too. Funny thing though... I have intermittent tinnitus in my left ear, and it took me a few weeks to realize it wasn’t my ears making the noise but rather a problem w the AirPods. I had been switching between noise-cancelling and transparency mode, swapping ears, etc to see if it would go away. It didn’t, so I assumed it wasn’t an audio processing issue. Then one day I realized I hadn’t tested on “off” mode (since you only get to this mode through the UI I had forgotten it even existed). The noise issue went away instantly. Called Apple and they replaced it without hassle.

Still kinda blows me away that this issue sounded so identical to my tinnitus that I literally couldn’t tell the difference.
Lecture delivery is not anywhere close to 100% of teaching a university class. But just focusing on lecture delivery, your argument still doesn't work. Lectures have to change over time, both because you can do better with practice and because the material and real world change.

I will say your view is very common among outsiders. I've heard it so many times from people that think I'm too dumb to notice something so obvious. Unfortunately lecture delivery just isn't a big part of the cost of teaching, and the online format only helps if you phone it in by never changing anything. If you do change something, you have the massive expense of recording the whole lecture all over again.