skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Side question, why do you write your years with a leading zero? I've never seen that before and it has quite a cognitive strain for me.

That's likely a Long Now reference: https://blog.longnow.org/02013/12/31/long-now-years-five-dig...
Dotcom bubble was the same way. We're in the early stages.
And the Player 1 has to get “Bank error in your favor, Collect $200" in their first turn, otherwise they will lack $50 to buy 5 houses in turn 2 (which I assume is significant in raising rent for Boardwalk to $1400)
According to the law of cosmic improbabilities, it just has to happen in that Case.

To quote Terry Pratchett:

> Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one.
But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.
this used to be called the "greater fool theory" of investing. i think the funniest thing about crypto is that its touted as the ultra complex, high tech mathy panacea, but in its actual function and utility to people, its most similar to beanie babies or baseball cards.
Interestingly, Poe is not alone as a famous writer of fiction who became fascinated by a particular branch of zoology. About a century later, Vladimir Nabokov was obsessed with butterflies, with one of his hypotheses (then thought of as largely insignificant and incorrect) later being borne out by genetic studies -- ironic, given the man's distaste for the idea of genetics.

Nabokov himself even went so far as to say:

> It is not improbable that had there been no revolution in Russia, I would have devoted myself entirely to lepidopterology and never written any novels at all.
OP probably got the idea to place a leading zero before the year from the Long Now Foundation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Now_Foundation
These are some great suggestions! I should absolutely make it add spaces, can't believe I didn't think of that.

Also, it actually does have a way to reference the last result, I forgot to document it. It's a variable called "ans"!

The last thing, yeah, that would be neat. I'll think about it...
I don't notice because Bitwarden takes care of entering my details for me.
You don’t even need that second roll. If, in that auction, a player bids more than the cash they have, they go bankrupt immediately (https://www.hasbro.com/common/instruct/monins.pdf doesn’t say such bids are disallowed, and does say “The buyer pays the Bank the amount of the bid in cash” and “You are declared bankrupt if you owe more than you can pay either to another player or to the Bank.”)

This can happen after the first player rolled a double, so the first player’s turn doesn’t even have to be over for a player to go bankrupt.
Lol, more Bitcoin hate, you guys are hilarious.
Yes, sorry for not catching this in the edit window.
Good lawsuit, but stupid article. It’s good practice that Amazon is incorporating the shipping price into the listed price of the product instead of charging it separately. On the other hand the practice of policing the prices that sellers charge for products outside the Amazon platform is certainly anti-competitive and should be slapped down by the courts.
Exactly, even this run is using house rules, as the official rules state that you are required to own all properties of the same colour before building, and also that houses must be built evenly on each property.
I'd be interested to see / write an algorithm for this
Plenty of crypto has low transaction fees these days.
Currently it's 8 dollars to clear in 6 hours. The cost to turn that back into money isn't included here.
> I sell it for dollars to people in person; some of the dollars I have to change into Argentine pesos before I can spend them. Isn't that how everybody does it?

No, most people just spend their currency directly on the things they need to purchase, actually.

> It was available to almost anyone who knew someone who had access

That's not even remotely true, and is also a tiny number of people.

> It was remotely similar

But... it wasn't. As I already have shown.

The ARPANET, then the Internet, have all gone through steady evolution. It has not spent 13 years stagnant or regressing in terms of either design or use.

Just because you read somewhere that "ARPANET was the predecessor of the Internet" does not mean that ARPANET was the Internet.
After working on a farm, I updated my scale of measurement for tough/functional equipment. Used to think mil-surplus was the way to go, but quickly learned that what you say is absolutely true (at least for US gear). My new gold-standard is "farmer-proof". Was struck by the absolute beating that farm equipment had to take. Often it was being used in unexpexted/improper ways with minimum maintenance by operators with little or no training... (These all apply to military equipment too, but the farm acquisition process is purely utilitarian, as opposed to the nonsense that goes into specing and purchasing military gear). Equipment purchased on a farm is rarely the best available, but is always optimized to get the job done with the maximum possible usible lifespan.
> Using the term "crypto" to refer to cryptocurrency is amigous and misleading.

To whom? “Crypto” is the colloquial shorthand for “cryptocurrency”. And I believe those thinking otherwise are reacting to the new usage encroaching on the old. Petty hill to die on…
The joy of discovering hours later why not everybody could "see" everybody on the network: ipx frame type, and different default values, 802.2, 802.3, pick one.

You couldn't Google that. Because there was no Google, and you were stuck in a basement.

Fun and exciting times :)
To me, McMaster-Carr is the best website in existence.

The clarity of information presentation is unparalleled.
What common position pays better than full stack?
Activia True image can do the job on Windows.
Making a whole image on everything in your computer.
I'd add to it: "Statistics done wrong"
> About 8 years ago I bought the cheapest catering/professional microwave/combioven I could get my hands on. I did this because I got tired of consumer units with overcomplicated UIs designed (apparently) by unregenerate misanthropes, rotating dishes that are a pain in the ass to clean, overzealous bleeps that go off every 30 - 60 seconds after a cycle is finished, peeling enamel, corrosion issues, and that are too small on the inside.

See, this is weird. The cheapest microwaves you can get have two dials, one for temp, one for time. Why not buy one of those??
But you could probably make the users happy by just running example IoT code from the Arduino IDE...

I don't feel like the on-device code is the expensive bit of this.
Klarna does this quite well here in Sweden. Almost too well, it often loads an Iframe with my information filled in already on a checkout page of a random store, without any input from me.
No longer at amazon but I was in the appstore and charge backs were pretty common, you just lost access to the apps/iaps you charged back. Though I don't know what happens if you do it repeatedly or high value items.

And while they definitely deserve the ire for doing that with 1984, even in 2018 when I left preventing 1984 like issues were commonly brought up in design reviews, calling out 1984 by name.
Arte is a French/German public TV channel (excellent one in my opinion).
I guess this video is blocked outside these two countries (also available in Belgium, Monaco, Luxembourg, Austria, and Switzerland I think)
I think their website answers your question: https://reserve.org/protocol
The extremely messed up incentives make it impossible to even have an honest conversation about it’s merits or issues. If there are any legitimate uses for blockchain (and that’s an if) they’re lost in the noise of 10,000 get rich quick schemes, outright frauds, and bad actors.
That's you, but a lot of people don't live next to the Apple store and with business laptops, people come to you, to replace the device , repair or anything else.
> Crypto is vast, complex, and inherently not suitable for binary thinking. I've studied the space for months and have come to the conclusion that crypto is two-sided in almost every aspect

Is this a bit?
Cryptocurrency will never go away. The more time passes, the more conviction people have.

As someone who is a loser in both the fiat ecosystem and crypto ecosystem and having experienced some horrors both ecosystems, I prefer crypto ecosystem hands down because it's the most honest and transparent system.

Once you understand how both systems work, it's impossible to pick the fiat system. The fiat system is a pyramid scheme of epic proportions. It's not possible for an ethical person to want to participate in the fiat system once they understand how it works. It is really that bad.

I realize that people will downvote this now, but when crypto prices start doubling every week, they will finally understand what's going on.

When you understand how the monetary system works, this claim is not far fetched at all. It's a certainty.
I think that might be regional?

Prime customers get pretty much anything delivered in two days.

I still haven't figured out how they do it. I ordered two obscure oil filters, and they were delivered within a day. I think they had driver go into a local automotive store, and buy them?

Anyhoo, they were cheaper than the store price.

(I don't hate Amazon. I'm pretty amazed how effient they are. I never thought I would pay for Prime, but that MGM buy was brilliant. Local retailers need to up their game. I'm getting tired of being quoted a cheaper price online, just to pay more if I go in to buy. Automotive parts stores are notoriorious for this behavior.)
YUP. They're "two jobs", but I've yet to work with a full stack developer who is master of either. Most commonly they're great at front end, and have a very superficial understanding of how to do anything on the backend, and even then the backend basically has to be node.js for them to contribute. No way am I getting them to change the database schema or build a new service.
> A lot of tech people don't enjoy writing, but also they're sometimes not very good at predicting or empathizing with the future reader of their writing.

Agreed, wholeheartedly. Will hitchhike on your comment to recommend two things: Brett Victor's pdf stash [1] and, specifically, the Walter Ong essay "The Writer's Audience is Always a Fiction"[2].

Long story short, we form our audiences by subjecting them to our writing. In writing software documentation, we are implicitly informing the next generation's thought by the simple power dynamic that underlies all technical documentation: "you must understand this in order to do your job properly".

It is no wonder that "form", "inform", and "information" are such closely related words.

We dictate the level of rigor and intelligibility we expect out of our technical documentation, when we write technical documents. It almost sounds like a tautology when put this way, but "bad docs" are exclusively the result of a professional culture that puts up with the existence of bad docs. I've been there; too tired and overworked to care about writing something properly, or wanting to avoid writing a doc enough that I setup some autodoc thing and called it a day. We literally don't get paid for writing documentation.

But good documentation is what made us into good developers (if we are good developers). We should get paid for doing that...

[1] http://worrydream.com/refs/

[2] http://worrydream.com/refs/Ong%20-%20The%20Writer's%20Audien...
Thank you very much for the pointer!
this isn't true about either the blog post (buys boardwalk and park place, purchases houses evenly on this complete property group) or the comment above (no houses or hotels are involved)
Except the NFT the supermarket gives you isn't cryptographically verified.
Yeah, I grew up in a house with well water and we had a water softener for the whole house. I've just never seen a place to add salt in a dishwasher, unless it's the rinse aid.
I specifically said retailers should be able to reduce the cost for multiple items.
It might be your strong wording that people are responding to
> You really need to stop watching Fox News. It is poisoning your brain.

What’s the point of typing this out? When you write things like this do you think you’re going to convince anyone to change positions? Is it just to gain internet points? Imagine this as a response to your comment:

> You really need to stop watching MSNBC. It is poisoning your brain.

It’s like playing tennis.

I’m replying because this type of stuff is so tiresome. It’s hard enough to avoid on the rest of the Internet; please don’t bring it to HN.
You would pay 10% of your wealth for income tax, so you could always mortgage your one property and pay the 10% of the mortgage value.
When I tried to open the video with mpv this showed up:

> This video is available in Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Saint Barthélemy, Switzerland, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Spain, Finland, France, United Kingdom, French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Greece, Croatia, Hungary, Ireland, Iceland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, Monaco, Saint Martin (French part), Martinique, Malta, New Caledonia, Netherlands, Norway, French Polynesia, Poland, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Portugal, Réunion, Romania, Sweden, Slovenia, Slovakia, San Marino, French Southern Territories, Holy See (Vatican City State), Wallis and Futuna, Mayotte.
The original full video:

https://youtu.be/DtnYpSRSnew
real gatekeepy title you got there
I like this line of speculation, though what to make of the fact that the average military pilot and average coder probably differ...substantially...in physique? Not to mention ongoing training active pilots likely engage in that may help with posture.
Yeah. And I think some people see that and think, “okay I can get in on that too!” while others think, “this whole thing smells and can’t be sustainable.”

I fall into the latter camp. I don’t begrudge the former. I just don’t think it’ll last and have little taste for speculating.
I don't see anything in the piece about simplification, just the the trouble of tracking changes across two editions while still finishing the edit for each.
I think it's time for us in the tech world to speak out and make it clear the emperor has no clothes here. _Gold_ is sustained by a mix of money laundering, human slavery, fraud, ransom, gambling, and delusion. It has no social benefit except helping end first dates fast.

What we especially need to stress to regulators is that there's no relationship between the claims of _gold_ and our now thousands of years of experience. It's not decentralized, it's not a currency, it's not a store of value, and it's not a promising element.

_Gold_ solves no problems that it didn't first create, and most of those it doesn't solve. Banks are neither of those things—at worst they're an API for fraud, or as I put it, self-funding institutional greed.

I think most of us in the industry gave gold a long leash because it's full of cleverness and seemed innovative just on those terms. But it's time we recognize that cleverness is being used as bait to defraud more people and perpetuate a con. Enough is enough.

The two things people need to know about gold are completely non-technical:

1. If it isn't backed by self-perpetuating value, it isn't worth anything outside of industry process (electronics, etc.)

2. If it works, it creates an end run around all financial regulation, and will be dominated by uses those regulations try to stop

And the list goes on. I am not equating cryptocurrency to gold, I am just trying to point out the absurdity of the authors statements.
why do you see youtube ads, if you tried disabling ads? Maybe try ublock origin, the best ad blocker in terms of respecting its users.
That doesn't mean the apps aren't using analytics services that feed the data back to ad networks. Not only are these data useful for targeting ads to you later, they are useful for targeting to other people since they can be used to infer characteristics and behavior of similar people, which can then be used by advertisers for more precise targeting.

There's an built-in conflict of interest with mobile platforms, both Google and Apple, who both run advertising networks that are incentivized to collect data on you to improve targeting, whether you look at ads or not.

(It is helpful that Apple's core business is not advertising, though I still don't trust them.)
It doesn't, as you ask, prevent tracking of my online behavior. That's a lost cause. Cash allows me to hide select purchases, as long as I don't do any comparison shopping online. And that prevents disclosure of gift purchases to my housemates.
Groovy is a dynamic language that runs in the JVM, it lets you put @CompileStatic at the top of every class.

I believe typescript also has options for compiling statically.
Is it that different than a fiat currency with an equally opaque issuance method? At least crypto has whitepapers and the promise of transparency.
> These cycles are continuously producing winners and losers and the losers are generally those who have more to lose and are thus enable to withstand the intense pressure of bear markets.

This is the opposite of what I think is true so I'd love to see a citation for this claim.
The blog buys both BW and PP, and buys houses evenly.
You agree with fox news on half of your points?
Payments don't need to be final. You could use a contract that implements arbitration logic.
I'm not saying no. I completely agree with you. You must have misread my comment.
The State of Fiber Broadband
I'm not familiar with US antitrust legislation but usually these laws stipulate that you can either be "unfair" or have no competition, but not both.
"I own you, and I have this contract here that proves it, but unfortunately it's secret so I can't show it to you." Seems utterly convenient for him, and inconvenient only for anyone who isn't him. So, no, that can't really be how it works in the real world, can it? If it were -- hey, did you know that I now own the municipality where you live? Bought it a couple years ago, so all your local tax payments for the last year are now due to me. I've implemented a flat-rate income tax of 60 percent. Naah, sorry, the sales contract is a secret, so you'll just have to take my word for it...

If he wants to claim ownership of this utterly nebulously-defined entity "Freenode", he has to show:

1) That he's bought it, i.e. at least the paragraphs of the contract that directly concern the sale -- or, alternatively (not sure how this works in Britain) the registration of transfer of ownership at the relevant regulatory authority; and

2) What he's bought, exactly, i.e. the paragraphs of the contract that specify what exactly was included in the sale -- or alternatively, the registration, including a listing of the assets that went into it, of the company's founding at the relevant regulatory authority. (In the latter case, if those assets are now claimed to include stuff that wasn't there to begin with, those also need to be explicitly specified.)
those are sensors. "safer than a human" is broad and not really applicable to talking about just sensors. but as an example, lidar has orders of magnitude faster detection of an object than human perception. so in that case, sure it is much safer.
Keeping active is good for you. Any steps that aren't towards negativity are better than none at all, I reckon.
the existence of a competitor is poor reasoning about whether or not monopolistic intention exists.

When a single entity in the market can control and set the prices for the entire market it indicates an uneven shift in market power. Amazon has such market power at the moment, and this puts them at risk of committing monopolistic behaviors.
If you keep learning and improving, imposter syndrome never goes away. After you settle in, you can get used to what you are capable of. I’ve never lost mine, it’s learn one thing, discover two more you didn’t realize were important that you don’t (yet) know, recursively
That sounds optimistic, to be honest. I find it difficult to trust that strictly only "people in charge" have access to the datastores and profiles these various adtech companies manage.

Is there already an underground market for person-to-person sale of information about individuals for relationship-tailoring purposes, or could there be soon? And would those become commonplace or even socially accepted if so?

Those are the kinds of question I have about the territory we're getting into, and I wonder what the implications would be for society.
I always take this into account given that they are more often than not not the cheapest online -- of course the extra expense is for shipping. shipping costs money. especially if you want it on your doorstep tomorrow. do other people not see this?
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I can understand mapping out a new branch of a field is nontrivial. But I’d also hope that domain experts could explain it well enough to bring others to a basic level of understanding without saying, “it’s too hard.”
> Manufacturing, Music, Politics and now The final big boss, money.

Isn't that a "they laughed at Galileo" argument?

They thought the Internet was snake oil. They thought Napster was snake oil. They thought BitTorrent was snake oil. ... but they also thought Pixelon was snake oil.
A quick tip for homebuyers/sellers to save on realtor fees. Contact the title company and they'll gladly tell you what you need to do to close the loan. Maybe not ASAP, but they are more vested in you doing the busy work and doing it right than they are the worthless realtors. Half the time realtors in my state wouldn't even sign the offer to purchase and include their info even though it's illegal and they can lose their license.
Why does this C++ code run faster than hand-written assembly (2016)
Trassel: Infinitely Scrolling Interactive Painting
What sort of app in common use on an iPad would need more than 5 GB of RAM?

Having the 8 GB of RAM would be nice so that your OS and other apps/background tasks running wouldn't take memory away from the foreground app, but I can't fathom an app that I would run on a table that required that kind of memory usage.
Older machines, like La Peppina and Caravel, are open boiler machines, meaning the boiler is not pressurized. The way the water flows means they have excellent temperature stability for espresso (the boiler is of course at 100C, so the brew temp is right around 95C).

Of course, an open boiler means there are a lot more potential safety issues.
> Griffith was ashamed to discover that he was consuming 18,000 watts of energy a year

Watts are a unit of power, not energy. Do they mean watt-hours?
Could you provide some background (or links) to your claim (I thought the inventor(s) of Bitcoin were anonymous)? Thank you.
that sounds like a bug(albeit severe), but that is in no way descriptive of current technology or some sort of cap on performance
> A good MMO typically isn't just a large number of players walking around and not interacting with one another.

It is, though! In most games you're only actually interacting with one or a few people at a time - even if many more might be visible.

Part of it, of course, is that the existing MMOs are designed for small-group gameplay. But even outside MMOs - Minecraft, CoD, etc. - you're not ever going to interact with hundreds of players. A human can't manage that!

Eve runs into problems because it has large-scale PvP. That says almost nothing about PvE scenarios.
Yet one would hope that if the discussion is on HN, then we'd rise above flamewars, and talk specifics, specific limitations, specific advantages, etc.
> and that affecting concentration and productivity, is so evil as to get someone fired?

Hard to not assume malice when you accuse someone for implying something they explicitly said they don't want to imply.