skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's believe Amazon is able to find seller's selling their products elsewhere and ensure they're not selling it any cheaper thus forcing them to raise prices everywhere. Ignore the PR nightmare for a second as a result of people finding this out. I'd like to argue it may not be as bad as it looks at first glance.

The scale at which Amazon operates at improves many aspects of the online shopping as a whole for every consumer even if not on Amazon. For example the shipping efficiencies resulted from FBA have distribution centers close to consumers, moving products much more efficiency across the country than if there were many small e-commerce stores each doing it their own way causing massive friction. The true cost wouldn't be apparent in the later case since the added friction would seem just normal and part of life as there wouldn't be anything as efficient as Amazon to compare it to.

There are other inefficiencies that would result in having competing online stores on various platforms making it harder to find a product at a reasonable price without spending more time searching various stores and truly understanding the offered price after all the fakeries of promotions, cash-backs, pay later but with insane interest that we won't disclose to you at the times of purchase, hidden subscriptions fees instead of a one time payment and other scams used to be employed by numerous online stores before the days of Amazon.

The cost of products sold to run a successful operation like amazon must be very close to the real cost that those products should be sold at when taking into account the shipping costs, supply logistics, cost of warehouse operations, etc. any devision from that by increasing prices and people see you as a monopolistic evil and your days are numbered, any lower than that and you wouldn't be able to scale as fast as economically possible.
I've been programming for over 20 years too, and I like dynamic languages. I like them a lot more when they're properly tested and well architected, but even the tire fire codebases are at least debuggable. The compiled stuff helps with types catching the trivial bugs, yes, but it's way too complicated to quickly debug things like seg faults. Dynamic languages let you introspect and modify things way more easily, and this makes things like fakes and mocks for testing way easier. It makes debugging easier. And not having to wait an hour for something to compile is nice.

That said, I love the speed of compiled languages. I once converted a simulation from Python to Cython and saw a 10000x performance boost because of CPU caches and all that. Usually the gains are closer to 10x to 20x, but in some rare moments it's like a rocket ship vs a hang glider.
Nonetheless:

1. Fauci runs funding for gain of function research
2. Attributing COVID-19 to gain of function research hurts future gain of function research
3. Cui bono

Some context: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3484390/
It gets better fast - at month 5 with new son and he’s sleeping 6.5 or so a night. Congrats either way - fun times ahead!
Strange I would assume that $5k to them is still nearly nothing. I've never ordered anything over $1k from Amazon and never had an issue with refunds due to issues but I guess they have a cutoff somewhere. I'll keep that in mind if I ever need to order something expensive like that.
You may as well download ebooks from Library Genesis. At least the missing / repeated pages and corrupted formatting is fair at the price this way.
> kinda weird, since it's difficult to repair.

Why would I care? If it breaks, I tell my company to pay the repair bill or buy me a new one.
Commercial off the shelf. [1]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_off-the-shelf
I would say then that your project is simple enough that an underpaid full-stack dev is exactly what you want.
It all depends on your use case. If your input is bound to a small N, I’ll take the simplest to understand implementation regardless of algorithmic complexity. Future you and other people will thank you later.
Building a new framework should be way at the bottom of your list of things to consider. If you do, please make it a blackbox.
It's tiring how many details one often needs to get into before being able to do something they could have summarized in a sentence the whole time. But this is a general issue!
Heh. I was once driving on a highway when my hood latch broke. My hood flipped up and folded over the windshield, blocking all view of the road.

Scared me to frigging death. I was going about 45 mph at the time. Stuck my head out the side window and maneuvered to the side of the road, and then pried my hood back into place and tied it down.
I like vornado - with caveats.

If it's cold my HVAC would cycle and would get temperature swings. I installed a vornado space heater and it worked wonderfully. It had a continuous air flow and would keep the temperature in the room very stable.

And then it wore out and I got a new model with electronic controls, which didn't work so well. The original had mechanical controls and were set and forget. I believe the electronic model would reset after a power failure, and would have a timer that would turn it off after using it for a while, both non-features.
Important detail: it wasn't even a ban. It was a moratorium that prevented public funding for GoF research. Privately funded research was still allowed.
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More than de-flagged, this should prompt a review of the culture and attitude that caused it to be flagged, and for that flag to stand.

Also, Epstein did not kill himself; for an example of other unpopular assertions that are often censored.
>The premise of cryptographically secure messaging is that you have an adversary recording all your message traffic.

Agreed.

>Lack of forward secrecy implies, logically, that if your long-term secret is ever compromised, every message you've ever sent is recoverable from the adversary's archive.

Also agreed. I am trying to say that this only gives you better security for messages that you have deleted on your device, because if you haven't, regardless of whether your protocol is forward-secret or not, the adversary that has the power to compromise your device will get access to the message the plaintext of which is on the device, even if the keys aren't. Thus, the scope is significantly limited, unless you have a policy to regularly delete old messages on your device, and most people do not want this for email.

I can assure you I understand the cryptographic properties of forward secrecy. I don't understand your claim that it is a strict requirement for every secure messaging system, including an email-like usecase.

>I'm sometimes in the mood to write long posts and comments explaining this stuff, but today, on the bottom of this old thread, if you're trying to make a point about PGP vs. Signal...

I already said several times I don't care about PGP. I feel like you're not really reading or responding to any of my arguments about why forward secrecy doesn't really help you much in most users' threat models or why it precludes various desirable features (of course, I could be wrong here, which is what I'm asking about). Thanks for your time anyway.
Here is my take.

1. If what you ask for was completely out of budget, they would not have spent time interviewing you.

2. If you are happy with $30 but still quoted $40, and now you accept $30, you are opening a can of worms. It means, you CAN and WILL be pushed around financially as long as you are in the company.

3. If you have faith in your skills, walk away. You will always find another company willing to pay you the money you ask for, as long as it is realistic.

If I was in your place, I would have walked away if it was a penny under $40.
If not for anything else, since there is no combustion happening in the induction, it gives better air quality in your kitchen and house, and compared to an electric range there are other definite advantages as well.
I have a Vario, that has struggled with a fine espresso grind. The burrs are ceramic but the carriage is plastic and it affects the tolerance. I gave up repairing/troubleshooting it and bought a beat to hell SuperJolly off EBay for $170.

Dropped in a new set of burrs and have an unstoppable overkill grinder with a huge motor and all metal parts
still way easier than e.g med, I guess
A) it depends on if the concept of gambling is a pejorative term for you or not. Like, is it important for your personal and social standing for there to be a difference?

B) outside of the concept, there would then be the observation of a transaction having similarities to “a gamble”, daytrading has the similar probability of losing money.

Hope that helps.
Gaming? (at least here)
Can you post proof of that? It doesn't make sense, because they do free shipping over x dollars, I think 25. So you're claiming it would be cheaper to buy 2 if you weren't a prime member, which isn't the case.

Editing to add: I didn't intend this to say your comment isn't true. Perhaps I'm looking at something else or understanding wrong, so asking in earnest.
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I hope I don’t offend you by suggesting this, and I’m ready to face a hard rejection - but you could probably benefit from saying No to obligations/responsibilities more often, and caring a little bit less about always doing the right thing. Murphy’s law means people fill their life with complexity until there’s no room left.
> If the entire population doesn't care about something

It is a huge leap to assume that the entire population doesn't care about the literal cost of something they are buying.
I don't know about books but this isn't the first time people have written about this. Doing a quick search on "between the sleeps" yields articles from early 2000s and 2010s.
For me that's one of the selling points. Modern life is so ridiculously over engineered to be comfortable, we can all use some rough edges.
> This is the same for laptops, but most of the people (I assume?) buy Macbooks for programming which is... kinda weird, since it's difficult to repair.

Personally, I don't think I've found anything that beats Apple's laptop trackpads, and I think that my UX matters more than repairability.

Then again, I'm still using a 2013 MacBook Pro with an upgraded NVMe SSD.
I tend to analyze memes on Reddit and see what effect it have on real life (prior to the boys, HBO show). One frequently recurrent is the one where Drake refuse a item for 10 dollars plus 2 dollars shipping and accepts a 12 dollars product with free shipping. Seems most people prefer it this way. It's only logical for Amazon to do that (they probably have a deeper data analysis that confirms the meme).
The type hints are still just type hints, and have no influence on run time. This can still lead to plenty of scenarios not possible with a compiler.
Ive never had a good experience with whiteboard paint. The walls are not smooth so you always leave some residue when removing the ink. Over time it becomes pretty noticeable unless you spend a significant amount of elbow grease cleaning it.
> This is a letter to the editor, and is not peer-reviewed

True enough.

On the other hand, they did publish it, which I'm positive they don't do with letters they believe are pure crackpottery, or otherwise without merit (of which I'm sure they get their share).
> It's not important to do what I like. It's more important to do what I don't hate.

This one has started to dawn on me. I'm never going to love my job as much as I love my personal projects, so a job that I don't get very excited about but doesn't drain my energy is better than one that I get somewhat excited about but does drain my energy (not that it's impossible to have both, but it's rare)
Okay, point me to a machine available in Europe which has equal drying and washing capacities. It isn't about drum size, but what they are rated to be able to do.
If you actually cared about hygiene you'd be using something like wet-naps, since bidet nozzles aren't sanitary (would you rinse your mouth with a bidet nozzle?)
A way to do bio weapons research and call it something else to avoid treaty violations?
That doesn't mirror my experience, at all.

Are you talking about brushing the knob somehow?
According to Google Scholar, he has dozens of papers, 10000 citations, and an h-index of 37. What do you have?

And if you follow through, at least a couple of the four retractions mentioned on Wikipedia appear to be nothing but some acknowledgment/funding related trivia.
Sorry to hear about your wife. And your lack of food.

Similar items were in your list. I ignored them.

Because those issues are universal at all times and at all places.

Dealing with a mentally ill wife in the 1300s was, I would bet, a bit more ‘complex’ and draining that dealing with a mentally ill wife in a modern city with emergency psych wards, effective drugs (available for convenient pick-up at pharmacies on nearly every corner), and entire industry of psychiatrists, psychologists, counselors, etc.

I mean, if we are comparing apples to apples, I’d much rather have a mental illness issue in a family member today versus 100 years ago. I’d rather not have the issue present at all, but that’s not a comparison. I mean, you could just as well say, “Trade places with me?! I’m a balding quadriplegic typing this with my nose! I challenge you to find any 13th century peasant who would be willing to trade places with me!”

Edit: I’d chime in with the other response. Namely, you sound very stressed out. I wish your situation wasn’t so complex. Seriously. Hang in there.
I kind of like the Finnish term "tietojenkäsittelytiede" ("data processing science") and its older form "tietojenkäsittelyoppi" ("data processing theory").

It combines the focus on the process in computer science / computing with the focus on the data in datalogy / informatics. It tells that the process is what we are really interested in. At the same time, it admits that the data and the results are what ultimately matters and that computation is just an irrelevant side effect we would like to avoid.
That part was the joke. He's saying it's a real problem, but that's clearly the wrong solution. For him, it's obviously a bad solution, and so worthy of ridicule.
I don't just mean politically. There are civic duties that are apolitical. Take jury duty for example. Many people make up excuses to get out of it. Being an informed voter, regardless of party, is a civic duty.

"Free, public schooling has lifted many, many people out of poverty and into the middle classes."

Has it though? Maybe historically (generations ago). The poverty rate has been largely stagnate for the past 30 years at about 13% give or take. Even 50 years ago it was about 19%. Desegregation and safety net programs arguably played a bigger role in that improvement. There are some public high schools that have abysmal graduation rates and college readiness rates in the single digits.
The linked article by Nicholas Wade contains a more detailed rundown of what is currently known:
https://thebulletin.org/2021/05/the-origin-of-covid-did-peop...

As he mentions, neither case has been proven - but he does make a fairly compelling argument that the "accidental lab leak" hypothesis best fits the available data, although there could be alternate hypotheses not considered here.

In particular, he notes that gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses was often permitted in BSL2 or 3 facilities, vs. the more stringent BSL4 used for Ebola and Smallpox research, and this makes sense - it would be a gigantic pain in the ass to do any research in a BSL4 facility, and I could see the strong impetus to perform seemingly low-risk research in a less restrictive environment.
Is that picture the 20-quart Hobart mixer, or just the 12 quart? Both are good for making a few hundred cookies at a time, and very convenient if you also have a commercial oven.

Now, that's the countertop model, so it only weights 189 pounds, and it's a steal at $6000. Sounds expensive, but it'll last forever, unlike my shitty Kitchenaid mixer that's only worked flawlessly for 30 years, and that I can store in a cupboard and put on the counter without a forklift.

My advice: save a few bucks by learning small appliance repair and buying a banged up mixer from a defunct restaurant a couple towns over! Bring a couple friends and some tie-down straps.
Ask HN: Why did your business fail?
One day I would like to try to build a business. There is lots of information how to do it good, which to some extent come with survivorship bias. But we can also learn from mistakes. So could you tell me: Why did your business fail?
I'm more stunned by the good speech synthesis than by the already good visuals.

Does anyone know what's under the hood for the text to speech?
This is an interesting perspective.

It fits with my understanding of traditional retail as pretty brutal for new entrants, taking more of a cut and putting up a much higher barrier to entry than Amazon.

Ebay may have lower fees, but Amazon is where many people go for convenience.
Increasing the budget doesn’t solve the problem. You would need to create a set of well funded auditors that have domain experience but the problem with that is no one would want the job.
The article isn't a scientific enquiry, but it reports on the theme of the book At Day's Close: Night in Times Past (98 citations on Google Scholar)[1]. This book apparently packs a great amount of endnotes and sources.

[1]: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=8924290322670217203...
It doesn't matter what a commenter on HN has. A rare ironic case where the original comment isn't ad-hominem, but the dinging rebuttal is.
This started off as a fun article about "what's the most overkill way I can get this?" and then looking for second-hand fighter jet seats just for the shits and giggles.

I like that.

But then it goes south from there, the author seems to believe that anything that isn't from the USA military must be crap:

> Made in the USA from military grade [...] preferably a military supplier [...] This is the real thing, used by the US military. [...]

> Consumer goods suck. You keep buying them. [emphasis theirs]

> The average consumer is an idiot, so the bean counters keep milking them.

So we're idiots for buying a regular knife instead of some military variant that makes you look like, well, someone who would carry a gun as well? Or regular napkins rather than some special cleanroom rated upgrade? I think I'm good, thanks.
It makes sense to clear it up when going for the interview. I don't want to be interviewing for a C job thinking it's Java.
there are blockchains that build on wifi.
He sounds like me when I'm extremely sober, so surprising to see how unoffensive and tame people's "secret thoughts" are, well at least the ones that get massive upvotes on reddit.
I can't speak to the 1006, but my office chair is a mid-century Steelcase because I got tired of others breaking or losing wheels.
Lionel Shriver Warns Readers Not to Meet Their Favorite Authors
What about them is Next specific? Would they work with say, Gatsby? If so, might be able to expand and go after those users too.
If you can't walk out of the deal, you're not negotiating a salary - but rather the terms of your servitude.

So the first step is to get into a position where you can negotiate.

Once you're there, ask for a number that would make you excited to go to work. This means higher pay the more boring a job is to you.
$30k is far beyond minimum wage in most of the world.
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> It should show reviews only for the specific configuration chosen.

Here is how to do that.

First, make sure you've selected the product variation you want. Then:

1. Click the "nnn ratings" link at the top of the product page to go to the "Customer reviews" section.

2. On the left is a list of the percentages of each star number. Click any of them.

3. Now you have a page with a row of drop-down lists at the top. One of them will be something like "All formats". Change it to "Show only reviews for Style:" listing the product variation you selected at the beginning. You can also change the "n star only" back to "All stars", or "All positive" or "All critical".

They could make this easier to find! But once you know how to get there it's pretty useful.
“Military grade” means “made by the lowest bidder” in reality
Adventures in Rustc Forking
Company tests new Bluetooth tech for cattle on Wyoming ranch
Mobile Security Threats
They basically created a DSL within Python. It's a total nightmare unless you're someone who uses it in notebooks every day (and it's impossible to typecheck)
I think I’ve seen it more directly with Amazon sellers including discount vouchers that only work on their own store.
Americans are so fucking stupid.
A couple of years ago I migrated away from Gmail for just this reason. Before I did that, my life could have become very difficult if Google decided to deem me as a persona non grata, and I'd have little to no recourse.
Startup turned down an acquisition from Hershey's to try for an IPO
Yeah, I loved it when I started because I could easily try things out in JavaScript. Eventually I've come to love Typescript because I don't waste time on dumb things anymore.
It's much more relaxing to be in a situation you're perfectly comfortable with and basically be in a position to tell someone "Make me an offer I can't refuse." Vs. being in a lousy situation, getting a very fair offer from someplace you want to work, and not wanting to risk extending/messing up things. (I've been in both. In the last case of the latter, I really wanted to just close things now and relax--and I'm pretty sure that was the right decision.)
>> Synthesia lets you create great business videos in minutes. Say goodbye to actors, film crews and expensive equipment.

Yay! At last! And when we've automated away everyone's work, also say goodbye to synthesia and every other automation service, because there's no business left to use it. Woo-hoo, future world, here I come!
Could someone please point me to the relevant chapter of reference 4 here, where the reference to chimeric proteins is meant to be? (i.e. the right chapter of this handbook: Maier, H. J., Bickerton, E.; Britton, P. Coronaviruses – Methods and protocols; Humana Press: London, 2015)

I've looked through the table of contents, and I don't see anything that suggests this reference is in any way relevant? People keep citing this, and the most plausible conspiracy theory I can think of is that this is a way to pump citations to this chapter (I kid!).
It depends on the child. My first slept about 4 hours a night until he was about 2 or so. Getting him to sleep could be a multi-hour ordeal.

My second dropped off the second he was set down. We could pick him up and he'd wake up and be happy to be passed around - then he'd drop right off when we set him down again. The rest of my sons were more typical.

Personally I never slept well until they were post SIDS age.
I think you're missing the point. Nobody cares what ASTM Specification E960 is, it just sounds cool. Some people like industrial/military stuff for its own sake.
EDIT: Reading again, I think you are comparing interpreted with compiled languages, not so much static with dynamic type systems.

Seg faults are a prime argument for static typing. The more static and stricter the type system, the less things like seg faults can even happen. Compare Rust to C (both are static, but one more than the other), and at the extreme end handwritten assembly (extremely dynamic). Those are languages used by kernel developers, where errant memory accesses of all kinds are a constant concern.

I don't know why dynamic languages would make introspecting things easier, or debugging in general. I agree that mocking can be easier with dynamic types. Compilation rarely takes long nowadays (incrementally it's usually just a few seconds), so the time saved in knowing that the code is still correct at least within the confines of the type system is well worth it.
Stop giving Amazon money. Just stop.
It referred to the viral cDNA as the sequencing was performed on, hence the 'T'.