skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It isn't this regulation that makes the bank uncompetitive, it's all the other regulations that make banks uncompetitive, i.e. hard to switch between and have high barriers to entry. Without that, this regulation would be unnecessary because you would find a dozen other banks willing to take your business and switching to them would be no more than a minor inconvenience.
Shielding of a building from electro-magnetic fields (2012)
Oh, I’m sure they’ve thought of it. I simply doubt that they’re able to meaningfully counter it.
Nice language!

To the creators of the language:

How is it pronounced? And a bit about the etymology please.

Do you foresee any challenges/inefficiencies when building a compiler for Toit?
I tried (and failed) to build a GoTenna competitor using LoRa and what you say here is 100% correct. Large scale mesh networks are incredibly difficult to build and often end up requiring extreme optimizations for specific use cases. We ultimately abandoned mesh networking in favor of a TDMA approach with base stations.

“smart home without the WiFi configuration” is exactly what Amazon’s network is for, but it won’t be anything more than that. The bandwidth and latencies required for content rich applications is simply not there. Sidewalk is cool enough without trying to sell the magic mesh network pipe dream.
You do not have that right and will not have that right ever again as a living human, in fact, you never had that right at all. Logging about you likely began before you were born.

Your interactions within the world are logged, like it or not. Money is logged (legally, it's a requirement, KYC and all that).

I'm pretty sure every financial transaction for at least a decade is logged and accessible in some form to those who'd need it.

You cannot pay for privacy (since transacting money requires identification in some form).
How did they lose the money, impersonation? Are they running some informal banking/laundering system via jabber chats?
It's really tiresome that whenever people choose not to do something, people who do that thing now feel the need to claim that it's being "cancelled."

Cambridge choosing not to serve red meat in its cafeterias doesn't mean that meat is being "cancelled" any more than you choosing to eat meat means that vegetarians are being "cancelled."
I call B.S. The post decides what can/can't be called a blockchain then lists them as reasons why there's no meaning.

> Differing definitions

> Google’s definition of “blockchain” is “a digital ledger in which transactions made in bitcoin or another cryptocurrency are recorded chronologically and publicly.” While most people would agree that a blockchain is a digital ledger, many blockchains do not have an associated cryptocurrency and are not recorded publicly. Some would even argue that a blockchain needn’t be digital.

By saying "many blockchains [...] are not recorded publicly" the post is making up it's own definition as it goes.

Anyone here should be able to agree that it must be digital, public, and decentralized. It started in cryptocurrencies but an application isn't the underlying technology. It you ever get into this unproductive line of discussion, you're better off just listing the desired properties then the name used and how people categorize the names doesn't matter.
Interesting that he wasn't dialing the 618 short code we had - though Oftel did at some stage ake us stop using that.

I actually used to use to dial the x.25 service to login from home using a portable terminal - no screen just paper.
If you are assuming a drone, I feel like it would be more far, far more effective to just fly the drone into the mosquitoes and chop them up, than to have the drones individually pinpoint 1 mosquito at a time with a laser.
I Bought a Business for $0
Google advised mental health care when workers complained racism and sexism
Afro-Americans in New Jersey (1988) [pdf]
ah yes, another bitcoin obituary, there's hundreds of them on the internet posted quite regularly, ever since bitcoin's inception.
0 is actually what I'd expect as an answer. Even on very modern Python you get

In [1]: 2.0**64 - (2.0**64-1.0)
Out[1]: 0.0

Thats how floats behave like with operands that differ greatly in magnitude. Also this

In [2]: 2.0**64 == (2.0**64 - 1.0)
Out[2]: True
Countries like germany also heavily depend on coal fpr energy. Thats not a chinese only issue if suggest that.
11111 was the password used for prince Philips demo account that got hacked in the infamous incident.
This is interesting. Do you mean services like Iridium, or something newer? What projects did you have in mind?
Ok so everybody learned a new word this week: fungibility.
Agreed, mutagen is great for remote development.

As for the conflicts, I chose the option of one way sync, with everything being overwritten by what's on my local machine if there's a conflict. Works like a charm, since the remote machine will only ever produce build artifacts and run them, which I don't need to sync back to my machine.
It's more or less a small amount of whales that can actually buy meaningful amounts of cosmetics though. Cosmetics and digital content are EXPENSIVE; for a person to get many we're talking thousands of dollars. $30 US mounts are easy to make, and incredible profit.

Even granting people who buy limited amounts to show support, its very easy to price them out of the market fast.
The earth didn’t betray you. It shows facts every day. The reflection in news is upon human’s mind.
I appreciate that but IMHO the options available 20 years ago are still perfectly adequate. Can you explain to me the logic behind obscuring heater controls behind touchscreens and those touch slider things?
> Have the 2.4 GHz and 5.8 GHz unlicensed bands become unusable by device proliferation? What makes you fear the 900 MHz band will be meaningfully different?

We are both commenting on an article that describes how a massive corporation (Amazon) might be deploying large-scale mesh networks on this band, and using this to drive huge numbers of devices at near the maximum feasible bitrate. This is obviously a speculative article and maybe none of this will come to pass. But within the bounds of speculation, this seems qualitatively different than what's happened (as of today) on the 2.4 and 5.8 GHz bands.
Is over $100 that low cost? Surely there could be better prices.
I totally agree. In the US they're just using it to hide some of the delivery costs from you, to present a screen where the total is a smaller number than what you will pay before you commit.

It's disingenuous, and I hate it. I'd MUCH rather they have a delivery fee of $6 (or whatever it needs to be to pay the driver fairly) and no tip instead of advertising $2 delivery and then come running back post-order asking for tip.
Ergonomic Economics (EE) is a more general theory than Growth-optimal portfolios. Kelly's criterion is a special case of EE.

EE doesn't suffer from the same problems as Growth-optimal portfolios either (Kelly's is a hyper aggressive form of EE).

"Maybe there was something wrong with your code? Because optimizing asymptotic growth and maximizing logarithmic utilty are mathematically identical."

So naive and so wrong. That's only true if you structure the problem to make it true. In the general case, not at all.
You can make 30-50% net margin selling weed to end users, and 10-25% selling pounds to dealers (in black market states). Your overhead is time, gas, and plastic bags. There’s plenty of money to be made with low risk (don’t sell cocaine if you don’t want to have to carry a gun)
If people move from places that have bad social norms (or bad norms of discussion), like say Twitter, to place that have good norms, like say the Slatestarcodex comments section, the experience of the average person will improve.

The bad places can just quietly whither away when no one goes there anymore.
“VC Brain”–Why VCs Seem Like Assholes
Indeed; it seems unlikely that a state-level actor would announce to the targets that they have been compromised.
It could work by adding a new alignment tab character, like & in TeX. TeX tables look like

name & value & comment \\
long name here & 1 & one\\
x & 2 & two \\

and the columns line up at the & characters by adding suitable whitespace. Imagine some control character that you could insert in source code:

next&Ancestor &= current->next;
previous&Ancestor &= null;

and the corresponding parts would line up in consecutive blocks, like elastic tab stops but even inside words by stretching the existing whitespace around the words.
Prior art: https://youtu.be/YnSKrzmpKGw
Show HN: Mito – Write Python/Pandas faster by editing a spreadsheet, in Jupyter
> once in a while they might get through the review process

He talks about a paper that has been "rejected by 14 economics journals, if I've counted correctly, for questioning the ergodic hypothesis."

I've not looked at that paper. I don't know how bad it is. But I suspect that "questioning the ergodic hypothesis" may not be the only reason.

https://twitter.com/ole_b_peters/status/1294216181159796736
This article says VF was hacked via their DNS registrar.
Though I guess proxing the real site might be a straightforward MITM if you control the DNS.
https://securityboulevard.com/2021/03/three-top-russian-cybe...
Is it just me, or has the number of large hacks on “things you’d expect to be at least somewhat secure” picked up since the pandemic started? It seems like every week now there’s a source-code leak for some high-profile project.

My own assumption so far is that credentials that were previously being passed along through (essentially) in-person key-exchange parties, have now been forced to be passed along over channels like email/Slack/etc., making the ability to spin “mail/chat server admin creds” into “general system-level elevated creds” a lot more frequent.
Beef and lamb is great if you want to turn marginal grassland into food but there's nothing good about the soybean fields in the midwest. The fertilizer runoff gives us regular algal blooms in the Gulf and pesticide residue in the groundwater can't be too great for you either.
The book referenced on Wikipedia is on Library Genesis [1], and I found it so interesting I'm not sure which bits to quote.

> At the beginning of the twentieth century, the majority of Indians did not know how to make a cup of tea and were reluctant to drink one. Now that India is both the world’s major producer and consumer of tea, this seems incredible. It confounds the myth that the British acquired their love of tea from their Indian subjects. In fact, it was the British who introduced tea to the Indians. Although they barely changed the way Indians eat, the British radically altered what they eat and drink. While the introduction of a wide variety of European and American vegetables to India was an inadvertent by-product of British rule, the conversion of the population to tea drinking was the result of what must have been the first major marketing campaign in India. The British-owned Indian Tea Association set itself the task of first creating a new habit among the Indian population, and then spreading it across the entire subcontinent.

[1] http://library.lol/main/5677300D17F8B79988D323EDE13C2FA2 (Start at book p187, which is p208 in the PDF.)
Are you from Texas?
We tried to stay close to what you would write without it, using npm packages and all that comes with it.
TBH, spaghetti cables is kind of inherent to this kind of programming when scaling up but having code modules instead of just primitives is helpful indeed, letting you give the weight you want each node to have. We're also thinking about node groups as another level of abstraction to reduce visual cluttering.
It certifies two things:

1. That you paid a certain amount for the certificate.

2. That there will never be another certificate for the same thing, from the same brand of certificates (e.g. "Valuables BY CENT").

Pretty much exactly like owning a baseball card, then.
It's 72 hours and can be delayed if there are not enough doctors for you to be seen. YMMV thats FL, US
Arc Pilot Fusion Power Plant: Pushing the Envelope with Fusion Magnets
>Market rates for electricity do not exist in a country where the power grid is controlled by communists. Given that most countries subsidize electricity consumption the same basic issue applies.

Yes, that's a problem in my view. Observing that it is the status quo doesn't rationalize it or further prohibitions to defend price controls.

I'm not sure if you would regard it as naive, but price controls are widely regarded as inefficient distortions of a market.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_controls#Criticism
One thing that helps is doing whatever you can to attract dragonflies. Planting bullrush is one way, I'm sure there are others.
This is so deliciously recursive. A post to HN about a tool that lets you query HN with SQL. Nice!
Having a small puddle in front of your house, doesn’t mean you’re held hostage.

Dramatic and exaggerated hyperboles only help to turn conversation into flame wars.
The case for shortening the food chain is based on bad science.

And to support that we get: him calling the evidence "bullshit", a random tweet, and his personal opinion that grassland is pretty.

I'm unconvinced.
This is the reason I'm rooting for the underdog DPoS/ORV currencies like Nano. Bitcoin is slow, too expensive to run and is becoming increasingly centralized--the opposite of what it was trying to be.
FYI https://teller.io has been operating in Europe for over six years now giving third parties access to the private banking APIs (not the cut down PSD2 equivalents), long before they opened in the US.
Amazon isn't in the business of being evil to the public. If they did, they would lose massively more revenue than they gain from a few smart meters.

You should be more worried about companies where you are the product not the customer...
Some Thoughts on For-Profit Psychedelic Startups and Companies
Hi HN! I'm here with my co-founders (narush + jacobdi) to show you Mito (https://trymito.io/) — a point-and-click data science Jupyter Lab extension that automatically turns your analysis into Python.

We started building Mito 6 months ago after finishing up undergrad engineering + business school (aka Excel School). We became comfortable doing data analysis in visual environments, but were held back by Excel's 1M row limit + the inability to create repeatable processes. Doing analyses in Python was wayyy more powerful, but also required tons of trips to Stack Overflow + pandas documentation.

After a few months of building, pivoting (our vision) + lots of refactoring, Mito now supports writing spreadsheet formulas, pivoting (dataframes), merging, saving + applying macros, and the tiniest bit of graphing. And it generates the equivalent pandas code in real time for all of it :)

You can download Mito by following our always-WIP documentation [0]. We'd love to hear your first impressions of the tool (especially if you download it) + your experiences in/building for the data science/analytics community.

[0] https://docs.trymito.io/getting-started/installing-mito
Stalking website visitors with Microsoft Clarity
That would make vigilante justice, lynch mobs, all the way up to genocide examples of extreme "moderation". How do you differentiate moderation that kills someone from moderation that silences someone, kicks them out of their community, and costs them their jobs? They differ only in degree.
Not outraged, just politely criticizing the all-or-nothing attitude. As I cited, the cancelation of Dr. Seuss as an author may have begun. Maybe not. It's fair to wonder about this. I don't much care for some obscure, racist books that will no longer be published. I do care about these obscure books now standing in for his entire oeuvre and making him a de facto, toxic author not worth teaching or associating with. Wanting to tap the brakes on this "cancel culture" is a reasonable response, in my opinion.
A network for Amazon devices is certainly one use case. Another is selling network access to other IoT devices.

I would expect most residential broadband TOS would explicitly prevent reselling their network bandwidth/access. That's what you are doing with networks like Helium, even if it is in the form of a token instead of dollars. Amazon has gotten around this by just not paying. You buy the Amazon device, you provide the network access, Amazon gets the revenue.
I think the pandemic has a role to play in this for sure. I imagine may were required to use computers/tech as they've not done before. Often times those who are uneducated have to be accounted for so concessions are made.

For example, Sam needs to use a corporate network, doesn't really understand "apps" or what a "TOTP" is, so they optimize (weaken security) to allow them in.
You'd be surprised, after 10+ years worth of accounts and online presence it's easy to trip up - reuse an account name from years earlier, use their real email to register for a domain, etc. Krebsonsecurity.com has a few articles where he tracks down an attacker's real identity - e.g. https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/07/twitter-hacking-for-prof...
Very cool. Would love to see results with a night vision camera.
It's reasonable to expect someone who is new to the industry to make a small game, so a better analogy might be expecting someone to be a decent home cook before getting a good service job. I agree though when you start talking about game dev as a business. Although people start successful businesses from cooking in their home, it's highly unlikely that they'll get it off the ground, let alone be successful.
You acknowledge then that you were wrong when you said that "One includes the starting wealth of the gambler and the other does not."

Good. We're progressing. You've learned something today.
LINOs
SF is the size of downtown Houston, and Houston does not have these problems.

Applying statistics from SF, which is effectively the "downtown" of the Bay Area is not a valid comparison. The population density of San Francisco is not impressive, period. Downtown Houston is much more developed than San Francisco, and that would be a more valid comparison for density.

But this also doesn't get to the main point which was cost and housing density. Cost per sq/ft in Houston (excluding the lots, which are enormous compared to the Bay Area) is $107. Median house price in downtown Houston is $310K.

Costs per sq/ft in the Bay Area are anywhere between $280 and $800. It's not a close comparison in price at all, despite being a comparable density.
When the apocalypse comes, these mesh networks might be the only way to communicate. We must have an alternate web that serves these networks.

Systems for email, notifications, etc.
I grew up in a very warm climate, but as an adult spent about 6 years in a much colder (New England) climate. I also have very mild asthma.

Every winter, as soon as I caught my first cold or flu of the season, I basically felt my lungs break. If I tried to run or sprint or play any sport, I'd get a horrible cough and if I kept going, I'd feel like I might pass out. That would basically persist until spring.

Ive never experienced that in warmer climates.
Like the other people who replied, you flunked geography. None of these companies are anywhere near the Tenderloin.
Do not look into laser with remaining eye!
FBI UCR is based on reports, not arrests.
That's why I cite the other bands; this is what has happened already in the US and Europe on the other unlicensed bands.

Looking at my WiFi network right now, I have 2 APs and 25 clients connected (8 of which are amazon-). When I turn on my TVs, those power up a few additional clients (Chromecasts and FireTVs) on WiFi. I can see between 12 and 18 other networks depending on when I scan (plus who knows how many that aren’t broadcasting SSIDs).

Is Amazon likely to be able to put more devices on Lora than I have on WiFi now? More concentrated than NYC or Paris WiFi is today?

The maximum bitrate the article references is not a Shannon-Hartley bitrate limit, but rather a fairness-limited maximum transmission duty cycle to ensure other, also unlicensed users can access the spectrum.
It would be out of character for a
government agency to act like that.

Shutdown and a threatening message? Maybe. Dumping the data on darknet? I'm not even sure if they can legally do that. Besides, which agency wouldn't use that to gain even more possibly useful information?
I'm not against ads in principle, only in implementation.

If advertising (1) did not misuse my personal information, (2) weren't A/V noisy, (3) weren't a source of malware, (4) actually stuff I have a chance of being interested in more than the average person, I'm okay with them.

As a content creator, I would also want to be able to constrain the ads that are presented with the content.

What we have now is the bad side of ads, there could be a good like PSAs relevant to the content kind that haven't been explored.
Energy is fungible. Use more renewable power and more coal or gas gets used elsewhere.
Speaking of modified ZX81's... I re-wired a full sized keyboard (I think I was ~15 at the time) to replace the original [i]

[i] https://i.imgur.com/MpoQP4u.jpg

The ZX81 along with the Z80 microprocessor book from Radio Shack [ii] were the gateway drugs that focused my career direction!

[ii] https://www.cpc-power.com/cpcarchives/index.php?page=article...

I'm retired now, but my career went from jr. programmer (in banking) thru to executive level IT management. A great ride thanks in large part to that inexpensive UK computer!
if you ignore the Car, it will punish you by removing further privileges like control of the steering wheel? The logic sounds confusing, the car tells you you must wear a seat belt for safety, you ignore it, so it deafens you and proceeds to steer you into the nearest object. You are not wearing your belt, of course, so you die instantly. This sounds like some conspiracy to enslave all drivers to their sentinent vehicles.
The reality is that you can't dictate what power is used. Power on a large scale is extremely hard and expensive to transmit. Comments like this do not consider the larger picture.

If you plop a mining farm down next to an existing hydro dam that was previously used for powering aluminum smelting, then that farm is now funding the maintenance of that dam. That dam then can provide power to the surrounding community. It isn't about making up a difference, it is about keeping that dam running. Oh and what's worse for the environment then wasting energy on mining bitcoin? Aluminum smelting.

This is exactly what coinmint did at an old Alcoa facility in upstate NY. They are using power that would otherwise go to waste. It is too expensive to build more transmission lines to feed power to people further away. Re-using the Alcoa facility also helps fund its further cleanup from the years of toxic waste produced there. A bunch of drone computers is a perfect use.

I'm all for shutting down coal based mining. At this point most large mining operations are not profitable on that anyway and have moved to other sources of power.

Disclosure: I am a large very scale ETH miner who uses hydro (but not at coinmint, I'm just very familiar with their facility).