skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> knowing you used 5 units of power in 1 month (where someone has to walk onto your property and read a number, as is the case in most dumb metered scenarios) is less of a privacy concern than knowing you used .3 of unit of power in the last 15 minutes (without needing to walk onto your property).

Personally, I think so for most people. But that depends on how much privacy your property provides from pedestrians and where your meter is located.

However, that is orthogonal to the debate since there are other options. Some places allow self reporting and Automated Meter Reading can be done without a smart meter that reports live power usage.

I am unsure why you are so vested in arguing that nobody has a legitimate reason to be concerned about this. It is fine if it doesn't bother you, but it is really necessary to paint those with different concerns as irrational?
I've signed up with voip.ms, which provides me a pay as you go sms number for basically $0/mo. since I only use it for auth.
Yes, let’s talk about almonds. That way we can avoid talking about beef.

https://www.businessinsider.com/real-villain-in-the-californ...
Sort-of related, but my local water supply is used for bottled water. They were drilling a new well which was not completed on time, but had already signed an agreement with the company for water rights. I was unable to wash my car, etc, but they could happily bottle water.

We have a lot of limestone here, so our water is pretty good but has significant mineral content. Without a water softener my faucets would be ruined within years, caked full of minerals.
Regardless of your feelings about Bitcoin, it was really exciting to see the president of El Salvador himself pop into a Twitter Space last night, as the bill was being voted on, to chat with bitcoiners about the implications of the new law. This is exactly the appeal of Twitter, if you think about it: it's a kind of "direct democracy" where the leader of a country can chat casually with everyday people -- and not in some scripted townhall photo-op, but within a space moderated by the people themselves!
Where I live (USA) I tried to transfer money between my Wells Fargo account (that charges large fees for foreign ATM withdrawals) and a credit union account (that required heavy bureaucracy to open a business account, that's why my main accounts are in Wells Fargo, but the credit union withdrawals at the foreign ATMs are free). Wells Fargo offered Zelle for ACH but I got confused. Then I tried transferring through Robin Hood, where I had both accounts connected. RH presented a pop-up saying that if I want to transfer to a different account from the funding account, I have to email them some documents to comply with AML. Same with WeBull. PayPal charges fees. So I came to the conclusion that the only simple way was to write myself a check, and deposit it in the phone app to the other account. And that is only permitted because checks were created before the current Orwellian financial system. But I could not write a check, because I am abroad and do not have my checkbook.
Anki: Powerful, Intelligent Flash Cards
How would this CTO possibly know what data is shared with the Chinese government?
> Anything from a more relevant era

Here you go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_London_Underground_acc...

Incidentally, I narrowly avoided one of these accidents: The Kings Cross fire of 1987 [1] which killed 31 people. This was caused by a fire under a (wooden) escalator that hadn't been cleaned. I passed through about an hour before the fire started. I was returning from a conference in London. A friend and I had planned to have a quick pint before travelling back but he felt ill so we didn't. Otherwise we would have been right in it. This was before mobile phones so my wife saw the event on the news and was of course desperately concerned that I had been it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%27s_Cross_fire
Their customers cannot use their devices to iMessage their friends or family on Android.
Unless you are big commercially that is easily sue-able, most copyright law is not enforceable. Scihub and piratebay have successfully demonstrate this.
Even on a derailment, the driver seems also likely to die. E.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valencia_Metro_derailment
But thats my point... These default rules that whitelist all of c:windows and c:Programs will end up whitelisting those...
Such convenience. Thieves can lock/unlock/start the engine from their phone.
But frankly, job advertisements that seek a "PHP developer" or "Python developer" or "React guru" don't help. A young developer entering the job market sees those ads, and thinks this is how the things are. I sure was thinking this was normal for a while.
1) Macbook Pro

2) An excellent office chair (Herman Miller Aeron)

3) Two external 27" 4K monitors (Viewsonic)

4) Good external keyboard (Logitech MX Keys)

5) Kensington trackball (precise, no more mousing around)

6) Plugable 7-port USB-A hub

7) Gigabit ethernet over FIOS (connected via cable)

8) Good external speakers (M Audio) w/ angled stands

9) Adjustable foot rest
Do you mean something like Uber for Sperm?
I take it that means removing pagination altogether is not forthcoming? :(
>What is happening to this paradise state?

Well, the decline in precipitation is due to changing air circulation related to climate change. Speaking very broadly, the Southwest is likely to get drier, while the rest of the US will either get wetter or stay the same. We don't pay attention to areas with increased precipitation, although it might lead to some flooding: it's generally easier to deal with than drought. But obviously droughts are not related to the effects of locally determined economic policy in the short term (drought resilience contrasts).

What else is happening is primarily due to the fact that California's population has grown very rapidly in a short period of time. Historically, population transfers like this were accompanied by wars and massacres. By that standard, California has been relatively peaceful and successful since the end of the California Genocide.

We can point fingers at bad policies responsible for specific problems, but the overall immaturity of the political system in California is the general underlying factor. Examples include the minuscule size of the California legislature relative to its population, or the too-big counties in SoCal that were drawn when nobody lived there.
The last line got a good chuckle out of me!
The space of lightning network is quite new and I think not yet totally proven but to simply say it doesn't work is a bit misleading considering the kinds of people that are working on it and the amount of code that has been worked on https://dev.lightning.community/overview/
When will this myth die. Do you have any evidence of this? See below a report from a firm whose task is to find bad behavior on the blockchain.

Key points:

- 0.34% of tx in 2020 were illicit
- Of that 0.34% it is almost all scams and darknet market tx

In 2021, the large darknet markets either only accept Monero or accept BTC and Monero. Large ransomware gangs like DarkSide prefer Monero (they offer discounts for it). It's reasonable to assume that the percentage of BTC tx that are illicit are even lower as Monero assumes more of the activity.

BTC is not a 'currency' of the black markets.

- https://blog.chainalysis.com/reports/2021-crypto-crime-repor...
This is just going to make the ads on climate content look like click fraud.
Bitcoin has too many problems. Each government will issue their own crypto currency and retain full control over their currency and tax revenue. Why wouldn't they?
Haha as someone who listened to the entire Twitter spaces chat last night, it's amazing how ignorant HN is about what's actually happening on the ground in El Salvador.
how does this work? Isn't Strike just a company that manages the transactions at which point why is Bitcoin even mentioned at all?
Thank you for your response. I work in big corp. I think it is much easier for us to make something ourselves then to go through sales cycle/approvals to get us to use this.

Having said that, I look forward seeing what you will do in next year or two.
Does anyone know how Strike works? Strike is the private partner to the El Salvador government that will help convert bitcoin to usd that merchants are forced to accept.
Ask HN: How do you switch to a different domain with an established career?
I’m not talking about something lie going from going from writing web applications to writing mobile applications or doing something with extremely high demand and visibility.

So given (not saying these are truths, just that they’re expressed commonly or I observe)

- No one cares about your projects/GitHub/blog/whatever after your first job

- Majority of jobs are not entry level, particularly in the area you’re interested in and your prior experience isn’t exactly a match.

How do can a make a lateral, or even slightly downwards transition into a different domain/niche very different from where I find myself now?

I hear about people talk about how there are all sorts of opportunities and areas in software development, but when I look at people working on various thing, I can’t help but get the feeling they go where they are by being at the right place at the right time, somewhere I’ve almost never find myself. I can teach myself the technical skills, but how do I express my ability to to do them in a job. I can’t necessarily teach myself the business domain, which is a whole different issue as well.

The funny thing is, this is the exact same issue I, and I assume many others had entering the field. The old: I need experience to get a job, but need a job to get experience. The difference being that I’m not an entry level candidate anymore, so a lot of the tactics don’t seem applicable, and I’m not gunning for “just anything” anymore.
I would wager that they run a single configuration, as it grants a significant economy of scale, rather than vertical partitioning of their stack, which would require headroom per customer and/or slice. This way you just need global headroom.

Having done some similar stuff with varnish in the past (ecommerce platform), they’re likely taking changes in the control panel and deploying them to a global config - and someone put something lethal in that somehow passed validation and got published, and did not parse.
El Salvador has (and will have) negligible impact on both generation of and popularity of cryptocurrency, so I don't think that argument is very important given the far more pressing matters they have to deal with as a country, and ones they have control over.

The point about opening up a bank is interesting though. The amount of money WU is skimming off the top must be a non-negligible percentage of the country's GDP. There's gotta be a less pie-in-the-sky way to disrupt that without making El Salvador a money laundering haven, which will absolutely happen with this idea.
Brian Callahan also wrote a very cool series of blog posts called "Demystifying programs that create programs" in which he builds an assembler (and a disassembler).

Part 1: https://briancallahan.net/blog/20210407.html
How much experience did you have with hooks based react projects?

In my experience this is a blessing, once you deeply understand the basic ideas.

By just comparing class vs hooks based react apps I worked with.
They are using Zap/Strike (Lightning) and zero fees.

The phony "fees are $1,000 a tx line" and $10 hyperbole simply show you have no clue what you're talking about when speaking about Bitcoin. Even on chain the past solid week you could send free BTC transactions, or for a couple of cents.
And that will fix what exactly? I'm not against it, I guess. I just don't get the point of it and what problems it fixes for El Salvador.
To the best of my knowledge time-independent articles don't need a date stamp. I never see one on Wikipedia articles even if the last edit was years ago.
… and the people who made that possible for the hacker will laugh at you and say it's your fault rather than admitting that the system they sold you is fragile.
We set up multiple different types of recovery and backup and restore options for the saas pass authenticator and password manager to let you the individual be able to customize it as you wish.

The threat model is increasing for personal use as solely SMS based account recovery is becoming more widespread. The increase in crypto usage is another accelerant.

Good luck solving this unfortunate incident.
He could likely be on the Space knowing comfortably that the bill would pass. Because otherwise, he'd send the army in again.
The U.S. Needs a National Strategic Computing Reserve
The title of this totally got me, I think it was gonna be some video game release by an HNer or something...
There's a bunch of open source payment processors they can use [1], BTCPay is my favorite. I think strike and a bunch of other Bitcoiners are helping them.

1: https://lightningnetworkstores.com/services
Exactly. Agile is sold as a way to increase productivity, but the practices seem to be about reducing autonomy for team members.
I agree, I have worked at 3 different places that implemented demo-driven development. It always looks good the first couple of weeks or even months, but then it goes down hill, just as you describe.

So much important work is not really possible to demo in a way that most people understand or see the gain it gives either.

I think, from previous experience, that demo-driven development sort of works if you are a company or project in the start up phase, because there are a lot of stuff to demo and the development goup(s) can get quite a boost from the excitement it generates.
I think they were added originally so that the west didn't have to do more, or possibly misreading Russia.
There’s almost nothing “socialist” about California. It defies classification by one political philosophy. Socialism is hardly in the mix anywhere.
> If they were concerned about remittance fees they could just set up a bank in the US with low fees, instead of getting kickbacks from OCGs and Western Union / Money Gram etc.

Can you elaborate? With remittance there is people with physical cash in tens of different local currencies and countries, and they need to transfer that value to some other (obscure) country. I don't see any scenario how "just set up a bank in the US" is going anywhere near in fixing that problem.
> Greece here, transactions cost 3 EUR.

You mean that a transfer from your Greek bank account to another Greek bank account would cost you 3 EUR?

What happens if you get a bank account in another EU / SEPA country (e.g. via n26) and use it instead of a Greek bank account? Would there be any downside? Would a Greek company paying you a salary refuse to transfer the money there rather than a Greek bank account?
Does anyone know how the Strike app works? They say they use bitcoin to move usd to usd? Strike is the partner with the El Salvador gov that will help convert bitcoin to usd for any merchant who doesn't want the bitcoin. Merchants will be forced to accept bitcoin for payment for goods and services, and the government will basically subsidize the transaction (a huge tax on its people for the benefit of bitcoiners).
Yet another unexpected sighting of Boltzmann's tomb.
sql light, source available, in c.

Don't know if it would fit your platform, but if it doesn't you could argue it doesn't need it, or maybe the database is off board?
We recently did a similar thing at the company I work for in response to similar pressures.

The effort to make that change was significantly less than the continual effort required to deal with the pressures. From a cost perspective their decision makes sense, from a customer perspective less so.
I havn't encounter people without multiple fake accounts which can be used as disposable registration account. You are probably the first.
I don't use Anki, but I do use Space Repetition. I've explored different styles of stacks, and found that even for apparently identical underlying information, some formulations of that information work and are acquired easily, and other formulations simply don't work.

The underlying "atoms" you embody in the cards matter, and possibly matters a lot.
Isn't that what OP did though? Do you see that is hypocritical? I was just parroting back his hypocrisy.
Substack is going after novel writers
When the US gets overtaken by other economies in Asia, it will be because people there focused on climbing to the top by any means while we whined about how hard our life is.

There are guys in Hyderabad right now in conditions worse than US homelessness learning Python, devops, cloud, virtualization, you name it because that's how they can survive.

I know people in fairly poor countries with terrible crime rates and bad job prospects, and I have never heard them complain about how hard life is. They figure out how to get out of their situation and improve their life.

The idea that someone else has to fix your situation because life is hard has to be one of the most crippling mentalities you could have. The sheer amount of opportunity we have in the west is unprecedented in human history; instead of crying about the fact that your stable job of 20 years is ending, yes: I'm going to say that it is fundamentally you that has to pivot (even if it would be nice if the government helped).
Greece is part of SEPA, I thought euro transfers would be free in that case.
A very edgy comment! Well done.
Keep going! There's a novel I'd like to read there, or a film I'd like to watch!
https://discuss.redash.io/t/when-are-expecting-redash-v9-sta...

"The V9 beta is stable. It’s been in production on app.redash.io for more than six months."

That was last year. The commit activity is more important than the releases. Main branch works fine for us.
The problem is with most online services, the only second factor allowed is SMS.

If you see it as "don't bother, they can just steal your SMS number" instead of "that's slightly better, at least now they can't get in without stealing my number" then you're not thinking about this reasonably.

It's inane to neglect to use SMS where it's the only second factor available. The exception is when a service allows you to use SMS alone for password resets, which isn't MFA, is 1FA with a weaker factor than a password.

What would you think if someone took you for a joyride in a classic car and said "shoulder belts would be so much better than these lap-only belts, so don't bother buckling up!"
My very eager mother just served us nine pickles.
>It's also a breath of fresh air in an industry whose practitioners can't distinguish technology from magic.

And sadly often don't want to. My biggest pet peeve is helping someone figure out a bug, and when I see the problem and start explaining what's happening they give me some sort of "I don't want to know about all that, just tell me how to fix it!" response. If you want to spend my time to learn something so you can contribute to the project better - cool I'm in as along as it takes. If you just want to use my knowledge and time so you can work less - fuck off, I have my own deadlines for my own work.
Not necessarily valid. Could have been a bad entry that passed validation when it shouldn’t have, which would still not be the customer’s fault.
TFA talks about agriculture being the biggest drain on California's water supply--I'm always disappointed that California (probably the most left-leaning state in the country) can't pass sane environmental policies... I can empathize with the impulse to defer restrictions on carbon emissions--carbon is a little intangible and even if California goes to zero co2 it is still impacted by the rest of the world's carbon policy. But water? Every Californian is impacted by the droughts and how other states or nations manage their water has little bearing on California's water supply (of course California's drought is a product of global co2 emissions but I strongly suspect California could have plenty of water if it was managed sustainably).
I personally think the day the digital US dollar is developed …

The digital US dollar is pretty much in use already, or do you think your bank has anything physical resembling the number on your account?
Sadly all good discussions quickly become more complex than our threshold for undertanding without in deptghresearch...

If you have any good (and brief!) resources on this please post them; I'd like to glance at how deep this discusson goes
The WU fees are likely so high because they can be. If there's no competition, why not rake profits? I'm curious what the fees will be in a few weeks.
If you thought a MacBook Air was going to replace a purpose-built machine learning workstation of course buying it would be a mistake, because it won’t do that. It only supports up to 16GB of RAM! But what other computer in that form factor comes close? The argument is that the higher efficiency will translate into more powerful chips in HEDT products too. I wouldn’t take that on faith but I think they have a decent chance of pulling it off. Apple doesn’t do transitions like this is if they don’t think they can knock them out of the park. There have been rumors about them switching the Mac to ARM for nearly 10 years at this point.
Great news for El Salvador, its people and people in general.
They have a cool PDF cheat-sheet related to this which doesn't seem to be linked from the page.

https://www.analog.com/media/en/selection-guides/Equation_Pu...
China's Huawei Plans to Make Lithography Machines
Lightning does work. I've used it myself as have many others. You should really work on explaining what it is you actually mean by that statement instead.

Apparently they are using Lightning and a service LN Strike that recently launched.

https://twitter.com/starkness/status/1402635954653904902?s=2...
A social robot that could help children to regulate their emotions
The lack of descrimination imposed by banks I guess?
That is not true. Existing technology can take out remote controlled conventional drones with EW.

I know of no existing (human proximity safe) EW that can handle optical based or internal (IMU) inertial autonomous flight, and both of those are more than good enough in this scenario (though optical may limit the upper speed bounds depending on the onboard processing capabilities). IMU based (pre programmed) could easily allow no active sensor mode, though would require pre-scouting the route.
Physical cash is ridiculously cumbersome and difficult to handle in larger quantities. I wouldn't probably be able to get $10k worth of cash from my local bank, and getting something like $100k would probably require days and lots of work. However if I have millions worth of BTC at some big exchange, I can move that amount to a secure self custody in 10 minutes without a hassle.
That's besides the point though. You can't pick and choose which workloads you're going to run on Apple Silicon, because the ultimate goal is that it will be able to compete with with the rest of the industry in raw performance metrics, which is simply not the case right now. My M1 Mac's GPU still loses in several benchmarks against my 7-year-old 1060. If Apple wants to lure people like me into their pro segment, they're going to need to scale aggressively: something that ARM has notoriously had trouble with in the past.

Also, Apple desperately needs to support a real graphics API. Metal is a joke, and even the translation tools like MoltenVK, while impressive, still end up beholden to Apple's arbitrary limitations. If they don't end up supporting Vulkan on the M1, it's a moot point for me. You could have the most powerful GPU in the world, but I won't use it if it's bottlenecked by the shittiest modern graphics API.
Of course, but bitcoin was never meant to be 'banking for the underbanked'.
It is now partially incorrect, too. Now we can no longer change Boltzmann's constant not because he's dead (indeed, until recently, it was a measurable quantity), but because k_B is now defined as a part of the redefinition of the SI unit system in 2018.

The value is 1.380649×10^{−23} J/K, exactly.