skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like this discussion is missing a bit about auditory detection. Maybe that is just my naive conclusion, but mosquitos (at least around here) make a very distinct buzzing sound. Picking that up with some sensitive microphones, isolating the buzz and triangulating in on the mosquito seems possible to me.
The same is true for any human achievement: humans have used fire to burn other people as well as stay warm and metallurgy, knifes as tools or for war etc.

autonomous drones can clearly be very useful.
Why? USDC is backed by dollars and treasuries...
I was hoping we'd have another day of manufactured outrage over the Microsoft/opensource boogeyman.

Seeing actual quotes personifying Microsoft as a burglar today. Looking forward to the productive conclusion on all of this.
While the article makes many valid points about how tree-planting projects can be mis-designed, ignorant of surroundings and context, chosen as a corporate gimmick etc. - the rhetoric is problematic. It insinuates that forestation/tree-planting projects are irrelevant or undesirable generally; and the title specifically has this insinuation. But that's not the case - and even the article concedes that such projects can and do succeed often and when done right.
Regarding the OSM part, how was that illegal? You had 3 different sources for your information. The pictures you took were only your own and you were free to use them for whatever you wanted. Using a copyrighted map to validate that the images were correct is entirely within the use allowed by those maps. The edit was based on the pictures and your real life observation, not those other maps, so you own the edit, which your are well within your right to contribute to OSM.

I get that the OSM community is trying to practice something equivalent to a clean room reimplementation, but that's equivalent to a person in the "cleanroom" being shown a public domain code library and then a file from that same library, but taken out of a ROM dump. Yes, they saw the copyrighted file, but they also saw the public domain file so they're entirely within their right to base their reimplementation either partially or fully on it.
There were videos floating on the webs of bugs taking flight—looked way messier than this, pretty much jumbling around with legs swinging this and that way, until finally going in the air.

This vid, I think: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87iV4ISAY5U

Better than I remembered, but those legs are funny.
On-Demand Grocery Script – Grofers Clone App – Grofers Clone Script
As the sale for grocery stores has rapidly improved in recent days because of its on demand selling process. Everyone prefers to have an app like grofers, bigbasket, jio mart to enhance their online presence and offer good user experience to end customers. This makes more retention to their business in a very short span of time.
Turnkeytown Developing a clone solution for many trending ecommerce apps in the marketplace in the name of white label Grofers clone app with modernised technologies.
It was also told in star trek : voyager by chakotay. Seems to be a popular philosophical metaphor.
Oh, yeah, you’re probably right. But that just makes the value proposition even harder to see.
Tons of people use the USPS every day for money orders every day, which require more trust than cashing a check…
> To our knowledge, BrewDog has not informed its shareholders and customers of the possibility of their data having been breached. We have reached out to them for a comment but we have not heard back yet.

BrewDog seems to pop up on the radar for quetionable behaviour quite a lot.

From Wikipedia [1]:

In May 2019, BrewDog was accused of stealing marketing concepts from public relations firm Manifest London, and from job applicants using fake interviews and other deceptive practices.[51]

In June 2021, a group of over 100 former BrewDog employees published an open letter criticizing the firm's business practices and the treatment of its employees. The letter cited a "culture of fear" and claimed the company was "built on a cult of personality", with founder and CEO Watt singled out for particular criticism.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BrewDog#Controversies
Everyone is making excuses, but the simple answer is: yes, it’s misleading and deceptive.

It’s allowed, as many, many, many other bad things in this world are.
GPU.js
>> My strong recommendation - don't use the power laser! I recommend making a device that will track an object using a safe laser pointer.

I always wondered if you can’t use several low power lasers and then cross the beams on the target?
Exactly. We see it again and again that years of experience don't matter unless it is with a specific tech, and tech gets replaced all the time.
Yes and no. I flip between OSX, Windows 11 and Debian 11. The WSL2 and wayland stuff in Windows 11 is impressive, but after a while it feels like an OK linux distribution with a terrible window manager. OSX feels ancient, i have a VM with solaris 2.6 from 1995 in it and frankly OSX just isnt that much different.

Both make me appreciate debian more and more.
Any good resources for non-grid simulation methods? I would like to implement an un-bounded 3D simulation (water can spread anywhere) using as little CPU resources as possible. In this case the precision/realism is not important, I'd just like to get fancy vortices.
> I wonder if it would make sense to hand over control to the
human

Handing over control to the driver having a nap seems like a bad idea. Slowing down certainly makes sense, I for one have an inbuilt instinct, when I see flashing lights and a parked police car, I tend to ease off a bit and prepare to stop.
Still a good thing.
The thing that's always surprised me about Tether is the confidence people have in it without a fully transparent accounting being available of their collateral. Also they by their own admission in 2019 they only had 74% of the liabilities covered but people still seem to have confidence in them having 100% reserves. Collateral issues have been known since at least as far back as 2019: https://www.ccn.com/tether-lawyer-shocker-only-74-backed-by-...

Also: https://twitter.com/Bitfinexed
Did you consider reporting that up the chain of command?
>That said, I doubt a person making 60k somewhere would have made it in to a FAANG at any point.

Well you're dead wrong about that.
For starters: because the majority of humans on earth do not own or understand a PC or Mac or security in general and are only using a mobile phone. They just click on 'agree' and get on with their lives not understanding they just permitted a rogue app to plunder their savings account.
This has been done, so it is definitely possible
You will need to monitor your positions (both long and short) and transfer the margin accordingly between each account.
>The end result is a weird form of anarchism - trial by public,

Oh thank you. That makes lots of sense.
I used BlueWallet a few weeks ago and kept hitting routing errors. I had to mess around with it for more than a day and transfer between several different wallets before finally escaped with my funds, so not very keen to try again
The Cost-Benefit Fallacy: Why Cost-Benefit Analysis Is Broken and How to Fix It
The usual corporate deflection of EEE concerns. Well done, you might get a raise!
I don't think other concerns are less important to "privacy" concerns.

Each restriction just makes certain ideas/project impossible or less ideal [1].

Honestly as an Android dev, I will prefer devices come with these restrictions by default. Then there should be a "I don't give a f*ck" button in the device developer options settings.

The option can be hidden behind 10 screens. Audit rails can be added. Anything but completely eliminating power-use in the name of privacy.

1 - I couldn't implement some telemetry in this project because google yanked the ability to read process stats: https://elvischidera.com/2020-11-23-building-distributed-and...

They could have required a permission instead. Or inform the user about the process I'm observing.

The data I was looking to gather has nothing to do with the user, but the task itself.

Another example is the restrictions introduced in the Bluetooth API.

Not all use of these APIs are intended for stalking. It doesn't make sense to keep "dumbing" down devices.

PS: I'm not arguing about the validity of your concerns. I just wanted to add an alternate take which I felt was missing in this thread.
> If I buy BTC with USD and then transfer it to an exchange with a BTC/USDT pair, I'm not suddenly "short USDT".

It does, it just doesn’t make you short against USD which is what you’re thinking of. It only makes you short vs. BTC which we expect to collapse in price as well. This is why you need the other leg.

> So I don't see why buying BTC with USDT directly makes me short USDT either if I didn't borrow the USDT but bought it with USD

Which is why I keep talking about margin and perpetual swaps. Since we expect to lose our shirt on Binance, we need a levered position which means borrowing the USDT which will ultimately become worthless. This borrowing happens implicitly in a swap or future.

Back to your first question, when you buy something, you’re going to denominate that in some unit of account. We usually write this price as saying asset A is $X or asset B is €Y. But in reality every market is two asset pairs, no different to FX or crypto. We could have talked in terms of A/USD being X or B/EUR being Y. It’s just a different convention.

So when we talk about (for instance) the price of AAPL stock, what we really mean is AAPL/USD. Or when we talk about the price of crude oil we really mean CL/USD. I am buying AAPL, selling USD. Or I am selling crude oil, buying dollars.

To illustrate let’s say that you’re long AAPL (AAPL/USD). If shortly after you buy AAPL, the dollar loses purchasing power versus all other currencies, net net we would expect AAPL to go up in price (otherwise known as inflation). It’s not that AAPL became more valuable, it’s that the USD became less valuable. So you’re implicitly short the dollar. You sell your AAPL, and pocket your profit. You could frame this as being short USD and then covering your short. Same thing.

The opposite also holds true. Let’s say you short AAPL (remember: AAPL/USD). This leaves you long USD. If the purchasing power of USD increases, ceteris paribus, the price of AAPL should fall (otherwise known as deflation). You cover your short, and pocket your profit. You can view that as being short AAPL and AAPL going down, or you can view that as being long USD and the dollar going up. It’s the same thing.
How can you tell modal editing is bad without having used it? You said you've never gone for vim in 25 years, how then can you know what model editing is like? Because you read some behavioral psychology textbook?

Your comment is by far the most ignorant one I've come across on hackernews.

Take my advise, go ahead and try out vim for a few weeks. Then even if your opinions don't change at least you'll have an ounce of credibility
Same as when any other perceived disaster strikes, news traffic spikes so people can learn more about the disaster.

(Cue the pile on of "But this wasn't a real disaster", sure. But unfortunately for a lot of people, it really was. They couldn't communicate with loved ones etc.)

How is this a surprise?
How? Attacks against companies not complying, through court is one type of attack, boycot, not to forget lobbying that endup having our representative legislate to make companies responsable.
If you wonder how it got so far, I think the fact as individuals we don't care what isn't right, so long as we personally don't really get impacted.

Why? Because, money for the most part. If you can't see the money incentive then it's about control. And if you can't control yourself, compel those who can to do so, it's even cheaper.
1) I am happy NPR have covered this and many subjects well over the years, here they are calling back to their 2012 work on the subject.

2) I am sad that despite the comprehensive coverate of the subject the 'revelations' are a shock to people.
AWS launches new tool, that can predict if employee is gonna leave
It occurred to me in the wake of the release of these Pandora papers that mass availability of tax avoidance could be one way of shutting down (almost) any availability thereof. Worded cynically: bring tax avoidance to the middle class and the poor, and it'll be shut down promptly.
You also run into the situation where banks check your credit/banking history and may deny you an account based on that. My partner couldn't open a bank account for years because they forgot to stop an auto payment after they closed the account and moved.

Those payments bounced, leading to fees, which kept compounding and even after taking care of that, it took a long time to figure out how to clear the mark on the report (I don't know if we did, or it just eventually fell off due to time)
If you look at this thread, you will see many people coming up with different analogies, thinking about "what would Ford do" or "what if there is a meth lab". Simply because they saw your analogy and didn't like it

I wish HN would introduce a "please no analogies that compare digital stuff with physical" rule because such things turn conversations into a mess
7th fleet being 7th fleet. Being accident prone is better than the alternative - UAV tech out there Seawolf can't detect, or worse UAV tech that can detect Seawolf and decided to touch.
Computer Vision for Quality Control
You know who else offers money orders? Walmart, Safeway, gas stations, and maybe McDonalds. Offering money orders is not banking.
Yeah, Richard Dawkins finally cleared it up for me that the primary stage of insects like butterfly is the larva. The larva sits around eating stuff and generally having a good time, whereas after turning into the butterfly it's gonna just mate and die.
This is how banking looks in the US if you can't maintain a balance of at least around $1500. This video is eye-opening:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLwRZibUqL0
..._alleged_ phishing site. Who says the OP isn't the actual phishing site? Just because he posted here, we know for sure that he is the good guy and the other party the bad guy?

It seems obvious that something phishy is going on, but that's for law enforcement to figure out. They can then instruct Cloudflare to take down the infringing site. It's not up to a random individual to tell Cloudflare to take down random sites, and it's not up to Cloudflare to decide on questions of law.

It's "innocent until proven guilty in a court of law", not "innocent until accused by a random dude on the internet".
There are not public lists, with exception of official government sanctioned addresses. Only the chain analysis companies have the (valuable) data so the future seems to be that businesses will need to pay for a subscription and share data with them, if you want to transact BTC. The algorithms are not clear either, because that information could be used by adversaries with tainted coins to try to evade detection

For this reason I would suggest using btcpayserver to only accept monero, since it is fungible like cash; for other cryptocurrencies I just don't know how to check if you're dealing with sanctioned entities etc without a middleman
This is not a way to deal with it, if only that would relegate it to a position they want to be in as oppressed. I think the CRT lens is more restricting than enlightening and I don't believe in prescriptive language too much. If CRT allows objections, it should or at least could be taught. If it doesn't, they are right to ban it.

But Texas prohibiting something does raise questions. But since we have seen some enforced "diversity" training, they seem to have some merit with their case to ban it.
Related shameless self plug: I went from 600 to ~1100 thanks to my own training method, which I'm transforming into an online service aimed at chess amateurs that want to improve.

It's currently being developed, who wants to check out the free beta can sign up here:

https://yousuckatchess.com
When you invest work into a code-base that depends on something like .NET, you are taking up some stake in the community and ownership of that base. You do need at the very least security updates, but you also need support and documentation. It's hard to describe fully in words. And most of the time, you can't just switch that particular part of your stack overnight. I'd rather be stuck with a community that looks healthy.

And you can argue about the trade-offs of different "ownership structures", and compare for example the .NET foundation over the Django/Python foundation over whatever Java is currently doing.
Good luck with that.

I hope for a independent foundation founded by the community.
Just look at the new privacy labels which were so impopular with the big advertising giants Google even paused updating some app for months just so they wouldn't have to tell users what data they were sharing.
Wouldn't Google (or Facebook) prefer to have an iOS appstore where they didn't have to tell users what they were doing?
Would they make the effort to release their apps on the Apple appstore if that wasn't the only way?
If your problem is that email and social media crap is distracting then don’t have them open. Only an absolute fool has one of those social media cancer accounts anyway
If it's a regular checking account, with no overdraft, the bank loses nothing from having a person like that as a customer. The only money they can use is their own that they deposited there.
This is literally the only feature I like in circleci.
yes but why are they not taking donations to support firefox?
I'm not sure one can really end up with one true way of packaging per language - sooner or later someone will think "this is too complicated, I can do it better and simpler!" and you end up with another way of software distribution for that language (which is just as complicated as the previous one, once the author actually notices all the usecases).

This is why I prefer using the target OS dependent package management - there is usually just a single one such official system, which is also language agnostic and much more robust than the various per language kludge.
It's not to pick on you, but why do people spell it with a capital S?
I've seen it in several comments over the years. But their spelling and logo, at least going back to the 80'es, have been "Microsoft". I think they might have been "Micro-Soft" for the first year, but that was 45 years ago.

MicroProse, on the other hand, went with the capital P.
No, it sounds like a completely valid thing to make such analogies. Whether it is true is another thing, but it certainly is a point of view. This sounds a lot like 'I don't like your conclusion so I am going to attack the perfectly valid means by which you attained it'.
100-year-old former Nazi guard has gone on trial, facing charges for 3518 deaths
> >but it was in the past two decades and got particularly ridiculous beginning around "28nm" up to now.

> I wonder if that is some kind of cultural shift that is taking place that started around 2009, or if it's always been like this and I just never noticed.

> BMW model numbers used to more or less accurately reflect engine sizes, not anymore, it's just numbers now.

When was that and which number? Just looking at the 7 series (surely you didn't mean that number) the E32 build between 86 and 94 had engine sizes between 3 and 5 liters.

> 2G, 3G, 4G used to mean something, not anymore.

So what did the G mean? AFAIK it was generation, but that's a very vague term. Just look at human generations, people are born continously, so you could have two people who are the same age but technically a generation apart because one had very old parents and the other has very young parents/grandparents are they the same generation?

> I could add a remark about the federal reserve, but... I'll just stay away from that. Don't want to be too edgy/turn this into a political discussion (I just think it's interesting from a cultural perspective).

> It's like we collectively decided that "it's just numbers, man."
Heh, TIL this connection, it never occurred to me before. In Czech it is motýl and to motal means to walk as if you are drunk :)
The thing about Shannon entropy is that it depends upon alphabets and symbol systems. I want to understand how it might be used to describe presymbolic computational systems.
So the analogy here being Microsoft something you shouldn't trust? Or rather, DNF being actually Microsoft... an scorpion? just double checking here
Perhaps the "scare quotes" are because Tether can't get anyone reliable to certify their "commercial paper" actually exists.
It's a good reminder in humility to any of us making services or products of any kind that however many happy users and great reviews we have, if the service disappears people will use something else.

If I go to hacker news whilst procrastination lock out is on I curse and go to another news site. If the top 10 YouTubers accounts were frozen - YouTube wouldn't likely see a drop in total videos watched, people would watch something else.
Same in France with the Banque Postale arm of La Poste - you have bank branches in most post offices, so it's got great national coverage, fees are low, etc.
I feel like this somewhat misses how conglomerates, especially the Japanese and Korean kind work. They're basically a bunch of hardly related corporations in a trench coat. Though you are probably right as far as TVs go, these likely come from closely related units.
If that illegal behavior does not seem to be likely to harm either the room or other guests, I feel like the people who are saying that not only "the correct thing" for a hotel to do here but "what I expect most hotels to actually do in this situation" is to, if they do anything, at most alert local law enforcement and cooperate with them if there is an issue, not decide to send hotel employees to go run an internal investigation to verify the activity even is illegal in the first place, after which point I guess the idea is you want to send the bell hop and the concierge and the night security officer to go evict them from the hotel?... This just isn't how anything is done and is asking the wrong things of the wrong people leading to situations that are super dangerous for everyone involved.

Meanwhile, it isn't even "in the public's best interest" for the hotel to act as law enforcement as the most they can do is evict the person from their one hotel, not actually stop them from doing whatever "illegal behavior" is taking place. (At this point, apologists for monopolies probably start arguing that this is why we are all better off if everyone is forced to use one or two providers, so that everyone can be forced to fall in line with whatever the new corporate vigilante justice rules are... sigh.) Law enforcement is empowered, trained, and equipped to actually do something, not the hotel staff.
I don't think one can break a scale-free network like that of Facebook by playing the same game as Facebook.

One way to counter a scale-free network is to create adjacent scale-free networks that replaces its competition one part at a time. This is what, I believe, WhatsApp (with messaging) and Instagram (with images) were on the verge of doing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale-free_network#Immunizatio...
> The Nobel Peace Prize 2021

Brought to you by the people who awarded it to barack obama.

What a farce.
I was trying to explain the determinant factors.

I say MIT, because of it's tech prestige. I could have said Harvard for lawyers. Would you hire a paralegal coming from a prestiguous school to fill an average position ? Maybe, but for many it's not worth the time trying to catch a fish that won't fit on the boat.