skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you intend to stay in the UK or do you want to move to the US?

With a degree you’ll qualify for a different, easier class of immigrant Visas.

Without a degree, you’ll need to use a more difficult O-1 visa.
How much does it cost to move 17 tons of gold? What is the risk involved in transfer?

I can answer that question for BTC. To transfer the USD value equivalent of 17 tons of gold, it's currently around $27.50[1]. This transaction can be made anywhere you can broadcast a hash string.

If you want to get fancy, you can trade wBTC on ethereum for, as of this moment, ~$8[2]. If even that is too high a fee for you, you could bridge over to xDAI and trade for orders of magnitude less than the value of a penny[3]. Again, you can do this anywhere you can broadcast a hash string.]

All of this is EXCHANGE, transaction, alone. Zero mention of the amazing utility of the financial instruments that are IMPOSSIBLE with legacy protocols. To go over which is not a comment or a blogpost but a detailed textbook or equivalent of a MOOC.

How's that for intrinsic value?

[1]https://ycharts.com/indicators/bitcoin_average_transaction_f...

[2]https://etherscan.io/gastracker

[3]https://jaredstauffer.medium.com/what-is-xdai-how-do-i-use-x....
I'll get back to you on that as soon as my sheet finishes calculating for 5 min because I changed the value of 1 cell.

Ohh..sorry, make that 10 min -- I had to save the file.
“To be fair, all of his SPACS are up since IPO”
I wish some people did that but for documentation
Not true for iMessage either. The addition of iCloud Backup (on by default, and not e2e) functions as a key escrow for iMessage, rendering iMessage also no longer end-to-end encrypted (as Apple receives a copy of the keys in the automatic nightly backup).

Turning off iCloud Backup doesn't fix it either, as your conversation partners back up their keys.
To elaborate on the "political geography", the U7 and the U9 were the only lines of substantial length that for the most part opened after the division of Berlin and are centered on West Berlin's center around Charlottenburg, rather than the prewar/modern center of Mitte.

Here's an interesting BVG map from 1977, showing the divided network and U7 under construction: https://transitmap.net/west-berlin-1977/ Note that pretty much every major line other than U7 and U9 has an abandoned or pass-through segment due to the division.
On a Wing and a Prayer
The problem with dream laptops is that dreams change all the time due to marketing and newness. 16:10 screen is better largely because some fancy models today come with 16:10. 5 years ago that same feature wouldn't have mattered. It's just weird.

Just like 1080p vs 1440p. 2k vs 3k vs 4k. Just like the material of the chassis, the brightness of the screen, the weight, the stiffness, the depth of keytravel, the color scheme of the background, the placement of buttons on your window, using usb-c for charging...

I mean, I could ramble for pages about ideal features. Some of those features are important to enjoying a laptop long into the future. But a lot of them are purely whatever the latest craze is. 16:10 screen imo is of the later category.
how do I downvote this?
This is factual information, so why the downvote?
I'm not optimistic. https://medium.com/@afd_icl/crashes-hangs-and-crazy-images-b...
I've had WebGL disabled forever, I don't use Twitch (as the other comment describes a valid use for) and really have never missed having it enabled for many years.

It's frequently included in "secure yourself" tuning guides: Firefox -> about:config -> webgl.disabled: true
Good question!

So the problem here is a bit different. It's not that devices will say "I can play Format X" and then not play it. It's that devices say "I can play Format X at Resolution A, B, C". When you give the device resolution A and B it succeeds but at resolution C it fails to decode it.

In H.264 this would be the "Level" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Video_Coding#Levels . A device may say that it can decode Level 4.2 but in reality it can only do 4.1. That means it can play back 1080p30 but not 1080p60. The only way to know is to actually try and observe the failure (which often btw is a silent failure fro m the browsers point of view, meaning you need to rely on user reports).
The military in each country should've deployed it because they are logistics first. Leaving it to commercial and local interests just leads to amateur fumbling for something of life-safety importance.
WinGet is terrible, I want AppGet back
It would only be fingerprinting if the "fingerprint" is persisted alongside some other information about you as a user, and subsequently used in attempts to identify other activity as belonging to said user. That is not at all what was implied by the approach described above (which would just be used at the time of initializing every video streaming session).
Popos team looks for ux qa
Obsidian looks cool, but there's no web version? One thing I really like about SN is that it's in the cloud.
Whether Le Corbusier's vision for Paris was stupid or not, I'm not sure it means we need to go back to some hyper-idealized vision of the past (which I'm not sure ever existed).

In glorifying western ideals of history with flowery language, I think you've forgotten to examine what daily life was like living under the power structures that financed those "magnificent decorative artworks."

You romanticize the idea of a peasant walking past ornamental buildings in an old town square, while forgetting that, those buildings were created as a statement of power and influence by the aristocracy who controlled daily life.

The peasants did not go home to one of those "beautifully" decorative buildings. They went home to a shack with no running water and died of some hilariously curable illness at the age of 35. One of their children probably died before the age of 10. But oh, they had the wonderful mysticism of religion and ornamental wallpapers to gaze upon!

Sure, I guess you could call the 7 layers of crown molding and statues carved into statues "enchanting." As an endeavor of sheer human man hours and craftsmanship, its definitely interesting.

But I wouldn't call the rationalist forces that led to overthrowing those practices bad. I don't know about you, but I'm not sure I would enjoy having 3 generations of my family enslaved as "artisans" for the sole purpose of carving patterns in a ceiling so one rich guy can impress his buddies.
"you guys"?
I got completely obsessed with the code golf part at codewars, at some point I just decided enough is enough and stopped playing with. A lot of fun though.
NoSQL was jargon speak for document store. It's really schema on read vs the traditional database where schema is defined on (or before) write. And there are plenty of ways to use sql on various data formats including json, presto being one.

Around the time of peak NoSQL buzz, I went to Oracle Open world in the early-mid 2010's and there was an army of MongoDB folks outside the convention center grounds holding signs and handing out swag. NoSQL was definitely a good marketing play to try and take customers away from Oracle.
While an interesting experiment. It does break a lot of web stuff.

E.g.:

- Middle clicking on a "blog post" text file opens new tab, but without the post opened.

- Middle clicking on the date of a blog posts, opens a literal html transcription of the page (wrong mime?)

- In general, I don't need another window manager, the system and the browser handle that fine.
> People will be happier with a reversal of the tendency of governments to get larger

I disagree and suggest this is dependent on your political viewpoint.

Whilst some (very frequently in the USA!) recite the mantra of 'small government', most of us don't care how big or small a government is, providing it is effective. I'd argue an effective government is one that protects its subjects & citizens by providing universal healthcare, education, a justice system and defence to all.

Your opinions may differ!
They don't have any drive-through site appointments where you are? Where's that if you don't mind me asking?
Be aware that 3.1.5 enables EGL by default and, if your application uses GLX, you're going to have problems: https://github.com/cjcliffe/CubicSDR/issues/886
It’s kinda-sorta in the article. The hackers managed to put some hack into the Solarwinds build scripts.

Nice writing I guess, but, what allowed them to get into the build scripts?
Did not detract for me.
I'm confused by this page. I ran it on two MBPros side by side and they got the same fingerprint. Did I miss something?

EDIT: Safari and Chrome got the same prints on both machines, FireFox got two different prints. Huh?
They say .. don't be evil ... yeah sure!
> Risks in Microsoft’s foreign dealings also came into relief when the Biden administration imposed sanctions Thursday on a half-dozen Russian IT companies it said support Kremlin hacking. Most prominent was Positive Technologies, which was among more than 80 companies that Microsoft has supplied with early access to data on vulnerabilities detected in its products. Following the sanctions announcement, Microsoft said Positive Tech was no longer in the program and removed its name from a list of participants on its website.

What?! Microsoft gave vulnerability data to a Russian company that hacked the USA? Why was that company even in this program to begin with?
I am fairly confident that CIA training for those who are going to be living and working under diplomatic cover in a foreign country extends well beyond how to wrangle Exchange and Sharepoint.

He wrote about some of the things that happened in Geneva, I encourage you to read them. Even sysadmins for the CIA need to know some stuff about how the game works.
Nope, you can enter numbers but the operations don't do anything :-)
Not sure that's the sum total of Purism's case here. The hardware kill switches on the mic and network aren't something that everyone needs or wants, but people who do don't have a whole lot of ready-built options.
>with no long term studies

Covid also doesn't have long term studies determining its safety. On the contrary, it seems like some people have serious consequences that don't go away, even though they survive.

People keep repeating that the death rate for younger people is very low, as though death is the only bad thing that can happen.

Furthermore, it sounds plausible to me that as people get vaccinated, before reaching "herd immunity", the virus is going to be forced to evolve to get nastier and infect younger people more severely. So maybe millions of people being vaccinated is actually increasing the urgency. There have been some reports supporting this theory, that severe cases in young people are rapidly increasing coincident with most of the elderly getting their shots.
Dev Protocol: Tokenizing OSS
This was published in 2004 and was highly speculative at the time. We are still a long, long way from the Diamond Age fantasy of self assembling nanotech.

Recent work in this area seems to mostly involve modding 3D printers to try and integrate conductive materials (basic circuits) into plastic structures.

Example:

https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/botfactory-to-develop-u-...
Escaped from East Germany.
> But it [Microsoft] also seeks to deflect blame, saying it is customers who do not always make security a priority.

> ...Microsoft was itself compromised by the SolarWinds intruders

Microsoft need to take responsibility for the security of their products. Vulnerabilities need to be fixed not sent to other companies for add-on virus scanners to detect.

Applications shouldn’t be able to run amok with admin passwords. I’d guess a more sandboxed bespoke permission is needed (do you give application x permission to access this part of the file system)
Check out the Apollo 10 mission; they in fact did that as a rehearsal for the landing.
older non-pc literal people seem to take to tablets very naturally though. at least from what I've seen
Not lunatics but very raving leftist for the last four years.
Well, yeah, but that's a big if. A switch from the dollar to the Euro is unlikely to be seamless, especially in the U.S. which is still the world's biggest economy.
I'm going to fully agree to this. There's a huge obsession with bloated pages for the sake of bloat at that. Somehow they're using it as an excuse to why they need the whole per-instance cloud setup when, as you said, a $5 (cheeseburger-meal) priced a month VPS would do the equivalent job. Maybe you'd have to pay 2 or 3 cheeseburgers a month to upgrade when things get heavy... if you setup your site correctly.

Don't get me wrong either, I thought the site was awesome and visited it often during that week. Reading the post-mortem of it was super cool too... until I read how the site was developed. I get the idea of a practicing small sites with a framework of choice. You need to practice, especially in a real world environment. Nothing wrong there. But the site could have been made in strict HTML and CSS, by hand, and called it a day. No one would know the difference. It was a super simple, basic site. There was zero special in it that needed anything more than that. Sure, maybe something was going on the background, but if that ended up not being useful for the dev, it was surely a zero value addon for the user. A lot of these frameworks are the equivalent of hiring a semi-truck with a 53 foot trailer to move a couch across town. Yes, it works. Yes, there are potential benefits if something were to pop-up. But, a small city van or pick-up truck would have gotten the job done easier, cheaper, and faster. 99.9% of the time, that's all you need. If you're moving a couch, the likelihood of you needing the extra space because someone calling you up to move pallets worth of stuff is minimal. Same goes with small, single purpose sites. Basing everything on that 00.1% chance is pretty silly.

War and Peace (the book) in simple text is roughly 900kb from Project Gutenberg if I remember correctly. That's how many hours of reading? 587,000 word count. Average adult reading speed is about 200 words a minute. 2,935 minutes or 48.9 hours of reading. 2 days worth of constant reading. Minus pictures and videos, when you traverse the web, how many pages require more than a mb worth of data for providing 10 minutes worth of reading content? Twitter is probably the ultimate champion in bloat for mb to read time ratio. Design and styling is one thing that people are going to use as some excuse for the bloat. But with all the people that use HN, don't piss in my pocket. Overly graphic designs aren't needed for conveying content well. I hope I don't have to get into how all the background tracking needs to go straight to the same ring of hell that holds people who kick puppies and kittens.

I remember a day when programmers valued themselves in being efficient in delivery. Oh, the good ol'days. Now get off my lawn!
Hmm yes I see your point. Improving safety for kids makes sense as long as they do it without fanfare as a way to get even more youngsters on there. In other words, do it to improve safety not as a marketing exercise. I just don't trust that it's really a safety thing with them, I see it as a trojan horse potentially given what bad actors they seem to be.
What do you define as an "artificial physical self-replicating machine"?

A genetically engineered bacterium is a self-replicating machine created via artificial means that exists to effect some purpose in the physical world.
> Not the community

Yes the community. What nexuist is claiming is that the community will move to whatever coins support the features they want, because anyone can fork Bitcoin and get the exact same core technology that all of those experts built, along with whatever extra features they want.

So if what nexuist is saying is true, then that means that the majority of the Bitcoin community is happy with the features Bitcoin has, which is depressing because the technology behind it has been generally outclassed by multiple other coins at this point. Bitcoin isn't really leading the pack right now on transaction fees, transaction time, or (especially) privacy.

But the community hasn't wholesale moved to coins like ZCash, Monero, or Mobilecoin, which (if nexuist is right) implies that they're OK with Bitcoin's current privacy guarantees, which are frankly pretty bad.
"it’s been Palihapitiya’s SPACs that have been among the worst bets. His three open SPACs are all in the bottom 20th percentile for returns since the market top."
Reader mode, when it works, is a godsend for these sites.
Just because there is something on this domain listening on :443 and serving HTTPS, doesn't mean it has to serve the same content as the HTTP on :80, or even work at all.

Always-redirect-to-HTTPs plugins _are_ broken by assuming otherwise.
Or get rid of patents entirely and let innovation and copying happen freely. I already ditched all my physical startup ideas because China could clone any of them in half a day and I think it's fair: they have superior / more efficient manufacturing available.
Similarly I don't see why discovering something should force everyone else on the planet to give you money.

In this particular case, thought, the article claims they won't be patent trolls and this paint should be cheaply available.
I have thought so too. Many times. Pls forgive or ignore my verbosity here, but I have been thinking about this.

I found that when I ask people to be specific, sometimes, they are noticeably distressed, or they don't want to talk more, as that is hard for them. I am starting (finally?) to learn that people are more different from each other than we realize. Like that internet meme about a dress where people clearly saw it in different colors from each other. Some just hate text UIs or a CLI, others couldn't be parted from them. Some are naturally good at music, or the arts, or balancing their finances, or being kind, or finding deals, building, putting others at ease, fixing broken things, or wearing matching clothes, or interior decorating, or some of us just have to work really hard to not be awkward in their company. And if I tell a color-blind person to just try harder, they might be hurt, and if someone in the room is unusually kind and wise, they might help me learn not to be a jerk. Like, I sometimes just don't care what color a chair is. But to some, it is actually distressing if it isn't right. Some even feel fear when seeing those who are different, because it is unfamiliar (edit: maybe they subconsciously don't know how to judge the safety of an unknown), etc.

We are all a work in progress in every area I guess, and we have to pick a limited few to get better at, at any given time; some things that come naturally to some people, others don't even know those things exist--it just doesn't hit the radar at all.

So... I am trying to learn to speak their other languages (didn't realize this in my youth), at least sometimes, though it is hard and tiring. And I hope they will be patient with me too.

(Maybe that is partly why God commands us to forgive others, in order to be forgiven. And surely we all need it.)

Edits: occasionally, if someone can't be specific or I can guess it is hard for them, I say like "Probably, it's more than 10 seconds [or 2 dollars, whatever fits], and less than 10 thousand [something very obviously excessive, but not too extreme.] I bet you can come closer than that." Then they actually make a guess that is as good as the situation will likely get, or it leads to more discussion.

It helps if I smile like to indicate that the wild guess is an obvious joke between us and that we are friends about it; then they are more willing to talk a little more and I might learn something.
> If we wish to continue living and if we wish to continue living healthily, we should be doing everything in our power to sustain and regenerate that biodiversity.

While one person’s efforts are a drop in the ocean, they at least matter to that person. I’d heard the benefits of cold showers extolled since a guest speaker, an elderly maybe-Finnish guy, visited my elementary school classroom, and I’d dabbled a bit, but the practice didn’t stick until five months ago after I got a vasectomy. I didn’t want the incision point to open up, so I ran the cold water enough to get wet, washed with a soapy cloth, and turned on the cold water again to rinse. I haven’t strayed from that since, and sometimes extend rinse time for the perceived mental and physical benefits. It does very little to mitigate climate change, but our electricity bill is lower, and the act of turning on the cold water helps cut the groove of being better-able to face something I don’t want to do.

I thank Craig Foster for his notes about swimming in the cold ocean and its possible effect on his health.

For more impact, I’m regularly contacting my elected officials to lobby for regulations that effect all of us and promote a healthier and more resilient ecosystem. Will you do that too, please?

Edit to ask: In the spirit of intellectual humility, what else (either to add to or replace lobbying) might be a good use of my free time towards this same ecological goal?
Twitter and reddit suffer from the same problem where even if you spend a lot of time curating your own niche following/subreddit list carefully crafted to avoid politics it's almost impossible to ignore other people's hot-takes or the feeds' headlines.

In the end I set up my own nitter instance for twitter and subscribed to some accounts' RSS feed.

For reddit the new layout is terrible and inserts headlines in between comments before you can read all comments. I use old.reddit with reddit enhancement suite and just use self-awareness techniques to remind myself to avoid going to the front page /all and make sure I'm logged in at all times so I only /home with my "boring" subs when I click on Snoo.
Some of these are more interesting than others. OS is exposed through the user agent. I'm not sure if you can actually capture processor model an graphics card, and plugins were more interesting when people installed plugins like Flash and Java.

WebGL fingerprinting usually works by rendering something off-screen that exposes GPU differences, then captures the rendered image as the fingerprint.
Airbus to sue over US-German spying row [0]

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32542140
how are you smart
this is cool. i would actually like to see just the news like this, vs searching for a topic. rather than going to a particular outlet for my news, aggregate a center-ist list of news articles, so I can visit that instead of various news outlets directly
There are literally tons of appointments in Massachusetts:

Check out:
https://www.macovidvaccines.com

There's probably close to 800-1000 appointments available there right now.

Also follow @vaccinetime on Twitter.

Right now about 80% of the over 16-18 year olds are eligible the remainder become eligible on Monday. There's been lots of appointments for the last week or so despite the J&J setbacks (MA had a big drop of J&J from the Feds recently and consequentially had to cancel & rebook some big vaccine events).
So obviously you should put a tanning lamp inside your body. Problem solved.
Except Firefox is getting irrelevant, with Edge Chromium overtaking it, and Apple naturally would rather developers to use iOS APIs exactly for the same purpose, while collecting some revenue in Apple hardware for development purposes.
"while undermining the transparency requirements of the market"

Then why don't you propose to just ban forward-looking projections and including more transparency?

SPACs have their distinct use cases and have unique advantages and disadvantages compared with IPOs & DPOs. A blanket-ban on these vehicles is, in my opinion, limiting optionality, which wouldn't be a problem if the IPO & DPO processes were perfect, however, they are not.
Yes, you can use BeOrg or MobileOrg for mobile use.
For that matter, the Earth has already had a grey goo ecological disaster: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxidation_Event
for France there's this https://remonterletemps.ign.fr/comparer/basic?x=2.012437&y=4...

https://remonterletemps.ign.fr/