skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Years ago I read about a scam where people were tampering 7-segment displays in gas pump stations (e.g. by altering one segment a "9" will be displayed as a "5", an "8" as a "6" and so on), so you got less gas than what you paid for.

This worked at least in two ways:

- By showing the wrong price/quantity (1.980€/l would become 1.560€/l)

- By showing the wrong quantity dispensed (39.8 liters would become 35.6)

I guess the lesson here is to never trust a 7-segment display until you can confirm all segments are working.
> Police don't choose whether to drop charges.

Police do choose whether and what resources to devote to investigation after a report. If they never identify an offender because they don't do anything with what they are given by retailers, there are no charges to drop.

> The vast majority of nonviolent crimes here now have no police involvement whatsoever.

Which is a choice by the police.
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Ah. I thought that was a case of “I a word”, where the missed word was cybercrime.
Interview with a bunch of companies and see what kind of offers you get. Now is a good time because all the interview processes are remote, so you're not limited to traveling to the Bay Area for interviews and can do as many of them as your schedule & stamina allows. Many companies are also going remote, so you may also be able to stay in London and work for a Silicon Valley company (my Coinbase interviewer lived in London, for example). The company would probably sponsor your visa if you do move.

My gut is that if you're good and interview well, you could probably pull in $300-400K including stock compensation (maybe $150-160K salary), which would easily make it worth your while. The final word is always the offer letter, though, so get as many offer letters as you can and play them off each other.
NFTs are the orginal NFTs
Growth-optimal portfolios are part of regular economics. Look it up.

Maybe there was something wrong with your code? Because optimizing asymptotic growth and maximizing logarithmic utilty are mathematically identical.
Ethanol doctoring of the fuel (whether E10 or E85) typically happens at the wholesale terminal, after the pipeline transportation.
"Old people make less money than young people on purpose because of expected utility preferences."

You need to prove this whilst keeping in mind that ergodicity economics takes account of factors that regular economics does not. You would need to show it wasn't one of those factors being responsible.

Ole Peters has already done the studies on people (outsourced to a psychology department) to show they are following his economics model.
In theory I agree, but Canonical really seem to do it over and over. Whether it's NIH or something else, it seems every time technology starts shifting, Ubuntu goes its own way only to drop it a year or two later. Unity/compiz, Mir , Ubuntu One, Upstart, Bazaar. And currently baking are Snaps and LXD. This isn't to say any of these are bad products, but it has real effects to the end user, who invest time in something that just seems to get vaporized.
Study: Poor flirting skills are the main reason behind “involuntary singlehood”
Using hand grenades would improve results
Headless? It even has the same debug console as the ordinary Chromium.

Basically the only thing it misses is the URL bar and navigation buttons. It's just a browser with some OS integration slapped on the side.
As a board member of two nonprofits, I STRONGLY agree with pg. Restricted donations are not only an administerial headache, they strain the donor/recipient relationship and lead to suboptimal spending.
It's measured as overhead and/or donation acquisition expenses. It's never 100%. You can assume some percent of that money goes to such expenses vs actual research (which I guess is where you'd want the money to go, or maybe to outreach or supporting individuals with cf).
Has someone made a meta-NFT yet? I want to be able to buy an NFT representing another NFT transaction.
Agree. Interesting post although the writer isn’t accounting for a precipitous decline in individual car ownership
> This could be enforced for real-life events by handing out a wristband with a GUID QR code to the first person to demonstrate they possess the private key that owns a particular ticket token, then never handing anything out for that token again, and also triggering an alert if the same QR code is ever seen on more than one person

This is quite close to what unlock-protocol[1] did for several conferences pre-covid. Overall it worked, though there are some key difficulties: gas prices make interesting on-chain things too expensive for most people, and wallet ergonomics aren’t great for this sort of thing.

(I am a former unlock-protocol employee)

[1] https://unlock-protocol.com/blog/checking-key-in
Son, see the weave on the emperor's gown and how it's delicate changes in weave and texture signify the greatness, taste and glory of our leader.

Mama! Yes but ....
Interesting post although the writer isn’t accounting for a precipitous decline in individual car ownership
Yeah... like any serious hacker would use his real email/identity when registering into a cybercriminal forum.

Clickbait..
My favorite:

> “Apparently people don't like the truth, but I do like it; I like it because it upsets a lot of people. If you show them enough times that their arguments are bullshit, then maybe just once, one of them will say, 'Oh! Wait a minute - I was wrong.' I live for that happening. Rare, I assure you”
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Hi all, Damien here, one of Nodes creators. We tried to bring our own take in the visual programming space. We're still in beta and figuring out how people are using Nodes. Happy to answer any question you might have, AMA.
As someone who is not steadfastly against non-locality: you have a sort of bizarre tension with special relativity, in which spacetime is explicitly locally causal. Tim Maudlin actually wrote an interesting and thorough book on this: https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Quantu...
Qt is not going commercial only
Paying doesn’t scale
I think I read about this on twitter from one of the webpack devs a few years ago, might have been this chain. (https://twitter.com/TheLarkInn/status/1006746626617008128)

I think for react native in windows apps more generally the github page is a good start

https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native-windows
Man chose medically assisted death at home. In world first, able to donate lungs
This article touches on non-profits, but I feel it comes from a deeper well. We are wired in our culture around how we give donations.

We only give money to people who we think would spend it most wisely. We walk past all the people in San Francisco on the street because we know that if we give them money it will only go to more drug use. We drive past the person on the left turn lane because we don't want to encourage him to be there.

When I spent 2 years traveling by motorbike all over Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, I saw first hand what donations do from birth... little kids in the middle of nowhere would run up to me and say hey DOLLAR, give me DOLLAR. They were trained for that.
This is so heartbreaking. Many people never found the bodies of their loved ones.. and occasionally just some parts would wash up but no one was certain whose body it was.

Tragic.
Well I do pay taxes, but your strategy does raise the question of how well the state spends money. There are many people in the world who, for good reasons, neither trust their government to spend the money well, nor feel they have any realistic chance at improving the problems in their government. Government money is often a big target for corruption, and just as malware tends to get written for the software with the biggest market share, corruption tends to accumulate wherever the most money is.
It's a pre-print, made available early, and English is not the author's first language.

I think you're being a bit harsh.
I just started VSCode on my desktop. Its "_startup_ memory", with something like two dozen extensions installed, is sitting at 170MB. I also just started Discord on my desktop. Its "_startup_ memory" is 39MB.

Now Slack's a pig at 380MB, fresh-opened, sure. But reality doesn't really seem to oblige these kinds of claims in 2021.
Today Nordigen offers Free access to banking data and Premium data insights as a service. For reference: https://techcrunch.com/2020/12/01/nordigen-introduces-free-e...
In 2019, we only offered Premium banking data insights as a service (no account aggregation functionality).
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this seems obviously true. but why has it failed for like 40 years so far? many attempts have been made. for some reason all tools seem to fail, no matter how simple, they cause more problems than they're worth.
Regulatory duty cycles/time on air (ToA) will prevent the legal use for highish bandwidth applications and are necessary to keep the frequency open for everyone.

See https://lora.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
"Economic sense" for who exactly?

Wind costs 5 cents plus zero pollution per KWh.

Coal costs 3 cents plus 2 kg of carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, and a shitload of particulate pollution per KWh.

"Economic sense" for the owner of the coal power plant is one answer.

"Economic sense" for whoever is paying medical bills and dying early is a different answer.
Distance and RFI. A desktop PC can realistically connect everything on one PCB, whereas something the size of a car needs wires to connect everything. If you want to compare a car to a computer, the better analogy would be a LAN.

A car being one chip makes as little sense as trying to hook up a whole office to one server, running all the display cables and USB for peripherals to one spot. Sure, it maybe could be done, but who wants to spend the money dragging all those wires vs one run of cat6? Same thing with cars. For instance, it isn't uncommon for the automatic window roll down feature to be implemented in the door itself. It's just easier to have more localized controllers that communicate over a network (CANBUS) than it is to run physical wiring to send every signal to where it needs to go.

Sure, it isn't uncommon to have very underpowered machines on people's desks that don't do much more than drive a monitor and process keyboard input, but there still needs to be some sort of machine to connect those peripherals and send info over the network. This isn't that different from a car, this is exactly how there end up being 30+ different modules in a vehicle.

Think of the automatic window roll down feature in the front passenger door. Thus relies on either sensing motor current or timing. It's way easier to throw a small microcontroller in there to accomplish this than run 20-30 feet of wiring in total to send all the signals back to one master controller. Wiring is way more expensive than most people realize, the wiring harness on a car is tremendously expensive to produce. Reducing wiring complexity saves enough money that it is easy to justify the engineering and BOM cost of an additional module.
A big one set off from a mile up is the normal way science fiction predicts the chaos begins.
I think we need to solve reconnecting a persons brain to their own body first before worrying about a massively complex cross body transplant but definitely an interesting thought experiment.
Would you have preferred the researcher to publish in Russian?
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A very important function of the mouth is to moisten the air you breath because breathing dry air will kill you. When mechanical ventilators were invented they would destroy the patient's airways by drying them out which is why they now come with humidifiers.
But it says that universities are the exception. It's more of a counterexample.
Don't forget that snaps came almost a year before flatpak. This is being parroted all over HN and still many don't know it and blame Canonical for reinventing the wheel, which is why I'm posting this.

(I agree with your general idea and the rest of your comment.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snap_(package_manager)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatpak
For a good example of how such a mesh network can indeed function well, consider Ricochet, which once offered service in a few metro regions, including the Bay. The relay units were typically mounted on utility poles, by arrangement with the relevant agencies.

True, 128kbps wasn't anything that'd compare with 4G, but this was 1999. It wasn't great at handoffs either, but still, I was able to use it on BART regardless. Imagine, connected to the net - on the move!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricochet_(Internet_service)
I am going to use Hulu as an example. They have both and the moment they attempt to introduce ads into their streams in my paid option, I will drop them like a hot cake. I am have no problem paying for service. I do not want ads and I make that clear. Ideally, they wouldn't try to sell my profile either, but baby steps.

Post-purchase is technically still there, but less obtrusive to me.
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How do you not faint after a while?

Imo cooler temperature is also better for workouts and all-things breathing-wise.
Also one would figure you have to short-breathe and do it faster to maintain the oxygen levels, and that's just a bad idea if you're doing anything resistance-intended,because you're just burning energy breathing harder for no good reason.(Yes you also burn energy to maintain the temperature because you intake cool air, but after the circulation sets in it's barely noticeable)

Now related to the article: Yes, the "chronic cough" and the lungs explanation is something you experience for arguably the first couple of times you run/exercise outside if you're out of shape(and i might add is kind of frightening to the unexperienced).The key thing is to understand is that you have to "embrace" this fear of "the cold" and the body inherently secretes adrenaline & hormones to help you "fight" it.

If this sounds like what Wim Hof says repeatedly it's because that's what it is.And i'm no doctor but you experience it.And more often than not anecdotal experience can have more insights towards the truth than the narration/study of one's experiment/anecdotal experience.

We're already very weak immune-wise because of: modern times(& the clothes available), availability of heat, lack of air & sunlight, processed foods, etc.Extreme sanitization of our environments will do anything but help the situation.
The donations are categorized: organizations the at help the working poor, schools (woefully underfunded in AZ), foster and adoption organizations.
Propranolol-Induced Inhibition of Fear Memories in Humans (2020)
>> More than 700 thousand human deaths

> I don’t think I’ve ever in my 40 and nine years on the planet seen numbers of this scale written in mixed numeric and textual form.

In my 50 and nine years on this planet, I have.

> There are a several other quality issues in the abstract ...

It's a pre-print, and the author's first language is not English. Some people struggle with a second language, and I think it's commendable that someone is willing to make their results available.
It looks modern and "luxury" now. It won't in 10 years.

Also saves on component costs, and pushes manufacturing and design issues into software.

It's terrible, and I'm hoping there is a reaction against it. This is the #1 thing that stops me from having any interest in buying a Tesla.
The author is conflating max allowed bandwidth from the bridge to Sidewalk server with per-end-node bandwidth. The 80Kbps includes the bundle of all of the LoRaWAN messages it has received for all end-node-devices within range. This is a marketing point to show the Amazon device owner that this won't consume large amounts of their bandwidth. The Things Network suggests a maximum expectation of 250 BITS/s. This is not going to replace cell networks.
https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/docs/lorawan/limitations.ht...
> You seem to suggest that casual reading, while I'm sure shares some spillover benefit, should not be mis-characterized as active study and is closer to entertainment. Do you make a conscious effort to read most things actively?

For the most part, no. I'm OK with a lot of the reading I do being purely for entertainment (yes, even the non-fiction books). To some extent the primary spillover benefit is that even years later, I will vaguely recall that I encountered a concept before and where - so when I need the details, I just go look them up again.

I don't think that reading for entertainment only is such a bad thing. Ok, so I just let a popsci book on $subject wash over me and in a year nearly all of it will be gone from my mind again - but while reading I felt immense joy at the new understanding and information. It positively reinforces curiosity and knowledge-seeking as an activity and and makes me happier. That does help with life.

With a number of books what I do is highlight references to names/concepts/ideas I feel are under-explained or worth some more research on, and then rather than googling them immediately, I finish the book first and then make some time to work through my list of highlights afterwards. It's tedious, but it also effectively forces me to skim through the book and the context of the highlights again. That (slightly) improves my recall later on, but it also often makes me realize the super-structure of the book much more (i.e. how was the author building up their argument over the length of the book, why did they chose to order things in the way they did perhaps, etc.)
I agree with you, but in my opinion, articles like this could generally do a better job separating between privilege and the ridiculous amount of work and commitment it can take to make it in art, especially as an independent.

Anecdotally, from the people I know making a living (so not being rich, just at least getting by fully on their own) as independents in music, sound design/engineering, illustration and writing have one thing in common: A 10+ year grind behind them working (either to earn money or practicing) 16 hour days, over weekends, almost no vacations or going out, investing everything in materials instead, living in tiny apartments or with their parents, taking shitty day jobs to earn enough to eat, etc.

Where the privilege comes in, is when due to ones socioeconomic status they can't make the above sacrifices even though they would have the necessary perseverance to get through.

From my perspective, we definitely need to do better pretty much globally in providing more equal opportunity within societies. But even if this aspect wouldn't exist, people are also just too naive about how much hard work is involved in these types of careers no matter how passionate or talented they think they are. For every one "white dude" that made it, there are probably thousands that didn't, because they spent most their free time playing video games and smoking weed but are blaming it on something else.
vue.js came before preact, it was first released february 2014 https://blog.evanyou.me/2014/02/11/first-week-of-launching-a...
That’s not quite what I’m getting at. A marketing dollar that brings in two dollars that would have otherwise been spent on coke is good, a marketing dollar that brings in two dollars that would have otherwise been spent on a different decent charity is not good.
Not if bitcoin just starts consuming renewable power, causing other use cases to make up the difference in coal power.
There's a pure-VM mode for development and an AOT compiled mode for production.
>In fact, my claim is that there is that the continuous nature of consciousness is an illusion in general.

I'm not sure what that even means. How can an experience be an illusion? It seems to me that at point everything just breaks apart.

>Just because I remember when I started writing this comment doesn't mean I am the same thing that started writing it.

The point isn't that you remember it (false memories are a thing), but that you're experiencing continuity from moment to moment.
If you think this continuity doesn't exist, how could you care about anything at all?

>From one moment to another, everything is different, or at least there are no clear boundaries

How is everything different? On the contrary, I'd say that actually most things seem to change only marginally and as time periods approach the infinitesimal, so do the changes. And I don't understand what you mean by clear boundaries. Why would there be any? Isn't lacking clear boundaries what actually makes it continuous.

>Am I the same thing as the feritilzed egg? Present-me and past-me are just as related as copy1 and copy2 with a hypothetical perfect copy machine.

If you reject continuity, sure, but otherwise the key difference is that there's continuity between the objects.

Let me ask you, why do you care about your future 'self'? That is, why do you not just maximize _your_ (current) pleasure, rather than caring about the experience of someone that you seem to think isn't actually yourself. At the very least, it seems like from your point of view there is no reason to place more importance on your future self than any other future person.

>And even if 'whatever makes up experience is baked into the physical', that doesn't give a path to a time-stable identity. In fact, it makes that even less plausible, as it implies that every atom leaving your body, every cell that dies, and certainly something like losing a hand or getting a transplant, fundamentally changes your psyche at the physical level.

'time-stable' identity doesn't mean that it must be forever frozen, but rather that it's continuous in the time dimension and happens slowly enough that the subject can experience this. You can replace parts of the 'soul material', without identity being lost as long.
People looking at NFTs as beanie babies or mona lisas are severely missing the point.

The vast majority of high value art transactions are ALSO tax/asset management activities. The prices are only loosely coupled with the art, and are primarily derived from the scarcity AND the fact that someone else paid $x in the past.

The fact that you purchase these with cryptocurrency should highlight the use case.
I agree with the author’s premise but find the crypto argument at the end weak at best and misleading at worst. I don’t see how NFTs will ever be responsible for any remotely significant slice of the raw energy usage of the blockchain they might be implemented atop. Or, if you implemented a blockchain solely for an NFT, how it would ever get to a scale of energy consumption that is prohibitive or wasteful.
I was disappointed to see many of the artists I follow on social media filling my timeline with talk of 'crypto art' and NFTs. I understand that art is hard to monetize, especially when original designs can be stolen and reproduced by some anonymous faker.

But digital-only art is already expensive, and adding this NFT stuff on top of it feels pointless. Who but the artist thinks this adds an element of unique-ness to the product? Nobody will be buying crypto kitties at Sotheby's to impress their friends at their abode in the Hamptons. And impressing others with your taste is half the point when it comes to collecting expensive stuff.