skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Never ascribe to pettiness that which is adequately explained by laziness.

As anyone who has built internal infrastructure knows, giving a third party access to a system never designed for third party access isn’t always trivial. Even if the tech is up to scratch, there would still be a need to audit the system top to bottom. Documentation will need to be checked and improved.

Disabling a feature for a tiny number of customers is, by comparison, extremely simple.
Absolutely. The GP scenario is a prime example of a meeting that should be an email, or, really, more like a wiki page.
Yep! Definitely look them up when you see them. There are lots of rare and hard to find ones... I focus on things like Criterion, box sets and anything that looks 'odd'. I picked up a five disc Anchor Bay set of WWII movies for $4 and they sold for nearly $15 each.

Don't skip on CDs, VHS, Cassettes or vinyl records! Though be sure to check the condition and that the correct disc is definitely in the case before you buy it.

Vinyl records are difficult to grade, so I would avoid them unless you can play them and reliably grade them OR they're sealed OR the surface on both sides appear immaculate. Sadly, they usually just add to my already overstuffed vinyl collection instead of winding up on eBay.

VHS and audio cassettes are hot right now as well, so if you see some classics, definitely give them a look on eBay before you pass on them. They usually have a barcode.

Typically someone will drop off their whole collection at place, so consider buying items to sell in a 'lot'.

A complete hardback Harry Potter book set is $100+! (usually $2 a piece at my thrift shop)
I almost have a complete set from my many trips to the thrift store, so pick them up when you see them!
You can absolutely conceal energy usage, especially in places where large scale manufacturing takes place.
Doesn't work for Firefox mobile
I don't believe in cryptocurrencies, but I don't see anything unethical in a spaceheater that also does hashing as a side effect I guess.
If the company feels that your contributions aren't worth $X they can fire you
Do you blog about the business aspect of your work? Which I think is amazing. I'm a SWE and have long had a hobbyist interest in biology.
The people in my house use space heaters in their rooms. 1500 watts of electricity produces 1500 watts of heat whether you do it via a space heater or a computer.

The only way OP's method is worse is the capital costs of the processors. The energy spent on the actual heating is converted with 100% efficient either way.
Recent and related:

Toyota owners have to pay $8/month to keep using their key fob for remote start - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29543194 - Dec 2021 (716 comments)
This year I launched https://www.tabbydata.com, on track to make $500/month by February.
Of course they did for many years, supported only by government incentives.
They may still have a reason to be smug. Quite a few people are of the opinion that Amazon (excluding Web Services) is on the decline. These days the site is crammed with scammers and shoddy, dangerous products. Customer support is degrading as they do a poor job of automating it away with chatbots.

I rarely buy anything besides accessories and hard to get groceries on there anymore.
pg is not banned on HN.
I've never seen that in any offer letter or document I've signed for any tech job. Nor have I ever verbally agreed to such.
It's quit simple. If you have something that is 'limited edition' that could potentially have higher resale value than purchase price people will be buying it because it ticks all the same boxes in human psyche as gambling.

It doesn't matter if it's rare card, beanie babies, or just a handfulll of pretty meaningless data. If it's rare and associated with something cool, no matter how tenuously, people will buy it.

And cryptocurrency backbone facilitates effortless resale.
Can you ELI5 how making small amounts of money in crypto works? I thought it was a "winner take all" kind of arrangement where whomever solves the "puzzle" (for lack of a better word) first gets all the bitcoin as a reward, until the next block is up and ready to be solved. You're talking about making $100 a day - a very tiny fraction of one bitcoin - how does that work?
Yeah, but how are you going to get likes on those tweets?
No its not. I am at college and I have been this 2 times this year. 1 time I said "Merry Christmas" to a group and a girl found me later 1 on 1 and said that I should "think about being more inclusive" because different people celebrate different holidays in this season. Second time I said it to a different group when I arrived and a girl straight up interjected "And happy holidays!" Right after i said it, she wasn't arriving with me or anything.

As we all know: just because you havent personally experienced something doesnt mean it doesnt happen :)

Btw my college isnt even super leftie wing so I was surprised.
I think Snopes is playing fast and loose with the facts here. "Unintentional Poisoning" - vital statistics jargon for drug overdoses - have been the leading cause of death for American's 18-45 for many years. The data they link to is not specific enough to say that Fentanyl alone is now the leading cause. If it is, it's simply displaced some other drug.
I mean, is it really a conspiracy if open and unashamed corruption was the modus operandi at the time.

When there's funding for highways but not rails, the results are unsurprising. The benefits of public transit are a positive externality[1][2].

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality#Positive

[2]Real history is way worse
I agree, cardio makes me so much more alert and a better thinker after a good run
Thank you for sharing the numbers! That does look quite profitable even for a hobbyist (maybe even YOU, the reader?).

I am all for the further decentralization of this technology and hope others can profit from this also!
> Idiot.

His video has 2.5 million views, having only been uploaded a couple days ago. He doesn't come across as an idiot to me.
The game Twenty that I posted on here many years ago as a ShowHN[0] post took off from that very post and is still earning in that ballpark. I keep trying to find more time to work on it and other projects too, but somehow as my kids have gotten older and my spare time in the evenings gets shorter, I haven't managed it.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9543005
Raytracing is emulating photons and thus not only showing reflections, but all visible pixels on the screen. Shadows, light, dark reflections, glow, transparency, glossy, shinny ..everything.
Have you used any broker for buying a business? How was your experience? If you care to recommend them please ping me.
I wouldn't be surprised if heated seats were installed in all cars but just turned on in software.

I'm not sure why, I guess I just like the feeling that it's not merely a software flag that you're paying for, or not.

Agreed 100%; alternatively, it's because you actually got what you paid for, nothing less --- or more. The "your car already has the equipment, but you're not allowed to use it" mentality is what really angers people because it violates the concept of ownership.
Sorry to pick on your spelling/word choice, but it's "disembarking" and not "debarking." (Debarking is the horrible practice of removing a dog's vocal cords).

Normally, I wouldn't point out your mistake, but OP says they are not a native English speaker, so I thought it was important to clarify this.
You must have grown up a good while after I did, or in a more prosperous area. (Södra Dalarna, 1970-/tidigt 80-tal.)
I believe they just get a commercial rate from the USPS and they add a small percentage onto each transaction for themselves to make their money.
The astute among you will notice that the outputs look more or less indistinguishable from modern video games -- which is to say, they don't look real.

It's not to downplay the achievement. It's to say that I hope one of you takes up the task of making truly real, indistinguishable-from-TV videos generated in real time.

It may seem like an impossible dream. But so was realtime raytracing, at the start of my career. And there are a few promising signs that it's coming within reach. ML trained on video, applied to gamedev, seems like a matter of time. You could do it right now.

Since the talking point of "We don't want real-looking outputs!" always comes up, I suggest ignoring that detail. It's worth doing, even if nobody wanted it, just to show biology who's boss. And incidentally, you'll want to become familiar with how to run blinded experiments, since you'll realize that your own judgement isn't any good when deciding how "real" something looks. The sole test is whether human observers can distinguish your outputs from real outputs no better than random chance.
Twitter engages in political censorship on behalf of the left wing. But that is different from what is discussed in this article and this thread. Christmas enjoys broadly bipartisan support.
I built an in-browser 3D world for life coaches so they can create better experiences for their communities. Audio & video chat in a game-like world, where exploration and socializing is for health, happiness, and personal growth. We're averaging about $400/mo right now through customizing worlds and building features as requested.

https://www.relm.us
I'm talking about a bunch of parents and a teacher having long group sms conversations. I feel it super clunky.
I'm not seeing this setting in Edge on Mac OS.
How is this news? React SPAs have been around for years, and SPAs existed long before React too.
Sometimes it is. But I do not see any reason why auto-moderation system that does not ban "Merry Christmas" should cost immensely more than one that does. I can see why 10mph speed limit would be very costly, but why not having a broken model is more costly than having a broken one? Where the costs are coming from? I don't think the costs are the problem here. They spent a lot of effort on attaching various warnings to every post mentioning covid, vaccines, etc. They could spend a little on making their models not to suck. They didn't. I don't think "it would cost too much" is a valid excuse - at least without demonstrating why it'd cost too much.
Quite a bit of it. Opentrons is a good place to start if you’re thinking about it.
I stake and lend cryptocurrency (stablecoins and blue-chip coins) on lending protocols and exchanges, and am at around $500 a week.

Not really a side-project per-se, but I do quite a bit of calculation on ROI, where to move what share of my funds to, and occasional yield-farming strategies so it does take a up a good bit of time

The goal is to have that stable enough so that I can quit and focus on my actual side projects that I am hacking on after work
That interesting. I remember those little extra fobs now. It was a 2021 Outback. It’s possible the sales person didn’t make that clear, and just wanted to close the subscription deal. She bought later it later, after the sale, and never looked into it I’m sure.

It’s still lame when you spend $45K on a car and you have to carry and extra device, if you don’t buy the subscription. They definitely want you to buy it though. Interesting to see Toyota try to force it on folks who are used to it being a given.
You could say I’m “wasting energy” for “monopoly money”, but that monopoly money gets converted to fiat dollars, which I use to pay taxes and feed my family passively while I’m at my actual job, or sleeping. If instead of mining I were to work a labour intensive job as a side-gig, moonlighting, driving there, how much more or less energy would that “waste” on gas? At least I’m recycling my exhaust heat into heat for my home and not using the natural gas line of my house in the winter.

You’re not wrong, and I’m not saying other actual side jobs waste more energy necessarily, but the gap may not be as large as you think.
Not in most states. California is a big exception.
“…unless you’re me.”
>but I find it hard to believe that they can argue that "Own an Olive Garden" for x.xx ETH without any mention of the word "picture" or "image" reasonably conveys an intention to sell a picture or image.

Here's their Q&A section https://nonfungibleolivegardens.com/

Does this confer ownership of or investment in a real Olive Garden franchise?

While every Non-fungible Olive Garden is tethered to a real Olive Garden, ownership is currently limited to the Non-fungible Olive Garden Metaverse, granting owners no rights or privileges in meatspace Olive Gardens. This may change in the future (see roadmap).

Is this affiliated with Olive Garden?

No. We are simply a community of Olive Garden fans invested in both trustless future economies and delicious, reasonably-priced Italian fare.

So am I buying a picture of an Olive Garden?

No. Token artwork is for representation only and confers no ownership over the photograph. You're not purchasing art, you're purchasing ownership of a Non-Fungible Olive Garden franchise.

One of the photos is wrong or out of date.

We've done our best to verify the accuracy of the images used, but there may be discrepancies.

Can I buy a specific Olive Garden?

The initial mint of franchises is random and you're unable to select a location. You can browse franchises that have already been minted on OpenSea and make offers there.

The breadsticks are really free?

Yes. Breadsticks will remain free and unlimited in perpetuity. You will have to pay gas fees to mint them, but these fees go to miners, not to us.
I'm not particularly educated on internet conflict except PG's disagreement hierarchy, and personal experience in hacking social expectations on Reddit (e.g., call it the "inoculation" instead of "vax" or "vaccine" to avoid tipping your political hand).

Is there any "best practices" on handling a sticky situation across an insanely diverse absurdly large crowd of individuals in a low-context communication channel? I believe this would be a #1 go-to for absolutely any social network, and I imagine there are a dozen people reading this who are looking for precisely that.
Oh, I remember this!

Look at your phone and go “Magnitude 9 in Tokyo Bay, guess the big one has come.”

Then… silence, and a lot of questionmarks.
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Really what is worse is that it will create "Software Lawyers", which are like lawyers but worse because they won't be members of a bar association, and might not have your best interest at heart.
> Who exactly are you quoting here?

The site. It says "Own an Olive Garden on the blockchain! We are a community of Olive Garden fans invested in both trustless future economies and delicious, reasonably-priced Italian fare." Searching for "image" or "picture" yields no hits on the page.

> They have promised, however, that when enough money has been generated to buy the company and buy out all of its franchisees that those tokens would be converted to full ownership of the pictured location.

This just seems more and more like a case of fraud based on its intersection with the real world to me. I'm actually okay if something decides to drop $xx,xxx on an image of an ape, but once you start asking people to invest in convoluted financial schemes to buy out Olive Garden franchises, it's time for regulatory agencies to start taking a look.
I think this is a pretty interesting problem. Assuming they DID have new features that were useful and valuable, what's the best way for you to learn them? I also find the random recommendations annoying, but discoverability for voice features must be tough
Barely anyone mines alone. You join a mining-pool, so your hashrate gets added to that pools hashrate. When the pool finds the next block, everyone gets a share proportional to their contributed hashrate
They use Cubic pricing which Usps offers to high volume customers.
You can contribute mining power to a large network of miners and get a percentage of the profits. They are called mining pools. These exist for virtually all currencies. Here's a list for bitcoin: https://www.buybitcoinworldwide.com/mining/pools/
As a metaphor that really doesn’t work. Biology is incredibly hype about modularization and separation of concerns. The human body rather goes out of its way to prevent arbitrary changes, both exogenous and endogenous
>Do you have any idea of how much money is lost on scams via Western Union? Or how much money companies spend on fraudulent ad views? Insurance fraud?

I'm fully aware, that's why I'm upset that the entire design of crypto seems to be either punting on this problem (to the "social layer" as you said) or is just intentionally making it worse (ransomware). This is not a revolution I can get behind.

>There are some situations where the cost of having these systems is simply not worth the value of the transaction, so why should we use it?

I mean, this doesn't really give any confidence in the value of your transaction if it's so worthless to even matter. Doesn't this just seem a bit fishy to you? After talking to a lot people, I don't think any self-respecting creator online wants to exist in that space for any longer than they have to because it's rife with scams. It's certainly not making me want to drop any money on micropayments any time soon.

>If I want to sell something online and I accept crypto as payment, I can do it without any middlemen.

Well this isn't true, the network itself and the miners (or whatever) is still the middleman. With a currency the vendor operates, there is no middleman at all, you control the whole money supply. Yes the customer still has to pay a form of "exchange rates" when taking cash in and out but that's the same thing as crypto.

>Gift cards force the user to commit to an initial higher amount and to a specific vendor. It's a whole different league.

Again you're changing the discussion to the customer, not the market operator. I don't think this is a reasonable comparison to make because now you're not talking about having a service like Onlyfans any more, you're talking about having entertainers sell directly to customers, which is also a whole different league, probably one that has higher fees because now the creator will likely want to charge more as they now have to offset many other extra costs.

>Because you'd be bypassing the central bank, and you would be negotiating with other people who are also trading with the rates from the "blue" dollar (the non-official market). Nothing illegal. Kraken (a crypto exchange) operates on Argentina for years already and any "retail" account can trade there. It's just that the volume there is not big enough yet to make the government greedy about it.

I still fail to see what the actual practical benefit of crypto here is if the only situations it's really useful is a place where the government has made low cost international bank transfers illegal and you just have to hope they don't come after crypto even though you know they will eventually. It's essentially being propped up by a central financial authority; isn't that the opposite of what crypto is supposed to be?
I have three:

https://pikaso.me which lets people post their tweets on Instagram

https://postsheet.com for sending emails / SMS from data in Google Sheets or Airtable

https://volt.fm for viewing Spotify stats and discovering new music
SpaceX clearly has no problems innovating and moving forward fast. Something you don’t see in more bureaucratic organisations. I saw an interview with astronauts who has worked for both NASA and SpaceX and they said that the big difference was that what would take a year for NASA took a day for SpaceX.
Mining pools split profits according to each participants contributions (~= hashrate)
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Well, let me put it bluntly to you, too, then: I don't give a fuck what you or people like you think. No company is entitled to own me body, soul, and spirit. I work the job I work solely because I have to in order to survive. If I did not, I would still be working, just not on the shit I'm working on now.

And, yes, most companies are. That's been my experience, and that's how they have to be if they want to compete in the market.
Facebook did not just stay in it's little FB lane. In response to not performing well, they figured out mobile, they accquired IG, Occulus, WhatsApp and Messenger and made them key business items to expand their relevance to great effect and make gabs of money as a result.

What has twitter done to go beyond their core product? Not much other than a recent clubhouse clone and a failed snapchat story clone.
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I would also be fascinated to hear more about this! Would you be open to sharing contact information or any public writing on the project?
Please don't post unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

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Edit: it looks like your account has mostly been doing that. We ban such accounts, so if you would please review the guidelines and fix this, that would be good.
The difference compared to SPAs is that this doesn't use javascript.
Please don't post unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

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I’d be interested in a new type in that case. Option…
>I can set a polygon zone where it emails me if my kids leave the city and whatnot.

That is really interesting. How did you handle that conversation with your kids? Or am I imagining that it's a bigger deal than it really is since they've grown up in a world where everything and every one is connected to the internet and tracked all the time?
> grossed about $20000

What was the net?
If they can make money on the sale of the item AND then make more money by selling your viewing habits from using the item, why not increase with a subscription remote service? The idea isn't any less asinine than the Toyota ploy.

With the service, you can click channels up or down. Without, you can only change channels in one direction which forces you to view all channels similar to the scene in Toy Story. This also gives all channels impressions, so it would benefit them. Who cares about the user.

Also with the service, the keypad on the remote can also be enabled so you can dial in the channel number directly. This is an upgrade of the basice service to the Pro version for an extra small nominal fee.
I’m not sure where you got that idea from. Consent is just one of the six available lawful bases under the GDPR.

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protectio...
If I spelled Muhammad as "Moohatmed" on purpose to indicate my dislike of Muslims I'd (correctly) be called Islamaphobic. So stop being Christianphobic.
>They started AWS, competitors sat idle for 5-6 years and they ran away in a giant market. Good for them, but had Google & Microsoft woken up earlier the amazon doubters might be the smug ones at this point.

But, Google and Microsoft didn't wake up earlier. You mention it's only in retrospect Amazon knew what they were doing; but we also see Microsoft and Google didn't know what they were doing. It wasn't out of charity to Amazon, they simply lacked vision at the time.

Had major auto manufacturers taken Tesla seriously 5-6 years sooner instead of sitting idle, the Tesla doubters might be the smug ones at this point. But Tesla had the vision and the execution.

In both cases, the competition badly miscalculated while the company executed beautifully.