skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Off topic but I have seen interesting labels that break destructively.

If you could turn that into a ribbon, then any box could be wrapped in such a way any tampering is evident.

If you could also print a QR code on top, then you have a per shipment tamper proof

I suspect it exists but i am sure there is a long way between that and cost effective useage
Any non-proof-of-work strategy such as proof-of-stake.
Good news!

> There are other possible power sources.
since we’re being pedantic, the first phrase actually means that we’ll be able to listen very soon, not that we will
What awful comments here, you're all criticizing something really exciting. Of course AI can't beat real humans, what do you expect? But it's closer we've ever been, especially since is available to consumers. People in sales and marketing know how valuable is this on improving conversion rates... if you're not in those fields, that's not for you, saying something it useless just because you have no knowledge in other domains, it's highly ignorant.
I understand this is hyperbole, but people do a lot worse things than automated fraud, if we are looking for reason to send someone to hell...
Right, there are only three consistent positions here: 1) this type of firing is unfair and bad, 2) this type of firing is fair and good ("consequence culture"), or 3) "I'm a partisan who just wants my enemies to burn"

Maybe 80% of the people that opine on this subject are in category 3), 19% are in 1), and only 1% actually believe this sort of thing is great even when it hits someone that's on their team. Unfortunately all of the category 3 hardcore partisans tell themselves that when they tear someone on the other side down it's different because they were really wrong.

Here's a good test: if >50% of people on each of the left and the right would agree that someone has done something so egregious that they should face consequences, you're probably dealing with a real problem person and not a case of awry cancel culture. If more than half of either party would say that what a person has said is OK, you're probably dealing with a partisan cancellation.

Edit: I should mention that I have more extreme feelings in favor of free speech than the above paragraph, in that I think even opinions that are outside the window for both parties deserve protection and shouldn't usually result in firings unless super duper out there and horrible. But my point is that at the very least, if something is a majority position in a major party, it's a mainstream position and it is extremely questionable (both morally and practically) to ever fire someone for expressing a common belief.
The only outlier here is the cost. General complaints can be assumed to be reprensentive of these people's experiences, or they wouldn't be here complaining, no?
What do you mean by Hakka cuisine being Indian? Hakkas are a Han Chinese subgroup in China. Did the ones in Canada come via India or something?
If you put a 14 year old with a 12 year old, the 14 year old doesn’t feel any need to bully the 12 year old. They are naturally higher in the hierarchy and don’t feel any threat from the 12 year old.

The same is not true with two 14 year olds.

I went to a mixed age school and then left that to go to a segregated school. The first had no bullying and the second had a lot.
Back before computer systems, computers were people who did calculations. It’s maths at its core.

Computers today are surely then just applied computer science.
There are multiple ways you can hide your hair (hats, caps, scarfs) while it's more difficult to hide your mouth/teeth. That said it's quite easy now during COVID times!
It’s rather nice to buy unusual CDs and FLAC them. I like to do it from time to time.
My side is that it’s absurd to hold Coke responsible for not choosing a name that might be misleading to somebody. And that I find the VitaminWater trial absurd. My point about fantasy names is exactly that they’re not any different from VitaminWater so what gives? It’s rhetorical.

Marketing is all manipulative tactics born out of a desire to push more product not help people be healthy. Assuming Coke is somehow responsible for our health is skirting personal responsibility and passing the blame no different than the “fast food makes you fat let’s tell McDonalds what type of oil to use but not the restaurant down the street which is twice as unhealthy” mentality. It’s downright irresponsible to operate under the assumption that a company’s marketing department is going to give you an unbiased wholesome view of reality. I don't see how pretending Coke is some angel of healthy drink knowledge and herald of good diets that fell from grace with vitaminwater because they neglected to mention in the title “oh btw there’s some sugar” so must be punished is anything other than blissful ignorance at best.

My visceral reaction to the absurdity of the trial is derived from what I perceive as lazy inconsistency in how we approach the ethics of advertising. Cherry picking VitaminWater, a drink where the facts are spelled out explicitly on the label on every bottle, of all things, feels more like an effort to dodge responsibility by attacking big soda than a true attempt to ask whether we should be allowing corporate propaganda to influence certain aspects of society. I really don't want the courts having an opinion on what makes a healthy diet. And I don’t want companies doing so either. It’s not a disagreement that we shouldn't try to stop manipulative marketing. It’s that I don't want any company anywhere trying to tell me what is healthy and what isn't when there is money to be made based on the message they present.

Essentially I believe all marketing is manipulative and we should do away with all of it of we truly want to build a smarter society.
I hope you will research some more. Cryptocurrency is about democratization of money. Removing intermediaries for holding and exchanging money digitally.

The typical way for digital monetary exchange is a credit card transaction, which is completely obsolete. It's like giving away the key to your cryptocurrency wallet every time you make a transaction.
Iran Bans Crypto Mining After Months of Blackouts
gpg --help

provides an one line description of necessary commands. And ecrypt/decrypt is just `gpg --encrypt/decrypt`. You don't even have to specify an output file. Encrypt automatically creates a new file and decrypt outputs result in console so to put it new file a redirection is enough.
Sidewalk does not allow generic access to the Internet. It connects to Sidewalk servers only.

Source: https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...
E.g. Python
And if I ask "What the heck is a camry?", then that vague description is much better than nothing.

> Phabricator was a (very) different take on the same class of tooling as GitLab: source code management, task management, code reviews etc integrated.

Great. If you made that comment 11 hours ago then maybe some downvotes on smitty1e would have been justified. Instead it's "how dare you improve the situation somewhat!".
I wonder if there are regions (or countries) which are worse? Amazon in Germany is also great, so far.

I’m like you - I’ve ordered so many things from Amazon this last year or so (new circumstances plus pandemic lockdown) and literally not one problem of the sort described. I can think of two items out of hundreds which weren’t on time (one, Amazons’s logistics made it a whole day late, and one was the seller’s issue). And the (very rare) returns were dealt with without a hitch.

For other reasons, I actually want to not be so reliant on Amazon, but their combination of Prime delivery, reliability, and customer service is unbeatable for many/most non-specialist items.
Algorand is also great for NFTs and arguably the most efficient system.
> The problem is that people think they can extrapolate your future decisions

People aren't that noble. You excuse what is callous brutalism as well intentioned error. People aren't guarding against dangerous influences. They're abusing mob power.
> It obviously has value to the people who are involved with it.

It's not obvious at all. A title of ownership that doesn't grant ownership of anything at all is, in principle, worthless.
TimescaleDB.
Anyone up for a week of Co-working / Co-traveling Italy?
Would be great to find interested ppl here for a short trip. I‘m working on a SaaS tool atm and have previously bootstrapped two businesses to 7 figure revenues.

Any recommendations for places are also welcome.
I am describing to you how I live my life. Why would I lie?
Yes, dependency on the current financial system.
WTF "refused"? You're a fucking company. Return that shit.
Rather amusingly, the article says that the couple that suffered this indignity are from Alabama. The video news report says they live in Colorado.
Ah, thank you for the screenshot. I didn't encounter any machines running classic FVWM.
It's tempting to think that 'speed' (actually acceleration) causes time to flow at different rates for observers in different frames, but this isn't really the case. Time flows at the same rate for everybody: one second per second. However, if I meet you at an agreed rendezvous next week and one of us has accelerated in the meantime, we'll find our clocks no longer agree. We took different trajectories through spacetime to reach the same event, so our histories are of different lengths.
I was on a team where the lead had issues like that

Ran into a lot of situations like this:

https://xkcd.com/1425/

The other common issue was that the non-technicals didn't grasp the need for absolutes and specificity. One common issue revolved around dates.

So we would get a ticket that "such and such permission should expire at a reasonable time on the date specified." Reasonable time was not defined and it turned out to be whenever the particular thing closed.

They would also forgot to list exceptions to that expiration policy, which the people doing it manually would have seen on the post-its this system replaced.
"The most customer-centric company on Earth"
>the British use single quotes

That’s not true, or at least it’s not what I was taught at my British primary school, and it’s not what you see people use. Maybe historically that’s true, I don’t know. The current British consensus is to use double quotes.

Sometimes you see single quotes in headlines when the author doesn’t want to imply that they’re making a direct quote
Amazon DE at least consistently allows to ship stuff to a package locker (which are now really common in Berlin). Much prefer that for things that are not extremely bulky/heavy.
Yeah. There is risk in terms of financial exposure, which the rich can take lots of, and do, with great benefit, and there's risk in terms of outcome for the individual, which is everywhere for the poor and entirely optional for the rich.
The lack of nuance on this issue, in society is shocking. We expect people to change and grow over time. People change opinions, political parties, perhaps even ideals, yet we crucify people in the public domain for opinions they once opined, and possibly still hold.

At best this discourages dialogue. It discourages people from interacting in the public domain, vilifies their non-work lives, and unifies them in terrifying ways. Actions have consequences, and (from outside North America) it appears that the goal is to polarize society and then prosecute in the court of public opinion.
A lot of those products became popular because Hong Kong is a tropical city reliant on food imports. Things like condensed milk, luncheon meats, etc. became popular because they were shelf-stable without refrigeration, and thus were affordable to keep around.
Online retail has never been a monopoly. Doesn't matter any way you measure it.
Don't Air-to-Air missiles already do this? (fire and forget)
You have N >= 3 nodes, or N >= 2 and a non-compute arbitrator. One of them goes down, stops responding. You still have quorum, data processes continue just fine. That's high-availability in a CP system.
Rich, coming from NY Times.
Lets ban redundant computation. I see all these inefficiencies in everyday software engineering: container isolation spends unnecessary resources, hundreds of thousands of Wordpress sites run on their own servers instead of a single big Wordpress multi-site, HN and reddit are more or less the same so deleting the other would relieve unnecessary load somewhere.

I think regardless of the application, it is important to allow everyone to choose their own level redundancy. Crypto is bad for the environment because of blockchain's redundancy. Banning an application because of its redundancy sounds absurd to me.
That is depressing. I suppose it’s a side effect of growing too large. I’d hate to receive scores like that.
The pandemic has seen a surprising surge in cash use
Understand the frustration, but it is incomparable.
And we shouldn’t allow marketing drugs period. Australia got this one right.
That one is clear and unambiguous though, there is just an extra layer. Disabling it is disabled.

It's worse when they change the text when you toggle it, so either "Disable x" is disabled or "Enable x" is enabled, both of which mean the same thing.
I don’t think you quite understand what security through obscurity means. It’s not an invitation to help malicious actors pen-test your system by publishing information about it.
> An organizer will contact you soon (within 7 days) after that to conduct a short 15-30 minute interview. We will select participants on May 15th and you will get a confirmation within 2 weeks after.

This seems to be over. Shame, I would have applied.
Electricity usage is not the main problem with NFTs.
It’s the same problem with any blockchain application that isn’t entirely on chain, no way to enforce the link with the real world.
For cameras in the UK I usually buy from WEX instead, who have excellent customer service and specifically sell camera equipment. I quite like Scan for computer components too. But for general “stuff” or tech, Amazon are so much better than places like Currys, it’s not even funny any more.

I have had issues with Amazon in the past, but if you do have a poor support experience you just need to persevere until you get someone more flexible. Which is somehow still better than most of our other stores here in the UK.
It might not be possible now during the pandemic. But under normal times it could have worked to start a math group at Meetup.com and then spread that link via Twitter, Facebook, local universities etc. As a starting point 2-3 persons could hold flash talks that could spawn off into interesting discussions. A local sponsor could make sure that some food and beverages are available to the attendants.

Just a thought.
The Hong Kong dilemma: ‘Either you shut up or you leave’
Reverse-engineered Opera VPN client
Maybe if it was a button, but not if it's a switch.
Maybe give “Packstationen” a try? Most retailers in Germany reliably ship to these parcel boxes that can only be opened with a code that is sent to you via mail/text.
And FreeBSD.
Ethereum is moving to proof of stake "pretty soon" since 3 or more years. I remember having that conversation in the first gpu crypto price bubble. Believe it when it's there, not before.
It really does surprise me how many people online claim have trouble with them. My experience has been essentially entirely positive as well.
I like your comparison to TRLs. I think we’re saying the same thing, actually! I don’t mean that one is exploitation and one is exploration exclusively. Re-reading my post, the phrase “gap” might be a misnomer — it’s more like a balancing act of priorities.

> How would you ensure you explore something useful? How would you ensure to transfer what you explored, so you can exploit that knowledge? What if you exploitation is stuck in a local minimum, how would you ensure you send feedback back to exploitation?

I’d argue you can’t necessarily be sure. Not all research works out. But we need to ask questions and get answers to move forward, even if what we discover may not be worth exploiting (getting tired of my own phrasing). Getting stuck in local min/maxima is part of why we need both angles. This is the flip side of what I said about industry needing to build systems that work — lower budget for risk tolerance, but also increased likelihood of getting stuck in a local optimum.

It sounds like I’m using those terms to describe the same spectrum you are with TRLs. At least, I wholeheartedly agree with everything you said — the “but how” portion sounds exactly like the symbiotic overlap/crossover I had in mind.

I guess to answer my own original question, it sounds like you’ve swung back and forth a few times?

> Then why don't we create a system that allows people to quickly switch hats, as required to achieve larger goals?

Preaching to the choir ;) and appreciate your perspective
And not so major publishers, including hundreds, if not thousands in the top 10,000 sites. So it isn't just the Washington Post, et al. This is why I intervene on generalized advice to enable auto-updates on WordPress. I have seen it cause publishers a ton of money, and have lost a number of weekends when called in to perform damage limitation.

'Make sure you keep everything updated!' has a ton of caveats and pitfalls, that's just the reality.
Note that browser extensions are reviewed by humans, as are updates to them. You also need to pay a nominal fee ($5 by credit card) to submit an extension to the Chrome store, to avoid spammers.
Good idea, I may try that.
In Germany you can also have them ship to a Packstation or directly to the post office - at least most of the time. This has worked well so far.

The only problem I had was that sometimes they drop them off at a neighbor even when I am at home. At least nowadays the name of the neighbor is printed on the notice they leave in the mailbox (and is also included in the email notification) so X instead of signature doesn't work - at least for DHL and my area.
Twitter: a place where anything you say can, and will, be held against you in the court of public opinion _forever_.

All for internet points.
I suspect that that may have been the case for people who grew up without and don’t primarily communicate with the internet, people whose writing style is mainly shaped by a school syllabus, but nowadays I’d guess that that’s falling away, to an extent
What it means to run a monolith on AWS Lambda
You have a very good point. Seems to me happened is that the definition of "genocide" connected to a specific "people" has its roots in the definition of other war crimes. The concept became especially prominent after WWII. Before that I don't think such a distinction was so firmly rooted in people's minds. Sure, it's a way to enshrine the historical importance of the Nazi extermination of the Jews, and it might have served as a way to more easily justify the UN/"peacekeeping" troops inserting themselves in the middle of certain conflicts such as the ones in Yugoslavia or in Rwanda.

It supposedly protects distinct cultural groups from being destroyed which is the right thing to do in today's definition. However, as Sapiens put forward, empires throughout the history have assimilated all sorts of people, and objectively speaking, they didn't necessarily made the lives of those people worse, and in many cases voluntary bi-directional cultural influence took place, until one is barely distinguishable from another. Therefore, I agree to some extent that it seems weird to elevate this definition of "genocide", even sometimes cultural, as something graver than the act of actual mass murder. Sometimes they do happen together, to some extent even in this example, where the children died en masse. But in many occasions throughout the history, the gradual disappearance of a cultural identity is a very distinct thing than people actually dying or having their living conditions worsening. As you said, group identities disappear and reappear in an endless ebb and flow, maybe not so much in the modern world with all these nation borders, but much more commonly throughout the history.
While I agree that Golang might not be the best language to start functional programming in, in my opinion FP is less about leetcode and more about proper abstractions and reasoning.

Yes, functional programming exposes you to a lot more concepts that just conditional jumps, but that's fine. Because while a conditional jump might be a simple concept, it's mighty powerful and maybe not constrained enough.

Functional programming gives you more and simpler building blocks to put together. Yes, they have fancy names but most of the time they are almost trivial ("set together with an associative binary operation"). These building blocks interact with each other in very well defined ways that you do not get when trying to compose software in an imperative way.
When I order stuff online, 95% of the time it goes to my local supermarket. They have a little post office desk. Then I just collect it the next time I go grocery shopping. They make you show ID when you sign for it, so it's never happened that it got stolen.

I find this super convenient and it has to be less expensive for the delivery service too. I just can't understand why door to door delivery is the norm in some countries.

To me it's just annoying when I get sent a UPS package.
You want a Big Brother looking over your arm at all times or how exactly would that ban even work?
Good managers should focus on taking the best decisions they can with the available information. Sure if they have a tech background, some of that information is easier to process if technical, but good decisions rely on much more than just what is good in the opinion of the tech lead.

If a manager starts analyzing the technical information in front of them without the background to do so, they are missing the point. They should rely on the opinion of their more technical counterparts when the information is technical.

Yet, the opposite is also true, if a technical background person becomes manager and doesn't trust their accounting, finance, marketing counter part, then they wouldn't be a very good manager either.

The above assumes that the manager has a more general role and that decisions on technical topics isn't their only job. If yes, of course a technical background should be required.
I buy directly from the publisher and have never had any issues. They might take a little longer to arrive, but they're always in perfect condition. Sometimes they even throw a free e-book my way, which I appreciate the hell out of.

I understand purchasing from other categories on Amazon, but with books it's so easy to avoid Amazon all together. Plus you know you won't receive a counterfeit (https://twitter.com/nostarch/status/1183095004258099202) if you order directly from the publisher.
Really cool to see eInk projects from India. Is shipping cheaper here by any chance, and are there plans for a 6" version?

I've been thinking of buying Inkplate[0], but international shipping of electronics in India is a gamble, so paperd looks neat

[0]: https://inkplate.io/
What other bacterial infections could cause these symptoms aside from lyme and bartonella?

Would such an infection be able to explain chronic symptoms over a 1-2 year period?
If there is even small amount of truth in this, it is going to revolutionize dentist industry. In fact make it obsolete leaving only surgeries.
I’ve never heard it in Australia in this context.
Covid-19 has pushed English lawyers online: Not everybody is happy about that
I have to say I’m not all that into GH[1]. However, if the above is what you want from a review tool I think it meets most, if not all, of those requirements.

[1]I mainly am not a fan of the PR model, GH’s performance if often terrible, availability like a yo-yo, and the UI is not as good as it could be. I’m also not a fan of centralising a distributed tool with a load of vendor lock-in to boot. There are some odd things you can’t turn off (such as PRs) and the issue management is weak, so you have to use something over the top of it for project management such as ZenHub.

SourceHut is more up my street.