skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suppose the liability, if so broadly interpreted, would fall on the miners, but only if it could be proven that they won a block that contained a transaction used for illicit purposes.

The interpretation that somebody is liable for mixing at all, with no illicit use proven within the transactions, is probably questionable. The miners are also not receiving dirty money as compensation, so even more so.

And even with illicit use shown, laundering can happen with just about anything you can buy and sell, so, unless every retail store is doing KYC, then they could also be exposed to such liability.

Above all, I don't know if coercion is a successful long-term strategy for defeating privacy coins. Even for criminals, the value must tie back to average citizens purchasing it from them, and even with no enforcement they would not want to be part of that, and the value would collapse. If a privacy coin does have value, it reflects political fears of the average citizen, and aggressive enforcement unaligned with common values may actually increase its value.

The dollar system is the most valuable partially because it does enforce common values, and permits all else within. But obviously not everybody believes that this is guaranteed in the future.
You're obviously a crank and arguing about water policy on HN is the very definition of a waste of time, but why not?

> The Central Valley went from green to brown

This is a normal tactic of California water cranks, to use "Central Valley" to mean something else. The "Central Valley" is a huge, 400-mile-long flood plain, most of which is always ankle-deep in water. But the place you are talking about is just the bit of western Fresno County that you can see from I-5, what informed people call Westlands. Before 1968, the Westlands was never green. Not even once. Its natural hydrology is that of absence.

> Nobody else was affected.

Not sure what you could possibly be talking about with this sentence. The whole state was greatly affected by the drought.

You have bought into the propaganda of a Beverley Hills billionaire. If you are actually interested in the reality of this topic, i urge you to read Mark Arax's latest book:

https://www.amazon.com/Dreamt-Land-Chasing-Across-California...
I do see the trigger as being relevant because psychadelics cause connections to happen in your brain that wouldn't normally happen - which is why the drugs are particularly dangerous. I recommend them to the person with nothing to lose. Not nessecarily the entire world needs to be on.
Writing one paragraph in an encyclopedia entry is a manageable task for anyone with a college education. Picking a complete and secure set of CA roots is not. To begin with, if your paragraph is wrong, it can be fixed. If your CA set is wrong, someone steals your credit card numbers.
What's going on is, the 'emotional outrage of the minute' eco-topics that keep coming up. I have limited investment to spend in outrage. I'm not spending it on every preliminary report that might show some correlation.

For instance, tiny cats (6lbs? 10?) that sleep on furniture for 8-10 hours a day show elevated flame retardant in an absorbent tag.

Do the cats respond in the same way as humans to these chemicals? (No)

Is the acceptable dose for a 10lb cat different from a 100lb person? (Yes)

Was anything else measured in the experiment (No?)

Did the experiment seek out any other explanations? (No)

This reeks of a cherry-picked goal-directed experiment to create outrage. It seems the opposite of science.
> As far as punctuation, ending periods actually have negative emotion in text vernacular now for younger audiences and should almost never be used in 1-1 messaging.

It seems that people read too much into the intent (imagined or real) in a text message rather than just the content.

As an older user, I perceive messages that use text spelling (e.g. u instead of you or prolly instead of probably) as unprofessional, but I don't let that get in the way of the conversation
From this book:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics

"Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States to fuel instability and separatism, for instance, provoke "Afro-American racists". Russia should "introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics"."
As-is I don't consider Discord a competitor to Slack without massive fundamental changes. Chat and content is heavily censored, you risk permanent bans, incredibly privacy invading, unencrypted, all that.

It is pretty much fluff chat en masse the way it is now without huge contractual and infrastructure modifications.
They may not have had access to much of (barely) higher end foods. I read somewhere that the English, who had conquered them, took away a lot of that sell / use in England, including beef.

Update: Found where I read it - Wikipedia:

[ The Celtic grazing lands of ... Ireland had been used to pasture cows for centuries. The British colonised ... the Irish, transforming much of their countryside into an extended grazing land to raise cattle for a hungry consumer market at home ... The British taste for beef had a devastating impact on the impoverished and disenfranchised people of ... Ireland ... pushed off the best pasture land and forced to farm smaller plots of marginal land, the Irish turned to the potato, a crop that could be grown abundantly in less favorable soil. Eventually, cows took over much of Ireland, leaving the native population virtually dependent on the potato for survival.[41] ]

That quote is from the section:

Potato dependency

in:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland)
Show HN: Silvera – a tool for generating runnable microservice applications
You can apply the same reasoning to any of the myriad ways we pick up social, emotional clues from people around us. Facial expressions, body language, brevity, melody, choice of words, clothing, typography, use of emojis, and so on. All of these things are nuanced, vibrant, easily misjudged hints of what another person is feeling, how they see you, or how much they care. You can’t really choose freely how to interpret them, you just do, and sometimes you’re bound to get it wrong.
Sounds like it was described accurately at the time. What's ridiculous?
Life is a Game: Insert Coins and Press Start – How to win at the game of life
Yes. In short this is environmentally friendly and does not scale globally.
Well, you see what FinCEN says about those:

> An anonymizing software provider is not a money transmitter. FinCEN regulations exempt from the definition of money transmitter those persons providing “the delivery, communication, or network access services used by a money transmitter to support money transmission services.” This is because suppliers of tools (communications, hardware, or software) that may be utilized in money transmission, like anonymizing software, are engaged in trade and not money transmission.

In simple terms, the Monero developers are providing software (the Monero network, nodes, and wallet software) that can be used for money transmission, but the developers do not need to register as MSBs unless they also have a side company that conducts money transmission.
Are there more detailed characteristics of the ethernet switch?
Hi,

I'm Alen, and I implemented Silvera as part of my PhD research. Silvera is implemented 100% in Python,
and it was developed with a goal to accelerate the development of microservices. I wanted to make sure that
instead of writing of a large amount of boilerplate code to establish the necessary infrastructure, developers
can immediately focus on implementing business logic.

Also, Silvera allows you to evaluate the architecture of the application. Evaluation is based on following metrics [1]:

* Weighted Service Interface Count (WSIC),

* Number of Versions per Service (NVS),

* Services Interdependence in the System (SIY),

* Absolute Importance of the Service (AIS),

* Absolute Dependence of the Service (ADS), and

* Absolute Criticality of the Service (ACS)

Silvera consists of SilveraDSL and compiler. In current vesion, compiler produces Java 1.8 code, but you can also register your own code generator as a plugin.

At the moment, I am writing a paper about Silvera and I'm looking for feedback. If you want to help, please participate in our
survey: https://forms.gle/r4CV4XzTWEfDxYpT9

[1] J. Bogner, S. Wagner, A. Zimmermann, Automatically measuring the maintainability of service-and microservice-based systems: a literature review
If someone asked you to list all the UNIX-like OS you know about, would BSD or Plan9 make the list.
> You cannot protect yourself from copycats, and if somebody says he can, he is a fraud.

That may be practically true in some cases (e.g., where the copier is unreachable) but it is not true in general. In fact, protecting a business investment from copycats is the entire purpose for intellectual property and actions for infringement of trademarks, copyright, and patents or for misappropriation of trade secrets.
Jami looks cool but some features aren't there yet like group chats and linux desktop doesn't sync like mobiles do
I really like Discord for coding related "servers". Just the ability to use three backtick (markdown) code blocks makes it amazing for sharing snippets. I'm active in about 10 different servers, none of them game related.
NFS Authentication and Encryption via WireGuard
Sure, but you can use http://localhost, and it will be treated as a secure origin
The Centralized Internet Is Inevitable
> What will Chrome do?

Develop & give away a verifiable, open-source hardware & software solution for a silicon root of trust, with a focus on security through transparency[1]. Google will organize & make available the world's information on how to secure systems well.

Yes, this is intended for, among other uses, implementation of a FIDO2 universal 2-factor security key[2].

[1] https://opentitan.org/

[2] https://github.com/lowRISC/opentitan/pull/1125/files#diff-6d...
FINALLY now i have a reason to use my orange pi zero :D
>every single game voice chat just sucks compared to discord

I disagree wholeheartedly. Discord uses 250mb+ minimum in RAM to handle simple voice chat, whereas alternatives like mumble in this example use 20mb. The voice codec and quality is arguably better and with less down time. Discord servers often go down and I've found myself having to switch to central or whatever to get it to work.
> my underlying condition cannot be fixed.

Yet. I don't want to give you false hope, but I believe CRISPR-Cas9 to be a game changer of the sort that we will classify time are pre- and post- CRISPR-Cas9. Until the technologies to fix your genes become available, you're already doing the best you can to take care of your body (I've read some of the things you wrote).
They don't need to kill the mixers. In fact, forcing them to go dark makes it much easier to accomplish FinCEN's end goal.

Once mixers are go dark "dark," the presumption is that anyone using their services is doing so with the intent of avoiding money laundering laws, which will drive away the few legitimate users they had, reducing their usefulness as mixers because tainted coins will simply be mixed with other tainted coins.
I think we might have different definitions of competition. As of July 2020, Discord had over 100-million monthly users. At last count, netsplit.de reports 360k IRC "users". That's not even 1% of the Discord user base and it's shrinking every year. No new significant IRC communities have emerged in at least a decade because it's a dying protocol while Discord adds millions of users every month. Yes, IRC is an alternative to Discord but it's not a competitor (to Discord, or any other protocol) by any stretch of the imagination.
Then why did she write an article about angel investing returns?
This is a part of the Credentials Management API / WebAuthn API: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Authent...

They already support this for things like FIDO hardware keys and other biometric hardware. It's also supported by Firefox.
Probably not, they just raised another $100M in June.
Source: https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/30/discord-now-has-a-3-5b-val...
Maybe it's because I have been playing with magnets since I was a kid, things snapping together because of magnets are no longer magical, although ferrofluids are still pretty cool.
No, he means abstract plans. Abstract plan is not exact sequence of moves, but rather general idea of where you want to be in far future.

It could be modulated based on opponent, but does not have to be.
Hi, the author here. Thanks for taking a look at the code!

I picked SHA-1 because it was the simplest way to generate pseudorandom data: I knew there's a Rust crate for it which I used before. Works fine for a proof-of-concept :) I'm now reading up on other hashes and ciphers. My tentative plan was to replace SHA-1 with AES-NI in counter mode, but if I can find something that works on all CPUs while giving me a comparable performance, I'll go for that. (Should probably look at PRNGs as well; if I concatenate the file seed with the counter and use that as a seed for a PRNG, then ask it for a value -- it should be good enough too.)

I doubt Lars has requirements for the quality of randomness, but we'll see.
Yes we test it on orage pi zero too :)
I take the good days and try to make them that much better by being more productive, trying to be 'there' for my family more that day, etc.

Because I know when the bad days come (sometimes more often than good), I'm going to have to take a break and sometimes see my productivity plummet to nothing.

I am also writing a book, collecting my sarcastic thoughts on my particular illness: https://leanpub.com/you-only-have-crohns-once — I find that one outlet I have is pretty heavy (but friendly) sarcasm, when I'm stuck in a hospital, doing testing, etc., and I like to write and share in hopes someone else can have a laugh at their own situation.
TL/DR (or you can't get pass the paywall) - Intel is in talks with SK Hynix to sell the non-volatile memory solutions group (NSG) to SK Hynix for ~$10B. It's not clear if this is just the NAND business or if it includes Optane technology as well. If there's any official confirmation of this, it'll come after the markets close at 4pm Eastern time...
Keep in mind that we're speaking of building games totally hand crafted for the players and the characters they built, if done properly. Even if using a module, not two games are the same, because GMs build around characters, and players may get the story off-rails. It doesn't seem expensive to me, we're in luxury territory.
I agree with this analysis. Anybody going off on Sharpe ratios has to extend that analysis to long tailed distributions, which venture investing certainly is. For example, if you do actually hit the Uber of companies, one early investor in Uber put in $5000 and reaped 20 million.
It reads like these are very wealthy parents who believed that targeting a niche sport associated with wealth and elite institutions would improve the likelihood of their child's admission to those institutions. Therefore, these parents have hyperoptimized for a single sport and have possibly not developed a well-rounded person.

The real money quote seems to be this:

> “It’s easy to stereotype the Fairfield County player,” says Lars Tiffany, the men’s varsity-lacrosse coach at the University of Virginia. “The Fairfield County player is the rich kid who still has his umbilical cord connected: the kid who doesn’t really have to take ownership of his mistakes or actions.”

> He elaborates: “Do I hold the Fairfield County lacrosse player to a higher standard? Of course. You just know he’s been coached up. [...] Maybe I’ll take a player from Northern California or Texas. Someone who hasn’t been exposed to such elite coaching. Someone whose best lacrosse could be ahead of him.

From his experience, given two students with similar academics and similar athletic performances, he'd rather pick the one whose life hasn't revolved around lacrosse for the past decade: they're a more realized person, and they may have a higher athletic ceiling that they can be coached to reach.
PCIe switching would be awesome, for sure, but so far too costly. We want the Turing Pi 2 be cost friendly.
I gave this a shot, to see if it'd be better than writing my API with Servant and then building a client separately. It looks really cool and there's been a lot of work put into it, so I had to see for myself.

I kind of wish it didn't depend on Nix and Cachix and stuff like that, compared to deploying as a Stack template. I can see how it simplifies setup of a lot of the environment but considering the various issues I had trying to run it through WSL2, it left me at a point where I couldn't really understand what was going wrong.

I'm back to messing around with Servant, but that's also because I'm not the target user for rapid web dev in this case. I want to learn Haskell my own way.
Depends, make sure you try everything as everyone is different. Tell yourself there is a limit, no one lives forever. Keep hopes up for a miracle cure. When you can’t do nothing about it or you did the best , cut out chunks of time to just ignore it by finding activities you really enjoy that isn’t hindered by your condition. Just zone out. Pretend everyone has your condition, how does that feel? Be grateful it isn’t another worse condition, be grateful for everything else that you can do. I’m just giving ideas
FWIW, I worked for a FAANG company writing VFX software for a while. There are frequently openings if you're interested. We made FAANG wages (and other compensation), as you can imagine. We hired a lot from the nearby studios in LA – Dreamworks (who perpetually seemed to be a month away from or a month past a layoff), Sony, and some of the smaller effects houses. We even had a few former game programmers who did lots of graphics work. People from the film studios indicated that the conditions at the studios were suboptimal compared to working at a FAANG company, though compensation didn't seem too much worse.
I think coldness/warmth of the messaging style is much more dependent on emoji use, at least in Slack.

I couldn't imagine writing without at least attempting to use proper grammar. Especially in German where ignoring capitalization makes a difference of night and day.

My reasoning has been similar to the one of the author, but more on a "positivity" than a plain productivity level. If it's easy for others to read my messages and not having to puzzle over them, I hope that it will leave them with overall a more positive association of writing/communicating with me. And that not only goes for professional texting, but writing with friends (or dating) as well. I know it won't always come out perfect, but overall I think it shows some level of respect towards the other person.
One way you could think about this is that there are (at least) two very opposed intuitions about the status of cash vs. electronic funds transfers.

One intuition is that cash is a really unfortunate technology that had to exist in the past as a compromise due to technological limitations [because strongly authenticating value transfers is hard in an offline world], but now that we have better technology, we can try to get rid of it or de-emphasize it, and make money the way it's supposed to be — like EFTs that are transparent (at least to states), traceable, seizeable, reversible.

Another intuition is that custodial/intermediated EFT payments are a really unfortunate technology that had to exist in the past due to technological limitations as a compromise due to technological limitations [because making digital bearer instruments, especially fully or partly decentralized ones, work well is technologically difficult and fraught with subtle trade-offs], but now that we have better technology, we can try to get rid of them or de-emphasize them, and make money the way it's supposed to be — like cash that's really owned outright by its bearers and provides privacy about who spent what where.

The former view is for example Kenneth Rogoff's view in The Curse of Cash or maybe the view of the Indian government in demonetizing some large-denomination notes in 2016, while the second is the traditional view of cypherpunks and some libertarians. The disagreements are pretty fundamental. :-)
Linux in practice always comes with bash, but sh is not necessarily an alias; e.g. on the world's most popular distro:

> readlink -f /bin/sh
/usr/bin/dash

Also, BSDs and derivatives either have no bash installed by default (e.g. OpenBSD) or, in the case of macOS a horribly outdated one.

Finally there are good reasons to hate bash: Bourne shell is flawed but brilliant, whereas bash is a bloated mess of unpredictable and counter-intuitive behaviour that also tends to change between versions. It's also much, much slower than e.g. dash. Unfortunately even for pure shell scripting bash in practice is the way to go; posix shell (and dash) unfortunately lack a few things that are pretty crucial and very cumbersome to work around, like process substitution.
> > You're obviously a crank and arguing about water policy on HN is the very definition of a waste of time, but why not?

I've lived in Bakersfield for over 15 years. All of these arguments are things that people have been talking about when I was there 20 years ago.

There's no crankery about it. It's just now--all of a sudden the effete sensibilities of San Franciscans are affected by these problems. Oh we care now.

What is remarkable, and I know you won't listen, but is to consider that perhaps a certain worldview got this wrong. When information goes one way, from privileged to unprivileged, the unprivileged know more than the privileged. They know both the situation of the privileged (because the privileged are sure to tell them) as well as their own. People in the Central are directly affected by this stuff constantly. It's the reason they'd leave and make a new state if the Bay Area wasn't holding them hostage.
Please do. And make sure it's present on all computers used by the gov's in the "Five Eyes nations plus Japan". I'm sure plenty of groups would love to have a crack at it regardless of how long it takes. (Being somewhat ironic in case it's missed and some take this statement at face value). I really don't know what that lot are thinking... or if they are thinking at all.
The past 20 years has seen California returning to it's more typical dry and hot climate. California has had huge fires every year 'since forever' just like Australia, but awareness of this is low because living memory of the past hundred years is of an aberrantly wet period. Being hot, dry and on fire has been California's typical climate for two thousand years at least and the past 20 are a return to that. If anything, California is still wetter than usual, not dryer.

Clear all the brush you want, California will almost certainly continue to get hotter and dryer than it was a century ago, and the fires will continue. There is no light at the end of the tunnel for California, only an orange glow on the horizon. Fire management strategies that worked a century ago for wet California will not continue to work. That was never maintainable.
I guess it's possible to adapt the mini PCI express port to M.2 pretty easily too. Having it PCI express lets you do other interesting things though too besides just storage.
> I think the point about things visually looking bigger than you is important.

Initially, I dismissed this when building my remote D&D app [0] but it's been a persistent question from beta testers. It's the sort of thing that sounds trivial, but isn't - especially if you start with the 'everything is a unit on a grid' assumption.

I still haven't implemented it, but this article has given me some ideas on how I could.

[0] https://tableofsending.com/