skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was not my information at the time. But thanks for the info, it is helpful.

With https://github.com/pybind/pybind11 there is really great integration with C++ and Python is my second home after C++ actually.

Anyway, I am quite happy with Wren and it seems to be fast (not a requirement for my project, though)
paywall. not even a preview
Any rational discussion about this topic had unfortunately lead to accusations of *phobia nearly instantly, without considering the content of the argument.
non-paywall
https://news.yahoo.com/fastest-girl-connecticut-transgender-...
> You still haven't told me why it's interesting or good to decentralise getting a bank account, you're just asserting it.

Not being financially censored by the government or banks? Not having to be at their mercy for your money? The benefits seem pretty clear.

> and whether there is some background process that takes longer is not really relevant to me or the people I transfer to.

Clearly you have never had a low balance and had to wait for your money to settle in your bank. A reality most people deal with every day.

> And I should support those things? They are a great argument for KYC/AML in themselves.

You asked for a real-world example of crypto being used for goods and services. I gave one.

Feel free to let the government decide what you’re allowed to buy and ingest. A lot of people want freedom from that. It goes further - assume a malicious government, as all governments historically fail their citizens - only cash and cryptocurrency will be reasonable exchanges of value.

PayPal and Zelle might work for you, today, but to suggest that they’re a viable long- or even medium-term solution for digital currency amongst humanity is ludicrous.

> Sure, but you don't keep cash in a file on an easily compromised computer,

Neither do you with crypto. The vast majority of your savings would be in a hardware wallet, presumably easier to use by the time crypto is mainstream.

> Irreversible transactions are not idiot-proof by nature.

The concept is as idiot-proof as cash, which has clearly proven enough for humanity for thousands of years.

> doesn't that just scream "bad idea!" to you?

Nope. It reduces trust, reliance, and censorship on or by entities that don’t have your best interests at heart.

I suppose we simply have different priors. You trust banks and the government. You are okay with forfeiting your financial privacy. I am not.
Thanks for sharing! Beautiful pottery!!!
Umm you can't even see his fingerprints on that photo. It's way too blurry. Weird.

Edit: The lines on his palm are very clear though in the whole picture: https://www.merseyside.police.uk/news/merseyside/news/2021/m... Maybe that was it. Those are also pretty unique.
What grinder did you end up getting?
In the UK, defense lawyers aren't allowed to reveal details if it harms future police operations. So again you don't need parallel construction.
ThreeJS in fact has implementation for screen space 'fat lines'.

[0] https://threejs.org/examples/webgl_lines_fat.html
Or even more prosaically — they were monitoring that chat for anything juicy at all, and got a break when the conversation organically went to cheeses and the guy posted that pic
Coronaviruses are a family of viruses.

Influenza belongs to a different family of viruses called Orthomyxoviridae.

Saying that covid-19 is a strain of flu is like saying that lions are a form of dog.
> So I don't think this can be extended to some sort of general principle.

Very clearly it can. There is no technological solution to doxing. You have to censor yourself, you have to hide facts, you can not speak freely.
As usual, there are a lot of negative comments here on what seems like a good news given how bitcoin is criticized for using chinese coal-based energy for mining. Let me respond to the most popular ones I've read in this thread and hopefully, I'm able to at least get some rational skeptics to at least re-assess their priors

Too Volatile To Be a Store of Value: Volatility alone doesn't make something not a good store of value. Gold, a popular store of value is much more volatile than the US dollars but if you held gold from 50 years ago, you'd be up 37X against the dollar [0]. What makes something a good store of value is how scarce and easy to transfer both across space and time it is. Bitcoin can't be blamed for the casino mentality, it's up to market actors to use bitcoin as a store of value and from what I've observed, that's going to be the long term outcome.

Bitcoin is slow: The argument that bitcoin is slow and expensive is a fallacy. Bitcoin is a settlement layer and when evaluating the speed of a settlement layer, the emphasis should be on speed of settlement assurances and transaction finality[1]. Bitcoin being an open decentralized settlement layer makes this even more important. Comparing bitcoin to visa or sepa which don't settle instantly is disingenuous at best and ignorant at worst. If you want faster transactions, use a layer 2 solution like the lightening network which is orders of magnitude faster and cheaper than visa [2].

Bitcoin is ponzi scheme: This is a complete fallacy both in theory and in practice and it's pretty offensive to suggest that well-meaning people working hard to make finance open and globally accessible are a cabal of scammers looking to steal money from unsuspecting investors. Surely there are bad actors but that's the case in any industry.

Don't believe me? Bitcoin chainanalysis shows emphatically that the vast majority of coins that moved in this crash were new spends in the past months which shows that it's the new buyers that are selling[3], where then is the pyramid scheme? In fact, The early adopters of bitcoin are the least likely to sell. I hold bitcoin not to sell and many in my network are like me(although I can't speak for them). MSTR as an example hasn't sold a single coin, in fact they bought more.

I could go on but it's very exhausting that a technical forum is so negative towards an emerging technology with a lot of promise, it's even more disturbing that a lot of the criticisms are uninformed. We can do better.

0. https://goldprice.org/gold-price-history.html
1. https://medium.com/@nic__carter/its-the-settlement-assurance...
2. https://medium.datadriveninvestor.com/lightning-is-3-7-milli...
3. https://twitter.com/100trillionUSD/status/139660908211150438...
Are you arguing that arranging to commit a crime is protected speech? I don't think that one will fly anywhere, even in the US, let alone in the UK with no constitutional protection only the much weaker ECHR one.
An excerpt from HN rules:

Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data.
Ask HN: I can't take Memoji author profiles seriously, am I alone?
Seeing an memoji author profile next to a serious blog post prevents me from taking the post seriously even if the topic is a serious one or the person is knowledgable.

I hope this doesn't become a bigger trend.

I mean it's ok if the post is something frivolous, upbeat, or fluffy. But often times it seems like a mismatch of sensibilities.

Am I the only one?
I agree with you on the legal doctrine piece, but most in the US (myself included) would say that the US Constitution doesn't grant anybody any rights. It codified inalienable rights that exist for all people merely by virtue of their existence. Every person has the right to speak their mind, to defend themselves, to not incriminate themselves, etc. etc. with all the caveats and potential nullifications that accompany those rights. The fact that some countries may violate those inherent rights is irrelevant, and the fact that some of those countries may be common law is equally irrelevant.

It's possible to believe both that Liverpool and the surrounding area is better off without this man free, but that the UK as a whole is worse off for their frequent violation of rights with regard to those in the US Bill of Rights.
Dumbass drug dealer took a picture of his fingerprints*
You make a good point. I started my Computer Science and Engineering degree (I am european, not american, so the equivalent looks like kind of a merge of both areas) with Python, C and C++ on the programming side.

Pascal was discarded a few years back in my university. And yes, by familiar I mean exactly what you mean: you see nowadays Java, Python, C++, C, C#, but Pascal is disappeared.

Disappeared since long ago since I do not know even the syntax myself by casual reading around.
I study type systems and programming language theory at university, and I encourage friends studying CS to at least have some understanding of type theory, such as well-known type systems (simply-typed, System F) and properties like soundness or uniqueness of typing. Why? Because as programmers we argue to death comparing the expressiveness and properties of type systems of our favorite programming languages, or we're picking up a language with features like traits or type inference. Type theory really lets you learn the heart of such features in a small, idealistic setting and specifies things rigorously and uniformly, (since languages tend to come up with their own names and examples for things like ad-hoc polymorphism, AKA typeclasses/traits/protocols/concepts), and they appear no matter the paradigm.
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1) Far-fetched AF.

2) Irrelevant: Companies can and do defraud each other already; that has nothing per se to do with right-to-repair.

3) General observation: If one finds oneself needing to write a Breivik-manifesto-length screed in defense and explanation of some viewpoint, that may be a sign that the viewpoint needs rethinking.
Is it this issue for Firefox? https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1520157

See also https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-code-pro/issues/250
> the pilot's job is to follow instructions from ATC

... until pirates entered to cabin:

> What we know so far: KGB operatives boarded the plane in Athens this morning together with Roman Protasevich (he noticed dodgy-looking ppl taking pics of him at the gate). Then when the plane has entered Belarus airspace KGB officers initiated a fight with the Ryanair crew (1/2)[0]

> insisting there’s an IED onboard. Eventually the crew was forced to send out SOS (literally moments before the plane would've left Belarus airspace). MiG-29 took off and escorted it to Minsk. Security services entered the plane and arrested Protasevich¹. (2/2)[1]

¹ Later yesterday press published info that not only Protasevich was arrested, but also his girlfriend which was also on that plane.

[0] https://twitter.com/TadeuszGiczan/status/1396446650718117890

[1] https://twitter.com/TadeuszGiczan/status/1396446652349784068
That's ludicrous. The 6502 is the best 8-bit processor that ever existed ;-)

Now, on a more serious tone, any processor in the machine you could detect could be used to offload some processing from the CPU. I wonder if that wasn't done with 1541 or 1571 Commodore floppy drives. I know there was software that wrote new functionality onto the drive's memory to make disk IO faster.

With enough memory, you could sort a text file and write the output to a new file without ever bothering the CPU. I don't think that was ever actually done, but the drives also ran 6502 processors, and the 1571 ran at twice the main computer's clock.
Climatists for Nukes
Technologies like payment channels would allow for automatic pay-as-you-go schemes where your Tor client would pay sub-cent amounts for every MB used or whatever.

But privacy is indeed a big challenge since we're talking about Tor.
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This is pretty cool, ngl!
Does this result in a lot of sealed/private hearings where methods of gathering evidence are discussed? I'd imagine the majority of criminal prosecutions would involve at least some "trade secrets" (for lack of a better term) on the part of the police.
"centralised EU government with a strong leader (aka dictator)?"

Those are the only two options? Like how you can either have people dying because they cant afford a surgery, or you become EUSSR?
Not really, the cheese is also blurred. And not uniformly so, very gradual. It looks like a photographic artifact, not post-processing.

I'm glad they were able to take this guy off the streets but there's a smell to this IMO and it's not just the cheese.

Edit: Someone else shared the link to the uncropped picture: https://www.merseyside.police.uk/news/merseyside/news/2021/m... . Fingerprints are still too blurry but his palm lines are very clear. It could indeed be those.
Yes, they compromised the network through the usual means (the center) and recorded all the messages for a while. https://www.reeds.co.uk/insight/encrochat/
> The more you read about diamonds, the more they sound like a scam to sell overpriced wedding rings.

That is because they are. There are much better ways to signal whatever people used to signal by buying diamonds, at least on the higher end of the wealth scale. Not least because you can just get a synthetic diamond and no one can tell the difference, so now they try to sell “stories” behind it to create artificial scarcity.
Used it for what HN is as well, but the takeaway from the article for me was that /. still exists!
Some teams might benefit from this, but it’s super creepy to me, and I’m the guy on my team advocating for regular pair programming and for hanging out in a shared video chat while working on separate stuff.
I think there was a certian degree of bravery (or foolishness really) that authors of older software had WRT their willingness to couple with certain things (poking registers/DMA with specialized hardware, monkey patching OS components etc.)
Read the second sentence of my post.
At least I recognize that there's a difference between a business model and a system of government. In the context of this thread, owners are less likely to burn out workers and pursue profit at all (human) cost if the workers are the owners.
Constructing type systems that allow you to express the things that you need in your program while simultaneously constraining you to a safe way of doing that is one of those instances of theoretical research that have immense practical importance. It's good to see Rust slowly establishing itself in the industry, because there's hope that the ideas will gain popularity and better type systems will enter the mainstream in the coming decades.
Armenian president was begging Putin to intervene, that's what whole of Yerevan knows.
const grent = match (passwd::getgroup(group)) {
void => fmt::fatal("No '{}' group available", group),
gr: passwd::grent => gr,
};

Interesting, is void being used as the "None" of an option type here? At least that's what it looks like to me.
The BBC is used to nudge people into behaving as preferred by higher-ups - it's a propaganda organisation. The police are basically government thugs - not law abiding where they can get away with it. So whether your interpretation is correct or not, I don't know, but you're right that this story is probably untrue.
Very interesting.

However, the fact that you can't replant hybrid rice, and are dependent on contiuous breeding of first-generation hybrids, makes it potentially problematic politically. A state or privately-owned source of hybrids can have rice cultivating farmers "by the balls" so to speak.
Data analysis on Australia's version of wallstreetbets
I've been curating the most upvoted stock analysis/ due diligence posts on Australia's version of wallstreetbets 1-2 times each week for the past 6 months. The following is what I've found from calculating returns from the post to today's date

Methodology

85 Reddit posts were curated including some bullish and some bearish (probably more bullish but sentiment hasn't been taken into consideration)

All posts were amongst the most upvoted due diligence/ stock research posts on Reddit (r/asx_bets) within the week they were posted

Performance is calculated as performance from day posted on Reddit to today’s date (24/5/21)

Number of upvotes vs. stock performance
- no meaningful correlation

Date of posting vs. performance
- Returns seem to become more extreme as time goes on from the post date

Mean and median returns both around 0%

Highest returning stock due diligence/ research posts to date

1. Imugene (IMU) - DD (u/badonkadonkthrowaway) + 156%
2. FLN DD (u/ramzataztaz) + 112%
3. ASX:IHL Incannex Healthcare Biotech/Medicinal Cannabis (u/Exalted_HC) + 100%
4. DW8 and why you should own it. (u/shadowpheonix2) +83%
5. ANP - Antisense Therapeutics (u/Tropical_Chilli) +62%

Lowest returning due diligence to date
Emerge Gaming - A Final Word (u/neke86) -64% (actually had a relatively bearish sentiment)

Obviously there's many limitations with this analysis... however there aren’t many studies on stock research posts on Reddit forums - this being one of the first.

Note that if you do the same analysis but instead look at return from posting until the highest price since posting results are much more interesting.
- Of the stock considered only 9 were already at their maximum when posted, all other did go up at some point after
- Median/ average return to all time high since posting was 18% and 55% respectively.
> I know that people can joke about the west in Russia but are people allowed to make jokes about their own government in Russia and in the associated eastern european states?

That's a tough question. For example, when I was active in TikTok (I grew tired of it pretty fast), I've made a lot of very critical videos that had a lot of views. In one of them, that got almost 100k views, I explicitly said that Putin and his gang are usurping power, and while the current Russian laws say that it's punishable up to 20 years in prison, I think that they deserve the death penalty. I did not get in any trouble for that. But many others from Russian Libertarian Party (which I'm a member of) have, even though they've said much less. May be they had a wider reach, or may be it's just random, I don't know. And I wouldn't be surprised if a couple of years later I'll get 5 years of prison for these TikToks.
Technically many could do what dropbox did to create a similiar product when they were part of yc class. Many HN have a personal dropbox setup they made themselves.

The key that allowed them to be a billion dollar business was marketing, hype, strategy all things that could apply to any product technical or not.

If you want to make something similiar you could probably get to 80% really quickly. Putting together a product with a reputation is a different event with timing luck and risk. Building that 80% is low risk but high personal reward.

Has anyone built something to read and identify palms or lines in the hands?
Zeppelin Ransomware Is Back with a More Steady Encryption Malware
In this case I wasn't offered a position. The company in question is well known within a certain field, and has a reputation for having a difficult recruitment process. They were offering a very competitive salary, and I was admittedly excited at the prospect of working for a company with this kind of elite reputation. This was the final stage of the interview process. I had passed the technical challenges and initial interview. In the end, I was able to walk away from this experience with my pride mostly intact.
Let It Change, and Impact
He dared to report the truth about a maniacal dictator.
At some point, "thin" becomes synonymous with "sharp". As in, "This fucking thing is so thin it cuts my hand just from holding it!"

I submit for debate the proposition that many manufacturers of hand-held electronic devices have already passed this point.
This affects 2 people.
Speaking of app icons, the official/original ones... they all look the same: a (more often than not) blue shape on a white background.

It's starting to become really difficult to find the right app to open, and it's not particularly aesthetically pleasing either. Brand and trademark directives notwithstanding I would almost go so far as to call it lazy.

I'm thankful for all these custom alternative icons to have been made available for free. Now if only there was a way to make them persist across app updates without having to resort to third party software.
Well two MiG-29 was actually "escorting" the plane to Minsk and there was KGB agents on board. I don't think crew had much to say. This was pure aircraft hijacking backed up by country (or two).
How does trade execution work
The article doesn't mention Navigation Popups[1], a Wikipedia extension that you can activate from you profile that does basically the same thing as the new link previews.

I've been using it since 2007, and to me it was always a mystery why it wasn't more discoverable.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation_pop...
And also not Dolph Lundgren (the actor and chemical engineer).
Friendly note: people from the country of Belarus call themselves "Belarusians" (pronounced like "bela-roo-sians", not like "bela-russians"), and take offence at the term "Bielorussia".
The position that the US constitution applies to the UK is a pretty crazy piece of legal maximalism in the first place, but there is plenty of US caselaw that it doesn't apply equally to non-US nationals even within the US.

https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?a...

https://guides.ll.georgetown.edu/c.php?g=592919&p=4170926 (which reminds me of the US failure to ratify certain international conventions under which it provides weaker rights)
In this other source, the fingerprints of the thumb and the pinky are almost visible https://www.merseyside.police.uk/news/merseyside/news/2021/m... Anyway, the other fingers look too out of focus to detect anything.
What do you think reduces the carbon footprint of a company more:

A) Company consolidates hardware into a single unrepairable resin block

B) All customers are able to use their devices 50% longer because stuff is repairable

As someone who designes PCBs you could save the world by doing the math here for me and convince me how this is better for the planet than e.g. my fairphone where I can swap out my battery when it is broken instead of throwing the whole assembly away or trying to source parts and removing a glued in battery.

Replacing some component in a computer/phone is something every member of my extended family did within the last 3 years. Usually it was a screen, a battery, a home button, a headphone jack, a hard drive, ... Every instance where they did this they used a piece of electronics longer and thus reduced the carbon footprint more than any single engineering change Apple could have come up with.
And a web API, so you can embed it in your website.
Hermit: A Hermetic Package Manager for Software Projects
I don't see where this talks about the "beauty of brutalism"?

Brutalism was largely rejected in the Soviet Union (Stalin offended Le Corbusier massively by rejecting his brutalist plan for Moscow, for example) until Khrushchev saw cheap and crappy construction as a viable solution to the housing crisis that was intended to be temporary (e.g. most of the housing was planned for a 20 year lifetime - of course it didn't play out that way). There was no illusion at that point at least that it would be beautiful.

Stalins focus on big ornate statement-buildings over solving housing was certainly an incredibly poor allocation of resources.
So, she won, but somehow trans athletes have a huge advantage and will dominate the sport, even though there are no trans athletes dominating their sport?

This article is just recycled homophobia following the UK pattern of vicious, anti-science, transphobia. There's no substance here -- the science shows that trans athletes do not have an advantage; the stats show that trans athletes don't have an advantage. The argument isn't driven by fact, it's driven by hate.