skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Hamas was an early adopter of using cryptocurrencies for financing, according to TRM Labs, a blockchain intelligence company. Though most of the group’s funding comes from other sources, groups linked to Hamas have continued to solicit donations through crypto since its weekend attacks, per TRM.

As usual, crypto is not the majority source. Terrorism is not enabled by crypto. Its enabled by obfuscation, which the traditional system is rampant with.

Crypto based monetary systems at least have the potential to start de-obfucasted economic rails. I won't advocate for any specific project, but a brief search around "crypto KYC" or "zero knowledge KYC" might yield interesting results for readers.
Estate tax only kicks in > $12M. But probate kicks in if your assets are > $170k! I don't support extensive tax trickery to get out of estate tax (unless you count giving it all to charity as tax hacking, which I definitely don't), but I have been converted to advise everyone with heirs and meaningful assets to set up a trust and work with an estate lawyer to make sure they can bypass probate when needed. Otherwise funds can be tied up for a lengthy period of time (and incur a lot of lawyer fees) even in simple cases.
Not just on, but did very well! It was something to watch her work, she is a better cook without sight than I am with sight.
Forty percent of federal income receipts come from the first income percentile. We could try to get more from the first 1/10th or 1/100th percentile, but 'income' becomes a nebulous concept. Did Bill or Sam really ever really have any income?
Cornell box rendered using ray tracing, implemented in Rust
You'd see a performance improvement by reducing those parasitic loads, but that doesn't translate into a 10% fuel savings.

ICEs are incredibly inefficient, most of the petrol energy is lost to waste heat. Something like 60+% IIRC.

On my MX-5 when I ditched the AC compressor and switched to an OEM manual rack the car picked up some pep but I observed no significant difference in MPG...

IIRC the major way to move the MPG needle on these things is to increase the compression ratio, since that's directly linked to the thermal efficiency.
https://instagib.me Quake3 Q3dm17 in the browser
A Patois Revival: Jamaica Weighs Language Change as Ties to Britain Fray
Assuming that was the reason you've potentially walked out on some kind of cash settlement. Why didn't you pursue it further?
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/11/world/americas/jamaica-of...
EULAs conventionally use shrink wrap to get you to agree with them: "click this checkmark, or else the software won't allow you to use it". If I patch out the checkbox, then I never have to agree to the contract, and I can use the software without worry. With a license, I need to agree to it to be legally allowed to use the software in the first place.

I don't see how a license as a contract harms any of this. A license is a sort of contract, where I do my part (distribute source alongside binaries, say), and in exchange I get something (the right to distribute the software). If I patch the binary to remove the "agree to the gpl" part of the installer, then I don't have a license to use the software anymore, it doesn't help me at all.
Misleading title 100%
Let's say for a moment you're completely correct. How do you think that bodes for crypto?
Hpy 0.9.0: Fourth public release
From my experience (own the E variant), those are solid DMMs at a very reasonable price. Honestly I also got a Fluke 88v that's like 5 times more expensive and I like the UT61E+ better. Have you guys had a similar experience?
The point is that most don't. There's easy way to avoid paying this tax, outlined in the article.
ah, yes. I missed the point. Thanks
Your response above is 1 mi/year, but in any case I'm not really responding to argue. Just stating what a reasonable mobility is in North American archaeology, around ~500km/yr.
Just like Bitcoin
The problem with being brilliant is that you don't develop a good litmus test for the rare times when you're not right.

Or as Elon put it, https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4xIwP-65oD0
What I meant is t.me site with "channel previews".

web.telegram.com redirects to www.usatoday.com

You probably meant web.telegram.org which is well hidden and nowhere to be found on their web site so I didn't know about it.

Thanks for that.

The point on blocking still remains. You wouldn't have solution for that as well? :)
Arguing about this is nipping at the margins. Capture is monotone increasing. The donor class needs their teeth kicked in from time to time (Magna Carta, tennis court, countless).

Trying to unfuck estate law is a tourniquet.

We don’t need to curb-stomp the donor class to make them “pay their fair share”, we need to wreck their shit to make the incumbents powerless.

Human nature has a bad memory leak. You have to restart the process sometimes.

If we don’t find a peaceful way to do it, nature will find a violent way to do it.
Even then, 500 years of daily data is less than 200k observations, most of which are meaningless for predicting the future. Less than 16B seconds of data. Regression might not handle directly, but linear algebra tricks are still available.
Author could probably make more impact if you have open sourced their models, the way it is presented looks like ClosedAI sort of pathway. Meaning using papers as a way to advertise their model for developers.
> 1. Can't block annoying posters

I'm confused. In what context?

You can certainly block "annoying" users from chatting with you directly. You can leave channels that you don't like. The only thing I can think of which you can't do is block users in groups you aren't the admin of.
My guess is the person's account got hacked. But can you expand on what you mean by caching authentication? (Or do you just mean browser cookies/sessions)
> The real outrage is that this is legal

As stated it's not exactly accurate.

Your estate is taxed before it goes into a normal trust. To avoid taxes with a trust you have to set it up a long time in advance and slowly shift money in. And at $1B, it's not gonna happen. Even if you use various tricks to put lower priced assets into the trust early and let them appreciate (or e.g. buy permanent life insurance with the trust assets), none of those strategies scale to O($billion)

GSTs used to be able to get around that, but not so much anymore.

A "real" way to avoid it is to put massive amounts into a charity (or occasionally a "charity"), and then have that charity hire your kids for cushy jobs. There are other ways around it too, hiding assets overseas or whatever.

But the article gives a very inaccurate description of using trusts to get around estate taxes. Which is ... weird, right? It's an estate planning attorney? I dunno.
Additionally, the thought is that a profitable Twitter needs to be not-just-Twitter.

Hence the branding break to allow for TBD functionality to be added on, a la Chinese do-everything apps.
SOP for witnesses to ID the defendant of any trail.
What? Of course you can. Multiple things were changed. That they were all lumped together in one update is meaningless.
Ask HN: What have you bought or sold using a cryptocurrency?
I'm hoping to get some real-world examples of how people use cryptocurrencies to buy and sell stuff.

That's because over time I've heard much more about people buying cryptocurrencies speculatively than I have about people using them as, well, currencies.

Would anyone be willing to share some information about one or more times you've bought or sold something with a cryptocurrency?

Please include as many of these points as you're comfortable mentioning:

1) Were you buying or selling?

2) What were you buying or selling?

3) What was the cryptocurrency?

4) How much was the transaction for (converted to a fiat currency like the equivalent USD at the time of the transaction, please!)?

5) In which year did the transaction occur?

6) Which platform did you organise the transaction using (Craigslist, a darknet marketplace, face-to-face, etc)?

7) Did the transaction go smoothly, or were there hiccups?

8) Would you buy or sell using a cryptocurrency again?

9) Any other observations, comments or thoughts?
> There are no release events, and hold events cannot be distinguished from repeated press events.

Running into this now in MS-DOS!

I’m in the middle of learning some low-level assembly language 16-bit x86/BIOS/MS-DOS & bare metal if necessary (I/O ports) programming (for fun, on my original IBM PC). I’m trying to program a game and there is no BIOS or DOS interrupt routine to get the key-up scan codes, just key down and/or the translated codes, even though the keyboard and interrupt controller send both to a BIOS interrupt handler. There is a BIOS function for getting the left and right shift, alt, Ctrl, and well as the states of scroll lock, caps lock, num lock, and insert states, which are derived from those keyboard events since it obviously tracks when those keys go up and down. [0] So I can use the shift keys for a game for now as a workaround, but only for moving left or right like in Breakout or Space Invaders.

I ran across examples of how to capture all the scancodes by taking over interrupt 9. [1] Usually those examples also emulate what the BIOS would do, but for a game I wouldn’t care about that. That would give me the ability to track any key’s state that I care about.

So it’s interesting to see how it works (in the normal BIOS interrupt handler) that “Ctrl” and “A” are equal keys at one level, just having up/down scan codes. 1D and 9D for Ctrl up/down for instance. And the next level up will give you translated ASCII (or other codes for non-ascii keys like function, arrow, or Alt- keys), Ctrl-A is 01 (SOH), A by itself is ‘a’ (61h), shift A is ‘A’ (41h), or the opposite if Caps Lock is on. I don’t think it even supports combos like Shift-Ctrl-A etc. [2] (Other OSes take over and do things different and I don’t really know much about that. Don’t modern OSes give you access to whether keys are being pressed? Pygame has key up and down events and I think DirectX lets you check if a key is down.)

[0] http://www.ctyme.com/intr/rb-1756.htm

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12882342/override-defaul...

[2] https://www.plantation-productions.com/Webster/www.artofasm....
I knew I was going to get a beating.

From today’s front page: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/13/open-philanthropy-f....

Anyone have any thoughts on this other than “feels bad man”?
Can’t you just embed the Unicode character in a <text> element of an SVG?
You can get whatever item you're looking for at a myriad of other online retailers, let alone brick and mortars. It's not Amazon's problem that people prefer them over the local store.
I'm not entirely sure if Hacker News scoring system includes a boost for comments, but it seems that controversy and criticism are not necessarily bad things. They may actually help keep the post on the front page for a longer period of time.
The Science of "Turning Carbs to Fat:" De Novo Lipogenesis and How It Works
>Art has depth, art has emotion

But significant portions of those qualities are imputed by the viewer! The artist has their own intent and experience during the creation of the art, but that only inheres in the art insofar as another mind can later recover some of that feeling upon viewing. Huge parts of the meaning of ancient (and more recent) art are lost forever because they depended on never-recorded cultural or personal understandings, and our emotional appreciation of them today largely hinges on how they make us imagine the past or our relationship to it. I think it's incredibly short-sighted to be certain that nobody does or will love any AI artwork when so much of appreciation is contingent on the mind of the of the beholder, which is not necessarily responding to real information about the work's creator, even when human.
100HP cars are getting thin on the ground, now that Mitsubishi is out of the market. A Camry has like 200 HP now, doesn't it?
> What do you take me for that you treat me with such contempt? …

Apparently "What do you take me for" is an extremely old phrase. Funny how things stick around. I wonder if that's a result of translation though.
Another cryptocurrency. Bought some Bitcoin so I could buy some XRP because I wanted to run a Ripple node. I remember using some gateway that said you couldn’t use it if you lived in New York, where I live, but I used it anyway. It was about $50 worth.
For real? Have you tried it or do you have a link to more information?

I'm a 20+ year Photoshop/Illustrator/InDesign user who switched to the Affinity Suite a couple years ago and haven't looked back. I use it on Mac but would be very interested to have it available on Linux too.
This is really cool, I had no idea that this has been going on for at least over a year now.

It looks like Firefox for Android will be getting more extension support by the end of this year according to the last comment here:
https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/expand-add-on-compatibi...
To further top it off, she didn't just do well, she fully won the competition that season.

She also makes some great youtube videos about cooking and other things https://youtube.com/@theblindcook
A Doctor with Brain Cancer Is Helping Transform Its Treatment
The point of MathJax is so that users can type math the way they are used to—typically TeX syntax, though MathJax also supports AsciiMath and MathML itself—and get nicely typeset output (MathJax has three output formats: MathML, SVG, and HTML+CSS). At most you could say that MathJax's MathML input and HTML+CSS output are no longer needed, but that's not the bulk of the need that MathJax serves. Also:

1. [Input] Even if only targeting MathML output, you still need some way to take the user's TeX input and generate MathML, which is what MathJax provides here. What are the alternatives to MathJax that you have in mind? The closest competitor I'm aware of is KaTeX, and while it is fast when it works, there are still some holes in its support (relative to MathJax). (Another comment in this discussion points out Temml, which indeed looks good: https://temml.org https://github.com/ronkok/Temml https://temml.org/docs/en/comparison.html )

2. [Output] The MathML output rendering in browsers is not yet 100% identical to TeX's typesetting (they're certainly aware of it / thinking of the right things, looking at the mentions of [TEXBOOK] at https://w3c.github.io/mathml-core ), and this may even be intentional. In particular, looking at various MathML demo pages I found online (http://eyeasme.com/Joe/MathML/MathML_browser_test.html https://fred-wang.github.io/MathFonts/mozilla_mathml_test https://www-archive.mozilla.org/projects/mathml/demo/texvsmm... and Temml's useful demo pages: https://temml.org/tests/wiki-tests https://temml.org/tests/latexml-tests https://temml.org/tests/mozilla-tests) it appears that in all three of Chrome/Firefox/Safari the rendering of nested square roots is a bit suboptimal, while Safari has some more serious issues (example 9 of the Mozilla MathML Test
looks poor in Safari). But clearly the Igalia (for Chrome) and Mozilla folks have done great work, and it's pretty close, but in the meantime I imagine at least some authors would prefer the more deterministic (across browsers) output of SVG or HTML+CSS.

(Also, on a lot of these MathML demo pages, selecting and copy-pasting the math produces junk, while with MathJax there's a right-click menu providing the TeX source and also some accessibility options… it seems that accessibility is actually higher with MathJax under certain circumstances at least.)
The same risk factors? Or the same risk? What are you trying to assert? What is your basis for that assertion? Do you think a Caucasian and black person have the same risk of diabetes and hypertension, for instance? Or do you think that asserting they both have a risk is somehow sufficient?

I asked a specific question. Saying “yes, lol u” is a pretty lame response.
https://archive.ph/UwHuj
Second this.

Im starting a project that could need OCR and I'm not sure if doing it with open cv for preprocessing + tesseract, or use something like Google document AI which seems very good in a small test I run.
Sure, planes continue to fly, but airlines will cut back on frequency if enough people opt not to fly.
Probably not noteworthy enough for historical records, but living under Dhimmi is not exactly tension free.

Dhimmi also means "protected" but you may ask protected from what?
Industrial work underwater is commonly done in weighted, metal booted diving suits you stand and walk in, rather than finned frog man type suits.
Digikey has a bunch
There's a link to a bunch of companies that use it on their site. I haven't really gotten into the details of what they do with it.

If you're really interested, take a look at all the things Tezos is being used for, mostly in France. I don't personally get into this stuff, but there are things happening. Tezos doesn't meet your criteria as it does have a coin, but it's more of a utility coin than others.

https://tokenist.com/securitize-and-elevated-returns-to-toke...
https://xtz.news/adoption/a-total-asset-value-of-1-billion-e...

https://xtz.news/adoption/fraktion-a-brand-new-fractional-re...

https://decrypt.co/43934/a-city-in-france-uses-tezos-blockch...
Looks like literally the coolest of any hacker handheld I've ever seen. It's basically a Cybiko, but (from the looks of it) even better.

I'm especially excited about the speaker and mic. We could finally have WiFi walkie talkies! It would be an amazing slightly retro-ish home automation controller.

I really want to try adding Bluetooth support to Meshtastic, so you can send mesh data directly over Bluetooth without needing LoRa. Then you could mesh chat, including with phones, and bridge to LoRa.

It would also be an interesting device for texting, so you could leave your phone in a backpack.

I also like the use of the Lego holes. Now that we have 3D printing there's a lot more possibilities for mixing high-poly art with your lego stuff. I may actually get some knockoff parts to play with.

The technic connector pegs seem like they could actually be pretty awesome for prints, even though the normal bricks seem like not the best for PLA.
The method for extracting sugar from beets was discovered only in the Renaissance (most typically attributed to the French agronomist Olivier de Serres (1539-1619), so medieval people wouldn't have access to beet sugar even if they had beets.
Really interesting concept. Maybe we’ll begin to see more of that once something like Unreal Engine 5 dominates the market.
> anything with an app is about 15,000 times more useable than the touch surfaces for most modern appliances.

As a person with pretty good sight (140% with glasses), I have to say that these sort of devices tend to be difficult to use even for me. For example, my father has an inductive stove with a touch interface, and I commonly fail to properly use it on the "subsequent first tries".

When I see a touch screen interface that is completely static (same "buttons" at the same positions), I often wonder what led to the decision to utilize them instead of just using hardware buttons/knobs. Is it a cost-saving measure, or just some managerial person who decided they needed to use something more modern?
> Corporate charters post Renaissance did not solely focus on making money for shareholders.

Many of them were focused on making it easier for their members to make money as individuals, but it was still about profits.
These rare encounters are one of the things that make me love the internet.
Yeah that’s unconvincing to me of any real organizational effort. I also keep thinking in my head how showing up to an office wearing something other than pajamas by a 6 figure earner somehow constitutes a work environment worthy of a collective bargaining agreement in the first place.

My UAW belonging grandfather who worked standing up on an auto line for 5 decades would probably have been ecstatic to sit in a Herman Miller office chair and eat free snacks all day. He bargained for an extra dollar or two an hour, or a day off or two a month—that was what was important to him, not “the office buys a brand of oat milk that I don’t prefer” level of discomfort we see today.
GM is also offering an electric crate motor: https://www.chevrolet.com/performance-parts/ecrate

I'm not sure how "available" it is in the real world, and I'd note that it is sold through authorized installation centers rather than direct-to-DIYer.
How is acknowledging that BMI may be a faulty measurement for some races “excusing unhealthy behaviors”?

In the long run, I suppose I support a significantly less stringent definition of obesity, to enable broader access to GLP-1s, but not because, unlike a fair number of posters, I’m desperate to tell people they’re fat.
> But I guess forcing a company to fire people is a expression of labour rights or something.

It is, yes; being fired vs resigning has impacts on unemployment insurance, for starters. Mass firings could involve EEO-related lawsuits while they would be much harder to prove if the affected employees "resigned." And mass firings of a sufficient number could trigger the WARN act for affected employees.
As a part of it I think most people believed that it was possible. There were strategy docs and images constantly being linked constantly in chat and it was clear the incremental progress was being made.
Don't take out any loans or sign up for subscription plans. Pay for everything up-front and you don't need them.

But for the average person who want to buy a phone, put it on a plan, and walk out - that is not possible without Equifax, Experian, etc providing an instant credit score.
Use Firefox with ublock origin. Enable "cookie banner reduction" and block "notifications" and "location" in "Site permissions". These have got rid of maybe 99% of the annoyances for me, though the occasional cookie banner does still creep through.
PEP 731: C API Working Group Charter
I declined to attend my grandfather's funeral because I didn't want to fly. It may have cost me some connection with that side of the family.

I grudgingly flew with my spouse and our child because it is far easier to travel with a small child when you have help. As a couple, we're increasingly disinclined to fly due to concern about our impact on the environment.

Keep a few planes for the really important face-to-face meetings or research. Stop flying sports teams all over the place to play games.., and so on; reduce the extravagance and frequency of our luxuries, and there is still so much to enjoy in life.
They changed in office to work from home over a weekend. People adapted.
"As long as the use case is some weird combination of libertarian fantasies and drug dealers and terrorists, members of Congress are not going to be excited to give the industry the benefit of the doubt," he said."
40 weeks of bootstrapper-friendly cooking projects
Isn't this an opportunity for intelligence agencies and "OSINT" enthusiasts to track down all the funding that Hamas is bragging about?

this isn't a "problem" but an opportunity for the crypto lobbyists to show how useful their product can be to the State, not just the individuals who run it.
Rare?
Some hang gliders have a Jesus clip at the top, holding all the wire wing struts to the frame.

Old kite surfers had a Jesus rope, that you pulled to collapse the canopy and stop you flying away in a gust.
Former chainsaw operater speaking. I cant imagine easily using a chainsaw underwater for the every action has an equal and opposite reaction thing. However, I notice that the front spikes on the saw are noticably big. When these are dug into the timber, they offer a fulcrum using which the operator can apply force onto the timber. This could lessen though not negate the issue.

I gave up chainsawing the day I accidentally sawed through my boots. Just that morning I had put on a pair of steel toecap boots for the first time. Saved my toes.