skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really really hate the weighing self-checkout things that are so prevalent in the UK (and I guess US?). They require a special artform of weighing the things just right, putting it one by one in the right basket etc, which is slower than going through a normal check-out.

In contrast one of the bigger chains in The Netherlands has a self-checkout system where you get a small hand scanner to put in a holder on your cart, it doesn't make you weigh anything, just show it the barcode before dropping things in your cart (or easier: put your bag in the cart, put everything straight in the bag). At the exit, drop the scanner thing in a charger, hold your phone in front of the checkout screen, Apple pay, done, straight to the car with your stuff already in your bag.

Their UX guys understand how to optimize. The original version made you press a few buttons to select things like "card payment" (still takes only 30 seconds vs the Tesco several minutes of weighing things), a few years ago they made it default to card payment, so you don't have to press any buttons if you use Apple pay or similar.

I guess only Amazon has an even better thing with their "walk straight our" shop. But it has the same optimization idea: Make it as easy as possible for your customers to buy things.
Are you getting the best price from Amazon?
Looking back, I wish everyone had taken pictures of everyday life (probably with an Instamatic). Christmas pictures, awards, meh. What I really want are pictures of the halls in high school, street racing, parties with giant bonfires and beer.
I think it depends on your definition of freedom of speech. I don't support providing a platform for harmful lies to spread e.g. QAnon

In my opinion, internet and social media changed the game. Freedom of speech now is not the same as freedom of speech 200 years ago. The spread of information now is massive and instanteneous, and people are up against ML models which are being trained to grab their attention. For example, Cambridge Analytica - were their actions an exercise of freedom of speech or exploitation of social media?
Just happened to me. I posted it to the private repo on GH as well.
I think this feels very manipulative. I don't really buy that the authors have general ambitions and aren't just interested in making bank in sales, because that's exactly what they say they're going to do in the video. I see a couple notes about video game characters talking to you directly... This tech is not the reason that problem is difficult but whatever.

The thing the urks me about this is not so much the ML, but... who actually wants personalized video ads? I think it is very uncomfortable for people you don't know to say your name like they know a lot about you. This would be be awful to me even it were paid actors, costs be damned. This gives the privacy problem a human face and, imo, makes it much more discomforting. What kind of marketing context makes it feel appropriate to send a personalized video message that will be warmly received but also cost prohibitive to actually make one?

Not familiar with Loom or Vidyard, but really this whole premise seems really creepy, neural nets or otherwise. It smells like the the ads that proclaim HOT SINGLES WANT TO CHAT TO BOYS IN {your age range} in {your town}.
Ah, another one of those "I use macOS for UNIX, but actually GNU/Linux" articles.
I mean, I can see the point. Maybe facebook is getting money but not actually creating value for people.

...but if we get Mars bases, so what? I'd rather play video games on earth than farm potatoes on Mars. Call it a lack of imagination but yeah.
Yep, but it does depend on what you are selling, or what you 'say' you are selling.

Within UX you can focus on many things, be it an abundance of choice vs. known defaults, aesthetic vs. utilitarianism, CAPEX vs. OPEX etc.
While this might be a good alternative for some, Bakup.io is better for someone who wants a managed solution and dedicated support.
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Wrong, a 51% attack by itself will not take down Bitcoin. There is follow up work that I don't think they are competent enough to complete.
> I'd imagine not too long after safe and effective vaccines are authorized for children under 12.

Children are at exceptionally low risk from Covid. It's time to stop with fear, uncertainty and doubt, and deal with facts.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01897-w

In the US, 340 children under 17 have died from Covid. Total. During the same period, 187 have died from the flu, and over 51,000 children have died from all causes:

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm#Se...

The reason the vaccines aren't being approved for children is that there is compelling evidence that children are at greater risk from the vaccines than the virus. This is why (for example) approval for vaccination of children and teenagers is split across Europe, and the UK has restricted access to only children with known vulnerabilities:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-19/u-k-to-gi...

https://www.voanews.com/covid-19-pandemic/european-countries...

> At that point the majority of those who actively want protection will be able to get it.

This is less about what the children want, and more about anxious adults want, and that is unconscionable. Kids are largely at the mercy of their parents, so it's essential that the regulatory bodies tread carefully on this issue. We don't need kids to be vaccinated to reduce Covid to a manageable seasonal illness on par with the flu.
Once we move outside Earth-like conditions, we should be decreasingly confident about our speculations, not more confident. What are the chemical and physical conditions of a hydrocarbon lake at 5g, -180C, 1 kilotesla and 100 atmospheres? Can we really be confident that "whale" is the best mechanical solution for moving around there? Can we really be confident that "moving around" would even be the best survival strategy? I think not.
As opposed to "a library that talks a specific protocol to a medical devices" or "a library that writes some obscure data format used by some government somewhere on earth" which new hires wouldn't know how to use either because only a hundred people on Earth have ever used either of those?
I've been open to a co-founder for about a year now -- really, since going full-time back in 2020. I'm looking for that Fathom Analytics duo dynamic, but I just haven't found the right fit yet. I *think* I'm looking for a co-founder with a larger focus on marketing/sales, but maybe I'd get along better with another technical founder that wants to do both of those with me. I currently do everything: dev, design, marketing, and sales, which I think is holding back "what could be." Ok, ok -- I'll stop rambling -- feel free to slip into my DMs (email).
This is how I use my work mac.

The “problem” I have is that I’ve been spoiled by i3/sway and this leads to be being underwhelmed with the state of the window management on MacOS.

I attempted to tame it with skhd, yabai and karabiner elements, but the UI is miles too slow and, crucially, finding my terminals again is a pain.

I think I could live with the window management if it didn’t “feel” slow to open a window. It takes about a second for the laptop to accept a key press, open a terminal, resize that terminal and load my shell.

Sounds silly to complain about it but this is a top of the line (i7/32G) machine from 2020. It should not be at all slow when opening terminals.
Backing this up / supporting this, the image of the California Nebula is 2.5° long. That's five moon diameters.

I've got a Nikon 200-500mm lens, which while on the long side of lenses most people have, isn't especially hard to get... and its easy to get a 500mm f/8 mirror lens (which has the same field of view, along with no issues with bokeh for astrophotography). With a full frame camera, its field of view is 5°00'. The California Nebula would take half the frame. With a DX lens, that would be 3°10'.

The bigger challenge is the tracking.

Btw, given:

> I've been doing a project to capture them in context with landscapes around California.

Have you headed out to the Alabama hills? Yea... its star trail photograph rather than specific nebula - http://www.panoscapes.com/showImage.php?partNo=P250H&catNo=7... (its shot a 6x17 film camera - each frame is 6cm x 17cm - that's one shot; if you look at the full size prints you can see airplanes and satellites)
I think there are two things involved.

First is that some produce really is terrible -- "regular" cheap tomatoes can be utterly flavorless. But on the other hand, a lot of supermarkets stock tomatoes that range from fine to quite excellent, e.g. cherry tomatoes grown in greenhouses sold on the vine.

And second is that people really do exaggerate how great homegrown tomatoes are. There are tomato snobs in the same way there are coffee snobs, whiskey snobs, chocolate snobs, whatever. They insist something is 100x better, when really it's just 1.5x better, because for some reason that's important to them, part of their identity.

Yes, a farmer's-market heirloom tomato is utterly delicious. But store-bought cherry tomatoes on the vine are also super super tasty. Even the ones not on the vine can be really really good. (You can also find really bad ones though, it depends on the store.) I'd go so far as to say they're just different, neither obviously better than the other.
For unvaccinated people it can be quite a bit worse than the flu. The degree of empathy afforded those folks seems to be a subject of active debate I guess...
If there are two underrepresented groups in HN comments its poor folks and people that live in rural communities. This article is just scapegoating 'dollar stores' for scenarios where their growth intersects with environments suffering from incompetent leadership and shitty education as if a) it's the only place these stores exist and b) they are the root cause for the problems being outlined.
Modern "Woke" PBS or old school PBS?

Only the latter is useful or good.
The main reason why I recommend iPhone to any one that asks is because they can just walk any "phone store" and just pick the one that looks the way they want - it doesn't matter which one they pick, they're all excellent phones. Just like Macs used to.
I had the same experience on computers I've built myself. On some laptops, though, it's not been smooth sailing. I don't blame Linux for that, though; it's rather the fault of laptop manufacturers and their use of uncommon hardware because it's what they can get cheaply and in bulk.
Why would you want to encourage money to be hoarded? The modern economy is like a shark - if it stops moving, it dies. Exceptions include retirement savings plans, but that is just to keep the government from having to spend more money on old people.
This is indeed the master plan; DG will flood an area with conveniently located stores, drive out the bodegas and grocery stores, then close DG stores to reduce redundancy (and leave the existing stores to rot). The result are food deserts that encompass inner city neighborhoods where the only thing you can find to eat is hyper-processed and comes from a box.

Dollar General is at the crossroads of a bodega and a grocery store: it’s way better than the bodegas despite not being much more expensive, but it also replaces enough grocery store trips that grocery stores are no longer economically viable.
I was more playfully asking if it's still called a "toot." From a quick glance, it was no longer mentioned on their marketing site.
How long before we see “Steam Linux”?
Oh, I'm entirely sure all the people reporting that their Radeon cards work great on Linux aren't liars. It must be fine for lots of people.
I thought these were also already explained in Graeber's book...

A paragraph from Chapter 8:

> Why? The single most important factor would appear to be war.
Bullion predominates, above all, in periods of generalized violence.
There's a very simple reason for that. Gold and silver coins are distin­
guished from credit arrangements by one spectacular feature: they can
be stolen. A debt is, by definition, a record, as well as a relation of
trust. Someone accepting gold or silver in exchange for merchandise,
on the other hand, need trust nothing more than the accuracy of the
scales, the quality of the metal, and the likelihood that someone else
will be willing to accept it. In a world where war and the threat of
violence are everywhere-and this appears to have been an equally ac­
curate description of Warring States China, Iron Age Greece, and pre­
Mauryan India-there are obvious advantages to making one's trans­
actions simple. This is all the more true when dealing with soldiers.
On the one hand, soldiers tend to have access to a great deal of loot,
much of which consists of gold and silver, and will always seek a way
to trade it for the better things in life. On the other, a heavily armed
itinerant soldier is the very definition of a poor credit risk. The econo­
mists' barter scenario might be absurd when applied to transactions
between neighbors in the same small rural community, but when deal­
ing with a transaction between the resident of such a community and
a passing mercenary, it suddenly begins to make a great deal of sense.
Not just you. On Edge Chromium and no images are loading.
Some might hope they will limit their actions to voting.
You can't do it with license.
It causes more harm than it prevents.
See how this played out with the JSON License
https://lwn.net/Articles/707510/

We can assume: noone evil took heed -- because they are evil.
The good on the other hand stood by their principles that even the evil should have free software; and so didn't use it.
Thus causing suffering until it was reimplemented.
I don't know about others, but when I said "Israeli propagandists" I meant literally the Israeli government's official public relations, e.g. the people who did this: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/6/23/my-zionism-isra... I might disagree with random internet posters, but I wouldn't generally call them "propagandists".

> But seriously, ask yourself if there is any way a Jew could tell you "Hey, what you're saying about Israel is kinda racist because XYZ" without you immediately dismissing them.

I'd be willing to listen to their argument. It's gonna depend on what the initial statement was.

There are plenty of people who criticize Israel and are also antisemitic, and they often try to cloak it in reasonable-sounding arguments. That does not mean that all reasonable-sounding arguments against Israeli policies are automatically racist. If someone says "Israel is bombing Palestine again, you know how those Israelis are," that would sound like it could be a dog whistle. If someone says "Israel is bombing Palestine again, they're just perpetuating the cycle of violence," that seems reasonable enough--but I have seen more than a few people who would call even that antisemitic.
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To an extent, I agree. I'm just pointing out that this is a bit of a bad example. I want there to be dynamic inspection of input.

That said, maps as the only tool is clearly messy. And is a straw man.
That's so in alignment with my thinking I'd like to buy you a beer
The worst kind are the coding challenges were they don't even respond back to you after delivering it. Happens a lot in London.
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It's a good article, and one of the key takeaways:

If a dating site makes you pay to send messages, then they have an incentive to make you send messages to inactive accounts rather than active accounts, since people with inactive accounts have to pay in order to reply.
They don't need to compete with a thing they can destroy. And they can destroy bitcoin with a 51% attack that is funded by their ability to print as much fiat as it takes.
People noticed about a month ago, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27736460 I can't remember seeing an update or counter-measure from them since.
Yeah I figured unless you do sys programming (operating system/driver development) as job it's really confusing where to start because there is no clear route to the mountain top.

What I find a bit more useful is to find malware analysis and especially articles that examine the _methods_ malwares use with simple examples (e.g. Process Hollowing is used by some malware, but if you are to read the source code for that, good luck, it's a lot easier to read a blog that explain what it is and how to do it in a naive way). But even those are not easy for a layman so I figured I' still far from the doorway.
Im ta nating!
FUCK YOUR MASK MANDATE!

KILL YOURSELF FUCKING FASCIST BITCH!
-7 years? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SteamOS
I think this is something that every university graduate needs to understand so as to not be bitter.

Your first years of your career will be shit, there is just no beating around the bush around this fact. You will be treated like a kid, you will be paid like shit (borderline minimum wage a lot of the times), and you will have to work ridiculous amounts to be seen on the same level as other people in the field.

Once you break the 1-2 year experience mark then you can begin to expect entry level benefits for entry level positions. After you break the 5 year experience mark, then really the world is your oyster. 10 years or more and you can demand blank checks.
One solution I had been dying to implement is the Erlang style of letting a Kubernetes POD OOM, and just respawning it. If the app performs well right up until it runs out of memory, I see no reason to have a GC turned on at all. (obviously there ARE reasons, I just wanted to try this approach)
I'm a bit mixed on a flag because C library dependencies are a fair support burden and an awful lot of people do not have workloads where a pure Python implementation is a significant performance issue because it's lost in the actual work done by the database.

I'd agree with something like a warning on first load or maybe something like an optional package so you could pin `psycopg3[cext]` if you want to guarantee the extension installed.
They are not winning. The fiat standard is imploding as we speak, have you not recognized that yet? Any attack on a popular network exposes a larger audience to the fraud that central banks engage in. Hence, central banks don't survive in the sunlight.
There are numerous ways to redesign the function signatures, but I would imagine the simplest would be (again, idk Haskell syntax):

getConfigurationDirectories: unit -> Maybe [FilePath]
nonEmpty: [a] -> Maybe [a]
head: [a] -> Maybe a
initializeCache: FilePath -> unit

Notice `nonEmpty` isn't really necessary because `head` could to the work. The above could be chained into a single, cohesive stack of calls where the result of each is piped through the appropriate `Maybe` method into the next call in a point-free style. I cannot imagine how this wouldn't be clearer. e.g:

maybeInitialized <- (getCofigurationDirectories >>= head >> initializeCache)

That's the whole thing. Crystal clear. The big takeaway of "Parse don't validate" should be about the predominant use of the `Maybe` monad as a construct to make "parsing" as ergonomic as possible! Each function that returns `Maybe` can be understood as a "parser" that, of course, can be elegantly combined to achieve your result.

My critique is exactly that unwrapping the `Maybe` immediately in order to throw an exception is kind of the worst of both worlds. I mentioned this in a sibling comment, but my sense is that the author is more concerned with have a concrete value (`configDirs`) available in the scope of `main` than best-representing the solution to the problem in code. It is a shame because I agree with the thesis.
Analysis of a disinformation campaign about Turkey on Twitter
That's pretty much me, except for reading a couple of websites (like this) , online banking, and pirating e-books for my Kindle.

I'll fire up a machine for video or photo editing once in a while or sheet music work, but otherwise they're not much use.

One problem is being too old to care about video games. When Space Invaders came out I couldn't imagine that people would choose that over pinball or foosball. My loss I guess.
> What value to society do small per-user judgements bring?

They impose some cost on unlawful behavior where the alternative, were they prohibited, would usually be no cost; plaintiff’s attorneys would seek more if the EV of going to trial was enough greater to compensate for the risks, so if you ban the low $/user settlements z you aren't getting bigger settlements, you are get fewer class actions filed even with meritorious claims.

Class actions largely exist for diffuse harms where low per-class-member damages make it not worth individual direct action lawsuits, so banning small per-member awards is effectively eliminating recovery in most of the space class actions exist to serve, outside of suicide-bomber litigants (that is, litigants who are willing to take a negative EV to make sure that a wrongdoer pays.)
That site is inscrutable, have the owners ever used a web browser?
DNA is extremely flexible, there's no macroscopic form or shape it can't take, as various insects camouflaging themselves as sticks and leaves and what not shows.

So the idea we'll see some vastly different concepts with different starting blocks is possibly unfounded.

Alien life might be very different at low level depending on their environment, but in terms of macroshapes, things like the formation of a head with eyes and mouth, upper and lower limbs, bilateral symmetry and so on will repeat over and over.

We'll see (in another life probably).
To have it filled up outside?
Nonsense. The wages paid to employees are kept local, as is any sales tax.
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In my neighborhood at least, the closure of the only affordable grocery store led to a number of people selling produce on the street corner out of the back of pickup trucks. This is in the middle of a major city the US northeast.
My credit union uses a palm biometric scanner like that to log into their new ATMs.

It works pretty good.
I want to see an article:

"Go as an Alternative to C"
I’m thinking Ubuntu could do it as “Ubuntu for Gamers”. It would probably go a long way to getting a common set of infrastructure for developers to build on.
> Children are at exceptionally low risk from Covid.

Let's hope the die keep rolling up to that result with each succeeding variant!
I see these springing up in economically depressed areas--that and those check-cashing and payday loan businesses.