skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The worst part is we only got this service because it was represented to us as free. It was a genetic test that was nice to have but not strictly necessary. We would not have gotten it if we'd known we would be billed $6k.

Now I feel like I will have to screenshot and archive every digital representation that is made to us about whether X will be covered and be prepared to initiate a lawsuit over it.

In the meantime we will simply not be paying the bill. I've been thinking about doing this for many other medical bills we receive as well. It's all so arbitrary and uncontrollable. I simply don't feel I have an obligation to pay a bill in a made-up amount for made-up reasons I have nothing to do with.

I am a very reliable bill payer and normally see it as a basic matter of personal responsibility, but this broke me.
Waymo and Deepmind are currently money sinks for Google constantly running at a loss and only supposed by Google's massive ad-funded war-chest. Same for Facebook's/Meta's endeavors into VR where Quest goggles are sold at a loss to consumer.

Please wake me up when Waymo and Deepening generate any profit on their own, without any funding from the mother ship, that doesn't revolve around ad targeting.
The Guardian is certainly left wing and I do read it. That article is presenting research that shows the relative impacts of different personal choices, such as having fewer children, or not running a car. It's not necessarily advocating them as serious options for fixing the problem.

The concluding statements say:

"Chris Goodall, an author on low carbon living and energy, said: “The paper usefully reminds us what matters in the fight against global warming. But in some ways it will just reinforce the suspicion of the political right that the threat of climate change is simply a cover for reducing people’s freedom to live as they want.

“Population reduction would probably reduce carbon emissions but we have many other tools for getting global warming under control,” he said. “Perhaps more importantly, cutting the number of people on the planet will take hundreds of years. Emissions reduction needs to start now.”

Seems reasonably balanced to me.
Interesting. That means that podcasts advocating for Catalan independence, of which there are several, will have to get delisted too.
I thought the title was a great pun, but didn't see Excel mentioned in the article. The article even mentioned low-code/no-code, which Excel - and offspring like Google Sheets - IMO is the original and still best tool in that space.
You are attacking a strawman. Nobody is saying Niel Young should be preventing from criticizing Joe Regan to uphold freedom of speech and I doubt you think they did.
Not a surprise, really.

I have battled so many times with smug novice "engineers", fresh from their CS courses, pointing, without even thinking twice, O(n^2) or even O(n^3) algorithms as errors on code reviews. This without taking into account the size of the input or the underlying machine executing the code.

It is my constant source of amazement -- to interview yet another candidate who can write any number of sorting algorithms from memory on a whiteboard but who can't tell whether a linked list or an array list insertion is going to be faster for a given application.
Regarding "repurposing". You have it backwards. Hydraulic fracturing for geothermal -- then known as Hot Dry Rock, but now called EGS -- has been around in practice since (at least) the 1970s [1]. It's basically the creation of permeable pathways for water to flow through in order to mine the heat.

"Fracking" for natural gas took off in 2000's. The essence of the process is the same -- creation of permeable pathways. But many of the more controversial practices (high volume flow, slickwater, heavy use of biocides) are avoided by EGS projects specifically for environmental reasons.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_dry_rock_geothermal_energy
In Canada we use email for person-to-person money transfers. I transfer money to my contacts by email address. They then get an email which informs them they have a pending transfer, and allows them to deposit it into their bank account.

You can optionally register your email with the central system for autodeposit.
Prologue – Powerful and flexible web framework written in Nim
Tell HN: Hetzner is down (console and DNS)
Seems like Hetzner has some issues. DNS servers are not resolving and console is showing an error: "An error occurred during the login process"

https://status.hetzner.com/incident/286dfd0d-7762-493f-8477-d0c8c0db138a
Ukraine-Russia tensions: British troops 'unlikely' to fight
They are, but your protections are pretty minimal. We have more theft by our government (civil asset forfeiture) than by actual thieves. Not just that, banks themselves have proven to be unreliable with boxes independent of government theft.

Example CAF case: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.latimes.com/california/stor...

Example bank fuck-up: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/19/business/safe-deposit-box...
Most addressable LED strings have 3 or 4 wires, with 1 or 2 being data.

The ones in the article have only 2 wires, positive and negative.
Brené Brown says she's pausing her Spotify-exclusive podcast
1. Don’t use web fonts.

2. There is no step 2

They just slow the web down and often make things less legible in the name of style.
It is how boycotts work. But its a boycott based on spotify's refusal to engage in censorship.

>Spotify choosing to end their contract with Joe Rogan over this wouldn't infringe on his free speech. Having the right to say whatever you want doesn't mean any given company needs to let you broadcast it on their platform.

It's not government censorship, but it's still censorship.

Freedom of speech as a concept isn't just limited to the first amendment.
That was somewhat of an ad hominem attack, I believe the point that was being made is that Red and Green have certain connotations, generally Red = Bad, Stop, Danger and Green = Good, Go, Safe. I don't think it has anything to do with ones beliefs and though it may indicate an opinion, there is no value in criticizing someone for having a different opinion when they provide it in the appropriate space such as a comments' forum.
If its a chain - where the quality is roughly uniform, what other metric would you prioritise by?
Look at the WHOIS registration dates for the internet domains of the Fortune 500 in 1996. Almost all businesses knew within a few years that it was valuable to them. Go on the Wayback Machine (starts in '96) and check out the various websites for General Electric, Toyota, GM, you name it. They were there. Here's a taste from the Fortune 500[1] in 1996:

GM: gm.com - 1992-01-16T00:00:00Z

Ford: ford.com - 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Exxon Mobile: exxon.com - 1991-01-03T05:00:00Z

Wal-Mart: walmart.com - 1995-02-23T00:00:00Z

AT&T: att.net (among others) - 1993-12-13T00:00:00Z

General Electric: ge.com - 1986-08-05T00:00:00Z

Mobil: mobil.com - 1991-02-01T05:00:00+0000

Chrysler: chrysler.com - 1993-06-16T00:00:00Z

Altria Group: 2000-03-14T21:05:01Z

So there you have it - 9/10 of the most valuable companies in the world had a domain name and website by 1995 (the only one missing being a tobacco giant). I don't think I would say "most businesses didn't believe it was relevant to them".

[1] https://archive.fortune.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500_arc...
Pieces of Pi
Is there anything to AMM's beyond automated currency speculation (where "currency" is some set of digital tokens)?
> we did use the damn things for stuff beyond games back in the day, you know.

This. The Amiga's multitasking was amazing back in the mid/late 1980s. My favorite example:

I'm in my dorm room, writing a paper in a non-western-alphabet language[1] on my Amiga. The phone rings. My BBS, running in the background, answers the phone and someone logs in. This all happens with zero impact on my using the computer.

This blew my fellow students' minds. I'd have to show the BBS user's activity for them to believe me. All this on a machine with only floppy disks. I couldn't afford a hard drive until later.

I also wrote solvers for math problems in AmigaBASIC, fancier programs in Modula 2 (I couldn't afford the C compiler), and, of course, played games.

Edited to add [1]

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[1] There was one PC that supported this. Not having to sign up to use it made getting homework done much easier.
Since Google has source code going back to their founding, it would be nice if they literally offered older versions of their search, just with updated crawl data.

Then you could use "Google 2008" and get decent results. (Google still only needs to crawl the web once for all versions.)
He would go to Rumble or whatever the name of that other platform is ;) (don't want to get banned for mentioning it). Anyway Joe Rogan would love that play.
A little speculative but interesting nonetheless. If other “Spotify exclusive” podcast hosts are getting frustrated Spotify has a much bigger issue on their hands.
Yup. One more freebie hardfork that reverses (okay not "reverses" techbically but forks away from a previous state) some mistake/hack and Ethereum would lose trust especially competition between chains (EVM or otherwise) is so high.
Catalan independence is not generally advocating from sedition from the united states, which is obviously the only territory covered by this law.
The best is both. And learning c++ python bindings
I was referring to tech as in general SWEs doing line of business work, etc. which would account for the majority of SWEs at banks.

I would put stuff like quants and HFT at a bank in a more rarified, elite, niche - perhaps on a tier similar to the elite hedge funds like Citadel. They’re not what I would think of first when describing “tech at a bank/finance” though. But definitely would agree their prestige and compensation is much higher.
This is probably harsh to say, but if a $500/mo expense is what breaks the bank, you can't seriously claim to be operating commercially successful software. Even small businesses spend $XX,000 a month on labor and transaction fees and vendors and rent...etc. If the option is $500/mo for some other guy's work or $3,000/mo to hire a new developer to work on recreating the already existing system full-time, the choice is pretty clear.
One of the core ideas behind unsafe blocks is that they don’t actually change any semantics. All they do is allow more operations. This makes it a lot easier to reason about (for both the programmer and the compiler) since there’s not two different set of rules to remember.

It does however makes things a bit clunky since the unsafe bits need to ensure a “safe” state throughout the whole block and not only by the end of it.
Name some non consumer grade software that's up to the task?

I think you're making excuses. Apple, owning the entire stack, has the least excuse of anyone. Given their market share they also have a lot of responsibility to be better.
I think you can do test transaction off-chain, I think they're called test-nets and you can use them through many wallets, and even online IDE's[1]. Unfortunately, crypto is still at the stage where it's built for devs and technically minded individuals, and its pretty user hostile. Sending directly from wallet to wallet is a pretty low level thing to do, and generally people should be executing transactions through swaps or other DAPP's, which to me seems like we're working against the empowerment principle of crypto

[1] https://remix.ethereum.org/
It was from one of the D8 conference.
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Oh yes, you get to pay $500/mo insurance premiums and $2000 deductible and lots of copays for the privilege of using this masochistic system.
It's a worthwhile article to read for sure.

But I can get past your troll-of-a-term "free speech privilege." It's as if you are attempting to downgrade the principle of freedom of speech to limit it to describing an annoying pattern of rich guys mouthing off. (And completing the example from the "other rich guy" in this instance.)

What's the upshot here? Are you a staunch supporter of freedom of speech or not? I can't tell at all from your comment nor from the text of the article (which is merely a review of Neil Young's output).
Limbaugh (or his producers and/or stations) paid for ASCAP and BMI licensing, and the Pretenders music was released with ASCAP or BMI licensing in the USA, which allows anyone with the license to play the music (on the radio). It specifically prohibits the copyright holder from picking and choosing who can play the music.
Rust has a small standard library (and that's ok)
In other words it isn’t renewable, it’s just very long-lived.
This is really great!! Definitely something that would have helped me back in the day before I realized how complicated / annoying getting proper tires was.

I won't need it for my own bike anymore, but definitely when I get a new (used) one next.
The rewrite should be done by the people that will be maintaining it, not "elite coders" that aren't going to touch it ever again afterwards
That's the cost the network pays to miners/core devs. So EBITDA comes out very negative
This is true if the recipient is a person, but in this case it is a "Smart contract" which means it has particular programmed behavior and cannot just be asked to do something for ethical reasons. If it is not programmed to return money, it can't return money, and if it is not programmed to be reprogrammable, then it can't be reprogrammed to help this person.
The thing that gets overlooked here is this guy had to have an above average understanding of all this to even get into a position to make this mistake. Manually sending weth to a contract address is not a process a newbie would even conceive of doing. Or even having weth in the first place.

This guy was pretty far over on the right side of the bell curve when it comes to Ethereum knowledge.

It's still obviously a giant design gotcha that losing money this way is possible. They fact that it happened to a guy who knew probably 95% of the esoterica he needed to know to complete the transaction successfully and still got completely burned is an issue.
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> And if not, why the hell not?

Because he sent funds to a contract (a program) and not a person (a private key). The operation of the given contract (the actual program) cannot be altered, which is useful in the sense that you can inspect the contract code and make sure that it does what you want with the funds you send to it.
> The whole thing is performance politics to distract from the "insurance" companies running everything from medicine regulations to your kids playgrounds (so they don't hurt themselves and need care).

This is also a consequence of our legal/tort system. At one of my business, a person claims to have stepped on a landscaping rock and damaged their ankle or knee or something. They took pictures of this roughly 2in x 2in x 2in rock in the parking lot, maybe a foot away from the curb that separated the landscaping rocks and the parking lot surface.

This lawsuit has been going on for 3 years now, and I can only assume $10k+ in lawyer time has been spent asking the employees if they saw a rock there and when they last checked the parking lot to see if it was clear of rocks, etc.

With the courts accepting cases like these, and businesses needing to protect themselves from cases like these, it is no wonder as a society, we end up wrapping ourselves in insurance. Specifically in this case, the person or family suing has been found to have a history of these types of lawsuits. And yet still, the case drags on.
The core of the earth is essentially a fission reactor with quite a lot of fuel available. While this heat source is technically finite, so is the sun, and the universe itself. If you somehow live to see the heat death of the universe, you’re probably SOL.

But for humans living on earth today, and in timescales we care about (millions of years), the Earth’s core won’t run out of heat.
It is worth noting the role that living memory plays:

Both Neil Young and Joni Mitchell had Polio when they were children. They are old enough to remember the huge impact of mass vaccination on that terrifying disease, that they themselves suffered under. They might take anti-vaccination disinformation personally.

When generational knowledge like this is lost; there is a danger that a lesson of history is forgotten and the same mistakes made again.

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joni_Mitchell#1943%E2%80%93196...
I'm sincerely baffled by how many people seem to feel that the exact order of operations in this situation makes a big difference.

Let's assume, for the sake of argument, that Young really did say "get rid of Rogan or I'll leave". How is that any different from saying "I'm leaving because you won't get rid of Rogan"? Or "I'm leaving, but I'll consider coming back if you get rid of Rogan"?

In all of those cases, the end result (and the negotiating power of all parties) is essentially the same, so what makes one "free speech" and another "anti-free speech"?
It's not about any individual book, there's simply no evidence of mainstream barter use in any know place or era in the world. The “barter before money” is just a fable invented by Adam Smith.

Just Google “barter myth” and you'll have plenty of resources if you're interested in that subject.

“Barter preceding money” is the economics equivalent of “knights fighting without a helmet” you can see in Hollywood movies.
And they didn't invade Crimea. Or Georgia. ... right.

Why tankies insist on defending a homophobic, right-wing dictatorship in Russia is just beyond me.
Therefore information to refute BS becomes more valuable.
That it's easy to lie is not a sufficient argument for censorship.
It’s a pretty funny line. Anyone know what the original Japanese was?
Nematodes can survive in a suspended form of life for indefinite time
Spanish law makes sedition illegal as well. If apple is to remove encouragement of illegal acts they should remove all those podcasts.
Spotify's policy on COVID misinformation is, according to a statement they gave last April [1]:

> Spotify prohibits content on the platform which promotes dangerous false, deceptive, or misleading content about COVID-19 that may cause offline harm and/or pose a direct threat to public health. When content that violates this standard is identified it is removed from the platform.

Spotify has removed episodes from other podcasters that violate this, but the won't touch Rogan's episodes.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/27/22406315/joe-rogan-vaccin...
No, sorry “the doctor knows it won’t work” is complete BS.

We don’t spend 100x on a drug because a doctor “has a feeling”.

The insurance requirements are typically quite limited for 1st line failures. Doctor just needs to prescribe then 2 weeks later attest that it didn’t work.

Seems reasonable to save the healthcare system thousands of dollars when tens of dollars would do?
I disagree: your style is less readable than Black's. You've moved the data-structure syntax away from the data, and toward the function-call syntax, causing them to blend together.

This would be more readable -- put the space around the structure, not inside it:

my_function_call( [1, 2, 3] )

Now we can clearly see the separation of the argument from the function call. But I wouldn't bother switching code formatters just to have this.
> easier to produce bullshit than refute it.

This goes both ways
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Thanks for the detailed response. I will check out The Anglo American Establishment
Similar thing happened to me when I was interviewing around. My resume and LinkedIn had my title as “Vice President”. It apparently intimidated more than one interviewer at the SV tech companies I Was targeting.

I came to the conclusion the title hurt me more than helped, since I had no desire to remain in the finance industry. So I replaced it with just a generic “senior SWE” title.
You are intentionally misrepresenting the parent comment. The point is not that nobody should be able to transfer from one address to another, and pretending otherwise is pretty dishonest.
He also pardoned war criminals. So there's that.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/dec/27/eddie-gallag...
Can't edit anymore, should have elaborated more:
I'm not suggesting we need this for many reasons, I'm wondering how this will evolve.
FB, Insta,TikTok, newspapers etc have these issues, many opportunists hiding behind the fact that scale fact checking is HARD.
I'm just cynical and fear governments jump in with the a hammer called regulation.
Will there ever be enough ponzi schemes were the governments will say "enough"?
Reading the reddit thread; it seems like this individual was an OG miner and just held ETH for many years. His previous time investment matured, and he decided to finally cash out.
Thanks for sharing, this looks really useful. I have started biking again recently and the labels on the tire are super confusing. Do you have any plans to extend this(attempt OCR or something)?

I tried looking at the source a bit and it seems like your markup is pretty clean, if a bit unreadable after minification. I liked the classes "question" and "answer". It looks like you are planning on using affiliate links to monetize it?
Great thing about the import notation is it points you in the direction to look. Where’s the numpy code base? Your go.mod should specify the version of the library you’re using.
Show HN: Nsga – Rust Implementation of the NSGA-II
nsga is an opinionated implementation of the NSGA-II (Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm), a multi-objective genetic optimization algorithm.
It's not much different from

import com.mysql.cj.jdbc
The financial system cannot run on blockchain technology, even if the technology worked well. This is because "decentralisation" requires blockchain assets to be "unconfiscable", but financing is only feasible if the assets are "confiscable" (otherwise the borrower can walk away with the money and suffer no consequences).
Aside from the points noted by other commenters about this being a choice most consumers cannot reasonably be expected to make, the notion that there is choice at all is simply false. Almost all Christmas lights sold in shops last year were of the current generation of fixed LED light strings sold in a plastic tub. The year before these were sold mostly in cardboard packages. For the basis indoor Christmas tree light product, this accounts for 95% of the product available, and almost all of the offering in physical stores¹.

There's no reasonable chance of voting with your wallet against those numbers. Sure, I might be able to get some fancy hand-crafted Swedish Christmas lights with a ten year replacement part availability guarantee on some website, and who knows, perhaps a very effective word-of-mouth campaign will make them quite successful! — and still not make a dent in the global market. Realistically, it won't have any measurable impact in the greater scheme of things. This product is driven by sellers and manufacturers going for the absolute bottom in price because it is technologically feasible, externalities (like the environmental impact) are not part of the cost, and most consumers have plenty of other worries and simply crave a bit of Christmas cheer.

1: Here in the Netherlands, although likely globally applicable.
Science is certainly not about consensus.
How would I know I have never read them.
There is huge difference between a government censoring a private citizen and a non government company or private citizen censoring a private citizen. When governments censor history has shown over and over very bad things follow.