skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Indicative of possible criminal conduct" means more than just "looking like a criminal." That means, if you were to be arrested for something, your use of Monero might count as evidence that you were involved in criminal activity. Combined with enough other circumstantial evidence, it might even contribute to your conviction, even without a smoking gun. This would depend on the judge and jury, but it's worth noting.

A bigger issue might be if it counts as "probable cause" to get a warrant. Seizure of records and computers would put a crimp in anyone's day, even with no conviction or even an arrest.[0] Heck, even if all it does is in practical terms is to raise the odds of an IRS audit a bit, or raise the odds of an audit becoming a criminal investigation (by being considered a "badge of fraud"[1]), that would be enough to squelch adoption.

[0] Maybe Steve Jackson Games should start working on a "Cryptopunk" GURPS module and get raided[2] again: http://www.sjgames.com/SS/

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraudulent_conveyance

[2] Holy crapoly, that was 30 years ago. Damn, I feel old.
One member of the community, "Crypto," describes feeling a sexual attraction to the quicksand itself, as opposed to whoever or whatever happens to be trapped in it. He doesn't care whether the victim is male or female, human or animal... "It is the quicksand alone that is the trigger for the sexual response," he explains over e-mail. "It is just the way I am wired genetically, I guess."

Yep, that's still not the direction I thought this was going to go.
You have to be super smart to work in high tech topics. Just a bachelors in computer science has enough math that the average person would flunk, the same for engineering. If you are self taught go to Khan Academy to learn the math.

AI and ML are just two of the high tech subjects the average person won't understand how they work. They are too complex to teach without the linear algebra required for the course.
> It's Slack for friends. Discord basically does everything Slack does (rich-media real time chat with a specific group of contacts.) It's far easier to crank out a new discord for your friends and you don't get slammed with the "Free Organization" restrictions that come with Slack.

This is what I often point to in Discord's favor. Slack's business model is at the "team"/"group" level and makes the most sense for organizations with a strong cohesive identity over time, whereas Discord's business model is at the individual user level and allows for a lot more ephemeral friend groups to flow in/out of "servers" (teams/groups/what have you) as makes sense to them.
This is false. You can read about it at https://slack.com/help/articles/360002084807-View-Access-Log... (which excludes free plans) and/or test it for yourself.
China and the Emerging World
I was upset about losing the high speed rail, but the Foxconn deal made me wild. It was so clearly a con job from the beginning.
If its opt in 90% of people wont do it and near 100% of users will change their device in 1-4 years. 90% of your users will end up losing access to their account and 50%+ will stop using your service in frustration because of creators design flaw. Sign in with google is already almost as easy you don't have to have an actual account creation flow just a button click and a screen where users browser autofills their password and they click login. 2 clicks and 10 seconds.
Ha, I had this idea a while ago and even bought a great domain but never got around to building it. Glad it exists though!
My name is known in certain small circles, it doesn't make me famous. So just because you recognize the name, doesn't mean he's what one would classify as famous.
Why wait for AI powered mini killer drones when you could conjure up a relatively large group of religious extremists, a bag of knives from a kitchen supply store and a vague description of Western White Infidel TM?
Not to try and invalidate your experiences, but "IRC" doesn't refer to any specific software program. I'd be interested to know which of the dozens of IRC clients you were using that was so horrible.

As for sending files, IRC has no real capacity for this. XDCC exists, but is an extension to IRC and isn't guaranteed to be supported by your network/server. So yes in this situation you must look to an alternative protocol like FTP (hopefully SFTP or at least FTPS).

I do largely agree with most of your points aside from reliability. In my experience large IRC networks with many servers are essentially immune to downtime. The most that happens would be a netsplit, whereupon the two halves of the network continue to operate normally (though separately) before synchronizing. From your description, I would venture a guess that (at least some of) the reliability issues you experienced were also due to your IRC client.

Anecdotally, I have certainly experienced far more outages of the centralized Discord service than I have of the IRC networks I frequent.
Yup - Slack is geared for teams, and Discord is geared for groups. Discord has much better moderation tools - permissions, roles, etc; Discord makes it easy to run a server strangers can join. Slack has virtually no moderation tools at all, and even at the paid tiers, it's weak. Slack is a very poor choice for anything but a tight-knit top-down administrated group, where moderation can happen outside the app itself.
It's also truly amazing how bad Slack messed their server joining flow. Not sure it's different now, but back when I was joining Slack servers everyone was using a free-tier Heroku app to host a textfield that would send you an email.

A server joining flow so bad that people have to host another server just to let people join it.
Do all posts on lawyers and doctors forums degrade into arguing about comp?
> All the magic will make them feel confused and powerless when they do anything outside of the blessed path.

Maybe, but what are the chances they chalk it up to a normal and acceptable learning path?

> They can't extrapolate that forM_ works for any monad in the future.

I think it's important people know that, but how much does it matter for IHP's intended audience?

> Agreed, I wish we all used |> instead of &, but that operator is called & in Haskell. You're crippling your users' ability to read other code-bases in the future

I think this is an important point, but I'm not sure how much it would matter for most.

> And that same code would be plenty readable with &, don't you agree?

Most would assume & means something with boolean and I bet. I find & readable, but even Haskellers on my team didn't really seem to take to it.

> There's so much more to "building" than the first month of development!

People don't really value the long term but default I've found. Then once they have committed to something to a degree, they don't change from it.

If IHP makes it easy enough to get to the point of feeling like one should keep using it rather than starting over...

Maybe the extra learning challenge will feel "normal", worth it, and otherwise motivated.

> Haskell is an order of magnitude more productive for me than other languages (ruby), because of its differences.

I can relate to this, but coming from Python. Others who aren't sold on Haskell by it's usually toured virtues are probably likely to be sold by getting someone spun up to hack away on more quickly.

I find making a lot of these arguments kind of funny since I typically find myself arguing from your position :)
Great, if this works we can capitalize on all that Chinese coal energy!
It is incredibly shameful, but sometimes the utter disregard they have for the taxpayer is so stunning and brazen that you can't help but admire.
If you were willing to pay 13k/year as a support fee, I suspect there isn’t a single piece of FOSS you couldn’t get immediate support turnaround for.
> taxpayers are supposed to be on the hook

It's interesting that people frame social safety issues as "taxpayers money sharking". The reality is that privatized healthcare in the US means middle class americans typically pay quite a bit more than socialized healthcare countries (see medical debt collection industry).

It's even more mind boggling because the ones that stand to benefit the most from socialized infrastructure are older people (who typically pay the most for healthcare), yet they seem to be the most opposed group. When you put companies in charge of basic country infrastructure, you ought to expect that they're going to optimize for their own profits, over even stakeholder interests (see also telecom sector, energy sector, etc).

There's this weird pervasive idea that not paying a company out of pocket means you are funding hobo lifestyle rather than funding a systems that passes savings back to you and fuels a healthier and more diversified economy. The reality is that all that extra money spent on private healthcare ends up either being spent in clerical bureaucracy like the US healthcare insurance payments dance, or profit margins for a company.

With a private model, by definition, there's no socialized safety net for the less privileged. But then you get rich people like Ben Shapiro complaining that there are druggies around his mansion in LA. As a Canadian, I find that hard to relate to.
A lot of websites will use that feature for authentication, I don't see how is that a high tech topic. And I didn't know that using that feature requires knowledge in AI or ML. Am I missing something?
This is a wonderful thing! Think of all the open source replacements that will get interest now. Host stuff off of your NAS or rpi and just use a redirect service to get around NAT.

Central services were never good for us, just too easy to ignore. We should rip off the band-aid and get back to a decentralized web.
That's a pretty easy article for one that contains a live code sample.

If you think it's bad to have to read something like that, imagine being a programmer who might have to take orders from someone who couldn't read something like that.

See

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Two_Cultures
worst? what about citizens united? how often is eminent domain abused for economic development, compared to how much favorable legislation was passed for corporations?
Hydro is clean in the sense that clean coal is clean. You need to measure and factor in the methane generated by the decaying biome behind the dam.

We also have a lot of electrical cooperatives and other non-mega-corp electrical providers in the US. All in all, it isn't a great analogy.
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Sorry for the late reply. On how it is different - some of the 230 proposals want to change the good faith prong such that it would be much easier to allege that a Company was "informed" about certain activity and didn't take it down swiftly enough. Right now, even with recent changes, 230 gives some of these platforms reasonable leeway to avoid liability for this attack absent willfully ignoring notice.

As for second and third order effects, again, we have evidence from the past year of what will occur. The crackdown on personal ads, Tumblr, etc. all came as a result of changes to this law through FOSTA-SESTA. Those sites weren't all in violation of the law; they just made a determination that they cannot reasonably risk having to litigate what were previously not edge cases with the budgets they have.

The result? A lot of Tumblr and other traffic ended up on...Twitter. And why? Because Twitter, unlike other smaller entities, can weather litigation and regulatory costs much better relative to smaller competitors. Far from crippling the most egregious actors, it actually EMPOWERED them.

What you are talking about are just first order effects when you pontificate about people not just allowing things on a social media site. But as illustrated above, this will impact far more than just someone allowing comments or not. It can fundamentally reorient dynamics for all sites that allow for user content to be posted, and there are very strong likelihoods that it will lead to a greater concentration of power in incumbent social media companies, exacerbating the very issues you are most concerned about.
Patreon has had many outages in the last few weeks, typically for 30mins to 2hours at a time.

The outages have been affecting their authentication (login and sending emails) as well as the API.

Their status page is also very slow to update. This shows a fraction of the outages that myself and others have experienced. https://status.patreon.com/
Ditto, my D&D and Traveller groups broke up because we all moved away for jobs or college or military or got married, etc.

There was a program called GRiP that did some of that but was hard to configure. https://wiki.travellerrpg.com/GRiP the company that did it went out of business. So have a good business plan and marketing.
We do the same. Our homeschool community is rather large and we have sports (you name it we probably do it). We even compete with other public schools.
The Fires Next Time
Scientists clock the fastest interval of time in 'zeptoseconds'
You can always let the person in and let them get started (you know, the valuable stuff that actually causes retention), and then prompt them 24 hours later to enter an email address or phone number for account recovery purposes.
I wish Bash had proper support for in-process subshells. I timed my code recently, and a variety of loop constructs was dramatically faster without subshells - but often required crazy contortions to avoid spawning one.
I think it's the people that made reddit... reddit (and digg before that) slowly coming over here, moderation has kept them at bay mostly, but quality has definitely dropped in hacker news
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The point is that the system monitor is in ROM, always accessible, and easy for a beginner to discover and experiment with. It feels part of the system in a way a disk-loaded monitor does not.

Yes, the Apple II had several so-called "copy cards" that allowed you to interrupt a running program, explore memory, dump it to disk, etc. Very useful for debugging, and as you say, automatically cracking single-load programs. My Apple //e had a Senior PROM installed, which provides similar features without taking up a slot.

I don't think you can compare the hardware accessories for the C64 with the wide variety of expansion cards available for the Apple II. You could really customize your hardware. My Apple //e had the above-mentioned Senior PROM, a CP/M card for running Turbo Pascal, a 4 MHz accelerator, 9-voice music card, an EPROM burner, and a "Quikloader" card that allowed me to put my most-used programs on EPROMs and have them instantly available at a moment's notice. Not quite like having a hard drive, but close. Later, I removed the CP/M card and music card I didn't use anymore and added 1 megabyte of battery-backed RAM.

> The Apple II did not have the ability to talk to a printer or external disk drives without an interface card.

And that means you could connect it to your choice of a parallel or serial printer (just get the appropriate kind of card), or go with third-party disk drives that had 2x or 4x the capacity. That's a good thing.

Man, I feel like I'm 16 again, arguing with my Commodore-owning friends about who has the better computer. Thanks, this is fun.
It sounds like you have never been affected by the way they retire products.
Ask HN: What are your habits for continued learning and/or career growth?
I actually can help myself. The lack of strong values on HN really scares the shit out of me sometimes.
> Take a look at the gorgeous expressiveness of this: https://twitter.com/digitallyinduce/status/12990709068542484...

a: The image is https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Egc0d5KXcAYdskO.jpg

b: That's hideous, especially the doublewidth characters.

c: I didn't even know unicode had east-asian-width=2 duplicates of '←', '→' and '▷'.

d: The string "|>" does not appear in your purported example.
I mean, keep in mind that while Element is effectively the reference client, it's also still just one client. It's not trying to be a Signal-style messenger, it's trying to be something like Slack - and at that I'd say it succeeds.

There are other clients in development that are closer UI-wise to your typical mobile messenger, e.g. https://dittochat.org/
>You need to measure and factor in the methane generated by the decaying biome behind the dam.

how much are we talking about? does it work out to about the same as other fossil fuels, or order(s) of magnitude less? Also, is it possible to mitigate this by burning the vegetation prior to flooding the area?
I do see the first link says 67-4, but the second link uses 71-4, which is the correct vote count. You can see on the ca.gov website:

http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtm...

If you agree that the workers should decide, the majority of drivers also don't want AB5 to apply to them.

https://therideshareguy.com/california-proposition-22-2020/

In this blog's survey ~70% of drivers want to be independent contractors, and ~60% are a Yes on 22. In case you think it's biased, the writers ultimate argued for the No vote.
Please don't encourage people to use ADT. I've had many many friends complain about being locked into crazy contracts with them.
I'm not at all surprised. With free software, everyone knows who contributed what to the project. If it's lousy work, your name is attached to it. If it is great work, your name is attached to it. There are powerful reasons to do good work.

For closed source, however, nobody outside the company knows what your contribution actually is, so there is less incentive.
I guess it depends on people, I need warmth. I want to be able to wear shorts and flip flops more than 1 day a year.
Not for at least a year they won't - there's just not enough supply for them to require that. And any available supply will go to elderly and essential workers first.
I gotta ask, what is the domain name?
Meanwhile Facebook is being used to commit genocide in countries like Myanmar and Zuckerberg chooses to do nothing about it.
He started to do one day of fasting once a week, and then occasional 2 to 5 days once a more prolonged period. making such efforts also invited more discipline with carbs and made easier to reduce number of meals per day to two.
Not sure about vegetarianism, - another friend had to abandon it in order to overcome diabetes.
This was subsidised by the Chinese. Like Trump's going to get any success from somebody the Chinese government can control. Haha, no way. Here we are at election time and Trump has failed. Let's see what happens after he is gone.
Definitely is a nice district, but I wouldn't live there.
Paid software is more user friendly. For non B2B sales usually useability is much more important than reliability.

Also note that open source developers like all humans cannot live without getting paid. This means that most open source developers are usually also closed source developers. Some of you though are lucky enough to get paid to develop open source but that's rare to get paid to develop something that's given away for free.
Wow so 30-60 minutes every 2-3 weeks.

Curious if he remembers the post coma sessions.

Curious how psychedelics would impact him, especially MDMA.
So all your above claims are based on one anecdote?

We extradited El Chapo, Abu Hamza al-Masri , Victor bout, Ira Einhorn, Roman Piscotti, and many others.

So if we’re just making claims on anecdotes, so far I’ve presented that 6 times as many people get extradited after indictments than your anecdote.

I figured you had more reason to make such strong claims than simply an opinion without data.
In Dune, Paul Atreides led a jihad, not a crusade
udemy, coursera, youtube. sometimes books but less and less.
Don't talk about politics at work
Same for me. I bought a Lexmark E232 for school and it's been a solid printer on the rare occasion I've needed to use it. The only thing I've had to do is apply Rubber Renue to the pickup rollers when it stops feeding paper correctly.

I did replace it with an HP Colour LaserJet, primarily so that I could get colour prints and not have to worry about ink drying up due to very infrequent use.
Microsoft jumps from 5th to first as top impersonated brand in phishing attempts
I'm not willing to be among the first to get vaccinated. Especially if they use an mRNA based vaccine - those have never been used in humans, and to use one here, on an accelerated schedule, seems the height of folly to me.

Maybe if it was a more conventional vaccine type (i.e. where the tech used to make the vaccine has been done before, just this times customized for COVID).
I really don't understand why drivers should be considered employees, or even independent contractors, to Uber. Maybe someone can fill me in.

To me, Uber seems more like a marketplace that connects buyers and sellers of a particular service (rides).

If I sell something on eBay, should eBay consider me an employee and give me benefits? What about if I sell my service on Fiverr or Upwork? How is that Upwork any different than Uber?

As an aside, I fell like the whole idea of benefits being tied to employers is a horrible anti-pattern. It reminds me of the old days when you got paid in company dollars to spend at the company store.
I was really excited for the IQ8 until I realized it was three years behind schedule with no release in sight. Elected to go Solar Edge instead. I wonder if Enphase just pivoted to something else entirely and never thought to formally announce a cancellation?
When those in favor of the greatest restrictions lose their seats to those in favor of loosening restrictions. Regardless of which path is best for public health, it is obvious that public patience is wearing thin and will continue to do so. Eventually people will be willing to wait no longer and will replace those who are standing in the way of resuming their lives. Screams of "you're killing people" will increasingly fall upon deaf ears. Messages of "this is the new normal" and "we're never going back to the way things were" were terrible mistakes. Fear can only rule for so long before someone else offers hope and uses that to win.

Of course if people supporting either path decide to get violent and go some road other than democracy, all bets are off on how it will turn out. Doubt that happens though as much as some might fantasize about it. It's almost all downside for everyone involved.
>It is there to teach us critical thinking

I believe the No Child Left Behind Act changed that.
But it's not just chat. It's a community.

People don't want to "switch". They don't want to host software. They don't want to register for a bunch of different communities.

They just want to click "Join" and build relationships. Or click "Create" to create one. You can't just try to solve chat and protocols (IRCv3), you need to solve community.

I certainly agree with what you're saying. But so far our attempts at decentralized social systems are clearly early on in the experimentation process, to put it the nicest way possible. Open protocols are a great idea, but that is the easy part that we like to fixate on. The hard part is a compelling experience that people will want to use so that you have people to chat with.

And so far we're still trying to figure out what that solution looks like.
So at 200 bu/ac conventional corn yield, that’s about 16B bu/year? I ran numbers at one point, and came up with 8 bu/yr corn to provide the calories for a grown adult for a year (protein, nutrients notwithstanding). So ~2B people a year whose calories could be provided by just conventional corn produced by just the United States?

So if a practice reduced yield by 50%, for the US it would mean reducing the calorie yield by 1B people? (Ethanol, feed for animals and the like ignored). How much surplus is in the system to support alternative practices?
well - looks like you're in luck https://www.engadget.com/discord-stickers-135019389.html