skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They have been doing this for long time.

However Tornado Cash came with a compliance tool that allows you to disclose your transactions to third parties and prove they are clean. Similar with Monero, ZCash.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions, but throwing out freedom zero is a lovely way to get there in short order.
> Even in the UK, there are no weird, arbitrary reward points programs like in the US - it's standardized.

That's not true. Amex have a full family of rewards cards available. There's a bunch [0] of non-amex cards available too.

[0] https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/credit-cards/best-credit-c...
In the UK we have cashback for some debit, airmiles, and the various types of cards Amex do.
Angular docs are pretty good. Also didn't have trouble with GCP docs.
Waymo in Arizona is an example
The resource curse also affects countries that weren't colonized such as Russia.

Norway was worried about this as well so that's why they created their sovereign wealth fund.
Reorg Research has been targeting 3X this amount.

https://newspub.live/news/warburg-backed-news-group-reorg-re...
This is similar to what we do at Abl.

We use a Slackbot to ask everyone for a written standup update, answering a few questions:

- What did you do on your last working day?
- What are you doing today?
- Are you blocked?
- Would you like a conversation with anyone (to get unblocked or anything else)?
- Any announcements, like PTO?

And that gets posted in Slack at a certain time. The goal of this is transparency for what folks are working on, giving people the opportunity to raise blockers, and announcements.

We then have a scheduled 15 minutes a day to just hang. We have a check-in question that's not work related and we use the time to socially connect. We are a fully remote company that used to be in-office, and we found the opportunities to build & grow these connections are not available in a remote + scheduled Zoom world like they were in office.
I sure hope not. The definition of evil is too subject to interpretation.
I'll quote: "the probability of you winning the lottery is 10000000000000x more favorable than the probability of you existing in this universe".
That statement is categorically wrong. If you're going to consider the probability of my ever coming to existence in the first place, you need to count it as part of the probability of winning the lottery too.
If it had said "the probability of anybody winning" I would've cut it some slack (though the probability that a universe might develop with sentient beings capable of inventing lotteries is still a prerequisite in both cases).
>-Batteries are terribly expensive (and prices are not going down as fast as expected)

Not really.

>-Batteries degrade too fast

No, they don't, at least not the well-temperature-controlled ones. Larger EV packs should outlast most ICE cars.

>-Batteries take too long to charge

They really don't, unless you have no way to charge at home - the vast majority of charging happens overnight even on a 120V plug. We only visit chargers when on roadtrips.

>-Electricity prices are already going up terribly fast to take advantage of the boom (and blaming the war, and everything else to justify it's rise)

Not really true, at least in our corner of the US. I think we're sitting at ~$0.14/kwh, which works out to around $0.04-$0.05/mi, or 20-25 miles per $. And any rise in methane prices is going to hit hydrogen harder, given that most H2 is produced by cracking CH4.

>-Batteries pollute a lot more than previously though

Source? What kind of pollution? More than the steel that goes into making a car?

>-recycling Batteries is hard

Not really? Tesla claims a materials yield of 92% on their packs, and 100% of the packs recycled. Recyclers are willing to pay quite a bit for broken packs, which should tell you something.

>-Batteries component materials are rare

Newer chemistries are better about this.

>-if you get into a crash your Battery will most likely be affected - which means you will probably have to spend almost the price of a new vehicle

Yeah, Teslas aren't great on this front, even wrt the bodywork. But battery pack replacements don't cost nearly as much as a new EV.

Gaseous hydrogen has a lot of problems, and you'd need to build a whole distribution network. Which we already have with electricity...
The Tornado Cash contract is immutable, there is no active governance component for that protocol. It isn't possible to stop it from functioning after deployment, except to stop the chain it is running on.

The governance you are referring to is some auxiliary support stuff, like anonymity mining.
At this point there is a real risk he will become a target of made-up charges, and that the US gov will attempt to have him extradited and jailed just to send a message.

He is writing fin-tech FOSS, but because that software and the space it targets is not fully under US gov control, his well-being and entire future is now at risk.

This is not the freedom the US keeps talking about. It is tyranny.
The Myth of the Norden Bombsight's Effectiveness, Uniqueness and Secrecy
Oh, the idea of my comment is to put it clearly and unambiguously that the problem is open, and the most commonly discussed "solutions" are complete bullshit, so we need to find a way to solve it.

And we won't find any solution within the main view of letting the market solve it. The market doesn't solve this kind of problem.
This is related to the discussion of Tornado Cash being removed from GH:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32389706
What you're saying doesn't even make sense.

Fred is explicitly stating that it's good for a business to get new investors, and to not just keep taking money from the existing investors. That's the exact opposite of what a typical VC would tell you. When new investors come into a company, the existing VC gets diluted.

How is this advice not in the founders interest?
I googled her... couldn't find any evidence of your claims.
Code is a form of speech. It’s the way the code was used that frightened the authorities. Just the way certain forms of cryptographic code were reframed as a ‘munition’ in the first crypto war.
The EU strictly limits the interchange fees that card networks and banks can charge. So it’s not possible to offer valuable (and profitable)reward programs in the EU, because banks simply can’t earn enough money on transactions fees to provide those rewards.

In the US, interchange is up to 10x higher than the EU. And interchange + reward programs act as a form of regressive tax where people with low credit scores have to pay the full cost of those high interchange fees. Whereas high value customers with good credit scores (who are normally the most wealthy in society) get a rebate on those interchange fees in the form of rewards.
I got used to Lisp before I knew rainbow-parens were a thing. Then I tried it and found it added nothing. I'm sure it would be helpful as a learning tool though.

What I really can't recommend enough is paredit. It ensures balanced parens by always creating a close to an open. Typing a close just jumps you past the nearest close after the cursor. Along with the thing where the cursor momentarily jumps to the open paren when going past a close paren.

When I need to add another expression to a scope, I just hit close paren until I see the jump to the relevant open paren then hit enter.

I do know some older(than me) Lisp programmers who even find paredit excessive though.

Eventually, I found that when reading lisp I almost never actually look at the parens at all, only the indentation.
.NET with nuget works flawlessly, compared to bad package managers.
Thanks for the feedback, and let us know if your team is interested.

For the deployment, wolfia allows you to share builds before they are merged and solicit feedback from your team earlier. If you think about it, the feedback loop is much faster in practice than waiting for deployment and then getting the feedback. However, I do agree that the build step is a pain! Our vision is to bring the same experience web developers have to mobile essentially, so we'll take a stab at it in the future :)
There is! `expect()`
Easy. They set up a crypto project that looks just like any other crypto project.
I think we are still at the point where most people are charging at home, but it is pretty easy to imagine overwhelming the public charging system if that dynamic changes unexpectedly.

You also have to consider that supply of EVs is not meeting demand and that helps.
Similarly there's also git-filter-repo: https://github.com/newren/git-filter-repo

It's in Python so runs pretty much everywhere *nix out of the box.
Not sure. There is "constructive dismissal" in the employment law ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructive_dismissal )

I would not assume it to be invalid form of terminating subscription, I would also not assume that it is valid if someone has not even tried official unsubscription method.
Only Amex can do this, because they’re both a card network, and card issuer. Allowing them to charge higher interchange fees to merchants than Mastercard or Visa are allowed to in the EU.
Smalltalk...
not sure what you're referring to, but yes having a first iteration of code with unwrap here and there, and then a second one with proper error handling is a viable strategy. the "loudness" of unwrap makes it super easy to notice any leftover in code review
Looks like that same key is found elsewhere on the web, so I assume it's intentional:

[1] https://www.theiphonewiki.com/wiki/AirPlay

[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=MIIEpQIBAAKCAQEA59dE8qLieIts...
WiFi CSI (Channel state information) can do indoor positioning, human detection
Do they really have any presence? I spend almost all of my time internationally and basically never see AmEx. Had a Discover card years ago when I began traveling but got rid of it because its presence was spotty in the US and nonexistent elsewhere.

I'd expect more out of UniPay at this point -- I do actually see that quite often.
You must not have been around for the ie6 days.

Browsers consolidated down to basically one and then that one just sat and didn't advance anymore. And why should it? It's not like users could go elsewhere.
For years the world was subjected to the absolute crap that ie6 ossified on and wouldn't fix.

We need viable competition to keep a fire lit under the leader to stay ahead.
I got myself banned from Xbox Live for just that, many years ago
Thanks. Do you find these limitations are device-specific, or just general OpenBSD gotchas that apply broadly?
I see room for both.

This was kind of an exercise in what it would take to bootstrap a minimal stack that would turn a CPU into something useful. Think if someone desoldered a Z80 from like an old VCR from a junkyard or something and stuck it on a breadboard with some RAM and I/O to maybe a serial interface. How much work would it take to create, from nothing, a programming environment that allowed the user to build real-world applications that made that cobbled-together Z80 computer useful without too much hassle? And once that's done, if someone managed to scavenge an old floppy or hard drive or video monitor, those things could be attached and drivers written for them without too much effort.

So yes, after the apocalypse, soldering and repair skills are going to be super important. But devising the software stack that keeps old CPUs functional and useful, especially when old 8-, 16-, and 32-bit CPUs are much more tractable than modern PC CPUs, is going to come in handy too.
I would consider working on improving spyware for adtech as similar "definitely evil", though with massively smaller impact.

Or working on better ads for scammers.

Or trying to invent legal loophole to enable something evil.
What's the next step for this monoclonal antibody?
Dang, I honestly had no idea this was so open! Thank you!
> there is no functional difference between a debit or a credit card

There is one huge difference: credit cards the bank or vendor takes the risk/liability of fraud and chargebacks. Debit cards mostly I take the risk/liability (fraud, bad vendor/product).

And a minor difference: credit cards have better integration for selling data about your purchasing patterns. Two of my banks have replaced VISA with Master Card recently: I presume because Master Card is monetising my data stream more effectively (so can afford to give banks slightly better profits).
Truly honored.
As far as I understand the reasoning is that the accepting of a bid of on of the companies in not allowed because they don't comply with the GDPR law. Although it was filed by a competing company it theoretically would mean according to this judge cloud hosting is not in line with GDPR. In that line, wether you are a governmental organisation or company doesn't matter if they decide to enforce it as such.
I don't think blocking something is an accurate measure. Of course the box is going to retry if it got blocked the first time. What else would it do?
> “It is so important that the children of Baghdad, the next generation of leaders of Iraq, obtain basic literacy skills. A love of learning and literacy will mean better job opportunities for them when they grow up. They will be able to better support their families and help build a more prosperous Iraq.”

Baghdad, before the invasion, was known for the high percentage of readers compared to other cities in the Middle East. We -Arabs- had a saying: "Cairo writes, Beirut publishes, and Baghdad reads." I doubt the above quote being the true goal of "My Arabic Library" project. I guess it was an attempt to change the culture of people by exposing them to American literature, which would help eventually the political cause of US government in Iraq.
Charging posts are sprouting up all over the sidewalks of some cities (Paris comes to mind), "home charging infrastructure" isn't insoluble even for apartment dwellers. And they don't have to be fast chargers if the car's going to be sitting there for 12 hours, which means they can be somewhat easier to install.

But a very large percentage of people do live in detached homes, in which case, all it takes is a standard wall socket and a 14/3 extension cord (in the case of a US standard 120v 15 amp circuit).
> I took my AP Calculus class in my senior year of high school and my teacher (fantastic man) showed us how the formula for a derivative is derived.

This is pretty easy to do for a polynomial term, but much harder for x raised to a non-integer power[1], or sin(x). There is no one way to "derive the formula for a derivative"; different functions have to be analyzed differently.

[1] Wikipedia suggests that the simplest way to derive this formula is to begin by establishing that exp(x) is its own derivative. But that's not an approach I'd be likely to take with students new to calculus.
Is speech which is used to commit crime protected in the same way?
Do we seriously still have to deal with this criticism in 2022? Come on man. Educate yourself about the bitcoin layer 2.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bOo3zLFhEk

For small payments, lightning is instant and extremely low fee. For larger payments that you want certainty of settlement, even a few hours confirmation time is drastically superior to traditional settlement networks that take days if not weeks internationally. FYI, your credit card payments are instant, but not finally settled. That happens in periodic bulk batches between banks.

https://www.swanbitcoin.com/a-look-at-the-lightning-network/

Even the Fed is on top of trying to understand this, https://www.clevelandfed.org/~/media/content/newsroom%20and%...
Doesn't scare me in a memory safe language. Request handlers tend to be very well isolated. It's standard practice for web servers written in Go too.

> So ... don't make panic part of your API, and don't recover from panics?

That's the wrong lesson. As my blog says, don't use panicking for error handling. Making panicking part of the API is standard practice. Otherwise `slice[i]` wouldn't exist. (Its API is to panic when `i` is out of bounds.)

Lest you think you should just never panic and convert everything into errors, that's addressed in the blog too. :)
Intelligence is inheritable. Intelligence is correlated with educational attainment and wealth. People tend to marry within their socio-economic group.

Wealthy people who came from nothing are the exception. Even in places with high degrees of social mobility, climbing the social ladder is a multi-generational saga. Maybe a working class family has a child or two who enter the professional class, then maybe their child has the opportunity for their family to finance a company that goes big, like Dell or Microsoft, or maybe break in as an actor or sports figure. Most likely though, their kids also enter the professional class where the family rolls the dice again the next generation.
The Mysticism of Scott Alexander
That sounds like a dependency not detected by the kludge that at least Nix uses where it essentially greps everything for path names that look like dependencies.

Said differently:

- build recipes A and B add paths to the store

- B uses paths from A, but in a way that the dependency tracker does not notice

- if the paths from A were instantiated in the system first, B works by luck
No, of course you can't. If nothing else, evil doesn't feel obligated to obey copyright laws. If it's open source, they can get the source, and do whatever they want. Laws? Why would they care?

I'm on the "do not call" registry. That doesn't seem to stop spammers.
It's pretty good but certainly not flawless.
Admittedly I probably don't have high standards. Cocoapods is one of the few I'd consider objectively "bad", though apparently among iOS developers it's considered one of the better ones (!).
I'd rather have a bunch of gatekeepers than losing money with no recourse if my credit card number is stolen. The trade-off for crypto-style decentralization is complete loss of consumer protection.
I like your optimism. It's not clear to me your average American and his public education are capable of understanding them, regardless of what financial literacy we may or may not be able to inculcate.
> - Build pipeline. Maybe, but you can’t fully build a iOS app on Linux so it didn’t seem like a win.

This is my use case (I implemented notarization API support in rcodesign).

I build MacOS apps entirely from Linux using my own bespoke toolchain, based on osxcross. It can potentially be used to build iOS apps too (I tested it in jest some time ago, but I don't use it for anything serious). This is all done without any of the apple binaries. The toolchain uses nix to pull everything together, clang and other llvm utilities as a compiler, lld as a linker, rcodesign for signing and notarization, and the macOS/iOS SDK for headers and tbd files used for linking. And a bit of custom glue code in bash to hold it all together.

The reason I do this is simple: My CI is entirely Linux-based. I already cross-build windows binary from Linux. This makes CI so much easier, as everything can be containerized, and thus run on most standard CI offerings. I only need to bring Windows and macOS VMs to run test suites. Because VM bringup is slow and somewhat fragile, pushing everything to run in Linux containers is a huge win.

It also gives me a lot more control when things inevitably break. Being open source, rcodesign can be trivially changed, be it to add more logging, or add new features. For instance, rcodesign has a remote signing mechanism! This isn't something that exists in the normal codesign implementation.
Technology leaders, how do you buy software or a service?
Hi everyone, I’m looking for some advice on how best to approach technology leaders when selling a product that they probably don’t have in their stack. I know from experience that we get approached by all sorts of people, recruiters, pen-testing services, bounty hunters, product companies, etc.
My question,… how would you prefer to be approached?

- A short & snappy, or creative & unexpected email to grab your attention?
- A more traditional, comprehensive email intro with product info?
- A LinkedIn message / connection request?
- A phone call?
- Something else? Let me know in the comments!

Initially posted on CTO Craft by @Andy Clarke
Gitlab keeps giving me more reason to go to Gittea.
From the description:

"...Mr. Norden famously claimed that the sight was so accurate that it was capable of putting a bomb inside a pickle barrel. And if it could, then war would be revolutionized, or so the powers-at-be thought. The idea was simple: fly your bombers above the enemy’s air defenses, above the reach of their flak batteries, faster than their fighters could fly, and drop your bombs, with pinpoint accuracy, on crucial industrial sites, robbing the enemy of their ability to manufacture the equipment they need to wage a war in the first place.

The only problem was that everything about the Norden Bombsight turned out to be a myth. Not just the obviously mythical bits, like the fact that the crosshairs in the site itself were actually webs from a Black Widow, or that, instead, the reticle was made from the strands of hair of a young Midwestern girl, but everything, the accuracy, the secrecy, and even the fact that it was the only bombsight used in the war.

So how can this be? Until two weeks ago, I believed that the Norden Bombsight was an ingenious piece of equipment that more than any other singular device, changed the tides of WWII in favor of the allies. So why do we still believe in the Norden Bombsight?

Because, as it turns out, myths are useful, not just to the Army Air Corps, the Carl Norden Company, and Hollywood, but to us, the public. As it turns out, they can help us swallow hard truths about the war we’d prefer to avoid."

In summary - the bombsight was designed to be used at a lower altitude and speed, and was remarkably inaccurate when used at high speed, high altitude, and under enemy fire. This was known at the highest levels, but due to a combination of stubbornness, politics and propaganda value, the Army Air Corps continued using the same doctrine that relied on the bombsight throughout most of the war.
I'm saying that if Europe decides it wants to block off parts of its economy, the US would be perfectly justified in doing the same (to everyone's detriment).

I could imagine a US based law that banned the sale of any durable goods produced by a company headquartered in a country that still got more than 5% of its power from lignite coal due to a strong climate commitment. That's tailored basically only to impact Germany. Is that fair?
5G Home Broadband
States are welcome to try to exclude themselves and their citizens from the network, as many nation states attempt to do now with the open internet.
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Then the only solution is for larger more powerful countries to voluntarily give up their way of life. In which case those countries will be in a tough spot for a very long time.
It's the old sentiment of Garbage In, Garbage Out. You train a bot to be like humans, it'll be like humans, and humans (especially when anonymous, like on the internet that these bots are trained from) are awful.

(And let's be clear: GIGO applies to humans as well. How many people are pieces of shit in large part because they were raised that way or otherwise learned to be from bad data?)
Maybe, but this is replacing fifty cents of stock photo, not digital artists.
Making a bazooka much more like a gun on a sailing ship, able to time their fire with the roll of the ship, while a howitzer would be more akin to a mortar on an 19th century bomb ketch, where precision of aiming, powder needed for the shot and timing of the fuse are arrived at by trial and error. (I am reading through the Hornblower books for the umpteenth time, so Napoleonic sea warfare is fresh in my mind.)
It's probably a mixture of things. Just tried some of mine with the sonos app and there's always a slight 1-2s delay on play and seeking. But actions like pausing or adjusting the volume are instant. I can pump the volume slider in tempo with the music and there has to be only a few ms of latency.