skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the other open secret is that you just create a new identity in an isolated sub namespace

you ring fence all the addresses in that space with Monero over VPN or TOR: Monero swapped to Bitcoin, Monero swapped to Ether, Monero swapped to Tether (ERC20/OMNI/TRC20), a general balance in Monero since merchants accept that too, and transact there. Swap back out to Monero if you need a withdrawal.

Pencil pushers can track addresses on one transparent blockchain all fuckin day till your grandma gets tainted coins after Thanksgiving and all her accounts closed by some paranoid compliance officer and overzealous dumbass public servant, while the rest of us get every good and service we expected anonymously.
That’s pretty crazy. Anecdotally and what I assumed was the case, everyone I’ve talked to has said the heart rate monitoring is pretty worthless. At least before the last 2 iterations. Maybe they’re better.
As mentioned in many other comments, both here and in the link, sites don't need to modify your clipboard to exploit this behavior. They can insert invisible text inside the highlighted area when you select text, before you've even hit Copy, and this hidden text will be copied.
Yeah, but that just changed internally, in the language everything is still a string.
Sounds weird to use "multiplayer" when there are no players involved, but users. On the other hand, I guess "multiuser" doesn't convey the real-time-ness they want to convey.

FWIW, here's how it's done for actual multiplayer games, especially the ones where latency is critical: https://gabrielgambetta.com/client-server-game-architecture.... Arguably, their software is more similar to a turn-based game, and formal correctness of the results is more desirable than "a smooth experience", as is the case for multiplayer games.
Ancestral home of modern humans is in Botswana, study finds
/cue handwringing op-ed about biased AI algorithms
Ask HN: Is it just me, or is quite a bit of the internet down (us-west)
fast.com
nordstrom.com
linuxquestions.org
java.com

Are not resolving DNS for me. Is there something going on?

What does resolve is painfully slow.
This is such nonsense!

"TeaVM is an open source project that takes Java code and converts it to fast, compact JavaScript at build time."

How about integrating a small subset of JVM into the browser and allow it to manipulate DOM, similarly to React? Add a fine grained security model, and a secure isolating local storage.

And we'll have a type-safe, possibly secure way to develop and deploy a web application.
> In summary, Sourcehut is financially healthy, with an operating monthly profit of about $1,038.

> The total gross revenue during this period was $9,172.00

Very cool for a donation-driven project to manage that. Congrats!
I wish we just collectively stuck to a single language agnostic build systems like buck, pants, or bazel and distributed everything with BUILD files.
Winter in Australia is a stunning yacht destination
> Some people consider that, when the rich are hiring a duplicate of a public service, it proves the public service is not fit for purpose.

Hire a thousand person to just constantly spray water at a single house, I'm pretty sure you'll be able to make sure that house never catch fire, thus is better than any firefighter service.

That doesn't means the public service isn't fit for the purpose, they just literally can't do the same.

As he said, they mostly do preventive care and not actually fighting fire. The public service does that by education (which make much more sense to me even though it's less effective, but that's just my opinion).
Thank you for that, pretty much exactly what I was wondering.

Presuming "uncrewed" gets added to the dictionary I would expect that to prevail as the antonym for "crewless" might reasonably be "crewful", which also sounds weirder than "uncrewed"/"crewed".
There is a website called Longreads that features, you guessed it, long form essays and articles: https://longreads.com
Not that you’re wrong, but I’ve never heard this before. Source?
hmm... so, yeah, nothing about 1000 true fans theory points to it being an easy path. Making a living as some sort of creator is hard. The platforms & "the internet (tm)" just provide a plausible access to those fans vs old-media mechanisms.
Show HN: Golang Cafe is now open source
It’s been not long that I’ve launched Golang Cafe https://golang.cafe/. The first Go job board with no recruiters and clear salary ranges. I’ve came to realise quite a few people enjoyed the product. This time as requested by many already I've decided to open source Golang Cafe

- The code is licensed under the BSD 3-Clause license which means you can re-use the code for weather you like, even commercial purposes, as long as you don't use "Golang Cafe" as brand name.https://github.com/golang-cafe/golang.cafe.

- Any revenue which is pretty much used to pay off hosting and maintenance costs is also open https://www.indiehackers.com/product/golang-cafe/revenue

- Traffic stats are also open https://www.indiehackers.com/product/golang-cafe/traffic

The project started as a prototype and the code is light years from being perfect but it's a starting point. Happy if anyone has feature requests or ideas you can share on the issue tracker
Yes and there is another dimension also! Failure is a vector, you can fail on your career progression but succeed on health, happiness, family, meaning, doing right to others.
I can count exactly zero people ive met who have succeeded in all four categories. You choose where to fail, and how much to fail on a spectrum in order to succeed on other dimensions.
God damnit, you should know better than bringing up WTC towers here. It attracts conspiracy theorist like how moth are drawn to a flame.
At this point, it is not terribly likely that any such breakthrough is going to surprise us all that much at the engineering level: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correspondence_principle If it does, I rather suspect it's going to take something like a Kardeshev level 2 [1] civilization to be able to take any advantage of it... and that may still not be enough.

Learning isn't knowing isn't doing isn't engineering. To take a much, much simpler example, just because you very likely know the rules of chess does not make you a grandmaster.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale
I think this is from his essay collection "Free Software, Free Society." Its a great read, I wish he'd written a sequel to go into more depth on some of the topics... maybe now he'll have time to do some more writing?
Lots of disagreement against this article.

I graduated in 2012 with a biomedical engineering degree, and the vast majority of my collegiate graduating class made more than me right out of school, including the non-engineers; I worked as a server/busboy and also as a cashier for about 6 months while constantly applying for jobs. In case you're wondering, I did have internship experience most summers in college, nothing stellar, but it was on there. I will say that 2012/2013 was an absolutely awful time to be a non-CS fresh grad in the job market. I hadn't imagined working as a server after completing an engineering degree, and the difficulty I faced in getting industry roles led me to immediately apply for a MS program.

My first "relevant"/industry job was a contract role at a medical device company that paid $22/hr in an extremely high COL area (SF Bay Area). I was likely in the bottom 15th percentile of earnings at this point. 3 years later, I'd worked my way up to ~70k annualized salary. All while doing the MS program part time.

Today I'm at a Letter Corp in tech, and while sure there are plenty of people whose earnings far exceed mine, I'd be surprised if I wasn't at least in the 80th-90th percentile of both salary and lifetime earnings of my graduating cohort.

Now, obviously you won't hear any objection from me against finding, getting, and holding the highest paying job out of school. But I certainly question if it's really as important as people claim it is. And I will say I don't know if I'd be earning as much as I do today, and I'm not sure I'd have a MS degree, had I landed a better, higher paying role out of college.
We are insufficiently adept at turning a male body into a female body. We can significantly curtail advantage factors like muscle mass and bone density but are unable to address others like myonuclear count and skeletal size and layout. Until we are good enough at transitioning a body that trans athletes rank at the same relative competitive level before and after transition, cis women are not able to compete fairly with trans women.
Well, a Fitbit operates the same way your phone does. GPS not on all the time. The battery is much smaller than it is on your phone.

However, Google doesn't need your precise location 24/7. Polling GPS once every 5-10 minutes is more than enough to advertise things in your area or know every place you go throughout your day.
My problem with this article is that it is far too one sided to be a tenable argument.

It is the software equivalent of arguing that taxation is theft, without acknowledging the things government works toward (infrastructure, business development, education, healthcare, national security). Note: Before the replies flood in, I understand everyone has problems with their government. The point is that you are still receiving benefits from government investment, regardless of how good those benefits are.

I don't think anyone uses a SaaS platform without realizing that they are taking the role of customer. I am paying someone else to give me a platform that translates text so I don't have to put in the effort to set up one myself. What seems to be perpetually missing from the FOSS philosophy, especially among people who love tinkering with Linux (note: I am one of them), is a valuation of time.

I don't care about free software if it takes me hours or weeks to set up. I will gladly pay someone else who has put in the time to develop a first-class platform so that I can go home earlier or spend my time working on something else. I have the power to make more money to cover my SaaS expenses later on; nobody has the power to generate more time that they can spend doing things that make them happy.
That one says Apple because it has the volume up, volume down, and middle button attached to the headset, rather than just wire.

I h ave these, too, and they're pretty great. I don't sleep with these in except on an airplane, but even then never on one of these. They're a little big since they stick out of my ear.
Ironically, the security of the data is probably higher when controlled and operated by Google. That protection is at the cost of linkage with the other data which Google has.
All Venezuela has to do is to make it illegal for anyone to sell you Bitcoin.

Effectively, the current situation is rather close to that: the financial system is predicated on Know Your Customer and Anti-Money Laundering regulations that make moving large amounts of money for anonymous purposes dangerous for financial institutions. Given that cryptocurrency has struggled to provide any rationale for its existence other than the anonymous money flows that government regulation is trying to root out, dealing with it as a financial institution raises regulatory compliance red flags. As the article demonstrates, this means that your only real option is to rely on criminals and hope that money moves through the system fast enough that the government doesn't notice and the criminals handling your wealth don't skim too much off.
From my vantage point, it is already. The only parties that don't have IPv6 are my employer (which I maybe need to nag about since we're an ISP and have our own AS), and the customer I'm dealing with.
Statistics aren’t bad. Extrapolating unwarranted conclusions is bad.
Akamai's dns hosting?
Yes, you are correct. And it would appear that the US was unwilling to shelve the Space Shuttle, despite the known problem of them blowing up every one out of fifty launches, didn't shut down the Space Shuttle until 2011, after confirmation that the X-37B could replace the military needs of the Space Shuttle.
Within a browser, which basically knows where each pixel is rendered?

I suspect that for the great majority of practical cases, it is possible.

Where a definite answer is too hard to achieve, it's safe to err on the side of "not visible".
Five why Tesla's 'cool' solar roof isn't a surefire hit
1500 steps is 15 min. I only check HN if I’m moving around on some mobile device. That’s 15 min right there.
What gives me hope is that they might have used the exact same ear model to build these new ones, so maybe this will be the first pair of rubber earphones I will ever like?
Wouldn’t knowing statistics allow the average Joe to realise that most of these studies are simply not representative?
The fact that the statement “most statistics don't actually tell most people anything interesting about the world” relies on two statistical conditions is humorous to me.
I'm a Python newbie, running on macOS 10.13 with Python 2.7.10. When I save the above as turtle.py, and run with `python turtle.py` in the Terminal, I see an almost instantaneous flash of a tiny window, which then disappears.

When I remove the tracer line to "watch the drawing," I don't even get that. The Terminal just returns instantly.

Looking at tracer documentation, it's supposed to be `(which-frames-to-render, delay)`. If I set it to `turtle.tracer(1, 10000)` I get exactly the same flashing window as (0,0).

How can I see the result?
That a current generation is under-equipped to use quantitative discourse is sad, but it also suggests that what communities need are experts and not evidence. They want to listen to a trustworthy leader and not conflicting data -- because data will conflict.
My index finger hurts because of looong sloow scrolling.
We need to move on from using the Internal Combustion Engine.
Also, we need to shed the idea that every one of us needs a 4,000lb car to ride around in.
That's just what I need, someone to lecture me patronizingly on a field like quantum computing which has absolutely zero practical utility at this point.

If I was going to become some kind of researcher in the field, this is still the last thing I would want. Since I'm not a quantum computing researcher, it doesn't matter to me.

Before someone in the thread happily starts on their own condescending lecture, yes, I DO know that IF quantum computing becomes useful that it will massively change computing.
I wonder, given the current administration, if this is partly driven by the allegations against the Clinton Foundation concerning the Skolkovo Institute.
> wreaks of

you mean "reeks" (i.e. "smells", usually bad). It might wreak havoc on the U.S. economy, but it can only "reek" of ulterior motives.
Just as another anecdotal data point, my QC20i lasted 2 years, and then I tried to clean them, and the little metal grill went away. I thought it would be good to still have them, so I went to a local Bose store, and they were willing to fix it, which was pretty nice. I've had mine since 2015 and they've been around the world with me multiple times.
On the consumer banking side I would agree with you, not many individuals have complex enough banking needs where programmatic access would be a value-add. However if you look at businesses, any company doing more than (let's say) 50 bank-to-bank payments a month I think would benefit from being able to automate their bank account interactions in some fashion.

Disclosure: I work on banking APIs
I would be interested to have some academic pointers or actual benchmarks about that claim
More likely the computer programs will do their own baloney stringing which will then be marketed as objective (our proprietary algorithm is 110% objective) to the masses.
> no such demand has been shown to exist.

The success of companies like Square or Venmo show there is huge demand for an easy way to send money around.

You will say that they are inside the traditional banking system, and that is true. But when using them it feels like they are not.
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One of the authors here. This website is still a work in progress.

It's an ongoing effort to gather all the resources that will help you use Erlang in a business. The booksite is divided in three sections focusing particularly on Erlang/OTP’s higher level concepts in the current open source ecosystem, how to use it in production (while setting up a pipeline for continuous development and delivery), and how to build a team when you’re starting from scratch.

We're working mostly linearly in each section, but they're not all progressing at the same pace. We have nothing yet on "building a team" although our outlines are all planned; the "hard things to get right" chapter was supposed to come in later but we saw enough questions about these topics to rush it out.

We might release things from each section as they are ready and we see fit. In the meanwhile, we're always appreciating feedback and people checking in to see what's new in terms of content.
You may also want to check out NextCar - these folks own a bunch of East Coast dealerships and decided to start renting around their dealerships: https://nextcarrental.com/

They work out of dealerships as well as airports which can provide an edge for some local rentals.
I wonder if they can do better than $12 million per mile a la seattle[0]

[0] https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/transportation/12-...
Not all cities want or need to optimize for urban professionals. The people moving to places like Florida aren't there for hip job opportunites; they go to cash out the 401k and play golf for 10 hours a day. To those people better pedistrian accessibility just means more things to dodge while driving the Grand Marquis to Cracker Barrel.
Fifth choice: I don't serve block-able content
That's a good question! And one we're still working on, though some books have been written.

This question describes about half the field of quantum computing, so it isn't something I can answer in a post this size.
oreilly.com is down as well for all users globally. They're blaming the electricity company
Think I like others may have read that wrong and it was meant as a joke.
Seems complex -- I think if you only need a one-off thing, this is the way to do it on lambda, but if you need more complex periodic pipelines and capabilities, you're better off just running an airflow appliance on ec2 and doing it there...
The problem is verifying experiments gets no funding.
> but it also suggests that what communities need are experts and not evidence

IMHO it actually suggests we need to improve the average person's educational level
If you come from Amazon, Facebook will make an offer accordingly. If you have competing offers from NG, you will get a significant bump during salary negotiation. My sources are offers from these companies for multiple engineers.
That was the traditional place to put it in the 90’s IIRC. Although I seem to remember seeing Updated snips under the title as well sometimes.
fast/nord/etc are failing dns
Dissent at Facebook over hands-off stance on political ads
Does anyone have a non-paywalled variant? I can't view it.
And also as a gift to optimizing compilers, from discussions I’ve had w him. The idea is that a single compilation unit (the “amalgamation”) is easy for the compiler to reason about.
I get your point, but this is a bit simplistic. One also has to realize when a game is full out rigged — you did your best (perhaps the best) and you still failed because perhaps success wasn’t allowed for you. Then you need to learn to play a different game.

Sort of like when college failures end up as leaders and go into tell everyone to work hard because obviously that is what is stopping everyone else /s
Google's Wifi triangulation is not much less accurate than GPS, depending where you are.
I am not a trained medical professional, and I don't have time to be scrutinizing and reading background literature to gain a full understanding of the context each specific study has within its sub-field. I don't have access to whether these conclusions are generally accepted or are commonly disregarded for some technicality in the methodology that I didn't understand. Me personally, I can't be an expert in everything all the time, and I can't waste my life gaining a full breadth of understanding of every topic. I rely on extrapolations to do this for me, if those extrapolations are commonly faulty, I won't pay any mind to them.
Cryptocurrencies aren't anonymous. They also don't eliminate payment processor risk: fraudulent exchanges, hackers, and your own mistakes can all lose or lock you out of your money. And generally there's far less legal recourse when that happens with crypto.

I'm skeptical how many people in Venezuela saved their fortunes via Bitcoin et al, but if you have some data on that, I'd be curious to hear about it. In particular I'm curious why cryptocurrencies were a better means of rescuing your bolívar-denominated wealth than any other currency or investment vehicle such as real estate, gold, dollars, etc.
So, Facebook is operating like TV did forever?
High bids are not strong evidence of ulterior motives. They reflect the fact that many US companies prefer not to take on foreign investors, so those investors have to bid much higher to get the deal.
Sure, but is it significantly bad?
Podia: Sell online courses, downloads, and memberships without the tech
I'm running on a very beefy development machine in the latest version of Firefox and it was kinda sluggish

Then your "beefy" development machine is less powerful than an iPhone, since I tested it on that, and it works fine.

When I get to a full computer, I'll try it on that. I wonder if the ones I have are "beefy" enough.
the problem is that in many (most cases?) even trained scientist would have a hard time deciding which statements are statistically valid.

There are endless ways to be unintentionally obscure, to semi-intentionally obfuscate or to just flat out lie. And it very hard to tell these apart - one would need to dedicate more effort than usually worth.
Please keep these valueless comments off HN.
This is simply scientifically accurate. There's all sorts of social mayhem around this, but it's simply unfair to women.
What gets me worse is dynamically changing the page title to catch your eye. Ex. something like:

let documentTitle = document.title;
let documentTitleWithNotification = "(1) " + documentTitle;
let timeDelay = 1000;
function makePlainTitle() {
document.title = documentTitle;
setTimeout(makeNotificationTitle, timeDelay);
}
function makeNotificationTitle() {
document.title = documentTitleWithNotification;
setTimeout(makePlainTitle, timeDelay);
}
makeNotificationTitle();

My peripheral vision is a sucker for motion.
And all the U.S. had to do is make drugs illegal, and it would disappear. (Or not.)

> other than the anonymous money flows

Are you saying that anonymous money is immoral and should be made illegal, and in the process dismissing all use cases that benefit from anonymity?

And no, cryptocurrencies are perfectly legal in most of the world.
The first time this happened, I was wearing a Series 3 Watch, and the last time it happened, I was wearing the Series 5. It's accurate enough to know from daily wearing/monitoring, that my heart rate was irregularly elevated. That's enough for me.
You are over simplifying it and dropping too many important details so that it ceases to be a real system and becomes some weird system susceptible to DoS.

In high performance scenario it would be more like this: process shares fixed ring-like buffers with the kernel where it can put messages, messages it can't put there it either accumulates locally until it can or just drops, there would be some kind of polling or event notification mechanism to know when it can put and get more messages into and from shared buffers.

P.S. I can't access the paper, but presumably they are making the same faulty assumptions if they claim the same things you did.