skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cleanroom wipes are actually great. I use them all the time in lab, no lint, often woven and super durable, chemical resistant fibers. Totally overkill for some, although I have taken some home when we had odd sized samples we didn't need and they make nice cleaning wipes.
Now if I can comment or discuss on an RFC, or create my own playlist, that would be super useful!
> Amazon is charging anywhere between 30-45% in fees to the sellers

Back in the 80s, I used to sell Datalight C and Zortech C++ through mail order distributors. I was shocked to discover they paid us about half, or even less, of what they sold it for.

But they were all like that. It's what the manufacturer has to pay for distribution.

Just try running a store, or a mail order house, without doubling what you pay for the merchandise. You'll go bust if you don't.

If a customer called us direct to buy, it was priced at about the same as what the resellers sold it for. But, of course, then we had to pay the expenses of fulfillment staff, space, etc.

Many people are outraged by this doubling of price from manufacturer to retailer, and start a business believing they can undercut the other retailers and cash in. They get a rude awakening with how much it costs to run a retailing operation. They confuse "margin" with "profit".
ugh, that upbeat music choice for the presentation video made me slightly sick.

Had a similar reaction once before, after randomly walking in a military exhibition. While I understand the need for defence capabilities, and I can be impressed by the engineering, I don't get the triumphant glitter surrounding the showcase of killing machines.
Augmented reality has plenty of potential commercial applications, and Glass is still quietly trying to exploit them.

The problem is that delivering AR with enough fidelity to fool the eye is capital-H Hard. Michael Abrash had a good series of blog posts on this.
I don't want to return the item. I want a refund for the shipping. The item wasn't defective. The shipping was.
Wrong headline, this has been happening for a long time. The difference is that it's consumer drones or other nations, that are not the US military.
I'm pretty bullish on crypto but the concept of a bitcoin ETF that's managed by Wall Street seems to go against the purpose of decentralised finance to begin with. Why do investors need to go through a middle man when they could just buy something like the crypto20 which is essentially the same thing but without the fees.
> Although you could argue that there are not many countries left in the EU whose main language is English.

Legally there are none (Malta has nominated Maltese and Ireland Irish, even though English is the most used language in both).
Yes, this is the kind of discourse I would expect to see around blockchain technology from a group of smart nerds. I can't argue with that, the oldest blockchain kind of failed to prove itself valid in significant ways.
Thanks for this; I'm a little confused since they still don't show the total accounting. One screen shows $11 total service charge, another shows $6 for Third-party fees (either way thats crazy Uber passes this cost on)

There is a missing $5 they're not explaining
For a while, YouTube and friends were banning people who pointed out the WHO was wrong. So, probably quite a few people.
That sounds like a typical blockchain enthusiast answer:

The banking industry is corrupt. Blockchain solves this. End of argument.

I have yet to see a specific, easy to explain answer on how blockchain solves any kind of fraud. Who is forcing any of these fraudsters to put any information on the blockchain? As soon as you need external safe guards you are back to square one.

I don’t have the solution to any of the problems of the banking industry but in my experience technical solutions don’t solve any of these societal problems.
One of my ex coworker is leaving SF for Miami. Can’t say he almost convinced me to do it, but I ended up taking my chance with another one-year lease in SF. Miami seems like it has great weather and great prices (at least compared to SF) but republicans and hurricanes.
Did she ever complain about receiving her gifts several months too early?
We're on a path to failure. Our product is mostly simple. The need is there. The market is excited and interested. If we don't fail though, I will be shocked. We have a non technical founder who fashions himself the VP of Engineering and is, in fact, a micro managing narcissist. He has no engineering experience at all.
In facytt, I don't think he has any management experience either. He doesn't understand the work we're doing, holds people hostage until they explain it in a way he thinks makes sense and makes engineering decisions by fiat, using his personal anecdotes as evidence. He is the worst kind of leader and no one at the executive level is willing to actually do anything about it. He doesn't trust anyone, except those willing to humor his nonsense and even they don't trust him.

Before you ask, I stay because the team is great and if we don't fail, the upside is early retirement in grand fashion level returns.
> does it occur when a player doesn't have the money to purchase yet too?

It happens when the player doesn’t buy, whether by choice or lack of cash. Technically, “yet” isn’t right, though, it’s always “any more” since starting cash is (far) more than the most expensive property on the board.
Make sure you stay on top of QNAP security updates, and don't expose any services online: they're hit regularly and repeatedly by cryptolocker malware.

https://www.theregister.com/2021/04/22/qnap_nas_ransomware_q...
It’s safer when it’s hard coded data and really bad versus dynamic data and sorta bad. I’d rather have O(n!) with a list of length six because it’s going to break hard before it gets to 20. O(n root(n)) on your customer list will slowly creep up and it would be easy to not notice.
What are your thoughts on NFT's after giving it the benefit of the doubt? I, too, wanted to give the NFT space a chance because admittedly I wanted to cash in while the gettin was good. But after digging into things before I dipped my toes, the whole thing smelled foul, even if people I know and respect are making good money in that space. It's just off to me, the motivations, moreso than the tech & function & problems it purports to address/ solve. A big ole hype machine that doesn't seem like it has real depth, integrity or soul, to use a bit more flowery language.

Curious what you landed on, though.
Yield farming carries a similar or greater risk to investing in stocks and sector ETFs, and that is certainly not what retail banks do with customer funds (that was outlawed by the Volcker Rule in Dodd-Frank), nor is retail banking how investment banks make money. Nevermind that there obviously is no FDIC insurance for these crypto "savings accounts".

You're asking good questions, but be careful not to jump to easy answers -- you might lose your money!
I suggested this as an alternative to mask enforcement months ago and was ridiculed on hacker news. I'm happy to see the idea come up again as it has a lot of solid science behind it.
Most money is electronic but also not easily accessible to the government. Transaction records from private companies usually require a warrant or a court order. A crypto-dollar would add a layer under that exposing all information directly to the government. No permission necessary.

If you're talking pure financial volume, most of it doesn't concern individuals at all. I'm focused on the privacy rights angle where small cash transactions are absolutely crucial.
> seen successful results

For about a week now, about 80% of the YouTube videos I've watched on my Android TV has been tampon ads, body hair removal machines (legs, not beard) and similar. My SO never uses this device nor the account.

I've disabled personalized ads, so YouTube tells me it's showing me these ads mainly due to time of day and the type of video I'm watching...

I can't be certain, but I'm pretty confident the number of tampon users watching videos about repairing parts for earth movers at 2am is rather low compared to those not using tampons...

So while others may have cracked the code, YouTube certainly has not.
Right, the thing is if I want to involve a third party (and I definitely want that), I wouldn't use a decentralised system to begin with, because decentralised means inherently inefficient and therefore expensive.
I highly recommend this "Let's Read" thread on James Bond from SomethingAwful : https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=38...

My takeaway on Bond is that he's way more interesting as a flawed protagonist, much in the same way Fleming himself was. Through the movies, he became symbolic and idolized in a way that I don't think Fleming intended.

The Casino Royale movie reboot was pretty great IMHO. The direction Bond is going now is pretty hit and miss. I'm guessing every few decades we'll need to tear down the mythology and start over with something better grounded in reality, and give a reminder of how imperfect Bond can be.
Ha, no doubt. But so is everything serverless, right?

The free tier isn't limited to one year and low-usage is inexpensive.
Update from Uber Support 30 minutes ago https://mobile.twitter.com/Uber_Support/status/1399149311175...
> With full auctions and adults going at it, Monopoly is brutal, mean and not really fun for kids.

Monopoly is, by design, brutal, mean, and not fun.

That it somehow became popular entertainment anyway is...well, I’m not sure what it is. But something.
I'm fond of saying that one of the big differences between theory and practice in CS is that in practice, we don't immediately drop the coefficients. Instead we study the problem to learn what the coefficients are and use that knowledge to guide our approach. For instance, there are times a linear search will just flat out beat a binary search due to cache effects.
Then it was an excellent choice to make the films bombastic instead.
Tianzhou-2 (天舟2) cargo spacecraft docks with China's space station module
It’s because DNS already has a centralized authority, which is necessary to create gTLDs and manage the sale of brand new domains. Once you have an inherent central authority, a lot of the benefits of a blockchain goes away.
R/crypto has a great community fwiw
> Normally, market forces would solve this problem without any need for legal intervention, because some other marketplace like WalMart can just offer lower seller fees and attract all the sellers.

WalMart does offer lower seller fees and (at least sometimes) lower prices than Amazon. The problem for me is that those lower prices are usually on things I don't want. I've bought a few times from WalMart's online store, but more often I look for what I want there, can't find it, go to Amazon, find it quickly, and buy it there. Many other comments in this thread indicate that my experience is not atypical.

Breaking up a monopoly is not a good thing if it results in worse outcomes for us as customers. If we end up finding what we want less often, or having to pay more for it, how is that a win?
there is plenty of other software engineering work that is way more complicated than full stack web dev, and there are a lot of web devs.
It is technically not RaTG13. The labs have samples from patients who infected with RaTG13 and never publish them. I think those samples are more likely the source but it doesn't change the full picture.
If you're looking for something more advanced while still at the command prompt, check out "calc":

http://isthe.com/chongo/tech/comp/calc/

On Fedora:

sudo dnf install calc ; alias bc=calc
I’m not advocating for violence I’m just emphasizing that those 50 are much more responsible for our climate issue than the global poor. This is entirely in the hands of those that make the decisions. I should have elaborated.
That's kinda the point. It's really a game about the evils of capitalism.
Here's a good review of the self-hosted options: https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/lotc2e/google_p...
I never said I give a crap what the aristocracy thinks about it, only that it would be a good opportunity for a quality writing team to dig into some real stuff.
> Fiat money has value because it is widely, almost universally, accepted in exchange for things of intrinsic value

No, technically fiat money has value because it is accepted by a government to settle taxes. Which is why it loses value dramatically when a state collapses or otherwise becomes irrelevant to the local economy. Because traditionally the state itself was the issuer of such currency, already we have a massive conflict of interest at the very start: when the state pays out his own debts in its own currency, it's effectively asking his creditors to believe that currency has some value in the real world, while also telling them exactly how much that is supposed be. To "solve" this problem they invented central banks, which are supposed to keep governments away from the process of determining the actual value of a currency, if you believe that they are as independent as they proclaim. In the end, what matters is that enough people believe that certain arrangements are fair, and that the government will still be there tomorrow asking them for taxes. As long as that's true, one might well use the currency as a unit to settle private trades too, but that is a consequence of the original belief.

> I'm not aware of any non-government-backed fiat currency which has gained widespread use in the history of humanity

The key in this sentence is "widespread", which is something you can redefine pretty arbitrarily and hence move goalposts as required. In practice, other tokens have been used here and there, but in the end, what wins tends to be government-backed tokens for the simple reason that authorities will always enjoy a right to put you in prison if you don't settle your taxes in the currency they desire.

If you look at it from a technical perspective, any collapsed state where the local currency has been wiped out and internal trades are settled in USD or EUR (a pretty common occurrence), in practice is already using an non-government-backed token, something on which nobody in the local economy has any control. To these areas, it doesn't really matter that the USD will be accepted by the US Federal Government to settle taxes; they just need a unit, and since this unit is accepted at the fringes of their system, well, might as well use it internally too.

> Being able to spend it is the "killer app" of cryptocurrencies

No, being able to convert into other tokens at the fringes is the killer app. Which quite a few cryptocurrencies do have, although in an extremely fragile state. The longer they keep them up, though, the easier it gets, as more and more people believe that the underpinning arrangements are fair and exchanges will still be here tomorrow to exfiltrate value to prison-avoiding currencies.
not a single comment in here addressing two of the most important points brought up by the OP. the redditors managed to do it constructively. while gender and racial politics are clearly orthogonal to the concerns of the average HN poster, the tech we build is imbued with them and we are responsible for the issues produced by the lack of their consideration.

> There's not enough women in technology. What a fucked up industry. That needs to change. I've been trying to be more encouraging and helpful to the women engineers in our org, but I don't know what else to do.

> Same with black engineers. What the hell?

I'll start. I have experienced multiple occasions of men being derisive towards women in the workplace, and have been nowhere near forceful enough in shutting it down. I have offered support after the fact, but I need to become more confident at voicing my displeasure in the moment. This applies to all of my male co-workers, and I would bet nearly all of you as well.
Some real estate agents will, if asked, agree to a more top-heavy commission -- e.g. instead of x% of the total sale price, y% of the amount over $z. (I don't know the exact details, but my dad did this when selling his flat.)
I was a eRetailer and I often lowered my prices accordingly to be more competitive than what was proposed by Amazon.

I ended making the sale because someone did not buy at Amazon.

Nobody forced me to raise prices at all. Amazon had no control at all on my prices. The market price is what is offered and what the customer is willing to pay.

If it's too expensive, nobody buys there.

I think we both get the point, except we think in different terms about the solution. I'd rather let the market works, have a transition towards competition which will eventually come down the line (5 to 10 years) than have big government try to solve the problem by making everything worse off.
Maybe five years ago the argument of "it's sooo hard to buy Bitcoin" was true, but now it's just as easy to buy crypto as stocks through Robinhood. Yet the middle men like Fidelity still want these ETFs for the fees I guess.
Actually, this is probably the principal goal of anti-decentralized projects like China's digital yuan.
That's interesting, maybe it's different per country or perhaps even city/region? The two times I've ever returned something, I had to put a little printed barcode thing into the box with the returned item. Just did this a couple months ago.
which is why leetcode makes no sense, as it focuses on premature optimization and writing the most advanced code possible which no freshman will be able to understand, at least not without dissecting it for a few hours first.
…and all the time you’re not having your MacBook in for repair, its trackpad is still night & day better than its competitors. This was true in 2009 and somehow remains true in 2021 (though it would be a very pleasant surprise to be proven wrong)
Too many variables to give one definitive answer. Different people have different temperature sensitivities, for a start.

Is that maybe due to varied nerve sensitivity, or perhaps greater or less vascularisation of the mouth's mucous membranes which would conduct heat away faster or slower?

A lot of research would be required on a subject which is pretty much unimportant for most people. Suffice it to say "I can feel what temperature is my preferred one".
The novel thing about blockchains isn’t the Merkle tree, it’s the mechanism that’s used to “secure” the tree against double spends.

And that algorithm is indeed novel! It also has a lot of drawbacks that ultimately makes the whole system not worth the trouble.
For something which is supposedly lab manipulated, it seems to be doing a poor job.

For example, the YoY deathtoll changes in countries with low or minimal lockdowns (like Sweden and Ukraine) are only about 6%, and even then mainly explained by mortality shifting (weak 2019 flu season).

Deathtoll from COVID in 2020 in Sweden is about the same as the 2009 Swine Flu wave (https://swprs.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/sweden-monthly-... )

Deathtolls in lockdown countries are higher... due to lockdowns disrupting regular life (diets, medical care, human contact).

The bigger aspect which I think is being manipulated is the political and media response.

And the most logical explanation for that manipulation is to degrade Western economies and prepare them for massive money printing (witness the increase in wealth for the top 1%), as well as supporting a desired outcome for the 2020 US Election.
> if everything around it is legit

Ha ha ha. That would only be possible with a government issued digital currency. Any private company running a "stablecoin" is guaranteed fraudulent. Can't be legit.

https://twitter.com/Bitfinexed/status/1398722723543760897
How Audacity Noise Reduction Works
Note that if f(x) = x^2 then the second derivative f''(x) = 2, so it looks like you're off by a factor of 2 (as well as the accuracy issue).
Viton leaks water.

The only way I can see getting to -10's with Viton seals is having a tiny small amount or a huge pump.
This battle has been lost my friend. The new cyber and crypto are here to stay :)
It's still ridiculous because it's incredibly expensive compared to just wearing masks.
The problem with mines is the indiscriminate murder. The mines can't be hacked, but they don't know the difference between an enemy soldier in $YEAR and a playing child in $YEAR+10
> The qualifier I used was “everyone who got access”, and I stand by that. Initially only nerds had access and they couldn’t get enough. When access expanded to the general public, they couldn’t get enough either.

My whole family had access. And the families of all my friends. They hated it. It was boring and complex. If you mean "everyone who sought access" then it's a self-fulfilling prophecy isn't it? You're either misremembering or engaging in disingenuous word play.

>The internet was completely mainstream just 16 years after the military decided to standardize on IPv4.

So 16 years is the benchmark? Seems arbitrary (because it is). Bitcoin is 12 years old. When the Internet was about 12, what did Newsweek say?

>If there will be a 2024 Hollywood blockbuster called “You’ve Got Bitcoin”, it’s going to be a dark parody of speculation and greed, not a heartwarming tale of how much cryptocurrency helped average people connect with each other.

The discussion wasn't whether Crypto is a more important technology than the internet. It was about how clunky and shitty it was at the beginning. Nothing more. Stop trying to "slam dunk" on people.
Landmines are made to not be detected and last 100 years.

These fall to the ground after 30 mins.

Unexploded bombs also bury themselves.

These will be attractive to children (boys) but since they can only go 5 km the children are already part of the battle.

Sure I'd add a further mode to land early and have a low power sensor to blow up when it detects a person in some cases but there's little reason to think this story is even true yet.
Lab manipulation doesn't necessarily mean biological warfare. It much more likely means study of a type of potential future naturally occurring virus that is dangerous to humans.
> What I learned is that the board game scene is ridiculous and obtuse.

That's what you took away from your brief encounter, but I'm not sure it's something you (should) have learned as the general case.

> Very different from the time tested Monopoly ...

Monopoly is truly awful.

It's been around a very long time, and is still a regular in supermarkets and postoffice shops, but nonetheless it's long been eclipsed, and to people who've played basically any other half-way decent board games it's a sadly regrettable mystery why it's still cited as an archetypal board game.

> Now everything has phases, multi-variable resources, multi-variable point systems dependent on the phase, etc.

This is why I think your experience into the 'board game scene' was a little skewy. Not everything has all that stuff.

There's myriad games with comparable complexity to Monpoly, but far superior mechanics and replayability.

And go just a little upwards in the complexity scale (Monopoly has a complexity rating of 1.64 / 5 on BGG [0], and an overall score of 4.4 / 10) you'll be well rewarded on the boardgame experience front.

> Its just hard for me to discern where any of this came from, why people are aware of some of these mechanics, and which games just have really bad designs and bad product market fit - if the whole scene is just indie producers winning a popularity contest once on a crowdfunding site.

Your conclusion at the start of that sentence is based on the evidently false premise at the end of it.

[0] https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1406/monopoly
No better bear case for crypto than articles and comments in its defense
You didn't read far enough.

The article includes a story on the watch detecting Atrial fibrillation. Presumably this used the EKG feature, since an EKG is the standard clinical tool for diagnosis of AFib.
Sorry if I'm ignorant, but isn't running CI locally basically just running tests/build normally?