skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That sounds like a plausible scenario, but why would it be a problem for society in general? It seems like saying "what if gas stations can't sell candy bars at inflated prices, they'll have to raise the price of gas". Or "if credit card transaction fees are regulated, cash back deals will go away". Ok, so be it. A sudden change might be bad, but is it worth seriously fighting a new equilibrium?
A Kid Who Helped Get MLB to Right a Decades-Long Wrong for Negro Leaguers
Some links for folks interested in working on open source projects:

https://www.fossjobs.net/ https://github.com/fossjobs/fossjobs/wiki/resources
Your reply here saddens me.

I suggest you look up Rob Pike and reconsider some of your hypotheticals about what he knows about. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Pike)
I was pretty excited about vitamin D for cancer prevention. I though it might explain higher cancer prevalence further away from the equator. But then Mendelian randomisation studies showed it made no difference. Having said that there was a large randomised trial (VITAL) with some trends towards reduced cancer burden. Only if BMI was normal however, which is highly salient of itself.
Are you being serious? How exactly do you read a comment mentioning fans, air conditioners, staying comfortable indoors, and individuals' electric bills and be so one-track-minded as to think I was talking about roads and not, perhaps, residential buildings?
> More effective, according to the authors, are to give a choice, even if it is somewhat of a forced one: "I want you to take a bath. Do you want to bathe with your boat or your duck?"

This can be so surprisingly effective that it is almost scary. And while I'm at it: it works with many adults too.

Use with caution. Leadership is good and kids needs to go to bed at night, but manipulation isn't what you want to be remembered for.

Other nice-to-knows to be used with caution:

- as kids start to negotiate, add slack for negotiations.

- "catch them" when they do something right, reward it immediately (with encouraging words, a hug, increased trust - or even a piece of chocolate)

- look for the intentions - or anything that was right even if the intent wasn't there:

-- tried to do something right but failed? Good! (On the other side: there's few things as discouraging as gettig a scolding when you thought you did something good.)

-- used to slam the door but closed it carefully for some reason (hands full, in the phone, etc)? Good.
> Instead, the factory owner will opt to keep half the workers on the same hours and lay off the rest.

People are the hardest resource to manage for a business. Finding them. Keeping them. Motivating them. Training them. Etc. Double the workers with half the working time is a lot more expensive.

So business will never choose to do this. If this would be better for society (emphasis on IF) then only regulation will make it happen.
Simon Ramo
Can't answer for caymanjim. Personally, I now work about 2-5 hours per week, mostly just meeting some people (don't have to do anything besides talking to them).

What I realized early in my professional career was that position trumps everything. For example, if you are born into a great enough position, you are set for life, pretty much regardless of anything else. Then I figured out (slowly over time through trial and error), which positions I could move to from the one I was in, where I could either: a) do less work for same pay, or b) get more pay for same work. Although a lot of times switching positions required intense "extra" work.

In the end however, it seems to mostly just been a lot of luck in the way things played out, together with an intense desire to, in the long term, reduce my work-related load/responsibilities.
Is there a way to determine if I'm deficient in Vitamin K2. If yes, is there a way to get supplements for it?
You think the author is all these people's uncle?

> nepotism: Favoritism shown to nephews and other relatives; patronage bestowed in consideration of family relationship and not of merit.
It's simple theft.

It's the same problem for society as any other kind of theft.
This is a little off the particular circumstances of topic, but highlights it is not always as straight forward as it might seem.

Sometimes the mark-up is for more than is apparent - in Australia there is a 6% payroll tax that kicks in after a certain size payroll is achieved.

Also, big companies often like to "write one cheque" a week/month and not deal with a lot of hassles which can consume a few admin staff continuously.

My current contract was direct for years and they paid a 2.5% "supplier markup" extra to me because that is what the agency charged just for insurance postage and petties etc, at the individual scale it wasn't enough by maybe 2%, just for those issues, esp insurances.

There are more issues, but even though a contractor (hourly pay) almost entirely for my 30+ year working life, I still use the agency at times as the convenience can be worth it rather than going direct and often they can find work you can't, in my circumstances.

Having work vs not having work really lets you consider if you are prepared to pay them a bit to help you out, so it is just the nature of the problem sometimes.
It's the pricing structure. They charge less to take something away if it has some value. The magic pixies are taking the value out. It's a public service until your bill goes up to haul away the trash nobody wants.
"I think CEO pay is too high. See, I'm one of the good ones! What will I do about it? Well, a couple years back I learned I'm actually being being underpaid, so in a way I've already made a sacrifice. You're welcome!"
You are far more diligent than me! If I know the bill is getting paid, I have a tendency to put it off.
Interesting hyperledger is backed by the Linux Foundation.. which is a front for large corporations to try to gain control over linux/FOSS/etc hmm
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Now that we know that Firefox is in danger (and by extension the open web), we as a community must now vote with our wallets - let Firefox fend for themselves and be overtaken by a monoculture, or support Mozilla financially.

I ask that Mozilla think about having the option for a monthly subscription model. No extra features for paying (e.g $5/month for Firefox), but at least as paying users we will know that it's helping to support the open web and the survival of Mozilla as a whole.
It's just an estimate for an based on my experience in the industry, but I think it's a reasonable one. I did estimate based on American costs though. For example, an entry-level software engineer at Google in the U.S. makes $188,000 according to https://www.levels.fyi/ . That's the amount of compensation that goes to the employee, though; that doesn't count employer taxes and the additional costs of overhead like office space. So I added a range of up to twice that much to account for overhead, to estimate what an employee costs to the employer.

There are a couple other factors - one extra factor is this is just for entry-level employees, another extra factor is that Mozilla probably doesn't pay quite as well as Google. I am not sure how large those factors are, but it's just an estimate and they work against each other, so I think the range is a reasonable guess. I would be surprised if it's very far off.
my last comment seems to have been removed by the moderators for being contrary to the tone of the rest of the forum, so i will say this:

this is like some sort of sponsorship for a mattress company or something if you check the bottom of the page.

i don't know why, but it is just very upsetting to me to see that some kid is reviving so much praise for being interested in something as meaningless as web development. As if you learned an instrument or joined a sports team or something. I think this will eventually lead you down the road of forming an identity around work as a programmer, which is not a good thing especially considering the low barrier of entry of becoming a programmer.

When i was your age I too got into these sorts of things, and in retrospect I would not have made the decisions I did.
This seems like a lot of work.

We used to do this with a $30 shortwave radio and a Commodore 64.

Maybe the NOAA WEFAX transmissions aren't in shortwave anymore?
We have a similar system!

I know you can also do it through Apple Notes. It's a bit clunky to share the note with someone else, but once you've done it, it works very similar to Keep.
Very mature for a 3 year old.
How does Mozilla make money ?
Donate here: https://donate.mozilla.org/en-US/

Hire Mozilla to be your VPN here: https://vpn.mozilla.org/

Those are actionable ways to support them right now.
> “Mostly this would be for freight,” says Mark Patton, who oversees transport plans for the Columbus region. Paul Judge, who runs a thriving plastics manufacturer, Axium, in the city, says he would welcome it if it meant he could run a big factory, cheaply, in one spot and ship his billions of units of shampoo bottles, hand-sanitisers and the like to markets in the region.

This makes zero sense to me. Surely, there must be a law of decreasing returns in supply chain latency. How could reducing delivery times times to hyperloop levels possibly provide a reasonable pay-off period, given the considerable cost of building and maintaining a subterranean vacuum tube train network?
I was trying to argue that Chinese readers probably do correlate sounds with letters, so I meant phonics.
You don't think doing your part to guarantee your fellow citizens get their (in the US at least) constitutionally guaranteed right to a jury trial is "worth it"?
Ask HN: Would you pay a monthly subscription for Firefox?
Now that we know that Firefox is in danger (and by extension the open web), we as a community must now vote with our wallets - let Firefox fend for themselves and be overtaken by a monoculture, or support Mozilla financially ourselves.

I ask that Mozilla think about having the option for a monthly subscription model. No extra features for paying (e.g $5/month for Firefox), but at least as paying users we will know that it's helping to support the open web and the survival of Mozilla as a whole.

Would you become a monthly subscriber if you had the option?
Academia really doesn't let you explore.
For algorithmic code PyPy can provide substantial speedups over CPython. I've used PyPy in code fingerprinting large bioinformatics files and seen big speedups. I've also tried porting a webapp processing JSON from CPython and seen no perceptible speedup.
Ppolypropylene baby bottles (with silicone parts) are sterilized in steam or boiling water.
"wrapper induction" is one term that gets used.
> They do not, in fact, believe in free speech at all.

And when they appear on HN and other forums to advocate for the removal of free speech, I'll defend and advocate for free speech just the same.

Beyond that, it doesn't matter what they say or think, nor does it matter how insane or infallible you believe their speech is. I'm not going to pre-emptively silence them to prepare for a world in which they hypothetically silence me.

> I am asserting that its presence in our culture causes problems

Sure I guess, although that seemed fairly obvious to me. A lot of things cause problems, what matters is how we deal with them.

If you're not advocating for the silencing of speech that you count as "bad", then we're in agreement. This thread is about limiting free speech on social media, and I'm glad to hear you don't support that.
It's like we're standing in line at a convenience store when some guy jumps the counter, bludgeons the cashier, empties the register into his backpack, and you're all, "Excuse me, do you work here?"

We cannot have a good faith debate about changing the USPS right now — the only sane response is to resist this attempt to sabotage our electoral machinery with all our strength. Engaging in farcical "debate" on the subject lends legitimacy to the sabotage and contributes to the harm.

(But you can't say stuff like that on Hacker News. The forum is fragile; it can't hold such conversations without fracturing.)
I had worked on an application that saw less than 100 writes per minute and about 1k reads per min and used a caching layer in front of the DB. Not only was the cache actually slowing us down, it was also inconsistent with the DB. Can't even begin to express the amount of lost dev time and productivity. We couldn't get rid of it, because someone above was convinced that we would need it to scale in the future.
> people who buy digital copies should be able to take advantage of the fact that ebooks can update the contents of a book over time, and authors should be able to update their books easily (if they choose to do so).

The important caveat that needs to be explicitly mentioned here is that readers should be able to consent and opt-in to these updates. Authors should be able to release updates, but they should not be able to push them, overwriting the purchased version of the book without the reader's consent. The keystone example of the outfall of giving an author/publisher the ability to tamper with a purchased book is of course the infamous Amazon 1984 fiasco [1].

[1] https://io9.gizmodo.com/amazon-secretly-removes-1984-from-th...
they could have just outsourced it to indians. would have saved money.
Exactly! Practically speaking, rust for SPAs is useless, at least for now.
are there measurable performance hits that you take with transactionality?
I agree and my politics are definitely not his
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Seems a lot easier said than done, and would probably incur some costs for something most programs would be largely uninterested in.

Case study: Windows has a feature called "transactional NTFS" which I think may have grown out of the WinFS experiment. They duplicated a lot of filesystem APIs with "transacted" versions. I think the ntdll APIs were a little cleaner than the win32 wrappers - maybe at that layer you can set a transaction on a handle and issue normal fs calls? Anecdotally I heard it was flakey. I believe it's in a sort of deprecated state today.
This was a year or more ago, but this failed to install: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/bs-platform/

It's pretty out of date here too. I can't remember if I tried to install with npm.
Ok, thank you for your suggestion!
GoPro has a proprietary format that stores live metadata in the videos if I recall. Maybe it’s called GPX? About 6 months ago I extracted GPS coordinates from a video using an open source tool.
This is basically what I've spent the last two years working on - my postdoc has been building an open-source drone payload that does real-time animal detection in visible/thermal images.

Drones aren't practical for total counts. These tend to be e.g. an entire safari park. You need multiple planes flying for several hours each day. Huge expense - hundreds of thousands easily. What's more common is to do transect counts where you fly in a sort of raster pattern and then do your statistics to estimate the population that you didn't see. Drones are still massively limited by flight time, typically an hour at most. Maybe a bit more if you have a really good fixed wing. See https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2016/01/160104-great...

On the other hand drones can be used as an effective anti-poaching deterrent - for example if you have a rough location. They can also be used for small scale surveys in locations where you can't really afford a plane and/or it's awkward or dangerous to send people. Some applications like flying very close to cliff faces to monitor birds are only possible to do safely with drones.

Ecology has a whole host of problems that make object detection difficult. You have extreme class imbalance when you capture data - 90%+ of images are empty. Animals are frequently camouflaged. Many animals (like the various gazelles in Africa) look almost identical, especially in low resolution aerial imagery. A lot of animals of interest are small. Even for camera traps, where you have very controlled conditions, the standard approach these days is to have a generic "animal detector" and then have humans do the long tail classification.

On the Africa question though - not a large percentage at all. By the way megafauna covers a lot more than it suggests (40kg+, so that includes deer). Most smaller conservancies have a good idea of how many "rare" species they have, because they're extremely conscious of poaching. But water buffalo? Thompsons gazelle? Who knows exactly. And once you go out of controlled areas into the bush proper, it's anyone's guess. There are charities which organise surveys, but it costs so much to do that it's not feasible to do it annually. See that Nat Geo link - that was the first time anyone had surveyed elephants in Angola. In 2016.

But computer vision is absolutely the future. People are coming round to the idea that we need to start capturing full survey imagery during counts. And while those images are still labelled by people today, once we have that data stored we can always run new models over it in the future.
Downvoted because of sarcasm? Honestly want to know, because it's all true, whether you like it or not.
Thanks, I think so too. I'm really glad that I'm able to work on my projects from home instead of going to school right now.
I think you're being downvoted since you didn't explain your position, but I don't think it's wrong, just that it's probably not quite so simple.
How ridiculous.

FB is paying $300,000+ per year for React developers. This is an extremely valuable skill to acquire. Even better at such a young age. This kid has a bright future.
> I often see criticism of the school system like yours. I think it comes from a perspective of a fairly intelligent, self-motivated individual, probably from a family that valued education.

I ain't vain enough to consider myself even "fairly intelligent", but I can say that I ain't very self-motivated, nor have I been since elementary school, and in hindsight my education system's insistence on strangling such intrinsic motivation in favor of extrinsic motivation is exactly what killed said self-motivation. "Grades are all that matter, and mine ain't anywhere near good enough to go to a good college, so why bother trying?"

It's something I'm actively working on trying to fix to this day, but old habits die hard.
Out of curiosity, when exactly do you think the colonial era I am talking about was? The Middle Ages?

> It would have also been pretty cutting edge until maybe halfway through the 20th century.

Nah, there have been houses built using concrete blocks since fairly early in the 19th. Using cement in house construction was hardly cutting edge in the 1920s - 1930s.
Thank you so much! I tried hard to make the interface nice by adding cool CSS animations (check out the moons glow!)

Good point about the "try another time" feature. I also want to add a "Go to bed now" feature, that will tell you what time to wake up if you want to fall asleep right now.
Super cool point. Painters at the very least would have been aware of this technique.
Amusing that so much of that movie is still relatable 20 years later to a whole new generation of workers. Except maybe the scene where he kicks down the cubicle, if I need to be in an office give me a cubicle or something lol
> They are accused of stealing and shipping more than 67,000 tonnes of waste a year since 2015, at an average value of €10m ($11.8m; £9m) per year.

> Believed to have been involved in 11 of the 18 routes in the city, it is estimated that they cost the City Council of Madrid a total of €16m in lost recycling revenues.

> ...

> Like any commodity, the price of recycled cardboard ebbs and flows according to global demand. Simon Ellin, chief executive of UK trade body The Recycling Association, says the current price is between £70 and £80 per tonne.

(67000 / 5) * 75 = 1,005,000. The math doesn't seem right.
A better economy... Please define "better".
You’re describing observational vs. interventional studies.

Such Interventional studies can be done, but would be more difficult and expensive, and might be difficult to get an answer from.
The two that I actually use are Virtual Desktop [1], and Immersed [2]. There is another one that is still pending official release called vSpatial [3].

[1] https://www.vrdesktop.net/
[2] https://immersedvr.com/
[3] https://www.vspatial.com/
Most anything you buy at Home Depot can be delivered. If you don’t believe me, just check out homedepot.com and see that most items can be delivered. It just costs money.

I have had appliances (fridges, washing machines, dryers), lumber, etc delivered. I have had a patio window replaced.

It may not be the case with IKEA but that place is even more known for cheapness. I just haven’t tried it with IKEA.
If they would bring results it could be another story...
It might be much more plausible than you think. A single rogue engineer can put it down so well that it would take days to detangle in even normal circumstances.
there are more important things than making money, friend. I think we can agree to disagree.
Also it's not even that long, it's only about 27 km, which pales in comparison to the globe-crossing aspirations of the hyperloopers.
It's like the difference between textbooks and primary literature when it comes to science. When you're researching something, you consult primary literature, but when you merely want to learn or refresh a subject, a good textbook is much more practical. The same relationship holds for MDN versus WHATWG specs. The latter are more useful when you're implementing parts of the web, or at least dig below the layer that one needs to know to just code websites.
We have gates so you can't deploy an instance without requisite tags for the instance and volume.
1f60c probably has, that message has been there for a while. The link was likely posted for the historical curiosity, not because (most of?) those complaints are particularly relevant anymore.

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.
Googling around, a few sources tell me there are about 250 million Firefox users; Mozilla currently seems to say 210 million: https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity

As for iOS, this source says there were 900 million iPhone users (doesn't include iPads) as of Jan 2019: https://www.idownloadblog.com/2019/01/30/900-million-iphones... , and this one says 1.5 billion Apple devices (probably includes Macs) as of Q1 2020: https://9to5mac.com/2020/01/28/apple-hits-1-5-billion-active...

I'll arbitrarily guess 1.2 billion iOS users (the rest being Macs). In that case, there are maybe 6x as many iOS users as Firefox users. Therefore, if Google paid the same per Firefox user as they did per iOS user, they would have paid $1.3 billion for Firefox users. That's a difference of about 2x per user from what they actually paid.

iOS users have demonstrably paid for (or been gifted by people who paid for) premium electronic devices, which I would expect makes them more valuable advertising targets. I'm mildly surprised that the difference isn't larger, but I don't have a good feel for advertising expenditures.
Since it seems some regular adequate exposure to sunlight is required for humans, my fantasy future-city building designs have a special type of glass that permits UV B.
You can also get with some more work the much higher resolution HIRT images from the GOES sats. It's kind or fun to mess with. I used it as an excuse to mess with offloading the error correction to an FPGA, which was fun but also totally unnecessary.

https://pietern.github.io/goestools/guides/minimal_receiver....
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