skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My Nexus 6P has pretty much zero waterproof rating but I've dropped it in the sink face up before with the full stream falling right onto the screen. The front speakers are a little quieter but it still works otherwise, I thought for sure it would have been an instant death. Unless you have a real IP rating, it's a crapshoot how well your phone works under harsh environments.
Meetingbird is joining Front
"What a strawman." -@wcarron

Below is a list of 590+ failed fiat currencies, 150 caused by hyperinflation. Seems the Straw Man argument is yours alone.

https://trader2trader.co/tag/historic-graphs/page/3/
Ireland, I pay 35€ unlimited data, calls, roaming. Virgin Media.
I'm with freedom mobile and pay about the same in bc. But I get no service outside the cities and certain areas and my data gets slowed after 2GB I think. A lot of people I know here on telus or Rogers pay insane prices for slow capped data. A coworker of mine was freaking out recently about a $700 phone bill he got for apparently going over his data limit. There was no proof of this from telus and his phone disagreed heavily with how much they'd said he'd used.

I can't remember the exact amount but it was ridiculous more than I can use in a month unless I really try though my home WiFi let alone on a mobile.

He talked to them but In the end he still had to pay something like $150.

I'd like to say thinga like that don't happen often. But it seems like I hear stories about it fairly regularly.

Telus plans start at around $80/month

https://www.telus.com/en/mobility/plans?linktype=nav

Rogers at $85 for 3GB of data

https://www.rogers.com/consumer/wireless/smartphone-plans
For me it was seeing messages from my ISP creeping into traffic from other sites. That's not OK
I have to wonder what these coins actually offer the consumer. If they’re to be used as a real world currency for transactions, they would need to have some utility over credit/debit cards. I don’t see what that utility is. I can already make instantaneous purchases via contactless, and while there is a fee for international purchases, it’s not large enough, nor do I encounter it frequently enough, for me to look for an alternative. Why as an ordinary consumer would I bother with these?
About Bach's involvement and contributions in organ building technology of his age, the point of view comes from here discussed at length:

"Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven" by John Eliot Gardiner. He is a reliable source.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Eliot_Gardiner

A detailed comparison with modern music comes from a recent author whose name slips my mind. He taught at Columbia University, a journalist, his entire book is on the relationship of Bach with all kinds of recorded music in digital age.
“Ruby on Rails is slow”
> In my experience as an entrepreneur, when I've played lawyer I've generally overdone things to my detriment.

This seems interesting. Do you have examples? I know I once got stuck on a clause that was not 'fair' but my advisor said it's a minor and the other side probably didn't want to involve their much more expensive lawyer (firm) to change that paragraph.
Where are the auto playing video ads at full blast?
If you can make peer-to-peer transactions with it, then the coin operators are definitely not complying with Know Your Customer and Anti-Money Laundering laws.

You can certainly make peer-to-peer transactions with it.

But I think you are misinterpreting the KYC laws. Circle (who operates USDC) isn't trying to be secretive about this. They are regulated as a "money transmitter" and a "money services business" - https://www.circle.com/en/usdc . IANAL but Circle certainly seems prepared to take on any legal risks involved here.
Lee probably had good reason to loathe abolitionists after Harper's Ferry.
No it isn't. Read the convention rights.
Don't forget gas and car insurance.
An ordinary consumer wouldn't. For me, likely use cases are:

- Transmitting money overseas. This should be way cheaper.
- Vendors who are tired of paying 2.5% to credit card companies giving a discount to using crypto.
A "Will you help improve the website?" survey popup is missing too.
This is a bizarre claim to make. This route would be much easier to block than any land route - it's a single bridge disappearing into a tunnel shortly off the coast of Hong Kong. It is about as easy of a choke point to block as you can get. The bridge the island goes to also only has a single bridge leading off it into the rest of Hong Kong.
"No, not very much."

So, yes?
I found a few bugs: It only has one JS file, and that isn't even 3KB. Needs to be at least 3MB. uBlock only blocks 2 items, not 30. It doesn't have infinite scroll, a sticky header, a fake chat window that pops up and says, "Shana from support is here to answer any questions"... Oh, and the back button still works.
VM support for unikernels is literally a prerequisite for unikernel uptake, so that's hardly surprising, but coming from academia: if a highly niche market using a thing still keeps it a mostly academic exercise, and this article does not contain anything that talks about how it has finally escaped the "mostly interesting to academics, and that handful of people who use it in their highly specialized or possibly instead just plain old 'someone once set it up and it's too critical to change now' systems".
Buy ethereum. If this works, transmission would require ETH to be paid as gas.
Shortcuts works as expected and no slowing for me, who handles about 300 email a day ( mostly tagging and standard reply )
Was Cosmos DB tested by Jepsen?
I would imagine that the secret service would take ownership of the coins and then reissue them thus resolving their criminality.
I understand your point of view that my priorities may not be the other people priorities. :) Sometimes we judge the others thinking they should act as we do... so I guess the answer is really.... they dont care. :)
if you want to see what these powerful people use to protect their coms check the FIPS and NIST standards documents. the public has access to the ~same crypto algorithms that government agencies use. outside of NSA and a handful of other organizations who have the technical ability to safely DIY, its the only reasonable way to pick crypto tech.

crypto is widely used and easy to get access to. at this point, there is very little that can be done to put this genie back in the bottle. there are open chat networks that can provide e2ee with forward secrecy even if some compromised devices are present (XMPP/OMEMO). many clients support routing your chats over tor so nobody can tell which server you are using.

not only can you go completely dark with off-the-shelf android apps and a non-google ROM, you can do it for free.
You're on an iPhone so I suppose this doesn't help you much, but on my (Samsung) Android phone it's possible to use a program like Tasker to programmatically toggle fast charging based on location, time of day, current battery level, etc.
Even the most fiscally responsible middle-class person in the US can become entirely broke with massive debt after getting handed medical bills in the six figures.
The depressing part is that this is an understatement.

- please turn off ad blocking
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The railways in southern Sweden are an unreliable joke due to decades of neglect.
If I want to send money to someone via square cash, they have to have the square cash app.

Same with Venmo, and PayPal, and everything else...

Venmo and PayPal are even owned by the same company. Have you ever asked why they're not interoperable?

The 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.

None of them work together because regulation makes the operation of money so difficult that you need an entire company to run such an app, and they're all walled gardens applying their own versions of KYC/AML.

When you have a unified protocol, all of that melts away and the opportunity for money to have a higher velocity and greater ease of use is upon us.

This is what blockchain, and in this case USD Coin based on it, provide.

It seems silly to me that such a system would not become popular. Interoperability and protocols are good. They are something HN is typically in love with.

When google tried to remove basic support for one protocol for contacts from Gmail, people were up in arms because it broke interoperability.

Imagine being in that world with money. I don't know why you wouldn't want it. It's superior by all measures.

And it would be silly for anyone in that world to create a wallet that didn't support such currencies. It would be like creating an email client that only lets you read email from other users of the same service. That's not email, that's just a private messaging platform.

I think you have to look towards the future and see how, if adopted, things like this would make money easier to use. Rallying against that is silly indeed.
Dave Reed (author of the linked paper) also gave a fantastic presentation on the End-to-End Arguments a few years ago: https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity10/end-end-a....
He went to harvard and got 1590. He is probably on the very very high end of intelligence curve. He also reads a ton and has a lot of experience. Its not surprising he can have technical conversations with researchers.
> like pegging a coin to the S & P

So we invented a less efficient ETF which has the added bonus of keeping regulators and securities lawyers employed until the post-quantum world.
Causal and session are definitely similar, but I'm not entirely sure if causal implies consistent prefix, and conversely, I think causal miiight have stronger implications than just the intersection of MR, MW, RYW, and WFR. Because we weren't entirely certain whether we could make that claim regarding Cosmos, we opted to be conservative.
Julia is hardly the first (cf some common lisp environments, 20+ years ago). To really get near (say within 2x) of c you need some sort of type annotation or inference of course, and (more importantly) you have to structure your code such that this works, but it's quite do-able. Your code does tend to end up a bit c-like in those performance critical sections, but that's hardly surprising.
The Path to Enhanced Tracking Protection
Beyond bionics: how the future of prosthetics is redefining humanity
Re: Solo, it was funded in 20 minutes. It's entirely plausible a lot of people are going to play wait and see, and get one only once they start shipping. Also, there are available competing products, and openness is just one possible path to trust.

Further, it's completely non-obvious to 99+% how to use a hardware key, let alone why they should. 1% who get it, might even be generous. And then, quite a lot of people have devices that can't use hardware keys, or shouldn't. I have any number of clumsy friends who shouldn't have something like a hardware key sticking out of their laptop at all hours of the day: I call it, inevitability.

Someone using a hardware key, probably uses random passphrases for each of their online services, stuffed into a password manager. Ergo they aren't low hanging fruit even without a hardware key. How much safer is someone who uses push authentication as their second factor, switching to a hardware key?

Anyway, a big part of what I think you're getting at is ordinary people lack the imagination of the risk they're taking; but then there's symmetry here because you lack the imagination that they have so little of it themselves.
That looks vastly superior to the above, and I'll make an effort to watch it. Thanks for the source.

Edit:
Ok so first of all, I think I should state that I am not a Marxist. I'm of the liberal persuasion, in that I think free markets with a good social safety net is the current optimal economic and political structure. That being said, I like to understand Marxist criticism of the above.

I don't think that this is a really good or compelling argument with regards to "post-modernism". Basically, the gist of it is that Marxism says X, X has empirically failed, far-leftists chose a childish reaction of not acknowledging the facts and so they embraced post-modernism to avoid having to deal with it.

The argument fails on several dynamics.

First, it fails to acknowledge that there are multiple political theories within Marxism itself. The Soviet Union, for example, started from Leninism, and there are quite a lot of Marxists that reject that. This allows him to claim that the failure of one type of Marxist thought is equivalent to it all failing without having to actually support that argument. Its pretty intellectually dishonest.

Second, he really doesn't seem to understand some of the core things about Marxism. In particular, he boils down the notion of exploitation to a moral argument, using the colloquial definition and emotional reactions of the term. But Marx used the term in a descriptive manner to describe how value created by a worker did not go to the worker but to their employer. Neither does Marxism necessarily involve central planning by the workers which he seems to suggest. It also isn't necessarily focused on sharing. There can still be markets in a such a market-based, Marxist economy, but the products would be produced by companies that are owned and ran by the workers at those companies.

Third, he does not really do any sort of deep analysis of capitalism. In particular, he talks a lot about material conditions in capitalist nations vs the soviet union and prescribes things like purges to marxism. But what is elided is the fact that capitalism has also done some pretty terrible stuff in third world countries. All of that is simply ignored in the argument.

Fourth, he says post-modernism is embraced without any real evidence. I can't say that the far left is any more post modern than it was in the past, and that statement was just dropped there without any support.

Fifth, he says that post modernism was embraced to avoid facing the facts. This is also not evidenced. It could be that those with different perspectives are just looking at different things and facts and are weighing things differently.

He uses 1-3 to try to argue that these beliefs are obviously wrong and not supported by reality and then 4-5 to say that a certain set of beliefs are due to child-like rejection of the facts.

In other words, his argument is poor, he is incredibly dismissive the people he is criticizing, and is not doing intellectual due-diligence with his arguments.
You could consider a used/refurb X. That might be the sweet spot under $1k, if you’re okay not buying new.
Some people are bound to struggle with any form of technology, no interface can ever accommodate all levels of expectation and comprehension. One size will never fit all, it's just not a reasonable expectation. If that is your standard for 'easy' then yeah, iPhones are hard to use.

Within the spectrum of all personal computing, ever, I think today's mobile devices are some of the easiest to use. Blinker yourself from the realm the devices occupy and set idealistic goals and maybe you can say 'iPhones are hard to use', but you are likely being purposefully obtuse, dishonest, or willfully naive.
https://www.reddit.com/r/woodworking/comments/5y1r4h/kitchen...
How to Install Oracle Java on Ubuntu 18.04/18.10 and Debian 9?
Honestly, I've strongly disliked recent changes to Android so much that I'm not interested in updates. I got a Moto X4 last month because I got tired of being terrified that my Nexus 5X would bootloop again, and I'm keeping it at Nougat even though it keeps nagging me to upgrade.

Oreo is so visually ugly that I'd rather keep my phone on an old version than upgrade.
I still think it is. There's still been no push in the open source community to make tooling around Unikernels to make it user to a broader audience and a broader set of use cases.
> I think this forum in general is too easily weighted towards considering money vs everything else in life though.

That's to expect when the average participant lives a single young male life in SV or a major urban city with a large tech presence and hasn't reached an age where buying homes, child care, commuting, retirement, etc. become actual issues.
Secure User Account Authentication inside Apps for Software Licensing
Basically this. It's a shame people don't understand crypto at all.
I Remember When Rock Was Young: Elton John at 71
I am very curious what lawsuit was about..
Another key drawback of USDC is that your account can be frozen by the centralized authority:

USDC tokens are ERC-20 compatible and can be used with any ERC-20 compatible digital wallet. However, a global blacklist is maintained by CENTRE for USDC, which prevents tokens from being sent into or from blacklisted addresses. Reasons for blacklisting could include known fraudulent or illegal activity, or a legal order or process. Reserves associated with USDC balances held on blacklisted addresses may be wholly and permanently unrecoverable.

https://support.usdc.circle.com/hc/en-us/articles/3600160603...

How bad this is is yet to be seen. Anyone who has experience with PayPal freezing their account knows that it can be very frustrating when a company freezes your accounts for some unknown reason and then does not communicate with you.
I had a couple Motos and recently moved to Xiaomi.

The last one was a Z2 Play. The USB-C port broke and I couldn't charge the device anymore, 6 months after purchase. When I contacted Motorola Mexico they asked me send the phone so they could determine if this would be covered by warranty or not. Of course I had to pay for all shipping myself and be without a phone for a couple of weeks. Yeah no thanks.

Instead of wasting money on shipping I invested that money into a new Mi A1 which does everything I need from a phone and cost me half of the Z2 Play. It also comes with Android One.
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Do you understand how ERC20 tokens work?

Coinbase might be able to pull it back, but that doesn't prevent me from sending it at-will in the first place.
Hi all — head of engineering for the consumer product at Coinbase here (iOS, Android, coinbase.com).

Happy to answer any questions that people have — also, just wanted to make a plug that we're hiring. If you're interested in building an open financial system for the world, shoot me a note at jpollak@coinbase.com. Especially interested in iOS & Android engineers!
That seems more like an argument for a cheap foreign exchange service, of which I believe there are several now.
For all those ends you'll need observables: patient reports, behaviors associated with pain and so on. You probably have in mind the question "why this pain processing results in the observed effects?"

I was talking about the question "why does all that processing result in the felt experience [...]?"
The modal could be made easy to dismiss with a simple No button, it's publishers that don't make things easy for users.
Am I the only one who doesn't want

- Digital Glasses, Google Glass

- Smart assistants

- IOT devices

- Smart door locks

- Internet enabled washing machines, refrigerators, ovens, etc.

- Push to order dash buttons

- Smart watch

- Smart cameras/webcams

These devices are solutions looking for a problem. The value proposition is overshadowed by loss of privacy, interruptions by social media, potential for security flaws, and loss of control by the end user, loss of repairability, amongst many other issues. They provide little benefit at the expense of aforementioned disadvantages.

Apparently, the general public loves these and Alexa devices sell like hotcakes, Apple watch is a huge success and Google assistant is getting smarter everyday.

I honestly am satisfied without smart things in life. I understand this might come across as a kind of anti-technology view of life, but I love technology! I just don't resonate with the IOT/Smart devices.

This trend is everywhere from my label marker to John Deere tractors. What happens when Focal goes bankrupt and the device cannot connect to their cloud for security updates? Yep, they become normal glasses with thick frame with dead batteries. I want longevity, reliability and durability from my devices. Dieter Rams has a great view on this issue: https://www.hustwit.com/rams/
Sonarqube is a great way of measuring technical debt.

Where I'm currently working, we mark the sources with issues (each issue have a default time to resolve it - > measuring time we measure euros).
In each developement, teams start looking at Sonar to clean issues, so that we left the code better than it was.
Trying to get proof is called Discovery and is quite literally one of the key points in filing a lawsuit. You can't argue something invalid because it doesn't have proof when the entire purpose of the lawsuit is to get proof.
> There is no way to send electronic dollars without involving a third party

Yeah but that third party is everywhere, available to all (US isn't the only country in the world you know?) and isn't aware you are using his service for sharing cryptocurrencies or simply reading Hacker News.

The current third parties for transferring money, well they all fail one or multiple of theses while cryptocurrencies dosen't.
I love this. There's not enough loading going on though. Everything was too snappy.
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I didn't think about it that way but you're totally right! The reason I don't open up social media right now is because I know there's going to be garbage there that distracts me. If I could open Orac up and it would block anything that it deemed as distracting then I don't see a reason why I wouldn't use it.

I really look forward to seeing what becomes of this!!
I think a side-project would classify as 'in connection with a professional activity'. This recital basically covers your personal rolodex.
Authenticate against GKE without installing gcloud
Ask HN: How to advance your career with a less than average memory?
So I'll open this by saying that I've seen plenty of examples of folks with amazing memories end up in senior roles. Being able to recall technical details, past conversations and random tidbits gleaned from conversations seems to be incredibly useful both technically and "politically".

I was curious:

- How folks who don't have amazing memories have advanced in their careers?

- What tools or processes do you use to keep track of everything?

- Have do you deal being compared with "XYZ always seems to remember exactly what the answer but you don't" type situations?
Almost perfect, actually needs the following:
Needs to be material UI but poorly implemented so it's really slow.
Needs a "do you have time for a short usability survey?"--bonus points for stacking it on top of the cookie notification.
The "got it" button on donate/adblock needs to shame the user more.
There needs to be an on-hover action for some of the buttons that causes an alert to push the about-to-be-clicked button down so the user accidentally navigates away, then, when they navigate back, have to re-do the process.
According to USDC's documentation, accounts can also be frozen by a centralized authority.

USDC tokens are ERC-20 compatible and can be used with any ERC-20 compatible digital wallet. However, a global blacklist is maintained by CENTRE for USDC, which prevents tokens from being sent into or from blacklisted addresses. Reasons for blacklisting could include known fraudulent or illegal activity, or a legal order or process. Reserves associated with USDC balances held on blacklisted addresses may be wholly and permanently unrecoverable.

https://support.usdc.circle.com/hc/en-us/articles/3600160603...
Iron Bru and Inca Cola whilst being orange and yellow respectively actually tasted pretty much the same.
I haven't yet pulled the trigger on this but I'm tempted. My memory is pretty bad and I tend to forget what I'm meant to be doing or what I had planned for the day. This would be a great help for keeping me on track throughout the day.