skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I could see (some) merchants applying a blacklist to wallets that are known to be "evil" (as decided by some third party, somehow), but it's hard to imagine a non-negligible proportion of the bitcoin marketplace ever blacklisting all coins which have at any time in history been held by a ransomeware writer. The possibility of denying business to innocent customers is too great, and the benefits too small.

If some bizarre counter-productive legislation does come in requiring such a system for bitcoin, then yes, Monero might suddenly become more fungible in practice.
> How easy it for a person to move from a median income back into the lowest income.

Many people do when they retire. Or when they take time off between jobs (intentionally or not).
Pen plotters are pretty much extinct in commercial use as far as I know. They've been almost entirely replaced by large format printers, which are also called "plotters" but are really just large laser or inkjet printers.

I just tried looking a decent amount and couldn't find anybody offering contract pen plotter services. Your best bet would probably be to write some code to simulate the way lines look with a pen plotter and render it into an image, then print it with a modern large format printer (which plenty of places offer). They generally have very high print quality and should be able to print enough detail that it'll look like it was drawn with a pen.

Edit: maybe you can use Inkscape to get the pen line effect? I've only used it a bit but it sounds like something it'd be perfect for.
Exactly. Instead of doing their job manually, or double- checking system output, they begin to take what the software package says as truth. Whether it’s just human nature, or overwork, or whatever, it’ll happen.
A CO2 increase during just a few years of observation? :) and resulting shift of the planet's black body radiation.
CityTime was budgeted by City of New York for $63M and after spending $700M, a bunch of people ended up in jail.

https://www.wnyc.org/story/143601-citytime-cautionary-tale/
It's really frustrating with app stores and auto-updating apps. I've got an ereader running an older Android operating system, and it's difficult trying to keep versions of apps that work on it to stay the same and not brick themselves. It's a little sketchy having to track down and sideload the right older appk package that still works.

I wish it was more like Nuget, where you can select the version you want and have to explicitly upgrade, with an easy downgrade option.
There is an opportunity cost in playing though. There might be a 10% chance of $1 million but what if it required giving up $100,000 in opportunity costs?
They sold me a counterfeit Horowitz and Hill [0], since it was outside of the return window the support person basically said, "you have an interesting memento".

[0] https://artofelectronics.net/the-book/counterfeit-editions/
"white alone" includes Hispanic. You need to read "white alone, not Hispanic".

Anyway, going by https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/sanmateocountyc...

San Mateo County is:

40% white alone

29% Asian alone

From that data alone, whites could actually be more over-represented than Asians. (I stress could because you need per-site info to conclude anything)

Regardless, I don't see evidence that whites are underrepresented.
have you considered/has anyone tried using a plotter with a resist pen on copper clad fr4? I do toner transfer and while its nice to be able to make a board in 30 minutes, the quality is pretty meh.
Great comments, but I think I disagree with some of them. :)

> 1. So many legit items come from China that as a consumer you can't dismiss something out of hand just because it came from China.

This is true, but I don't think it's a counterpoint. Regardless of how many legitimate products come out of China, the fact remains that the huge, huge majority of counterfeit products are from China. So if you're looking at a counterfeit product, the odds are that it will be from China, regardless of how many other legitimate products out there are from China.

> 3. Huawei is a Chinese name, Xiaomi is a Chinese name

Those were ones I was thinking of, which is why I added the "not something you'd see from a big foreign-facing Chinese company" bit.

It's a foreigner-unfriendly name, terrible for marketing, searches, and sales. I can't imagine a legit company trying to use it overseas. Something like Huawei or Xiaomi (or in other cases, Samsung, Hitachi, BMW, Volvo, etc.) are short and sweet, simpler to digest and remember.

> I think the main thrust of why that comment has racist tones is because it feels like the main complaint is that it's a foreign (non-Western) sounding name, hard to pronounce and funny looking, therefore it cannot be legitimate.

I do completely agree with that, but in my opinion, with the evidence in this case, the complaint itself couldn't reasonably be construed as racist. In hindsight, my argument about "shorter, more professional names" is basically this quote ("hard to pronounce and funny looking") boiled into more reasonable terms...

> Actually, I don't know if you did it on purpose, but nihaobaobaomao is a great name... It's very cute and sounds like "Hello bundle kitty"...

You caught me. :P

I couldn't bring myself to type something really stereotypically racist.
In the most ironic statement possible... as a white man, I once was told, "We're only hiring women and niggers."
The only time I've seen a terrestrial link with a latency so bad that TCP couldn't be established it also required you to install a poorly behaved app that reduced Window's TCP retransmit limit to 1 (from 3).

TLS setups however as you note are a whole new ball of wax, especially if the link has a bit of loss to go along with the latency.
It’s relative, a lot compare to earth but otherwise, it doesn’t mean much to ask that
Hmm what about brand gating then? Have you been able to try that out?
> I wouldn't do that, regardless of the sex of the participants in a group chat.

That's what I thought initially as well. But the proper way to frame this is to ask: out of the population of men who would join a group of 3 men, how many would also join a group of 3 women? You and I aren't even part of the first group.

> This ultimately causes fewer interactions between men and women in the workplace

That's a real problem. The #metoo movement is great in getting the word out, but the backlash suppresses any men of trying to get it right. You can't expect people to make progress if they don't try, and if they try, they will make mistakes. It should be ok to make them and not get demonized in the process.
Ask HN: Where do you buy static website templates?
Although I'm a full-stack developer, I often find myself bogged down by the intense and drawn-out work of building something from scratch.

Themeforest is filled with Wordpress templates and Google is surprisingly bogged down by "Top 30" blog posts that all have overlapping suggestions.

So, HN, where do you go to find light-weight, responsive templates for your side projects?

Edit: I ended up finding kind of what I was looking for: https://uicookies.com/ & https://themehunt.com/ are nice resources. However, I think I'll probably stick with building things from scratch for now.
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Square has one of the best information security teams in the industry.

Nobody who knows anything about this field will take your comment seriously, but unfortunately most HN job thread readers don't have that background. Don't slag companies on the hiring thread, and if you do it anywhere else, make sure you know what you're talking about.
I agree. That ship has sailed long ago for me. I actually liked Google Talk, when it was incorporated to your email. Then they came out with something called Hangouts that does GodKnowsWhat.
Saturn is big! And it looks blue!

Must be a lot!
One day I hope to work on a system that needs this level of optimization.
The comment is divisive and conspiratorial. The strategy is to create more division among groups and reduce trust.
It will be very tough with JWST. Many of the biosignatures are small features, and not so easily detected. There's only a handful of planets for which this might be close to possible.
Agreed, there is no way the guilt there is equal.
I have all but stopped buying from amazon due to this problem. But I have to say, this part bothers me:

"For the record, I love Amazon as a customer, I buy way too much stuff with Prime, I'm a long shareholder, and think they are on track to become the biggest company in the world (unless they get broken up for anti-trust reasons)."

If you are actively losing money from this problem and still buy from them, you are actively sabotaging yourself!
Apparently, the US Customs and Border Patrol is in charge of seizing counterfeit goods.

https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/local-media-release/cbp-interce...

I wonder if contacting US Government representatives to ask them to have CPB investigate Amazon warehouses as a nexus of counterfeit goods would be useful.

I bet if CPB officials raided an Amazon warehouse and went through and seized all counterfeit goods in the warehouse, Amazon would quickly find a solution to this problem.
Fortunately, btrfs is really good at backups.

Well, so is ZFS, but in some situations, like choosing what filesystem to use on a rented dedicated server, any choice that could lead to a situation requiring physical hardware configuration changes is a non-starter.

ZFS licensing is an issue too, as it means that you can't just boot into any ol' Linux live CD (or remotely boot into a rescue environment) to fix the system or salvage the data on it.
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Wow did I misfire! I meant Qt! Thank you
It's hard to measure absolute water abundances (it requires a lot of assumptions and extrapolating). This is a relative comparison of atmospheric water. We don't have relative water abundances for a lot of planets, so it's on the higher end, but we don't really know (maybe some other planets' water are hidden behind clouds).
Orbits on a N-body system are chaotic if N > 2. Always.

That said, the longer you simulate those orbits, the more certainty you have that they are stable. But you will never get a mathematical proof, because only symbolic math can ever prove things in a chaotic system, finite precision math can only deal with statistic degrees of certainty.
I hope DDE/OLE/COM+ and later DCOM could evolve to a next level:

cross-computer embedding.

e.g. During a conference, drag drop a certain part of UI from a remote computer for real-time demonstration.

Even embed a content into an email and send it to a friend, as long as your computer stays on your friend can open part of your widget.
> Should all 'dicks' be sent to the gulags?

Yes? I'd rather not work with dicks and I will do whatever I can in my professional capacity to ensure that dicks are not hired or promoted.
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You mean, by overcommitting the filesystem size, and using discard to free up underlying space?

Possibly... how well does that work in practice? What happens when LVM runs out of space due to some runaway disk-filling process, is the filesystem ready to handle out-of-space errors coming from LVM in all situations?
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Almost everytime we contact them, we ask them to lock our products down. It's a mystery how sellers get Brand Gating, but there is plenty in the forums about it. That's part of the reason this was written, hopefully someone there can do something about it.
If you're not going to manufacture the product yourself, have you considered either:

- doing a Kickstarter to get people to prepay? That way at least your first batch can be paid for before you shell out any money, OR

- just giving away the design so at least your product sees the light of day, even if there's no financial gain for you?
> Management techniques in NASA, the report said, discouraged dissenting views on safety issues and ultimately created “blind spots” about the risk to the space shuttle of the foam insulation impact.

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/3077541/ns/technology_and_science-...
Yes, we get a very manageable amount of applicants.

And we get that 70-80K doesn't get you Rosedale, but if you live in the Hammer it goes a lot further eh?
Isn't that's what the modern culture is trying to do for the past few decades?
By "one way" the OP was referring to the ground-to-satellite trip taking 110ms. So by "round way trip" they meant a packet going from client to satellite to ground station (2 x 110ms). Thus 440ms.
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This is why I only buy Apple products from Apple, Amazon is flooded with counterfeits.
Oxygen would be one. Due to its reactivity, free oxygen is rare, and oxygen spectra may be evidence of respiration.
Isn’t that what a debugger does?
If it genuinely screens for basic math, then there's nothing racist about it.

But you can still be challenged to prove in court that it's not only not directly racist, but also actually useful and related to the job requirements. Which can get expensive.
Published in 2010, a controversial hypothesis about the origin of the Moon proposes that the Moon may have been formed from the explosion of a georeactor located along the core-mantle boundary at the equatorial plane of the then-rapidly rotating Earth, 4.5 billion years ago.

Whoa, I didn’t know that was even an option. I thought Verneshots were scary, but that’s just orders of magnitude more impressive.
I agree in general, but literally all you have to do is reverse image search new product listings against existing products and then add a call out to manually review this. This isn’t even complicated stuff.

To get fancy you could compare against the millions of known frauds and apply that to new products.

The thing that bugs me is that they do nothing. This stupid “it’s all on you to register your brand and yadda yadda” would be cool if they also coupled that with a ton of effort and smarts to stamp out counterfeiters.

I mean they run mechanical Turk, they could just manually review shit.

They should keep a running log of how they think this is important and all the things they try.
Iridium used to have multiple gateways. I think Arizona, Italy, Middle East, and Asia. Do they only use Arizona now?
Thanks for posting! I just ordered one myself to try out making some plotter art of my own!
Take a look at some of the highly rated kernels on Kaggle - they’re often well annotated with the types of things you’re looking for, including actual experimentation to test ideas.

Edit: fix autocorrect
This should be the default.

"Suzi Hixon - Private Label Lawyer - Providing strategic business and legal guidance for the proactive protection and enforcement of your Amazon listings and private label brands."

How bad must be the Amazon problem be that there's an industry dedicated to trying to deal with it?
Evolution of military capabilities an arms race does not make. Otherwise pretty much everyone is in an arms race with everyone else, making the term pointless.
I mean sure, so would I if I had to choose between the two, but that's a false dilemma.

And for me at least, a company that doesn't treat their candidates with kindness and respect in the hiring process likely wouldn't be a long term fit for me anyways.
Did this actually happen to you? Out of curiosity, in what time period and industry? I only ask because I imagine that even the most racist HR person in the world would know to show more discretion.
Nice! Great article fro HN.
There are a tremendous number of people outside of programming who spend much or all of their work time collecting, cleaning up, and understanding data. Think teachers, accountants, traders - essentially everyone who spends a lot of time in spreadsheets.
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Or try this one if you'd like to build your own from scratch

https://www.amazon.com/Design-Implementation-MTX-Operating-S...
The fact that it's illegal doesn't make it any less lazy.
Do you believe that the 25th percentile of income today has a higher standard of living than the 50th percentile person in "the golden age" of 1950? I do.

Today's 25th percentile person is likely to have air conditioning, refrigeration, internet, a cell phone, a microwave oven, an HDTV, and a reliable car that needs very little routine maintenance and has air bags and antilock brakes.

Today's 50th percentile is beating 1950s 75th percentile adding easy, affordable, safe, and reliable air transportation and living in a far larger house than their 1950s half-again higher counterpart.

Today's 75th percentile is beating the 95th percentile in 1950.

All of them have better health care options, and a longer life expectancy.

Real wage growth may not have arrived for those who trade their hours for wages, but the standard of living available from those wages has risen dramatically.
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Looks like it's on pypi now
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/tensorflow-gpu
I think this is a very fair point. The way we have dealt with it thus far is to provide guidance behind the scenes if a company doesn't want to speak to us directly. The candidate would stay the face of the process and we would feed them information. That said, when we started 10x, it was unheard of for tech freelancers to have agents. We got some push back. But that changed fairly quickly and we get zero push back now. On the contrary, companies are genuinely happy to have someone like us as an intermediary (on the freelance side). We shall see if the same holds true on the full time side. But good question.
Thanks for your perspective!

Don't know if you've seen this, I've been toying with this approach: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIK2NwoK9xk , and like the fact that you're writing css, even though it's technically css-in-js.
Have you heard of Open Source? Government of France has. Enjoy the article.
https://www.enterprisedb.com/blog/france-takes-lead-new-open...
This is a really important point that Amazon seems to completely ignore: counterfeit goods aren't just a ripoff, they're downright dangerous. A fake instant pot could burn your house down or scald you when it fails to depressurize properly; a fake phone charger could overheat and catch your bedsheets on fire; a fake smoke alarm could fail to detect smoke properly and not activate in time to save someone's life.

I can't believe there hasn't been a slew of lawsuits over this, especially in the highly litigious culture of the US. Could I just be mistaken in thinking this is such a serious problem? Or has Amazon just been lucky?
Got it! Yeah I'm all over the resources you can find in the Hackintosh community. I might wait until I have my studio setup and can justify a new system build so I can build a Hackintosh then.
Why are you willing to question MollyR's motive, but not the motives of the story writers?
> most people won't notice

if a customer doesn't notice it's a knockoff, then it's not a knockoff?