skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If your going to talk about abusing people's privacy then perhaps you should also mention how Apple abuses the privacy of their Chinese users by allowing the Chinese Government to have unfettered access to all of their cloud data.
I think you ought to look up the definition of heinous. It applies to shootings, not to expressing disapproval of a public figure.
To your first point, the vision is to use other Ethereum tokens tied to various assets and securities. How those asset-backed tokens are set up and how trustworthy they are depends on the individual token. I know there are a few asset-backed tokens (gold, real estate) but I have no knowledge as to how legit they all are.

To your second point, the collateralized loan allows for very very low interest margin investing. You can use the DAI to invest in something, sell it at a higher price, repay your loan, and make money on the difference.
If you need the Bay Farm Island bridge tonight, you are SOL. I guess you could charter a ferry boat.

https://alamedaca.gov/alerts
I was watching packets get dropped in Level3's network in trace routes, I was getting out of Comcast just fine.

Maybe they were overloaded from all of the additional traffic they got sent?
In US they put you on a no fly list and set credit score to 0.
Is it still under development? The OS X builds appear to get built daily, but the last blog post is over three years old, and so are the stable releases.
That's still not the same as a compile time type-checker, it still relies on the interpreter.
Well, never is a long time. I guess the more interesting question (to me) is whether engineering challenges will be easily overcome so as to make quantum computer components cheap and ubiquitous, or if there's some innate difficulty to their production that will make them uncommon for everyday personal use.
Xfinity Mobile is just an MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator) of Verizon. So it is Verizon's towers/networks that would be providing your connectivity, not Comcast. Comcast basically just handles your billing and customer service.
Speaking as somebody who also puts a lot of stuff through WeasyPrint, I love it but it's bloody slow.

Tasked with solving the same problems again, I'd probably look at headless Chromium or Firefox. Their JS PDF renderers are fast and if you're doing enough to keep an instance loaded all the time there's no start up time.
> But you cannot devise an experiment which would give different outcomes if the universe is a simulation versus if it isn't.

Does this or does this not apply to a simulation with very limited resources (compared to what it would take to model all the atoms of the universe) or not, then?
They are forced to make these crimes not because of good life and equal access to opportunities, and likely want better future for their kids. It is very easy to look on those people from above sitting in office chair, empathy only distracts from first class citizen problems.
Unless I'm reading it wrong, they do think of it that way (on coins at least):

>Fortunately, dimes and quarters are cheaper to make, costing less than their monetary value. So the Mint makes up the losses incurred on pennies and nickels with its 10- and 25-cent coins, and last year reported making $391.5 million in seigniorage.

Also, paper money isn't produced by the Mint, it's produced by the Bureau of Engraving & Printing
There's a pretty good reason for scientific papers to be published in PDF. First of all TeX was originally designed to work with PostScript which was intended for communication to printers, so the step to PDF was easy to make, second of all PDF has had fairly broad support and unambiguous representation for longer than HTML has (and even though HTML appearance is now somewhat standardised it's still nowhere near as stable as PDF has been).
No, you can use a cellphone data plan to check after disabling your phones local wifi connection.
Hi Scott. I'd love your thoughts on quantum encryption's viability vs. supremacy, and how those two concepts might unfold in relation to each other.
Static analysis will not stop most of the exploits that have happened on iOS/OSX in the recent years.

Often it is a situation where multiple processes are working together and there is a way to trick a privileged process into modifying memory in a way it shouldn't.
Any Apple engineers reading this, please give users control over this. This is a privacy hole.
For the infrastructure-level network admins out there, is there different lingo for an intentional and accidental fibre break, or is "fibre cut" used for both? I'm just thinking 'cut' is a pretty intentional word to use here.
It's not a valid claim IMHO.
If you look at the sample size that they're basing it on, you can see that it's shrinking at the attrition rate for what they are measuring.

Once you get to 117 years old, there are only a few people worldwide that can be used to determine that survival rate, and those people are already subject to a selection bias of people that are exceedingly long-lived.
I had basically the same experience, though I think I was closer to a gram or so a day, and I never had trouble eating.

But yeah, to the people saying it’s not real, try a few days of insomnia. The feeling of being high is nice, but not terribly addictive or unquittable in itself. But going through the crappy parts of withdrawal, feeling irritable, etc., and on top of that, not being able to sleep? It’s torture.

In the end I couldn’t quit cold turkey. It took me maybe six months of weaning off before I could quit.

Good luck to you.
I think this is a classic case of consistency over accuracy, and there is nothing wrong with that. I actually prefer when they don't even say how much extra time there even is.
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I'm not left wing. I just think Twitter's unwillingness to enforce their terms of service and delete the accounts of those who call for violence has consequences. It's a reasonable opinion.
Intimidation tactics like this is how these organizations operate in situations like this. It's been this way for a long time. Read up on the CIA and FBI getting in each other's way in the Hoover era. They pulled all sorts of crap like this. It's not every former administration has been standing in the way of behavior like this and now suddenly the floodgates are open and the departments in the executive branch feel empowered to oppress and intimidate anyone they see as a threat, they've been doing it all along. Maybe they're less subtle now, I dunno.

It's only now that we have a POTUS that everyone hates that people are taking notice how foul the rest of the executive branch really is.

Edit: I know that lunch hour in CA is exactly the wrong time to post something like this but please actually try and refute something I'm saying instead of mashing the downvote button like you're on Reddit. We're supposed to be able to have adult discussion around here.
How did they forget when they went out to find and kill the real person?
Some of you conspiracy theorists are insane. No Comcast didn't purposely do this. I can guarantee it was just a backhoe digging around. Happens more often than anyone would care to admit.
Before letting one's walls fill with water, one might have made a small hole in the jacket just before the cable entered the house, to let it run out where it couldn't do any damage...
As Han Solo said, "That's not how the Force works!"
I frequently keep transferring money back home (overseas). Keeping a tab on the exchange rate became quickly annoying.

I built a GitLab pipeline that fetches the current exchange rate thrice a day.
Each job pushes result to a IFTTT webhook that I integrated with their Telegram service integration.
I then added the @ifttt bot to a Telegram group of folks who are also interested in this.

Now, thrice a day, I get notifications about the actual exchange rate. Works like a charm.
We shouldn't have to fight for stuff. Everyone should be decent.

But some are not. I don't know why. But they are not. They rig the system in their favor. They hurt others.

Maybe we can all evolve into enlightened beings of pure energy. Until then, we have to put in hard work to make our world a better place.

Everything you enjoy as a free person - someone had to fight for it.

(I'm not literally saying fight like beat someone up. I mean fight for your rights and the rights of others. Get involved in something.)
He's referring to the person who was murdered, not the killer.
Agreed. There's too much of an academic paper culture around ML. It makes the field very unapproachable. It's as if people don't actually use it for anything practical and they only care about the science and math.

It is getting better though. It's great to see people post articles like this and even if it has been done before seeing different approaches and seeing it written in different ways goes a long ways towards educating people.

I'm hoping the JavaScript ML / DL ecosystem expands more since that would greatly accelerate its adoption and allow more developers access to ML.
Not really. We place super high priority on freedom from government influence. It's OK for a company to fuck you over but not the government for <reasons>.

Edit: I know the <reasons>, but the debate about that is not particularly relevant here.
People have phones.
No it's about understanding the reasons why this happened. To me, they are both victims and this wouldn't happen in a sane society.

I'm looking at society and being happy I will only be here 40 more years. Because I'm not optimistic about the future. Humans are being led down the path of self destruction.
I bet in general it would save money. Many things price ends in .99 to trick people into thinking it is cheaper. All those things would switch to .95 in order to preserve the trick.
What I've been reading in the comments about this story on reddit is Canada and other countries already did this (eliminate the penny) and the final price is rounded to the nearest nickel, not always up.
What are the prime factors of this number?
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3386634101714717857749106516967111612498593
3768430543574458561606154457179405222971773
2524660960646946071249623720442022269756756
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4341508847552829818672645133986336493190808
4671990431874381283363502795470282653297802
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And the Zinc mining stocks are uptoday: Teck Resources (NYSE:TECK), Hecla Mining (NYSE:HL), and Hudbay Minerals (NYSE:HBM).
You're describing the exact thing net neutrality seeks to prevent--pricing based on the type of data being sent.

I think it's dangerous to let those with deep pockets prioritize their traffic over mine.
Apropos of nothing, this makes me think of Jackson Brodie, who keeps lots of small but important secrets.

(I've yet to read the books.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Case_Histories_(TV_series)
It's not really fake news that Milo publicly calls for violence. Anyone who calls for violence should have their Twitter account deleted.
That would be interesting, but I believe it is explicitly illegal. Doesn’t seem worth the risk and overhead.
Football (soccer), is not an exact game, on purpose, the rules empower the referee to make judgement calls in order to encourage the "flow" of the game, to make it a "good" game.

The explicit rule of "stoppage time" is that the referee adds time on to the end of the match to makeup for time lost to stoppages (e.g. time spent on injuries, goal celebrations, etc).

But for example, if a game is spiraling out of control and every stoppage of play is elongated by fighting between the players, the ref may decide not to add on any time and to end the game right at 90. This seems backwards to a lot of American's used to by-the-book sports, but that's the spirit of Football.

A more concrete and common example is the Advantage rule, if (in the referee's mind), stopping play for a foul will hurt the team which was fouled, they will acknowledge that it happened but not stop play, throwing their arms forward and yelling "Advantage".
> "Erlang is to locks what Java is to
pointers"

That's a great quote(citation is in the paper), I'll have to remember it for future use.
Are they using Comcast internet for their phone or do they likely have a cell phone?
Paradigm Shift in Data Privacy: California Follows GDPR’s Suit with AB 375
Non-cash transactions would still be commonly made in $0.01 increments. $53.47, for example. The difference is, if you wanted to purchase a dozen things that total $53.47 at a store, if you use cash, you'd end up paying $53.45 or $53.50, depending on the store's policy. Many may end up rounding down, what a deal! Or they'll choose to be greedy and trade in that goodwill for three measly cents.
Ex-Tesla employee accused of sabotage crowdfunding $500k to support legal battle
Sounds like it was 2 cuts, which likely means it was intentional IMHO:

NY| Manhattan| Communication Failure| 30 Rockefeller Plaza (Comast)| Comcast is experiencing a National outage due to 2 fiber line cuts. One between NYC & Chicago, the second between Ashburn & South Carolina. customers urged NOT TO CALL 911, no ETA on a fix, police monitor

Edit: source below. Thank you dfee.
> a particle in deep space experiences faster relative time, compared to one on Earth, because it has 'fewer transactions slowing it down'.

Transactions with what? Other matter?

A precise weather and waterproof clock on the ground (so in air) on the surface at the north pole will tick more slowly than an identical clock immersed in seawater several metres below the sea level at the equator, thanks to the oblation of the Earth (and the rotation that causes the oblation). The equatorial water is much denser and warmer than the arctic air, so surely there are more interactions between the water and the clock?

See the Early observations subsection of the Gravity measurement section of, starting with 1672 :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pendulum?oldformat=true#Early_...
At least one person on this thread is acting like publicly calling for violence is ok.
No it wouldn't.
It’s actually the people who use credit/debit cards to make purchases who raise the prices on all goods/services for people who pay cash.

The average merchant pays 2.3-3.5% per swipe, as a result prices are increased across the board and passed on to consumers, no matter if they pay with card or cash.
> On the surface, borrowing money for culinary school seems like an objectively (very) bad choice

Well that is kind of my point. I don't know any engineer that would go to an expensive culinary school as a way to enter another career. I have yet to meet a competent engineer that wouldn't look at the return on investment of something like that. I'm not saying they aren't out there, but the things that make you a good engineer are the very things that keep you from going into debt at an expensive culinary school.

I'm not trying to insult the person who is looking for a new career, but too often I hear these stories about how hard life is for someone, but when you look at the entire story it doesn't add up. In this case, I think there is a reasonable chance that calling her an "aerospace engineer" is an overstatement of her engineering skills. It is possible she is an exception is actually a skilled aerospace engineer, but it seems unlikely or that there is something being left out.
Do you believe in the simulation hypothesis?
You're basically saying that all consumers should pay more with every purchase so that the mint can make <2% more revenue

I basically said what I said. I want all consumers to pay more so I don't have to have pennies rattling around everywhere, which I eventually accumulate to the point that it's worth going to bank to get rid of them.

Pennies: the busy-work of finance.
Then only round cash purchases.
Any time I see these kinds of claims, I like to take a step back and think through a few points. Does it happen frequently? How much evidence would I need to shift my prior from unlikely to likely? Is someone trying to sell me something, literally or metaphorically?

This skepticism is borne from living a life of being gaslighted and conned in a high-demand religion, and breaking away. I don't doubt there are occasionally a few long-tail events that skepticism causes one to miss its reality, but as far as seeking mysticism or a hidden reality (hidden by whatever underlying power, be it gods or billionaires, pick your poison) I find life much less stressful and more fulfilling with a healthy dose of skepticism.
That would be a federal crime, at least for now. But there seem to be people hoarding pennies in hopes of legislation to change.
fantastic! subscribed and will listen during my workout. Thanks!
Announcing compo: a pure Web Components JavaScript library
When I visit America, pennis are the most useless thing to carry out. All they do is add tons of weight and bulk in change without providing any utility.
Not sure when/if this changed recently, but from:

https://crystal-lang.org/docs/using_the_compiler/
"Creating a standalone executable":

crystal build some_program.cr --release --static

Builds a static binary (just tried it on Ubuntu 18.04 with a simple hello-world).
Good point about using the Verizon network. They also use their own access points for internet service, which could have an impact.

I’d be more worried if they take Verizon traffic and route it across their own network, which most MVNOs don’t — but Comcast might for data collection purposes. Hopefully not!
Internet is more like water, and electric utilities than USPS. Should not have middlemen who incease fees every two years when there is no service improvement. The data these companies charge 50-100 dollars to pass on is way less than 1 cents per average customer. A utility company could easily handle the infrastructure logistics, hiring of workers totalling a bill of 10-30 dollars?

https://broadbandnow.com/report/much-data-really-cost-isps/
Except we're not talking about real work, we're talking about checking a status page.
This study on adults failed. The person you were replying to suggested that oxytocin might be more effective on children, and that TMS instead might be more effective for adults.
With advertising identifier (weaker, but offering more leverage to the user, than a full device erase/reset) and IMEI (hard wired device identifier), wouldn't it still be trivial to determine an implicit identity?

Anyway, even if you erase your phone, destroying credentials, that device in particular is still persistently identifiable wherever it is taken, around the world, even if it's in someone else's hands.
Come on now, guys. Street and landmark names are the LAST things we need from a mapping application...
The most severe trolls I've had the misfortune of meeting online have actually been mentally ill and highly sociopathic. Some will look to harm others in real if they could whether it be socially, economically, or even physically. Doxxing is entry level stuff for them. I no longer find online gaming fun for this reason.
Typeform will be sued. We received a similar email earlier. The email is patronising and does not acknowledge their responsibility in its entirety. Perhaps, English may not be the management team’s first language but the tone and communication style is defensive and meaningless. As a data collection company, this should be Typeform’s demise. I call for a public inquiry in to this issue.
Looks interesting but I don't think it will be sufficient (I hope I'm wrong about that though!). The operation data I need has to include 'addresses' where nodes in data structures were modified.
Ask HN: Any tips on landing sponsorships for a conference?
Hey HN!

I'm putting together Byteconf React (byteconf.com) - it's a free, two-day React/JS conference streamed on Twitch.

A lot of the conference planning is going great! We've got a great initial set of speakers, and we received ~70 great talk proposals in our Call for Papers.

The thing that I haven't quite nailed (this is my first conference) is getting sponsors interested in the event. From my point of view, it's pretty compelling - as far as I can tell, it's the first online-only conference for JS/React devs, and it's a great opportunity to reach an audience of devs around the world with a potential product/service.

I've been reaching out to companies at a variety of sizes - from large ones like AWS/MS/Big 4-sized companies, and small ones like React consulting shops, etc. I've gotten a couple responses, but haven't reached the point where a company is REALLY interested and wanting to secure a slot. Generally, people are interested, but by the time I send the prospectus, the conversation slows to a half.

I'm a software engineer, so I definitely have work to do on the marketing side of this conf! Any marketing-inclined people have tips on how to do conference sponsorship outreach well? Here's the sponsorship prospectus, too: I've included prices/perks/etc and am 1000% open to any feedback.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_EiIHX7lB2DQtJp327Ajxgk9ReIVU5Sc/view?usp=sharing
December 2017. California "Thomas Fire" shutdown 101 (and trains) for weeks. Taking the 5 inland sucks.
Non Bitly link: https://twitter.com/joangralla/status/1012761031922409473?s=...
How do you get ice cold water in the shower? I get lukewarm water in summer in my apartment .
So do what most people do: don't pay with cash.

Asking everyone to pay more so you're not inconvenienced with change, even though you're asking for it by using cash, is quite self-centered.

If you don't like pennies, then just give them away as soon as they're handed to you.
CenturyLink seems to have far fewer phone outages nowadays than they did e.g. three years ago. One time by some miracle I got someone on the phone who wasn't a "basic" CSR. He admitted that they knew why their outages lasted for hours. Whenever they had a fault that required a system-wide restart (!), they just rebooted everything at once. So there were millions of modems trying to talk to the RADIUS/DNS/etc. servers all at the same time. Which didn't work at all. I asked if anyone had considered a rolling reboot. "Yeah, that's what we've been telling them..."
Thank you. Sorry I messed up the link.
No you are not odd. Often, it's frustrating when trying to read a street name on Google maps, especially in a dense area like a downtown. Google prefers to display business names over street names. And when there are lots of businesses in an area, you won't be able to see a street name until you absolutely zoom all the way in.
Goddamn, someone was murdered and you really think the murderer is a victim because he was called dumb on the internet?
The circle is complete
How What3words pinpoints every spot on Earth for better navigation
> you have to posit that all three exchanges are allowing this

Not necessarily. All it takes is one. (But it does take at least one.) See my comment elsewhere in this thread [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17425607
Can you change your legal name?
There are people storing up closets full of the old full-copper pennies waiting for the day that the penny is discontinued and they can get scrap value that is higher than the face value. For now they aren't allowed to deface money so they're just storing them. I don't even know if it's worth the time spent sorting, but everyone needs a hobby.
It's illegal to do so, and the fines are very high.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/31/82.2
Or BreezyPDF.com ;)
Why are they developing so many different mobile OS platforms at the same company? Android, Fuchsia, and now KaiOS?

They mention it is a web based OS. That might lead to less fragmentation though if it takes off. The browser API's are very close to native and it sucks having to develop for Web / iOS / Android. If mobile phones adopted Web technologies and they were extended with a few more hardware APIs development would be much easier.