skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here’s another Deloitte gem. I can’t decide if the overall diagram is the peak of humorous or if the inclusion of two different items, one called “Simple Design” and the other “Rules of Simplicity” makes it even funnier.

https://twitter.com/isaach/status/804726366038093824?s=21
The site isn’t particularly accessible for a quick discussion so I appreciate your explanation, thank you.

However, I’m not sure I understand how this is supposed to help. Proving that a few seconds passed just slows down block generation a little, but this cannot be a significant barrier to block generation or else you just have a full PoW system again. And if it’s not a significant barrier then it’s not clear to me what this is supposed to do, beyond preventing me from generating and signing a new block within milliseconds of some event happening.

But since the “nano scale” PoW doesn’t define the rate of block generation, it just establishes a lower bound, it feels like it’s just a speed bump for anyone trying to attack the system. If it only takes 10 seconds to rebuild the last 100 minutes worth of blocks, then it doesn’t establish a universal clock and therefore cannot prove which block came first.
> The author blames McKinsey for gaming the system . But what is the system - it is just a list of laws and regulations written by Congress . If Congress finds any kind of gamification-it should change the laws accordingly.

This is such a crap concept of business ethics. You expect Congress to be everyone's mommy and daddy and tell them right from wrong? Have you seen how Congress operates?

If you do wrong, don't act all surprised and aggrieved if people blame you. It doesn't matter if the authorities happened to have a law on the books at the time. There's more to life than pursuing maximum profit.
My grandmother occasionally spoke like that too (not Yorkshire)

I couldn’t figure out why she said it backwards occasionally
Stop asking people to do your homework.
The way a language work is not a "mistake". It's simply how language works. People are not robots and they will exhibit illogical behaviours if that's what feels better to them.

YYYY-MM-DD is probably the clearest way to express dates for computers only because it's not ambiguous and it's easy to sort.

Decimal time was a mistake. We cannot group our 365.24 days given by nature in a round, base 10 number so any attempts to make the entire system decimal is foolish. We could divide the day in 10 hours with each 100 seconds, but that would mean redefining all SI units to use this new second as a base. Distance is defined as the time it takes for light in a vacuum to travel a certain distance, we'd need to change that distance and all other units OR have the "scientific second" and the "metric second".
You forget to explain why one would do any of that instead of selling you a newer car.
Just run.
They become a "leader" when they get elected, so only one of them becomes the "leader". There's nothing incoherent about this terminology.
It’s been a minute since I’ve been to the parks because of Covid, but I am almost positive you can buy those shirts in the park gift shops. So the person you’re replying to may have just seen them for purchase.
i should like to see how you did the infinite terrain. did a mars-walk some years ago with a friend's sculptures https://samelie.github.io/mars-amenothep/
It could go right next to the dial that changes the instrument panel's backlight brightness
It really has one, is just another programming language with a silly name. Passion project I guess
Hell, they might not even take a loss at all. A nation-state-level actor trying to buy a majority of the monetary supply would represent a substantial increase in demand and therefore price.
Just to mention that the right Greek letters are 'mi' and 'ni' like 'xi'. 'mu' and 'nu' are not in the Greek alphabet.
"... almost any website."

What are the domain names of some (dynamic) websites where this will not work.
Nothing... I had a large checklist of things I wanted but the "deals" just weren't worth it
The merge was expedited over miner concerns, prioritizing it over sharding as originally planned, so it’s actually the opposite of what you are saying.
And yet HTML+CSS+JS which is so hated for making applications handles the use case of working across mobile and desktop almost perfectly. Maybe it's not just because we don't want to learn real programming like the grandparent post insinuated and instead a perfectly viable solution to the problem at hand.
I replied to your other comments but now I see that you are arguing in bad faith and I regret the time investment.

> It doesn't always enable new use cases.

It doesn't have to always enable new use cases, you are just moving the goalpost.

> Sufficiently minor things aren't "genuine new use cases" that we "sorely need".

A use case is a use case, you don't get to redefine what you consider a "major" and a "minor" use case to justify your bad arguments. That's another example of moving the goalpost.

> Not very much of that depends on computation getting faster.

That statement is so objectively wrong, power efficiency is a trade off with processing power, if we can make a faster chip we can make a similarly capable chip that consumes less power.
He had a ranch in Agoura, near the SSFL, which might have had an impact on them.
It is archaic but not in all contexts. i.e. If you talk about 125 ccm motrbike, it is always "german" way. Also it is used for human age or dates.
> 1. horizontal task bar

I use an horizontal task bar, out of habits and default parameters, I guess. However, I considered putting it on the side, haven't tried it seriously, but I do like having the title of the tasks and that would probably not be so comfortable vertically.

There are only so many lines of code my brain can handle anyway and I don't think the screen height is not the bottleneck.
Kids would latch on to whatever popular form of entertainment, as they already do today(my kids not the biggest fan of Disney).

Not so sure of the trauma you speak of

If Disney ceased to exist, this would be shocking to everyone not just children.
That sounds more due to inflation. Instead of charging you more, they keep the price the same and give you less stuff. It's not unique to cars. Even food packages are getting smaller in weight of product and the price the same, or more. I've heard it described as "shrinkflation." For instance, a "pint" of Hagen Dazs ice cream has changed from 16oz (a pint) to 14oz in the last few months.

> Many consumers may have noticed that popular food and beverage containers are shrinking along with their wallets, but that prices, alas, are not. Tropicana, for example, recently redesigned its large orange juice container, giving it an easy-pour lid—and the capacity to hold only 89 ounces, rather than its old 96 ounces. The price has stayed constant. In an email, Tropicana spokeswoman, Karen May, explained that the smaller size was needed as "the optimum configuration" for the new lid, adding, "Our consumer research indicates that, despite the smaller size, there was no change in the perceived value of the product because of the benefits of the added features."

https://www.newsweek.com/food-packaging-shrinks-prices-stay-...
Fwiw, the absolutely bizarre way you’re talking about Teslas in these comments is a narrative.

Your creative narrative here is… interesting.

Best of luck moving forward.
Since we are already paying for all the media we might pirate, in the form of a tax on empty media lobbyed by the media conglomerates - new hard drives included; And our attention and consciousness are constantly exploited by a barrage of malicious advertizements and spyware; And our tools and computers are gradually stripped of our freedoms and capabilities of expression in favor of inescapable consumerism and engagement;

I feel absolutely justified employing whatever technological means available to bring equality and democratization to digital arts. I'm a political pirate.
I agree that it's relevant - but I don't think that means it warranted mentioning in the story.

The specific new piece of information here is that newly released documents show that McKinsey have been helping pharma companies figure out how to extend their patents.

At some point you have to stop adding extra background information to an article, otherwise it will never end!
It stopped being a magical experience when they stopped allowing the Disney character actors walk around the park, and started demanding everyone wait in line to see them.
Per the author in the link you posted, the PineNote appears to still be a prototype in development and does not sound like it's really anywhere close to be competing against the consumer-ready remarkable:

"If you’re looking to buy a PineNote in the first batch, you must expect to write software for it, not to write notes on it. The software shipping from the factory for the first batch will not be suitable for taking notes, reading e-books, or writing your dissertation. It may not even boot to a graphical environment."
The study you are linking to was not comparing flying to not flying, only two different groups flying. Consider that the baseline rate of colds in a seven day window (their before travel to after travel survey window) is very high:

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6914a5.htm
I have a 2021 Honda. Yes, CarPlay is basically the iOS philosophy of “full screen touch interface with Siri that becomes wholly focused on whichever app you’re using.” Maps, Spotify, and Messages are the 3 I mainly use, but I could download more from the App store or even make my own.
Starting a company will do that! There's no time to ruminate on whether you "ought" to be this or that when you're busy keeping the lights on and building out your product, etc.
> It almost like the US has so much money, it can outspend the EU at every step of the way.

Especially for startups: either buy the whole company or hire the key employees away.
On the other hand, I was actually impressed, that Apple TV appeared on Android TV in the first place and that it is actually decent (at least on Nvidia Shield).

My only nitpick is, that for some reason the default subtitles are "language + SDH" and not just "language".
Not literally, as far as I know (I am also still wondering, of whether it was correct grammar), but there are plenty of:

"Morgenstund hat gold im Mund"

morning time is gold

(to which I agree at times)

or

"Der frühe Vogel fängt den Wurm"

The early bird catches the worm.

(to where I say, maybe the worm should have slept in that day)
I thought replacing touchscreen chips were easier as they likely ran some mobile ARM chip for which there seems to be no shortage. My understanding was replacing other chips were harder as they are specialised for serving one purpose and needs safety and other considerations.
Could always be split into smaller companies, like Bell forty years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakup_of_the_Bell_System

The reverse seems to be happening, though ...
Always use a cigarette adapter for faster charging.

There isn’t anything inherently preventing touch screens from being upgradable (software is already possible today).
There is some potentially interesting overlap with the article posted earlier about the Chinese Lying Flat movement.

People on both sides of the pond are dropping jobs that provide diminishing returns, and that makes them re-evaluate their yearly iPhone (or whatever expensive commodity item) purchases.

Last year's lockdown taught a good lot of us how to live with things we already have. The shipping and transport supply chain problems are just rubbing salt into the wounds. As is the rapid increase in house (renting or buying) and food costs.

This isn't unrelated to the number of landmark restaurants closing down everywhere, either. They can't run without jacking up the prices, and customers don't want to pay that amount for what their offering. It's sad when it costs $50 per person for lunch at a wing pub.
Source please? Standard HO-3 policy defines theft coverage as

9. Theft

a. This peril includes attempted theft and loss
of property from a known place when it is
likely that the property has been stolen.

b. This peril does not include loss caused by
theft:

(1) Committed by an "insured";

(2) In or to a dwelling under construction, or
of materials and supplies for use in the
construction until the dwelling is finished
and occupied;

(3) From that part of a "residence premises"
rented by an "insured" to someone other
than another "insured"; or

(4) That occurs off the "residence premises" of:

(a) Trailers, semitrailers and campers;
(b) Watercraft of all types, and their
furnishings, equipment and outboard
engines or motors; or
(c) Property while at any other residence
owned by, rented to, or occupied by
an "insured", except while an "insured" is temporarily living there.
Property of an "insured" who is a
student is covered while at the residence the student occupies to attend
school as long as the student has
been there at any time during the 60
days immediately before the loss
damn, funny name
But would the really be better off? One of the main draws of Disneyland is that it was the first park. Even though Japan has their own Disney park, Japanese tourists still come to SoCal in droves.

Perhaps if they build an identical copy of Disneyland nearby it would help, but even then, it's still not "the first park".
> My dad just bought a new Toyota Civic and ...

Honda makes the Civic, not Toyota.
I want to see the marketing studies where marketers provide evidence that touchscreens actually reduce costs and/or increase sales.
> I suspect this is because they think life will be better in the USA and Europa than it is in the even more horrible places they came from

Not always, but often times the reason their country is a horrible place to live is because of historical racism in the form of colonisation on the part of
European countries or the USA. And it goes without saying that just because something is worse in place A doesn't mean it isn't bad in place B.
> So they roped in McKinsey for how to best do that without attracting any kind of government attention and McKinsey advised them on that.

My emphasis.

From thefreedictionary.com[1]:

> rope in. To persuade, entice, or enlist someone to do or participate in something. A noun or pronoun can be used between "rope" and "in." I really didn't want to sing in the talent show, but Janet roped me in.

Notice that all the examples there involve either someone who would rather not get involved in the given activity, or a person or animal that lacks the ability to avoid being "roped."

In conclusion: have you ever considered working for McKinsey? If not, you should!

1: https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/roped+in

Edit: clarification
> For what it's worth, the language and layout was probably A/B tested and painstakingly tuned to maximise the probability

This sort of belief (that corporations do extensive testing and tuning of language) seems quite widely held, but I've never seen much support for it.

I've frequently seen claims that Amazon must have "A/B tested and painstakingly tuned" the company name, whereas it was really just the founder's whim after watching a documentary, and never received any testing of any kind.
Anaconda Copper: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaconda_Copper
Yeah, I have to agree. I've been a full-time indie game developer for six years now and I'm fortunate that my peer network consists of about 90% people in the same boat, they have a few shipped titles under their belts.

If I want to seriously talk about Steam's discovery algorithm or get some feedback, that can't really just be anyone. And if I want to talk about the game publicly its to get customers, not to show to other game developers.

Not everyone would think the same, and that's okay!
> unaware of how modern society in which they live functions

how so?
> The less moving parts the less chance of failure, right?

Of failure by impact and vibration, perhaps. But that's pretty much a solved problem in car dials and buttons - we have decades ols cars with fully functional dashboards and controls.

Otherwise, risk of failure is driven up by complexity, in which case a computer, with all its components, plus an operating system, drivers, etc, and apps on top of it add many layers of complexity in comparison with buttons and dials.
In parts of the country, definitely. For days on end, sometimes.

And it doesn't really matter how regularly. If you are driving in those conditions… you only have to crash once.
Vaccine may not be a silver bullet for prevention but it keeps people out of the ICU.
> But what is the system - it is just a list of laws and regulations written by Congress

This attitude stinks, I’m sorry. “If it’s legal, it’s ethical” is no way to run a society.

I had my neighbour on my lawn regarding a minor (cat-related) dispute the other week. He brought his kid with him, trying to show him how to behave I guess. At one point he said “well it’s not illegal” and I thought, wow, there you have it. This guy, 12-year-old in tow, thinks that actions are de facto fine if they’re “not illegal”.

I should have offered to take him to the local brothel. He’s married, I have a long-term partner. But that’s not illegal so I’m sure they would have been A-OK with it.
Consider a local bootcamp maybe, depending of what is available around you? It would give you a network to rely on.
I've seen friends doing that successfully and getting junior position as devs in fortune 50 company and startup alike. ( with salary ranging 60-80k in southern US )

Otherwise, a github linkedin combo seems in order.
Yeah, it boggles my mind how many people (here in the UK) who are otherwise very tolerant of other races are openly and unapologetically racist against travelling peoples.
Definitely. I thought I mentioned the "within reasonable boundaries(80->150)" and evidently I have not.
Cloud-free control web interface for vacuum robots
>But what is the system - it is just a list of laws and regulations written by Congress

And how are this laws and regulations made? By massive lobbying. So first they rig the game then play the game.
I also did this process, but my experience was different. When I first realized that others could visualize things and I could not. I practiced trying to visualize a simple cube for months, relaxing and meditating as you did. Then one day I actually saw something. I was fully awake, and I saw a crystal clear image of a large granite slab, slowly rotating. I could see the texture of the surface, the physical detail of the shape. It was a truly amazing experience, the likes of which I had never experienced.

And then I had what was the most frightening thought I've ever had: "I don't know how to make this thing go away - what if I can't make it go away? Have I just taught and meditated myself into psychosis? Oh shit!!!"

I then pulled out of the visualization (no idea how that happened, it just ended with no fanfare, presumably as I started to think about other things) and have never seen another mental image like that, even though I've tried. This happened perhaps ten years ago.

That experience was not entirely unlike my experience with lucid dreaming some years earlier. I essentially never dreamed (never recalled my dreams), but I read all about lucid dreaming, thought about it, and used Richard Feynman's dream study approach to try to focus on it. Then one night I had a lucid dream, and the next night, and the next. Each night for almost a week I had an incredibly vivid lucid dream, absolutely amazing experiences, waking up the next morning with full recall of it and feeling exhausted and entirely unrefreshed from my sleep. At the end of that week I had a final dream. In that final dream the subject of my dream was the realization that I couldn't lucid dream any more. I never had another lucid dream, and have almost never remembered any dreams since then.

The hardware is clearly there for this stuff, at least in my case, but it seems the OS is also clearly working to "protect" me from some of those hardware features.

Given that there absolutely are people who are subject to uncontrolled hallucinations and mental breakdowns between the real and the imaginary, I've concluded that at least for my mind these experiences are too close to the boundary for whatever circuitry protects me from that sort of breakdown. Others will have their own journeys, but for me based on my personal experiences I've concluded it's not a case of the mind "can't" it's a case of the mind "shouldn't" or "wont."

As with any extreme training, be careful not to injure yourself. You might be fine, but not everyone who engages in extreme training does so without injury. I'm glad to have walked away from the process safely and can easily imagine not having done so.
I got a Remarkable2 last year and an Onyx Boox Air. The Boox Air (and there is now an Air 2) is on the whole, a lot better. The Android support makes it usable as an e-reader and the writing experience isn’t different enough, in my mind, to justify the other limitations of the Remarkable.

Having spent $1000 on e-Ink tablets, I have a lot of opinions on them, but the primary one is to not mistake what you are buying. I think 95% of the time, people would be better off with an iPad and Apple Pencil. That isn’t to dissuade people from getting a Remarkable, but it definitely isn’t what the marketing/zealous fans make it out to be. It’s primarily about capturing hand-written text. If you want something with more capabilities, Onyx is where it’s at.
I saw a video where someone was opening doors with a hydraulic thing that moves heavyb things up (I do not know the English word for that, an inversed press).

You find a strong pint to lean on (a wall, or the ground) and the door is forced open in a matter of seconds (something gives away, hinges or lock).

This is why my lock is a smart one, to make it easier for people to get in (the ones I want to) and I know that a burglar is not going to analyze the emission spectrum but just force my door open.

I would definitely prefer him to use technonoly and not break my door.
Often enough that I probably use high visibility lights on several journeys per year on average. It's usually because of dense fog on rural roads but occasionally conditions like torrential rain on a motorway too.

On rare occasions I've had to drive in conditions so bad that the front fogs on my car were providing the main or perhaps only useful illumination of the road immediately ahead. We were all just crawling along at barely more than walking pace, even on roads that might normally have been major high-speed routes. Vehicles without appropriate lights were parking up, totally unable to make progress until the weather improved. That definitely hasn't been an annual occurrence in my experience, but it's happened to me more than once.

I'd be very wary of buying any new car without excellent lights today. I'd even say the lighting would be in my top 5 deciding factors. Basic headlights have improved dramatically in recent years, thanks to better light sources and adaptive technologies that offer better coverage without dazzling other road users, but the specialised lights like high visibility and reversing lights are also important at the those times when you do need them.
This is part of why I avoid doctors and prescription medication whenever possible. They are not motivated to get me healthy, they are motivated to keep me coming back for more.
It's more an issue of how much 'common vocabulary' folks who are interested in a subject share. If you're 'into' Scheme, you probably know many implementations, including Guile, Gambit, and Chicken. And also versions inside Racket, and Scheme48, and ...

True, for someone coming at this who's not Scheme-implementation-familiar, the names might as well be Zaphod, or Beeblebrox, or similar-seeming nonsense.

It seems in any 'domain' there is a set of definitions that is assumed in that domain. That is, I don't see any real problem with naming here.