skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So the bad guys used a public ledger (Bitcoin) to get paid? Why aren't the hackers asking for cryptocurrencies using zero-knowledge proofs like ZCash or Monero? Bitcoin? What's their plan next?

I'm not saying you can't get away with this (there are coin "mixers" and decentralized exchanges) but still, this leaves lots of traces left and right.

For example we saw a lot of people getting busted recently while they thought they were smart using cryptocurrencies, including a money launderer ring... And they were using mixers, decentralized exchanges, people located overal several countries/continents and whatnots if I recall correctly. Yet: all busted.

For all we known in six months the headline could be: "Hackers who extorted 1.14M USD from UCSF arrested by Interpol"

Besides that: what happened to offline backups? How exactly are hackers coming for cloned, unplugged, HDDs/SSDs stored on shelves / bank safes? (I know several companies doing just that as offline backups)

I hope this serves as a wake up call to companies/institutions either not doing backup properly or outsourcing to incompetent companies not doing backups properly (the latter being not really excusable).
Specific to NixOs, but running software that hasn't already been packaged for nix can be quite hard.

The language is not simple and discovery can be quite lacking.
It’s the usual problem of scales. A blender works for occasional use but not hundreds of orders a day.
And then chrome and ff will query your isp resolver than caches for a day just because - oops
The site is down, Is that ironic?
yes, but smaller, less aggressive cars are better than the current situation (despite the generally-flawed 'induced demand' argument, which is more simply conceptualized as being far from the supply and demand equilibrium), and a good stepping stone toward relinquishing the hold that gas-guzzling behemoths have over our lives.

but the ami is a underpowered for american cities, from the article:

> "It has a top speed of 45km/h, it can do 75km on a full charge..."

if it could go up to 45mph and 75mi per charge, you could replace a lot of urban cars with the ami, but as it is, it's unfortunately more directly competitive with (electric) bikes and scooters rather than errand and commuter cars. 90% of trips can be replaced by cars like the ami, particularly in cities.
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The curious DNA circles that make treating cancer so hard
It’s simple: Police should not have any privacy while working in public.
It actually took me a while to figure out that the resulting website (https://mcbroken.com/) actually shows broken / not broken by color.

Not a complaint, just pointing it out in case others are as confused as I was.
By that line of reasoning, every blackmail and robbery victim funds criminals, thus subject to similar punishment.
I agree.

This is an animation that was posted to /r/dataisbeautiful a few days ago. Watch California compared to New York, the east coast, and then the midwest.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/jdffl5/oc_...

I'm going to suggest that California's success is pretty good (and that factor is related to the prevalence of "overreacted" comments here).
I doubt Citroen would make a big dent in the bicycle market, especially in super dense cities like Paris.

But I could see such vehicle popular with boomers living in the country side. That would provide some freedom to move around in a fairly safe (from elements, your own balance) and provide enough cargo for groceries.
>Also, a year ago we buried my brother-in-law at age 53. He was diagnosed stage 4 at age 48. DO NOT DELAY your colonoscopy. I think 50 is too late to wait.

The rate of new colorectal cancer diagnoses has been increasing for those under 50 years old, despite the rate falling for the older population. I don't know if they've narrowed down a major cause. My pet theory is obesity.

The usual recommendation to start screening at 50 is for asymptomatic people with no increased risk. If you have symptoms, family history of colorectal cancer, or enough other risk factors[0], bring up screening with your doctor. As somebody else mentioned, you could do fecal occult blood tests (FOBT) or other non-invasive tests if you're worried about colonoscopies.

[0]https://www.cancer.org/cancer/colon-rectal-cancer/causes-ris...
Tangentiality related, but im surprised that, with the rise of cryptocurrency, "death prediction" markets still haven't become a thing.
Executing unsigned code on iOS is generally not feasible, which means that this would limit the set of programs you could run to a small prespecified (and signed) set of programs. (These apps exist already on the App Store; here's one: https://blink.sh). iSH can run user-created programs by emulating them. (Plus, with emulation we can run programs without modifying them because we can trap syscalls and such.) It would be nice if we could JIT compile code (since the interpreter is a bit slow compared to native code) or utilize hypervisor facilities, but that doesn't appear to be an option for now.
It is. It was also to point out that it wasn't to mean disrespect towards Aaron.
Per https://statisticalatlas.com/place/New-York/New-York/Househo..., $123k puts you in top 20%; $250k puts you in top 5%. "95%+ of NYC are lower-class" is simply an unsupportable assertion.

> Earning below $100k will get you subsidized college, right?

That's more reflective of the insane inflation in college costs (and our typical "socialize things, but in the silliest possible way" approach in the States) than what lower/middle/upper class thresholds are.
How is that even relevant to my comment?
I suppose ice cream isn't high on the list of services they feel they need up and running all the time, but if the machine is determining this I would think there would be some level of predictability that would allow them to schedule sanitizing and etc.

It's funny that the machine tells them there's no ice cream. I visited my local library for a tour. They have an automated system that collects returned books, sorts them, scans and processes them, then puts them in boxes to be shipped to other libraries if they need to go there. Or puts them in carts and labels them with instructions about the efficient path to travel to return books...

The humans just take orders from the machine when there is a cart ready with books to be put on the shelf or boxes to be sent to other libraries.

Interesting times.
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I mean, the OP is literally right - ice cream + milk in a blender results in a better milkshake. Try it sometime. That's how milkshakes are made at a lot of the other restaurants.
Slightly OT:

I have recently done some scripting work on a single machine and used Ansible because it makes it so convenient to parse output, generate config files etc., mostly shell and jinja2

Is that valid use of Ansible or should I be ashamed and use something else?
> To use custom domains, you’ll be charged a one-time $50 fee per publication.

I wonder why they're doing this. Substack is already taking 10% of revenue which is huge.

I think a better model would have been to offer it for free to paid newsletters so it's considered a premium feature and it can't be abused by their users not generating any revenue.
So, does that mean Numba performs some sort of type inference on Python?
Hi Asim, your project is really interesting to me. Just curious, do you have go docs or tutorials hosted somewhere?
Thanks for the considered reply! I'll shoot you an email later today.
Touché.

This is a tough issue.

On the one hand, what about undercover cops?

On the other, it's known that the framers of the Constitution meant for the people to have access to arms partly as a hedge against governmental use of arms against the people. If facial recognition is a tool that the government will use against the people, then the framers clearly envisioned restricting the government's ability to prevent people from using facial recognition.

By default I tend to side with the Constitutional order, so I favor the people having unrestricted access to facial recognition tech. That said, I do see the chaos facial rec will bring. Not only for police, but frankly, for everyone else as well. Better start finding a side door out of that hotel tryst with your secretary fellas. Hypothetically, the wife could use some popular new facial rec service that runs against all the public photo or video upload sites for the day. You could be busted if you go out the front door of the hotel just when some college girl is snapping a selfie to share with the world. Or some dad thinks sharing a picture of his son's football team, taken at just that instant, would be really cool. All of which show you and your secretary exiting the hotel in the background.
Maybe single source of truth has some downsides, like single point of vulnerability.
Which is the problem here. A Hummer EV is as impractical as the original Hummer.
> So police should be exempted from mass surveillance ban ?!?

Whatever the solution ends up being, I want the police to be the same as everyone else with regard to that solution.

I don’t really get normal human psychology, so I don’t know if everybody or nobody should have facial recognition software in public places, but I do think it should be a choice of “everybody or nobody”.
oh lovely, I played around with the TestFlight, will definitely add this.

Now it's time to complain: The search string "ish" (just like that) on the App Store doesn't even turn iSH up, at all. It might have been somewhere after the first ten results, I guess.

App Store search is the absolute worst, and regularly turns up garbage ripoff apps that Apple should never have allowed on the store in the first place. It's the worst part of the ecosystem, and I despair of them ever doing something about it.

You'd think a company with a few hundred billion dollars of cash just sitting around could handle something like this...
How exactly do you keep a dossier on someone you can't identify?
> All in all, the Nix language is a lazy JSON with functions.

That's news to me!

I have been slowly learning the language, only enough to configure and package stuff as needed for my personal use, but it has not just been a lazy JSON with functions...
Progressive taxation is viewed as more fair by more people that flat taxation.

You're using "income" as your input variable to calculate "fairness", but you could just as easily use "disposable income". Someone making $25,000 per year might have a disposable income of $0. Asking this person to kick in $5000 seems ludicrous.

I honestly don't know how you could assess fairness without looking at ability-to-pay:

(income) - (basic survival needs) = (money leftover you can potentially contribute to the government)

This is obvious, fair, and is why most nations have progressive taxation structures.
Yes, though the H1-B reaction itself emits no electromagnetic radiation at all. The x-rays are from bremsstrahlung radiation. Some boron fusion projects think they have ways to avoid that (which is necessary to avoid the plasma cooling too fast to achieve net power).
Why have no die-hard, many-times-burned Mac fans not yet picked up GNUStep and launchd and polished them into an acceptable replacement for the 2010-era Mac desktop? Most Mac developers don't seem to be that kind of developer. (So much for "Think different"?) It seems clear that the beatings are just going to continue.
For one thing, the lighter vehicles' brakes and turning abilities are better. A truck can accelerate quickly, but that doesn't mean it can reasonably brake or turn any more effectively.
I'm just asking: what's the alternative? If you can't force people to come to court and face charges then no one would would they?

Fyi: you can hire a lawyer to a represent you in cases like this. And Op is wrong: NYC does permit you to challenge parking tickets by post (and also by app or web). In fact they encourage it due to covid. So just write a letter with the details and some basic evidence of the error. That's how it should be.

I never understand why people can't understand: it's a rules based system, if you don't have to follow the rules, no one does and then it collapses. Americans in particular seem to really struggle with this but its just life...

https://www1.nyc.gov/site/finance/vehicles/dispute-a-ticket.....
The App Store doesn’t allow dynamically generated code to be marked executable (i.e. JIT compilation), so you’re stuck using a pure interpreter, at which point there’s no real benefit to emulating the same architecture you’re running on.
Does substack allow (paid) anonymous writing? I could not immediately find how this works from the faq. Will they protect their writers?
Mizar 5. (but pretty sure that was fictional)
Apple's restrictions resulted in a pretty severe reduction in functionality of the app. Many of their how-tos still contain apk commands which no longer function.

For example: https://github.com/ish-app/ish/wiki/Running-a-Python-Web-Ser....
iSH is brilliant and with addition of custom environments it's even better!
ashamed. Almost every programming language is better than a mashup of yaml and jinja
App Store search sucks, but I should note that the app has only been live for about 12 hours and it takes a while for this to propagate through the system. Perhaps we'll see this change as iSH becomes popular and the backend updates its rankings. (FWIW, "iSH shell" returns relevant results.)
I started using Traefik originally because it was easy to run outside of k8s.

This allowed our front end devs to run it locally when they were running local api servers.
The fire department and police department are separate entities.

Subdividing the police department could work.
It's more like they ordered from mobile, but didn't checkin/pickup so they're not wasting food or $$.

> to clarify how this works: mcdonald's keeps track which locations have a broken machine, I'm merely querying for those - no order gets executed, no ice cream is actually wasted
Press it again and you get normal page search?
A friend of mine who managed multiple McDoanlds 20 some years ago says he would never eat ice cream at mcdonalds ... unless he'd just cleaned the machine himself.

Apparently they get gross pretty fast and a lot of the staff is not especially good at cleaning them.
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Yesterday I was wondering if anything like this existed after accidentally adding 100 duplicate database requests on a Django endpoint.
I don't have much sympathy for a huge corporation like McDonalds, but isn't this is kind of an asshole move by the developer?
Is there any proprietary OS that is NOT pulling these shenanigans in the lastest versions?

Suppose I want to buy a OS or a computer+OS (like Mac), so not talking about Linux and FreeBSD and whatnot.

Is there any OS that won't attempt to screw me by taking away control under the guise of security?
I don't know how old you are, but growing up in the 90s, my dad (a food scientist) was mostly fine with me eating crappy fast food once in a while. The only hard rule he had was "never eat soft serve ice cream". Before technology was all there, the machines back then were apparently nightmares in terms of safety.
Rails 6.1 supports order DESC for find_each, find_in_batches, and in_batches
Yes, it looks like the author confused Charles' last name with that of Aaron Swartz who is also mentioned. RIP The Internet's Own Boy
But why "broken" instead of "down for scheduled maintenance"?

The latter implies continuance of service, the former leaves that open.
Slightly OT, but if I were a company selling an "Offset your whole carbon footprint" subscription, I would charge $15/month too (with a bunch of "calculations" in the background to justify it).
--output-diff is what you are looking for
Exit whenever you like. This is not about ‘disagreement’, it’s about understanding distinctions.

Doxxing doesn’t equate to transparency or holding people accountable in court, and it certainly can mean retaliation.

That brings us back to my original point - if you believe in accountability you don’t necessarily believe in doxxing cops. It’s not that clean.
It is all hipsters now; hackers having fun not for profit r long gone in another era. Lets see how fast this kid gets himself behind bars for trying to outwit a corporation. I agree that he overdid it but he might only see his wrongdoing in hindsight. I'm glad my comment picked up some steam; we are too locked in chains behind rules nowadays, kids can't have a little fun anymore. He can be a valuable asset to any company than falling in the hands of real criminals behind bars
There may be with regards to maintaining memory ordering guarantees, we're looking into a couple of strange hangs that only reproduce on ARM. But yes, in general the choice of architecture does not matter much when interpreting.
Is acceleration a factor that contributes to injuries to cyclists or pedestrians? Most accidents in city centers are vehicles travelling at relatively slow speeds and drivers who are already at speed, but not paying attention.

The amount of energy imparted upon impact to a pedestrian is mostly a factor of momentum and the shape of the vehicle.
Show HN: Aqls, A full-stack GraphQL subscription analytics module
Apollo, the industry-standard for GraphQL implementation, does not track traces for GraphQL subscriptions. Now we aren’t here to complain about Apollo, because it does do a fantastic job at providing in-depth and valuable insights into what is going on under the hood in your GraphQL deployments. However, for all the analytics it does provide, it does not currently track subscription data.
No analytics === no optimization.
Our new npm suite Aqls solves this problem.
Thank you :). We agree with your observations. Especially two-way bindings have been very useful already in this early phase.

Vulkan support would be nice to have.
The Secret Life of Jim Jones: A Parapolitical Fugue
Doesn't the truth of this hang on what the definition of "success" is? Is ability to produce the occasional Mark Z or Jeff B "success"? Or is success just an upward slope on broad economic indicators like GDP?

I think the picture looks quite different if you look at things like quality of life indicators— and then it's (surprise!) nations like Denmark and Switzerland which top the list. I suspect it would be even more stark if you were able to measure class mobility— the number of people who have at least +x% inflation adjusted net worth over their parents at the same age.

So yeah, it's a little bizarre (and a very US-centric view) to just assume that "success" on a national level and socialist policies are mutually exclusive.
Please review the site guidelines and omit swipes from your comments.

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If one (canceled!) order per store per minute clogs the McDonalds ordering system, they've got bigger problems.
The idea is to reduce the central militarized force with a plurality of nonviolent support services and unarmed law enforcement in addition to a significantly smaller force, trained and responsible for handling rampages, well-organized bank heists etc. If these domains intend to fight one another, let it happen in court.
It's working: it's just slow, presumably because we've hugged it nearly to McDeath.

Also a shame the only country it supports at the moment is the US because I could really do with checking whether the ice cream machine at the McDonalds up the road is working or not.
Weight increases friction, which means a heavier thing can typically brake just as fast as long as it has proportionally more tire surface to avoid skidding.
Lula: Convenience Goods Delivery
Dear HN Community:

My name is Adit, here with my friend Tom Falzani, and we co-founded Lula (www.luladelivery.com). Lula is a marketplace made from the thousands of items sold by convenience stores, bodegas, and other such retail stores. We (users) pay a monthly subscription ($12) to get access to unlimited deliveries (without tips, other fees, etc.)

We charge stores a $200/month subscription to get access to unlimited deliveries, inventory management platform, and we're working to build integration for ordering/replenishing store inventory from wholesalers.

For users, we're building a platform that is sort of like Amazon, but for under 1-hour delivery. Users get an experience of thousands of convenience goods to choose from - a list made dynamically based on the products available in their area from a multi-vendor approach.

We have officially ended our (alpha) and made Lula public! We are currently available in NJ and PA. I simply posted this to get your feedback, thoughts, advice. Tom and I built Lula because our family had to permanently close down a retail store (no e-commerce platforms available). And we hope Lula can provide support to over 150k convenience stores in the country.

Please feel free to learn more at Luladelivery.com! Or Simply ask questions here :)

Best Wishes,
Adit & Tom
It seems the first explanation given wasn’t entirely accurate (or is at least misleading), as they continued roughly 50 minutes later:

> to clarify how this works: mcdonald's keeps track which locations have a broken machine, I'm merely querying for those - no order gets executed, no ice cream is actually wasted

Maybe in reality, the order is created, but not actually “placed” in order to query the above info? Or maybe the first tweet was simply clickbait...

https://twitter.com/rashiq/status/1319358458429345795?s=20
"Domain specific entities" means splitting up the many tasks currently handled by police into separate organizations specialized in those tasks -- public safety has different needs from traffic enforcement which has different needs from domestic disputes or mental health issues.

They don't mean regional fiefdoms.
Personal attacks are not allowed here. Please omit such swipes from your HN comments. Your post would be just fine without that last bit.

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Churches often have windows of stained glass that they'd like to remain undamaged, so the glass is covered with a transparent cover that does not open. Of those church buildings not old enough to utilize a lot of stained glass, the ones I've seen are built like office buildings: windows don't open.

But as sibling comments point out, your comment is missing a lot of subtleties. Starting, IMO, with the difference between an apple and an orange.
Yes, that was a joke: https://twitter.com/rashiq/status/1319358458429345795
You also have to realize things like this have to take scale into consideration. No one is going to do mass manufacturing of battery and electronics enclosures with 3D printing, this is a prototyping and hobby level manufacturing system. So the odds of injury and damage are a lot less with this as you automatically self-select down to a tiny fraction of the market share, and only a tiny fraction yet of those will ever experience an explosive outcome from a battery.

Also I'm sure that most of this market violates someones IP so again, this ensures that this type of thing (custom making battery enclosures) will never reach a critical mass where worrying about the world burning down due to non-fireretardent plastics is something to be concerned about.

But if a person is very concerned about this issue then certainly there are options out there.
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The CAPM model is used to calculate RRR the beta version of the original. Beta is the risk factor of holding. In other words, beta attempts to measure the risk of a stock or investment over time. Shares with a beta greater than 1 are considered riskier than the market as a whole (represented by the S&P 500), while stocks with a beta greater than 1 are considered less risky than the overall market.

The formula also uses the risk-free rate of return, which is usually the yield on short-term US Treasury notes. The final variable is the market rate of return, which is usually the annual return on the S&P 500. The RRR formula using the CAPM model is as follows:

https://www.freeforex-signals.com/