skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are also notorious for charging loyal customers 4-5x as much after the initial "get you hooked offer". Calling and threatening to cancel magically reinstates the price that simply isn't possible except for new customers.

It's exactly the reason I didn't continue with them after my car's free trial. If they made it easy, like Netflix, they would have gotten a chunk of money from me over the past 4 years. Instead they got nothing.
Macwright.com redirects HN readers away
Qualia isn't magic. It's a philosophical term for what it feels like. Colors, sounds, pains are what it feels like. It's dismissive to call it magic. How about instead come up with a good physical explanation of consciousness, showing how the hard problem is mistaken?

Similarly, if compositionally isn't a categorical stumbling block, then show how that's the case. Making a future prediction about what you think computers will accomplish doesn't do that.
Project Trellis – fully open-source flow for ECP5 FPGAs, using Yosys and nextpnr
> There is a non zero risk of unauthorized 3rd parties making service changes or cancellations to somebody's account, so it's standard procedure to have a customer service rep ask some basic security questions of the account holder before proceeding with a port, change or cancellation.

This isn't really true. It's very easy to get a replacement SIM sent or a number ported and is primarily how a lot of financial and online accounts are compromised.

Some carriers allow for specifying a SIM and porting lock on the account with an additional password, or requiring an in-person visit to a physical store with ID.
These sponsorships really only took off in the past 5 years as adblock soared in popularity. There may be a causal factor there.
A few times when calling to either cancel something or file a claim on some protection plan, I’ve set a stopwatch the instant the hold music begins. Lo and behold, the line starts ringing to connect on the 30 minute mark, or some other extremely suspicious round number. I’m convinced some MBA found that some desirable percentage give up after so many minutes on hold, so they made the hold period mandatory.
People who have native sponsors inside their uploads are usually attempting to derive a significant amount of their living income through their videos, and if they're on sponsor block that means they've attracted enough viewership that this is doubly so.

It's fine if you want to deprive them of their livelihood which affords them the ability to make professional and polished videos but don't kid yourself about your motivations. And speaking as an amateur videographer, it takes an enormous amount of time and work to be able to make even a short 20 to 30 minute video.
I disagree that most people would take materialism as a given (I think most people in the world are at least slightly religious or spiritual), nor do I think it's necessarily a correct reading to say that Hofstadter actually assumes materialism must be true (though I believe he does), rather Hofstadter starts from the premise that it is and then tries to see if that premise can be logically consistant.
I wonder what happens if you mess with the data mining by telling comcast you're going to prison, click on every ad and join groups on social media for new moms/baby related items, join every social media group you can find for some absolutely absurd and non-rational political opinion, buy a hundred two dollar dildos on alibaba with a prepaid visa gift card, etc. What does the data set look like after you screw with your profile...
Hopefully the developers, should they have kids, feed their kids lots and lots of milk and steak for dinner as often as possible so they don't have to troubled by their height.
Once upon a time, it was considered that all those strange carbon-based compounds could only be made by living organisms, hence the original name for carbon-based chemistry as 'Organic Chemistry'.

It's well past time we put the term 'Organic Chemistry' in the Junk-heap of Science along with the non-existent 'Ether' and 'Spontaneous Generation of Life'.
Not yet, but it could be if more people help contribute to it.
Machinery, materials, medicines that save lives aren't luxuries and I don't think you can argue that needlesly letting a lot of people die is in any way a greater good.

Maybe dialing it back 10% and not 100% cold turkey?
> It's a free and opensource project. Feel free to open a PR or bug report.

This isn't and never has been protection from constructive criticism. Nor should it be. Choose to ignore it, or dismiss it, sure. But belittling valid criticism is a bad look.
I didn't say it's hard to do, any moderately competent social engineer can bluster the phone customer service reps into porting away someone's account, it absolutely happens all the time.
The federal government can do what it likes with the legislative process, as long as it’s not unconstitutional. As this isn’t unconstitutional and is voted in by both houses, it then becomes law.
I’ve been using gimp since 0.48 when I had to compile for SGI Irix to run on our O2 workstation. I’m pretty sure gimp is not going to be the one.
This could be a great use of Mechanical Turk.

Does that still exist?
I guess you are thinking of this issue:

https://github.com/christinaa/rpi-open-firmware/issues/37

Since then the project moved to a new maintainer (not me), who worked on it slowly but surely. They need new contributors though.
> Debris removal is less an R&D problem than a market problem.

How did you come to this conclusion? Not that I know much about it, but I'm skeptical we can actually do orbital debris removal at a scale that meets the scale of the problem. AFAIK proof od concept demonstrations so far have been rather feeble. Seems hard.
The intent is that standard tools would output alternative formats.
After selling electricity from a solar power plant you should have enough money to build it’s replacement in less than 20 years.

Both Nuclear and Solar get subsidies, but grid Solar generally doesn’t need them.
Okay, I read the fly.io documentation. What is being done now to globally distribute PG results is asynchronous replication and thus stale reads and presumably the potential for data loss during failover. So I can see why it would make sense to use SQLite to achieve a similar setup.

Still, I would expect the windows of read staleness and data loss to be much wider with an approach of just shipping logs rather than re-engineering things like RQLite, etc. Trying to ship a copy of SQLite to every app will mostly achieve lower latency at the cost of staler reads, although I can see how ideally it could cut the latency in half by streaming data ahead of time. But of course it increases storage costs dramatically as things scale out.
getting ripped takes time out of day and/or steroids, breaking your bones and 'automating' the bone lengthening with a remote control device is way more efficient. and they can still work on their sidehustles/startups.
The real solution here is for techies to push (actually show up and push, as in pressure city councils and representatives at meetings) for similar laws in their communities.
> Why would you reverse it?

Why would you not? Stripe still keeps the transaction cost, so clearly they anticipate this happening.
What do you like better about Sketch?

(Just curious. I'm a FE dev and all the designers I've worked with have moved to Figma over the last few years, and you're the only one who's ever told me it was better.)
When building out your business, you need to look for possible points of failure, assess the risk of each point, and then consider mitigations.

Payment processing is a possible point of failure. Chances of it failing? I think anyone who's read HN/Reddit/etc would have to evaluate the chances as fairly high. Cost to the business of it failing? Often extremely high.

Having done this analysis, you can look at mitigations: sign up with both PayPal and Stripe, get a merchant account, etc.

Then build the redundancy into your system. Yes, this probably means you cannot use the fancy features because there's no good cross-provider abstraction. That's the cost: you might have to implement recurring transactions yourself.

This happens over and over again. Your individual business is worth basically nothing to your cloud provider, your payments provider, your CDN, your domain registry, etc. They do not care if it breaks.

You have to have redundancy for anything you cannot operate without.
I'm on your side of the bet for 2023.
I can never forget that giddy feeling when I found out that Fireworks had native support for layered PNGs at the time.
I never said it was the most intuitive, just the most streamlined and most efficient. I'm having a hard time understanding why you think it's not the best organized. Most math courses are taught with a pretty straight forward approach: start with the axioms and definitions, prove the easy and auxiliary theorems that are easily derived from the axioms, prove the fundamental theorems that make the subject useful. In other words, the shortest path from the axioms to the important theorems. I don't see a way to make it more organized or compact, but I'm open to hear what you think is a more condensed or organized way to teach math.

And no, this is rarely the most intuitive or contextual way to learn math. Another analogy - a library doesn't sort their books by which ones were best reads or most influential, but by topic and author. Similarly, math curriculums are organized by a hierarchy of which theorems can prove the next theorem with no explanation of which ones are important. Organization doesn't always provide intuition.
I guess this could be why everyone (and animals) are getting fatter.

Less nutritious plants with more sugars, you have to eat more to get the same nutrients.
I had a dream
If I were shelling out $75k for 3 inches it wouldn’t be for my height
in the first paragraph

> See also Part 2 (to be published),
Currently envoyproxy/gateway is still at early stage. It only supports configuring via file or k8s crds, and many things especially docs are not clear.
The federal government can really only regulate vehicles as far as they can regulate interstate commerce. They can tell automakers what they should make and fine them if they don’t follow those rules (and they sometimes just choose to pay the fines)

There are numerous vehicles on dealers lots today that are made in violation of federal requirements. Some are sold as “off road” vehicles. Some luxury and sports cars just flaunt fuel economy requirements and their automakers wrap the fine into the price of the car.

What actually is legal to drive on the street is almost 100% up to the states. Many states will allow you to register off road vehicles that don’t meet any federal standards as long as they meet the state’s requirements for roadworthiness. The states can and do put a license plate on whatever they want.
So, I guess we shouldn't thank them so much. Climate change was only one of the many items the insurance industry isn't helping much with. Which is my point. And I don't think they were particularly instrumental in getting the automotive safety ball rolling, either, though I'm sure they were happy to join in once it was.
Buy thicker sole shoes, wtf
The profit is to be derived from the efforts of others. People staking at this point are entirely dependent on the Foundation to add the ability to withdraw your staked ETH. Do stakers expect to make a profit if the Foundation doesn't add this feature?
Possession is 9/10 of the law.
This seems like a good time to remind people that in 1961, the US through Project West Ford, launched billions of small copper wires into orbit in an effort to provide global radio communications [1].

For what it's worth, it actually kind of worked.

[1]: https://www.wired.com/2013/08/project-west-ford/
It is not an alternative firmware one can flash, it is something that can run on any existing linux distribution either on a single board computer or your PC connected to a TV screen
Recent discussions on penpot here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32851262
Seems like he needs to write a 419 email to retrieve it.

https://www.419eater.com/
The part of the government that provides services to the people.
Actually it is, you’re not willing to give up your comfortable lifestyle and trade your labor for the most compensation that you can yet you clutch your pearls wondering why those evil capitalist pigs aren’t willing to make the same sacrifices.
“Moreover that this level of fraud is allowed to exist is absurd even if it is infrequent. We have laws on drug marketing, multi-level marketing schemes, et cetera that continue to be applied even if there is a low number of perpetrators and I don’t see why this should be an exception.”

There are laws and regulations about marketing a college degree and a college’s accreditation and reputation relies on it. Thousands of human hours are spent every year at every accredited college to avoid inadvertently falling out of compliance and to be in the good graces of accreditors.

In fact, one could argue, and I will, that most of the added administrative cost you see in this articles expense chart is to ensure regulatory compliance.

And colleges that egregiously or repeatedly fall out of compliance either lose accreditation or are sued, sometimes out of existence. This almost always happens at for-profit schools not non-profits, though non-profits do get in trouble every once in awhile.

“I, my class, and their parents were told sternly — commanded is a fair word here — several times throughout every year that the goal of schooling is to send children to universities.”

This isn’t direct marketing. This is people saying what they believe to be true. You can debate the validity of this opinion all day, but these are people giving the best opinion they have. They are not getting paid to say it. There are no kickbacks.
The MtG NFTs should be traded on MtGox so we come full circle.
That's actually a great example and it illustrates OP's point. If prescription drugs were given names based on their perceived meaning or target, things could get extremely confusing and/or misleading later when the meaning or target change (but the name stays the same).
As it stands, choosing "random" names definitely seems like the lesser of two evils. The names may seem awkward at first but once you get used to them there's nothing particularly bad about them.

> it would take a real optimist to say that brings any clarity or long term order to the process by which medical professionals learn or refer to the drugs they prescribe and administer

In this case I don't think you can have the cake and eat it too, unless you can somehow prove that the chosen descriptive name will forever remain meaningful and descriptive.
Penrose's issue is that most mathematicians have disagreed with his understanding of Godel's theorem. He basically wants to say "A computer by definition can't know that a "Godel statement" is true, and yet I do, and therefore my mind can't be a computer."

Yet Godel's theorem is entirely formal and understandable by a computer, which can draw the same conclusions about any such statement as a human.
Looks pretty painful to me...here's some timelapsed xrays of the device (PRECICE-StrydeNail) in a patient:

https://medcraze.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/NuVasive-PRE...
I don't have this problem on Linux, I've made hundreds of office files that are nothing but nonsensical calculations.
Does the FTC even do anything anymore...? I can't remember a single significant enforcement action in my lifetime.
or that you are moving and the place will be empty for a long time
Similarly I believe the PS3 was the cheapest blu ray player on the market on release too.
Not according to the Bible's (translated) telling:

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Kings%203%3...

>They argued back and forth in front of Solomon, 23 until finally he said, “Both of you say this live baby is yours. 24 Someone bring me a sword.”

>A sword was brought, and Solomon ordered, 25 “Cut the baby in half! That way each of you can have part of him.”

>26 “Please don't kill my son,” the baby's mother screamed. “Your Majesty, I love him very much, but give him to her. Just don't kill him.”
preferably, moving to guam or puerto rico or somewhere else they absolutely don't serve.
There is an approach to decide the ownership. When India got independence and the Republic of Indian union was formed, the Indian central government got ownership of all the assets of the princely states. There are instruments of ascession signed by each Maharaja stating the transfer of rights for properties and assets. I doubt if anyone has even seen these documents in a while but it could technically be traced and the rights could be deduced.
I'm like 5'3" and for me the answer is simple: anyone who would consider that a deal breaker isn't worth my time
>Does it matter?

That is indeed the question. There is no way of knowing if the nature of the business is a factor unless you know that nature of the business.
I'm using it, it feels great
Yes. What's funny is that it looks like Jude Law and Ethan Hawke are already nearly the same height.
My mistake. On my second time at "formal science," "science" was an already clicked hyperlink, and the dark blue is really close to black on my phone causing me to miss it.
> You couldn't have a blockchain equivalent of World-of-Warcraft. You have no meaningful way to testify that you recieve an item from killing a boss, for example.

Anywhere else and I would assume you were joking. This being HN, I have to assume you're being serious. So, at the risk of stating the obvious, that's the point of the blockchain. That you can provide verifiable proof for things like this.
This happened to us multiple times too. Everything gets resolved after 1+ months of having our payouts frozen. This means we have to go months without a single dollar being deposited into our bank account. Imagine having bank loans to pay and the bank is asking, "What the hell is going on?".

They need to nuke all their "X Verification APIs" and just manually check each and every account. For us, it was an issue with the Address Verification API not finding our address. As if addresses are a fixed thing and not dynamic. I also felt like I was going crazy because they would trigger it every 3 months or so, even after resolving the issue after speaking for weeks with the support team.

This happened to us in both Stripe and Shopify (which I think uses Stripe as its backend).
"One software engineer told GQ he spent the first three months after his surgery alone in his apartment and ordered delivery food during that time to go from 5-foot-6 to 5-foot-9."

That does not sound easier than spending the same 3 months with ~4 hours of workouts a week (which is enough to get most untrained people into pretty solid shape lifting), never mind the other health benefits.

I don't really think efficiency is a particularly good argument here :P
As a short guy, I'm grateful to be gay and in a large city in the West. My experience is that most gay men are very relaxed about my height; if it even comes up they just say "oh yeah, major short king energy" and move on.
If you are a developer at a large company, you might be able to mess around with this and decide that it's worthwhile to push for a proper evaluation with a larger dataset.
I doubt how much of this is journalists fantasizing about tech workers salaries and what they could be doing with it. They might even have say 1 anecdotal evidence they can point but it translates to "male tech workers... "
Doesn’t everyone who quits at Amazon quit on Day 1?
Additionally you can add a number higher than 4x.
OK! You want Seville burning red October, avoiding weekends forty two or three nights/days....
You can report everything to the taxman. Wash trading in this context isnt to do with taxes. Its about how you hard it is to verify claimed sale prices since you can transact with yourself.
The answer to flash? I mean that in a good way. I see timeline animation which was the bread and butter of flash.
I don’t pay for Feedly and I’m a happy user.
Just to add that a poor country such as Morocco (North Africa) has a freaking High Speed Bullet train (french TGV) between Casablanca and Tangiers.

It beats me why the US can’t have one

Just saying
The 4th Amendment is at issue here. This is just a neat end-run around the 4th Amendment; it doesn't apply if you can put enough soft pressure on businesses to have them report on their own users.

You're right that it's legal under the current interpretation of the laws. It just means the 4th Amendment isn't worth the paper it was printed on, and it'll get relegated to the "stuff people used to care about category" like the 3rd.
My local library has the original (translated) manga, it's by the same author who makes Vinland Saga.
Adobe did not buy Figma at a 50x multiple because it thinks Figma is worth that much. It bought the company at 50x because it was a number Figma's board couldn't say no to, and removes their stiffest competition in a quarter century in the process.
The CO2 footprint for one.
Not necessarily. For instance, Firebase's Realtime Database doesn't scale vertically or horizontally. The only option is to create additional, entirely independent databases. It's up to the application developer to implement some type of sharding scheme.
Throw in some dating advantages and it becomes worth it rather fast.
> but short men are just not considered equal when it comes to physical attractiveness.

Did a tall person write this? This is horse shit. If you're unfortunate enough to find yourself in a bubble where this fallacy actually applies, get out quickly. Or if this is you, and you're under average height, I'd legitimately suggest seeking counseling to try and overcome the short supply of confidence, perhaps discover the reason why you're projecting this onto yourself. There is an immense supply of people and an incredible variety of tastes.
You're right for now. Once upon a time people started paying for cable, and the ads went away there too! (For a while...)
> AI is already displacing human labor, just try to talk to a non-robot when you call a customer service line these days.

You’re right. And my point is that substitution due to AI will accelerate. That’s where the informational surprise of my original comment lies.

You have a fatal misapprehension about how automation transforms a labor market. Higher productivity of certain kinds of work due to automation pushes labor supply elsewhere, making the “elsewhere” in turn both more competitive/demeaning (think Amazon warehouse workers peeing in bottles at the lower end of the market and Stripe engineers burning out at the upper end) and less remunerative.

The terminal point of this trend is complete human obsolescence, but the displacement along the way is additive, will likely accelerate in the coming decades due to advances in AI, and is especially problematic because there are limits to the elasticity of the labor pool (i.e. its ability to adapt to rapidly changing conditions).

I would furthermore predict that governments will be too slow to respond to this and that social upheaval will consequently escalate dramatically.

Come back to this comment in ten years and see how I did.
About a decade ago, there was a huge scandal with the Chinese diplomatic core having strict height limits for girls, so there was (is?) a huge market for illegal operations to get taller. But this being China, the underground docs would often screw the operation up, leaving the poor girls with a bad limp for the rest of their lives.
If the process is done too fast then the new bone is weak.
"A former Bumble product manager says that a majority of women on the platform tend to set a floor of 6 feet for men, which would limit their candidate pool to about 15% of the population."

6 feet = 182 cm.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/online-dating-investing-match-t...
Its not like it doesn't have cons:

- 60Hz refresh rate
- 8,000:1 contrast ratio with local dimming on
- 500 cd/m2 brightness and "HDR compatibilty"
- 86% DCI coverage