skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a wet food dispenser would be fantastic, but you are right in that there are quite a lot of hurdles to it -- spoilage, the often unpleasant smell of wet cat food, the tendency for it to gum up the works as opposed to the more tractable to automation kibble, which merrily rolls along.

My gut feeling here says that any solution in this area is going to involve some kind of can engineering, maybe as far back in the chain as having specially designed wet food dispenser cans.

Refrigeration, too, would come into play unless you were working on a one-redesigned-can, one-serving paradigm. Perhaps a Peltier cooler with the waste heat going to warm some kind of cat friendly pad, as well as the food once served (given that they are carnivores, I am betting that cats would prefer wet food the approximate temperature of mouse guts).

And do not get me started on the struggles of multiple cats, where one or more cats is on a special diet.

I think wet food dispensing could honestly be very healthy for cats (or dogs) but we just haven't spent much time engineering for it.
You will probably have to write a scraper :(
This should be on the first page! Exactly what would get me into the project.
It’s more buggy, less responsive, has less features and consumes more resources. Literally its only pro is that it looks pretty.
Mental phenomena don’t map into the brain as expected
Right. I might be dense but I understood that the address was written correctly on the parcel.

So whatever the German post thinks the address is, the label should have been scanned within Denmark, and the issue is likely that the Denmark post’s contractor is incompetent, rather than “lol Germans don’t do foreign names with funny letters” (which is not what the OP wrote, but is the vibe in a lot of replies).

And indeed, a post code should render this very difficult in the first place.
Locking down a population is as violent as letting people die from the disease. Enough is enough, jackboots!
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They are lucky to have you as manager. I tried talking directly about my promo for 2 years now with various managers. It’s not that I wanted to hop teams but the management turn over is so frequent, I end up having 3 managers in 1.5 years. Nobody would have enough time to write the promo doc in that short time frame!
This kind of deal seems like it has to be extremely low-cost for an actual stay. You're already paying an annual fee to Pacaso, now every time you want to go, you're paying $200 for cleaning?

Very soon it just makes sense to get a hotel, where you don't front out $100k just to walk in the door.
He was at a BLM protest and lit up that cop car. I checked, his quote was "I got carried away".

No comment on CHAZ killing 3 black dudes? Is that a pro or anti 'black lives matter' action?

You can define your personal boundary for who "counts" and not, have it include all the peaceful people and none of the bad/unwise people, and call everyone who disagrees a concern troll.. and hey, you'll be right, according to you.
The hour is close.
They are killing the feed, I don't know for you, but for me it has seemed static.
> You would have needed to predict the pandemic

It's rather short of that of course, but after hearing about an outbreak of flu in China on Canadian television in a hotel lobby on holiday from the UK, very early January 2020, I think the 2nd [*] - I heard approximately nothing about except via HN, which included 'this will be bad/global', until March.

[*] (For a while I remembered, because it was notably earlier than UK newspapers kept claiming as a start date, or 'detected in China', in their charts from March. I didn't claim to know the correct date, but obviously that was an upperbound!)
Two things I learned on HN before they became mainstream:

* Rust

* Covid

For the latter I remember thinking that it was going to become a big deal soon but no one seemed to be paying attention except for those paranoid HNers.
Of things which are "interesting," absolutely. But to the stickiness of these things I'd say the record is mixed. If you lurk here chances are you'll hear about any single tech topic earlier than most other places. But that the ones you hear about here (or are most upvoted here) also tend to be the ones with greater stickiness is not clear to me at all.
Thanks. I'm always keeping my eyes open for projects in the larger space.

LibreTime looks to be a lot larger than the domain I'm working to serve but it looks great and also looks like a good place to take notes on open sourcing an audio project.
Yeah, if I had no appetite to go back and "deal" with an organization that provides safe harbour for terrorists from time to time, there's no chance I'd try to compromise them.
Ok, let's go to the about page:

"Public Discourse is the online journal of the Witherspoon Institute, a 501(c)3 research center located in Princeton, New Jersey. We seek to enhance public understanding of the moral foundations of free societies by making the scholarship of our fellows and affiliated scholars available and accessible to a general audience."

Interesting. Let's check the Witherspoon Institute's about page now:

"Located in Princeton, New Jersey, the Institute promotes the application of fundamental principles of republican government and ordered liberty to contemporary problems through a variety of academic and other educational ventures."

That's a big nope for me. Thanks but no thanks.
Intel and Submer Advance Data Center Cooling Tech
My dad likes to remind me that he was 'working remote' (had a dial up modem and two factor auth in to whatever he was doing at AT&T/Ameritech) back in the early 2000s
Meanwhile, new machines with 4 GBs of RAM are still being sold in my country. Most laptops within reach of a typical family have 8 GBs, and no slots to add more.
We cannot predict future trends in technology, if we could, then Bitcoin would have today 0 value because it is boosted only by FOMO (fear of missing out) feelings, not because it is useful.

In 2009, I was starting with Scala, which had functional features way beyond what was achievable in other languages at that time. Scala was a game changer, it rode later on the Big Data (Spark, Kafka) wave (circa 2015). Many academic things that Scala proved to be production-ready were backported after to Java, JS, etc. I have built systems with Scala that were actually useful for people and organisations, while Bitcoin as a technology... I am just glad that I have predicted worse in this case.
KPIs can work well or not. In this case, some VP's KPI about increasing signups and % of tweets viewed by signed in users is making Twitter worse (actually better because I hate Twitter).
The loan approach misses the fact the the entrepreneur is going to spend several years of his life on the project. Nobody starts a company they don’t believe in. The cost is too high, even without the loans.
That convention was never ratified by the US and forced labor as punishment for crime is explicitly allowed by the 13th amendment.
I agree but unfortunately their mobile website got better (when logged in) and now works really well on my phone.
I still think the two are equivalent. The only difference is in the baggage attached to the terms "bad" or "evil". The same solutions are applied in both cases. If someone is an immediate threat to others they are removed from society. Rehabilitation is attempted in order to prevent further commission of crimes. Some signal (punishment) is provided to the person who committed the crime in order to deter them and others from repeating the offence (fines, community service, probation, length of incarceration). The problem is in the execution of those strategies, it's a mess because there are a lot of perverse incentives both monetary and based on personal beliefs. There is also a lack of and/or a misdirection of funding.

I don't think removing punishment is a cure for this. Excessive, cruel or needless punishments should not be applied but you do need to impose some cost as a consequence. Human beings are capable of learning and both reward and penalty are necessary for that to happen. If we are going to push a lever it should be focused on effective rehabilitation, which would involve a complete overhaul of and a lot of investment in prisons so they can address the needs of every inmate.
'League of Legends' World Championship Moves from China to Europe Due to Covid
I suspect the segment that I'm in is pretty huge. I recently got Starlink. I got it mostly because it was alright internet and I really fucking hate Comcast. They're the only landline option that I have in a suburban area, and fiber internet is unlikely to come here any time soon.

I mean sure, I'd rather our legislators actually do their job and pass a law enforcing local loop unbundling, but until that point Starlink is a breath of fresh, competitive air.
I have seen a fair bit of those from the US as well (mine had both é and à).
> we're building something that's 60 feet long and costs hundreds of thousands.

Why still hundreds of thousands? Blimps are an incredibly simple, cheap technology, and drone hardware is completely commoditized at this point.
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> My seagull manager

i'm sure this is a typo, but IDK what was intended.

senior manager?
Normally by user agent. You can adopt the same UA to get past some paywalls, but it doesn't always work.
Are there hopeful ways for atheists to think about death?
If your argument is that Apple should be forced to give everyone access to the proprietary abstractions it builds on its own operating systems, like PHAssets, then we are no longer in the world of privacy and now in the world of “when is it ok to force companies to build features the public [HN posters] wants?” There are many answers to this, but it seems like the current legal regime in most places says: “Very rarely.”

My argument is that nothing stops a photo sync solution from building much of the relevant stack themselves: you can build MGAssets and get apps to adopt your photo library view controller as an action sheet or use File Provider abstractions to build the same in file pickers. 1Password, eg, offers a direct to 1P button as an SDK for 3rd parties to use. Once you separate out what you can’t do easily because it would take a lot of investment to build yourself versus what actual platform features you’d like to force Apple to build, I think your argument that the latter should be done is even less compelling.
"so far"

I had 512M in 2003~ which was more than enough until 2009 when max available memory was closer to 4G, but usually 2G even in the high end.

From 2009 to 2015 my personal memory consumption went from 512mb to 16G- which is a meteoric leap. I suspect that the only thing holding back developers from using more ram between 2015 and 2021 is the fact that intel basically capped the upper limit to 16G on laptops, and most developers are using laptops.
For those who can't be bothered to read wikipedia, this only applies when the courts can find you read it to the best of your ability and misunderstood it. Mostly it applies to those who can't read (either at all or the language of the contract) and so trusted someone else to tell them what it meant and they were deceived.

If you could have read the document but didn't, that is your own fault and the contract stands. Only if you couldn't have read the contract, or you clearly could not understand it does the contract not apply.
There are no IPA keys for whistling.
In the Northeast US, it's not unusual to have some "summer cottage" or other large property that's been passed down through generations and is now jointly owned and used by a ton of grandchildren, cousins, and second cousins. I stayed in one a few weeks ago.
The gene Npas4 a master timekeeper for the brain's circadian clock
Talk to someone who has been (or worked for) a residential landlord at any scale. "Trashed" very often includes real damage - not just stuff that can be swept away into Molly Maid's mop bucket, vacuum cleaner, and garbage bag.
> If you want Facebook on your iPhone to stream to your TV then Apple should provide an Apple TV API for Facebook to use.

There is - AirPlay doesn't require local network access since it's an API apps can use. Un/fortunately, there are multiple competing standards like Chromecast (and other, manufacturer-specific casting standards) which require the app to do its own local network discovery to find available devices.
Authoritarians always lose because they have the burden of accurately predicting the future, a fools' errand. It may take additional time but the heavy handed response by the NZ government will go down as a tyrannical mistake, one which will not stop the spread of the disease through their population and will have introduced great psychological harm by isolating people for so long.
Are you OP the author?
Yeah if you are in one of the few companies with really healthy internal culture and good management it should be fine but the Qa role is one of the first that breaks down when that stability breaks
The flipside is that anyone now signing in now are going to have harder time getting off later.
I always thought the difference is with a normal shove-it the board pivots on the back trucks, whereas with a pop shove-it all wheels are off the ground for the rotation. They seem to be depicting only the latter in the animations.
Show HN: I built a crypto whale trade alert Python script
I almost cried when the "Leave Site?" alert popped up
...well, yes. But timeshares come in two forms, sometimes called "shared leased ownership" and "shared deeded ownership". The second form is fairly widespread, and it's exactly what you're talking about.

It's certainly true that the shared deed form has advantages (...it's also more expensive upfront, for obvious reasons), but it's not exactly novel.

> So please, less of the "this is just reinventing timeshare" It's a proven model, it works, and good luck to them.

I agree; I don't think they're reinventing anything. And it is a proven model...but I'd still call it a timeshare.
heh, great summary, thank you.
Vaccination doesn't stop the spread of the delta variant, so I'm not sure how that would have helped enough to prevent an outbreak.
You know, owning 51% of these and screwing the minority out of their share is a great strategy with plenty of wholesome American values-slash-jurisprudence on your side. In Salyer v. Tulare the Supreme Court said as long as JG Boswell owned the majority of the flood control district it was A-OK for him to just destroy the farms of the minority owners. You could make a lot of money this way.
10 years of experience.

In my first job had multiple promotions varying from 5% to 50%. The lower ones (5% ~ 10%) were given proactively by my employer and for the bigger one (50%) I've ended up changing position inside the company, after asking for a bigger raise.

I agree with others that it's way more easy to have a substantial increase moving jobs.
Start your own little rehab on your property?
It's not awful for this specific entitlement, as we could say "you own the phone, you share the network".

(You might own some networks. But you also might own some roads. We'd stretch the analogy to your home WiFi being akin to your driveway, I guess.)
One group working on this is the Natural Material Innovation group at Cambridge: https://www.natmat.group.cam.ac.uk/research/natmat

"Timber Towers" London proposal: https://www.natmat.group.cam.ac.uk/news/timber-towers-could-... (2019)

(encountered via the easy-listening of BBC Radio 4's 39 Ways to Save the Planet: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000qy43 )
That is my experience in the U.K. as well, where it sounds similar to your description. And it works very well, it is a very sensible solution.
> This is neat, but I think it's better to use your work provided device(s)/laptop for work, and your personal devices for personal things.

This is important when you are a salaried employee.

BUT: There's often very good reasons to do paid work on your personal equipment. If you're a contractor, if you juggle contracts, if you're a founder or an early employee...
Yes I remember the 2017/18 recession

/s
The people complaining on Reddit are already logged in
Only tangential but still interesting.

During the infamous leap second fiasco of Java in 2012 which brought down all JVM servers by saturating the CPU, I saved the day because I was reading about it here on HN while my colleagues were struggling to undestrand why all our environments stopped working.

It took me a few minutes to realize that we were indeed hit by what I just read, look at ten of my colleagues each closely inspecting logs at different ssh sessions, and gleefully give them a precise description of the problem, an approach to verify it and a solution, adding “it’s all over the news guys, you should keep yourself updated”.
Give teddit.net a look.

Nitter.net for Twitter.

I don’t know how long these sites will last with the demand there is for avenues that don’t prompt login.
Eh maybe. The problem is that IMO there aren’t any obvious alternatives to Reddit. I remember when Digg committed suicide with a pretty bad redesign and most disgruntled users moved to Reddit. I’ve been pretty annoyed with the changes Reddit has implemented in the past couple of years, but I haven’t found another place to go (that’s not necessarily a bad thing). HN is the closest alternative but the scope of topics we discuss is limited. That’s probably part of HN’s success but then where do you go for other topics?
You probably exclude a large portion of possible workplaces if you argue that you need to keep their IP like a repo clone on a device they don't control. I doubt that will change any time soon.

The kind of company you want to work for in that cases is one that just lets you buy whatever machine you want, with a budget that exceeds whatever you'd buy for your private one.
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Samsung Announces $206B Investment Spree
What is it with modern UI and the tendency to be slow, to have a ridiculous amount of whitespace, and to have a copious number of round button-icons that are not intuitive? It's fucking insulting.
They Still Live in the Shadow of Theranos’s Elizabeth Holmes
Grafana Labs Raises $220M Round at $3B Valuation
That was the session opener for the conference, setting the stage. The conference itself (linked from the channel page) has presentations from scientists backing up the claims he makes there.

The first lecture in the session for example is from Dr Clare Craig, an epidemiologist, discussing how the virus actually spreads, and presents evidence for the remark you highlighted about social distancing and quarantine [1].

As I said in other comments here, rejecting arguments based on (lack of) credentials is not constructive. I encourage everyone to open their mind and engage with what people have to say. You can always disagree with them and you're then at least more familiar with the arguments of the other side. I am always trying to find a way to justify the behaviour of governments with regards to COVID-19 - it would sure as heck make my life easier right now to fall in line - and I do this by reading and hearing the arguments in favour of restrictions and mandates from all corners.

[1] https://youtube.com/watch?v=veSfwMZhZRA
But you might also make a novel improvement that benefits all of your fellow users. Think about how many iPhone features were dreamed up not by Apple but by developers or even “hackers” who figured out a clever approach to a common problem.

I use the “flashlight” on my iPhone all the time but I remember when the only way to use it was to open the camera app, switch to video mode, and turn on the flash. And Shortcuts is one of the most useful app available for an iPhone and it was an idea patched together using APIs in a way Apple never intended. In fact, Shortcuts could be way better if Apple didn’t have so many seemingly random and arbitrary limitations.
As managers, we've had many individuals tell us "everything's fine; I like it here..." and then leave because "I'm ready for something new." So we often hear "I'm fine" and translate that to "I'm bored/unhappy/disengaged but I'm not telling you that because I don't think it's in my interest to reveal dissatisfaction to my manager."

The first step is creating enough trust and openness in the relationship to get past this communication impasse.

Promotion ladders are one (of many) tools for expressing what the company desires of its employees. For employees seeking advancement, they also work as a tool for discovering an employee's motivation. If promotion isn't the motivation - express what is the motivation. Figuring out that someone loves the puzzle of debugging, or takes pride in being the expert, or is a 9-5 journeyman who wants a stable, competitive salary for their contribution can be the key to having a fruitful conversation.

Once both sides are honest about motivation and satisfaction (the manager obviously also needs/wants something from the employee...) then there's space for adult-to-adult conversations about how and if those motivations line up.

In my experience, managers rarely turn away skilled, drama-free, reliable contributors. But we know our employees aren't totally truthful/open with us about these sensitive topics - so we don't take "I'm fine... leave me alone" at face value.
This same story is popping up among the countries who were successful in limiting the spread last year - New Zealand, Australia, Vietnam, Taiwan, South Korea.

They basically got cocky. They gambled that their prior infection controls could keep them safe until they could acquire vaccines on their own terms.

Now many of those countries are finding out that what worked last year doesn’t work for the Delta variant. When other developed countries are talking about boosters these countries are scrambling to fully vaccinate their population and because they are so late to the game they’re likely 6-12 months behind.

Now if we don’t get yet another variant that requires a different vaccine/booster they might be fine. But they might also find out that by the time they’ve vaccinated for the original strain the vaccine is no longer effective.
Does cheating the system just mean you disagree with it, or do you maintain that he's breaking the law? Or that regulators aren't aware of this practice? I'm not sure what cheating means here: usually it means breaking the rules, but that's not happening based on what he described.
You’re free to get a flip phone from 10+ brands, therefore Apple and Google don’t have any monopoly power over the phone market. Just get a different phone!
I guess the main difference I'm trying to get at here is: what we believe to be core tenets of civilisation are perhaps more hotly contested than we want to admit?

Or; to put it another way: you and I believe this (we're in the majority!), so should we force it on everyone?
I guess there's 2 ways to approach something that appears to be a scam. One is to avoid it. The other is to get in on it.
It looks "pretty" in the crappy modern way though where there's loads of whitespace and everything is hidden in a menu or tab somewhere.

Give me "ugly" plain-ish text that is information dense.
I feel like you could make a Stephen King esq horror movie from this. Got caught buying a stolen horse trailer, no record of drug abuse. Get sent to the gulag “rehab,” center. Hand pulled into the machinery. Block you from getting medical treatment. Force you to keep working. Steal your workers comp. Meanwhile the warden is walking up and down the halls singing hymns and menacingly dragging a chain.

Sit through the whole 1h30min movie and it turns out it’s just a Tyson nuggets commercial.
To draw back in those seeking to cut down their social media usage, in part
> Did people forget that "digital nomad" was trending years prior to the pandemic?

Often encouraged by people selling tools, books, coaching, etc. related to the digital nomad lifestyle.