skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm always a little skeptical of someone who gets all their degrees from the same university, even it it is Stanford. They aren't exposed to as diverse of a group of thoughts and ideas as someone who goes else where and proves themselves to other people with differing opinions.
This is probably one of the honest to god, lamest things I’ve read.
> there is nothing stopping you hiring a developer to build the patch that you need

unless it's accepted upstream, you've got an ongoing maintenance problem on your hands. getting an idea in isn't always just about time/resources/money. if your idea doesn't fit their 'vision', it won't be accepted, regardless of how much you have funded your feature. do you now take on maintaining a fork? sometimes the answer might be 'yes', but I suspect in most cases it's going to be 'no'.
What about pervasive compute with natural language processing? This will surely catapult us into a new age of bad ux?
The BankID service seems to trip up many people here.

Swedish residents have a personal identity number issued at birth or immigration. Format: YYYYMMDD-NNNN. More details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_identity_number_(Swed...

BankID is a service run by the Swedish banks that interfaces with the banks, individuals and third parties (like this chain of unmanned stores).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BankID

The banks know the identities (personal identify number) of their customers via their physical offices. BankID offers an app to individuals and an online API to paying/approved third-party services. Third-party services are able to offer BankID authentication in websites and apps. In the end the third party receives an authenticated personal identity number.

There is growing awareness that this service should not be run by private companies/banks.
I’m Ken, the founder of Moon.

I'm a big believer in crypto--Bitcoin especially. But I think it's about more than just being a store of value. I see it as a medium of exchange. That is why I built Moon.

We integrated with Lightning Network because we see Lightning as the future of Bitcoin for consumer payments. Payments take roughly 3 seconds and network fees are around 50-150sats (3-5 cents) as opposed to the 1 hour wait and $20 you'd pay on-chain.

The crypto debit cards on the market take custody of your crypto, which is not really optimal, and they don't focus on preserving your privacy. Moon is non-custodial. Moon Visa® Prepaid Cards are one-time-use virtual cards so you don’t have to worry about data breaches leaking your payment information.

I'd love your feedback on the product and how we can make it better.
The definition being used here for libraries and services has both being marketed to developers. We're talking about APIs, not a web product with a UI etc.

Services, in this article, doesn't refer to things that can only be built as services (e.g. because it queries a proprietary dataset) but those that might optionally be built as services (e.g. fetching and processing otherwise accessible data) and could, as easily, be built as a library.
In Germany, cigarette vending machines were incredibly common until around 15 years ago, but I haven't seen one in ages. Between stricter age verification requirements, a decline in smoking in general, and vandalism towards those machines, the profit margin was probably stretched too slim to continue maintaining these machines.
Sell a license. I can't think of a better example off the top of my head, but here's a case study:

CKEditor has multiple commercial licensing plans: https://ckeditor.com/pricing/
> For example, doing a parallel "df" isn't super interesting

Actually I would enjoy that. Sometimes slow filesystems (e.g. stuck nfs) prevent the whole list from being displayed, or displayed only up to some point.

If ctrl-c let me break out the command yet list all the collected data (preserving non-parallel order), it would be nice at times.

Bonus: list skipped mountpoints to stderr..
Undersized roundabouts with 1 lane are not fitting for certain places. As said, I have seen many traffic lights being replaced with roundabouts. If you go to the Netherlands you see how roundabouts are executed well. Also Denmark has well made roundabouts.

Just putting a small roundabout somewhere without putting thought into it is making things considerably worse.
Most people nowadays carry very little (if any) cash. However, I really doubt it would be a problem to find someone to buy food for you if you give them cash.
Really interesting. I was wondering if there is evidence for this found in eastern Indo European societies like India or Iran.
Excuse me, but I'm very unfamiliar with marxist theory beyond the big points. I also think its unfair to reply a 1 line question with a full book. Would you mind being a bit more verbose in order to share your insights?
American-style beef jerky is almost invariably sweetened, unfortunately.

I ran into this same problem, but found a slightly different product without sugar:

South African-style beef jerky, known as "biltong" - it is also a spiced dried meat, but is more meatier and almost always unsweetened.

Biltong can be found at specialty/ethnic food stores, my local grocery shops carry it but display it separately from the American jerky, you have to know where to look (or order online), but it is worth it.

Or, it is easy enough to make jerky at home if you have a dehydrator - slice strips of lean beef (I've used top round, bottom round, eye of round, and tenderloin), cover with salt/pepper and/or spices to taste, then dehydrate overnight for a tasty sugar-free treat.
I see, somehow I missed that. Well, then I think they have their bases covered. Looking forward to trying one out.
There's an ecosystem of paid libraries and tools around Java and C#. While developers might like to solve problems of their own, standards compliance is one place that they likely wouldn't want to tread their own path if they can help it. They've got work to do, and deadlines.
That's actually a good point, I could add a user style that hides the button completely because I also always close the tab. Would make life a lot easier!
Computers have come a long way in a short time and are very complex. Maybe the diffuse ownership (that OP bemoans) is necessary for that complexity, or at least for it to develop so quickly.

If I want a typewriter, car or handgun I “truly own”, I might be able to build one, as a last resort. But building a satisfactory computer without the global supply chains (that impose the bemoaned limitations) seems impossible.
For our service I chose to end sessions at 4 AM local time, but have them last at least 8 hours.

This means:

* sessions last between 8 and 24+8 hours

* if you log in before 20:00, your session ends that night, if you log in after 20:00 it'll last one more day

* since this is a B2B application users are unlikely to use the application during session expiry

* it's possible to calculate the expiry time during log in and it doesn't require tracking session activity

This approach should have similar security properties as a 24h logout, while minimizing the disruption users experience.
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If it's necessary during COVID times, it could still be beneficial during non COVID times. Even if COVID goes away, there are plenty of other viruses lurking around that kill lots of people each year.
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Energy use in a legal cannabis indoor farm is generally 30% of the overall cost to grow indoors. (HPS lights, dehu's, veg lights, etc)

Anecdotal legal example: 9,000 sq ft Tier II averages about $7,000 a month in power. That might average 150 lbs per month (multiroom grow) boutique quality output ($277.5k).

TL,dr: pretty decent value. Nearly something for nothing in most areas but the lights and major equipment like A/C's. Still though: $7k for $277k a month.
You still have to make an order for everything you need and then go to the store to collect it. So the only time you really save here is the difference between collecting stuff from the physical shelves and the online counterpart.

Cant imagine that being more than a couple of minutes of saved time for me.
How are we to survive then
> The rear-ending problem will be solved as automatic emergency braking becomes standard on cars. Already, it's shipping on almost all high-end cars and 70-80% of midrange cars. There's a US auto industry goal of it being standard by 2022. That's probably the main feature needed for self-driving cars to coexist with human-driven cars.

Not necessarily. I have a Honda, and the system in my car is deliberately designed to only mitigate a collision, not prevent one (e.g. it will only engage at the last second to slow the car, not stop it). I'm speculating, but I'm guessing the idea is to discourage people from "testing it out" or relying too much on it.
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In addition to avoiding interaction, I also prefer not standing there awkwardly while people work for me. I can't help the checkout clerk scan my groceries faster, and (if there is one in that lane) I'd just get in the way of the baggers, so I just have to stand there letting them serve me. I don't like that feeling of power/superiority/(not quite sure how to phrase it). It's the same reason I don't like mani pedis.
The probability is so low that this has probably never happened in all history (for reasonably sized arrays).

It’s not typical to analyse randomised algorithms this way for that reason.
> I don't know that anyone has come up with a good solution for measuring programmer productivity.

Well, the only people who could meaningfully search for such solution - programmers - have all the incentive in the world not to find it. Not very surprising they didn't find it yet (and won't ever.)
There's a very good video on the way too narrow view many people in the west have of music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr3quGh7pJA

I know the title will set people off in a place like this, but it's not a 2014 Tumblr-level "kill white people" style analysis. Totally worth the time.
idk how true this is, i use chrome myself and i had the Cmd + Q issue once before deciding it was a stupid shortcut and i never wanted to ever think about it again. that was like 5 years ago
When bureaucrats are in charge of the business, it will be run as a bureaucracy: focusing on standardisation, quantified measurements and derisking. It's a process of stagnation.
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Stealing a library is easier than stealing a service.
"the value of a currency" isn't a physical reality; it is only observed through price fluctuations. so, defining it this way is just kicking the can. The fact that you can measure very different values by focusing on Forex, labor costs, or various CPI baskets is exactly the concern with gaining too much comfort from any single-number summary in the face of price changes that are impacting daily life for millions.
Why is the reason for doing this obvious? I can't see any benefit.

I get why you would prefer to name constants for their use, like `numIterations=3` or whatever, but renaming every integer seems senseless.
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It's probably on the majority of keyboards that carry the Latin alphabet.

Yeah, there are countries that use keyboards where Q and W are apart, but that's not common.
Same as with the YC hiring posts. This is YC's prerogative, though.
Agree, but at least their name is descriptive. A bit more originality would have done a lot of good here though.
For what it's worth, I asked this question sincerely. There are people who do it themselves, and I was curious about the tradeoff he saw between risk / reward of doing it this when there was a long wait.
>People say, "services are easy because you can upgrade them centrally, so you can avoid slow-to-upgrade users making everyone's lives worse."

> But this assumes that slow-to-upgrade users can have negative effects on everyone else.

Is the above a reference to Moxie Marlinspike's comments[1]?

So would a concrete example of your abstract essay be that communication should be a client utility that uses an XMPP library[2] instead of Signal's services?

[1] https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/

[2] https://xmpp.org/software/libraries.html
> I'm not sure how "more expensive training" eliminates some people texting while driving.

You can do and the other. It's not about eliminating. If someone is great at something that doesn't mean that they're good at teaching that skill. Further, just because someone drove for a long time doesn't mean they're a good driver. Likely they've improved, but it hasn't been checked.

When I got my license I learned about a lot of changes that older drivers weren't aware of.

> But you do that at the cost of making getting a license more difficult, expensive, and exclusive

A country can change their car reliance. It's also strange to focus on the cost of the license, while not checking if better drivers would result in lower costs elsewhere. E.g. reduced accidents (lower insurance), less medical costs, etc.
Europe has built roads forever that makes driving engaging. Europe has a lot less issues with phones while driving etc.

Germany also solves that problem by having no speed limit when it gets boring. Making driving engaging is the best way to create mindful drivers.
This is not true because you can pay yourself 68k as normal income/salary and the rest as dividend which will lead to 40% tax rate. Which is still a high tax rate, but not more than half.
Reparations for the neanderthals can be a new progressive goal.
Is it as plausible that everything posted by pg gets quickly upvoted by people on name recognition?
After having spent 10 years in the US nuclear navy, i am surprised at how many things are obvious in that organization that no one else seemingly has any idea about:

"When I came to Washington before World War II to head the electrical section of the Bureau of Ships, I found that one man was in charge of design, another of production, a third handled maintenance, while a fourth dealt with fiscal matters. The entire bureau operated that way. It didn’t make sense to me. Design problems showed up in production, production errors showed up in maintenance, and financial matters reached into all areas. I changed the system. I made one man responsible for his entire area of equipment—for design, production, maintenance, and contracting. If anything went wrong, I knew exactly at whom to point. I run my present organization on the same principle."
-Admiral Rickover, creator of the US Nuclear Navy

the hang-up button in between the audio- and video- mute buttons results from the lack of responsibility described above. any single person would agree this is wrong, therefor no single person is in charge.
There can be one person making recommendations remotely for 10 stores. That same person can be sitting in front of an interactive map which allows them to look up the location of items and since there is a a camera in the store they will know where you are in relation to the item to direct you.
There was a proposal to just have the California tax authority just send out prefilled tax forms for you to look over, sign and send back with a check or info on where to send your refund, but then Intuit and anti tax groups (who were afraid that making it easier to pay taxes would make people less angry at paying taxes) lobbied hard enough to kill it.
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This seems like a strange counterfactual to insist on when the article is empirical evidence that, in this case, there wasn't a market for both kinds of stores and that people weren't willing to pay the markup.
Now you have to deal with Pascal vulnerabilities \s
This is definitely a benefit of getting out into the wilderness, but people dying in emergencies is definitely a higher priority than you being unable to turn your antenna off.
...so let's go bomb some other people and force a government of our choosing on them. That'll solve everything. Oh, and because those people will love their new government so much it'll have to be propped up by our military indefinitely.
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>...first thing I did...

How do you know if the platform tools are faster\slower more featureful or less if the first thing you did is replace them?

GNU coreutils won on portability of knowledge, no need to learn how the platform's tools work when I can just roll with GNU. Which is great when you are dealing with multiple different varieties of Unix that are all slightly different. In general the base os tools where like all software that competes in the same space, it did somethings better and somethings worse.
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Back in the days, RogueWave had a pretty solid customer base selling portable C++ standard libraries.

I worked at 2 different companies and they both quite heavily depended on RogueWave STL.
I think you’re reading too far. The comment doesn’t imply that everything it’s about money. It’s only a question about monetizing a library.
I never use the maximize button because I double click somewhere on the title bar. Why use a tiny button instead of a conveniently large area? When first installing Linux Mint years ago, I was going through the settings and noticed I could customize the buttons. I made the middle button, maximizing, empty and now just have more space between the minimize and close buttons.

It's perfect.

As a bonus tip, remapping double click to right click (also a setting in Cinnamon, don't need external software for this) also makes it way nicer to use (I never use the right click menu - after all, the buttons I regularly need are already right there and there's another button on the left for opening the menu, or you can use alt+space+t).
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I often shop for groceries online in these corona times, for a family of 5. I usually use nemlig.com (a danish online super market) and I dont have any issues with the UX. Its easier than searching for things in the physical supermarket.

On delivery its not really a queue as I dont have to spend my time doing it.
So yes you also need to install itunes to backup on your computer, because why directly mount it as a usb drive without an apple app?
That would also need zero effort from apple, but I was talking about an online backup with since forever established protocols.
Raza here (one of the founders of Humanloop). Just wanted to share that you can now train any Huggingface model on your own data just by labelling and curating a small portion of that data, with Humanloop. Humanloop provides a labelling interface with active learning and then hosts your trained model.
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by switching from a competitive money driven world to a cooperative one.
It's coming from the fact that Bill Gates is one of the richest men in the world and has massive sway over his followers. This is dangerous. It's the same reason celebrities speaking on issues they have no idea about is dangerous. People will take his word for truth when he's no more informed than the average citizen on what's happening.
> It's not generalist vs. specialist, it's capacity for learning and adaptability that really matters.

From a career perspective, you are going to get a lot less opportunities to show off your adaptability without specific (specialized) experience, today, that impacts your career. You need to be in the right place to make an impact, have someone who notices your impact, have a space for you to fill to move up in the hierarchy. These things rarely happen. This is the root of the answer to the question. Specialization wins.

The focus on skills and knowledge is a gross mischaracterization of the problemspace, outside of the article's assumptions and the soft terms "specialization & generalist". It's hard to argue that attractive sociopaths with political connections/wealth (which is a very specialized niche) do the best in American culture by most metrics. Specialization wins.
I think that 14% would make up a large percentage of the 80% not the 20.
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The reason I've seen for the phone hardware is that they simply can't source hardware that is more performant but still open enough to sufficiently develop for.
Another report based on BBC news stories we have all read.

It's all one giant Wikipedia circular proof.

There is clear documentation of people used in this report changing their story multiple times over the years. Which since none of the stories are corroborated, is an issue.

But this report doesn't even look at the way the news stories are changing over time. It's to lazy to even do that.

China is not North Korea. It's not even close. Original research is not hard. But each report must be bigger than the last.
These are variables that will change anyway, so the initial values are probably not that relevant to their name?
Some shops have scan yourself where you scan things with your phone when putting them in your basket, even produce then have a barcode, maybe not on the item but then at a sign at their location.
I had that problem with rail tickets in Germany, too... stations with machines that would only accept the local kind of bank card, not my Visa card.

Weirdly, at the main station in Bochum (for example), there were some machines that would accept a Visa card - but even the staff in the in-person ticket office seemed to be completely ignorant of this. (And no, they wouldn't accept my card there, either. But eventually - no thanks to DB's staff - I found a machine I could use.)

Let's just say I wasn't impressed.
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>>> I really wish we could just enforce proper education of being observant.

>> Cars have been pervasive for over a century and virtually none of the actual improvements in safety have come from "hoping humans do better".

> Improvements to signage and traffic controls, cracking down on reckless and intoxicated driving and the massive campaign to get people to actually wear their seat-belts (listed in no particular order) seem to fall solidly in the "make humans do better" category.

None of those things actually involve "making humans do better [at driving]. They either involve implementing technical solutions or preventing humans in certain conditions from driving at all.