skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No mention of Amazon Fresh at the end when talking about groceries creating dedicated fulfillment centers? Amazon already does that and it works very well in my opinion. Out of all the delivery services I’ve used they have the best prices, most consistency (no mistakes or substitutions for me so far), and best delivery.

The biggest issue for most people would probably be that the selection isn’t on par with a regular supermarket. It’s still a wide selection, but by the very high American standards of having 600 different kinds of cereal it isn’t up to snuff. Since I mostly buy unprocessed food it’s not an issue for me but it could be for others.

Sometimes I go on the Amazon FC subreddit just to get a window into what working in Amazon is really like. A lot of people seem to actually prefer picking for Fresh as long as they don’t have to pick in the freezer. I don’t see a lot of complaints about throughput. It just feels like a much more sensible model than to pay third parties to run through crowded stores picking things - plus as someone who really hates substitutions, knowing they have Amazon’s warehouse software keeping track of their stock is nice.
It is my understanding that race cars have wide tyres to shed more heat. Tyres melting is a problem at F1 speeds.
Thanks for your feedback dmje.

We've had similar discussions with customers in the past - we've found the vast majority (90%) are happy to pay monthly, and the remainder are very vocally against.

We are looking to accomodate both sides, and the current plan is to offer a subscription 'pause', where all of your existing data is stored for free, and you can unpause to edit/create new projects.

It's still being worked out, but hopefully this will be a happy medium ground in the future.
I Accidentally Locked the Whole Company Out of an Amazon S3 Bucket
My article about lessons learned by messing up AWS S3 policies for one of my customers. Would love to get some feedback about the content, the topic, the writing style etc.
Chrome has other issues once in a while as well. Ironically, they broke IndexedDB in 2018 when a device had less than 1 GB of available space (which happened surprisingly often in 2018 on Android).

A few months ago, Chrome broke all WebView-based apps. Fortunately, they fixed it within a day. The IndexedDb bug was fixed after 6 weeks.
> The end result is administrators who essentially make work for each other while providing much less societal value than is justified by their cost while actively devaluing the “real” work done by those around them.

I wonder if this is inevitable -- the administrative staff's purpose is administration and it wants to do more of it -- or if there's a way to prevent that at the institutional level.

One thing would be giving irrevocable rights and powers to professors at public universities, a lot of countries do that but I'm not sure how well it works against "administrationization."

It does seem like putting the researchers in charge might help starve the cancerous administrative class, but maybe you have to start your own university in order to implement this?
Given the cost of delivery, Do you think some version of grocery pickup is here to stay? Or over a few years those will be gone?

And does this mean someone will probably build a parcel locker network for groceries?
More like no arrests that they could talk about, but it's not unheard of for governments to launder the evidence until it's more admissible in court
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction)
Any browser on iOS must use safari browser engine (otherwise won't be approved in app store) - the same issue will arise while using Chrome or Firefox on iPhone. Unless you can afford not support iOS/iPadOS users, devs have not choice but complain about bugs.
In my experience, they're similar but have slightly different shades of meaning.

To me, computational biology and bioinformatics strongly suggest that you are working on empirical data (usually genomic) from specific experiments or databases while using computationally-intensive tools (e.g., running on a cluster). You care, by necessity, about batch and lane effects.

Quantitive biology puts more emphasis on the math and concepts. For example, one might work with a toy model of the cell cycle, action potential generation, or predator-prey dynamics. The goal might be to qualitatively characterize different types of behaviors (e.g., find bifurcations), using parameters roughly derived from the literature, rather than to precisely analyze one data set. They might use `ode45`, but the computation probably runs on one desktop.

Obviously, there's lots of potential overlap and the same person might do a bit of both. However, I don't think the choice of field name has anything to do with hubris.
It's amazing how people will go from "mainstream media has bias" to "... but this random guy on Youtube doesn't!" despite the youtuber being far worse. As if they can only handle one level of critical thinking.
Then drop power.

Net spending == consumption + debt payments

Reduce debt through inflation, consumption increases a share of total spending. Wealth of creditors increases.

We seem to be inhabiting different universes on the remainder of the discussion.
Strange, the Back button works perfectly well (in Safari) for me.
enter the coordinates and press enter. You are not able to click the map.
We were riding on mostly flat terrain so it wouldn't be a big differentiator.
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Discord is a product, not a protocol, so it should be in their best interest to communicate the extent to which a third party application might misuse their data. This is the case with the new scopes that require ID verification now, backed by the promise that Discord will sue you if you break their conditions of using the data provided to you.

This has some other unfortunate side effects (user tokens can't be used for bots, third party clients are a risk), but unfortunately the only way to really curtail this behavior. Privacy is not something easily understood, especially for people outside tech that just want to be around their friends during the pandemic, do not be blind for this. Technology can't be the sole component of solving this issue, so I'm glad Discord is committed to legally perusing those that misuse their API.
the less digits you give, the less precise your input looks, the bigger the geohash tile you're in and the bigger the difference between your input and the tile's center.

Add more digits to the input.
Saying incentives work is a pretty banal economic insight.

However, the primary reason Moderna and Pfizer they were able to get to market so fast was because the FDA agreed to a compressed testing schedule, Moderna’s preexisting investments in mRNA technology, and publicly funded research around stabilising spike proteins.

The primary contribution of Trump (and other world leaders) was the willingness to commit to purchasing large amounts of the vaccine and to accept much of the risk of the attempt failed. This accelerated the roll out as they were able to begin manufacturing before being given emergency approval.

However, it’s worth noting that many other successful vaccines were developed by charitable foundations and government research institutions in roughly the same period of time as the American efforts.

https://cen.acs.org/pharmaceuticals/vaccines/tiny-tweak-behi...
I greatly prefer Geocities to Facebook. ;-)

Webvan and Kozmo.com were also brilliant.
I'm sure there are countless examples of this. But even so: there is a vast number of applications out there that are more complex than 'excel' and much simpler than 'bespoke software', and that niche is widening as these platforms become more capable.
I read this essay with interest as I work at the intersection of biology and engineering; I was disappointed. The essay fails to identify low-hanging fruit in automating biology and fails to explain how their company (Transistor Bio) is "picking" those low-hanging fruit. In retrospect it reads more like a poorly argued marketing pitch than an exposition on interesting and achievable problems in biology automation.

The company's website also leaves much to be desired; though they have reinvented the liquid handling robot [1].

[1] https://publish.obsidian.md/serve?url=transistor.bio/busines...
In Sweden we have public service TV channels, but even in that context I think your advice holds up – not a good source for news. Too stressed, too shallow reporting.
Heh, yes, less maintenance, but also less finicky.

Brake pads on rim brakes are a nightmare. They follow a 3-d arc as they approach the rim, which is itself a very complicated 3d surface. Ideally the front edge of the brake pad hits slightly before the rear edge, to avoid squeal... but not too much or it will engage too softly. Even minor wear changes the engagement point. Cables need maintenance, they wear, get kinked, require lubrication, and it's easy to get the tension wrong.

It's all a mess, and even when perfect, and it's dry, not too cool, not to hot, not dusty... they still get worse with every use.

On discs it's more like replace the pads when worn (no adjustments, just remove the pin, pull the old pads, push the cyclinders in, put in the new pads, and put the pin back in). Sure there's occasionally a need for replacing brake fluid and/or bleeding. But generally way less maintenance, and you get like 90% of perfect braking all the time instead of 10-90% depending on temp, wetness, ice, grit, state of tune, etc.
> the government itself routinely engages in unconstitutional and illegal covert surveillance of citizens.

This must be the subject of legal and political debate, right? Otherwise people would sue in the Supreme Court (or have already done that)?

> At this point the only real solution is well-applied cryptography.

See the other comment about the $5 wrench. I believe cryptography at best can attempt to patch some failures temporarily. The only long term fix is fixing the government.
… and a 2 character geohash is reeeeeeally coarse. As is 0 fractional digits to lat/lon.
I am specifically NOT trying to go down "redress historical grievances", only "try to correct for currently existing imbalances".

There's probably also something to be said for having policies trying to get some geographic rebalancing in place as well. But, what I am trying to say is that redressing recent-past wrongs MAY require slight over-compensation.

To make anything other than sweeping generalisations, I would need numbers. Oh so many numbers.
Differential Dataflow for Mere Mortals
Legacy Freenode Is Dead
Got the following on IRC

02:20:31 -keitwo- [Global Notice 1/3] We are moving past legacy freenode to a new fork. The new freenode is launched. You will slowly be disconnected and when you reconnect, you will be on the new freenode. We patiently await to welcome you in freedom's holdout - the freenode.
02:20:41 -keitwo- [Global Notice 2/3] If you're looking to connect now, you can already /server chat.freenode.net 6697 (ssl) or 6667 (plaintext). It's a new genesis for a new era. Thank you for using freenode, and Hello World, from the future. freenode is IRC. freenode is FOSS. freenode is freedom.
02:20:47 -keitwo- [Global Notice 3/3] When you connect, register your nickname and your channel and get started. It's a new world. We're so happy to welcome you and the millions of others. We will be posting more information in the coming days on our website and twitter. Otherwise, see you on the other side!

See also https://isfreenodedeadyet.com/
yes, 'Powered by' https://mro.name/g/about explains the details.
> Instead of viewing running a business as a contest between businesses for Scarce Resource X and Y, it’s probably better to view running a business as a contest of managing the scarce resources within the company itself: Capital, time, amount of great people working with you, etc.

Advocates of Go (the game, not necessarily the language) see the first view as problematic as well. In Go, attacking is much harder than it is in chess. The game is more like a negotiation, where every "take" is necessarily accompanied by a "give". As in negotiation, the more skilled player can subtly shift things their way, but from the Go mindset, each defeat is a lesson. You may have lost the immediate "negotiation", but what you were given in return was a lesson in how to improve for the next time.

Applied to business, competitors can be negotiated with and perhaps at times even cooperated with when it's in both party's interest (in software, you see this in things like conferences where people swap best practices and "war stories"), and competitors who have an advantage over you can be learned from.
> the government should take an ownership percentage in return for its funding

But wouldn't that create a big conflict of interest?

WidgetCorp is 10% owned by the Feds, InterWidget is not. Who gets the contract for those $6M widgets in the new fighter jet?
(Of course just like Excel tools like these can also be used in a good way by good people)
I quit it over 8 years ago. I can only imagine that it's gotten much worse since then.

It was quite spontaneous. I came out of shower, picked my phone and deleted the IG account, FB account (they let you keep the messenger while FB gets de-activated), Snapchat and Twitter all at once.

The feeling of fear of missing out is real and you go through almost a withdrawal period. Things like you launching browser and fingers automatically start typing Facebook's url without realizing and then the browser auto-complete automatically fills in the username and password fields and all you have to do to get a "hit" is to click the "log in" button. But then you have to force yourself to not do so.

Do it spontaneously and remove your account info from the keychain/password manager. Change your hosts file or block it on your wifi router etc. Basically make it as hard as possible for you to get back.

You can also do something like for every second you spend on social media, you need to do that many push ups and pull ups.

The other comment's advice about "seek boredom" is excellent.
https://cuetorials.com/ is probably more hands-on than the homepage which is slightly more theoretical. For validating sequences see https://cuelang.org/docs/tutorials/tour/types/lists/ .
Also podcasts are mostly assumed to be biased by the host, as he directs the conversation. Mainstream news has more indirection from reader to writer so the bias is less tangible.
It looks quite cool. I think it would be really useful if you have a lot of integrations into different programming languages, frameworks, and maybe even SQL servers.

So you could do data validation on the frontend, backend and the database server based on the same definitions.

It would save us a lot of bugs caused by different opinions of valid data in different layers of software.
I unfortunately came away with the same impression. I was hoping for an integrative perspective on changes that do make a big difference in everyday biology, such as open source systems for critical parts of the research process (e.g. https://www.opentrons.com/).

From the informatics side, bio ~ computer science. Major advances in data structures are driven by the absurdly data-heavy problems in biology. But when you get into the wet, things are messy and there is not a culture of automation. If lab automation can go fully open source, then we have the chance to see the same transition on the wet side of things.
indeed, history repeating. There's a nice talk by Jonathan Blow how technology declines and has to be re-invented over and over again: https://youtu.be/pW-SOdj4Kkk
That's true. If you use a more restricted language, such as Go, then in does not happen so often that a developer chooses to (or even can) over-engineer something.

Unfortunately, at the same time it also takes away the power in situations where it should be used and where the benefits of abstraction overweigh the drawbacks. This then leads to repetitive and bloated code, runtime errors and all the problems that come from it.

Pick your poison...
What about aerodynamics?
https://www.swissside.com/blogs/news/back-to-the-wind-tunnel
> seek boredom

That's an excellent advice. Not just for quitting FB/IG but also for life in general. I often have my deepest thoughts and come up with product ideas when I am bored or in the shower or waiting for the bus.
Apparently their solution was to not bother migrating the services database at all.

I ... just ... lolsob.
You are probably out of luck, which is why free software was invented: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html.
lol, how so?
+1 for using the term "storytellers". I call "journalists" Schreiberlinge in German, which has a similar conotation. If I have learnt one thing during the pandemic, that even supposedly serious media is not to be trusted. I always knew (from first hand experience of being interviewed) that newspapers are really not much more worth then other things you use to whipe stuff... After the pandemic, I know you can basically ignore all the media outlets. All they do is generate interactions and spread badly researched lies.
This is probably against some WTO or government law; but for a moment set that aside and consider.

What if these universities were some kind of public benefit think tank or lab that happened to also be a university? If instead of a profit to general investors any profits had to either be re-invested in research projects or go into the general fund of the national government they operate beneath? With the additional requirement that any gained research become the public domain? Possibly with some of the more dangerous stuff being classified but filed under seal as prior art?

PS: Please pay ABOVE prevailing wage to attract the best talent to the advancement of technology.
Indeed. I love Aes. One of hip hop's greatest lyricists and MC's.
Yes I used Bitdefender for awhile, which was fine, and then they started installing stuff like VPN clients and weird browser extensions. I literally paid for it too, but not anymore. Total shady bullshit.
I don't zoom in and out but now I keep some sites on 110% zoom all the time.

For some reason my vision has considerably deteriorated over the past year. Once noticeably in the first couple of months of the pandemic and then I had another significant change for the worse in the past couple of months.
> PoS is effectively permissionless given the number of parties that have the stakeable asset and are willing to sell it.

the market doesn't have enough liquidity for you to gain a meaningful stake and those that organized the pre-mine scam will always remain in control. or they will sell you the stake for exorbitant price and perform a long-range attack against you because they still hold the original keys.

Eth is going through transition and yet it’s the largest pre-mine scam in existence.

Crowd sales are just pre-mines.

Non-profit is just pre-mine beneficiary that people will fight for control over.

And you conveniently ignored all the other problems with PoS: long range and grinding attacks, no ability to reduce power of malicious staker, no universal objective measure for which chain is genuine so you have to rely on third parties, etc.
Depends. Many make pretty ugly compromises. Poor pads, not much leverage, and even being single sided which often drags and requires the disc to bend for good braking.

So cable-pull disc vs rim brakes is less clear, more susceptible to case by case differences.

However hydraulic discs are always (AFAIK), double sided, and almost always better than even the highest end rim brakes.

Not to mention who wants to destroy their nice rims by dragging brakes on them, leading to relatively short lives as the rim walls get ever thinner, right up till they start cracking. I'd rather replace a disc than a rim after 5-10k miles.
Exactly, and I do think the tinkering of the execution part is an important part of the creative process. A lot of requirements mismatch becomes visible when implementing.

We don't ask artists to describe the painting and let someone else do the execution part. Working with the pigments, and seeing how they interact on the canvas is important for getting a good result. An intermediary would be detrimental.

In music maybe there's such a thing when you have somebody who can sing well, that has a team of songwriters doing the creative work.

Maybe the question is what other jobs rote learning is good for. I think there are enough jobs that don't ask for creativity, but instead require discipline.

And as with all things, there are probably shades of grey in between. A mix of discipline and creativity might be better than the extreme for many jobs.
Honestly? I hope so. Problems that can be solved by 'low-code tools' are boring. There will always be more difficult problems to solve that fall outside of the basic use cases (e.g. CRUD / forms) and I'd rather be working on those.

Though I do think there will still be work for programmers, there will always be some point where the business wants something that isn't supported by the tool - just wonder if those low-code tools allow for customization (e.g. plugins).
Yes... I've felt for years now that Safari in particular prioritized UI speed over correctness. They don't seem to care what they have to do to get a buttery UI. It is indeed buttery, much more than any other browser, but at what cost?

Bugs.
Human Cells can write RNA sequences into DNA
Monday.com IPO
Please note the large quantities consumed with great regularity. Most people aren't doing that.

I'm not comfortable with how much attention that detail got. It's speculation on my part and there could be other explanations for the behavior, though it fits with what I have heard from people who were on prescription drugs for their serious allergies.

I think the general point that "under recognized health issues likely contribute to so-called procrastination" is solid, but I'm not really comfortable with the direction this went in comments.
I feel like this shadow company would fit perfectly with the other shadow companies that have entered Formula1 sponsoring in recent years. Next up: Freenode sponsored F1 car.
Discovering an ATM Skimmer
I'm still not convinced this whole business of grocery delivery/fast food delivery is even a viable economic model. The value add is so tiny relative to the costs involved. An actual human being, A, must be paid to drive down to a store and deliver something for B who is too lazy to get off his couch for a burrito. The only way that would work is if A is being paid the bare minimum or if B has plenty of cash to spare. Even then, whatever value the middleman captures is supposed to fund this billion dollar startup with armies of engineers and office space and the works. I dunno, seems a bit wonky to me but maybe I'm just old fashioned.
> because it covers all the nuance of our individual situation.

Without wanting to downplay your achievement, I've worked for organisations that did the same thing with MS Access back in the early oughts.

The 'custom' application grew with the organisation. Features were bolted on over the years inelegantly. It was impossible to integrate easily with other systems.

The quirks of the system were known by long time employees who developed work arounds that were convoluted and took time.

UX wasn't a thing back then; but if it had been people would have definitely said it had terrible UX.

We've been promised these solutions for a long time. In my experience, they overpromise and underdeliver.
Ask HN: Are you a night owl or morning lark? One may protect you from depression
Thanks! That is so funny. The article was screaming ADHD at me all the time while reading it. Especially this feeling of vague anxiety. He basically comes up with typical ADHD coping strategies.