skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So to clarify... If you were holding bitcoin, but decided you wanted out because you think it's about to go down, you'd exchange for tether and hold that instead until you decided that bitcoin is ready to start going back up again.

And you accept all the associated risk rather than fully cashing out to real dollars because your jurisdiction doesn't treat crypto to crypto purchase as a taxable event?

Interesting. Thank you.
James Tour: The Mystery of the Origin of Life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zU7Lww-sBPg
Holding tether is useful when you are trading on an exchange that has no fiat on ramp or checking account. Many exchanges are crypto-only, you send crypto in, trade, crypto out. You can hold tether if you want to be exposed to the USD position without having to send out
cool, i can create a restful API effortless.
Sqlite to Rest
I wish he had posited a theory for how life from Mars would have even gotten here. Some comments have said an asteroid hit Mars and then redirected to Earth with early life on it? Is that possible/likely?
Show HN: Naive Corner Detection Python Implementation
The security flaw isnt even the outrageous part. It was secretly installing webservers that dont even remove themselves when you uninstall the app that makes them scum.
"A human with a skillet" -- oh, I'm guessing skillset is what you meant to say.

I was feeling old and thinking I was ignorant of some new slang there for a few seconds.

:-D
Here's a piece of assembler I wrote for the LSI-11:

https://github.com/DigitalMars/Empire-for-PDP-11/blob/master...
This is how backend development can be simplified while we're still keeping the control of our own database.
thanks! Hope you found this project useful!
I used this technique once to very useful effect in an automated dependency-checking tool.

Essentially given an idempotent data-transformation process, you can inject a dll into it and hook its filesystem calls, maintaining a list of all files it touches. Upon process termination, serialize out the filesystem state (size, timestamp, MD5) of each of those files, saving the data in a dependency file whose filename is the hash of the command line.

When you run the same command line again, the dll can first look up the dependency file from the previous run, and if all files on the filesystem are in the same state as previously, you can short-circuit the process execution entirely.

This is orders of magnitude faster in many cases for highly-parallel data build jobs where only some small percentage of the source data changes each time you run the build job, and has the advantage that you don't need manually maintain a list of dependencies for each process type (no new dependency can be added without changing one of the existing dependencies).
It's almost like there's a requirement to say UFO once a week.

Can we talk about events with complete information? Can we not hypothesize about speculative nonsense.

Wake me when someone has an answer. I don't care about questions.
I can think of a fix that would have a massive impact:

Get rid of congressional elections, move to a method of selecting representatives that selects a representative sample of the population such as a lottery among registered voters.
Maybe they are trying to get rid of their touch bar stocks :)
On a similar note, tools like [grabsite](https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/grab-site) wisely use robots.txt as a method of finding additional paths to archive when crawling sites.
redhat holds most of the expertise on those projects, so forking them, while possible, would be hard. Debian and Canonical would probably have an easier time developing something from their own expertise rather than relying on a 'once things get bad' fork.

Forks historically only really work if the fork comes from within.
For a posit based float with 127 unique unisgned values. If you can tolerate that little precision, you can implement arithmetic as a smallish lookup table.
No, what the spec does is say that if the cable doesn't have a max rating, it'll top out at 5V (and .5a, I believe).

Then, it does negotiation with the cable and the device to insure that it can provide the voltage the device needs.

And yes, PSUs MUST negotiate voltage or be 5V only and all USB-C devices must accept at least the 5V voltage.
If this happens again, you can start typing the first few letters of your username to select it (similar to how typing in a <select> input works), and then hit enter to get the password input. Probably a bit easier than guessing at the location!

(I definitely agree this is a bad design, though).
Based on the famous radare2[1]. Check out also our book[2]. And there is a list[3] of easy issues, if one wants to contribute.

[1] https://github.com/radare/radare2

[2] https://radare.gitbooks.io/radare2book/content/

[3] https://github.com/radare/radare2/labels/good%20first%20issu...
Yes I'm trying to make it easier as possible for non backend developers to get their own API without building web services. Thanks for your good word!
One thing to note is that YouTube App is not yet back on Echo Show devices. I've been waiting for this for so long. Hopefully this gets added in soon.
Aha! According to Google Maps, there are some options for making this journey today that will use the Paris Metro, but you would still have to change metro lines en route between Gare de Lyon and Gare Montparnasse (the "one change" that littlestymaar mentioned)

It's possible that these options already existed in 2006 but were complicated or inconvenient enough that no one or no web site suggested them to you.
Evolutionary Algorithm for Sinhala to English Translation
Why does everything need a reason?

Nobody really knows enough about what could happen on timescales that large.

We've invented dark matter to explain the accelerating expansion of the universe because we don't have any proof of why that is happening.

One thing is clear to me though, and that is that both Earth and the universe will outlive me.

So no matter what happens to the universe, it's not my problem and I'm back to, "it's my choice whether I just sit here depressed about my imminent demise, or just forget about that which I have no control over and just try to enjoy myself as much as I can".
One of the things that I liked about the Apple II was that it was possible for one person to completely understand the whole system. I don't know that I'm capable of understanding my computer's keyboard now.
Yeah, Bitfinex and Tether won't have anything to worry about...

...as long as they don't want to have USD denominated bank accounts, or transact with USD, or do business with people with USD denominated bank accounts. Which, of course, they do. If you touch the US financial system in any way, or if any of your counterparties do, or if your counterparties want to have other counterparties that do, then you need to care deeply about what the US federal government and the NY state government think.
> Apple does collect plenty of telemetry and I assume they wouldn't add it to more models if they figured out that nobody used it.

I just want to point out that telemetry can be misleading; for example, they could also notice lots of people using the Touch Bar if it's very easy to accidentally trigger it.

This doesn't mean that's actually the case here of course; I have no data on that.
NYPD Used Deadly Force to Stop Cyclist Suspected of Running Red Light
So even with 10% of today's Metallica, there would still be plenty of terrestrial planets.
Did they just imply that every listening socket is a web server?
Easy:

1) Get a signed certificate for a subdomain on a domain you own (e.g. dev.example.com)

2) Change your hosts file to point any local IP you wish, or setup a DNS entry for that subdomain that points to 127.0.0.1
Comments like this are often discouraged because they're difficult to modify when the code is changed, but in these cases it seems their purpose besides explanation is to imply that there is a good reason the code is the way it is, and that you had better have a very good reason to change the code (and the accompanying comment). In other words, they serve to also guard against change, in parts of the code which should not change often.
almost nothing on groundbreaking research

You do realize that Pharma companies have the highest R&D spend of almost all industries? And nearly 80% of new molecular entities (breakthroughs) come from biotech/Pharma?[1]

Just the top ones have total R&D spend of almost $40B.

And no, that doesn’t include marketing costs. That’s separate.

Saying that big Pharma doesn’t contribute to new drugs is completely false.

[1]https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2010/11/04/wh...
No offense to the OP but the syllabus is ludicrous. This isn't teaching anything. It's so packed with random software technologies, they will leave the course with nothing. Cut down on the syllabus and focus on a few topics. Make it project based so that you're building on the same project over the 4 days and learning more about programming.

Split the other stuff like git, databases, OOP, functional programming, machine learning my God, for another course. There is no way anyone taking this course will get anything from this, it will just be a confusing mess of information that is quickly forgotten.
Petr Urbanek – front-end developer
At the risk of sounding like an AWS apologist, this is really great if you have a use case for it. Don’t use it if you don’t.

We’ve been waiting to use this for our dev and test environments - the devs and testers work irregular schedules, sometimes only a few hours a day and obviously 5 days a week. We currently have manual and semi automatic start and stop switches for those environments, can get rid of all that.

Some of our systems are low volume high value - they kick into high gear once or twice a week (not necessarily on a schedule, whenever customers feel like placing and order) at which point hundreds of thousands of queries need to be run. We currently run large or extra large DB servers 24x7 at 0.01% overall utilisation because of this.

Some of the services are used only during daytime at a single timezone, but once in a while there are a few night owls.

It’s perfect for use cases like this. Sure, if you compare it cost wise to a similar 24x7 instance it’ll be more expensive. Sure, it takes lots of seconds at for a cold boot. Both these things are not the point. The tool is what it is, and it’s clear about its shortcomings in the same way that a Gatling gun is clear that it has a non negotiable spin up time. That doesn’t mean it’s not useful, it needs to be matched to the work it can do effectively.
There are other reasons to pick AMD. Better Linux drivers. Business practices that I'm more comfortable supporting (they tend to be more open, e.g. non-proprietary, free to use FreeSync vs proprietary G-Sync). Stuff like that.

I'll take a small performance hit for that.
Good grief, the three examples sound like a project I am working on..

I have a feeling that microservices are the new OOP, just a layer higher. Just like in OOP, where you keep data in lots of tiny objects, you keep the data across a bunch of little databases instead of a big central one.

It is a very seductive idea (and as Alan Kay explains, inspired by biology), unfortunately, it is really not that useful for designing real-world computer systems, where we want data to be consistent and aggregate them in different ways.
I’m sharing this comment with my friends and family, that was thought-provoking and insightful.
I know why they did it but to me hiding the filesystem is one of the most annoying and cumbersome parts of mobile operating systems. It's a shame to have such a lack of freedom with data.
The Pure Function Pipeline Data Flow, based on the philosophy of Taoism and the Great Unification Theory, In the computer field, for the first time, it was realized that the unification of hardware engineering and software engineering on the logical model. It has been extended from `Lisp language-level code and data unification` to `system engineering-level software and hardware unification`. Whether it is the appearance of the code or the runtime mechanism, it is highly consistent with the integrated circuit system. It has also been widely unified with other disciplines (such as management, large industrial assembly lines, water conservancy projects, power engineering, etc.). It's also very simple and clear, and the support for concurrency, parallelism, and distribution is simple and natural.

There are only five basic components:

1. Pipeline (pure function)

2. Branch

3. Reflow (feedback, whirlpool, recursion)

4. Shunt (concurrent, parallel)

5. Confluence.

The whole system consists of five basic components. It perfectly achieves unity and simplicity.It must be the ultimate programming methodology.

This method has been applied to 100,000 lines of code-level pure clojure project, which can prove the practicability of this method.

[The Pure Function Pipeline Data Flow](https://github.com/linpengcheng/PurefunctionPipelineDataflow)
Roku is (was?) subleasing its office space from Netflix, and was funded after Netflix decided not to make a box itself. It's publicly traded as of 2017, but it's history is definitely intertwined with Netflix.
this product really help me to simplified build product, i just to focus on frontend only, good product
There are a couple of famous books for reading Steve Jobs' biography. Are there similarly good books to read about Steve Wozniak's biography?
I just found this channel and I'm amazed at how technical and well researched everything is: Tech Ingredients

The best thing is that he repeats experiments to verify the concepts he is exploring. It seems to still be in its infancy, it could benefit from practical improvements, such as including links to parts, as well as professional video editing, but the content is really strong.
if the runtimes and all that are the same, it wouldn't be difficult or very time consuming to do this with FFMPEG or even MKVTOOLNIX.

I'm obsessed with commentary tracks for movies and television -- and rarely does one copy have everything in one realistic-to-archive file size. Typically the offset between the two sources will be identical (assuming their respective sources are also consistent), which makes the entire process a breeze.
"Tether and Bitfinex also allegedly opened accounts at several New York banks, housed most of their senior executives in the city, and engaged New York based accounting firms for audits. "
Computer attempts to replicate the dream-like maths of Ramanujan
Amusingly enough, they never actually describe that part as a vulnerability in their blog post. It's a "concern" about a "seamless join process." The word only gets used with regards to the DOS vulnerability, which is only part of the problem. I get the need to at least try and spin things, but it's kind of obvious in this example. And given how people tend to get antsy when they start thinking about possibly being spied on through their webcams, downplaying it is probably counterproductive.
I didn't say anything about POS, but if you want to discuss it IOHK has done a significant amount of academic work in the field, which has been deployed with Cardano. Tezos is in operation now and has been for over a year doing delegated POS, and they're at the same level of academic rigor as the IOHK team.

My comment about ETH is an explanation of why it causes people to be anti-cryptocurrency. Its only actual working purpose is to enable scams. That's certainly relevant in a technical discussion. BTW, ETH didn't do smart contracts first. They were in bitcoin back at the very beginning, then were removed as a security problem. ETH proved Satoshi right, they've showed the world exactly how not to implement smart contracts.
If you want to buy cryptocurrency, why not just buy Bitcoin?

In contrast, I don't see a worthy reason to sell US dollars for any stablecoin.
He was briefly involved, but the party nomination went to Pat Buchanan.
But if your jurisdiction is NY (as it is for OP), then this doesn't really answer your question IMHO.
Not really. The IBM Academy reported that open source software was the single biggest threat to their business model, so they "invested" in Linux to keep their foot in the door. They've had mindshare at Apache and Redhat for almost 2 decades now. I don't think they'll make any money from that investment.
As the topic of asset seizure crops up on HN occasionally, this is one of those cases where you can expect to see a docket like United States v. 40,000 lbs of of cocaine and a pile of cash while the beneficial ownership of the ship's contents is uncertain.
People Ops and HR from Remote Companies?
> The reason is when you have some other crypto holding and you want to close out your position but not have any reportable tax or legal liability.

In the US trading crypto to crypto has tax liabilities.
"/\*" - literal forward slash followed by literal asterisk
"(.*?)" - followed by zero or more of any character, captured non-greedy
"\*" - and another literal asterisk

"|" - all of the above, or the following

"//(.*?)" - literal two forward slashes and another non-greedy anything
"\r?\n" - a possible carriage return followed by a newline

"|" - or

the following pattern in double quotes:

"(\\[^\n]|[^"\n])*" - a backslash followed by one character that is not a newline, OR anything that is not a double quote or a newline. this sequence can occur zero or more times, and both the matching sequence and all of the matching sequence are captured

"|" - or

"@("[^"]\*")+" - a literal at sign, followed by one or more of anything that is not double quotes, enclosed by double quotes.

All it's doing is sniffing segments that look like they might be comment blocks, sections in double quotes, and... I'm not actually sure what the last segment would be, it seems to capture @"whatever"? Regardless, this doesn't actually sniff for ASCII art as much as comments themselves.
In the 90s they had a project called MkLinux that had Linux combined with Mach in a similar position to where BSD is in XNU. This was shortly after the NeXT acquisition.

I bet they were considering it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MkLinux
Avoiding AMP is a stance I wish Firefox could add a built-in, enabled-by-default toggle feature.
Everyone who advocates for drugs and their legalization can be flushed right down the fucking toilet. I sincerely do not give one single shit who goes to jail for drugs.

Black hole the world in supermax prisons. Your precious cannabis is a crutch for the weak.

Fuck all of you.
It helps with transferring cash between exchanges
The funniest thing I remember was him talking about how upset Germans got when he said he didn’t do invoices. If they persisted, he’d send a blank invoice with instructions to just fill it out however they wanted, which just made them even madder.
The guy initially declares “everything works out of box.” But then he spends a long time “obsessing about the battery” because without good battery life, a laptop is useless as a laptop. As Apple understands, alleviating battery anxiety is key to selling laptops.
You think mainlanders cross the border into Hong Kong and suddenly have a new found knowledge of where to look for uncensored information? Or that they suddenly have tons of friends to contact and discuss the news with on WhatsApp or Telegram?

A large majority of the tourists crossing the border in this train station have virtually no idea of the protests. If they do know about the protests, they've likely only read the articles posted by the CCP stating that some of the protests were in favour of the Extradition Law, blaming foreign influences among other lies. There are no articles that depict the protests for what they actually are or what they are fighting for.
With their incompetent behavior they put a big target on their back now for security researches. In the end it's good for consumers since more issues will be found and promptly fixed. So kudos to the reporter!
> Imagine you're someone who just wants to play around with cool web technologies. Maybe you're fairly new to web dev;

Then... you can do it on localhost. I can't really image the new web dev that is using separate computer on their local network as a dev server but can't figure out how to get a Let's Encrypt cert to use.
Data Science at The New York Times
Any quantity of Bitcoin can be transferred between exchanges for pennies these days.
I've been a multi-year Pinboard user, and — since day 1 — have wondered why there more other services more like Pinboard.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20383561
>For all we know, we live inside a black hole, as far as we understand the matter in the universe and it's size. The size of the observable universe line up with the event horizon of a black hole with the same mass. It may be a coincident.

Is that true? I thought the whole reason they came up with dark matter was that the universe was expanding faster than the amount of detectable matter inside it would suggest.
'Friends' to Move to HBO Max, WarnerMedia's New Streaming Service
An earthquake is rocks sliding past each other. What you're looking at here is a measure of how much they moved. (It doesn't "slide back" afterwards -- the motion is permanent.) For an earthquake of this size, the motion will be on the order of a few meters.

------------

In a bit more detail, the radar can't measure distance precisely enough to detect the movement. The distance measured before and after by radar is the same, within error. However, there's another part of the radar signal beyond just how long it takes to travel. That second part is the phase of the returned signal. Imagine the first time we imaged a small area, we got a return waveform that looked like this (zero phase):

/\ /\ /\
\/ \/ \/

but then the next time we got back a slightly different result (270 degree phase):

\ /\ /\ /
\/ \/ \/

The difference is shape of the returning signal is a phase shift. The radar wave is shifted slightly

We know that it moved at least three quarters wavelength in the ascii art example above. However, we'd get the same result if it moved ten and three quarters, though. We can measure part of the change very precisely, but the bulk of the motion looks the same to us. We're looking at that fined-grained part of the motion (phase difference) not the overall motion itself.

In programming terms, we're looking at the result of a modulo operator.
A lot of that has to be technology. You can entertain a few thousand people at a time with theater. You can entertain billions with cinema. I can only assume the wage distribution reflects that.
Welfare systems are dysgenic, but we will be able to genetically engineer ourselves out of it before it becomes a serious issue.

The notion that time scales are too short for evolution to be involved is not true. Some evolutionary effects can happen very quickly.

The prevalence of an existing trait within a population can change quickly, if it's highly heritable, and the selection is strong.
I was reading on Hacker News several years ago that the Chinese government was slowly winning the war on the VPNs. What's the story lately?
> We see this in action in the "Go Fast" and "Gimbal" videos released by the Pentagon that supposedly show UFOs. I don't believe these videos show anything really out of the ordinary at all, and certainly nothing definitively so, and there has been some very good forensic analysis done on them already that reinforces this point of view. Nick West, in particular, has really done compelling work on this topic. Some of his videos are posted below and are worth consideration. The third video that was released, the one of the infamous "Tic Tac" from 2004, looks like, well a Tic Tac, at least to me. Regardless, they all show FLIR footage taken by Hornets' targeting pods.
Prime Video + Prime Shipping + Prime Music is ~16 USD per year if you get the subscription from India.
I used to live in India but not anymore. So I was keen to only use Prime Video + Prime Music (since Prime Shipping doesn't work outside of India for that sub).
Both Prime Video and Music were rather unsatisfactory, and no Chromcast support was just the last straw for me to unsub.