skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I am still looking for high quality cutlery that will not stain after a month.

Stainless steel refers to corrosion resistance, and I don't know any cutlery that corrodes in a month, even from the dollar store.

Are you talking hard water stains? What are you seeing on your cutlery that is causing this concern?
51% hashpower != 51% of stakeholders, this is an important distinction that many comments about democracy are missing.

Hence GP talking about bodyguards at a concert-- who would typically be a minority of persons there.
Some would argue you gain more than you lose.

Also to be pedantic, C doesn't spec anything about linkage. Shared objects and how linkers use them to compose programs is a system detail more than a language one.
It's not about PR, it's about some fundamental changes in their business goals. Azure allowed them to embrace Linux and open source in a way where they benefitted. Also they are no longer ran by that shithead Steve Ballmer. Microsoft isn't perfect but as far as massive corporations go they're no where near that bad.
I think a cat finds it stressful to be aware of another cat but not be able to interact with it -- e.g. an apartment cat is stressed to see another cat out the Window.

If the cats do get to interact there may be some drama but eventually they will figure out where they stand socially. It is the not knowing that distresses them.
Most countries that have socialized healthcare still have private providers - the government is paying for healthcare, but they're taking on the role of the insurance provider rather than the healthcare provider.
Wefish Fishing App
The sport fishing app you were looking for: simple, interactive, social and confidential.
Create your fishing diary with private location, get the best weather forecasts and fishing predictions, discover your most effective fishing spots, meet and learn from anglers from all over the world
Did you know that not all power comes from burning coal?
I don't know if this is helpful for cross platform, but for many games with problematic multiplayer you can use
https://www.zerotier.com/

(works great for original Warcraft III)

and they have a linux version.
parent: I'm sure that can be productive for webapp code that sits between a database and the frontend.
I mean if you don't have a drivers license in usa you practically can't buy groceries nor have a job unlike in most other countries.
HN doesn't have an official Android app. There are several by different authors and lot of the apps are no longer maintained https://github.com/cheeaun/awesome-hacker-news#android

[edit: corrected the URL]
> Driving school wasn’t required

I think the difference might be in the difficulty of the test. Here in the UK driving lessons aren't required, but most people wouldn't pass the test without them (and most drivers wouldn't pass the test now if they had to sit it again).
Tesla has that too (speed limit mode).
Thought experiment: two programs take exactly the same time to complete a task but one of them is perceived as slow and the other as fast (for whatever reason). Shouldn't this make the latter the better one of the two programs? At least I would count "being less annoying than the other program" (assuming that perceived slowness is annoying) as a positive feature.
Most of the work of good public consultation facilitators is (1) stopping those loud/frustrated/opinionated/entrenched people from distorting process, and (2) allowing many people to feel heard. (This is in addition to, of course, the more obvious: actually integrating that feedback, repeating it back, and acting on it.)

Perhaps surprisingly with (2), public consultations are sometimes almost like public therapy -- allowing people to feel heard so they can then take a step forward, even if it's not a step fully in the direction they prefer. People can make better compromises when they feel heard, they just need to be contained so they don't take speaking time/attention from everyone else.

Disclosure: highly engaged in public consultation process, civic tech, and consensus-building technology through my interest in https://github.com/compdemocracy/polis
Ask HN: How to make all your marketing images for the app store?
I'm finishing and releasing my first mobile app. Right now, my biggest issue has been that Google requires me to have 8 photos with exact dimensions.

As a one person dev, what resources should I look at that'll help me make modern splash images?

I know what I'm asking sounds vague, but I've seen a lot of mobile apps have very similar images and marketing videos, so I was wondering if there was a good service/app that I didn't know about.

Deploying my app has taken even longer than making it!
Yes, me too. I actually wonder how the header graphic was made? Looks very nice.

Although I must admit, I have no idea what this site is supposed to be. Could be random musings from GPT-3 for all I know (even the explainer is very cryptic). But as with all art, one probably shouldn't ask too many questions :-)

Edit: Found a small arrow at the bottom that does in fact lead to more content. Looks like it's from an actual person after all ;-)
I have come to associate it with the pleasure of sharing knowledge, but the thing that struck me was how when seen in such a light it could be seen as some ancient primal instinct that was originally meant for recognizing it as a strategic advantage. Of knowing something someone else doesn't.
> And most pertinently, this critique was written by someone who genuinely loves programming in Rust.

That is putting the bar impossible high. I would expect most of the criticism to come from people who hate to program in Rust, which it is fine as long as the criticism is well argued.
"I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that."

One particular reason: while trade increases welfare, it also has distributional effects. As trade barriers go to zero, the marginal effect on welfare of a further reduction becomes small, compared to the marginal effect on distribution.

Another reason: globalization allows capital to avoid restrictions (e.g. on environmental externalities, child labour, slavery) that are seen in the West as part of the social contract.

Here's the Autor paper: https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w18054/w180...

Dani Rodrik's recent work on populism: https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w23559/w235...

And his classic "Has globalization gone too far" is worth reading too.
They would be fine with it as long as they aren't subject to it. If they were subject to it, it would make it very difficult to operate Bing. Unless they just aren't doing algorithm changes very often, it would present a significant burden to be required to report out such changes weeks before deployment. Of course the forced "arbitration" for "fair" payment to news organizations would also be onerous for them. But fortunately for MS the law is highly selective in which companies it targets.
That's because 'It Just Works.'
> An electric car that is charged from coal-generated power is basically a coal car.

It's a “coal car” that's much easier to upgrade, en masse with millions like it, to end-to-end cleaner technology than a cat with an onboard fossil fuel engine.
There's a lot more space in the US. Roads are bigger. Parking spaces are more numerous, etc. Small cars are practical in the US, but big cars are not practical in Europe.
Technical definition of PTSD? No idea, I'm not a shrink

What the common man things of PTSD? Most certainly yes.

A startup world isn't a literal warzone. The experiences of a startup can be extremely negative, but aren't anything near as bad as what a soldier sees - so lets not get these things confused.

But anyone can experience trauma from anything. Be it a loss of someone you care about... or a horrifically bad boss. Extreme stress be it in a warzone or in a startup is still stress. It's hard on the body and can cause a lot of negative reactions in the short or long term.

My experience was mild in comparison. Got a new boss at a high stress, high growth, no-life startup job (the kind where you boast that you work 80 hours a week, 6.5 days a week minimum). He was terrible, I started to look for a new job but it was slim pickings at the time. Eventually I did get an out but for the first two weeks after I left, I had nightmares every single night about that boss. Continued to happen less regularly for quite some time after that.
There is a difference (with the introduction of slashing and user activated soft forks) in 51% attacks that revert finalized blocks. In PoW this type of attack would become cheaper as it persists, in PoS we have some defense that keeps making this attack expensive.

On top of that the costs of attack are much greater in PoS than PoW, making these attacks much harder to begin with.

https://vitalik.ca/general/2020/11/06/pos2020.html
Hi, author here. I do think that the UK probably has one of the more develop kettle markets (I was extra surprised when my extra expensive kettle bought in the UK didn't have a limescale mesh, considering high calcium levels in London and elsewhere in the UK).

And, not trying to be snarky, but with the kettle you list one has to open the lid (or lift it up) to get a sense of how much water is in there. One of the requirements listed in the article is for the water level to be shown to the user.
Is there evidence that we can expect a benefit? Could we put a probability distribution over that?

In other life and death fields, like medicine, the promise of saving lives is made all the time, but even for great benefit we do not cut corners to prove benefit more quickly.

Given the way that automobiles have little regard for life, I would rather that we take our queue from fields like medicine that have bothered to deal with the ethics and the cost benefit analysis.

Similarly, your claims about COVID reactions not weighing the cost benefit analysis are unfounded, at least that I have seen. I have seen many self-motivated parties making ridiculous, absurd, and harmful suggestions, but nothing that could be taken intellectually seriously. It's just people scamming for their own personal gain at the expense of others' lives.
> Everyone who actually is a stakeholder wants Proof of Stake

And everyone doing work wants Proof of Work
What stopped me a while ago was the availability of good free compilers. (the appeal is you could be faster than C for numerical code in Fortran, but I remember vaguely these compilers then would not be cheap)
You just described the process of gentrification.
In terms of user experience, it clearly is. No need to install anything (mesa is baked in the distribution for Intel/AMD, and for most distro installing Nvidia drivers is done automatically by the installer these days).
They're in the 'embrace' phase.
Have you actually tried Proton? It's not "some definition" of works. A lot of games just work perfectly.

Furthermore, 19 of those 50 games (38%) support Linux natively.
Both electric and ICE cars are being subsidised:

- direct car purchase subsidies (almost exclusively electric)

- oil production subsidies. You might want to have a look at [0].

- wind and solar electricity production subsidies.

- road infrastructure building and maintenance.

- Road and fuel taxes do not cover this.

- Usually higher for the same size electric car because heavier. That could change with battery and charging tech improvements though...

- ...

One could also argue that the following heavyweights should be included:

- oil wars.

- untaxed negative environmental externalities:

- oil spills

- CO2 and other harmful gas emissions

- car tire particles from both ICE and electric cars ...

[0] http://www.taxpayer.net/wp-content/uploads/ported/images/dow... .
Maybe, but steam beat its record of most users two months in a row. February 8th had 26.4 million concurrent users.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/esports/steam-twice-breaks-...
Ok I’ve been reading about BTC and I’m finally falling into the “it’s a terrible idea” camp.

Here are the problems I’m concerned about. If Bitcoin supporters want to defend it, please could you explain why:

1. A scaling proof of work is not environmentally disastrous. The “renewable energy” argument doesn’t make sense, I think, and existing financial systems seem to be more energy efficient, but open to other counter arguments.

2. A decentralised ledger which concentrates initial supply amongst a tiny fraction of the world’s population would be a good idea and somehow preferable to the current situation.

Finally, please explain whether Bitcoin is a currency (like the dollar) or a store of value (like gold). If it’s a currency, please explain how it can be used as such when transactions are slow and expensive. If it’s a store of value, please explain why the fact that gold is physically useful and in strictly finite supply (on earth) compared to crypto currencies (in general), does not matter.
58% of Chinese electricity comes from fossil fuels [0], and that's dropping fast (65% in 2019). Also, the worst thing about a coal-fired car would be particulate pollution in the city where you drive it, so generating that electricity far away from the city helps a lot there.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_China
A simple change- providers offering the same transparent price to all patients would make things so much simpler. (and by this I mean different providers could charge different prices, but one provider can't charge different patients different prices.)

It removes the whole in-network/out-network scam. It removes the whole process of negotiating prices with insurers.

Transparent pricing is the baby step in this direction that reveals the problem. The hope was that it would at least provide negotiating power for payers when they see what the other payers are getting. Let's just take the next step and make them commit to pricing ahead of time.
Which problems from the article are you referring to?

C++ is likely the worst OO language in common usage and C++ developers rightfully avoid using its native OO functionality as much as possible. They will literally jump through hoops and write tons of additional boilerplate code to avoid exposing the language's OO functionality (doing what C++ developers call type-erasure).

C++11 didn't improve OO in C++, it gave programmers many features to avoid having to use it altogether.
Kay was a visionary, but not every vision of his was the final word on reality. It's possible that the "mainstream" version of OO is better than Kay's.
Why elect anybody beside t those giving you free lunch over free lunch ? Nobody cares about who's gonna foot the bill.
Show HN: MoneyGame – In-Browser Business Simulation Game
https://www.moneyga.me

The goal in this game is to make as much virtual money as possible. Features include working pleb jobs, operating various forms of businesses, trading items, currencies and stocks on The Exchange and so on.

I have posted this on HN before, but it has been a couple of years now and some things have changed in the game. Most notably the addition of NPC buyers and NPC workers, which make the economy much more alive.

Thank you for your attention and good weekend everybody!
13 years ago in 2008 the 5 year fixed interest rate on a mortgage was 4.45%. The following year in 2009 it was below 2% because of the great recession.

Assuming you had that lower interest rate, I just want to illustrate that you may have been fortunate to have purchased at the exact best moment to buy property in North America, as home prices hadn’t yet adjusted to the new purchasing power consumers had (in the form of lower interest rates).

Also, unemployment was pretty high at the time, so while the job might seem meagre compared to today, you likely had a significant advantage vs. your underemployed peers in the region.
The Australian situation has created an incentive for tech companies to consider getting into news-content production, a sector that was previously not-lucrative.

Find a struggling newspaper to purchase for a song. That gets you a masthead and a basic editorial pipeline. Then, use strong salary packages to raid the content talent from the existing participants. Alphabet could do this with pocket change.

This is similar to the play the media titans use to capture sports broadcast rights - World Series Cricket in the 70s, SuperLeague in the 90s.
I got confused with George Costanza and was really looking forward to this article.
System Personas and Design Integrity
I understand it. That is why I have emphasized above ("in terms of the naming / use of the FSD term, not the actual feature set") that, regardless of the small print / legalese / disclaimers / clarifications etc., I believe that using confusing and not matching current capabilities terms should not be allowed. I might be wrong (as I'm not a lawyer), but I think that it is well within FTC's jurisdiction and power to enforce both truthfulness and clarity of advertising in the U.S.
Such things are very tricky, because negative experiences are remembered vividly. Search working is expected, search not working is a huge problem. Also, search is a hard thing to get right.

When it goes wrong on reddit, it goes annoyingly wrong. For instance, my main issue is that some searches return a flood of irrelevant content. Searching for some games brings a flood from r/GameSwap or some such place. Or, trying to search about Nikola Corporation will bring up a whole lot of sports personalities.

That makes sense in that it's a tough problem to solve, but what's annoying is that it has to be dealt by hand every time. I can write a filter, but what I'd really like is a permanent setting: "I'm not ever interested in results from /r/GameSwap or /r/SportsSubreddit". Also it might be helpful to be able to set a limit how much stuff can come from a single subreddit, because some contain very repetitive content that drowns out all useful results.

Edit: Also, search should parse youtube URLs and ignore HTTP vs HTTPS, youtube.com vs youtu.be and the ?feature=share junk at the end. I can't be the only one who thinks "This must have been discussed on Reddit, and the discussion has to be more useful over there", but Reddit comparing the URLs literally makes it annoying to find matches.
I’m not sure why people hate Reddit search so much. I’ve never used it much, but when I have, it’s been fine over the last decade or whatever.

The narrative is so strong though, I’m not sure how you could defeat that without creating a radically different solution that derails the narrative.
Why would you want message passing in the language (as opposed to a library)?
A Turing Machine is the minimum (probably) set of primitives that make computation possible. That doesn't mean we want to program that way. I'm not sure we want to do OO programming in the minimum set of primitives that make OO possible, either.
Sorry that should of course been N by M
The only reason I’m buying a PC with windows is to game these days. I don’t care how many games run on linux or mac, I want the platform the game was developed on to get the best experience. And it’s not just about the best, without that it’s really hit or miss. It’s like playing doom on the nintendo switch.
I'm a big fan too.
March 10, 2021

https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.06181
Trust the science bigot. Whats nice, homosexuality isnt a mental disorder and light speed isn't sexist?
Rust chooses to panic, I believe, but you could always have applied the same Error strategy — it’d just be really annoying. The stdlib also provides a bunch of methods to pick-your-strategy for overflow behavior, but you need to use them instead of the +/* operation
It's very specific to each couple. My wife and I both trust each other and consult each other on big purchases. We also trust each other not to be controlling and judgmental. We have no need for separation of money. Not everyone can do this and that's also fine.
FWIW, it works correctly in the current non-ESR Firefox release.
How does K&R back up the claims you've made here?
Yeah, that's what we ran too, but there's a heavy internal push to use managed services.
https://twitter.com/timsweeneyepic/status/115053644680733491...

from the mouth of Sauron itself:

> Tim Sweeney @TimSweeneyEpic
> Jul 15, 2019
> EAC has native Linux binaries in beta, supporting several native games in active release. This missing link is native Linux anti-cheat integration with Wine/Proton so that games running under Wine are protected. This is in the works but is a big task.
Murray Walker: Formula 1 broadcasting legend dies at 97
I hope she did, it’s a contrived problem and thus a contrived solution is okay. Sure, it’s clever but you have to give some credit for having the “ovaries” to go with it.
I'd like to learn more about the architectures and techniques developed over the last decade for this; can you recommend a few links or keywords to search?
I am not trying to contradict anyone here, but any language mature enough to have an impl/way to not have arbitrary performance ceilings needs access to inline assembly/SIMD. Cython/Nim/SBCL can all do that..probably Haskell..Not so sure about Go or Swift. Anyway, many languages can respond well to optimization effort. I doubt anyone disagrees.

At the point of realizing the above no ceiling bit, the argument devolves to more one about (fairly subjective) high/low levelness of the code itself/the effort applied to optimizing, not about the language the code is written in. So, it's not very informative and tends to go nowhere (EDIT: especially when the focus is on a single, highly optimized tool like `rg` as opposed to "broad demographic traits" of pools of developers, and "levelness" is often somewhat subjective, too).
I use krypton for this and I think it works well.
Why does anyone need to be part of a community around a currency? I don’t feel a sense of community based on being a dollar user.
ROM Auctioneering; Accurately estimate complex projects in one hour
LiFePO4 gives up some energy density. Where have you learned what is typically used for batteries in these? LiFePO4 certainly is a safe choice.
I have literally never seen someone program C++ that way. I mean, it's probably true that some people somewhere are doing that. But saying "C++ developers rightfully avoid using its OO functionality as much as possible" seems like a complete distortion of the actual situation.
“cars are unethical”

That was not what he said. He was quite clear in making a personal decision. There was no force on anyone to make that same decision. That you are reading that into it might say more about the way you think :)
I'm not sure the lack of 'authenticity' from newcomers is an actual phenomenon, or at least not as universal as people make it out to be. One can be authentic in joining a community after it's no longer a niche only hipsters know about. D&D, for instance, has gotten much greater visibility thanks to Youtube and Critical Role, but the new fans seem just as passionate and creative as the old fans.

The assumption seems to be that only the early adopters care, but that seems unnecessarily elitist.
Actually, they (Codeweavers) are actually working on redesigning WINE to make it possible to support Windows-EAC.
I pay for health insurance on the individual market, without employer or government subsidies. It's a shitty plan that I pay over $9k in premiums for and have a $3k deductible with an $8k out of pocket maximum each year with co-pays, and that's without utilizing the plan at all.

If I wanted to buy the same plan I had from an employer, a family plan, it would cost over $30k in premiums, with an $8k deductible and a $17k out of pocket maximum each year with co-pays.

All of those costs and it is still routine for the insured in the US to find out that the care they received actually isn't covered by their insurance, as well, so they're on the hook for paying for some care completely out of pocket.

I would love to hear your explanation for how my savings is actually higher now while I'm being extorted each year with higher and higher premiums for less and less care.
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