skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
jobsearch.dev has quite nice advices you have to follow.

Besides that remember always to build your own narrative.
Don't want to discourage you...but... LOL
This might be true in the short-term but unfortunately all the oversight means that a huge proportion of GA aircraft are still running carbureted engines with manual mixture control.

Modern car engines are generally much more reliable than cars made 40+ years ago. It's quite possible that this oversight is actually costing lives by limiting innovation.
It reminds me of white elephants:

> It was a blessing because the animal was sacred and a sign of the monarch's favour, and a curse because the recipient now had an expensive-to-maintain animal he could not give away and could not put to much practical use.

Crypto is a blessing because it allows people to move value freely, but a curse in that it forces us to really come to terms with the fact that selective oppression (i.e. you can't use a credit card to pay for a hitman) actually helps us live higher quality lives.
I didn't tried it yet, but looks like this guys are building this
https://www.snapcalorie.com/
I genuinely don't get how people are so surprised at what seems to me like yet another DeFi exit scam. What's different about this one other than the scale?
As a programmer, I'm very impressed by the cleverness of blockchain and cryptocurrencies as a tech demo, much the same way I'm impressed by 64k intros from the demo scene. And at the same time I'm as horrified by the notion that people have seriously invested billions in turning the former into the basis of a new real-world economy, as I would be if the same were done with the latter. It just blows my mind that so many highly intelligent people can so thoroughly believe in something so misguided.
I dunno. It's quite clear that while he may never be president again, there's absolutely no way he's going to A) end up in jail or B) lose a significant amount of his wealth.

That's exactly the "coming out on top" the original comment was referring to.
So you're the one that killed usenet for filesharing. (Binaries being unfriendly to download probably kept the DMCA folks at bay. NZBs changed that.)
Mutually exclusive and comprehensively exhaustive.

That’s just pedantic — great write up!
You could make little questions for him so he would be more tired.
I used to work for an expert witness who testified on valuations in IP infringement cases. I really lost faith in the way the US handles IP infringement in that job. I know patents are contentious in tech, but sometimes I think copyright is just as bad. I know it's not a popular opinion, but seeing how things actually play out really made me feel for defendants in those cases.

Regardless of what you think of the effectiveness of IP protection, the way damages are calculated (and ultimately determined by courts) is just awful. I haven't looked at the specifics of that $65M calculation, but if the real number were closer to $650k I wouldn't be surprised-- 2 orders of magnitude was a pretty typical spread between plaintiff and defendant expert witnesses' valuations in the IP cases I worked on.
Yeah, he forgot to mention the rug pulls.
Probably not. Volvo and GM are in with the crowd in charge of who gets investigated. Must is not.
There's a lot of Bowsers that pop up in correlation with Nintendo. Doug Bowser is the president of Nintendo of America.
I'm not seeing that quote in the article, so it's hard to determine the methodology, but...

1. One pedophile may victimize many children.

2. There's a spectrum of victimization; that wording would seem to include things like being pressured to send nudes.
Somewhat related, the President of Nintendo of America is Doug Bowser.
Ask HN: Was Orson Scott Card a Programmer?
Database Design Primay Key, ID vs. String
Not exactly, if Monty randomly picked a door and happened to open a goat then it would still be beneficial for the player to swap.
Yeah, it's a shitty result. A family plan costs $25,000/yr. As I alluded to, there are state boundaries that present a pseudo-market of health insurance options. If we'd remove that regulation, and allow companies to sell policies across all 50 states, it would create more competition, and lower prices. If there was real competition here, every other ad on TV would be for Geico, Farmers, and FREAKING Liberty Mutual HEALTH insurance.
"Few"? More like none. No blockchain is fully automated. The idea that Bitcoin or anything else just works by itself despite the persistent changes to the system by faceless developers is ridiculous. Crypto marketing presents this false narrative where we're meant to accept that crypto operates above social influence despite the evidence that clearly contradicts that (see the miner vs developer drama during the SegWit soft fork for instance).
You'd think pedophiles would probably find more than one victim during the course of their "career". Like even if they just go after one victim a year, that adds up.
If a typical workweek is (8 hr) * (5 days) = 40hrs, I think gp is referring to (10 hr) * (4 days) = 40hrs
Which is why I mostly agree and only think it is a little bit off. I thought the overall messaging underplayed the influence back and forth. Though I also think the title is too editorialized (enough that I'd say it breaks HN guidelines and it would be nice if Dang fixed it)
They were being intentionally hyperbolic. Most of the domains you listed have at least been touched by one web technology or another, whether that be JavaScript, HTTP, video codecs, etc. Nobody's saying literally all software, but virtually every domain has been affected at least a little bit by a web-related standard or technology. Chill out.
The word constitution does not exclusively refer to the document titled Constitution of the United States of 1787.
> "You will get a worse outcome because we're also serving those who cannot pay

Vs America where you get a worse outcome due to laborynthian beuracratic rent seeking.

Sounds terrible for Canadians to be forced to make things better for poor people if they want to improve things for themselves.
The problem with using "constitution" in this way is that EU laws do also have to conform to the national constitutions, so in every individual state of the EU the statement that some EU law is unconstitutional already has a well defined meaning which is significantly different from the intended meaning.
> You’re claiming that these countries prevent people from being paid money for work?

Yes, it's quite common even in the US you can't work without a visa. Other countries have much stricter rule depending on things like sanctions etc.

> Crypto is a luxury even for people in such countries, it’s not a feasible alternative to local fiat.

Except when it isn't - which is exactly the case I'm describing.

> Thanks for clearing that up! I wasn’t aware that the solution was so simple.

Really no need for snark. No one said it was simple. You know it would be much easier to presume guilt until proven innocence too, but that doesn't make it a better approach to creating a healthy society.
The die also has a very small chance of landing on an edge between two faces, which also requires a repeated roll.
Previous (2019): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20145704
Against the Odds – Season 15: Trapped on Mount Hood
It all falls under wire fraud.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/wire_fraud
Ah, you'd have to have some form of central authority that "signs" the official "code" which would defeat the point of a blockchain anyway.
I see atoms; it's not like "a pot" is reflecting photons from the sun as a whole. Individual atoms (electrons, even) are providing me with a portion of my vision of the object they're a part of.

Maybe they're onto something for Bose-Einstein condensates, though. What happens if you try looking at those? https://groups.seas.harvard.edu/haulab/slow_light_project/ul...
Blockchain adds a level of certainty that history hasn’t been changed, and you can at least audit any undo-type actions; it’s the same reason certificate transparency logs and git are built on blockchain-esque technology.
Department of Homeland Security also likes blockchain tech, for various 'transparency' reasons:

https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/blockchain-portfo...

There are many anti-fraud and enhanced supply chain tracking notions associated with blockchain tech. Of course, those are all enabled with this form of 'surveillance.'
It's not just about understanding implementation cost, but also an IP minefield when you simply can't change some idiocy in Outlook etc. that would make certain things so much better so you end up with learned hopelessness not just as a user, but also as a developer.
The US might be leading the way, but hopefully other countries won't be following. Redefining what it means to be a woman or a man (or neither, somehow) in terms of gender stereotypes is an awfully regressive idea. And the US obsession with the identity politics of race, sexuality, gender identity, etc. at the expense of class solidarity has been a disaster for the left.
> How about the ability to self-regulate

What does "self-regulate" mean in this context?
I object to the car point. Any Prius with a lithium ion battery (a significant improvement over the old NiMH models) and less than 50,000 miles costs more than $20k.

It’s objectively the most practical car in terms of balancing mileage, longevity, cost-to-own, environmental impact, and convenience.

Although, I will admit Priuses being far north of $20k is due to temporary market conditions.
So you're telling me Do Kwon was a scammer?!

Wow, no one would've thought of that!

What's even more absurd is that in a couple years from now it will do a similar thing again, and people will give him its money ... again.
this post makes absolutely no sense. blockchains are useful in situations where you need consensus between potentially adversarial parties. the benefits of trustless coordination have tradeoffs that make blockchains less efficient than traditional databases or computational systems. there is zero advantage and significant additional cost & complexity for a centralized body (the CCP), which has direct control over all subsidary participants, using a blockchain to collate disparate databases. this is a meaningless PR release.

> tracking social credit scores across different provinces because they've previously been silo'ed and unable to communicate with each other in a straightforward way (for whatever reason).

does this sentence mean something to you? what does a blockchain do in this situation?
More context: This is not being applied to those traveling from South Africa but to anyone traveling with a South African passport from anywhere to UK.

https://news.sky.com/story/ryanair-accused-of-discrimination...

This smells like they wanted to exclude anyone traveling with a South African passport so they invented this hoop...
Also weird that UK thinks the airline is responsible for ID validation while ID validation is usually done by border patrol/police of the source country...

All bonkers.
> monopolistic competition, marketing, and being installed out of the box

This I believe, and an integral part of "marketing" is a FUD campaign against free alternatives.

> Familiarity, inertia, compatibility

I used to think they were relevant, but it doesn't seem to match reality. Android phones were neither familiar to users of older phones, nor were they compatible with software made for other phones.

Windows breaks familiarity with each major version for seemingly no reason. (Not compatibility, though.)

Apps and websites constantly get redesigned for no reason. Doesn't seem to drive people away.

At the turn of the millennium, the reason Linux desktops were supposedly not accepted by users was the lack of eye candy. Do phone apps today have "eye candy"? Bland-looking single-color rectangular surfaces, absolutely minimal interfaces, a few straight lines here and there and mostly text unless there's photos or videos to show. Looks like OpenBox.

The only common theme is marketing, marketing and marketing. A free, unencumbered platform will never be mainstream, neither on the desktop nor on the phone. Because that will always be an untapped market that one can get into with lying, manipulative marketing tactics and a free platform will have neither the resources nor the gall to employ the same shady tactics to defend itself, but a proprietary platform will, and then it doesn't matter who wins because the challenger is just the same.
Nintendo should be ashamed.
I was recently trying to get some basic stuff done in the web version of Excel. I have an Apple Magic Mouse which has a touchpad so you can do gestures and scroll in any direction. The spreadsheet had a lot of columns, so I was doing a lot of left and right scrolling to get around, but most of the time I tried to scroll to the left (by swiping right on the touchpad), it'd start activating the browser's back gesture to take me back to the last page I was on before opening the spreadsheet. Eventually I gave up and used the desktop app and it was like a breath of fresh air (which is saying something for an Office app)

Trying to port desktop apps to the browser is already so limiting from the fact that the browser itself gets first claim to so many keyboard shortcuts. Want to make your app do something when the user hits Cmd+L ? Well good luck cause that already focuses the address bar. And you certainly don't get to use Cmd+W because that will close your entire app!
Well in this case, we're talking about a industry espionage and modchip crew that has been around since the first Xbox. I personally know people who used their products and (as the result) never ever purchased a game that they played. So my experience would suggest that Xecutor modchips were really popular. I'm pretty sure $65m is a rather conservative estimate of the lost sales that they caused.
That depends on the scale. At a small scale, cash works best for laundering, but it is hard to scale and doesn't work remotely.

Money laundering is a place where scale matters. Having the anonymity of cash creates privacy at the individual level but it's scaling issues are actually a feature that limit abuse.
Sometimes this stuff just seems like a government shakedown.
The NHTSA and the Biden administration in general is bitterly anti Tesla

https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-autopilot-fsd-bias-nhtsa-saf...
(obviously a biased source -but worth a read)
It doesn't. It implies only an upper bound. Teen on teen counts as sexual violence against children.
NOA's current president has the same last name (but doesn't appear to be a relation). A fact which Nintendo played off of in Nintendo Directs: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9dsfr0q1wSc
The irony of a company called "Stablegains" providing investments for a possibly incredibly volatile resource is astounding. Hope YC puts out a statement on this.
Psychology of Korean Han (2009)
> Ultimately, the reason that the startup died was because I did not do the due diligence in discerning whether this was a problem that I genuinely wanted to solve with my entire being. That's the bar for creating a successful startup, you need to find a problem that you're willing to dedicate yourself entirely to solving.

My own startup journey has led me to a contrary belief: At the earliest stages of building a business, being flexible and continuously re-evaluating your assumptions in order to find real market opportunities is more useful than having a lot of passion solving a single problem.

If anything, I've met many many founders who have had too much passion about a single problem, which hurts them gravely when they refuse to consider the possibility that the problem they are passionate about is not a problem at all and they need to pivot.
> The examples you state are not the primary reason that people want to be paid in crypto

This claim can be dismissed as easily as it was made. Quite literally everyone I know getting paid in crypto (which is only a dozen or so) would rather be paid in fiat but can't because of regulations.
> SSO is a fairly decent "are you a business or an individual" lever.

Arguably, a "are you a business rich enough to afford better security concepts" lever. So the smaller companies are left stranded :(

I understand your point, but at the same time I'd rather go for other levers. Maybe charging extra for SSO on support plans, while making SSO features themselves freely available (without support)?

[Ed.: I see you reworded your post a bit:]

> I agree. We do have plans to support free "social SSO" in the future with certain providers.

I guess that could cover most realistic small-business use cases. Or rather, if you can afford a "complicated" SSO solution, you can actually afford a SSO surcharge on services too. Sounds like a better lever?
Isn't it also just generally impossible to say if a sale was lost because of piracy? A pirated copy may never have actually been a sale and how would anyone know?
Clearly a sizable audience wants protections above and beyond what the law requires or else there wouldn't be such strong support for these systems curtailing abuse. Saying the legal system will handle it is not a neutral position. It is a clear decision in favor of the anti-censorship side over the anti-abuse side.
Opera used to have a torrent client.
And what's the bias of the website with "Tesla" in it's name?
Yes, all of the mapping of article titles to index happens locally.

If the index got too large, we could use a hash to bucket things, but this incurs some waste and would only support exact article title matches.

Yes, it is definitely not a freeform search tool.
I’m unable to find a single article that actually details what “blockchain technology” they’re using, and why. Every English article seems to be a rehash of the same press release - Can anybody find something better in mandarin ?
Just with you staying i remeber having this too.
I'm wondering why would the music player implement sampling with replacement and not without replacement? Sampling without replacement would shuffle the list and then play the tracks in shuffled order, no repeats until all songs are played once.
That brings to mind a (very non-realistic) animation I'd seen of a meteor impact on the Moon, seen from the perspective of two astronauts there.

The meteor impacts and a cloud of dust billows out.

My first thought: "dust doesn't billow in space". Instead, there'd simply be ejecta, moving with a distribution of initial velocities (speed & direction), which would move in independent parabolic arcs. Billowing requires an atmosphere.

The Apollo 12 mission landed about 600 feet (200m) from an earlier mission, the unmmaned Surveyor 3 probe. Ejecta from the descent was blasted out at > 2,400 m/s (5,400 mph), and the side of the Surveyor craft facing the landing site was sandblasted by the resulting particle spray. The concept of sub-grade landing pads on the Moon might actually have a great deal of validity, as otherwise the ejecta flows would tend to degrade structures and terrain for tremendous distances.

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna23130776

https://www.space.com/4956-lunar-landers-sandblasted-moon.ht...
> so the other 95% of the time miners are competing with consumers to buy electricity.

The ones that pull energy from the grid, yes

There are many that don't, and I expect them to increase, partially because the state energy company there is forcing approval applications now
I do consider it a use of crypto, in this case it is a highly volatile speculative investment that can be moved into a hardware wallet where it can be kept safe from theft, and also transferred into fiat. Even if crypto never becomes more than that, I still think this is a valuable thing. With DeFi things get more interesting
The cost of nuclear energy seems seriously understated.

Nuclear waste storage costs the US $6B per year and we still don’t have a long-term storage plan. We’ll incur this cost for hundreds or thousands of years.
https://earth.stanford.edu/news/steep-costs-nuclear-waste-us...

There’s also a cost to secure the nuclear infrastructure.
https://medium.com/the-future-is-electric/nuclear-generation...

Can anyone find a cost per Megawatt Hour calculation for nuclear that includes security and long-term waste storage? The calculations I’ve found for the $96/MWh figure seem like they include construction and operation costs, but exclude decommissioning and waste management.
Germany's biggest auto union questions Elon Musk's authority
When they originally brought out the feature, it supported the new phones but the OS update was also made available for older models that were outside of warranty since Apple continue to support their hardware years after release. Simply doing nothing and letting the batteries in the older models degrade further would cause them to reboot more and become unusable. Surely this would drive sales more? Isn’t supporting device that are out of warranty the opposite of planned obsolescence?

My wife and I both had iPhones when batterygate happened. Turns out her battery was degraded and mine was fine. She never did get her battery replaced, she was quite happy with the (reduced) performance she had. If it had been randomly rebooting it would have forced her to buy a new model. Instead she just waited until her next upgrade cycle and didn’t care, despite me telling her to get it replaced.

The battery is a consumable part. For my (second hand) iPhone 11 Pro Max it’s a £69 charge to get a new battery. After multiple years of use and two owners this isn’t unreasonable, not that it needs it of course (yet). I’ll still get years more of use out of this phone, and multiple more OS upgrades, all while other manufacturers pump and dump the next version of their handsets. We should be forcing every manufacturer to support handsets for 5 years minimum to save on e-waste.
> If Mastodon gets to hundreds of millions of users I will bet that one or two instances will grow very large, develop their own rules, and what do you have then?

Are you saying that these large instances would refuse to interoperate with each other? There are already signs of that happening even among small instances, but people are able to move their accounts from instances that are blocked by (or block) too many of their friend's instances, onto instances that have moderation policies they are more comfortable with.

Better yet, because all account actions are covered by an open API, it would be possible to create an account on a service that lets you make posts on multiple sub-accounts on different instances, and aggregate messages from your friends across them, which should heal any fracturing of the network for people who really have friends who (are in communities which) hate each other.
I can certainly understand that there are unqualified people who apply, what I'm disputing is your assertion that there is a correlation between doing the contrived problems under unrealistic conditions and future job performance. It sounds like your goal is just to filter out the absolute worst of the worst, and I'm sure its effective at that, but I believe you might be filtering out more of the top end than you realize.
"Protocol extensions must be able to be implemented by all users of the protocol and may not require a particular providers service but allow any alternative so long as it is protocol compatible"

Basically force those extensions to be equally cross-compatible.
Agreed. Back in a distant 2011:

"1 terabyte per day of data [...] - that is how much is produced by the firehose of 250 million tweets a day" [0]

i.e., ~4kb per tweet. So, 2ish Tb/day of text + metadata at current rates?

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2011/12/07/datasift-historical-tweets...
I think we are all fortunate that teslarati.com is not a government agency :D
Might as well get a real house if you're spending that much. You can get a 2br with most of a roof where I am for that much.
Kinda hard to remember something that never happened.