skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't believe someone would even allow a system with that balance to even connect to the internet. It's like filling a car with gold bars, driving it around town, and hoping nothing bad happens. He could have created another wallet, preferably a multisig, created the transaction with the software wallet offline, copied the signed transaction off and broadcast it from another system.

What he did was reckless. Some people are going cry that Bitcoin is unsafe because of this. It's not. You must handle large amounts of cash or gold or other valuables with care.
> Also, the take-off being easier, it's not conceivable that a machine couldn't do it. The reason there is no such machine today is exactly because it's easier, so pilots never need any help.

I don't think it's just that take off is easier, but that it's also more dangerous than landing. If something happens during take-off and the computer needs help, it needs the pilot to step in quickly so you don't have time to do a computer -> person hand-off.

I don't think it would affect this proposal (no passengers on board, and package-only airports can be located far away from things to hit) but worth noting.
Illumos/Solaris does this and calls the snapshot a “boot environment”. # man beadm

Incredibly frustrating if you don’t know about it, and incredibly helpful if you do.
That's a good question. Personally I'd think no, as it's a real-world service (healthcare) that just happens to use a video call, but Apple's now-infamous hunger for services revenue growth may feel differently.
There's a reason why any site dealing with crypto has a dozen labels begging people to double-check addresses, divulge no information to strangers, don't trust anyone, etc. However, warning labels come on any product and people still manage to misuse them. No matter how many labels you plaster about being more careful with bitcoin, people will keep losing it to things like this.
On Fiction and Neuralink
This is a little disingenuous, isn't it? I'm no cheerleader for mainstream media and agree that they can/often manipulate facts or selectively report certain things, but I'm not sure if QAnon is that thing.

Is it realistic to say that QAnon is being covered instead of "COVID or the economic collapse or civil unrest in 100's of cities"? I think these topics still take center stage in reporting currently.

And QAnon is not merely some small internet thing -- many QAnon followers have won primaries, so assuming that in aggregate these candidates have some chance at winning (they do; see GA-14 for example) it's also weird to dismiss them as powerless when they are likely to hold elected office.
Nope: https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/bc1qcygs9dl4pqw6atc4y...

Address mentioned here: https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/issues/5072#issuecommen...
I work exclusively using Blender doing professional product visualization. It’s really an incredible triumph of open-source software.

EDIT: I actually haven’t tried Max or Maya, but then again, I haven’t needed to. Blender’s feature set has been perfectly capable for my needs and use cases.
Only for POSIX shells.

fish: $(...) is not supported. In fish, please use '(echo)'.
which "$(echo $0)"
^

;)
Once in a while, I refer to Hacker News in a job interview, just to understand the cultural fit of the hire.

Same here.
You could say that about anything, really.

There is a small number of people who die in plane crashes today. Historically, before planes existed there were a much larger fraction of people who died crossing oceans by ship. The handful of people who die in plane crashes "wouldn't have died otherwise", but I think the majority of people agree that planes are the preferred (in terms of safety) way to get across oceans, and they are more or less the only choice for civilians unless they want to take a luxury cruise.

Same thing about cars/trains vs. walking thousands of miles across deserts. Overall more lives are saved, but yes, a small handful of people are going to get hit crossing the road/tracks that wouldn't have gotten hit if cars/trains weren't invented.
I'm also very excited for Sorbet. Not because of types specifically (I don't use them and don't plan to), but because I hoped it would give me the same linting experience that ESLint gives me on JS files (unused variables, undefined methods, calling methods on nil, and so on).

The sorbet demo (https://sorbet.run/) is all I could wish for (you can remove the type signatures and see that it would still warn you about the `.barr` typo).

However, it is still a great deal of work to set it up on Rails (Sorbet is made by Stripe, they use Ruby but not Rails), and I couldn't finish the setup because of some gem warnings that I couldn't updated at the time.

Hope to give it another try soon!
> It's mc and the command line.

But does using both not mean one has to memorize more?
As a user of blender on AMD GPUs, they should probably put a little more effort in. Many of the shaders used to render scenes in cycles from 2.82 onward crash, and therefore make it impossible to use an AMD GPU to run cycles.

I'm surprised they don't push their ProRender renderer into the main release. I can't tell if I like it or not
> Couldn't one just flatten (temporarily) the two adjacent faces and draw a straight line across the edge?

You are right; that simple specification is equivalent to what I described. My brain was too temporarily foggy to see the obvious.
In a V4 UUID, 122 of the bits are required to be random, which as long as you're using a good RNG, should be unguessable.
Anyone who works in an enterprise with old code has been working on migrating Py2 for ages.
I posted this a day ago and a great comment worth checking:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24320915
Koronavilkku – official Covid-19 Exposure Notifications app for Finland
This is fascinating.

Honestly , while I found BlockChain & Immutable Ledger disruptive technology , I have zero trust in cryptos.

The amount of scam in this industry is just obscene, unlike banking , there is no such thing as insurance for your wallet or legal recourse to get back your assets, your pretty much on your own and I'm fairly convinced he won't get back his 1.5M$ Bitcoin .

I feel bad for him , but there is very little surprise playing with unregulated stuff.
What is the story about the photos of the russian operatives entering on the airport trying to show?

Nobody, not even they themselves, dispute being on that flight.
Reading this, I feel compelled to repost this old but still largely relevant blogpost:

http://trilema.com/2013/the-story-of-pointless-and-witless/
Firstly, kudos to the authors of Keli. Since the primer to the language begins by examining what is preventing FP adoption, I'd like to add another key reason: performance.

Haskell code can be optimised to run very fast indeed, but resulting optimised code does not look much like idiomatic Haskell at all.
Is the copay due still subject to the 30% Apple tax in this instance?
Newlisp is to Lisp what the New Monkees are to the Monkees.
Different how? They are both ways of making abstract descriptions of an object more concrete, which is analogous to the job of a programmer designing a data structure to concretely describe an abstractly specified computational object.

My point is just that in math, you can reason about an object even if you can't concretely represent it. For example, you can figure out properties of a number or function that you don't know enough about to write down. But in programming you can't use an object unless you have a concrete representation of it, and often getting that concrete representation (in both math and programming) requires a kind of work which is quite different than the work of abstractly describing or specifying it. So it's maybe not always appropriate to call an abstract description of a mathematical object a "data structure", since often it's more analogous to (say) the interface of an object than it's implementation.
So Houstonians have to live every single day (probability of occurrence of "a day": 100%) with an infrastructure optimized for a nuclear attack that happens effectively never. Well, it was somebody's best guess at the right thing to do 65 years ago. But that's the sticky issue with large-scale infrastructure like this. If you get it wrong, or if you get it right but conditions later change, the costs associated with it start to balloon & become astronomical. But the short-term costs of changing it are even greater, so nobody wants to tear the band-aid off, and you're stuck bleeding money and productivity forever. (contrary mixture of metaphors there... heh)
Do Conservative Canadian politicians like to bomb other countries where they have no business.
Agreed. What I wouldn’t give for an Inventor-esque sketch-based parametric workflow.
EUtility Electric Tractor is powered by a battery, not diesel
Definitely. It's pretty much impossible to do parametric modelling at the moment, unless you're willing to resort to generating entire geometry from python.
> I will be one of the first people in the world with an immunity

You might become one of the first. Not all people gain immunity from vaccines. That's one of the things that the phase 3 trial is designed to measure.

Good luck, though. We really need a working vaccine, pronto. Thank you for participating.
Seems it's about client-server APIs, not API design in general.
> We are heading rapidly towards the corollary to “it just works” being “and if it doesn’t, just wipe everything and re-install”.

This was my experience with an issue where my Mac just hangs for 30 s randomly.
Hi! Do you want to add it to my new platform for Alfred workflows: https://www.alfredworkflows.store/
If I were designing a functional language, I'd be thinking about whether data.splitBy or delimiter.split was useful even when not immediately invoked.

Consider this crude csv parser:

using splitBy:

csv.splitBy("\n").map(csv_row=>csv_row.splitBy(","))

using split:

"\n".split(csv).map(",".split)

split was the clear winner here. Given splitBy, I basically recreated split as a lambda.

I tried to create an analog to that where splitBy would come out looking better. I figured that if we didn't know the dimensionality of our data, then delimiters becomes an array of arbitrary length and we could pass data.!splitBy into something like delimiters.reduce. When actually writing that, however, I wound up recreating split again:

using splitBy:

delimiters.reduce((accum,delim)=>accum.deepMap(data=>data.splitBy(delim)),[data])

using split:

delimiters.reduce((accum,delim)=>accum.deepMap(delim.split),[data])
You're the one arguing from the extremely strained logic that because ordering rules exist for strings, this somehow means that C++ vectors have anything to do with mathematical vectors in the mind of the average programmer.

The practical problem is, when you do a lot of work with linear algebra, you would really like to have the term vector to use for its canonical mathematical meaning rather than having it reserved for a data structure which is not suitable for that purpose.
This was my first thought too. Hardware wallets show transactions on their own screen so the amount and destination address can be confirmed on-device before the device signs the transaction, which seems like a great tool to avoid this kind of issue. Anyone that owns more cryptocurrency than a hardware wallet costs really needs to have a hardware wallet.
yeah I live in New York and I definitely went to more protests this summer because they were happening literally right outside my apartment than I would have if I had to deal with driving and finding parking (probably hard if it's a big protest).

I think generally American style suburban sprawl decreases social capital just because you're more isolated, and that includes protests. I think mask wearing is another example.
> banning private property, or withdrawing all armed forces from around the world

US democratic party is not a flock of angels... but they're certainly not idiots.
It's not only jobs. Do you want to watch theater? Opera? Concerts? Major sports events? Do you want to join a club for an obscure African sport? I could go on and on.

There is a reason we've been congregating in cities for millennia, despite having to overcome many diseases which are made worse by overcrowdedness.
IIRC, they actually announced they’re changing how version numbering works starting with 2.90 :)
Do any big banks offer a BTC account?
Ask HN: Captcha Alternatives?
TLDR: I help with a gaming community-related site that is being targetted by a script kiddie, they are registering hundreds of thousands of accounts on our forums to 'protest' a cheating (aimbot) ban. They then post large ASCII art spam, giant shock images (the first one started after we blocked new accounts from posting [img]), the usual.

Currently we use a simple question/answer addon at registration time - it works against all untargeted bots and is just a little "what is 4 plus six" or "what is the abbreviation for this website" type of question. It's worked fine for years and we don't really get general untargeted spam.

I am somewhat ethically disinclined to use reCAPTCHA, and there are some older members that can't reasonably solve hcaptcha easily. Same for using heavy fingerprinting or other privacy invading methods. It's also donation-run, so enterprise services that would block something like this (such as Distil) are both out of budget and out of ethics.

Is there a way I can possibly solve this? Negotiation is not really an option on the table, the last time one of the other volunteers responded at all we got a ~150Gbps volumetric attack.

I've tried some basic things, like requiring cookie and JS support via middleware; they moved from a Java HTTP-library script to some kind of Selenium equivalent afterward. They also use a massive amount of proxies, largely compromised machines being sold for abuse.
My point is that you actively had to seek that stuff out. Now you find it on all of the normalized channels; twitter, reddit, facebook, etc.
Can A.I. Understand Poetry?
I don't like domain squatters, either. They make the world a worse place.

But even if I could wave a magic wand and make domain squatters vanish from the earth, you still couldn't have had quirk.uk. Somebody else would have gotten it first. Maybe it would be an e-commerce site, or a comic book shop, or browser documentation.

The only reason it's not owned by any of them is that it belongs to a squatter who got there first. And that squatter is indeed a horrible person, who nabbed something for cheap solely because nobody else had done it yet. They're the guy who takes every single cookie on the tray and insists that it's their legal right to. The world is a crummier place because they exist.

Honestly, it's not like quirk.cc is any great internet content, either. The web page is a placeholder. I imagine you're doing email with it, or scoping your package names, or something. It makes you better than the squatter. But I'm sure there's some coffee shop going, "Man, I've got so much better use for that name."
64 banks, or treasuries
Yeah lets mess up, the entire light sensitive ecosystems of many creatures, just so that we can have meetings on time. Just wait a second and think c'mon.
Didn’t ethereum fork to rollback a hack they didn’t like?
Appears like it may be experiencing the hug of death. https://play.friendyfire.com/ is returning 404
Yeah this is what blows my mind. I would be paranoid if I had 14 BTC, let alone 1400. When I had (as much as) 19 BTC some while ago I stored them on a Trezor, with the seed on a paper (three copies in different places) in a form that no one would realize it actually was a seed.
It's like history repeats itself. In Weimar Germany you had the fascists who wanted to persecute and scapegoat minorities and immigrants, but then the far left was also super intolerant of the fascists and actually killed some of them in street brawls.

The truly wise group were the conservatives who were repulsed by both sides but willing to work with the fascists.
On the AS400 there's a 'command' object type that deals with both issues the Keli language is trying to address.

- Argument positions are named, help text, validity checking, special values, etc are defined for each argument.

- Command arguments can be prompted within the editor (intellisense).

As400 commands can also be prompted and executed by a user, thus providing a common user interface for running jobs as well.

I've seen nothing like this in the PC world. The two issues the Keli language is trying to solve were addressed 30 years ago on the as400.
The Peirce Quincuncial Map can also be seamlessly tiled: [1].

It's a conformal map, meaning that it preserves shapes. But strange things happen at the four corners of each diamond-shaped tile. If you go around one of those points on the map, you've actually gone around the real point on Earth twice. Also at those points, opposite directions on the map are actually the same direction on the Earth. The technical description of those four points is that they're singularities of the map projection (derivatives of the form d(location on Earth)/d(map coordinate) are undefined).

The map looks fine because the four singularities on each tile are in the middle of the ocean. But if you play around with the projection to put any of the singularities inside a landmass, your head will explode.

Looking at the AuthaGraph may you linked, it has at least two singularities on each tile.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peirce_quincuncial_projection#...
I believe Automattic ran into this one recently. Check that none of the link to the internet allow you to open to a "plans" page.
Yeah, when a rule has all these bizarre apparent loopholes and where the rule-setter needs to examine the implied intent of the action... it might be a bad rule.
Do you mean this interchange:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/22.9676/72.6599
In no way do the suburbs have the quality and diversity of food that any urban core does. 0%. I've been in both, they simple do not compare.
It would be nice to have actual trials that show that masks are effective at reducing transmission (transmission, not stuff like reduced droplet emission etc).

This BMJ blog post[1] argues (and I agree) that if we're able to make trials for drugs, why not for non-drug interventions? Note that it is not against such interventions, but suggests we do trials to better direct public policy.

[1] https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2020/08/28/margaret-mccartney-we-n...
Gee, it would be a real improvement if our modern racist clowns were articulate orators, instead of the drooling simpletons we have to put up with these days.
The sequencer: a graph based algorithm to extract datasets main trend [pdf]
No need to do that - Ceres is a water world and you can haul it into cislunar space from there.
What's the difference between that and a bank?
Wow, that's very impressive performance. Thanks for sharing :)
There are some non-backwards-compat changes regarding keyword arguments.

They aren't that exciting, but they are necessary to eliminate some ambiguous and inconsistent cases, and will be a pain for some codebases. (2.7 already marks as deprecated behavior that will break in 3).

https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2019/12/12/separation-of-p...

I'm not sure if ruby actually commits to semver-style no-backwards-incompat-unless-major; they didn't used to. Either way though, recent ruby minor version releases have seen few if any (?) backwards incompat changes of any note -- nothing of note I can think of since 1.9 in 2007 (which did have major changes. Ironically 2.0 didn't have so much). The keyword arg changes will definitely effect more codebases more significantly than any we've seen in a while.
GM shifts Corvette engineering team to electric and autonomous vehicle programs
20°C – A Short History of the Standard Temperature for Dimensional Measurements [pdf]
The harmful displacement effects of gentrification are really a symptom of unresponsive city planning and zoning. If governments were more flexible and faster to adapt to changing circumstances, gentrification could have been positive-sum.
The Dallas-Ft Worth metro area is more populous than the Houston metro area by about 500k people.
Eh, it isn't just that though. I recently made a big push to try and get a relatively small change through (setting CSS Custom Properties), which is a big blocker for using a lot of web components (which is officially suggested as a way to deal with interop for the language), and will likely block interaction with future web APIs that use custom properties.

I went through and collected up the reasons to do it, distilled it down and gave examples as requested by the core team and got lots of positive feedback from the community, and just got no response from the core devs and nothing happened.

I agree not all changes people propose are good, I like the fact the language is opinionated and doesn't include half-baked ideas, but there is literally no way to get anything through into Elm core, any attempt to do the legwork is just ignored and thrown away. It is a one-man project and that's it, but they pretend that isn't the case.

Honestly, the answer is probably an unstable fork of the language for more experimentation and development, which to be fair, anyone could do¸ but obviously maintaining that would be a lot of work (I don't want to imply that the core Elm team have some responsibility to do it).
Would it surprise you to learn that there are only two mass transit systems in the country more efficient (in cost, energy and carbon) than driving the average American car? And none are even close to being as efficient as driving a Prius.

And as a bonus you have zero chance of getting sick commuting alone in you Prius. Compare that to being packed shoulder to shoulder and hip to hip with 1000 other people. You are breathing on the back of some strangers neck that is inches away from your mouth and some other stranger is breathing on your neck. People are sneezing, coughing, hacking all around you. It’s pretty disgusting. Give me my Prius with my filtered AC, sound system and adjustable seat anytime.

https://theicct.org/blogs/staff/planes-trains-and-automobile...

https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/pa-615.pd...
In space disconnected from any plantary cycle is probably the only setup where a metric/decimal time system makes sense because you can set the length of your 'day' to 10 kiloseconds and have it probably work out ok with humans if you change the lights to trick our circadian rhythm.
Why every time I read about Rust the title is in form "xyz written in Rust"?

For example Unreal engine is a game engine. Not "a game engine written in C++".
you might do well to learn what attributes classical theism claims of a deity before slandering them; any deity bound by the natural laws of the world is hardly in keeping with the claims of theistic traditions of all stripes , excluding some late 20th century evangelical protestants.

and the problem of evil is only significant to lay people; in the study of the philosophy of religion it has been considered a rather weak objection for some time now.
As a long-time Mac and Blender user, I used to be in the same camp. After looking into it though, I found out implementing Metal support would take thousands of developer hours, and knowing that I think I would rather just trust the Foundation to put those hours towards other development that would benefit more than just Max users.
The Man Group has had respectable returns, especially during Coronavirus. Nothing amazing, but certainly not terrible. Regardless, there's more to the picture: Sharpe ratio, vol, correlation to the market, etc
I Don't Know If My Relationship Will Survive the Pandemic
Machine learning peeks into nano-aquariums
Latin is still in use in science, medicine and law, and "the economy" behind it was destroyed some 1500 years ago...
It's surprising that sudden drastic changes in demand have sudden drastic effects on supply?