skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The length epends on the country I guess. I haven't seen anything longer than 4 digits in Germany whereas in Italy longer PINs were more common.

If the magnetic strip with a 4 digit PIN is still on there, the advanced security of the chip won't help much though. Break the chip and force every system to use the strip and you're done (again, I assume that because there is no unaccessible memory on the strip, anything on there can be easily brute forced so I further assume the information on the strip is not encoded with the PIN at all but then the PIN equals the default authentication method on the bank side, not the more complex secret on the chip)
> the vast majority of transactions

Are transactions relevant though? A lot of BTC is just being held, presumably for the sake of future popularity. You could see BTC investment as a bet on the future of BTC as a normal/common currency.
Or a bot that browses discussions and if any recent ones have > 100 comments automatically sends the link to archive.org to be archived and then add a comment with the link of the archived copy
OpenPOWER Foundation announces LibreBMC, a POWER-based, fully open-source BMC
Pandoc-novel: Markdown text to a novel in ePub and PDF
Pair programming is great! When you click with the person you're paired with. When you're with someone who you don't like/is defensive, it's terrible.
INT and WIS are different stats, and sadly, one does not imply the other, at least in the only being we can yet study
Not sure what you mean with cartoon representation. It's classical measurement (position and velocity) which is what those building the accelerators need (trajectories and energies). This is very similar to satellite orbits simulations. But at the scale of interactions reality is dominated by probabilities. Each particle is basically a wavepacket. For an interactive animation of two colliding particles check: https://physics.weber.edu/schroeder/software/CollidingPacket.... For an interactive animation of diffraction and interference check: https://physics.weber.edu/schroeder/software/QuantumScatteri....
There's a few seconds difference in the UEFI bios startup timings

Could that be anything to do with the Intel ME or similar "management" spyware/etc. trying to phone home or do something? You may have to reflash the BIOS to "clean" that completely.

The other thing I can think of is that the CPU heatsinks aren't clogged with the same amount of dust and causing one machine to thermally throttle more than the others.
>Short-term gain often comes at long-term pain.

One of the ways I've tried to used in the past is to put down some concrete losses that will come from bad decisions. It just has a be a reasonable guesstimate. Either a dollar amount, scheduling issues, additional resources needed, disruption to obligations to other customers, etc. Pick the one that seems to have the most impact and present it to the CEO or CFO.

Hopefully that will push relevant parties to at least pause and think about things beyond whatever the sales director is promising.
Is there any point in having a query builder API in a dynamic language?

I can see the point in a typed language where you can ensure the query is correct at compile time.

But in a dynamic language, you never know if the query is correct until the interpreter hits that line in the program at runtime.

This is true with both raw SQL (error returned from server) and the query builder API (error returned from interpreter).
Easy money for anyone connected to him
Getting downvoted for pointing out the fact that David Bowie raped teenagers.

Great job HN!
What evidence have we that they would not? Life on earth certainly expands as rapidly as the environment can support, or even faster than it can, in many cases. Also "rapid" is a relative term, right? If we humans start expanding to other planets even within 10,000 years that would be quite rapid relative to the length of time it took for us to evolve.
He also dismantled feudalism - that was pretty good for most Europeans - no?
But it doesn't do only that and I want something that does only that. I don't see why this is so hard for people here to wrap their head around.
I thought most jazz pianists start out classically trained and then branch out into jazz later in life. Is the training methods for classical not a good foundation for jazz?
The size of Alpine and its package manager are brilliant. What gets me, and my team, is the support policy for “older” packages.

For a while we would pin library versions (e.g. libvips) only to have the pin break the build because the package was no longer provided. That’s only a few months later, not years. It seriously impacts the repeatability of Docker builds.

Now we don’t pin to the same extent and lack some confidence, but at least it doesn’t break the build.
I’m more in favor of Septic Flesh over Rotting Christ these days when it comes to Greek metal outside the innumerable power metal bands that dominate mainstream European metal. Not sure if they’ll ever top Sumerian Daemons as a metal album but given Christos is also a very serious orchestral musician it’s a driving force behind the band today despite the even more orchestral side projects.
No, because your holding increases the price until someone else decides it's time to tell. In other words, the lack of liquidity increases price. Regarding your original question, that increase is GOOD for the company because it can raise more money for selling the same amount of stock.
> The author says that the animal wants to relax and lie down.

The author does not say this. She said her body needed this and she ignored that need.

The animal being talked about is her body and everything else is her regrets of not taking care of it. That's all.
Simple bank was supposed to be a “a bank that doesn’t suck,”. First is sold out, then they do this
I don't know if it's that Sanderson is a bad writer; I think it's more that he's a bad editor. He is so prolific that he doesn't take the time to cut his books down to the length they should be, which is probably about half the length.

Every single novel I've read by him (All of mistborn, 1st 3 Way of Kings, Elantris) has egregious pacing problems. Way too much repetitive exposition that doesn't move the story along.

Arcanum Unbounded is actually pretty good, probably because it's all short stories and doesn't have time to get lost)
That doesn't answer the question though. Parent asked:

> Whats the last time you bought anything (besides other coins) with cryptocurrency?

Edit: phrasing
That didn't go over well when Opera did it
This “one neat trick” means that some high level employee probably had to do it by hand.

Making a request like this is a borderline unethical waste of someone’s time.
This means that if I'm working alone I can do the same amount of work with 2 pomodoro hours (absolute focus for 50 minutes x2).
They continuously raise funds not because the product they sell are losing money because they are making money and they want to make more of them.

How is this hard to understand I don't understand.

Go and compare Amazon and Tesla in terms of time since IPO if you want to claim Amazon of example of a good company.

Also, much of the money Tesla raised in the last couple of years is not actually spend, but rather is part of the cash balance of the company.

Also the argument that 'his companies are not as successful as the two most successful companies in the world today' is complaining on a pretty absurd level.
This is pretty neat. I used pandoc and Lulu.com for my first self published book, and have another in the pipeline. Is CreateSpace better?
I used to like making things that are useful to other people (2), but just us people quickly switch to your shiny new thing, they quickly switch away to the next shiny new thing.

That impermanence makes me feel it was never intrinsically valuable.
I think I would agree with you. However when I was a kid, I never used my desk to study. I studied where it was comfortable, which either ended up being on top of my bed, or on the floor - both of which had plenty of room to spread out my materials.

If a kid thinks they have to use a desk and never takes initiative to do something else, I think that would speak more to a kid's future success than the size of their desk.

If we just focus on environmental factors, I think higher ceilings and more-open spaces would also lead to success just as much as having a larger desk would.
Is it reasonable to expect one distro of Linux to be good at everything? There are a number of comments about Alpine as a desktop OS... sure you can probably make it work but it seems Alpine's sweet spot is when it's used as an embedded OS or as a base for Docker containers. Isn't that good enough?

I am also curious about the "apk is seriously robust" comment: does this mean fast, stable, intuitive... or something else? If the package manager achieves it's goal I don't care about "robustness" as long as I'm not losing 10+ hours a week trying to debug something about it.
Fintech Chime Is Not a Bank. Does It Matter?
At scale implies automation, especially guessing at budgets to support these programs.

I think schools know there has to be a human at some point in the interaction chain.

A frustrating experience I had with this is a school I was at (expensive uni) tried to farm out this responsibility to other students.

In a mentorship program designed to do 1:1 student:student pairings and used “SMS intervention” this program asked students to take up to *10* student mentees, with the idea that that the real mentor load is pretty low (quick convos).

To me, this felt like an outrageous ask, as if they were trying to sub in students paying to be there with the tasks paid advisors are responsible for.

This was at grad school, and I think indicated something funding challenges behind the scenes. I imagine it’s similar/worse at high school levels. Maybe not the same exact problem, but it makes sense why this specific program linked has trouble.
I find the responsibiltiy of that somewhat terrifying. If we snuff outselves out then all that is left is a universe of stars shining on barren rocks.
Yeah, but that's the 'cumbersome' part. Could we imagine a non-TC language with simple syntax that's suitable for at least some of the task you'd use a TC language for?
I'd imagine plenty of people didn't rape 15 year old girls in the '70s even if it was more "acceptable" back then.

Using your fame to exploit young, impressionable women is pretty awful and was awful 50 years ago. Even if "everyone did it!"
So? Whales are (relative to humans) quite dumb. Communicating with an intelligent alien species isn't the same--in any way.
It worked out horribly. They were shot, prosecuted, embarrassed, fired from their jobs, and forever surveilled and hunted by the entire domestic apparatus.

Your othering use of ‘you guys’ suggests a derogatory view of this event, but your suggestion of its applicability to the text implies that it was a failed protest against ‘would be tyrants’. So it’s a little confusing ideologically, but your rational point is spot on. The notion of any kind of physical power held by citizens over the government was overwhelmingly refuted. Any weakness shown by lack of enforcement against the prior summer of violence, was shown to be fully at their discretion. Absolute physical power. No more delusions.

But we’re talking about crypto here, and the international response to this has apparently been an unprecedented wave of panic crypto buying, or equivalently, state fiat selling. Imagine what they must think. I believe the markets; not the ‘official’ sources, not the press, and definitely not social media.
This is the absolute best (and correct) explanation I've ever seen in such a small space. Thank you.
This came to my mind as a recent outrage in genomics[1].

Indeed there are some wonderful contributed papers and some members use it responsibly. I also concur with with everything you said, just adding that even in laudable cases (struggling grad, ...), there is some injustice and it'll always be misleading.

Thanks for the precisions and the mention of eLife.

[1] https://twitter.com/arambaut/status/1248387395201847296?s=19
It's pretty popular to install Python C-extensions from packages, called wheels.
Otherwise you need to compile from source, which means you need build dependencies.
So Python and Alpine doesn't really go that well together. In my experience debian-slim as Docker base image is also small, and less painful.
A Concrete Introduction to Probability (using Python) (Norvig, 2018)
Indeed there are and I grew up in a culture where most food is what would be called vegetarian or vegan, and delicious, and I cook that kind of food for myself.

However, cooking delicious food with raw materials is not compatible, in my mind, with factory-produced nutritional supplements, because all of a person's nutritional needs can be covered by ordinary food. Does this perhaps make my point more clear? I don't understand the need for supplements, when one can cook nutritious and delicious food on their own.
An audience does not a monetization strategy make. It can ONLY ever be a piece
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Now we just need rock-solid automatic "extern (C++)" bindgen and we're g2g
You are totally entitled to that opinion and critique. I disagree completely.

Also, that would be a different essay that you wanted Robb to write, not the one that she did.

There are many people who disassociate themselves, the inner "person", from their body. I have a friend with MS who practices this explicitly. This article reminds those people that they must still take care of their animal.
If I were running the Russian hacking center in charge of pwning US infrastructure, I'd be pissed as hell. This is like getting vaccinated -- all of a sudden we're going to take this seriously and patch a bunch of exploits that they've had ready to go.
In case it’s helpful to anyone else, I asked HN how they manage their money around a year and a half ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21853636
Yes, but so what? My current iPhone now devotes trillions of potentially-useful cycles to NOPs or processor sleep cycles. Does this mean that $32m of actual value is being created for me?
I love Alpine as well, albeit I usually use it in VMs. It's just so "out of the way" without being "not there at all" and the miniscule size and small set of default packages is just great.

I've got 2 installer setups I use: a pretty much stock base install and a "replace all of the BusyBox versions with real versions" install that is still quite tiny. I used to have a 3rd "desktop" setup for my laptops but I found too many issues compared to running e.g. arch at that point so I stopped using it.

Once in a while I'll still install Ubuntu server when dealing with proprietary stuff or whatnot buy beyond that Alpine has been my go to for years now.
Agree. They might as well have included the phrase “super duper” in the title to sound a bit more scientific.
No. That's one of the many differences between Scrum and XP. XP is the feral cousin of Scrum.
Shameless plug - you can have a look at my pet project https://github.com/oddbit-project/rick_db; Its explicitly not async, but the query builder is detached from the DB querying logic, and can be used separately.
Now DeepMind is using AI to transform football
Yeah, I’ve seen some plants, when looking to buy, where they are described as annuals, or perennials if in the right climate.
> The breadwinner never even breached a six figure income

Raising 6-7 kids on less than 100k sounds tough, although I'd guess you're getting towards the upper end of middle class by that point. The median household income in NYC is around $64k according to USCB, which leaves around $52k after taxes and social security. The rent on a three-bed in Brooklyn doesn't seem to go much below $2k per month, which leaves $2.3k per month for bills, groceries etc... .
To buy time for a failing startup, recreate the engineering process
Bitcoins use-case right now seems to be a "store of value", or in other words, a hedge against inflation.

As a short-term store, the price fluctuation is too big. But as a long-term store... Haven't seen a better one up until this point.
With physical access to the inside of the device, a security researcher was able to change the URL of the NFC tag. That's literally all that happened here.
> Both Young and Jaenisch say they received more intense criticism for their preprint than any studies in their careers, in part because some researchers worried it played into the hands of vaccine skeptics spreading false claims about the newly authorized mRNA vaccines.

I understand that there are strongly desired policy outcomes to consider here but seriously, the histrionics that follow anything that even smells like a deviation from the conventional wisdom regarding this pandemic cannot possibly be helpful
How hard would it be to fly an engineer to Shenzen and physically test the supply?

I get it. Chinese vendors are not as reliable as Western suppliers. But it's not like ICs are black magic, it certainly wouldn't be that to enforce third-party quality control on them. Sure every now and then you'll pay for a batch you gotta throw out. But that sure as hell beats business killing 52-week lead times.
No one is cast doubt on their work; we are saying their choice of terminology SUCKS.
Robustness has never meant speed or intuitiveness. It means resilience to breaking.
You're right it wasn't molestation, it was rape as defined in the California penal code where age of consent was and is 18.

He raped two 15 year old girls. And likely many more that haven't came out publicly.
That seems incredibly wasteful to me. I have no problem with rapid iteration between design and implementation, but at least recognize that those are different activities, and that the latter is a poor way of doing the former.
I only just bought my first crypto about a month ago. Since then I have used some to buy some domain names and a cup of coffee.
Agree, and while the former might best be represented on a dated "timeline", esp as an ongoing thing of related events; The latter is maybe best as a "slow journalist"/"community wiki" style of aggregating useful comments.
> After another 10 minutes, my heart started to race; still nothing.

This one line of faux drama and true ignorance perfectly illustrates what’s wrong with journalism today.
Another point to consider that is strictly superior is how streams offer ~effortless parallelism.
Ouch. Hope you didnt keep critical amount of money on that account
> Don't you find it fascinating that we think it's wildly improbable that we are alone, yet have not been able to find other life? I certainly do.

Given that we can scarcely communicate with a chimpanzee, our nearest living relative, nor fully comprehend how any other species on Earth communicates (those which evolved under the same conditions that we did), I find it totally unsurprising that we're unable to communicate with aliens.
Createspace is now Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP). I don't know if it's better. But the createspace latex package works okay for getting a page size suitable for printing. I imagine could use the resulting PDF at any print-on-demand service.
Thermals are probably the right answer.
I don't find that they do.

The things that make cash useful for money laundering and black market purchases also make it easy for me to quickly, and without unnecessary ceremony, drop a few dollars in a tip jar, give some money to a panhandler, split the bill at a restaurant, chip in to an office gift pool, pay my kids an allowance, envelope budget, buy ice cream from an ice cream truck, etc. etc. etc.

Bitcoin in particular fails miserably at these sorts of use cases because nobody wants to sit around waiting 10 minutes for a transaction to confirm over a $2 soft serve.

Crypto in general fail because they're complicated and fiddly to work with. This creates way, way too much friction these sorts of casual transactions, and effectively shuts out people who aren't technically sophisticated enough to feel comfortable messing around with this stuff.

That isn't to say that crypto doesn't work as a store of wealth. But, as a circulating, everyday currency, it seems to be stuck in the same situation that Linux on the Desktop has been for the past couple decades: for a variety of reasons, some of them very good and no real fault of its own, per se, the community just doesn't seem to be capable of sorting out the UX.
Further to the nonrepeating nature of the task (4):

There need be no real danger of it ever becoming a drudge, for any processes that are quite mechanical may be turned over to the machine itself.

https://wikiquote.org/wiki/Alan_Turing
> I was wondering about Dutch

There's also the saying: "De knoop doorhakken" (to cut the rope), which basically means to decide.
Namecheap hosted 25%+ of fake UK govt phishing sites last year – NCSC report
This is so true! When starting work on a new project or feature I nowadays actively try to embrace ugly solutions. Refactoring after you have a working solution is much easier than coming up with a perfect solution (which probably doesn't exist).
No HDD on the market has ever been variable-speed. What you may be perceiving as a change in RPM could just be the difference in harmonics of the spindle motor as you change the dampening.

As for particles on the platters, the keywords to search for are "thermal asperity". An excess of them, or ones that are actually stuck to the platter, can cause damage but as you have noticed, what usually happens is the head just knocks them out of the way and heats up slightly, causing a misread and subsequent retry (hence the slow speed). If you power on a working drive and then remove the lid, the air currents will keep any new particles from sticking to the pllatters.

By pushing down on the lid, however, (simulating screws) it sped up and down a few times before failing. The harder I pushed the less it vibrated and the more it worked, until I finally had it returning I/O, albeit slowly.

It's more likely that you were adjusting the actuator angle. See the bottom picture in this article for comparison (also a WD drive from around the same era):

https://hddguru.com/articles/2006.02.17-Changing-headstack-Q...
I think it's 50/50 some real gang vs a branch of the NSA who sees how pwned the US infrastructure is and wants to make a (fairly harmless) splash so we take it more seriously and patch our shit.