skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you think multiple layers in a payments system is undesirable, I wonder whether you make all your purchases online by putting dollars and cents into envelopes and mailing them to the merchants, or whether you use that additional layer of credit built atop the lower layer hard money supply.

Bitcoin was not designed to be “maximally profitable to miners”, it was designed to be a currency that could not be captured and controlled by state actors or other large players yet would be able to sustain itself and its network by incentivizing miners to set up nodes and resist attempts at hostile takeovers of the network. [1]

No other solution has managed to achieve this. There are proof-of-stake cryptocurrencies that opt to be more easily scalable on L1 at the cost that they are controllable by whoever holds the largest stakes.

[1] https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
I do the same. The problem is at step 5: some faucets (at hotels and so on) are automatic (no touch, due to pandemic maybe). I don't have a solution for this yet.
IIRC the book ‘Common Sense on Mutual Funds’ has data going that far back with charts. I believe the period from the start of the 20th century until the 70s had similar inflation adjusted returns. However, for the early data I think it was really just measuring the largest companies in the country that made up the original Dow. Although, the author argues that’s a fine comparison because the 30 largest companies in the country represent the large majority of the top 500 index in terms of cap today— he further argues that over the long term small cap and large cap stocks give similar returns regardless.
‘Have you recently had an abortion?’ Australian transiting through US questioned
"Not only is this work evil, it also involves wasting 8 trillion dollars and killing civilians"
I do something similar for the first 1-4 steps, only difference is I use cold water instead of warm or hot.

I don't know how true it is but I read in a few places where hot water and glasses don't mix well. It can mess with prescription lenses and potentially strip away extra coatings you have like auto-tint.

I know hot and warm are different but just to be safe I always go with cool.

It's too bad hot water is bad for lenses because it would be really convenient to be able to clean them while showering.
I had identical experience but with Uber Eats.
I was given 18 GBP coupon off any orders over 20 GBP.
So I ended up buying a breakfast delivery from McDonalds for the family, I added the food and the coupon to the order...
The first time I tried the payment my card failed. No idea why... it just said Authorization Failed. Second time round, it went through.
Driver came, and I also left a tip.

About a week later I was doing my household budget and looked at the charge on my account, and it excluded the discount. Once you added in delivery, service charge and the tip, I ended up paying 30%+ more for the food (and didn't have my coupon).

I think this was a genuine dark pattern that they use, although I have no interest in putting it to the test. After a failed payment, they auto remove any applied coupons to your transaction....

This was my first and guess-what, last order.
I don't know about "nihilistic" but thinking you're "oldish" in your mid 30s could be interpreted that way. If you live to be 70 you're only halfway through, eh?

Anyway, you're young, already semi-retired, with "plenty of money, and live a very comfortable life" "spending time with [your] wife and children", and your regret is not being able to help create fusion directly (as opposed to "merely" investing)?

Not to be that guy, but uh, "must be nice".

Seriously though, congratulations! You seem to have won life. :)

I'm curious about your motivation for your original comment, do you not want encouragement to go back to school?
Ah that makes more sense. But phones like that do exist, like Pixels.
Bigly is a real word, though archaic. It's mostly accepted that Trump was saying "big league" in a similarly... poetic... style, accompanied by am accent. Source: https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/bigly/
In the 70's the company I worked for made a receiver for fixed frequencies within 10KHz-13KHz. The architecture roughly was discrete time analog, and an analog switch was available that took a digital selection and routed the indicated analog input to the analog output. That block was used to control the sampling for a filter by cycling through the selections. The rest of the design was over my head in those days, since I was the software guy and the software wasn't controlling that.
If you can't supply more oil, you must destroy demand or avoid the demand in the first place.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32069033 (Netherlands poised to make work-from-home a legal right, says report)

https://www.euronews.com/next/2021/11/11/which-countries-pla... (After Portugal, which countries in Europe are improving post-COVID remote working laws?)

Progress takes time, and requiring people burn (currently, very expensive and in short supply) fossil fuels to move their bodies to an office to do knowledge work is silly. Perhaps this will be more clear as the global oil market situation deteriorates further. More economic pain may need to occur before such policy is encouraged along. C'est la vie.
What's the fuss with SoftBank?
From what I've seen, it's not a separate accelerator. The fusion reactor itself is a plasma accelerator and will run a hybrid reaction of D-D and D-He3. The combination will release 6% of its energy as neutron radiation.
Dihydrogen monoxide is actually a cooling agent for nuclear power plants. It's lethal at high doses, with hundreds of thousands of fatal accidents per year, and yet they put it into our food because it's cheap.
> . I was always under the impression that you can just buy into most unis in the US?

This is true at the richest levels. If you are willing to write a multi-million dollar check as a donation (name a building/room after your family), you will probably be admitted. In 1999, apparently a $2.5 million donation secured Jared Kushner's admittance into Harvard. This has to be adjusted not just by regular admission but also by the increased competition (it is more than twice as competitive). So I would expect we might be getting closer to a $10 million donation. Although schools would probably cap it/auction it off if they got too many donations.

This is by far the minority of admissions.

Other cases where people "pay to get in" are literally bribes, and people can and have gone to jail.

> There's the scholarship programs, but I was also under the impression they're often through sports rather than grades

There are a lot of scholarship types: academic, need-based, interest based (an engineering may spend money to help aspiring engineers), corporate (we'll pay your tuition if you work here for 2 years after), and athletic. Not all schools offer all types, and some (like interest based scholarships) are unaffiliated with any school (although athletic scholarships are).

Also, athletic scholarships are limited to your undergraduate (pre-law or pre-med or your BA/BS in X).

In all cases, the scholarships help you pay for school, but tend to be different from the actual admittance process. So the correlation would be between someone good at Football and someone who can afford school. Which, if you think about it as a job (they make the school a ton of money) is fair in a way.
Google has created the idea that "an algorithm is responsible" for something. This is never the case. An algorithm is programed by human beings, therefore the humans who created and approved the algorithm are responsible for its decisions. It is just a form of hiding their intent under the disguise of an algorithmic intelligence. I'm pretty sure that if something is bad for Google, it will not be approved despite what "the algorithm" thinks.
This might shock and amaze you, but I took many midterms and finals for my CS and EE classes using pencil and paper in the 21st century, and this was at a well-known Californian private university.
If feasible a physical barrier on the porch along your property line might be the simplest option. Simply block the line of sight, and optionally install white noise generators on your side to mask noise.
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Aside from fees, there's tax, tip, and DD charges more per menu item than the restaurant does. Markup is about $2 for fast food item and $5 for more expensive places. One place I like to buy food from, our order costs $35 for pick up. DD cost is almost $52 not including tip.

I have no idea how DD continues to lose money with this business model.
"Inspired" doesn't mean you do the exact same things, sometimes you introduce your own ideas, not all necessarily good :)

The residual oil remover mentioned is just a fancy name for lens cleaner that you can pick up in most supermarkets:

http://www.newprouk.co.uk/images/ROR/ROR%20data%20sheet.pdf

I've used this stuff to clean my SLR lenses (and my spectacles) but just by squirting a small amount onto a microfibre cloth rather than directly.

> certainly not an ultrasonic cleaner.

Yeah, I think I'd rather not be exposing my glasses to the rigours of the sonic tank :)
If you want me to respond then can't you comment directly on that submission?
Another thing to watch out for is opening the lid to a pot of stewing chiles. I had a friend that made sauce like this often and when she’d open the lid, it was like chemical warfare.
Pre-order link has full pricing. https://nothing.tech/products/phone-1
Born too late to buy 20k House. Born just in time for 20k Bitcoin.
“Why doesn’t this work on my Linux laptop?”
The latter mainly. The biggest reason is that JS is too slow compared to other languages, especially compiled ones like Go or Rust. So writing developer tools in JS already made them slow.
Humans make mistakes. Systems that intend to serve humans have to accommodate that flaw in order to be viable. Fixing mistakes means rewriting history. That means censorship. And so censorship isn't a bad thing. It's actually a core requirement for any system designed for broad usage.
Here's a post from 3 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30931614
I am using a synology ds418 (current model is ds420, probably releasing the DS422 soon) and it has been an absolute joy for the last four years, of all my technology devices, it requires the least care and feeding, it is the closest thing to a technolgical toaster I own. It backs up to aws glacier, but really nice having all my stuff on a 2 x 1gigabit interface here in the house.

There is a whole ecosystem of plugins and stuff, but out of the box it works fantastic.
A random group shutting down a roadway for their own purposes does not make it "used by the public".

Do you think they let random cars drive down the streets they're bombing on? No, they decide that they enforce their own laws.
That basically validates the conclusions I have come to as well.

However, I would add that I think you can build machine APIs using hypermedia, but the API contract would different. You would essentially define an OOP API with MIME Types as class definitions. That is partly I think why Toy Fielding put so much emphasis on defining those types.

But the real pwer of hypermedia - the ability to change those hypermedia relations dynamically - is really only useful for human-driven interactions.
Rust Means Never Having to Close a Socket (2014)
Why would you expect inflation in a recession especially when fuel is driving a lot of the inflation and fuel demand goes down in recessions?
I never close my browser unless I have to, but sure that might not be the normal behavior. I still don't get why they can't give an acceptable experience on the platform they built it on without wrapping it in a useless wrapper.

Keep the app, just make sure I can use your service on the platform it's built on.
> I have no idea how DD continues to lose money with this business model.

Labor in the US is too expensive for sufficient number of people in the US to afford it that would allow a business like DoorDash to earn a profit.
Speaking of "in 15 years" -- it's not too early to start doing y2038 blogging.

Write yourself a thoughtful post once per month about y2038 issues and you'll have a lucrative set of consulting jobs starting in 15 years and ending about one year later.
I’ve had this from peeling roasted green chiles. My hands felt chill-hot and tingly for 2 days. It seems like abrasion cleans it off better than solvents or soap.
> To keep land arable in the longer term, you need to do crop/usage rotation

It’s not like we’ve known this for 8,000 years
> I do notice the grime that accumulates in the nooks and crannies of my glasses.

Basic wood toothpicks work really well for getting rid of anything that might build up around the little nubs near your nose. It takes like 30 seconds and it's something you might do once a month.
Perhaps that's because cars have a far higher utility than throwing yourself down a hill, or watching people throw themselves down a hill.
I moaned about this on https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/317198/the-r-sou.... Some good answers to the linked dupe.
I got PRK last year because I didn't want the flap. I was supposed to have 20/20 or better vision after a month. Exactly one week later, my eyes had recovered to 20/15 and 20/18. The recovery honestly wasn't that bad and I forget that I've only had perfect vision for a year. One of the best investments in myself I've ever made!
Did I just read someone scamming a corporate in fine detail?
This is a perfect HN user response. You are a power user; "This is even worse if I am using a per-site email address" - no one does this. The majority of people are normal.
Not the same, but this reminds me of years and years ago when Google was giving away free AdWords credit. I think I got $75, and spent it on ads using my affiliate link for another service that offered credit for affiliate signups. I very easily maxed out my credit allowance for that. Not long after, the company got wind of what was going on and added something to their affiliate terms to disallow that.

It's funny, because there was no deception involved: the ad text I used was something like "Sign up for [service] and get $[discount] off", which was true, as the affiliate link offered a discount for the person signing up (in addition to the credit I would get as the affiliate). The company in the end just didn't like that I spent $75 of someone else's money to acquire customers for them.
My all time favorite was when I took the SAT (long time ago) and the proctor confiscated my calculator.

At the end of the test there was a final question:

“Which of the following approved calculators did you use on this test?”

My calculator was option B.
They should cut off the power instead... it would take care of both.
What part of your post was about groups who have voluntary vs involuntary membership? Your baseless assertion of "you must become bad to stay police"? Would you look up Eric Talley, who was a family friend of mine, and tell me that he was a bastard or a bad person?

And...maybe people are "born" cops? What if some people are born with ultra high points on "law and order", and they disproportionately become cops through their genetics?
I can't think of any deontological reasons, no. It seems to me that people are just more apprehensive of the more recent innovations. I can point you to writings in the past advising what to avoid writing down. This taboo has clearly shifted.

Say in 1000 years from now everyone has cameras and storage media implanted in their persons, I suspect the public consciousness surrounding what is and isn't expected to be recorded would change. I don't however think that your fundamental liberty as a human being should depend on the public consciousness, but rather be derived from principles/axioms.
Okay. This will probably be my last reply, as there's not much point to replying to someone who ignores what you're saying -- that's not the kind of thing that leads to meaningful, substantive exchange of ideas between curious minds.

As I've said twice now, it should take an unusually high threshold to downvote a content warning. This is because there is disproportionate downside to the people that it's relevant to. So no, it's enough enough to say, "oh, gosh, I wasn't offended, so, let's make sure no one else sees a warning about possible offensive content". (Most forums put the NSFW/L warning on a separate track so it can't be voted on!)

I mean, really. Imagine doing that in any other context. "Oh, hey guys, this should have a rape trigger warning." And then you downvote because "oh, well, hm, doesn't really feel like rape to me, maybe they agreed in advance to do that as roleplay? So yeah, I don't really see the problem with that scene, maybe just, quit viewing this at work, ya know?". Such an attitude would be deeply confused -- and arguably hostile. I imagine you'd react just as I did to such a trivialization of the warning.

The only reason to downvote such a warning is if the warning is clearly false. Say, in the rape trigger example, if the scene contained no sex or violence at all. In that case, yes, I would such call a downvoter -- including myself -- outraged at the mislabeling. That was the (charitable!) model I had of those who elected to suppress the warning I gave. That they thought it was so out-of-line as to be ridiculous and insulting to the maker of the app.

But as I also noted, perhaps people don't think that far ahead. Even so, they lack empathy for not realizing the importance of such warnings. And you no longer have that excuse.

>It's not much of a big deal and as HN etiquette goes, you should refrain from complaining about downvotes:

What do you think the proper HN etiqutte is for shock images?
Helion plans a manufacturing facility to produce 20 fusion generators a day
> The Sequential where you work for today is not the same business entity that made the famous synths of yesteryear.

The first synth I ever played was a "vintage" Prophet 5 in the 90s, now I have a reissue Prophet 10 from this "not the same business entity", as you very much are correct to call them. Even if they are not the same business entity, I know a lot of the people involved in making my Prophet 10 are (or where) the same people making the famous synths of yesteryear. When you play the Prophet 10 you can also tell.

I am really sad I can't say the same thing about my Moogs.
What prevents a node connecting many consumer wallets from raising rates for "out-of-network" wallets, especially smaller ones, or independent nodes?

Think of any network: Economic forces usually drive it towards centralization if not outright monopolization, especially if interfacing with end users (e.g. banks, electricity providers, ISPs, messengers...) unless there are (effective) laws in place prohibiting it.

> There is work being done on non-custodial escrow services for LN.

I'm very curious about efforts like that. Dispute resolution is extremely difficult to do in a way that is cost-effective, yet fair enough to not drive away either buyers or sellers.
We are working on stabilizing the app, sorry for the trouble.
There's a lot more involved in an execution engine running complex queries that are not single table group by than just QO (though this is important). It includes things like join implementations and associated optimizations, shuffle performance (which is important even for single table queries as you scale), etc.
Because the factors driving the inflation are from supply side such as energy or supply chain mess. Recessions won’t kill demands as fast - people are still going to need gas and presumably food.
Rubbing your eye after handling peppers is a definitely a problem - I’ve had that issue when peeling roasted green chile. Going to the bathroom can be risky, too. I had a vivid experience with that after chopping up a couple jalapeños at Taco Cabana one time…
Does any one know of a privacy focused security camera?

I live in a rough neighborhood and am concerned about theft, but I have 0 faith or trust in companies like amazon.

If I want a security camera that I can check remotely, but I want to own my data and have complete privacy (no snooping by the company, no ability for them to give my data to some one else).

Do I have any options for this other than completely rolling my own?
I’m sympathetic to your privacy concerns (neighbors shouldn't be recording much of your space although some may be unavoidable if you are close by).

You really lose me with this, though:

> I believe these cameras haven't decreased crime. They also don't really add more security.

Based on what?
The 8086 was not object compatible with the 8080, but one could "assemble" 8080 code (or even Z80 code) into 8086 with an automated process. It might not be optimal code, but it would get a working application up and running rather quick on new hardware.
I kind of thought Coco/R was a dead project but it seems dafny is using it as the parser generator library.

…have to poke around a bit methinks.
Biography of a forced intellectual child prodigy
Fooled me once, and now it's going to take a lot to make me look at anything from this company again.

I hope they can actually build what they promised someday.
Ongoing phishing campaign can hack you even when you’re protected with MFA
There's no value prop in getting your eyeball scanned in exchange for magic beans.
If it's 90° on a hot summer day and they are wearing a big bulky jacket, that raises eyebrows.

Are they wearing a uniform? If they are pretending to be part of a company and not wearing a uniform, that is suspicious.

What about the time of day? ADT sales people don't knock on my door at 8pm at night.

How are they acting? Are they waiting calmly? Are they checking their pockets or waistline? Are they glancing around seeing if other people are around?

Are they hiding their face?

Did they ignore a no soliciting sign?

Did they walk by and check out the property before approaching the door?

Did they knock on my neighbors door first? Or did they come straight to my door?

Did they park? Where did they park? Was it a company vehicle?

How many people is it? Are those people dressed in a similar way? Are they all standing together or did one of them wander off?

If you don't answer immediately, how do they act? Do they get annoyed and wander off or do they become insistant? Do they escalate to knocking or shouting?
"A spokesperson for US Customs and Border Protection confirmed that the visa waiver program prohibited applicants from engaging “in any type of employment or get compensation for services rendered”. The rule, which appears to prohibit house-sitting for free accommodation, took Gourley completely by surprise and she said she now wanted to warn other Australians of the consequences of volunteering to house-sit or pet-sit in the US or neighbouring countries."

How far the mighty guardian have fallen
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I don't mean to suggest there is a hot war, but more of a propaganda war so they can take the US down without a physical war.

China sees the US as a threat and has been attempting to undermine the US at every turn. Many Chinese students in the US basically become spies due to the threats against their families. The Chinese government has been propagandising people in the US with Confucius Institutes. A Chinese spy was sleeping with a US house member and another was on a US senator's team. I'm sure there are more cases than just these two as well.

They are infiltrating the US to destroy us from within so they don't need a hot war. People in the US either don't know or don't care.

As for exporting goods to the US. With cheap labor it hollows out the middle class in the US. We used to have good paying jobs for non college educated people but those jobs were offshored to China. This weakens the general population and causes increased drug use and other actions of despair. By continuing to send us goods they are keeping the US restricted in what they can do. If China blocked exports it would devastate the US economy.
My front door is not a 'public area', not really