skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
US vs UK McDonald's comparison - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMaW6TamNAc

The differences in the ingredients lists are hilarious (oh and the portion size difference for the drinks).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22399161 2 years ago, 57 comments

Anyway, I wanted to ask: Why is it ugly? What about it is? I found it beautiful and much better looking than most fonts I see on the web nowadays.
We doxing people now?
If I understand this: you like your work but you feel ‘exploited’ because you are not paid enough, right?
Raspberry pi also has some good books that seem kid friendly on getting started with the computer.

https://store.rpipress.cc/collections/books/products/the-off...

Available at other book sellers as well.
> I might not want to run my own bank. But I totally want to be protected from my banks incompetency.

And odd statement, banks generally seem more competent than any given crypto operation.
Current state of affairs is regulated to prevent most normal people from getting into serious trouble most of the time, crypto not so much.
Thanks a lot graderjs. I don't know very well Hacker News. After I made this post I discovered the Show HN. I prepare a post for it. Thanks
But what stops a well-functioning democracy from getting more corporate influence? Or woops-emergency-powers? I've come to realize any government is better than the alternative - until an extreme point. As a result they tend to be stable even when amassing corruption
Why is this posted here? If this were a well-reasoned, thoughtful and thorough discussion of the Glass-Steagall Act, that might be interesting. Too bad this isn't. The original poster's understanding of economic and financial history is extremely poor, almost juvenile. For example, s/he does not mention the Federal Reserve at all and the role it played both during the Great Depression up and the run-up in asset prices we've seen over the last 25 years.
> someone still pays it (normally the bank) but they make up for it by lending out your cash.

You're skipping over large parts of the things fiat can do and crypto can't. E.g. there are chargebacks for fraud. There's the legal process that can be used by the bank to recover money from the fraudster (maybe not always, but also not "never").

> Wouldn't it be great if there was a technical solution such that there is no ambiguity about what happens to your money?

No, it wouldn't be great, it would be horrible. Real world is messy and hard to encode in a "smart contract". What if the will says something but the law invalidates it? Going through the legal process is a feature not a bug... remember how people complain about e.g. automatic bans that are handled and appealed by robots? How your Google account can be disabled with no recourse, and no explanation from a human? Yeah, that can happen to your grandma's crypto - it doesn't go to the family, and there's no way to appeal that or even find out "why".
That and the bail out of LTCM. If that had been left to go down in flames then the signal to the market about the existential nature of risk taking may have set a different agenda for the global economy.

It might also have skuppered the Euro, Gulf War 2 and the adventure in Afganistan.
There's also a big power disbalance - a developer complaining about Apple's policies and rent seeking is completely at their mercy and mind find their account and apps blocked for "violating their ToS" or some other reason. Yes, the Apple platform is vastly more profitable for developers because most Apple customers are accustomed to spending money ( as opposed to the Android market which includes everything from $/€ 100 headsets from obscure brands like Wiko to $/€ 2k premium Samsung or whatever devices - the latter might be okay on dropping $/€ 10 on app, the former certainly wouldn't).
You aren't putting your life in the hands of autopilot though.

Your own hands are literally on the wheel and you remain responsible and capable.

Obviously there are times when driving without it is way more fun. It's not like that option is taken away from you.
It's also what the actual headline alludes to, and the subheading makes clear. OP has editorialized the post title to be more clickbaity.
You mean like how desktop Linux is unusable by my grandma?

I use it as digital cash all the time. Not every cash transaction is for trivial amounts, and as you say, not every blockchain is expensive.
I think achievements can sometimes push you into playing the game in a way that is less fun than what you would have otherwise done. The opposite can be true too of course, but still for people that a predisposed to want to "complete" things they will inevitably run into bad experiences.

One variant of that problem is achievements for certain endings or outcomes that feel like discouraging you from choosing your own.

Another problem is not inherent with achievements but but with the common implementation: For immersive games a popup even if it is show only a short time can really take you out of the experience. On the other hand, it is possible to inegrate the achievement popups into the experience like the "The Part Where He Kills You" achievement in Portal 2 that adds of the comedic effect of the cutscene it appears in.

Overall, there are definitely games where achievements take more away than they add. Unfortunately they seem to get added to almost everything just due to cargo culting, because they also serve as telemetry or even player demand. Platforms should at least give you the option to never show them.
I meant more on the production side. Like how much labor and raw material is required to make a Big Mac.

But I guess if you consider the price relative to typical wages then it should give you a similar effect, although it would ignore the advancements in capital productivity which may not be reflected in wage data.
Anti-phishing using perceptual hashing algorithms
I see this in the thread but I have to say that I disagree a bit. I'm certainly glad Apple gave users a choice, but you have to consider "the tyranny of the default" which is a great phrase I think. Most people will simply use the default option, so Apple's choice of default says something.
Ok. My bad.
Omicron’s molecular structure could help explain its global takeover
If not wearing shoes was potentially helping health services to keep being functional, then yes it would make sense to mandate it. Harmful to freedom? What about the freedom of having functional health services? I keep hearing about freedom but freedom isn't about doing whatever we want, we also have to consider the freedom of others not to suffer from our actions. I consider my suffering of wearing a mask laughable compared to the suffering of people unable to get health care when their life depends on it. I'm happy to wear it even if in the future it turns out they weren't helping significantly.
> It’s particularly interesting because the trend with HIV so far has been towards less damaging variants, not more.

False. HIV is as deadly as ever.

> Fatality rates for HIV are almost at point where there’s no longer any reduction in life expectancy, due to mix of better medicine

True. It is due to improved treatments, which are a mix of medicines (where the mix is designed to inhibit the development of resistance to the full cocktail)
I like that other "Big Mac index" where they compare how long an employee has to work at McDonald's in different countries to buy a Big Mac there; that at least give you some idea of which economy you'd want to live in.
I could theoretically do that. But Coinbase says not to. And every single time I transfer ETH to Coinbase they give me a different wallet address to send the ETH to.

Bottom line, they say not to do it and I personally can't guarantee I'm sending the ETH to my Coinbase account with an old ETH address that I've remembered.
Yes if they didn’t already have a joint bank account why would crypto magically change this
> I'm sure that a seasoned C/Go programmer would skirt around those difficulties or be using POSIX in the first place, I prefer languages that do not impose any constraints on your choice of OS, even if I do prefer Linux for development, but it's not good enough to replace my daily driver.

It's not Go that imposed that restraint. It was the C API used for sqlite3 that did. There's nothing stopping you using C in Go on Windows without requiring msys2.

> I don't think there will be a Rust implementation of sqlite3 in the near future, it would be a monumental task.

You say that but there's already a pure Go version and Rust ecosystem is famed for rewriting C/C++ stuff. So I wouldn't be so sure.

> I'm a university student, as part of my student job I had to develop a backend application. Someone has to be able to pick it up after me, hence simplicity and easy of use. In the end, I chose Node.js after strongly considering Go, Rust and Elixir that have more cohesive tooling (formatter, linter, better module system!), it was the easiest to justify. I couldn't trust myself to not find any issues/complications with Rust or Go and I just can't afford them running into these issues and explaining to them "oh, you need to set up a C compiler toolchain on Windows".

Sounds like you made a really smart choice there. I'm impressed too because mature judgements like these are a skill even a great many senior engineers lack so to have that kind of foresight while you're still at university is impressive.
A better example is the "real" numbers, which do not physically exist but are a constant source of theorems that don't apply to physics, and this is taken as proof that real numbers are a fascinating complex object, instead of a poor foundation for analysis. Standard Mathematics does not use a good model for infinitesimals, which should not be allowed to be densely non-differentiable.
This comes up again and again. People will continue creating and posting even without ad money. They will post for art, for study, hobbies, social issues or just to organize events. There are also those who publish free content and make a profit on something related. That's how the good old internet was working back in the day.

The problem with current internet is that everyone is trying to get the ad money so they don't really align their interests with us who want quality content.
As a Scandinavian person living almost wholly outside "tipping culture", that worry just sounds bizarre.

Here, if you order food for home delivery from the major grocery chains, the order is not packed by the driver, and fresh produce is typically in smaller paper bags inside the large outer bag (the ones the driver carries from the truck).

There is no tipping of the driver, who just puts down the bags outside our front door.
Ah cynical German could argue that Russia invading to Ukraine is none of their problems, but emitting methane sure is.

To clarify however, I didn't mean to say that Europe is clearly going to stop buying from these sources, just that _there are other means_. Too often with the climate crisis, options are there, but the nature of how we humans organized ourselves seem to stand in the way of taking them. Thinking of this as "well there's nothing we can do because it's in Turkmenistan" might sometimes be just a way to clear our conscious while not doing anything.
the problem is that unless the transaction costs are high, anyone can hack it

If your problem is the government might go crazy, the solution is to be part of society and stop that happening, not run away and hide in your cave
IMHO the long python3 migration was well executed and we're now comfortably on the back side of it. Reminds me of perl4=>5 and other big lifts.

Yes, commercial codebases understaffed for maintenance are kinda stuck, just like any legacy system. IMHO the solution must come from the business model down. Also, security, compliance & cost can help drive priority.
Calling for individual action is a deliberate strategy to shift responsibility from corporations.
"play" in this case does not imply that the product should be game or something like that but something that the user can interact with. From the Show HN rules:
"On topic: things people can run on their computers or hold in their hands. For hardware, you can post a video or detailed article. For books, a sample chapter is ok"
oil and gas companies should be paying for building, launching and operating these birds and the data should be publicly available - this way they'll have at least somewhat proper incentive structure in place.
Quite right, however I do think Apple offer slightly more than just payment processing. If we say transaction costs are 3%, do I think apple can justify an additional 26%? No. Do I think they can justify 12% for the validating of apps, providing marketing tools in the App Store, data storage and distribution? Maybe yes, it still feels a little high.

It's why I would like to see it broken down as line items and for them to make it optional to just pay the costs of each service directly rather than them charging a % cut.
Facebook videos are super annoying. Simple bait stretched out just long enough to get ads in the middle. Even if a video looks interesting I have to first ask myself if it’s worth 2.5 minutes of fluff and a 10 second ad for only a few seconds of payoff. Facebook has incentivized this behavior to the point I now simply refuse to click on their videos.
Inflation disproportionately affects people who have most of their net worth in cash, aka people living paycheck to paycheck (or UBI payment to UBI payment), not the people with the most money.

The problem I see is it doesn't make sense to save in cash, because you don't need to, due to UBI payments in perpetuity as well as inflation eating through any cash savings. So your options are either to invest in assets, thus driving up asset prices across the board, which primarily benefits the owners of such assets (aka the rich). Or you could go and spend the grant on accommodation or other expenses, thus driving the demand there and as we've seen this year especially, the supply isn't infinite and will result in higher prices.

Now UBI payments must also be indexed to inflation, otherwise it won't be of much use for very long, so you'll create this infinite loop of increasing UBI, resulting in higher asset prices, cost of living and thus inflation, requiring a further increase in UBI, triggering another round of asset prices and inflation and so on. In the end, the rich are as rich as ever and the poor will still be poor.
What if it eventually does affect you in real life? I.e vaccine and mask mandates, Misgendering law, abortion, defunding the police, etc.
In general I think it's quite dangerous how much influence a few entities have over language and symbolism...words like "friend" and "like" being hijacked to represent concepts of surveillance capitalism.

One of my pet peeves is with how people in the last few years have been conditioned to refer to any creative works as "content" in the abstract, totally removed from the case-by-case specifics of what exactly it is and what exactly contains it, even when you know the specifics and can describe it more exactly using just as many words.

It's sort of like the euphemistic language use by military or paramilitary organizations (e.g. "neutralizing" instead of killing or maiming or "conflict" instead of war) in that it's clearly meant to take our minds off something, except it's unclear to me yet what exactly "content" is meant to take our minds off and why.

Like yeah, you make video clips and I work in a breakfast cereal factory. We're both content creators! You figure out what defines the difference and I'll go create some content for the toilet bowl in the mean time.
It really depends on the channel and style of content.

I don't see it on any of the news or review channels but more common on the food, instructional etc ones.
Amazon is cranking out the fire tablets and sticks. Tons of devices use it.
need somebody with money. oil and gas companies are certainly interested in not paying for this.
Well, I think it's been obvious for many years that convenience is the most important factor (to me) for how I choose to pay for things.

Do it online or write and mail a check?

One card and very little thought, or fumble with bills and receive useless coins?

Just wave my phone like a magic wand? OK.

So if I can pay with crypto as easily as I can pay with my credit card (with or without the phone), then we're in business. I'm sure I'm not the only one.
From having eaten at McD's in Sweden and Korea I'd say the Korean McD's is miles beyond the Swedish one in every way, including tasting better and also being cheaper. In Sweden I would never eat there unless I really had no other option, whereas I don't mind eating McDonald's in Korea.
> no exhaustive `switch`

This is what linters will do for you by default.

> we instead need to create ValidEnumValues and remember to update it every time a new enum value is added

Code generators are first class citizens in go, and writing an icky but reliable test won't be too hard either.
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/MCD/key-statistics?p=MCD

Annual revenue: $23.22B
Profit margin: 32.49%

And that's ignoring the fact that a lot of the revenue and profit go to franchisees, and never make it to the corporate level to be reflected in those numbers.

There's no assumption necessary. Clearly a whole lot of people still like McDonald's.
I don't know... I've seen some interesting products thanks to Facebook that I wouldn't have otherwise.

Life would be pretty boring if we all only bought what we need.
You cannot play with a chapter of a book but it is acceptable. So, the "play" does not used with its exact meaning
Really horrible article, most of the accusations, especially the most serious ones have no source. And there is no attempt to connect the different points. It reads like most conspiracy theory sites.
Why should Apple compete with third parties on the value of licensing Apple intellectual property?

Maybe I should be allowed to sell my own licenses to Unreal Engine. I’m sure I can undercut Epic’s prices.
Days of Reckoning (Why the UK energy cap failed)
Absolutely right, the essay writes from a comfortable UK perspective and ignores large amounts of the world where well-regulated, trustworthy financial institutions aren't available. And even UK banks aren't immune from failure or just mistakes which can freeze people's savings and put them in terrible situations that take months to resolve.

To add to your counterpoint, the OP's praise of going cashless as opposed to the problems of cash is another fine example. It's certainly more convenient to use your card everywhere, but if everyone did it then just a handful of payment processors would gain immense power, with the ability to track, monitor, and censor all transactions. Plenty of dystopian fiction like The Handmaid's Tale covers what can happen when this infrastructure is abused. Cash may have problems but it plays an important role in an open society, and redundancy when a major payment network goes down (as Visa did across Europe on 1st June 2018, causing retail chaos). But many vendors no longer accept cash and this will only accelerate as more people never use it. In praising going cashless as protecting ourselves from being our own banks, the OP misses the forest for the trees.
The YouTube recommendation algorithm prefers longer videos than that. It is specifically trained to optimize for “watch minutes,” and longer videos seem more effective than extremely short ones.
That is just a bureacratic self referencing argument isn't it?

Why would one need a permit to broadcast on the internet? Does Rogan need a permit in Germany too?
I think that's the right time to ask people to make the change, on the contrary, as it's the middle of the gas crisis (through geopolitical reasons).

Governments are trying hard to artificially keep the prices low, but the reality is that the market really really wants people to give up on fossil fuels.
The best comeback I've heard to that sentiment is, "would you like a camera in your bathroom?". And then the other night I was talking to my aunt and she mentioned that she has an Alexa in the bathroom so she can listen to music and I realized it might not be as good a retort as I thought.
People don't want to run their own bank, but they also don't want to depend an unbelievably opaque, complex systems that periodically crash, with no real accountability.

The important thing that crypto brings is optionality. Without crypto, what option do we have if not to trust the handful of BofAs, Itaús, Deutsche Banks, Santanders and the Goldmans out there? Decentralization is a spectrum [0].

The Finance/Banking system is getting ever more centralized, more faceless, more intractable to individuals. Community banks and credit cooperatives are getting extinct. My dream goal for Hub20 [1] is that it allows us to bring community banks back. So those that do want to go through all the work of "being their own bank", can do so, but those that are simply looking for an alternative to the big banks, can go look for a more local, human-scale "bank" which can be powered by Hub20.

[0]: https://twitter.com/rlullis/status/1307420668372430848

[1]: https://blog.hub20.io/decentralization-costs-and-tradeoffs/
It really doesn't though. It handles the case where the context might have expired or be cancelled, but there's still a race when entering the select between the ctx.Done() and reading from thingCh. You may end up processing one additional unit of work. In situations where the exit condition is channel-based, this won't work.

Additionally, this would only work if you had one predominant condition and that condition was context-based. If you have multiple ordered conditions upon which you want to exit, I can't think of how you'd express that as a range.
Good observation. This generation has the problem of abundance of resources and attention competition which we didn't have in the Apple II years.

Worst, you have TikTok kind of content contaminating them with futility that makes them get dopamine shots in exchange of "short exciting things" that will make them A) loose time and B) raise expectations on what will make them trigger dopamine hits in the future.
It's difficult to believe we are nothing more to us then a bunch of molecules because I still am me if I loose an arm, a memory or any given part of my brain. One can gradually replace every tiny part of his body with prosthetics and the point at which he will stop being them and become an imitation both exists and does not. What's the difference between me and a perfect imitation? I believe I am going to remain where I was if someone just makes an atom-perfect copy of mine and puts it near so the copy will probably have exactly the same memories I have and believe it is me but will not be me actually.
The example I used protects the user from all these scenarios you mentioned.

How does it protect against hardware failure? How does it protect against sending Coin X to a wallet meant for Coin Y?

Also, the US doesn't care about moving USD in and out of most countries

That's funny. And even if what you said were true, other countries will eventually control what appears to not be controllable today.
That seems a pretty smart short (in retrospect). I guess you were banking on them releasing concrete numbers on the iOS changes and people panicking from it? Seems really obvious in retrospect and relies on pretty common knowledge so I'm surprised that worked so straightforward. Good job.
It's rather unscientific to say that we believe things because we want them to be true and not because they are inherently true.
Thought it was going to be this one, which I enjoy using a lot and find useful for getting the big picture.

https://inflationchart.com/cpi-in-bigmac

https://inflationchart.com/spx-in-bigmac

In the 70s you could work minimum wage for an hour and afford three Big Macs. Now you have to work almost an hour to afford one Big Mac.:

https://inflationchart.com/minwage-in-bigmac