skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Shades of MAD Magazine style exaggeration. Also:

> For fun, sort by highest price first.

To the general point, I once had a long conversation with an ex-engineer who was selling select European furniture in the US. He was adamant that most American consumers pay no attention to build qualities, and are sold shoddy "night-shift" versions of pieces that have e.g. metal channel reinforcements in Europe, with the shoddy versions certain to show sag etc in a few years.

One specific option is to buy a sofa in a showroom in the US, then immediately go in and reinforce it with metal brackets and/or channels. A higher-end version of Ikea-hacking.
My c++ code has so many someptr!= null checks it’s not even funny. But js has those same checks. What languages don’t?
I sure hope this MLM and tax fraud is not our brave new world.

It's not that we don't believe it. It's that it's a dystopia.
The end of the article suggests otherwise.
The design really misses out on showing how the steps fold 'flat' for their return trip.

(Needs to be changed to original, not some cheap re-upload.)
For one item maybe, but every item on a BOM for a mass manufactured product is (hopefully) multiplied by many thousands or millions of units.

If these types of features mattered to consumers, then one would expect we’d see success from the companies who prioritize it. These companies and products do exist, but they are niche.
The reason it exists, is allowed to exist, and is no problem that it exists is that most science is infotainment, in that no one actually has any vested interest in it's accuracy.

It's meant to be interesting to read, but for most science no one is banking on it's accuracy to the point that they would surely notice if it weren't accurate because, say, a plane would crash or a train would derail or a rocket would explode.

Such does not happen with scientific research that forms the basis of the engineering on which many modern day applications are built. If the principles be wrong there, companies would loose substantial investment, so they are quite vested in verifying that it's accurate.

Most science is simply infotainment for other scientists: it exists for no other reason than to be entertaining and fascinating to read, and might as well be fiction.
Apple TV can be turned on from your mobile. (Not just Apple TV but your actual TV along with it too)
> Roll: 2-2, Lands on: Income Tax
Action: Pay $200 (now has $1300), Doubles therefore rolls again

Wait, doesn’t doubles prevent the default action?
Fortran exists, and it is no more your grandfather's Fortran. It's possible to improve old programming languages and invent new ones at the same time :-)
What regulated exchange existed in 2013?
Please don't be snarky or post shallow dismissals to HN, and if you'd please stop posting flamebait and/or unsubstantive comments generally, we'd be grateful.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: while I have you, could you please stop creating accounts for every few comments you post? We ban accounts that do that. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

You needn't use your real name, of course, but for HN to be a community, users need some identity for other users to relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community, and that would be a different kind of forum. https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
The "crypto" world, as in Cryptography has far more practitioners and far more hardware and software than cryptocurrency. And most of of the world's communications (among other things) rely on "crypto" as in Cryptography. The "old" usage (as you put it) remains orders of magnitude more instrumental to all of our lives than blockchain technologies (which is a far more accurate name). And will remain so, for the rest of all of our lives.
Very timely. I just finished a four-day game of Monopoly this afternoon, winning by having hotels on Boardwalk, Park Place and the green properties.
Try and see whether you can relax your jaw (if you do it right your tongue would hang lower than usual and it may feel like saliva is produced at a faster rate), and see if tinnitus retreats after a while. If it does, I would speculate that the shots would then also work, though it may be helpful to find a psychosomatic approach first. (I'm not a doctor but familiar with such cases).
When searching for USB sticks, and there are two clusters of prices, one of which is 20% of the other, you don't have to know much to be skeptical.
There is a lot of low hanging fruit in this area being ignored. Here in Ireland, the pandemic is still raging and they are reopening stores – okay, that's a tradeoff on which reasonable people can disagree. But then there's no air circulating in the stores. Ventilation could be significantly improved by such a trivial measure as keeping the front door propped open, but they don't bother. Why not?
Which is also a great way to lose money.
It sat unedited for some time, then they got a new editor (next paragraph).
All that matters is that bitcoin is finite
I think you’re being too literal. There are lots of tech people who quietly feel this way — just look at the comments here. The point is that they shouldn’t be so quiet about it.

If someone only knows crypto from stories in mainstream press or cable news, they’d probably incorrectly assume “tech people” are almost universally for it.
Here's how my salary negotiation usually goes:

"So yeah, your interviews were great and we'd like to move forward. What are your salary requirements? (By the way, we pay really well!)"

"Can you tell me what the position pays? It wasn't clear from the job listing."

"Hahahah, right. No, you must give us a number or else!"

"OK, well if you look at similar positions at [company x, y and z] they pay in this range."

"Hahahah, right. No way we could possibly pay in that range. We were thinking [small percentage of entry-level salary.] Goodbye."

"Yeah, there's no way that could possibly work for me either. Thanks anyway."
I do think that in a globalized environment, there is much stronger selective pressure for psychopathy due to higher competitive pressure and more ways to avoid consequences for misbehavior. Opportunities are fewer and bigger - Those people who are more ruthless and manipulative have a higher chance of qualifying for the few opportunities that are available because they're willing to step over ethical boundaries to get those positions. This makes them stand out as candidates.

Another point is that our modern financial system is designed to limit the liability of individuals. Corporate executives repeatedly get away with financial misconduct and their companies merely end up paying relatively small fines. Also, the government keeps bailing out big corporations; ensuring that the same people who created the problems stay in power. There is also the problem of international money laundering; wealthy people fleeing one country which considers them to be criminals to move to another country which doesn't consider them to be criminals. Similar story with bankruptcies; people changing countries to escape consequences.

There is an accountability crisis.
Except pizza and gold both have fundemental value as you decrease the size. Bitcoin has exactly the same techinical functionality regardless of the size.
I don't think you need to go to bombers to find good seats. Or even airplanes at all, though I've heard that airliners do tend to have pretty good seats for the pilots. Just start with buses and long haul trucks.

Though honestly, I think it's actually a solved problem. I just buy aftermarket Recaro seats. They know what they're doing.
The salt compartment is usually on the floor of the dishwasher. The salt is used to soften the water. Not directly, but as the source of sodium ions for an ion-exchange resin. [1]

It’s not the same as the rinse-aid, which reduces the surface tension of the water so droplets won’t stay on the dishes (i.e. a surfactant).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion-exchange_resin#Water_softe...
The US military has had "landmines that swim" since 1979.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_60_CAPTOR?wprov=sfla1
100% this. It's the world's greatest machine for generating motivated reasoning. People buy in during the pump and get incredibly motivated to join the immune system for their chosen coin.
Lol. Above message sponsored? Might have written "resistance is futile"
Just give up? No way man.
I did read the article and I don’t see it. Just because the author says it, doesn’t mean it’s true. The fact that he calls this money laundering is totally suspect.

Creating a market by attracting customers with something they want and charging rent in the market is no more a monopoly in the digital world than it is in the real world. It’s like saying the mall can’t put free rollercoaster rides inside because then the stores that rent retail space would have to pay more and then pass that cost onto the customer and that inflates the price of goods. Would those stores spread the costs of that operation into the rest of their business, absolutely. Is there something wrong with that, nope.
Its hard to have an anti-corruption movement without the side effect of consolidating power. Hopefully the US will soon have an anti-corruption movement (long overdue), so the world can see an example of how one can be properly executed.
But that doesn't really work because those statements aren't all true of gold. Gold has functioned as a store of value for thousands of years. The price of gold changes over time, but it doesn't fluctuate nearly as much as bitcoin - which is a handy property for a "store of value".

Some gold obsessed people probably have hyperbolic claims about what gold can do, but my impression of it is that it is generally understood as a hedge against inflation or a store of value. Relatively few people think they are going to hodl gold until they 1,000x their way into being gold-millionaires and most of those that do probably aren't expecting real gains from gold.

Gold doesn't promise to be decentralized currency. Cryptocurrency does try to make that promise. Gold does solve problems it didn't create - e.g. use in electronics or in jewelry.

I think most of this parody just substitutes the word "Gold" for "Bitcoin" but misses that gold actually isn't making the same claims.
> The crypto currencies are a requirement to fulfill the Byzantine tolerance.

I find this writing to be unclear and/or circular.

Are you saying the following? _If_ the primary goal of a system is Byzantine fault tolerance, using a cryptocurrency is a requirement?
You could roll it twice and compare the two results.
OT, but how come you use 01982 rather than 1982? Is that a personal / subculture / locale thing?
> The scientific method still follows the same principles.

“the scientific method” is rather loosely defined and wide.

What passes as “the scientific method” in some fields would not in others.
The screenshot appears to be from the video on this page: https://www.stm.com.tr/en/kargu-autonomous-tactical-multi-ro...
The essence of the game is to show how important it is to be the one making up (or interpreting) the rules. Thus everyone has their own. The best rules include "take a shot whenever you roll dice, 2 if you get doubles" and "articles of clothing are negotiable instruments of exchange".
"Reflect" means to provide information about; you're talking about it having bad consequences for the researcher.
The one about woman crying when they are criticized? That one is certainly untrue. While some people cry when they are criticized (I personally am severely effected and have cried in the past but afterwards), women have no extra tendency to do this.
There are definitely nice finds out there. That doesn’t mean that the military equivalent of a consumer good is better. Duct tape is duct tape. A Humvee is a shit grocery hauler. Military boots aren’t going to be as nice or comfortable as a pair of Italian hand made boots.

I remember looking at ToughBooks because their shells are amazing. But what does that do for me if inside it has a 10 year old computer?
I assumed it was an autocorrect for Lamda
LOL - and Vanguard is apparently stealing all our money, providing zero value, and charging 0.1% on their index funds.

Better go transfer my life savings into Bitcoin, I suppose.
The first book "Casino Royale" was in fact extremely dark and gritty.

It was the film versions that sanitized the Bond stories.
Dollar or any other strong fiat does this role better. Crypto is just not accessible in those countries and the opposite of friction-less.
My thread didn’t say that at all. I’m not saying I like Prime or not.

I’m saying the article fails to make the case for monopoly to me the reader.
The Biden vaccine patent waiver is misguided
It's not a particularly interesting Byzantine mechanism. Like every other such mechanism (in the absence of trusted computing and similar tricks) it has a n = 3f+1 limit. See the selfish mining paper for why it's not n=2f+1.

It's just the Byzantine mechanism that happened to win. If anything, its innovation is that its n is based on hash power, not on number of users or nodes.

And the cost? Having to drag an immutable database around that can't be simplified; and, obviously, the opportunity cost of all the energy that's being used to support the consensus.

The game theory part is likely to be inexorably intertwined with the cryptocurrency part. The incentive to defect is blunted by people's investments, either in terms of hash power machines (for PoW) or in coin holdings (PoS). It would be very difficult to construct something that would be self-replicating/hype-incentivizing but not reward early comers the same way.
Demonstration video of the drone: https://www.stm.com.tr/en/kargu-autonomous-tactical-multi-ro...
She might not be wrong. Some properties are landed on more frequently than others, and some give better rents for their purchase price then others. Properties and sets don't all have the same game value.

You obviously have to balance that though, can't just buy nothing.
We prefer the term "intellectually efficient."
This is nothing new. The US military developed a naval mine that could launch a torpedo to kill targets without humans in the decision loop back in 1979.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_60_CAPTOR?wprov=sfla1
interview is not socially acceptable?

it's part of her job

she is mad she lost
"Bitcoin" is a subset of "blockchain." Some blockchains have a lot of stuff to do, even if Bitcoin doesn't.
Url changed from https://www.businessinsider.com/killer-drone-hunted-down-hum..., which points to this.

The original source looks to be https://www.newscientist.com/article/2278852-drones-may-have..., but that's hardwalled and so off topic here (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989). If there's a better accessible source, we can change it again. I've used the NS headline since it's the most neutral.
Perhaps, but I think thats too reductive, I was able to learn the mechanics and compete and win sometimes on my first exposures. I would say this group of friends was the right level of competiveness for me, as I would go to other gamenights with different people and sweep the floor with the players such that it wasn't even fun for anyone else.

I think I'm just not into it. Although maybe you have more experience with the likelihood of getting people into things with a more gradual approach even if they weren't challenged?

I recall seeing something similar during a "sudoku" craze 15 years ago or so. I never played, and the people I worked with never played, but when they did they would solve it so fast and wonder what the craze was about. I was shocked and asked them if they knew that people coveted that level of skill with championships and cash prizes. They just weren't into it, and it always made me think about unsolved problems or records or genius, if problems weren't even interesting to the people with the cognitive abilities to solve them.

But yes, even when I was writing my post I could see how the same could said for any other hobby. Not so different than video games. I just wasn't aware board games had gone that elaborate direction.
So, the end result of having a soldered fuse was exactly the same as a socketed one: it was successfully repaired. I don’t see the justification for the extra BOM item.

For the 99% of people who don’t attempt electrical repairs on their vacuums, that fuse socket would be sitting inside of a vacuum in a landfill.

Drive around any US suburb on trash night and pick up a couple of appliances. Most of them either still work 100% or have trivially fixable issues. People (US consumers especially) don’t fix stuff.

Don’t get me wrong, I love fixing things myself. I’ve probably saved $10,000 over the past 5 years by fixing things people were throwing away instead of buying. The ease with which this is possible to do demonstrates how few people attempt repairs themselves.
We have non reversible payments already. It's called wiring money. People generally avoid using it unless absolutely necessary, because it's expensive (much like bitcoin) and most of the time, it's not what you want.
I’m pretty sure it’s a treadmill.
Stablecoins like USDC, if everything around it is legit, can be viewed as a programmable dollar... circumventing everything and anything bank-related to do the same work. That's pretty legit IMO.
That's great, for you. The suit isn't alleging that raising the price to pay for free shipping is illegal. The suit is about controlling the market and hiking up the price to pay for your free shipping across the market.

Ie, it's fine that a retailer charges $15 + free shipping, instead of $10 + $5 shipping. It's not fine to them force the price on all other retailers to sell at a minimum of $15. Especially not since they probably have to charge shipping.

The argument that this violates anti trust is because it raises the prices for everyone, not just the people who are fine with hasslefree free shipping
Not surprising, given TravisCI's clampdown on free resources. And IMHO it makes sense to have a line there somewhere, at least for "automatically free" (vs explicitly decided sponsorships)
Blockchain as a technology is definitely innovative. The problem is that, in practice, the way that it solves certain problems come with tradeoffs. This isn't a technical problem per-se, just that it doesn't (IMHO) solve any real problems better (given the tradeoffs) than other, more "traditional" solutions. That's not to say that you can't make money with blockchain tech (just like you can make money playing blackjack).
At least in the area of outdoor gear (clothes, packs, tents, sleeping bags, etc) I know serious military dudes buy the high end commercial stuff, sometimes with their own money, rather than get stuck with “military grade” stuff.
There's one application that I always wondered why it didn't take off as a blockchain based element, a DNS replacement. It's one of the cornerstones of the internet and the web (which to many people is the internet) and the centralized control over it is definitely a drawback and a shortcoming.
Thanks for the response, I will check out your recommendation.

My preference regarding translations lean in the opposite direction, at least for Meditations--imo the newer translation I've read (Gregory Hays') seemed breezy and unsubstantial when compared to a much older one (a revision of George Long's). But that might just be a side effect of being raised on the King James version of the Bible!
Might be able to take a page out of Marshawn Lynch’s interview playbook https://youtu.be/CU1BuC1672U
If you have forced air, you can get a UV bulb that all air passes by for $200-300 - just requires drilling some holes and an AC plug. Also helps with killing mold and bacteria as an added benefit (and some of the original intention for the devices, e.g., OdorStop).
Hence Russian has a concise word for elephant, slon, and a three-syllable word for hen, kuritza.
I think the issue is that mostly these smart contracts and efficient coins are not the main attraction.

The main attraction is Bitcoin and recently Dogecoin. BTC is slow and costly and mostly a speculative play. Dogecoin is a joke, but also worth billions.

Also these coins are speculatively often first, and useful second. Not all but many. Thus instead of being useful for exchange, they become methods of speculation.

It is also used for fraud a lot -- both various types of pump-and-dumb, Ponzi and money laundering.

And on top of all that it is usually inefficient.

So what we need are digital currencies that are fast, stable, and that can implement smart contracts (but these tend to be buggy as hell with no roll back.)

But that isn't what cryptocurrency is all about these days. It has been overtaken with speculation.

If we could get the benefits I outlined, that would be amazing, but it seems that very few are actually interested in that.
>The incentive goes away if you don't sell on Amazon, right? Any Amazon "strangle" (your word, not mine) only exists because people choose to sell on Amazon, right?

And you can exit any monopoly of some industry by exiting the industry altogether, then know that anti-trust regulations exist despite of this.
You're conflating traits with generics. Generics exist without traits, and in Rust they are more closely aligned with C++ templates than anything else, since they are implemented via monomorphisation, whereas in Haskell they are not.

Regardless, Rust is not "patterned" after a single other language. It's influenced by many langauges, so it makes no sense to say that one feature is just copied straight from a specific other language.
I would love to find a portable air exchanger too—opening windows helps with CO2 levels but it’s inefficient for most of the year in much of the United States. Built-in air exchangers with heat recovery are available but are a non-starter for anyone in a rented place. Unfortunately, no good solution exists so far
Yeah, le Carré is to Fleming as David Attenborough is to J.R.R. Tolkien. They are not in the same business.
Yes, of course. Companies(/people) make choices based on the laws they are subject to.
Thats what I've noticed with TDD advocates - the amount of code required is enormous and distracts from the flow of control. Everything replaced with mocks and stubs and there's objects replaced with instances from global scope, not very good.