skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exchanging Bitcoin for Monero or Zcash, making a private transaction, then selling it back for Bitcoin under a separate account would seemingly stop this dead in its tracks.
Having a hot spare, a database slave and a mirror of your assets so you can manually fail over? Probably a good idea. Architecting a very HA infra? Now wait and look hard at all the possible downtime causes (you have a DDoS provider for sure, Voxility or Cloudflare probably, what if they go down and so forth) and so and then look at what you are protecting against: a hardware failure which is exceedingly rare and again you can manually failover. The costs vs benefits will not come out in your favor up to a very large company size where even the smallest amount of downtime is so costly it doesn't matter how many engineering hours go into avoiding it.
Yes, I agree with you, we need more theory, more mathematical understanding.

MNIST grayscale, 7x7 pixels = 49 continuous variables
meaning we can do something already with 5 qubits)

Yes, hope to see you around !
Amazon is writing its own facial recognition laws to pitch to lawmakers
You can put your seed words in a bank safety deposit box.
Well I did say "should". :/

Also there's a difference between specialist consultancies and contract labour hire. I'd say most government contractors fall into the latter camp.
As a student I worked in a restaurant briefly. The manager drilled into us that the the front should be full, maybe with one gap and the back should be cleared ASAP.
That's horrible.

Also, "McDowall is no fan of the move toward more scrutiny in the social sciences". Pretty damning.
I avoid everything as branded as smart: locks, TV, watch, etc. I am not sure why people think it is a viable way forward with the technologies we currently use.
This is pretty great. Why the hell didn't I think of this.
I prefer this part where they spin having less than the competition into something positive:

> And with no camera or display, you stay in the moment.
Disincentivise shallow profiles. Women Tinder profiles are a very good example of antithesis: there are a few carefully selected pictures. The more involved profiles may feature link to an Instagram (with more carefully-picked pictures) and a few lines that rarely offer anything to construct a personal introductory message.

Turn that around completely. Have users put in effort in being found.

I doubt that would get much attention to "disrupt" the market
what does respectful mean to you?
>one so strong it's on the order of a large nuclear bomb

Surely a "large nuclear bomb" isn't very strong when you're talking about things on black hole scale?
YES?! What the hell? Especially considering, the kind of sinus clearing pills which are forbidden (classed as a narcotic) in Sweden, they handed out in jars like candy at the US office.
In my experience, the least informed always have the strongest opinions. The well informed see all te complexities and know "it's not that easy". Reminds me of this quote:

“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wise people so full of doubts.”
Quote from the article "Engineering is not getting simpler, its getting more and more complex, because we are solving harder and harder problems" I totally disagree with that , for mine work environment. We are over engineering stuff. It all has to be new and shinny. Lots of sites can still be build with a small framework, html5 and jquery.
Don't worry, they got this issue covered!

https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/2/16965484/amazon-alexa-supe...
Plastic tea bags shed billions of microplastic particles into the cup
The Chepeat Site to Buy Xecuetr SX Pro in Canada
> If you were the last person in earth to receive coins, would you still like them and endorse them?

Are you being serious when you're asking that question? That question seems to be a product of an echo chamber.

Anyways to answer your question, yes, why wouldn't you still receive and endorse them? The idea behind cryptocurrencies is follows:

* Bitcoin is the cryptocurrency which is aimed to be the perfect store of value. Because it's fixed in supply and has the maximum network security, it serves as a backbone of the cryptocurrency ecosystem. Govts and pro-intervention economists don't like it, but Libertarians and (real) pro-free market economists love it. Even if you're the last person to receive bitcoin, it's still a better option because now you can save in a non-inflationary currency.

* Ethereum and other smart contract platforms allow creation of decentralized contracts between people, this facilitates creation of a system which isn't tied or dependant on the state to enforce it. Even if you're the last person to receive Ethers or Tezos or Cardano, etc, you're acquiring it in order to use the network. It's like asking would you like to be the last person to receive the arcade machine tokens.
What? No longer in use? Those things are still widely in use in many mid century and older education and healthcare buildings around NYC.
Your household insurance might well refuse to pay out if there isn't evidence of forced entry. That's a fairly sizeable variation in the cost of being broken into ...
You misunderstood the question. He said "last person on earth TO RECEIVE bitcoin", not "LAST PERSON on earth".
Assuming you are an average mail user, you can still buy directly from China, no middleman, and spend the same amount of money you always did. The difference is that the cost will no longer be hidden behind abstract government subsidies.

If a middleman ends up cheaper because of bulk shipping, that's because they're actually providing value! They are reducing the total cost of shipping.

If the total shipping cost you pay, including your share of hidden subsidies, goes up? That means you were an above-average china-buyer, and the average citizen was paying part of your bill and getting nothing. That's not fair, and you're not entitled to offload shipping costs onto everyone else.
> The author of the post, CTO at Mindright in the Audible building in Newark, was staying with a friend who is a leader of the leadership team of Mindright who also happens to rent his bedrooms out on AirBnb

It could have been clearer, we don't need all that irrelevant detail. "Staying with a friend" would suffice -

"in the Audible building in Newark" was totally irrelevant
I wonder if all this recent bad intel publicity could be in response to me_cleaner actually making it more secure.
What about just losing software patents altogether? Sorry, but from my perspective on the other side of Atlantic, it looks like a yet another example of "there's no way to avoid this - says the only country where this happens".
wasabi wallet's[1] coinjoin today has a large enough pool to make your bitcoin txs fungible.

[1] https://wasabiwallet.io
Depend show much utility you offer and how much money your clientele have. For some businesses, the customer doesn’t value anything other than the price.
How Music Changes Society
Cutting for competitions involves diuretics though. They literally piss out the weight to end up in their target weight bracket.
The force of gravity is proportional to distance. You'd be feeling hell of a lot more gravity being close to an earth-sized black hole than you do on the surface of the earth.
Which article do you mean? Neither the Guardian nor the BBC article submitted originally show any indication of trying to verify their anonymous source beyond just asking the company for a statement.

Citizen Lab does that kind of censorship analysis (e.g. https://citizenlab.ca/2019/06/censored-commemoration-chinese... ) but I can't find anything by them on TikTok.
Safety deposit boxes turn out not to be secure or guaranteed. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-07-22/don-t-...
A PBH in our Solar System would quickly become a very popular target for science, allowing us to test both relativity theory and quantum physics at an unprecedented level. And who knows, we might even be able to use it as a slingshot for interstellar travel, or as a gravitational lens - that would be great!

Edit: so, how do we locate it exactly?
This, i find i can lose like around 2.5kg by fasting 2 days
1.5kg is usually water weight and 0.5 kg feels like food mass and the other 0.5kg fat loss. The water and food mass weight will come back once you start eating again.
Doesn't work very well for e.g. drugs, where you may have the first 10 years of the patent term effectively useless because of approval cycles, etc.
I get the "trust the operator problem", I was thinking about sharing this for several devices I own or possibly with family assuming that "trust the operator" would not be an issue then, while increasing privacy a bit by disabling the ability to match a DNS query to specific user/IP. If this was to be shared publicly then of course you are right and this not only solves nothing but makes it worse as it introduces another node to be "trusted"
That's one of the rare case where counterinsurgency warfare actually worked, after a few decades.
React Native Firebase v6.0.0 Released
The 'better' lock that has rollers in the bolt to make it harder to cut off is pretty cool. But I found out there is a reciprocating saw with counter action available! Seems perfect to cut rollers. https://toolguyd.com/dualsaw-reciprocating-saw/
The messaging service has been haemorrhaging money its entire existence. Kik has never made money.

The crypto scheme was a Hail Mary pass. Now it's the only hope they have.
It of course depends on the relationship to your wife, but one of the first steps might be to come clean to her. - Take the steps mentioned in other posts (go to the subreddit, read up on psychology, see a psychologist, change your routine), and then share with your wife. Not only will it make her feel better, she might be able to help you with the necessary steps.
Automation and the IKEA Effect
The First Computer
Would it? If it were one earth radius away from the surface it would exert as much pull on someone on the surface as the earth would, right? Things couldn't start becoming spaghetti before that point, and that's pretty close to earth; surely it'd reach the earth's center very shortly after that.
Not really, it would just form a (tiny) accretion disk. Dust and other material would fall into it, emit gamma rays and be gone forever. It's a black hole.
they tried repeatedly, and nobody wanted it
Yes they are still around!
> I buy heaps of stuff with bitcoin

You're bartering for heaps of stuff. I get heaps of stuff by offering services or other stuff in exchange. Yet my services or other stuff are not a currency. And some towns accept taxes in form of community work for example which is also not a currency.

> crypto is far from "not a currency"

It's explicitly called "not a currency" by both Fed and the ECB as far as I know. Now it all boils down to whether you prefer your personal definition of currency over the one coming from central banks and laws.

Alternative currencies are the same as alternative facts or alternative truth. They can have the same effect as the real thing and be used successfully achieve the same purpose. But they shouldn't be confused.
Glad to see more Android firmware choices that use MicroG instead of Google Play Services.

Previously, I would have recommended LineageOS for MicroG, which supports a different set of devices:

https://lineage.microg.org

If your device is supported by /e/ but not LineageOS, then /e/ is a good alternative that allows you to use MicroG on your phone with no additional flashing needed.
I admired the way that for the TON offering, Telegram very specifically gouged only a few very rich investors who totally had all the knowledge and information they needed to know better, and nobody else.

I understand (from industry gossip) that most of the Telegram TON VCs have already written it off.
Atherton? That's really hitting the out-of-your-league jackpot.
VBulletin zero-day: Critical exploit leaves forum sites open to attack
> Adam Neumann is not “quirky,” he is not “charismatic,” and he does not have “an unorthodox leadership style.” He is an untalented and abusive monster who lies to get what he wants. And he was given an unlimited credit line from which he could legally steal.

'Charismatic' is often a trait found in sociopaths. I'd say Adam IS charismatic, but that is often a problem - charisma charms people and blinds them to the bad parts.

> Time to Restore Honest Capitalism

It takes a long time to scale something, and it inevitably loses money in the beginning. How do we tell the difference between 'counterfeit' companies and real ground-breaking concepts?
There are important differences. Losing weight is almost always a good thing, however you also have to look on the inside of the body. What makes ateries clog? And here comes meat and diary into play. Ppl tend to look on a lean muscular body but do not consider what makes the body work.

Pls have a look into Michael Greger's How not to die, or Colin Campbell China Study.

Vegan is not always healthy. Plant based, unprocessed food does the trick. Fatty and salty french fries are technically vegan. There is a lot of junk food on the vegan side, which is also highly processed and features lots of sugar. It is not enough to stop eating dead animals, drinking milk or eggs.

However dismissing meat is inevitable for a healthy diet.
This is amazing, thanks so much for making this list. I spent a bunch of time looking for an impactful job in this space, and found it hard in the bay area -- a hub of consumer tech and tech b2b, but too expensive for companies doing this kind of work.
I made something similar, with group chats, bot api and later abandoned it. Feel free to use it :)

https://github.com/vidhunv1/spotlight
A number of respectable apps uses Accessibilty features, for instance Alfred.
BigPoppa001
[ my public key: https://keybase.io/bigpoppa001; my proof: https://keybase.io/bigpoppa001/sigs/WfJyyw8SfprnLjL_yedve3U3nnXVbjoE0bpSGPuvGdo ]
"How do you know where to drill it? The lock has the manufacturers logo on the front face – drill the side of the lock in line with the top of the logo. How helpful!"

In that case easy, move the logo elsewhere.
If authorities dig a little bit more they will find all these dating websites break the GDPR laws a lot.
It is not the weight loss alone. Look on the inside of the body. Ateries clog - and this is due to animal food.
Well if I was the last person on earth to receive USD I wouldn’t be happy because that means I’d never be able to spend it on anything (if I did, that person would become a later recipient of USD).
Yeah, ok, no you can’t do that with an Apple Watch. Seems an alright trade-off for Apple to make. The amount of people running ultra-marathons is probably miniscule.
For data centers, while air cooling might be running out of steam, there's plenty of leeway in water cooling. So I don't think that's an insurmountable problem.
Learning about LongFi
> The gravitational disruption will be equal in intensity to a slow moving black hole[...] the amount of energy transferred between the black hole and the earth from the actual collision would be negligible.

Yeah, but you're not accounting for all the kinetic energy the black hole is going to impart on the Earth, which is the main factor in this hypothetical disaster.

Let's assume for simplicity that the radius of the Earth is 5000 km, and the black hole is moving at 1000 km/s.

That means that as soon as it's approximately 5000 km out we'll have around 5 seconds where around half of the Earth isn't the Earth's surface in any meaningful sense anymore, rather it's a bunch of rocks that have just crossed the zero G barrier between the Earth and the black hole, and are now in freefall "upwards" from the Earth.

I'm too lazy now to calculate how far a rock on the surface will travel "upwards" given the approaching black hole, but let's just assume a constant 9.8 m/s^2 for the whole 5 seconds to understate this disaster (it's going to be a lot more than that). You'll fall ~120 meters in 5 seconds in freefall in Earth gravity.

So by the time the black hole passes the "crust" that crust is already hovering some hundreds of meters in the air, and will rapidly fall down and re-compress as the black hole passes.

I wouldn't be surprised if the energy transfer is enough to turn the entire surface into liquid magma, but I haven't done that back-of-the-envelope calculation.
Programmable bank that offers webhooks updates the API with callback endpoints
Not OP, but I've heard they used to have a compulsory surf day per week or month, or something like that. Not bad if that's your thing..
Mux (YC W16) is hiring developers to build mobile video SDKs that developers love
Notarizing your app? Take care to name your bundles properly
Ah crap, I wanted to build something like that. Oh well...
Why is whole milk considered ultraprocessed and skim milk considered unprocessed? Whole milk is literally what you would get if you didn't process milk.

Why are canned corn and green beans ultraprocessed? They contain nothing but corn/beans and a touch of salt. If the salt is the problem, why do the unprocessed meals have added salt?

It looks like for the unprocessed meals, they chose a bunch of high in vegetables and whole grains, high fiber meals and chose a bunch of high calorie foods for the ultraprocessed meals [1]. No surprise people ate more calories when given the high calorie foods.

They say "dietitians scrupulously matched the ultraprocessed and processed meals for calories", but also that people were told to each as much as they like. What does that even mean? The calories can only be the same if you fix the quantity.

They don't define "ultraprocessed" or provide any mechanism for weight gain that would apply to their very varied selection of "ultraprocessed" foods.

The term "processed" is used to scare people about food, but the term is so broad that there can't possibly be a single mechanism by which various processed food would be unhealthy. Processing includes cutting, grinding, heating, cooking, mixing, adding ingredients, drying, deboning... basically anything you do to food. It's one thing to say a specific process, like adding sodium nitrite, is harmful. Making a blanket statement that all cutting, cooking and combining of foods is bad should raise a bit more skepticism.

If the article has a more specific definition of processed, they should mention it because their choices seem pretty arbitrary.

[1] Study meals: https://www.cell.com/cms/10.1016/j.cmet.2019.05.008/attachme...
Be careful here. Thats electricity not energy. Electricity is only around 20% of the energy needs.
This is why I really miss Craigslist personals, where I could put my writing skills and humor to use.
> Duval's approach hasn't been to reinvent the mobile operating system wheel, but instead to clean up Android of its Google privacy-invading features and replace them with privacy-respecting one ...

I would love to see one of these phones in action.

And I wouldn't mind if someone like Huawei started using this on their newer phones. Puts some pressure on Google.
Noob question: does this have something to do with inverted yield curve? Isn't it simply more useful/profitable for banks to finance their operations with short term debt right now?
Power sharing across national borders was how I interpreted it. Common in Europe.
Why Ukraine is at the center of the latest Trump scandal
It's also adjacent to one of the world's busiest shipping lanes, and several of the UK's busiest ports. I visit the area often, and while the area is beautiful, the horizon is always full of ships. Some wind turbines will make no difference.
Big business likes the level of control. Employees are limited in their job mobility, especially to small companies. It restricts competition, it also suppressed wages.

Big business in the U.S. gets what it wants, and if they didn’t want employer provided healthcare it would be gone, but it’s not gone so it means they like it.

If there was universal healthcare in the U.S. there would be an explosion of small business. Most small business can’t afford to provide healthcare, and if you have an existing health condition there is no guarantee that the plan from your new employer, if they have a plan, will include your doctor, or that they agree with the old doctor’s treatment plan.
It just fascinates me how a guy with a "quirky" personality can pull something like seven hundred million. How this world is even possible.
Don't waste your energy on these people. Crypto/Keto/TheDonald people can not be reasoned with. Making arguments will not work.
Unless there's some unknown effect of having a black hole that makes life more likely to appear when PBH orbit the star, in which case it might decrease estimates of the frequency of life in the universe.

It's theorized that the existence of Jupiter played a role in clearing out the inner solar system of kinetic kill vehicles, helping create a stable environment for life to evolve on Earth.
I think it's more fruitful to (initially at least) see this as an alternative to single chip SoC's rather than an alternative to PCB's.
I find the term "far memory" a bit strange, specially considering that the paper starts using the dual of "remote" and "local". The first paper of the "Prior works" also is being consistent and uses the adjective "remote" applied to cpu, procedure, and memory. Is there a technical distinction that I am missing here?

(Oddly enough, just did a search for "remote memory data structures" and guess what blog post and paper comes up!)
ARM doesn't make CPUs, just designs for them which can of course easily be modified by any licensee. The chips themselves are usually made in Asia. So ARMs ownership is irrelevant to the issue of CPU back doors.
The overarching concept is to be conscious of when you inconvenience other people (like customers), and avoid it at much cost (but not any, of course).

This seems to be the cornerstone of Western etiquette. It can be different in Asia, where it may be more important to "save face" and let others also save face.
Isn’t it more fun to wonder?
I met someone out of area on EH in 2012, and we communicated for a couple of years.

We both quit EH. Many months later, I found them still using her (quite attractive) photo in their advertising.
Last year Denmarks weather was amazing, which meant no wind at all. What was the solution? Coal from germany who despite having great weather too and based on sun couldnt do anything else. This is the reality. The two countries with the supposedly most agressive use of alternatives cant even support each other without the use of coal.
One of my favorite things is to have made a joke, where it turns out the real value of the joke is to set the context for someone really funny to take it in an unexpected direction, and if the direction is heartbreaking in seven words or less, all the better.
Dont need no cookies if i can just https://github.com/Valve/fingerprintjs2 you
A Snuggly Space-Saving Option
Satellite Receivers – Software and Firmware
That's an excellent page - I wish I had found that while I was browsing around. I've long been suspicious of the materials of these 'luxury' teabags (but that's probably the traditionalist in me).

EDIT: in fact, looking at this page[1], it seems they might be one of the only ones who do make a biodegradable bag ...

1. https://www.scotsman.com/read-this/is-your-favourite-tea-mad...
Or both. Accretion disks can shoot a tiny bit of matter out the poles while most falls in. IIRC, the dynamics that cause this effect are not well understood.