skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems likely that "street crime" mostly refers to physical violence or the threat of it, while "white-collar crime" refers to breaking some rules. While much more real damage might be done with rule-breaking, such activity doesn't provoke visceral fear, it's harder for most people to be emotionally invested in retribution.
Amazon knew seller data was used to boost company sales
No, nearly the opposite. Look up the meaning of the word "universal".
fuck off asshole
Yes. I think the problem may be with the other one. "val" (and "let") don't seem obviously constant to me.
OTOH, the words aren't artistically chosen. They are chosen by a computer for each number. You can think of the words as numbers in another form.

And interfacing with the same system would require the same words.

I understand the argument that a curated list of words is copyrightable, but in this instance I don't think we're just talking about a list of words. We're talking about an algorithm that turns numbers into certain words.

I could see it going either way, but I'd like to think it would fail to be copyrightable in the court.
How's the latency from NA to their German datacenters? Their offerings seem much better than my current Digital Ocean setup at the $10 bracket

(as a side note, is there an NA-equivalent of Hetzner?)
> Bitcoin is having exponential growth

in number of transactions?
I do not think so, and according to the first few results I've found[0][1] it's not true.

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/730806/daily-number-of-b...

[1] https://bitcoinvisuals.com/chain-tx-day
It's a 100.000 DKK limit. A Lot of people will be affected (not by much though). My girlfriend will have to pay about 300 DKK a year for having somewhere between 100k-200k in her account. I got my money in investments so I pay more than her in various fees, though I usually also make more while the market is climbing.
works on ObservableHQ

https://observablehq.com/@tomlarkworthy/phiresky-sqlite-quer...
It’s more scientific because science has standardized on SI [1] units with metric prefixes [2]. Above 10^9 and below 10^-9 you can see the exponents change by increments of 3.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Units

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_prefix
MS Access was far more pleasant to use. I haven't used it in years and I still haven't seen anything that will give you a relational database and front end with as little effort.
Why Uber's Flexible Work+ plan could be a game changer for app-based drivers
> If I'm outsourcing the manufacturing of my toaster to various parties, I still have a hand in specifying the pieces, assuring they meet my requirements, and verifying they are put together in a way that upholds my brand value and meets customer expectations.

Except eventually you can't, other than in very vague, handwavy sense. Engineering specification is a skill, and it dies when manufacturing base moves overseas.

You get maybe a decade of transitional time when you both have an oversupply of now unemployed engineer force AND cost savings from doing the actual work elsewhere, but then people change careers and new college students know better.
Yep, this needs a `dup` mark somewhere.

Edit for down-voters: the typical HN behaviour. Don't be lazy and take a time to explain why you downvote.
How big tech got so big: Hundreds of acquisitions
Taproot with MAST enables a DAO on Bitcoin.

See the full implementation here by Delft University of Technology scientists and students. [1]
Security needs work, functionality works. (disclaimer, I'm the responsibile professor)

[1] https://github.com/Tribler/trustchain-superapp#luxury-commun...
The problem also appears when sending to different domains not hosted by O365 (in fact: Google Apps). The domain name of the first bcc still appears in the headers received by the second bcc.

Update: maybe your receiving SMTP is overwriting this header in the received message. I've tested with Google Apps as the second bcc recipient, and it shows the first bcc's domain name. Using a different e-mail host as the recipient, the header was overwritten. So this could mean that O365 is still disclosing the bcc's domain name to the receiving SMTP server, but that receiving server is overwriting the header when processing the message making it harder to investigate.
I don't think the criticism is the logout time, it's the fact that you have to hunt for the button. The logout time only exasperates the problem.
> I'd be interested in seeing a similar such list for Ethereum or any other cryptocurrency that shows a similar pace of development.

I can't seem to find one for ethereum, the closest probably would be going through their blog entries and filtering by "research and development". https://blog.ethereum.org/category/research-and-development/

I did find a similar list for bitcoin cash: https://cash.coin.dance/development

Note that both lists are a bit deceitful because they include proposals not yet included/implemented. The bitcoinops list also seems to double entries if you don't sort them alphabetical, so take that into consideration if just comparing pure amount of features.

Also the coin.dance list does not list layer2/sidechain implementations. Stuff like SmartBCH would probably over inflate such a list, it would also be unfair because SmartBCH is based on work the ethereum devs did (EVM/web3).

Both lists seem to start around the same date so I'd say they're comparable.
Churn is a thing though and is as important as conversions
Rumor has it that this might be changing soon.
But the random teenagers (my guess is it'd be more like twenty-somethings) would have the locals' guidance and supervision, surely?

And it would be a lot more efficient for the locals to use the manpower properly (with supervision) rather than letting them "play" and then having to tear down what they built.

At the worst case, the helpers could just be made to carry bricks and wooden planks from 1 spot to the other, and they'd still feel that they contributed.
No, I don't think GP is referring to Proof of Work here. Proof of Work is designed to be difficult and to enable securing of a network. Nowhere in the design of Proof of Work is it said that it has to not be sustainable, which was the main argument. So GP must have meant something else.
Previous discussion (208 comments).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26560498
No. I had to integrate a Django based booking system with Saleforce. Django is a pleasure to use as a developer (once you understand it). Salesforce is absolutely terrible, clunky API and just a horrendous developer experience.
The Simple Tricks to Make Your Website Fast
There's already popular open alternative that is arguably better: Googles Plus Codes [1].

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Location_Code
This OSM article seems to sum everything up quite well - I'd encourage others to read it.
Hinton and Lecun are two of the smartest people working at Google/FB, and they don't work in ad farms or as money movers.
Cheap international wires are $25.
Limiting background execution is annoying, but I'm not sure if you understand how much battery an app running in the background can consume when compared to something like this.
The article seems to be using “herd immunity” interchangeably with “eradication”. Those are two different things. We have herd immunity to measles, mumps, whooping cough, etc, but those diseases have not been eradicated and we have outbreaks every once and a while.
This is a VCSEL (the part is a VL53L0X) that probably doesn't have as much power as those ferociously bright blue LEDs which you can see across the room. (Checking the datasheet this seems to be true: max current is 20mA and it doesn't seem to be particularly well focused)

You don't use ultrasound because it has both resolution and absorption issues.
While that may be the case (I'd also argue that the front page should be a welcoming place for existing users), showing me that you value your existing users is a great marketing move.

It's otherwise very hard to convey that you care about existing customers so this seems like a no-brainer.
> but if you just want to subscribe-through-rss to all the channels you subscribe-through-youtube , you can.

Do you mean there is a unified feed that list all new entries in my subscribed channels? Or that one need to add a seperate rss-feed for every followed channel?

I only know the second option, and it kinda sucks to maintain multiple places. Would be really great to have just one place to to that.
Show HN: Hacker News for NFT Art
I created a curated Hacker News for NFT Art without comments cringe
"To" is optional. When I email groups of students (sometimes hundreds at once), I pile all the addresses into the BCC field, and usually nothing else.
This is Iron Gall Ink I think - we have registrar ink here in the UK too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_gall_ink
The latest report about SARS-CoV-2 is from August 2020, or am I missing something?
it reminds me

https://ericlippert.com/2003/10/28/how-many-microsoft-employ...
As an industry, software development needs to get better at cleaning up TODOs. This is especially bad when business needs take prime spot always. Sometimes, technical health needs to take priority and drive down these issues. If there’s confidence in the organization that we can take on some tech debt and pay it down a little bit later, then you can move faster (just like leverage in finances). It’s when the debt you take on is so great or so well swept under the rug that it turns into a monster and ruins your day. If the tech debt items are allowed to live forever, the org gets into the position of quickly maxing out their credit and never being able to add more debt which slows delivery.

In the scrum world, prioritizing a feature story over a debt story should require a strong reason with significant debate. Don’t let them live longer than a couple of sprints.
Why did my submission on this, with the exact same title and 7 hours earlier, only get 3 upvotes and this one got 80?

At least pick an original title dude
So basically you want people to go to jail for not blasting ads into your face immediately and actually loading web content first?

Seems like a horribly awful world to me - would you extend this to Ad blockers as well? And when was the last time you've seen how horrible mainstream web is, with its autoplaying video popups?

AMP isn't the best solution, but what you're proposing is just horrifying. If anything, we should standardize this behaviour in browsers and make sure the ads never interfere with loaded contents. Let's not destroy the web even more so ad peddlers get more money.
I think the basic idea would be OK in a UK cryptic, but you'd clue the pun explicitly.

You might have something like
« Pasta dish at the centre of a murder mystery and a spiteful reviewer on the radio. »

Though you'd really want the surface reading to come out a bit smoother (and I don't think "penne" and "pen" are pronounced exactly the same).
It doesn't make sense outside of the pun. "Poisoned spaghetti" makes as much sense as "poisoned penne", in those terms.
What societal services are being crippled by ransomware that's so called enabled by Bitcoin?

Please understand there's a difference between what the technology provides and what it's being used for. Malicious people using the technology is true of many many technologies. I keep getting phishing calls every other day to give my SSN, does that mean the social security program should be canceled for this very reason?
I haven't done a ton of crosswords in the US (because I don't really enjoy them) but I haven't experienced "pun" clues like that very often. They're usually in crosswords that think themselves special somehow. You can tell because it'll be a famous source, or the description will tell you way too much about the author of the puzzle and how awesome they are.

The majority of the crosswords just had plain clues that weren't confusing. (And didn't require "lateral thinking".)
Assuming there's planned obsolescence, it will make the manufacturer money. This money lets them build better products, stay in business longer, et.c.

If Apple made a repairable iPhone with the same profit margins and specs, I'm guessing it would have to be more expensive. I would have to pay for this, even though I don't want to repair my stuff (I just buy new stuff when it breaks).
It's a rough average, but mostly oats, coffee, nuts for the oats, pasta, deli meat 1-3 times a week. Maybe if I dug into it a little more it would come out a bit higher, but for things I actually buy as groceries the number is relatively low, and I suppose that's how I've managed so far without work for over a year.

Edit: Worth noting that USD is not my home currency, which would convert to a bit over $40. I imagine $35 USD would go very very far for many other people outside the U.S
I Thought I Knew My Boyfriend, Then I Met His Work Persona
Generally latency the other way is 100-120ms if both sides are close to an exchange. If you live way out in the boonies those numbers to straight out the window.
(Not arguing, just adding some perspective.)

Penne is pronounced "pennay" in the UK in my experience, making this pun kinda dysfunctional.

Also as pointed out, UK cryptic crossword answers are phrases in actual use, not new word combinations.

Edit to add relevant example:

See 9 across ("Rotten people sin to produce malicious missive") here: https://www.fifteensquared.net/2021/03/08/independent-10733-...

I also noticed that "poisoned pen" isn't a phrase in British English, instead it's "poison pen" or more typically "poison pen letter".
If you don’t know the column will live forever, avoid adding it. Adding columns is easy, migrating and deleting columns is super annoying, even with auto-migration and an ORM, because the risk of data loss is significant.
Develop ML in Pipelines
I genuinely can't think of an example of a broadsheet cryptic crossword that would do so. Maybe other sources, though.
"Sending to" or "sending to two"?
I believe it has (had) more to do with unavailability of financing. So you save enough money to build the ground floor, the leave it unfinished until you have enough money to build the upper floor, the wait again until you have enough to clad it, etc.
It’s a weird mixture when both colour and color are accepted spellings for the same word.
Can you tell more about the SpaceX purge?
How to Create a Messaging App
If anyone is looking for an actual explanation of Diffie-Hellman for the layman, here is my 1-page blog about two kids implementing it on a calculator.

https://blog.bonner.is/schoolyard-example-of-the-diffie-hell...
The Man of the Circular Ruins
Wasnt working hard enough to meet Musks standards.
Cloud transition and Strategical (mis)alignment
It has not changed, the problem is that the normal narrative has the causality wrong.

The explanation we get is this: private banks have a quantity of reserves and they can lend only what the money multiplier allows them. So, they are limited by the quantity of reserves they have. If that were true, they would be limited by the quantity of savings in the system.

But in reality it works the other way around. Banks lend first (hopefully only when makes business sense to lend) and then they search for reserves.

A bank lend (creating money in the process) and, after the fact, if it doesn't have enough reserves already, it tries to get the reserves from other banks (inter-bank market). This is a legal requirement, so, they have to get those reserves.

This creates an offer-demand dynamic between banks that move the interest rate up or down.

If the quantity of reserves was fixed, that would be the end of it, but, because Central Banks have a target interest rate that they want to keep (but not a money quantity target), they have to accommodate the quantity or reserves in the system reacting to the inter-bank market dynamics. Adding or retiring reserves as necessary to keep the interest rate that they want.

The central banks control the interest rate, but that means they can't control the quantity of money in the system. The quantity of money is determined by the demand of credit from the economy (and not by the available savings).

If we understand this, we see that private banks are not limited by savings in their lending capacity, they are limited by how many business or households are requesting credit (and if those request make business sense for the bank).

This is a good reading about those subjects:

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-...
Fair enough I suppose, but it still seems a bit excessive. For a first-party example, you could maybe get approx. 30 keychains or a Macbook Air.
The big takeaway for me is that inside our daily corporate world, we should strive for more open discussion about the work we do - I keep trying to do more discussion-list style work with my team, even though it often is easier to jump on a video call.

It has a payback a long way down the road but my gut knows it is worth it.
No process, nothing. Just sit down and code.
There’s also the time spent not driving. That counts as part of a life saved for every commuter
You can still separate them and have a hidden password field for a password manager to bypass the other page or pass it through to the next page.
> Is there an accessible introduction, a YouTube video perhaps, to crypto instruments beyond Bitcoin?

I take you're specifically interested in what's known as "DeFi" (decentralised finance)?

Multiple things going on on that front, but you could start here: https://archive.is/bJQt4 (coincentral); this video's a pretty good overview on Ethereum's DeFi ecosystem https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/k9HYC0EJU6E and this one on what's happened in just 2020 https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/qFBYB4W2tqU

DeFi, today, is poised to grow beyond Ethereum. Check out cross-chain networks like Polkadot (https://archive.is/GZVlM) and Cosmos (https://archive.is/1pWHF). matic.network (now Polygon) is another interesting side-chain network that seeks to take Ethereum tokens cross-chain.

If you're looking to build a DeFi product on Ethereum, docs at 0x.org, aave.com are good places to start (since they integrate out of the box with decentralised exchanges like Uniswap, Balancer etc). Circle.com, Sendwyre.com, Simplex.com, and Nowpayments.io are some of the leading providers for fiat <-> crypto-currency transfer. I am sure Binance has some offering in this space too.
Good point.
Furthermore SKAT's (danish tax authorities) point of view is they should be aware of all your accounts (DK or away) once you start to have an income in Denmark.
Strategize & run

and or

Implement & run

NEVER OPERATE

this is obvious, everybody knows this :)
The US brands have that. There's several good third party sites that have parts for most of this junk. I've saved a number of appliances with a $5 part. appliancepartspros.com comes to mind.
My pet peve are paid services only showing the limited-promotion-price, a discount is nice of course but I want to know how much that will cost me in the long run.
As a German, I just realized that my intuitive understanding of the (seemingly English) word "glitch" seems to be far better than that of native English speakers, because the Yiddisch word "glitshn" comes from German "glitschen", which comes from "gleiten" - to slide, slip. So to me, it always meant exactly that: the program slipped and fell.
Lead Through Uncertainty
Thanks, that was very clear.

Question though: why is it called Taproot?
Tge inflection points for the latest outbreaks lag India and are quite probably due to cross-border leakage.
If you have unlimited leverage to buy Bitcoin, you have unlimited leverage to buy any other asset.

All the billionaires in the world are worth 11 trillion dollars. How much are they realistically going to allocate to Bitcoin, to support a >1 trillion market cap?

Bitcoin is like gold in that it just "sits there", it doesn't do any work. If gold can drop 30% over a few months, despite all the pandemic fears, then Bitcoin can drop 80% for just not being that interesting anymore, compared to other assets.
Why are these guys throwing money after what appears to be the Juicero of geospatial indexing schemes? As others have pointed out, their word list is huge, multiple stems are included, there's no hierarchical relationship between words and so on. The whole thing seems like a bad design interview question where you start by explaining S2 to the candidate.
A good IDE will let you type "mu", and autocomplete with "let mu", cycling on tab will give you more options.
For Standard Ebooks, our default approach is that a short story is up to 20k words, a novella between 20k and 40k, and a novel is greater than 40k. Short stories and novellas get combined into a comprehensive (or occasionally themed) short fiction compilation, assuming there’s enough of them.
"Free". In the case of any currency conversion - you'll likely be silently stung a single digit percentage during conversion.

Check rates quoted on the final statement versus those prevailing at that time.

For a few limited cases of going USD -> USD (in foreign jurisdiction), and the USD is not converted to anything else ever, there may be a net win.

In all other cases (the majority), you, or the receiver will at some point be paying far more than the wire fee for any transfer over a grand or so.
I might be biased here, but isn't a fixed exchange rate somewhat of a false sense of security anyway? As in it's great because it reduces volatility of unhedged contracts most of the time, but when it finally goes it tends to do so dramatically?
I recently tried setting up an Android phone with LineageOS without any gapps. Google's integration into the Android libraries that are used to build almost all the apps out there is so deep that a lot of apps that I use regularly wouldn't even launch on the phone.

Basically, by controlling the API that apps target when they are built, Google has attacked the AOSP from 2 sides. First is from the developer side of things. App developers need to jump through many hoops to make an app that would fall back to working with Google's services running on the phone (LineageOS without Gapps and using some fake gapps implementation to keep the API from breaking).

The second attack that Google has made to the AOSP is from the end user's perspective. They have made it harder and harder to use AOSP without Google's services. Since it's so hard for user's to setup and use a phone without Google's services, they almost never take that option. (I personally, reverted to the OnePlus' Oxygen OS and ditched LineageOS). The end result being that user's just don't want to leave Google's Android garden and explore the wilderness of AOSP without Google.
Google would not give the keys to the users, so they would still technically be able to decrypt your emails.
I don't think they would implement a security feature that is based on user password (in protonmail you loose your mails if you loose your password).
The previous discussion about this paper can be found here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27000570
Don't you know that all people must help all banks at all times or society will crumble? If I don't help my bank with the cost of holding my money then who will?
I kinda wish we stopped fixing these for consumer OSes. People don't usually run untrusted code for hours. The performance drop isn't worth the result. So, IMO, it's only really applicable to cloud providers.
Correct. If it's not eradicated, herd immunity leads to endemic equilibrium. Given animal reservoirs, it's not likely to be eradicated.
Andy Weir’s New Space Odyssey
This pisses the hell out of me becuase, due to my privacy settings, I end up on their homepage a lot. Evidence just for records: https://imgur.com/a/HfF9vUJ
I only wish I was slightly older during the dot com boom. I had to finish college and do it with flying colors, being from a poor family. If you had the means and some padding to take fairly reasonable risks, you walked away with riches. These people were at the right place and the right time, let's not lionize them as investment geniuses. They had money to put down on some horses, that is ALL.