skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every server lets you follow (just about) whoever you want, that's the important nature of Federation. If you mean specifically "the firehose" of the public Twitter feed, the Federated Timeline of an instance is generally pretty close firehose of its own (it shows every public toot known to the instance from all the servers it "sees"), depending on instance size you join. Join a large instance and the Local and Federated Timelines both can give you a Twitter-like "firehose". Some of the crazier, larger instances even have bots trying to follow every public account on every server they can find to make their Federated Timeline "as complete as possible". I don't personally recommend joining an instance like that I don't really see a point in that, but such servers exist.
I'm not sure, but hundreds of thousands for sure. World Champion matches each player gets a million (the winner is invited back next year). Until this year the real money was in offline tournaments, but this year to have a tournament at all it needs to be online. There have been big money online tournaments before, but they were not nearly as big as the offline.
> Everybody else in the world is experiencing the same global climate issues as California, and yet California's burned acreage over the last 2 decades is out of control.

Californian climate is relevant, not just global climate. Climate varies from region to region and the past 150 years in California were unusually wet. This is for California, not the whole world. 100 years ago, when you say California's fire management was working well, California's climate was unusually wet. California is naturally more inclined to burn than most other parts of the world, up there with Australia and Siberia. Most of the rest of the world is not nearly so imperilled as California and it's not because everybody is is better at managing forests.
Your mention of messages ending in a period and this topic in general really makes me recommend Because Internet by Gretchen McCulloch. It's a book by a linguist about the evolution of language on the internet.

It does a great job at not only showing how this evolution happened, especially around communicating emotions and things like sarcasm, but also at describing the different cohorts who started using the internet at different times and under different circumstances.

It actually has changed how I write on slack. I'm now for example more deliberate about omitting or including periods, break up what before would have been a long, email-like message into smaller messages.

It also made me aware that ellipses have different meaning for different age groups
This is the video by Dr. Elaine Ingham that I mentioned in this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24828524

on the recent HN thread titled:

No-till no-herbicide farming system in trial since 1981

which is here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24825567

I thought it worth posting as a separate topic because of the depth of the topic: the video over 1.5 hours long, IIRC.
Intermittent fasting? 16/8 or something different? Thanks for any info you could share. I know this is not health advice forum - but still it is encouraging to hear positive anecdotes/references from others.
Going through the indictment with a quick read: it seems most of the attacks began as spearfishing.

Which goes to show: the human link is still the weakest one.
It, really, really didn't

I don't recommend you to use that example again, because it would only make you look bad to anyone who knows what he's/she's arguing about

When Pinochet was forced to step down from power, Chile had a ~39% poverty rate, which if we were to use today's new poverty metric it would be around 70% poverty. [pg17]

https://www.undp.org/content/dam/chile/docs/pobreza/undp_cl_...

If you'd like it in graph form, here's a GINI/GDP graph of Chilean presidential administrations

https://imgur.com/k0s8tKe

X axis is GDP, rightmost is better, Y axis is GINI, highest GINI means stronger inequality

As you can easily see, all the advancements on Chile's development have come since Pinochet stepped down from power and his reforms removed one by one, the source of that data was from the Chilean Central Bank

Also, there was an interview around 8 years ago, where historians outlined that basically the only reason why Pinochet stepped down was because the CIA informed him that the US would not continue to prop up his regime, as Pinochet wanted to renege on the vote to step down from power, but the at the time General in charge of the Navy and the General in charge of the Airforce both of them disagreed with Pinochet, so had the CIA not done so, it could have ended on civil war.

And what's interesting of it all, is that the CIA had documents/assessments which stated that if Pinochet were to continue in power, the already rampant poverty and growing slums in Santiago would work as perfect spots for a hard Communist uprising along the MIR and FPMR, both groups communist guerrillas which had already tried to assassinate Pinochet. So the US stopping support of Pinochet was again, intended to advance their own interests in the country

But yeah, slowly things which were done while Pinochet was in power are being corrected

> https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-economic-...

> ...We show that the sale of state-owned firms in dictatorships can help political corporations to emerge and persist over time. Using new data, we characterize Pinochet’s privatizations in Chile and find that some firms were sold underpriced to politically connected buyers. These newly private firms benefited financially from the Pinochet regime. Once democracy arrived, they formed connections with the new government, financed political campaigns, and were more likely to appear in the Panama Papers. These findings reveal how dictatorships can influence young democracies using privatization reforms.
Miners are unlikely to be money transmitters under current regulatory guidance since they never "accept" money for transmission. They only verify transactions that they never have custody over.
With respect, no way. FIPS mandates a timestamp resolution of 10 microseconds. 10,100 times smaller that is literally meaningless.
Just because it is present, doesn't mean its the default or used internally by things that call shell scripts.

For example... Not that long ago I started a new job where I took over as maintainer of a project with a fairly extensive Makefile, including targets for release. I cleaned it up some but missed a couple bashisms. The original author wrote it on a Mac, on which /bin/sh is bash, and used bashisms. I took over on Linux, which has /bin/sh as dash (POSIX). So while the author used it fine, it broke for me in subtle ways that I didn't notice until I made my first, broken release (error was in formatting of md5 signature file).

The problem with bashisms is that people don't think through if their current use case is an appropriate one.
Already replaced fail2ban for sshguard [1], which I like better. But I'll be testing this even not being a fan of crowd sex :-)

[1] https://www.sshguard.net/
Innovation Is Not Linear
Show HN: End to end encrypt Git repos – Git-remote-gitern
I did this in Firefox many years ago and, to a lesser extent, on Windows and Android. Firefox and Windows changes caused minor, obvious problems which I was able to resolve quickly. On Android I found several apps were so badly programmed they simply displayed blank screens, or showed other strange failures, when the required SSL certs were distrusted. Steam, Naver Line and tumblr were the three that I recall fell under this. There were a few apps which immediately threw a human-readable error about certificates, and hence were easier to resolve.
Organic farming uses fertilizer, and this experiment is no different. They use manure, so unless one's farm is also a dairy and/or ranching operation, the farmer would still be buying fertilizer. It'd just be manure instead of synthetic fertilizer.
Thanks for sharing - at what age did you start insulin - if you don't mind sharing and how long it's been since you are on insulin/pump now?
Amazon could replace CAPTCHA with a Turing test you’re meant to fail
And is also quite interesting - IMO.
That's not at all true. "Auteur" cryptosystems like Nacl, Noise, and WireGuard do better than standards-based systems like IPSEC, SSH, and TLS.
If Biden did dignify it with a response, the average HN contrarian would yell "Streisand effect!" instead of "why isn't he denying it?"
The regulators were relying on the same assumption (of uncorrelated real estate markets state-by-state) by the credit ratings agencies.

The investors, ratings agencies, and regulators all believed in the same incorrect assumption. If that assumption had been correct, the crisis would never have happened.
I instinctual went for glass bottles for my kids and am very glad that we did so, now!

https://www.drbrownsbaby.com/product/dr-browns-options-wide-... (well, its less-curvy predecessor) is my vote for the best thing on the market for this, in terms of airflow for colic prevention + being a solid glass product.
Except that you can "run" (display) an HTML document without ever sending any HTTP requests. The HTML has no power to send one. It just tells you what happens if a user clicks a UI element.

Saying that HTML can send HTTP messages is like saying that HATEOAS API responses[1] can send HTTP messages. They can't without a separate program (written in a non-HTML language) to interpret the HTML and send the message.

1. https://restfulapi.net/hateoas/
How Discord Won
> These miners just did what Protocol Labs told them to do.

Without a contract? I'm not talking about smart contracts, I'm talking about real world, legally-binding contract.

If they just went and bought $200M USD of hardware basing on marketing... I guess that's the problem, right there.
What a Summer of Covid-19 Taught Scientists About Indoor vs Outdoor Transmission
Fox News has claimed to have contacted one of the correspondents on one of the email chains, who verified its authenticity.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hunter-biden-china-email-so...
In the late 80's, the IIgs was often grouped with the Amiga and Atari ST. You'd often see games (like Marble Madness, Zany Golf...) available for all three. The game situation on early Macs was not good.

I wanted a IIgs for a while, but a BBSer convinced me the Amiga was a better choice.
I've never has issues with blood sugar, so I'm not sure if any of what I would do would work for you.

I basically just eat 2-3 eggs for breakfast (100% no carb breakfast). Then I don't eat lunch until 2-3pm. I find I can pretty much eat whatever I want for lunch and dinner but I still try to keep it low/medium GI foods and opt for fattier stuff if I can.

I don't have any problems with blood sugar, and I don't get crazy hungry (I actually forget to eat pretty often, I find it more of an inconvenience, hah). I WFH so it's not like I burn many calories sitting on my biscuit anyway. My main problem with it is weight loss. I'm not overweight and I like to exercise, so I need to make sure I eat enough. Another downside (I'm guessing) is electrolytes or vitamins. Maybe I'm simply underfed but I seem more prone to muscle tightness/cramps.

I find I can break the "diet" regularly and not lose therapeutic effect. I do it 4-5x/week. I'm down to 1-2 partial seizures a month, whereas previously I was hitting 30+. I have neocortical TLE (likely focal cortical dysplasia, adult onset), so the partial seizure numbers tend to be higher than your standard hippocampal/mesial TLE. Overall my seizure control is pretty good lately. I'm hoping it stays good - but as you probably know, can't let your guard down.

I ended up here after failing to maintain keto and the low gi ("south beach") diets. They seemed to improve seizure control a bit, but I had real problems sticking to them. Fasting is all the rage now, so I figured I'd borrow the easy/good parts from both of those diets, while trying out a simple, loose version of fasting. I'm glad I gave it a shot. Good luck!
That price is in fact per player per session. I'm making a note make that clear!
30 years ago, building in flood plains had been an established routine for decades in Texas, and all over the United States.

Using Houston as an example, 50 to 100 years ago it was the norm to bring in fill dirt from other regions, flatten and grade a piece of land, and construct a gridded residential neighborhood with total disregard for natural drainage. Flooding was dealt with by artificially channelizing bayous and streams, which is why Houston's urban waterways look so unnatural. Many of these older neighborhoods along the gulf coast were unsustainable and are not being rebuilt after hurricanes.

Starting around 30 years ago, local, state and federal policymakers started to get a clue. Neighborhoods were more commonly build to accomodate the drainage patterns -- this is why developments from the 1990's, 2000's tend to have large retention ponds, (example: https://www.google.com/maps/@29.5517845,-95.4295706,3a,75y,2... )

while neighborhoods from the 1950's-60's do not.
A lot of specialist children's toy and furniture companies have recalled deadly products. This isn't an Ikea-specific problem. Checking for recall notices before buying a product, and registering with the manufacturer to receive future notices is the wisest course of action.
Is this legal advice about the definition of "money transmitter"? It sure reads that way.
Your best bets are SheepShaver and BasiliskII. The former for emulating PPC Macs and the latter for 68k. The best resource for setting these things up is the e-maculation wiki and discussion forums [1].

[1] https://www.emaculation.com/
Exactly this. If this was an EFF tool maybe I would trust it.

But a binary hosted on GitHub? Especially since GitHub is whitelisted by major browsers so you would not get a reputational warning when downloading a binary. This is exactly the place where a malware vendor would put it's stuff to avoid scary browser warnings.

Also, privacy tools are perfect targets for intelligence agencies, hackers, ... since they are used by people with something valuable (bitcoin, information, ...) so you need to be extra-careful around them.
FermiNet: Quantum Physics and Chemistry from First Principles
When I was an undergrad (UC Berkeley) all Math and CS classes beyond basics (like Calculus etc) allowed "cheat sheets" in exams and some were "open book" (i.e. bring whatever the fuck you want (nothing digital of course, just paper, no calculator)). I don't remember an incident when bringing a cheat sheet was useful during the exam, maybe 1 time for a minor thing. Writing out the cheat sheet before the exam definitely helps learning though. If it's something you can look up during the exam, it's not gonna be something professor will ask you. If it's something you need to read, understand and conceptualize during the exam, it's gonna take you long enough that it'll be a significant disadvantage.

EDIT: Now I remembered haha, our first CS class even printed out standardized cheat sheets and gave it to everyone. They basically printed ALL the slides of the class in tiny font on 3 papers and handed out to everyone with the exam. Fun times. I didn't even open the cheat sheet lol.

I remember I was taking Algebra 2, which was about Module Theory and Galois Theory. We asked prof if we can bring cheat sheet to the exam, he was like "I mean I don't care, you can even bring the textbook". So I did but, obviously didn't even open it. If you really need to remember something (e.g. definition of Noeterian Ring) professor may write it in the question anyway, or if you need to remember something basic (e.g. definition of Group) you could technically use the textbook, but at that point, you'll likely fail the exam anyway.
> This attitude of people claiming you shouldn't seek privacy lest you 'look like a criminal' is disappointing. I expect better from HN.

"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.

I don't think it's "better" for people to ignore the risks of certain behaviors and pretend those risks don't exist. You apparently care a lot about optimizing a particular dimension: privacy. Recognize that other people have different mixes of priorities. Not everyone must agree with yours. Some people who disagree with you might even comment on this very site, as offensive as that is.
Hi all! I’m Keyan.

git-remote-gitern is a git remote helper that end to end encrypts git repos without a custom remote receiver and without additional user key management (other than SSH keys). For demonstration, git-remote-gitern's repo has been encrypted using itself: https://github.com/huumn/git-remote-gitern-encrypted. It's built for use with https://gitern.com.

I know some hackers self-host git for security reasons so I was curious how tractable e2ee without a custom backend might be. I had also been curious about git internals given my plans with gitern so I made this as a bit of a forcing function to learn git and encryption and nodejs better.

A little snippet about how it works from the README for those that don't like to click off

> git-remote-gitern creates an encrypted object graph that has mostly identical structure to your git repo's unencrypted object graph. This encrypted object graph behaves like any other git repo but all of its objects are encrypted. It keeps track of the mapping between unencrypted and encrypted objects using a flat file stored in the encrypted repo. This mapping allows git-remote-gitern to determine the revision of an unencrypted repo relative to an encrypted one.

I go into more depth in the README.

And key management

> A symmetric key is generated for each repo and is used to encrypt the repo. For each ssh public key on the gitern account, the symmetric key is encrypted with this ssh public key and stored in the encrypted repo. Thus any computer with an ssh private key corresponding to an ssh public key used to encrypt the symmetric key can decrypt a git-remote-gitern repo.

Follow me https://twitter.com/k00bideh or gitern https://twitter.com/giternhackers for development updates. I'll be hacking on public repos next.
> Lots of things could be 'indicative of possible criminal conduct'.

Deliberately hiding the origin of funds is itself criminal conduct, though. It's true that AML statutes tend to be hyperspecific, because it's a difficult area to regulate. So areas like crytocurrency mixing are gray and uncertain even among law enforcement lawyers. It's not true, however, that there is an inherent right to unrestricted private transfer of money.

Bascially, the statement you're reading is not saying "Mixing is probably illegal because the money must have been illegal to begin with". It's saying that "Mixing is probably money laundering on its face, no matter where the money came from."

At some point governments are going to need to step in and clarify this with laws. But don't fool yourself: Crypto mixers are going to end up being subject to effectively the same reporting requirements that banks are. What you want (perfect financial privacy) you can't have, sorry. That ship sailed decades ago.
First of all, getting hit by chronic disease in my late 20s was not something I ever imagined. I guess nobody does. I can give some details, since it's a throw-away account: I caught a severe bacterial infection, required prolonged antibiotics treatment which caused organ damage. Catching the disease was a low-probability event, getting organ damage, too. In retrospect I realise how lucky I was that the disease was caught early on and treated. I would have been dead otherwise.

As for living with the illness. You need to find a doctor that you can work with. There will be tough times and you need someone you can trust and reach 24/7 when things go south (which they do from time to time in my case). Also, without counselling I wouldn't be here today. Your career is impacted, your family life is impacted, your sex life is impacted. I needed someone to talk to and that someone had to be outside my social circle. I had 3 sessions per week for the first months, now I go once a week. It helps.

Also, people will get upset for different reasons. Your friends, family co-workers etc. Counselling helps, but most of the time it's still hard to tolerate and accept the pain and the anger. Most of the time I'm managing their expectations, not mine.

Some people mentioned good diet, sleep, no alcohol. This is the absolute baseline. If you have serious chronic disease, you cannot afford any of these luxuries. For every mistake you make, you and someone else will have to compensate. Discipline is key.

That being said, I still have a very fulfilling life. I go on vacations, see my friends (or rather most of the time they come over and visit), have some form of a career, have a loving partner and we're planning on having children. Life is good even if it's not like I imagined it 5 years ago.
> It still doesn't sound physically distinct

If you try what I described with a light ray, it will be moving away from you at c no matter how much you accelerate in its direction.

If you try it with a massive object, even a neutrino with a very, very tiny invariant mass, that will not be the case; its speed relative to you will decrease as you accelerate after it, eventually to zero.

There is no continuum between those two possibilities; they are distinct and discrete. The only continuum is in the latter case, where the final speed of the object relative to you will depend continuously on how long you accelerate.

> even if we accelerated an rocket and somehow checked if a neutrino was at rest relative to it, we might find that it's not. That means we won't know if we need more speed or if it's impossible

Yes, you will know, because you will know if the neutrino's speed relative to you has decreased or not. If it has, it's possible to bring it to rest relative to you. If it hasn't, it's not. See above.

> I suppose it's a bit easier than that because we only have to accelerate the rocket fast enough that the neutrino's speed becomes measurably less than c, rather than 0.

Exactly.

> But still, what if we can't even get it to go fast enough for that?

That's basically the position we are in now: we have no way of building a rocket or other device that can accelerate after a neutrino long enough to tell whether its speed relative to the rocket is measurably decreasing. So we have to resort to indirect measurements. But as I said before, that doesn't change the principle.

> even photons have a nonzero upper bound to their possible rest mass

Yes, because, as I said, practically speaking we can't run the obvious and straightforward experiment I described, to confirm that a photon moves away from you at c no matter how much you accelerate after it. So we have to resort to indirect measurements, like trying to measure its invariant mass by other means. But that doesn't change the principle.
Wait. What. Why not just buy chips, wait then cash then in. Won't you lose 30-50 percent with slots?
There are many ways to account for this in a risk-based approach however. Asking for basic information about a customer's occupation and source of funds (as is common when opening a bank account) can adequately address ML/TF risks. You don't see exchanges freaking out over other higher-risk activities like onboarding PEPs, but they can do this with proper risk controls.

https://www.perkinscoie.com/en/news-insights/anti-money-laun...