skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So this is how you get views and clicks these days - make a couple of factually incorrect statements, refuse to do any research, put a FUD clickbait in the title, and bingo - you are a "popular" "journalist".
If you bid low, almost no one will take the opposite side of the deal, so your overall deal flow is low and total profit is low (even if margins are high).

If you ‘open up’ the flood gates on the other end, then yes you’ll do a lot of deal flow - Buyers sense a sucker - and open up a lot of opportunities for matches. It just so happens you’re also losing your shirt.

It’s easy to ‘make money’ (close deals) by giving money to people, and losing money in the actual business.
Oh definitely, it's not for every use case. If one just shuffles boxes through (roughly speaking) and competes on price, an automated system with all the well-known payment providers is better.

If you want to go bare bones, spend as little money as possible (on fees, setup costs and setup time, brain cycles) then I just want everybody to know that - at least in Europe - that's possible. Even with only a personal bank account (and some good bookkeeping, that is)!

> that for many freelancers who send just a few dozens of invoices per year

Let me be clear I'm not talking about invoices from freelancers who already did the work, I'm talking real webshop stuff (you buy and pay for goods and/or digital services on the spot).

The only 'problem' is that you have to wait one or two days (and three when there's a weekend) before you can start fullfilling an order. That's not for every use case, but definitely can work for a lot of use cases I think.
There’s nothing obvious is linked release but is this expected to have an affect on performance either good or bad?
She is slippery, so are scientists - judges are stern - she may not get much traction...
Status pages are almost never automated these days, they cause more problems than they solve.

To be fair, redditstatus.com is quite nice with their sparkline headline metrics. It at least lets you know _something_ is happening even if they haven't yet declared an incident.
Framing it as machine learning undersells the problem.

It's a hybrid model trading in an adversarial, real-dollar environment. The leverage comes from having a small human team trade big volume, much more than they could possibly trade directly, by augmenting their human abilities with automation and a model. Or seen from the other side, it's a model with human oversight.

Any system like that is high risk, high reward. All the successful ones started out by losing a lot of money. Paypal lost an incredible amount to fraud before they started breaking even. OpenDoor lost an incredible amount to mispricing, and took on a ton of balance sheet risk, before their business really started working.

"To live, you must be willing to die"

- poker legend Amir Vahedi
Banning abortions doesn't just affect unplanned pregnancies.

A few weeks after Texas adopted the most restrictive abortion law in the nation, Dr. Andrea Palmer delivered terrible news to a Fort Worth patient who was midway through her pregnancy.

The fetus had a rare neural tube defect. The brain would not develop, and the infant would die at birth or shortly afterward. Carrying the pregnancy to term would be emotionally grueling and would also raise the mother’s risk of blood clots and severe postpartum bleeding, the doctor warned.

But the patient was past six weeks’ gestation, and under the new law, an abortion was not an option in Texas because the woman was not immediately facing a life-threatening medical crisis or risk of permanent disability.

“So we look at them like a ticking time bomb and wait for the complications to develop,” Dr. Palmer said of her patients.

In this case, the woman had the means to travel, and she obtained an abortion in another state, an option unavailable to many low-income and working class women.

From: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/26/health/texas-abortion-law...
> The common pattern I observe is having a new ideas and de-risking it into a successful business.

That is a common pattern, but when you see a company launch a new venture and the primary goal is to not lose money, often, the desire not to lose money leads to decisions that prevent actually making money.
I haven't lived in Seattle but close - Portland and has more similarity to Seattle than differences.

> In 2017 Portland ranked third. Now it has dropped to 66th out of 80. [1]

I am glad I got out. The entire west coast needs less Seattle chadzone, Portland protests, LA homelessness, SF crime and Berkeley wokeness.

The great thing about America is that we have states competing with each other and keeping in check. My hope is that west coast will become better in next decade after some self-introspection. I love the west coast and it is sad to see the decline :-(

[1] https://www.economist.com/united-states/2021/06/12/portland-...
If you had a really robust system, it'd be fun to just slap a read-only mirror of your internal metrics dashboard onto the public Internet for anyone to browse and slice as they please. It'd be a brag, kinda.

Of course, in the real world, I don't think there's a single IT admin who didn't just start nervously sweating and pulling at their collar after reading the above, imagining it as something their CEO said and encouraging them to target it. Nobody can really do this — and that in turn says something important about how those metrics really look in most systems.
The early adopters were True Believers. Elon was changing the world, and to admit any fault was to interfere with The Plan. So they tended exceedingly defensive of Tesla, well past what the outside world considered absurd when they actually admitted the problems.

Tesla has expanded outside that market, and to a person who is looking for a more or less reasonable car, that matches other cars in the price bracket, you're likely to hear nothing but good things about Tesla from the usual sources.

And then you get one, and realize that they're failing basic quality control things that literally every other auto maker worked out 20 years or more ago, and their software has all the stability of beta smartphone software.

None of this is new. It's just that anyone who said anything of the sort, or pointed out that you can't have 10x the sales on 1x the service centers, or such, got shouted down as a Tesla-shorting big oil shill for an awfully long time. Now, people who don't really care about Elon or The Plan are discovering that a Tesla is a bit of a crapshoot. Some are fine. Some are lemons. And God help you if you get a lemon, because the service experience (remember, according to the True Believers, dealerships are the spawn of Satan) is horrid.
No clue about AZ, but lived in west palm beach for a while. Going from NYC to WPB was an interesting experience. It was much cleaner (thats because it is a wealthy area, I assume), quieter and generally nicer. But there wasn't as much to do as NYC. I also didn't see much diversity - mostly wealthy (we are talking high end sports car driving wealthy) white people. I guess it would work for a particular type of demographic.

Weather was nice, though a bit hot for my taste. Everywhere I looked, they were building condos. This was 5 years ago, not what the deal is now.
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The US is only #5 in the dairy export business.

Anyways, we have tools against dumping if it does happen.

Competition is fantastic for the producer: it stops them from getting lazy.

Canada could have been a dairy export juggernaut like New Zealand, but instead Canada kept itself underdeveloped in dairy.
My car doesn't randomly apply the brakes for no reason.
Sorry, that's off the mark.
Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article and then paste it into the thread to complain about it. That seeds discussion with precisely the worst, most flammable and superficial points.

Instead, we (all) need to train ourselves to (a) leave provocations where we encounter them and (b) focus on the genuinely interesting things. Then we have a chance at contributing to a good, interesting forum.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
If you urgently need to retrieve a piece of software, it's likely archived in Software Heritage: http://archive.softwareheritage.org/
That's been true for rural areas since the green revolution in the 1950s changed agriculture and manufacturing went overseas. Even if there is still a mine in the hills outside of town, there are fewer jobs at that mine than there were when the town was built out 100 years ago.

Jobs generate demand for homes. Homes cost a lot in areas where there's been more jobs added than homes. In the last decade, the bay area has added seven jobs per every unit of housing constructed.
That’s what everyone says now. I think it’ll be a different story once there are cyber trucks on the road for everyone to see.
Using these extensions in FF...
uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, Forget Me Not, NoScript, IDN Safe, Decentraleyes.
Also floating menu on right margin (local Html page) to access favourite links.
Maybe I have the wrong car model. What was the one with the odd shape with the rear wheels covered, etc?
What if he needs to pull some changes he needs to continue with his work?
Feel free to DM me on twitter if you care to elaborate and want to discuss, this is strange and I'm not sure what you're referring to. The reason we're a registered 501c3 is that the overwhelming majority of the consulting services we provide around the world are done pro bono or at a loss. I'm not sure what provider you're referring to.
This makes me weary about considering the Tesla Cybertruck. Besides the author, the amount of topics or personal stories about the quality of Tesla vehicles looks alarming.
I recently wrote a short article about NFTs, how they work and how to get started. Might be of some interest to your family: https://medium.com/@contact_9164/how-to-create-your-first-nf...
Okay, but I still don't see any actual forcing. Dark patterns -- indisputably yes. But forcing? Not really.

Oh, and at least you can opt out of data collection.
Not to mention the vitriol over a manually updated status page not updated the instant a service is down.

I mean, the moment it went down I'm sure Github's SREs were paged. Give them a minute to process it first, jeez.
Watermelon status.
It's all relative to average housing prices in the state. An average 3 bedroom house in LA will cost you north of $1 mil and have a property tax anywhere between 10-15K, which is comparable to monthly rent in some states even though CA has some of the lowest property taxes in the country. You basically never stop paying rent in California even if you've paid off your house. It just depends on who the rent goes to.
"real-time music visualization"
Are you talking about the anime girl?

If so, does it do other things or just anime girls?
When they did the vacancy tax in Vancouver it only affected a couple hundred properties out of like two hundred thousand in the market.
10 years is a long time. Plus republicans won't give up without a fight.

I hope TX does turn blue eventually
I have been particularly looking forward to that. Although I have to admit that I'm a bit... disappointed(?)... that previous versions of SQLite won't be able to open such tables (unless they use PRAGMA writable_schema=ON).

I wonder if SQLite didn't store the schema for a table as a "CREATE TABLE..." string, but instead something a bit more... structured, then such things could be added in a more backwards compatible way?
Well, health is more valuable than any money. But I would not think, that maintaining health and knowledge is cheap. it sure is cheaper than being stupid and ruining lives of other people.

Next gen medicine requires DNA sequencing to understand what you have to look out for and what you actually do not need to care about. Since governments are lagging behind in this(though to be fair, that is planned eventually in some uncertain future date), it is up to you to do DNA sequencing today. Get your DNA sequenced and look on results - maybe you need to worry about something else and not covid.

You can get full DNA sequencing from 200$ up to 700$ of whole DNA from nebula:
https://nebula.org/whole-genome-sequencing-dna-test/

My thinking is that 90% of people in general DO NOT NEED TO WORRY ABOUT COVID. Actually, worrying about covid and feeling uncertain is making people more stressful and that damages immunity. So, essentially, people who are making other people fear about covid and are INSISTING that everyone should be vaccinated are responsible for some % of the deaths from covid and from other diseases, because their immunity has been damaged from too much stress. Just stap stressing yourself and others.
To be fair, in Texas you can get access to all forms of birth control and family planning except abortions, and even then they're available very early in a pregnancy, in most cases you can get access to these services for free all over the state.

Texas and a lot of more conservative states are hostile to abortions, but hostility to other forms of birth control and family planning are really a myth at this point that was true in a previous era but no longer true at all.
Ha. I checked HN for the same reason, I was not able to reach Github via university network and I thought that was the time my university messed up with DNS.

HN seems to be going down for the massive amount of requests!
I can't understand the deal with the electric F150 or almost any other modern pickup. They all have full sized 4 door interiors now, so as the truck has gotten bigger, the truck bed (the actually useful part that distinguishes a truck from a car) has gotten smaller. They are usually under 5.5 feet now, so there's many types of furniture you can't really move in them, which you could move in older, smaller pickups. Any idea? It kills the electric F150's attraction as far as I'm concerned. A 2-door model with those little vestigial jump seats behind the main seats and a longer bed would be a lot more useful.
20+ year Texas resident here. The abortion law was, I believe, mostly passed in order to attempt to keep progressives from moving to Texas. The state legislature and governor know that it is most likely to be struck down by the courts. Therefore, it will be gone and out of the way before the next election, so they don't face much of a backlash, but it may keep a bunch of Californian Democrats who might otherwise move here and vote, from moving here. On the other hand, any Californian Republicans who move here, they would like to get, because Texas has been moving from deep red to purplish red in recent years. It's still for sure a right-leaning state, but an influx of Democratic voters, while small compared to the existing population, could well be enough to tip the balance in a Democratic-favorable year.
Team programming competitions are like that, and basically the strategy is to give everybody on the team 10 minutes to read all tasks and choose the one they are confident they can solve and then work in parallel. No time for coordination overhead. If you talk about everything you won't finish even one task.

But COVID response is nothing like that - we've had months before it got to Europe and over a year at this point. So I don't think it's a good analogy.
Are you paying pupdogg? Because you have no right to demand somebody be perfect and professional about something you aren't paying them to do.
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> your job is still to help them do it their way

Mostly I agree with everything you say, especially about needing followers before you can lead, but I think this part deserves more discussion. At staff level (if not slightly before), "help the company" and "do it their [historical] way" are often not the same thing. As I said in another sub-thread, at that level you're hired to bring knowledge and skills and perspective that the org doesn't already have (or have enough of). Unlike lower levels, pulling in some direction is part of the job in this case. I think EMs at all levels understand this and often support it quite well. The problem I've seen is other high-level engineers who never knew anything but the current way and believe that it's generally the only way (except of course for the one part they personally understand and want to change). This sometimes leads to hiring people and then thwarting their efforts to do what they were hired for.

> uses a lot of political capital
> ...
> optimizing for the best performance reviews

That's the problem. These two should be aligned. You should reward what you want to see more of, and I think people using their best professional judgment qualifies. Relying on the continual presence of people who will sacrifice their own career/financial progress to make needed change (as I mentioned in another sub-thread) is not an effective or ethical strategy. I won't even say whether I believe I'm in that category myself, but I certainly saw other people who got tired of lying down across barbed wire so other people could run past them.
Dam!
Started learning Emacs tonight, and now I can't access Helm's documentation :\
I just had a very odd thing happen to me on GitHub.

I accidentally closed my browser so I reopened it with Undo Tab Close, and GitHub's tab title was labeled "Your account recovery is unable to load" for a very brief moment. Then the GitHub error site with the pink unicorn loaded. The URL which was supposed to load was https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs which I had tried to load about 15 minutes earlier or so, but which would not load because the site is down.
Then a local git instance would preclude him from needing or receiving those changes anyway.
FWIW, I've worked on systems that have internal SLAs orders of magnitude higher than what they promise to the public. I think it's more just that there's no advantage to doing something like this as long as none of your competitors are. The status quo is that people's systems are really opaque and vastly underpromise what they should be capable of, and in exchange you get to absorb some unplanned downtime due to issues with underlying systems that you have little control over.
It's land, there is no top. It's a finite resource. Buy any property in the U.S. and hold for 15 years and I would be shocked if you didn't make out even if you had 2008 in between.
I think this is how downdetector works, it just looks for tweets that are complaining about something not working.
Some of the HIV-inflicted are carrying the virus for months upon months. Their immune system can’t eliminate the virus entirely, and so it has innumerable opportunities to mutate into a more infectious form. It has much less opportunity to do so in those who can clear it out in a few weeks, and much, much less opportunity in the vaccinated.
I don’t think video games have very much use for NFTs. Valve games (TF2, CS:GO) have a thriving 3rd party cosmetic market based on trading, and Valve even takes a cut for e.g. the Steam community market. This did not need NFTs to implement. I don’t see why a game dev would go through the trouble of establishing a distributed model of ownership, especially for multiplayer games, which already have the centralisation of game servers, or game server discovery servers. Also, it gives them less control of the ecosystem.
As someone who routinely crosses state lines, I can't imagine what type of situation would make the need to get an abortion such a common occurrence that it would be the sole factor in deciding what state you'd live in.
It's the leading hypothesis, considering the large amount of mutations and the location where it was discovered, where HIV prevalence exceeds 20%.

"Geneticists and infectious disease specialists there have uncovered potentially dangerous coronavirus mutations in a 36-year-old woman with uncontrolled HIV who was unable to shake the SARS-CoV-2 virus for close to eight months."

That was reported back in June:

https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2021-06-03/why-reachin...
This is exactly what's happened to me also, oh well, back to procrastinating
> It bothered me to say no to people from the UK

Agree. I'm in a very lean situation now and can use my time better, otherwise it's worth looking into. There's a lot of good customers there, who also didn't ask for this Brexit thing.
Close that loop: Once the traffic goes above a threshold transition it to red!
Large orgs (like Github) don't want or use automated status updates. There is usually always some service having issues in complex systems and immediately updating a public status page does more harm than good, including false alarms which may not affect anything public facing.
My first X (2016) went to the shop 17 times in the first year, all for different issues. It’s now finally more or less working reliably.

I got a new X in 2019 and so far it’s had no issues at all.
I am in similar position. I recently turned 40 and I’m a Development Manager but the role is moving me away from all the technical stuff I really like. I work in a classical industry position so no interesting FAANG Stuff only boring (but important) business software to keep up and running with my team.

The problem is that i originally did a PhD in Computer Science (Machine Learning / NLP) in 2010 and had papers at SIGKDD, ECML etc. So this business software thing is terrible boring for me but in Germany it was reallly hard to find interesting - well paying positions - at that time in this field.

And now i have no idea what to do next, because i fear that all my experience as a “Development Manager“ will not be accounted for if I apply somewhere in a more deep technical role like FAANG.
From Wikipedia [1]: "The act contains exceptions in the case of medical emergency but not for rape or incest."

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Texas_Heartbeat_A...
> p2p decentralised PR system

My first thought was https://radicle.xyz/.

What a cruel twist of fate. Their downloads page is hosted on Github Pages, which is down right now! https://radicle.xyz/downloads.html

In any other situation I'd recommend it since it really was the tool of choice for decentralized git repos with lots of cool features. (Despite the "Empowering developers with DeFi building blocks like NFTs, token streams, and more" mentioned on the home page which throws me off)

Edit: It seems like the download page is up and working now.
Regardless of how much better (or not) Autopilot is than manual driving, this comment is a very good example of the point GP was trying to make. If you get a taste for 100k cars because you convinced yourself you can no longer live without Autopilot, you will now need to find that much more income to pay for all the cars. That is money that could also have been spent "sacrificing salary" so you could have more interesting work, take time for a sabbatical or retire earlier.
Self-driving Tesla hits a Camel In UAE
Our eyes are only really high resolution in a tiny patch, and after some initial learning most of vision is a solved problem by the age of 3. That's not to say that Tesla is any closer to using cameras and machine learning to replicate human vision, just pointing out the comparison doesn't really make sense. There's no reason to think that 576mp cameras and 16 years of training are necessary or sufficient. We'll just have to wait and find out.
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Hurricane proof windows are fantastic. I install them in all my homes.
Good to know. Perhaps the US law makes more sense here, because banning reverse engineering by itself is not really enforceable.

For Europe there is the EU Directive 2009/24/EC, and I think I remember reading something almost like that predating it by many years in some country's (possibly mine) legislation.
The way the Texas law is written it impacts anyone who helps facilitate terminating a pregnancy. Simply walking your friend into an abortion clinic past 6 weeks (which is 6 weeks since the last period) makes you liable.