skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A court decision may settle a working compromise given evidence available at the time and the preferences of the people in the area. I'd say that's a far cry from settling an ethical issue.
The Minuscule Docker images that could
GitHub starts blocking developers in countries facing US trade sanctions
It was coming from the general direction of the sun. Nobody could see it until it got really close.
I don't think they actually take luminance into account (although I personally like the idea); I just meant that they solve the problem of "black-on-white text looks too thin" by thickening the text, rather than messing up other parts of the pipeline.
Yes, it is, and the winfarms are an absolute gorgeous addition to our horizon.

It can get a bit grim driving around Texas. It can take up to three days to get out of the state depending on which direction you're going... and to get from the oceans to any mountains in any direction takes about as long as well (start heading towards New Mexico best bet IMO). There are some "hills" over by Austin and Enchanted Rock I guess.

Point is, these windmills are a great way to break the monotony of a long Texas roadtrip. I did one with my little cousins once and their favorite part was seeing the windmills.
How difficult is it to build transmission lines in the US? In Germany we have enormous problems building a transmission line from the offshore windparks in the north to the industrial centers in the south. NIMBYs are opposing it fiercly.
The fed is holding down inflation rates because wages have stagnated. Can you imagine what would happen in this country if there was inflation in the face of the corporate abuse we are suffering with wages that are effectively the same as 1970?
Having (and loving) kids counts as default and when you don’t, you’re at least strange or your social integrity can be denied. Sadly, people went a long road to accept all sorts of sexualities, race equality, et cetera (minorities never were a trigger for me from the start), but still put ‘defaultness’ on pedestal. One with no kids can more likely get fired, their desires sacrificed, and so on in otherwise equal conditions. It feels like people did not just erase the border, but drew yet another which now encompasses a slightly bigger circle. We are still outside and this is barely going to change, since those who have kids seem to change on a psychological level and cannot think the other way.
Interesting question, not sure. As the speed of the astroid is goes up, the relevance of gravity goes down. As the speed goes down, the damage it can do also goes down, and also reduces the probability of an encounter.
Looks like a great font... curious if you might be willing to add the missing glyphs for CP437 (mostly missing block and line drawing characters)... would love to use this as a web terminal font option.
Using Custom Datasets with StyleGAN – TensorFlow Implementation
TLDR/Background:

* Hutchins (MalwareTech on social media) used to be a black hat, and developed/sold a banking trojan that would become Kronos.

* Since then, he's given up black hat activity and began reverse-engineering malware and providing educational material along the same lines.

* He came into the spotlight when he realized that the Wannacry ransomware was attempting to contact a particular web domain that was unregistered. He registered it to see what they were trying to send and why, and found out that it was a global killswitch, fully shutting down the initial strain of the malware.

* After Def Con 2017, he was arrested at the airport when attempting to leave the US. He was being charged with devleoping Kronos, and prosecutors were effectively adding new charges in retaliation every time he refused to plead guilty.

* He eventually caved and plead guilty, and today was sentenced to a year of supervised release, with no jail time (Though he likely won't be able to enter the US again). The judge strongly indicated that the lenient sentence was due to the fact that he stopped breaking the law of his own volition, and started using his skills to better the world.

* This article doesn't mention it, but the judge also suggested that he and his legal counsel seek a pardon, which could potentially allow him to enter the US again. They are planning to go forward with that path.
Not being snarky, but have you ever seen kids drinking 0% beer? I sympathize with your idea but I don't think that it would play out that way in real-life. I think taboo plays into the attraction of these kinds of drugs.
awesome article, thank you!
And does that make it more likely to miss? Ie it gets slung around by gravity instead of hitting?
For income, one interesting metric would be the distribution. How much do most people make?

Because the US is also a developed country where 15$ an hour with pretty much no coverage is considered "good" in some parts (ie good enough to work as a Facebook content moderator rather than making Big Macs at the local McDonald's)

Edit: I might be a bit rusty on US social safety net & health benefits
I have liked the idea of NeWS for a very long time. Sadly NeWS was born and died long before it was viable: postscript has always been difficult to write a VM for and unfriendly to application programmers, machines were significantly slower, and NeWS itself was very much vendor-locked.

However, things are different now. We could embed Lua or WASM into the display server, and you'd have a much more programmer-friendly platform that can run efficiently enough to feel snappy. We have more memory, so you don't need to share toolkits between applications.

Maybe it's time to revive the concept.
> backed by nothing at all

What lol I mean just look at the tweets for the terms 'twitter redesign'; there's plenty of evidence that people feel strongly about redesigns.

[0] https://twitter.com/search?q=twitter%20redesign&src=typed_qu...
Isn't that what https://www.apollographql.com/platform solves?
The issue is, government is subsidizing Risk with Tax paying dollars. By handing out money for free (0% interest rates), they're increasing systemic risk. If something terrible happens like it did in 2008, tax payers are on the hook, to the tune of trillions of dollars.
The degree of gravitational focusing depends on the speed of the incoming object, but I seem to recall that for typical interplanetary velocities it's of order 1, ie not huge.
HDMI from Arduino
I got downvoted here on HN for saying things like "living in China isn't so bad. " A huge number of people on this site think it's something akin to North Korea.
Serendipitously cooling the surface of the earth down by exactly 2.2 C.
> Xinjiang is consistently portrayed in Western media as a nightmarish, dystopian, Orwellian hellhole suffering under the iron fisted oppression of the Communist Party

That’s because it is, and if you visited you wouldn’t be so flippant about it. In large part because a tourist can’t even make a stop in the area without getting their own personal police minder.

It’s little different than North Korea.
No, Lyme disease is not an escaped military bioweapon
I heard they don't even have internet in the deep south.
I mean, that's basically just a twist on the idea of printing money to fund Basic Income... with a possible bias towards people in debt?
There was also a related discussion earlier, "GitHub blocked my account and they think I’m developing nuclear weapons", though it has since been flagged.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20537841
Ask HN: What happened to https://whytheluckystiff.net/?
Based on the current content, it seems the domain has become another how-to tech blog using Wordpress. (Not that there's anything wrong with that.)

Has this "passing of the torch" of whytheluckystiff.net been covered before on HN?
What tool do you prefer to program it?
The idea, your mileage may vary, is that gold's value in, say, hamburgers may fluctuate less than fiat currency. In the strongest gold-bug case, one might argue that a loss of trust in the dollar could make an ounce of gold worth more hamburgers than it could be traded for today.

If preserving value, priced in dollars, is your only goal, holding dollars is guaranteed lossless (modulo tiny costs).
Several articles.

https://www.google.com/search?q=youtube+recommendations+more...
> shoe policy is a really terrible barometer for whether or not to apply to a company

Any kind of behavior that gives me the feeling of kool-aid drinking or brainwashing is absolutely a red flag.

The way you describe it (not enforced in any way, not even through peer pressure) is very different from the way I had always read about it (fairly absolutist and you won't be allowed in the building if you don't remove your shoes). If I had heard about it that way, you're right, I would not take it into consideration.

Unfortunately I don't have citations handy for the absolutist version of the policy that I had read about.
The US media is also trash. It's a different sort of bias. A bias towards big business.
That sounds like Quicksilver from a long time ago, I wonder what took its place. I know Spotlight took a lot of the filesearch features, but the UI automation and macro functionality were some real powerful stuff.
on another hand, if you see a gamma-ray-burst heading this way, duck and cover... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HvwNOSnveE
I did not realise you were assuming that the taxpayer already held the CAD for some period of time before the coffee purchase. So US tax law provides no exception for trivial capital gains on personal use assets? Clearly it makes sense to bring forex gains and losses to account when dealing with large transactions and investments expected to produce a return (eg. cryptocurrency). But in my country, a small balance in a foreign bank account held for the purpose of personal expenditure while in that country would not be regarded as a capital asset where every transaction is taxable.
A letter from the IRS is very likely to be real. Penalty for mail fraud is too high for scammers to even try.
Crime in Antarctica
Representative/indirect democracy exist because'the people' can't make informed decisions. A regular parliament session in any bigger country (or the EU parliament) will vote on a dozen laws. No way to scale this to country level decisions. Even in Switzerland direct votes on an issue are the exception, not the norm.
Strictly speaking you are enslaved the moment someone has captured you with the purpose of selling you to another person. Can you explain in more detail why you think this fine distinction is needed?
https://thebreadbook.org/ - Peter Kropotkin argues that there's now enough industrial capability to feed, shelter, and clothe everyone, but this capability is poorly distributed. Notably he wrote this over 100 years ago.

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/no-shortcuts-9780190... - Jane F. McAlevey examines the difference between the ineffective activism of the last 40 years and successful movements like the Civil Rights Movement and the industrial labor movement. Her work is also explained well in this interview - https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/04/jane-mcalevey-on-how-...
A die-hard indexer would suggest that, if you could, you would want to own uniform (cap-weighted) amounts of every type of asset to ensure getting exactly average performance.
The Diner's Club origin story is a myth. Unsecured credit lending actually originated with retail department stores.

Louis Hyman covers this story in Debtor Nation: The History of America in Red Ink (Princeton UP, 2011).

https://www.worldcat.org/title/debtor-nation-the-history-of-...

New Books in Economics podcast interview (Duration: 50:26):

Published: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 22:58:43 -0000
Media: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/LIT7526154990.mp3

Podcast: https://www.podcastrepublic.net/podcast/425187524
I think apart from the energy release there are few similarities with a nuclear explosion (no EMP, no radioactive fallout) plus I have to imagine any air defense radar system could detect the incoming asteroid in its final moments.
I think you've just come full-circle to Mozilla Thunderbird which has been around since 2003.

- https://www.thunderbird.net/

- https://www.thunderbird.net/calendar/
Probably a federal crime.
Both countries are equal in terms of human rights violations. It's not popularized, but the US has a good amount of this stuff as well.
So is your argument that they should be grateful for what they e been given? Because this is an absurd argument. Nowhere is it written that they can’t have both be treated like the rest of the country and economic prosperity like the rest of the country.

This is just a bullshit way of justifying oppression using the economic development they would have received anyway.

People make the same absurd arguments about slavery, and lack of suffrage, and it’s just as obviously bullshit in those cases as it is in this one.
Do it for a few million USD instead of few hundred and the IRS will definitely care.
Bring it, punk!
> > I don't agree that I need to come up with anything beyond raising the idea that we should stop thinking that government can/will solve this.

> Oh yes you do. Certainly you think we can have an alternative to government for a reason? Care to share that with us?

He did. You didn't listen. He said that we need something beside the government, because the government isn't actually going to do anything (or at least not anything like enough).

So if you're going to argue with his position, I would ask you what evidence you see that the government will ever do anything close to enough to solve global warming? Because, as I look at the current situation, and the last 10 years, I'm with andrewstuart: government isn't going to get it done. That plan shows almost zero evidence that it will ever work.

Now, look, you should keep trying to get government to do what you think needs done. But don't put all your eggs in that basket, because it looks like it's a pretty lousy basket.
>> New Mac OS version?

I have been avoiding the available OS update for my Macbook Air because I've heard it kills performance, reduces battery life, may not run one of my favorite applications, and AFAIK brings nothing that I actually want.
Show us the links for those things in your comments. I don’t see any of these
The Distance Selling (as it's called in the UK, may vary where you are) regulations were designed to replicate the experience and protection you have purchasing in person, not to provide something stronger.

It's just easier to 'argue' with an automated form (you don't need to!) than with a person.
The Debit/Visa cards work for lots of things, but last I tried most places wouldn't accept them to have on file for damage deposits and such (hotels/cars). I have to admit, I haven't tried for about 5 years. A debit/visa is no different than a prepaid visa. On an actual credit card, they can push the charge through even if you don't have the money available (pushing you over your limit if needed). Visa/Debit and Prepaid Visa's can't go over the available balance.

I'm not sure about the sentiment on HN, but I'm speaking from personal experience. Any time I've tried to use a Debit/Visa when checking into a hotel they've required me to pay a deposit that was returned on checkout.
Same problem in the states, although it’s improving with buried HVDC (much smaller right of way required, no need to lay concrete conduit, etc).
Likely. Protesting sites that require tracking scripts to display text and images.
It's definitely an impressive response, but it also looks like the sort of state sponsored responses typical of Chinese propaganda. That's not to say it's inaccurate, just biased.
Looking at your account, you seem to really enjoy bashing Anglo nations without adding much discussion.
That wasn’t quite how it went.

He initially told everyone that he was peripherally involved in writing some code as a teenager that, unbenknownst to him, ended up in some malware.

The feds unraveled his lies and showed beyond a doubt that not only did he work on that into his 20s, but he and his partner were actively involved in the business of selling a purpose-built banking trojan. They had logs of a “business dispute” between him and his parter from only 2 years prior to his arrest.

He had bad opsec, and many folks online exposed a lot of this. The feds had chat logs showing he was directly involved. It’s all in the court documents. He had no choice but to plea guilty.

https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.wied.77855/...
Although an asteroid of that size, depending on its makeup, can have other damaging effects. For example, by area, the pacific ocean covers a lot of the planet. An asteroid hitting the pacific can cause a tsunami that could seriously damage any coastal city in range.
Had no idea libsodium provided that. Thank you!
Abundance estimation is a big problem in ecology (and other fields), and they’ve developed some clever ways to estimate population sizes without doing an exhaustive census.

One popular approach is a capture-recapture experiment. On your first trip, you find as many of your targets as possible and mark each one. With turtles, you might paint something on the shell; here, it might be something like determining its orbit and other characteristics. You wait a bit, and search again (starting from scratch), but this time you separately record the number of “new” specimens and the number recaptured. A tiny bit of algebra from these three numbers gives you an estimate of the population size.
What's also overlooked is that China went through one of the worst man made famines in history, and the government has internalized many of the lessons (paid in blood) from that affair.
There likely is tons of research on this in psychophysics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychophysics). I’m not familiar with it, but I do know that you’ll find that it isn’t as simple as what you state. For example, Google gave me http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.108.... I don’t know whether it’s good, or when it was written.

The perception of equal line thickness may depend on orientation of the lines (https://res.mdpi.com/vision/vision-03-00001/article_deploy/v...), distance from the fovea, distance from where your attention lies (a can of worms even deeper. I don’t think there’s agreement on whether one can attend to more than one visual location at a time, or what ‘attention’ even is), direction of those distances (vertical will almost certainly be different from horizontal, sight could be better or worse in the nasal direction vs the temporal one), light/dark adaptation of the eyes, whether subjects are color-blind, etc.

I fear that, to qet something that’s better than Weber’s law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weber–Fechner_law), you need a model so complex that it doesn’t make sense to start using it.
> Article requires js

You can read it without js, when you disable css
These eggs are mostly 100% men, not women. I'm sorry to say but you eggs are probably fully aware of why only men are so crazy about Asia.

Also (Hint) the Chinese trolls are also 100% men. No women trolls.
I was thinking some version of privacy centric webmail + suite (yes, I get the issue). The market for Thunderbird is just too niche.
Related to this (though maybe not directly applicable), in certain scenarios there is a difference between what can be reliably detected vs tracked. For example, in the context of debris orbiting the earth, our radars can take LEO census measurements down to 3-4mm, even though we can only reliably track things on the ~10cm size range.

We can therefore semi-confidently say we know how many 1cm objects there are out there, even if we can’t predict the trajectory of any single one. (Similar to atoms, really)
What's the thought process for writing/selling malware to be illegal? What if the buyers wanted to test their own systems? What if they simply bought it to study it? Hutchins didn't necessarily know that it was going to be used illegaly. Should nmap, aircrack-ng et al be illegal too?
I grew up in China and had all my education in China up until my undergrad. I got my PhD in a top US school. I consider myself highly educated even in US standards. When I was in China, I was very concerned about my country and my government. I was worried and feeling hopeless of my country. Man, was I young and naive. I have since lived in the US for almost ten years. Five years for my PhD and almost five years for a high tech job. Throughout the years, I have learnt what's called bias, political games, double standards and western media hypocrisy. I can browse a free internet as opposed to a "censored" internet in the China. However, instead of hating my government more, I start to appreciate my government deeply. I have seen changes of my country in the past thirty years. Without the leadership of my government and the CCP, none of these would be possible. These comments are from a highly educated person who has deep and extensive experience of both countries, can and is capable of thinking independently. And these are not only my opinion, these are consensus of all my educated generation working in the US. If this is something bewildering to you who only consume information from western media, I don't blame you. I encourage you to visit and see for yourself.
Because it is important to understanding the economic structure of slavery, why the Scramble for Africa only happened in the 1880s, and to understand the context for some of the pro-imperialist rhetoric in Europe which led up to the Scramble for Africa.
* And just like the stock market, there's a market for these: banks with excess deposits offer repos at a variety of interest rates, and banks with excess loans take the best available interest rate, and eventually the market converges on a particular market-clearing rate (the "Fed Funds Rate").*

With the small and pedantic correction that the Fed Funds rate doesn't measure repos, because it measures unsecured lending, and repos are secured. It's the Secured Overnight Financing Rate that measures repos.

But yes, when the Fed wants to push the Fed Funds rate around, it does it by getting involved in repos - because if banks can borrow from the Fed at 2.4% through a repo, they aren't going to borrow from other banks at 2.41%. You'd think there would be a bit of a spread between the rates, because banks don't have to put up collateral for unsecured borrowing, but in practice there doesn't seem to be.
IIRC, you don't pay capital gains/taxes while sitting on one share of stock that you haven't exchanged yet.

When you trade it, that's when you get taxed.
Unless they redesigned the part, to fix the problem, which is what they should do.
However, image is not a wave. Sampling theorem applies beautifully to audio, but only to a limited degree to images. Some filters make sense in frequency domain, eyes are sensitive to certain frequencies more than others, but it all breaks down on hard edges, which don't behave like square waves.

The problem is that in images the Gibb's effect is visible and annoying (ringing artifact). If sampling theorem applied, people wouldn't be able to see it, like they can't hear the difference between square waves shifted by a half of a sample.
This is probably the best article I've read on Quora!
He said on Twitter earlier that a big part of the judge's decision to sentence him to time served was the character letters that a ton of people from the infosec industry that know him sent.

That kind of thing could definitely be relevant for showing good character since his bygone days as a malware creator rather than researcher.
> Politics is how the nations allocate resources to problems.

That's a hard pill to swallow, but I fear you're right.

Shouldn't government's priorities be establishing rule of law, courts & justice, national defense, and regulating commerce? How did massive taxes, a huge budget, and political fights over resource allocation ever get thrown into the mix?

A historian once said that democracy fails when people begin voting themselves into the nation's purse [i.e. voting for politicians who promise them money].