skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I've had my credit cards frozen multiple times because I did something their fraud detection deemed shady

A frozen credit card is not a frozen bank account. Your money is still available in the bank. You can try to paint fraud protection as a negative but the vast majority of consumers disagree with you. Not a real issue.

> No, because you never have to give out your private key, but you do have to give out and protect your credit card number

You're moving the goalposts. Giving out a credit card does not require a user to be vigilant about security, they simply leverage the number when they need to make a purchase, no back ups or additional work required.

> It's clear you've made up your mind, I don't even know why I'm typing this out, you aren't going to change your feelings.

Not an argument. It's clear you've made up your mind, I don't even know why I'm typing this out blah blah blah. See how pointless that is?

> I'm asking you to let some of us make different choices

Nobody needs my permission to do anything. I can assert that cryptocurrencies are useless and you can ignore me if you like.

> What about the 1% who are being failed by current money systems

What about them? They can do whatever they want, I'm not trying to stop cryptocurrency enthusiasts from doing their thing, it doesn't mean I have to agree that its useful.

> Paypal banned a company

Paypal is a private company... what's your point? Coinbase bans people all the time for arbitrary use of their coins. Based on your logic here that means cryptocurrency is failure.

> marijuana shop

Marijuana is federally illegal. Using cryptocurrency doesn't solve any problems that cash doesn't already solve just fine. Cryptocurrency has literally zero advantages for these businesses.

> that one day they may become more useful

Yeah... when that actually happens you won't hear any arguments from me.

> You don't need to be involved, you don't even need to like it, but don't make up straw men and act like nobody out there wants some of the benefits of it because you personally don't.

Talk about a straw man. I never said "nobody out there wants some of the benefits" of cryptocurrency, I said THE VAST MAJORITY of people don't want it, which is absolutely true and something you've already understood based on your response, so I am not sure why you have decided to pull up a starwman argument even though you already responded to my actual argument regarding the "1% who are being failed by current money systems".

> I didn't want to get into fucking arguments about cryptocurrencies today, especially with someone who just decides that the problems it's solving for some are "fake problems" and handwaves them away, so this is the last time i'll reply here.

This is a silly rhetorical trick. You drop a gigantic wall of text and then sign it with a complaint that you don't want to get in an argument and use that as an excuse to avoid responding to criticism. I didn't do any handwaving, I gave detailed specific responses explaining my position, but if regarding my argument as "handwaving" makes it easier for you to ignore it, by all means.
Your Co-Founder is most likely somebody you already know. Make a list... approach them.
This is, quite simply, not an administrative law case. Your position that it is an administrative law case and is governed by the arbitrary and capricious standard is incorrect.

Additionally, holding that position while also saying that the APA isn't implicated borders on being self-contradictory. Where exactly do you think the "arbitrary and capricious" standard comes from, if not from the codification of Chevron?
Please don’t love me then
The Fatal Flaw of the Three Horizons Model and How to Fix It
Milk Steak too
Be the software vendor.

If you want to stay strictly hardware. Claim the high end. Compare iphone profitability to all other phone makers combined.

The problem is your future competition is very often the cheaper option improving enough to take over your expensive solution.
Eg big iron being replaced by mini computer replaced by micro computers replaced by ? phones? Tablets?

So you have to be very vigilant in identifying the technology that's going to be eating your breakfast in 5 years.
Send encrypted secrets from the command-line: Fluidkeys v0.3
"With wide and accurate tracking, gesture controls, and a 6 Degrees of freedom (DOF) headset-and-controller setup, VIVE Cosmos promises a deeply engaging VR experience right out of the box."

Does this mean that it is a standalone vr headset similar to oculus' quest headset?
So, can we finally get rid of that Kmart on Lake Street and retake Nicollet?

Minneapolis dwellers know.
See how happy they are: https://youtu.be/LQRAfJyEsko
Using the New AWS Secrets Manager for Serverless
> Is what everyone already knows.

Is it, though? I know plenty of people who set 7 different alarms or intentionally set their alarm half an hour early so they can snooze it 12 times.
i would downvote but a cant yet so let this be sufficient:
Sir Rinchik, I cast my Downvote on you.
Big cars kill: Canadian Study
I don't want to work again with people who literally hate boring tasks, because when they can't automate them, they just don't do them of half ass them.

I don't particularly love those tasks either, but having to do them all because the alternative is to let project fail is something I don't want to go through again, ever.
You misunderstand - it's not an excuse. I simply expect that in the next 50 years, autonomous weapons will be developed, by someone - the only question is who. The potential value it too great for it not to happen.

Consider, for example, nuclear weapons. I think it's generally agreed these days that nuking Hiroshima and Nagasaki was unnecessary at best, a war crime at worst - but I don't really see that a better world would have resulted from the USSR or Germany being the first to obtain nukes.
While I don't have a basis for saying the most common take on things is wrong, the way I think of this is: what's the likelihood that we'll see a new study that proves the opposite of what most non-experts (or even experts) currently believe?

In the case of nutrition, economics, and ecology, my rough answer is "rather high". (Consider Piketty and spreadsheet errors.) And answering this question combines all of them. If being right matters, I'd hedge my bets.

Most people aren't heavily invested in Impossible Foods, so bet-hedging basically means letting them do their thing and seeing how it turns out. I look forward to trying their new product.

I'm just quibbling with "no doubt". Just like being an expert in most subjects is unnecessary, being doubt-free is unnecessary for most people in most subjects, and I think most conversations would go better if the true believers (and radical cynics) backed off a bit and acknowledged uncertainty.
Yes. Running in a docker container alongside my HomeAssistant container. Works great and a much improved upgrade over homeassistant’s native YAML. If I knew python, I would probably just use appdaemon instead of nodered tho. Nodered with HomeAssistant has been rock solid for me. HomeAssistant is pretty much now just a state engine and all my automations are in nodered.
> Maybe that's because the ones that didn't went under, but I apparently didn't notice.

what if something of value was lost?
> Don't forget the reviews! Buying the right one is often more important than buying one today.

Amazon itself seems to have forgotten this; reviews used to be very useful, but either they're not trying very hard to combat fake reviews or they're not up to the challenge, because they're almost useless now for big-ticket items.
I would advise against telling someone who they are or why they feel a particular way, without at least some minimal level of acquaintance.

Meat comes from the corpses of animals slaughtered on our behalf. Selfishness does not come from eating it, or from insufficiently valuing the environmental impact of it, or from getting annoyed with people that have made it a cornerstone of their personal religion.

I don't feel challenged at all by vegans, in the same sense that I am not challenged by missionaries knocking on doors or distributing flyers. When they speak, and I detect the emotional investment, I tune out, because I have learned long ago that one cannot argue with religion. I don't want a religion; you can't convert me by preaching.

So when someone tells me I am selfish, knowing little of me beyond the words in my initial post, I have exactly the same emotional reaction as with someone telling me that I will go to Hell for being atheist. It only makes sense to a believer, and I am not one. I tuned my bullshit detector with years of pointless arguments with kooks and crackpots, and no one but an expert is going to slip a rhetorical cheat past it.

If I am selfish, by definition, I wouldn't care whether other people think I am selfish. Ergo, attempting to sway someone by suggesting they might be selfish is implicitly dishonest. It would only work on someone already concerned that they might be too selfish, while not knowing of any specific reasons why that might be so. By introspection and by comparison with acquaintances, I have reached the conclusion that I am not selfish, or at least not more than one standard deviation above the median level of selfishness. I am stubborn and skeptical; sometimes it comes out looking similar. Since I know myself better than anyone else does, whenever someone comes out and says I am selfish, my bullshit detector pings, and I look for the ulterior motive.

Aha! The person making the claim has no specific interest in me or my prior claims, but is using me as a prop to preach to the more accessible listeners in the audience, and to their own choir. They are treating me exactly as I treat a piece of meat--a thing to be used to advance their own ends, rather than something of inherent value. That's hypocrisy, of a sort, and I dislike it in vegan preachers, and every other kind of preacher.
> The model that we propose instead is called the “lish”. (The name is a portmanteau of “list” and “hash table” since in its fully specified form it shares some characteristics of both; it is the list-like properties that we focus on in this paper
There are mutual (policyholder-owned) life insurance companies; why not mutual health insurance companies?

Healthcare is extremely regulated, but poorly. In addition to the much-talked-about “more vs. less” dimension of regulation there is the much more important “better vs. worse.”
That's great if you sleep on your back but side-sleepers aren't going to be happy on a hard mattress, the shoulder becomes a single point of contact with the bed. I'm not convinced that people accustomed to sleeping in one orientation can easily change to the other. Although I would be curious if anyone has anecdotes about that.
It is an important warning for people in the US, where websites published under .gov are run by the federal government. When I saw the short domain followed by .eu, I assumed this would be an official government site providing GDPR compliance guidance.
Isn't this an effective argument that ZFC's axioms are "not enough"?
i hope they are keeping his remains frozen, hopefully we could restart this species in a couple hundred years
In Unprecedented Move, U. Of Washington Fired a Professor for Sexual Harassment
Scott Aaronson's paper "NP-complete Problems and Physical Reality" makes some persuasive arguments about what sorts of computations are probably at all plausible to implement in reality.

https://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/npcomplete.pdf
Banning meat is highly offensive to the vast majority of Americans. These people just don't have good business sense; I'm surprised they're getting any investment at all.
the fact that you can't discharge these loans is certainly beneficial to the lender, but it doesn't solve the "blood from a stone" issue.

if you can't make your mortgage payments, eventually the bank sells your house and gets most of the principal back. the interest only has to cover the administrative cost of selling a few houses (possibly at a loss) and then it's all profit.

a certain fraction of people taking on student loans today will never make enough money to pay them off. now the interest has to be enough to actually cover the risk of the lender losing all that money.

even 13% is pretty good for an unsecured loan. according to nerdwallet's loan calculator, this is basically as good as it gets for unsecured personal loans in general. [0]

[0] https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/loans/personal-loan-calculat...
Exactly. With a federally garanteed loan no less! The school has incentive to take you and cater to your fanciful wim major, its free money to them up front and your problem (repayment) later.
We disagree. We inform people of the issue Yoast is causing up to 5 million sites. We didn't think it was fair to release that information without a fix for free in our free software. So, if you see informing, educating, and helping people save their businesses for free as an ad, then we have different ideas of what an ad is.
If you are looking for a more "packaged" integration with Google Sheets, check out BudgetSheet: https://www.budgetsheet.net

It is a Google Sheets Add-on found in the G Suite Marketplace.

Disclaimer: I am the author. It is currently under review by Google and awaiting publication. There is an email sign at the bottom of the page if you want to be notified at launch. :)
It's a matter of expectations. For most people, an office isn't a library reading room. It's a place they work which often means talking. Someone's welcome to do a silent co-working space startup but I don't think they'll have much success.
The question posed is not whether anyone reported seeing drones, but whether the reports are accurate. The fact that you got a first-hand report personally doesn't mean it's any more reliable than the first-hand reports the police received.

The claim that they saw it hovering "for a while" actually makes this particular claim less believable. They witnessed it hovering by the control tower for an extended period of time but never bothered to get their phone out?
Indexes are not "for", they will happily index anything. But they are "best used for" certain things.

Tools are not broken; reality is. So you have to work around assumptions that are pertinent to blind usage of technology.

You need to think how to use a tool (such as a Unicode-capable DB text type) to get a correct result. And first you need to understand what constitutes the correct result. Else you may end up with strings that are equally correct and nominally equal, but bytewise different, so search by index fails.
You're very much wrong, Grins innovation is not removing the hard block size limit, that many other coins don't have.

There's nothing stopping Bitcoin scaling to 100MB blocks with today's hardware, the problem is long term blockchain growth, and validation times, that sort of thing.

Grins innovation is the entire blockchain is can be shrunk using algebraic reduction, unlike other cryptocurrencies that scale linearly with total transaction amount, Grin only saves unspent transactions and a small proof of the total history of the coin since it's mining date.

This means that a 100GB ledger could be reduced down to 100s of MB of its size, and be a just as provably secure as the original unreduced ledger.
This concept reminds me a nice Youtube video where the presenter suggests to associate brands with unpleasant situations in professional meetings.

It's in French, but there are subtitles.
https://youtu.be/AqCB6tGR3hs?t=658
>I don't think anyone needs a degree anymore to get to where they're going

False, unless by "anyone" you mean people in the US. I'm from Colombia and back to college to get the degree because I can't find a job anywhere without it. In here 90% of job offers require a degree and some only count your experience after the graduation date.
So my perspective is basically that crypto is a terrible store of value, but gold is also a terrible store of value. Take a look at the price of gold since the Nixon Shock:

https://goldprice.org/gold-price-history.html

At the time of my birth, gold was worth $800/oz. By the time I was old enough to ask "What's gold?", it had fallen to $300/oz. It was up to $500 by 1991, then began a long slide down to almost $200 in 2000. Then it rapidly zoomed to $1900 during the Financial Crisis, and has since fallen back to $1200. If you invested in gold in 2009, you would've lost 40% of your money in constant dollar terms, and almost 6x relative to the S&P 500.

It's even worse if you zoom out to the 100 year history. Private ownership of any significant amount of gold was outlawed from 1933-1974, and owners were required to turn in their gold for $20.67 or face 10 years in prison.

It's not Millenials who are being naive here (well, maybe they are too). It's the generations before them who believe there's any such thing as a reliable store of value. Everything is speculative - things are worth only what other people will pay for them, and there's a long history (still continuing in places other than the developed world) of people not even doing that and just taking them at the barrel of a gun.
No. However, learning functional programming has been the best thing to improve my skill as a developer so far, so I highly recommend it
Nut milks are nowhere near the same as animal milk. I have tried all sorts of alternate milks, and none of them come close to the flavor or texture of good whole milk from cows. So I'd say there are many things we really haven't figured out how to replicate without animals yet.
I recently looked into the literature and I think the evidence is ambiguous [1]
If you've found some clear evidence supporting your case, could you point me in the right direction?

[1]https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Shourong_Shi/publicatio...
The video linked below literally has an example of this technology recognizing individual credit card even when stacked. While (I assume) the CVV code isn't readable because it's not embossed into the card this still seems like exactly the kind of application that does have privacy implications.

Imagine someone sticking these under the chair in a cafe and skimming the card numbers of everyone who sits down.
at what point is it good enough to change to an alternative consistently? for the most part we enjoy foods that we are used to eating, if you change your habits to a non-bone based stew in a matter of time you will begin to favor those flavors instead.
Alcohol is taxed and restricted in marketing. While beer is still advertised on TV, you won't see someone holding an open bottle or drinking from it. That's illegal.
The legal industry is not averse to change, the challenges are

1. Law is highly interpretable, it can't be just 1/0. Facts are 1/0, but not the law
2. Law firms tend to be small in size, generally <200, Lawyers are inclined to start their own practice ASAP. That limits the software provider's capability to charge more or upsell. Also, the law firms can't afford to buy a lot of software.
3. The distrust among people in the legal industry is just baffling

There are a few more challenges, but am able to recollect only a few.

(am a software engineer and my brother is a lawyer. we keep trying to build solutions for law firms)
Right, this from the organization that can’t manage RSS integration because it’s too hard.
Doesn't even have to be large. I work for a public company that has a staff of < 200. Small engineering team inside of a non-software company. We solve business problems. Sometimes that means building SPA web apps. Sometimes it means coding up the corporate site redesign. It's up to you to make it interesting. I think it's interesting, and I always try to play a part in a project that works toward advancing my career goals.

Pace is slower than the start-ups I've worked at in the past, but salary and incentives are above most tech start-up "competitive salaries" I hear about.
You... feel bad for someone who’s claiming to work for Microsoft in order to steal someone’s credit card info and cause a bunch of debt for them?

And as for ignoring criminal activity - do you also suggest we rid ourselves of our judicial system?
Helicopter prop blast can eliminate drones. https://fstoppers.com/drone/event-organisers-use-helicopter-...
There are reasons, but historical rather than logical. I guess those reasons could be considered extra things to memorize as well (but for me they help).
Implementing simple compiler
Regulation is bad, don’tcha know.
Ask HN: Have you ever sold a physical product?
I assume many readers here are creating digital products. But what about physical products?

Have you ever designed a physical product that was then manufactured for distribution and sale?

What made you choose something physical over something digital? How did you find a manufacturer?

Be great to hear some thoughts, stories and experiences. Thanks
The dishes I mentioned aren't considered desserts. They are main courses.
So, if such a system exists, and I'm not saying it doesn't, it still seems like the tone of your posting makes it less likely for people to take it seriously. A post raising the same question (is there a system that the HR of big SV companies use to do price fixing for labor?) in a less angry tone might be more likely to get more responses?

But that's just a guess on my part.
True - however wouldn't "legitimate interest" be subject to precedents and also depend on what exactly you're tracking?

As a layman I'd assume that if one site gets to claim Google Analytics as "legitimate interest", this would imply GA being fair game for any site, provided they don't do anything special with it.
People ditched the middle-of-the-road experience because the cheaper experience wasn't an option. Would I buy things for more money if there were no Walmart? Sure. But, for many things, I'll buy at Walmart given the option. Even middle class people like to save money and the value add from more expensive shops often isn't worth the price.
The truth about conspiracy theories
It depends on the gauge of shot. It also bears mentioning that having metal shards raining down at an airport presents a substantial FOD risk to engines and could also be kicked up by tires and strike the wing and body.
I hate that quote. They wouldn't have wanted faster horses, they'd have wanted something faster (or lower maintenance, or cheaper) than a horse.
Or if they went with Vulkan instead of rolling yet another half-baked graphics API while also deprecating OpenGL because reasons.
What makes you sad?
The fact that there is not enough funding for fusion plasma research?
Or my unconventional career choices? :)
Zeroday exploit prices are higher than ever, especially for iOS and msging apps
How did you and your wife take German from the same professor at the same time? Was he broadcasting his lesson, were you and your wife in the same location as the teacher, was the teacher able to duplicate himself, or is "at the same time" more of a "during the same semester" and not literally at the exact same time?
News: Rust 1.31 and the 2018 Edition, Part I [podcast]
.....did you actually read the post?
Just put the poop in the bag. For your health!
I think one of the reasons why new languages are going for compilation again is the death of the multi-architecture ecosystem. Support x64 and ARM and you can play with the big boys.

Back then? Intel was barely considered mature, every Unix manufacturer (including sun) had their own processor architecture, and who knew what was coming out for the smaller devices ("thin clients" were all the rage).

I still think that for those scenarios Sun should've stuck with PostScript, and we still might have C/C++, but would be spared JS/HTML/CSS.

I've got no idea why Microsoft was going apesh* for bytecode all of a sudden. Especially considering that they had the heads of Modula-3 and Delphi...
Lasers work fine and you’re always able to have a functioning laser pointer. The same cannot be said for any mouse type device.
Machine learning leads mathematicians to unsolvable problem
A much better and complete checklist tool is available at https://autoprivacy.eu