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There are cryptocurrencies like monero whose primary purpose is to facilitate transactions between wallets that cannot be observed (I think).

If they've traded into that currency somewhere, how does one know where that money pops back up - on however many exchanges, under however many identities, in however many amounts, over whatever period of time they drip it back in?

I'm reminded of a paper I read a while back about deanonymizing VPN traffic if you have sufficient observability of nodes in the overall network and something else I can't remember at the moment.

Seems different though. The time they could take to drip money back in to the visible network (for conversion to fiat or appreciation in a "visible" coin) feels like a factor.

edit - heh, just now seeing the article you posted about the FBI's team explicitly mentions a case like this with Monero.
This covers dead-reckoning which is super interesting and tends to lead to designs where you "predict" things since that's easier to design for than reaction based game models with latency.

The other really common one is "lock step" where a common rng seed is shared and all player inputs are replicated. The game state then moves forward deterministically in "lock step" with all the players inputs. This is pretty common for RTS style games where a few inputs can drive thousands of units. Most also hash the game state and "resync" if a client is found to have diverged.
Spyware on devices not enough; lets use insects next. I wonder how many applications this could have in the future.
I can confirm this has also been my experience. I have spent multiple hours on take-home tests only to be ghosted. In no case have I ever been able to skip the whiteboard hazing because I did well on a take-home.

I'm interested to know who your employer is, if you're comfortable saying.
An interesting counterpoint when a nun wrote to a NASA asst administrator and suggested that NASA be shut down so that its budget could be repurposed to help feed and clothe the poor. Not all of the arguments apply to military spending, buy some do: https://lettersofnote.com/2012/08/06/why-explore-space/

TBH I think it's a moot point anyways. Maybe federal budgets were a zero-sum game during the Eisenhower Administration, but I don't think that's been the case for a long time
WHy do they not have a normal citizen identity like developed countries all over the world? It's not like they don't want or need it, but now they are taking an unreliable and costly route which ultimately gets a similar (but substandard) result.
Due to COVID... So Garden centers closed, but even big box stores like Walmart put caution tape over the seed section... Can still buy alcohol and lotto tickets though... Did a search and found an image: https://twitter.com/joesichspach/status/1248653376931258370
No to mention in this case you’re likely giving up disclosure for under $10k before taxes
What should someone do if they want to turn legal funds into anonymous crypto? Do you think BTC->XMR is a sketchy thing to do if the BTC is linked to your identity?

I'd like to have some anonymous money just in case the future gets really dark, but I'm not sure if it's wise to flag myself as a BTC purchaser that changes to XMR.
A home gym is not hard to put together, improvised or no.
"Funding secured to take Tesla private at $42069 per share"
It could, if you're where we are now developmentally you could conceivably determine a safe place in the solar system to colonize in the thousands or more likely millions of years it would take to arrive, right? Or maybe more realistically leave or build large scale space habitats (since there might be no safe planet due to rotation of them).
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Even if the science on this isn't settled yet, it's such low hanging fruit that I can't think of any reason why the big N companies aren't already doing it. Besides, it would require less time from the interviewers (since they don't have to be present for the reading and thinking portion).
If you run the numbers, you’ll see that we are several orders of magnitude away from having anything close to the scale of energy storage needed unfortunately
They must be willing to eat their own dog food or else the question won't make any sense for the interview.

The department should run the interviews through their own employees first. If some questions cause an "interview anti-loop" (a set of other employees S who would not hire E) it's time to revise those questions.

Revise and rehearse these practice interviews within the department, and do it blind, until all of S are willing to "hire" each other for their respective roles.
You can do most workouts with those reusable tote bags at home! You can also do push-ups, sit-ups, pull-ups with no weights. Planks. You can get pretty ripped without workout equipment.
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There’s plenty of newer “boutique” buildings in Manhattan/Brooklyn with the elevator direct to apartment without a doorman. It’s not necessarily more expensive to do it this way if you think about it. You don’t need a lobby or halls on each floor for one.
This problem is perfectly clear to people who have had senior level careers in any other professional industry. Software does not know how to assess people because it lacks ethics and standards.

It’s a problem that most people seem to not want fixed until they are themselves negatively impacted. Since the very concept of ethics is so utterly foreign its need and application cannot be effectively communicated without resulting in some manner of embarrassment or hostility.
This is clearly about Python, so I will note that this is not actually the case: The generator expression introduces a new scope, and so it does not reassign the value of x. Python does not require the "global" and "nonlocal" keywords in order to access variables, but to reassign names brought in from an outer scope.

Python 2 did have the issue where list comprehensions (though still not generator expressions) didn't introduce a new scope, and so you could indeed get issues quite similar to your example above. This was corrected in Python 3.

All that said, I will agree that Python's scoping rules are pants-on-head crazy. In very nearly every other programming language under the sun, you declare variables at the point where they exist. In Python, you declare a variable when it exists somewhere else (and you then want to reassign it). This does mean that you don't need to put a "local" or "var" or what-have-you in front of each new variable you declare (which is basically the reason Python did it this way), but the semantics of the thing can take some getting used to.
So this is slightly misleading as well, because it's a geometric curve upwards.

The 'inflection point' you're really looking for is the dawn of the Industrial Revolution.

But at least in that capacity - we know what happened: we harnessed energy and could provide for the material wellbeing of huge numbers of people, which can have it's downsides, but it's not all bad. Better 'more' than risking plunging towards nothing.

The 'downward plunge' is happening for somewhat unknown reasons, and it's fast, and we don't know when it's going to stop.

If you put on the afterburners on an airplane, and it goes up faster than expected, that makes sense. But if the airplanes starts falling out of the sky for no reason ... scary.
Exactly. While everyone talks about the DNC leak, we forget Anthony Weiner who IIRC had multiple twitter related incidents.
Sounds similar to the gesture for "come here" in Turkey and other Turkic countries. Which is interesting, given the putative shared origin of Japanese and Turkic languages (although the hypothesized membership of Japanese in an Altaic language superfamily is still very controversial).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altaic_languages#Korean_and_Ja...
Update: Can tweet again, locks have been removed [1].

[1] https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/128356244619659673...
Not sure “observed” is accurate, since we can’t see it from here. Discovered seems better.

And it is one of the largest we’ve seen, and it’s very close, so there is some amazement.
> Same for sleeping, healthy eating habits or socializing.

My health always deteriorates when I'm more social.

Social activities rarely complement healthy sleeping and/or eating habits, in my experience.
The next time we swing the other way:

"Maybe government should embrace popular communication media instead of spending billions on custom IT infrastructure to post a message on a custom page that everyone screenshots and copies to their timeline anyway."

(Also if they don't create an "official account", someone else will do it for them)
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This has been demonstrated to be false, unfortunately. See https://youtu.be/1aCHN6dytVY (in french though)
Yes, at Europe scale: https://youtu.be/1aCHN6dytVY in French
And they wonder why people complain about anti-trust.
What do you suppose would happen in the minutes before those tweets are taken down and identified as fraudulent?
I'm a little unclear, is the following correct?.

So basically rando's are sending famous people bitcoin because the famous people tweeted "send us $$ and we'll send you double back"?

And somehow the rando's haven't heard of the hack. Is this what's happening? Like are random people seriously sending them bitcoin? Or is it some weird form of money laundering?

Although since that's very weird behavior even if there was no hack, I suppose I'm not too surprised that those people sending the coin haven't heard of the hack.
Anyway you look at it you'd have the FBI and SEC on your ass in minutes. With Bitcoin nobody's going to really bother.
The future of digital and decentralized money is here yet its only in its pre-mature phase. Can't til the full adoption of crypto more effectively.
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Broadly, that they are both military dictators whose actions were more influenced by fighting off external and internal enemies than any ideals.
Citations?!
Republicans have a long history of torpedoing attempts at low-cost or free national ID card programs, nominally for privacy reasons, but in practice because it would eliminate piecemeal state-level voter suppression based on ID availability.
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I'm guessing this is referring to https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1268628680797978625:

The New Guard has a different worldview, one articulated best by @JonHaidt and @glukianoff. They call it "safetyism," in which the right of people to feel emotionally and psychologically safe trumps what were previously considered core liberal values, like free speech.
0.8%? Could be worth billions.
Do you feel comfortable saying who "we" is?
Lua is not designed to be used standalone. Many people get frustrated assuming that it's a Python alternative. Or, by trying to make it into one by writing stuff like socket libraries for it.

Lua is designed specifically to be embedded within a larger program to manipulate only the features of that specific program. It is for scripting your program. Not, for scripting-up a program in Lua.

Trying to do the opposite, embed Python as a scripting language inside of a larger program, is certainly possible. But, it is much, much larger endeavor that almost certainly drags in 100 pieces of functionality that you do not want inside your program for every 1 that you actually want to use.

Sounds like for your situation Python/Ruby/Perl are much better matches.
> In the context of the discussion I was treating "bad-faith participants" as the pathogen

Oh, I see. Fair point.
The pentagon has been trying for decades to shift as much as possible to COTS (Commercial Off The Shelf) supply with limited success.

In their defense they have some exotic requirements; not just things like warplaenes but simply buying things that will continue to be available for n years into the future.

Also in their defense: the contractors go out of their way to paperwork their way out of anything standard. This is like med device companies who try to wedge a “consumable” into their otherwise single-purchase device.

But the biggest problem is the military themselves who can’t write specs that could be satisfied by anything COTS, adding random requirements because they aren’t subject to the usual fit-for-purpose constraints of a business.

And Congress also gets to weigh in, which, while crucial, often doesn’t help...
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if this were true, youd think itd be trivial to review changelog for two affected users and deactivate the in-common admin account. not sure why this would take hours to solve.
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I hope some of you get the reference
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Anecdotally, I got hit up on LinkedIn as much as ever by recruiters during this time.
My mind cant compare the two - why can yours?
Compared to other JIT compilers LuaJIT is very simple. Thomas Schilling forked LuaJIT to run Haskell with what looked like some good results http://files.catwell.info/misc/mirror/tracing-jit-haskell-sc...
The FBI is very commonly involved in cyber crimes and the other departments have a role to play as well. Calling the FBI during a major security incident is not unusual at all, I’ve done it a number of times.
Is it possible to keep ulp precision in all cases after doing all that separation, normalization, and recombination?
Daniel Bernstein's qmail has a standing offer from 1997 to find a bug https://cr.yp.to/qmail/guarantee.html and the last version released was in 1998, I guess it's done. He wrote a paper about why it succeeded https://cr.yp.to/qmail/qmailsec-20071101.pdf
I'm pretty sure most billionaires support the GOP. I don't have a citation. But neither did you. Let's not turn HN into a hodgepodge of wild unbacked claims. That's what reddit is for.
The enterprise world is 10y behind, and OAuth is the incremental change we can forsee being adopted by them. This is really valuable.
There isn't enough political will to include restrictions against abuse by private actors (eg what happened to social security numbers and license plates), so a system that was more technically competent would result in increased commercial surveillance and control.
> like for example it's illegal right now to even buy seeds to garden

No, it's not.

In person sales of certain supplies in certain kinds of stores are prohibited. The general ban is political misinformation (which is apparently still circulating months after being both initially promoted and debunked.)

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/04/14/fac...
I meant to respond to you.

He’s kind of exaggerating, and but not totally. When I said that my family and friends lived in fortresses, it’s along those same lines. While the house is somewhat normal aside from the iron window gates (it was not windowless), the outer structure is not. The outer fence is a large tall concrete wall, with metal gates which are sometimes automatic. The top of the wall is lined with a combination of wire, metal spikes, and broken glass. Every household is fully armed. Some families even have security guards both onsite and as an escort. Some families have a perimeter of fences.

Even with all that, someone who worked for one of our family friends got his face blown off by simply answering the gate. It’s hard not to be paranoid if you ever live in one of those places. After moving to the US decades ago, one of the luxuries I really enjoyed was being able to walk in most places without the need for an armed escort or concealed firearms. Feeling relatively safe in a non-fortified home is also nice. I didn’t realize it was the norm in the developed world outside of movies
A lot of us disagree with your statement.
This is theoretically what TripleByte is supposed to be. My experience with them was pretty horrendous though.
Wow; I don’t think I’ve ever watched a hour-plus lecture recommended by an Internet stranger before today. Thank you for sharing this. I was compelled by zomglings’ review and the value (heh) was apparent by minute ~15 as promised. Reframing how I think about writing has me wanting to rewrite the thousand-odd pages I’ve published (blog posts, notes, etc.) over the past few years...
Twitter hasn't released postmortems for other incidents, so I wouldn't hold out hope
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Any social network which doesn't want to become 8chan needs moderation and bans. Why are you surprised about this existing?
Coronavirus us spreading in AZ despite the outside weather that does effect the flu.

If your hypothesis about “everyone being inside” was correct the flu would also spread more in summer. It doesn’t. Ergo, coronavirus does not spread like the flu, it spreads more easily.

The god damned idiot who wrote this article is wrong. I work in microbial research... lots of stupid PhDs who can’t do data analysis exist. Most aren’t this stupid.
I agree that it's worth scrutinizing your own arguments and try to be conscious of biases. I also agree that we all often do a lousy job at it. That said, I am generally open to arguments and I feel that I do at least sometimes change my mind when convinced by reasonable arguments.

But that doesn't at all imply that I should stop believing something just because a handful of people think they need to shout something at me.

And the argument "there might be other, silent people also disagreeing" goes both ways, there might be other people who agree with me but choose to remain silent too, and that are uncomfortable with what the other side is claiming.
Well, I can communicate and explain things reasonably well to a room full of people. I ran a side business doing that for about seven or eight years.

And I can ship products. I've done that a bunch of times--in several cases I've written most or all of the code in the shipping product.

I can't interview all that well, though, and I'm absolutely terrible at whiteboard coding, or pretty much any kind of problem-solving with people watching me. Except pair programming. Pair programming with a colleague that I know well is no problem.

I have two obstacles. One is anxiety. I score really high on trait neuroticism. It's one of the so-called "Big Five" personality traits. One of the things it means is that I have a lot of self doubt regardless of cause or circumstance, and a lot of anxiety to go with it. As for "working on myself a little bit," the Big Five are extremely resistant to change. Basically, the only things we know of that affect them much are psychedelic drugs and catastrophic trauma. Working on myself a little isn't going to reduce my trait neuroticism much.

I've been through quite a few tech interviews, including some familiar big names. I've gotten offers. But that's never been because of my performance in coding or solving brain teasers, at which my anxiety has been uniformly awful, and so has my performance.

The second obstacle I have is that I cannot combine certain classes of cognitive activity. For example, I cannot navigate and carry on a conversation at the same time. I can drive just fine--safely and competently. I just can't navigate if involved in a conversation, and will predictably get lost. It's predictable enough that when my daughter was a teenager she exploited it for laughs. "Let's see where we end up!"

Another thing I cannot do is solve logic and programming problems while being watched or while carrying on conversations with strangers. The interaction with the strangers forcibly occupies 100% of my attention.

I don't know if I'm representative of a vanishingly small fraction of the population. Maybe so. But maybe there are others more or less like me.

Doesn't mean you need to change your hiring preferences. Probably does mean you won't hire me. Oh well. I seem to be making do.

If there are others like me reading, and wondering what to do about it, one thing that has worked well for me is to do good work for people and cultivate good working relationships with them. I have more often than not been hired by someone who already knew my work, or on the recommendation of someone who knew my work.
In addition to the sibling's excellent "candidates who work at companies that don't let them show you their current code, and have a home life that occupies their time outside of work", here's another category of candidates you lose: people who code differently in their downtime than they do at work.

If you looked over my github, you would see most of my commits are ones that, at work, I wouldn't accept from anyone. The code is sloppy, there are no tests, it looks like someone was just trying to get something working as quickly as possible with no thought for maintainability or understandability. But, of course, that's exactly what I was doing! When I code in my spare time, I'm solving problems that I've run into in my spare time, and I approach it very differently from in my work life. The constraints are different, and so the solutions are different.
Probably not: https://shadowban.eu/scottadamssays
cool story bro. I have no idea what you think I "sold" Washington, but anyone who has kubernetes never talked to me.
>... you're diluting away whatever the mysterious "bad stuff" in the aged mouse's plasma is. In this study's case, it's with plasma that is from young, healthy mice, and so which presumably doesn't have the "bad stuff";

From the abstract: >We found that administration of circulating blood factors in plasma from exercised aged mice transferred the effects of exercise on adult neurogenesis and cognition to sedentary aged mice.
Probably blocking calls. But it happens just as often as when I use macOS -- perhaps more, and Linux.
You seem very apologetic against a broken system... FLAGGED

Yeah after checking your U -- you are not to be trusted...

Dont get me FN wrong... and if HN is obliv... Yeah we are in III

FU
ActivityPub. these institutions can be running federated Mastodon social instances (or an equivalent software that speaks the underlying protocol).
> now I'm switching from it to Librem 5

Do you actually have the Librem 5 yet?

Based on the mediocre battery life I'm hearing about on the mntre reform 2, and the need for such a heat sink there, I'm very curious what the Librem 5 situation is. They share a common SoC.
>A little over ten years ago: Twitter settled with the FTC as a result of an internal tools breach. Their internal tooling was available directly over the web and accessed through an employee account protected by the password "happiness"

https://twitter.com/Magoo/status/1283520203679133696
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It's often been mentioned that interviewing skills is different from actual work skills. Could be that he's an interviewing wiz but a poor day to day engineer?

Netflix is well known for firing people that don't pull their weight with far more ease than most companies. But a friend who works there tells me there's still people there that perform poorly but somehow managed to get both hired and stay on.
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If you mean to find a way to grant privilege to the underprivileged: it's a grand idea, but it's not always possible in practice.

We can't make everyone share the same aesthetic interests, and so we cannot be equally beautiful to all observers.

But we can try to ensure that beauty, and other ultimately irreconcilable privileges, are not overwhelming factors in our quality of life.
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DTEN: the lesser known between the two, and the one making the hardware.