skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except someone stole your uranium and then accidentally dropped it on your house while trying to sell it for profit
You don't even have to play. Just declare you win and if the other person agrees it's game over.
That's what I hear a lot of, most people who haven't worked from home before seem to be enjoying it at least enough to not want to return fully. Is that going to be possible, or will your work require everyone back in office?
No, I'm not describing Roblox. Roblox is a great game and has many great characteristics, but this is bigger and broader than that.

Sybil attacks would be detected in an open network first of all. If you can pull it off, I invite you to try: there's hundreds of billions of dollars on the table protected by nothing but cryptography and game theory. Knock yourself out. I'm sure all the people in this space are idiots and haven't seen the holes you claim are there.

I'm old enough to remember when using a credit card was a hassle or seen as predatory on consumers and many people either refused to use credit or accept credit in their businesses. For several decades using a credit card wasn't any more convenient than using cash or check even. Over time, the scanners got better and faster, Visa and MasterCard integrated with ATM debit cards, and then mobile phones and swiping plugins enabled it all to get better. Now it's ubiquitous. But that ubiquity will make it all the more easier for merchants to adopt crypto.

It turns out there is already crypto insurance protocols like Nexus Mutual and Cover that will cover you if a loss occurs. Insurance is really just a business problem that is easily fixable.

On the plus side crypto is far more secure than Visa or MasterCard, because it works on public/private key cryptography and you simply sign a transaction rather than enter your name and address and all the same information you'd need to commit a fraudulent credit card transaction.
Indeed. Obviously it's bad that the NYT is using these dark patterns. But it would be worse if the NYT would just stop to cover dark patterns, because of that. It's a sign of a working separation between the journalistic and business sides.
The problem is that the distributed consensus in a blockchain is only possible if that blockchain is also used as a currency. If you remove the currency aspect, it's no better than a Git repository, which also has a merkle tree ( but no way to say which repo is the canonical one).
I wish there was more of a culture of long lived product lines. IKEA is shockingly good at this. I had a draw from the Malm product line from 15 years ago, then 5 years ago I got the bed frame in the same set and just now I got another one of the draws and they all fit together and look uniform because their product lines have been mostly the same for decades.

If I break something or need more bits, I can always go back years later and get a matching piece.
And people wonder why I still don't trust Micro$oft, even if they say they're supporting open source.
On the other hand, once a building is done right you don't have to worry about it again (other than replacing filters and the like on schedule), while masks are too easy to wear wrong, lose, or take off (particularly when eating)
> PPPS: Wild speculation: With 5G, everyone with a phone could host their business directly on their device, instead on other peoples servers. When phones hit a TB in storage, you can run your socnet with your friends - and you probably will, because mainstream money will have moved to something much more immersive, addictive, profitable like glasses, vr, ar.

I've been thinking about this a lot lately. The decrease in the cost in high performance phones, more storage, and high speed connectivity will make for some interesting social network opportunities where your device is the server and there's no/minimal intermediaries. You could bring back the Google Circle concept and cache things from your inner circle while accept that things in outer circles are ephemeral if the friends' device is off.
I feel it is punching down to attribute not wanting to quarantine or wear masks to a 'Joe Sixpack' caricature. The ultra-wealthy and powerful didn't want to quarantine or wear masks either - except they had the luxury of boarding a private plane and fleeing the country, or sailing around on a yacht, etc.
Interesting, makes sense. I assume your company was (prior to pandemic) a WFO company? Do you think they will issue a "must WFO" mandate soon? Seems a lot of companies are returning to WFO and I feel we're just at the apex / tipping point here.
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Take a look at nextcloud photos and photoprism.
This happens with almost everything that I'm subscribed to. It's one dark pattern that I am ashamed to participate in... But the public never pushed back on it.
My recollection was that they banned disagreeing with the WHO[0]. The examples given in that article are fair enough for banning, but they banned scientists who were not quite so crazy[1]. Anyway, that’s based on my memory (which is often faulty), but those links seem to corroborate it.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52388586

[1] https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/46573762/why-is-yo...
You are 100% incorrect. I worked at Circle which had the second-largest OTC desk while I was there, and $3 million in BTC even back then was trivial. The markets now are ~25x more liquid than they were a few years ago. I don't think you know even the smallest thing about this industry because your comment is so entirely mistaken it reveals you are clueless. Converting from BTC to rubles is a different matter but BTC / fiat trades of major currencies is very easy for USD and I can't imagine rubles are difficult.
The rebuttal is that the above argument is a mischaracterization of the evidence. The fact we haven't seen an ancestor virus is absolutely expected and normal, and has happened for every other virus. Furin cleavage sites are present in a dozen other coronaviruses. The closest relative known is fairly likely not to be an ancestor, so there is no real expectation you wouldn't see an arginine. It's totally normal for there to be a misalignment, that's exactly what you would expect for random evolution, to find anything that works.

So basically, there is almost no argument above, and zoonoses have happened hundreds of times and are thus expected.
Uber, Doordash, and the like have consistently played games with payments, fees, and tips; an intentional decision would just be par for the course, to see how much you can get away with and toe the line before enough people complain.
Correct me if I'm wrong. RaTG13's genome was published in 2020 after the pandemic started by Shi and the Wuhan Institute of technology.

Doesn't seem likely they'll voluntarily publish a paper on a virus they used as the backbone to manufacture SARS-CoV-2...

Even if it was a lab leak, it's unlikely RaTG13 was the progenitor.
No, it is too late.

Economic bubbles are self-feeding. They have the social mechanisms of a cult where the members shut off communication with the external culture and only seek reinforcement for their belief system.

If the tech world speaks out it will be like doctors recommending masks and quarantine in the early days of Covid or climate experts explaining global warming: the "true believers" will just reinforce their belief.

Let them drink the Kool-Aid, there's nothing we can do anymore.
Good point. That might be the single best one-word response that fully answers the question.
Don’t try that with a gym membership or similar. They will come after you.
"Valid ad hominem arguments occur in informal logic, where the person making the argument relies on arguments from authority such as testimony, expertise..."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem

It appears that the original comment was valid ad hominem, but still ad hominem.
Wow, cool! I'm so curious about this. How did you guys decide on this? Did you ask all employees how they felt, or was it more of a top level decision? I'm happy to see more companies either offer WFH part time, or even go full WFH. There's a big difference between a "remote first" company and a company that just allows WFH. The latter can be a big problem for anyone who wants to "rank up" because its all about face time. If you are WFH, you tend to not get as much face time, and so you don't do as well with management etc.
I had the same experience cancelling my subscription. I was able to avoid the sales pitch the author received (I guess I was a little firmer), but I doubt I'll be subscribing again after I realized there was no unsubscribe button.
There is a lot I want to appropriate from chemistry labs for my kitchen besides fume hoods, which kind of makes sense because they both overlap in many similar activities for my use case (meal prep once a week to once a month when I have sufficient freezer space). I'm willing to pay the premium for repairability, maintainability and time efficiency to optimize that use case.

Laboratory-grade flooring: epoxy resin. Durable protection, withstand frequent pedestrian traffic. Slip resistance. Impermeable, non-absorbent surface, resists chemical exposure. Low maintenance, easy and economical cleaning and sanitizing properties.

Floor drains and gullies with oil/water separator.

Compressed air supply.

Chilled water supply.

Overhead service carriers for power, chilled water, hot water, natural gas, and air.

Lab-grade furniture, especially countertops.

All packaged in a proven layout taken from modern submarine galley designs.

This isn't from a lab (but from a sushi restaurant), to indicate I don't have a "kitchen as lab" fetish: circulating water Teflon-lined raceway behind all counter runs catches debris that is diverted to a auto-turned compost pile, and the excess moisture of the pile drained off to crops, which in turn drain off to an aquaculture pond.

I could go on, but my ideal dream kitchen would at first glance would probably look like a very cramped lab. "Modern" residential kitchens cause me all kinds of unnecessary movement and labor for my specific use case.
Ok, sure -- I was lazy. It's sometimes possible, but it doesn't make economic sense.

Paying for people and equipment to can safely swap a motherboard and reassemble the laptop is not cheap, but it's not expensive.

Paying people who can diagnose a fault in a modern motherboard, do the board-level repair, test it, and turn it around to the customer doesn't make sense. Do a quick board swap and be done with it. Maybe forward the faulty board to some central facility for refurb or at least analysis to find out what's breaking in the field.

This isn't unique to Apple -- very little consumer electronics is repaired because it isn't worth the cost.

Now Apple makes the choice to solder everything on the motherboard (both for size & weight, and likely reliability reasons too). That means even peripheral failures junk the whole motherboard. But that's a trade-off they, and their customers, make.
I actually got one of those for the bedroom after reading someone mentioning it during another HN thread. It does seem to make the bedroom better, though I don't think it's quite enough for the whole house.

I don't have any measuring devices to see the impact directly, though.
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I have adopted a zen posture to this sort of hypocrisy which involves believing both these things:

1. It is good to call out hypocrisy like this article does where a publishing entity is engaged in behavior completely contrary to the behavior called for in their published words.

2. It is also good that the reporter’s journalism is sufficiently free (as in freedom) that they are able to write so independently of the behavior of the mother ship.

Like, the world would definitely be a worse place if reporters at Bloomberg declined to do some of the excellent reporting they’ve done on tech company tax dodges just because (hypothetically) Bloomberg was a tech company that did some corporate tax dodging. It’s good that they do it. It’s also fine that people note the cognitive dissonance.

It’s sort of like how I feel about Googlers protesting sexual harassment or the China search project. Personally I still think they are affiliated with a company that engages in a lot of bad practices but good on them for at least trying to change some thing however small. And at the same time I feel free to say “well ya they’re protesting this guy who was abusing his underlings but their company is abusing all of us” or whatever.
And how does it interoperate with the virtual artwork NFT ecosystem that is burgeoning right now? Can I use a song I purchased on Audius to play in my virtual pad on Decentraland while showing off some art work that I purchased on OpenSea?
Oh this is diabolical IMO. I just tested it to understand what's happening.

Below "search the web", there is always a "search in sidebar" option. "Sidebar" basically splits your window and loads your search in the new pane. I assume this is some custom webview, but it looks very, very similar to a new window/tab.

The kicker: only Bing search can be loaded in the sidebar. So when you change your default search engine away from Bing, the text changes to "search Bing in sidebar" -- because they didn't implement the sidebar for anyone else, but wanted to keep the option there.

Yikes.
All the hotel chains in the US have been offering cheaper prices conditional upon signing up for the rewards program for many years now, and it’s free and a simple check mark to become a rewards program member.
> the members of the editorial board have very little connection to the business side of the newspaper

And yet you will never see the editorial side write negative things about the business side of the newspaper.

People bring up this distinction that there is some barrier between the two, but its a very weak argument, since the incentives of both are the same (to increase the newspapers revenue)
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How does Chris Dixon, A16z’s crypto leader feel about this?
Technology Connections on Youtube has a rather good video on the subject: https://youtu.be/_rBO8neWw04
Windows 7 is a fine OS if you don't connect it to the Internet, but it's basically screaming "hack me" everywhere you go online.

A few occasional mild annoyances from the marketing team is worth tolerating for a reasonably secure operating system. I'd argue people who feel otherwise need to reprioritize their risks.
Anti-Ship cruise missiles, for one. The TSAM (and possibly also the Harpoon) navigates to a search area and then determines a ship to attack within that area.

The first self-guided antiship missiles might also qualify, but they were (iirc) lock-on before launch weapons. (Operational in the Pacific theater during WW2, even!)
Why are you measuring a specific cryptocurrency vs. the whole Internet? The correct comparison for the Internet would be "all cryptocurrencies."

Bitcoin "regressed" (really, specialized) because it got so big that it became speculators' favorite, which made it too expensive for anyone but speculators to interact with. Then, other cryptocurrencies that aren't so expensive to move around were created, and people who wanted to use cryptocurrency as a medium of exchange moved to using those instead. So now the ecosystem supports two applications (investment, exchange) using different tools specialized to those purposes, each better at that thing than a single cryptocurrency trying to "do it all" would be.

Which is, y'know, also the story of the Internet.
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The limited number of houses is part of the official rules and also a key strategy. If you get a few monopolies and build them all to four houses, you block everyone else from building houses.
Research is also hampered by non-obvious changes in the product. Even when a good, reliable product is released, it can be modified to be cheaper to make/more expensive to maintain with no external indication. This isn't even necessarily about cost-cutting, a component may no longer be available and is swapped for something that claims to be identical but is not as reliable.
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is there a front-end (visualization, tagging, upload, dedup etc) where we can use a cloud service backend (AWS S3 etc)?
Yep, I do! I camp deep in the woods, sometimes alone, and I have a tremendous respect for the danger of getting lost and have several layers of plans to prevent, and react to, that outcome. A good reliable compass is a part of that.
Since when has tech culture been about trusting big companies and governments to do the right thing? Sure you can achieve all the same objectives as the currency-side of the blockchain with traditional means, but, fuck the traditional means. Banks are trash, Wells Fargo literally opened fake accounts on behalf of their customers and those customers didn't know. The list of ways that banks have failed people goes on and on: racist loan denials, ATM fees, overdrafting, arbitrary transaction fees for payment processors, and I'm sure there's more that isn't coming to mind. Surprise, replacing the world financial systems is a long road. Personally I hope that we can keep walking on it.
Because someone didn't have the time to do it? Or they didn't think of it? Just because nobody has had success at an idea, doesnt mean that the idea can't work.

Or do you think we are at our peak?
I think they meant, "why didn't Namecoin replace DNS?"
No kidding. I've been hired through third party recruiters twice, and both times were fantastic. I am just guessing, but I got the distinct impression that both were doing better and were better compensated working independently (one owned his own business, the other was highly placed) than if they were recruiters for a large company.

OTOH, my experience with same-company recruiters was that they merely existed to act as a simple filter and PR person. They didn't invest anything in me (the candidate) nor really examine if I was a good fit before I got passed further on up the chain.

Now that I really think about it, the quoted advice is pretty much a mirror opposite to my experience.
It doesn't limit the size of the economy. It incentivises saving over investing, since the value of the currency tends to increase as the economy grows. Modern fiat currency is designed to disincentivise savings and incentivise investing, in order to supercharge economic growth.

A counter-position from the Austrian/Chicago school is that supercharging growth drives malinvestment, and they can't be entirely wrong about that - I've seen tons of dumb money flow into dodgy companies during tech booms.
Kairosoft is a company of about 20 people with capitalization of 100 million yen (not sure what that means exactly). [0]. They make games for current game consoles including Nintendo Switch and Sony Playstation 4, and games for iOS and Android. [1]. That's not the kind of company that doesn't care about its reputation or protecting its brand image and trademarks.

Kairosoft also produces English translations of many of its games. [2]. According to this photo from the article, the translation appears to be incomplete and leaves much of the text appearing as strings of question marks. [3] I don't believe that a company that produces dozens of games, including for current systems and many translated into English, would approve of an incomplete fan translation of one of its games.

[0] https://kairosoft.net/company/

[1] https://kairosoft.net/game/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kairosoft

[3] https://rhizome.org/static-media/uploads/bookstory5.png
Interesting must be a strategy towards women selecting the top 10% only so men are not getting any matches. Getting matched before reading profiles saves tons time kind of makes sense. Then you can review and filter afterwards.

Why is that sad? Have you ever heard of speed dating? Similiar concept.
This is how cash and gold worked for thousands of years.
Why not? We made something and it takes time to understand its implications.
If a company does this, I am NEVER subscribing again.

Whereas if a company makes cancelling/renewing super painless I'm going to come and go as a customer as it fits my needs. This results in more overall business for the company.

I am literally going through this right now: A company called "Ooma" makes dongles that provide voice-over-IP for landline phones (inc. a telephone number), for $10/month with "no contract." But our use-case isn't every month, it is once every few months, and they require call-to-cancel/hassle-to-cancel, so now we're reviewing alternatives that are more legitimately flexible.

They're literally going to lose my recurring business only because of this anti-consumer practice.
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I agree. But also before hitting publish they should have done a quick check of their own UX. This would have shown a good faith effort as opposed to a hypocritical take-down. It would have also illustrated a richer perspective on why these types of dark patterns get built into products in the first place, as I write in the second half of the essay.
Yeah, I live in a place where, well, let's just say that opening the window for much of the year simply isn't done. I don't think some of my windows will even can be opened any longer due to having been closed for so many years.
It would have taken me hundreds of hours to understand the mechanisms of derivatives like the sub-prime mortgage backed CDS-es as well.

Not a very good way to convince me of cryptocurrencies' greatness by saying 'oh its too complicated to understand, but trust me its big'.

i'm not very into crypto - and everytime i look it feels like another speculative bubble but this time the speculators are even more hyped.
It will take massive fines and employment regulation to change anything. Uber will continue and defend this type of behavior until they're made to do otherwise.
I (unfortunately) have a copy of that. It much more quickly results in tables being flipped; which I guess is good?
I view the "inflation = stealth tax" to be hyperbole. Like, a comparison to something everyone hates for emphasis.

But yes, inflation is not targeting any socioeconomic class, and its purpose is mainly to force people with a lot of money to not just park it somewhere and instead keep it moving in the economy. The bank's advertised rates sound like a cruel joke? Go invest it! That's the point, the central banks are playing a perpetual game of "inception" where they make all of your decisions to not put your money in a savings account to seem like your own original idea.
I searched for “SIP” as RFC3261 is my favorite, but there were hundreds of results in reverse numerical order, so RFC3261 which defines SIP was right at the bottom.

Maybe just reversing the result order would give more useful results?
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If the missing-middle is, in fact, a real consumer desire, then you’re identified a market failure that might be a good startup idea.

And I’m not saying this sarcastically, many wildly successful businesses have been built on finding untapped markets that established players have missed. There is always room for improvement. The question is whether that improvement is strong enough to change people’s buying decisions.