skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Voyagers Detect an Increase in the Density of Space Outside the Solar System
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An updated envelope with your password(s) in a safety deposit box? Giving your trustee (whom you evidently trust) your password(s) and keeping them updated? Using Death/Recovery systems in existing password managers (ie 1Password for Families “Emergency Kit”, if that’s your jam)?

There are a lot of ways to address this, people just have to do it or face the inevitable consequences of not doing it.
Are you supposing that our nuclear family never ends in a bad way? Or that it ends bad less often than say the traditional Asian model?
We actually just bought this exact model, the S5 Max, and it was a near-instant quality of life improvement.

We can now walk around the apartment with bare feet without any dirt or kitty litter-dust getting on the soles of our feet. The kitchen floor is now always clean, it's really incredible.
The Biggest Wastes of Time We Regret When We Get Older
It's weird how people think gold is like money prime, and will always have value... It only has value because people think (i.e. trust) someone else will value it (Hello cryptocoin traders). In a world where there's no food and you're hungry, gold is worthless.
The most successful farmers have the best scale (10,000+ acres) of just corn/soy/wheat/cotton (depending on geography).

The 'niche' guys may make good money, but their complexity is probably 1x-5x (maybe more) a 'stereotypical' row crop farmers farmers. That has to factor in somewhere.
My guess would be water-jet cut stone blocks. At the quarry you often cut stuff off in big slabs; once you’ve got the slabs at the water-jet, you could cut standard dimension blocks out of the slab and have a pretty modular building material.
Heh... have a +1 =)
It was an older MongoDB in my case. :)
I think you might be getting at MOND here, but so far, some other observations seem to indicate that the lack of observable mass are actually clumps of some type of matter. Because not all galaxies diverge from the math. Many do, but not all.

The inconsistency points towards an actual type of matter as opposed to systematic error.
> A proposed change to provincial inheritance laws, the Uniform Access to Digital Assets by Fiduciaries Act, was put forward in 2016 by an independent group of lawyers, judges and academics, of which Lown is a member.

> It would solve these sorts of problems for Canadians but, so far, only Saskatchewan has made it law.

> "Ultimately we need this nationwide," said estate lawyer Daniel Nelson.

> "This will force these giant tech companies to deal with the problem, because as it stands right now, good luck trying to get a hold of anyone in one of these companies who are almost always based in California."

> Only when Canada has that kind of "leverage," said Lown, will tech companies accommodate the needs of Canadians.

Sounds as though Canada is to blame here.
Keeping weight off is up to your brain, not just willpower, researchers discover
I agree the Dan Rather example is interesting and useful. I also agree that what twitter and FB did to limit the spread of the article is not good. However, I notice a shift from one to the other, from the story being “news outlet presented false info” to “news outlet presented false info, and then something bad happened”.

The producer lost their job and Rather retired. Now we just accept the junk the news tells us, Russiagate and all the rest. (Don’t tell me about the Post is a rag etc, Russiagate went far beyond outlets like the Post)
FWIW, Google has had an "Inactive Account manager"[0] for quite a while.

[0] https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/3036546
I remember that at some point I was using something similar to readability.js as a pre-processor in plucker distiller (a program to spider and store websites so that you could read offline on e.g. PalmOS devices).
I'm sure China will act as an unbiased and fair owner of this data center and won't abuse it's position at all.
Yes you are right. But there are interesting examples in other niches.
This is a plot point in the Guy Ritchie movie "The Gentlemen," where Mickey's (Matthew McConaughey) marijuana growing operation is protected from discovery in part by renting land from broke nobles desperate to maintain their estates. I wonder, is this a common trope in England?
The claim that the "story was fabricated" is strange. The source of the material may be unclear and quite possibly not what was originally claimed, but that does not mean the emails are fabrications - and no one from the Biden campaign has claimed that they are.
"guy" comes from the ancient Roman names "Gaius" and "Gaia". Note carefully how the one name had two gendered forms since ancient Latin is gendered.

As a Lojban speaker, it is incredibly tiring to listen to English-only speakers whine about how gendered their language is. You want everybody to change how they talk, but still talk English; what a half-measure!

There is no such thing as a good person. Your misandry blinds you to this fact.
> He eventually said he found all women of my wife's race "unattractive" and then could not understand why I was upset at him.

Obviously, I am not aware of the full context of the conversation you had or even his tone and this could make a huge difference.

But I have to note that he did not call a whole race "stupid" or "lazy" or anything else objectively racist. He just expressed a sexual preference. What is wrong with that? If your wife was red-haired and he had said that he found red-hair unattractive, would it be offensive?
Maybe my experience reflects how I read

> so I kept politics out of our conversations...

I do not watch news for 20 years. I am fine if someone thinks I'm ignorant but ready to discuss that. Some people look brainwashed, aggressive, they don't answer uneasy question, they attack instead. Yes, OP provoked, I do not recommend this way. But response depends on the person and that was my message.

I mean sometimes I argue with friends for fun. And we know how to stop while it is fun. Persuasion is not fun.
It should be noted that reader mode bypasses browser extensions. So if you use something like uBlock Origin it will have no effect in reader mode.
"They" presumably refers to Subsaharan farmers.
> It’s a bit hard to give one number for the returns as if they are factual. The reality is these investments are illiquid and it’s hard to pinpoint the exact outcome

She should be using the standard way funds (and angels) observe non-liquid valuations on a quarterly basis [1]

Briefly speaking, if the company hasn't raised any new funds in the last 12 months from 'sophisticated investors' (in which case the valuation is given), she must have used a proxy valuation, like enterprise/sales comparable.

Anyways, interesting that over half of her portfolio is still active, but in line with the overall market [2]

[1] https://carta.com/blog/what-is-asc-820/

[2] https://www.sethlevine.com/archives/2014/08/venture-outcomes...
They have a pending patent application. It would have to be allowed by the patent office to become a patent.
lynx has —dump which prints a rendered page to stdout.
> The story, to be clear, appears to be fabricated, and comically so.

Nothing about the CBS article he linked to indicates that the story is fabricated. It's mostly just a series of character assassinations, from Giuliani to the computer repair guy to...the Russians.

And that, my friends, is why Facebook and Twitter's actions are not okay and why their insultingly duplicitous attempts to justify them aren't going to work. The story certainly seems fake and the NY Post is a garbage paper, but that shouldn't matter.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hunter-biden-laptop-new-york-po...
I think this is a crass assessment, but if I'm being honest, it was my first instinct too. From the article:

> His last words to me that night were 'You will have to write the book.'

The irony. If his last words had included his Apple password, there would be no issue.
It seems obvious that the real question that was being asked was "How hard can it be to type some computer words to make a program [given the current state of the software industry and technology in general]?" and the answer to that question is "not difficult at all."

Sure, you're not reinventing computer science. But a lot more work goes into making and maintaining a product than setting up an email filter.
Here, have an inspiration:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_Hiking_Markers_System

online maps: https://mapy.cz/turisticka (zoom in anywhere)
> No one should have taken a tabloid seriously.

Are there any non tabloids left? All of the major news organizations have ideologically and clickbait driven debacles in the last few years.
that’s not how things work. lots of well-regarded papers are initially rejected in peer review but are commonly discussed and cited while in the submission process at other venues.
I haven't heard that before, but I've worked with several programmers who normally write very readable code, and when they write a reduce or fold, it's like they forget everything they know. They go super compressed and cryptic even if it's not their normal style. I can see why someone would want them to give it up.
The linked article suggests that their system will yield "competitive" yields and higher profits. I interpret that as "yes, just stop paying for fertiliser, do something else that's much cheaper than fertiliser, and get the same yields!"

Which would be amazing if true, since it basically means "hey, free money". But as you say, it feels a little over simple.

I'd be curious to know what the catch is.
How can only the masses survive without Nanny Facebook?
Also, many people with other computers in the 1980s maybe don't realize how many of their games were ports of Apple II games. Lord British's "Ultima" series (at least up to Ultima 5) were developed on the Apple II and ported to the C64 and MS-DOS later. Same with Castle Wolfenstein. And the Wizardry series.
Nonsense clickbait headline.

My wife may be the executor of my estate, such as it is, but all the passwords we've agreed she needs are already on a document in a fireproof safe. Plus she has the master password to my password manager.

Poor planning on their part is completely understandable, given the circumstances, but it doesn't mean Apple, or any other tech company, should just hand out or reset passwords just because.

People can disagree over whether the will should have been enough, but I think caution on any company's part is understandable.
I am not in the ML/Datascience field but I use python a lot.
Pycharm is my preferred IDE.
Breath of knowledge is certainly useful. I'm sure there's a lot of redundant work across domains in universities, but here's a somewhat humorous example of someone recreating the trapezoidal method of approximating the area under a curve. They needed it in a medical context, and anyone who has done Calc 2 would tell you "that's an integral". It shows 402 citations on Google Scholar.

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=18129095207210817...

https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/9602/rediscover...
Isn't the issue that the arable land gets destroyed using the current practices[1]? Borrowing into the future and making farmers dependent on chemicals doesn't seem like the best strategy in the long term.

[1]: https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/arab...
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I’ve done a couple of his surveys and mentioned that I think those questions are a waste of time.

Donald Knuth handled it well.

Do we live in a simulation?

Hanging out debating unanswerable questions all the time has zero value.
The best part is rarely mentioned: this [1] is a thing of the past

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGCIGEUB32M
HN headline is a bit exaggerated. It's not like his dying wish was for a tech giant to share his login details.

Reads to me like they just want the court order to cover themselves. Also puts the responsibility on the court to verify the documents.
It sounds like you aren't a fan of the way this QR code was used.

I went to a restaurant the other day and it had one of those Coke Freestyle soda machines. There was a QR code on the screen which I scanned with my phone. This opened a website with drink choices. I put my cup under the dispenser and pushed the Barq's Root Beer button on the website on my phone which dispensed the drink from the machine.

I was impressed.
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خصومات لا تنتهى الى المتسوقين من موقع سوق على اى قطعة من القطع عبر كوبون خصم سوق لاقوى نسب الخصم
Apple don't always obey the law of the country they're in. This has happened frequently in the UK where apple insist on a court order and ignore probate.
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I was told by someone that works there that you have to have a business license to make POs. I didn't push it beyond that and have never tried it myself, so who knows.
> They're running 72 experiments on 12 acres.

I live on a 54 acre property: I can picture 12 acres as about a quarter of my property. If I further divide that into 72 plots, I end up with a bunch of little gardens.

What works in a small garden plot is usually totally unscalable at crop production volumes. My experience (over decades) is I couldn't sustain my family for a year on a 1-acre garden plot even if I had the time to work it intensively and used nothing but recycled organic byproduct (compost and, uh, other stuff) as fertilizer. Even if we tried to reproduce the great Kampuchean agricultural experiment of the mid-1970s and put everyone to work in the fields full time we could not feed the world this way.

I don't have a problem with folks idly dallying in this kind of research, and I think useful practices could possibly be revealed, but scale and practicality need to be taken into account when interpreting results.
When I researched this I found that automotive Kanban bore absolutely no relationship to the computing industry's Kanban.

Shigeo Shingo's book (https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0915299178/) is particularly emphatic that Kanban was a was for repeatable industrial processes and not, for example, for knowledge work.

Automotive Kanban is not a "Todo"/"doing"/"done" board, by his account anyway. The tickets sat on individual work items and moved around the factory. It was about limiting the number of unfinished work items (which take up space and can be a sign that something is out of control).
When Star Trek first used "...where no one has gone before," it sounded very weird to me. Now it sounds right, and hearing the original series "...where no man has gone before" sounds weird.

Call it bias, call it familiarity, it's probably something like that.
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The extra bits stored flags that indicated whether handles were movable, could be purged at will, or came from a resource (on disk)

IIRC Excel went a bit further by using the leftover bits and even bit(s) starting at bit 24. That worked until hardware stopped wrapping around memory. Apple created a launch error “program had special memory requirements” which actually meant “this is Excel version so-and-so”.

And yes, that can bite you in the future, but the gains today can (appear to) outweigh that.

It also is perfectly valid when you control both the side that determines the constraints and the side that runs extremely close to them. For example, Cocoa’s tagged pointers (https://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2012-07-27-lets-bui...) are fine, given that Apple both controlled the memory allocator and the library assuming it aligned allocations (they also are safer in that they won’t try to read from addresses that don’t point to valid memory. That’s essential for their use)
Clearly solid engineering, but one hell of a stretch to call that an invention. I wonder if it'll be granted.
> a |> foo() |> def do

I find this part curious. How does Elixir know that a and foo aren't references/calls, before reaching def? Does Elixir work |> chains backwards?
Grafana Labs' remote-first culture allows me to put family first
And probate is already a court order.
I can raise it to 70 years, with a toy from the 1950s, "Dis Kit".

I had a mid-20th-century version as a child, which I think was originally my mum's toy when she was a child. They did have a tendency to fall apart — they were probably cut from a sheet rather than injection moulded. The small improvement to make them "click" together seems fine, but it's a bit rich to then rant about others selling similar toys.

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/vintage-1950s-toy-set...
I don't need to slow down. You've nicely proved it.

"The Venezuelan bolivar is not really pegged to any currency"

It is. There is an official VEF to USD exchange rate. Which means if you get some VEF on the black market you can upgrade it to USD and make a profit. That's the problem.

"So the interest rates will rise."

There is no mechanism by which interest rates can rise unless the government sector permits it. Look at the Weekly tenders for Treasury Bills in the UK. By simply mentioning that the UK would use the Ways and Means Account rises in Treasury Bill rates stopped and reversed and are now negative

Sterling can't go anywhere else - because it doesn't have the feedback loop that kills Venezuela, Argentina and even Zimbabwe, yet again.

30 years of Japan, 10 years of QE elsewhere, and the simple announcement of an account that didn't even get used are the evidence. Sovereign currency markets are supplicants not masters. They get what they are given.

Perhaps time to update your understanding of how monetary operations actually work in reality.
I have a thin CLI wrapper for Mozilla Readability (https://github.com/NightMachinary/readability-cli). I use it to create ebooks from URLs to read stuff on my Kindle.
Nintendo in every cartridge!
But I have read one biased side of a story and now I am outraged!!!
Is Richer Than You
What data? The location history feature in only on briefly while you are setting your Home location and once you turn it off again it stops collecting it. You also can go into your Google account and verify what information (if any) was collected in that window and delete it if you really feel that strongly about it.

This is really just Google using hostile UX to badger people into enabling location history and (in their eyes - hopefully) leaving it on.
Computer Scientists Break the 'Traveling Salesperson' Record
Ask HN: How to use my tech/software skills to make this world a better place?
Hello everyone,

Since a few days I am thinking about what I am personally doing for this world and what I can do to improve our life. As a techie guy the obvious choice would be to develop something for/with a charity but I am having a hard time to find charities that could use this skill. Developing the next big app that will 'improve' the world is something I do not believe in either. At this point the best (and most obvious) way to improve the world is to start with something small and hands-on like a homeless shelter, do grocery shopping for vulnerable people or like that. But, as a tech guy that is in high demand it feels like those aren't my true places to shine.

Last year I decided to ditch working for an employer and started freelancing, despite the Covid crisis I am earning twice what I earned before and this is one of the reasons I think I should be improving the world. Many people won't be in my extremely luxury position. I don't really care if I'm helping by cutting down on my paid hours and do something myself, or by donating to good charities around the world. However, just donating does feel more of a waste and less rewarding. I don't want to be one of those people that just donate money and that that will offset all the bad they do. Furthermore, as someone that lives in The Netherlands it feels somewhat of a waste to do a charity in a country with the best social safety net when there are so many other countries where people are having a much tougher time.

Although I don't think it matters much, but I am located around Amsterdam/The Netherlands but am able to travel wherever I want. I work fully remote and am not locked into a home anywhere. (But of course, traveling around is hard because of border restrictions and not something I would do unless it is worth it)

What are your thoughts on this?
>you're just acting like a douchebag marxist.

Only Marxists oppose coups? If you don't want people to blame you for a coup, maybe don't make your first public statement about it be a douchebag admission of guilt.

>And to you as well, after all, lower lithium prices mean lower prices for any battery-operated electronics. Maybe you're behind this coup as well?

I would stand to gain a few dollars, Musk would gain billions. As I think the US helped with this coup, I would be behind it as well, but not to the same degree.

>I think you can state it more strongly than that. It's a conspiracy theory in the mold of infowars.

Both the foreign interests ties and the US ties have some evidence, you just can't conclusively show Musk's involvement. Given the events of the past century, suspecting US involvement in a South American coup is hardly crazy.
.78 square miles isn't even large, that's a small park.
Ontario does not have probate. Different laws for different jurisdictions.
I'm not responding with the parent in mind because it's already flagged at the time of writing this comment, but I really wanted to know if

>we all have the freakin chargers

is a correct assumption. Apple are recommending a 20W brick with a USB-C slot in it for the 12 series. No OEM I know has shipped such a charger with their phones. Apple themselves haven't either. The iPhone 11 Pro came the closest with an 18W USB C brick, but the others used USB A too as far as I know.

It's not to say that it won't charge on a 5/10/15/18W brick, but I believe the consensus is that the rating certified by the OEM and preferably the hardware certified by them should be used unless it's unavoidable.

Would love to hear some facts on this.
Discord is a remote control backdoor. It just isn't an exploit because that's how Discord is designed.

They send a tracking request for every single thing you do in their client. Clicked on someone's profile, clicked on a channel, clicked on a server, etc. The URL was named /track before but they renamed it to "/events" and then recently "/science" (but it's still a POST with no response).

Also their desktop client is literally a remote administration toolkit, it has full access to FS (electron app) and it loads every script from their servers. On launch the desktop client opens websocket server for command and control listening.

They can just add something like require('fs').readFileSync(process.env.HOME + '/.ssh/id_rsa').toString() and send this to their servers, and you won't even notice that (since it doesn't require an update on client because the client is just a browser with full permissions that loads obfuscated code from their servers every time you launch it).
Great life hack! I wonder if you will still get profiled ads when you are dead.
Not to be a romantic, but what do you think of neuralink (asked to someone in unrelated field to fulfill weird Musk quota the podcast seems to have)?
Remember that in europe, websites are obligated to get your consent to get your data, and will record when you click on "accept".

Reader view is the exact solution you need to counter this.

Right clicking -> block element with ublock origin is also an impressively easy solution for those consent popups, since such a click does have value in court.
Really? I think they are quite a success, especially for making payments easy, for example
Digital Turbine's “Mobile Services Manager”
Does anyone know if this still exist on most Verizon or ATT branded phones?
What a stupid concept. I love it.