skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Goods/services purchased from a business? Given the fees for completing a Bitcoin transaction, I'd say no unless you start getting into at least mid three-figures USD. (That's not counting any fees to convert fiat into BTC.)

Person-to-person transfer (e.g. remittances)? It'd probably make more sense to use Xoom or Transferwise where available.

The big (legitimate) use for Bitcoin international money transfers is dodging capital controls imposed by illegitimate governments, e.g., you're in Venezuela and you want to send money to your family in Colombia/Brazil/US.
From the HackerNews guidelines [1]:

> Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say face-to-face. Don't be snarky. Comments should get more civil and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

> Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents.

> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Thank you ! This should be 1st. Many people don't understand this it seems
> they're nearly always still dynamically linked, so security updates for things like openssl still apply.

Could be, or might not be. It's easy enough to ship compiled libraries in the same rpm/deb as the software you ship, or put your defunct versions into the same unofficial repo under a different name and have your application pull from there. In fact, they might not use openssl at all, possibly some other half-baked library. Of course, that's for languages that are compiled; people can vendor in all sorts of stuff into python sources. Don't even get me started on golang.

Installing software from any source involves risk. Distribution repos help mitigate some of that risk. Flatpaks as a technology don't change the risk (significantly) from a bit-rot point of view IMO.
> Almost all popular applications on flathub come with filesystem=host, filesystem=home or device=all permissions

Aren't other sandboxes (like Ubuntu's Snap) the same?
>we'll start to see a rise in American high tech manufacturing for security purposes alone.

Already exists in the form of 'country of origin' procurement for high security applications.
Thanks for the answer from a direct source :)

A core part of Netlify's offering (any SaaS's offering really) is some kind of guarantee that attackers can't get in and vandalize users' sites. When you delegate authentication to an identity provider (whether that's through OAuth2/OIDC or SAML), you're delegating that core feature to a third party. You've assuredly gone through the due diligence of asking them how they manage their own security and authentication, but it's still something that you don't control.

Facebook, one of the most valuable public companies in the world, recently reported a breach where they had to reset any "log in with Facebook" authentications for millions of users. Github has roughly two orders of magnitude fewer employees than Facebook.

Anyway in case you have an internal feature request for U2F on "email" logins, please consider this an external "+1" for it.
http://www.mtome.com/Publications/PNLA/prolog-digital.pdf

I just googled that and don't know if it's a legitimate source, but I've previously downloaded a copy from the site of one of the authors, so it's probably all right.
GitHub in your editor
>> Getting into too many fields and ending up all over the place is bad management.

I'm glad Google (and Apple and Amazon) got into the phone business, the camera business, the phone service business (Google Voice), the car business (Waymo) and the entertainment business (Youtube, Music, etc.)

The status quo was so awful (remember cable TV contracts with 200 channels you didnt want to watch?) and has finally improved with the tech giants putting pressure in cushy lazy incumbents.

Same for self-driving cars. Where were the efforts before Google and other tech giants go into the game? I seem to recall only incremental innovation for decades.

What I really wish is that they didnt botch some of these things (Google Voice is a great example of an amazing product with massive underinvestment (abandonment?) from Google.)
Putting lipstick on a pig
Clause & Effect is shorter than the others mentioned so far, and very good.
Nice work. I did see a small issue...you're getting the string "(undefined)" in some of the page titles:

<title data-react-helmet="true">How to Vote in Clay County (undefined)</title>
Not on macOS.
I'd like to offer this advice:

1. Besides salary and options..would you like to work at Microsoft?

2. Do you have a family or are planning one? Does Microsoft seem like a place you can have a work - life balance? If your significant other wants to go on a date night, can you go or is it likely work will demand your attention?

3. What does your gut tell you? Sometimes above all else you have a feeling about things. I listen to mine.

4. If you walk into Microsoft, day 1, and they say "hey, we have possible bugs in this string library, please read the bug reports and fix the bugs"....are you down? Of are you gonna be like: "I left startup xxx for this.....". Usually newbies get some grunt work to prove themselves.
There's a lot about this story that doesn't add up either. One particularly questionable bit is:

> Appleboum said one key sign of the implant is that the manipulated Ethernet connector has metal sides instead of the usual plastic ones. The metal is necessary to diffuse heat from the chip hidden inside, which acts like a mini computer.

Every RJ45 jack ("Ethernet connector") I've seen used in modern networking hardware has a metal case for EMI shielding. This isn't an indicator of compromise. Nor does this make sense as a location for an implant -- the RJ45 jack isn't in a privileged position to access information on the server, nor would a device located inside the jack be able to easily interact with the network without interfering with the real Ethernet controller.
How to improve the conversion rate of your sales and marketing video
I will use Inbox until it sputters and dies. The new Gmail contains none of the features that make Inbox useful.
I know little of the US legal landscape, or if there's a small claim system. I've threatened legal response here in the UK, usually after months of failing to get resolution without, as last step in the chain. So I've issued a small claim against those companies (UK has a cheap option when the claim is small, somewhere under £5 - £10k. Basically fill form, give fixed low fee, wait). Those have had a 100% success rate.

> Once you threaten to sue, most Big Companies will stop talking to you

That would be fine. When I have threatened to sue someone and got no response, I will do the small claim as next step. One threat, one opportunity to resolve. More talking would enable more delays. No more communication from me aside from in writing from the court.

Generally gets a panicked phone response at speed and offering full settlement. I've had several expansive apology letters. A couple ignored the summons and waited for the default judgement before it got settled. Those were big, very well known companies, which could be pure coincidence. Most have asked "why did you sue?". Waiting for months to get that promised refund, whilst only getting excuses or lies, maybe? :)
A poor package repository is a consequence of too many packaging formats, and lack of volunteer maintainers, though (I, too, could have made more to help). So coming up with package formats all the time - .deb, .rpm, .apk, Alpine's pm format, pkg, .dmg, flatpack, snap, docker and whatnot - is exactly the problem (cf. https://xkcd.com/927/). Maybe Slackware got it right after all by only building from upstream .tgz source archives. We'll see in a decade or two what software is even remotely in a usable state still.
> is a lot more work for the average user than clicking on a download link and then dragging the downloaded file to your desktop (or clicking on it to open it and start an install process).

You can totally download binaries from the internet and execute them if they don't require libraries (if the binary even needs any libraries, ie not statically compiled).

You can also download a .sh installer and execute that to install software, it can even create an icon on your desktop (if you even still have one of those that has icons ;) ). Unfortunately, there's a ton of software that installs like this on Linux.

Edit: Grammar
Algorand's Verifiable Random Function Open Sourced
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> Chunked and windowed iteration, in iterutils

I need this. Makes so many functional expressions so simple.
On closer reading FAA shouldn't not be involved and the issues I have can be dealt with at more appropriate levels of government.
:D Hey OP.

I didn't put it in my comment because I have no evidence, but my first guess was that the cost-disease-funded-by-debt was exactly caused by those 2 trillion. My instinct is as follows:

* The reserves for fractional reserve banking are excess reserves at the Fed + other reserves.

* Fed is safer than other, so large portions of the banks reserves sit with the fed.

* New money is created by the banks as loans.

* The excess reserves allow massive lending (the multiplier was something like 20x if I recall).

* Banks now have an income stream & massive cash reserves. Actors willing to take on debt push any capitalists smaller than a bank out of capital markets.

Basically, I assume these "excess" reserves are misleadingly labeled and are actually in use relative to the fractional reserve system.

That is obviously a complicated guess with no evidence, and you look like you've put more effort into research than me, but it fails the sniff test that 2 trillion exists and is having literally no impact. I bet it is and it is just complicated enough that it is hard to pin down.
>How does Hetzner compare here? In terms of both, general experience and costs.

We use Hetzner for this purpose. It's hard to compare it with the other providers since with Hetzner you are renting unmanaged servers, not turning up cloud instances.

But it is absolutely the best value you can get. Our bill would be at least 10x higher if we were using Google/Amazon/Microsoft.

Considering we spent a lot on servers as is, that makes it well worth it for us. It might not be if your product is very computationally light.
I wonder if the student loan/debt bubble will hit these towns hard (if it turns out to be a bubble). Spending on higher education seems like its gains are unsustainable.
I am skeptical that this can scale well. Not every small town can have an expensive college or university.

And besides, the towns that do get/have these institutions become gentrified and all of the the original residents get pushed to nearby small towns by professionals from more affluent regions.

In the end you end up with an upscale, expensive small town and surrounding depressed blue collar towns.

Source: I’m from a small town with a university.
I've been curious for a while why we don't have more plants on buildings. Roof space seems to be wasted a lot of the time, why not put a park there? Is it considered a hazard?
Small to mid-size college towns are among the best places to live in the US, and there are a lot of them to choose from coast to coast.

They have an economic base - and often tax support - that keeps them from eroding as other small towns without colleges tend to. Their infrastructure tends to be reasonably maintained, whereas most non-college towns always struggle to upkeep even basic infrastructure. Crime and murder rates are typically between very low and moderate (and almost universally below what you see in large cities). Housing is extremely affordable. Connectivity is usually solid, another perk of the town having more resources and consistent economic activity.

Pikeville, KY is too small imo at just 7,000 people, however you can find a lot of other college towns / cities at more like 15,000 to 30,000 that have better lifestyle amenities.
Ok, good to know, thanks. So how does 42 plan to make money? Are you happy with the program so far?
My guess? It moves the responsibility for the account to a different bureaucracy (international vs. domestic).
Netlify has a free plan for hosting personal sites. Though I could do things manually, the continuous integration, free SSL, and Hugo integration make deploying my personal site as easy as anything I've ever seen.

Plug for my site: https://www.joshuahu.io/
Related 3 days ago:

Ham vs. Ham as Radio Amateurs Are in Conflict with ARRL | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18157488

> slr555: Amateur radio may seem like a quaint hobby for old timers but there are a number of newer hybrid operating modes that play nicely with the digital world.
Currently in Pittsburgh, PA and I'm seeing this happen on the daily.
Please be more civil. And notice that you've contradicted yourself; you said upthread "you pay 0", and now are clarifying the mechanism you use to pay a nonzero amount of dollars for it.
Fun little hidden feature that implies they're aware of this: On the results page, under search tools, is an "All Results" dropdown you can change to "Verbatim" to get what you actually want.
Which it apparently was - once they realized a reporter was writing a story on it, they fixed the issue right quick.
Recently been enjoying a couple of Japanese HD-quality train webcams, that have some auto and pedestrian traffic signals visible in the shots. They look green to me.

Obligatory aside: It's not easy being green.
1. Only people who have never run their own database at scale make flippant "just run your own DB" statements. Because it is a difficult job to do right e.g. testing of backup/restore, clustering, monitoring etc. Especially if you are a growing startup.

2. MongoDB is a great database if you have a data model that suits it. Problem is a lot of people have treated like it was relational. And operationally it's far simpler than most systems out there.
What a lot of it boils down to is that Bloomberg appears to have taken Mr. Fitzpatrick's hypotheses and speculation about the Supermicro implant, and included them in their article as if they were confirmed facts. If this is indeed the case, it calls the entire article into question.
Sad? Really? What is sad, is people grasping straws and holding up to the past. Fear of change, conservative laws, ridiculous "traditions" that have no connection with reality, these are the things it is worth to be sad about.

Change is life! World is moving forward! And you are sad about primitive cultures adapting, progressing and trying to catch up. Don't be ridiculous.
Something that we, our concentration, CPU time, batteries and our bandwidth bills are thankful for :-)
> (PhD 1990)

The title of the post is extremely misleading.

The author of this post graduated from an undergraduate program in 2018. By "transitioned from academia", the author means "graduated with a B.S. (after a few research-y summer internships) and got a job".

That first job is always an accomplishment, but in this cae was definitely not a "transition from academia" in the usual sense.

As a result, the post generally contains irrelevant advice for people actually transitioning (i.e., professors, post-docs, and late-stage graduate students).
This is a feature, not a bug. Customer support departments are set up to optimize for cost savings; legal departments are set up to minimize legal risk for their parent companies. The latter is more likely to err in a direction that is favorable to the consumer.
> We'll see in a decade or two what software is even remotely in a usable state still.

Fucking none of it, that's your answer.
You're definitelly not from a Scandinavian country.
Sorry, to clarify... The article implies that a town of 7000 was better off because it had an additional 3000 residents, this is entirely unsustainable and for a small town in middle america to "be saved" a bunch of other failing small towns would need to continue to feed that one working small town. In the long view those other small towns would slowly evaporate into the town with the college (turning it into not-a-small-town) or would evaporate into an existing urban center, and the article specifically notes that the college is notable only to locals, so we can assume (possibly wrongly, I admit) that the majority of the student base isn't composed of people moving from cities for a rural education (which is the only sort of scenario I'd see this working in and actually does work in a number of small towns in new england that are essentially propped up by money flowing in via the university)
Wait seriously? Hot damn, I'm getting a CAT S61.
> We'll see in a decade or two what software is even remotely in a usable state still.

Most distributions need non-free explicitly enabled, so almost all packages are open source, so it is irrelevant to distro packaging format.
Rumors are that they've asked game devs to prepare for name changes, so it should be possible in the nearish future!

https://kotaku.com/game-developers-say-theyre-preparing-for-...
I suggest you step outside of the "Baofeng vs Yaesu" box and explore HF. There is tons of open source hardware and software stuff going on, and it's growing rapidly. Also see my reply to your comment's parent.
I think the larger concern people have with stories like this, is that it’s one part of all human culture becoming homogenized. And we feel something is lost when that happens.

As Terence McKenna put it:

“All culture is being destroyed, all culture is being sold down the river by the sorts of people who want to turn the entire planet into an international airport arrival concourse”
> Most queries to a DB like mongo are slow enough

Strange. MongoDB has been consistently the fastest database I've ever used. Especially if your data model is document orientated.
> To desktops and laptops that offer more RAM/CPU/GPU per buck while costing much less.

This is not why people buy Macs, and it hasn't been in a long time. If anything, Macs are closer to giving performance/$ than they usually ever have.

People by Macs for aesthetic and usability. The vast majority of the population does not care "how many gigahertz their RAM has", and Mac sales reflect this.
> [...] I constantly wish Postgres would get anything like the complex-object querying support that Mongo has.

Any chance you could describe a bit more what you'd like?
Ask HN: How much do founders with a seed round (in the bay area) pay themselves?
You are right. The FAA is not a good place to regulate low level drone flights.
I want to mention a. political side of the argument- M Bloomberg himself is very pro open trade and has strongly hinted at running in 2020. Also, newspapers don't usually hurt your owners' candidacy, even for explosive stories. Bloomberg isn't just putting it's reputation on stake here, it's legitimized Trump presidency further. I would say there is definitely something behind this story.
And how do you justify to your investors the amount is reasonable?
The stack overflow link is about a different mater. And it is compelling. I managed lower memory usage and improve performance very significantly using this technique.

That kind of control over memory is what C is very good at, and it is, I think, the main reason why C tops almost every benchmark.

Note that modern C++ offers everything C has to offer plus even better, more advanced tools. As a result, it should be even faster. However, "proper" C++ is a bit more hands off when it comes to memory management, with things like generic containers, smart pointers, ... It tends to result in a slightly worse performance.

As for the "foo[1]" as it is described in the article, it is just syntax. Some people may find it more readable than &foo, it doesn't matter. Kind of like &table[1] vs table+1. Use the form you prefer, or even 1[table] if you are making an IOCCC entry.
They seem to be very different things: the focus of Penrose is automatic laying out of figures from a declarative math description; TikZ is a vector graphics description language. In fact, maybe Penrose can actually output TikZ/pgf...
I'm still on crashplan. I prepaid for 5 years, so I've been moved to the small business plan since my 5 years aren't up yet. At some point I'll probably need to look at moving my data somewhere else. Anyone have any recommendations on the cheapest place to backup 3TB of data?
'frockington actually read what I wrote. You imagined something silly like "the world is not warming", which I didn't write. I'm pointing out a real issue here. I'm sure you believe that actions taken by humans will cause earth to warm in disastrous ways. Lots of other people claim to believe that, but as long as their investments say otherwise, we won't really be getting ready for the calamity.

Then there are those who want the government to bail out all the flooded condos in Miami, as if that would reduce this problem...
They kind of did when they bought the WiredTiger engine.

Ever since then it's been an extremely fast and solid database.
Yes, that is also true. Its why I'm still in the Bay Area.
We could make things deterministic by fixing the algorithms and a random seed, and/or by fully constraining every object in the diagram so randomness is not used. But that isn't using the real strengths of Penrose, so we expect it to be a secondary use case at best.

One way to think about the goal of Penrose is that you will get a result that is predictably good, and you can constrain it to get a diagram of a particular shape if you want to, or alternatively leave it open and have the solver show you 3 good diagrams...then you can pick one and tweak it further (aided by constraint solving as you tweak) to make it great. The problem with drawing-tool style systems is that you have to adjust the location of every label (for example); that's the kind of thing that should be solved for you. TikZ doesn't have a rich constraint language and solver, so in many circumstances you're left with a choice between doing lots of things manually or getting a poor-quality diagram.

Penrose will have a canonical textual format, but as it is under active development, it wouldn't make sense to say it has a stable textual format now.
OK, that's one vote for 'zero', from a place that didn't allow the people to vote at all during the time period in question. Anyone else?
I'm not a fan by any means of axing the 9mm jack, but to get around jackless electronics, I've been using a tiny (and cheap) bluetooth receiver so I can keep using my old headphones... it's been great, and no more annoying that charging wireless headphones.

This is not the model I have, but I've something very similar by Anker https://www.amazon.com/Roav-Bluetooth-Noise-Cancellation-Int...

EDIT: Sidenote, I don't know how much I'd trust cheap bluetooth adapters re: security... there is a non-zero chance it's spewing my conversations out, ripe for anyone w/ the proper equipment to listen in. <Tin Hat />
Land-grant colleges on the east coast tend to be a bit of a raw deal for their communities, since they don't pay taxes and require additional services and policing.

UNH is particularly bad.
The price has risen slowly and steadily for decades? And it's still the cheapest commodity around? I don't see the problem...
>I want Netflix to be able to offer streaming of everything they have the DVDs for.

That is why it will never happen.