skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, there is another risk here. At some point Monero could be dropped by exchanges due to regulatory pressures or even perceived exposure, since every transaction involving it is untraceable they could find it impossible to implement future tracking and reporting requirements. This sort of thing is not unprecedented, just look at Poloniex (which never dealt in actual dollars, only Tethers) who finally gave up and banned all US custmers. This, of course, would devalue the currency.
>it feels like such an overinflated digital age argument.

It is and if it just stayed on twitter it would be a nothing burger ... but somebody's real life career, good name, and business was destroyed. It wasn't the first time this happened in the past 5 years (but especially in the past year)

From the article: "Roost’s podcast network dropped her show; her producer publicly denounced her character (“We stand against racism”)"

Isn't it ... terrible that her producer performed this public shaming ritual where they denounced their former coworker and friend and labeled them a racist? Imagine seeing your friends, family and coworkers publicly denounce you because either they themselves are afraid to stand up to the mob, or maybe because they have something to gain. There have been people who were ostracized because they wouldn't sufficiently (and publicly) denounced their family or if they attempted to defend their children (!!).

In a few years, these kinds of shenanigans are going to be characterized as a moral panic, in the same vein (though orders of magnitude more broad) as the "Satanic ritual abuse" in the 80s, and heck, even the "Salem witch trials".
Why? It's a crap shoot anyways. Put it on real stocks and stop trying to catch start-ups. Your money is better served in stronger stocks.

Edit: Let the big money tell you what the market thinks instead of your knowledge of technology. Also their books aren't going to be open.
Then the foreign powers should declare war and they'll be subject to the Geneva convention. Covert action that is illegal in the target country has always made operatives subject to the local laws. If you want to be treated like a soldier, wear a uniform and fight in a declared war. Otherwise you're subject to the rules for spies.
Undersea cables get cut occasionally, fiber gets disconnected...s##t happens. I'm not even talking about anything intentional.

Edit. But to answer your question, some activists in the middle east have some stories to tell you. It doesn't have to be literally cut, state mandated filtering works too. Good luck jamming a HAM radio set.
But then spammers just send like they usually do, by exploiting somebody's insecure setup and using their resources.
Personally I don't know anyone that moved over in pipeline, and not sure they are really doing much in that. But for more R&D style roles I've seen it reflect what the parent was saying.

I guess I'm just saying that I agree with this thread.
I really enjoyed “Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student” also. A very in depth look, it’s a well-written textbook intended for later-year literature courses.
Sony releases free Black Lives Matter PS4 theme
Let's suppose someone goes to all the effort to duplicate your biometrics in a real world scenario (e.g., going to the DMV). They put on their mask and their fake fingerprint and get a new driver license with your name and picture. Then they open bank accounts with it, get loans, and buy cars. What then? Suicide I guess.
I agree with you, but am not sure a password works too well in such situations either - the abuser would presumably just beat the victim until they enter their password?
By default, nothing is exposed. To make an attribute or a method accessible from the frontend, it must be explicitly exposed by using the `expose()` decorator.
There is an opinion that commercial software often has more of the features desired by users, and also that free software is underfunded and often lags on development velocity
> “Not here to play” was an understatement: 48 hours and more than 7,000 retweets later, Roost’s career was toast. In hindsight, this was probably inevitable. Nobody gets canceled quite so enthusiastically as a middle-aged white woman accused of racism

Here's a Perry Bible Fellowship comic that first was funny, but now I realize is prescient[1]. We're beginning to see something akin to Newton's Third law of social justice.

1. https://pbfcomics.com/comics/deeply-held-beliefs/
The first time I heard of Conway's Game of Life I was blown away. It was an example of potentially incredible complexity that can be arranged to large scale patterns emerge. It was the first time I took the idea of the universe being simulated (or created) seriously. Even more fascinating for me is the idea that we can't analytically calculate the outcome. To find out what happens we have to simulate it.

Even if the real world has a creator (or is a simulation), my money would be on it being impossible for the creator to know what is going to happen. Life would be the simulation.
So would a worker sitting in a "sprint retro"
A lot of drama here that seems to spill out into real life. Two opposing sides. But, they're largely on the same side it seems like. One seems to have made a mistake in submitting her article unknowingly to a blog that doesn't accept articles from white women, and the other wasn't happy about this or the tone from the first person.
This has been my experience also. It seems the closer you get to a single project the more your likely to overwork, while the more core you get the more steady the work seems to be. It seems to make sense as it's less sustainable to keep your core teams in crunch literally 24/7
This seems to be more “Linux is more reliable” rather than free software in general is more reliable.

I suspect this would hold less true as maintainers became fewer and far between and resources became less available.
You can tell by the way people write on the internet that they have never read a book, let alone a classic with an important lesson to learn.
I think it was 9 Canada bucks (which is shockingly close to the 40RMB in the article actually). We bought it kind of as a gag. I'd not heard of it before I saw it at the supermarket and I just couldn't resist something called "instant hot pot". I didn't even know that it was self-heating =P

Oh, something I should have stated was that the hotpot was heavily supplemented with other food (and was also split between me and my girlfriend). It's definitely just barely suitable for a North American male single serving.

At 9 bucks, I definitely think it's too much for everyday consumption for my tastes, but I can see why it'd be attractive. It's absolutely a premium option. I'd definitely try again, especially with the broth options available.

I feel like the 'at home single serve hotpot' market isn't quite fixed. I'm certain somewhere in China someone is already selling versions without heaters, designed with increased broth volume to be cooked in a pot, so that people can toss in some amount of their own extra ingredients. Or maybe I'm just articulating my dream =P
Well, I'm not. This is nothing but a load of racist and intersectionalist tripe uttered by a brainwashed zealot who starts her twitter bio with a preferred pronoun. It represents a lot of what went wrong between the 90's and now. The solution to these problems might just be to a) totally ignore these self-proclaimed representatives of 'oppressed' groups and b) do exactly those things which they don't want you to do. Yes, white people have just as much right to speak their minds as people of any other skin colour. The thing is, skin colour does not a person make, nor does any other inalienable characteristic. It is the content which matters, not the container that content is carried in.

So be gone, you person of pronouns. Shed your intersectionalist skin and you'll be welcomed back, keep it and prepare for a life of loneliness behind your barricades.
Because I don't know about you, the word guy sounds masculine to me.
To add a competitive perspective: I'm the founder of Guilded, which is (afaik) the only VC-funded startup in direct competition with Discord.

Discord was (and still is) a great product. But those that used it in the very early days will remember - as users in this reddit thread[1] do - that the early days were pretty rough, and not quite the "10x better" described here. Yet still, it grew. Why?

In startup mythology there's a belief that you need to build a "10x better" product in order to get people to switch to it. This is generally good advice, because in most spaces it's hard to get people to try your product at all, and it's even harder to get people to actually switch to it.

Gaming is different, though. Gaming communities aren't generally using your product for business-critical functions, are generally extremely receptive to trying new things, and are often led by enthusiast early adopters. As a result, gaming communities have uncharacteristically low switching costs. This explains why Discord was able to move gaming communities far more quickly than could ever be done with (for instance) corporate customers.

My hypothesis: Discord built a compelling product, and succeeded at talking to their early users and improving the product far faster than competitors. Because they built it for gamers, they didn't need to be 10x better right away: they just needed to be faster (and to stay alive in the meantime).

If the above is true, the risk is that - especially as they move away from gaming and as they continue to move much more slowly than before - they can also lose that community to a better product very quickly, in exactly the same way.

Only time will tell if this is true or not, but since we launched our chat product in May we've been seeing support of it in the form of accelerating growth and in the form of entire large communities migrating from Discord to Guilded every day.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/j8siby/discord_...
"The market can remain irrational longer than your runway"
I was working with John Knoll on a project for about a month before somebody mentioned. It was a little bit of that late-onset star-struck feeling.
1) If people are really interested in the topic, they should read the source material and draw their own conclusions.

I thought the article's characterization of Westervelt's tweet was incorrect. The author claimed that Westervelt "inadvertently revealed how the fear of being tarred by association motivated (Westervelt) to turn on (Roost)". Instead, Westervelt's opinion comes across as more nuanced.

2) I am happy I keep semi-anonymous accounts. In an age where it's easy to be the internet villain of the day, I thank the heavens that Natural Language Processing hasn't reached the point of deanonymizing me yet.
I suppose any Turing complete language could. You could run DOOM in PowerPoint if you were masochistic enough.
"I have nothing to hide, so I'm not worried about having my car seized"
Blog post about the OTCA metapixel: https://web.archive.org/web/20200831001939/http://www.amanda...

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24323011
I think you misread - I don't have Whatsapp, and Facebook is a good part of that reason personally :)

You're 100% correct though - if you use an app for this, you also need to trust the app owner!
being able to rally behind someone who can so effectively withstand constant derision from all directions

Americans love an underdog, from baseball to politics.

Whether or why Mr. Trump is an actual underdog, or plays one on TV is left as an exercise for the reader.
Mobile phones can be FIDO enabled. (see https://developers.google.com/identity/fido/android/native-a... )
Note that Epic claimed that "Sign in with Apple" was going to get terminated, but Apple says that wasn't true:

https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/10/21431396/epic-sign-in-wit...

And IIRC it all still works anyway, so this sounds like Epic either being confused about itself or lying to make Apple look like the bad guy (more).

And bear in mind that anyone using any third-party auth (like Twitter, Facebook or Google OAuth) could have their developer accounts terminated for violating the rules, same as Apple. I guess the key takeaway here is "if you're relying on someone else's services, don't flagrantly disregard the service's rules publicly in order to start a lawsuit and then try the case in the court of public opinion", but I think that's good advice for any service.
I use Sublime Merge pretty much every day, and it's nothing short of fantastic.

It's properly fast, the diff/stage/commit/etc UX is excellent. I particularly enjoy how straightforward it makes it to hand-pick lines from multiple files really quickly. The interface abstracts over enough of the Git ux/api to make it get out of your way, but in a way that doesn't make what it's doing a mystery or too out of your control - hovering over a button will often yield the equivalent git cli commands for example.

Personal preference here, but it's also not an electron app, so it's very resource light.
I don't know anyone tbh. I played a lot of VtM and other WoD games a long time ago and after watching a couple of episodes of LA by Night I've been longing to play again.
The point is you don't have to create an account.
A few thoughts here:

1. Who are all of these people? I've never heard of them. Is this a storm in a teacup, or is the implication of the article that this incident is a taste of what's to come?

2. The story seems almost too conveniently negative towards Sojwal. As someone who's well on the opposite side of radical intersectionality and radical feminism, this article feels written for people like me who will get outraged at the behaviors of the villain in the story. Makes me suspicious of actually having all of the facts and context here. Seems.. too easy?

3. Ironically, if the current trend continues, Sojwal will soon find herself in a lower intersectionality caste, and will herself be accused of taking space on platforms that are restricted to members of the BIPOC group. She, being an AA and a non-elite PoC, will not be invited.
Could you imagine _any_ of the comments here HN affixed to that Twitter thread? You could seriously jeopardize your career.

What I wonder is how people can live in such wildly divergent realities? I suppose social media (which includes both Twitter and HN) plays a primary role.
£300 is chump change in most any organization's budget.
Affiliate-marketing-wolf-2-0-review:is it legit or scam?
Yes my point was that that wouldn't happen with a real UBI as it wouldn't go away if they got a job or started saving money.
Mixing tainted coins with other tainted coins will still be useful for criminals who want to hide the origin of their money. Without mixing, a prosecutor may be able to link the coins to a specific crime.

I mean, let's not pretend that output from Bitcoin mixers ever was "clean money" in the first place. If you buy a house or whatever, the government is going to ask where you got the money, and they're not going to be satisfied with "You'll never find out, because I used a 100% legal Bitcoin mixer to hide the origin of my money".
Honestly none of those sounds particularly challenging. The hardest is probably the path finder but even that is just 1 tile patfinder using a corner of your square except now you need to check more squares if you are able to move in a direction. But combined together, those and many other small code & design issues add up and becomes a pain

Imo the reason why roguelikes dont add them is simply because it adds very little value comparable to head aches it can cause
I am so sick of cancel culture. Roost did not deserve this.
Paying for cosmetic features has been, traditionally, one of the monetization models in gaming (which discord is inherently intertwined with) that ends up the least scummy.
How are you evaluating this?
Someone posted in Discord some thread testing they were doing. The developers responded that they are testing, but it's not being committed to yet.

https://old.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/hzobo2/threads_...
If you're really paranoid, you'd convince your contacts to use your fork.
I absolutely agree that curation is good, but my question is why do you trust twitter to curate more than an actual newspaper? Did the unnamed bureacracy at Twitter talk to the reporters at the Post to determine whether their methods were sound? Do they have training and education to follow journalistic standards?

Similarly, do you want Gmail to decide which emails you should read? If you subscribe to my newsletter, and Google decides they don't like what I'm saying, should they make sure you don't see it? If I publish an anti-government newsletter through the mail, should the post office decide not to send it? What about my ISP? Should they have a say in what I read?
The biggest thing missing from discord right now is the ability to upload videos. I understand you can pay to upgrade to be able to do this, but my friends and I switched to discord from hangouts, and not being able to upload funny videos is a bummer.
You sound like you have never worked in the business world before. Half of business is picking up on tone, ambiguous phrasing, and empty promises with smiles. Reading between the lines is a core part of interpreting meaning, and it why many people with autism spectrum disorders really struggle with things like sales, or people management (at least from the customer or employee's side). Nuance is everything here.

If my boss chucks an ellipsis at the end of the message, does that mean he wants me to....

Answer an implied question?

Wait for him to keep writing more information?

That he wants me to justify what he has just said?

It is not a choice as you argue, to interpret meaning behind ambiguous communication, and have effective communication. I cannot ignore implied tone, because I 'don't have 100% certainty of their intention'
I don't really feel like this article explores the situation fully. Why are there no quotes from either Roost or Sojwal or their respective supporters? For an article that talks about the concept of keeping an open mind to the other side of a story I feel like we really only hear one side. Maybe one needs to be actively following everything that happens on Twitter in order to get the necessary context before reading this article?
Same for me. I bought a used 2008 HP LaserJet (usb+ethernet duplex, prints double letter size / DinA3) some 8 years ago for like 30€ and converted it to a wifi CUPS printer via a RaspberryPi. Runs hassle free ever since, usable from Android, Windows and MacOS
There is an entire field of study known as biophysics which is basically this. My PhD program in biophysics is typically about 50% physics majors, 50% bio majors. Makes for interesting discussions and journal clubs. The physics folks always have a hard time picking up the biology, and vice versa, but it's a very effective way to study biology.

One of my favorite anecdotes, heard straight from the scientist himself: "You remember that scene in The Right Stuff where one of the astronauts sees funny scintillations when he's in space? I wanted to understand more about cosmic rays, so I did some calculations, came up with some filters that ensured only a (statistical) single particle would make it from the linear accelerator to the test subject, and then sat down in the beam to see what it would look like."

I thought he was bullshitting and then I found https://www.nature.com/articles/239209a0
Works in Slack too.
You bring up some good points. I could use something like GChat, although idk if that works with my school's GSuite setup. That being said, I've tried spinning up chat apps like Slack/Rocket/etc. and faced serious issues.

A. Nobody checks Slack. In the beginning everything's great and people are engaging on slack, but after a few weeks engagement drops off.

B. The number of people without Facebook has been precisely 1. If there were more people without FB accounts, I'd 100% consider another option.

C. Begrudging use is better than no use. It's not that students are boycotting my program because they have some hatred of Slack. It's more that they're confronted with a form, which they put off and then forget to do.
intersectionalist

This is a new word for me. I Googled a bit, but didn't find anything helpful to fit it into the context of your comment. Can you explain it a bit?
this is a bit cringey to be honest. I'm not sure if this guy is trolling or not with all his political opinions.
Although I normally agree with the notion of "In order to allow the voices of the less privileged to be heard, some voices must be limited." especially when it comes to hate speech or divisive topics.

However I'm not sure how I should feel about this scenario, one could argue that she's on a platform reserved for PoCs. Alternatively, the colour of her skin shouldn't play a part in her opinion.
Apple sits between users and developers. If it's a monopsony on one side, it's a monopoly on the other side.
As an English-speaker, communicating with people who neglect capitalisation in messages frustrates me immensely, especially proper nouns.
Do you mean that email and IRC are both poorly suited now? If so, what do you use instead of email for an open source project these days?

If your answer is Slack, someone like me is not going to get involved, because I find Slack disastrously clunky and I can't archive and search it the way that happens automatically with email, nor can I get sensible notifications from it about specific things I'm interested in when someone brings them up.

I am subscribed to a bunch of Slack channels (e.g. for Rust & Go), and it's just so much of a pain I found I ended up not bothering to open it most days, so I just drop in occasionally to have a look. That's fine as long as the community doesn't care about me of course, but presumably open source project growth is affected by that sort of thing.
Hundreds of Native American Treaties Digitized for the First Time
Yes, I don’t see it helping in situations where the attacker has a long term relationship with victim.

https://xkcd.com/538/

However, I think touchID is susceptible to being robbed since if you have your bank account or Apple Pay enabled to transfer cash with touchID as authentication, then you can be robbed while you’re passed out drunk or roofied or whatever.
Maybe? I definitely agree that paying for it changes perception a little bit ( you expect value ). But then, our sessions ( pre-covid ) have not been exactly a cheap affair ( between various manuals, accompanying pieces, dice, 3d printing/buying avatars, arranging babysitting and last, but certainly not least, food for the group it turned out to be oddly expensive hobby, though still cheaper than guns ).

I guess what I am saying is, when all those costs are considered, premium GM at $25 does not sound unreasonable. I am not sure if the market would accept more, but then.. DnD has become mainstream. I would not bet against it.