skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If I can give a small amount of help to someone in exchange for knowing if they are trustworthy or not, that's probably worth it.

That's a life skill I had to learn. I was raised believing that if I was a good altruistic person all that goodness would come back to me. Well, way too many times it didn't and it was extremely frustrating until I figured out how to deal with it.

Sometimes it's okay to be selfish. It stops people from taking advantage.
That's utility theory under a risk seeking utility function. You model E(U(x)) instead of the risk neutral E(x).
Why not issue permits? The next administration will issue them anyway. In the meantime, all you’re doing is driving up prices. I believe that is what people are referring to.
Well, at least this wasn’t in the “pretend it’s better direction” so it’s a at least still reliable in helping pick good quality.
>If you are running any kind of business, say house insulation, you take money to fully insulate a house, don't insulate 90% of the house, and then attempt to mislead the customer into thinking the job is done, you have commited fraud or embezzlement.

Okay, but even in your example of insulating a house, there are areas that can't be insulated. For instance, it'll be insanely expensive to insulate the studs themselves, because they're load-bearing. A reasonable consumer would understand that you can't replace the entire surface of a house with insulation, just like a reasonable consumer would understand that not everything they put in recycling is going to be recycled.

>If these companies are paid to recycle but recycling is not happening, then someone has commited fraud. Also the contract does not say 'you can dump unresycleable stuff into the ocean' - they are suppose to dispose of it properly.

Without specifics it's hard to argue either way. I'm not aware of recycling contracts that stipulate x% must be recycled. Can you provide some references here? Here in the US counties/cities only does recycling as a money-making measure. If they market rate for recycled outputs drops too much, some jurisdictions end up landfilling the recycling.

>https://www.gov.uk/government/news/brothers-sentenced-for-14...

Looking at the story it seems like it's less "taking e-waste and dumping it in a river somewhere" and more "submitting fraudulent invoices".

>https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/18/uk-recyc...

>The exporters make millions by charging retailers and manufacturers a fluctuating tonnage rate for plastic waste recovery notes – currently £60 a tonne. Retailers buy these plastic export recovery notes – Perns – to satisfy the government they are contributing something to recycling plastic packaging waste.

This seems like an issue with a government program intended to curb plastic waste, rather than consumers being misled. Prior to your comment I wasn't even aware of the existence of such a program. That's not to say the fraudulent behavior is acceptable, but it's slightly different than what we were originally discussing which is consumers being somehow deceived that what they put in recycling actually ended up in a river somewhere.
So if the only recourse for bugs in DAOs is for the community to fork the underlying tech then it doesn't sound like a particularly robust system.
> Part of the justification for that refusal is that young people will allow death-marches.

Where I work the young team are sticking hard to their contracted hours (nothing wrong with that). It's the seniors that pull the extra (but not mad) hours to get shit completed.
Legal insider trading.
Prominent example are US Congressmen.

Personally investing into specific technologies (e.g. NVIDIA) and then passing legislation to promote those technologies benefits everyone, although asymmetrically.
So.. are you saying that if you're following this guide here https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/dns/cloudflared/ to use Pi-hole with DoH with Cloudflare, that because all requests are queried against Cloudflare, CF still knows what urls I'm looking for, and they can use this information to track me , or build a profile of me.

So, I need to figure out if I want to share my queries with my ISP or Cloudflare?
As someone who lives way down south, and incidentally spent a brief but memorable bit of time helping monitor the ozone...

Maybe try some of the new stuff, and if it works OK, take the old stuff to haz waste next time there's a good opportunity? I understand that the can of CFCs is a "drop in the ocean", but the mindset change is more significant.
Gasoline and oil are commodities, so the price doesn’t change much from place to place.

Lots of the businesses that sell gas don’t make any profit on it at all. They use gas to draw people in, and sell them other stuff, like overpriced headphones.

The price of gas has more to do with what you’re buying if for than what you’re competitors charge.

The drive around is defensive. If someone says “so and so is dumping gas at below market prices” you can defend yourself by showing competitors prices.

Since the gasoline is a marketing technique, long term below market prices aren’t inconceivable.

Edit:

The real question is “why is the government opposed to low gas prices?”

To be clear there is actually a minimum markup law where I live, so it’s not just anti-dumping.

This is supported mostly by old school Democrats.
I had an inexpensive fridge in my apartment break and the cost of having the tech just come out to look at it was around 1/2 of a new unit and then who knows how much the parts and labor would have been to fix it. Sadly, it just went to the scrap yard and we got a new one.
> Plus give it a one-off name, like "Freddie's Secret Likker" and copyright that.

Trademark, I think.
Salman Rushdie and the Cult of Offense
Perhaps the word "sprint" translates primarily to "short distance" in your mind, but I suspect if that's the case you are unusual in that regard, and most people think of the defining characteristic of "sprint" as "moving fast", not "short distance". To suggest that the choice of that word does not imply a sense of urgency and moving quickly seems, to me, totally implausible on its face.

> And no, developers are not expected to be "in a sprint more or less at all times"

Again, perhaps this is your experience. In my experience, in every company I've worked for that uses sprints, the end of one sprint is separated from the start of the next by, at best, a few hours, and often less than that. Planning meetings generally take place during sprints.

And to point out that sprints may be separated by a weekend seems, at best, totally irrelevant, as in my working life, weekends are not part of working time. "You are in a constant sprint at work, but hey, you get to rest at the weekend" is not a compelling proposition to me.
"Followers" as a metric exists because Twitter demands a centralized feed that's constantly unstable so you go back to it often. Why can't it be like RSS, where everybody has a feed, and it tracks what posts I've read and which ones I haven't, and I can catch up with all the unread posts? Probably because that way, I could check it once a week, instead of every 30 minutes, and Twitter needs those DAUs to survive.

Web3 isn't worth the digital paper I'm writing this screed on, but if there's anything that a decentralized social network should be able to do, it's get us out of hyper-aggressive VC-subsidized optimization for eyeballs and growth, and put us back into humane territory. The mis-step of adding back "status" into the network is just showing us nobody even recognizes the problems here, or more likely, intentionally want to make a worse version of what already exists.

also, tbh, the "follow" system is a confusing web of permissions. Primarily it means "I want to see their posts in my feed", but also sometimes "I want the ability to see someone's private feed" and "I want to be able to DM someone", because inexplicably, there's only one relationship available in Twitter... the follower.
the lack of a longer warranty does not decrease the likelihood of unnecessary repair jobs

in other words, if BrandX had products they believed would last 40 years, they would have a warranty that says so, and it would not decrease the reliability 1 iota
Maytag is owned by Whirlpool Corporation, which makes ~all of the various appliance brands I've seen here in Canada except for the newer LG/Samsung etc. Any "FSP" branded parts are made by Whirlpool.

For what it's worth, the Speed Queen washer/dryers people seem to like, appear to also share parts with Maytag [1], which means Whirlpool made, or uses, or shares at least designs for parts, even though Speed Queen is owned by Alliance Laundry Systems, who also make the Huebsch machines in apartments, which, are commercial grade, but still not free of problems (i.e., >half of front loading machines in one place I've been in have the marbles-in-bearings sound when spinning, which a newly replaced machine didn't)

Some models of Speed Queen washers I've seen people open on YouTube look suspiciously like a Whirlpool "direct drive" 90s washer.

[1] https://ibb.co/PzQxxP6 - I searched for "speed queen transmission" on DuckDuckGo Images and found this listing that mentions compatibility between that and Maytag. I also recognize that transmission as a Whirlpoolish thing.

Given that most appliances around me are made by Whirlpool, I don't personally have anything to compare them to. I haven't personally seen many extreme design flaws, but the parts are built down to a cost. For example, all of their dryer motors are epoxied together instead of bolted, like every other motor, probably to save cost at assembly, and conveniently prevents oiling and servicing of the bushing/bearing. The washer pumps for the aforementioned "direct drive" washers are sealed, and if something gets jammed, you can't take them apart to unjam them (though I've unjammed one before, and they don't cost much, and there is a ~good reason to seal it shut).

However, whatever evils, if any, Whirlpool puts into their machines, at least you can get the parts, and compatibles exist, and junkyards are probably full of compatible parts, simply because the parts are all shared between most Whirlpool appliances in existence.

I've had one example of a bad experience with the electronic controls on a Maytag front load washing machine. I don't consider a single sample to be representative, but the software on the control was poor and refused to spin-dry a blanket after washing it. It wasn't because the machine was unbalanced. It would rotate the blanket very slowly (zero shaking), and just decide not to do anything else. It eventually did it after a bout of unplugging, pushing buttons, and cursing.
Where’s the huge upside though? You need a roof over your head so if your property goes up 10%, so has every property you’re likely to want to move to when it comes time to sell.

You only really benefit if you’re investing outside of your primary residence.

What’s more, the risk is huge. In the AMD example, you could lose 100% of your investment. Get things wrong with a house and you’re going to be out way more than your initial investment.

I own a home because it’s the most comfortable option for me and my family. With that said, I view it as a utility and not an investment.
None of what you’re saying appears to be pertinent in this issue, since the primary objections appear to not be related to the crypto but to the end-to-end validation?

Which it’s still likely better than the current situation, which is photoshops ahoy everywhere.
I am pretty sure that'd be a patent. I suspect it'd be really hard to get an effective one on a coctail though. I know there's a bit more to it than adding the ingredients and mixing (or not), but there's not a _lot_ more to it than that.
I think one of the challenges is changing the consumer mindset of always going with the least expensive item. This encourages a downward spiral of cheapened products. There are still some high quality appliance brands, but you have to pay more. For example, I purchased a SpeedQueen washer and dryer combo last November. My TR7 model had a premium compared to units available at Home Depot or Lowes, but I love it. SpeedQueen is still manufactured in the US, they offer long warranties, and their products are solid. You get what you pay for.
>it is very simple to accomplish.

Given you don't have details on the quality of the item you are buying how do you accomplish that?
Ask HN: Experience with using a personal email with a non-standard TLD?
I just bought a Georgian (.ge) domain for a domain hack and would like to use it as my personal email. I am not Georgian nor are the people I'd be sending emails. I've read horror stories here before about companies needing to change from e.g. .xyz to .com so their emails aren't flagged as spam by Big Email Providers.

If you use a custom domain with a non-standard TLD for your email, have you experienced any issues like these before? Do you think it was the non-standard TLD's fault? I've seen people claim, for example, that using smaller email providers can also cause issues.

I know very little about how emails are flagged as spam, so I'd also appreciate any advice you'd give to someone who has only used a Big Email Provider for all their life and would like to now switch.
You are sadly mistaken if you think nursing is even close to what being a doctor is.
“Over the past two decades, our culture has been Carterized. We have conceded moral authority to howling mobs, and the louder the howls, the more we have agreed that the howls were worth heeding. The novelist Hanif Kureishi has said that “nobody would have the balls” to write The Satanic Verses today. More precisely, nobody would publish it, because sensitivity readers would notice the theological delicacy of the book’s title and plot.”
> As a general rule, the U.S. Copyright Office does not accept vague claims of “format” and/or “layout.” The general layout or format of a book, a page, a slide presentation, a website, a webpage, a poster, a form, or the like, is not copyrightable because it is a template of expression. These terms should be avoided and, if used, will be questioned by the registration specialist.

https://www.copyright.gov/comp3/chap300/ch300-copyrightable-...

Example given in 906.5 (separate pdf, but linked from the above):

> Fred Foster publishes a one-page newsletter titled Condo Living that provides information for residents of his condominium complex. Each issue contains the name of the newsletter, a drawing of the sun rising over the complex, two columns reserved for text, and a box underneath the columns reserved for photographs. Fred attempts to register the layout for his newsletter. The registration specialist will reject the claim in layout, but may register the illustration if it is sufficiently creative.
Good supply chain transparency is about as difficult as an efficient planned economy, actually. Supply chain transparency was by very very far the biggest issue.

Actually planning the economy is a polynomial time problem to solve exactly for linear situations, and ~n*log(n) to approximate fairly well both for linear and nonlinear situations. Consumer demand is solved by using markets for everything except capital.

And so revealing accurate information turned out to be by far the most difficult task, at which planned economies routinely suffered catastrophic failures. For example, the USSR overestimated grain production by around 2x for the Holodomor due to misreporting and lies at every single level (the ensuing catastrophic and tyrannical resource distribution is a whole other topic). Until the 1990s, Soviet planners highly valued US spy informations on their economic situation as it was vastly more reliable than their own.

Planned economies are far more reliant on this data of course, and that is why they are far more affected. Actually finding a sufficiently efficient organisation of production is not that big of a challenge either in theory or in practice, the issue is mostly figuring out exactly what you've got to organize.

Unfortunately Mises did not have the algorithmic intuition to figure out that the calculation part is completely doable (even when you assume a perfect efficient market which is theoretically impossible unless P=NP and entropy stops existing and even then only for linear systems, the exact solution can be found at worst in cubic time to the number of industries).
The community here were namely, the people who were upset their coins were stolen -- the developers, people who had a lot of coins, and miners. All the morals about "code is law", "free from centralized governance" went out the window when gainz were to be had.
Show HN: Anysphere, home for important, long-form conversations
Hi everyone! I’m Arvid, cofounder of Anysphere (https://anysphere.co). With my two friends Sualeh and Shengtong I have been spending the last few months building a dedicated home for important, long-form conversations. We’re super excited to let the HN community test it out!

We think that no existing platform for point–to-point communication prioritizes the conversations that you actually care about and that really matter. Instant messaging is filled with careless texts and stickers, email is filled with receipts and spammers, and physical mail, while better in those respects, is slow and cumbersome. None of the existing platforms are private enough.

Anysphere attempts to fix this. It is private, secure, desktop-first and only allows people you added to contact you. Our whitepaper (https://anysphere.co/anysphere-whitepaper.pdf) describes our privacy and security model in detail — in short, we protect all of your data and metadata against everyone (even our own server). Our client is fully open source: https://github.com/anysphere/client.

We deployed a small server to open up testing to everyone in the HN community. Instructions are here: https://gist.github.com/arvid220u/d960ca6483bf5f295498d9de99....

I can’t wait to hear your thoughts!
Take it apart and see? If you have experience you can usually roughly tell what kinds of plastics are used, although some are nearly indistinguishable.
You cant have a medically supervised abortion at 23 weeks minus very few exceptions. If you could, this wouldn't be the story. So, yes, it is about having a very late abortion. What else do they do with it to avoid the very law that is now going after them?

But yes, medically, 22 weeks the fetus may be viable without the mother, therefore we draw the line. It's murder, charge it as such, and sounds to me investigations are proper.
I hate all the electronics on ovens/stoves, my brother needed a new one and I found a Canadian company called Unique that makes them without electronics (and some models for propane use off grid).
"For example, usually asking someone out on a date has huge asymmetric upside. You might hit it off and end up being in a happy relationship. If not, you'd just be a little embarrassed and maybe awkward with the person afterward."

Or it goes so "well" that you get married and they take half your stuff in a divorce.
Never mind the 'Christianity' bollocks: Jesus of Nazareth is the meaning of life.

Find a church that takes the Word seriously and also joy therewith.
That is true, but I figure for higher value products, the warranty period gets closer to the product’s mean time before failure.

If the Speed Queen cost 50% more, I would be inclined to buy it. But at 3x the price, I feel like it’s just easier for me to replace, and since it is Costco, I trust that the process will be easy.
reminds me of NFTs... go Sony...
I literally just had a huge problem for my credit score. Apparently I cancelled a credit card for the water company which supplies water to a small property I own. They sent mail to the address telling me to pay, but no emails or texts. By the time I retrieved the mail I was four months in debt and they had already called collections on me.

Now I have a major negative event on my credit report that won’t go away for seven years. Over $150 of total late fees. My credit score dropped nearly 70 points. All because I didn’t check my mail for a few months while traveling.

I really hate this system with a passion. A deep and profound passion.
I'm actually listening to Richard J. Evans trilogy on Nazi Germany. Carlin feels very "pop history" in comparison. Maybe the longer episodes are better?
Insider trading isn't legal. See the STOCK Act, signed into law by President Obama in 2012. I am very aware people will say this is unenforced.
Ha! Seems like I could've thought more about the branding of the game. :D

Since players interact with the game through a gRPC API, I didn't want to put a specific programming language in the title. In fact, my assumption is that more players want use JavaScript, TypeScript or Python than Rust. Which is why the tutorial on the website has examples in TypeScript and not Rust. I want players to consider the implementation of the game a black box, and instead focus their attention on the sandbox that it provides.

The routing grid is an attempt to reduce the initial difficulty for players by essentially converting the map to a set of discrete tiles. I hope that this will make it easier for players to get started. Eventually, I want to add obstacles such as impassable mountains or towns that have restricted airspace to the map. With the routing grid, I can simply mark a tile as blocked. Without it, players would need to compare the shape of the obstacle with the route of the plan and search for intersections. This simplified data model also seems to work well with pre-existing path finding libraries on NPM or crates.io, further reducing the barrier to entry.
NPs don’t have near the experience of a doctor (who needs something like 8,000+ hours of supervised experience before they can practice unsupervised).

You are saying a NP is the equivalent of an attending physician, which is absurd.
I wonder if this stuff can at all be made at home (and prepared), or if this mostly just makes any sense in a factory setting.
I have not used Costco warranty before, but I have not seen a reason to doubt Costco’s services.

https://www.costco.com/appliance-warranty-calculator.html
> You need a roof over your head so if your property goes up 10%, so has every property you’re likely to want to move to when it comes time to sell.

I think this common argument massively overstates the case. I have friends whose parents left them their primary residence. Mine did not. "Where’s the huge upside though?" sounds to me like sort of an insane question, when viewed through that lens.

But just to lay out the argument further, here are some concrete examples of upside:

1. The money is real and you could move to a lower-cost-of-living area. Owning a house in San Francisco is like having a standing offer of a million dollars to move to the Midwest. That's not nothing. "But I don't want that million dollars, I want to stay here," is not a compelling argument. The offer exists whether you take it or not.

2. You can sell and rent and keep all the equity, which you get to invest elsewhere. Congratulations, you're now a renter, just like millions of ordinary hard-working people. The difference between you and them is the cash you put in your pocket when you sold.

3. Your mortgage payment is fixed, so it's an inflation hedge.

4. You can borrow against your equity.

5. Because you can buy with so little down, having a lot of equity means it's pretty easy to buy again, even if prices go up. An existing homeowner is much better positioned to buy than a non-homeowner, all else equal.

The benefits of owning a valuable asset don't disappear just because you don't want to sell it at the moment. The asset represents options, if nothing else.
Yeah, but it frees up more space in my brain for dank memes, so who's to say I'm not better off?
I found a company called Unique based in Canada that makes ovens and stoves without all the electronics (which are really the only part in stoves I've ever had issue with, the rest is very simple mechanically and either doesn't fail or is easily repaired). My brother got one and is really happy.