skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is obscenely disingenuous, almost fraud, to put "USD" in the name of the coin. That's not what it is. The ability to convert to/from the coin is entirely based on the good graces of the issuer, and any regulators in the relevant jurisdiction(s). People see "USD" and think it's a dollar. Stablecoin authors know this.

Unlike more seedy exchanges, Coinbase is based in a state with useful regulators (in this case, the US). Like others have said here, expect them to stomp the shit out of this.

Unrelated: has anyone audited the contract?
Why 1/4 of Apple Employees Are Deleting Their Facebook Accounts
The fact that the vast majority don't use a feature does not make it less important for the people who do. That's the same logic as saying, I don't know, that face recognition only has a false positive rate of 1/1000. If you scan a million people each day you still end up with 1000 people falsely identified.

I switch languages between English (work) and German (everything else) every day. My sister's family is bilingual. I've seen them switch languages back and forth every other sentence within the same conversation. (When I asked the kids why they do that, they told me that some things are easier to express in a specific language.)

FWIW, multi language support has gotten much better but there's still a way to go. Two issues of the top of my head:

- I have my phone set to English. But I want Google maps pronounce street names in German when giving directions. This should probably be a user-configurable option because I can see that it helps people to hear (an approximation of) how a street would be pronounced in their language if they don't speak the local language.

- iOS automatically detects the language when I type in some text. But speech recognition always uses whatever language the keyboard is currently set to. I often speak out notes in German and English and to do that I have to make sure that the correct language is set.
Sorry I meant the Treasury. These would be seized digital coins.
I never founded a company or started a business. I've been thinking about that a lot though and am doing so in intervals. Now my personality leads me to always think through everything very carefully to avoid making mistakes - I'm regularly overthinking and often getting trapped in paralysis by analysis. This especially is true in the context of business with regard to laws and taxes.

Having worked in more than a handful of companies full-time by now I made an interesting observation I intend to learn from and have it inspire future decision making.

Most founders - especially in the earlier stages - don't worry very much about the intricacies of laws and regulation. I can safely say that most companies I worked at entered deeply into gray areas like sailing with a dinghy on high sea and enjoying the great weather. Every experienced captain would argue that is pretty darn dangerous. But the consequence of that would be staying home - meaning "no business".

So my conclusion is that successful entrepreneurs are the kind of people who take risks while being aware, half-aware or totally unaware - because successful entrepreneurs simply don't worry much in general. Sociologically those men and women usually have a somewhat wealthy background having kept them from worrying throughout their youth and hence their brain circuits dealing with worrying are somewhat underdeveloped - I suppose. Some get their finger's burnt and some don't.
The “failure” crate is an alternative to error-chain as well.
> The player is effectively bankrupt.

Now imagine the player developing cancer, or needing to have major dental surgery!
I think thats the original problem with crypto
Ask HN: Looking for feedback on SaaS boilerplate
I've recently built and published open source SaaS boilerplate with React/Next/Express/TypeScript.

Currently, over 2000 people tried the demo and about the same number of people cloned repo. But so far, I did not receive much feedback.

If you are in the early stage of building your SaaS web application or looking for stack/boilerplate - what would you add or subtract from our SaaS boilerplate.

Github repo: https://github.com/async-labs/saas

Any feedback on the README file?
If you want to scope the thread to the OP article: If you go to the portal on Apple's site, you need an AppleID, and if the AppleID has MFA enabled you need a device. The is no way around that.

If you want to scope the thread to the Elcomsoft article and specific on-device physical extraction, sure you'd have a different story.
It reads like someone may also be posting in snippets from Google Translate when they didn't know the proper English phrase, or at least abusing a dictionary/thesaurus.
The difference in emphasis you noticed (grace, love, and acceptance vs. joy, freedom, and deliverance) has deep historical roots that go back much further than colonial history. As an exercise, even the apostles -- and the prophets before them -- can be read in terms of which side of this dichotomy they preferred in their rhetoric. If you read the bible every year and choose a list of themes/topics to focus on, this is an interesting one.

Another really interesting fact: this difference in style correlates much better with demographics than with doctrine/dogma/congregation. There was a dissertation or maybe book about this, but I can't seem to find it at the moment.
Drives me nuts, click a link to read an article, get 2 sentences in and then:

"Want more content like this in your inbox?"

I may have considered it if you allowed me to actually read the content first, but I certainly don't now.
Nikola Tesla as a brilliant engineer and scientist. At one point he was even one of the wealthiest in NY, he didn't get there by being a "loser poser" he got there by making sales after he created his invention. The first installation of AC generators in Niagra falls didn't get there because he accidently fell into it. Make no mistake, Tesla had to be damned good at sales and engineering to get someone to put so much money up and take such a huge risk on Tesla's AC technology. Don't get me wrong, it helped that he had patents, but there was definitely sales involved.
They announced he would start getting involved again when Nadella became CEO.
Very true. I was being soft with my language in an effort to make my point more digestible.
Like cash?
If you’re familiar with Atlantis and think that this sounds similar - you’re right!

They’ve also hired the Atlantis developer: https://medium.com/runatlantis/joining-hashicorp-200ee9572dc...
>The transition was nearly instantaneous.

The first pocket scientific calculator was the HP-35 in 1972 (costing about $2,500 in today's dollars). Within 3 years, at least for most university engineering programs in the US, slide rules were completely gone. [That's incredibly fast.]
Size - Mars and Mercury are both quite a bit smaller than Earth. So they lose heat faster for essentially the same reasons that your cells have to be small: smaller spheres have a higher surface area to volume ratio!

While in neither case is diffusion the only process at work, it's a critical limiting factor in both cases. Diffusion of heat, diffusion of nutrients: it's all the same math!
I bet it isn't even deployed on a high availability Kubernetes cluster.
Good call. I've given it serious thought also.
Maybe.

But let's frame it differently. I want many of these things, but I want them to work on my own virtual private network—communicating exclusively with my other devices and only communicating off-network according to clear and obvious needs for external data (e.g., weather).

The problem is today's third-party oriented cloud that assumes that all device-to-device communication requires a third-party intermediary. In an alternate timeline, an encrypted virtual private network shared by all devices would allow peer-to-peer on-network inter-device communication without a third-party eavesdropping.

All too facile is the argument that a third-party cloud is required in order to handle the processing demands. This ignores the fact that it's relatively easy to have a personal "compute" node (it would be just a computer like any other after all) that you could run on your own private network (or even lease one from a data center).

So yes, I want smart door locks, smart assistants, and all of these "Electric Dreams" gadgets. But I want them to serve me and not a third-party. In some of these spaces, there are viable options, but I want more companies to explore the opportunity of making money selling privacy-enabling omnipresent personal applications.
Cryptocurrencies have an advantage over electronic U.S. dollars in decentralized electronic transmission. I don't think that's a big deal, but the advantage exists.

Stablecoins, on the other hand, have zero advantages over U.S. dollars. Backer goes bust, someone steals the dollars, someone freezes their accounts, et cetera and your currency is worthless. A trusted third party rests at the centre who is less regulated and guaranteed than a bank.

(I'm sceptical that these schemes will pass AML muster. Using a stablecoin over U.S. dollars makes sense if you're (a) incompetent or (b) laundering money.)
Carbon Removal Technologies
I was in the AWS control panel yesterday and it popped a modal at me and I habitually swatted it so fast before I realized “Oh snap, I’m in my AWS account - that might have been something important” and had no way to get it back. Page refreshes didn’t regenerate the modal.

Sad that I’ve turned into one of Pavlov’s dogs and that very reasonable methods of increasing functionality have been abused so much that they are no longer useable.
> This is easier for tech companies because they breathe this kind of culture.

Eh, no.
Tech companies have, by and large, just ignored existing legislation thus enabling them to host mountains of content at negligible cost.

They opened the floodgates - they should deal with the water (both that which is original & that which is stolen). They are 100% the cause of this issue and should be 100% of the solution.

If they're not able to do that, then they should get out of the business altogether.

Ignoring laws to lower your costs is not innovative in the slightest.
Using the excuse that the internet is a new medium is malarky. Existing rules apply.
> so I guess the answer is really.... they dont care

That's not a reasonable characterisation of what drstewart wrote.

It would be fairer to say that they don't care as much as you. That's not the same as not caring at all.

On the flip side, implied in your question is that you're caring the appropriate amount. What makes that so?
PG wrote this[1] essay in March 2012, where he was saying the same thing. Paul Buccheit reviewed the essay and had a suggestion to make. PG wrote "GMail is painfully slow.", PB changed it to "GMail has become painfully slow."

[1] http://paulgraham.com/ambitious.html

Your comment reminded me of the essay hence posting it here.

Gmail app is still pretty fast. When they launched the new one, I was hoping to find a function where you can run a fast version (just like html for slow connections in old gmail, which was super quick even for slow connections) but could not find it anywhere. You can switch back to old gmail, that is faster (less slow) if you like, or if you like the smart compose, you can just kill the apps GMail loads by default - Calendar, Hangouts, keep, Tasks, and much more. Then it may become faster.
You take that back, the Zune was the best portable media player ever made
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True. And honestly, when I open the console log I expect it to be all red.
Beyond Fabricated Spyware Tales
Consumers currently cannot hold USD electronically without a bank.
I believe USDC has a blacklist of "forbidden addresses" - this is in contrast with some other compliant ERC20s that have whitelists instead. To redeem USD from USDC (meaning withdrawing said USDC from circulation), the withdrawer goes through the same AML/KYC process with Coinbase or Circle before receiving USD in a bank account.
If you save a non-trivial amount of your income, you can retire by 50.
Firstly, I fully support anyone striving to better themselves, even if that means deciding that they're too weak to handle things like video games. (and I use the term "weak" in a none-judgmental manner, fwiw)

But, with that said.. if someone feels the need to cut something from their life entirely, I recommend looking closely at why that thing is such a problem. Be it drinking, recreational drugs, video games, etc. Even something as "harmless" as procrastination, reddit, facebook, etc.

I say this because I feel the root cause is likely to haunt you no matter what you ignore. If there is a gap in your life such that something mildly addictive can take over than there is likely a larger problem at play. In my own life, I've tried to do the same with procrastination - ie, Reddit/etc. I've found that while I can ban Reddit, I'm not inherently stopping the feedback loop, I'm just changing changing what causes that loop.

My 2c? Look at the inputs to your life and cut out any you don't think are useful. Video games may help you relax, they may be useful! Of course, you can choose to use something else for relaxation. The key however, is to use everything your life in proper moderation. Sit down and think about what percentages of your life these components should take and make an effort to balance life, work, sleep and play. Balance is insanely difficult, especially in the face if unhealthy inputs. If work is too hard you may feel the need to drown your sorrows. It's not easy to change careers or jobs, but I simply ask that you identify the root issues in your life, and adjust as best you can.

Your balance will be different than mine, only you can figure that out. Best wishes friend(s), take care of yourself :)
Dependeny Injection, why?
It's also disappointing that while Pixel 3 supports USB-PD, which is forward looking, it has no support for older protocols, even conventional 2.4A USB charging. I tried charging one with my car USB port and it the charging rate was lower than the power consumption, so it died after a few hours of navigation.

There are tons of conventional chargers out in the world (card, hotels and airports, power banks, etc.) and it's stupid to deprecate them, especially given that the Snapdragon inside actually supports those.
The "dollars" in my bank account are not dollars either; they are something like a WellsFargoCoin.

(Granted, there's a huge difference, since WellsFargoCoin is backed by the FDIC... (Edit: maybe there is not so much of a difference; see the reply by omarchowdhury. I really don't know.))
It's pegged to the USD, isn't it?
Parent was probably implying that the Secret Service would sieze the tainted assets and the auction them off to new bidders, thus removing the taint for the new owner. the reason for the auction instead of just funding the treasury is that the USG deals in dollars, not in securities or other obligations or paper instrumnets. Compare the actions of the US Marshalls after siezing the Silk Road Bitcoins.
Could you elaborate a bit on the obvious weaknesses in Go?
My browser did not slow down, clearly this is not 2018 website look at forbes.com for inspiration.
I used to own an original Moto G, and the only complaint I had was the crappy camera. I would buy Morotola again if they made reasonable sized phones.
That's the Balans [1] (the original model of which is now marketed as Variable Balans), by Norwegian designer Peter Opsvik.

Opsvik was partly responsible for the wave of interest in ergonomic seating in the 1980s. He eventually wrote a book, Rethinking Sitting [2], about the topic.

[1] https://varierchairs.com/product/variable-balans/

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Rethinking-Sitting-Peter-Opsvik/dp/03...
I’ve been playing bass in churches for 30 years. I really enjoy listening to Hillsong’s music and playing it.

In the 80s we had lively songs and pensive songs. I enjoy the modern style of quiet songs which become epic anthems.
Something I've realized here, and in other discussions I'm randomly having: I think most people just don't think things through and can't put themselves sufficiently deeply into another person's shoes.

Someone just asked me, "why do you have to register to vote? why can't I show up with a passport?" - which sounds reasonable until you start thinking about local elections, where you need to prove that you live in a certain area, and then the need for some sort of registration becomes more obvious. (Or another refactoring of the system, at least.)

Same here - people think, "why do you need a car, I certainly don't need one on the Upper East Side!" - and for them, they don't. In rural Texas, not having one means you're very geographically bound, and effectively unemployable.

So, for some things, I don't think it's just a lack of empathy; it's just a quick knee-jerk comment on an internet forum.
You also need to take into account the efficiencies of delivery.

I know grid electricity is usually about 1/3rd efficient. (Rough numbers.)
Are lawyers that expensive?

People will not even pay a $1500 for an independent review of a $1million home purchase. Most just blindly follow their real estate agent's advice even though such agents are usually hopelessly conflicted because of their own financial interest in getting the deal done.
Isn't the "L" scale on a slide rule linear? See the photo at the top of the Wikipedia page [1] for example. (I may be confused here, since you know slide rules better than me.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slide_rule
Papers like this are so terse.

I understand the need to use correct verbiage; but to the layman, this is incomprehensible.
Ask HN: How to find small software startups?
Just recently finished building an MVP would love to reach out to more small companies to see if any were interested in being beta-testers. How should I find these small companies who likely don't have much of an online presence.
You're forgetting the problem of the charging stand being implemented incorrectly & catching fire. Phone sensors won't help you there & while you may think all Qi chargers would have a temperature sensor in them, the fact that something simpler like knock-off USB charging blocks cause fire hazards leads me to not be so bullish on the Qi front.

And hey, look.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEGlmQS692w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxstYrJQkk8

I'm sure you can find more examples. Just because we'd like the world to work a certain way doesn't mean it actually does in practice & the job of engineers sometimes is to deal with the reality of the world.
Unless you are moving at near light-speed, where a proton is already a problem, debris do mostly not exist in space. If you want to reach one, you'll have to target, and even then it's hard.
Ah this looks nice! Would be helpful to know how you go from hyde output to this result and where it gets "notes" from.
Bill Gates is a great guy if you are not standing between him and one of his goals.
Until 2010ish, I thought that Amazon sold all of their listed items and that I had to specifically choose "New & Used" from other sellers to purchase an item from someone else.
Why You Should Care About This Massive Change to Prescription Drugs
Do you ever make fun of people for getting fooled twice?

The haters that have lasted this long have been fooled once and very painfully. You don't forgive someone technical for straight up lying to you and your peers. For years. That's vendetta territory.
Obviously that comment was ideological rhetoric, regardless of that else was in there. But the point isn't one specific comment—it's your overall pattern of using HN overwhelmingly for ideological battle. That is an abuse of the site that we're constantly asking people not to do, regardless of which ideology they're battling for.

Since we've asked you many times over a long period, cut you all kinds of slack, and still you seem to have no intention of fixing this, I've banned this account.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The ultimate test would be to see if it is possible to implement an efficient concurrent GC in Rust+WASM. This might require memory fence instructions in WASM.
Audiences vs congregations.

I've been attending a Rock & Roll Jesus church. Partially out of curiousity. It's been weird.
Talking about LWE, the author says:

> A major problem with this system is that it has very large keys. To encrypt just one bit of information requires public keys with size n^2 in the security parameter.

Can't this be solved by e.g. forcing some kind of random sparsity structure on the matrix and then compressing with a format like CSC or CSR? (probably just not understanding LWE completely)
> ACH system underneath links all US bank accounts, but it's so slow and burdensome that private companies need to build apps on top of it that abstract away all of its problems

ACH is for cheap, remote batch transfers. Fedwire is for real-time, remote transfers. Cash is for cheap, real-time, in-person transfers. (FX exchanges, as centralized databases, are faster and safer than stablecoins.)
>Why would you go through the effort to make an account for an ugly site when there are better looking options available (Reddit, Facebook, etc)?

IMHO HN looks and feels a way better than Reddit and Facebook is just complete crap.
Ask HN: In-depth article/book about history/rise/decline of Yahoo?
Asking because I used and liked Yahoo! products earlier (Mail, Groups, Search, Developer Network, even the home page with the Internet directory early on, etc.).

I used Yahoo! Mail a lot earlier, Groups a good amount, Search of course, did projects that involved using Yahoo! Search APIs and Yahoo! Developer Network (very good quality of both content and presentation there, IIRC). Seems a shame that they declined.

I know some of the reasons, having followed it in the tech news, but was interested to know if anyone has done a detailed study of it.
> There is some surprise that Gates seems to be more involved in the Nadella era

Nadella had asked Gates to step up and be more involved when he accepted CEO position
Is WebAssembly faster than JavaScript?
i get that this is theoretically inconvenient for you, but how big of a problem is this really? afaik, most people don't wirelessly charge their phones, even if they have capable devices, and the pixel line tends to be pretty low volume to begin with.

given the small number of people that actually care and the possibly large cost of supporting full speed charging on a wider range of chargers, I'm not sure this is a problem at all, let alone one that merits new regulation.
Gaining Access to the Windows CE Desktop on the Keysight DSOX1102G Oscilloscope
For me USB-C is briliant. Can charge everything (Laptop, Tablet, Nintendo Switch) except my iphone.
Literally all of them? Since you scope creaped to add
macos to the list even though it doesn't exist in the server or mobile space you'll need to increase that to 5 compiles instead of 4, though.

But C, C++, Rust, Go, D, etc... all support compilation to those platforms. This is a really common thing to do.
Hi, new author here. :) Kyle was clear that I could write it however I wanted to, but I opted for the more formal tone used in recent analyses.
You could always become a cobol consultant. Otherwise if you are dead set on a startup then see if you can keep your current job on the side as a consultant.
It's off-topic. But yes, Cosmos DB has rigorous tests[1] including Jepsen (a tool).

[1] https://twitter.com/dharmashukla/status/869104163510034432
What proposed changes to Go are you referring to?
First website, while at work:

> You Can't Visit This Website

> According to the California Law §28, Hague Convention and > Maritime Law, we can't show the content of this website to > people who have not reached 18 years age.

I'm not sure what it was but I'm glad I didn't click that I was over 18.