skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So everything except the grocery shopping... Except that you still need to go for breakfast, lunch, and the 2-4 dinners per week not provided by the meal kit.

What I like to do is grab recipes off meal kit websites and buy the ingredients myself.
Hi,

I'm pretty excited to try it out. Could you speak to the following questions?

1. Do you have plans for API access and note export?

2. Do you have a roadmap for native clients and/or mobile?
This website is beyond off-putting. I realize this was written 20 years ago, so I'm willing to forgive what, if written today, would essentially be adding cheap punches to a person who fought widespread mental abuse for over a decade. But apart from that, why is there a "booble" search in the corner, and why are there charts following the cleavage line of (a quite possibly underage) Britney Spears?
To be fair with Ma, he doesn't seem to have the level of English required to have a smart conversation with a native speaker. I couldn't conclude much from that interview regarding his intellect.
Obligatory:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbZ8zDpX2Mg
Yes they get ignored because that's the entry point for scammers building lists of active numbers. Same as one should mute but not disconnect spam voice calls as that gives them info about your presence.
If the "authorities" fail or show low effectiveness, you have to criticize them and offer other solutions. That's how we make progess. By the way, other authorities run a different strategy, the UK focuses on distributing first doses. Some authorities fail completely at distributing the vaccine, like we are seeing in Europe where I am currently.

Strange to see that on a page called "hacker news", some people think questioning the "authorities" is something you shouldn't do.
CallerID information. There are a bunch of lookup services available for it: https://www.voip-info.org/cnam/
I wrote more or less the same interpreter in C using computed goto and in C++ without if anyone's interested. The C-version is several times faster, and I'm pretty sure the dispatch method plays a part.

The reason I went with functions instead in C++ is to allow plugging new opcodes into the instruction set without updating the dispatch loop.

https://github.com/codr7/liblg

https://github.com/codr7/liblgpp
I find this weird. Automated testing has saved me so much time.

If I don't have tests and make a change, I have to manually go through a whole set of checks to make sure I didn't break anything. If I have a test suite, it will tell me in 2 minutes if I broke anything.

The thing I'm working on at the moment has tests on the backend but not on the UI. I can definitely say the UI work is slower because of the lack of tests.
Here in Finland many if not most mobile phone numbers are in the phone book. Well, no physical book has been printed for years, but you can call directory enquiries or look them up online. Even reverse look-ups are possible. (Only an ever shrinking minority of households still owns a landline.)

How exactly would that subvert 2FA via SMS? Except for calling and ask please read the SMS you just received for me. While that will work with some people, I am not worried in my case.
I am surprised that Ms B.Spears' lawyers have not yet sent them a cease and desist letter.
Freewing RC Airplane
https://www.frewing-model.com
And this article written by William Gibson is still relevant all these years later:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disneyland_with_the_Death_Pena...
> but the people we discussed with weren’t interested at the time; they were scared of traceability and preferred to be able to avoid taxes (no kidding :p).

I'm a project manager in construction, and I still have to make my quotes in excel or word because of this.
Don't know if this is a typical belgian thing, but it's pretty ridiculous.
So general societal progress and their control of covid is evil?

The 'tracking for criminal cases' is clearly a 'bad thing' but ... it's also legit democracy with excellent universal healthcare and rule of law.

... careful with the easy characterizations.
So where does it crossover? For example male and female have definitions but activists are pushing to redefine those terms along with others. Why is that any more legitimate than an individual redefining a word? And what level of critical mass “permits” redefinition?
A solid organic marketing strategy is worth investing in, rather than pushing all your funds in traditional digital marketing. Traditional ads often feel forced, and internet users are keen to ignoring them.
I read it was more about institutional dysfunction. It examines a different one (police, media, unions, schools, politics, etc) and we see how what the people want or do doesn't really matter a lot in the end - the system has a life of its own and keeps trucking on.
We've already asked you not to post nationalistic flamewar comments to HN and you've continued to do it repeatedly. That's not what this site is for, so please stop.

When an account posts like this in various threads:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25583482

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25445883

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25029414

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24855732

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24721883

...it's painfully clear that this is not curious conversation but a pre-existing agenda.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Here's a nice article the correspondent did about the online advertising bubble. Not a lot of evidence of the efficacy of advertising, and few dare to run the one experiment that counts (pull all ads for a quarter and see what happens):

https://thecorrespondent.com/100/the-new-dot-com-bubble-is-h...
Yes. Sales and marketing : "profit centers" . Ever increasing budgets.

Engineering , R&D, Manufacturing, Tech, Testing : "cost centers". Ever tightening budgets.

MBA, Beancouting 101
Could this mix multiple obs streams from different origins? My friends and I put on a NYE stream party but it was actually a massive faff finding something that could mix multiple remote streams into one. Would love to be able to self host something to do it

A simple switch is fine in this case, no overlays or anything
To be fair, the Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics website has been around for at least 20 years.
See also Guédelon: https://www.guedelon.fr/en/introduction_75.html
Also Bad Religion frontman Greg Gaffin is an evolutionary biologist with a PhD in Zoology
Yeah, agree 100%.

I'll go one step further and argue that some of the scenarios described in the article are not unreasonable.

What they fail to see is that if these actually come to pass (e.g. Tether collapse), it will actually good for Bitcoin in the long run.

Money badger don't care.
Thanks! Not so much US centric, more tech focused. Jobs are sourced from career sites of hundreds of employers, most of them in the tech industry. There are quite a few jobs in the big Canadian hubs like Toronto and Vancouver.
Yes. Cost centre and profit centre.
Bind The Gap: Festive Edition of monthly digital FP magazine
this approach is not new, and has been toyed around since the 1960 (!), see G. Estrin's work on adaptive architectures for example.

i got to know about this as part of PRISM (processor reconfiguration through-instruction set metamorphosis) work in the early 90's. there is a very cool paper by the same name. check it out !

ps : PRISM Paper (http://class.ece.iastate.edu/tyagi/cpre583/documents/prism.p...)
Yes to the first half of this at least (KCP is not something I've heard of).

Having recently attempted to use SRT for an event's backend restreaming stack, the low latency was nice but it's a pain in the ass. It's really not designed for links where latency isn't known and consistent. You have to bake an expected latency amount into initial protocol negotiation or you'll end up with problems, and OBS' support is quite poor (failure to establish a connection for whatever reason is likely to freeze it up completely, it sucks up a lot of cpu vs. rtmp, etc).

And the other end of the stack is either pretty immature and kind of wonky (haivision's own software, srt-live-server) or requires you to pay to use it or is very closed source.

WebRTC of some sort is definitely the future of this, imo. Even if the stack kind of sucks right now the results are fabulous (discord's video streaming for eg. is webrtc based and is easily the lowest latency free screen sharing I've seen outside share-my-desktop stuff like parsec or rdp).

It looks like this uses the already-built-into-obs support for the webrtc-based ftl protocol mixer used and microsoft killed. That's actually really clever and honestly I think this is far more appealing than SRT.
She’s the one I was alluding to.
That's why T1 would write a justification of a request for ban to T2. They would provide an argument to T2 and T2 would review it.

Banning shouldn't be the unilateral decision of a single individual. We've had our App updates rejected numerous times for arbitrary reasons that were approved without change when resubmitted because we got a different reviewer.
At most I might send back a "Who is this?", but yes, I'd probably ignore it if it wasn't signed by a familiar name.
> more if you can default on it

I have not seen this use of the word "default" before. Does it mean "not touch"?
I'm sure not everyone knows this, because there are are people on this site who have not grown up with phone books.

The article talks about a reverse phone book: according to the author, given a phone number, you are able to look up name (and profile picture). To my understanding there were no reverse-lookup phone books like that back in the day.
It is, but original commenter was referring to societal progress which I found interesting.
Using the term "five-o" is a wire reference? I guess I missed it.
Do you have even a rough sense on pricing? I'd have to have all my notes and then get hit with a crazy price!
Clearly! Haha ;-)
I don't understand this. Isn't it obviously slower if you redraw every window in every frame instead of just redrawing what changed?
Oh boy, you just gave me another reason to want the Mac Mini M1. I have had two previous Mac Mini's (and one is actually still operational 24/7, despite being 12 years old). Such a brilliant little machine, and much better value than say an iMac as there are tons of good screens out there. I am wondering though whether it supports dual 4k screens at 60Hz. I don't think HDMI can do that, so it would have to be DisplayPort.
If I recall correctly, Viglink does affiliate marketing. Essentially they are setting an affiliate cookie to make money from anything you purchase on Amazon, Walmart.com, Ebay, etc. This cookie will override any other that was already set. So if you clicked a link to a book from a blog post and then clicked on a tinyurl, they would get the affiliate referral money and not the blog.

It's an easy way to make money because it doesn't involve a long sales process with major advertisers. Viglink does all that. tinyurl, bitly, et al are probably making a fair amount given their reach
> Yes, Bitcoin is excellent for money laundering.

True or not, this argument is essentially orthogonal to Bitcoin's usefulness and success.

As others have pointed out, there are many financial institutions / instruments that also fit the bill and that does not diminish their utility.

To make the point maybe more salient: a moving vehicle can be used to kill a person, that doesn't mean cars should be eliminated.
The problem with specialized databases is that people use them as a starting point at the beginning instead of realizing that that is a premature optimization which they will likely come to regret later on. Initially you are much better off by choosing a standard relational database (Postgres,MySQL,MSSQL, pick your favorite flavor) and then, when you really have to you may have to add something that is specialized. So unless there are hard technical constraints right off the bat (which is almost never the case) stick to simple.
It's worth making a distinction between "3D Photos where the user supplies depth data from the dual cameras/LIDAR etc" vs "3D Photos where Facebook's magic algorithms try to infer depth". It's the latter that I presume you're criticising here. (Might be obvious to you but I thought it worth spelling out)
Startup market valuations (early stage)
How are early-stage founders estimating their market valuations?

Sites like Crunchbase, DealRoom and Pitchbook report recent valuations from news and PR. There valuations are generally averages.

What are the founder valuation steps?
1. Track top k relevant startup competition.
2. Approximate around competitors? Guess based on rule of thumb? Ask advisors? Ask existing investors? Guess?
That was expected from the very beginning. Government will collect as much data as possible citing medical reasons and then use the data as it pleases saying since we collect, we are free to use as we want (citing again some blah-blah about public benefits).

What's surprising is that they disclose it. Perhaps he just wasnt prepared for the question
I think these guys do this to pay for their servers, infra and salaries if any. One of the business model.

I think we have ton of url shortener available in the market. Difficult to point one which is 100% safe and secure.
I browse with NoScript blocking JavaScript by default as too many web developers (or their managers) have violated my trust to not do Dodgy Stuff over the years. Unfortunately I don't believe there will ever exist accurate numbers of the true portion of people who browse a subset of the web with JavaScript disabled, at least partially because many of those same folks will prevent the means used to collect the data in the first place.

It's no place for me to dictate how you do your development, so I won't do that. It is however my personal opinion that websites should depend on HTML and CSS, and progressively enhance functionality with sprinkles of JavaScript. The vast majority of websites are not interactive applications, and I think modern web development practices could do with something of a hard reset.

I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to decide how things ended up where they are now and whether it's a good thing for them. Personally I think it's comical and horrifying just how much compilation goes on in projects written in that particular interpreted language these days!
In theory one day Rust will but LLVM doesn't support anything beyond the function level for noalias since that's all that's needed to support __restrict in C. Even that isn't used by Rust most of the time since they have found several bugs in it.
I agree with you, that is why I said, maybe you can still reach for another. Maybe not. If things turn out differently than you though, happiness is still about how you deal with the fig you got, either on purpose or not.
> Health care isn't socialised, it is a mixed-system (almost nowhere has a "socialised" system...even the UK,

> the most effective systems are mixed like the US system...Germany, in particular, is known for having fly-by-night

> private doctors who will do all kinds of crazy shit if you give them enough money

I think that's missing the point a little bit - when we talk about the UK and Germany having "socialised" healthcare this usually refers to the fact that it's not primarily provided by a mishmash of private insurers and private hospitals run as businesses for profit, but by the state as a service for the populace. It doesn't mean that there's not also a small private healthcare market for the wealthy to get quicker treatment in fancier facilities or to get unusual or elective procedures. One side effect of this is that there’s basically no anxiety about losing your access to healthcare if you lose your job or choose to quit - it’s just not part of the equation. This is the main point being made here. Oh and I think we should be very careful using the words "effective" and "US system" so close together in a sentence when talking about healthcare :-)

There are interesting examples of countries who have "mixed" systems though - Netherlands (where the healthcare company I work for are based) and Czech Republic (where I live) both have a sort of hybrid system of a market of health insurance companies in tandem with govt funding. And while ČR's isn't particularly spectacular, NL is very highly regarded worldwide. Frankly I'm a little surprised that those who are against M4A or single-payer don't ever cite it. Could be because the government still contribute more than the private insurers.
In online marketing/merchandising online advertising is very alluring for two reasons: immediate feedback and the few key players are well known. Essentially online advertising makes a marketing team’s life much easier even though it could be a net negative for the business revenue.

When I was doing some work in this space for Travelocity many years ago the biggest problem was cannibalism of data and traffic. Yes, the traffic coming in from ads was shitty and generally costs more than it returned, but even still cannibalism was the bigger problem. We would have been better off taking all the ads off the site and spending money in other offline venues. It was so apparent that ad spend was a drug addiction. I still don’t understand how this was a mystery to anybody in management considering the strength of the brand and the success of their television ads.

Eventually the business imploded and the partner/affiliate segment became more valuable than the core business partially because it was absent online ad spend.
Looking forward to Google ad Facebook doing some massive refunds.
This is now at 700 comments, and no one is talking about the math in the Twitter "thread". Found no mention in the Twitter replies either. Is it just me or is the math hilariously off?

[0]: "10% of $150M is $15M". Correct, but do we need a screenshot of a calculator for that, let alone Google? (why do people rely on an internet connection and Google for this?)

[1]: Talking about "2/3", but putting in "0.75". So which is it?

[2]: We are at $50M now. "Knock off" $20M, leaving us at $30M. Yet she puts in $20M into her Google calculator, gets 13.3% and calls it "a little over 1/10". Fair enough, but the real number is 30/150, so 1/5, 20%, double of "1/10".

Come on, this was not rocket science math! Should have double-checked before publishing, especially if you're a business consultant [3].

0: https://twitter.com/nandoodles/status/1345786303263219712

1: https://twitter.com/nandoodles/status/1345792380184760321

2: https://twitter.com/nandoodles/status/1345794089825021963, https://twitter.com/nandoodles/status/1345795168105066496

3: https://twitter.com/nandoodles/status/1345853158279565313
Desmos and GeoGebra can both do this (though GeoGebra has little gaps in this particular example, and you'll need arcsin rather than asin for both tools). If you want programming-oriented, Sympy can do an okay job (asin), as can Numpy (arcsin), but the latter involves more mucking about, evaluating on a grid.
I do agree that it is really hard to take Rubini seriously.

Much of that has to do with the way he expresses itself: he's really obnoxious to listen to and one has to make a great effort to get past that 100-foot wall of aggression to try and understand if there's any value in his arguments.

I have honestly tried, and once you peel off the tone and posturing, I must confess there isn't much to be found.
Can attest this being not the case, unless you are a bank, and can hire gazillion of local barristers to keep up with frequently changing regulatory theatrics.

For example, labour laws are faaar from what people imagine of Singapores ultracapitalist image.
Hi, Diagrams 2.0 will be a free update, so yes, you’ll get it automatically once it’s released.
Sure!

1. Note export will be implemented soon. API access is not on the roadmap for now.
2. Yes, we are already testing our desktop apps for windows / mac. Mobile apps will be released within the next 6 months.
Sure, all's fair in a CTF. That story came to me through the mouths of at least a handful of people, who might have a bit of an incentive to exaggerate given that they hadn't quite been able to get to zero and might be a just a little sour :P

The state was quite helpful, yes–for x86 it seems like a "clean slate" shellcode would be quite difficult, if impossible, to achieve as we saw. However, I am left wondering how other ISAs would fare…perhaps worse, since x86 is notoriously dense. But maybe not? The fixed-width ones would probably be easy to try out, at least.
In this kind of talks we take for granted that the startup is trying to solve an "easy" problem. We don't talk here about the "hard" ones, the ones that aren't only a web UI. Hardware, medical, societal, etc... Ones that need years of research before you even know if it's feasible.

I use air quotes for easy and hard since obviously they are not the words I'm looking for, but I can't find better ones. All(?) problems are difficult to solve in some way.

Anyways, this is almost off-topic, not really fitted for a pragmatic thread such as this one :)
Color balance in photographs.
Because it's humor that made me giggle.

The humor is largely derived from there being no pædagogical answer to the quæstions you asked.
When Finland got number portability some 15 years ago it also got a free look-up service to see the real operator of every number. This was required for price transparency. Calling within your own network can be cheaper than to a competitor and you should be able to know so before making the call.

Not sure how other countries have handled that. The US had the different approach, callee pays for the mobile part.

Have not looked into the issue for a decade...
Incredibly insightful. Can you share some of the startups who are working on product authentication and instant vendor network credit scoring? I had somewhat adjacent ideas but haven't quite clicked with the market I am targeting.
BrexitImpacts: Companies charging more, or stopping sales because of Brexit
Show HN: Slide Domains
You're correct on that. Large scale ad spend is divided into "branding" (creating awareness about the company and products) and "performance" (leading directly to a sale). The performance category has many factors including the path to the actual conversion/sale and how many steps are in the way and how long it takes. It can be instant (clicking a buy button in the ad itself) or many months.

Optimization is part of the process to ensure wasteful spending is reduced as analytics and sales data is generated but unfortunately the biggest issue is the people who actually run these campaigns. Lots of politics, perverse incentives, lack of skills, and general apathy.
https://timecube.2enp.com/

It does bring back memories.
a single line in a deployment script is as simple as it can get, thanks, I will need to give this a try
Another vote for some kind of deployment system, that would rock.
> Truth is relative.

This is a dangerous misconception to be spreading. It is not at all related to your other claims, namely:

> Sampling can skew results. Scientists are people too. We all have flaws.

These are of course correct statements. But they do not influence truth. They may well influence people's understanding of what the truth is, but that's different.
When building an MVP stop flouncing around with your professional software development. Build the damn thing and get it launched. Every singe dollar you waste on CICD Docker and testing sends you closer to the clock running out and failure.
I hardly imagine consistent integral paginated data view without creating a snapshot. I would be manual MVCC implementation or something. Separate API seems a much simpler solution to me.
One key difference is that, at least in the UK, you could opt out
> though like many, I appreciated season 2 a lot more in retrospect

I just finished my third rewatch last night and I honestly like season 2 more each time I watch it. It might be my second favorite season after season 4.
Surprising. It seems usually a bad idea to trust a government.