skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Their support is fantastic on all accounts... they've never even hinted or accused me of being dishonest.

When I compare this with all major retailers, this is true for everyone else. This isn't "fantastic" - it's standard.

Walmart was the one exception, where the employee didn't know Walmart's return policy.
If this guy doesn’t have sticky-surface mats entering his house I will be upset.
This is a big deal because it’s a tablet with a GUI without Linux. This allows it to run on a microcontroller-class processor, with absolutely zero software bloat. Even if you wanted to slow it down with bash scripts and python, you couldn’t.
From my experience “military grade” means grossly overpriced and based on a spec that’s often detached from reality.
You are right, but there are some exceptions. For example, I own a commercial Miele dishwasher and it's exactly like their consumer version but even more robust and simple. Furthermore, it's equipped with gigantic blades to destroy food leftovers.

Other examples of overkill objects I like are some commercial vacuums for clean room environments with spectacularly good filtration and seals, therefore no itching if you are allergic to dust (e.g. some Nilfisk made in Denmark). Or industrial fanless PCs which are sealed and have fantastic copper coolers (e.g. Compulab, Tranquil and many others).
The article hints that this is the process used to cast car frames, and does not mention Tesla by name. The pressures required in this method require actual dies, and not the sand casting that is within the range of the home shop.

Interesting things to know, but not something directly applicable to me. Thanks for posting it.
Because poll taxes are unconstitutional.
> transfer IP rights of the product (without any money paid) to a California general partnership entity in which his LLC company will have 51% interest

No. Run away.

Even if everything else he says is true, the USA is just one market. Don't give away everything you have, for zero money, just so one guy has a chance to see if he can make it work in one market. One crowded, pre-existing market, where there is no guarantee of success.
You need to identify yourself to register to vote, and to vote you have to arrive at the poll, state your name and address, and sign a sworn statement. The system is practically impossible to abuse, evidenced by the fact that there have been almost no documented cases of anyone abusing it.

The reason identification laws are bad is because they disproportionately affect black people, who are less likely to have state identification, and that is because there are many people still alive today who were born in counties that literally refused to issue birth certificates to black people. It is very easy for someone to just sit there behind a computer and question why someone might not have government identification, but think it through.
It is rampant in consulting business. At least in an internal project it's possible to pull the plug when the results are not promising.
In a consulting engagement, when the results are garbage, there's no revenue and no potential for an upsell. In effect the pressure to "find" significant results is enormous.
Walter Lasecki (UoM CS Professor) resigns amid sexual harassment allegations
What alternative methods have you found to get them to "see the light"? I've found myself wishing they'd do therapy, but that doesn't help and can't be expressed.
There is a way forward, but it is tedious as all hell. I love formal methods. I spent years in grad school working in it. But the truth is that formal reasoning struggles to scale to interesting programs, especially if you have to consider open programs, and is utterly incoherent for most software engineers. You can compare something like symbolic execution, which seems amazingly elegant and powerful, with coverage guided fuzzing, which is hacky and random. Coverage guided fuzzing eats symbolic execution for lunch.
This is now my highest-scoring post (since my first post in 2011), surpassing this one from 2017

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14446261
I’m suspicious.
In any negotiation, your best bet is having leverage. In this scenario that would be other offers at the rate you would like or other benefits/flexibility.

In terms of framing, instead of saying you're in S. Asia and $30/hr is a big deal, you could figure out a rough $ value of your work to the company. In this case it's clearly more than $30, but is it $100 or $300 or $500? Having that clarity in your mind and articulating it to potential clients is going to be super helpful in the future, and change how you see yourself and sell yourself to clients.

Finally, you may want to invest in building your negotiating experience. I would start with the Appendix: Negotiating one sheet and ideally read and practice what's mentioned in Never Split the Difference: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08W57YLHR/.

Good luck!
At Seattle’s Little Free Art Gallery, take a tiny piece of art or leave one
https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/
The US does not have any universally available form of government ID that is automatically given freely to all citizens, therefore any piece of photo id is behind a paywall of some kind. Voting should not be limited to only those who hold a passport, or a driver's license, etc.

Other democracies have very liberal requirements on what constitutes an ID, and they do just fine. For example, here's the list of acceptable identification documents to participate in Canadian elections. https://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=vot&dir=ids&do...

The list covers everything from parolee cards, health cards (which are issued free of charge), firearm licenses, to letters of residency from a homeless shelter/soup kitchen, thus ensuring everyone can vote regardless of which walk of life they are from.

It's also worth noting that this law is not being passed in good faith to protect the integrity of elections, as there is little to no evidence that there is a threat. It is a partisan attempt to limit the voting rights of groups that for various reasons typically don't have identification cards, as there is significant overlap between those people and those who tend to vote in opposition to the those currently in power.
How much static electricity does it generate? That is my biggest complaint on burr grinders, they act like Van de Graaff generators and then the grounds get stuck all over the machine.
the shop vac pro i bought had a one-time current fuse soldered down (not replacable with a holder). over time all of these machines get a little friction in the fan assembly and blow this fuse.

yes, you could argue that making this fuse replaceable would add $0.05, but we all know that its not because 99% of the purchasers wont crack it open, figure out whats going on, and short the fuse.

you can argue that by keeping the volume up shop vac can lower prices. but i dont think you can argue that efficiency has been gained.
Also runs in GPU via CUDA. That's it's well known claim to fame.

Appears to be going 1.0[1]!

[1] https://github.com/terralang/terra/commit/1ea278278c104580a0...
I disagree with the above advice (as an employee, you should never ever state the number first), however I think the assumption behind this advice would be that you the company believes it's competing against other companies for you. So, they wouldn't do the lowest because they want to outbid the competition, and the higher number acts as an anchor.

But again, as a candidate, never say the number first.
If all US states had free, easy-to-use programs to ensure that all residents had useful government-provided ID, or a common, free, federally-provided ID, this wouldn't be an issue. However, that is not the case, and so long as the requirement to have an ID costs money, it effectively amounts to a poll tax that serves to suppress low-income voters.

In practice, most people in most states probably do vote with IDs, since providing your ID is the easiest way for the poll workers to find your registration. And of course in the processes most people use to register to vote, some (if not multiple) form(s) of identification must generally be provided. The reality is that no significant ID-solved voter fraud exists in the US, so while nice in principle, voter ID laws only serve to suppress voter turnout.
I don't want to say too much specifically...but I think whoever is responsible managing their entire 'online thing' is doing a poor job. No offense meant to anyone who works there.

I spoke a while informally to someone who worked there. Sounded like a really smart person, and they were describing in detail how their team was writing this 'thing' from scratch, where thing is something numerous rock solid, fast, open source alternatives exist. Didn't seem like a good use of resources -at all- considering the sorry state of their web experience.
Customers don't want that, they don't have a choice in the matter.

The reason fees, taxes, shipping, handling, and everything else are hidden is because that's how retailers compete with each other on price.

They hide the true cost from the customer and make them jump through hoops to determine the actual price. By the time you've provided all of your information to determine the final price, it's easier to complete the sale than go elsewhere.

If customers had all of that information up front they could compare prices between retailers easily.

When has anyone ever said "gee I'm sure glad Comcast hid those $25 in equipment rental fees and regulatory fees from me so I could avoid sticker shock"
> but normal people really do not care at all because if they did they would not consent to it when purchasing an iPhone or Android.

These platforms literally do everything possible to obscure what you are actually agreeing to. Google, for instance, has lawyers sign off on privacy design docs that set the verbiage on dialogs that users agree to. The lawyers are there to make sure it is as vague and as broad possible while being up to a hair's breadth of what is legally defensible.

Consumers are deliberately kept in the dark. One might say they are naive and trusting. But most would absolutely disapprove if they sat at the "God console" and saw other people's lives the way the vast towers of computing power and machine learning can. It's like a wireframe view of an ant farm, but with people.
I see an Amazon delivery van most days in my area, making several deliveries. The marginal cost of delivering an additional order to my neighborhood should be very low.

Same for the other stages of delivery. They've already got something set up to move large amounts of goods between their warehouses to where the delivery vans are loaded. The marginal cost of one more item should be low.

When they have that kind of distribution/delivery infrastructure set up and essentially providing an almost continuous delivery pipeline, I'm not sure it makes a lot of sense to ask whether or not an individual item was profitable.
Controversy: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/10/the-many...
Why it took 100 years for America to learn about the Tulsa massacre
Questionable source:

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/quincy-trit...

It tries to paint China as an economic rival, which of course it is, but the danger was and still is its political and military ambitions.
Thank You for looking/thinking. I watched the video, but that wasn't in it, not even close. As to the UE worthiness, I don't know. It really 'flashed' me at the time. No long exposure needed. Just the movement.

Had to be Sunday, late morning/early noon because i took a night train from Bonn/Cologne with sleeper cars(didn't slee at all!) over Belgium, where I only remember Liège and Charleroi, and nothing else until Paris. Can't remember exactly anymore how much time I wasted on foot in the city. Had to catch the train to Madrid over Hendaye/Irun in something like late noon, 14:xx.

So that was the timeframe. I remember feeling hot from schlepping two suitcases for several kilometers, crisscrossing Paris while the weather was good. Had to be June/July, otherwise no summer holidays :-)

Imagine sitting almost alone in the cab, on the right side. Driving trough some tunnel, suddenly going down noticably, which opens to some sort of ramp on the right side, where you can see a large open hall with almost no columns, dozens of tracks, at least several football fields long. On the opposite side also a ramp, also descending to the other side of the field of tracks. The ramps illuminated by orange lights spaced maybe 2 to 3 meters apart, on the ground, besides the tracks.
In the 'field' between the dozen of parallel tracks elevated ways of metal mesh(gridiron?). Crossing the field of tracks on both ends and in the middle diagonal tracks and switches, making something like three X-es over that. Almost all metal surfaces shiny, reflecting. All the colored signals which were also there, mostly on the ground besides the tracks, some on poles between the tracks, some on the walls where the ramps come down. You moving from the left side, through the middle X to the right side, maybe for half a minute to short of a minute. All the lights and signals changing their reflections.
Turning around, looking to the left side. Seeing the same play of reflections there. Another tunnel exiting from the middle of the field between the two end ramps. All rather dark if not for the signals and orange lights lining all tracks. Thinking... "Whoa! What was that?!" while moving up the ramp on the right side into another tunnel.

So that had to be some deep place, because at least the ramps on both ends on both sides descended down into it for at least two floors, and it had one tunnel in the middle of one end which I couldn't see much of, but it seemed level, no grade.

Anyways, I think I'll search for Paris Metro subterran infrastructure/depot/switching yard, or something like that.

Das lässt mir keine Ruhe!
(deepl.com) Ça ne me laissera pas un instant de répit !
That gives me no peace!
the problem is that "rogue" implies some kind of malfunction -- it acted against a stand-down order and killed anyways.

In this case, it seems the drone was supposed to do exactly that, and that's perhaps far more dangerous -- this is the first kill where the drone was approved to determine kill targets, and execute that decision, with no human to verify. This really shouldn't be a goal we have in the first place -- to remove humans from the decision loop -- and yet apparently here it is.
Do you have an example of a product that is $500 on Amazon but can be found somewhere else for $50? Seems to be way far off.
Doesn't matter at all. If your eye can see it, it goes through the object detection process. Attention is not necessary. In particular, the brain associates it with all adjacent information.
The test units for the first generation of AMD Opteron 1U servers we bought were immediately named pratt, whitney, rolls and royce.
It's painfully reductive and one-dimensional. What about envy and hate, hero worship, and other emotional attachments? Those have no effect on working environment?

What about men and women who aren't romantically attracted to (respectively) women and men? Are gay men relegated to the women's lab? But only one per batch, lest they fall in love with each other? (And bisexual people can only be trusted to do science on their own.)

In general don't we expect "professionalism" to include a level of managing your emotions? And this person is basically saying "I can't deal, therefore certain other people must be kept away so I don't get distracted". As well as tarring women in general as not being able to deal, which is unfair. I sure wouldn't want to work with this guy after hearing him say that.
There are also some algorithms for trying to deal with symbolic integrals but they're pretty intense compared to what you have to do for derivatives (which are very easy).
> I work for Citus, and on columnar compression.

:-)

I am waiting for the basic index support for columnar tables !

https://github.com/citusdata/citus/pull/4950

:-)
A local company, Varusteleka has been extremely successful and grown rapidly from selling military surplus equipment bought from here and there as well as "tactical" looking stuff made cheaply somewhere.

I've bought for example some Swiss army surplus towels for a bike trip. They were really good (small, durable, functional, beautiful) but a bit too small so you couldn't wrap one around yourself.

They probably get the surplus stuff almost for free, from all around the world. I think it's great, making something desirable out of waste.

Having served, I think a lot of military equipment is really bad, especially clothing. It's bought not by the users but by the organization.
It is true that as the author of a research paper it is my decision how to present it. However, if you're too far off the mark, you are just going to be rejected by peer review or they will ask for revisions. The fact is as a PhD student, you are trying to join the research community. You aren't in a position to change that community. You have to tailor your work and statements to fit the mold. Students who are outspoken voicing these concerns, especially if they rise to the level of abuse or research misconduct, must tread carefully. A case I was made aware of in the study of research ethics is of Anil Potti [1], [2]. From [2], the statement from the whistleblower, "In raising these concerns, I have nothing to gain and much to lose" is apt.

For more mild cases, like those mentioned in the article, the stakes are lower but there is also more plausible deniability. If Duke University tried to bury even the blatant abuse, you can imagine how it is also hard to confront the article's so-called "mundane, day-to-day fraud".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anil_Potti
[2] https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/01/duke-university-offi...
Around here (Ontario, Canada), Loblaws "President's Choice" and Metro "Irresistibles" are good. Both chains have a lower tier of branding, "No Name" for the former and "Selection" for the latter. Agreed that Costco's "Kirkland Signature" is reliably OK.
When people start whining about your salary expectations the first thing to do is to make them state their expectations. If they don’t give you a number that means they want to bully you by making you feel insecure. This is a disrespectful tactic and it’s almost guaranteed that working there will be an unhappy experience.
Correlation is causation.
There it is again. Care to name any of those timeless philosophies without resorting to the minutiae of cons cells?

Clojure has very tangible and definite downsides and tradfeoffs (to name some: weaker REPL, though not as weak as some Schemes. JVM required. Heavy interop reliance), but it has served well as the flagship functional lisp.
I do this but for everything in my kitchen. I bought a very expensive HVAC-grade Fluke IR thermometer which can handle temperature ranges from -40C to 550C.

Being able to instantly & remotely measure the temperature of anything (with reasonable emissivity characteristics) is like a super power. There is nothing in my kitchen or grill area that can exceed the range of the IR sensor on this unit. There are only a few things that have problems with direct sampling. I cook almost exclusively with cast iron, so IR readings are always dead accurate.

The unit runs on a single AA battery, has a backlight, and somehow still hasn't needed a new battery since I bought it 4 years ago (used almost every day).

I had to cook in someone else's kitchen not too long ago, and found myself going insane at not being able to tell exactly how hot the oil was in a pot used for frying.
From the outset people have enjoyed free services, and free means and ment “paid for by advertisers”, facilitated by Big Tech.

We created an economic system that is at times both parasitic and/or symbiotic in nature. We enjoy the free, we enjoy the bargain bin prices of Amazon shopping, we enjoy being nurtured by marketing moguls who will tell us what will Solve All Our Problems.
They are a perfect example of a company that purposefully misleads, and forces other companies they work with to mislead, for example on the subject of repairs - to be authorised repair shop for apple, you have to lie to a customer that recovering their data is impossible, and is my view that shoupd be illegal.

They products might be good, but their methods are ruthless - they are wanna-be like mexican cartels.
A single quote? There are whole medieval books about what to do “between the sleeps.”
I've seen people state this before and it's just not true.

Companies absolutely can be good environmental stewards and pay their workers well in the interests of making money.Just like they can donate to charity while still doing proper fiduciary duty.
Am I understanding this right?

Code inside a `terra` function is statically-typed and executed at runtime, while the rest of the code is just plain Lua and is executed at compiled time.

It's a really interesting idea and I'd be interested to try it for something like an X11 application.
Curfew is now in effect.
THIS IS WHY VOTING SHOULD BE MANDATORY.

Opponents argue that the uninformed will vote. The alternative however is much worse: disenfranchisement (eg why exactly can't felons vote?), active efforts to purge the wrong kind of voters from the electoral rolls [1] and voter suppression in the form of voter ID laws when no evidence of widespread voter fraud has ever been documented.

Australia has mandatory voting and it's non-controversial. It's technically not even mandatory voting. If you want to drop and empty ballot into the box so as to not to vote you can. You never have to wait in line for hours.

Make no mistake: removing access to absentee ballots, voter ID and efforts like Georgia making it illegal to give water to someone in line to vote have two goals:

1. To feed into the baseless GOP base delusion that the election was somehow stolen. It's virtue signaling for the Trump faithful because no GOP politician wants to be the next Liz Cheney and lose their next primary; and

2. To make it harder for Democrats to vote and to make less of them vote.

That's it.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballot_Security_Task_Force
The first sentence on the LoRA article on Wikipedia is:

> LoRa (Long Range) is a proprietary low-power wide-area network modulation technique. It is based on spread spectrum modulation techniques derived from chirp spread spectrum (CSS) technology. It was developed by Cycleo of Grenoble, France and acquired by Semtech, the founding member of the LoRa Alliance and it is patented.

It's proprietary, patented, and not open. It shouldn't be on the airwaves.
Dumb question, since I haven't read the article. What constitutes cryogenic temperatures?

I worked for a telecom that deployed a lot of equipment at high latitude, in places where temperatures could reach -40 or colder. It wasn't my department, but I had the impression that we weren't really paying too much attention to the lower end of the operating range specified by manufacturers. I recall seeing "ice in the feed horn" as a root cause more than once.
Well, it's not a real choice... We also had Leibniz.
I think what's about as evil and actually widespread, is the UI component which functions as a check box, but consists of a circle in an oval track, that goes from left to right and vice versa when you click it.

One can assume that left is off/no and right is on/yes, but if someone should want to reverse the meaning, how can you prove that's invalid? Especially if the text is ambiguous in the right way.

You can't assume the default position is off or on, because that varies.

And changing the color depending on the position creates more uncertainty - the user can tell that it means something, but what?
Pandoc + a good HTML template should get you there.
Rationalism vs. Empiricism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
I am not sure how this is really surprising to anyone. Consumers will pay for shipping one way or the other.
Just to offer a counterexample, I have a Cammenga 3H compass that I use for camping. The thing is a beast, one of the coolest things I own.