skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People use it to transfer between crypto and FIAT (representation).

You can park it outside the crypto market, ready to buy back into crypto at any moment.
Another possibility often overlooked is that there's life out there on completely different timescales than we can recognize. We're only likely to notice those within a few orders of magnitude to our own.

Maybe DNA is simply geared well compared to other mechanisms for the timescales we're interested in.
It's a utilitarian dilemma (almost too perfectly).

Fire X (X = less than all) employees or do nothing and all employees will lose their job. Assuming some portion of employees will commit suicide from the job loss, this is the best outcome.
>why did only the DNA-based lifeform(s) make it here?

Possibly genetic drift. The odds of life making a successful journey to earth seem very poor, so maybe it was a small population that only made it here once, and then began to speciate.
16K $ is quite a mild punishment for a top executive, but I guess the families of those dead, und other harrassment victims will sue for damages after the criminal trial.
that kind of research is impossible to do imo.

also i don't think productivity should be the main focus
Ask HN: Any Indian Agriculture-Tech Startups Working for Welfare of Farmers.?
Does that mean MacBooks will stop getting updates in 5 years and won't be supported?
Hamburg and Shanghai are at least 8,517 km apart (Great Circle Route), with this new 2,012 km (1,250 mile) portion just connecting the missing “Moscow bypass” across Russia. Currently the world's longest highways include the Pan American Highway at 48,000 km, Highway 1 circumnavigating Australia at 14,500 km, the Trans-Siberian Highway at 11,000 km and the Trans-Canada Highway at 7,821 km.
while we are at it, let's not give them out like candy in countries known for doing so.
Hey Maciej <3

Why did revenue go down? Think it'll go back to growing in 2020?
The more a think about it, the more a I come to the conclusion that we need a mixed computing paradigm.

For many tasks (probably most and certainly for most people) the iOS model is the best.

It is, however way too restrictive for a number of use cases. Prohibitively so.

Imagine two very different and isolated environments. Terminal, compilers, file managers in one, most other software in the other. With perhaps shared folders between them.
The final result source code linked by the article is here, though it may not make much sense without the article: https://github.com/dafer45/SecondTechCode/blob/master/2019_0...
I am not so convinced. It's a Good Thing that this is becoming a problem - more cyclists, more dedicated lanes. This is all positive. The fact that we are now seeing cycle traffic jams and cyclists who are a danger to other road users is also a positive - it means we are becoming a significant presence on roads.

This also means we need to be treated like all other road users as well. And so fines are likely to modify behaviour.

I would say that plates and fines would be part of a wider campaign to reduce the worst behaviour but I still argue it would be a huge positive to treat cycles like other dangerous fast moving transports.
Really glad he's dead. He was just another cheerleader for the unfettered greed and capitalism that is destroying the Earth. Good Riddance!
> Stock prices surely have finite variance.

Are you sure? On my data, they are most closely modeled by Pareto distribution (infinite variance).

As far as I remember, that was discovered by Mandelbrot, studying cotton stocks.
Wouldn't that resovle the issue? long double contains the whole 80 bit state, not much space for undefined bits left.
Asymmetric key exchange is done with a private key on both end points. For things like HTTPS the “client” key is ephemeral. But if you are using the keys for authenticated communication, which I think is what this thread is about, both keys are vital (think: client-side certs).
Probably, although a not-widely-accepted but interesting theory is that there might be microorganisms that we can't detect because we're not looking for the right things (because the things we look for are based on macroscopic life and things that interact biologically with it).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_life

xkcd just ran a strip with a joke about this theory last week

https://xkcd.com/2171/

I think it's unlikely because it seems hard to imagine no interaction between the kinds of life ever after billions of years of coevolution. On the other hand, there are tons of microorganisms that do share our biochemistry that we haven't noticed or identified yet, so maybe it's not impossible to imagine some that don't that we also haven't noticed or identified (since it would be more difficult for us to recognize them).
seibelj has a link to his twitter account in his profile. On that account, its quite clear he works for Circle. IMO, it's pretty unethical to promote this type of investment without revealing that conflict of interest. It's also par for the course with crypto coins.
Environmentally Responsible Office Furniture from Recycled Materials
fake dilemma. you can fire state employees in France but it is much harder and you have to have good reasons.

most large businesses don't have good reasons to fire a huge chunk of their workforce, except for delivering more money to rich shareholders.
An alternative explanation (s) is that "there's only one way to do life" or that the origin of life is extremely rare/unlikely. But panspermia too.
Luminas: Claims About Pain Relief
That flowchart is super-terrific; thanks for sharing it!
Harassment is never justified, no matter the reason.
Emergency Response to the Tesla Model 3 [video]
This is an interesting thought. Plants are actually very animated at their own timescale, adapting to their environment through phenotypic plasticity. However this happens far too slow for humans to notice without a time lapse.
> Assuming some portion of employees will commit suicide from the job loss

It is not.

The problem here is that no firing has been done. They harassed they own employees close to suicide to make them leave instead of paying them to leave.... That's the problem and that's why they are in court.
> Performance killed them.

I wonder how much was due to legacy databases living in files.

For example, let's say you need to read /etc/foo.conf a lot. That file has internal structure, too, so even if you need just one value from it, you have to ask the filesystem (database) for the bytes that make up that file, then parse the whole thing (maybe), just to get the one value you want. Keeping it in a database just adds overhead.

In contrast, if your filesystem/database had actual structure, and stored the values of /etc/foo.conf in a schema, then every program that needed one value from it could do one query for just that value they need. That could be even faster than a dumb filesystem.

This seems like an area where you need to change everything all at once, or face a long slog of updating every piece of data in your system.
This is really interesting. Perhaps there is also a chance that electromagnetic fields are indeed entirely responsible for gravity, in some complicated yet unknown manner.
Just to state a counter hypothesis: there are people, such as the scientist Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Hans-Peter Dürr who claim that actually first there was the mind and only then matter followed.
Ireland’s privacy regulator under fire in EU top court
Is there any sane element to that Patent? I tried to follow the explanations, but reeks of magic thinking to me... which is indistinguishable from high level technology.
Yes. You can fire a state employee in France but the departure bonus is big and it cost money.

Consequently it is much better for shareholders to push them to leave by making their life miserable, and it's exactly what they did....
Maybe you could write “because photons have energy that can be viewed as (relativistic) mass” then. Or maybe he did really refer to the “rest energy” of photons? That seems weird even for an experimentalist ;-)
That still does not make any sense. I'm sorry to be so direct, but I'm really worried laypeople here are going to think that this is correct.
I disagree.The principal behind git is very simple but it can be tricky for people to understand it. Visual representation of a tool,which most of the time is only a handful of command line entries, can be useful.
Measuring office worker productivity/output is very difficult. If it was possible to measure company culture would be very different.
22k is a small sample for such a rare event. The relatively high rate might just be an artifact of statistics.
Either Starlink will go through the great firewall or China will just execute anyone found in possession of the equipment.
Nice.

I just learned how to fake keypresses in JS so I could write a small script to play this automatically — the script got a high score of 245 before the cats got too fast.
How come one pays arrival tax in the US even though the plane is heading to Germany?
France has a suicide rate of 12.1 per 100k (WHO 2016). With 130,000 employees, we'd expect 15.73 suicides per year without harassment. The number of years is unclear - the article mentions privatization in 2003, massive debt by 2005, and suicides in 2007 and 2009. Presumably (because the article does not mention it) the policies are no longer in place. 35 suicides are part of the case and the article mentions "workers’ advocates say nearly double that number" but doesn't go into details about the criteria.

Cab anybody link another source with more information? I'm continually disappointed by the NYTs inattention to hard numbers.
Apparently their jobs had become obsolete. Why exactly should their employment continue? Framing it as "delivering more money to shareholders" is so misguided.

Their salaries would be paid by the public anyway, factored into the price of the company's product.

Isn't it also humiliating to be paid for useless work? I think it can be better for the "victim" to be fired, too, so that they can find a more useful occupation.

How do people actually feel avout paying people for doing useless work? I personally find it quite enraging at times.

Where in the article is the "taking it up with the government" part? Shouldn't government take part of the blame?
My trick is to not use any willpower. Your side project should excite you, not tire you.

My goal is to push one update a day live, whether it's small or big. That means when I have more time, I work on fixing up the infrastructure so that I can push updates without code, such as setting up a dashboard. If the updates are too big to fit in one update, I still push it to server as a matter of principle, but it might be commented out.

Instead of finding the right way to build something, you figure out how to see the results as soon as possible.

We spend most of our day building safe things; side projects are there to go crazy and have fun.

Same goes for learning. Learn new things that interest you, and not some targeted path to further your career. Pick up small, fun things, and very often they lead to bigger things.
NO offcource not. Mad to The brain, insane
Most corporate bounty programs are going to include an NDA and following their release schedule. No corporate legal department is going to sign off on a bounty program that would both pay third parties for bugs and allow outside researchers to unilaterally decide when to disclose the bug to a wider audience.
I would love to read a book or longer-form content written by this author. His writing is just really funny, while also being sort of philosophical and semi-informative. Love it.
A layperson here. Don't.
The important thing to remember is it's called the stress-energy tensor for a reason, it's not just mass distribution that causes curvature.

Thought experiment: which will curve spacetime more, a 1kg box of gas at 1K or the same box after the gas inside is raised to 293K?
Sword of Goujian
Classic Samsung ^_^ We worked at a place where they basically pushed us for POCs until they had enough to say "No, thanks, we don't need" and a few months later, tadaaa, Samsung had the feature.

(tbh, our company was partly to blame since they actually sent source code..)
Is it because people or so young, or that the pipeline to become a junior-but-still-responsible person goes through schools rather than something like an apprenticeship.
No, energy curves the gravitational field and there are other forms of energy than the energy of the electromagnetic field. For example, if you start walking, you gain kinetic energy and this will affect the gravitational field, not much but it will.
You misunderstood me: I mentioned closures and objects as something perl had, which were also one of the selling points of ruby and python at the time, which would be considered competitors to perl.

The example was meant to show the "minimum" needed to be an interesting scripting language.

Edit: I love perl. I love perl6. I hope languages get inspired from it.
macOS already ask the user for permission the first time an app tries to use a camera/microphone.
If you want to be asked each time, install OverSight.
Marseille to Berlin though, not such a fun trip. Marseille to Frankfurt, multiple hours on trains, 1 hour on an airplane. Stuttgart to Barcelona? Better set aside an entire day. Biarritz to Geneva? The train system is good on certain destinations, but it’s impossible to connect everything like airplanes do.
When will the Huawei Hongmeng operating system be released?
Here's an interesting summary by The Drive.

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/28729/docs-show-navy-g...

It goes in depth on other "psuedoscience" patent by the US Navy and how the math involved is almost gibberish.

This paragraph in particular about the initial rejection but subsequent approval was odd.

"According to documents available to the public at the USPTO website, the Patent Office rejected Pais' and the Navy's application for this craft on March 30, 2018. After it was rejected, the NAWCAD’s patent attorney, Mark O. Glut, appealed the decision and submitted further documentation to ensure the patent office that this craft is indeed "enabled," meaning it can actually be built and can perform as described in the patent."
> recommends sticking jeans in the freezer in order to kill germs instead

That's a myth, freezing jeans in a consumer fridge does not kill bacteria. For example, listeria can grow in both a refrigerator or a freezer.

Fortunately, the sun can kill bacteria, so take it outside and hang it to air.
God, why are you people like that? Article about a social issue, immediately jump back to foss. Is that all the politics the audience of HN is interested in? I could make a remark about the dominating demographic in here right now, but i'll leave it at this metacommentary. You know who you are, "foss is the most important issue" people.
Most crypto is traded outside of the US though; most of the volume is on Binance and Bitmex. In this sense they cut themselves off from many customers. The advantage of their business model seems to be that with less competition from other US-law-abiding exchanges (because there are so few of them), they can charge much higher fees: Coinbase fees are higher than most large non-US exchanges, and Gemini fees are insane, something like 1% per trade.
Aren't we better off not using microfibre plastics to make clothes in the first place?
He's taken by CIA
I find "it's ok if the platform becomes worse because there are so many third-party services you can use" not a compelling argument.

(Not to mention, you need to get to know the services in the first place, while a browser is directly accessible to you)
Relatedly, InSAR images of the Kilauea volcano area:

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA13910

And land subsidence due to groundwater pumping in California’s Central Valley, showing motion of up to 70 cm (!):

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA16293
Reminds me of this part from Taleb:

"Assume that a coin is fair, i.e., has an equal probability of coming up heads or tails when flipped. I flip it ninety-nine times and get heads each time. What are the odds of my getting tails on my next throw? 2

Dr. John refers to the question as trivial and gives the mathematically correct answer of one half. Fat Tony calls Dr. John a sucker and says, “no more than 1 percent, of course … the coin gotta be loaded.”"

The point being, what are the odds of getting an artifact of statistics precisely when management is harrassing employees to get rid of them from payroll?
And yet, stains happen. Smells accumulate on things we wear. I cycle to work every day, shouldn't I wash my tshirts? Ask my coworkers!

The solution would be to stick to cotton, denim, wool, and limit synthetic fibers. I cannot handwash everything.
I find gravity interesting, because everything that exists interacts with everything via the gravitational field. This is not the case with any other sort of interaction; gravity is truly different. See this diagram showing the ways that different particles can interact in the Standard Model: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/El...

Photons, for instance, cannot interact directly with each other via the electromagnetic field. Gluons do self-interact via the strong interaction. But both photons and gluons interact with all types of particles via gravity (although sometimes this interaction is so small that we would never be able to measure it).
Tether has been an openly fraudulent enterprise since the beginning. Pretty much anyone with any experience in financial securities and even passing knowledge of crypto was raising red flags, including on this website. Never wanna blame the victim, but kinda feel like anyone with any due diligence here was just hoping for casino rallies and didn't believe what they were being sold.
I want to believe it, but I don't know which way Occam's razor falls on this. It's probably more reasonable to believe that these lawyers managed to game the patent office into accepting it...
When SQL Isn’t the Right Answer
USDC is exactly not an investment, but otherwise you're not wrong.
being able to decide for every request with code vs a limited number of patterns you can pre-populate is not an equally useful API replacement
What would that mean? As far as we know there is gravity in the absence of EM fields and EM energy produce gravitational effects just like other forms of energy (and in the realm of direct human experience the contribution of EM is negligible).
> If the major company needed to fire 20k people and was legally unable to do so due to grandfathered in formerly-government-employees then they should have raised this, brought it up with the government, made it a national conversation, be the squeaky wheel.

Because the press and people in France are know to be very sympathetic to tear-jerk stories from major Telecom companies?

The disregard for human beings isn't ok, but the alternative here is the company going bankrupt, firing all 130k employees, and prompting the sale of French Telecom infrastructure to foreign corporations at a discount via liquidation. I'm for that compared to harassment to suicide, but let's not pretend there's a happy alternative where everybody gets together and saves the company.
> perhaps only the DNA-based life survived some early period in Earth's history.

My thoughts exactly.

Also, the emergence of an intelligent, technologically capable species (i.e. humans) is a relatively very recent occurrence in Earth's history. It's as if it just suddenly happened, even though there was a long history of dynamic evolution for many hundreds of millions of years. But the sudden emergence of humans doesn't mean there had to have been an external cause.
The warm box will of course »heavier« because it contains additional energy. Fundamentally there is no mass, it is just a convenient way to talk about the energy hidden in the structure of matter.
If you're asking invasive personal questions like "what are your life plans?" during a job interview it can look like you're trying to discriminate against a protected class.

I'm a childless woman at the age where most conversations about vague future life plans are actually inquiries about childbearing.

It's risky and there's just no good reason to do it.
I voted for your comment because it's interesting but I don't agree that the example you linked is the same problem as solved in this post. But that is an opinion because I'm not informed enough to know for sure. Meanwhile I did dig up a paper related to mapping radiance with a shaped lens like the artist you linked. It's a cool topic!
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1701.03076.pdf
IMO Hotstar is not orders of magnitude better in terms of content.

Prime has big sitcoms like the office, 30 rock, seinfeld etc.

Their B&W and 60s/70s movie catalog is also much larger than any other services.
The Certificate Authority vs. the Handshake
Most reptiles are land-based.

Evil dolphin overlords, perhaps?
Tell HN: Dropshare.app also runs a web server in localhost:34344
A fairly simple menu bar application available for macOS called DropShare.app [1] allows you to upload files to a remote server (3rd-party like Dropbox, Google Drive, or personal like your own AWS EC2 instance via SSH) and also manage these files once the upload is complete (delete, share, etc). After the security vulnerability discovered in Zoom [2] I decided to inspect all the apps that I have currently installed, and found that DropShare is also running an unprotected web server that any other app can access, and with more potential to make damage as it gives you full access to upload and delete files to/from the server.

$ strings "/Applications/Dropshare 5.app/Contents/PlugIns/Share.appex/Contents/MacOS/Share" | grep 34344
http://localhost:34344/status
http://localhost:34344/connections
http://localhost:34344/upload

$ curl -i -XPOST "http://localhost:34344/upload"
> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> Cache-Control: no-cache
> Content-Length: 17
> Content-Type: application/json
> Connection: Close
> Server: Dropshare4-Interface
> Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2019 06:15:57 GMT
>
> {"success":false}

$ curl -i -X GET "http://localhost:34344/connections"
> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> Cache-Control: no-cache
> Content-Length: 17
> Content-Type: application/json
> Connection: Close
> Server: Dropshare4-Interface
> Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2019 06:16:14 GMT
>
> {"success":false}

$ curl -i -X GET "http://localhost:34344/status"
> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> Cache-Control: no-cache
> Content-Length: 38
> Content-Type: application/json
> Connection: Close
> Server: Dropshare4-Interface
> Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2019 06:16:22 GMT
>
> {"version":"5.1.8 (5094)","ask":false}

[1] https://dropshare.app/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20387298
How do we know that he didn’t go to MIT? And what does he say that is inconsistent with how a real engineer would talk about something?
A keyboard is actually a good place to learn some hardware stuff. You can (relatively) easily build a keyboard from scratch and program the chip (excluding USB, which is another can of worms). They are lots of tutorials and documentation online to get you started on it