skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Played the web app. Pretty fun but also pretty one dimensional. Congrats on releasing either way. That's my goal as well and I don't think I'm likely to reach it until I'm retired :(

- The optimal strategy pretty clearly seemed to be max out speed and one type of attack. Most battles can be one shot victories. I assume it wouldn't be that difficult to build up enough durability to survive multiple rounds of a battle, but it'd likely be a lot slower. Final boss was one shot on my first attempt.

- I only did physical attacks. There wasn't much room for strategy. Tackle if tackle would kill it; wild slashes if tackle wouldn't kill it; big slash if even that wouldn't work. There were some stat change attacks available but they didn't seem too interesting. Most of the time you just wanted to do enough damage to win quickly. Sand attack seemed somewhat useful once or twice. Because battles were so short, an enemy would need to be able to survive at least 3 tackles AND survive fewer than that with a debuff in order to make using any sort of buff or debuff worthwhile. Cuz tackle/tackle is basically the same outcome as sand attack/tackle. I'm not sure any fights lasted longer than 3 rounds for me.

- I had no obvious way to know if magic was more effective against certain enemies. But in any case, physical was more than enough, and thus, splitting any points between physical and magic attack was sort of a waste. I think there was a beastiery but I wasn't really interested enough to look through it

- The attack ammunition felt a little odd. Mainly in that I mostly just wanted more tackle ammo but as the game went on, mostly got variants that felt less useful. Reckless tackle in particular felt weirdly useless in how dangerous it was to yourself. I did feel like I wanted to conserve some ammo, but mostly for not wanting the annoyance of farming level 1 for tackles. If I had known the game capped out at warehouse 3 I probably would have finished it a lot sooner just blasting everything with big slash and calling it a day.

- I think it would be difficult to continue to add more meaningful content without adding more depth to the combat.
A lot of times, announcing that you're a woman on the internet was (is still?) seen as a request to be treated differently.

This is how "Tits or GTFO" came about. i.e. denigrating yourself is the only way to be treated differently from everyone else.

I'm not entirely sure if we've progressed or regressed from that.
Combining Storage and Blockchain Through Filebase
Breakthrough in semiconductor materials could push back the ‘end’ of Moore’s Law
As we've seen with events in the last year, things can change pretty quickly.
GitLab has a similar feature: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/review_apps/#visual-reviews

It does require a bit more work to set up (which is unfortunate, since they already use the URL could they use that to map back to the PR?) but seems basically the same if not quite as polished.
Yeah, I guess walking hungry into a McDonalds is more risky in terms of restraint vs Subway..
I know I've had queries that had no results or at least no relevant results in the past from your traditional search engines, but now that there is a search engine that claims to find results for such queries, I can't seem to come up with any.

Anyone else have a good example of Neera in action?
Second largest doesn't mean large. That could be anywhere from 1 person has a bit coin in Nigeria to just under half the bitcoins
Counterpoint: Playing the victim is THE classic tactic used to rationalize and excuse the behavior of many, if not most, Americans.

(If you found this point incorrect, dumb, or worthless, consider that is how many people feel about the point I am replying to.)
there are subtle differences.

some people want the real hardware. some people want to need a stack of cartridges or tapes and to go through the motions of committing to a decision such as which game to play.

if it is virtual, or emulated, there's almost no weight to decisions you make, because it's so easy to switch games if you don't immediately like the game you chose. I find that I don't give things a chance as I would if I had to get up and walk to change a cartridge in a real SNES, as an example.

if emulation works for you, then emulate. go crazy. I don't get emulation, and I'm not going to tell someone that they're wrong for liking it, because they aren't.

for some, emulation isn't enough, that's all.

there are also technical reasons people don't like emulation, but most people don't care about those as much as they care about the experience of the old school systems.
I didn't realize the current state of prison phone systems in both the US and Canada...

2020 notes:

>["Why are jail phone calls so expensive?"] (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/why-are-jail-phone-calls-so-exp...) OCTOBER 13, 2020

> ["A mom’s $6,000 phone bill in three months: The push to rein in Ontario’s costly prison phone system"](https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-activists-see...) JANUARY 30, 2020

> [Martha Wright Prison Phone Justice Act] (https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/6389) 03/25/2020
> Google’s stuff isn’t bad, but it’s simply not exceptional.

Disagree. I've repeatedly had to help my older relatives out with awful UX failures on Gmail or basic apps (think: the phone app) on their Android phones. As recently as a couple weeks ago. Usually it takes me a while to figure out what's going on. They have no chance whatsoever. One thing they consistently seem to get wrong is having god-awful visual hierarchies for UI elements, and not labeling things. That on top of "flat design" tending to make it hard to tell what the hell anything means or is.

(Apple, for their part, is getting increasingly bad on this front and have been since iOS 7, but mostly that's about discoverability for moderately-advanced functionality, not [except rarely] extremely basic UX fails that even this non-UX-expert developer recognizes as terrible)

[EDIT] it doesn't help that every time they upgrade, it seems like everything's totally different and layouts & UI paradigms have been redesigned from the ground up. This despite my steering them to fairly basic, vanilla-Android phones.
Why would you think a self aware, fuzzy stealth killing machine has no concept of absurdity?
This reminds me of another story I read where the only recording the author had of their mother was a voice mail message she left, and they kept listening to that recording over and over again.

With digital media being so easy to create these days, we should really be taking advantage of it and getting oral histories from the elder loved ones in our lives before they pass.
Chrome testing RSS-powered ‘Follow’ button
Back in 1975 that wasn't the case. But I guess it's another tiny symbol of increasing American inequality since then, we have special Coke for rich people now.

Still true for goldfish as far as I know.
There is an entire interesting rabbit hole dedicated to how much people hate Rob Levin (lilo). They talk about how he was a scammer, collected disability with his wife for ADHD, regularly misused his position in freenode to grift for money...
I don't think it practically matters. I never add people by it. I'm in games or in Discord servers with them and just right click -> add.
Last time I checked on Robinhood (and maybe they've changed it since then), when you want to buy options on their app, their UI gives you two options: "I think the stock is going to go up" and "I think the stock is going to go down."

Say what you will about "democratizing" finance, but even if you think enabling retail investors to buy options is a laudable goal, surely they should at least know what a "put" and a "call" is? (The point being options are complicated to understand, and if you don't even know their names, you probably don't understand how they work. And if you don't understand how they work, maybe you shouldn't be buying them.)

I feel like a lot of the arguments I see in favor of "democratizing finance" could be applied to a company making some incredibly harmful drug. Ok, maybe we shouldn't make it illegal for companies to produce or sell that substance, but surely we can all agree that company is actively doing harm to its customers? And we don't need to pretend that the company is "democratizing" chemical consumption.
Having upfront details and pricing gave drivers the ability to stay close to home if they wished, but yesterday UBER took that away. Now we can endup in tim buk to.
To me, putting on a mask is like putting on your seat belt. Maybe it protects you from a low probability event, maybe not, but it's close to zero effort, zero cost, so why not?
This is great! Looks a lot like Fedoras crash statistics:

https://retrace.fedoraproject.org/faf/summary/
Vertex AI
Anti Bitcoin. The planet is burning.
The comment i linked is me saying:

> we're going to fix this, and yes, imo, autoupdates need an opt-in.

i'm not sure how clearer i can be.
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Your arguments are just a whole load of strawmen. You don't address the central point. Bitcoin exists, and banks don't do it what it does. Hence the energy cost comparisons as rough and silly as you make them are not a conclusion to bitcoin's value.
I haven't been able to disable it, but the option "Warn you when quitting the browser" at the top of preferences has already saved me numerous times. Not as perfect as disabling, but far better than nothing.
Yep, sorry I don't have more information.
For what it's worth, In my understanding the prisons themselves aren't necessarily private. At the federal level, most are not, but everything is run by for-profit contracting firms.
When it comes to nicknames, sure, but that's not really the substance of a forum/channel/etc.
The comment wasn't that opposition to welfare programs was solely caused by racism, just that it was one motivation. It's easier to defend a racist policy if racism is never explicitly brought up, the policy just has a disparate impact along racial lines. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Atwater#%22Southern_strate...
I'm super curious what we'll be left with once this is done and dusted, in 10 years or so.

My guess? Something as boring and generally avoided as CORBA.
I'm not sure they've shown that prison is ineffective as a deterrent, but I've heard of studies which indicate that returns on increasingly punitive measures diminish. "Prison is a not an effective deterrent" means that no one factors it into their calculus about whether or not to commit a crime, and that seems very hard to believe.

To be quite clear, I don't believe that prison's sole value is a deterrent. I think there's an element of justice (criminals should have to pay for their crimes), an element of deterrence (prison should make criminals think twice--this feels intertwined with 'justice' and yet distinct), an element of rehabilitation (to the extent that we can rehabilitate prisoners, we should), but mostly I think there is significant social value in protecting innocent people by keeping harmful people away from innocent people.

Even if the deterrent effect is nil and even if you don't believe in justice (or for many of my fellow liberals, you reserve 'justice' for crimes that offend you, such as white collar crimes), I would still keep prisons around for the protection of the innocent. That said, I have an optimistic view on the potential for prisons.
If it bounces back within the same day is it still considered a crash? It seems like BTC is now down by around 7 percent and recovering somewhat. When it starts growing again the amnesia will take over with a general euphoria and the cycles continue. I've been following cryptos for a while now and this doesn't seem like something extremely uncommon.
Yes, but Robinhood have taken actions which purposefully harmed its users in order to benefit their corporate customers(Citadel).

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/robinhood-gamest...
Dog until proven otherwise.

And even then, everyone's still a dog.
The bulk of btc gains were from 2010-2013. The cagr of BTC from early 2018 onwards is not that great.
The Acquired podcast is must-listen content for Founders
thanks; filed https://github.com/vector-im/element-web/issues/17396 for widgets.

Not sure what problems you're seeing with the Matrix API; it's lightyears ahead of Slack & Discord in my experience, but I guess i may be getting high on my own supply...
I've never really had an issue with restarting Firefox, it remembers all my tabs when I restart it either after an update or just a close/open. Perhaps it's a setting I toggled years ago and have since forgotten but I'm not sure what the complaint is about restarting after an update?
That's a common complaint about seller's agents in real estate.

Unsure what the solution is. A seller can, of course, say that they refuse to sell for under $X, though that could potentially still be leaving money on the table if the buyer might have been willing to offer $X+Y.
It's impossible for any currency to be stable in the period before it gains mainstream acceptance. Fiat currencies share the same fate
The exchanges do produce a "tape" that is analyzed by various people but you're basically taking their word that it's not fraudulent.
"A failure of imagination to do something useful with crystalized math"

I don't think I could possibly describe BitCoin as "crystallized math". It's not like it is somehow convertible into some useful solution to some other math problem. It's a solution to a math problem that is essentially designed to not be useful for anything else on the grounds that said "utility" would be a potential mechanism for cracking the hash algorithm. (e.g., if you built a "hash function" that also provided a solution to some isomorphic bin packing problem, your hash function would have the weakness that the correspondence would reveal a lot a lot of theoretical bits about what was hashed.)

Besides, even if it is "crystallized math" than said math is independent of BitCoin's utility itself. If it were that useful you could go compute hashes until they have large numbers of zeros on the front all by yourself, without having to be involved with BitCoin. Since nobody has any conceivable use for such a thing as evidenced by the complete failure to do so, I have no idea what you think you're saying here. Merely working really hard at some computation does not make that computation useful for any other purpose.
I worked for a non-ICO blockchain company (no longer in business). We used Hyperledger Fabric for our offering and after leaving the company was informed that AWS was hosting Fabric and if I could develop anything to leverage that I'd have their support.

And after some contemplation, could not come up with a compelling pitch for a blockchain solution -- a pity because I liked Fabric and would have been happy to take it to the cloud.
>You can not test intelligence, you can only test knowledge.

You absolutely can test for a combination of intelligence and knowledge.

>But everyone wants to know intelligence.

Seldom do people actually care about intelligence in isolation. What use is intelligence without the discipline and ability to apply yourself towards a goal for a considerable length of time?

>As the people who study for a long time keep increasing their studying, the scores naturally improve

That simply does not work. Even with the coaching industry trying to lure parents into sending kids to them since Kindergarten, year after year it turns out that the students who do best in the JEE have only had two years of dedicated preparation. Because that is all the time that is needed for a talented student to prepare for the material that is being tested.

> and therefore they need to make the test harder to keep the same pass rate

If anything, the JEE has gotten easier with time.

Honestly, your entire argument seems to be based on dogma and not evidence. Selecting for the top 1% students by their aptitude for math/engineering, within an acceptable error margin, is not really as difficult a problem as you are making it out to be.
But this specific book only covers elementary-to-intermediate topics in Algebra, Geometry and Calculus from the looks of it. It isn't likely to change as much at all.
Which supermarket chains in the US do not provide vegetables, fruit, meat and only offer processed food? Please find us a 'food desert' where there are no supermarkets nearby.

This is a myth that's easily refuted. There's an argument to be made that poorer people aren't educated on healthy food choices but the idea that they don't have access to anything but processed food is just silly.
> which is that people who actually have an intellectual disability prefer it

I think it's reasonable to be skeptical of consensus on a group of people on the matter of what they like to be called. Consider, for example, the backlash on the term "Latinx" and, more recently, even among some of our Black neighbors over being included in BIPOC.

I'm not trying to get into a whole thing here, it just seems to me that "intellectually disabled", taken at literal value, is more disparaging (and more open to slur-ish interpretation) than "mentally retarded".

Your links don't appear to support your position. None of them say that the people in question prefer this appellation. The WaPo piece expressly prefers "people with intellectual disabilities" (with Eades emphasizing that the inclusion of the word 'people' first is that makes the phrase better), so presumably he'd have a similar objection to the term "intellectually disabled."

The NIH doc doesn't even include the phrase "intellectual disabled" but does suggest the phrase "mental retardation" (see term number 13), so I can't imagine why you've included it if your point is to suggest that the former is more humane than the latter per this source.

In any case, if indeed there is the kind of consensus you assert, I'm happy to oblige it. But I think it's reasonable to wonder whether that's so.
it changes how people might act around you. I always wanted it to only be about the words.
> The Amish/Mennonites have an interesting take...

Anabaptist communities vary far more than you suggest. It's a bit like Judaism that way; sure some are identifiable by particular dress etc. but there others you wouldn't notice at all in the SUV beside you on the highway.
Ask HN: How do you remember what you learn at work?
It seems I have a very weak memory:

1. I can't recall 90% of the details of projects I completed even if they were as recent as 2 weeks ago. When people later come ask me about the project, I blank out.

2. When I learn about some other colleague's system, while I can pick it up and learn about it very quickly, I forget all about it after a few days. This led me to never really understand the underlying system of the team and always feeling like I'm missing something.

I'm experiment with building personal knowledge bases (using Notion) and using spaced-repetition for the key systems. Any other suggestions?
Could not being motivated about the team also be a factor in this?
> Tenev acknowledged some early mistakes. “I’m the first to admit, our compliance procedures, especially in those early years, were the compliance procedures of a growing company,” he said.

I hate so much that this is such a typical startup path. Talk about a euphemism.
Blockchain provides a public ledger to trace the linage of transactions. It doesn't enforce ownership. The legal system enforces the ownership. Blockchain just makes the court's job easier. With blockchain, we can know that Mona Lisa is illegally transferred to the corrupted official, and know who that is.
But when other vehicles give you 2x in a week while the index a mere .5% the angle changes. It really depends on what the appetite for risk really is.
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It's a new technology. Volatility is to be expected. Zooming out, any purchase of Bitcoin prior to a few months ago is still in the green. Even if you bought the peak in 2017.

If you zoom out on USD, it's not exactly stable either. It has greatly decreased in value due to inflation over the years. Or worse, if you zoom out on bolivars and other currencies. Anyone in country with hyperinflation, or at risk of it, very much appreciates a permissionless global store of value.
Nope, I deliberately shared it unsanitised to try to demonstrate a real life enterprisey use case. There's nothing sensitive shown.
If you have $99,990 in BTC, and $10 in cash, only the $10 is covered.

Coinbase could shut down converting crypto to cash at any time. There is no promise or guarantee that they have to allow cash exchanges or deposits, since they're basically buying and selling crypto on your behalf.
They aren't having much luck with the iPhone...
Pipe raises 250m at a 2b valuation
Very useful suggestions from the community but my question is that how often data structures are implemented on a real job like the way they are asked in the interview
Schwab doesn't have outages during sell-offs of very visible investments, though. Hasn't Robinhood hit the rocks pretty hard during GME and DOGE sell-offs recently? The reason I won't use them is because I don't think I'm their customer - whoever is paying for the order flow is, and I don't trust their platform to be available in the middle of turbulence.

EDIT: I get it - Schwab also had visible outages. Sorry for that. Maybe a good time to say I'm a happy Fidelity customer and have been for years :D
There’s no reply option for the answer to your question, so I’ll add mine here:
I’ve heard of tiramisu but can’t picture it, can’t remember tasting it, and my memories of food still feel robust. I’ve done more than my fair share of world travel, including all over Italy, and I’m generally adventurous with food.
Neal Stephenson coined the idea of "amistics": the evaluation of technologies not for efficiency, but from an existing value system. Named after the Amish.

I've been living like this for a while, without having a name for it, but at a pretty fine-grained level, for instance by staying off (most) social media.

We all make these decisions. E.g. people's valuing privacy precludes their owning an Amazon Ring.
I don't doubt that in those days women experienced harassment online. There was a running joke, "there are no women on irc", implying that anyone claiming to be female was actually a male pretending to be female to gain attention, or even channel ops. What is an IRL female to do in such a culture? It wouldn't surprise me to learn any of the people I used to chat with were females pretending to be male to avoid the drama.
I'm neither - I just don't understand the point of Bitcoin. What problem is it solving?
This mostly matters for avoiding capital controls. Those shouldn't exist in the first place.
>Now if I could only disable Ctrl+Q

Good news! =)

Set browser.quitShortcut.disabled in about:config
> You can exchange your local government currency for services and goods. With Bitcoin you first have to convert them into a local government currency and then buy services and goods. This only works because those local government currencies exist in the first place. I'll pull this out of nowhere and say that 95% of the value of Bitcoin is derived from government currencies by that I mean the reason Bitcoin is valuable is that you can exchange it for government currencies.

So to be clear, bitcoin becomes "legitimate" when some critical mass of vendors accept it? This seems to imply that once the ponzi scheme becomes big enough it becomes legitimate (provided of course that we accept that btc is a ponzi scheme), which feels counterintuitive?
I totally get _why_ its like that, and I'm not upset, its just unfortunate that this is a chasm of difference between very early internet culture.