skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This entire comment seems to reprise the FTX/Larry David Super Bowl commercial. I'm sure there's a term-of-art for the tactic in debating circles (like "straw-man argument," or "appeal to authority"). I think of it as the "disingenuous comparison."

I can't begin to list all the ways in which comparing the auto industry of the 20th century to crypto of today breaks down. For starters, automobiles promised a massive demonstrable value-add to society from the get-go. Crypto, as others here have pointed out, is a solution looking for a problem.

So far, every application of crypto has actually destroyed value for the process it seeks to replace[1], by adding layers of busy-work on top of an already-working process. If it were of value as a self-contained, isolated ecosystem, then things might be different; but where it interfaces with the existing economic infrastructure within which it needs to operate (and which it seeks to replace), any economic efficiencies bleed out rapidly.

[1] Edit: And I'm not even considering the scams
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Are you arguing that we should not try to define the words we use because natural language is always fuzzy? Or are you just objecting to a definition of "cult" that doesn't require religion?
How large of a watch are you using? How tight do you wear it? How much do you weight?

I've worn larger watches in the past. Now I wear a pretty small watch or an apple watch, that is also smallish, and I dont have any issues. I tend to wear my watches quite loose so they rest beyond the rim of the laptop I type on.
I pay for jetbrains and GitHub co-pilot from my pocket I find it totally worth it. I think they must have been hesitant in asking for money. Copilot was free for 3 months and then paid.
I believe it makes sense to pay a subscription for fungible, consumable things.

That includes running water, access to the internet, electricity and also, for me, music and media in general. It's very rare for me to want to own a TV show or particular music album, I kind of just browse and consume and move on to something else.

Maybe for some very specific movies or albums I rewatch/listen to a lot I'll go ahead and purchase them individually.

But the key is that in none of those valid cases I'm purchasing anything outright. Once I do, I expect no subscriptions for it or any of it's features.

Otherwise what was the point of buying it? Just let me rent it.
> but you can come to a consensus on agreeing who made what changes and when between participants

How is this different from Git's model of development?
Oddly, it isn't quite that straight forward, is it? Specifically, you get some scale efficiencies for cities and office parks by having folks there. Especially in regards to getting food capabilities centralized. A cafeteria, I would think, uses less to feed a lot of people, than each of them using their own kitchen to store and prepare food.

That said, I do expect it is still ahead in most measures. Is a good question and I would love to see a comprehensive analysis.
Yet another Carmack worship story. He is a great engineer, but let's not overhype this.

It started with the legendary square root function. Which lost its legendary status once it turned out Carmack wasn't the author.

Now it is about standard BSP technique from Computer graphics text books from that era.

There is also hype about Carmack solving AGI by 2030, when he is yet to publish a single widely cited AI paper.

EDIT:

I am guilty of reading the first couple of paragraphs and assuming this was Carmack worship. My bad! Leaving the original comment, mostly as is.
I've found it to be rare in my experience as well. It seems our demographic tends to not believe in having children, ranging from the apathetic hedonist to strong antinatalist beliefs. Since I have a 9-month-old, I haven't had the need to go out and find nomad families as much. Having bases helps with this since you can just meet local families and hang out with them while you're in town. Hopefully we can find a solution to this, maybe we need a nomadfamilylist.com to arrange playdates!

Kerala sounds interesting, One place we went to recently was Bangalore and once we got used to the traffic, we enjoyed it. I've heard good things about Goa as well from a local tech entrepreneur friend.

I'm curious as to what it's like to fly with a 3-year-old. We've had to keep our flights short, below 4 to 5 hours max, which has been cool because we then had to visit certain places we might have flown over, so we've seen more countries along the way, albeit at a higher cost. I guess in the age of media devices, longer flights shouldn't be that difficult with kids that age?
I think there are still legalities to follow when you are offering anything to public with financial implications.
You have to pay for the coffee?!
He is absolutely, singlehandedly destroying Twitter-- no sarcasm.
I always found that xkcd rather amusing, I never thought it really happened!
Great point. I'm going to start sourcing that as part of the reason I'm remote only.
I think this is called a euphemism treadmill: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/euphemism_treadmill
I agree with you, I'm just pointing out that the lack of investment in infrastructure isn't a NI-specific issue; rather it's part of central gov policy for the whole of the UK. And has been for decades. Every part of the UK is crumbling through lack of investment.

NI is a little better-off than much of England in that regard, outside of Tory towns and villages. My home town never recovered after Thatcher.
America was an apartheid state well into the 1960s.

Structures remain in place that make it difficult for people to escape the inter-generational poverty that was enforced by LAW up until that time. The abolition of Jim Crow laws did not magically create socioeconomic equality, nor did the abolition of those laws mean things like redlining, preferential hiring, etc. didn't continue to happen (and, in many cases, still happen).

As I mentioned in my other comment, in many states the Republican party has sufficient power that they can (a) reduce polling places in poorer, black areas while also (b) close Department of Motor Vehicles offices in those same areas. This means it's harder to vote even if you have the ID, and also harder to get the ID.

So yes, that is exactly what I am saying. You would do well to do some reading on this before you embarrass yourself further, because it's clear you really have no idea what you're talking about.
It’s not really an unlimited account. Execution on eth is expensive…
Lol @ all those journalists, politicians, ... saying "we have to go to Qatar to let our voices be heard!"

Seems to be going well!
All depends on what the person is trying to do. We haven't cured malice at an individual or state level yet. So they'll help when applied to be helpful, and mess things up when they're applied maliciously.
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> I very frequently get the question: “What’s going to change in the next 10 years?” That’s a very interesting question. I almost never get the question: “What’s not going to change in the next 10 years?” And I submit to you that that second question is actually the more important of the two. You can build a business strategy around the things that are stable in time. In our retail business, we know that customers want low prices, and I know that’s going to be true 10 years from now. They want fast delivery; they want vast selection.

Also Bezos (paraphrased): "While working at D.E. Shaw, I heard that the internet was growing at 2,300% per year. And I asked myself: 'what kind of business makes sense to start in the context of that kind of growth?'"

The Holy Grail is when a big change allows you to get a foothold in solving a fundamental, unchanging problem better than it has been solved before - and then leveraging that foothold with rapid iteration and growth.
Thanks! My experience driving manual is entirely from sim racing where I use sequential shifting with an auto blip. For that, I row through the gears until I’m down in the appropriate gear. I need to get my hands on a manual car to practice a bit more.
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Funny to me that how... #00FF00 is Lime... what we actually refer as Green in daily life is close to #008000

And that "limegreen" (#32CD32) is a third, distinct color name.
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Yes. In addition to what others have said, I find looking at a printed copy of my own stuff to make edits to be very useful. I don't know why, but I can edit LaTeX all day looking at the pdf output thinking everything is great, but after printing it I immediately spot glaring issues.
An Argument Against the Vertical Separation of Cloud Providers
What we are being told at my company is that the corporate building has all of these green technologies, so it’s more environmentally friendly to work there even taking into account commuting.
>I liked it, but it sounds more like initiation into a cult than deprogramming from one.

I thought so, too, and was waiting for a punchline that never came.
In another front page discussion is what looks like a emerging consensus that grand larceny like the FTX theft is a function of the non existent fact checking of the media.

What possible motivation could exist for establishing a online reference using the media as the canonical and sole source of truth?
Because the land use is that much more productive. High density cities pay for suburbs which are a net-drain on city finances and are terrible for the environment. The numbers in North America are pretty staggering.

There are plenty of examples around the world where dense urban living can be rather pleasant. You can walk to get your food, kids can cycle around town, and you can sit and gather in public places that are designed for people instead of moving traffic.
this is a great strategy if you already have near infinite resources
Earth is way too big to have any significant impact even if we harnessed for millions of years, which we will likely not need.
These posts give folks the opportunity to complain about how complicated kubernetes is. When else will people get to describe their ansible + docker compose production environment managing 10,000+ nodes "flawlessly" ?
I don’t think the instinct line does this, but it does highlight something worth mentioning for anyone considering Garmin watches — these aren’t like Apple watches, where there are a few key differences between the various models. The UX and feature set is wildly different, and there isn’t even a real hierarchy where you can say “model a has features 1 and 2; model b has that plus feature 3; etc.”
Census data. Table B12002.
I assert that most of the folks that claim insane large commutes have been bitten by what happens if you don't adjust how you commute to a place. This particularly bites people that move to a city, as they want to keep their car commute all too often. Similarly, it bites folks that move out of the city, as they want to stay on transit, but that drops in effectiveness as you leave the density.
I get that reference.
For context -
https://www.npr.org/2005/08/09/4791878/common-intruders-thre...
> You should be able to resolve it by turning your OS volume down.

It doesn't resolve it, the clipping happens in the audio generation before the OS does anything with it.
> but why can't this scheme work with, you know, actual money?

That's something that's been kicking around the back of my mind for some time.

Like, what's stopping the web3/crypto folks from using a distributed ledger for invoicing/billing with traditional money? Why must we try to take down the centralized banking system at the same time?

Strikes me as the most extreme form of scope creep.
I have to concur with #1 primarily. I do this all the time.

#2 and #3 I do less frequently myself, but I use qalc instead of Python for a calculator (handles units and algebra).
Things weren't particularly bad, and the UK managed to vote itself out of the EU and into recession. All you need is a single vote and a particularly apathetic populace to change the political landscape forever.
Based on my time working university IT, yes. And they all insist on having their own, grant-purchased printer in their lab on the network, supported by you.
Bugs in a frontend implementation ≠ bugs in the protocol
> how exactly does one punish "slimeDogAvarest281" for betraying the cult?

The usual way -- ostracization. If your main socialization is via the cult, then leaving means losing your friends. The stupidity of the cult means you have pushed away most other people.
Yes. Printing is amazing and essential.

I print the end of term maths exams. And handouts we want to discuss
and annotate with comments.

Paper is an unbeatable technological medium for some things.

Problems arise when dismissive techno-neophile administrators fail to
maintain the printers. So I keep some spare toner aside for an
invincible 2005 Canon desktop laser hidden in a lab.
Also the first one on Wolfenstein
This is completely orthogonal: the reason companies outsource is to purchase more labor for the same price.

There are plenty of industries where the economic envelope favors cheap human labor. But this in no way implies that you can cut 80% of your staff and get the remaining 20% to do both their own work and everyone else’s.
That country could have an interestingly named neighbor: if Ireland and Scotland band together, they could be the United Republic of Ireland and Northern Great Britain.
Netgear Nighthawk Wifi6 Mesh router with 2 satellites. Should have had this all along but I had incrementally added various other access points. A single system is much easier to deal with and have work consistently.

A small Dual 24+18W USB charger block kept in laptop bag. It can even charge a M1 Macbook Pro while in use.
from a developer perspective, “smart contract” platforms are very unique and cheap

pay to write once and never pay again at any level of traffic, customers pay. no SaaS service offers this

developers bring their whole communities to that platform and this keeps happening

you know whats most important? I don’t care what the underlying consensus model or blockchain is, or whether there is one at all, but there is no [meaningful] smart contract platform operating any other way, and I don’t care about that being the case either. but the equilibrium in consensus mechanisms are why it is this way.

its cheaper for developers and as far as customer acquisition and convincing a customer to pay, it is a highly optimized version of the web 2.0 funnel, as every call-to-action is a payment

the development stack is dead simple - frontend website with a single call-to-action (possible even a static site), and a few variables stored in a smart contract - and the customers already want to pay
There's another dice puzzle which can also be named "go first" dice.

There exist three dice where A beats B, B beats C and C beats A, statistically speaking. So if you consistently throw A and B, A has a higher chance of rolling a greater number than B, etc.

Kind of rock-paper-scissors, so whoever "goes first" and picks the die will (statistically) lose against a smart opponent who chooses second.
Honestly, discoverability for these kind of guidelines is very poor. I work in Healthcare (administrative/financial) and even with domain knowledge, it can be hard to find things on CMS’ website. For example, try and find the list of inpatient only procedures for 2023.
I guess I know what I'll be doing this New Year's Day.
https://archive.ph/99rIO
Which begs the question, why not just use Dollars?
Offboarding processes pose security risks as job turnover increases
"The answer is out there, Neo, and it's looking for you, and it will find you if you want it to."
Is the vision here that eventually I just have ngrok sit in front of my web app server(s) to handle authentication, rather than doing it at the app layer? And then ngrok in theory forwards on headers or whatever info I need for the authenticated users, like a middleware sitting on top?
> It’s impossible to imagine a future 10 years from now where a customer comes up and says, “Jeff I love Amazon, I just wish the prices were a little higher.”

Except that many consumers these days do look for business that are more socially responsible and pay their fair share downstream.

Personally I am seeking out business that pay good wages and are responsible to the environment. Obviously that'll lead to higher prices so in some way I am wishing for higher prices.
It's not on the list, but that one is definitely common, too. Whenever someone says they have a direct line of communication with a deity, you just know there is a good chance they are going to follow up with: "And I just got off the horn with the big guy and he says I'm allowed to bang anyone I want."
I pay for a budget app. https://www.monarchmoney.com/ But somehow I got in on their beta, and felt like they did a good job and wanted to continue to support them. But they've been around for quite a few years now, so I think they are pretty successful..
I like watching all this garbage sometimes so I am not putting anyone down without putting myself down but it is what it is and the latest Dune movie might as well been a star wars or marvel movie, and that was the point when they watered down the smart parts, cleaned the politically dubious parts/swapped characters for representation, and added all the CGI summersault action
What other last min rule changes will FIFA bravely make to keep the last few payouts of those bribes going. Between Fox and AmBev they are already going to making significantly less money at 2026 because of concessions over Qatars World cup. https://adage.com/article/media/fifa-admist/309601
Must have been quite a lot to be worth it, and can’t wait to read about the sweetheart deal they give ambev to avoid lawsuits.
You don't see the press calling Caroline Ellison a "crypto chick" or some other gendered epithet. You would never see that because it would be unacceptable whereas "crypto bro" is acceptable.
Here in the US, we have freedom of expression.

Unfortunately, most countries (including European countries) don't.
It's a poor example, it probably should have been something like a default option or a potentially destructive one. In the wild, the "dark pattern" mode I see more often is when the option isn't even a button or presented alongside the default choice. (e.g., "DO THING" is a button, but "skip" or "cancel" is elsewhere on the page entirely as a small link or something.)
I disagree, yes zoning changes could be needed, but the presence of more daytime workers at home in suburban areas creates new opportunities for restaurants, coffee shops, and other conveniences that cater to those workers.
very interesting - I like it when ideas collide.
is this form of Distributed cognition and Rene Girard mimesis?
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Fascinating sounds of assorted OSes running on a PDP 11/45.
Pretty solid point.

I read TFA’s take on fundamentals as neutral on the examples given. There was mention that Amazon survived where Beenz did not because they picked the right mix of changing and unchanging. On the other hand, the juxtaposition of Andreeson and Buffett says that you can find business success with seemingly opposite fundamentals.
https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2014/06/19/rebeccapurple/

Time to resurface the most human side to CSS. She's in this color picker, too.
Do those solve it? I don't really trust either. When everything is made in China anyway, sometimes those garbage-looking Chinese brands are just as good as or better than the name brand stuff, and sometimes they aren't.

Some brands build a lot of reputation on quality, and then cash it in for higher profits by suddenly switching to low quality (American appliance brands were notorious for this, with a sort of round robin selection on which brand had actual quality behind it for any given year).
All about the Go errors package
Who cares. crypto is finished.
Can't be that well, it's not an underaged anime girl.
This is IgNobel right away
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Intrinsic is not the right word to use but the overall point that was made is correct. A $1 U.S. bill has “intrinsic” value that comes from the backing of the United States government and an accompanying set of laws regarding usage.
When I lived in New York. I left for the train at 545 and got to work between 830 and 9.

I don’t think this is the average commute, but millions of people do this every day.
I really like wearing real watches, but I still want to pay attention to health and activity, so I’ve been wearing a Fitbit luxe on my other wrist.

It’s been fine so far, battery life is good, seems to be reliable.

However, what drives me nuts on this thing is that I distinctly DON’T want it to be a watch, I just want the stats on the face, and there is absolutely no option for the watch face that doesn’t include a huge current time on the front.

I wish there was a device with this exact form factor, but was just programmable. Call it OpenFit or something.
You didn't provide an example. There should be several to choose from if it's basic psychology.

When Musk became Tesla CEO in 2008 and pushed out the founders, did he purge the engineering staff as well?
Super-hot salt could be coming to a battery near you
The OP isn't asking those developers to duplicate the functionality but to remove it. It's entirely pointless for most applications and only breaks things when there is something wrong with the connection check itself - you still need to handle connection errors in either case.
Very cool and I love how clean the code is
One failure of FTX and BlockFi is that users had no way to ensure that the centralized custodian was not running off with their on-chain deposits by directing them into unsound deposits. Vitalik is suggesting a cryptographic mechanism here that would provide better transparency as to on-chain activity of a CEX.

Day traders want to trade, no matter how much you try to tell them their trades are fictional or "have no use cases."
Yeah, it more or less doesn't matter. The US isn't in danger of having to liquidate assets, and if it was you'd have a lot worse problems on your hands than how many gold bars are in Ft. Knox. Why do you think it matters?
So simple and so elegant.

Would it be a good idea to make the click copy the color in the clipboard? Not the color code, of course, in the spirit of the website.
> then he would resort to a parallel combination from the fraction

Easier to find series combinations and then maybe clean them up with one parallel resistor. e.g. 4.7 + 2.2 ohms = 6.9 ohms; if you want better, 3.9+3.9 =7.8, and a 68 ohm resistor in parallel yields 6.997 ohms, an error of .04%.

Often that parallel resistor will be a trimpot or other adjustable means.
You're repeating your absolutist take while ignoring any sense of nuance.

No, smoke doesn't _cause_ cancer. Breathing in anything other than clean air _may increase_ the risk of developing cancer, but there's no certainty that if you e.g. suck on a tailpipe you'll catch the cancer.

There's a substantial difference from inhaling the smoke from combusting tobacco laced with hundreds of harmful chemicals, and inhaling the vapor from exposing the cannabis flower to much lower temperatures. How much difference exactly? I'll wait for more research to be done to draw my conclusions, but you go ahead and think it's the same thing.

> Accumulation of mutations over time causes cancer.

Again, the keyword you're ignoring is "risk". Our cells go through millions of mutations throughout our lifetime, and there are many factors that determine each person's propensity towards cancer. The best way of minimizing that risk is by living in a bubble, but some people choose to live in polluted cities, drive ICE cars, enjoy eating grilled meat, and inhaling marijuana and even cigarette smoke. Just because you might be risk-averse to partake in any of this, doesn't mean that we should dump all of it under the same "causes cancer" category.
posted a few minutes before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33693689