skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are certainly some trust issues with Tether, but in this case I don't think that exchanges could easily roll back Omni transactions unless they were to fork the Omni protocol. Omni transactions happen on the Bitcoin blockchain - they are effected by extra data in otherwise normal bitcoin transactions. In order to roll back the Omni transactions you would have to either (1) roll back the underlying bitcoin transactions or (2) convince everyone who runs Omni nodes to update their software to your branch which discards the transactions you wish to roll back.
I just looked at the dining options in John Day, OR. I see a pizza place, a Subway, and a Dairy Queen. That covers my needs :)
Bridges along the eastern border of West Germany were at least be built to be rigged with explosives too. What looked like drain covers were actually the lids of the explosive chambers. For pictures see [1] (article is in German).

[1] http://www.sperranlagen.de/bruecken.htm
Symantec acquired LifeLock [1] in Feb 2017. That company had been around for more than a decade before.

So I guess they figured LifeLock has the most brand value and "meaning" (well other than Norton)?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LifeLock
This makes for an interesting comparison to Japan. I’ve lived in rural Tokyo for about two months, and local produce is a thing there. The produce doesn’t need to be sold at a market. The farmers just sell their produce on the roadside, right next to their plots of land.

This is also true in some places like semi-rural parts of Dongguan city, Guangdong province of China.
And from 1200 to 120, and from 20k to 3k, but today is 9k, so on the average year-to-year the price was always on the rise. You do know there are right now more millionaires on Earth then the total number of bitcoins that will ever be. So when bitcoin going to be all 21 millions mined, there will be not enough for all millionaires to buy one. Let that sink.
Hmm. Okay, so my incorrect assumption was that the test has to be correct. In this process, it is okay for the test to be incomplete.

I've been pondering why this feels so counterintuitive to me. I think it's because, in traditional testing, the test is treated as authoritative. Your test is supposed to be 100% correct, and then you make the code good enough to pass the test. The word "test" suggests a teacher grading an exam: the teacher must be 100% correct.

So, I wonder if it is helpful when explaining this approach to explicitly set aside this assumption. The program and the test can both be incomplete. Would it be an overstatement to say it seems like the test and the program have more of a symmetric relationship, rather than an asymmetric one?

Thanks for taking the time to explain this!
If I didn't know anything about Norton, I'd expect NortonLifeLock to be a company that sells electronic tagging ankle bracelets and such.
>I’ve lived in rural Tokyo

Did you mean to say rural Japan?
Indeed! One has got to appreciate how words in the English language are not always (read: never) the best way to describe math.

By the way, this reminds of the series 1/n^s and the fact that the sum converges exactly for s > 1, but diverges for 1/n. Personally, I prefer to call the latter s = 1 case the infinite pizza series, since it can ensure that you have free pizza for the rest of your life by choosing an interval for n large enough to be ~1 in the sum; every day.

And by the way again, this is also the Riemann Zeta! [1]

[1] Provided that complex exponentiation is explained to you in a way that doesn't lead the same sensational misgivings written about Heisenberg uncertainty in Medium articles...
> The extremes are a product of the ineffectiveness of more measured tactics.

You can use that logic to justify _absolutely anything_.

The extremes are there because people performing them actually like performing them. They do it because performing the extremes gives them status and power over others -- sometimes real, sometimes imaginary. They do it because it costs very little and it feels good and it can sometimes bring completely outsized rewards (career, uni degrees, money, fame, etc.).

It was true when people added names to Sulla's proscription lists in 81 BC. It was true when people reported their neighbours as 'kulaks' in 1930. It is true now because nothing really changes under the sun.
> The team collected the uranium-loaded rods with a magnet and stripped off the uranium, allowing the tiny robots to be recycled.

So it appears as if these MOFs capture the uranium and then can be collected.

From the title I expected the micro robots to actually get rid of the material. We still need a way to process the collected uranium and find a way to extract the MOFs from groundwater in case of leakage.
Yes looked at annoy previously and it is really impressive. Will probably revisit that as part of the solution here. You did interpret my use case exactly right. Thanks for the reply and especially for the links!
Mine https://wenbin.org/
So the conspiracy is rather that the delete button simply doesn't do anything?

I don't think that would go down well for the prosecution if you ever ended up in court.

The reality is that 99.99% of users never even open their account settings, let alone micromanage their identity's state across dozens of platforms. Google wouldn't even notice if all hn readers deleted all of their data and deactivated their accounts tomorrow.

The most reasonable thing for them to do is to actually delete the data, and avoid all headaches. It's the more profitable move. You look like good guys and avoid legal problems.
A city’s worst heat hits low-income residents
Let those 11,000 scientists kill themselves to set an example.
I'll start: http://sapandiwakar.in

I write posts there about the things I learn at work. Lately, I have been writing some fiction stories as well.
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Did you mean UPS brown?
Why would I want to stay with some rando on vacation?
On 'Mellotron Variations,' a 1960s-Era Instrument Makes a Comeback
Kind of like Allied Universal, super descriptive name for a giant private security company (e.g. security guards).

It kind of has the same cadence as like a Weyland Yutani, like its vaguely descriptive implied conglomeration portends a nebulous overlord.
Many of the problems that we have are not so simple as finite resources. It's like those glib articles about how we could completely solve world hunger with a mere $50 billion or whatever.

There is plenty of food and money to go around, but the complexities of getting it there, navigating the politics, culture and myriad of other issues are the real barriers.

Which is why it is so short sighted to think we should only spend money on the most pressing issue first, until it is solved.
I thought this name is a joke. But it's not April 1st. So I googled it, and it's not a joke. Broadcom bought Symantec's enterprise arm, and this is the consuner remnant. The name is for real.
Sounds like they just wanted attention
LaTeX coverage is as much as I need, and it renders to SVG when exporting as HTML. You've got yourself one more user!
> I think people (and advertising revenue) would move to a different platform.

That may be, but that's not what I'm asking, I'm asking whether they would still be criticized for censorship. I think probably so?

Your point about reddit is an interesting one. You're right that they don't get much grief from lawmakers on the censorship question, but I suspect that has a lot to do with unfamiliarity. They have certainly gotten lots of grief from denizens of the internet for their moderation policies over time.
How does Google manipulate people through advertising?
Yawn!
One more thing: I tried the different hashes that would run on my system (some had a dependency on opencv-contrib that was not met, and which python -m pip couldn't find) and found they aren't what I'm looking for. They may be good at finding different versions of the same image, but what I want is more like environment similarity. So that two pictures taken on the same street would be closer than a picture of the street versus a picture of a forest. They don't seem to be tuned for this task at all. So, my search continues. Let me know if you have suggestions on this as well.
Xerox is planning a cash-and-stock offer for HP
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8979051
If we do that, people will say that we're trying to protect FB by replacing a news article with a corporate press release. Is there a better third-party article?
No. But there are alternatives to moc like: https://github.com/woboq/verdigris .
Complete Guide on Setting Up Hibernation (Without a Swapfile) on Linux
"The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night."

Nietzsche
This is a post I made on Reddit showing how to properly set up hibernation on Linux. The information seems mostly fragmented or incorrect right now so I compiled the information into one post. If anyone has any suggestions for good places to write this information, please let me know.
Lots of browsers use chromium, now including Microsoft. It’s all open source apart from Widevine, so the “deal” you must mean is Google paying for most of the engineers. With the new Microsoft Edge out, this deal is less of a risk for Brave or any small chromium-based Browser, but the risk was always low.

It is misleading to equate open source with paid search deals of the kind Mozilla has with Google. Brave has no such deal and is not likely to get one without leverage via market share or other scale advantages.
Every privacy advocate I've met seems to be most incensed at Facebook over Cambridge Analtyica. To recap: CA built a quiz app that recorded data that your friends shared with you; many users installed this quiz app and accepted the "share your friends' data" permission.

Facebook didn't share your data with Cambridge Analtyica; your friends did. Facebook was just the medium.

With a distributed social network, there's no feasible legal or technical means of stopping your friends from installing another Evil Quiz App. It's barely possible to stop with a centralized system - it's slowed down only because FB put enough friction in the process.
Consumer debt (auto loans/credit cards) spooks me more than corporate debt, since that's the tentpole that's kept up spending with stagnant wages. Auto loans are especially sketchy, it's way too easy to buy a car you can't afford.
I second that, eBay API is hot garbage and their staging is years out of date.
You're not understanding the math here.

RobinHood is essentially lending unlimited money to the teenagers in question. Assume, as an oversimplification, half of them will win big, and half of them will lose it all.

For the wins, the teenagers will keep it all, and for the losses, RobinHood will have to pay for it, because the teenagers don't have the money and will declare bankruptcy if RobinHood tries to recover it. This is a net wealth transfer from RobinHood to the teenagers.

The net wealth transfer looks like this:

teenagers: +lots of money

traders on the other side of the transactions: approximately +0 (wins and losses cancel out)

RobinHood: -lots of money

You can play games with which money comes from where, but you can't deny the way the money is flowing on net.
Regardless of how many developers have "improperly accessed user data", you can do a lot of stuff as a regular person such as tracking how long all your friends sleep:

https://github.com/sqren/fb-sleep-stats

After I found one of my friends doing this, I quit FB (this reason among others).
Molt: More or Less Tcl in Rust
Can you please point me to the references(books/online archives) please.

I see this happening in a few places in the world and have trouble getting people to understand that someone like a Hitler/Nazism doesn't rise unless the people are complicit in it.

"The people get a leader in their own reflection."
As usual, the process is already well underway. Birth rates are dropping fairly rapidly, and we are pretty close to seeing total population hit equilibrium and maybe even start declining.

Growth rates of 1.14-1.12-1.08 and lower, any predictions when it drops below zero? This site pegs it at 11 billion. [1]

Seems like infertility will be a major contributor, combined with technology, income distribution, and massively changing roles of women.

Children are all at once the best thing you will ever do, your greatest joy, tremendous pains in the ass, and terrifically expensive. I highly recommend it, and highly advise against it!

But seriously anyone who would sign a letter saying we need to reduce population as a solution to climate change doesn’t merely lack imagination, they are actively damaging the goal to which they claim to aspire.

The way to fight for climate change is to recruit an ever larger plurality of humans to voting with their dollars and their voices for products and technologies and investments that make the Earth better. The way to fail is to alienate people with bullshit like population control and straw bans which betray a political agenda beyond mere climate.

[1] - https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2019/06/2019-Revision-–-W...
When I was a whippersnapper 15% down was considered pretty low. These days you can get pre-approved with less than 10% down and no validation that your downpayment isn't a loan itself. Kinda crazy.
What really matters is the effective marginal tax rate.

So it doesn't really matter whether we means test taxes only, or whether we also means test cash benefits. The former is simpler, as you suggest.

You can make the latter work without weird edge cases; but it's more work to keep everything consistent.

(Income tax is paid as a function of income. In that sense, it's already means tested. For the argument I am making is doesn't matter whether that function is linear or convex, ie whether we have a 'flat' income tax or a progressive one.

A tax that's fixed per head would not count as means tested.

Whether you'd want to call a sales tax means tested is debatable. Your absolute sales tax burden goes up with your consumption, but not directly with your income.)
http://archive.is/zl4v3
I thought it was nuts when BTC crossed the great Rubicon that was $1/BTC thinking how could this thing I generated on my laptop be worth more than a real dollar? I sold then bought in again after Mt Gox. I get the same vibes today it might take 10 years but nothing is different now, Bitcoin will be $100k eventually.
I'm waiting until shit hits the fan to put all my cash into the market, personally.
I also use Ting! Never met another person that used it. Hands down the best service plan for people that don't use much data/text/minutes. I recently switched my wife to Mint Mobile because she uses a lot of data, and so far that has been a good experience.
Honestly I think it's a silly word to use for features. In math orthogonal means roughly "at right angles" or "dot product equals zero". When two things are orthogonal it means that they are unrelated so you can deal with them independently which makes things simpler.

In describing features orthogonal is basically jargon for unrelated and adds no additional clarity imo.
Having it be a tuple would require variadic generics, wouldn't it?
The space to breath argument is interesting. I like Elm because there is no room to “breath” in the sense you can’t do all the bad old JS stuff. That’s what makes it useful: Guarantees. In other words way fewer bugs where something weird happens and no one can fix it.
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Computer-generated writing will never replace the human kind
Bringing Google AutoML to 3.5M Data Scientists on Kaggle
I'm not sure if Nat'l Semi died or not. They became a division of TI which is currently trading near its all-time-greatest valuation. TI is one of the most valuable companies on earth. Before the acquisition National had healthy profits.
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You speak only of mortgages, but very many British subjects would have had deposits as well and would have gained through the interest rate hike.
"Faking" is the wrong word then -- more like "emulating".
Just to clarify, Brave blocks tracking not ads, and so does what @roca advocates — but we have always done it by default, and we block more tracking than Firefox belatedly does. What’s more, we include an optional way to support your favorite sites and channels. See https://batgrowth.com/ for results so far.

I’m curious what ads you want to block that effective tracking protection does not block as an effect of blocking scripts that both track and (via generated scripts) place ads. Thanks.
If the other party is not so innocent, I believe that counts as market manipulation, which is highly illegal.

There's not much incentive here to do that, anyway; it doesn't increase your expected value over the original coin flip.
Seneca also said that "Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life."
Show HN: Headless Kubernetes on 15 Raspberry Pis boot in under 8 minutes
AI Researchers Develop New NLU Benchmark for Chinese Language
Because the primary documents are better, more definitive evidence than his expertise. But his expertise helped guide reporters during the course of the investigation:

> My colleague Jessica Silver-Greenberg and I published the results of our investigation today. The first draft we filed had quotes from many of the dozens of lawyers and other sources who spent hours, sometimes days, assisting us. But the strongest sources for our months-long reporting were the primary documents themselves — court rulings and testimony. Once we had those, the voices of the people who led us to them were no longer needed.
Their "motor" is just a bit of platinum, which makes bubbles in hydrogen peroxide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6nGjRB1_s4

I wonder how much H₂O₂ is required per liter of H₂O?
Blockchain is raw garbage. The bitcoin network ALONE undid every single bit of good we achieved in terrestrial-used solar energy over 40 years, literally every gain from that wiped straight out in less than two years. Ethereum was #2 as far as energy usage goes.

We had this back in the 70s, FWIW. It failed as a miserable hunk of garbage then, it's failing as a miserable hunk of garbage now by all metrics except how efficiently it parts fools from their money.
Unfortunately I don't have more details; it's something I heard a few years ago from a Chinese coworker. He was explaining that quality products can be produced in China, but you have to pay for that quality just like anywhere else. And it happens that when American companies outsource to China, they're often looking for the cheapest bidder.
I was told by a T-Mobile person that they are not closing the T-Mobile stores and the cuts will come from the Sprint side. Hoping that's true since Sprint is absolutely horrific.
I'd rather not know that an article exist than being told "you have 1 free article this month".
>Smart contracts also do not need censorship resistance. People get along fine with the current legal system at least for civil lawsuits.

Really? How can a financially censored person access financial services? If you aren't allowed a bank account then you are immediately cut off from services which smart contracts could substitute for.

A coinbase account can be closed but an exchange built out of smart contracts like UniSwap can't censor its users.

You may not be able to access credit without a bank but you can get a loan on a smart contract money market like compound. You can even use a smart contract to lend money to yourself (Maker).

You may not have a bank account but you can use a smart contract wallet to give yourself bank-like protections such as withdrawal limits.

And so on.
Pay fortunes to lobby against climate action instead of investing in renewable alternatives.
Because it's often an excellent experience and makes the vacation better. I rented out a bedroom in my 2BR apartment in NYC for several years and it was truly a wonderful experience. I had a one-week minimum and therefore hosted almost entirely tourists visiting NYC from overseas (as opposed to random people in NYC who needed a place to crash for a night).

With very very few exceptions, I met warm friendly people. They liked have a local in the same place to talk about plans and get suggestions, I liked some new faces to have coffee with in the morning. Everyone won.
Listen notes is a very useful service, I am a regular user.

what are your upcoming features on the service? :D
You're thinking of the game from Steve Jackson Games, in the early '80s. Later on they made Car Wars, then GURPS, and Munchkin, among lots of other stuff. IIRC it was a science fiction wargame with hex maps and counters, about tank battles.
I stayed in a room in Berlin once. It was nice to get to know a local a bit and get tips on what to go see. If you want a sterile experience, book a hotel.
It's the ratio of false positives and false negatives to their true equivalents.
I recently heard of Terror Managment Theory [1]. Sounds a lot like it.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terror_management_theory
I was a bit underwhelmed, while some of the voter suppression stuff was pretty abhorrent, I thought building personality profiles and launching targeted ads was pretty mundane at the end of the day.

The next level of discussion that interests me is why social media manipulation is so powerful in the first place.

If people's beliefs are so heavily influenced by who we communicate with, what are the chances that we aren't under those same forces, and is there even an objective point of view in any of this?
http://archive.is/wwOyk
What are latest trends in enterprise applications?
The perfect Linux is Gentoo, though.
Yeah, it runs better.

I've used FreeBSD on my production systems instead of Linux since I started this whole bit 15 years ago. Linux surprises me. FreeBSD, for example, does not. I do not walk away from production FreeBSD systems and have them fall over for reasons other than hardware failure. Full stop.
> I mean how many people can predict when the stock market will crash?

I agree with the spirit of the post - subsidies should be implemented for non-economic reasons and are therefore justified with arguments that say there are other good reasons to pay the price.

But this specific example isn't the best example because the stock market is a competitive human-driven environment where if a signal is predictive people will make money off it until it stops being predictive.

That is quite different from real-world processes where the laws of physics tend to remain in effect no matter how many what people figure out. Eg, resource depletion behaves differently to the loss of signal in a stock market.
I really hope Starlink starts a boom in low orbit, low ping, internet providers... Because that's the only way we're going to see any competition emerge in wireless telecommunications. This merger is unlikely to do anyone good, IMHO, and is very likely going to make prices rise in a few years once the FTC isn't watching them. Look at the very expected level of bullshit AT&T has done with Dish Network's pricing...

If the government wanted competition they'd figure out a way to make starting a new wireless carrier cheap by providing network, power, and physical locations for startups. Reducing the barrier of entry enables more competition; consolidating spectrum into even fewer hands, more wealthy hands, does not.
Uber in fatal crash had safety flaws say US investigators