skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- strange aspect ratio

- tensile strength (it should be cartwheeling, there is a physics theorem which means everything tends to this configuration)

- large flat or concave sections.

- others are reporting it's mostly metallic.

I'll say it: did anyone consider an alien spaceship? The paper seems to deduce "asteroidal" by ruling out other things, rather than by a positive measurement of rock spectra, unless I've misread it.
True. Source Depot originated as Perforce and is a fork; it had (at one time) a pretty large team of developers working on it and it has been heavily, heavily modified in the many years since.
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Working with iOS in-app purchases
To hide the fact that you're shopping from Samsung?
The ECB QE program keeps bond yields down (especially long term [riskier] ones), thereby pushing "interest rate" down, which has an inflatory effect. Now, the CPI in the Eurozone is about 1.3% now http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/hicp/publications/news-rele... .. and it was about 0.5% last year: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C5v91Y9WQAEyM0j.jpg

Yes, this drives bank savings account rates down to nothing, thus people are looking for better "investments".
Spoilers! ;)
>I think it's hard for me to believe that there are fewer than 191K people working to manage an equivalent number of financial transactions in USD.

The problem is, this estimate is just for Ethereum. It does not account for Bitcoin which must arguably have a much larger energy usage.

The thing about these 191K people is that Ethereum uses them just for transactions while people working in the banking industry will most likely not spend most of their carbon footprint just on managing transactions.

Most modern banks also don't manage transactions with employees anymore, they use computers to transact. They use the power invested into transactions more efficiently, the energy used being directly proportional to the amount of transactions moved around, the human meat sacks are only there for the smiles and managing things the computers can't do. yet.

> if the population of humans is increasing,

> are "winning" against entropy as they get better at extracting energy from the environment

Making a human is a net increase in entropy. Burning fuel is a net increase in entropy.

>so we'll have to find another source of energy, because we need more energy to decrease entropy.

This is not a fight you can win as the amount of energy you need to expend is magnitudes larger than the amount of entropy you decreased, actually, by the law of thermodynamics, any energy you expend to reduce entropy will produce an equal or larger amount of energy as a result.

Entropy may decrease temporarily in a locality but overall it will always increase inevitably.
Shaping the World. (PyCon UK Keynote)
I'd be glad to switch to raspberry pie or AMD, but I don't know whether or not those chips have similar crap in them. is the Intel alone with this? do others do it too?
The other difference is that I'm having a hard time imagining a scenario where someone is getting blindsided by "damn, it should've been a SPA after all!"

I'd be wary of all of the technical decisions that were made if the decision-maker knew so little about the requirements that they couldn't even call that shot correctly.

Of course, on a long enough time scale, all bets are off.
I've come to the conclusion that I cannot cut out Facebook completely. It's simply too good of a tool, for keeping up to date on bands I like, upcoming concerts and similar events. But I have unliked, unfollowed and hidden as many time wasters as I possibly can, to pare down my FB experience to the basics. I am very vigilant in hiding any that still happen to pop up due to being shared by friends. If someone shares too much junk, I either unfollow them or (in extreme cases) unfriend them completely.

I have noticed often that I go on Facebook, check up on an event invitation, take a look at the news feed and think "meh, there's nothing interesting". That is a good thing in the context of Facebook.

I have also uninstalled the FB app from my phone, to slightly increase the effort needed to go there, since I have to open my browser and go to facebook.com. It's a tiny thing that makes a huge difference.
About the profiles, Firefox supports "Multi-Account Containers" [1], it's like profiles but per-tab. You can also force some websites to open in a tab (like facebook.com in a "Social Media" container). You should definitely give it a try!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15256603
These are inspections by IAEA Safeguards, their main goal is to track fissile material for non-proliferation treaty compliance purposes. They did not oblige the Soviets to allow the IAEA to show up in case of an accident and I'm not sure if that particular plant was supposed to have any inspectors visit at all. Here's an update from August '85 that gives you an idea of how things were going:

http://www.nytimes.com/1985/08/06/world/soviet-said-to-appro...

Inviting the Director General of the IAEA to the accident site was independent of that.
How is this different than Event Sourcing? CR is basically Command Query segregation.
At the time Bitfinex was hacked, they automatically converted the "hacked" BTC balance to USD. It was around $650 I believe at the time of the hack. It would be unfair to measure the hack in today's BTC value because they converted the liability in customers' accounts in USD.
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Tether uses the Bitcoin blockchain (omnilayer) to store transactions. To do that they'll need to rewrite the block chain (150gb).
So as to expand on my wats.

What is a large project then?

Apparently, a distributed database isn't it. A distributed data processing framework isn't it. A high-performance web server isn't it. Nothing in the list is it.

What is "a large project"? Especially one, where monads are so important?

So far I only got "I think", "I work on a project", "I'm not convinced" and "I built a project on top of these". Hardly an argument, is it?
They can, but you need the right tooling to make sure small changes don't dramatically change your binaries.

https://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/softwar...
What they mean I think is that they have hard-forked their underlying blockchain technology (Omni in this case) and it has a Ethereum Classic style check in it not allowing a specific TX/wallet
I thought the same. It makes no sense to me what-so-ever.

Can only assume that it's either parody or for a very, very select audience!
Not exclusively.
> 61 packages

That is truly disgusting. WTF are we doing?
Basically clicked it expecting to read what you're describing. I'm not "disappointed" but at the same time I feel the writing is on the wall. I still expect to read something like a MtGox in the next few weeks/months.
The authors estimate that there is ~1 such object within 1 AU of the sun at any given time. So, more common than we previously expected, but not exactly teeming. You're right that it was detected due to its nearness though - it was picked up in a routine near-Earth object survey by Pan-STARRS
Use the chrome extension it automatically does it

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bitcoin-to-buttcoi...
Physicists design $100 handheld muon detector
We seem to be pretty good at re-inventing traditions for a bit of fun - Up Helly Aa in Shetland and the more recent Beltane fire festival in Edinburgh being good examples.

http://www.uphellyaa.org/

https://beltane.org/about/about-beltane/
I successfully use a windows machine through DeX with the Microsoft RD app, but maybe I have developer mode on as several others pointed out (it forces windows to be resizable). Most apps are okay with running in a 16:9 1080p screen even if the display scaling causes issues.

Amazon Spaces also has "first party" support.
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Deranking FOX would be an atrocious attack on investigative journalism and drain the brave people of the United States of America of a very valuable news source!

just my ¢2.
Due to the lack of automated renewal procedures, I've seen many more small websites die for a day or so once a year with "traditional" certificates (when people forget to manually renew) than those with certificates maintained via letsencrypt.

The actual solution to this should be for any of those providers to provide the ACME certificate management protocol, and then if letsencrypt fails, I can point certbot at it.
Bit of an odd comment but - as an observation around the branding - when Australian's pronounce 'DeX' it sounds like 'Dicks'.

I'm not having a go but I did also find it genuinely funny.
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> thinking of traffic as a race or a competition

People behaving like traffic is a race still raises my blood pressure. At the end of the day I still need to get into the toll lane, but I can't because there's 20 cars trying to get back into traffic at 75mph and I'm far too damned courteous to butt in at 60mph. It's far more of a blessing than a curse (I'm getting far more out of my habits), but the downsides do certainly exist.

It's not at all consistent, but my behavior is sometimes viral. I'll see the vehicle behind me keeping a generous following distance, or letting someone in. Almost every time that I've tried to resolve a traffic jam in Seattle, the person behind me has caught on - they will keep their distance and keep rolling in order to compensate for the tailgating person in front of me.

> competition

My favorite competition is to improve the commute of those behind me. There's always the guy who cuts in front of me, forcing me to stop, but there's also always the guy behind me who has caught on. Getting everyone home quickly is a far more interesting, and far less pointless, than the game of trying to beat everyone else home.
It's sometimes even rational for parents not to vaccinate their children. There are (very rare) side-effects, even up to death, for some vaccinations, and considering that everyone else vaccinates and thus the chance of getting infected and having a bad outcome is even lower than the rare incidence of vaccination side effects.

Of course, that only applies up to a certain point, where enough parents opt out to make vaccination individually the optimal choice. And of course, it's the right thing not to endanger the rest of the population.
How are you sure it's only your grocery list? You trust the networks and states that the content is transferred through to not inject anything potentially malicious or otherwise undesirable into the content? The only way you can be relatively confident that's not happening if the content is delivered via HTTPS, surely.
> .. can get a pre-change image.

Isn't there an "eFUSE-like" counter that prevents firmware rollback?
I did something like this for an old game called Age of Wonders.

https://github.com/int19h/aow-patch

http://steamcommunity.com/app/61500/discussions/0/2154397748...

Originally it was a fix for a bug that would show up when running it under Wine. Now the game is re-released on Steam and GoG, and same thing came up on regular Win10.

The funniest part is, I don't even remember what the patch does - I made it 12 years ago! I remember spending a lot of time reading disassembly, trying to figure out what's going on, and eventually figuring just enough to plug the immediate hole. Then I posted the binary diff on a forum, and subsequently forgot all about it, because the bug went away in some Wine update shortly thereafter.

http://aow.heavengames.com/cgi-bin/forums/display.cgi?action...

When I dug that diff out, it made zero sense to me. So now not only there's no source for the game, but I've "lost the source" for the patch, as well - I'd have to reverse engineer it all again to figure out what it actually does. ~
indeed it doesn't do more then fullHD, but im pretty sure the box says 4k. A colleague of mine got one few weeks ago, and we noticed that.
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I don't think node.js per se is the worst thing. However, the way it is used, particularly what I believe to be a misguided attempt to do "full stack development" is really terrible. And it is not the first time that we have made this mistake. The whole Java on the client side blew up in our faces.
If bosses really understood that client side and server side are two different problems with different mindsets and specializations we would not be in the world of pain that we are
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Also, I would like to point out three things to folks who are asking "What about personal responsibility? What about agency?" here and on the article comments.

Facebook's shadow profiles take away any 'agency' and 'personal responsibility' out of the equation. While I don't yet know Facebook using shadow profiles to make someone's life worse off, their penchant for saying "Screw it" to any ethical considerations makes me feel its only a matter of time before even that crutch goes away.

Secondly, there is the complexity. You cannot take personal responsibility for something that you don't fully comprehend. At the same time, we are at a point where AI produces data insights that even the AI builders cannot reason about. For example, how does someone take responsibility for clicking the Like button on a post and then finding out that most of the people who liked the post were (say) closet anarchists which was then correlated with them being the best targets for some kind of subversive advertising from (say) the NRA?

Thirdly, there is the asymmetry involved in "moderate use". It is possible for Facebook to create "automated notifications" implemented at a very tiny cost to them in terms of their resources/profits while the effort needed on your part to make sure you don't turn into a Pavlovian "notifications" dog comes at an extremely high time cost to you.
It is a chat bot with following capabilities
1. Integrated with Facebook Messenger platform
2. Can suggest a residential place within a city (Hospitals and Schools are must for residential place)
3. Can suggest POI’s with drive time distance from place
4. Can understand context of conversation and responds accordingly.
Are there any browsers that aren't an insane memory hog? It's like they just grab all the RAM on the table because nobody's using it.
The only reliable way is for central bank to issue its own crypto currency. Stellar / Ripple are not crypto currencies.
What a missed opportunity, not to title this article "In Search of Lost Primes".

(inb4 all the Proust fans downmod me to oblivion)
It doesn't help that FTP as a protocol sucks.
I came across an RT article that was trying to pin the blame on the hacking of the Estonian government on UIUC

I presume you are avoiding a direct link to the article so that you don't publicize it further, but ironically, when I searched on Google for "estonia uiuc hacking rt" (https://www.google.com/search?q=estonia+uiuc+hacking+rt) I found that Google choose to ignore "uiuc" and "rt" in the first two results, and "estonia" and "rt" from the third.

Any other day, I would have assumed this is just Google's relatively recent policy of assuming essential search terms are typos, but now I have to wonder if they are c̶e̶n̶s̶o̶r̶i̶n̶g̶ de-ranking results! Still, while I may just be lacking Google-fu, even when I search for "estonia uiuc site:rt.com" (https://www.google.com/search?q=estonia+uiuc+site:rt.com) I get nothing. Maybe you could provide a link?
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It's only crypto that uses the term "market cap" to mean "outstanding crypto-tokens * price". That isn't what the term means in conventional finance. It's normally applied to shares.
>the idea of a trustless, irrevocable, fully machine audited ledger of account

This is just giving sentimentality an economic value. Forking should constantly be considered, you should always be looking to maximize the value of your stake.

Imagine two coins A & B with exactly the same distribution, except in coin A a real jerk has 10% of the coins and you know his addresses. You also know almost all of the holders also consider this guy a jerk who will not contribute to positively to the value of the coin (at least not 110%). Its in everyone's best interest to just erase this jerk from the ledger and choose B, everyone ends up with 110% of their original stake.
I'm not even convinced that an end of net neutrality would be such a bad thing. Less bandwidth? What specific activity would be impaired by that? Wouldn't it maybe even be a motivator to waste less of it to annoying advertisement? And the hackers of the world will simply come up with a new digital web solution - no doubts about that - wouldn't that be exciting and maybe even spare me the crappy consumerist parts? ig, fb, sc etc. and realistically a governance of web content and behaviour is overdue. I can't just run around outside and shout insults at random people, as well.
Proof of work was the first, crude consensus algorithm for crypto-currencies. A lot of more eco-friendly consensus algorithms have been proposed. Ethereum, the second largest crypto-currency in the world, is currently moving towards a Proof-of-stake consensus algorithm, instead of the old proof-of-work one.

Don't forget that decentralized currency is a rather new technology, and is constantly seeing progress being made on all fronts. You can even mine Grid coins doing SETI and Protein folding work!
This isn't from April 26th 1986. How can it possibly be, the 'Western press' didn't know about the accident then. It's also not a 'flat out denial anything had happened at all', you're just misremembering that part.
Bitcoin's value is backed by people's belief in Bitcoin. Otherwise it wouldn't be worth any more than Dogecoin.

And calling the massive waste of resources involved in Bitcoin mining ethical is fucking hilarious. Congratulations, Libertaria has invented a new kind of evil.
It's interesting that Baekeland's notebook uses Celsius instead of Fahrenheit yet modern American usage even in some engineering contexts uses Fahrenheit. See, for example, https://www.metabunk.org/attachments/174413923-28247782-carb... where temperatures are given in Fahrenheit with Celsius in brackets afterward.
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> Why are ISPs going to targets people of color?

That's not what the term blacklist means.
Where are you getting this number from?
> this is going to be one of those situations that ends up leaving millions of devices unpatched and vulnerable a few years down the road.

Intel managed to make PCs as safe as Android.
CPI is fairly useless anyway. It ignores where the huge money displacements are actually going: hint, not bread and circuses. The money the ECB is displacing is institutional investors money and causes inflation in things like housing, stock markets, VC funds, and yeah, probably cryptocurrency.
No, it's not about a trade off. The system needs to figure out what to update, and if it is safe to do. There was an article from MS some time ago on the topic. Most of it has to do with shared dlls I believe, but the details are a bit hazy.
I think its debatable.

If you knowingly helped a murderer dispose of a body, that’s wrong by nature right? Money laundering is the financial equivalent of that.
Those who are downvoting the parent, please explain why? He is correct. Is the assumption here that the exchanges themselves are wash trading and not charging themselves fees? Seems possible. But otherwise wash trading is very expensive due to the maker/taker fees.
I was seeing credible copy produced for financial reporting in the late 1990s.

The underlying data are available, the vocabulary is distinctly limited, and the reporting was already highly pro-forma. Mad-libbing a few variants of language and selecting the best of the lot does work fairly well.

That actually raises the underlying question: why publish narrative copy at all in cases such as this, rather than data tables or charts? News and journalism are curiously allergic to data or presenting it in a usable fashion -- I've seen tables essentially written out over several paragraphs that could have been expressed in a few grid squares.
If there're a lot of these objects entering and leaving solar system every year, and suppose some day in the near future we can keep track of them all, can we use them for us to send out larger probes? We see a rock coming near us, and send out a probe to its path. And before the collision the probe create a buffer object at the rear end so that it wouldn't be totally destroyed. After that the probe can free ride for a while at a high speed and re-ignite when it decides to go a separate path.
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What was its speed at closest sun approach? Because the speed of objects in our solar system are all very low compared to the speed of the nearest solar system compared to our sun, I imagine this could also be the fastest object ever to be obversed in our solar system.
But what of the Chinese elements? Wood, earth, metal, fire, water.

It seems like they didn't really classify it by solidness but just things that seem most abundant.
Well, sorry to break it to you but for most people the internet is FB, Google and Nf ...

And if you want to take a look at a blog and you have the video pack - just get the blog pack or ask a friend - or maybe your other friend can just download it and send it to you?
Filecoin seems to be from a reputable team.
Parts of Buzzfeed are quite bad.

Others are actually quite good. At least Buzzfeed are balancing this and funding real journalism with the fake crap.

This from someone who'd been a very harsh critic. Some of their coverage of the TPP, ISDS, and international lawsuits in particular struck me as excellent.
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What I find fascinating is people on youtube who do actual chemistry, including making bakelite.

Here is NileRed who gets pretty far considering he doesn't have a Bakelizer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phNLecfyWS8
For comparison, the Earth's radius is 0.00004 AU. This is like a mosquito passing your car at a closest distance of 2 miles.
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See it the same way - but NN is bad for business - and HN is 50% about business - so you get downvoted for your heresy.
Generally only for their own citizens. This covers, for instance, cases of sex tourism.
To have jurisdiction over something, you need to have enforcement power there. The Australian court can make any claims they like, fine EFF, even charge its officers with contempt of court - but I don't see how this could possibly be enforced.
since fire is not a state of matter, they were incorrect in what they admitted to their category of the various states of matter, but they still categorized fire as a state of matter and as such categorized the world by states of matter.

The interesting part was supposed to be that they came, with their categories relatively close to the actual classical categories - however I suppose that the classical categories were actually intellectually derived from (or their conception inspired by) the ancient 'elements'.
That was filed back in April when there were only $50 million Tether in existence: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/tether/ Also, the money that's supposedly backing Tether is in Taiwanese banks, not Wells Fargo, and their problem with Wells Fargo should only affect international wires.
> ...because the bug went away in some Wine update shortly thereafter.

So what you're saying is that Wine is more Windows compatible in the case of AoW than Windows itself? :- )
Ask HN: Will you buy internal tools from your competitor?
Can an e-commerce website sell their warehouse management tool to other competing e-commerce websites?
For this reason, my primary source of Internet reading is HN upvoted stories & comments. I will often read the top HN comment on an article before reading the article.
Crimes like these should not be hidden from the public but should be exposed!