skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently tried to buy a single button cell battery at my local store. They're in a locked case near the entrance. I told the attendant which one I wanted, they handed it to me, I tried to putting it in my basket and was immediately told "no, you can't do that, do your shopping first and then come back for this".

I went home and ordered it online. With free shipping. It ended up being cheaper than the one in the store to boot.

Play stupid games, lose paying customers.

Same goes with shops that refuse entry to people with bags (even a small backpack! but a purse is OK for some reason). I just won't shop there. Goodbye.
'Zero-day' stockpiling puts us all at risk (2015)
Archaeological site in Madagascar may be from people with Zoroastrian origins
Microsoft's anti-competitive antics from the 90s seem cute compared to what these companies have been doing.
I talked once to an ex investment banker who quit to move into tech due to the hours. He had lots of stories about ridiculous hours.

He said most of the time was wasted. It was spent on things like preparing slide decks for executives who then didn't read them, but who insisted the work be done in massively compressed time windows and then delivered by taxi at 6am on a Sunday. He viewed it as very inefficient and mostly a matter of bad culture. The senior managers did it when they were young, so they weren't about to let the next generation get ahead without the same sacrifices.
I think that tile shape has one cusp-like corner and two ~90-degree corners. Thus it's not a complete transformation of a polygon into a soft cell, and hence the "at least two" rule doesn't apply.
If money is not a problem (let's say, up to $1,000), what's the best CO2 indoor sensors you would suggest today?
I would suggest you say "opted in by default" when you want that meaning, if you particularly want to use the word 'opt'.

Then "opt-in" can continue to mean you have to opt to be in, and everyone should avoid saying "opt-in by default".
"Legitimate warrant" is a flexible and fluctuating idea. When a new government takes over, they may want information on all potential opposition.
Exploitation = leveraging a neverending stream of young people interested in working in an industry, initially for unsustainable wages, by dangling the prospect of eventual liveable wages in front of them, death marching them, and then firing them and hiring the next crop of new grads

Other industries do that, but at least they have the decency to compensate fresh hires decently. (E.g. law, management consulting)
First Website Check IT Out
Hey everyone, I just made my first website! I am not very good at coding so keep that in mind when judging. If you like it or want to give me advice, use the email feature to write me a message with whatever you want. As of now, it's very bland, but I will keep adding more stuff to it. Here is the link, hope you like it!
Meta has access to the backups that are stored on each individual’s Google Drive/iCloud?
How does that work exactly? Please elaborate.
Walmart locks their spraypaint now. Lowes does not. I'll go to lowes since it's easier than tracking down a associate at Walmart.
What a timely observation of this phenomenon that definitely didn't happen twenty years ago. Now that they've discovered anime, I wonder if they're going to start investing in other current crazes like Y2K compliance or maybe this hot new "world wide web" thing I keep hearing about.
"Reddit" is the sixth most searched term on Google in the United States
https://archive.is/y5rMO
He is allowed to say that, but not in the project's site, less alone without a previous discussion with the community which, AFAIK, didn't happen.
Just browsed McMaster. What a clean interface! Very easy to drill in and see what you are looking for. Compare that with the promotion of paid ads on the many major e-commerce platforms.
The algorithm that learns is the training algorithm whose output is the LLM, not the inference algorithm employed when using the finished model.
If there wasn't any shoplifting, would they still put things in cabinets?

No?

So how is this action not related to shoplifting?

Like, how does putting it in a locked cabinet reduce their customer service needs? Doesn't this increase their customer service needs, as now they need more people to constantly help unlock cabinets and escort people around the store? Wouldn't they just prefer to have a store with no employees in it, if shoplifting wasn't a thing?
Twitter itself recognized there are levels of public early on. The original site was every post in one timeline.

The things I say to a room or to people at a table are not meant for everyone at the event. The phrase context collapse came about and persists for a reason. A blocked person has been kicked out of the public local to the poster and their followers. It doesn't make sense for them to be able to continue to act like they're in the space, but just not speaking.

The fact that someone can violate the rules and norms of a space doesn't mean you don't have rules and norms.
"Hey, let's attach a small heater to every refrigerated case, so we can annoy customers and waste energy efficiency all in one throw!"
It’s near impossible to buy those things. I live in a region of the world where condoms are locked up at the local mega chemist. Absolutely no embarrassment here on buying them of course. It’s just that pressing the button does nothing. None of the minimum wage staff give a fuck (can’t blame them). You’ll just be standing there waiting in an almost empty store. The sole clerk at the counter can’t really leave their post and there’s no one else around. Not to mention not being able to look at the boxes first so you’re going to have to take 10mins of someone’s time at least while they stand there with the display open for a sale that nets $.50 profit.

I buy online. Would suck to be a kid in that situation though.
Here are the historical draw weights for Qing dynasty bows: https://www.manchuarchery.org/historical-draw-weights-qing-b....
80 lbs was considered minimum for military usage and 150 lbs was not unheard of

Imperial examination bows were giant versions of these military bows that were intended to assess the strength of the examinee. I couldn't find reliable numbers on the draw weights for these, but needless to say they had to have significantly higher draw weights than standard military bows.

Even the Qing Emperor was expected to be able to draw a 120 lb+ bow or at least had such bows in his personal collection. The Manchurians came from a culture that valued hunting and horseback archery even more than the Han Chinese.
> Which government ... Whose standard

It depends entirely on where you land in your private jet.
.. and plenty of urinals are completely water free...
You could also ask the question of Blink, a f/oss SSH client for iOS that charges money for IAPs.

It is trivial to remove the feature gating and republish. Yet no one has. Would Apple deny it as being too similar to an existing app? Who knows?

I can’t test any of these theories as I am not in the ADP. I even tried applying one time like a dozen years ago and was denied because I didn’t have a DUNS number.
You totally can, the HN dupe detector is less than reliable. Submit something interesting at night and you'll often see it submitted the following day by someone else.

As a more general point, the fact is that if a discussion doesn't take off while an item is on the front page shortly after submission, it probably never will. The page sorting algorithm ends up prioritizing recency and traction. I agree this isn't ideal.
Power of Micro Data Centers
I think you answered why the only real solutions are

a) don’t collect the data (signal approach)

b) hire an army of lawyers and compliance people (big tech approach)

c) ban users from entire countries where you don’t comply (common in crypto)

d) risk jailtime or asset forfeiture
When robots can't riddle: What puzzles reveal about the depths of our own minds
Also the East India Company was founded in 1600, predating those English Navy exams by 1677. I'm not sure when they started adding standardized exams.

Edit: It's possible these EIC exams were only introduced in the 19th century after the company was taken over by the British government. Could not find any sources stating that they were introduced earlier.
The Wire?
Blog post seems to have elided this point, but it did link the original paper which was quite short: https://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/gold/pdfs/teaching/old_lite...

Rayleigh's experiment was actually trying to solve for the minimum thickness of oil required to stop some camphor shavings from moving around on the water. He never states it explicitly, but I think the assumption is that the minimum thickness required to stop the shavings' movement would be such that the oil volume 'just' covers the surface, ie. is 1 molecule thick everywhere and hence the shavings never touch water. I think he's specifically making a slightly more clever point about surface tension, but that's a little beyond me.
Yep, that's why I included those quotemarks. I don't think that behavior or gritty aesthetic is actually mature, but there's a popular conception that it is for reasons that are unclear to me.

My best guess is that the overarching emotional climate biases what people consider "realistic" or "mature", and since the mid-to-late 2000s it's been pushing that perception in a more cynical direction.
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I am trying to produce an anime / webtoon with an AI assisted studio. Would love to chat more about your stories that scream to be brought into the world! (X @zhizdev)
You used to find amazing information on the internet back then. It is quite likely that someone else had already worked on a similar topic and blogged about it in a very searchable way. Without good search that kind of online culture died out.

While we do have a video tutorial culture that exceeds what we had back then in many ways, and to be fair that technically happened under Google's umbrella (Youtube), destroying search and with it a lot of the open internet, will not only be Google's downfall, it's also a silent tragedy.

Actually, measured by what a global online population could have achieved, with human information truly at anyone's fingertips, with infinite communities forming all over the place instead of in non-searchable Discord and monoculture Reddit ... this might be one of the main tragedies ever.
> What should the stores do? Honestly, not too sure. I don't find getting receipt checked at costco a big deal so that's definitely an approach.

In some of these stores, its not about someone putting one or two items extra in their bag. Its people filling up trash bags full of merchandise and walking out the store.

People here will say it doesn't happen or it happens rarely. I've only been to San Francisco one time for a week, and I saw it happen in front of me at a Target. I've seen it happen in Austin a few times.
Great video about this on Applied Science's channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvzWaVvB908
I was thinking about code to code translation. You are right.
You can buy a hundred shaving razors for like $10, as of 2016, the last time I bought. They will last you a long time, if you bought them. But you can’t buy them at any supermarket that I know of. They only sell Gillette or Wilkinson’s, which, at around 2,5 each, are a bad deal.

These blades must be held behind display cases because consumers would rather risk their honour than paying the deal.

Other products that are behind supermarket locked glass are alcohol bottles (overtly expensive poisonous water), perfume (ditto), and I don’t know what else.

So, at the end of the day, supermarket locked display cases show overtly expensive products which are not worth their money; so why bother?
Does it include any content related to algebraic data types?
They basically need a store full of vending machines. Then the items would be locked up AND you could actually buy them.
Warrant canary removed: https://opentermsarchive.org/en/memos/telegram-expands-forbi...
I don't even know what this show is, but I can guarantee you any pedo-related stuff in there is highly unlikely to be for the purpose of "depictions or explorations of psychology".

Come on, don't try to kid me. It's there for the same reason all the other seinen anime have a ton of borderline softcore porn tropes in them.
They aren't 90° corners -- and in any case it would be simple to modify the angle of those corners and keep the shape basically (or nearly) the same.

Also the plain 2D lemon/lozenge/lentil satisfies all conditions.
Ha! The devil of the details.
YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RST_ylwVrUw&t=1m27s
Did you get your physics education in high school or university? I only had to take one physics class in the USA at college for my major, quantum electrodynamics for electrical engineering but my professor wrote the textbook and I recall he went over each experiment starting from the fundamentals of our understanding of the basics of the atom, Newton's understanding of light at the time, double slit experiment, to Maxwell's equations, the Michelson Morley ether experiment, to deriving then proving experimentally proving general relativity and decomposing GR into Newtonian physics/other laws of electromagnetism, I am still in awe at the people just figuring this stuff out from first principles.

Anyways, I haven't read this (have it on hold at my library) but someone recommended this book on reddit
How to Make an Apple Pie from Scratch: In Search of the Recipe for Our Universe, from the Origins of Atoms to the Big Bang
https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780385545655
Live-action anime is an oxymoron commonly used to describe live-action film or TV series based on anime or manga, or having similar style to them.

The term is not well-defined.

You could say it applies to Ghost in the Shell, because it is based on existing IP of the genre.

You could stretch it to include The Matrix, which is an original IP but employs a lot of the style

Edge of Tomorrow, even though based on a Japanese light novel, has deviated enough both in plot and style for the term not to apply
Article is from 2018 and the effect has been discussed previously.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18340693
Opposite experience. Here in the US, I've heard a lot more people watching anime than when I was a kid. Especially modern ones such as Jujutsu Kaisen, Demon Slayer, etc.
Yeah, sorry, the past tense was supposed to be my usage of it, which was around 2012-2015. I was quite active, maintaining lots of the documentation, writing guides on how to do stuff. Specifically how to get it running with IntelliJ, as android sdk at the time was eclipse integrated.

Also made a simple project on github to show how to do a "loading screen", aka not just freeze while it loads but have a progress bar and interactivity. Somehow it still gets random stars a decade later.
Here in Seattle, all the worst-for-shoplifting stores are still open.

Mysteriously, a bunch of locations that were not bad for shoplifting, but were bad for overall sales (because of shitty layouts, small footprints, limited selection) ended up closed.

Perhaps shoplifting was just the excuse regional management gave for why they closed badly ran locations.
In 1909 the results results were couched in some "elementary electric charge" quantity, since the now-familiar subatomic particle model (and the "electron") was still gaining acceptance.

I expect that the greater the number of trials, it becomes easier it is to detect a distinction between closer-multiples, and if at some point more trials stops changing the answer then you've likely converged on e, unless there's some new principle like "X-ray exposure only affects charge in in multiples of e greater than one."
He did- he selected the lowest value, ignoring all the multiples.
Quora Engineering on Qdrant: Building Embedding Search at Quora
120 lb draw weight I could see, even 150 for a test or a little more. That still leaves us 100 lb short of whats being said here so I still think the 300 lb figure is either an exaggeration or a translation/conversion issue. I did some googling and indeed I cannot find any example of a 300 lb bow being made ever, let alone before modern materials science and I am skeptical that anyone short of an Olympic athlete would be able to draw it.
I’d like to recommend Prof Chern’s course on Discrete Differential Geometry https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~alchern/teaching/cse270_wi24/. The lecture slide on Exterior Calculus includes many good illustrations of differential forms, and there are more cool figures on related topics. There is also a pdf textbook neatly formatted if you want to dive deeper.
You do. Thae size of the steps between the results is the “quantum” of a single transferable charge.
Anime has had no shortage of adaptations disrespectful of the original. Most of the time it's due to not having enough source material like HBO GoT, which somehow sent Fullmetal Alchemist to 1920s Germany in the first adaptation's movie. But sometimes you get people like Bokurano's director who straight up said he hated the manga.
No one is forced to use cloudflare for their site. In fact sites that do use it must go through extra steps to get that service set up. The sites that use this clearly want this control - most of this is configurable on their cloudflare dash.

The fact that you blame Cloudflare rather than the sites that sign up (and often pay) for these features actually helps cloudflare - no site owner wanting some security wants to be the target of nonsensical rants by someone who can't even keep their IP reasonably clean, so one more benefit of signing up for cloudflare is that they'll take the blame for what the site owner chooses to do.
Signal has both phone numbers and IPs.
If there were multiple layers of molecules then the film would spread out over a wider area. With repeated experiments it would be clear that films are always an integer multiple of this thickness and never thinner.
> For 55% of respondents, it’s a lost sale, because when a product is locked up, they try to buy it elsewhere.

It's wild to me that someone would rather go back to their car, drive somewhere else, HOPE it's not locked up there also, and THEN finally purchase the item at the new store instead of just waiting for someone to come unlock it at the current store you're at. I've personally never had to wait more than a few minutes for someone to come unlock a locked display. I find it very hard to believe anyone would rather add 30+ mins to their overall trip than just wait at the current store.

My hunch is 2 things:

1) This is a case of "wishful" thinking rather than what they actually do. For a survey like this, people probably just unintentionally lied rather than what they would ACTUALLY do (wait for it to be unlocked).

2) The study would be much more accurate if you could actually somehow track what they did rather than just survey them on what they think they would do.

Also, I could see this being a case of not purchasing impulse items. However, if you go to the store for toothpaste that you need, and all the toothpaste is locked up, then again, I find it hard to believe you don't wait.

As someone else said in another comment: "What people say they won't do and what they actually won't do are not the same thing"
Reddit needs to make their own search engine with a fast, flexible, and easy way to search all of reddit with an old-school "google" style interface.
> In civilized, high-trust societies self-checkout works well and is very convenient.

There's nothing convenient about me having to do the cashier's job, but badly, while having a tiny space to do my bagging in, while a computer yells at me.

Maybe for someone with truly crippling social anxiety, this is preferable to an actually functional check-out counter, but I'm blessed to not be afflicted by it.
> If there wasn't any shoplifting, would they still put things in cabinets?

The article points this out. The problem was likely overblown in the first place or it has magically disappeared without any effort. So, "organized shoplifting" almost certainly _wasn't_ the real reason they did this.

> No?

Obviously, yes, because it looks very much like that's what they did.

> Doesn't this increase their customer service needs

Yea, that's _exactly_ what I meant by this being a "101 problem." The question you _should_ be asking is, why didn't they hire _more_ people when they put the locked cases in?

They obviously didn't. Do you have an explanation for this?

> if shoplifting wasn't a thing?

It's about removing competition, particularly from smaller stores, that can offer better service even if they don't have the variety and hours that the large chain stores do.

No coincidence that in my town Walgreen's then closed 3 of it's major central locations and pushed everyone out to their more favorable and less expensive locations.

These companies want to extract the maximum value from your city at the least cost to themselves. You are now seeing the very long tail of decades of their mostly illegal strategies being allowed to play out unchecked against the population.
There is some parallel to CG artists around Hollywood, despite Hollywood making vastly more money than anime studios.
OP specified Bambu X1C.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41627847
As an expert who uses LLMs daily on my field of expertise I’m not looking forward to dealing with works created by people who were taught by them.

They are wrong far too often to be used for any sort of learning in my opinion. You can feed them a book and they’ll give you answers which don’t exist in any of the written material, and that’s the good part of them. Simply asking a LLM about things will give you answers that are hopelessly wrong and unless you’re an expert you won’t know it. Which isn’t necessarily worse than learning things from search engines or YouTube. I recently had ChatGPT give me a recipe for bread which was certainly better than the top 10 results on Google except for one things. The recipe listed 3x the amount of salt which you should ever reasonably use. I asked it a few other times, I even asked it for my friend Tommy’s recipe and all those answers were perfect. It obviously doesn’t know Tommy but it pretended to know and just gave me a pretty basic recipe.

Salt is a harmless error. Most people would know not to use that much salt, and even if they did, it wouldn’t harm them (much). But imagine if you had used it for something electric or chemistry.
What? No mention of Count Binface's policy to bring it back?
That would only be true if you step foot in that country or posses assets in that country, right? Though I imagine the US government can reach a lot farther than the Russian or Chinese governments.
I've always wondered if the ROMs on my VAXstation 4000/90a are ferroelectric. The DEC manuals refer to it as flash ROM, but I've also heard / read it referred to as FRAM, although I couldn't say I remember where or when.

But 512KB of FRAM at $3 per megabit would make that pricier than the machine! So I wonder what it has in it instead.

Interesting! Thanks :)
What I like from manga is that there's usually a single author who envisions the whole story, there could be a small team of assistants and an editor to help but the story belongs to a person alone. Not a team of people writting a story by committee.
...right... which is why I said it would be nice for Google to officially bless the thing that already works so that it is official.

(And can we just pretend that I replied the same thing to the other places in the thread you posted the exact same response? No point in duplicating threads)