skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Using self checkout at Walmart is a huge legal risk. While I'm sure many are lying about intent, there are tons of stories of people who forgot to scan an item in self checkout who are happily prosecuted by Walmart for shoplifting. I don't want to take on the burden of doing the store's labor for free in addition to taking on the legal risk of shoplifting charges because I misscanned an item.

Edit: one story of many https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/01/us/walmart-shoplifting-la...
Hey, thanks for getting back to me.

What I mean to ask is: given high number of applications, how does YC generally pick within a bucket of similar applications?

Similarity based on domain, product status, etc. If there are 40 which are quite similar, what then?
I prefer the Bill Hicks reference of making it mandatory for everyone to smoke weed so the only people on the roads are Domino's delivery
I'd long known that the largest 100 or so US cities by population gets down to the roughly 200k population level. Extending that to 200 cities is still above 100k (per Wikipedia, #333, Daly City, CA, is pop. 100,007: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...>). The relationship, as with so much else in scaling circumstances, tends to be linear on a log-log scale.

In China, you'd reach position 106 before finding a city of less than one million in population (the US has only nine such cities).

India, checking just now, has 46 cities with > 1 million population, the 100th ranked (Malegaon) is 471k, and at #300 population remains > 100k (Aurangabad).

Keep in mind that "city" is a highly arbitrary definition, and some of the world's largest cities would be the equivalent of metropolitan areas or even states or provinces elsewhere.

The largest city by area actually has a remarkably small population: Sermersooq, Greenland, with a population of 24,148 and land area of 575,300 km^2 (220,000 mi^2), which is not only larger than the US state of Rhode Island (by a factor of nearly 144 times), but all but two US states: only Texas and Alaska are larger, and the latter only modestly so (by 12%).

Urban geography is a complicated topic, and typically you'll find that comparisons are made on the basis of multiple scales and definitions such as metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) and built-up land area, as well as population, which tend to smooth out arbitrary distinctions of political boundaries and give stronger weight to total demographic or economic influence.
As an alternative to VSCode, consider Theia[1].

Open-source, runs all the VSCode extensions, etc.

[1] https://theia-ide.org
TF2 and hats?
Like clockwork, every few years, smart people will re-invent introspection.
I agree with the spirit of "writing code" as part of the thinking process but I have to point out a few very dangerous pitfalls there.

first is the urge to write the whole prototype yourself from scratch. Not necessary, better avoided. You should just hack some things together, or pick something close to what you want off github. Idea is to have something working. I am a big proponent of implementing my ideas in a spreadsheet, then off to some code.

Second is modern software solutions are complex (think kubernetes, cloud provider quirks, authentication, sql/nosql, external apis) and easy to get lost in the minutiae, they shroud the original idea and takes strenuous effort to think clearly through the layers. To counter this, I keep a single project in my language of choice with the core business logic. No dependencies. everything else is stubbed or mocked. It runs in the IDE, on my laptop, offline with tests. This extra effort has paid off well to focus on core priorities and identify when bullshit tries to creep in. You could also use diagrams or whatever but working executable code is awesome to have.

third is to document my findings. Often I tend to tinker with the prototype way beyond the point of any meaningful threshold. its 2am before i know it and i kinda lose the lessons when i start the next day. Keeping a log in parallel with building the prototype helps me stay focussed, be clear in what my goals are and avoid repeating the same mistakes.

fourth is the rather controversial topic of estimation. When i have a running prototype, I tend to get excited and get too optimistic with my estimates. Rookie mistake. Always pad your estimates one order of magnitude higher. You still need to go through a lot of bs to get it into production. Remember that you will be working with a team, mostly idiots. Linus works alone.
Not really. It was mostly about tests. Officially, I was a developer for the team (longest one on the team). Unofficially I was QA, as our new manager shut out QA entirely [1] and I became the "go-to" person for tests. Never a question about how the system worked as a whole, just test test tests testing tests tests write the new tests did you write the new tests how do we run the tests aaaaaaaaaaah! Never mind that I thought I had a simple test harness set up, nope. They were completely baffled by the thought of automation it seems.

[1] "Because I don't want them to be biased by knowing the implementation when testing" but in reality, quality went to hell.
I think they got into trouble for the Flipper Zero as a hacking/cracking device. Had to change plans on the Flipper One due to negative attention from governments.
We've had too many runway incursions throughout US aviation, and efforts to reduce them with minor iterations to process have not been successful. It may be time to think about more major changes.
"The rise of microwaves and frozen dinners made Americans more accustomed to convenience and averse to going out in public. (One food industry exec described these consumer habits as “cocooning.”) "

Would love to see what this person would think after Covid. If microwaves wrecked this person's outlook on people, covid would have blown their mind
A lot of disabled people lack arms and legs, or have asthma so bad they can barely walk up stairs, or other varied reasons they are unable to exercise. It depends on the disability. But for the large majority of people that truly have nothing preventing them from exercising and eating right other than willpower, they should realize how blessed they are, and what a privilege it is to exercise.
>Without lobbying, how would corporations share their expertise on the matter for politicians to take into account?

There is literally an entire govt department in the US whose core job is to unbiasedly keep the politicians informed on the expert details of the areas they're legislating.

Specifically, the Library of Congress (this is why the US Congress has a library), and it's Congressional Research Service.
I stopped buying from Home Depot when one store decided to try to sell a damaged lawnmower to me not once but twice, and with website phone staff unable to do anything and two different managers/assistant managers referring to other stores. The store they referred me to then also tried to sell another damaged lawnmower.

That was the worst experience I've had at Home Depot and I'll never purchase anything from them again.

Now I buy from Lowe's. My aunt works there -- but at least I know I'm not going to get screwed by family. Or, if I do get screwed by family, then there's family-political solutions there. It's clearly nepotism :) but if it works better than capitalism then sobeit.
I would suggest to put it at the top of the instructions.
What would be really useful - as someone else suggested would be to link directly to relevant parts of the video.
Thank you for taking the time to break this out.
> I personally think that a hybrid system is best. The government should build and maintain the physical infrastructure like fiber and cell towers, and private industry should be able to access this infra at cost + a small fixed markup and provide all other needed equipment and services on top of that infra.

The problem that I often see with these approaches is that the companies making the profits often lobby extensively to reduce the "fees, costs..." or have the infrastructure being continously funded by society via e.g. taxes (I actually don't have an issue with initial construction being taxpayer funded). This typically results in infrastructure getting into worse and worse condition because the funds to maintain are not there. Then the lobbying calls for public/private partnership investments (where the private partner reaps the profits and the public is left with the costs). Road infrastructure is a good example, a single truck causes 10000 times more damage then a car [1], but trucks pay only a miniscule proportion of road taxes.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_power_law
The big feature that artists need is presave links (ones that let you add a release on Spotify, Apple Music, YT before it goes live) and an automatic scan of all streaming platforms based on UPC that converts all the presaves to direct play links automatically.

The big players like Linkfire have this and it's easily 100x the complexity of the link page that this has.

Most artists have so much to do leading up to release day that a manual link page is very far down the list of items they need to pay attention to.
Plenty of politicians have abused children. That’s a red herring
Not sure how this ended up here - was supposed to be a reply elsewhere…
Does the scammer look like an asian ? the blog post makes it seem like the scammers are chinese, but it does not make sense to me
FYI using the words “chief” and “tribe” to emphasize “primitiveness” is pretty cringe.
are piano lessons, private tutors, and sports clubs regularly affordable in Europe? those hardly sound like government provided services
Now suppose that you are a huckster CEO. You founded your company and hired your board of directors, and most of them owe that sweet gig to you. You have them give you a sweetheart deal on your pay package - they owe you after all, and you're a good guy so you deserve it. You put it in terms of stock price numbers because you're pretty sure you're going to hit those, and it makes the pay package look sort of fair. They obviously don't push back on your requests. They are grateful to you for putting them on the board.

Then they take that pay package to the shareholders and say "we fought him hard, but we have to give him a shit load of money to keep him." The shareholders think, "gee whiz the board is looking out for us and we love the CEO, which is why we own stock in this company. This must be a fair price because he's such a good guy." The shareholders think the deal is fair and they vote to approve it (rather than sending the board and CEO back to the negotiating table).

That is closer to what actually happened here. There is a CEO who set his own pay package based on internal information that the board may well not have had, and there is a board of directors who pretended to have negotiated with him when they proposed the deal to the shareholders, when they really didn't do anything of the sort.

This isn't "you agreed to a bad deal after a negotiation" - this is "you were tricked into signing the most ludicrous deal your counterparty could construct." The former is when you put on your big boy pants. The latter is when you sue the person who defrauded you (and you win).
They'll incorporate octave into the calculator app?
> An function with an effect (in this sense) is a function which can ask a handler to `perform` some effect for it.

Why does it need to ask a "handler" to do something, why can't it just call a function that does the "action" for it?
This kind of shows why there aren’t any RSS readers like it anymore.

Plain old social media replaced it. All of the features described here are things that sites like Reddit do.

The really simple syndication part of RSS wasn’t really the “killer app.”
You know, progress on road safety in the US isn't as quick as we'd like, but it's been tremendous.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:USA_annual_VMT_vs_death...

The death rate per mile has been roughly halving each generation.
> dates relating to climate issues keep getting moved forwards

Funny how when the exact same thing happened measuring the charge of the electron (ie not deviating around the ultimate value, but systematically moving in one direction), it became the quintessential example—literally taught in schools—for detecting confirmation bias in scientific data.

https://scipython.com/blog/measurements-of-the-electron-char...

If the climate numbers are always being revised upward, it strongly indicates that the original predictions were being systematically fudged downwards. It's not hard to see why: governments and institutions don't want to be accused of "alarmism."
They should support another layer of pre-generation that is controlled on client side/through grammar instead of n-gram markov chain / small network.

Especially when it comes to programming languages or data formats like json - a lot of compute is spent on ie. silly whitespaces.
OMG shouldn't they be moving to Florida in that case!!! :) hahaha
> in order to be allowed to leave

That seems like a straw-man argument. I've never seen anyone actually detained by private employees who suspect theft, and I'll bet many companies' policies quite explicitly prohibit those employees from trying.
What a nice example of 1980s corporate greed maximizing profits over human life. Modern delivery food delivery services can be seen making the same delivery-by guarantees, so we haven't fully learned our lesson.
I am curious to know if anyone is attempting to bring Uniqlo's RFID-based self-checkout system [1] to grocery stores.

In Singapore, where I live, self-checkouts are gaining popularity and work quite well.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ay8cZfe8S_o
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>2) Did I get my credit card back after paying the restaurant yesterday?

A restaurant should never be taking your credit card out of your view, ever. Really, they should not even be handling it: you should be swiping it yourself at the terminal at the cash register when you pay before leaving.
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Why is Europe losing the productivity race?
>So is it moral to have sex without producing child? In the past that would be immoral

Where and when are you talking of?

In medieval Europe it was considered immoral by the catholic church (and note: basically everyone ignored them in practice, and not everyone agreed with the church), because they explicitly religiously believed that deriving pleasure from sex was only caused by the Original Sin, and that nobody should have sex, ever. They carved out an exception for preventing humanity from going extinct, but otherwise: seeking sexual pleasure is sodomy.

Elsewhere: it varies, but sex is fun and most people wouldn't oppose it.
Hey Christoph, thanks for trying it out - we're running this on the cloud, particularly GCP, on A100s (80g).

On your query about running these models locally, I'm not sure if just upgrading your RAM would have the same throughput as what you see on the website. You can upgrade your RAM but you might get pretty bad tokens/sec.
also, and this is affecting a lot of other federal jobs or jobs requiring federal licensing like CDLs, you can't smoke weed.

given how popular weed has become in legalized states, this is quickly becoming a major issue for all of these lines of work
It might be for the better.

There is a big difference between reading about cool biology versus doing biology as a profession.

Biology is a brutal career that requires an army of hands to realise a vision.
How can we possibly spend more?
Isn't that a problem caused by inflation which is driven (right now) by gov spending.
First, my remark is about the impact on the adoption of OpenStreetMap in general, not my personal usage of it.

And second - it did not stop me from doing that, but it was extremely difficult, and took months of effort. I built a tool to set up a server with all the components required to download the data, load it into PostGIS, style it with Tilemill and generate and serve tiles: https://github.com/stevage/saltymill

So I find your comment quite disingenuous.
Track balls almost always are worse than mice, in terms of speed and accuracy acquiring a target. This is typical: https://www.billbuxton.com/fitts91.html

I'm sure there are trackball prodigies that can do great things with them, but for the masses, they're not optimum.
Your post is some sort of victim blaming, how would multiple vendors or a better price improve security?

Could be the opposite. Every provider is an attack vector of the government's network.

The problem is MS fucked up big time by not only losing a key but also that this key is a master key due to an error.

Not to mention they downplayed the problem afterwards and tried to charge customers for the logs needed to identify the attack.
I first heard about cocooning in a Faith Popcorn book a friend was reading.

It was some of what was written, but also about how we don't sit on the front porch and visit with neighbors in the evening, and rarely see our front doors, much less our neighbors.
> If I had to choose though it would be Python for asyncio.

I can think of lots of reasons to prefer Python over Ruby, but asyncio in Python compared to Ruby’s async is not at all one of them.
Australian PM calls X's fight against removal of church stabbing 'extraordinary'
Or the more evil version: https://dontwordle.com/
It also has a glaring wart in its API because of Minesweeper needing to allow the first click before deciding the layout of the puzzle.

I've sometimes thought of adding a puzzle to this collection but I would actually rather refactor everything to remove that wart. It would involve turning Minesweeper into a game with a foyer, but probably worth doing?

Also, I thought the modern Windows version of minesweeper did the same first-click-is-free logic?
Two planes collided in LAX in 1991 due to what was clearly a controller error, killing 35. Investigators decided that anyone could have made such a mistake given circumstances. The controller wasn't punished, and instead a bunch of changes were made to prevent similar situations in the future.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_runway_disaster

Obviously it would be ideal if such changes are made before planes collide, but the US air accident investigation system generally does its job, as far as I've heard.
Imagine a Russian billionare bashing a US supreme judge, while his image is carried through the streets. You couldn’t, could you?
Presumably they can but it won't prove their legal status in the US, assuming the local government even recognises it as a legal form if ID
Only from the selected few allowed to work as druids on the AI tower, after the letcode trials, while remaining mankind struggles with what is left as jobs from a corporate managed government.
I don't think this one is actually true. I remember TV dinners replacing home cooked meals not eating out.

Going back before frozen dinners you're back to the time when people actually cooked at home, going out to eat was a rare treat rather than a daily occurrence.
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No. In fact the entire thing that makes Chinese surveillance so bad is that they don't need an ID to identify you
Those percentages surprised me, so I did some research and it looks like the stat from their research is that 80% of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is fishing industry plastics. Not all ocean plastic, which is what the 8-10mil refer to. Ref: https://theoceancleanup.com/ocean-plastic/#other-sources-of-... . Plastics from rivers gets caught in currents that bring it near ocean coastlines/beaches, and takes a long while to make it out to free sea/GPGP. These plastics are mostly non-fishing related. (note: this link is actually a great write-up of why their mission is what it is, and their research backing it).

There are NGOs working on legislation/lobbying fixes to the problem; eg Ocean Conservancy. But those changes will take a looooong time to get through the system. And regardless, there's already plastic in the oceans that will have to be cleaned up regardless, causing damage right now. So starting on the cleanup at the same time seems reasonable to me.

The ocean cleanup also funds various research initiatives -- like the numbers you mentioned -- which lobbyists can use to help change legislation.
it is a bare bones infrastructure as service. It costs $2.
The only constant is change. It sucks esp when later in career and just looking for stability, but it’s just the way it is.

Reduce expenses, earn as much as possible, save and invest wisely, and remove your reliance on the system as soon as you can, is my advice.
Are you a pilot? Or an ATC perhaps? No?

This worldview, commonly espoused by Silicon Valley types, that every problem is just one iphone app away from being solved, is nauseating.

There are so many corner cases you cannot even imagine! Special requests. Weather. Emergencies.
I'm not sure why this article bothers attributing this insight to the former Slack CEO, this dynamic is nothing new and was a problem well before Slack or the current round of tech companies were around.
More important, I think, is that the issuing authority is also legally obliged to actually give a shit, or else you just get a repeat of the current state of affairs where, for example, forced 2FA and no customer support means homeless people get locked out of all their accounts every time a device fails or is stolen.
Have you been in a Costco, or is your primary interaction the gas lines? I guess the receipt line every once in a while takes more than 30 seconds? I can’t think of anything else inside that at all is a tax on my time compared to a normal grocery store.
That's the one that took the Monaco editor (the part of VS code originally made by Microsoft) and then advertised it as the true alternative to VS Code.
Ok so you’re in a hot sub-field. Your experience is not typical even at the companies you’ve named. And it’s definitely not typical “after a few years”, unless it’s a new PhD in hot field * top tier company * multiple good reviews. And you’re probably extrapolating the anomalously good stock performance that frankly you have no control over.

Your average Leetcode drone that makes it into those companies is making $300k after 5 years.
You can just have a queue. I’ve seen departments that basically function as an internal vendor of services to other departments. First in first out. Fixed schedule to expect turn around on most requests. No one complains. Seems quite pragmatic and fair.
Btw, it works in india
In a similar vein PUZ-PRE is a pencil puzzle JS library supporting loads of Nikoli puzzle types. Loads of puzzle makers make stuff with it.

Puzz.link also includes a database of links to puzzles people are playing.

For people looking to feel old fashioned, printing out some random puzzles on puzz.link and doing them on pen and paper is sometimes satisfying

[0]: http://pzv.jp/ PUZ-PRE
[1]: https://puzz.link/ puzz.link
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I like it … but seems weird pitchfork fires all its staff and now we get a unicorn review. I’ll listen again tomorrow
The failure of the 8-minute delivery free pizza guarantee ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7JaKr-ERZw