skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do you think the tallied paper ballots get sent along after being scanned into a machine? FTP comes to mind...
That's already happened, and has been continuously occurring since 2017 when Wells Fargo shut down their links to the traditional banking system. Tether continues to trade at the peg because people believe it to be pegged.

The only way the Tether peg could possibly be realistic is if massive amounts of institutional investors were engaging in really unusual settlement procedures to buy into Tether. I've heard stories about Tether having it's investors operate accounts on it's behalf or something, which sounds incredibly farfetched compared to the more likely idea that they're just not bothering maintaining anything close to a reasonable reserve requirement for their peg. After all, nobody can really pull money out of Tether.
I was surprised too

Haven't heard that name back to warez days ~ 20 or years ago.

I remember when flashfxp became the rage to transfer between from dump sites
>Preston Estep, Don Wang, Alex Hoekstra, Ranjan Ahuja, George Church, Brian Delaney, and over 100 others

Pretty sure George Church is a "formally trained scientist"!
Because it overemphasizes the importance of Europe and North America, and Canada and Asia, and makes Greenland look silly.
Do they still have surge pricing? I once paid $289 for a 14 minute ride at 3am Jan 1.
Of course, but the way they use it makes no sense.
/me thumbs up!

A side note: The internet sure was a different place back then. Content was not made for ads like it is now! People posted stuff for everyone to share, and the best stuff rose to the top. I really miss the early internet before the ads came.
I think the biggest value of this vs httpie is that it doesn't use the system TLS libraries (openssl/gnutls/whatever) but instead uses rustls. Less attack surface, though admittedly if someone has a compromise that works on arbitrary HTTPS traffic, you're probably pretty boned anyway.
Generate abstract random art with a neural network
almost like the FBI

https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/05/fbi-dir...
Link is blogspam around a tweet:
https://mobile.twitter.com/neilrkaye/status/1050740679008296...
It adds up. I once tried to scrape an internal company website / API because we had no PDF exports and wanted to download + export to PDF, with `httpie`. It's an amazing tool but all the startup times compounded pretty badly. I switched to `curl` (which is a bit more pain until I got the full command line right, granted) and the script finished in ~95 minutes as opposed to the ~202 minutes it took with `httpie`.

With about 0.5s startup time, it means every 120 requests add a full minute to the final time. And I had to scrape ~125K URLs back then.

For a daily casual flow 0.5s startup time might not be much (although people like myself get irritated by that as well but I do recognize it's a minor inconvenience). But when doing mass-scripting such delays can very easily compound to non-trivial time inefficiencies.
Still waiting for the 50 or so BTC I had in MtGox when it disappeared. Think I should get what they were worth then, or what they are worth now :D
I am waving my money to 3 companies - AMD, Nvidia, and Sony for new computer parts and a ps5. Alas, haven’t even been close to getting any of them.

Come take my money
In a tandem wing configuration like this it is unwise to make the forward wing the low one. This is because at high angles of attack (think takeoff, landing, low speed flight, climbing) the rear wing will end up in the “dirty” turbulent wake of the first wing. Wings are much more efficient in “clean” smooth air. The lower lifting efficiency in situations where you need high lift (see previous list of high angle of attack settings) makes a design dangerous.

If you’re interested in this sort of stuff, this is the best book I’ve found on the subject, it is very practical and written with the engineering minded amateur designer in mind: https://www.amazon.com/Design-Aeroplane-2e-Darrol-Stinton-dp...
I’ve never heard of it happening. Can someone chime in here if your tech company drug screened the engineers?
It is not a prompt; I encourage you to review it. It proceeds automatically.

It also only occurs once, on install, and is silent thereafter on each data exfiltration.
Nice work! As shared down-thread, I really loved and wanted to use `httpie` but the non-trivial amount of startup has put me off. Very happy that you made a Rust alternative because I really don't like `curl` that much -- it requires quite the amount of incantations for non-trivial requests. `ht` and `httpie` definitely improve ergonomics at important places.

So, kudos!
> As a computer science concept it's rather mundane. We know what merkle trees are.

a practical, robust solution to a long-standing computer science problem (byzantine generals) that directly results in an entire new branch of computer science and economic sector is hardly mundane. bitcoin solves previously intractable trustless coordination problems. we are only at the early stages of discovering what it makes possible; you are the newspaper editor laughing at the web in 1996.
Why create a new weird text format for locating a person, when you could use RP records (rfc1183) to provide an email address and a reference to a freeform text record.
Extreme control, including weekend work. Verbal insults, derogatory, lots of profanity. Verbal reminders of power: one would hover over me saying "Why are you even here?" while watching me work, then tell me to leave. I would then get called back the next day to work on something else. It was erratic. Classic case of power and control: you leave when I tell you, you come back when I tell you.
This really feels like a workflow issue where you have to discuss with your team how to best categorize the work. I've seen below categories with state transitions work well..

* TODO

* In progress

* On hold

* Awaiting feedback

* Pending Release

* Done
Ahh, thanks for the memory - I miss Kozmo! How can it be after almost 20 years we don't have a replacement? (OK I think we know why...)
He does not have a working prototype, or even a detailed schematic.

For a low energy use, it's like a graviton thruster, that has the same theoretical efficiency than a photon thruster, but the conversion will make it much more inefficient. And a photon thruster is just like a lamp or laser at the bottom of the vehicle. If has a very small force, and is not enough for an hoverboard. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photon_rocket

For high energy use it is more interesting, because using General Relativity instead of Special Relativity makes the calculations more complicated. I'm not sure there is something interesting here, but in any case you need a device that produce as much energy as a star, a big star.

The generator of a carrier is not big enough to get all the energy you need to consider if there may be something interesting.
> This is a four-year-old card design that can barely run modern games at 1080p/60fps/medium settings.

Nonsense. It runs all games on High/60fps or better, with the possible exception of Cyberpunk and RTX marketing gimmicks. That's why it's still a relevant card 4.5 years later and goes for $200+. I own one.

> I'd also been keeping track of used i7-4790k CPU prices, looking to upgrade from my i5-4670k. They started out at $120-$130 earlier in 2020 and are up to $160-$170 now. For an eight-year-old CPU!

Funny, since I own one as well (4670k). And I haven't ever felt CPU-limited. Mine is mildly overclocked to 4GHz, and it's been able to crunch everything I threw at it since I bought it in 2014, again with the possible exception of HEVC encoding. It's still a very relevant CPU and handily beats Ryzen 1st gen for example.

It's also the last generation of Intel CPUs that lets you run a non-spyware version of Windows.
Another advantage: your installation isn't tethered to a system Python implementation that may go away and nuke the env.
Mozilla has abandoned the ability to install websites as desktop apps
Very sorry to hear that about your mother. We've been fortunate that the paperwork errors haven't gone worse for us — we've only had to deal with a wrong-bag problem once, and thankfully before they started infusion — but that's a worthy and painful reminder to stay vigilant.

We're two months past the end of chemo and now at the end of a trial that also failed. The vomiting has been worse, if anything, since chemo (and the anti-nausea meds they prescribed) stopped, but it's been due to chronic constipation for us.
Things Nerds Can Appreciate about Football’s Game Design
We don't have a choice, cops will be first on the scene. If nothing else because until they arrive nobody even knows to call in someone else.

The police have more complete first aid kits than the average person, including such things as an AED. They also get a bit more than your standard firstly aid course.
How to Write Readable Code
Exactly like what I thought. Any connected devices (via USB cable, WiFi, the Internet, etc) can be a (potential) vector (Postulate 1).
How about glasses protecting the eye and membranes from aerosolized virus droplets?
Remember that stalling is related to angle of attack of the wing and the speed. You can stall in a dive, even (it's hard, though :D)

In fact, all planes can gain altitude without pitching up, by increasing speed, and by decreasing speed can lower altitude. The resulting lifting force on the wings is for most important flight regimes a function of speed and angle of attack.
... here's a weird thought. Could you have a free and paid tier split based on overall traffic, but pass the paid tier cost onto the user? ie, when the quota is reached (say an article trends on HN surprisingly), the comment box pops up a paywall, but any user can foot the bill, and then everyone else gains the benefit, including the site owner?
Whilst I don't live in California or even America. I'm about 95% sure you guys have food banks, as my company has donated to them.
Lawrence was able to connect with Bedouin because he had ludicrously large piles of gold
Careful about the notion that you make 170-200k

Check levels.FYI
If blondes and brunettes have their lives affected in a similar manner where they are prevented from searching about themselves, I would make the same argument.

The point is that these terms that describe our identities should not be filtered out.
Stoner as a Service?

Anyhow, I do find this useful and will give it a try. Wish the page would have more info as to what is included in the report. Also, how high the person was.
And how does one become a career criminal or a drug addict? Not saying it's the only cause, but poverty and societal dysfunction definitely play a major role.
Keep in mind that there are a lot of PhDs that can't get jobs in their field of work or are only partially employed. I worked with a guy who thought the time he used to get his PhD was a waste. He was the network admin for the company.

I have also known people that had multiple degrees and loved every minute they spent studying the subjects they loved.

If you want to get a PhD, do it because it's something you want to do. Having all the material things in the world is worthless if you are miserable. Look at the situation realistically and decide if having a PhD is really something you want and you are ok living a student's life for a while then go for it.

If you have the skills that the job market values then a few years in academia will not hurt you too much. Have fun.
> Crypto is made to do one thing - store value, and do it well.

Does it really do it well when your "investment" can fluctuate between $5000 to $40K?
Language Log » The directed graph of stereotypical incomprehensibility
The article's focus on it being an emulator feels misleading. They compromised an auto-update feature, it can happen to any software that offers updates. Even manual updates.
Recently made my first PR to nixpkgs. Definitely looking to see what it takes to manage more *.apps using only Nix.

Luckily this is much less of an issue on my NixOS desktop or EC2 instances.
Perhaps it’s just an English as a second language thing? Note, I have no idea the background of who is behind the project..
I love the idea of Spyder. Particularly as a replacement/alternative to Jupyter notebook style workflows. The last time I tried to use Spyder to connect to a remote kernel, there was no way to interrupt a remote kernel. I understand that this was an inherent issue with the kernel APIs (Jupyter has it's own watchdog process that is responsible for sending signals to the kernels it monitors). Is this workflow better supported now? (ie. using Jupyer to connect to a remote kernel that has GPUs?, and having an easy way to interrupt / restart the remote kernel if it hangs?
Im sure there are different ways of doing it, but this is not my experience.
In my experience, you get X RSU stocks, and or Y dollars worth of stock. It is then locked up for 3-4 years so if you took stock it may have increased in value.
Just going to start pronouncing it car tax in casual conversation.

All joking aside, this is the obvious logical conclusion of Carta, and one of those ideas I really wish I was smart enough to have had a decade ago and then, you know, actually build.
Really depends on how much trust and empathy there's in the team.. I say my stuff is shit all the time and am okay w/ others saying it too in the context of my team.

If a random person emails me saying my code is shit -- not so well as I lack rapport w/ them. But, if random person emails me saying why my code isn't ideal and how I could improve, that would be awesome
As a side note:

It is quite fascinating how computers are really just bits of 0's and 1's. What a magical machine built upon a layer of boolean logic. What an incredible feat.
The 80% what? Hindu majority? I'm actually a minority, but I have the foresight to distinguish between a country that is declining into a dictatorship vs a country that already is. Democracy was non existent in India during the Emergency.
Thanks for these. I really want to call out:

> make sure that there is regular bloodwork being done that covers iron

We've been fighting anemia during treatment, and regular tests have resulted in blood transfusions that kept us on schedule and ultrasound scans to locate and treat the blood loss.
K is a successor to J? It came 3 years later?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_(programming_language)

And I guess there's also Q.

https://code.kx.com/q/ref/

Which one of these has some industry traction?
I never get people trying to set things up locally. You put stuff on a remote Linux server and the problems are instantly gone.

There are enough tools to work efficiently on a remote server and you can easily access what you do there from another machine.
(I should clarify that I don't mean the author's opinion is important to falsifiability)

> The author described such a circumstance, but then explained that he did not have access to the necessary lab testing to actually do so.

In the parent article? Could you quote that part?
Coinbase is successful because it was the fist exchange that did things by the book and has a well deserved reputation for competence and law abiding conduct.
Note: the prototype is open sourced, not the production plane.

From the linked article: "This [crashed] aircraft was intended to be the production version of the "Stratos" aircraft. The prototype version had successfully flown some 340 hours. The production model incorporated significant changes made by the designer/pilot."
I interned at a securities finance company that did drug testing at some point. There were lots of management changes, so the random screen may have been an MBA/finance type who didn’t get it. Notable quality engineers who failed their tests were retained, so I imagine they must have seen the error in their ways.

They did have drug screening as part of the application process. I imagine they lost a lot of quality applicants. I only persisted because I was one of those annoying self-righteous tea totalers at the time.
Yes, the article summary suggests that glasses protect the virus from entering the eyes. But it talks more about how glasses reduce the number of times you touch your eyes.
No, different plane.

“During a short test flight of the new highly modified production version"
> Which means easy to store

Sure, if you want to trust an exchange. But try setting up and running Bitcoin Armory and see how 'easy' that is

> exactly because it is a good store of value

I wouldn't consider highly volatile currencies a "good store of value".

> and highly resistant to manipulation and inflation.

Far from it. An exchange goes tits-up and BTC plummets, and then everyone else follows. It's super susceptible to coordinated pump and dump schemes. Holding any crypto can get you red-flagged by the IRS, and if you don't admit to it most legit exchanges will rat you out. (Better for non-Americans, I guess...)

One of my favorite things to do every now and then is pull up CMC and see just how many coins' performance is a fraction of BTC's. Its funny because at BTC's most volatile times nearly the entire chart is red or green.
It doesn't make that big of a difference until later in life. Compare your 30-year-old kid to the 30-year-old kids of the parents who didn't try as hard and your answer will be there.
The default twitter algo selection of comments is random gibberish. Anything more specific to point to?
I think resourcefulness is inexplicably decreasing in the age of information.

For example, it amazes me how many questions on r/Spanish could be answered in 5 seconds by pasting the title into Google, but OP also wrote two paragraphs to explain their predicament of being unable to translate a common word.

I don't want to pile on our friend above, but it's a good example. We are all seconds away from just looking up rapeseed oil and learning some interesting things about it, but we don't even do that (myself included in all of this).

It reminds me of the parable of the lumberjack who is found trying to cut down the same tree all day with a dull axe because he says he doesn't have time to sharpen it.
Cool proof of concept. I played for a couple minutes, made some vertical lines, realized I blocked myself horizontally, and gave up. Didn't see the triangle button until afterwards.

Feels too complicated to me, doesn't have the clarity of tetris or the random wins of bejewelled. The good games in this genre have less friction in their action loop.
Interesting that there are two gut micobiome stories on the front page right now.
Not anymore, right? I've noticed that recently, many formula which don't longer require `/usr/local` specifically actually install from bottles, which has been neat.
Unfortunately we haven't had time to address that, but it's high in our TODO list. We hope to do it this year.
It was a modified version of the prototype upon which the current efforts are based.

That’s not cleanly “exactly same” nor “totally different” airplane design, but the mishap airplane was clearly closer to this effort than to a 172.
Yeahhhh no. You don't get to blow up norms and then blame the other side for blowing up norms, and 9 SCOTUS judges is just a norm, no matter how hard you try to claim that it is not.

The Dems adding SCOTUS judges 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, & 16 would be just changing norms, as there's nothing in the constitution that prevents it. Sorry! Maybe the GQP should win elections next time.
> I live 40 miles south of SF and I refuse to go there.

Then how do you know it's worse than Manhattan in the 70s/80s?
Something that can continue to gain value for 10 years has no practical use?

Someone had better remove the vast majority of the world GDP which is in financial markets.
For those who don't know, MagicalTux is Mark Karpeles, owner and CEO of Mt Gox. Assuming this is his real account.

And for what it's worth, I agree that this is a bad article based on what I know about the situation. Bloomberg reporting in general is questionable these days if you ask me. I don't trust them since the false Supermicro hack story (never retracted BTW) and I've seen several other bad stories from them since then.
Just to be clear, I think having to prefix my web searches is not a fix, but rather an even greater inconvenience. I'll either have to type "http://" dozens of times per day, or "g " a hundred times per day, for no discernible reason.

Aside from that I don't think Firefox is particularly good for the web. Their license is no better than that of Chromium, and Chromium has proven time and again it's a good starting point for a fork.

Mozilla employees are paid with search ad revenue, to an even greater extent (95%) than the subset of Blink developers employed by Google -- so their incentives aren't even any better.
Researchers from 44 Institutions Propose Gem, a ‘Living Benchmark’ for NLG
I had a boss tell me that once. My young, straight, naive self thought he was talking about cannabis. Years later when I talk to those old coworkers and hear the stories of what they were doing I’m kinda surprised we got anything done at all.
Would you prefer 100% of what it was worth then or 23% of what it's worth now?
Two come to mind: Cost and lawyers.
It's already stalled onboarding of HFC customers in Australia due to lack of modems. Apparently the supplier of modems (Arris) are unable to source enough SoC's from Broadcom.

Due to this, people needing replacements and any in-flight new orders apparently have wait times of up to 9-10 weeks...

Not helping this is that some people try to sell them in the secondary market despite them being premises (or rather segment) locked.

[1] https://www.nbnco.com.au/utility/temporarily-limiting-the-nu...
No "favorite bookmarking site" post would be complete without the requisite nod to our old standby: https://pinboard.in
Feels clickbaity. I was interested because this implied they somehow broke outside both Android's sandbox and the emulator's hypervisor but nope, it was way more mundane (but not less severe of course). The magic is in not knowing.
I would think "right to repair" has a lot to do with this. When you have to replace everything only after a few years, a lot more chips would be needed.
You can make the happy easy path the most profitable choice, and make the less profitable choices harder to use.

Imagine a "tap here to go home" button that automatically calls an UberX Black Elite(tm) car and takes you to your already-designated home location. But if you want to use a regular uber, or uber pool or whatever, you have to tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, don't forget to set your destination, maybe key in where you are right now since location services can be unreliable in some environments? Wouldn't want the car dispatched to the wrong location now would we?
Oh, every comment is a table row. But they're all in the same flat table, not nested.
It’s real (re account)!
It's certainly possible. The same could happen during private share buybacks that companies sometimes run. I would hope that a company is set up so that managers don't have such lens into how many shares an employee still owns.

I would take the risk of manager discrimination (which I consider very low) in order to get better liquidity and avoid being illiquid for 8+ years or however long it takes a company to go public.
And yet he titled the post "Making Vaccine". Unless you make it all the way through to the end, you might assume that he actually did make a vaccine -- and judging by the comments on HN, it looks like some people are assuming this. It all seems a bit... irresponsible?
L.A. County faces severe limits in first dose of Covid-19 vaccines amid shortage
> stop branding their morality

You can’t seriously think this would have any effect on Pakistan’s regime.

> You go try asking them.

Ok, so you don’t know what people in Pakistan want.

How is it ethical for you to argue that they should not be allowed Google or Apple’s products?
On ebay I bought from a seller unloading five RX 580x previously used for mining to power an external GPU to game on a mac.

I think a lot of people are getting into gaming again and a lot are looking for cards that can play their game just well enough.