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Even worse than I thought. OP should probably get a warning if not ban that site outright. Especially since they're clearly attempting to astroturf HN.

Waiting for the dang smackdown reply to this comment. You posted a secondary source (typically these get redirected to the primary source for any story), and used the editorialized title from the original journalist as your post title. Pretty commonplace on HN to correct these things so we can discuss the facts, not the reductive analysis of what someone writes about the primary source.

Sad day. Love this talk from the co-founder Tom Lehman titled "Worse is Better" [1]

[1]: https://youtu.be/X45YY97FmL4

I assume this is where the integration with Steam comes into play. Checking the seller's inventory and the buyer's inventory

One, IMO, is a provably fair casino (Blackjack, Poker, etc.) that is decentralized and unregulatable.

There are plenty of ways to limit the public's consumption of processed foods and sugar in particular. There are other means to achieve this goal than making every shop jump through hoops to comply with this legislation that doesn't (at least from what I can find in the article) have any empirical evidence that these areas of the store account for a significant portion of sales of these items and puts stores in a bind to fill that space with other goods. I mean what are they supposed to do, put flax seed and vegetables at the end of every aisle and checkout lane?

I am an individual, not some nameless entity that can only think as a collective. I, personally, don't believe that a free society should be told what kind of merchandise they can sell or not sell at a checkout line. That goes for literally anything.

A business that does "harmful things", such as stocking chocolate bars next to customers while they are idle in a queue (Shocking! How dare they commit such a heinous act! This is a public health atrocity!), clearly sees a mutually beneficial arrangement in where they put what merchandise. The customer has a need fulfilled (They see something they want and agree to purchase it for a marked price), and the business generates revenue. There is nothing inherently wrong with that.

Do you people really sit there and think anyone that buys something because they want it and it's readily available is too stupid to know the dangers of eating too much unhealthy food? Do you think that they are being physically manipulated into buying it? Yes, unhealthy foods generally stimulate the brain and create a desire for more, but the same justification can be used to go the full mile and ban them outright if you are so concerned. That'll probably happen eventually anyways, and you don't want to be on the wrong side of history!

If you click through the link there's a link to DHS https://www.dhs.gov/news/2020/10/06/department-homeland-secu...

At the very least people should be formally verifying the behavior of their smart contracts before investing millions of dollars in them. The ETH VM is actually pretty simple to model and formally verify at least some of the basic properties of contracts.

I've been itching to develop a FIRST-like bot on my own (mostly envisioning an electric go-kart I can also hook other things onto) since I graduated high school, but the biggest barrier has always been the hardware and electronics cost. I haven't done enough research but no other robot controllers seem to have the same plug-and-play ease-of-use that the FIRST platforms do.

It has since been changed to use the NI RoboRio https://www.andymark.com/products/ni-roborio

C++ was also always supported but from the one year we used that I can guarantee our team's dev speed was much less than LabVIEW. Something about the data-flow UI and live probing of values and VI controls view made it so much more intuitive to develop a robot with. We had a mecanum drive that we developed a dual layer PID system to control individual wheel power using a PID, but also a PID control on wheel rate. The effect was a super smooth but extremely fast control scheme that also had the effect of the robot pushing back if it were moved without user input. Great application in 2014 where the field was entirely open and physical defense was key, but I would have preferred to have normal wheels and all of the traction benefits that come with them that year instead.

That's a bad faith response. He literally said if you believe it's a honest-to-god muslim ban he will categorize you as a 'crazy leftist', not if you disagree with him about whether or not it is good or bad. It is objectively not a muslim ban as anyone from those countries was barred, and the demographics of the countries don't automatically make it a muslim ban or imply any malfeasance by the president.

To expand upon this, UiPath also announced acquisitions of ProcessGold (https://www.uipath.com/newsroom/uipath-acquires-process-gold...) and StepShot (https://www.uipath.com/newsroom/uipath-acquires-stepshot-add...) as a step towards bringing the process documentation and automation planning tasks down to the level of understanding that SMEs and BAs have about automation. These tools will be a really great addition to the ecosystem as I (and clearly they) have found the most difficult work in this space to be understanding the client's existing process and planning to automate it.

I began working in RPA this year and I completely agree. Tremendous potential but also a lot of buzzword-driven hype in the space. I think the main players need to work harder on bringing world-class engineering and best-practices to the community, since the vast majority of developers that are getting into this are not really advancing the field and instead slapping crap together until their 'bot' works. Why are most automation projects relegated to bare-bones budgets and short timeframes? Potential clients i have engaged have a very short-sighted view of automation possibilities in their businesses, and aren't open to the possibilities beyond what they think should be done by a bot instead of their employees.

This is blatant misinformation. The majority of those with 'vaping illnesses' that have created this Hysteria reported using black market THC vapor cartridges.

Read the 10th amendment.

As someone that is familiar with the software which powers a lot of the Oil and gas regulatory bodies in the US, this is not uncommon. It is basically all up to inspectors and regulators to determine and enter this data, with no tie back to actual measurements or integration to sensors that track well output or detect leaks/spills. Inspectors are typically former industry workers and may have perverse reporting incentives. Places like ND and WV are rife with corruption between wealthy drilling corps and regulatory bodies.

Cloudflare is incorporated in California where political affiliation actually is a protected class.

What's the difference between this and choosing not to bake a cake for a gay couple? Plenty of people cheered Cloudflare for taking down TDS and 8Chan, but the same people got up in arms to demand a private business provide service to a protected class. Last time I checked political affiliation was a protected class in CA and political activity was a protected class in CA & NY.

With details of medical treatment that would be administered in the case of a heart attack. Interesting that we have no details of what induced said heart attack.

Oh he didn't send it, but receiving it and not saying anything about the nonsense someone sent is just as suspicious. The dominos on cheese comment is veritably him, though.

But clearly nothing is going on and anyone that brings it up must be a domestic terrorist.

I'm sure "pizza-related handkerchief map" was just a typo on John's behalf... Maybe he was on ambien when he was asking if he’ll do better playing dominos on cheese than on pasta?

HTWFAIP is a book I have trouble remembering over time. I find that if I don't at least listen to the audiobook yearly I'll find myself slipping back into the shitty habits that made me unhappy enough to pick it up in the first place.

Or you could realize a sitting state senator in the chambers of their congress literally has no means of harming them besides their fists due to the security force of the state?

Is anyone else concerned that this will lead to conditions like the beginning of the 20th century where 2 or 3 large families would live in a single residence, often times with 10+ people living and sleeping in the same room? Rezoning a residence to house twice the people without any adjustment in required square footage is a slippery slope towards turning low income housing into slums.

Really? Sounds like they don't have the spine to represent their constituents properly if they're willing to let legislation fail because a colleague is making empty threats. Kinda sad that they were too uncomfortable to do their job because someone else was too insane to do their job...

Didn't someone do this with Twitch Plays Stocks? Essentially gave them some capital and let the chat decide what trades to make. They nuked the portfolio within 24 hours.

It's almost always a good thing when somebody uses information available to them in a unique way to inform pricing decisions, since that information will then become a factor in the public value of the asset.

That's because Jack is an English name he chose to be widely known by. If he had kept his given name as a primary form of address we'd probably see him colloquially referred to as "Ma" or "Ma Yun".

Worked on a project last winter to add a fully featured compliance management system to a state regulatory agency in Access. They have moved to a sql server backend but the support for database operations is incredibly limited by the Access JET DB engine. Ended up just using ADO in my VBA scripts for everything instead of the Access database tools because it was not capable enough for the complexity. This client doesn't have the budget to migrate from Access, but has the budget to continue slapping garbage to it every year. At least as the primary NGO involved works with other states to create a web-based solution, my client might be able to move away from Access by 2025? I would say the majority of orgs that encounter this really have no choice in perpetuating the use of bad systems.