skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No - they should know their way around matches and fires, and seen many in action. Including setting up fires themselves, just not illegally. Duh!

Practitioner doesn't mean "illegal practictioner".

Arson investigators' training (and even practice) includes setting up controlled fires to study how arsonists works or how a specific arson case played out...

Does anyone seriously has to put this lame "so to be a professor/investigator of X, one must do X?" (illegal or impossible) question, when the answer is not only obvious ("no, but they should be aquainted with X to the best possible and legal degree") but has been clarified again and again in this thread?
Not so medieval at all. Winston Churchill:

“You must sleep some time between lunch and dinner, and no half-way measures. Take off your clothes and get into bed. That’s what I always do. Don’t think you will be doing less
work because you sleep during the day. That’s a foolish notion held by people who have no imagination. You will be able to accomplish more. You get two days in one—well, at least one and a half, I’m sure.”

Luckily for the world, Hitler did not know this secret.
Do we really think women with grandchildren can’t understand Android phones?
But normies' hobbies at that age are, as OP said, changing diapers and family picnics.
Honestly I can very understand the situation. To be honest I don't have a solution for you. But let me comment on some points:

- Is travel really the solution? I mean isn't it not just walking away from you problems. Yeah I know myself some really great guys who went to Thailand or Philippines and had much more success with women there. One found his wife. Anyway that might be the solution.

- Regarding the age. According to a well known formula you can date people 1/2(your age) + 7. So it is nothing that special dating someone in their 20s if you are in your 30s.

- Regarding dance: Maybe you went to the wrong places. What you describe is not always the case.

- Regarding the Job: I once did had a very very exciting job with a lot of coding involved. Everyone was working a lot here. Changing the job kind of helped (low stress, nice people). It's much more about your team then the actual tasks in my opinion. Also jobs with a lot of meetings in big companies might be the hell for some of us, but might be a blessing for others since you often have to communicate much more.

If you found a solution. Please let me know ; )
It is a tool to convert ETH into an erc-20 compatible token. ETH itself can only be spent by the private key, whereas users can grant contracts the permission to manage the user's WETH for them.
No good options?
Antidepressant-level nutmeg in those pancakes.
The cupid changed the story completely. She was having an affair or waiting for the sailor to return, and completely lost her innocence. She's also looking pregnant. If it was an order, and it surely was, the father and family must have been furious and either ordered Vermeer or someone else to overpaint the cupid. And the girl got her innocence back. Could also happened a couple of years later when the lover didn't come back or married someone else.

Note that dutch girls at those times, and esp. those painted by Vermeer had their loved ones on sea in the east-indies for business. They all were reading letters, and had a map on the wall.
You do know you'll find people like that literally on every country, specially in a clubbing setting.
Don’t you work on a web browser?
I don't see any issues with everything you just outlined.
I think the key question is why does Apple consider it okay to make moves like dropping the headphone jack for merely cosmetic reasons, whereas dropping obscure 30 year old formats that do all kinds of psychotic stuff (like run code) for security reasons is a much tougher sell?
Ask HN: Booking.com shows different price for different users
HN Community,

I found booking.com have shown different price for me and my friend, as a higher level booking.com user, the price I have is $10 higher (10% mark up) than my friend. I am still using the app to book hotels. I think this probably happens in all apps. What's a viable solution for end users? Always book with unregistered users and have a compare website for hotels? I know this is not a technical question, but it opens up a space for a new app. TripAdvisor probably is fine since it displays different prices from a few providers.

What do you all think? Targeted pricing is reality now.
Multiple Early Factors Anticipate Post-Acute COVID-19 Sequelae
Co-founder of https://flipdish.com here (Unicorn whitelabel online ordering provider).
We felt very similar to the author in 2015 — utterly frustrated needing to enter email address, be asked for a DOB!!, create a password etc before being allowed place an order. We set out to design an app that required a minimum number of taps from opening app to placing an order. By using geo-location, using a phone number for authentication instead of email (delivery drivers are going to want a phone number), having sensible defaults (like presuming you want to order for ASAP unless you say otherwise), we build an app where people can open it for the first time, register, order and pay in under 20s.

We initially automatically logged people in silently on Android by detecting their phone number, sending a verification SMS and intercepting it in the app. This was viewed as more spooky than good UX, so we had to reverse course a little and add another manual step in that case. But other little UX niceties remained, like extrapolating the customer’s name from the name of their iPhone (chances are you phone us called “[first name]’s iPhone”) to save them typing it in.

I think it would be quite difficult to manage a production system that lets people pay with cash but not log in, as it would be so easy for a single script kiddy to take all your restaurants offline by placing fake orders over and over.

You would be amazed (or maybe you wouldn’t) at how little business owners think about UX. We get so many requests to require a DOB before being allowed placing an order so they can send birthday messages to customers.

A nice summary of the state of affairs by UK comedian Michael McIntyre
https://youtu.be/O5FeZti1cjs
From what I understood of afidrya explanation (in a sub-comment):

* there's a smart contract to which you can send ETH (directly), it sends WETH back

* however the inverse operation (WETH -> ETH) is not done by sending the WETH, you're supposed to call a special conversion function of the contract

I guess the smart contract only looks for ETH in its wallet (at its address), it ignores the WETH entirely, and thus the WETH become inaccessible.

So the contract is a deposit ATM where you can deposit cash and it spits out a bank check, but if you deposit a bank check it just shreds the check.

Or a currency conversion machine where you can shove USDs in the slot to get EURs, but if you shove EURs in, to the shredder they go,
After a while a standard api was invented for tokens that use smart contacts on ethereum. ETH predates these standards and is built in to the operation of the blockchain. Lots of smart contacts know how to deal with standard tokens but don't have a separate code path to deal with ETH. You can get a version of ETH that fits the interface by wrapping it in a standard token.
Great recommendations.

In order to filter out "Game Boy-like" material on itch.io, you can also use the tag "gamboy-rom". Then it should only show you entries that will run on actual hardware (such as a flash cart or in an emulator):

https://itch.io/games/tag-gameboy-rom

As for advice on starting: a great thing to do is figure out a simple, small project to start with, and dive in. That will help give you concrete tasks to focus your learning of the hardware and dev tools around, and keeping the scope modest will prevent it from being overwhelming. There are a handful of tutorials if you want to try that route, and plenty of support (forums & discord).

Agreed too, Game Boy development has been exploding in the last couple years. GBStudio's arrival really brought making GB games within reach of a much larger pool of people. The ability to make them was no longer limited only those able to write software (or those working with them). This brought in a TON of graphics, music, storytelling and creative talent.
I feel like this should be the takeaway. Instead of blaming users there should be some system that allows patches, updates and new features to be published to these smart contracts. It just seems silly that any programmer would think it’s a good idea to publish some code you can’t patch and horrifying to let that code scale to this size without being able to correct any of your original assumptions.
Silver: A multi-language pixel font for games
The question is rather why software salaries are so high in USA. That is the real anomaly.
Even for gopher there is more than one search engine [1] besides the glourious Veronica-2.

[1] gopher://forthworks.com/1/contrition
If you are leaking routes you shouldn’t then a decent ISP will disconnect your crappy network.

It happens a lot, usually because of mistakes, it’s typically fixed quickly.

Feel free to null route or redirect any IP you want in your network. Just don’t be surprised when other networks cut you off if you advertise those routes out of your network, and don’t be surprised when your customers are unhappy because you aren’t transporting the packet to the target IP as is your job.
> this made me realize I wasn’t aware of what smart contracts really were (just looked up solidity today and details of The DAO hack). The potential for irreversible losses, fraud and security holes are much bigger than I realized.

That seemed obvious from the first time I read the expression "code is law".

If code is law, any bug (whether in the contract itself or in the way the contract is called) fucks you irredeemably and with no recourse. I would expect any dev to shit their pants at the idea, even more so upon realising that the code in question is a half-assed brain damaged cousin of javascript, of all thing.
Besides the checksum, in some countries (e.g. in many banks in The Netherlands), the given name is also checked against the name associated with the target account [1].

[1] https://www.betaalvereniging.nl/betaalproducten-en-diensten/...
cool. why don't you kindly ask them to fix the fonts by a bug request instead of everyone just assuming the stuff is shit
90% of time, I don't really care about what food I want to eat, I'm just hungry. Whether it's ordering online or with a phone call, the most annoying and time consuming part is going over available restaurants and food options etc. So, I wish I had a "food"-button on my desk. When pressed, random food would be delivered to me.
Itʼs so strange that they didnʼt manage to set up a proper certificate for an HTTPS proxy project website: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=www.tofuproxy...

Edit: I guess theyʼre philosophically opposed to PKI, and are promoting instead certificate pinning, Web-of-Trust:
http://www.stargrave.org/Harmful.html

This makes me wonder if itʼs possible to get `Letʼs Encrypt` to cross-sign an HTTPS certificate issued by another CA?
Wait, you're actually comparing crypto to a symphony? Is the orchestra a bunch of first graders who have never played an instrument? =)
It is "god given right".
If no "human" law would exist, you could repair and sell that.

Copyright iteslf is fairly new (I belive from 1710 "Statute of Anne" for firs limited kind of copyright).

For much of human civilization, and some of greatest works of art were done before idea of copyright existed.
Mind sharing your story?
> Another example in the app space — you know enterprise apps will get the job done, but they’re downright unpleasant to use; from aesthetics to workflow efficiency, they just barely hover over “dealing with it isn’t worth the output”.

While this is a good point, i don't feel like a discussion about fonts is relevant here. For example, when working with Jira, i don't care about what font it uses, as long as it is legible (e.g. even whatever is the default sans-serif font would work), whereas what actually matters to me in such a context is the responsiveness of the UI and how well it works, UX over UI.

If Jira's interface is laggy and slow, or just cumbersome to use because their implementation of custom fields is weird, no font or logo choices will make any of that markedly better. In my eyes, how something looks is largely decoupled from how well it works - if Jira were a GTK/Win32 app with almost no styling, but worked faster than it currently does, i'd probably get more value out of it than i currently do, fancy UI or not.

(just using Jira as an example here, because their UI redesign did make things slower and got some backlash from users that was ultimately ignored, i bet the same applies to a lot of other software out there, e.g. how Flutter apps oftentimes break right click behaviour in browsers etc.)
The suggestion I like the most is 3.4) Use system fonts:

body {
font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont,
"Segoe UI", "Roboto", "Oxygen", "Ubuntu", "Cantarell",
"Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue",
sans-serif;
}

Stack Overflow took this approach last year with the following font stack: [1]

@ff-sans:
system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, // San Francisco on macOS and iOS
"Segoe UI", // Windows
"Ubuntu", // Ubuntu
"Roboto", "Noto Sans", "Droid Sans", // Chrome OS and Android with fallbacks
sans-serif; // The final fallback for rendering in sans-serif.
@ff-serif: Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
@ff-mono:
ui-monospace, // San Francisco Mono on macOS and iOS
"Cascadia Mono", "Segoe UI Mono", // Newer Windows monospace fonts that are optionally installed. Most likely to be rendered in Consolas
"Ubuntu Mono", // Ubuntu
"Roboto Mono", // Chrome OS and Android
Menlo, Monaco, Consolas, // A few sensible system font choices
monospace; // The final fallback for rendering in monospace.

[1]: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/364048/we-are-switc...
I recommend finding a local church.

I didn't grow up going to church but I started going as a young adult. I met my wife and nearly all my closest friends there. I still go 30 years later.

I love my church community. It has wonderful people, weird people, intelligent people, mentally disabled people, rich people, poor people, programmers, bin men and at least a dozen people I call close friends.
Elements of the Theory of Computation (1997)
Pythagorean Pancakes

3:2:1 ratio. 3 eggs, 2 cups of milk and 1 cup flour. No beans.

It seems heavy on liquid, but it makes lovely, flat crepes.
- needed to remove this. sorry.
> Following further investigations, including tests in an archaeometry laboratory, it was discovered that layers of binding agent and a layer of dirt existed between the image of Cupid and the overpainting. The conservators concluded that several decades would have passed between the completion of one layer and the addition of the next and therefore concluded that Vermeer could not have painted over the Cupid himself.
Thanks for stopping by!

No, that car was bought by a friend of mine who relocated to Mexico, and found out he could buy one even though he didn't know how to drive. Hence the end result.

Bizarrely a while later he bought another one and crashed that too. Poor guy has plate in his head now holding his skull together.
My pancake trick is to make very thin pancakes—not quite crepe thin but pretty close—and then have a stack of them. Layered like an actual cake. That's how my grandmother used to make them. They're so much more tasteful when they're not thick and floury.
"- someone needs to be held accountable for constantly lying and sleepwalking the US into wars."

I'm forever whingeing on HN about this. The real problem is that much of the citizenry has lost faith and trust in its leaders and in many of its longstanding institutions and rightly so given the never-ending scandals.

We need a new covenant - a formal undestanding - between the Government and the people but I, like millions of others, have little clue where to begin.
It truly is laughable. Ever heard of "Return to Sender" in case of invalid events/transactions?
Running youtube-dl on Windows is solved by compiling the Python runtime in the binary itself. So... run it through Wine? /s
>Even the Ukrainians aren't as eager and worked-up

This is so intellectually dishonest. Ukrainian politicians are downplaying the Russian threat because they don't want their population to panic and flee the country.
> At least with banknotes if you photograph the serial numbers you can try to reclaim the value

In what country?
This is very, very well written. It’s incredibly hard to frame something like this so well in crisp, engaging text that reflects against common ideas and differentiates at the same time.
And WETH is "Wrapped ETH" because of compatibility and protocol issues (ERC-20)
Riesending Cave Rescue
The comment I replied to was talking about helping people from a specific socioeconomic background.

The implication, and very sensible one at that, is that just because you are from a poor family, doesn't mean you don't have "merit". Some portion of an Ivy League credential reflects not your merit or potential or contribution to society, but inherited privilege, connections, luck etc.

Meritocracy in such a situation is like having a fair race when one competitor has a motorbike. Yes they are objectively faster than the runners in certain circumstances, but that's not due to their merit as a runner, from a combination of natural aptitude and years of dedicated training and focus, it's because they're on a motorbike.

If you really need something delivered quickly, then the short term solution is to ask the guy with the motorbike. If the aim is to get the human race moving faster in general, then giving everyone a motorbike is the answer, not pretending against all evidence that the people with motorbikes are inherently superior beings and just naturally good at running.

Then you can choose the best motorbike rider and get something that approximates a real meritocracy.
The additional transaction fees that using ERC-777 would cost in the Ethereum network are probably much higher than someone losing half a million every now and then. So economically, adopting ERC-777 would be a step backwards.
I lost it over conditial assignment. That is absolutely something I have no intention of using ever.

Also, JavaScript has some rather quirky behavior. I'd rather see a stricter JavaScript without the quirky stuff take it's place.

FYI, symbols are incredibly useful!
What Happened to Clubhouse?. Six months ago, it was worth $4bn
I am not so sure...

State can use selective enforcement of different regulations to strongarm companies doing crazy stuffs..
Nice tool. Btw, your name. Reference to Westernhagen? If so, it’s one of my favorites, too.
It doesn't, but is intended to provide a strong hint to the compiler. A pre-386 one would probably turn the "comparison result in non-branching context" into a cmp/sbb/inc; 386+ could do that or use cmp/setcc depending on surrounding context, and in general a compiler could fold it even further. E.g. if pivot was in eax, it in ecx, and p in edi, that line might generate only two instructions:

cmp [ecx], eax
adc edi, 0

(Figuring out how the above works is left as an exercise for the reader.)
What’s so good about states? Just an employer who can’t pay enough or hire people who smoke weed, but you seem to be worshipping them like they’re automatically gods.
Careerwise it was a bad choice for me. I spent too much time finding interesting things rather than seeking compensation. Not being bored is important I'll give you that!
I'm not the one not questioning one side.

You've basically admitted fauci has god like unquestionable status, and is lying, yet you still agree with people trying to censor the only large public figure talking to people questioning authority (note he also interviewed CNNs health expert, so both sides, which i listened to and agreed to on many points btw).

I rest my case.
Just cut it with ffmpeg? Ok you will have to download the whole thing first... but yeh
Designers want the web-app to look like their figma. Most are not willing to compromise on that.

It takes senior engineers (with weight in the company) to lead the effort to force design to concede on certain things like this.
British cloud computing company used by Government rescued from collapse
Mr Thomas, the founder of data centre company Ark, has acquired a majority stake in UKCloud through his investment company Hadston 2. Existing investors, the venture capital firm BGF and US investor Digital Alpha, have also put more money in.

The company did not reveal a price, although it is believed to be around the £30m needed to keep operating and fund its investments.

Mr Hansford said "You want a vibrant British tech industry, we are the people that are spending money in the UK, creating jobs, social value. I'm employing and paying taxes and my staff are paying their money here. That's not the case necessarily with one of the big American [companies].”
I may have to write a browser extension to highlight greyed out, censored votes.
callin will follow it down the tubes shortly
RGBDS-live may be just what you had in mind. I can't remember exactly, but there may have been some experiments with a SDCC based C version of that as well.
https://daid.github.io/rgbds-live/

Source:
https://github.com/daid/rgbds-live

There was also a precursor to GB Studio which seemed headed in that direction. It was written by the same person who did GBStudio:
https://www.chrismaltby.com/projects/gbdkjs
Sure, nowadays there are alerts that will help you spot any discrepancy more quickly, but it doesn’t stop the discrepancy occurring and we’ve been running blind on this for a very long time.
In Europe, I understand it as only legal to reverse engineer to fix bugs, thats it.

Now Copyright is a bit more difficult, because the process of reverse engineering code to fix a bug can also mean copyright can be discovered, ie learning how something works, like a driver for some hardware to work in an operating system or app.
Fun fact - the AMD PSP is actually an Arm core.
> How do countries become unable to satisfy local demand through local supply?

Demand and supply are measured in units of money, and when they don't match, transactions don't take place.
Resources get surprisingly low if you share them for every possible attack interface. (If you even know them all) On Apple’s scale, there are quite many. Attackers need to find only one buggy interface.
Beer in pancake batter? Interesting idea, never thought of.
Why do people put all their eggs into a centralized system, and be surprised when they lose control?

Surprise, you never had control in the first place dummy!

Federate, own your own stuff, screw big tech. They are not required.
They dropped the jack because there was money to be made, selling airpods.
What about night clubs? That's the place to party, kick and scream. Doing a lot of that in my retirement age.
Chinese Corporate Transparency Is Far Better Than America’s
An Entrepreneur Says She Cofounded the Fintech Petal
Ok let's change the perspective from cost in human lives to cost in money as the parent comment statet: is nuclear power still cheap if we count these disasters?
What could be more of a rat's nest than the crypto scams? As soon as it became possible for anyone to create a token it just became a race to the bottom. It's the ultimate recepticle for scammers.
Then you’re taking the same position I am.
Curious: Why do you write it 01694 and not 1694?
Time is the resource that can not be renewed. When you work you are actually trading your resource for some commodity (e.g. money).

I respect companies that respect my time. My time off is my time off. When I'm well rested I perform better.
(same reason as almost every other I/O decision they make, apparently)
Any chance of making those logs public some day?
Especially in that real law is left for judges to interpret, and that's a deliberate feature to allow "wiggle" room.