skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I built a very rudimentary digital / electronic signature tracking app in Django several years ago and I would have gladly paid for this product.

Just like stripe, offering a service with a developer friendly API-first approach is great and I happily pay for someone else to be the domain expert.

Sucks when services go down or are complete black boxes but I've been using HelloSign for several years as a consumer and it's always been fantastic. This was a neat article and I'll be sure to use them the next time I need to integrate signing in an app.
New Studies Rescue Gravitational-Wave Signal from the Noise
Not only Buran was riding atop of self-capable Energiya and therefore didn't carry big engines. Buran was unmanned-first, which required quite a bit of ingenuity back in 1980-s. It had bigger payload than the Shuttle.

One of better features of Buran was nontoxic propellants onboard. Buran's RCS were oxygen-kerosene, and LOX was stored onboard - liquid - for a month-long flight duration. That's something which Shuttle and today's SpaceX designs still lack; after Shuttle landing first order of importance is to get rid of remains of very toxic onboard propellants. Same for Dragon.
From the article's conclusion:

Hypothesis: The fire played one final, deadly role in the disaster: the fire-damaged bulkhead gave way, causing the ship to sink, and the enormous loss of life.

Actually: Since the ship was doomed from the moment of the collision, whether or not the bulkhead collapsed was more or less immaterial to the timing of the disaster. Lives were not lost because it allegedly collapsed early.
Wow. Thanks for sharing the story. They were literally setting up a strawman to beat down.
Generalizing that question leads to "How should we live, knowing that we will die?"
> So are you saying they changed their story to fit a false narrative?

They changed their story from one false narrative (that exculpated them from any connection) through a series of others (which admitted slightly more connection in each, but in all cases carefully denied a direct role for the crown prince.)

> If so why would they do that?

The initial lie was to deflect any blame. The subsequent revisions were due to the fact that the initial lie was transparently false, so everyone assumed the worse, so they continued to search for a lie which would both be accepted and at least mitigate the blame the regime was getting.

> Also, if you are saying it was a rogue operation

I'm not saying that, the government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is. That's the story they've retreated to, all previous exculpatory stories having failed.

> If say, US special forces or the CIA killed a journalist critical of the US against the intent of the commander in chief, someone still is going to have hell to pay.

Since MBS is in the middle of massive purges to consolidate his absolute control under the cover of an anticorruption campaign, having the excuse of a rogue operation to also use in those purges isn't exactly inconvenient. But, yes, the “rogue operation” story does naturally bring some blame onto the government of the Kingdom, which is why it was the third story, and not the first.
Counterpoint: it tastes like dung.
Fake Net Neutrality Comments Draw A Federal Probe
Don’t even get me started on the whitepaper...

“The critical insight is that as long as traders expect Basis price to correct [and grow] in the long-term...” which makes a prerequisite out of what they need to demonstrate.

And then there’s the part where they prove that their algorithm works by pretending that their currency behaves like USD does. Of course if your currency behaves like one of the most successful fiat currencies of all time, backed by the most powerful government in the world, then everything will be okay. If my hypothetical elderly Chihuahua dog had the driving ability and limbs of Micheal Schumacher in his prime, then my Chihuahua could turn in some nice lap times at the Nurburgring.

Whitepaper is still up for now. Enjoy. https://www.basis.io/basis_whitepaper_en.pdf
As someone who has spent years writing motion control code, I agree wholeheartedly.

Thinking of code I've written to move an object from one physical position to another and in pretty much every case, the error handling and recovery paths are the bulk of the code.

Errors in motion systems are not rare events. Things get sticky, wires break, sensors get clogged with dirt, parts wear out and break off and throughout it all, this thing has to keep moving from A to B reliably or at least clearly indicate when it's failed unrecoverably before something worse happens.
Perhaps true in the past, but AmEx has recently (I think?) started offering bank accounts. Their high-yield savings account is 2%, which is pretty comparable to Ally, etc.

https://www.americanexpress.com/personalsavings/high-yield-s...
I really liked the shared article.

In contast to what other news sources publish, this article links the original paper, reviews the metodology, gives some introductory explanations on the subject and provides all sorts of 'further reading' resources.

Really enjoyed it, thanks for sharing!
This is really cool. Does anyone have links to the math/code behind this?
Stand-alone emergency departments are definitely a good thing. At least, the kind we have in Redmond is.

The "main" hospital is about 5 miles away from the stand-alone ER, both run by the same company. They have the full compliment of equipment and physicians you'd expect, and can handle most serious scenarios there. And most importantly, there is never a significant wait, while the hospital is usually very busy. If you need to be admitted, they ambulance you to the main campus at no charge.

There really is no downside. You get the part of the hospital that matters, in more places. The only problem seems to be that people don't realize that they're available, so the ER at the primary campus is still overcrowded.
Yeah! We've actually talked about something similar on the 0xBitcoin discord! I'm @mikers on there if you'd like some help getting your "stable coin" off the ground.
This isn't the same though. The wording is transaction fees, not ATM fees. It's far more convenient to pay with your card where possible rather than tracking down a foreign atm that you can use.
In simpler times, bailing out was only done with buckets in
boats (or even ships) ...
and in the end, who will take your orders in the restaurant?
Serverless is identical in every respect to traditional hosting/managed services with one exception: micro-billing. In web hosting you are often either constrained by the "level" you pay for, or have to configure scale and pay for the size of your domain. True serverless should auto-scale on demand without your intervention, and it should only bill you for what you use. Have a slow month and are idle? Pennies. Have a phenomenal month and huge usage? Dollars. There is less server, not no server, but instead of worrying about the OS or even platform level dependencies, you can focus just on the bit of code you want to run. If your server is a house and a virtual machine is like renting a house, platform-as-a-service is an apartment and serverless is a hotel (thanks to Scott Hanselman for that analogy).
L-Theanine makes caffeine's effects last much longer.

As gp said, 1 espresso, 6 hours.

For me it also cuts down the side effects, all around a very useful substance.
Salesforce embraces standards with new Lightning Web Components
If you have no fear that the police will cause you harm when they get a report of suspicious activity involving you then your life has been very privileged.
>Though where Bitcoin provides value is not near retail payments

Where does it provide value? If it's bad as currency, what's the use case? It certainly fails store of value test (unstable, high volatility).
I haven't tried BOOM specifically, but if you're interested in a large FPGA that can be acquired very cheaply, you should look into the Pano Logic G2 thin client. They used to be available in bulk for $3 a piece, but those have now all been snapped up by hobbyists.

But you can still get them for $20 or so on eBay.

They have a Spartan-6 LX150 (DVI version, revB) or Spartan-6 LX100 (DVI version, revC), which are really huge FPGAs. It's by far the best deal in town if you're interested in that kind of stuff.

Google for "github panologic-g2" to find up-to-date proceedings about the reverse engineering effort.

Right now, the FPGA is up and running and outputting an image over DVI.

Do you have any idea about how many FFs are needed for a BOOM CPU?
Thanks for checking it out. Yes, there are certain tools that will block the Chrome extension from working.

Not sure I understand your question about tags - what would you want tagged / what would you want to be able to tag?
Unfortunately, I see a ton of mostly low-quality Medium.com links on my Pocket app's "Discover" feed. You can't block domains on that app, you can only flag links as spam, not of interest, etc. Flagging them doesn't seem to reduce the frequency of such posts appearing on the feed however.
I have ddg as my default search engine in firefox, so by default my searches go to ddg. If I want to use google instead, I just add "!g" to some part of the search query and ddg will do its magic and do the same search on google. These are called bangs: https://duckduckgo.com/bang
I think you hit on a key point that is lost in the "business friendly" discussion that pervades US politics and is singularly focused on tax relief. Whereas anybody who has worked in some kind of relocation strategy knows that tax is only one lever among many to incentivize companies. The biggest lever, in a knowledge economy, is availability of high skilled talent. Simple math suggests that to hire 5000 engineers, you need to interview 50k engineers, which means you need 200-300k at the top of the funnel. Thus, it turns out that the biggest incentive to attract businesses is to make your city attractive for talent. An area with a large talent pool is the most business friendly place, period. And then you have to ask why do such talent concentrate on certain areas of the country and what those areas are doing right.
Charles schwab doesn’t charge arm or foreign transaction fees. I use Citibank for traditional checking, I rarely ever deposit cash anymore.

Stop using debit cards because they don’t have the same fraud protection as credit cards.
That sounds like the Texas City ammonium nitrate disaster in 1947. One of the biggest industrial explosions in history.
That's a pretty good idea. Creating that is entirely possible with ChatEngine. The example chat app in the repository mainly showcases the WebRTC functionality: https://ajb413.github.io/chat-engine-webrtc/example/
The “Arcade” Workprint, 90s Cyber-Cinema Without Music or Sound Effects
Wow, the '#' prefix is so ugly.
CrossFit is amassing an army of doctors trying to disrupt health care
This seems to be very dependent on which factors one values; that ranking only has three non-nature related factors, which seems frankly insufficient.

One could similarly point to the suicide rate and write the same sentence with liberal/conservative switched (California, New York, etc are all at the bottom of the age-adjusted suicide rates in US states).
The data NYC used to woo Amazon [pdf]
A16z: When Advertising Isn't Enough
One Man's Quest to Outrace Wind (2011)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City_disaster ? Maybe another because I don't see it related to coal or that the ship showed up with a fire per se as opposed to one happening on the ship while in port.
I think they're counting on flatpak.
Moviepass was bought by what is, primarily, an analytics firm. Though apparently so is Robinhood.

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4205379-robinhood-making-mi...
Why did we let this slide?

What can we do to prevent this behavior in the future?

Why is Ajit Pai not in jail?
Applications that can send commands to X.org servers can completely control it. The same isn't true for Wayland.

Flatpak is providing the actual application sandboxing, but being allowed to talk to the X server is a huge amount of privilege that can't really be restricted.
I've seen pretty heavy js usage on US gov forms, the most recent example being i9 form you fill out when you get hired.
The API he is using is public and seems to be intended to do what he is doing with it. The main issue is the name - Apple probably won't like the name very much.
When Manali started using Clarity, she realized that a lot of users were abandoning the page before reaching the bottom, which has important information about the recipe. After replaying sessions of users who abandoned her blog, she noticed that users who were only interested in the recipe, which is at the bottom, scrolled through the long post and gave up midway and abandoned the page.

They should find a more compelling example. "Recipe at the bottom of long page with life story and huge images" is one of the canonical examples of user-hostile web design. EDIT: As in, no one should need a product to tell them this is clearly not what people want.
Brewster Kahle, the founder of the Internet Archive, spent his liquidity event funds on starting the Internet Archive instead of on what some might consider waste.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster_Kahle
It's been a few years since I read this article about the 1994 sinking of the Estonia in which 850 drowned in the Baltic, but it still feels contemporary: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2004/05/a-sea-s...

After reading that article not only was such an occurrence not unthinkable, I almost felt like a survivor.
The documentation on the BOOM processor mentioned in this article seems to be a good source of information: https://docs.boom-core.org/en/latest/sections/RobDispatch/ro.... Link goes specifically to one component, the reorder buffer, the rest of the docs discuss more of the components that are necessary to make it work.
Thank You for Not Being Afraid, Pat Maginnis
clang "<source>:19:1: warning: control reaches end of non-void function [-Wreturn-type]"

Given that no return is undefined behavior (6.6.3 c++ standard) this probably should just be treated as an error. (it would be nice if a manifested return was value/default init but it is not)

The reason why these are not errors in the compiler is for backwards compatibility.
>I mean Marin County is 80% Democrats is one of the best places to live in the world

sure, if you're white and well educated. The brown serf laborers have all been nicely segregated away so you don't have to see the misery

https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2016/03/17/marin-county-ra...
The Centralia fire is the most famous one by far.
https://web.archive.org/web/20181213114048/https://www.chris...
> Thinking about how you collect users data, why you need it; how long you keep it for; how you secure it; who you pass it to - how they use it.

Yes – Plus how you tell the people who’s data you are collecting about this.
This syntax is...odd. It is not expressive and comes off as a "language hack." The only people who would understand it are those who happen to stumble on this article.

Frankly, if this is an issue that you are concerned about, you should really invest the time to learn (and possibly migrate to) TypeScript. Specifically, see their class documentation which already has support for `public`, `private`, and `protected` [1]. (Edit: read @denisw's reply regarding TS. I make this suggestion specifically for TS's compile-time assistance regarding private field access.)

It actually kind of boggles my mind that V8 engineers sat down and agreed that this would be a good design decision. Granted, the article says that they are proposals—is there any way to provide feedback on this? (Edit: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-class-fields/blob/master/PR...)

[1] https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/classes.html
So Windows is sending browsed URLs to Microsoft? What exactly is "data about recently opened websites?" What data specifically?
I was recently thinking, I'm not entirely sure if they would still use those photo-CAPTCHA's for ML training data any more. The classification "puzzle" that is offered seems like something deep learning is already capable of today? It seems like such "toy data", considering the images and the task given.

I could be completely wrong though. Is there anyone up to date on modern ML capabilities to comment on whether this data is useful and what for? I used to think it made sense, especially with ReCAPTCHA (digitizing books) but it just doesn't seem that valuable any more?
For terminator, what is bonding? is that what allows you to send keystrokes to more than one tab simultaneously?
Created this, cause I hated having to slow down my websites by adding the gigantic Google Tag Manager and Analytics libraries, combined with their randomly slow CDN, just to track some basic page views.
I assume they're trying to break the inertia people have with major banks. There's no reason to change bank unless there's some substantial incentive like favorable interest rate to offset the hassle involved. I'm not sure there's an ulterior motive here other than customer acquisition.
“Divide by zero” is an exception in the math library. But a GUI calculator shouldn’t pass all input to the math library without parsing it first, and figuring out what the user wants and if the user has entered a valid statement.

One guideline I follow for choosing between error codes and exceptions is “can the immediate caller do anything about this issue?” Even if the calculator does feed user input directly into the math library, the calculator can’t do anything sensible with an invalid statement. The calculator will have to “go up a level” and ask the user for help.
> In it, the commission voted not to release the records that the news organizations had requested: data from web server logs that could shed additional light on the suspicious comments.

Well, that has to change...
XFinity does the same MAC address-based validation, and it can be changed relatively easily on Linux or Windows. As for Mac, a simple script like this: https://github.com/chrislgarry/XFinityHotspotSpoofer
Yes sadly
That’s... a weird argument. Humans can think without words (and indeed without words or images).
Agree. `public` and `private` keywords would be much better.
Ok, I should elaborate some more: The initial demand for bitcoin was because of technical curiosity and a need to perform payments outside of traditional payment systems. This demand could be enough to create a lower bound here as well. And contrary to bitcoin a limited upper bound but no definite lower bound would incentivize spending rather than hoarding. Fiat money has effectively the same properties, because central banks will never allow strong deflation but a national currency can lose most of it's value when the economy crashes (see Venezuela).
Not the 2% interest. Nope.
> Why does an article in the New York Times have to flex and bend to give a liberation angle to a word processor?

"It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy-books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilisation advances by extending the number of operations we can perform without thinking about them. Operations of thought are like the cavalry charges in a battle--they are strictly limited in number, they require fresh horses, and must only be made at decisive moments." --A. N. Whitehead
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Slight rant, but those types of windows were one of the first things that bugged me when I moved over from Europe. IMO, not only are they not as practical, but they also leak more energy than what we had in Germany. You can't poke your head out all the way and need to bend over awkwardly to get some fresh air. It would be one thing if it was only on older houses, but new ones use them as well. By contrast, even my grandparent's house, built in the 50s, had windows that swung open like a door or leaned inwards at ~10°, if you only wanted a little bit of a breeze. They even had windows built into the roof that could be opened either in the middle or from the top, thanks to dual hinges. Best part, the "Rolladen", aka roll-up blinds built into the walls that helped with heat-retention in the winter, provided sound-dampening, and could be automated by a timer. Maybe it's just the area where I live, but I get the feeling that for many architectural features in the states we decided about 100 years that everything is good enough as it is and the only continued innovation was geared towards cutting corners and getting cheaper materials to work.
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That's not a comparable city. Try Singapore, Shanghai and Tokyo instead.
With 3% interest, that would be where I park money. What information will they get from me other than I dumped $ in and it's sitting there?
You might be thinking of the 1947 Texas City disaster, which killed nearly 600 people. The fire, and the subsequent explosion after failed fire-fighting efforts, were in a cargo hold containing ammonium nitrate, not coal. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City_disaster
...for every house? I don't go up to random houses and ring their doorbells to begin with, because nobody does that anymore.
I think it’s more the small quantities consumed and the l theanine taking the edge off.

But I’ve gotten buzzed off of this kind of tea at a tasting. That was about a dozen 1 oz cups of five different varieties (which means a lot of second and a couple of third steeps).
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The issue is you can have retail in a wooden building. Which seems like the point of this construction over a 5 story wooden building with retail on the ground floor. 3A limits building heights, but by changing the ground door you are allowed to build a taller structure.

PS: I agree that Retail is a common use for the ground floor of these buildings. But it’s not the only use for the ground floor.
If you encounter paid WiFi that requires a credit card try the Visa test card number 4111111111111111, cvv 123, and any future exp date. I've seen it work at multiple hotels.
> It's also been speculated for just as long that the heat might've affected the hull's properties, though this runs counter to the argument that the cold water might've contributed to making the metal more brittle.

Does it? There's certainly materials where damage is made worse by rapid temperature transitions and/or a temperature differential across the material than by temperature extremes in one direction or the other alone.

Excessive heat being bad doesn't mean that excessive cold is good, or vice versa, and neither conflicts with the idea that both together, close in time or simultaneously, aren't worse than either alone.
Housing can’t be a good investment and affordable

http://cityobservatory.org/housing-cant-be-a-good-investment...
There are about a dozen or "Lisp dialects" with similar properties.

Even on GCed Lisps there were programs written which did manage memory manually.
It doesn't really matter; they're making the spread anyway, whether you make money or lose money.
In addition to the difficulty of underground construction in Texas that others have pointed out, there's also the issue of parking minimums that most new construction projects require. Legally, that parking has to go somewhere.
Are Your Analytics Lying? SaaS Marketing Myth #2
Virgin Galactic successfully reaches space
I think that we idealize that it doesn't matter, but at a certain level, it does matter - even decades later. I went to no-name university and graduated with a high GPA in CS in '95. My work experience since has been solid, and I have some respectable accomplishments, but places like Google and Facebook don't even notice me. The only "black mark" on my resume that I can imagine would be holding me back is "graduated from no-name university".