skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's been my experience of them as well :-)

They're certainly a different subgenre, but I think the larger point stands: it's possible to be a British author of spy novels in the 20th century without sublimating your fear of British decline through one-dimensional, reactionary characterization.
I understand that it's an obligation she signed on for. What I'm questioning is does it make sense to make that an obligation? Does it really provide enough value to override the harm that some athletes seem to get from it?
The threat of unwarranted civil asset forfeiture. The threat of arbitrary unbounded inflation.

Perhaps you don't consider those risks to you to be very big, so you don't place much value on mitigating them. Other people do, however.
I kinda disagree. These aren’t very good examples. Also the dough mixer is for restaurants, not military use. :-) Although I want one now.

Here is a kitchen scale I bought. Made in Switzerland, no less. It’s bloody beautiful: https://neil.computer/notes/mettler-toledo-ml3002e-teardown/

Does that mean all consumer grade stuff is bad? No. Leatherman tools and 3M consumer grade stuff is usually great. Nalgene bottles. Does that mean all pro quality stuff is great? No. I’ve bought restaurant quality containers, made in California, no less, but are not BPA-free.

My philosophy is quite tangential to the points you’re making:

- Search for stuff in auxiliary / parallel industries.

- Used surplus stuff is usually below consumer grade prices even if it was slightly worse, you're still equal. 9/10 times it is actually the opposite - 10x the quality, performance and durability of consumer grade crap on Amazon.

- Some cheap crap is actually good. Victorinox $30 knife is excellent value and used by professional chefs. The same cannot be said for an outdoors knife, you want it to be overbuilt. Cheap $30 outdoor knives would not stand a chance. Always buy generic drugs, they're exactly the same.

There are atleast 100 more examples I can write about that were a net positive buys. Just last week I bought U-Line tape dispenser. Same price as consumer grade ones, so why not?

- Orthogonal search usually yields frugal jackpots. No one would ever find any use for the life raft bag in the marine parts store.

Average consumers want stuff that is objectively worse for them. Touchscreens were an excellent idea for a phone, now they want it everywhere in their cars. Overall, with the throw-away culture consumers are addicted to, it’s hard to not blame them. Have you ever dealt with customer service? You might be surprised. We are soooo addicted to wasteful culture. You’re just promoting this and doubling down on it.

Let’s see in last 20 years: Quality went downhill, durability is an after thought, repairability is non existent and consumers want bigger box - literally larger than the item because they choose it based on how good the box looks. If it were any other reason, it’s a waste of packaging and businesses know this. Businesses are not looking to waste money on extra packaging unless it led to better sales. This is a direct evidence of the utter shitshow consumer culture embodies.

Anyways, I fancy things that are engineered with deliberation and specification. Tested and qualified against requirements. Usually military, aviation, marine or medical grade goods are designed and engineered in such a way.
I'm OK to ban crypto if we also ban all big tech corporations because they're all part of the same fiat pyramid scheme. Why don't we just end capitalism and switch to communism... Then at least we will be able to communicate honestly about what's going on in the economy.

To say that one scheme is a scam but the other is not is extremely subjective.

A corporation like Facebook probably does more harm to society than Bitcoin. Why ban Bitcoin but not ban Facebook? Why not ban Snapchat or Twitter? Ban Uber, they burn a lot of fossil fuels! This kind of thinking necessarily leads to communism. You can't ban crypto and keep capitalism... What's left of it.
The cost is negligible, mere cents. A decision such as this is indeed done to deliberately shorten the life span.
I like Craig's version but agree with you in general. I like the old movies for nostalgia reasons but they are not exactly high quality cinema. That's ok. They can just be fun, but I think it's a little silly to hold them up as more than they are just because they had some cultural cache half a century ago.

Brosnon is a fine actor, but I never liked his version. It was like watching a prep school dweeb act like he's a macho badass. Just never came across as particularly believable or compelling.

I hope moving forward the franchise continues the trend of getting into some more serious/substantial character development and conflicts. The Craig versions were mostly better on this point, but they could go so much further.
I can send unlimited amounts of money, anywhere on earth, for (at most) dollars in a few seconds. I don't need to rely on any government for any reason, and no government can stop me.
This is similar to my recent realization - as much as I believe it's a complete ponzi scheme, a near complete scam, as long as there's enough people who don't know better who can be conned to buy into it, it will keep getting propped up. In this age of mass media and the internet where everyone is so infinitely, immediately connected, there's no shortage of more suckers to buy in, there's no shortage of propaganda techniques to sucker more people in. As long as there's more suckers, it can keep getting propped up, no matter how unsound it actually is, no matter how much of a scam it actually is. It reminds me of the quote "the markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent".
This is probably an unpopular opinion, but I don't think the fans care at all about the post-game interviews. In any sport.

I think they're there for reporters to get "gotcha" headlines for their websites and papers. I think it's disgusting how some reporters behave, and there are no repercussions.

Sometimes the reporters try to trick the players into answers that would get them into trouble. Exhibit A, with Draymond Green:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42DchVkmlak
The lack of documentation/procedure, and the process issues with others contacting you needlessly instead of the SME. They just seem like structural issues that would not be specific to one team.
Had you or your wife looked up "shrimp recipes" or "how to make shrimp" or anything like that in preparation for the meal? Or did you use a loyalty/discount card at the supermarket that's tied to your identity?
Haven't studies found this kind of thing to be mostly the frequency illusion?
We use LLVM, so hypothetically yes. I don't think anyone has tried though.
What about the win32 calculator shipped with w7 and w10 ltsc?
Doesn’t want to talk to the media because she “wants to protect her mental health.”

Kicks off a media shitstorm by refusing to talk to the media. Risks tens of thousands in fines, a WTA investigation, default from the French Open, and expulsion from future Grand Slam events.

I’m sure all that is great for her mental health.
I could have sworn there was a large discussion on HN when Osaka beat Williams and Williams had a freakout. But I can't find that discussion now on algolia... maybe it was flagged off, or maybe I'm just misremembering?

Either way, I don't follow tennis at all but Osaka is definitely a player I've heard of before. I wonder if media treatment of Osaka after she beat Williams has anything to do with her animosity towards the media now.
I would have thought that any high level athlete would take some kind of media training.
There's an assumption that people should think evading currency controls and taxes is somehow heroic. I'm happy that crypto allows people to violate US sanctions, but that's because I'm specifically against US sanctions, not the rule of law.
No, there's not. It's a fundamental principle among PoS cryptocurrencies that the work needs to have no additional utility or else it will help the attacker "subsidize" 51% attacks against the cryptocurrency you've built, because now they can both launch 51% attacks which cost $X abut subsidize it by selling the useful compute for $Y they've gotten by launching the attack, which ends up costing $X - $Y.

Compared with a PoS cryptocurrency yielding no useful compute as a side effect, it costs $Y cheaper for someone to 51% attack.
Could be but you need to follow the money. Who pays the athletes and why should they pay the same when they don't get the same availability?
> Tests are important but TDD is a damn cult.

I don't see people commenting on this one! That may be a good thing because it means people are not questioning it :)
But knowingly echoing antisemitic tropes is antisemitism - that's why I used the phrase "dog whistle."
If I read the article correctly, she is simply setting a window of time where she will not give interviews. She will grant them once the event is over.
Here's how you defeat Bitcoin: code a client that a majority of the network uses that changes the consensus protocol to what you think is a good idea.

If you don't want to do that, and you want to wax poetic about shitcoins being evil, ffs, please keep in in the drafts, salty nocoiner. Especially during a bull cycle where people who already don't trust "tech nerds" are going to read this and want to buy the shittiest of shitcoins.
Show me on this doll where the reality hurt you.

When Trump and company knew the virus was going to be a threat, they allowed air travel to maintain at current levels to pack people into airports like sardines. Their response was NOT to be responsible but instead try to pretend that the problem did not exist and to scapegoat the Chinese by calling it "China Flu," "Kung Flu", and "Wuhan Virus."

And you are so INCREDIBLY triggered that you needed to bring "cisgendered straight colleagues" into the discussion when it wasn't even warranted.

How quaint.
Easy to scoff at an obvious headline, but SARS-CoV-2 may very well be endemic now. Going forward pandemic preparedness will no longer be reserved for the Fortune 5s or 50s.

New construction for a while at least will hopefully consider biosecurity and pandemic preparedness as concrete a threat as natural disasters.
Just me and my homies in a flagged thread downvoting the last comment.

Taiwan is a country.

Edit: 2 minutes! Rather fast, indeed.
I've done various rust and clojure projects by downloading a lot of git repos ahead of time for reference while on a long-haul flight. This works pretty well, but you need to do a bit of research ahead of time on which libraries you might want access to. This is probably slower, as you have to read source code and think more about the type signatures (rather than looking at some misc example), but if you have 15 hours, what else are you going to do?
The link is to a twitter (aka the cesspool of the internet). I do not expect anything non-binary to come out of there.

The most sensationalist tweets get posted here all the time. It's not worth anybody's time taking them seriously.
Brick and mortar.
Show HN: I built a custom feed of top HN posts with Open Graph meta tags
She said expecting players to answer questions after a defeat amounted to "kicking a person while they're down".

"I've often felt that people have no regard for athletes' mental health and this rings true whenever I see a press conference or partake in one," she said in the statement, which she posted on social media.

"We're often sat there and asked questions that we've been asked multiple times before or asked questions that bring doubt into our minds and I'm just not going to subject myself to people that doubt me."

An athlete's job is to be the best at their sport. It's a bonus for their career and sports entertainment when they also have great media presence, but that's absolutely not required.

Good for her for risking her career to improve mental health for all athletes.
There is nothing special or important about a single entire Bitcoin. It’s completely arbitrary. The question is whether Bitcoin is scarce. If there are millions of trillions of tradeable assets, it’s not scarce.
I have to disagree. One of the reasons I've used Macbooks for work for ages now is if something goes wrong, I can just pop over to the apple store and have a replacement within about 30 minutes. Don't even have to restore, can just target boot my backup and be back working immediately, and can save the restore until the evening. I've had one instance where this saved me 5 figures easily (wasn't even the macbook's fault, I fell on my bike going over rail road tracks).

Yeah, you pay a premium in terms of price for that, but it's a no brainer imo.

That said, I have a lot of Dell hardware I like too. I still use two 2407wfp wide gamut monitors on my gaming PC and don't see any reason to change them until there's a 4k monitor I really want. They're bulletproof, and I even bought them used off Dell's outlet site.
Twenty-Second Amendment to the United States Constitution
Thanks for sharing your point of view.

What is unclear to me, is how these remittances work in practice. I get that in the US you can exchange USD to Bitcoin with a credit card and then send that to a person in, say, Venezuela (or share the wallet password). But how is it converted back to Venezuelan Bolivar? I can't imagine you buying a pizza with bitcoin in Caracas.

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 realty impressive
Knobs are better. If you overshoot your desired volume, you simple turn it back a bit. With buttons you need to find a separate control to correct your mistake.
I don’t really give a crap about any crypto, and I agree that much of it is a pyramid scheme.

However, I think people don’t understand that Bitcoin is first and foremost a brand. A brand doesn’t have to be “useful” to have value, it just has to be recognizable to enough people. A lot of altcoins have appeared, but not a single one of them has the brand strength of Bitcoin - not even the “tech fave” ethereum.

On the flip side, one doesn’t have to participate in any kind of crypto, including Bitcoin, to leverage the brand - since the brand doesn’t rest on the value of the currency itself.
Site looks good, but feels unfocused. Asking people to submit and tag a bunch of links doesn't feel like a viable jumping off point, and I don't think people are seriously going to use your custom search on your custom pool of links.

If it is supposed to be a bookmarking tool, look at pinboard. That's a proper tool, rooted in the solo experience. Save bookmarks between devices, great. The community aspect comes a distant second.

If this is supposed to replace googling "reddit x", it has to add something to googling "reddit x"! There is a constant flow of people googling "reddit headphones", opening the top couple links from r/headphones, then leaving. To capture some of that traffic you need to improve upon that experience.

I really like the backlinking from reddit/HN/etc. Try expanding on that - make your site a destination for AFTER people visit the reddit thread. Reddit threads lock after 6 months or whatever. If you add comments and the ability to merge similar links, I could see it working as an afterparty site.
Absolutely, I have seriously thought long and hard about cryptocurrencies and have also come to the conclusion that it is a definitive scam.

Now is the time we must shut it down. Bitcoin, Ethereum, all of it.

Even ponzi schemes have it's limits and this one has been reached and been illegally allowed to run rampant.

It was nice when it started, not while it lasted. It didn't work and now it's time for it to go.
Would love to have TeX syntax support for this one, as I'm so used to typing it.
Maybe because they are expensive to breed and keep them alive. Not an expert to say if they are worth or not. Nature wants them out but human wants to keep them.
Nano has free transactions. Other cryptos like Stellar and Solana have low cost transactions. People can use sites like localbitcoins to exchange cash for crypto.
OMG. I have battled the grinder static thing for… years, decades, and did not know this. Thank you
> Isn’t this the same as “pay with PayPal/Amazon pay/etc”?

There is always the issue of how well the integration performs. It is not uncommon for merchants software to get confused in the process and ship your order to the billing address or for other things to go wrong. When that happens, you now have to deal with customer service of varying quality.

In most cases, the purchase decision is easier for me to make on Amazon than anywhere else. I've been a customer since almost the first days and while I can count a lot of minor irritations, there isn't anything better.
If I understand correctly, these are paid for by you or by taxes, not through an app download fee.
What do you think broadcast rights are?
Why do you think companies sponsor sports players?
"For some the productivity drops to zero without stack overflow."

And it is bad to be a newb? And even for experienced devs to go to stackoverflow regulary ... isn't it productive, to not always reinvent the wheel?

I can solve allmost everything on my own. But if I have a new problem, I assume someone else already had - I would be stupid, to figure it out on my own, when I could get a working solution in 5 min googling.

But I actually programm without internet connection most of the time, as I like being outside, away from noise (and wifi)
The hard part is not the data structure behind it (Merkle tree) but the economics. An entirely new branch of economics has spun of it and it's far from trivial.
I think the interesting use is more in the blockchain than the currency. Public, verifiable, tied to an identity, decentralized statements that can be used as public records or provide an audit trail. Cryptographically & blockchain secured bodycams is an example that I've been looking into recently
Do you handle the cases where people nest delimited values inside cells? Like if a cell is itself a delimited set of codes? What about when two cells in a row do that together and are assumed to be related? Like if a cell contains a delimited set of codes and another cell in the row contains a delimited set of descriptions for those codes? What about when people transpose or unmelt their data? Like if all the categories are down the side instead of across the top and identifiers are across the top and then they have a bunch of cells in the middle that are all pluses and minuses and blanks? Or if some arbitrary column itself contains novel header values and their existence implies a yes/positive value? (btw this is not finger wagging. please work on these!)

People always think that the hard part of automated data wrangling is things like delimiters and headers, but the real hard part of automated data wrangling is when people who aren't data wranglers themselves are making the data or when the rules or apparatus for filling cells are even the slightest bit flexible because people will always find a way to mess with you.
I ordered a monitor from Newegg that I needed for work, so time was important:

- Delivery time was like a week longer than they claimed.

- When it arrived it had a dead (red) pixel.

- Their customer support told me that dead pixels below a ridiculous amount (8 or so) do not qualify for a refund/replacement and told me to reach out to the manufacturer (overseas) for warranty replacement on a brand new item.

- Eventually I was able to return it under the regular "I no longer want this item" policy, but I had to pay a substantial restocking/returns fee (~20% of the price).

A quick search confirmed that this was very common with monitors and other items like GPUs have even more dissatisfaction/delayed shipping/shady practices.

Sure, I've had a couple of issues with late deliveries or broken products with Prime, but they've always corrected their error eventually. Returns and product issues are highly asymmetrical, where mostly you don't need it but when you do it's really important.

For expensive items, Amazon is 100% worth the peace of mind in case something goes wrong. For anything cheaper, I'm assuming I won't get help and I'll just have to eat the cost (which is ok, but of course not ideal). Not saying this could never happen with Amazon, but the risk seems a lot lower to me.
https://socialimpact.facebook.com/charitable-giving/live-don...

I don't use Facebook so I don't know if that page is misleading, but it certainly looks like you can donate money (in the legal meaning!) through Facebook's iOS app.

I think most of the recent takes were about Twitter's tip jar that would potentially let you send money to nonprofits. But, Twitter so far has avoided using the word "donate" and its legal implications.
I've been a "full-stack" developer at large tech companies, and my experience is there at least it means "frontend developer who can put together a basic API server". My fellow full-stack developers and I would spend most of our time building out frontends, which was generally regarded by others as challenging and specialized work, and maybe 20% of the time adding API endpoints to fetch or update some data, which was considered straightforward.[0]

Not having to wait for some other engineer to make the backends made us a lot more efficient. It definitely was rewarding to be able to complete products end-to-end.

Hiring standards and pay were the same as for any engineer, at least in FAANG.

[0] Yeah, occasionally we had to optimize some SQL queries or whatever but we're competent engineers, we can figure it out even if it's not what we do every day.
I think those apps are subsidized by your membership or accounts. They aren't services paid for by ads.

But it might be better to use those in browsers with ad-blocking, though honestly I'm not sure
"A lot of observers", "Many people say", "Everyone says". Let's stop using weasel words, if you consider yourself a techie, come up with some real evidence-based arguments.
Brick and mortar, not the UK retail chain.
> more middlemen equals lower share going to the person actually making the thing.

Most people forget that the transaction might not have taken place were it not for said middleman.
You can try their website [0].

Their documentaries seem to be subtitles in English, Polish, Spanish and Italian (in addition to the original French/German that is typical for all Arte programs).

So my guess would be it is made available for European Union only. Although you could argue that there are not many countries left in the EU whose main language is English.

[0] https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/089086-000-A/the-blade-runner-...
And 8 years later the fees no longer make it viable for even that niche use case.
Wow, blast from the past! I actually got a check from one of those pay per hour ad services more than 20 years ago, and to this day it's still the only check I've ever received :-)

(It was 15 USD so costed almost as much to cash in Europe as it was worth)
It's just a couple of made-up examples to illustrate a possible scenario; I'm sure the military didn't really ask for a Toyota Camry either.

This does bring up a different issue though, which is that any time someone uses a hypothetical example to illustrate a point on the Internet, responses end up picking apart the example instead of the point itself.
You don't have to use an exchange to acquire cryptocurrency. People can use sites like localbitcoins to exchange cash for crypto in person.
When tether implodes a lot is going down with it.
> Enough is enough

What is he advocating then? To stop working, thinking, and writing about cryptocurrencies? When do we start burning books too
Well Rust procedural macros can run arbitrary code, so that's not such a big difference. I'd say the larger one is having access to actual AST data structures available if you want them. Rust forces you to parse the token stream yourself and serialize it again. Also, Terra allows user defined keywords so it's a lot easier to create nice looking DSLs (which is my personal use case).