skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was unaware that Target offered a Debit Redcard that gave people 5% off. It seems that this is effectively a 5% discount for using any debit card, since the Target Debit Redcard is simply linking your existing bank account and doing an ACH transfer from your regular checking account.

The only caveat seems to be a $40 fee Target charges if you try to buy something with insufficient funds in your bank account, whereas purchasing directly with a bank's debit card, you can tell the bank to simply deny any transactions for more than your available balance and it wouldn't cost you anything.

But if you always have sufficient cash in your bank account, the Target Redcard debit card with a 5% discount seems like a no brainer if you're not getting at least 5% cash back with a credit card.

Perhaps Target does not simply offer this to all debit card users that don't sign up for the Debit Redcard per an agreement with card networks where Target gets a concession on their processing fees in exchange for not advertising a 5% discount to all debit cards uses?
I assume this is picking from a predefined set of things? As in not all nouns, but a smaller list of possibilities. Otherwise it is pretty impressive that it went 6 for 6 with my terrible drawing abilities.
> I'm much more bothered by the monopoly of power represented by government.

I don’t know what that means - are you proposing that governments not have sovereignty over the states in which they control? Or are you saying that we need to take her tweet in the most literal meaning possible and assume she is intending to use anti-trust as a means to punish Amazon for the sole reason of a middle manager sent a mean tweet?
Apple serializes the batteries, so you can't stockpile them.

My experience has been the opposite.

When I had my battery replaced at an independent Apple authorized service center (one that Apple actually referred me to), they replaced the battery the same day with one they had in stock.
Forgive me if I'm being simplistic and/or ignorant about it, but can psychedelics such as LSD not also result in somewhat of the opposite effect, e.g. psychosis? (Though it seems to me that if ECT is considered, calculated risks are on the table already.)
Agreed. It's not like their hardware is cheap or subsidized either, like the Cloud Key, which is a tiny device that acts as a proxy and has some cache storage for firmware updates that costs upwards of $100 here.
I first stumbled upon this theory in an Alan Watts lecture. Here is relevant clip from the lecture:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2DbsuzTt6g

There are many quotes where Jesus spoke about the union of all people within him and within god. This is basically the same as the Buddhist concept of Indra's Net: the divine unity and mutual interpenetration of all things.

>"There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus"

>"I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me."

>"For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ."

This idea seems to be the logical basis for many of his more commonly known teachings:

>"Do to others whatever you would like them to do to you."

>“Do not judge, or you too will be judged. 2 For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.

>"whatsoever you do to the least of your brothers and sisters, you do unto me"

This last quote seems to indicate that when people realized all of the above, they would also realize their equality with jesus as children of god; which is essentially blasphemy to the modern day mainstream interpretation of the King James translation.

>"Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father."
Hilariously, that was subject to a debate amongst music theorists.
That example was pretty idealized, starting and ending very close to the canal. Most voyages are probably not affected quite as starkly by the canal, and I doubt the canal can or does charge ships based on their overall itinerary.
They have pretty strict words around not sharing problems unfortunately, and while it's unlikely it would be traced back to me the potential isn't worth my job.
Having a party in power that calls itself socialist in no way means a country is operating with a socialist system. At least not by any remotely accurate definition.
Congrats on the launch! Looks like an awesome product

What do you find your customers care about the most? Security, cost savings, UI? It seems like a pretty old-tech industry that you're digitalizing, so I'm curious about what the pull is from their side
> There is very little electricity generation from oil anywhere.

The overwhelmingly vast majority of American transportation gets its power from oil. Anything that could disrupt that - like, say, nuclear power making electricity sufficiently ubiquitous and cheap to make electric vehicles practical - is a threat to the oil industry. Further:

> What had an impact was 'cheap' fracking gas

Which (as the name "fracking gas" would suggest) derives specifically from fracking as a means to extract oil from deposits otherwise inaccessible. That is: gas and oil come from more or less the same place, sold by more or less the same people with the same reasons to want to suppress alternative energy sources like nuclear (and solar, and wind, and geothermal).
> I don't get it. The employer is paying you for your time. Why does it matter whether it's stacking boxes or sitting in front of a TV?

Just because I signed a contract that I'm willing to stack boxes for X amount of money doesn't mean they can tell me to clean toilets or manage a team.
John Deere probably does a lot of automation research as well as satellite imagery research, both are "skills" necessary for space.

Netflix I have no idea, but they're pretty good at shipping image and sound data around on all kinds of wonky internet connections I guess?

It would be interesting to know how and why they select the proportions of individual stocks.
It is not a problem with langauges. For that we have dictionaries. It must be a problem with whatever "relativism" happens to be.

I've searched and took the above defition from the Oxford dictionary before commenting.

Just checked Meriam Webster and Cambridge, of course the words differ, but the meanings seemed functionally equivalent.
How can you seriously claim that there is somehow more media attention on the sexual misconduct of software engineers than Hollywood? There is probably more articles and news coverage on the acts of Harvey Weinstein alone than every sexual abuse case in the software world combined.

They probably are not talking that much about Hollywood actors being caught with prostitutes specifically because they are preoccupied with the rampant sexual abuse that goes on between actors themselves including towards many child actors.
Perhaps they were not aware beforehand, but I find it difficult to believe that on the island it wouldn't be. It provides a confronting look into ones character.

Minsky went there a second time. I'll need proof to convict him, I'll also need proof to exhonorate him. I looks like I'll get neither proof.
The 3' and 5' untranslated regions are the parts of the mRNA directly before and after the part that encodes the actual protein. So they are themselves not translated into amino acids.

What they actually do can vary, but essentially they can provide places for other things to bind and influence what happens with the mRNA. There are some fancier cases like riboswitches, but you don't see those in humans. The stuff at the start and end of the mRNA also determines stability of the mRNA.
This thought process is something I think is a common misconception with how cults work.

A machine to autogenerate cult-ish nonsense isn't needed. Humans are already incredibly good at doing this on their own.

Not only this, but another thing about this is that cults generally fine-tune themselves to fit their members.

A machine generating convincing lies still wouldn't meaningfully do as much as a human-operated, human-targeted attempt at a cult. Creating one is something basically any human can do; the required skillset is something most people possess.
There are many, many companies competing with AWS on products that strictly speaking AWS also has.

I mean Zoom has no right to exist because you can use Chime?

There is always room for better UX, better support, different approach etc.
A friend started a AI to improve writing (https://outwrite.com) and when the initially started, they had a detect plagiarism feature that teachers could use, I think they stopped developing that eventually.

If I recall correctly, the way it worked was to build up a model of this persons writing, and how it compared to to other people, and then would measure the likelihood that sentences and paragraphs matched the rest of the writing.

I suspect something similar could be done with GPT-x
Seriously! For all the folks crying foul about how unions are awful and won't work and folks will get automated out of a job, I feel like they simply have zero clue about unions in Europe.

Is Amazon pulling out of the European market? Are the unions so onerous that it's unprofitable to do business there? Have there been massive waves of layoffs and replacing union workers in Europe with robots?

Yes, automation is coming, and yes society as a whole has to reckon with what it means to have an automated society with a drastically different labor market. But the fact that Amazon is energetically growing and pursuing business in Europe, proves what a strawman this whole idea is, that unions are somehow inherently ridiculous or could never possibly work.

Guess what, they're working, in production today, and have been for decades. The fact that entrenched powers don't want it to work in the US, doesn't mean it can't work.
The orthodox and catholics call this scrupulpsity, the low churches lack the vocabulary to deal with it
Again, I could not disagree more with your interpretation of what's happening here.

I'd recommend you, too, read the article I linked in the comment above. To characterize Wallace's words as an "argument", as if he were a lawyer in the court of being—as if such a thing exists—, is to employ cognitive decoupling, and to miss the point.

There's nothing wrong with C.D.—it's absolutely useful and necessary to have contexts in which words mean one thing and one thing only, but it's equally if not more necessary to have contexts in which that constraint does not hold, in which we are free to make meaning by use of metaphor and non-literal comparison. Indeed, it's the only way in which we can point to dimensions of experience that do not yet have names; it's how language evolves and expands, it's how technical domains come into existence.
This is organizational content ownership - we'll reword this to be more clear. This is to ensure that files can be managed by the organization even as users belonging to the organization are deprovisioned.
For a virus with a natural 99.7% recovery rate? Yeah, would be tempted to agree
The point here really is that fundamentally you have a simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) problem.

It's a problem that benefits from incorporation of data from multiple different sources that do not have correlated errors. The way the authors focus purely on the computer vision aspects is idiotic; I know nothing about how Tesla approaches this but I almost guarantee you that they also consume map data, vehicle kinematics and so on when updating their model.

There is no world in which adding data that allows you to discriminate between (to pick a not-entirely-random example) the white roof of an overturned semi that represents an obstacle and a bright patch of sky doesn't help enormously. The suggestion that LIDAR is only relevant to pre-mapped areas is ... bizarre and nonsensical.

The Tesla bet is just that "good enough" can be achieved with fewer sensor sources. That's it.
What does "hacked" mean here? The article makes it sound like this wasn't something illegal:

> Fire and Shoura told Motherboard that they had received permission from the FDA to collect scraps of vaccines that wouldn’t have otherwise been used from empty vials and that they’d notified Moderna in advance of their plans to publish the sequence without receiving any objection in turn.

Also:

> The research team told Motherboard that they didn’t “reverse engineer” the vaccine, they simply “posted the putative sequence of two synthetic RNA molecules that have become sufficiently prevalent in the general environment of medicine and human biology in 2021.”

I'm not familiar enough with how these sequences to work to understand what's being discussed. Is it simply that they took a sample of the vaccine and studied its composition using some standard machine/process?
I've used Heroku for over 7 years. Heroku's selling point is essentially devops-as-a-service. That's why they can get away with charging so much compared to the hosting competition. A "self-hostable Heroku" doesn't make sense, at least to me. With this, I'd have to do devops, like every other hosting platform. Granted, I did only scan the home page, so perhaps I'm missing something.
"Amazon will not accept becoming a Union shop..."

To be fair, that could backfire as well. There seems to be some anti-big-tech sentiment floating around in the US Congress right now.
Volkswagen sells about 10 million cars per year. If the only advantage they have is more miles recorded, please tell me how Teslas lead cant be beat by a company which outsells it 20 to 1.
Look at traditional firms, banks, public, utilities. IBM, GE, BofA, state/federal.

Skill in niche areas where everyone else is at retirement age (mainframe integration stacks/web). Everything else is chasing flavor-of-the-month and you’ll work 60 hours just to keep a resume current. Expect to have to lead a team or move into architecture at some point.

Traditional firms will blow smoke about innovation, tell them you want to work on an MS or MBA at nightschool or something attractive to an interviewer and then stall until you figure out the org and find a place to camp.
There's pockets of us UUs all over! Is someone asks me whether I got to a church, I have to ask, "Wait, what's your definition of a church?" Some of us Unitarians would prefer to drop the whole "Church" name entirely and call ourselves "Communities."

- Yes, you can believe whatever you want. Everyone is just genuinely curious about your journey. "My father was Jewish, my mother was Catholic, and I'm Wiccan now." is something that people legitimately say all the time, and never in jest.

- We "believe", if that's even the right word, that no one has it all figured out. There's great wisdom in all the world's traditions--and some nonsense too. Let's talk about it with respect.

- The way we teach sex ed is top-notch, educationally and psychologically. It's called "Our Whole Lives" because we know, from a vast empirical literature as well as our own personal stories that human sexuality is a complex, life-long activity. Our sex ed teacher is usually a guy called Mike. Mike is gay, and everyone agrees he is the best one to teach that class, for a variety of reasons.

- We encourage our kids to explore their own spirituality, in a "make your own religion" activity. We ask the kids themselves whether they think there is a god or not (or gods), and help them however we can.

- We vote whether our minister stays or goes.
> American roads which are among the easiest to drive in the world

This. Driving in Arizona or Nevada is possible for a child. It’s not pouring down, there’s often roads so wide that ther e is a lane in each direction! Often there are road markings painted on the road. That aren’t snowed over. It’s easy mode.

I’d like to see the best efforts in some Italian alleys where you are 50/50 to have to reverse because you face another car, or a rainy single lane country road in England at night. Anything where the driver actually has to interact with other drivers, understanding eye contact, waves, social norms (who reverses? Is he in a hurry? Is she angry? Is that car parked or waiting too? Is that wave meaning I should go or is it just an angry gesture?) and not just the environment.

These things (narrow alleys, roads snowed over 6 months, oncoming traffic in the same lane) aren’t edge cases. It’s what “driving” is in many places.
That screw looks like it'll snap in half the first time it gets used in clay or any other hard ground. Why not make it out of metal?
All of nature and natural mechanisms are fascinating. So much of math and science and beauty in it, as scientists and the lay public keep discovering.
Just today, sitting at a cafe outside a town, I saw something new to me: a small frog, just about one inch in length, sitting vertically on the low side wall of the cafe. I think it was actually climbing up the wall. At first I thought it was a large insect.
Then went closer and saw it was a frog. Took a photo of it.

Edit: If I can, I will post a link to that photo here. (Have some constraints for that at present.)

I didn't get the holy grail joke. Googling seems to show it is related to Monty Python shows, which I do not watch, Guido knows why :)
Learning Never Stops
Shared some interesting articles I've read the last few weeks (:
> that stat is missing the context that Americans are terrible at saving and tend to live beyond their means.

Which is entirely irrelevant to the fact that these people depend on their jobs.

> also, you are trying to solve a 21st century problem with a 19th century tool. that's not going to work.

The modern version of the flush toilet was invented over 400 years ago. I'd say it still works in the 21st century, yeah?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flush_toilet#Pre-modern_flush_...
It was designed to be digital cash. That's the title of the whitepaper. It is very bad at that.
The customer service response is deplorable, makes me think twice about purchasing any more Ubiquiti gear.
The focus on gaming is just as arbitrary as the focus on bitcoin, and that's my point. Gaming consumes more energy than bitcoin and yet its economic justification is even less clear. And yes, gamers do cause GPU hardware shortages, and they have done so many times in the past.

It boggles my mind that your hill to die on in fighting the "never-ending greed olympics" is a tool that's predominantly used by small-time retail investors, i.e. regular people. According to your system of ethics, it's preferable to be an old-money banker that profits off of the destruction of economy, than it is to be a person using tools (cryptocurrency) designed to divest control over the economy from said profiteers. I strongly suggest you take your war on greed to Wall Street, rather than directing it at the people trying to dismantle the greedy system in the first place.
It seems like a huge amount of code and potential vulns to bring in production for no good reasons.
> Large companies are adopting cryptocurrency

That's a strong reason for governments to ban them.

Governments derive their power from their ability to raise taxes; and they need to be able to measure how much people and companies make for that. Governments can't tolerate a widespread bitcoin.
I really find this suboptimal. Why not use the mRNA to create antigens outside of the human body and then use a more traditional delivery? I like the Novavax approach using a saponin adjuvant. I'm sure there are other similar approaches.
Minimum range 0. Maximum range?
Poor waymo, having to pivot to selling peripherals it developed ever since dad cut the purse strings. I wonder how this bodes for their long term plan? From what I understand, Alphabet is getting less and less bullish on a lot of these moonshots.
In the BioNTech/Pfizer mRNA, the 3' (or the latter) half of the 3'-UTR comes from human mitochondrial 12S rRNA.

The Moderna one has the 3'-UTR of the alpha subunit of human hemoglobin.
Could you please stop breaking the site guidelines? Your good comments are great, but you unfortunately have a habit of crossing into badness regularly.

Going after another user like this is not cool on HN, regardless of how wrong they are or you feel they are. The damage it does outweighs the benefit it brings, even in the case when you have a good underlying point. No more of this please.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Maybe it preocupies them a great deal but I did not care to hear any of it, nor asked about it, it was them who sought to share their opinion on the matter.

Congratulations, now you know how most American atheists feel about religious people and their beliefs.
You did see the FSF executive director and two board members giving their notice right?
So this has got to be prohibitively expensive for home gamers if the request for information form's minimum order size listed is <100.

Is there anything comparable for hobby project lidar scanning? Not necessarily wide angle, since you can always use a turntable, but capable of generating moderately dense point clouds.
Possibly, but USB-C connectors are generally much better shielded than USB-A.
> That nobody can make changes to, or upgrade to take advantage of newer technology, or optimize for execution time or memory usage.

No. Not even close. Nothing is stopping anybody from contributing. More often people chose not to contribute because they don't want to contribute and then they use language as a retrospective excuse. But the fact that the tool exists in the first place dispels the myth that it couldn't exist due to some limitation of the language.

As an open source contributor myself I've written code in a variety of languages, including some I don't personally like, and I do so happily when I know there's a bug that needed fixing or a feature I wanted included in a tool I like to use. That's how I know that people who care about a project will still contribute regardless of the language.

Furthermore, arguing that language x doesn't "take advantage of newer technology" is ridiculous when it's bloody obvious to any developer worth their salt just how regularly popular languages are updated, runtimes optimised, etc. And arguing about tools not being optimised for execution time or memory usage misses the point that most tools aren't mission critical software running on embedded devices and most open source developers don't have hours of free time to hand roll assembly just to show off super cool benchmarks. In fact most tools can barely muster more than a couple of regular contributors, many of who work day jobs and have families to care to at the weekend. So instead of complaining that language x isn't optimised for performance, instead be fucking grateful that someone took time to write the tool and open source it in the first place.

As an open source author myself I see time and time again just how entitled some users are and it's often ridiculous comments like the ones you've posted. Don't get me wrong, I don't mind if you don't want to contribute. But please don't insult my intelligence by saying my language choice is the inhibiting factor to the projects success when it's clearly already enough of a success for you to have stumbled upon it in the first place.
LMAO

Another HN China expert poped up...

The first link you provided is from China Unicom, the 3rd player in China, behind China mobile and China telecom, whose revenue in 2019 is 7B+, 9B+, 18B+, strikingly %, of course...

http://www.xinhuanet.com/tech/2020-10/04/c_1126573258.htm
The village coverage is 94%+ according Xinhua.

Is Xinhua accurate, of course not. But is it more accurate than some random statistic site? Highly possible...

Your 2nd link is about share of mobile internet users among the all internet users. What's it's relationship to your claim?
Doesn't really make sense for it to copy from the mitochondrion; I presume this thing gets expressed in the cytosol.