skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/be59a6bb09757ef4dec9ed7841...

$2M transfer costs $1. From/to anywhere in the world.

As a comparison, my freelance fees regularly came $13 short, and the only explanation was "interbank transfer charges". Plus the sender had to pay his own fees. And then my own bank would charge me ~$15 for accepting deposits from outside EU.

I'll take Bitcoin over the traditional banking cartel any day.
A fast and simple Tailwind Color palette generator
This is not my project, but it's nicely done.

A lot quicker and simpler to use than others I've tried.

I'm a big fan of Tailwind at the moment and this great color palette tool makes it even easier to use.
Recommend "The Lost Art of Running" by Shane Benzie. He's trained people to complete lots of ultra events, including on pretty low milage - focussing on form/technique.
> Their growth and “success” is fueled by either operating in a legal gray zone, or defying the local regulations all together.

We just got an impossible vaccine in under a year, I'm happy for all of medicine to spend a bit of time in a "legal gray zone" to see what might happen.

> Many people all over the world think their lives were made much worse since Airbnb is negatively affecting the long-term rental market.

Absolutely, just like the Luddites (Although they would be well off Luddites) their world is worse. But humanity has been made far better.
> "Benefits Britain: Life on the Dole"

This is the kind of TV program that I think has contributed to the UK's extreme stinginess and bureaucracy of benefits; in aggregate it's probably got people killed. Cherry-picking the most lurid stories to make people look bad.

It's also not a BBC show, it's by Channel 5!

I'm with a lot of people that the BBC can produce great stuff, but only when it remembers to be Reithian and the managers aren't looking. These days most of the BBC content I watch comes from BBC4, plus the output of David Attenborough.

(ORF produce exactly one show with an international reputation: the New Year's Day concert from Vienna, which is lovely)
Mount Sinai Researchers Use Apple Watch to Predict Covid-19
When OS X came out 20 years ago, it was the star of the show. Nowadays it's just an annoyance that Apple has to keep around. The quality has demonstrably fallen, and the internal struggles it's had within Apple have already been documented.
Several useful features there that I wasn't aware of.
In the late 90's I went for an interview at a Sony store in London. At the start of the interview the store manager told me that he had been busy preparing the shop's regular report of addresses of everyone who had purchased a new TV for TV licensing. I imagine these were then cross-referenced against who had a TV license for potential follow-up. I struggle to see how the idea of TV detector vans were more than 'enforcement theatre', although possibly a cheap and effective strategy in the past.
CPI is a cooked up government statistic, used in contracts and agreements (including social security) that unconditionally favors the governments position. For example it does not include energy or housing costs.

They also add and remove items from the CPI index, to remove ones that inflate and add ones such as consumer electronics that deflate.

Check out the chapwood index or a different unbiased inflation metric.
If you had any experience with WP you'd see the connection
A git repository would have sufficed
yes I agree. IMO it looks to us like the only "natural" way for humans is a centralized system/power structure because we simply are unable to envision a world which is not. It also would require an unrealistic "deprogramming" of society which makes the idea just another utopia (at least not achievable without huge sacrifice to what we hold dear today). The more likely scenario in which this is more realistic is after a total collapse of anything we associate today with society/humans. Even after collapse we'd have probably lost everyone except the most brutal selfish individuals and therefore we'd have to again first go through similar phases of central power structure ...

To paraphrase Zizek's quote on the end of capitalism: We are so far down that road, that it's easier to imagine the end of the humanity than it is to imagine humanity living in a decentralized society.
The ransomware part requires you to have some way of informing the user of the situation, and give them a way to pay the ransom and communicate.

I'd argue the easier part is the encryption, the harder part is the ransom delivery and file decryption automation.
It's not necessarily idiomatic or nonidiomatic, it's just a pattern that's appropriate in some circumstances and not appropriate in others.

If you want best-effort asynchronous job processing semantics, then it's totally appropriate to use something like what's described in the article -- ideally with a lot less code :)

If you want request-response, then, yeah, this isn't appropriate, and I agree that you should do whatever work in the request goroutine, blocking as necessary.
I would like to do this, but some services will need to hang around longer than others as I have not yet found replacements I fully like for them. For example, I am happy to be rid of Gmail and Photos, but still need to use the online editor features of Docs for the time being. And some I just really like and want to keep using, like Google Music. I wonder if there is any point deleting any of the services if I don't get rid of _all_ of them right away? Will just keeping Docs and Music and removing everything else make any meaningful impact on what data Google tracks and stores about me?
No, DNA does not have a half-life of 521 years. To give the correct citation:
'''
By analysing mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) from 158 radiocarbon-dated bones of the extinct New Zealand moa, we confirm empirically a long-hypothesized exponential decay relationship. The average DNA half-life within this geographically constrained fossil assemblage was estimated to be 521 years for a 242 bp mtDNA sequence, corresponding to a per nucleotide fragmentation rate (k) of 5.50 × 10–6 per year. With an effective burial temperature of 13.1°C, the rate is almost 400 times slower than predicted from published kinetic data of in vitro DNA depurination at pH 5.
'''
from https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2012.174...

Or in laymens words: the half-life of a DNA molecule per nucleotide depends on the environment and is in the order of magnitude around 1 million years. Else, we would not have any ancient genomes by now.
You don't vote for a party, you vote for an individual. Unless a party has some overarching values that you care about (say you have a strong opinion about abortion either way, and your local candidate is trustworthy on that issue).

Instead you focus on individual candidates. Nationally (if you're in the USA), guys like Rand Paul, or Ron Wyden have worked across the aisle on these issues.

You have to look at individual cases with care, even when they vote the same. Justin Amarsh appears to follow his conscience and voted against Trump in the impeachment and I respect him for his coherency. Romney also voted against Trump, but that was pure opportunism and the old very neo-connish GOP trying to wrestle control back from the "pacifist" wing of the GOP.

But what if both your candidates suck? Well, politics is local. Make sure you pay attention to the primary and refuse to back a neo-con/lib, be they Pelosi, Romney or whatever.
I’m stunned at how frequently this sentiment is being brought up. We have a significant event happen and many of us are so quickly ready to give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety.

I can almost forgive younger folks for these sentiments, but those of us who lived through 9/11 should know better.

How many of us lamented the surveillance and overreach of the government then? Remember all the news articles about potential for repealing the patriot act? Remember how as time went by the overreach felt more and more egregious?

Would our country be in a better place if in an alternate history we had near-perfect surveillance on civil rights leaders? On purported communists in the 50s? On bootleggers? Agitators for suffrage? On black people during reconstruction?

If you think “yes” then it’s consistent to want more surveillance now. If you’re like me and think that such surveillance then would have the country in a worse place now then recognize the current moment for what it is: a serious attack on our democracy and a reflection of deep divide. It is NOT a good reason to become Yet Another Authoritarian State.
I wrote a tool that explores different ways to cluster in the RGB space - https://github.com/mattnedrich/palette-maker

It compares k-means, median-cut, and simple RGB space quantization.

mean-shift is great, but it is unbelievably slow (n^2)
If it wasn't Apple, it would have been Disney.

http://www.mtv.com/news/3020742/fake-nickelodeon-products-pe...
Interesting, in Croatia it's specifically a fee on owning any type of radio or tv receiver. Nowadays that applies to almost anything, from TVs and car radios to PCs and smartphones.
> despite clear scientific evidence that the vaccines are safe and effective

This is BS. What we have are encouraging preliminary tests made by the creator of the vaccine.

Before we can trust it it needs to be confronted to the real world.

Multiple cases of people getting infected despite having the first shot and multiple cases of suspect deaths don't inspire confidence the vaccine is as good as touted.
Is zoom or anyone else obligated to tell us about all the means of identifying the original viewer/leaker?

Shouldn't we assume there are all kinda of steganography being employed? It feels like enough information could easily be hidden in PDFs, images, videos, and you wouldn't know unless you're doing bit-comparison to others' versions of the same.

They might also be using a small number of range of methods and you won't know which methods you haven't seen yet so you can't make assumptions about the next file based on the previous one.
Has anything really changed? There have always been kids programming that was primarily about selling toys. I'm thinking of Care Bears, GI Joe, Transforms, Voltron, etc...

When shows like that move to Netflix or Amazon Prime the native ads remain, but the interstitials are gone.
What would be a typical use case for this kind of technology?
I'd say that there can be degrees of reading comprehension, and I tend to view functional illiteracy as literacy attrition, kind of secondary illiteracy. I guess it's useful to distinguish it from strict illiteracy (somebody not having learned how to read in the first place), as it requires a different kind of treatment, even if the symptoms of both are similar.
Police command structure crumbled fast during Capitol riot
You don't have to watch the Beeb to become liable for the licence fee. You become liable if you watch any broadcast television channel.
Yeah, you’d have to be crazy to think that media companies are spying on you.
> "Out of curiosity, how does one get from this place to gainful employment in a FAANG company"

I was blessed with an above average intelligence. But I didn't have any role models. So it was really about figuring out how intelligent I am and comparing myself to people.

One of my more stable jobs was working as a gas station clerk. The gas station I worked at was one of the few in a more affluent, medical-oriented district. Lots of doctors, nurses etc. Most of them treated me like crap. And just listening to the way they talked to me I was like... these people really aren't that smarter than me.

So I was like what do smart people do? I have 0 family connections--I was the first person in my family to graduate high school--so I figured I'd go to college. That's what smart people do, right?

Went to community college (my high school GPA wouldn't have gotten me into any school with any sort of selection), and succeeded. Graduated with honors, etc. Then transferred to my state's flagship university. Studied something not related to computers.

Got out of school during the Great Recession. Struggled to find a job. Had a couple of other shitty, albiet generally better-paying jobs. Met someone who worked at a FAANG. We were talking and having a reasonably intellectual conversation about what they do, networking and the like. Asked them where they went to school. They said they never went to college; they just taught themselves.

I was like, really? You can do that? If they can, I can. I have a degree from very selective public university. Graduated with multiple sorts of honors. If I learned one thing, it's how to learn.

So I just started teaching myself Linux. Then networking. Then a bit of coding. Got a job helping a start-up-ish company migrate onto AWS. I was underpaid, but underpaid in that world is twice the salary (at least) than either of my parents made in a year collectively. Learned every day. A year later, a recruiter from AWS reached out. That was a couple of years ago now.

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Your description of bouncing is spot-in. I was a mixture of 2&3. I learned to fight because I had no self-control. I had to learn it, eventually, out of self preservation. But my form of self-control was 'shut off your emotions until you feel dead inside. Then at least you're not a wrathful rage monster.' Not the most healthy strategy, but it's kept me out of trouble. I've gotten better, but still haven't shed a single tear in over 15 years.

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> '"I had to pull my alcoholic mom out of a ditch" and "I'm fighting with people all the time". These two things feel disconnected...'

Yeah. They're really, really not disconnected. Someone who grows up in that life has no stabilizing influence. They never learn how to deal with problems or actually plan.

Also, a neglectful parent means that you probably got abused. By your parent, an associate of your parent, or both. Predators are really effective at looking at a family and finding a situation into which they can insert you. Then you got to deal with that trauma.

You're also more than likely to grow up in poverty, which comes with it a whole different set of bad habits and impulses.
I politely disagree with you. Landings in an aircraft that you have flown for any length of time are not all that hard. In many cases I have been in aircraft that "land long" so as to not have to taxi 3 miles (literally) to get to the gate or parking area.

I would imagine there is a bit of risk mitigation with AF1 as it relates to taxiing on the ground. As you state (correctly I surmise) the best place for AF1 to be is in the air. The worst, is unprotected on the ground. The secret service is great, but I don't see them clearing a mile of taxiway in multiple directions for the safety of the aircraft.

Best to land long, turn off at taxiway and be at your destination with proper equipment nearby as soon as possible.
It’s a real pity that Americans don’t talk about how awesome our base-2 volume measurement system is. All the benefits of metric and it’s computer friendly. If our length, area, and mass systems had been suitably adjusted at the same time, that’d’ve been the bees knees!
I disagree.

I've been running a small CNC for a while now and though I've had skipped steps, they've never been the cause of a failure. When they've failed, it's been because:

- I stalled the spindle and I'm trying to plow the no-longer-rotating endmill straight through my stock (and if steps weren't skipped, the tool would break)

- I forgot to turn on the spindle and I'm trying to plow the endmill straight through my stock (and if steps weren't skipped, the tool would break)

- I've somehow forced the machine to try to push through its limits and crashed an axis into the chassis (and if steps weren't skipped, the machine would be seriously damaged)

Basically, the only time the steppers have failed is when not doing so would lead to much greater damage, so I'd go so far as to say that skipping steps are a feature, not a bug.

If your steppers are failing in the middle of a job where nothing has gone wrong, either your steppers or your drivers are messed up but it's not because steppers are inherently bad.

I'd recommend servos for applications that are demanding on torque, power, speed and/or accuracy. I wouldn't recommend them for your first DIY machine because of the additional risk, expense and complexity they add.
I've updated the readme, basically it helps you manage `<title>`, `<meta>` and other elements inside document head.
When I first started using htop, I had the opposite misunderstanding to what the author describes. I spent a long time trying to understand why there were over a dozen instances of the same process, when I thought I launched just one! When I discovered that htop was showing threads instead of processes, I hit ctrl-h to hide threads and committed .htoprc to my dotfiles so I wouldn’t have to see them again.
quite a lot of Kurds will beg to differ on the definition of "terrorist" by the AKP/Erdogan?
Americans talk about freedom and democracy a lot. Then we fund coups in democratically run countries who just happen not to want to play ball with us, like Iran, Venezuela and Iraq. When it comes back to bite us, "mea culpa, mistakes were made".

Americans really need to stay in our lane and learn to look after our own people instead of demonizing others. We cannot even have peaceful elections, and until we fix gerrymandering we have zero moral high ground to talk about the fairness of foreign elections.

Come see an election in Turkiye. Turks dislike it, but thy accept the election results. During the last regional elections, I had friends and family members who were election monitors. Some of them stayed in those rooms, staring at the election boxes without leaving for two weeks to ensure the integrity of the election, and that is not an exaggeration.

Tayipp lost Istanbul and Ankara, and he did it fantastically. Istanbul's initial margin was 25,000 votes. When Tayipp had the election results annulled, Turks got pissed and he lost the second election by 800,000 votes.

Unlike Americans, Turks really care about their democracy.
Growing up my dad was a machinist. This was in the 80s and CNC was what he evolved into from manual die cutting. He did a lot of government work where they most often times didn't know what the part was for or it was only a subset of the components. Most often times he'd be working on a 10+ ton die for a huge part, think landing gear, where the tolerances were in the thousandths. I always thought that was amazing the precision he could achieve by hand. That became even more remarkable to me as I got older and realized machines were now doing the math. About 4 years ago I built a homelab CNC. I wanted something more robust than a lot of the belt driven options out there and settled on a company called CNCRouterParts (now called AvidCNC) [0]. The downside is it consumes a fair bit of space. But between the laser cutter (Glowforge), 3D printer (Prusa) and CNC (CNCRouterParts) you can do quite a bit of light fabrication at home these days.

[0] https://www.avidcnc.com/
>If these companies were willing participants, Google would not have started encrypting it's datacenter linkages which were subject to NSA fiber taps, Apple wouldn't have continually sought to improve device encryption to defeat law enforcement, etc.

None of this is convincing, these open ended musings have other answers like, perhaps this infrastructure change was needed to protect against the compromised backbone routers (revealed later by Shadow Brokers release) which it turns out anybody could tap, device encryption, which handy, has had lots of oopsies and gotchas over time which one could almost suspect were planted.

Last year Apple relented and allowed a dead man's family to retrieve photos even though nobody knew the login information. Hm, but I was told by people here on Hacker News and in tech journalism that Apple DOESN'T EVEN HAVE THE CAPABILITY to do this.
Pretty sure this how the beginning of a horror/zombie movie starts
I used Rust for 6 months in production. Here is my feedback
The OpenWRT security advisory has instructions on how to disable vulnerable features or upgrade the package:

https://forum.openwrt.org/t/security-advisory-2021-01-19-1-d...
Yes, the original idea of free speech was much closer to building a printing press and distributing leaflets than access to other people’s platforms. The only place where that overlaps is broadcast TV due to bandwidth limitations.

IMO, forcing platforms to host content they disagree with is a free speech issue in the other direction.
Take a look at Mailcow too. I've been using it for more than a year now (was using Redmail before). It works pretty well, incuding the Spam filters.
Agreed that often times estimates are mistaken for quotes. Aside from that, my personal experience has been that those who work adjacent to software understands that there’s an element of uncertainty. If those that we work with don’t, it is on us to educate.
Improving estimation will eventually improve quality of life for all involved.
Kubernetes Readiness Probes – Examples and Common Pitfalls
India asks WhatsApp to withdraw new privacy policy over ‘grave concerns’
Shot on iPhone 12: Portraits, cityscapes, the night sky, and more
Every time I see news about a new kind of space thruster, especially "electric" one, I'm a little hopeful that it would not require carrying propellant on board and then shooting it out the nozzle.
In Italy it doesn't apply to PCs and smartphones. It does apply to DVB-T dongles though.

It used to be a separate tax, now it's collected as part of the electric bill. You have to opt out explicitly instead of "opting in" by paying; this makes it much worse for people to evade the payment, since they would be making a false statement when opting out. So many people were evading the fee, that it has since been reduced by a third or so.
It is a pile of good-enough solutions...

The real problem is that the foundation of Bitcoin is not good enough to ever function as a practical, real world currency.

And over a decade of development and use has produced little evidence to the contrary. Bitcoin's main function remains speculation.
They weren't just embassies, and the 'ambassadors' weren't just representing the companies, these are state censorship bureaus.
I've never been able to find it again, but I distinctly remember seeing video of Air Force One taking off from Sarasota on September 11, 2001. In my memory it was far louder than normal and climbed at a very steep angle.

I've always wondered if I was imagining that or if they really did act more aggressively to gain altitude quickly.
doh, thanks!
Telegram is leagues ahead of the rest in features and user experience. Leaving side its default chat storage (in plain text on its servers), I’ve seen that it’s the best choice to recommend to people and not have them complain about the platform. That it also hides phone numbers by default is a nice thing.
> All models are tentative.

There is a difference between the model being tentative, and objects within that model being able to be moved from one classification to the other after mere debate and politics.

Such things do not happen in many models, as the classifications are based upon universal rules not open for interpretation or subjective assessment.

> Note that modern paleontological papers now refer to dinosaurs as “non-avian dinosaurs”. Give it time and the commonly recognized groupings of today will change.

Quite, but they are not really referring to reptiles as non-crocodillian reptiles very often.
Yeah, my parents do that when they return to Scotland (retired, so they can stay a while).

But, for my normal 1-2 week vacations, it never seemed worth it. I just pay the $10/day Verizon charges, but only use it when I can't get wifi (which is rare these days). I think the last time I used the plan for more than a day or two was in Iceland and that was only because I forgot my SatNav, so used the phone.