skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tracking coins going through a tumbler is a probabilistic exercise. You need to either be willing to wait a long time or find a tumbler with a lot of activity to effectively hide from someone searching the blockchain. Basically to build up enough noise floor for you to hide yourself.

But it may be moot if the exchanges simply mark any bitcoin that has gone through a tumbler as tainted and refuse to convert it into anything else.
In MAPS’ completed Phase 2 trials with 107 participants, 61% no longer qualified for PTSD after three sessions of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy two months following treatment. At the 12-month follow-up, 68% no longer had PTSD. All participants had chronic, treatment-resistant PTSD, and had suffered from PTSD for an average of 17.8 years.

https://maps.org/research/mdma/ptsd/phase3

Drugs used in therapy can resolve decades of treatment-resistant PTSD. Would you reconsider your position against drugs in therapy?

Would you be willing to look at the scientific results? Would you take a chance on closing your eyes momentarily to the word "drug"? This is therapy. Therapy is scientific results applied to the betterment of mankind.

To me, it would be deeply unethical to stop or ignore this work.

I've actually seen the results of "street therapy" for PTSD using MDMA by responsible adults. It was ... staggering. It's hard to express the boundless privilege of seeing PTSD melt off a person you love in an evening. And stay gone. Treatment-resistant PTSD. Decades of it. Gone. Because a substance was ingested. After endless therapy and doing all the right things. Sure, therapy worked. Glacially. There was constant pain. Constant anxiety. Gone. Just like in the studies. Rigorous, careful studies, taking decades of careful preparation in all spheres, political and medical.

But the anecdote doesn't matter. We have the studies.
The globe and mail were unable to confirm any of this, which is weird. It's also VERY unusual for a country to let tourists in and not have them back in this situation.
> It's actually not "insanely complicated"

Hi, your first link talks about NURBS curves, not NURBS surfaces. Cutting a surface in half is significantly more complicated than cutting a curve in half.

And your second link is to a commercial result, an entire book. Presumably because the topic is complicated enough that people are willing to pay $69 to $78 to understand the challenge well enough.

If your DDG search for "splitting a NURBS surface in half" are successful, I'd love to see the results.
YouTube never forces you to watch the videos, True but Youtube and several other companies have designed their algorithms to keep you engaged with it for long duration of time. It is built by people who understand how the human brain works and how to take advantages of the shortcomings of the human brain. That is why so many people inspite of knowing that it is bad for you are still unable to get rid of their habits.

Sure people can quit watching those recommended videos anytime they want, but the feed is carefuly curated to make you keep watching and watching and potentially also altering your beliefs. That is I believe YouTube crosses the line. It has to remain responsible.
I had to read a book about a tribe in the pacific islands, and they were more open about sex, but they still had some rules. For example, having multiple partners was considered immature behavior that is only acceptable for teenagers. Once the villagers got older, it was expected that they would get "married" and try to raise a family, but there was nothing forcing them to stay together. If they fell out of love, one would move out. As long as they stayed monogomous, it didn't matter how long they were in a relationship.
Does it remain to be seen? There have been busts and indictments where the state was not able to determine anything about the Monero wallet that were also seized in the operation
Problem is that what "doing illegal things" mean changes over time, and in different places. What someone assumes to be legal everywhere, could be illegal in most places, and vice-versa
Zoos are very ineffective from a preservation standpoint, if you only consider them as distributed caches of a small amount of viable genetic material.

But as someone once put it to me, if you think of the zoo as an embassy, all of the animals as ambassadors, and consider the policy impacts that come from having people carry around these positive experiences involving the animals, then the benefit of zoos is much more compelling.

I do some work with plants and diversity. There are some very confused people in my peer group who earnestly believe that changing a few acres of real estate inside of a metropolitan area is going to have a direct effect. Like somehow we could supply the entire city with food or materials on a few acres. In the interests of morale I don't tell them how terrifyingly naive that idea is.

Instead I just point out that what we are doing is more like a zoo. We're getting an idea into a lot of people's heads. They may go try to copy some of our strategies, at home or in another city, and that might eventually develop into a measurable change.

So. Is the Greater Good served by a few thousand extra tons of carbon going into the atmosphere today? Maybe, maybe not.

I do know that we have the rhetoric all kinds of wrong. If your friend is having money problems and his car is breaking down all the time, and his boss is getting agitated about his 'flakiness', do you criticize him for "spending money he doesn't have" to get a reliable car? We've been doing exactly that to politicians for years. "Oh don't fly to Copenhagen to talk about Greenhouse Gases you fuckin' hypocrite"

It's bullshit, and what's more it's scaring people into inaction, which basically classifies it as horizontal aggression. Which is exactly what the opposition wants. Stop attacking each other. If you have something to say, educate, don't shame.
The article is from 2015. Many of the jits (eg numba) have moved to llvmlite.

https://github.com/numba/llvmlite
If you remember the issue where SpaceX refused to move for the ESA sattelite. I think this a situation where space and air traffic control have to become more automated. This is like the beginning of an iteration in construction like the ones that happen in suspension bridges. The hope is that the Tacoma narrows scenario doesn't end up too costly. One of the fun things is that with this many sattelites you have a pretty good distributed orbital debris tracker.
The part of the article talking about dropping to one verb ("use") made me think of the same thing ("execute").

The benefit to verb/noun (or noun.verb) is getting BOTH. If you effectively drop the verb, you lose out on half the communication.

To use another comment, you may not want to quaff a ladder, but it is a bad idea to assume you just "ladder", and if assume too narrow a field it leads to frustrations. (In programming or in games. Back when I looked into text adventure games (interactive fiction) there was a truism that "use" was a _bad_ verb)

If you ARE wide enough....then you have little difference between noun verb and verb noun except for the effort required.

Honestly, I was more interested in the first part of the article, that talked about checking the state if the world rather than a sequence if steps.
Awesome! Happy to help get you set up :) Feel free to shoot me an email at matt@usehawkeye.com
Do you pay for YouTube premium? Options are there, but it seems like most users prefer ad supported content to paid content in many contexts.
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Remember that creating a Google Play account already costs $20, so for the most people the distribution costs are far more than covered.
I doubt SpaceX is going to go to war with China, and if they did I doubt they would win. China, like other major powers, has anti satellite weapons.

Most likely beamforming will be used to avoid servicing Chinese territory as much as possible, and they will not try to have people smuggle receivers into China.
For awhile, there was a capabilities gap that criminals could exploit because while the ledger is traceable, LEOs lacked the tools to do so (especially if higher-entropy techniques were used to obfuscate transactions).

It seems perhaps that gap is closing now. Like other free markets, crime is an arbitrage system.
Hang on. Is no-one else here just blown away by the fact that the guy lucked into meeting Garriot & Watson? Man, I'd have given my right arm for that as a kid.
This reminds of the cellphone surveillance system from that one Batman movie. Scary stuff.
So many services use KYC/AML stuff as a catch-all excuse because it's easy to claim 'tip-off' provisions and just flat out refuse with no further information.

It's just your bog standard wanky corporate dishonesty. Nothing new under the sun.
Says you!
Their cost though is limited range/coverage and very limited non-mobile data plans.

I want 100Mbps 1TB/mo anywhere.
I’ve read that every street in the Netherlands is completely rebuilt every thirty years.

One good thing about density is you need a lot less infrastructure. America way too much infrastructure and its poor state of repair shows it.
I used to work for Kodak doing "photofinishing" in college. We used to get all the rolls of film for overnight processing in Oregon, Idaho, and Washington. I was one of two people who worked in the digital room. My job was to spend all night scanning rolls of film and then it would get sent over to a computer where I would click on each photo so it was upright and then we would burn cds with the pictures.

This was back in 2000 and digital cameras were rare, expensive, and not the best quality. So we were how a lot of people got their film onto the Internet. I had a special number for the police on speed dial. A few times a week I would have to call because of kiddie porn. Clearly sexual stuff and not just kids in the bathtub. It always struck me as odd that people used our service since you actually had to pick up the cds. Where the police would be waiting for you.

We also had to process crime scene pictures for some smaller police stations. Lots of suicide pictures. I do not miss that job.
I'd say Moscow improved since Soviet times. The issue with Moscow suburbs were that they were made to house a lot of lower end Soviet proletarians, densely, cheaply, and most importantly away from Soviet elites.

They had no or bare minimum in terms of living infrastructure like shops, schools, daycare and people had to travel to Moscow for everything.

The only connection they had to the city centre were busses, and trains whose routes and schedules were very peculiarly planned, again to frustrate residents from faring to city centre too often.

Those bedroom communities were only linked to the metro like a decade or so ago.
This is a great mental model, but I'm getting hung up on a more minor point. The masses wouldn't be moving around on a static spacetime model because, as the text says, the masses are what bend the spacetime. So spacetime would be more curved close to each mass, which in turn means they would accelerate toward each other even harder as they got closer to each other.
Once GNU/Linux started gaining traction I encountered a few sites starting to mix it with their established Sun fleet, and they had been putting GNU userspace on all their Sun boxes just to normalize the UX.

Solaris from what I recall was opinionated in the BSD vs. SysV department, in terms of what commands were provided on the shell and what their usage syntax was. GNU was more user-oriented and tried to make things familiar to everyone regardless of which camp you were from. So the GNU userspace made more people happy, and the license combined with source distribution didn't prohibit installation everywhere.

My memory is fuzzy from that era, but I clearly recall working for a software company writing control panel software to manage apache installs across both Solaris and GNU/Linux, whenever a new Sun box was spun up GNU was immediately installed so everyone could login to any machine and find it behaved more or less the same as they worked at the shell. bash, coreutils, gcc, all the goodies, you couldn't make your x86 GNU/Linux boxes look like Solaris for everyone, but you could go the other direction trivially. Sun was basically user-hostile, GNU makes it very apparent, especially in the transition period.
Is the Hong Kong protests sponsored by Visa? If so I look forward to Morgan Freeman's next commercial. Even then it would seem to make sense to pay cash.
Are you sure you don't have the causation backwards? Speaking from personal experience, stress with life and relationships and depression leads to porn, not the other way around.

I used to buy into the whole "porn addiction" idea and though I was, but when I dropped it cold turkey back in college I just found other unhealthy coping mechanisms. Until I went to a professional and got on track towards fixing my health issues, then my "porn addiction", "video game addiction", "work addiction" or "browsing memes/hn addiction" or whatever else I had just went away, and I can now do all those things without overdoing them and without damaging other aspects of my life.

As such, I don't think any kind of porn addiction is the source of problems, but more of a symptom. I think this is generally true with any kind of addiction, but substance abuse has a harsher physical component to it with withdrawal. All the other "addictions" without a physical element are rooted in attempts to get some form of pleasure (dopamine, etc.) because of other problems (stress, depression, anxiety, loneliness), and once those other problems are solved the "addiction" tends to go away on it's own, unlike with substance abuse.
Google does not exercise significant control over what websites a user can visit with Chrome. They certainly don't maintain a whitelist. Some might opine that the Play store is perhaps a slightly different matter.

It may also be worth considering that actions can, at some times and in some situations, be taken by human beings for multiple reasons with multiple independent motivations. All of which are real, genuine reasons.
Unless I am misreading the article, that was 300 users arrested, not 300 users total.
The CCP offered Elon Musk permanent citizenship in China. He probably ran by his SpaceX plan with Xi Jinping in person.
Why would I listen to someone that puts vegetables in the fridge…?
It would take too long to do the subject justice, but I'll try to sketch it:

The idea that psilocybin "cures" smoking addiction is like the "Virtus dormitiua"

> I am asked by the learned doctor the cause and reason why opium causes sleep. To which I reply, because it has a dormitive property, whose nature is to lull the senses to sleep.

We have no idea why magic mushroom do what they do, nor any solid scientific idea of how they do what they do. The best we can say is, "By breaking down those networks, there's a chance they won't re-form." and "It seemed to work..."

A neuroscientist friend of mine likes to say, "Psychiatry is not a branch of medicine." This still isn't it. For example: at any point were the subjects of the study given a blood test?
If you can find an exchange that doesn't require Personal Identifiers (PID) before purchasing, you'd be in luck. Even localbitcoins.com sellers require enormous amount of info about the buyers before they even consider the transaction.
Wouldn't we get the same composition from the spectral analysis of the suns they orbit?

Serious question, not a poke. I'm not an astronomy nerd and would love some education from a hn friend.
There is perhaps a connection between nonviolent communication and functional programming with immutable data structures. In both cases, change is effected through the construction of new information structures, rather than through forcing objects that already exist to be different from their present state.
Luckily for us, most "western" jurisdictions don't allow for ex post facto prosecutions. They're actually unconstitutional in the United States. And when they are incidentally permitted outside the US, it's usually for something egregious.

Further, if something's illegal in a different jurisdiction than you are in, you aren't usually exposed to any liability, as any tourist to Amsterdam will tell you. And not having a payment record doesn't change the fact you did it and will undoubtably have left other evidence.

Once again, these are social problems that magic beans won't solve.
I built similar perceptually uniform color library: https://github.com/neilpanchal/Chroma

The sad part is that we have all these colors available in the physical world but representing in sRGB (or even Adobe RGB or DCI P3) space takes away all the fun. We have a narrow space to work within and it poses limits to what you can do. Vast majority of monitors in the world are barely capable of representing sRGB space, and even if they are, calibration is another issue. You can employ all kinds of science in representing proper colors but if the end user's calibration is not good, all bets are off.

Colors are a problem for interface design (and accessibility), it becomes a real challenge when dealing with quantitative data and build perceptually uniform colormaps with accessibility considerations, here is an amazing presentation of Matplotlib's new colormaps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAoljeRJ3lU
Only for a certain group of users, while another group of users is degraded to guests on their own systems while "the cloud" ends up having the actual control.
You realize that the victims of the holocaust were criminals, as defined by German law.

At the end of WW2 lgbt people “liberated” from the concentration camps were immediately jailed for being LGBT, using evidence from the gestapo.

Aiding Jews, Romani, jehovahs witnesses, lgbt, communists, dissidents, etc also made you a criminal.

Also, I’m fairly sure immigration law doesn’t carry the death penalty, yet there are kids dying and being abused in the ICE concentration camps.

Here’s a simple counterpoint to ICE: what would the outcry be if Mexico starts imprisoning and separating American overstayers in Mexico? What would happen if Mexico then “lost track of” the children from those families? Would you still be arguing it was not criminal?
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This type of stuff has been standard procedure for decades.

EU citizens discovered to be out of status are routinely sent to the nearest detention center until they can get a flight home. There usually isn't any 'legal process' if the detainee voluntarily departs.
> It means children will always be exploited since there’s tons of money to be made.

You can thank anti social capitalist system for that. In some countries some people are so desperate to make some money that they are willing to make porn with their own children and sell it to strangers.
Difficulty: the motorcycles are moving at 20,000 miles an hour. And if two of them ever collide, not only will the motorcycles be totaled, but so will the road.
Your rhetorical is not equivalent. Google Play Store is a marketplace. Google facilitates transactions -- from users to app developers. Some transactions are free, but Google's financial partnerships might mandate that certain regulations apply to the entire Google Play Store ecosystem. I could be wrong, but I'd reckon this is a grey area and Google is opting to avoid the problem altogether (IMO a bad choice).

This website is different -- not just free -- there is no financial partnership in play (as far as I'm aware). But rules still apply. If you put a link in your profile taking donations for Syria, the operators of this site are obligated to comply with OFAC sanctions and I'd expect your profile to change pretty quickly.

In this case, I'm guessing Google is opting to choose the path of least resistance, and rather than perform due diligence and KYC for apps which solicit donations, they've chosen to just... not do that.
Conundrums like this used to make my head spin.

Then I realized that nothing about moving humans online made humans magically more virtuous than they are in meatspace, and the tools we've used to audit and intercept bad-behaving humans in the real world have merit online too.

There's a reason so much motion online in the past two decades has been in the direction of "de-wild-Westing" it.
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This is only the case if the schools are bad because of the students going to them.
I imagine this would lead to Google having copies of my passport or other photo ID on top of everything else they've got on me
to quote bruce waynes butler alfred:

"Some men just want to see the world burn."
Not OP but I just checked - yes it works now on iPadOS (on Safari & Chrome).
You must not live in a warm climate.
The only gap that ever existed was an “interest” gap. The minute LEO became interested in bitcoin they loved it.
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Well, as this article points out, Bitcoin transactions aren't anonymous, they're pseudonymous. If they became popular, automated de-anonymization tools would sort this out. Further, nobody accepts Bitcoin for anything material, so you're going to get caught at your on-ramp and off-ramp.
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I was writing rasterisers, image manipulators and various matrix/vec math operators for 2d and 3d. Every clock cycle counts in some situations.
I don't think there will be much strain
Hey, I'm looking into a solution to this problem, I wondered if there was a way to DM you about your experience? I've been working on something and would love to hear thoughts around how people solve this where gDocs etc don't. Thanks
it's like 70%, more than certainly the same order of magnitude. each planet closer to the sun has to zoom faster than the one before it, to not fall in
I'm sure there's always the possibility of arbitrage, since the payout from crime changes constantly and laws (and law enforcement) struggle to keep up.
Got it, and thanks for the reply!

My original thinking was that Kubernetes has similar goals of providing platform-agnostic configuration for deploying applications, services, ingresses, and configuration. I now understand OAM as something a step above that can run on Kubernetes (via Rudr) but also on other platforms, perhaps like Swarm and Mesos?
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Unfortunately, some relative comparisons don't matter as much as the absolute. A world where the number of slaves is objectively increasing (as it has now) is worse I'd say. The total amount of suffering is more, even if there are billions more happy people oblivious to your plight.
I like the privacy aspect "it's not a camera, it doesn't take picture"

It does send millimetre waves though, could that mean we could hack Soli to view through clothes ?
Like a full-body scanner works ?
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that somehow would justify denied medical treatment?
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Quietly like the best investment of 2019? Quietly like a multi billion dollar industry/currency/space cash? Quietly like the owners of NYSE creating a new exchange for BTC trading? Or do you mean quietly compared to when everyone and their moms was saying the word bitcoin from Sep-Dec 2017?
I am okay with that. No one is forcing anyone to use the Google service.
I agree. The whole point of the book was that there were outliers which gave people certain edges which made their success more likely than one would think.

The examples I recall were hockey players who were born at certain times so during their formative years they were essentially a year older than the other players which gave them a leg up during their formative years making them better candidates to succeed later on. Looking around that appears to be equally controversial.

While I often don't agree with Gladwell's conclusions I do think he, as well as Michal Lewis, bring enough new information and insights that they are worth reading.