skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's far too big of an industry to call it dirty or clean. This guy was doing dirt, which didn't work out too well for him. And cleaning this type of fraud up is definitely squarely the responsibility of law enforcement, not random industry participants.

Most industry participants are just building things that there is market demand for. That is not necessarily enlightened, but it's also no worse than anything anyone in any other industry does.
I strongly believe what they really want (even if they don't know they want this) is a National ID system, that includes at least weak crypto signatures as a proof someone is holding a piece of ID.

Though what I'd rather have is a portal run by the government to run ID verification requests through (so they're logged) that people can then authenticate to that site and sign off on approvals for.
It's also thought that the universe exists in cycles of bangs and crunches. Not that we can really test that hypothesis though.
Early computers augmented or replaced humans whose job title was “computer”
In my experience universities are massive bureaucracies. The more you agitate the more they push back with extreme malice. I have personally seen friends being treated far worse than what you have experienced. We often hear of nervous breakdowns, PTSD, etc from the student counseling services.

My advice may be coming too late. In situations, such as yours, it often helps to personally meet with the persons involved. Face to face contact eliminates the distancing effect of emails and of course removes the interference from spam filters.
Strangely, ten reds in a row is not particularly good evidence of an unfair wheel.

For an American wheel, the odds of red in a single spin is 18/38= 0.4737. So ten in a row is 0.4737^10, which is about 0.0005689.

So one should expect five or so such sequences in ten thousand spins. Or one in every two thousand spins.

If a casino spins its roulette wheel 200 times a day, you would expect to see a sequence of ten reds in a row every ten days. If the casino runs ten roulette wheels, it's an every day occurrence.

Low probability events happen regularly with enough samples.
What especially doesn't exist is Web "3.0". What's next, 3.1 LTS? 3.2.4 beta2? I wish people would stop abusing semantic versioning and tacking on a ".0" just because it looks funky cool to businessy types.
Dr Strangeloves of Rock Invade America [video]
Agreed. I suppose someone losing his dad at 22 is, by and large, an anomaly in the welfare society.

My dad died when I was 26. We had a really good, warm relationship, though: driving in his car, sitting side by side, not talking a single word for 30-45 minutes, and both still feeling good.

(Occasionally, though, in the end, he would ask something like "So, ugh, have you considered who to become when you're an adult?" -- to which I replied, "Uh, I guess I have, yeah." In a few still seconds, he'd say, "Yeah. Good idea to think about that." Disclaimer: national stereotype of us, Estonian men, is that we speak around 6 sentences a year -- but even at that time, as a teenager, I liked this blissful silence a lot.)

Then again, losing dad at a young age has surely influenced my own parenting. Basically, I gave up all my career ambitions just to be with the kids when they were (are) preschoolers. Prior to his death, work stuff was really going uphill for the 20-something me; now, I admit really struggling to get back on track again (I may have missed the career train for good).

I have also noticed an internal mantra or meme: I need to raise my kids so they could cope (psychologically and in terms of hands-on survival skills) if one of their parents, or both of their parents, should die unexpectedly.

To the previous poster and GP: thanks a lot for sharing your experiences and thoughts. I sometimes think that maybe me and my dad had no principal misunderstandings simply because he died too early for these to develop.
Transfers between banks are free in the US too (if you mean ACH transfers, Wires cost $30, but the only time I used a wire is paying the downpayment for my house). But setting up ACH link is both relatively complex and dangerous, since once it's set up, it can be used to move money in both directions indefinitely. Thus, not very useful for between-persons payments. Banks have other systems for such payments, but there are so many different ones that the chance random person has a bank with the system you know how to operate that is also supported by your bank is pretty low. Thus, Venmo. Paypal is easier to explain - they were born at the time banks and payment processors weren't really sure this whole internet thing is not a passing fad, so they didn't do anything. And now they have a huge incumbent advantage.
Here's a recent example from sqlalchemy. I'm using a type annotation.

Update to new minor version. BAM, annotation no longer works, the classes have moved around and I'm staring at an ugly exception. To be clear: these were not private modules, methods, what have you. So we're not talking about the space bar issue here, it wasn't some undocumented or buggy behavior, things just stopped working as the API got shuffled around. At that point this was literally the third semver breakage in the same month, and yeah, this is unusual, but dependencies have stayed fixed since then, it's a headache and it makes me feel like everything is just built on a pile of shifting sand.
Ask HN: Help me build this catalog of B2B products
Every problem has a solution. Or maybe gazillions of solutions. But finding the right solution is not easy.
I am building a catalog of B2B products for businesses to easily find and compare solutions for their problems at one place.
If you are building a B2B product, please add it to the sheet using this form:
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Use this sheet to search for a solution to your problem:
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Hope it will be a bridge between indie makers and other businesses.
I am planning to build a website if the sheet gets enough response. It'll help reach more businesses without SEO BS and all.
Your feedback and suggestions are welcome.
Pretty sure my kid left one at school but he denies it
Why doesn’t test mode work for testing?
Don't look to social media for a good sample of how things are. It attracts extreme views like flies to dog poop.

It's pretty clear Covid is straining the health system everywhere. Yes, plenty will quit, maybe wages will rise, the system will recover.
Oh, I hadn't noticed that difference! In that case it already works the way I suggested.
The idea also shows up as a side note in one of the Culture series novels.
This looks neat but it seems like it would work better just with a camera rather than relying on eeg & myo, which are unreliable and uncomfortable.
Magic Wordle Words – The Best First-Guess in Wordle
It doesn't even support named pipes - the function's been broken for years. Interestingly it doesn't actually seem to matter a great deal, at least now that temporary files are usually on a fast disk.
It's fun to click around for a bit, but then you realize that there isn't that much variation between pixels, and you'd like to see the whole watershed. I think there was such a map posted on HN some years ago, but I was not successful in finding it. The USGS has watersheds for North America [1], but it's not very clear where some of the watersheds ultimately drain to, and it's not very granular. There's another one at [2], which colors each watershed in the US differently, which is nice, although it's not clear where the data comes from.

[1] https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/watershed-map-north-americ...

[2] https://cascadiaunderground.org/watershed-map-united-states-...
> that applies to EU citizens around the world, including the US

No. To give a counterexample, there are EU citizens in China, and most internet companies in China don't care a fvck about GDPR, especially Tencent. You bet your conversations on WeChat are logged, sometimes subjected to censorship, and more, it's just how things work. Heck, there are even laws in China that are fully contradictory to GDPR, and the local laws take precedence, regardless of what citizenship you have, if you are physically within the borders you are subject to local laws.

The US isn't any different from China here. The EU doesn't get to enforce its laws in China, and it doesn't get to enforce its laws in the US. They aren't the world police.

That said, I'm not saying GDPR is bad, just that the US needs to have its own version of it in US law. What is bad is letting the EU enforce laws outside their borders. China doesn't, and neither should the US.
This is photogrammetry
> I keep feeling like I’m missing something.

Nope, you're not missing anything. NFTs are the world's most convoluted and expensive way to store a bookmark.
The shift is still there, though. The data missing, though, is the sizes in cm/in. I wouldn't be surprised if M/L/XL changed meaning between those dates.
> we may be more than our physical wetware

The hard science tells that we are not. Poke at a person’s brain, and their personality will change. You don’t even need to die in order to cease to exist in the sense that matters to you personally and to those around you.
Imagining my own mother in this scenario is only possible in a sitcom episode
I'm really getting sick of all these vacuous articles about web3. The anti-web3 virtue signalling just as tiresome as the pro-web3 puffery. Even a repost of a 20 year old PG essay or peter norvig's spell checker would be better than this. Something with some technical meat to it, not just a pile of bones.
Amusingly, my physics and math classes all used FORTRAN, but my teachers were OK with me translating the programs to BASIC so I could run them on my crude MS-DOS computer. I had a copy of the IBM FORTRAN compiler, but it was this cumbersome beast that required two diskettes -- one contained the compiler and the other contained the linker, or something like that. And the complete compile/link workflow took several minutes. BASIC, and then Turbo Pascal, were game changing because you could run a program instantly.

BASIC even had crude array math via the MAT statement though I don't recall the details.

I got to my senior year, second semester, and had a meeting with my advisor to make sure I had met all of my graduation requirements. He looked at my record and said: "Hey, you were supposed to take a programming class. But you know how to program, don't you?" I said yes. He checked the box to waive that requirement for me. Then I started breathing again.
I just tried it on Safari, and it seems to work for me. Maybe try and see if javascript is enabled.
Its all so tiresome
I had it at 18. Still not a millionaire. Also learning that a lot of it is false. I've been all over the ESBI quadrant. You have to adjust it to your situation.

Right now, the employed quadrant pays unrealistically high. This wasn't always the case, but Rich Dad Poor Dad over the years made it such that architect and doctors quit their jobs to become stock traders and bakery owners. So there's a lot more demand for people who are willing to sit in an office. It's definitely an Employee's market, at least in 2021, and you'll wear yourself thin trying to hire. Sam Altman also said a few years back that more people wanted to be investors than start startups, so as a beginner investor, you're very likely to end up with bad deals.

I wouldn't say it's a bad book, but read it and apply concepts of economics to it. It gives you a piece of the puzzle but it's incomplete.
My College Side Project: Gather – A way to consolidate event information
But the probability is not 50%. It is 99% to win if you switch and 1% if you stick with the same door.

Imagine you repeat the process multiple times, but the contestant chooses to pick door 1 every time. Would you still assume that staying with door 1 every time would give you better odds, that is you would win 50% of the time if you always pick door 1 out of 100?
Well, there's Minecraft. Its worlds are huge and procedurally generated.

As to faces, Skyrim does that. There aren't unique face meshes for every NPC, there's some base meshes and various parameters to adjust texture and shape.
Early blockchains have also solved the problems they were designed to solve. For example:

- Bitcoin offers a transferrable store of value which cannot be inflated by governments,

- Stablecoins, thanks to being cross-border, are often used in e.g. Argentina where the local currency is unstable and it's not legal to buy dollars,

- Proof of Humanity + universal basic income has provided extra income to Argentinian people (e.g. heard of someone who was able to purchase a ticket to visit their family for Christmas thanks to crypto UBI),

- Crypto has been used to send remittances to economically unstable places (Lebanon, Turkey, Venezuela)

- Gitcoin has provided public goods funding and advanced our conception of mechanism design,

- Helium has created a new 5G network that people can actually roam onto,

- NFTs have provided a new funding model for artists (who create public goods),

- Zcash and Monero have allowed for fully private digital transfers,

- Dark Forest (https://zkga.me/) has been an amusing game,

- Snapshot has helped create a delegative voting system that governs a $3B treasury,

These might not be problems that you face or believe are important, but all these are examples of intended problems being solved.

P.S. the tone of your comment made me a little sad :(
Heh. "cromulent" again.

..."there are perfectly cromulent reasons a developer would do implicit string concatenation spanning multiple lines"...

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/what-does-crom...
I stand by my comments. Video killed the radio star. And, social media killed RSS. Sure, it still exists. But, you don’t see that RSS logo on every website like you once did. A new-ish web user may not even know what RSS is.

Everyone’s like, let’s meta, let’s fediverse. Pft, it’s all just kids re-doing RSS.
i expect nothing less from a retired silicon valley exec.
Unani Medicine
In case anybody is wondering, the sentence normally given as an example of this is “She told him that she loved him”. You can put the word “only” anywhere in that sentence and each position makes the sentence mean something different.
Well, none of this has anything to do with liberty until some force is used. What happens if you just fail to pay the money lender? If he can imprison or enslave you then you're absolutely right. If all he can do is spread the word that you're not likely to repay your loans then it's not a matter of liberty.

Money is just cut paper, a convenient medium of exchange. If you have bad credit, your liberty is not in danger. The only thing in jeopardy is the willingness of others to cooperate/transact with you. Since they don't owe you anything to begin with, the point is moot.
How do you preview your image then? You have to have it in RGB for editing to show up on your monitor.
> A sure recipe for success has been to take a 90’s protocol that was stuck in time, centralize it, and iterate quickly.

Wow. That's one of those things you kinda know, then someone puts it to words like this, and the next thing I know I'm floored by the realization that Twitter is just centralized finger.
I'm not questioning Fortran in the wild, I'm questioning modern Fortran in the wild. Are those simulations Fortran 2008, or FORTRAN 77 that nobody dares touch?
The sugar in milk is lactose (glucose + galactose). Soda is basically fructose and glucose. So the glucose if common between the two.

I want recommendations of "don't eat sugar" to dig into the details, because sugar is everywhere. My mother-in-law "doesn't eat sugar" but constantly snacks on figs/dates, pours honey over everything, and drinks fruit smoothies daily. In my opinion, she has a very high sugar diet despite not adding any table sugar or corn syrup to anything. Many recommendations say to limit "added sugar" without explaining why naturally occurring sugar is okay.
1. This is already partly the case, but I’ve been worried about appearing to take away autonomy.

2. iOS has something similar, but for the reason in #1 I hadn’t used many of the features other than location because misplaced devices have been an issue.

3. That’s probably a good idea. I happened to be in the room once when someone asked for their social security number and they started to give it before I intervened.

Thanks! I appreciate your thoughtful advice and good luck!
It was more a comment on the headline which explicitly mentioned “your child’s…” Meanwhile, it’s about an early study which only suggests that we should do more research in the area.
YOU aren't missing anything. But a lot of people can't give over "two doors means fifty fifty"
Sounds much like the old saw: "we only hire the best!"

Do any VCs strive to invest in, say, the second quartile of YC batches?
Given alternatives for sending money do exist (and free), I'm fine with paying zero for a bank account.
> "Come to us, we represent a new free and open society unencumbered by stodgy authorities!".

I don't pay a lot of attention to the complaints, so I could be wrong, but it seems like when ppl complain about Twitter they're just as likely to complain about them being too unencumbered as they are about them restricting too much.
Ask HN: Why is Germany so anti nuclear?
As an Irish we don't have nuclear but we had been given tablets (the name escapes me now but I think iodine) based on a plant that was in the UK. Apperantly we were downwind.

As a family we had to learn and memorize where those tablets where. Chernobyl was around the same time.

There might be a stigma built. But what are the facts?

Full disclosure: incase I was not clear I'm pro nuclear.
That statement of the Monty Hall problem is still not quite correct. It needs to also include that you are told beforehand that the host will be opening a door and giving you a chance to switch.

If the host is not bound to make the offer, they could do something like only make the offer if you have picked the right door. Switching would then always lose.

People would learn that is the case, and no one would switch which would not be as interesting for the audience. To avoid this the host could give the option to switch half the time when the player picks an empty door and all the time when they pick the prize door. On average under this approach the player wins 1/3 of the time regardless of their choice.
I cover a 15 bed ICU in one of the states you mentioned and have seen the discrepancy as well.

I noticed, starting in 2020, that our hospital's internal ICU bed-available data did not correlate with local press/internet data. I have access to internal, real-time, system-wide ICU bed-available data. (I'll say that we have some where between 10-25 hospitals, don't want to be specific as I don't know what management would think of posts like this on HN). Our internal system-wide data does not correlate very well with state-wide press/internet metrics either.

When on-shift I spend much time trying to find beds for patients as well as fielding calls from other hospitals that are trying to do the same. The data available on the internet and in the press does not reflect the situation in the trenches at all in our region. I'm not sure how it could as our internal situation changes every 10-15 minutes, sometimes, depending on the progress or deterioration of individual patients, staffing availability, discharges home, numbers of people waiting to be cared for, what day of the week it is (Fri, Sat, Sun, Mon are the worst), how bad the roads are, what time of day it is (most people arrive in the afternoon and evening), if a holiday has just ended, if a large/local event has ended (people tolerate terrible symptoms for holidays and events and come to the ER afterwards).

For the entire pandemic, the real-time in-hospital situation has been more dire than is reflected in the press or on data-accumulation sites like Johns Hopkins. It has been exhausting.
I gave Gettr a try and came to the same conclusion. I can count on one half of one hand the number of people on there I'd be interested in seeing updates from.

But I'm glad it exists as a place people can safely be wrong on the internet.
Or you can share your Google doc around and let them edit it without creating new files.
It's generally accepted that writing was independently invented at least 4 times - in Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, and southern Mexico.

Fun fact: most writing systems in use today are descended from Egyptian Hieroglyphs.
This was the best read on web3 that I’ve seen yet. I’m definitely excited to play around with it, but I agree with many of Moxie’s points, especially around the promise of decentralization diverging from the hyper-centralized reality we see today.

I’ve been stewing on a thought experiment. Diaspora was aiming to be a decentralized Facebook competitor. I can see this project (or similar ones) gaining a foothold in the web3 space. But if social events are on chain, some of which might contain PII, how would such a service securely store fragments of data like this on random computers?
"social cost" sounds like another way of saying "real-world trust".
I've always been happy with the hypothesis that Atlantis was a myth derived from the Minoan Eruption that destroyed Thera.
I'm very skeptical of the idea that we can use principles to effectively instill the practices we hope to capture of a well functioning engineering team. Wittgenstein was right that language is given meaning by its use. Any principle has a context that assigns meaning to the words and sentences we use, and in an engineering culture that context is the practices of a team. When we try to lean on short principles and reiteration of them to steer our practices, we encourage a simplistic understanding of complex topics with many corner cases.

I can think of dozens of instances where dogmatic understanding of ideas like DRY, YAGNI, etc. lead to poor decisions by teams I've worked with. These are turns of phrase that have a specific context of use, but when we divorce them of that or rely on the phraseology to produce the phenomena we value, the concepts get corrupted.
The problem has posed by von Savant specified the host knew where the prize was. And claims the host reveals a non prize for. It is fairly obvious the host won't reveal the winning door, as it would end the problem.
Not sure how the assumptions are fighter intuitive.

Of course Hall himself said maybe I open a door because I want you to switch.
whats the reason for allowing like

foo,

to be a tuple? why not make this a syntax error? is there a use for single value tuples?
Careful what you wish for boss.
But it comes down to eating more chicken. Lift and Eat.
Do not just cram your gut. Plan what you eat.
Situations like remind one of the flaw of most email systems: there is no proof for sending and receiving and so email communication is unfit for legal purposes. Signing is actually not hard. I don’t understand why most systems do not implement/employ it.
If I delete an account yes but if I simply unsubscribe from a paid service I actually expect them to store any billing info in case I want to resubscribe. Should be a single click operation.
To defend the liberty of its citizens =)
Without trying to defend authors of Mongoid for a breaking change, if you have deployed into prod something you obviously have not tested, you are the only one to blame.

To me this post is more about lack of due process in Serpapi itself.
> Feels like the "distributed web" portion of it has just been an over-exaggeration all along.

It has, but only a small portion of people with the engineering skills to recognize knew it. Those profiting off it hyped it, and those not either called it a scam or stayed out of the fray.