skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for your kind words!

Those are beautiful chairs, and I would agree that the price sure looks worth it. Thank you for bringing them to my attention

For a point of comparison, Kevin Rodel designed the side chairs I built (from plans he published in Fine Woodworking). He lists a price of $1,600 each on his website[0]. I think that's also an entirely fair price for what is a simpler chair to build. Ignoring everything else driving cost in chairs, adding arms alone adds complexity.

The question of listing price is a difficult one. Christopher Scharz of Lost Art Press addressed this an an article he wrote for Core77[1]. He's very established (and rightly so) and chooses not to, but he suggests it might be an advantage for somebody starting out.

One challenge to publishing prices that I perceive is that it fixes a price in a potential customer's mind. I wrote to somebody last week about the question of pricing, and observed that a bookshelf for a child's bedroom is a very different piece from a bookshelf for a lawyer's office. The price varies considerably between the two!

What I (and other people doing principally custom work) can offer is the ability to tailor a project to a budget (within reason) by explaining what drives cost and letting them make choices based upon what they're looking for in a piece.

At this point, I don't want to turn anybody away with a price that's outside their budget, but I'm also mindful of the adage that "if you have to ask, you can't afford it".

[0] https://www.kevinrodel.com/showroom/item/dining-chair

[1] https://www.core77.com/posts/86153/Should-You-Publish-Your-P...
CDC reverts updated coronavirus guidance, claiming it was in “error”
Why New York’s in a Depression and Texas Isn’t
These are just apps. Where's the web URL?
This is good as a learning exercise and may be result in something useful in future. So for sake of learning and advancement good. As far as claims to replace coconut harvesters, a bit of a stretch to probably attract funding with marketing.

Why not built a mechanical crane with a platform to help the worker to do better job with safety at heights to harvest a coconut and than apply the same for multiple tasks like repairing street lights. Cleaning the building facades and homes, cleaning and arranging work at heights. I believe existing technology can do it.
Ask HN: Is it time for scientific community to move on from LaTeX/PDF?
Arxiv encourages users to submit papers either in PDF or .tex source files, while other formats, such as HTML, being optional. Naturally each paper seen by myself, is .tex or PDF.
I've done intermediate thesis in Latex and now I'm stuck with it again for no good reason but, from my point of view, "historical". Not even considering HTML/CSS as the best format possible, I couldn't convince myself in prevalent necessity of PDF/Tex.

1. Latex is better at rendering math?
MathJax enables users to render actual Latex code on HTML pages, and I wouldn't say Math StackExchange threads are unreadable.

2. PDFs are more convenient?
They look good on paper, and they're optimized for better looking. The formatting and document structure are pretty much irrecoverable from PDF, making data wrangling on PDF redundantly complex.

3. Latex is better suited for typesetting scientific text?
It's possible to get the Latex looks on HTML text, though, with potentially higher effort, but this may be eliminated by standard styles that arxiv imposes on Tex/PDF.

4. Tex/PDF were developed to be rendered identically for decades, therefore are better for archiving?
For timeless texts I can't think of situation where author is pressured to include all of the plotting library binaries, and most likely this issue may be resolved by well-estabilished, legacy-first set of tools, while maintaining existing paper structure (intro-related work...)

5. Does future hold paper-printed journals?
For some physical books are more comfortable to read, though quite a few of them are murdered by either author's unwillingness to pay or publisher's unwillingness to spend.
In a context of scientific research, the static nature of PDF (and paper) is limiting and I enjoy more animated, dynamic articles. Trade-off for mentally more challenging varying structures of HTML pages is deeper comprehension, and I doubt this is worthless for a scientist.
Said 10x increase would put them at ~ the same price as the amzn and goog services the homepage mentions, so...
Replying directly in case you miss it elsewhere.

The price on the piece is $5,200.
David Cameron great Jewish grandad dad helped form HSBC over 250 years ago you know! Not very Chinese hey, or English! Or Christian!

Same HSBC that was money laundring for sinola cartel.

No company should be allowed be more than 100 employees! Stop this corruption of the Jews in all societies the world over.

Over 2000 years the Christians have tried to free the world from their filthy selfish unempathetic ways!

Wake up idiots!
When was last time you used a dependency on Maven Central and Android said "Nope, sorry, can't use that"?
How TikTok's design makes the algorithm work
I'm not sure I'm convinced, though the idea is interesting.

I feel like if I was refactoring a function and that refactor had a small ripple effect - say I didn't have to change any data structures outside the function and didn't have to change many other functions (callers or callers) - then I don't think there will be much speed up.

And if this was a small refactor on a larger function, or a larger refactor which included changing data types used in other places, then I want to be sure everything I'm about to run as part of my experimental partial refactor was updated.

Sure, if the type system complains about some unrelated function which no longer compiles then I might lose some time commenting out that function or fixing it up, but also the type system may point out a spot I didn't think was part of my experiment but which really was, and I'll save time on runtime errors or debugging. Or it may point out an issue in unrelated code that I didn't think about but which may make the refactor infeasible.

In my experience this kind of thing is a wash, but I would not be surprised if other people's experiences differ.
Apple employees/people from other NDA obsessed firms have nothing on the cleared workers. Yea they can be cagey but their products eventually ship and they can talk about them. When you're in defense, once your project ships it stays on orbit for a decade or two.
What about competition? This factor seems to be missing from the analysis. If you have many companies competing for ad revenue (a la old school TV and radio), are things maybe a little better? (I anticipate pushback re: NPR, PBS, or subscription supported cable. But surely it's worth considering?)
I mean, this sort of shit happens in our court systems all the time. This just raises the visibility to where we all see it.
(1) Trust your instincts. Really listen to that inner voice.

(2) I forget.

No wait! I remember! Be really careful who you have kids with (see item (1)). Most mistakes you can walk away from, but when an innocent human life (or two) is involved, you don't get to just reset.

(3) Bonus free advice (NOW how much would you pay?): Invest for the long term. Consider total return. Don't try to time the stock market.
> If you want to be a hard-ass, just multiply out the duration and number attending: "the meeting took 10.5 person-hours".

Then multiply by the average compensation to get the cost of the meeting

But keeping a note of the decision(s) taken is useful, especially in case of later disagreement.
Those avionics assembly people can go to work in the tech companies....doing what?
That is an absolute bombshell of a story and I'd guess that the vast majority of people have never heard of it but would be horrified if they did. It sounds like they even blackmailed the people.
Check out Learning How to Learn course (free). They talk about how learning and memory works from first principles and also teach various memory techniques. There are ways a visual person can learn too.

On the other hand I find memorizing speeches isn’t a good method, because you’ll sounded unnatural. Better to memorize the key points and the sequence of them.
Steering Into the Iceberg [audio]
There's a pretty good blog post that covers a lot of the issues. Safari, for example, doesn't do push notifications or background sync. https://love2dev.com/pwa/ios/
Yes, but which University ranking list is the best University ranking list? What makes a University ranking list the best, or even adequate? What decisions are supported by these lists, and are better decisions made by one list over another? Or are these lists just the ultimate paper chase among paper chase factories?

Of course, the best list is the list that validates personal prejudices and life choices, as prescribed by prophecy.
The 7 day limit does not apply in any meaningful way to PWAs. From your link:

> As mentioned, the seven-day cap on script-writable storage is gated on “after seven days of Safari use without user interaction on the site.” That is the case in Safari. Web applications added to the home screen are not part of Safari and thus have their own counter of days of use. Their days of use will match actual use of the web application which resets the timer. We do not expect the first-party in such a web application to have its website data deleted.

> If your web application does experience website data deletion, please let us know since we would consider it a serious bug. It is not the intention of Intelligent Tracking Prevention to delete website data for first parties in web applications.
We're still in the very early stage (6 months old) but we're building a product mixing meeting notes and task management to make sure meeting outcomes actually get done (without forcing everyone in the meeting to use our tool). If you're curious: https://meetric.app
Hey, please make your substantive points thoughtfully and drop the name-calling and flamebait. You owe the community better if you're posting here—plus it's in your interest not to discredit your own position that way.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You need to allow facebook.net in order for the page to scroll..... It is a UFO page...
"Algebraic reasoning" in this context is a (AFAIK) sort of fuzzily defined thing, but it's a reference to generalized algebra- of which the "algebra" high-school students encounter is a specialized part. Arithmetical expressions like you describe aren't what is meant there.
It's a music live-coding environment that is part of the befunge family of (obfuscated) languages.
Can’t you just buy Canadian citizenship for 1/4 mil or something?
> It's not a security measure. It might be part of your security setup but it's just a filter.

I think most people saying security by obscurity 1) know that’s a fallacy 2) know that by using that phrase the reader/audience knows what they mean without having to explain a phrase like high pass filter. It’s a bit pedantic to rant on the use of terms.
That feels like a scare piece. It’s a big leap to go from moving production of one type of plane to the other facility where that plane is produced...all the way to assuming they are shutting down everything.

I live in SC and worked for a company in Seattle when the Charleston plant opened. From day one this type of scare tactic talk has been circulated. My cab driver from the airport told me “they are moving everything to South Carolina! Can you believe that!?”

It’s a narrative to rile people up. That’s it.
I still have a hard time accepting this happened. Sovereignty doesn't seem to exist anymore: We have a single government, 10% privileged human beings that have some rights and say in what it does, and 90% who don't.
Anyone interested in this should check out the new Space Force document SpacePower https://www.spaceforce.mil/Portals/1/Space%20Capstone%20Publ...
Funny I asked the exact same thing yesterday :D
You're absolutely right that this is not supposed to be a 100% correct representation of the protobuf, which I tried to capture in a few places, including the conclusion.

There's some hand-wavy magic in this article, which was written months after doing the actual work. One aspect of that is I made a lot of test data and while yes, it could be any number of things, dealing with Occam's razor meant as I saw what looked like a message type (and not just a byte sequence which represented many other potential protobufs) I went with that as the conclusion. That conclusion seemed to hold as I test many other, more complicated notes generated from different types of devices. Hence why I present it here as a message.

But, yes, you're absolutely right that this is not the protobuf definition used by Apple (which is copyrighted) and there is certainly information missing from it. My goal was simply to be able to recover what I see on the Apple device's screen.
I think settlement building was a pretty big step for the engine/gameplay.
No, seems to me that giantrobot's point is that adding randomness to port numbers is a light security through computational complexity (almost a shared secret), that can in turn be used to help prop up other security practices, such as fail2ban. Security through obscurity is reliance in security engineering on design or implementation secrecy
The HSBC Files
I've reopened your comment upthread for editing. Please don't post off topic complaints like this though. The guidelines ask you not to go on about downvotes and also not to use allcaps for emphasis.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: I've re-closed the comment but if you want to add to it, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com.
I think at that level of experience unless you tick the minority boxes you apply for everything and take what you can get then try for something better next year
You did not miss it. There is some other, helpful, prior work in that subject by another author: https://github.com/dunhamsteve/notesutils/blob/master/notes....
While I agree with most of what you stated but imo, LaTeX helps with pretty much everything the community needs. Hell, it even has a Reference Management Software going for it to manage citations easily.

It's really easy to convert to other formats ( even HTML ) so it's not like you're missing anything. And most of all, the files are structured.

Now, I get it that everyone is entitled to their own opinion but the kind of support and features LaTeX already has, I don't see why anyone would want to move on in the first place. The alternative offers slightly less and at no "significant" advantage. So what I think is, the community would prefer LaTeX in the foreseeable future.
Y Combinator Releases Data on Black, Latinx and Woman Founders
Palantir removes language allowing founders to ‘adjust their total voting power’
I find that claim fairly dubious as well.
The primary job killer currently is COVID-19, and it has hit India hard.
There are numerous restrictions on labour and several farmhands \(migrant workers from other states\) have returned home.

This news report, dated August elaborates: https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Madurai/future-looks-bl...

Worth noting that the university in question is situated in the same province, Tamil Nadu.
Section 144 has been imposed, which is a law that prohibits gatherings/assembly and gives the police sweeping powers to arrest/detain curfew breakers.
[Disclaimer: this is a heated opinion. It's not "unpopular" but it's one of those discussion topics that seems to make people get real defensive real quick.]

This is one of the biggest tenants of second-wave feminism. The work that has been (and still is) shouldered on women: homemaking, homesteading, cooking, cleaning, laundry, family logistics (sometimes called mental labor), child rearing, is criminally undervalued. This is an everyone problem. Women undervalue the work just as much as men. This becomes really evident when you have "double income" households with kids and start having to pay out of pocket for that work and realize that it's hard to bring in enough income to pay for just the babysitter and you don't get any of the other stuff with it.

The problem is that being a housewife/househusband is career suicide despite the fruits of all that labor being huge and realized directly by the family without uncle sam or the babysitting service taking a cut. Your household in a very literal sense is richer for having a homemaker but it doesn't show up on your paystub. People look down on the work since it's "unskilled" and is saturated in stigma. Plus the value is hard to quantify accurately since it materializes as a lack of expenses and feels like a cost center -- shoutout to my fellow IT and ops friends who can relate.

And it also puts the homemaker in a very vulnerable position because you need dollars to survive which puts far too much power in the hands of the “breadwinner.” The institutions we have don’t do enough to address this imbalance and it’s not an easily solved problem. Right now the answer is that everyone in a household works but as we’re seeing this has actually made households poorer because a day-job’s take home pay wouldn’t pay a housewife’s salary unless you’re quite wealthy.
> Say your friend asks you to pick a lock so he can rob someone's house

If you looks at the logs, that is just not what happened. I see various discussions of it that sort of make up a story that isn't there. The actual chat is like this:

Bob> How big is that upload?

Alice> 440MB

Alice> It's a lot of scanned documents

Alice> How's your finances these days?

Alice> Hey are you any good at lock picking?

Bob> Yes [unclear if yes, scanned documents would account for that size, or yes, I'm good at lock picking, or something else]

Bob> Our finances are doing okay, but have trouble with some payments

Bob> We have extensive lock picking knowledge

Alice> [Sends photo of something, not clear what]

Alice> I think this is a lock, but I'm not sure. I pointed the camera at the door and took that photo.

Bob> What makes you think that's a lock?

Bob> Is it attached to a door?

Alice> Yeah

Bob> Sent the photo to someone who knows about locks

Alice> Thanks

[2 days later]

Bob> Any more hints about this picture you sent me?

Bob> No luck so far [not clear if luck with talking to the lock expert, or if the expert couldn't recognize this as a lock, or if tried to crack it... or if didn't send it anywhere at all and just mentioning it because he wants Alice to think he's helping her so that she keeps telling him what's going on]

In my view this is not even close to an overt act and that we can be sure of that given the context of all the other stuff they chat about. I'd expect some discussion of progress and technical details.

[PS. I think this is the third comment of yours I've replied to in this discussion. I don't mean to stalk you. Your points are well articulated even though I disagree with them]
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Morality (definition left as an exercise) is something you have to be able to afford. Get hungry enough, get tired of sleeping on cardboard enough, get tired enough of restrictions imposed on you by society for stupid mistakes you made while out of your mind ... and morality is a luxury you can't afford. (In many countries, that luxury is permanently out-of-reach for the great majority.)

Now add to that the constant reminders that morality doesn't stop a lot of people at the top from immoral behavior. Banks, politicians, Wall-Street, celebrities, billionaires etc. are in the news all the time for pulling shady shit. When they get caught, they say OOPS! They hear: 'don't do that any more, where people can see you' and they're free for another round.

Many people tend to adopt behavior that's rewarded. It takes a strong moral compass; some people never got magnetized. Show people a society that rewards moral behavior (they exist) and they might go there. (Some countries have low recidivism rates because of how well they treat people in prison.) If people can afford to move, they might. Else they may just say screw it, XYZ throws toxins in the river, I'll do it too. Choice: track people or go shoot 'terrorists'. Hmmmm.
It's the "desert of profitability" strategy [0].

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17048329
The entire point of everyone who rants against non standard ssh ports is that it adds more noise to the signal of "You should disable password login entirely and only use public / private key authentication."

And reading many of the responses in this thread it makes sense to me. So many people in this thread talking about how many less failed password login attempts they get when they change the port, indicating they allow password based login in the first place.
> How are the users supposed to help?

By going to your site and authorizing it to access their subscription data with their Google login, like you said in the following sentence. That counts as helping, no?
Read the Graeber article I linked earlier in case you haven't and are interested. Bio-tech is one of the industries he specifically mentions as being somewhat a degenerate case with regard to this argument.

In his essay, the the particulars of technological achievement (e.g. flying cars) are rhetorical. If it isn't our current economic system with for-profit corporations driving the direction of technological evolution, what is? The question that interests me, however, is how should we, as a society, make those kinds of decisions?
for the 'adversarial' relationship, I'd say it depends how both teams are managed and how well they communicate. I've been until recently in such situation (a dev team and a dedicated QA team) and I never felt this (in part because the bugs found by QA would have been found by the clients and no one at work wants that and in part because the two managers work very well together).
I wonder how much merit this objections have in a larger scheme of things. The original complaint from Mr Schrems is dating from 2013. Last few years he was chasing the DPC to merely start acting on the first court decision against FB. So it’s not like the case is new to FB. They actually mention all that in their submission.
Sorry if this is obvious, but if I may ask, how did you file your taxes in the meantime, given that this took a full year?
If adding $150K doubles my salary, is that really an excellent salary?
I am not the OP of this thread; I suggested no solution.

However, if you'll permit me to suggest one, I don't think getting the government involved is a bad idea at all. Google is financially successful not because of their browser but because of tracking-based advertising, a largely unrelated market. They use that funnel of cash to expand into a separate market, that of the browser, in order to cement their position of power in web advertising. This sort of anti-competitive behaviour is exactly why antitrust regulations exist.

Your "Harrison Bergeron" allusion is almost a total non-sequitor. Nobody suggested hobbling Google because of their success. It's because of the damage they are doing to the web. The OP gave many examples of this that you seem to have ignored.