skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my opinion people should not be regulating things they don't understand. Hester Pierce does not understand crypto if she thinks it is financially innovative. Maybe technically innovative. But as Warren Buffet observed a high tech check book is still just a check book. Nobody considers a check book a valuable asset on its own rather the underlying asset (account balances) is what has value. What is the asset underlying the bitcoin checkbook? Sunk costs? Greater fools? Rent seeking?
I remember that same experience, really annoying. These days I’ve been using Privacy.com which generates a one-time use CC for anything that I want to use for the free trial period. (I am in no way affiliated with this service btw, just a happy customer).
> … where there isn't an official modern platform-native UI toolkit that people are likely to use.

I found WinForms quite usable.
Kyrie Irving of the Brooklyn Nets has taken fines to avoid media appearances also.
Two day shipping? That sounds amazing.

In New Zealand it can easily take 2 months for packages to arrive from overseas, if at all. In Taiwan I could buy locally-produced electronics and had it delivered in less than a week, and I thought myself lucky - but overseas packages got lost twice (maybe 10% of the time) due to not having a Chinese address written on them.

The long shipping times, combined with moving house periodically to keep a low rent, mean my buying habits usually involve splurging on $$$ of online shopping once a year or two.

Asking girlfriend/parents to forward parcels from Taiwan/France delays it even more. I'm still waiting for my Christmas 2020 present: "Oh, I'll just put something else in!" Friends have been even worse: some belt clip cases would only ship to the US, and a friend there still hasn't sent them on (after buying them in 2014). Similar story with a magnetic iPhone cable from Korea (2016). I've basically given up on ever getting those parcels.

Also import fees are all over the place: on Amazon, a Sabrent Rocket Q 8TB SSD costs $1399 + $992 fees (USD) to ship to NZ. The price to Australia is $1399 + $216 fees. I could fly to Brisbane and back for cheaper than that!

Some products (e.g. MacBook Pro A1494 battery for A1398) can't even be shipped at all: OWC and iFixit won't send lithium-ion batteries overseas due to federal regulations. The third-party knockoffs that are available in NZ are faulty, and broke my logic board. Trying to get a new battery is an ongoing struggle for me, and has been since I noticed the swelling in September 2020. I can only dream of the convenience of 2 day shipping.
I noticed that years ago (2009-2011) you used to be able to buy used textbooks for dirt cheap on Amazon. Like, if new the book fetched $120 or so, there'd be a handful of used copies for $15-25. But nowadays, the best case scenario is to find a used copy for $65-80.

I mean, I can imagine this situation is driven by Amazon's largest resellers more than anything -- if they spot a cheap copy of, say, Stewart's calculus, they just buy it and resell for triple the cost.

It's a bummer though -- Amazon used to be excellent for finding deals like that. Now I have to scour several different sites to find them.
My favourite interview quote, about winning: "the secret is to get more points than the other team".

Since hearing that pearl of wisdom in like 1997 I've no more need for these. What could one possibly add?
As long as citizens still accept it.
Windows also has Microsoft Photos which does client-side indexing of people, places, and objects.
no autoreboot, no MS store, no onedrive, no ads
My believe was that this happen as a human error, from non technical persons (not everybody is a CCNA certified or Comptia network plus).

For example people will often say give me that liter of wine, when in fact the bottle it’s 750ml and not a liter per se.
They are very reliable and have a very reasonable price which is hard to find these days.
That sounds like a great idea! As long as it's not a mandatory field, and properly justified and incentivized, then it sounds like a good way to find willing research participants.

Out of curiosity, couldn't the same result be achieved with an email address instead?
As far as I can tell, they aren't explicitly disallowed. The rules do disallow lending to another player:

> MISCELLANEOUS… No player may borrow
from or lend money to another player. [1]

I could see two arguments: First, board games rules generally do not need to contain a list of everything not allowed. In Risk you are not allowed to gift your tanks to another power in exchange for them not attacking you. By this logic, you're right, such deals are not allowed.

On the other hand, most players I've met treat Monopoly as "anything goes" in terms of between-player business deals, so long as they are not restricted by the rules. The fact that the rules explicitly disallow lending, but not any other deals, could point to other deals being allowed.

...I expect you're right, making deals is not allowed in the rules. But disallowing them would certainly turn a dull game into an even duller game.

1. https://www.hasbro.com/common/instruct/monins.pdf
> ...and it's basically impossible to repair.

While Louis Rossmann [1] is well-known in the US for basing an entire, profitable small business around boards' component-level repair in one of the most unforgiving retail service markets in the US (NYC midtown Manhattan) [2], there are hundreds of shanzhai and tens of thousands of more generalized repair shops in China [3] who also demonstrate that with sufficient specifications and parts availability, what appears "basically impossible to repair" becomes the start of a journey towards a cradle-to-cradle ecosystem.

Apple has led the industry in the past, and is hopefully leading the way towards such a cradle-to-cradle future. I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt that their recent designs that are perceived by Rossmann and others as anti-RTR (Right To Repair) are more unintentional side effects of their rapid vertical integration design strategy (the A* and M1 processors being only the most visible part of the strategy).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Rossmann

[2] https://www.rossmanngroup.com/

[3] https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/i-broke-my-phones-screen-awes...
That's actually the best analogy I've heard, and I'm a crypto believer!!!

But it doesn't negate the value of the technology. Yes, piracy is neat and useful, but illegal. But was the benefit of piracy that you got free stuff? Or was it that it was an easier system than any other at the time?
I see I am downvoted by the newest generation of "old telco guys." HN is a retirement home.
It's the opposite of running tests locally. You don't want to test in your development environment. That's how you get into "runs on my machine" syndrome.
Someone somewhere is paying for the fees. I imagine it’s the collective of all people paying for it rather than the people actually using the machines. A bit unfair.
Our customized house rules are quite fun and move the game along faster as well:

* Eight players setup as four joint ventures.

* Joint ventures share cash and properties, but have two separate tokens on the board.

* No rent collection while in jail to dissuade camping out.

The end game becomes tense as your team has back to back rolls.
I believe the term we are looking for is 'terrifying accurate'.

It won't be long before we have a daily post here on HN called Killed by Algorithms, and every story will be different.
Incoming complaints about how it's obviously tool-assisted
My guess is it’s some kind of “combatting misinformation” task force at DIA with some assists from the Pentagon. This started around Dec 2017, what was going on then? I recall lots of chatter about Russian misinformation and the early stages of QAnon.

It’s conceivable to me that DIA looked at this situation, where small numbers of nefarious actors were able to manipulate the emotional viewpoints of millions of Americans, and went “oh shit.”

Maybe a task force was launched and somebody grabbed “UFOs” off the top shelf of conspiracies. From there they started planting the seeds of a long term disinfo drip campaign emulating QAnon. Since they’re DIA and not Ron Watkins, the Pentagon helps them amplify the campaign with some noncommittal “confirmations” of the “leaked” videos. Meanwhile DIA sends out its frontmen to proselytize to the cult and herd them deeper into the paddock.

This is the only scenario to me that is politically explainable and strategically understandable. One obvious motive for the DIA would be to control this crowd of people before an adversary does. Maybe they figure there will always be a baseline of people susceptible to conspiracy “movements,” so better to get ahead of it and keep any damage contained.

Or, I guess disclosure is coming. Trust the plan.
Because stores love having a perfect temperature to attract customers ?
180,000 photos seems tiny. I have about 20k photos just on my own, my wife probably has more. 180k is like 10-50 people. Not saying you can't handle it but 180k doesnt signal "I've got scaling all figured out" to me.
Reading the comments here, most of the criticism seems to imply that the technology has stopped at Bitcoin and that no other breakthrough has come after. “It consumes too much energy”, “it’s too slow”, “it takes too much space”, “the fees are too high”.
Add a small radio receiver that turns the drone on when it picks up a signal from a handheld radio or cellphone within flight range. Add small solar panels to trickle charge the battery while it waits. What’s the shelflife of LiPo batteries?
LTSC/LTSB doesn’t have the Windows App Store - and to my knowledge you can’t install it either. Pro cones with the App Store and to my knowledge you can’t uninstall it.
What about derivatives?
It's because of money laundering, which Bitcoin makes easier - and the more people buying pizza, the better for laundering.
"Military grade" Is an entirely useless marketing buzzword. We are at the point where products are being marketed with "Military grade PCI-E slots" and "Aerospace grade aluminum spoon"
I am with you on that one but I think it is the product of the times and situation we live in.

No one can agree on what constitutes free speech, everyone feels that they are the ones under attack (on the Right and the Left and the Centrists). No one can concede ground, everyone holds that they are absolutely correct in every case. So they leave for more tolerant grounds (i.e. where people agree with them and their sense of persecution), where people respect their right to speech, form a mob, then strike back against their perceived enemies.

And then there is the brigading, which everyone thinks is the fault of the 'other' side and endemic to the 'other side's' thinking.
In defense of Japanese toilet papers, some of them aren't solid because they prefer softness than strength.

Personally I occasionally use bidets even though it's available in most places because I don't strongly needed it (but not hated it, just no reason to use or not to use it)
Are there any independent test results to show how effective those UV bulbs are at killing pathogens?
I am not really disagreeing with you. However, with knives, not any product will even work decently.

You need good enough steel to take and then hold an edge. So it can not be super cheap steel with big particles, as you will never manage to get that knife sharp enough to use.
On the other hand, super hard hrc+++ cheapo knives will also not do much for you. First, because they are rarely sharp and second, because in a kitchen environment where not every cut is going to be perfect and nice to the blade, the blade is going to be effed. It's gonna be sharp for lunch and a disaster by dinner.

However, you are right that good knives for very little money are available. I have been using several Victorinox knives that are plyable and robust. They can be made very sharp without much effort, and stay that way for reasonable amounts of time.

And that's the point. I don't really need to throw them away. They don't really look fancy, true. But they are in daily use since... six years? Eight?
And the price difference to supermarket knives was probably 10-20 euros/dollars.

Edit: And I say this as someone who has a random assortment of sharpening/honing utensils and really only barely knows what he is doing with them.

Good midrange, perhaps not necessarily Wüsthof (aka the macrobrew of European knives), but other proven knive brands, is a very good option for people who don't do Sashimi every day.
Genuinely interested, why would Win7 be worse than Win10 if you had the same network setup, same browser (same extensions) and behaved the same as you do with Win10?

I ask as even at home, my different devices all use the same browser/extensions, VPN and browsing habits. I use established FOSS where possible and the only problems I have had since Windows 98 are from data breaches (nothing I could have prevented with different OS/software).

Or are we talking about business/corp usage?
Or include its own built in 4/5g modem.
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Ditto for me. But rather than say it was airborne, I took the approach that the so called experts hadn't proven yet that it wasn't - so one should take precautions as if it was, until we could get more of a handle on this new domain.

I looked at it as a novel tech stack. Sure one could be an expert in twenty year old X, but if thrown into a brand new emergent tech Y, any engineer worth their salt would approach it with a certain degree of humility.

I did not see that happen at least in terms of what medical professionals the politicians and media brought to the fore early on.

We still haven't got functioning HVAC systems in all our hotel quarantine facilities in Australia... it seems insanely hard to grok, for some reason.
> And if doing things without an author's permission upsets you don't ever take a look at fanfiction.net.

It doesn't upset me. It's just that no one making fan fictions or fan translations should be surprised when they receive a cease and desist letter, DMCA takedown notice, or copyright infringement complaint.

edit: Actually, it does bother me that some of us think that it's perfectly okay to distribute fan translations of other people's work. It seems like when the work is a game or is in a language that few of us understand, like Japanese, respect for the rights of the creators goes out the window. This causes real problems for the creators, particularly individuals and small companies, that might want to enforce their rights, but don't have the budget or legal resources to do so. So, many of them are victims of international "fans" who do whatever they want. Here, there's no indication that the fans even tried to contact the company about doing a legitimate licensed translation; they just did whatever they wanted to without any regard for the rights of the creators.
What is the maximum throughput (tx/s) that some systems can achieve?

Do you really need to go through all the history of the system in order to be convinced of the latest state?

What are the different ways to decide who should be the next person that gets to choose the next block of transactions?

Can you hide the amount you’re sending? What about the recipient? Or your own identity?

Can you transfer bitcoin into ethereum or more generally one cryptocurrency into another?

Is it possible to send funds to a recognizable shortname instead of an hexadecimal string?

Are there ways to protect your funds with several keys instead of a single one?
Ask HN: Do you set the user-agent on your scripts?
Typically I try to remember to set the user-agent on tools/scripts I make, to avoid default agents like `Go-http-client/version` or `python-request/version` but it seems like a lot of projects do not always set it.

Sometimes I will submit patches to projects to fix this, though sometimes I wonder if I'm in the minority of developers who prefer to properly set user-agent.

(I am fully aware and agree that the user-agent for most web browsers is terribly complicated and almost useless at this point. My focus is more on bots/scrapers/etc)
I don't believe they are confused about the nomenclature, as everything the parent said was correct. In terms of there not being standard ways to add an HMAC to an encrypted string, there are plenty of standard ways to do that. How do you think people implemented secure channels before Cisco released AES-GCM to speed up their VPNs? Just let attackers modify payloads? SSL/TLS, SSH, IPsec and many other widely used secure channel protocols were over a decade old before anyone standardized an authenticated encryption mode.

But none of these widely used and well-standardized protocols require an authenticated encryption mode even though they all have both authentication and encryption as security properties. Authenticated encryption doesn't give you anything other than performance over the standard encrypt + tag approach (which is still widely used).

And AES-GCM has some drawbacks that encrypt + tag do not (although the performance gains usually trump the drawbacks).
I've been thinking the same and mainly found this so far:
http://wyndflow.com/
> Laboratory-grade flooring: epoxy resin. Durable protection, withstand frequent pedestrian traffic. Slip resistance.

This can't be overstated. There's a lot of overlap between safety in labs, and safety in (especially professional) kitchens. Heck, there's more danger in kitchens with how familiar people are with processes, causing them to lower their guard.

The biggest parallels are probably the slip resistance, and the protective clothing. If you weren't aware, most chefwear is super easy to remove, has a hydrophobic coating, is not tight-fitting, usually layers over itself where it fastens, and often uses fasteners that are completely separate from the garment. (all of these examples are a result of me thinking about the dangers of scalding-hot fryer oil as in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOk2Akqb3CI)

I think lab coats and chef jackets are similar, but one targets corrosive liquids, and the other targets dangerously hot liquids.

TL;DR: get some labcoats, teflon pants, protective shoes, and eye protection for your kitchen.
The only memories of playing monopoly I have are with family.

I hope that’s not the same for you
You clicked reply, then that post in another tab, then submit. Is this easy to engineer around? Yes, but they haven’t.
Negative fares for what tho? Taxis have a minimum for just getting in the car. Seems like Uber could figure out some minimum so that the driver isn’t being charged to work. Is hostile design with complete disregard for all users.
They have to pass a law preventing marketplaces from mandating prices on other marketplaces - this is straight out consumer hurting uncompetitive behaviour 101% when coupled with large market makers - governments are supposed to deal with this shit in the interest of consumers.
Another Uber bug I ran into a couple weeks ago.

I had a long trip which I updated after departing to be a short trip. After getting out of the Uber I clicked to pay a 20% tip, and it paid it on the original (much higher) amount. Worked out to be almost a 100% tip.

I called support, walked the very nice woman through what happened, she filed a bug report and reset the tip to a normal amount.
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I'll start it off

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25
Like other commenters have noted, I agree that making media appearances is part of the job, especially when being paid what top athletes get paid.

That said, these interviews immediately after a tournament, especially when a competitor loses, are compelling only to the point that they make me want to punch the interviewer: "So, you've trained for this your whole life, but wow you really biffed it at the last moment, doesn't that make you just want to cry and maybe just a little bit want to commit suicide?" Of course I'm exaggerating, but not by much - these "reporters" are looking for the visual equivalent of clickbait, which is why their questions are so vacuous and seem designed to do nothing but enrage.
> Nalgene bottles

...were originally lab equipment. The company pivoted to consumer goods after their products had already become popular as such.
The company here can decide for itself whether it is in its best interest to allow an unlicensed fan translation of one of its programs. If it is, then the company does nothing. If not, then the company will tell them to stop what they're doing.
ARPANET implemented TCP/IP in 1983. The first AOL floppy disks were sent out in 1993. So thank you for proving my point.

Even assuming your timeline is correct. And even ignoring that the top comment on this HN addresses this exact point pretty well: Are you telling me the goal post is now 32 years?

And while we’re picking arbitrary points in computer history. The iPhone was released in late 2007 and is around 2 years older than the Bitcoin blockchain. I hope I don’t have to make the argument that smartphones have had a bigger impact on society than any kind of crypto/blockchain solution.
When she got out of the Uber, the driver continued driving for a long time before "ending" the ride, and the tab ran the entire time which racked up extra charges.
I watch sports for the sport, and despise the same old torturous q&a.

We should appreciate our best for what they do best.
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You can't have a legitimate copy of LTSC unless you've got volume licencing.

Pro with a decrapifier script like the one you can find on Spiceworks will work a lot better, and allow you to run UWP games too.
> To my knowledge masks are a low cost / lost risk way to reduce the spread, and countries that had faster uptake and higher rates of compliance in mask usage did see lower overall case counts.

1) This isn't really true. There's not a lot of correlation between what nations/states did, and where they ended up. You can find observational papers on both sides of every question (for example, specific to masks, recently: [1]).

2) What else did nations with mask adoption do that could also explain the outcomes? Most places did many things at once, so we're going to be doing post-hoc analysis of this for years. Unfortunately, because nobody thought it appropriate to conduct actual clinical trials, we'll probably never know the answer. There are too many intermingled factors at play so we have to use models, and the modeling work so far has largely been garbage that reflects the assumptions used to create them [2].

(and before anyone says it: yes, it's entirely possible to have conducted clinical trials of masks. A cluster randomized trial, for example, could have been used to establish efficacy early in the pandemic. That we didn't even consider doing these "because it's a pandemic" is one of the biggest scientific lost opportunities of our lifetime.)

[1] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.05.18.21257385v...

[2] https://www.jclinepi.com/article/S0895-4356(21)00087-1/fullt...