skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"...bought most of the bitcoin in late 2011 and early 2012 using cash he made growing crops of cannabis."

More like a couple of thousands.
The amount of effort and time required would just barely be covered by the profit. You also have to store it until sale. That's probably what keeps this from becoming a widespread scam.
I suspect what you consider a 'gray area', spec considers the whole point. What is the specification for this function? It has a signature and a return value and some behaviour in between. Spec verifies all of that together because it doesn't make sense to do it separately.

Also I'm not sure what you mean about run-time, you can and should use spec as part of your development workflow.

Other two points are totally fair though, and the macros are part of the reason it never got out of alpha before a rewrite.
The big problem with H-B11 and other heavier fusion processes is that the energy radiated away as brehmsstrahlung is greater that the energy gain from the fusion. This was worked out by Todd Rider in his 1995 PhD thesis.

Yeah, in theory it might be possible to capture the brehmsstrahlung and pump it back into the reactor with sufficiently high efficiency, but we're pretty far away from that.

That being said, all these fancy fusion reactor schemes are interesting. Just make them work on boring old D-T fuel first, then lets see if these other fuels are usable, no?
I am currently evaluating whether I want to use the generators for a typescript node.js/react project.

Which typescript generator are you using? Do you use typescript on the backend too and if so is it easy to keep the generated type definitions in sync? Also for backend what do you use for json schema validation?
> A for tax brackets, why do they exist. I think our mathematics is advanced enough that things like tax brackets could be replaced by continuous functions. So its either by design or by lack of imagination that these discontinuities exist.

Progressive tax brackets do not have discontinuities such that your income net of income tax becomes lower as a result of moving up a bracket.
I saw news about this on The Guardian and it was the first time in a while where I was truly amazed by an ML-related discovery. This kind of thing is incredibly exciting and I hope we continue to see similar discoveries in ever more wider fields.
Still have the same problem with my private account. Exactly the same reasoning. Wanted to just delete the account after that, but I would need to login and they ask for my telephone number which they certainly will not get. Well, they already have it on my business account but that is beside the point. Tried contacting support, but you need an account... even wrote a fan mail to SNadella@microsoft.com (spoiler: no response).

They would be legally obliged to delete my account, but at some point I had the revelation that any minute spending thoughts on them is a wasted minute of life.
> People often discover an infestation due to bites

Oh man that brings back some memories, I used to have bites all over my hands and I just assumed its because of mosquitoes although I had not seen or heard a mosquito in the room. 2 weeks after first bite was discovered I saw a bed bug running away slowly because it was full with my blood. I followed it under the bed where I saw a huge colony of bed bugs, I was literally speechless, just could not believe, there were so many of them all living on my blood.
I'm not sure I understand your statement, I think you're missing a word in there.

What I'm saying is that I was deeply depressed and therefore didn't give a shit about myself or the other people around me. And that is the personality trait that seemed to put me ahead of my co-managers.
Time to get out of tech and into starting the next revolution?

We’re not “tech people”, we’re just early adopters. :)
Doesn't have FBSD the synaptics driver available? It's the first thing I install over a fresh XFree/Wayland/libinput install on Linux because I can't work with libinput (no kinetic scroll, acceleration, sensitivety, etc - makes me want to throw the laptop against the wall). Not pissing here on the libinput effort at all - they themselves are acknowleding their deficiencies in their faq and asking for help/feedback.
You're blaming customers for bad company policies.
> a top successor for Common Lisp

I know that some well-known Lisp hackers left for Racket, but I've never been clear on how it is really a successor. It does have a great community and ecosystem, but it inherits a ton of the mistakes of Scheme, is unspecified and as such is susceptible to derailments like Rhombus. I think that performance is not that great either, which isn't necessarily a huge deal for many problems but is for some.

What I am genuinely curious about is: from your point of view, what makes Racket a preferable successor to Lisp (which can't easily be grafted into a Lisp environment)? The two things which leap to my mind are the sane read case and the community mindset.
Someone should do the same thing for lost cryptocoins ;)
Giving people public access to healthcare, education, and food gives them more choices in life- not less.
yawn yet another case of an "exploit" that involves being other side of an airtight hatchway[1]. most/all of the important group policy settings are machine, rather than user. the user group policy settings are mainly with appearance/styling.

Let's go through each of the "implications".

>Single File Code Execution

If you were able to drop that file, you're either that user, or an administrator on the computer. If you're that user, you could also achieve "single file code execution" by dropping a file to the startup folder, or creating an autorun registry key. If you are an administrator, you already own the machine.

>Antivirus/EDR Bypass

possibly, although your payload would still have to get pass behavioral analysis when it's executing.

>Denial of Service

yeah, but you can achieve the same thing by adding "logoff" as an autorun entry.

[1] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/?p=100665, or search for that term on the blog, there are multiple entries.
> Probably still cheaper than trying to impement scalable transactions in higher layers.

Transactions, yes, I totally agree. That's what databases are for: reliably storing and retrieving data. It's where you start doing domain logic that things get tougher, like (and I wish I was joking) calling cross-continent web services from the database and building HTML inside SQL.
I don’t think many people with strong moral-tech compasses join oracle, so the small walk out sounds about right.

When I worked at Oracle no one I interacted with even knew about the shady stuff oracle has and is currently doing. (Except for casually joking about Larry’s eccentric billionaire faults).
Because there is virtually infinite red tape and paper pushing to do it.

There are new, smaller, safer, and easy to build plants that have been waiting approval for years and years.

The US has never had a nuclear disaster but we’ve had countless coal disasters. Oh and we’re living in a climate disaster caused by coal.
Most people here don't like having a MS account, but is it really so terrible? When I log in each day I'll use my AWS account, 2 or 3 google accounts, Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, Slack. You can't use a phone or a tablet without a Apple/Google account, surely having a MS account to use Windows isn't such a big deal.
What about institutions which wish to speak but certainly aren't primarily press? The Red Cross, Unions, Universities, an activist bakery. Their freedom of speech (or press) is protected too. What distinguishes them from the ISPs?
I only had one quarter to measure. We were on track to show a massive reduction, just under the cost of the raises. Had we stuck to it for two quarters or even a year, the trend was that we would've broken even around month 8, and showed a positive return after one year.
The Future of Graph Databases Is Here: Introducing Neo4j 4.0
Here's a video explaining the reaction:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy0kHQASsX8
His MVP argument confuses me. I short, he suggests lying to your visitors, by making a lead capture page that looks like the product already works. He does not address the ethics, the karma or simply the bad business reputation of lying about minor details such as "it works". This surprises me.
Have you done a blind test, can you figure out which one is Ikea and which one is not just by sleeping on them?

The test should be done when both the mattress are new.
I wish we had a team that cared as much for our democracy.
I've tried for the nth time 3 years ago to use Linux desktop (Ubuntu).

It just takes Soo much effort to get things to work. Netflix and deactivate mouse acceleration(which isn't perfect) to name a few.

I love ubuntu server, favorite os of all time. But Linux desktop just isn't anywhere near Windows quality.
I bought two different laptops in January and installed Windows 10. I managed to reach the local account option by entering a Gmail address without a connected Microsoft account when it first asked me to log in during initial setup. At the failure page they added a local account button that wasn't on the previous screen so that I could set up a local offline account.

It still keeps nagging with a notification saying that my Windows installation is not fully secure since I haven't added a Microsoft account. I've disabled that notification, but it may have disabled all notifications from the settings part of Windows, I'm not sure.
What's your desktop alternative?
That’s because you have very few exposition to 1890 writing. When I read published book from a hundred years ago (in French), I’m often stroke by how much clearer it is than say, newspaper garbage for instance. No only in style, but also how they write to inform instead of writing to hide facts.

It’s even more striking when watching archive videos from the 60’. People speak more slowly, are more composed and use wider vocabulary. It might not be as caricatural as the movie Idiocracy portrayed it, but in a way I feel we’ve slided into what they predict.
Shouldn’t it know that 85 is beyond the speed limit? You’d think it would know the laws based on where the GPS is, like in some states above 80 is reckless driving. Seems trivial to make this data available.
I have a hard time following this argument. It's not a tax, it's a limit to benefits. If the government comes along and says

> You need $30,000 / year to live at a minimum in our society. We will make sure everyone that makes less than that gets enough in benefits to make up the difference.

That's not a 100% tax rate for any money earned under $30,000 / year. It's reduced benefits because the definitions of the system (the minimum amount needed to survive) indicate the system only needs to make sure everyone is at a specific minimum level.

You can argue that working costs money (transportation, child care, clothing, etc), and that's a valid argument against working if the amount you make would mean you wind up with less money available for other things.

However, it's still not a tax. It's a limitation in the analysis of cost of living requirements. Calling it a tax is disingenuous.
Yes, including technical cofounder.
I was hired and employed by both companies. They both make use of the same PEO. I’m not sure it’s legally correct to say I only have an “employment relationship” with the PEO.
Off-topic: Whenever I start thinking about json (or xml) I get lost in the turtle tower of metadata.

Like 'jc ls' gives json output with following entry format: { "filename": "[actual-filename-string]" }

Then I start asking: why not simply { "[actual-filename-string]" } ?

But then why stop at keyword value pairs? Why not:

{ "keyword": "filename", "value": "[actual-filename-string]" }

But then why not:

{
{ "metakeyword": "keyword", "metavalue": "filename" },
{ "metakeyword": "value", "metavalue": "[actual-filename-string]" }
}

And so on.

Surely I can't be the only one. Would love to have this discussed, where to draw the line (and why), what's the utility, and so on.
The article says the folks at Google have this short docs to address the concerns:

Scroll-to-text Fragment Navigation - Security Issues

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YHcl1-vE_ZnZ0kL2almeikAj...
You absolutely can use a phone or tablet without an Apple or Google account.
I don't see nothing wrong with using WordPress or Shopify, as long as the content is saved stored as it was designed. Once you introduce the page builder, your content becomes unusable. At least that's how I see it.
> Exaggeration, omission, conflation, and then there’s outright deceit.

That's not bias, that's lying.

For what it's worth, the author's experience certainly matches my own (working as a paramedic). There are a lot of people out there who have significantly underestimated how hard it is to care for a loved one who is slowly dying.
Finding nine is more like luck then finding one. Note that just one of the nine (so far) is validated. If I tell you to roll a six on a dice and you do that’s pretty lucky. If I tell you to roll an even number (I.e., give you wider scope) and you do ... less amazing. They could have lab tested every compound in the set but it would have taken too long. The ML for them to 9. I’m not saying that this isn’t good work. Just addressing the statistical point re 1 v 9.
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You can use Datomic for free for up to 2 peers right? That should be enough for a fair number of solo projects.
Google polywell the US military has been funding this for the past 20 years. There are some issues that might be solved with scaling the device. A company called emc2 was spun off this US military project.
,,It's easy to make a statement correct by making it vague. ''

What's funny is that the last dataset that Google built for evaluating dialogues has exactly these 2 metrics: correctness and specificity.
Wait. I was there. That was you?
It is plausible to run a service on a $5 VPS. Pay $120 ahead of time and you have it for two years. I don't know why you think it would be so fragile. It wouldn't be difficult to run locally either.
Bruce Schneier wrote a bit about tech feudalism seven years ago: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/12/feudal_sec.ht...

BTW, it is entirely possible to use a smart phone without a Google or Apple account.
“He called this in the 70s, he said this would be possible. It's only possible now because these brand new lasers are capable of doing it.“

He knew it would work 50 years ago.

I imagine there are ideas being discussed today that will come to fruition 50 years from now.

... or 30 years. Our choice.
Ask HN: How do you backup your Kubernetes clusters on GCP?
We have been migrating our solution from Docker using the docker daemon to Kubernetes on GCP. Before we would have full machine snapshots incrementally and this would solve our backup needs. With Kubernetes on gcp it seems to be very difficult to backup the individual pods and restore a certain point in time, I've been searching and saw a few commercial options but wanted to ask how you guys backup your "clusters" , "pods" , "persistent volumes" on a large scale (eg. Auto-backup policies, restore procedures) thanks for your inputs
Do German households even have smart meters? To me this is the most important thing in a renewable world. I'd imagine the wholesale market electricity was free but consumers pay a fixed charge that doesn't change even on windy days. The most important thing is changing people's behaviour on the peak cold windless cloudy days when the market price is high people shouldn't be washing clothes or ironing or using electric heating.
You can do that without Graal using jpackage. The only boon of Graal is native binaries and interop. But if you want to ship the JVM the user doesn't need it installed.
Kind of an edge case privacy issue, IMO.

Imagine if the page has 10 parts. Part 1 has an image reference hosted on part1.imagehost.xyz, but loaded lazily. Each part has something analogous, an image hosted on a different domain, but loaded lazily (so, no requests before that part of the page is visible).

If you open the page and read from the top, the browser will open with part 1, Javascript will fire and tell the browser to load part1.imagehost.xyz/image1.jpg, causing a DNS lookup, HTTP(S) connection, and a request. And so on for each part (interestingly this way you can do a timing to see how fast the user is scrolling past each part).

But if the browser directly loads part 8 (the part with cancer in the example), and the Javascript only asks to load part8.imagehost.xyz/image8.jpg, the fact that the browser only asks the DNS for this hostname will reveal to the DNS admin that the reader followed a link straight there.

But if it's some health portal under the evil company's control, it seems like it'd be easier to write Javascript to fire an event to do server-side logging/send an email alert to HR if someone spends a lot of time reading the cancer section...
The science is difficult for a layperson (such as myself) to pick apart, but the above-mentioned publications page[0] links directly to at least one paper[1] which contains some promising detail.

[0] https://www.hb11.energy/news-and-publications
[1] https://aca3d9dd-3b9c-446b-8797-0ba1cdb49ccb.filesusr.com/ug...
This was primarily in a lighting solution, and it wasn't the only problem with that early hw. We noticed lights not coming back online after a firmware update without a power cycle. Since it was very early hw, IIRC it didn't have any shielding, and also IIRC no pull on TCK.

We now see this primarily on 1st/early iteration hw and on prototypes, but checking this proactively have saved us from a lot of headaches of the type "why doesn't it come back online - hw, or something in the update, or what...".
All those things are required because they're online services. You can have a phone or computer always offline, why do you need a online account?
I have been happily using Linux on my desktop for over twenty years. It hasn't always been easy, but it has worked quite well for me and it could for others too.
The creator of YOLO has stopped doing any CV research due to ethical concerns
Fake Goods Sold by AliExpress, Amazon, eBay, Walmart and Wish
Why is this flagged? Stop using a moderation feature as a downvote (or maybe the flag threshold should be raised higher).
My company uses LMDB extensively. LevelDB is a LSM database. LSM is generally better for write workloads over BTree DBs like LMDB and sled. LMDB also has a single writer restriction.
JUXT's Crux database[1] is worth looking at. It's open source and free. It is also an immutable, time-traveling, event-sourced database with a datalog query engine. Datomic is still more fully featured in a lot of ways, but Crux's concept of bitemporality is pretty interesting and something I've been wanting to explore deeper.

[1]: https://opencrux.com/
Ask HN: Anyone pay a recruiter to find a job?
Have you successfully used a recruiter to find a job? If so could you recommend any recruiters or firms?
Why not use images or SCCM? This shouldn't be a problem in the corp.
Global Virus Network Coordinates Efforts Between Experts Researching Covid-19
The google document being used talks about crossing an origin-boundary.

So website with bad script injected is loaded by the user and is able to make requests to a logged-in banking website with time-based/scrolling attacks.
I'd rather not tie something to an account (and therefore my identity) when I don't have to. I don't know what kind of information about my computer use they're associating with me. Windows always worked without an online account before and it's not like Windows 10 introduces must-have features that need one.
I believe the post is satirical, although with some of the points it’s a bit hard to tell.
Millions Donate Through Crowdfunding Sites to Help Pay for Medical Bills
Anything is better than just wasting the energy or "selling" it for a negative price to somebody who dumps it somewhere.
Wow, 2019 is impressive.

I wonder how they managed to tackle the duck curve[1]. Imports?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_curve
It's pretty standard in Western European countries. The employer must primarily provide training or arrange another, more well-suited position in the company. Even as a committed leftist I find that in some cases the rules are too strict, for example when it discourages small companies and startups from hiring more manpower.
Yeah this piece really hit the peak of "lie to everybody and just keep pushing forward on bullshit" startup sentiment that was really big 10 years.

It was a really dark time, we're still cleaning up those messes today.
Because it’s now based on « Chez Scheme » (https://scheme.com).
Yeah, spot on. Totally overengineered because iT's So FaNcY!
It's a common tactic and very sensible. Figure out if you can sell first, if you can't, don't bother. If that bothers you, you probably shouldn't be in the game of running a business at all. If absolute truth is more important to you than a few fibs or a little half-truth, you'll find it difficult to run a successful business.

It's the difference between spending $10,000s making something to find out you're incapable of selling anything, or not.

I've made this mistake, twice too, getting too wrapped up in the dev.

It's stupid to do it that way round. I wasted a lot of money, and have got burnt by a business partner that simply couldn't sell what we made despite making all the right noises.
> When I log in each day I'll use my AWS account, 2 or 3 google accounts, Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, Slack. You can't use a phone or a tablet without a Apple/Google account, surely having a MS account to use Windows isn't such a big deal.

Just because the situation is already bad doesn't mean we shouldn't complain that it continue to get worse ...
debian linux. feels twice as fast as windows and there is zero concern its going to do something insidious.
[citation required] for a lot of these ridiculous claims
Densely populated areas in Finland are typically heated with district heating, rather than each house individually.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_heating

Right now the energy for district heating in Helsinki is a mix of fossil fuels and using waste sources of heat like data centre heat.

Renewable energy sources are currently being evaluated for this, with deep geothermal (up to several kilometres deep) being one source.

https://www.hel.fi/uutiset/en/helsinki/helen-investigates-po...
I'm starting to think all the crazy libre software people are on to something.
If I understand this article correctly: The 2016 law to install smart meters came into effect Feb/2020. Well for those households over 6000 kWh. It's expected that 10% of households will have those within 3 years. https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Intelligente-Stromza...
>When I read published book from a hundred years ago (in French), I’m often stroke by how much clearer it is than say, newspaper garbage for instance. No only in style, but also how they write to inform instead of writing to hide facts.

For this comparison to hold water, you should compare garbage newspapers from each period rather than different literary mediums.