skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's a seg fault? I jest, but static languages have come incredibly far since C++ (where they are already less common than in C) and I truly haven't dealt with a segmentation fault in the past many years working with static languages.
> This author does not have what some would consider a sterling history of submitted papers

This is ad hominem. The link provided only supports the accusation with previous accusations.
> (Just want to make it clear - I'm not saying Catan is the end-all, be-all of board games. But it proves that you can have a fun, complex board game with just 5 resource cards.)

Hm, you're now making me think. Even with the more complex board games and more complex mechanics, I am struggling to find a successful board game that has more than 5ish resources. And a lot of the simpler games have a lot less.

Even Terraforming Mars "just" has 6 if I recall right, food chain magnate - depending on how you count - has 6ish. Prehistoric has 5ish. Spirit island has less. Something like the old arkham horror version is harder to count due to inventory management, but you're still juggling just 4-5 things.
This doesn't read as a particularly intelligent thread. There are no interesting insights here, at least not anything that's new and hasn't already been debated/debunked/pushed back on, before.

Seems like one of those tweetstorms where people perceive it to be saying something worthwhile because it's long and is said with adamancy.
What is the objective? I can see the controls and I’ve made a few interesting patterns but what is the thing I’m trying to achieve? What’s the gameplay significance of the graph? What exactly is it even measuring?
Yeah, this is something I’ve been pondering about. I’ve been doing 10 years of C++, and after a 6 months affair with Haskell fell in love with LISP. Now I’ve been doing Clojure professionally for about 5 years, and now am in a phase where I realize the grass is not green anywhere. I’ve been shocked at some of the bugs in my Clojure code that went unnoticed for way too long, and at the same time I remember the amount of “compiler fighting” that C++ or Haskell required.

It’s just a trade-off, in the end, and depends on what poison you can digest.
As a Swift dev, the reason why it slows me down is that I often end up fighting the type system.

I start with a concept, design my data structures on the whiteboard in a way that makes sense, then I try to code it and because of some detail in the type system it doesn't work, and I end up spending huge amounts of times wondering how to translate my concept into code.

I don't have that issue in other languages.

Also, the Swift compiler is really really slow.
Surprised to see you mention fintech. I think you should leave them out of it — all this dystopian shit is made by the evil “don’t be evil” people.

It’s ironic. When I was 18 and I heard about people doing HFT I thought it was unethical, siphoning money from Joe Shmoe to evil rich people. The older I get, the more I realize Facebook and Google are the truly evil choice — it’s the people in HFT that can have a clear conscience.
https://thequestpod.substack.com/p/the-story-of-atrium
> You don't need a knife backpacking either. I did 200 miles on the PCT without even bringing a knife.

I don't generally need a knife in my daily life either, but I still carry one at all times. In the same sense that I often wear a seatbelt, despite hopefully never needing one, and having driven many hundreds of thousands of miles without one ever proving useful.

It's just when it comes to hiking vs. backpacking, the calculus of what to carry changes significantly because when backpacking you implicitly are carrying much more junk than on a hike.

For me hiking is much closer to a long walk in civilization than backpacking; I encounter more people, and carry my knife just like I do around town. Hiking is actually especially unique since it tends to be done civilization adjacent, and for some idiots that's the most accessible source of cover for criminal fuckery or desperate homeless living.
Presumably they talked to the editors. I don’t think they opened up LSJ at random, compared an entry to the new version and concluded that the change was made for the sake of political correctness.
LocalBitcoins works just fine for me.
Content marketing, bro
The problem is that at the low-end where you just want something cheap and simple, it’s too complicated compare to Aurora. At the higher-end where you want something with extreme-performance, it’s got too many weird edge cases.

If you have a team of people that know how to use it well, I’m sure it’s an excellent tool. But it shouldn’t be casually thrown into an architecture, because there is nearly always a better solution.
Emotional telepresence.
I have to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbhcRKsRwFM
I spent too much time reading HN as opposed to running my business :)

Tbh what’s worked best is when I’ve been focussed. Doing many things at once has mostly been the root cause of businesses failing.
Counterpoint: a very senior financial services software consultant I’ve worked with told me multiple times he’d be happy to find a job paying under $100k that would allow him to return to India and work from there. He understood employers might find it challenging for him to be so far away and was willing to trade half his income for that point.

$30/hr ~> $60/k per year which in a huge swath of the USA is a pretty good annual income.
This resonated with me. I frequently get caught up in tunnel vision and miss the forest from the trees. And then the worlds moved on and I unintentionally spent too much time on the wrong activities. Its happened enough times that I’m confident I won’t make the mistake again (hopefully that is ingrained wisdom by now)
George Foreman is probably better known for the grills now than the boxing career.
TL;DR - addiction, injuries, toxicity, mental health, escapism, social withdrawal, digital divide, mobile games, esports, copyright.
This is absolutely insane and something should be done about it. Amazon is getting out of hand.
Url changed from https://fstoppers.com/news/amazon-refused-refund-7000-after-..., which points to this.
Mine hasn't completely failed, yet, but it is where it is because of not shipping.

I have a thing and it mostly works, but it's not good enough for people to use, let alone to buy, and I'm not sure how to get it there. The more time passes, the more I move on mentally and emotionally.

I need to ship it, but I don't know how, so it's just in limbo now, and one day it may likely just be over. I'm not running out of cash or anything, I'm just not moving forward.
A commercial bean grinder is amazing but expensive.
If cloud margins are really 50%, that seems like a case for new competition in the cloud business rather than making a data center for your own non cloud business.
I made some prototypes for this device, researched food literature, raised money from Project Ara, did lab experiments, and then found out quickly through a survey that no one wanted to buy this device at a $200 price. So much for that LLC and prototype. Plus even if people did want this device, there were many possible variables inside someone’s fridge that could affect the sensor reading. E.g. volume of container, cooked/raw food, age of food, other food. We closed the business shortly after that survey. All the iPhone pictures are mock-ups. I didn’t spend actual money making an app. Phew

https://www.eatsafedevice.com/
Does someone knows why this tweet was previously flagged on HN?

see: https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1399094306221166592
I did pick an area where customers don't want to adopt new tech. Software for farmers anyone? And it was not just my error in picking this exact field, there are struggling competitors with millions and millions of VC money and YC stripes and no winners in sight.

Not all niches, no matter how big, are created equal. I would try to either find something with raising tide or place where potential customers are actively searching and buying what you have to offer and will profit from it.
Why would it justify a higher budget? If they already have superior crafts and unknown capabilities and haven't been hostile, then it seems they are not a threat and we might not be able to counter them anyways. Assuming they exist.
I think that cyberpunk dream died when billionaires and VC got involved and Bitcoin (and other) currencies skyrocketed in price from millions of people playing crypto-lottery.

Strikes against it:

- It's burning a massive amount of resources and that is just increasing

- I don't have the stats but I imagine the exponential growth in Bitcoin/coin prices is mainly from people using it as a pyramid scheme/casino not simple an upticl in usage

- A transaction is still pretty trackable (we know where the mt gox money is, yeah?)

- Over 60% of bitcoin mining takes place in one country on specialized hardware, not terribly decentralized anymore
I find documentation to be relatively straightforward to write. The issue for me is sitting down and slogging through the activity, which seems almost antithetical to writing code. It's like doubling the work in a far less rewarding way. And then you have to go back and update it any time the code changes. It's a sort of necessary evil I suppose...I think most of the problem is that devs just can't be fucked to take the time, and I'm often guilty.
I wondered why dinnerware said “for domestic use only”, but I now have an ex-commercial set and it’s an entirely different kind of china to domestic.
We thought that we could cut the middle man between us and our clients. And we were confident that our clients would come to us.

We realized that without that middle man installing and promoting our products, our sales would plummet to a unsustainable level.

No matter what new guizmo we could duck tape to the product.
it's called marketing 101, offer something as free but include it in the price this making the customer feel like they're getting something for nothing...
Disagree. Picking any other bidder is foolish.

If you’ve ever looked into military procurement, there are a number of MIL standards and a specific list of requirements. If the product meets specifications and testing results, picking anyone but the lowest bidder accounting for other “soft” commercial aspects such as company stability, leadership, and book health; would be foolish and irresponsible.

I’ve seen several comments here that “military” grade means lowest bidder. That’s optimal.

Look at it this way - consumer market is completely unregulated, no specifications and lots misleading terminology. Any Military would crucify you for fraud.

Is it perfect? No. Is it close to perfection? Yes. Also look into medical grade things such as scissors.
Yes, types are redundant, and that is their entire point. Just as much as giving your functions and variables names is redundant, you could just number them. So is splitting up your project into multiple files, all comments, and even structural keywords themselves--you don't need "for" and "while", you just need "goto".

Take all that redundancy away and what you get is not even assembly, it's exactly machine code. We used to program computers that way when they were invented. We still do sometimes in extreme situations. We got away from it for almost all of programming because it's incredibly error prone (and tedious).
The screenshot is of <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27335940>, which is a duplicate of this thread.

This thread was previously [flagged] [dead], but is now back to normal. I assume via moderator action?
If you click that it asks you what product. If you select a product that was returned you can't do anything further.

I had a refund where the seller shorted me on the shipping and the refund ended up costing me money. I had no way to contact Amazon.. I would hope for the best customer service they could provide a chat button where I could address an issue like this.

Others sites have a floating chatbox ready to assist you on your purchase. The best customer service should include something similiar, I am right?
Try to aim for a spot somewhat left or right of your destination, so that when you arrive you know which side to begin your search.
The Expanse Season 6 is NOT coming to Amazon in June 2021
> Yes, the three of you made money, but you're forgetting about the fourth investor.

I didn't forget. That fourth investor is not part of my transaction. The point of my comment was that OP's claim that all crypto profits come from someone else's pocket is false. Just like non-dividend stocks, sometimes that's true, and sometimes it's not. As I stated, it's possible that my seller and buyer could lose money too. The same is true for stocks.

> This is not true of stocks, as stocks do generate income.

Yes, dividend stocks generate income for their investors, but not all stocks pay dividends. On that note, some crypto coins/tokens pay distributions and interest too (let's call them dividend crypto for simplicity). Are non-dividend stocks equal to non-dividend crypto? In both cases, profit can only be realized by the investor when the share/coin/token price goes up. Is that ok? I think any Capitalist should say yes.

I'm not advocating for stocks or crypto, but there are some similarities that we have to acknowledge to avoid hypocrisy.
According to Sam.gov they do.
While what you’re saying about how it works sounds extremely plausible, I am rather dubious about the idea that this is how it ought to work (and the inference that this is simple, therefore it’s how it ought to work).

Taken to the extreme (and I don’t see anything in the argument that prevents it being taken to the extreme) and combined with acceptance of utility functions (_i.e._ that the value of anything is comparable to anything else, including human lives) this seems to also reduce any and all rule enforcement to wergild or something radical in that vein. Which—I’m not sure how it worked historically, but it also seems to be the current state of patent law (it doesn’t matter if the patent has merit, the side with the better and more expensive lawyers will starve out the other), and the results look utterly miserable.

Vague generalities aside, the complaints (and hypothetical downvotes) seems to indicate that, however simple and transparent a rule this is from the inside, people don’t want to pay for what is not their fault (cf experiments where people rejected a $1/$99 split in favour of a $0/$0 one to punish the other guy). I’m reminded of people queueing up in droves to the first McDonald’s in Moscow nor for the food or the prices, but for the customer service, because that was literally the first time in their lives they could get that anywhere.

Unless it’s marketed as a luxury good, people will actually pay for decent customer service that, among other things, satisfies their sense of fairness. That a model which does not reflect this can be simple is not a virtue of that model, it’s shoddy model-building. Not providing that service might still be the better economic decision (with caveats), if few enough people end up bitter over it (and complain on HN, etc.), but that’s a much more involved claim than “but it’s so simple!”. It also has very little to do with its moral merit, and if the better economic decision is too far from the moral one, it may well be time to go tune the incentives again and not to give up on your set of morals.

I’m not convinced customer protection regulations are the answer here, but the results of no customer protection regulations also seem completely idiotic from the outside. The third option of piling upon the company online also seems revolting for entirely different reasons.
Me, too. In my 30 years of works across numerous metro areas, I've been able to commute by train, bus, bike, or walk for 25 out of 30 of those years. Most people I worked with likewise could do it without a car. Some people chose to drive, but it was not at all a requirement.
I didn’t take to much into account the climate risks. A category 5 hurricane hit and goodbye businesses (2 lost).

I’ve been searching for a cofounder ever since.

Also, looking to buy businesses. Email me (profile).
“True Lies” – Or “What LLVM Claims, but Fails to Deliver”
Uh this article is terrible.

There's a claim in there that the US funded GoF research at WIV, blaming it on Obama in 2015, but following the references I only arrive at:

https://nationalfile.com/faucis-niaid-funded-wuhan-lab-scien...

Which is about bat coronavirus in pigs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swine_acute_diarrhea_syndrome_...

Nothing to do with RaTG13 (or GoF).

> SARS-CoV-2 is a chimera, with most of its sequence identical to that of the bat CoV RaTG13, except for the receptor binding domain (RBD), which is almost identical to that of a pangolin (Manis javanica) CoV and has been optimized to bind the ACE2 receptor in human cells.

That claim is also wildly overstating what the reference it is citing can claim. The original reference states "The biggest divergence between SARS-CoV-2 and RaTG13 is observed in the RBD of their spike proteins" which is nowhere near the same as "most of its sequence identical to that of the bat CoV RaTG13", which is a false statement. The 4% sequence difference between SARS-CoV-2 and RaTG13 is more than the difference between humans and apes, they aren't "almost identical" anywhere. They are decades of evolution away from each other, along its whole genome.

This article is very, very bad.
I've been pretty happy using PynamoDB, an ORM-like wrapper with a straightforward interface:

https://github.com/pynamodb/PynamoDB
I opened it in a new tab. By the time I looked at the tab it was in full epilepsy induction mode. Thankfully I don't suffer from it.

Perhaps don't start the game until it receives a focus.
I mean, I love the idea of finding more uses for tin snips, but I use a standard utility knife on a cutting board and it works great. The key is to cut all the way around, and press hard through the plastic. Don't force yourself to lever up the plastic, because that's how you slice open your hand.
It's great that we can use this as reference for what it used to be. Presumably, this is what competition should bring in: "traditional retail sucked, so amazon comes in and takes over it by offering something better."

The same thing would still apply now too: "if sellers are able to offer their goods elsewhere for cheaper, they should be able to", instead of being forced to raise prices everywhere.
> In the early 1990s, psychiatrist Thomas Wehr conducted a laboratory experiment in which he exposed a group of people to a short photoperiod – that is, they were left in darkness for 14 hours every day instead of the typical 8 hours – for a month.

> It took some time for their sleep to regulate, but by the fourth week, a distinct two-phase sleep pattern emerged. They slept first for 4 hours, then woke for 1 to 3 hours before falling into a second 4-hour sleep. This finding suggests bi-phasic sleep is a natural process with a biological basis.

Yes, a natural process for being in darkness 14 hours a day. I personally prefer to use electric light and be out of the dark ages.
Libya: Drones may have attacked humans fully autonomously for the first time
You are right. Was it used for anything else? The m could be mysql or microsoft sql but rarely was anything aside from mysql (and postgres but the name never fit)
I think (but might be wrong) that it's widely understood outside of the US. For exemple in France we don't really talk about race. We talk about ethnicity, origins, religions, skin color. That makes the conversation more complex but that's because it's a really complex topic. On the other hand, ethnic statistics are forbidden here, so it's not like we're perfectly confronting the truth.
There are legal ways to get around it. The viager system is a plot device in this short story by Guy de Maupassant: https://americanliterature.com/author/guy-de-maupassant/shor...
Indeed, this concept that "military grade" quality is superior to consumer grade is mythological in many cases. It is all about the relative worthiness of the specification(s) to which the product is built, meaning that crappy specs yield crappy results, whether military or commercial. Also the amount of rework sometimes required on "military grade" gear to make it actually do its job is seldom publicized except in occasional oversight proceedings in some countries. So, "military grade" is a mysterious, mythological, misused quality.
Trade agreements don't need to be symmetric to be beneficial for both parties. Even if China didn't buy a single American good, it is beneficial for US to sell to china.

Export is what you pay for import. If China sells goods to US they will get dollars in return. These dollars are worthless except for buying American goods.

Even if China can't buy American goods, they can buy some other country's goods using their newly acquired dollars. Eventually someone somewhere will use those dollars to buy American goods.
No worries, valid point. I have ESL (English as Second Language) but noted.
We used to grow our computers. "Computer" was a job title.
You can do this for a $30 price point if you optimize your components.
Just to be clear: I am making observations, not proposals. I see the current situation as a problem, but do not see a clear way to resolve it.

It is difficult to understand why such an outcome is obvious. At one end of the spectrum, people are making claims that should be actionable through legal measures yet they choose to do make it actionable through speech. There are many reasons why this could be the case: lack of confidence in the legal system, expedience and perceived severity of punishment, or a lack of evidence to support the claims (assuming they are true). Regardless of why, I would classify it as vigilantism. Vigilantism has not place in a civil society that respects the process of law. In cases where the initial act was illegal, I find it difficult to call the threat of criminal action a tool of "cancel culture".

Then there are allegations that many may considered as immoral, yet are legal. The people making the allegations cannot use the threat of criminal action to cancel someone, unless they resort to slander (e.g. make up a criminal act). That is pretty much the current situation. On the other hand, those on the receiving end would have more recourse against deliberately malicious acts. Since there would be due process, I find it difficult to think of it as a tool to cancel those making the allegations.
Tesla is using high pressure casting which, which supposedly, as per article, is more expensive, requires larger machines, wears out molds faster and requires additives than semi-solid casting.
How the Twitter/Media Feedback Loop Can Work to Undermine Our Understanding
Because it's annoying and will interrupt your work much longer, especially if it's something that could have been easily fixed in e.g. a Thinkpad. Even more so, if it's your own device.
Probably because it mostly contains rehashed opinion and conjecture and almost nothing of substance.

I don't know why people would bother flagging something like this though, threads as content-less generally die on their own without much fanfare. OP and his friends get an ego boost from making front page and then it fades. NBD, no need to be contentious about it.
A proof of stake coin is still a coin. It's not a business. A business is an activity consisting in making products and/or services and selling them in the market for a profit.

I mean, you can buy a business with a coin, or you can buy an investment product, but that wouldn't be the coin.