skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They don't execute these people like some other countries do.

Well, the US government doesn't have an incentive to call attention to any extradjudicial killings of foreign spies that it does the way it does when its own agents are extrajudicially killed, and less-democratic states don't need to broadcast foreign counterintelligence killings to build support for desired policies, so the information situation isn't exactly symmetric.
This site is designed to destroy old eyeballs. Is it just me or is the font razor-thin? Firefox Ubuntu 19.04 HiDPI

Changing <body> CSS rule to "color: black; font-weight: normal" was required to actually read the page here
What I described is the complete procedure for regenerating a wallet set, from zero. If you want a real-world equivalent, it's like teleporting all the gold you own to your hand at any time. You might think the procedure is a hassle, but the reality is that you will have a well-secured computer as your primary storage. Being able to recreate a safe store out of thin air is just icing on the cake.
Science risks being ground to a halt according to Planck's Principle[1].

> Science progresses one funeral at a time.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck%27s_principle
My grandmother was deaf and we primarily communicated with her over TTY and fax. Before she had TTY she would call and leave a message, either on the machine or with whoever answered. In the days before widespread email and texting this was a boon.
I can see how that is attractive to people who believe in a higher power, but it’s really a terrible argument because it has no actual explanatory power. Exactly the same argument is used to justify various forms of multiverse for example - more rolls of the dice on types of universe equals a greater chance of us turning up. All it really means is ‘there must be a reason’, but it says nothing about what that reason is. Anything beyond that is just projection.
I think some people are missing the point here. In order to charter the corporation you need to be a billionaire.

I doubt it has anything to do with wanting to make 'More money' as opposed to leaving a city as a legacy, under your vision, ideals, etc. I mean, what else do billionaires dream of?
What would you say are the nonreligious answers to the same question?
14,609.911164 XRP stolen Toast Plus on Apple app store
So today I needed to import a private key with around 14600 XRP on it and transfer the money to an exchange. I have a new iphone that doesn't currently have a wallet on it. So I went to the app store and downloaded the first wallet that came up. I did quickly google is toast wallet safe and the results said it was considered safe. So I went ahead and imported the private key and instantly before I could send to the exchange all the XRP was transferred to address: rnmmg1qsvjzitv5toy32dsh8zgdqsw6dzf which is a known scam account.

The software company that produces toast wallet plus also does droplet wallet. "Peninsula Software S.A.S. de C.V."

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/droplet-xrp-spark-wallet/id1526070300#:~:text=Store.-,Peninsula%20Software%20S.A.S.%20de%20C.V.,-Designed

So what to do now? I know the coins are gone but I have a new mission now, to get them taken down. Been buying and selling and mining crypto since 2010 and first time I've gotten scammed. What makes this worse is these weren't my coins, but a friends who wanted me to buy them because he didn't know how. This friend is in a bad situation and needs money now which is why I was converting them.

This is supposedly their address:
Peninsula Software Limited
16 Forbes Street Balaclava Dunedin 9011, New Zealand.
Yes, in the context of my comment higher in the thread about using libraries. This gives you a lot more control of the connection pool and queues, which can get a lot more performance than simple cURL usage. From the cURL manpage:

curl will attempt to re-use connections for multiple file transfers, so that getting
many files from the same server will not do multiple connects / handshakes. This
improves speed. Of course this is only done on files specified on a single command
line and cannot be used between separate curl invokes.

So using a library gives you more flexibility in reusing connections (and avoiding the expensive TCP/TLS handshake) than the simple patterns you can use with the cURL CLI.

See also: https://docs.aiohttp.org/en/latest/http_request_lifecycle.ht...
Why do you think corporate IT or Starbucks or AWS is more trustworthy than "some Mullvad dude"? Isn't it possible that Mullvad is more trustworthy? Isn't it more possible to know about Mullvad than what's going on at Starbucks or AWS?
Ya I've done that hah. I think an ok plan might be to set up infrastructure with open IAM rules and write all of the backend and frontend acceptance tests for an app. Then close all IAM rules and open them one by one until all of the tests pass again.

Maybe AWS could provide a way to track access attempts and then have an interface for the user to grant them one by one. I understand that this might be challenging to design, but I view these sorts of challenges as the "real work" of computer science, otherwise there's just nothing there.

I encounter that a lot when I have a preconceived notion of the heart of a strategy (including edge cases), only to find that it wasn't addressed, and in fact wasn't even mentioned.

Yes these things are hard, but Amazon has billions and billions of dollars.
Not all traffic is http.
Personal Memoirs of a Silicon Valley Tech Whore: Part 2
Commonly gas stations here on interstate highways are complimented with a number of restaurants, from fast food to sit down.
https://www.infoworld.com/article/2077265/so-why-did-they-de...
I will buy your failed YC startup for $25,000 USD equity in Biomage
related, this works, even on macos:

#!/usr/bin/emacs --script
(message "hello, world")
I’m not sure I get the point.

Cool animations, no details, no math. Profound quotes from heavy names but not math.

Revolutionary, paradigm breaking stuff, but not really.

Almost makes me long for a Stephen Wolfram press release.
I would love if people would see that their networks they maintain are of incredible value. As a consequence I would like to profit of e.g. information network a person x has. My idea is that every person exposes an aggregated RSS feed of feeds they consume. Every interesting person that tells me their secret RSS link would empower me.

I started a couple of projects in that area, one is a piece of glue code [0] to automatically get a feed of a site, even if there isn't one. It maps html to a feed structure, which works decent, fixing broken feeds after the html changes is now the main concern.

[0] https://github.com/damoeb/rss-proxy
What death? RSS is as alive as ever.
Legal language doesn't have any reason to be re-imagined, especially in the direction of making it more formal. If anything, it would probably benefit from stopping to pretend it is a kind of formal language. It doesn't really help to use a formal(-ish) language to describe informal semantics, and there's no way at this time to describe the world in formal semantics (for example, you couldn't formally, mathematically, define the concept 'contract' in a way that matches what the legal system generally understands by it).
> and the most common cause of extreme poverty is white-collar crime

You lost me there. Do you mean that a) of the set of extremely poor people, most are extremely poor because they've been the direct victim of white-collar crime, or b) white-collar crime as a whole is the leading cause for extreme poverty in a society?

Both interpretations seem very wrong to me. Do you have any data to back up that assertion?
Err.. why not? Not sure how asserting this without explaining why helps. From my understanding, Moderna made their vaccine in a day in early 2020 (https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/12/moderna-covid-19-vac...) and HCT basically means deliberately infecting people. One day to make the vaccine, four weeks for it to take effect, infect everybody, four weeks to see who gets sick - that's 2 months to make and test a vaccine with HCT. It took us 11 months without HCT.
The fire department can dispense pure hype, which displaces oxygen and extinguishes the blaze.
some rebrandings are just ridiculous
A functional description of the TX-0 computer (1958) [pdf]
> Why create a new weird text format for locating a person, when you could use RP records (rfc1183)

Because they aren't the same thing. RP records designate the person responsible for the domain, which may or may not be the person that the domain identifies.

RP records also assume the user has an email address. That's been a bad assumption for long time now.
Because...

Bash Shell -> Fish Shell

And if it was shellfish it would be a PITA to Google it.
A stroll through the archives of Editor & Publisher
Show HN: Trending Domain Name Generator
I think he's seriously downplaying how awful the public canings are, but you're seriously downplaying how awful conversion therapy is.

It's like

bad|-----caning------conversion_therapy-----|good

and you're making it sound like

bad|-----caning----------conversion_therapy-|good

Which is total bullshit. Voluntary courses and meetings, my ass.
"Your mom," said Jian Yang.
I thought it was Cats (the scala library) :D
Another problem is that there are sites out there that have RSS, but they are hiding it from the users:
https://stop.zona-m.net/2021/02/the-snob-rss-hall-of-constru...
Why bring HTTP into it? You need to do a DNS lookup on landshark.io anyway to get the A record.
This is a library I developed to make videos for my math site "La mer qui monte" (https://lmqm.xyz), and have now cleaned up for general use. Rather than recording a traditional video and then adding HTML overlays to achieve "interactivity", you create the video content in HTML/React and record yourself talking over it. This makes it a lot easier to work on content incrementally (and separately from recording), and also lets you do cool things like the interactive coding demos.

There's a second tutorial focused specifically on math content: https://ractive-player.org/math/
I thought it was Cats for Scala (the library)
> I can look at QAnon, understand this is beyond the pale

"QAnon" is a very wide ranging set of beliefs, from "a deep state faction has or will arrest every major politician and celebrity and replace them with holograms" to "elite pedophile rings exist and have protection from law enforcement and media scrutiny." Do you believe the latter idea should be "beyond the pale"? Because after the Franklin Scandal, the Doutroux Affair, the Catholic Church and Boy Scouts abuses, Dennis Hastert, Jimmy Saville, and most famously Epstein, there's all kinds of evidence in its favor.
Twitter removed RSS in 2013. Facebook removed it too. Youtube didn't remove it, but you have to go into the page source to find the feed link.
Do you believe that locking people in a cage for years of their life, separating them from their families, and putting them in an environment where they must be afraid perpetually or hone criminal skills to protect themselves to be humane? Not being hyperbolic, just detailed.
The paper offers new and improved convergence rates for the Catalan constant, presenting new results in a short period of time.

Calegari talking nonsense..
When it is, are there any plans to put it on https://inkscape.org/gallery/=extension/?
I am polishing Deployment from Scratch[0] and preparing some Docker examples.

[0] https://deploymentfromscratch.com/
If this is more efficient, tax the gains and give it back in the form of UBI.

If all the high value work is done by only a small number of people (+computers/machines), we need a mechanism whereby all of society benefits.
Regarding the accuracy of home VO2 max measurements, Garmin claims to have a watch that's 95% as accurate as a formal VO2 max test (with oxygen mask on a treadmill). I would be surprised if other good brands (e.g. Apple watch) are much worse.

If you want to go low-tech, max distance run in 12 minutes is a good proxy; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooper_test.
If you cannot trust a computer to take your vote, why would you trust it to keep your life safe and the train on the rails, or the plane in the air?

This distrust of voting machines is only happening because the voting machines are NOT trust-worthy.

If we were to build trustworthy voting machines, they'd probably be best modelled on other safety-critical systems.
Your own issues with general use of cryptocurrencies are not anyone else's problem. Commerce occurs, and the things you wish for would also improve it more. In an employer-contractor relationship, non-performance is a problem with fiat or crypto. The courts would enforce it the same way, the point you think you are making simply isn't a strong point. And again regarding the banking system, if you don't know how to use your own payment networks thats nobody's problem but yours. "But... recourse!" seems to be the root of your argument, many contractors and merchants do not like Paypal and similar systems specifically because they only give recourse to the person that paid them, ME! So you've made a whole argument against my practice, when the reason people even want my practice is because it benefits them.

And then there is me, I have explained exactly what I gain from it not being cash, my first post said that and I said it again. It's the exact same for any company that pays in equity: the company still keep its cash, and they still get a tax deduction from any expense they paid for. This goes one step further in that the company has not diluted any of its ownership. In both circumstances of shares or tokens, the issuing company's cost basis is $0.00. (Sometimes the deduction benefit is in that the company has bought back some tokens at some point, and that specific lot of tokens are exchanged for a service closer to the same market price).

Fast, liquid, mutually beneficial, fairly instant final settlement. And maybe some of people involved actually know how to use a computer and don't mess up, you'd be surprised.
I'm right handed yet I generally use my left hand for twist ties. I twist them counter-clockwise too. I never put any thought into it beyond wanting bread.
offtop5 offered his opinion that the service was not valuable in exchange for the data privacy concerns. Are you claiming that he misrepresented what this company offers? Because it appears to advertise exactly that: https://www.23andme.com/dna-ancestry
I can answer that from personal experience:

Because it's what's offered and is a good deal.

I'm about to start a long-term role where non-cash crypto-tokens are part of the compensation.

I'm not a "true believer" at all. I don't have any crypto at the moment, don't have a wallet yet, and to be honest it's just going to complicate my company accounts and taxation. I do know the field, and I'm sufficiently skeptical to remain not a true believer :-)

Good old fiat would certainly be more convenient, and I could invest that in crypto in my own time and on my own terms if I wanted to do that.

So why accept?

Because I like the company (a lot so far) and the people, the company seems refreshing and well-architected, I'm looking forward to working with the people there, they are working on interesting and worthwhile problems. I anticipate I'm going to learn a lot working there, not only technical, but about real world non-technical social issues I'm not that familiar with at the moment.

And the pay is good, or at least good enough. (I know I can get more by chasing consultancy contracts, but I'm taking a break from that to go all-in on a single company's product development).

Generally the same sorts of reasons for choosing any job.

Despite not being a "true believer" in cryptocurrency, I think I bring a grounded and mature view of the more general (non-currency) crypto ecosystem the company is working with, which will hopefully mean I contribute in a grounded and mature way to the company conversations, and in a better product for real world applications in the long run.

The fact some of the pay is in crypto-tokens is understandable given the company's mission as well as its source of funding, and I'm not unhappy with that. But I wouldn't choose it to be honest if it were a genuinely neutral option on the table. But in exactly the same way, I wouldn't choose RSUs or stock options with another company if equivalent (fiat) cash were available instead. In many ways liquid crypto-tokens are much better than stock options!

As a result, back to the point about corporate scrip. I think we are seeing a rise in scrip-like tokens, but, the GP is right, liquidity changes things. It gives back much of the autonomy that traditional scrip takes away. I know I can, in principle, trade the scrip for cash at any time.

The volatility is not great. The uncertainty around long term value of that portion of income is not great (although I do get to choose the proportion over a substantial range, and change it when I want).

But I've often been paid in international currencies too, and similar issues apply to that. There's some price volatility, it's worth keeping a balance in each currency for expenses in those currencies, and the company accounting and taxation for a small company paid a range of international currencies whose value fluctuates is also annoying.

So being paid in crypto-tokens, a kind of liquid corporate scrip, is not especially more bothersome than being paid in a range of international currencies. It's mostly just different practicalities.
>Someone later explained that in Indonesia you legally had to tell the government what religion you followed, and "none" was not an option.

That is correct, furthermore, the government only acknowledges 6 religions, although I heard that they started acknowledging some folks religion recently.
Hmm. The expectations and engineering of a platform like kubernetes and 'fail till right' require a lot of alignment work to get to the point where 'fail till right' works.

There is no silver bullet. Automation and self healing is a selling point but when it hits engineering it usually is a dud in terms of incorporation in existing environments.

The real novelty would be to generate a declarative description from the customer and provide an in place deployment solution via k8s. That would be the ultimate replacement solution.
This kind of "ridiculous" is laudable.

Not his specific solutions, but the sort of "beginners mind" where you can solve things even if social convention dictates otherwise.

Just as an example, using scissors in the kitchen where a "normal person" would bow to convention and use a knife.
I just fold the end of the bag over and use the weight of the bread to weigh it down.

That way I also have an excuse to not eat the last slice.

Come to think of it, I haven't kept bread around for at least a year.
Reminds me of _Snow Crash_'s FOQNEs: Franchise-Organized Quasi National Entities. Now all we need is Postmates but for skateboarders. Maybe the Deliverator is just an Uber Eats driver.
Does it support private websites where you have to login to see anything? Like nextdoor.com.
Sci-hub was taken down by court order. While I don't like it, their case went through the legal system.
A long time ago, before cell data, when I was learning to program, I may or may not have used the TTY client that came with Visual Basic to abuse the “I’m paying for it with my telephone fees I might as well use it” federal TTY voice relay service [1] to have an operator read my emails and top slashdot news stories to me.

[1] https://www.federalrelay.us/tty
Thanks for another interesting reverse-engineering case.

This made me remember the first project where I have worked after graduating. It was in a metalworking plant, at a huge rolling mill for aluminum sheet.

The controller for that system could be implemented today in a small micro-controller unit or in an FPGA, but in that old installation the controller occupied 3 cabinets. Two cabinets contained an analog computer made with operational amplifiers, which controlled the speed and torque of all the very large DC motors used in the rolling mills.

The third cabinet contained a one-bit programmable logic controller (PLC), which was very similar to Motorola 14500B.

It was even older, so it was made with TTL gates. However, in the next generation of that PLC, the large PCB with many TTL integrated circuits that implemented it was replaced by a simpler board with 14500B and other CMOS ICs.

So I had to write a program for that 14500B-like programmable logic controller. It read data from a large number of sensors and then switched on or off almost a hundred of hydraulic valves that caused the movements of various things and also the electrical power supplies for various devices, e.g. pumps or fans.

Writing programs for it was far less convenient than it would be to do the same thing today with an ARM MCU, but nonetheless it did the required job without problems.
Sure. I'm aware of the difficult tradeoffs of screening. But the fact that screening tests X and Y are not worth doing isn't really adequate to write off a whole new world of additional screening tests, many of which would have very different tradeoffs. (Olfactory tests are far less invasive, for one.)

It's also something of a UX issue. Nobody is going to write an app that rings the cancer alarm after one positive. People might write an app that sends raw results to your doctor or medical monitoring service, and you get an email requesting an appointment to discuss your latest status. And if your breath results say that you're gonna die in the next 10 days and there's nothing to be done (exaggerated for effect), well then... maybe it won't send an email after all.
This is something that, I think, we all intuitively feel. The big question is: what is the nature of this "higher power"? Is it something external or related to our consciousness?
Thanks. I wouldn't call TDD folks "weirdos." I 100% support the goals of TDD, and I think that it's a great discipline.

But as I explained in [2], I usually (not all the time) tend to write unit tests after the fact. This is something that seems to get TDD folks all hot and bothered.

My development testing is usually done with test harnesses. You can call it "spike," or whatever.

Actually, as I write this, I am taking a break from some fairly significant refactoring of a backend server that I wrote a couple of years ago[0]. It's a layered system, with each layer having a standalone product lifecycle and integrated tests.

I have a plan for the feature that I'm adding, but not a full project timeline. I have already encountered a couple of places where I deviated from my plan, and I'm barely getting started.

At this layer, the tests are more like test harnesses, than complete unit tests. By the time I get to BASALT (the top layer), the tests are pretty much complete unit tests, examining and reporting on results. At this level, my tests basically output runtime data, below an explanation of what we want to see in that data, so that means I need to spend quality time, reviewing the output. By the time I get to BASALT, I can just scan the reports, looking for red and green; which is good, because I run thousands of tests, by then. At this point, I'll be running less than a hundred tests.

So I guess all my tests are "spike" tests.

[0] https://riftvalleysoftware.com/work/open-source-projects/#ba...
Terminal Chat with Video Support
It is because of all that stuff that this is a huge milestone! Like, that means that the faction there that wants to preserve people's rights has won a pretty significant victory against the faction that wants to whip gay people.

These two groups are highly unlikely to have any overlap.

There is some degree of group attribution error in your comment that is making it hard for you to tease signal out of events. But I suppose whether something is a milestone or not is sort of subjective when you're temporally proximate to the event. So I'll leave off.