skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Self-checkout is less work for me as a shopper. I don't have to unload everything onto a belt, hand it all over to be scanned, and then re-pack it all. And I don't need to respond to small-talk.
ublock origin is also not owned by a company that takes money from advertisers to be reviewed for the "acceptable ads" list
It might actually be a good thing in the long term as insurance companies may require 3rd party audits and that you comply with basic security practices.
The universe is revealing more of itself as light reaches us from farther away, but because the universe is both expanding and that expansion is accelerating, there is a maximum distance we will ever be able to see: the Hubble Distance. I don't think the universe is old enough for light to reach us from that far yet, which is why we can still see the cosmic microwave radiation, but give it a few trillion years, and we won't even be able to see other galaxies because they will recede from us, redshift, and disappear.
I almost relate to this, having grown up and learned in the same environment. But I reflexively feel weirded / disgusted / something when people write or say things like: This is probably the most 90s kid techy-anime-nerd image I’ve ever seen.

I can't relate to it. It's a link to some video, and all I think is, watching videos is consumptive activity, whereas working is 'productive'. While you might have a valid reason to have a chip on your shoulder about the way-things-are, the fact that you like(d) a video isn't relevant (or even acts as an opposing force to your actual point). It doesn't tell me anything other than you grew up in some time period. It certainly doesn't say you're more valuable as an employee. If anything, the navel-gazing article about how you liked this-and-that -- attention to mundane details for most employers (except the cool ones, right?) that give no signal about your performance, maybe just your personality -- will send people running in the opposite direction.
> One bad actor will eventually find it, or just trick your employees to give them access.

or do what the Russians do and use kompromat
The oven has to be pre-heated before putting the board in too. And silver foil balls on the corners to keep it elevated and heat evenly.
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> there are plenty of options with minimal to no fees accounts.

Do you have some options that have no strings (like minimum balance) attached?
For an ordinary individual, perhaps, but not for a domain expert. There are people out there who do this for a living and are quite good at this. Just like we advise others to leverage our expertise in software. We should leverage theirs. Specialization, ftw!

edit: oops didn't see the recursion joke :(
To me, the obvious solution here is to have a government-run, cash-free payment system that's explicitly designed to be accessible to all citizens. Let people deposit money at the DMV or some such, and provide debit cards to be used against their balance. Just provide what's strictly necessary—the goal isn't to replace private banks.

Sadly, I don't see any possibility of this happening in the current political climate.
Nice little setup. I liked how they set up the 'small' telescopes (pardon my ignorance). I didn't see any pricelist though.

[1]: http://www.cielaustral.com/construction4.htm
[2]: http://www.cielaustral.com/cons4/cons13.jpg

(Not related to the project, just checked their website)
That's got to be an object lesson in blinkered dogma.

> So were they because referendums are often organised, and seen, and used, as votes of confidence for a given government

From the grab-bag of possible explanations...

> But still. Here we are. More than 70 years at peace on a continent

Also an amazing co-incidence that NATO has been in existence for 70 years. Containing three nuclear powers, it doesn't take a leap of imagination that it was a greater deterrent than whatever you had in mind.

How has your version worked over 70 years? The EU has only been in existence since 1994. Prior to that, it existed in a smaller, trade-only form as the EEC. I thought the 'butter mountain' and 'wine lake' were figures of speech. So were they physical defences, something like an obstacle course to deter the Russians? /s
Maybe it's my view as a non-Chicagoan but when I was there recently and had to buy a Ventra card (for using the El trains etc), I was pleasantly suprised to find out it was also a pre-paid Mastercard. To me, means that those who are otherwise unable to access banking services, for example those without a fixed address, can still use online payment services. I was impressed but not sure if that was the city's intent?
The proper way to discriminate is to require membership with varying and/or vague requirements to maintain plausible deniability. This is a bit more difficult to implement for regular retail type establishments, but requiring membership to the electronic banking system made it easy.
I think we all knew this by the end of the Ballmer period.
A single cashless store? Not a problem. Every store and service in a town/city being cashless? That's a problem because even though they are individually private institutions, together they effectively lock someone out of participating in society.
For what it's worth, I worked on improving this while at 18F.

A big problem with this program was that the funds distributed were disproportionately allocated to coastal cities. As a result, places like silicon valley, north east (Boston) and NY. The goal of the project revision was to help make sure more money was going to less recognized universities and research entities.

This is definitely worth pursuing if there are areas of research that you or your company are exploring that have potential to go to market with a infusion of capital.

The drawbacks, like any type of investment, are mainly the distribution cycles of the funds. Unlike private equity, you may need to wait longer than a quick VC seedfund to get money. If you are already burning capital, then this is likely not the ideal investment for you.
Even if we are just mass and particles, then what happens if you just skip the vaporizing part. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQHBAdShgYI)
No it cannot: there is no way to get the URL of the asset if it is stored in the iTunes library on the cloud. There is at least one open bug report about this issue.
Tell Louis that a lot of folks appreciate his content and it would be nice if he would stop getting hit while on his bicycle. Brains are fragile.
You could simply choose to do your banking at a not-for-profit credit union and avoid the relationship with the for-profit financial institution.
The difference is it enable you to work more (for those who want it).

> The 7-8 hour person will create better products with fewer bugs

the 12 hour person with sufficient breaks can't do that ? whats the reasoning ?
You don't need DMCA provisions to sue for libel.
Pretty cool to see that boost admits that this is an issue and works on decoupling things. I look forward to see improvements here.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7371908 The earlier referenced article.
how the hell did the uBlock brand get sold do ABP anyways? (probably the wrong place to ask such things on HN)
Basic DDG search, and there are plenty of others: https://www.capitalone.com/bank/checking-accounts/online-che...
i've got a kid that's allergic to certain foods and has lots of cavities even though he eats the same things and cares for his teeth the same way his brother, who isn't allergic, does. with my sample size of 1 i can confirm this study
What would your advice be to someone with no electric car, no solar battery, no solar panels, and no subsidy available on them? Is the smart tariff still a good deal?
Colonizing Mars is a stupid, fundamentally impossible idea.

> I seldom hear "Maybe we should stop making movies until we get our shit together" even though Hollywood has a budget about the same size as NASA's or slightly larger.

People are somewhat free to spend their money on what they choose. Taxes, not so much.
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I fixed the first RROD on an Elite (Falcon) by re-balling the solder joints using a hair dryer. The next fix was an identical process to yours and it still works.
The problem here isn’t that the store doesn’t take cash, it’s that these people don’t have a bank. If you want to pass a regulation, it’s offer fee-less checking accounts with no minimum balance. This isn’t some crazy thing. It’s literally a product every bank used to offer, until very recently.

It blows my mind that so many people in the US don’t have bank accounts. The ads for alternative banks equally blow my mind. Their selling point is... direct deposit.

It’s a whole alternative world out there of people that take physical checks to stores, pay $3 to cash a check, the. Turn around and pay their electric bill at the same place (probably for another $3). Just get direct deposit and autopay, and your credit will probably improve automagically as well.
Most “v” block engines even if they are liquid-cooled direct more fuel to the rear cylinder(s) to cool the head, either with larger carburetor jets in older engines or with software in newer ones. If you think about it all ICE are cooled by fuel; if you fed them with boiled fuel they would overheat.
>Another aspect might be that there are ways to benefit from stirring up crises without solving them (like ad-financed social media and news sites)...

This has become laughably transparent recently. With lots of people out saying that we need to stop the data privacy violations of social media/news sites by "breaking them up", while almost none of the people advocating breakups want to simply make it illegal to share user data for commercial purposes. It didn't occur to me until you mentioned it that, of course! You know? I mean they probably want to be able to have one of those little companies and share your data to make money.

I really should have figured that out before.
What is "kompromat"?
Interesting addendum. Thank you.

Are there any statistics or studies regarding the becoming of these zombies? I thought that the body, if long enough under such medication, becomes incapable of producing its own dopamine, not that the threshold becomes higher.
As someone that has done a LOT of reflow work, I'm a little confused why you are arguing such a ridiculous notion.

First off, I think you confused C and F. The author wanted 170ºC in his oven, would would be outside the range of any existing sous vide and would be violent boil.

Second, reflow only works because of the perfectly level and no contact of parts, they need to be free to FLOAT to their destination guided by surface tension.
Cashless society will have real repercussions for the lower rungs of the economic ladder. As it is I ask myself how do I give money to homeless people when I'm not carrying cash? How do people without phones or cards interact with no cash merchants?

As cell phones and credit cards become ubiquitous the acquisition of these devices will need to be mandated by the gov. Aka, you can not be barred from getting a phone/bank account/credit card because you do not have a place to live.
I still don't get your point. Many countries have good investigation press and LOTS of criticism towards their government and policies. How is the US any special in that regard?
I agree. Most Americans are proposing this as "Postal Banking", as in a default government-run non-profit bank built into every USPS Post Office, that accepts all citizens.

http://www.campaignforpostalbanking.org/
Neural net research also has problems with replicability.
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My bank, Chase, lets me turn off "Overdraft Protection". If I don't have enough money in my account, the debit card transaction gets denied.

But, you have to explicitly request this. The so-called "protection" is on by default.
> the difference of "simple" and "easy"

Don't know if you were already referring to Rich Hickey's talk on this, but if you weren't, it might appeal to you. Simple Made Easy: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy

"Okay, the other critical thing about simple, as we've just described it, right, is if something is interleaved or not, that's sort of an objective thing. You can probably go and look and see. I don't see any connections. I don't see anywhere where this twist was something else, so simple is actually an objective notion. That's also very important in deciding the difference between simple and easy."
In China you'd see beggars with a WeChat QR code in front of them.
Elon Musk says Tesla is “vastly ahead” on self-driving
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It might well kill the use of open source and small-company software in business, in that the developers/management behind said code can't pay insurance companies to say that their code will pass audit. Microsoft and Oracle will pass with flying colors, of course.
I was referring to psychiatrists. I never claimed that psychologists could prescribe medication.
Don't give money to homeless people, please. The homeless who need it get their money from services that help them get back on their feet. The degenerate drug addicts who plague the city need to stop getting cash from people.
Postal banks are a thing. They work fine, and exist next to private banks, all over the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_savings_system
I've never heard of that. Where can I learn more about it?
if it leaks so easy why don't we have a clear picture of the trillions? but if it doesn't leak at all, why all this info? the Pentagon fast Walker tic tac video. and whistleblowers. Corey Goode, Emery Smith. I mean some of these people are probably limited Hangouts, or shady, but there's edge of wonder, which is the most obviously intelligence agency-backed disclosure project I've seen. unacknowledged, beyond majestic, chart topping docos.
There’s never been anything like the mass psyops of the past 100 years, and it’s not clear that such toxic memetic behavior can coexist with society. We’ve only seen three generations of impact, but it seems the deleterious effects are outpacing our ability to adapt.

It’s possible PR will trigger a memetic mass extinction event.

I’d encourage people here who work in marketing, public relations, or social media to seriously consider the systemic effects of what they’re doing.
They do something similar to this now with social security and other gov payouts. Someone I know has an AMEX blue card or something like that where money is deposited to.
Ah! Are those the things on the blue and white stands? I saw something pop up out front last week but didn't look too closely.
This is messy. On one hand, how are insurers supposed to properly cost and be able to provide payouts for a "cyberattack", which might be anything from "our company website was DDoSed for 30 minutes and we lost 50 customers" to "our production lines were shut down and our company ground to a halt for two weeks"?

On the other hand, if insurers know they can invoke a cyberwarfare clause and deny a claim, even if the attack may not have been state sponsored, the insurance is certainly worthless.
Yes, this is the obvious solution for a society's infrastructure needs, which transferring funds from one person to another surely qualifies.
"cardiac surgery with a chainsaw" encapsulates this perfectly
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Again, I never said that psychologists could prescribe medication. I only talked about psychiatrists. I think I may have misread the parent post.

> ("Sectioned". We don't use committed over here.

OK
Wrapping the turbine exhaust around the fuel return manifold would seem to be counter-productive---exhaust gasses would heat the fuel, reducing its cooling efficiency as it returns to the top of the engine.

...Unless the fuel at that point was already hotter than the turbine exhaust...

Rocket engines are weird.
(It's a recursion joke)
I did this around 10 times with my MBA Mid 2011 in the last years now, it worked every single time.

Why did you put it upside down with the heavy components underneath? You should have read the guides.
Before cashless stores, what was the opportunity cost of paying by cash?
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I don't think you can equate the teleportation station with sleep since sleep isnt a break in consciousness but more like a transition into a lower level of consciousness.
I'm almost positive that Freud did NOT think that "early-childhood sexual fantasies" were the basis of illness, but early-childhood trauma as the culprit, and I've come to believe that is almost surely the case, although I am sure no one cares about my insights on the issue.

Not only does this line up squarely with my own personal experience with addiction and other psychosis I have, but the lack of these issues in my children as well, who had a radically different early childhood then I and have no addiction issues whatsoever.

Case in point...I recently saw the documentary about the triplets that were separated at birth and given to 3 different socio-economic and emotionally-connected parents and who, by total accident, met at college and came to be national celebrities in the 70's and 80's.

One of the three eventually killed himself, due in part I'm sure to his much deeper addiction issues then that of his 2 siblings. The interesting part was that he was given to the "wealthy, but emotionally distant" family.

By far the most well balanced and successful of the 3 was the one given to the gregarious and emotionally-connected father, who showered the child with love and support throughout his whole life.

I could go on for 30 minutes discussing all the takeaways of this documentary, called Three Identical Strangers...it turns out the children where all part of an ethically-questionable experiment where, in my mind at least, the end results basically proves that 95% of the nature/nurture argument goes to the "nature" side.

It seems that all "nurture" can do is fuck you up and give you lifelong issues that are incredibly difficult to overcome.
well they probably paid enough money to the people who sold it. If you were owner of that name, how much would you sell it for?
There have been many good reasons to switch to uBlock Origin long before today's issue: speed, memory footprint, no "acceptable ads", etc. I don't know why anyone still uses ABP.
In the sentences that you fucking quoted.
"This DIY method is like doing cardiac surgery with a chainsaw."

Wasn't there a funny game on Steam for that? Surgeon something.
Exactly. There is a place for these tools, the key is having the knowledge to know when it makes sense to take the next step, and when it's just overkill.

If you have a site delivering mostly static content, obviously use the bare minimum JS.

However if you have a lot of reactive forms, interactivity etc, while it can be done with plain Javascript and HTML, I've seen way more buggy DOM manipulation/jQuery soup than not, even from experienced devs. Add in a large team working on separate features and code quality and UI consistency goes in the toilet. The frontend libraries at least can bring some structure and common patterns that can slow down this debt, at a library size similar to jQuery.

It's also important to remember you don't have to go all in. If your site is mostly static with a few highly interactive components, you don't need a SPA Webpack setup with a 50MB node_modules directory. Tools like VueJS can be dropped incrementally on a server rendered application, and you can "step up" in terms of libraries, common components and build process only as needed.
Remember, this is from a bicyclists perspective.
I agree, and I’m also still not sure how I feel about moving the entirety of our consumer economy into the domain of just a few major card processors. While I personally haven’t regularly used cash in years, there’s something comforting in it being an option, even if I don’t use it – and yet, of course, by everyone doing the same, that’s how cash gets phased out.
the Pentagon tic tac video can not be thus chalked up. the Japan airlines radar of craft going 8000 mph too.
> No information passes thru the event horizon of a black hole.

that is only true in one direction though, right?
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This has been previously discussed on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9718625
The internet and prolific camera ownership wasn’t a thing back then.
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The Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets is a global organisation?
I imagine that the labor and security required to handle cash is costly. This is the best number I could find:

"The cost of cash handling can range on average from as low as 4.7% of cash to over 15% of cash depending on the retail segment."

http://www.ihlservices.com/product/costofcash/
More than a decade ago I "successfully" fixed a thinkpad with a loose GPU using a heat gun. Prior to the fix, the screen would have artifacts unless I held the GPU in place with my hand. The repair only lasted a few months though.

These days I would imagine the parts are smaller and more delicate.
Well the solution is easy: we just see which of the filterlist publishers are trustworthy and which aren't, and have the extension automatically download this listlist and apply it to its list of filterlists. Of course you need to be sure that the listlist is of trustworthy origin, but you can just check if the supplier of the listlist is itself on the listlist.
This will only be a temporary issue which will disappear with the generation which will resist the most. Most behavioural changes and changes to the norm just need to wait until the first generation dies out and to all subsequent generations this will be the only norm they ever knew. A great example is smoking in public places in Europe. The people who think this restricts their freedom is slowly disappearing. Most young people and new generations find it normal that smoking in public places is prohibited and they would resist if someone was to try to change that now.
Some US banks charge "maintenance fees" if an account doesn't have a high enough balance, so he may have needed to wait for a large reserve to build up before using his debit card for daily purchases.

e.g. Wells Fargo currently requires a minimum $1500 daily balance (or direct deposits coming in, or mortgage payment going out- neither of which are applicable here) otherwise they charge $10/month in fees. Add to this the "creative accounting" some banks use to settle debits from day-to-day, and other nuances of ACH (no fraud protection, 5 days to dispute transactions, etc.) that make payment by check or debit card non-trivial for the inexperienced.
I don’t think the suicide booth model of a teleporter fits a quantum teleporter model, only the 3D printer teleporter model. From a quantum point of view, all (e.g.) electrons are indistinguishable excitations in the same field, and it’s the pattern that makes you “you”. If you’ll forgive a bit of poetic licence, quantum teleportation seems more like Discworld magic, where you have to exchange two identical sized lumps of matter.
Reminds me of Elizabeth Holmes and Sunny Balwani / Theranos / Bad Blood. Blind devotion to "the mission." "We're saving lives!" or "We're changing the world!" is pretty easy to sniff out as cultish posturing, IMHO. I blame it on the cult of personality, personally.
> In the United States, the United States Postal Savings System was established in 1911 under the Act of June 25, 1910 (36 Stat. 814). It was discontinued by the Act of March 28, 1966 (80 Stat. 92).

Oh, wonderful, so we had it but we got rid of it. :\
Have an aerospace engineer cow-orker; one favorite quote for why he works in enterprise software is, "Because this flies and that (pointing at an Ares-1 mockup) doesn't."

On the other hand, there's nothing "engineering" about software engineering.
Could you give examples on how the incompleteness theorem explains physical phenomena? I would be curious.