skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
...because of Arc Reactor and Tony Stark? :)
> Monero swapped to Bitcoin, Monero swapped to Ether, Monero swapped to Tether

Is there a way to do this without going through some central exchange? I thought I'd read that (eg) Shapeshift was now doing KYC/AML checks, so would you still get identified there?
Ask HN: What is the name of the software that parses repositories for metadata?
I read an article some time ago where someone (the writer of this software) scraped a lot of repositories from GitHub to assess the information he could gather.

Can anyone link me to it? Thanks.
and the dealer can always get them into a new/different colour vehicle.
I hear a lot about people having a younger boss but I think that’s more of a HN bubble. Maybe at some startups but the majority of places I’ve worked at or been to have older people as managers and they all have experience.

Once time I interviewed at a place with a few managers that were in their late 20s. Turns out they were the senior employees only having been there less than 2 years. Turnover was less than 6 months, I passed on the job and my schoolmate was there 5 months. The place had a bad reputation.
https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/what-happened-before-t...

"we not only don’t know whether there was a singularity at some point in the very distant, pre-inflation past, or whether inflation was truly eternal, we don’t even know whether inflation occurred for less than a yoctosecond or more than the present age of the (post-Big Bang) Universe!

Our prospects for finding out, furthermore, are quite dim, as — by its very nature — practically every model of cosmic inflation wipes out any information about the Universe that existed prior to the last billionth-of-a-yoctosecond before inflation ended, and our Universe began."

"It may have been eternal to the past, there may have been a true singularity before it, or there may have been something else; as far as our current observations go, we haven’t even conceived of a way we could possibly know."
Ok, are there any wearables left that can be trusted with personal data? I want to use it to track my own activity/heartrate, not to be used and tracked by somebody else for their shady purposes.
the ironic part of offering discounts for yearly subscriptions, is that it gives customers an idea of what profit margins you have for the monthly plan. usually not something you want to do.
From one entry:

> The really interesting part is that the effect is entirely destroyed if you replace "fd 40 fd 40" by "fd 80".

Fascinating...
True, but that level of targeting isn't completely unprecedented. Direct mail was an extremely targeted form of political advertising and faced zero content regulations. (Much of the targeting was achieved by buying magazine subscription data from magazine publishers; you could target households pretty effectively based on which magazines they subscribed to.)
> Which ones? What were their operating costs?

“Each nuclear power plant employs 500 to 1,000 workers. Nuclear worker salaries are 20 percent higher on average than those of other electricity generation sources.” 40 mill x 50 years = 2 Billion dollars just for wages. https://www.nei.org/advantages/jobs

As giant complex mechanical systems over time moving components like pumps and turbines need to be replaced. Due to contamination some of these costs are crazy high.

Insurance is a big one. They need normal insurance for stuff like fires and workplace accidents, plus government subsidized insurance for the rare major accidents that could be horrifically expensive.

While cheap relative to coal they still need fuel which adds up to 14% of operating costs. While U3O8 is $68 by the time it’s ready to be used the costs increase to $1390 per kg (https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/economic-a...) and a 1GW reactor goes through ~25,000kg of enriched uranium per year. https://www.nuclear-power.net/nuclear-power-plant/nuclear-fu... That’s 35 million dollars per year and 1.75 billion over 50 years. (As a sanity check. If it’s 14% of total operating costs then it’s operating costs are 12.5 billion for a 1GW nuclear power plant operating for 50 years. If 12.5 billion operating costs = 30% of total costs then a 1GW Nuclear reactor costs 41.5 billion over 50 years or 830 million per year and at 90% capacity factor it’s 10.6c/kWh which is close to the 12.5c/kWh I have seen quoted frequently.) With reprocessing it’s about only 3kg for 1GW of electrical power per day at 33% thermal efficiency, but without repressing they need significantly more fuel. Unfortunately repressing is not currently cost effective.

They also need the basics like office equipment like computers and supplies, as well as the normal costs associated with buildings like lightbulbs, roof repair, water and sewage etc. Plus the normal taxes etc.

They also need to set aside money for decommissioning.

PS: Digging into those fuel costs where really interesting it’s interesting to see how 68$/kg and 3kg per day which I have seen quoted before gets transformed in a much larger expense.
Yeah, on the two Pebble OGs I owned, they had frequent display issues. However, it turned out it's because the display connector somehow starts wiggling loose or something.

You can actually fix the display-glitching yourself by adding a paper/cardboard shim. It actually works! There's an excellent post[0] that outlines the process. I had to redo mine because it wasn't quite thick enough, but after I did that mine was good to go for a long time. I think you might have to redo it when the shim gets worn down and doesn't put enough pressure on the display connector? Not sure...

[0] https://waynedgrant.wordpress.com/2016/02/01/pebble-watch-sc...
Hmm. I run pfsense, it advertises its own v6 address as a DNS resolver, and I've never had any issues with it breaking. Admittedly, I don't know it isn't just falling back to v4 for a period when the prefix changes. But I did just check and my PC is getting the correct v6 addr of my router as DNS resolver.
I like the graphic presentation but think it would have been better to just show the number of male and female usages of each name over time, so we'd have a double curve with two colors. Showing only the difference you can't see if a name got more or less popular for both genders equally.
I’d say Apple Watch and Apple’s health app.
Intel: 10nm Product Era Has Begun, 7nm on Track
There’s got to be something better than the current model. It’s terribly depressing to know how much energy and time is being wasted in traffic jams. When it’s literally stop and go at less than 10 mph just hooking cars together with ropes and going neutral could save energy and drama/stress.
Monthly subscriptions are donations now?
It seems the paper is about using neuroscience techniques (designed for the brain which is hard to measure nondestructively) to examine microprocessors (which we already know all the physical measurements of) in order to evaluate how effective these techniques would be if we weren't so limited in our measurement of the brain. It's not as vapid as the title suggests.
Because some people need them. Because adding $7000 per year is a straw which breaks a middle class family in the city. Because a vibrant city needs middle class families and wouldn’t work as just an enclave for the very rich, the very poor, and 20-30 year olds without family responsibilities. I’m not saying these reasons trump alternative uses for the streets but they are real.
On Windows, you get a graphical dialog in those cases, but no CLI feedback...
Withings, Garmin, and Polar might be worth looking at; they're in the hardware business and not the data business.
Any voting progress can be manipulated. Imagine trying to do it in the early 1800s. Thus the inevitable necessity of the electoral college...
If there were rules governing political ads in social media, they would look very much like Facebook's policy. At least TV ads (which are more tightly regulated due to the use of radio spectrum, which are public goods) are regulated as to force TV stations to air even political ads they deem untruthful:

https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2019/oct...

From that perspective, Facebook deciding to censor untruthful political ads would be much more akin to ignoring the rules.
You might be interested in StarLogo. [1] It's a Logo dialect designed for simulating decentralized systems and emergent behavior.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarLogo
> That's like saying if people don't like military drones, then military drones will start to have less relevance;

Sure I'll back that up. Thought experiment: if everyone, including all the drone pilots, suddenly magically stand up all at once, walk away, and never talk about it again, then yeah it won't impact humanity.

Is this particular scenario realistic? No. Has mathematic or chemical knowledge been collectively lost before in human history, and been eliminated from society? Yes.

> but some technologies are sufficiently powerful in their own right that it needs only a few people to recognize their power. Then the stress of competition can do the rest.

Sure, those few power can recognize its power, but if it's anything short of immortality, never underestimate the power of every other human being being a Luddite wielding a pitchfork ready to kill over progress, because it violates a cultural norm. Doesn't matter if your statistics can find a cure, societies and collective humans' irrationalities are expert suppressors of technology as both a mean and an end. Look no further than the US stance on nuclear waste reprocessing. The science and power are there. The will of people, is not. Or, look at South Africa and Ukraine giving up nuclear weapons. Power? Yes. Popular will to hold onto this power? No.

> We study these things because we expect concrete payoff, not because of cultural affection.

Exactly, because society values concrete payoff, things like "derivations from first principles" and "following the scientific method". But if society as a whole pressures people to never pursue ideologies along these lines, or turn actively hostile against it (book burning, HDD erasing).

I take this article as an alarming warning. Scientific progress is itself not an end. And it is not an inevitability. I like scientific progress and statistical tools, this article just goes to show how careful -- ethically responsible -- those of us wielding them must be when living in our society. And call out bad actors.

This is why engineering professions have ethics boards. If engineers build bridges and bad actors build bad bridges, people won't trust bridges anymore. And if people don't trust bridges, they don't get used, so more don't get built.

The greatest failure of the "modern" education has precisely been the removal of religious ethics without an equivalent amount of time working to help students develop their sense of personal ethics.
It's disappointing that you were downvoted so much without a response. Really i think you just hurt the egos of Americans.

I believe a stronger Europe and stronger western bloc is key to curbing China. The USA is close to peak economic and military might, but we only have 310 million people. China has 1.4 billion. Extrapolating current trends, it is inevitable that China becomes the world super power. Most likely bankrupting the USA in the process. Similar patterns to USA overtaking the UK, or USSR.

To make a stronger Europe, Europe should federalize its military. Then to make a stronger western bloc, there should be tighter economic integration between Europe and US. This would involve freer movement of people and some kind North Atlantic economic zone. Then the western bloc has close to a billion people powering its might. That is a good counter weight to China. But if everyone deals with China individually, we all loose.
I'd encourage you to think about what you are doing for climate crisis. Nothing else really matters these days.

Is this business model helping or hindering emission reductions? Our climate, history, and society will not treat you well if the latter.

Consider an EV-first approach, working only with dealerships who have EVs (worst case PHEVs) to lease. That will help people decide to switch to EVs, and you can be part of the solution, not the problem.
This is amazing, thanks for all of your hard work! It's very encouraging to see continual effort put into the Erlang ecosystem. I haven't used Erlang in around 5 years so this looks right up my alley for getting up to date with the latest best practices.

As an aside, it's been a little bittersweet seeing all of the attention and momentum going into Elixir. Yes it's great for BEAM and Erlang certainly benefits from those contributions as well. But there's just something so beautiful about Erlang, it deserves more attention than it gets. Thanks for keeping the dream alive!
Think about the reasons why e.g. CORS was invented and implemented, despite XHR requests across domains being a perfectly working feature.
I'm sure lots of stuff gets flagged on Facebook, and in theory they could let people debate it sometimes, but then they still have to make a decision, right? On what basis do they do it?

We have lots of experience with online communities now and it's been pretty well proven that "the people" don't spontaneously organize into well-moderated communities. Software architecture can help make that more likely, but even places like Hacker News don't run themselves - the moderators have to keep tweaking things.

Having some good choices between communities that are moderated differently is about the best we can do.
What's weird is that we don't get any sense of popularity, and a lot of the names here are not very popular spellings.

I suspect popularity would yield pretty different insights, especially if you could see more "sounds like" patterns.

For example, my name: Tristan, isn't on the list, but Tristyn is. Tristan is _much_ more common.

I found this site that also provides some insight that I think is the same SSA data, that's relatively easy to play with: http://www.ourbabynamer.com/Tristan-name-popularity.html

Ratios of boys:girls in 2018:

- Tristan 84:1 3833 total
- Tristyn 2:1 99 total

Similarly:

- Austyn: 342 total, 1:3 b:g ratio
- Austin: 4778 total, 36:1 ratio

It's still interesting, and fun to dive into the different ways you can look at it. It's like, the more "uncommon" the mispelling, the more people are willing to switch gender, perhaps?
Indeed they are! Heh, I got a good laugh out of your comment about Warren :)
Elon Musk Headed to Trial in U.K. Caver’s Defamation Case
In don't want to blow you off, but you really should ask a lawyer familiar with the labor laws in your state.

You don't want to get this wrong.
The Nuraphones are better than the Sonys and the Boses.
The first sentence of reference [0] is incorrect.

> Many, including Satoshi, believed cryptocurrencies provided privacy for payments.

(emphasis mine)

Satoshi's writings indicated that he understood the public ledger he was creating was not anonymous. He even talked about ring signatures as a possible method to add obfuscation.

(Ring signatures is one aspect combined with others that Monero uses to achieve financial privacy. Anonymity requires extra steps taken by the user. Financial privacy ≠ anonymity.)
Yeah, but to set up an AAAA record, you still need the IP address. The usability still leaves something to be desired. At least we should never run out of IPv6 addresses.
North Carolina judges throw out current congressional map
This comes at a good time! I was just talking with my spouse about why you put n-1 in the denominator when you calculate variance. I always liked "because you used up a degree of freedom calculating the mean," but I feel like that's kind of hand-wavy. (Obviously, I'm not a statistician.)
I'm only familiar with the US. If I had to speculate, it's probably better in countries with better bike infrastructure.
I know personally I only break traffic laws when I feel it's subjectively safer for me as a cyclist to do so. There is a legal push in some places for the [Idaho stop](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idaho_stop), which seeks to make this behavior legal in the name of safety.
If the prices are low enough that the yearly subscription could be the monthly price of another, then I can absolutely see this happening.

As it is, the highest yearly amount seems to be $100.
Because he will need it when he himself is running for office.
Nuclear is great in your part of Canada, but where I live in California there are several advantages to solar...

1) solar is distributed. In the past couple years, California has had massive fires caused by transmission lines. Right now, millions of people are without power because the utility can't safely deliver electricity. Distributed solar obviates the need for huge transmission lines, and is more durable in a disaster.

2) utility scale solar is cheaper than nuclear here.

3) There are large earthquakes here that make it less obvious that we should run 70% of our economy on nuclear.
> Let's not forget there were many light, medium, and dark interfaces before the flat design trend took over UI, but since those pre-flat interfaces were almost always built around usability rather than some stark design theory, they were user friendly, worked, looked fine, were obvious, and were almost never harsh on the eyes.

This might be sarcasm, but if not:

Some highlights of counterexamples include...
The Office Ribbon
Winamp
Windows Media Player
Kai's Power Tools
QuickTime Player 4
Geocities websites
Flash websites

... and many more http://hallofshame.gp.co.at/
This was a very effective way to describe it, I've read a great deal about QM and you made it click much better.
They’re integrating with Airlines’ booking systems directly. This will work until you become so big that the airlines feel threatened by you, at which point they’ll cut the API access and implement whatever idea you were working on.

That’s how my bank operates! You can use our API but we reserve the right to shut off access at any time for any reason. Oh look, your customers love this feature you just added? Gee, we need to close your API access for reasons. Oh look we just added this great new feature to our app, don’t you love it?
In my Southern EU country, pizza delivery drivers carry a mobile (GPRS) card payment reader. I never understood why they didn't catch on in the other EU countries I've lived in.
I think you missed the point.

For example, any SaaS can have a feature and decide to remove it, for whatever reason, and that results in a loss of freedom to you. For a concrete example, let's say that Github suddenly wants to add ads to their platform and because some people read and write issue posts with email, they decide to remove that feature so they'll be pushed to use the web interface and see the ads. That wouldn't be possible if the platform wasn't a SaaS.

Just being forced to see ads is a loss of freedom. Software should only serve the user, not do stuff like impose ads on them. Nobody is arguing against paying the software developers, just against not being in control of the software.

> Case and point: what happens when the user in this scenario is using a MacBook Air but wants to compute a large sum of data using a complex, time consuming algorithm? Go out and buy a cluster of systems to maintain software freedom, or pay AWS for some services (they likely offer), SaaSS if you like, to do it for you in 10 minutes for $0.45?

I don't think the argument is against the use of VPSes, but rather against the running of code you can't inspect/modify/control, in the case of SaaS because the code is not running on a machine you control. I imagine that RMS isn't against the use of VPSes where you have control of the code running. So, yeah, rent that AWS VPS, nobody is arguing against it. And if you can self-host a SaaS program (well it might not count as SaaS anymore) on a VPS you're renting, then there's no problem with that either, as long as you have control of the code.
Same! I always wondered if I was the only one. It's a great way to sanitize text, especially when pasting into Powerpoint or Excel. Especially Excel because once you paste something, that formatting does not go away with Ctrl-Z (relevant comic https://i.imgur.com/pwXryVe.png)
Why XML? In the context of the CHM format I suspect because the answer to everything around that time was XML. If XML wasn't solving your problem you needed more of it.
I'm patiently waiting for the day where someone tries to block usage of IPv4 addresses to increase the value of their own, much in the same way is done with actual land today.
And account deletion is somewhat hidden, it's under settings -> personal info -> delete account (at the bottom).

When logging in I noticed there's a consent form the I was auto redirected from. Presumably this is for EU customers only and fitbit don't want to give the rest of the world privacy options.

I do feel silly giving them this data in the first place though, it's not enough to trust a company, you have to trust who they will be sold too as well.
I had to build a hotel booking platform on Amadeus a few years ago and it was a nightmare to work with their API. It would frequently break or start returning differently formatted responses. Also the support was so bad, I felt like I was the first developer the reps had ever spoken with. I hope a newcomer can unseat the incumbents in this space, it's badly needed!
Less so in SourceHut's case, where all of the prices are basically arbitrary and the financials are public.
Automobile’s catalytic converter is not the only use case. Palladium is also used in the many chemical processing applications (as catalyst). Imagine those big reactors filled with this precious metal and you’ll appreciate how expensive it can get.
Native Container Image Scanning in Amazon ECR
I was hoping they remove it from the entire paper. Paywalls slowly make the brand less visible.
For a large, VC-backed open-source startup with many employees, yes, the cloud providers have made this obsolete to a large extent, Open Core not withstanding.

For a single author of a popular open-source product or library, it's still very possible to earn a good living working on the thing that you built.
I recommend using a separate sleep tracker. I was using the Fitbit constantly and got some skin irritation when I forgot to swap wrists before bed. Though, I was using a narrow version which probably made things worse.
Yes, you probably should have a firewall but the sheer size of IPv6 means that whereas I'll have several idiots banging their heads on my SSH services at any one time on IPv4 I'm not sure I've ever had one trying on IPv6 in the years that I've had service available on both public IPv4 and IPv6.

If you set a machine to try just one IP address per second in IPv4 you'll explore a significant fraction of the whole public address space per year. In IPv6 doing that is extremely unlikely to find even a single valid address to connect to in a human lifetime.
Maximum comments on the free plan - is that 200 per page? Or 200 per site? Also is it 200 in total? Or 200 over some time period?

Also, is there a blurb about privacy or how this enables privacy focus over other commenting plugins? I didn't see anything on the landing page...
Hmm I'm concerned that zsh doesn't seem to do this by default.
You can't have Rails in Go.

I mean you can, but "go advocates", would crap on your work with an endless litany of articles about why whatever you wrote shouldn't be used because it's not the "go way". Remember Martini? That's right you don't.

Fortunately for Go, the biggest pain in the ass when it comes to web development is kind of a solved problem with the use of JSON support in SQL Dbs. All you have to do then is un-serialize directly from the DB, which helps getting rid of ORM when building object graphs.