skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> OpenSea is not products... Rarible is similar. It's not comparable to e-commerce.

So OpenSea and Rarible don't qualify as 'e-commerce' because they sell 'NFTs' and domain-names are not products bought and sold on online marketplaces? You are splitting hairs once again.

> As said before, this all happened in the past. Woocommerce, Steam, Amazon, Stripe, ... All added it and removed it. Only square kept it.

First of all, we are in late-2021. Before I ask you to find citations for the reasons behind those removals, all these cases have cited towards the properties of Bitcoin payments and its unsuitability for that purpose, which is my whole point for businesses to use USDC on other cryptocurrencies like Stellar if they were to accept cryptocurrency payments; hence MoneyGram. We are not stuck in 2017 or whatever year you are trapped in.

> Either way, this topic is about lowering transaction fees.

So from "lowering transaction fees" to someone saying "Take payment in crypto" to you saying "That's not doable in practise" and me replying "USDC stablecoin sitting on cryptocurrencies like Stellar" and it ends up with you in denial, moving goal posts, splitting hairs until you now want to go back to "lowering transaction fees" which I already answered?

Where did I mention in my original comment to use Bitcoin for payments? It seems that it is only you having a very hard time ignoring Bitcoin, Look at this constant rambling from you:

> There's currently a lot of FUD. But it's all going away when BTC drops again.

> It only took a pandemic previous time to reverse Bitcoin from a multi-year decline.

What has Bitcoin got to do with USDC on many other cryptocurrencies as a suitable payment option with less fees? Your rambling here is completely irrelevant to that, regardless if Bitcoin goes up or down.

Either way, my answer already has addressed the topic and your previous 'claims' regardless of you being unable to cite your claims or stay on topic. Your whole comment sounds more of a complaint about cryptocurrencies and NFTs than a substantiative argument at this point. Maybe that is what has changed here.

When are you going to realise that your complaint is going round in circles?
I agree, though I'll give SQL a pass for this because it's old.

But how the Javascript world ever thought that `import { function } from 'library'` was better than `from 'library' import { function }` I'll never know. Python got this right long before anyone was even thinking about adding imports to JS!
As I recall, the context of those comments was in response to a purported attempt to fast-track any vaccine to be ready prior to the election. The Washington Post appears to have the same recollection [1].

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/08/05/scalises-...
Is being averse to having good things a prerequisite to passion?
Yes. It's a safety issue. But there are also at least tens of millions of cars on the road without backup cameras.
Yes, a favorite observation of Ray Kurzweil, expressed as the Law of Accelerating Returns: https://www.kurzweilai.net/the-law-of-accelerating-returns
On Windows I run Adobe XI, mostly because I don’t like the look of Acrobat DC. And I guess bonus, you can rotate—sheesh!
The graph is deceptive; it's a semi-log plot, so the linearity is really exponential.
From the post's author, the mentioned book is:

> The Future of Capitalism by Paul Collier. There are a lot of insights in there but beware that the writing is kinda problematic in some ways, so it doesn’t get my full endorsement.

https://twitter.com/apenwarr/status/1476590932619567104
Your example would've caused a much larger response, no? By most accounts, it didn't trigger for most users, so a simple flub like that should've triggered on more accounts.

I'm viewing this through the lens of multiple days of differing social groups poking at this, and the crowdsourced information that's yielded.

> ...shown wrong, you continue to spread misinformation.

You haven't shown anything wrong: neither of us know what actually happened. nor am I spreading misinformation, nor making statements as to what happened; I'm questioning it. Is there some reason you're so accusatory?

> Also, you are referring to LP functionality which to my knowledge doesn't even exist, and when asked you say you don't know the software being discussed.

[1]. I haven't touched LP in, ehhh, 10ish years, and it was a feature even back then.

[1]: https://support.logmeininc.com/lastpass/help/lastpass-accoun...
That's not the real cost. They could double the number of doctors by cutting the amount of education required by half, and get better results. And they wouldn't need to expand medical school capacity at all.

The amount of education doctors get is harmful. It actually makes them worse at their job. It's effectively a form of hazing by AMA.

There's a combinatorial explosion of effects and side effects in the human body.
It's important to learn and memorize, and memorization is undervalued, but not to that extent. It's like memorizing optimal solutions to traveling salesman instances. Other times it's like memorizing a times table of the three-digit numbers. That is a waste of time and will make you a much worse mathematician.
To clarify, you are quoting from Monica McLemore's article which the linked article is criticizing.

In John McWhorter's recent book, "Woke Racism", McWhorter argues that people like McLemore are adherents of a new religion (he means this in a literal, sociological way) which he calls "The Elect". The Elect's word for "heresy" is "problematic".

McLemore ends with a call to action

"So how do we engage with the problematic work of scientists whose legacy is complicated? I would suggest three strategies..."

and goes on to recommend

1) "Truth and reconciliation", which sounds like all gatekeepers need to be members of The Elect

2) "diversifying the scientific workforce", phenotype is important, I guess

3) "new methods", which really sound like a set of new rules The Elect wish to impose

Sounds like an inquisition.
Covid-19: Quebec brings back nightly curfew, private gatherings prohibited
Yeah that absolutely apathy is what kept me alive when I was so close to the edge.

But the side effects (and primary effects!) are also why I only ever stay on it for 3 to 4 months. The sexual side effects alone are enough to impede my recovery, let alone some of the other ones.

So I use it like a bandage to get through the worst parts, rather than a “take every day for years” drug. The “take every day” bit for me is CBT exercises to rewrite my mind, and it’s worked :)

The physical sides for Lexapro at least for me disappeared. I also got the nausea initially. It’s rough, I know.

There are other more modern SSRIs that might be worth trying too, but if escitalopram seemed to work then it might be worth trying to stick it out to see if the sides get better. They usually do
Wrong link from me. I updated with the right one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21929297

Algolia search also supports comments: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
This article is about Apple and a lot of commenters seem to be quite hung up on that fact but, let's be honest, pretty much every consumer device we buy will have had some or all of its components manufactured in a facility like this.
Clearly the solution to knowing which LEGO sets to buy is to set up the equivalent of a real estate investment trust but for LEGO.
Seems like minor syntactic sugar. I'm not opposed but really only seems mildly useful at best.
Slightly different group of people working on MySQL vs this proposal.
I don't hate Apple.

I just don't see why they shouldn't be held accountable to universally accepted principles of basic human decency.
Show HN: Blending Web 2/3, is this Web .666? ( •̀ᴗ•́)و ̑̑
Yes. I've moved (most) comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29735187, which has the original source.

Submitters: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That’s funny. I’d buy a Taycan but never a Model S.
Thomas Lovejoy, biologist who championed biodiversity, dies at age 80
Ask HN: Where best to host multiple side projects?
I have accumulated a few side projects over the years (around 10) and would like to move them all to one of the more "modern" web hosting platforms, but without breaking the bank (was hoping for under $100 pm).

Which hosts allow you to run multiple domains, all from a single billable account? Is it possible to have all the projects kept completely separate?

In my particular case I need Linux, SSH, git, cron job access etc
One of my grandfathers was working for Metrovick [1] at the start of the 30s. His boss suggested that he go get a PhD and hopefully there would be more work when he had finished. He chose to go to Aachen [2] and learned German well enough to get his Dr Ing.

Back at Metrovick he worked on high power radio transmitters, one he designed for the Rugby Radio Station [3] became the basis of the one for the Chain Home system and he was in charge of production of them by Metrovick.

Because he spoke German he was a member of the Allied Control Commission immediately after the war and went round all the German electronics companies to find out what they had been doing. He found that he knew all the senior people who had been working on competing technology from when they had been students together.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan-Vickers
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technische_Hochschule,_Aachen
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugby_Radio_Station
I believe it is equivalent to half the number of cars they produced this year. As WSB noted TSLA was barely hit today.
Umm, that system, the encomienda, was undoubtedly slavery. That it resembled pre-colonial rule does not absolve the Spanish Empire from recognizing it. Everyone knew it was a death sentence, clear enough when they sent English “Lutheran dogs” into the mines, too.

You’re both arguing about revising history when plainly the rule is this: if the colonizer let you live (or even encouraged breeding) it was to extract labor.
Question: would always sticking to verbose variable names address the first problem?

As in, ditching names like loc/iloc and adopting getValueByKey/getValueByIndex (hello, Pandas API!).

The bugs of that sort bite even the most experienced programmers. And by using verbose names, the typo would be much more likely caught by the compiler. (And you can wrap ungodly APIs with less typo-friendly names too).

That's one of the reasons verbose names are a coding standard e.g. in Google.

The people who get frustrated by either verbose names or small spelling errors are welcome to go and frustrate themselves, preferably in solitude and far from either of us. I'm sorry that you run into them.
I had that same immediate thought and then realized that it doesn’t make sense there either. The interchangeable tops seems uninteresting and the spherical “wheels” don’t seem to deliver any real value over wheels, just more complexity.
> Video games are another perfect example: fans pre-order AAA titles that studios fail to deliver over and over and over again

I literally pre-ordered Anthem, and then apparently having not learned my lesson, did the same with Cyberpunk 2077. Enough said...
The new wind park that is intended to provide the energy for this is not along the south coast but also in northern Sweden though. Also, last I heard neither the exact location for the windmills or the steel mill are set in stone yet.
They should migrate to minidiscs :D
Covid-19 Online Visualization Collection
We've merged https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29734713 into this thread since the previous submission wasn't to the original source. That's why some comment timestamps are older.
I’ve been keeping an eye on it myself. The implementation in Chrome looks pretty complete already, which is promising.

I don’t quite get the point of the other libraries like moment etc. They have a bunch of convenience stuff, but unless you’ve modelled the different types of times that crop up in real life, it’s all a bit pointless. When I first read through the Temporal api, I was physically nodding along in agreement. It’s dates and times done right in js. Can’t wait to be able to use it.
Hm, TIL. I pronounce bouquet like “boo kay” and bokeh like “bow kay.” But MW says either pronunciation is valid for bouquet.
"Cameras" making changes to the image like this make the discussion about the image processing pipeline during the Rittenhouse trial seem a little less bizarre.
The entire point of Free Software is about users being in control of their programs, so of course it is about the power dynamic. But of course even if it was about him pissed - and he was pissed, which is something he did mention - it was because he was denied that control.

There isn't really any other interpretation than that.

Also the story you linked at is not RMS' story, but a different and more recent story which is also about a printer that sounds similar to RMS'. The RMS story is linked in the page you gave, though it is a transcript and kinda big. Here is the relevant bits:

> And then I heard that somebody at Carnegie Mellon University had a copy of that software. So I was visiting there later, so I went to his office and I said, "Hi, I'm from MIT. Could I have a copy of the printer source code?" And he said "No, I promised not to give you a copy." [Laughter] I was stunned. I was so -- I was angry, and I had no idea how I could do justice to it. All I could think of was to turn around on my heel and walk out of his room. Maybe I slammed the door. [Laughter] And I thought about it later on, because I realized that I was seeing not just an isolated jerk, but a social phenomenon that was important and affected a lot of people.

Emphasis on the last bit: "And I thought about it later on, because I realized that I was seeing not just an isolated jerk, but a social phenomenon that was important and affected a lot of people."

And after all he made the Free Software Foundation, not Working Printers Foundation.
struct USD someone_was_racist(char * name, char * randomWokeSpeakBuffer);
Making a CPU Using an Analog Modular Synthesizer
I think the whole point is that it is from the other perspective (they are "jural corelative"?)[1].

Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noblesse_oblige

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corelative
It might be the right choice and also fraud. Does parody law grant no leeway?
>The big difference is the channel, which allows electrons to flow from the source to the drain. In today’s transistors, the channel is based on silicon. In contrast, a carbon nanotube FET makes use of a fixed number of tiny and parallel nanotubes for the channels, each measuring 1nm in diameter. Leveraging the properties of these materials, carbon nanotube transistors exhibit high mobilities at low power.

vacuum channel is even better - 460GHz with existing technology
https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/185027-the-vacuum-tube-s...
And it is upvoted through the roof because it is Tesla. The one car manufacturer valued as high as "all other" (very many) car manufacturers together. Tesla is different, why treat them like everyone else?
There's nothing to put a finger on and no meme rebuttal needed, because both statements can be true.

Tesla can score poorly in 3rd party consumer testing and that might be a valuable data point to those who care or value their testing.

And a number of people who really want a Tesla can also be people who have never heard of Consumer Reports nor value its testing.

At current domestic capacity levels, you [only] need 500K people from category #2 ahead of your order to produce the observed lead times.
I get the sense that you are channeling a general distrust of the system into this specific case. I will say I’m in agreement with your points in a general sense.

But as far as this case goes, I’m not sure. The alleged crime is a very technical one. The facts are all recorded and they paint a clear picture. The only question is how they apply to the law and whether or not they raise to the level of a crime.

That’s the job of a jury. They will receive a document with a list of charges, and the prosecution will lay out a very clear roadmap as to how each element of their case maps to the elements of the relevant statutes being charged.

Since this is a very technical crime, most of the evidence would be document-based and very convincing to a jury. It’s hard to create reasonable doubt in such document-heavy cases. So the only question will be how many charges can the prosecutor make the facts fit. That’s where these “50 years” claims come in, by stacking charge after charge in serial.

But importantly, neither the prosecutor nor the jury decide the sentence. That’s the job of the judge under the sentencing guidelines. This is what makes those “50 years” claim of the prosecutor bogus, and what any well-represented individual should understand.

I think Swartz did understand that because he opted to go to trial.

I get that people want there to be a clear moral story here. One perspective is that Swartz was a child prodigy, a beloved activist, someone who challenged the system, and then succumbed to pressure when it bore down on him with the full weight of the federal government.

But it’s not as clean as that. On the other hand he was a well connected, high net worth individual who repeatedly flaunted the system, and thought he would never face consequences. In my opinion, that’s the profile of someone ripe for heavy handed prosecution.

I am sympathetic to both perspectives.
They are "not rich" in only the most privileged of perspectives. Even if we limit that perspective to the US, which is a pretty wealthy country by most measures: the average vehicle on the road in the US was built before Tesla even opened their first assembly plant. The used car market in the US is 2.8x the size of the new car market. Median income buyers struggle to afford new cars of any fuel type or brand.

But, call 'em whatever you want. My point was, the demographic who buy new cars which compete in a luxury-priced segment are a demographic who are motivated by the technology of the product rather than value/price/maintenance.
The mask scandal brought it to light.
The hair trimmers are not a gift. They are a pointed commentary on your grooming, or so I would assume.
We need to do that anyway, but then the doctors that make those decisions wouldn’t get paid nearly as much. There is absolutely an artificial scarcity of MDs in the medical field that needs to be discussed.
Perks are a hack to continue to overwork your employees. Feed them and they don't have to leave to get food. Give them yoga and they won't have to leave for yoga class. Give unlimited vacation and they'll think they can take a break whenever they want, so they won't take one.

General inefficiency in their company is completely fine as long as they continue to increase revenue, as revenue growth is the only "efficiency" that matters in capitalism.
Leverage. Call options at 2000 strike expiring on 9/16/22 cost roughly 1000 now. For each dollar GOOG goes up (or down), the deep in money options' price will probably move roughly one dollar in the same direction, as long as GOOG price doesn't go down too much. So instead of investing on 100 Google shares for 300K dollars, she can buy 3 call options (each call option is for 100 shares) for the same money and makes three times as much if GOOG goes up, and loses three times as much (or more) if it goes down: e.g., GOOG is under 2000 in 9/16, she will lose all 200K dollars.

Essentially, she's bullish on GOOG. She's also rich enough to take the risk to leverage 3 times. She's even more bullish on RBLX though.
But they are obviously less healthy?
Are Video Games Really Addictive? Business models have bolstered the case
FWIW, UX research (perhaps in the 1980s) also suggested that while many people reported "feeling faster" with particular input/editing actions (compared to e.g. using a mouse), in some case the operations were no faster as observed, but they apparently involved enough cognitive load to produce a time blindness in the user.
Not sure which “it” you mean.

The movie is clearly a caricature of the stupid-Right.

The world is indeed currently both stupid-Right and stupid-Left.
More precisely anarchism. The ethos of Stallman is completely at odds with that of libertarians.
Ironically in some jurisdictions, you can patent crops. Patent != copyright of course, but it is related as in this case it would partly be used to prevent sale of the same type of rice.
These don’t provide a better turning radius than traditional wheels. The reduced turning radius only happens because the left and right wheels can spin independently, but you can do that with traditional wheels (but not traditional drive trains).

I’m not sure that this does anything for pedestrian safety, though.
If that were true then reports of this sort would be much more common.
"MCU break" services start at just under 1k$ and go up to a few k$ USD, the last time I checked. They're mostly based in the Far East (I'm not surprised at the author of this page) and while a lot of people may think "IP theft", they're very useful for right-to-repair, although at the higher end of the price range; if you have some old very expensive machinery to which the original company has long discontinued support or even no longer exists, the price doesn't seem so high anymore.
Your two examples are horrible examples. Celeste is truly a pixel game. It uses pixels as an art style, but spending any time with the game reveals its complexity.

- The resolution of the game is detached from the pixels, allowing them to be squished and squashed.
- While it looks like they’re reusing assets, they really aren’t that much. A ton of areas have unique pixel tiles.
- The code is complicated and complex; the physics and control are astoundingly advanced.
- It has beautiful high resolution drawings of characters and cutscenes.
- The music and sound is full fidelity.
- Celeste is running on Unity, which is probably the biggest reason for its large size.

That Castlevania game has a 3D main character, with Retina quality textures. Since it’s made for Apple Arcade, it has to support a 4K resolution for Apple TV, meaning all the game’s assets have to look reasonable on a screen at that resolution. The main character alone must weigh a couple megabytes.
https://journals.sagepub.com/stoken/default+domain/10.1177%2...

Mirror: https://www.gwern.net/docs/design/2021-franconeri.pdf
I'm getting real factorio vibes[0] from this

0. https://wiki.factorio.com/Fast_inserter
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