skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think people say "no value outside of speculation, money laundering and crime".

More people can do this but I think "almost anyone" is something of an exaggeration.
Yeah. Also, all of my chipped cards can be swiped if the merchant or network or PoS doesn’t support it. Not sure of the mechanics, but that alone seems to defeat the purpose entirely
I thought VR was a quirky novelty that would never get significant adoption (think 3D TVs).

Until one day I played an airplane simulator with VR. Looking up to the horizon on a dive, looking at the runway when approaching at an angle, gripping my seat when the airplane stalled. Bought a VR set on the same day.
I was under the impression you were trying to indicate that just because Telegram is free, that it's users are paying one way or another. However, agreed that Telegram does end up paying for backend costs but the app could be modified to utilize a different backend.
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Would fincen show up in Russia? And tumblers can hide the source easily. 4m$ is a lot to clean but it’s not impossible.
Define "clean diet" in a non-pseudoscientific way.
That website is cancer. Someone has managed to make twitter look ok good.
That’s an incredibly naive way of viewing things. Not everyone can afford losing their job. Let’s say job loss increases your chance of dying by 5% — not an exaggeration in some communities — 20 jobs lost is exactly the same as one death.

There's a very specific value of human life: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/835571843
Do you think people would be more or less inclined to go to restaurants or order takeout if there's an exponentially-growing out-of-control pandemic sweeping their city?

Speaking of restaurants, there's a funny thing that's happening with them. Ones in residential areas are currently doing OK. Ones in predominantly commercial areas are dying - because everyone's telecommuting.

Lifting the lockdown won't do a damn thing to help the latter. All of those telecommuting workers are going to keep telecommuting [1], regardless of whether or not some politician decides to sacrifice a few million kulaks on the altar of economic growth.

[1] Amazon, for instance, will keep most of its employees at home until at least January 2021 (And will doubtlessly push that date off, again). Do you think any of the restaurants surrounding their offices in South Lake Union are going to get any customers, even if Washington state re-opens tomorrow? Why would Amazon employees patronize them, when they are all working from home?
Which brokerage offers free trades and also extends margin during the ACH period? Robinhood only extends $1k at a time.
The injustices of the past should not be considered license for the future. We must call out corruption while we still have the freedom to do so.
Wow! This is some heavy piece of software... given the managed hosting has something like 20 reqs/sec. Are we back in the 90s?!
I would argue those are different things because there was the threat of violence in the case of a mugging.
I constantly hear talk about Bitcoin not being completely anonymous, but it seems like these ransomware attacks are always requesting Bitcoin. How are they managing the Bitcoin so it's untraceable?
I thought so too. It sounds uncomfortably close to "pleurome" which is a French word for pleural cancer. I'm not sure if there is a similar English word. I looked up pleroma, and apparently it is a word of Greek origins which means the fullness of divine excellencies and powers. Quite an ambitious name.
When I was running some IT for our startup we used FreeNAS with ZFS (and had off site, borg backups), from my understanding we could just get to the last snapshot for the (unencrypted) data? (sorry, no IT admin but developer ;-)
Apparently, at least in the USA, law enforcement has other priorities.

George Floyd was killed over an alleged counterfeit $20 bill.
Learning Japanese pre-covid was basically free, UW holds weekly meetings in the food court for Japanese Conversation (日本語会話）where Japanese students go and language exchange for English.

They're always fun and was my first stopping point to eliminate the freeze. I'd check them out!

There's also the random poster around international district, but italki has been great for finding conversation at 10-15/hr.

There's also the Japanese Center around the same part of downtown, but I always missed their signup period.

Learning Japanese in Seattle is a cinch!
Looks like I'm one of today's lucky 10000.
Sure. Please visit the Gumroad page http://gum.co/f50/f50
I've seen that before in crappy support chats UIs so it's probably just that.
>>democratizing large scale crime

Ah give me a break, I am having a very hard time wrapping my mind around this obsession HN has for hating cryptocurrencies and blockchains. Solution to everything is to ban things we don't like, also while we are at it, lets ban credit cards too, credit-card fraud is close to 30Billion world wide[1].

People tend to focus on the bad about technology instead of all the good it can bring us, yes there are a lot of scams happening, these same scams have existed with fiat currencies too, the same thing happens every time humans come up with a new technology, everything can be used for both good and bad, and for a forum focused on technology if we start dismissing technology just because of a few bad apples what's different from us and the lunatics who run around claiming 5G gives you corona?

[1]https://nilsonreport.com/mention/407/1link/
Just curious how FP is used within finance and banking
Only if you have comprehensive insurance.

I know that well because my car was stolen and I only had liability. Still came out ahead though - comprehensive on that car was horrendously expensive.
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No, I had a brainfart and was thinking of associativity. I have no idea how it happened. Very embarrassing.
Wow, this is fantastic. Thank you for sharing. I wish for an easily accessible, pithy version of this...this idea in viral form.
Going around Chicago I get a sense of disgust seeing people doing outside dining on the sidewalk with no masks that I have to walk by. They're less crowded but they are still packed in as much as they are legally allowed to be. There will be businesses that close, but once there is a vaccine there will be new ones like there always have been. They might be different but people aren't going to stop wanting to eat and drink. If anything hopefully there is a culling of our dated practices like tipping with people realizing how much money they've saved by doing pickup for example.
In your account Preferences, under "Other" there's a checklist where you can specify what languages you want to see on timelines. If you don't select any, there's no filtering.
There is was post about this not so long ago

https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/significant-performance-differen...
If signed slips are ever needed with my children, I plan on doing what my parents did for me: teach the children to self-sign from day one. Their responsibility, their signature.
Auto bed leveling sensor if it already doesn't come with one. Mine didn't come with one.
Yes, maybe with a little sheep that walked around your windows and teetered over the edges...

https://adrianotiger.github.io/desktopPet/
The difference is people talking about real problems and people making things up. It's an incredibly significant difference.
Could you suggest some resources or further readings on building product roadmap or product management in practical world ?
That implementation of offline transactions is a poor one, so the rebuttal would be too, but the reality is that bitcoin can work with offline transactions.

You can create the transaction object and hand that over. Transferrable literally as a file.

Instead of having over notes with the private key on them.

Eventually that transaction will need to be settled onchain. This can work in a world without a familiar looking ubiquitous internet. Regional internet cafes or even radio stations can settle signed transactions. People can have stocks of transactions and they just go to the cafe to settle those and also get their updated balance.

This capability always undermines a "ban crypto" thesis, or even a "crypto doesn't survive the apocalypse when the power goes out" thesis. It is merely a concept, just like computers communicating to each other is a replicable concept even if the head of state has an internet kill switch.
Market price? Interesting way to put it. You could say that the ransomware issuer has a monopoly to the data and will price it to the level where the company owners have higher return paying and continuing it than closing the company down.
Anyone know what exchange would allow them to purchase 4.5m of bitcoin on short notice? I wonder if anyone can find the ransom payment transaction in the block chain.
It's worth watching Are you being served? (it's a comedy from the 70s available on BritBox). American department stores are not socially the same as the fictional Grace Brothers, but the idea for the store is pretty much the same.
Nice work. Actually working on something quite similar. Have you played with Roam research much?
Cyprus currency is the Euro, hardly a bad local currency as far as value is concerned, and the local residents are already adept in keeping funds in other currencies. Historically, Bitcoin had little marketshare there and made no difference. Are there any evidence of large scale use in Venezuela?
Good call, pwm would be the way to go.

I feel like most hobby projects of mine end like this: bring home a bag of stuff from fry’s, realize while futzing with the breadboard that it’s a much simpler problem than I first thought, wind up with a bag of unused stuff from fry’s because I don’t want to drive back to Burbank to return it.
I was assuming a US-centric view. If it's russia (or any other lax country), all bets are off as you've said.
Thanks for the feedback! I'll try to fix that.
Okay I presume you've never worked in the ad or tracking industry, because the data being sent to DoubleClick without notification is gold for tracking purposes.

This can also be considered anti-competitive behavior. DoubleClick has access to orders of magnitude more tracking data than its competitors.

IP Addresses cannot be used to differentiate devices. X-Client-Data can, easily.

My concerns are:

- Their statement is ambiguous, and does not rule out use for tracking or advertising purposes, nor does it rule out future use for individual user tracking.

- This "feature" was added sneakily. No notification, there's no user disclosure. Nothing. That just screams suspicious, given the value of the data being sent.

- It cannot be disabled. This is the key point. Why can't it be disabled?

- DoubleClick is in the whitelist for no reason other than ad tracking purposes. The amount of websites who make calls to DoubleClick and not GTM or GA must be vanishingly small. So the argument that you want to collect the most data is disingenuous. 87%(!!!) of the top 100,000 websites globally make calls to GA.

My concern is Google has sneakily added a feature that can be used for tracking purposes while refusing to disclose it to end users and making it impossible to disable.
We would still be able to think about a half a Planck length.
Fluffy: Ford trains robotic dog to map its plants
Not sure if this helps for your specific problem but have you tried the typography plugin: https://tailwindcss.com/docs/typography-plugin/
> backup service with hourly backups for your enterprise without anyone really noticing

Well, except this is similar to #2 as it will likely stand out in the budget - especially the initial setup. IT being a cost centre has to fight for every penny in most non-IT-centric organizations.

Plus, the hackers will still threaten to release your corporate data (i.e. emails, client info) which would compel most companies to pay-up.

Bottom line: every company needs good backups, intrusion detection, and system hardening (with 3rd party review).
I happen to think that most of the research is crap. However, I would argue that is not necessarily something need to be fixed. Discoveries of the century often need some bases even though most of the bases just serve as background support.
I can add a script tag via the CSS. I suppose it's not much of a security risk. Might be wrong though: https://brick.do/c9878660-42ed-4b95-93b6-10a761488b5a
>Do you think people would be more or less inclined to go to restaurants or order takeout

At very least, it would help.

>if there's an exponentially-growing out-of-control pandemic sweeping their city?

yes case its growing because there is more testing but for majority the case its either asymptotic or only mild symptom.

>All of those telecommuting workers are going to keep telecommuting

Sure but doesn't mean they won't go to restaurant. I'm wfh but still go to restaurant.
Do you prefer analysis over algebra? How do you eat your corn?

(I prefer algebra and Haskell. But I like Lisp well enough.)
You could... I guess language designers generally avoid those types of optimizations since it can bring about unexpected results. As in, if syntactically the code is using one order of operations and semantically the code is using another order of operations, even if it's documented, lots of programmers would stumble into difficult to find bugs and be surprised by this behavior. Or worse, just get wrong results and never even find out it's wrong.
Decentralized Finance on Ethereum. Blockchain always gets snarky comments on HN, but it is a rapidly evolving space. Whereas the 2017 bubble was built on token ICOs and hype, what I'm seeing now is advanced financial products including decentralized money markets for car loans (https://defimoneymarket.com/) and fractional investments in tokenized real estate (https://realt.co/). Stablecoins (tokens that trend towards the value of $1 USD) have also taken off in a big way, with Dai being one of the biggest decentralized examples (https://makerdao.com/en/). Lending platforms such as Aave (https://aave.com/) have created markets for various tokens, including stable coins, paying out variable interest on deposits.

User-friendly apps have cropped up that enable people to easily save and invest their stable coins and earn interest, such as Argent (https://www.argent.xyz/). People are creating Social investment strategies around tokens and pooling their funds together on TokenSets (https://www.tokensets.com/), these are basically social ETFs.

There are no-loss lotteries that simply invest the pool of funds to earn interest and then one lucky staker wins the interest (https://www.pooltogether.com/). Decentralized funding of open-source Web3 projects (https://gitcoin.co/).

I can really go on and on, I'm not even covering some of the developments with Non-Fungible Tokens, gaming, governance, etc.

Here are a couple newsletters I recommend for following the space:
https://thedefiant.substack.com/
https://bankless.substack.com/
People underestimate how valuable copy/paste is...
The net taxes paid is lower if an employer can avoid paying social security and Medicare taxes. Taxes on corporate income are lower (especially if the corporation can find a way to route that money to capital expenditure).
Nothing wrong with applied math. It's still math.
>IIRC living into the 40s or 50s was typical for an early human that survived to adulthood.

>60s or 70s not uncommon.

I would love to see the evidence you're referencing.

> Life expectancy being 25 doesn't mean nobody lives past 25.

You're absolutely right.
We used Tailwind for our newly launched SaaS, so thanks for that!
Yes I tried it out, except it's extremely alpha at this stage. It's not at all easy to customize.
By your logic, bank robbers are simply a manifestation of market forces. What did you expect to happen with all that cash in one place with no armed guards?
SpaceX is a no nonsense execution machine. Kudos engineers. You make us proud.
Perhaps greater memetic popularity?
From what I an tell, this is the goal of matrix.org - though full federation and identity portability is not there yet.
> bitcoin is used but it is increasing difficult to cash out in a large way.

But its not? You can convert 50 million usd worth of bitcoin in one order without moving the market more than 1-1.5% and have a wire transfer to your bank account same day. This happens all day every day, with the markets getting deeper year by year.

Trash exchanges for retail have nothing to do with the infrastructure actually out there. If you are moving anything over 4 figures you shouldn't be trying to use retail exchanges. They're trash, slower, randomly flag stuff, and have higher fees.
Irrelevant. HN is not "social media." You're making an extraordinary claim but cannot provide extraordinary evidence.
How do you get more podcast reviews?
Distance is an issue. And it's unlawful in the United States to encrypt ham radio traffic.
No one's really monitoring CB much anymore though.
doesn't make a difference. it shouldn't do that without user confirmation
More SNARK work. I don't know how I feel about this; SNARKs are as simple as SAT solving and as prone to misexplanation as monads. Still, maybe they are the way forward; after all, anything which encrypts a TM efficiently offline is going to look something like a succinct non-interactive certificate.
The article is too long.

People should just use common sense and do what I think is right.
What specific outcomes should, in your view, be illegal?
> Having written my fair share of non-trivial Emacs Lisp (and a small share of Common Lisp; I’ve maintained Common Lisp systems) and my fair share of non-trivial Haskell I think I’m in a position to judge.

While I prefer Haskell, judging Lisps by Emacs Lisp isn't entirely fair. It's probably the worst Lisp in somewhat wide use.

('newLisp' is worse, of course. But thankfully no one in their right mind uses it.)
“Low-shampoo/soap” and “shower less” often appear together. Specifically on the matter of shampoo, I think it’s necessary to manage oiliness. Maybe if you have lots of hair, shower every day, and groom well, you can get away with less frequent shampoo use. For most people, especially men, it’s better to be safe and just shampoo every day.
The concept of "smooth" is fairly rooted in reality, right? This is one of the concepts that a continuous set of numbers like the Real Numbers can accommodate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoothness

If it turns out that reality is actually jagged at the quantum scale that doesn't mean that our conception of "smooth" is void.
(This is what I have been told. I don't work in fintech)

The old inner-core of most finance companies is a small body of code for the ledger system, which has to meet finance regulator approval. A lot of banks have greybeards who coded this in COBOL, hanging on by a thread. The newer banks have to meet the same level of QA assurance on the code to get certified.

Strongly typed languages with some assurances over data states can be beneficial for arguing about correctness and compliance. So re-implementing, or new banking, looks into it.

Quant statements about investment make finance people ask "show me how you can be so certain about this" because the inferential chains to justify investment make them nervous. FP means a lower bar to saying "I believe this" when you try to make them believe it: its demonstrably tighter code.

The obvious google search leads to:
* https://www.risk.net/risk-management/6395366/functional-prog...
Uhm, its the tropics? My non hdb property has those guys and there is nothing you can do about it outdoors.

But then again people probably expect some foreign worker to come and hunt them individually while taking to the internet to complain about there being so many foreign workers ;)
In these two instances we have about the same amount of synchronous video calls on a weekly basis, so I don’t think there’s a difference there. I do agree that in general teams have too many synchronous calls that could be done via email or Slack messages, but as that factor did not vary among these two teams I think it’s a valid apples to apples comparison.
Simply put, I love a slide rule. My dad gave me mine for my 17th birthday, 48 years ago and I’ve treasured it ever since. It’s the Pickett trig model and it served me well into my 3rd year of college as a EE. Its simple to use after you’ve been trained and totally reliable. It can also be quick as your skill using it develops. It sits in a drawer today but I take it out occasionally to play with. It truly is like a friend.
I've got a friend who does red team work as a CIA contractor for both terrorism smuggling and drug/human smuggling operations. And at least based off of conversations with him, crypto currency isn't quite the win that you're portraying. If you're in any country where it can be converted to cash, you're also in a country where it still needs to be laundered. And that means that no matter how quickly the transaction took place, converting to cash is gonna be a long haul, and it gets riskier the longer the haul.

The one area where he claims it is an enabler is as a medium of exchange between criminal organizations. It's easier to transfer large quantities of currency and easier/cheaper to verify validity, than the traditional method of brokers and illicit escrows (nothing like the briefcase handoffs you see on TV).

But those same qualities that enable those types of transfers also enable transnational transfers of currency between nations that do not have agreed on standardized electronic methods. And I'd view that as an overall win. I'm also of the opinion that on a slow and steady long haul, cryptocurrencies will eventually take over the role of the US dollar as a trading base currency. Which would also be a win in my opinion, with respect to geopolitics.
I see. Yeah, sounds like a one of the Dactyl Manuform's is in your future. :-) Given the parametric nature, it seems like you be able to tune it to your specifics.

For me, on the existing flat thumb ergos, hitting the thumb buttons with the side of the thumb actually feels normal to me in terms of thumb & wrist motion. The primary issue is the angles and arc of the splaying of the thumb to hit the keys without having to contort my thumbs any. This is my biggest issue with the Kinesis Advantage and ErgoDox.

The second biggest factor is that the tall Cherry style switches and keycaps requires a lot of travel distance for activation. One the more recent ergo boards, I've switched to lower profile switches and that makes a non-trivial improvement as well. My upcoming build is with the choc minis + low profile keycaps but with heavier springs so they feel more like the last generation of the 17" MBP keyboard (as opposed the crap that's Apple's done with their recent keys).
Cadbury's are reducing the size of some chocolate bars in the UK but in an insult to our intelligence put out a press release saying it was to "help combat obesity". They didn't shout so loudly that they were keeping prices the same.
I am sorry I am not sure I understand you properly. What do you mean ?
It’s decentralized censorship. Run your own and you’re free to accept anything you like. Be warned that if your instance’s about page says you’re all for “free speech”, a lot of other admins will casually block your entire instance if you and/or your users start violating their rules of behavior, what with a general tendency for “free speech” instances to end up as havens for trolling and racism.