skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not practical in most parts of the country in the winter, when the virus was at its worst. What's the cost after including increased heating and A/C usage?
> I would be surprised if Amazon had the same non-negotiable-take-it-or-leave-it terms with Bose as it has with others.

I'm not sure what, but there's a story on lower end, too.

A lot of crap on Amazon is from no-name brands like MAKNO and TURBLEX which don't even exist outside of Amazon. If I sell $19.99 TURBLEX kitchen knives on Amazon and the $11.87 MAKNO version through AliExpress, then I've not violated the policy.
Their whole online / app experience is a bit baffling, given the amount of revenue flowing through it. Search is terrible, inventory management is worse. Several times I've scanned a barcode of a pallet of things for a price check, only to get "No inventory in stock." Can't even get a hypothetical in-stock or online price. Other janky stuff I forget.

Lowes' website is a trainwreck, just Inspect Page it... for starters there's "todo" comments.

Home depot's experience is fantastic.

But if you wanna see the reigning champ of "online thing," www.mcmaster.com
I think Tacitus had a similar anecdote about the Germans.

(Even without getting drunk, I've always found it useful to consider a hard decision once analytically and once intuitively, and if I don't agree with myself, think about it some more.)
You’d be surprised to learn that there are other cryptocurrencies that aren’t based on proof of work.
Is there any convenient way to back up Google Photos to Backblaze or S3?
No, you're responsible for the costs. The valet is responsible for the damages. Separate things happening at separate times, resolved by separate parties.

The valet committed a tort — but you need to actually to sue them to get the money you're owed for that tort. Torts aren't criminal in the sense of the state resolving them in your favor without you doing any of the work. If you do nothing, you end up on the hook for the ticket/tow, and the valet gets away scot-free.

Even if you pursue the tort, you'll likely have to pay the towing company before you recover the damages — because those are two separate things. The judge isn't telling the towing company who to charge. The towing company gets to charge you either way; they have a contract with the lot owner saying they can bill whoever owns a car that gets towed.

When you sue for the tort, and the judge finds in your favor, the judge is just extracting the money from the other guy, to give to you, in compensation for the money you already had to pay the towing company. Because you did have to pay.
That's exactly right! I think just as interesting is how good people make such bad decisions within a company. That's why I wrote in the article that using dark patterns is a symptom of a screwed up company culture.
Do you manage your own server or do you host it somewhere like AWS/Digital Ocean?
What are your arguments? I’ll be happy to argue in this thread.
Maybe a better approach (and possibly something she's tried already) is to speak with organisers and see if there is a different way to handle media appearances? Otherwise paying the small (for her) fine now is a loophole that they'll close soon enough.

I do tend to agree that media interest is something that brings money to sport and is part of the job of a professional athlete. It's interesting to think though that in most sports you cannot compete and test yourself against the world's best without fulfilling media obligations. The commercial media side of the Olympics would be just as strong.

That said, I personally can't stand watching sports interviews and immediately switch off.
This reminded me of the time where I read somewhere (I don't have the source, unfortunately) that the fastest way to cancel the NYT(?) subscription online over the chat was to say "I am going to jail."
Yes, he advocates that we need to view it as a "radical novelty" and critiques existing methods, but the only better method he puts forth is with formal proofs; it's not incidental, it's the reason for calling existing methods backward and insufficient for managing programs.

> it gives us a clear indication where to locate computing science on the world map of intellectual disciplines: in the direction of formal mathematics and applied logic, but ultimately far beyond where those are now, for computing science is interested in effective use of formal methods and on a much, much larger scale than we have witnessed so far.

I'm not too interested in arguing point-by-point the other arguments for viewing them as a "radical novelty", but even mathematics deal in methods that require maintenance (e.g. calculus -> analysis), and half of it is coming up with the correct definitions (metaphors). Is it all that medieval? (Ironically, the medievalist recognizes that logic made great progress in that era, then took a break in the Renaissance until Frege and friends)
Well, if your question is just can you make a buck off them, I'd guess you probably could. But I don't like gambling and I'm more interested in whether there's anything of lasting value here. Tl;dr I don't own any NFTs and have no plans to buy any.

The NFTs that just point to a painting or a youtube video, I don't think so. They don't do anything and I don't think owning them will be valuable.

The NFTs of, like, NBA clips I can sort of understand as digital trading cards. Being purely digital I think they're inferior to the baseball cards I collected as a kid, but I can kinda see it. But 1) they don't need a blockchain; a public database would probably work better for everyone and 2) I don't think sports trading cards are generally a good investment.

There's something maybe interesting in the "creator economy" angle where like a new podcaster auctions off NFTs of the episodes to early fans, who then become invested in its success. If the show takes off, newly minted NFTs will go for more and more money benefitting the creator and the secondary market will appreciate for early supporters. To be clear, I don't think this is actually a good idea for a lot of reasons... but it's interesting.

All the games and pets and racehorses seem like junk.
Is it that much easier? Its not like a drone can randomly fly around high profile people or infrastructure without raising suspicion. People would still have to bring the drones into an area a target is know to be, and not just a drone but something military and clearly nefarious if they are caught traveling/importing.

Countries could likely do the same thing today with explosives planted at key timings/places. And drones definitely open options in this but if a country was to act this way I think they would be just as likely with non-drones.

Overall I agree this is an extremely dangerous technology for humanity. Generally anything that will allow a small number of people control a larger number, history has show this will be often abused.
At the moment, the closed doors are definitely repelling some customers.
I have a similar setup, but with the Shotwell part replaced by Lychee. It's a self-hostable photo browsing web app. I can share photos with family members that way, like how I might share a google photo album to them.
You take your food and go eat at home, like we actually did.
How is it a sign of lying?
Pretty sure we didn't.
Hang on, there’s a B&M retail chain in the UK? I know of B&Q and H&M and M&S but not B&M. edit: never mind, yes, there’s also a B&M. UK store names, sigh.
The bit that is a scam is a social phenomenon, not a technical phenomenon. It's tulips, Beanie Babies, housing market bubbles; not technical. Assets rising in price are chased by people who want to surf the rise.

What is interesting about distributed ledger consensus via proof of work only remains interesting when there's a disconnect between the economy and good government. If your government is corrupt, or your economy is corrupt, you want the two to be disconnected. The problem is that the latter - corrupt economies - dominate over the former.

If you have a functioning government, you can use the legal system to enforce contracts, and then ledgers don't need to use proof of work. If you don't have a functioning government, or you can't let the legal system look at your contracts, then blockchain starts to look interesting.
This assumes the winner stops after overpowering the enemy drones. Does history tell you this is likely?
You can look up Stock to Flow and Bitcoin to learn more about that theory.
exactly, and that is the problem
Yeah I think that usually is how it works. The question is how many of these mistakes have happened.
It's important to understand that what CDC & FDA etc say is not "science".

These are federal regulatory agencies whose mission is to enforce regulations. This is part of a political process, and their leaders ultimately serve at the pleasure of the president.

When the prominent scientists who work there speak on issues, they are speaking as employees of that organization, not giving their best scientific estimation.

The WHO is a UN agency that's probably even more politicized, but I don't know much about it.
Life hack: link your manual grinder to a drill. Now you have a automatic grinder that’s reasonably priced and have a superb burr.

Have not tried this myself but I was told by a professional this is way cheaper and better than any automatic grinder below USD$1000, if you’re spending around $200 for a top end hand grinder
I agree. In my mind, counterfactuals are only meaningful if there’s free will.

Something else could’ve happened iff you could’ve done or chosen otherwise.
Me too. Guess we had different experiences. Regardless, I can assure you that the NYT Editorial Board holds very little sway over the subscriptions dept.
Hey, just to letting you know, I have been using jsonfomatter since a while and I AM LOVING IT. The UI is super simple and elegant.
UI designed purely in WinForms!
I second this recommendation. I've done the whole DIY NAS thing a number of times but the Synology solution is just far more convenient and usually just works. Additionally, the there are so many other benefits to running a NAS, like the opportunity to plug in a set of IP cameras for security...

Also, the OP doesn't need to get rid of Google Photos. They can keep Google Photos as a off-site back-up.
I prefer dark modes generally and don't mind the look of this one. But it amused me that one of the posts currently on the front page:

Drunk Post: Things I've learned as a Sr Engineer [1]

Mentions this:

Dark mode is great until you're forced to use light mode (webpage or an unsupported app). That's why I use light mode.

and self-illustrates this beautifully (unless you have dark-mode on reddit already).

...although its also why you need a Dark mode for HN if you're coming from Reddit. I guess I get the Sr Engineers point.

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDevs/comments/nmodyl/dru...
Effective communicating is a crucial part of every job. I think in software engineering, a lot of us are introverts who want to deprioritize this soft skill, but the truth is still that people matter more than the code.

And communicating gets even more important the higher up you move in your seniority.
The post match interviews usually have sponsorship merch. I wonder if that comes into part of enforcement.
Maybe it's better than complaining. Is it better than regulation?

I have never used Uber, doordash or anything like these. On purpose. Even when given free Uber eats vouchers at work (covid...). They still seem to be winning.
How do you handle routine backups of the machine that you host nextcloud on?
Because it's a bill from the government (or a quasi-governmental agency), and they tend to be unamused if you don't pay those.
For what it’s worth, my first session went like this:

>> e^iπ+1
2.6974097548 + 2.6435590641i
>> e^iπ
1.6974097548 + 2.6435590641i

In fairness, I still don’t know where “e” comes from in complex number notation. The transition from cos(angle) + i sin(angle) seems to become “e^i(angle), lol” and no one explains it further. Before I started doing signal processing, I too would have thought that e^i pi is something like 1.69 + 2.64, so it’s correct, in a certain sense. But perhaps not the common mathematical sense.

EDIT: Ah, I see the problem. I suspected that e^iπ was being turned into πe^i incorrectly, but when I typed the open parenthesis for e^() and put my cursor inside it, typing "i" resulted in e^i() rather than e^(i). So it was impossible to parenthesize correctly, and I assumed e^iπ had the usual meaning.
Wow, thanks for all the resources, I'll definitely give them a look! Man, what you said about imitating successful/similar products that I look up to really hit home for me. Definitely been having a hard time finding a balance between trying to market the product and organically creating traffic by having a good product.

I'll send you an email in private!
I love it. The enterprise-y look is perfect for a business sim.
If medical research is rigorous then rigor isn’t worth much. It’s one of the fields most affected by the replication crisis, along with social science. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis
I didn't! And it's interesting I just read the 1st player who declines to buy can participate in the auction.

How often would an opponent be willing to pay more than list price? I guess to secure like the 2nd blue property. Otherwise it seems like should always just decline to buy and hope for good auction outcome.

And if your opponent good to auction too. Though maybe mortgaging properties if you have a good opportunity is worth it.

What other rules make the game more interesting/complex that the 'young kid' version might not know?
Aren't there also a bunch of alloys like Kovar that have expansion pretty similar to borosilicate's?
Study uses candy-like models to make STEM accessible to visually impaired
Memorial Day – Purple Mattress Discount
Semantic – Parsing, analyzing, and comparing source code across many languages
More than scale, it was trust and reliability that I wanted to show. Of these, I feel that scale is the simpler problem to solve.
You’re talking about bitcoin which is not bft. And there’s no n=3f+1 limit, see algorand.
Ultrasonic Welding Makes Parts for NASA Missions, Commercial Industry
Companies like Chainalysis have unwound and track the large majority (probably 80%) of Bitcoin transactions. Bitcoin’s lack of fungibility and any semblance of transactional privacy is actually one of the arguments against its suitability as a currency.

You can read some of their public reports here: https://blog.chainalysis.com/?tab=articles-tab
You’re barking at the wrong tree. Bitcoin is not bft
Without knowing more its really hard to say. You probably dont want to post more details without linking/naming your product as that always feels a bit spammy. Details like product type, geography, who you are targeting, what budgets do you expect to work with, is anything currently working/not, whats is the general price point, do you have any promotions, what life stage is your business etc.

Otherwise the answer is buy ads, send emails and go to trade shows, call key contacts... which I'm guessing isn't too helpful.
Do I have this correct?

- You complained to customer service about shipping speeds to a low population area

- Customer service refunds your Prime Subscription with a bonus ABOVE your purchase price

- You emailed jeff@amazon.com and got it escalated to Amazon higher-ups, who take the time to address your concerns (even if unsatisfactory)

After all of that you're upset at Amazon? What's the outcome you're expecting here? I can't even get the first thing you got in that list from any local retailer.
Maybe the biggest advantage Amazon Prime has for me, is that it already knows my address etc, and shipping cost is a non issue.

Ordering somewhere else has a higher enough threshold that I avoid it.
Typical "this is the obvious solution" thinking without stopping to think about why it doesn't work like that in the majority of situations.

Most office buildings are giant rectangular blobs. The vast majority of people are not near a window. Most skyscrapers don't even have windows that can be opened.

Most manufacturing, processing, distribution jobs etc are in large warehouses. No windows near anybody. Same with a huge number of other blue-collar jobs like groceries and retail.

Even in buildings where windows can be opened, you're throwing potentially thousands of dollars worth of heating out the window half the year, and thousands of dollars in cooling the other half.

So don't just look around your own room, see the window, and say "hey, there's an obvious $20 solution to this, why didn't all these ventilation experts ask me?"
Production-grade software: yes.

Hobby: not always.

It’s incredibly useful, IMO. Not everyone knows about it, or strictly needs it. But I think it’s very useful.

In Go, I often find a lower level SDK-type library will let you append to the user agent, which for large web services is nice since you can basically see how all your callers are using your API (in my case usually looking at volume of calls from language SDKs vs raw HTTP calls vs CLI vs 3rd party tools)
Me too, in my youth some of the strangest super intelligent people I ever came across were Ayn-Rand Lovers, I'm talking PHD rocket-scientist type people. I think they're attracted to the ideal that people like them should be at the top of the pyramid. While in reality 'winning' in the USA is only about being the in the right place at the right time.

...

WRT Russia opinion, I know lots of Russian's I live in Asia. They're always the most intelligent people I ever meet, but the common is they have all left Russia, to make it else-where, especially USA, where its just so easy for them to get rich.

Ayn Rand essentially having read her in my youth, and watched all the new movies like 'Atlas Shrugged' depicting her paradise. I think is just pure Ideology, of course is not real, as we know Libertarians will always defend pollution, because it the right of everyone to get rich.

Ayn Rand was for an era, an Era where USA had won the war, where everybody in USA could get rich, where the commies were trying to sway public opinion, but they lost, until things just turned ugly post Y2K, and 2007 financial collapse. Now with COVID after-math & the reset the USA is a terrible mess. It ain't coming back. Living here in ASIA I can tell you everything is just fine, mostly because of the homogeneity people aren't at each other's throats with 'woke-ness'

Essentially for 40+ years USA with 5% of the worlds population, consumed +80% of the resources, today most USA citys are cesspools, and yet in ASIA most city's look like Disneylands 1960's "Tomorrowland", clean & beautiful. The problem of course is that post 1970's the Elite of the USA quit investing in the USA, so now 50 years later all the bridges are collapsing. Money always flows to where its most influential.

I really don't think Ayn Rand saw anything of this coming. Today China is 100X more "capitalism" than USA, where the USA is just a third world country with nukes. Most the world talking "Ayn Rand" wouldn't even get you a cup of coffee. All the people who used to love Rand, are long dead. Orwell & Huxley have far more influence, because their ideas is our present reality.
Pinboard ignores the tech because he doesn’t understand it, yet he talks about societal impact without understanding it as well.
For the same reason that if some kind of Cordyceps-like brain-parasite were to infect a person and make them murder people, that wouldn't be that person's fault. Especially if the brain parasite could be removed, reverting their personality to normal. I wouldn't hold that against the person going forward (unless they for some reason actively pursued further brain-parasite infections as a general preference.)

Companies can be evil on a structural level. But also, companies that aren't evil on a structural level, can be parasitized by evil individuals. Unless the company actively pursues hiring evil individuals, why would you hold the latter against them?

The point of companies having reputations is to predict what they'll do, and thereby trade with companies for which trade with them will predictably be positive-sum, and avoid trade with companies that would predictably be zero-sum or negative-sum.

A company itself being evil on a structural level, predicts that in the future it will do many zero- or negative-sum things, regardless of employee turnover.

A company that is not evil on a structural level, hiring one evil individual, who does an evil thing and then gets fired, doesn't predict any future evil behavior from the company.
I feel it will only be a matter of time before they start charging though (just like how Google is doing). Right now they need all that data to maybe train their models or attract users?
Exactly. If you don't need pixel perfection or 3D, WinForms are perfect. Fast, simple, and with a lightning develop-build-test loop. Plus, it's officially supported on .NET Core.
Sounds like the movie Brazil to me. Or Computers Don't Argue.
They did lie, 100%. Cofounder said he, "quit Google, Facebook, and Apple" to start Dreamworld. He fails to mention that both Google and Facebook were 3 month internships, and his role at Apple was an SDET and not an actual software engineer.
GP is presumably talking about the halving of coinbase, ie the mining reward, every 4 years. Currently at 6.25 BTC per Block.
> she has lost very few matches...

She has 7 career titles (4 grand slams!) with 134 losses. This is much better than average, but she is still almost always losing.
I did ketamine IV treatment and was told in the clinic about 1/3 have a good response, 1/3 have a partial response, and 1/3 have no response. Sadly I didn't have a response :( The IV thing is problematic and nasal spray should be more widely available and available at ERs. It's being underused and has a lot of barriers around it as of now.
This is why I believe that many of these worker protection laws will wind up bringing more harm than good unless they can be implemented at the federal level. I cannot imagine how difficult it would be for a small or mid-size company to try and maintain compliance with a patchwork of 50 different state regulations.

Suppose Colorado has a law saying that all new roles must be presented to current employees as promotional opportunities and then Michigan (hypothetically) passes a law saying that all new roles must be presented to students graduating from Michigan State first? These laws could be in direct conflict, so which state does the company pick?

Do you spin up entire HR and Legal departments just to make sure you're not violating laws in states in which you don't even have employees yet? The easiest thing to do is just say "this law is too complicated for us to deal with right now, so we've decided not to hire here." Worse, this kind of law gives a huge advantage to FAANG-type companies who _can_ afford such intricacies.
what else is the explanation for the omission? It just didnt occur to him?
Well they were also censoring videos speculating about the lab leak theory. So they were definitely treating any discussion about covid that diverged from what who/cdc were saying as misinformation.
An account created 2 days ago, promoting lesser know SEO site as a good option. This feels like disguised spam?
Almost all monopolists abuse their power to set rules that allow them to adjudicate ex post facto for things they just don’t like. In sports this usually falls under “sportsmanship” where poor sportsmanship is defined as “I don’t like it.”
I thought the ride automatically ended, geo-fenced to the destination. Is that not the case?