skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In person you just walk or drive over to the store, select the item, pay, and go home with the correct product.

I think you mean get the kids ready and put them in the car, drive for 20 minutes to Target, spend another 5 trying to park, schlep from the back of the parking lot to the store in 90 degree heat, wander endlessly around the store because they moved one of your usual purchases into and end-cap. Inevitably there’s some part of my bi-weekly purchase that is sold out and I must now figure out a substitute or make my next shopping trip sooner and off-schedule. Finally I stand around for 10 minutes in line behind someone who does not seem to understand credit cards despite them having existed for 60 years. Finally I load everything into the car, wrestle the children in and drive 20 minutes home. My children are now hungry.

No, I do not consider this more convenient :)
I don’t know if it’s better; it seems like it could easily be as good, but I’ll check it out the first time Etcher fails to make a working flash drive.
People in the US were not haggling for anything less than a car in the decades before the internet.
It seems Epic put more energy into the commercial announcing the trial than they put into the actual trial. I’m rooting for them but I really don’t know what they’re doing or how they’ve lost control of the narrative so badly so early on. Maybe they underestimated Goliath’s PR machine? I don’t envy their legal team trying to regroup this weekend.
Wood based filaments would contain a lot less wood per mass and behave a lot less like actual wood. They are much more like plastic.
Objective arguments:

1. Texas has 29m people in 261k sq.m and cal has 39m people in 163 sq.m => land is obviously cheaper
2. CA is worlds 5th largest economy because of silicon valley, great schools, agriculture and hollywood.
3. Liberal policies are the reason for the economy. If CA can infect Texas, I see that as a progress.
4. It is natural people will move for better cost of living; one cannot see the end (is there an end?) when in middle of a self correcting process;

No comments on Florida :)
From looking at the extension's source code, it seems that it grabs your last search in eBay/Amazon and sends it to Google Maps. If there was an option to use a different provider (other than GMaps) I would be more inclined to use it [1].

By the way I love the idea behind this extension! It's just that I would prefer not sending all my ecommerce searches to Google.

[1] note that Chrome extensions are not just used by Chrome browser, they are also used by other browsers not made by Google. So it's not impossible that some of the potential users of this extension may want to avoid using Google products where possible.

Edit - I just emailed the dev and offered to help, hopefully we will get in touch.
This is my #1 peeve. I have friends who work at FB, and the mental acrobatics they do to justify this would have been quite amusing, if it wasn't such a daily annoyance.
See https://legitcheck.app/

The headline doesn't help much. They are doing more than "writing order notes". It's a service to check whether an item (watch, purse, designer clothing, etc) is counterfeit, divided into 3 use cases:

-You’re about to buy an item and you’re not sure whether it’s authentic or not

-You’ve already bought an item and you don’t know if you’ve been scammed

-You’ve been scammed and you want to get your money back
I like this considerably better. The text in particular is not blurry like the original scan nor is it pixelated like their example.

Could something like this work on modest hardware in a real time fashion once the model has been trained? Or is something best ran beforehand?
In Europe, they are bound by the same law, so return policies are not something I worry about. Shipping fees are clearly stated at checkout and honestly so damn cheap that I don't care. Delivery windows? It's the same delivery companies that Amazon uses or used to use. In Germany mostly DHL, who I never had a problem with.

It's fine if your prefer what you prefer, I'm just saying that the experience of buying from random, smaller online shops got a lot better lately and is coming closer to Amazon.
Fun fact, the current business model of science publishing is attributed to Robert Maxwell (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Maxwell), the father of Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein’s co-conspirator https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jun/27/profitable-b....

Sounds like Ghislaine wasn’t the worst whoremonger in her family.
Can't test your math work? That's just completely false. The process is the test. Does each step make sense. Lower level math books include answers which will give you confidence the procedure was correct but no way ensures it. At a higher level, it changes to proofs where again, it doesn't matter if you know something is true or false, as long as each intermediate step it true.

Of course, I'm not going to suggest that learning math solely from a book is optimal (neither is learning programming from a book), but it certainly isn't impossible.
Don't assume that popularity would fall that way.
The fact that "anyone can add a feature" doesn't excuse the lack of a feature existing _right now_, especially considering (as other commenters point out) accessibility is very difficult to retrofit. Not to mention, accessibility should be a top priority for any user-facing software, and the fact that it was utterly neglected suggests there may be other basic flaws.
Agreed, and no matter if we manage to beat our fate or not, doesn't make this thing called life any less precious.
> order of fields in a struct

This is defined in C to be the order the fields are declared in.
Would be cool if there was something like Grubhub/Doordash/Uber Eats for local businesses where you could buy "stuff". Might work a little bit better since you could get it quicker than Amazon. I know I've discovered so many new restaurants in my area because of those services that I wouldn't have tried before.
I used Rufus for the longest time until I moved to Balena Etcher. IMO Its a better utility.
WhatsApp Will Restrict Functions to Those Who Don’t Accept Its Terms
After facing peer pressure from the community over new privacy policies, WhatsApp is finally enforcing them now. It explained in a blog post that users who don’t accept the new terms will be shown the prompt for accepting for weeks, before starting to limit the functions. This includes not letting users access the chat list, and only respond to chats from the notification panel.
Cryptocurrency, not math and cryptography.

Cryptocurrency is a bunch of people thinking their bets are more important than the government's control levers of monetary and fiscal policy. They'd rather make a quick buck and disregard the fact that this takes away our government's sovereignty. Our government's ability to bail out the economy, protect its most vulnerable.

It's more important that the Winklevosses and early supporters get all the economic upside, and it's just fine if the US dollar slides into the abyss. Lower income folks surely won't get screwed by this.

Nevermind the fact that cryptocurrency is destroying the environment. That's just a minor detail.

Cryptocurrency is selfishness and hubris.

All the smart people working on this insanity would be doing the planet much better if they were working on fixing social media or making tools for cancer researchers. I'm not for telling people what to do with their lives, but this observation seems pretty obvious to me.
I think cars are largely to blame for the sorry state of small businesses. Before moving from America to Tokyo, I had never lived in a place with anything even remotely resembling a walkable city center where you can easily browse and pick up what you need from local businesses. Everything is separated by a 15min+ drive, and I likely need to get on the highway to get there. Atlanta was the worst for this.

In Tokyo I have at least 3 daily grocery stores within a 10 minute walk, plus dozens of other small shops selling all kinds of things I might need. For specialty ingredients I've made an effort to hunt for specialty shops importing Indian, Thai, and Chinese ingredients. My favorite place to go is probably Kappabashi, a street lined with dozens of restaurant supply stores.

I've learned which places I should go for which items, and I love the variety it adds to my routine.
Also known as Cold War.
If you want attribution, require it in the licence.
Accessing all HTTP ports over CDN
More-Ports is a proxy service to establish all web-based applications on different ports on the server-side over a well known TCP port.

It is good to use while your CDN does not allow few ports or inside the restricted network such as school.
Hello public account
The end product of this process here has a much higher wood-content per mass than those printed with wood-based filaments on FDM printers.
Interestingly enough there seem to be 88 issues related to colors https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues?q=is%3Aissue+i...
Crossing the Kubernetes Performance Chasm
The simulations themselves don't have zillions of parameters, but the field itself does. When you say something like "the bullet cluster blah blah" you are talking about a custom parameterization of the lambda-cdm field. You're not talking about simulation, because simulations predict that bullet cluster speed collisions should not happen in our universe's lifetime with the number of galaxies observed.
Is the staggeringly profitable business of scientific publishing bad for science
You can download an app from the App Store called a "browser". This browser lets you access anything on the world wide web. There's explicit content on the web. Therefore you must remove browsers from the App Store.
> If money is supposed to work like everything else in the universe, it should expand and contract.

I don't understand this statement at all. There's plenty of things we don't demand this of. Are we upset that people work towards only expanding, not contracting, say innovation or productivity or intelligence or life expectancy?

> Hardly any politician or government every had the heart to let contraction happen, so outsized balloons of financial instruments grow, and then burst in an outsized bust. I think that's the argument for a money without political control.

Well, let's fix that then. The perhaps suboptimal wielding of a tool doesn't mean that the tool should go away.

> The idea is that political control can only buy time, or is sort of an illusion anyway.

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> Consider that convertability to bullion or the mathematical algorithms of cryptos are attempts to achieve this same goal, in a way.

Absolutely. And almost all economists agree that the gold standard is a bad idea. Bitcoin-like cryptocurrencies inherit all those problems.

> So it's not new. Many users of a currency want this propertiy, or maybe more specifically, the lenders.

Yeah. But most people are not lenders. This is why I'm doubly puzzled by the push for Bitcoin-like cryptocurrencies as some kind of empowerment of "the little man". Surely the elimination of moderate inflation benefits only the capital holders, not the little man?
Gendered pronouns are useful. Sometimes you are discussing a couple, perhaps your parents. Then using "he" and "she" is clear and faster than using the people's names.
Steve Jobs didn't want it on the platform back in the day. I think that's about it.
> They charge for something they have no property or own.

A bearded man calls this "surplus". Scientific journal business is the pinnacle of capitalism, what every company strives to become, including the ones fellow HN people here work at and start up.
My English is poor and I'd love such fixes. But, I guess, it comes down to a person. What I think is worth discussing before suggesting are "polite correct" fixes like "blacklist -> blocklist", "master -> main", "he -> them", etc. Not everyone is fine with this new agenda and one might find those fixes offensive. I'm not saying that those fixes are not appropriate everywhere, just that it's worth discussing before submitting to avoid a pointless debate.
What you could do if you have lots of queries and few updates is maintain a table mapping 1-n to your rows. If you delete row k with 1<=k<n you would need repoint k to whatever n pointed to, and delete n. So it needs some transactions to make it work.
> " I’m tempted to flag any broad characterization of the human population as stupid."

don't just be tempted, just do it. that heuristic will be correct approximately 99% of the time. those kinds of comments tend to be cheap and shallow, wasting our time and attention, rather than being interesting and considered. when humans seem broadly stupid, it behooves the commenter to at least attempt to understand and explain the underlying motivational landscape before making sweeping generalizations, a process that should impel the comment toward the interesting and considered.
Your blog post is a bit incomprehensible tbh. I did get it eventually, but I got a good bit into the article before I did. #1 issue for me is you say "writing order notes", and that doesn't make sense at all to me. "verifying whether products are fake or legitimate" would be a much better article title.
It always strikes me as rather silly that people born in the last thousand years claim administrative authorities over things that are millions of years old, and charge admission, et c.
Not really. If I murder someone while visiting another country it makes sense I'd face justice in the foreign country, where all the witnesses are. Especially if the legal systems are similar.

It becomes more of an issue where one country doesn't trust the legal system of another country.
Yeah, Amazon (and increasingly, buying direct from brand's own e-shops) keeps winning my business by being better at every aspect of the sale. I’d like to keep money in my community, but it’s really hard when online has better service, better selection, better pricing, and better flexibility.

I could go downtown to buy a pair of shoes during that store's business hours, get to choose between 3-4 different styles, talk to a salesperson who knows less than the online product listing, then find out that my size isn't in stock and won't be restocked this year. Or I can order online at my convenience, see all the relevant information up front, compare prices across all the selection that exists and across multiple retailers, have the product arrive in a couple days, and pay less money. If local retailers want to exist, they need to find something to compete on.
Seagulls with chicks declare war on mankind. A couple birds shitting on a deck isn't war.
i've always wondered how this works, on antiques roadshow, etc. can't the manufacturers of the fakes simply take the course, learn the subtlties, and make better fakes?
With regard to your last point, that sounds like poor due diligence.

But they’re not expecting monetary reward with risk for issuing a grant like a VC.
Yep, correct!

We do more than writing order notes in the sense that we now have:

* A Price Comparison tool

* A SaaS for resellers (that sucks. we need to fix it)

* A lot of words written on public guides

* We just started a video library

But ultimately, the bread and butter is our service. And the workflow is:

* People place an order

* We handle it by replying to them via order notes
Unfortunately, things can get quite messy when expert advice gets conflated with inventory management. And most shops struggling to survive against online doesn't make that better at at all. We really need to find some middle ground where foot-on-the-ground shop continue to exist, but not as an antithesis to online but as an extension. For bikes (of the pedal-pushing variety), there's now a market for what is effectively billed by the hour costumer-consulting regarding size fitting. I could easily imagine that getting transformed into foot-on-the-ground presence of online distributors, with neither income stream able to pay three full bill alone but working out in combination.
Did he say why?
I am close to people who write and play compositions with these traditional orchestral instruments today and they refer to these pieces as “new music” although most people would hear them as “classical” pieces. Most people call a wide swath of several centuries of music “classical” but in the music world, there was technically a very particular Classical music period in the 1700s and early 1800s. When musicians today study at top music schools, no one there calls “classical” what most people outside that world call classical. They refer to the particular time period because they distinguish unique traits between each in the way we might distinguish fairly similar genres today. So, as I said, if some composer today comes up with a new concerto the people in that world call it “new music”.
The moat seems to be the actual expertise.

See one of their guides: https://legitcheck.app/guides/fear-of-god/fake-vs-real-nike-...
You are in tokyo. Come on.

Tokyo is not Niigata, or Sendai, or Saitama.

The tokyo bubble is not the same as the rest of japan
Whether we are talking about happiness or better-ness you are still projecting a value system and claiming it to be objective.

I personally don’t derive any sense of betterness from being able to afford more goods. I only see the ocean of plastic.
No that's not right. Dark matter itself causes an entirely gravitational "friction". If you have a noninteracting particle over time a bunch of them get slingshotted to very high velocity on accident which bleeds the net momentum of the rest of the system. If you've ever written n-body simulators you would see this.
There's definitely a market for a currency that avoids monetary policy. I think exchanges are an intermediary until P2P becomes the norm. That's why I'm bullish on BCH. They make P2P cheap and fast, while retaining most of the other signature aspects of BTC.
open safari, search for porn, and tap the first link. I think your point is moot.
Someone else said it, but their comment is dead: California is bordered by a state with no sales tax to the north, and no income tax to the east. I would love to move to a more "rural" area if my company ever adopts remote work, but there is no financial advantage to rural CA over, say, rural any-other-state. If I'm going to move to the countryside, far away from my job, to remote work, I'm going to keep driving the moving van to at least cross a border, to avoid all that extra expense.

I've never lived there, but I bet the east and west sides of lake Tahoe have similar quality of life, similar amenities, similar schools, but living just a few km across a border could mean you keep thousands more per year of your compensation.
Agreed. The Earthsea Cycle is one of the greatest and most influential fantasy sagas of all time, right up there next to LotR.

It pioneered the wizarding school trope, later popularized by Harry Potter, as well as a magic system incorporating “true names” of things, a concept used in many other fantasies such as Eragon.

A Wizard of Earthsea is my all time favorite book.
> "Thanks for your time, but I'll go see if there's another offer that is maybe 3% better or 2% cheaper" isn't something that feels good to all people.

Not necessarily because they're meek. For me, going to a brick and mortar store, interacting briefly with a human, and taking the first thing that meets my basic needs is a life hack.

The paradox of choice is real. Seeing the bounty of options available on sites like Amazon does allow me to try to carefully optimize what I get for every desire I could have, but, ironically, the process of doing so makes me less happy with whatever I end up with. Because seeing so many options means I've now got all sorts of opportunities to second-guess my choice. And because reading reviews to try and narrow down my choices invariably injects the reviewer's tastes into my thinking, and potentially guides me away from my own. And because pretty soon just seeing how many bells and whistles are available gets me wanting things I don't need and didn't even know I could have when I first decided I wanted whatever I'm shopping for, and therefore creates all sorts of trade-offs to have to weigh.

It's not worth it. "3% better" is a will-o-the-wisp beckoning me off into a quagmire, and "2% cheaper" is invariably a 2% discount on something that turned out to be 30% more expensive than what I originally planned on buying.
Headline sounds like some get rich quick scheme but really the product being sold is a tremendous amount of knowledge and expertise about product manufacturing.
I respect the simplicity and contentment of his life, but it seems to stem from a base of incuriosity that I find harder to respect.

The complete lack of variety in his dining routine in particular is something I'd never want to emulate. This man is basically a low tech Soylent bro, using food as just a source of nutrients. He raises sheep (and is not a vegetarian) yet never even eats mutton or cheese?
So people are just paying for your opinion or do you have some sort of credentials?

I find it ironic that you are selling authenticity checks, and yet I can't tell if the check is authentic.
> the'two-man' rule used to launch nuclear bombs?

Yes. It's called Threshold Cryptography and it generalizes 'two-man' rule to require that N of M authorized users agree to an action.

But it's not really necessary here. What's needed for infrastructure is to get it off the internet and to quit using insecure operating systems and languages.
Chemical Farming and the Loss of Human Health – Dr. Zach Bush
That's true, but she has spent lots of time living in Russia. At least as of 2019, she refused to tell reporters where exactly she was living.
The comment you're referring to didn't occur in the tweet about algorithms - it was a reactive comment that occurred in response to an experience that happened after the tweet. Also, I'm not sure what "to show what a nice guy he is" means here, though I'm guessing it's just being used an insult in the same family as "white knight".

I can't know whether his comment was reasonable without looking through the comments he was referring to (and neither can you), but even given that he was being unreasonable, you chose to be unreasonable in turn.
Of course we are aware we are going to die. Can you make your point without talking down to people?
Raps not dead it just smells funny.
You don’t need to. But entire worlds are destroyed every day, and if you should fall in love with one, you might find yourself interested in it’s preservation.
It's important to make sure people have to use the least legitimate and most risky sources for anything that hypocrites feel the need to pretend to be morally outraged about. Sex and fun drugs are the classics. The only way to make them seem inherently bad is to force them to be illicit.
For a lot of companies you would be working as a "contractor" simply because they don't have a business entity in France. You would essentially be a full-time employee in every regard outside how your pay and benefits are managed.

No excessive self-promoting, networking, or book keeping necessary.
Ya, it should be called Onetris.
Smithy has something called event streams that send async datagrams: https://awslabs.github.io/smithy/1.0/spec/core/stream-traits....

This is currently used in Amazon S3, Kinesis, Transcribe, and other services.

Smithy doesn’t have a service registry today. However, models can be vended and shared via Maven. Client codegen was designed explicitly to not require coordinated releases of clients and servers (that’s impossible for AWS SDKs).
Highly recommend this documentary, one of my favorites

https://www.pbs.org/video/the-farthest-voyager-in-space-qpbu...
TFA? What are you referencing?
The firing squad forces society to face consequences for what it is doing. Capitol punishment is a way for society to say there's certain things we will not countenance, will not accept, will not try to explain except to reject it utterly. For especially gruesome crimes. But a firing squad deters its use whenever compassion is felt for the truly repentant.