skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wait, is your claim that:

1) Any sensible HN-reader is not going to want to personally send money to an OFAC-sanctioned address; or

2) That if someone were to send money to it, the network would fail to confirm the transaction?
This really seems like the future of education. Wish the program was offered here in Toronto.
that was a long time back (2007) though, when the original dev was not willing to integrate contributions
It's not about the source code, but about control. You can't have much privacy or security if you are living one third party update away from a government backdoor, like all android, ios, windows, macos users today.
Right but on the other hand, with the same hedges people _will_ believe something despite all these qualifications that something was done by someone if it aligns with their politics to believe it.
Funny, China has been using that excuse for the last century. Blame the foreign influence!
> ultimate guitar annoys the hell out of me

I'd love to steal all the content back from them (I submitted tabs to alt.guitar.tab and OLGA long long ago, and have backups of the archive) and present it in a clean UI.

As you know, plain text files.

I'm curious though, is there a standard identifier authority for artists, albums, and songs that one could use to normalize such content?
Aws has as light sail
This is neat!

My wife is beginning to learn some web design. Her laptop has a low-res screen (1366x768) so dev tools takes up a lot of space when open. When she's tinkering with layouts, she occasionally adds/removes borders to help interpret what's going on.

It's probably most useful to people who are starting out, so my one suggestion might be to make it even easier to install -- e.g. if `npm install debucsser` would make it work with a create-react-app app (and other common scaffoldings).
But it's only for those developing an "innovative, technical solution unique in the market with a B2B focus that will benefit from access to enterprise customers," according to that link. IIRC the old BizSpark didn't have as strict of a B2B focus.
The Bush rule is that "wetlands will keep their federal protection"

The Obama rule is "farms near those wetlands cannot do bad thing to the wetlands"

By repealing the Obama rule, they are inherently repealing the Bush one.
My friend has a deceptively simple answer to this question:

If you put schmear/spread/sauce on the bread, it's a sandwich.

If you put schmear/spread/sauce on the "meat", it's not a sandwich.

The distinction is that in the latter, the bread is just a vessel to get "meat" into your mouth. In the former, the bread is part of the whole package.
I remember first using this feature in IE6 back when that browser was new, and I've used it since then. I have "i" for IMDb search, "w" for WikiPedia. "g" goes to DuckDuckGo now after Google became malicious and evil, because of years of muscle memory.
I was raised a Catholic and, while not everything stuck with me, "give to Ceasar what is Ceasar's" did. The work that taxes do, at least in WA, make it a fair bargain too (where in South Africa it was daylight robbery).
Prior to quantum you could do so. You have always been able to do so with css in your user profile. You don't have to actually know css you just have to google and paste the text into a file.
https://github.com/PowerShell/openssh-portable
It'd be nice to see better real evidence this time around than the weird Bloomberg story in October about malicious chips. That story had a serious credibility problem.
Why Apple won’t overtake Microsoft and be the most valuable U.S. company again
Meilleur guitare
According to the numbers in that document, that's equivalent to 0.46 kWh per gallon. It also notes:

"The comparison of both graphics suggests that refineries in Texas have excess capacity in many cases"

Compared to a "typical requirement". The slope of the line for "typical requirement" is 0.22 kWh per gallon. This either means Texan refineries are atypically inefficient, or they sell power back to the grid or shut down their power plants.

Either way, we're still an order of magnitude away from the 6 kWh/gallon figure, and from sources that look fairly credible.
I don't have a claim. I'm waiting for proof. Someone claimed that with Bitcoin, transactions cannot be suppressed or prohibited. That sounds like an extraordinary claim, don't you think? So we should require proof! Let's see if someone can actually use Bitcoin to bypass OFAC sanctions. Or is science immoral?
The speed of navigating the code base. Ctags existed but people using SlickEdit or Source Insight were able to navigate the code base dramatically faster. As a new hire I wasn't going to get code annotations emitted as part of the build, so an editor with a proper parser was key.

Really had nothing to do with the size of the file.
I occasionally drive 3.5 hours to an evening meeting, visit my brother overnight, return early in the morning.

If the meeting is pointless, I prescribe soothing classical music afterwards, Bach, Mozart, you'll need all the help you can get.

Otherwise podcasts. I recommend Russ Roberts EconTalk, not just about economics.

On a bus you'll need good noise cancelling earphones and a means to recharge or power it.

I find my best ideas randomly pop into my head when thinking about something completely different, so don't think it has to be relevant to what you're working on at the time.
> no ‘max 10 servers’ kind of rules

You can contact their Support to get that increased. Just guessing at the reason, but if there was no limit, what happens if someone hacks your account and spins up a 100,000 node cryptocurrency mining farm?
For a deeper dive on the topic that lab was on a recent gut biome episode of the Ologies podcast! https://www.alieward.com/ologies/2018/11/26/microbiology-gut...
2.5D Visual Sound
How is it misleading at all? Hyper-V Manager for example is literally a wrapper for Powershell commands.

Virtually all Windows administration can be done entirely in Powershell.

And like I said, the literal default installation of Windows does not even include a GUI.
I endlessly miss tab grouping
To be fair: Even the responsible UN weapons inspector, Scott Ritter [0] quite bluntly stated there was no evidence at all for the Iraqi WMD program.

Not that anybody in the Bush administration would have cared, everybody there was well aware of this fact, that's also the reason why they tried to play up the fictitious "Saddam al-Qaeda" link [1] for a while and why the whole WMD thing just became a joke to them a mere year after the invasion [2].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Ritter

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddam_Hussein_and_al-Qaeda_li...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O35NA6TywAg
If I'm using a financial app, and it pops up with a "App Foo wants to use Plaid to link to your bank", and I go in and enter my banking credentials into that dialog... you're arguing that I have no idea what I'm doing and aren't consenting to anything? Huh?
Where is the nightmare? Before formal net neutrality laws were enacted and since repeal, the vast majority of ISP contracts are unlimited and unmetered. There are instances of violations, and these have pretty much uniformly been handled by the FTC anyway.

Again, noncompetitive behavior is covered under existing legislation. But "no extra for Netflix because I like Netflix" is not an argument that carries weight. Charging extra for something that incurs cost is not anticompetitive. Comcast can distribute its own content for much cheaper if everything stays on its backbones and doesn't require peering with other networks. Why the hell shouldn't they be allowed to offer their product for cheaper?

Why are existing laws and regulations protecting competition insufficient? Especially in light of FCC rulings that punish anticompetitive behavior even in the absence of formal net neutrality laws.
Real-Time Closed Loop Neural Decoding on a Neuromorphic Chip
It didnt.
As an Australian, it makes me happy to see people documenting their disdain for these insane new laws, which are a massive risk to security for everyone, and of course privacy for anyone within five eyes, not only Australians.

99.7% of the submissions in the consultation period were against these laws. This was not the will of the Australian people and is the result of an increasingly desperate outgoing government.

Please complain loudly and often, and take your business elsewhere. Honestly, the whole technology world should just boycott us.

Australia is clearly now a malicious actor in the worldwide tech community, and deserves to be shunned.

IMO that's the only possible chance we have for the average joe to realise how bad these laws are, and for common sense to eventually prevail.
Should probably say [2014]
Many companies who have tiered hiring packages (many, many employers) by default reward a masters more than a bachelors, and a phd more than a masters. There are quite a few examples (especially at good employers) of a masters being plainly rewarded in writing
Chinese government is a complex hierarchy. Documented, planed, coordinated attacks are really rare. Most of the breaches are carried out by Chinese civil hackers or contractors, The harvested data was later funneled to government agencies by various markets and cooperative projects.

I've seen one these "lone wolf" actor preemptively collecting emails of a very high profile target via sophisticated penatration (APT? LOL), then sold these data to a state-owned enterprise. In exchange his hacking violations were cleared.

The government simply kept a loose end to these kind of foreign hacks. For domestic offense, the rules are very strict. Some dude famously posted some kind of minor XSS vulnerability of a random PLA veteran management site, then the hole public disclosure site was shutdown by the government and site admin was jailed. LMAO. So today the Chinese underground market was more active than ever before, because there are no more free bugs.
It's about the toppings! How does one do toppings in that setup? Dipping adds complexity.
While the UI isn't bad, I'd argue that the UX is absolutely awful out of the box.

- Notifications are non-stop until you turn them off. And, even when you turn everything off, there's system notifications that you can never turn off.

- The start menu is god awful. Why they decided to replace the easy-to-use Windows start menu with this animated abomination is beyond my understanding. Our office puts classic menu on all new pc's because of past complaints.

- The settings are all needlessly verbose. This isn't exactly new to this version of Windows, but they could really take a page out of Apple's book when it comes to changing system settings.

- And, they've went the extra step to make sure you don't change Edge as the default browser. Not exactly user friendly.
> If you want to minimize sharing bank account information "for privacy" then you don't give your bank account information to anyone.

That's the whole point. You don't know you're giving your account information to anyone. I use Venmo and had no idea they relied on this technique until reading your comment.
I miss wobbly windows just as much as I miss the addon to throw windows off the side of the screen to close them. Ahhhh.
Just so you know, your entire description of how ownership of stocks is tracked is completely incorrect. I would think one has to first properly understand the existing financial system before proposing an overhaul that is supposedly an improvement.
It's really weird to apparently be personally part of a 0.01% group. I feel that usage rate must be suspect- in some Firefox version they gave out live bookmarks by default, and surely more than 1 in 10,000 people still have those. Do we know what the telemetry actually measured?
There's always been a look & feel problem for me with Firefox...something that seemed to be solved right out of the box with Chrome. I've not been able to put my finger on it, but I think this kind of small user-convenience stuff is part of it. It's not "features" per se, but more the feel of how the application works.

It reminds me of old platform video games before Super Mario Bros. (and for a while after) Superficially, they looked and played kind of the same, but there were a thousand little tweaks in how Mario handled that made it feel right.

I'm definitely going to give Firefox a spin and see how it handles these days.
unemployment numbers are distorted. they count all part time jobs and gig economy signups as employment. these arent jobs, you can afford a decent life with this kind 'employment'. people working as teachers, working as salesperson at an official car dealerships, working in retail cant afford to rent an apartment and are living from shared rooms.
I don't know why anyone is doubting this is possible in the first place. From the Snowden leaks we know in 2008 the NSA had an _entire computer_ complete with CPU RAM and an FPGA smaller than the size of a dime [1] that they implanted inside other devices.

The NSA was also actively using COTTONMOUTH II [2] which was a USB header for a motherboard that could be inserted into the supply chain and provided a long range transceiver for software implants to bypass airgapped networks.

Ten years on I would not be surprised that the Chinese have a similar tool in an even smaller form factor. People seem to be treating this like a futuristic sci-fi plot.

1. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/NSA_MAES...
2. https://leaksource.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/nsa-ant-cotto...
> The best example was in the sequels when Neo affected the machines in the ‘real’ world while he was also in the ‘real’ world. You can interpret that as this all taking place in a simulation, but that means he could have arbitrarily results.

Neo's hardware implants allow him to wirelessly interface with the machine world, which he has root access to. This is even better established when he seems to fall into a coma and ends up being in the Matrix. I don't know why this wasn't obvious to anyone else.

> Alternatively, he has some undefined mystical connection to the machine world

Wireless connectivity isn't undefined or mystical!

> But, you see this stuff much earlier, take ‘residual self image’ and consider what that’s supposed to mean.

I don't think it actually counts as breaking the rules if you do it at the same point that you're originally explaining the rules, which is where "residual self-image" comes from.

Also, just as a fun fact, in one of the earlier revisions of the script of the first movie, Switch was supposed to be a transgender character who was one gender in the Matrix and the opposite gender in the physical world. This was dropped for some reason.
Write an embedded bootloader and there's a good chance your code will be used by a billion people within a few years of writing it.

You'll still get paid peanuts for doing it.
That whole thing was a fiasco and a stupid mistake or undertaking. It really was a terrible thing to do (there was reason to unseat Saddam, but not at the cost it would take). However, it would be a mistake to think this was only a Bush thing. This was broadly bipartisan in the US. It was neoliberal politics and war hawks who thought they could shape the world in their neoliberal view. With the Soviets out of the way, they thought they could help make the rest of the world more like western democracies (obvs through force if necessary) We saw a continuation with the Arab spring enthusiasm which turned horribly wrong as well.
High temperature superconductivity record set
My understanding (and I could be entirely wrong) was that compiz was never actually meant to be as big as it was. Compositing was desirable for perfectly mundane reasons, and compiz was a rather cheesy tech demo.

I always found it amusing that while I considered compiz a novel way to test that compositing was functioning, others considered it the entire reason to switch DEs, or even OSes.
I looked up both as I am not a professional programmer and don't work with any developer tools of trade. It looks like HtDP teaches you the basics of computer science ideas in a Scheme-like language . Presumably, this book teaches you how to write simple algorithms. For example, suppose you want to write an algorithm about growing a coconut palm tree. It might start off something like "go to a grocery store, pick up a certain kind of coconut, buy it, bring it home, get a bucket, fill it with warm water, put the coconut in it, leave it in a warm place, yada, yada, yada...". The libraries like ReactJS are supposed to have these algorithms already written for you. You just have to know their name. I am not sure if ReactJs has a function called how_to_grow_a_coconut_palm_tree(), but if it does you can just call the above function and ReactJS should do that for you without you having to write the whole algorithm. It lets you combine such functions into bigger ones and the whole nine yards.

Assumptions:

* I have no idea how functions are denoted in ReactJS or called

* Obviously, ReactJS can't manipulate physical reality, so you have to adjust your expectations accordingly. It probably can do some nice things like opening a new tab in Chrome. Although, I am not sure.
This has nothing to do with that.
This is the same logic Musk applied to “pedo guy” and it was just as ridiculous then. A lack of legal action is in no way an admission that the story was accurate.
|1> + |1> = 2 * |1> =/= |2>
> Also a risk, because any bank could simply shut this down pretty quickly and if one does it, the others could follow.

I mean, Mint's been doing it for twelve years, and they're hitting thousands of banks. They're definitely on the major banks' radar by now.
> a macro downturn

> segment of crypto holders

> spirals of selling

Time of transition

The more timid element

Will run for cover
I don't get why KDE isn't considered a productive DE.

The dolphin file manager has an integrated terminal that automatically changes folder to match the one you've browsed to.

There's a ton of these small useful things that a light desktop like XFCE or LXDE wouldn't implement but are still useful.
The reality is that 100% of the groups "targeted" by the IRS, mostly Republican and a few Democratic, were and are obviously, blatantly violating tax law in order to launder political activity through a fake tax-free group, to dodge taxes and hinder accountability. Every one of them was and is guilty. For every election cycle nowadays, thousands of these paper front groups are created for laundering political funds, and most of them are discarded at the end of the cycle. It's the most blatant tax fraud imaginable.

Every US government agency charged with looking into this said as much - no political bias, IRS completely right to do what it did, which is "enforce tax law".

However, political pressure from Republicans and a few Democrats convinced the IRS to back down, which was a sad outcome for people who dislike corruption in their government.

And recently, the Trump government used a lawsuit settlement to funnel a great deal of taxpayer cash to Republican operatives based on a very flimsy claim. That's an excellent method of backdoor embezzlement itself - just have Republican groups sue the government for anything and have the executive branch "settle" their claims for infinite dollars.
Doom is such a foundational game. My friend and I both got into tech by making doom wads and playing them over our modems in the mid 90s. Fond memories. I still remember some of the maps I made, they were a blast. Hilarious too since we would mod various sound effects to play funny things :-)
People demanding to see evidence here have to realize that information like that tends to stay classified for some time as ongoing operations are put in jeopardy just by announcing this.

It's also from the justice department, meaning multiple groups of eyes were on this decision, not a few anti-China hawks. China does have a history of this kind of behavior.
Well, you implied the network wouldn't confirm the transactions. I don't think that's accurate. Here's your proof:

November 28 press release announcing the two addresses added to the OFAC list: https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sm556

Blockexplorer for address 1: https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/1AjZPMsnmpdK2Rv9KQNfM...

Blockexplorer for address 2: https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/149w62rY42aZBox8fGcmq...

Note that both have confirmed transactions occurring after November 28.

Now, I of course have no interested in sending a transaction myself since that's illegal under U.S. law, but that does not mean the network itself can be censored.

(On a side note: how did you go from working at Coinbase to being such a crypto hater? I understand if you don't want to answer that, I was just genuinely curious.)
I admit this is a very amateurish view but I don't really understand why do people need Google Analytics or anything like that at all. As a webmaster you can log every request a depersonalized way recording the fact of a request to a particular HTTP resource from a particular country originating from a particular website as a referrer at particular time. You don't need any 3-rd party service for this and this doesn't mean tracking any particular user.
It is, in some cases. Depends on the bank.

Capital One allows creation of read-only credentials explicitly for stuff like Mint, too.
They both fit, but I did mean amoral which is a bit different. Someone who is immoral is breaking/doing something against their conscience, whereas someone who is amoral has no conscience.
It's pretty clear that people desire it as an extension because a good and functional extension exists whereas first party support in a browser does not. There are certainly good arguments for it being easier for it to be built in vs as an extension if you were building from scratch right this moment but such an argument misses multiple points.

An extension exists NOW that people enjoy using. Building THIS into firefox isn't a replacement for a robust extension interface unless you suppose that first party developers can think or implement all the good ideas that will ever come about.

People in truth give zero damns if its easier to implement or more elegantly done any more than they care if their tv is beautifully engineered because their priorities aren't yours. They care about functionality. Right now firefox seems to be lighter and even post quantum have better extensions. Throwing either of those out will cause it to cede more marketshare to chrome.
Accusations like this shouldn't be based on "hedges", as long as they do they only serve to do exactly what you describe: Lead people down predefined conclusions.

That's why it's important to point out the difficulties of attribution or else people will simply take it as they see it, without even questioning it.

In that context questioning it is not "hedging" anything, it's inquiring about actual evidence, which most rational people should be asking for instead of "hedging" based on political beliefs.
Isn't the flaw with this that the two rules use a different definition for wetlands?
I agree with your comment about scaling, but I think you have underestimated the firmware deployment figures.

Ultimately, whatever we write that goes into firmware is hidden from the customer. The customer pays a price per unit, and other hardware vendors are competing against your product. This competition keeps the overall cost low. Except at the very top level like Intel or Samsung, semiconductor manufacturers seem to be fighting one financial crisis after another.

Competition does not work like that in Software. The products (even in the same domain) are all too different from each other, so though they may be competitors, they are rarely in direct competition.
Sure, but that is not the same as the tacit claim "They’re definitely rolling things back to the pre-George H.W. Bush era".