skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stupid question: Could the state (or a large group of states) not effectively impose restrictions on bitcoin wallets? Say, I, the federal agency of crypto, publish a list of "legal" (i.e., with owners know to me and subject to my rules) wallets today and demand that everyone that accepts bitcoinust verify that the transaction comes from such a legal wallet (except for everything happening before today). Accepting anything else is a criminal act (like money laundering). Registering existing wallets, dealing with multiple jurisdictions, mining, and creating new wallets are technical details.

I think two things could happen: Either, Bitcoin collapses and vanishes into the darknet, because no one can buy anything legally with it. Or, if enough owners agree and register, it becomes fully transparent for the state, effectively making it useless for criminal payments.
Avi Loeb and the Great Unknown
There is an excellent subreddit dedicated to QS - /r/QuantifiedSelf/. I learned one heck of a lot from that sub when I started out and there are some seriously intelligent people there. I've stood on the shoulders of those giants for 3.5 years.
I am not sure using your own is a good idea. Every time I was in China for the last 3 years they would quickly find and block my small startups VPN. I was able to send an email and ask someone to move it to a new IP. Now imaging you have your own setup and they block it, as well as access to the provider you used to create the VM that runs it. Using something like Nord or the like at least you know that they will keep changing the IPs. Your mileage might vary, but this was my experience.
Strong evidence that the account is indeed Farlow: the profile links to a pinterest board [1] which is listed by the NCTM [2] as being run by Farlow.

[1] pinterest.com/mathematicsprof

[2] https://www.nctm.org/tmf/library/view/75908.html
They will also monitor the wallet and the moment it's accessed in any way more indictments follow. The money officially belong to the authorities now so touching them is theft. He can't claim it was hacked, there's no reasonable way to hack a wallet, and if there was there are far more valuable wallets to target.

He'll also never be able to report it if he's ever robbed of that money.
Christopher Plummer Has Died
I heard a story from an Uber driver about a drunk woman he gave a ride to who intended to Uber like 3 blocks, but who ended up Ubering over an hour to the wrong city before she realised her mistake.
In my case I wasn't talking about stock options, about which I agree with you.

However, fiat money (or some kind of commonly-accepted crypto coin) is IMO much better than a very niche/specific token.

It's much easier for someone paid in cash to convert that to something else (other currency, labor or goods) than for someone paid in a cryptocurrency (as it's harder to find people accepting it), and even harder for someone paid in some very niche cryptocurrency (by the sounds of it, you are the only one that is willing to take that "corporate scrip" of yours and exchange it for something else - that's much more risk for the contractors than a general purpose (crypto?)currency).
If you think that conversion therapy is voluntary in most cases, you're delusional.

There's a lot of outside pressure involved and often, you don't really have a chance but to give into that until you can leave your whole family and existing social infrastructure behind.
I've frequently (especially outside the US, but even in a major hospital system here in San Francisco) come across WiFi networks that force access web through a MITM proxy. Yes, HTTPS will help me detect it, but if I need to actually get through, a VPN is helpful.

"bank info" in this case being anything from logging in to check my balance, pay bills or even contact them via their secure messaging because I'm disputing a transaction.

It doesn't eliminate all threats, but I'm not a secret agent ninja that needs 100% hardened communications. I just need a modicum of assurance.
BASIC was commonly understood in the 80s despite lots of very different dialects and also in the 90s mostly because of Visual Basic. Is it still true that developers are familiar with BASIC? I would expect that JavaScript and maybe Python replaced BASIC as lingua franca. JavaScript looks simpler because it basically (pun intended) doesn't have a standard library to learn, with all the problems deriving from that.

Java doesn't seem a bad choice because if one sticks to the basics probably everybody can figure out what a simple program does. Smalltalk, I wonder how many people here ever read a Smalltalk source file [1]. Lisp, maybe more, at least to look once at all those funny parentheses (disclaimer, I wrote my fair share of Lisp but I know the effect it does on most people.)

[1] One random Smalltalk project from the list of trending Smalltalk repositories on GitHub https://github.com/svenvc/zinc
What's the argument for VPNs in 2021? Can't ISP just use metadata patterns and DPI/analytics to tell what you're up to anyways? For example if I want to hide by torrenting, it's not like VPN is going to really help that. ISP should be able to figure that out right? Or am I wrong here?

edit: this is a serious question I am not trying to troll anyone here
On one hand you have people setting wildcards in IAM policies for development phase (and forgetting to close them down afterwards). It’s hard to figure out permissions beforehand - this would help in these cases, but still taking IAM setup deduced from your traffic does not mean this setup is secure.

On the other hand you have complex architectures and no real overlap in their authorization patterns. It’s impossible to automate creation of secure "sandbox" setup for your specific use case.

You can’t really delegate security of your architecture to a single service - you need to address it yourself. Security can be implemented only in the service, not as a service.
It doesn't look like minecraft, though. The character design, scale of the player to the world, design of the world (trees, houses, even mountains) looks identical to Cube World. The skill bar at the bottom looks like Cube World.

I encourage you to bring up a screenshot of Cube World side by side and see if you can tell the difference between this game. Looks nothing like Minecraft, except for it being blocky.
Inductance based on a quantum effect has the potential to miniaturize inductors
Is there a free way to access the article? What are the citations?
> Righty tighty, lefty loosey

I remember an old mechanic sarcastically saying this when I was a kid and as as he worked on an old car that had wheel nuts that did up the other way on one side of the car.

It really pissed him off.

A quick search seems to show that this was a thing.
https://www.quora.com/Why-did-the-old-Chrysler-cars-have-lug...
kdb+/q has the most traction. However, it could have more traction and first derivatives has done a terrible job at promoting the language.

I love k/q and see a lot of the ideas of array languages perculate into the mainstream thru numpy and Pandas. However, both are really shitty compared to a true array language.

I personally love k/q, J I'm not as keen about.

I've also created my own array language called xs: https://cryptm.org/xs/ I don't really work on it anymore, but it might be interesting to some folks researching/developing new array languages.

I think there's a lot further we can, and k/q definitely has a bunch of warts that hopefully shakti/k9 will solve.

I really want Shakti to have lexical scoping, and I feel like too many compromises are made for performance/simplicity reasons that reduces the ergonomics of current array languages.
I picked up one of these [1] a couple years ago and have LOVED it. I've logged on average probably about 7 miles a week on it. While that might not sound like much, it adds up, and it's 7 miles a week that I would have otherwise been sitting.

If I need to REALLY focus on a very challenging problem, I will sit down. But if I'm doing something more routine, it's perfect for walking.

The best part of the treadly is how easily it's stored. Just flip it up and lean it against the wall. Out of the way.

[1] https://www.treadly.co/
And a red spot in a loop ;-)
The conclusion here runs contrary to a lot of things claimed in the article (most of which are subjective to start with).

All languages are in fact becoming Scala.. in fact kotlin is practically mostly Scala.. yet the author places kotlin in a different category. "The death of hype" article from the same author I read sometime ago also makes zero mention of kotlin which is what's getting all the otherwise-scala-devs. I have no idea why.

Why should someone in 2021 use Scala if all the languages are becoming Scala anyway? Shouldn't they choose a language with better tooling and a better ecosystem?
Even as a person with occasional death anxiety episodes I must say, living forever (or being forced to) is the only thing scarier than death. for example:

How will people deal with the fact that rebelling against oppressors will carry the possibility of becoming a Prometheus like figure, doomed to eternal suffering?

Also, I have a feeling that awareness of one's mortality is not an insignificant motivating factor in life. Like, how would anything in life have any weight when you know you will live forever anyways? A bit like how bringing back a character in a movie feels cheap and removes and weight knowing they will be fine in the end regardless of what happens.
Think of the vantage point of observer standing (& his land under his feet also rotating with circle causing him to always rotate along the rotation.) at the center of that circle. ACW will always be right moving to him, CW will be left.

The other is, follow the fingers not thumb.
Which channel is streaming it? I have seen some on the BBC over the years but not every match.
It's kind of outrageous the amount of software that seems to be completely inoperable unless you have a SSD.
As recently as like, 1-3 months ago, yeah? I would have tried to install homebrew for the first time sometime December 2020 or later.
These kind of warrants have to be struck down at some point. Surely we cannot allow proximity to be the deciding factor to investigate. It’s smacks of all the other “similars” police have used: race, what kind of car you’re driving, clothes you’re wearing, gender, the fact that you’re hanging out in a certain neighborhood. It’s just wrong.
> Here in western Europe it's unheard of.

Completely untrue.

https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/11/09/conversion-therapy-ban...

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/graham-linehan-trans-ge...
Or they look at how often normal people actually back things up?

Or they got a court order (or whatever the term of art is) saying, effectively “memo to all banks: this person owes us XYZ in Bitcoin, he’s paying that back out of future bank balances”?
JavaScript Minification Benchmarks
I’d be curious to learn how to test the soil.
"but it goes unnoticed, unpunished, or otherwise not recorded in ways accessible to researchers because they're too small to make waves. Maybe too small to bother prosecuting."

Hm, but small crime under the radar just as well apply to big corporations, meaning just as probably small company fraud might have been overlooked or ignored, so was probably lots of small crime on the big corporations.

So the bigger point still stands.

And what does it have to do with media coverage?

"We compiled data on 250+ US public companies involved in corporate securities frauds identified in 1,000+ Securities and Exchange Commission filings over 2005–2013"

I would assume their data is from the state from actual judgments and not that they dig in newspapers archives.
My suspicion is that he was not properly prepared and only had that single copy of the key. Usually when police raids you they take all your physical storage media. IF he were properly prepared, he could just leave the country, and access the money from there. Maybe he doesn't do it because he fears the police take his backup away, no idea.

So most likely, both police and him are in a situation where collaboration by both is needed to get access to the bitcoins.
Did you try my email? Is it not visible? Anyway. If we're talking about the same course, on Edx platform, then it was taught by prof. Alexander de Haan [1].

There was a book associated with the class, and I was able to find a OCW link at TUDelft website [2]. Unfortunately, the other links on the page are 404. I've copied the book info here:

Solving Complex Problems: Professional Group Decision-Making Support in Highly Complex Situations; A. de Haan & P. de Heer; Eleven International Publishing 2012, ISBN: 978-9490947712

I was really into MOOCs at that time and I made a project page, http://scp.naiveso.com/ It's a crap little WordPress site, but you might recognize the projects if you also took the course.

There was another called Business Process Management by the Hasso Plattner Institute on the OpenHPI site. (I started on those lessons and did one, but I also started a new job at that time so I didn't finish the course. Links here http://bpm.naiveso.com/ )

[1]: https://www.edx.org/bio/alexander-de-haan
[2]: https://ocw.tudelft.nl/course-readings/readings-solving-comp...
This is indeed the concept behind Lenovo’s forthcoming glasses: https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/thinkrealitya3
Doing something similar with cocaine, marijuana, LSD did definitely reduce the degree of commerce happening with them - but has definitely not caused them to go away. You’re presuming no money laundering for instance, or that one state entity controls enough of the endpoints that it would work well enough it could actually be enforced.

Not impossible (I guess), but practically not possible either.
Interesting. Based on the title I thought it was about vote manipulation, but it looks like you're doing more of consulting work. That is, "I'll coach you on how to post so your project gets to the front page of Hacker News."

This leaves me wondering, how do you handle money transfer? If you only get paid after the post is highly visible I don't see how you could enforce payment. Do you collect ahead of time and refund if necessary, or use an escrow account?
1. Excitement

2. Euphoria

3. “Hey - I think we’re all rich”

4. “What’s this law about allowing city employees to issue death certificates?”

5. “It’s ok - it’s totally normal for the mayor to manage the city’s treasury on his laptop.”

6. “OMG - the mayor died! Hey BTW - how come we didn’t make city payroll this month?”
Not everyone agrees that a fact must be observably true. How about:

8) God is the One True God and Jesus Christ is His Son.

Depending on the year you use to measure, ~65% of Americans believe this. It is a "fact" in the GP's sense of the word. So much so, that we have actual laws that derive from the chain of conclusions that stem from it. These laws arose under the normal processes of democratic institutions and free speech. When something is believed by the majority of people, it becomes a de facto fact.
Personal injury lawyers who put up billboards and ads are also seen as ridiculous by the rest of the legal industry, so you are right on-track in your assessment.
Yes. My work calendar is blue, my personal calendar is green, my wife's calendar is grey, reminders are purple.

That way, at a glance, I can see what the next event is for, how balanced my day is, etc.
that is more articulate,

the 0.36% difference was just in the netherlands and not the rest of the population polled?
The tweet-author being the original letter-recipient is not necessarily inconsistent with them also having forgotten exactly what they suggested 35 years ago and just substituting in a general sense of what current cat food cans are like. Particularly since they'd be, you know, 84.
I have two sons and two daughters. What you described is exactly my experience.
And so they ship devices which bend, have keyboards which stop working due to dust, mice which are not ergonomic, undersized soldered RAM so it's always swapping, have bad thermal design so CPU throttles, soldered SSD with custom SSD controllers which kernel panic occasionally, iMac displays which develop light spots...
Immunization Expert Accuses CDC and Deloitte of Stealing Her Idea
1. Private businesses can do whatever they want. That doesn't make it correct or moral.

2. Catholics have killed way more people than Nazis AND have a pedophile crisis. Why aren't they being deplatformed? As a matter of fact Nazis are a subset of Catholics. Your argument only stands up when used selectively through your viewpoint using your definitions.
It wasn’t an accessibility tool first. TTY dates from the mid-19th century.

Paul Taylor’s innovations were to use the technology to provide telecommunications for the deaf, and then lobby for the creation of the operator relay system enabling TTY users to communicate with people who didn’t have a TTY. The machines already existed.
Sure. It remains unclear that anything is preventing him from going to a different country without extradition once his sentence is completed and withdrawing the coins there.
They've not managed to do that with gas. I expect that solar will be much the same.
I wonder where the old users will be migrating to. There were quite a few aspects of WSB I really enjoyed before 2020 / 2021 happened.
Pandas is basically impossible for me to use without dozens of Google searches after being familiar with it for over 7 years. Ofcourse, I don't use it daily but its one of those pieces of software that has a very non-intuitive API. Does any one find it difficult to use it or its just me?

In particular, I find this answer infuriating [1]. I've come across it so many times. Look, I have a CSV with 200 rows and I need to loop through them in the most intuitive way. Sure, its not optimal but I don't want fast code. I have a mental model of how to modify this dataframe. Let me do it, please.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/a/55557758
Ha, and Ada the programming language is named after Ada the badass.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace
No, that's why the spouses should get a divorce :).
> The US is just not really into titles

Except when it comes to military worship.
"Suppose that every individual i has a certain probability P_i of committing fraud"

That assumption is not right. As corporate culture can encurage fraud by setting up unrealistic goals and rewarding fraud (if not get caught) - or it can really encourage to play by the rules.

And I assume this is what this study is about.

(also I hope that they taken size per employes into account)
From the study:

> Findings were robust to various empirical measures and additional controls for undetected fraud.

Otherwise, I think logic would dictate that greedy people try to get into bigger companies where decent amount of money is moving.

Same for fudging the books, it starts to make sense from a risk perspective if there is a decent amount of transaction to hide fraud in. For too small businesses, fraud will be more limited to not recording events (gifts etc.), and those arguably occur whatever the size of the company.

To put it differently, I think big companies will be more of a fraud magnet, and they’ll need super serious effort to guard against it. Those efforts are often not good enough/not incentivized so it’s bound to happen more often.
You hit the nail on the head. This started during the HW/first Clinton admin
Depends. He might be able to sell the keys to a third party (who those authorities have no access to), for a discount in say cash or something where the transaction isn’t logged, and then be obviously not touching it when transactions or moves occurs - perhaps in court talking to a judge, or something similar.

It’s hard to separate something like that from someone finding an old key/seed backup or the like, which I don’t think anyone would consider a proper prosecution.

There is also a plausible scenario like a gov’t or court appointee actually getting or cracking the password somehow and stealing it themselves, like what happened with a significant Bitcoin balance related to Silk Road that got seized and then stolen from under the gov’ts nose by a secret service agent.
> it is very, very rare (and usually requires high profile political pressure) for being held over contempt to happen for very long.

I think it will be a lot less rare if digital currencies become a bigger thorn in a government's side.
Your silence on dogs is deafening...
There's mutmut (I'm the maintainer), cosmic-ray and mutpy too. In fact those are the established players. I have never heard of mutate st before! I will have to try it.
There seems to be a bit of confusion here.

I surmise that what was "lost forever" was only a copy of the documents. I base that on common sense, as well as this from the linked article (about the Pentagon Papers):

> So Mr. Sheehan smuggled the papers out of the apartment in Cambridge, Mass., where Mr. Ellsberg had stashed them; then he copied them illicitly, just as Mr. Ellsberg had done, and took them to The Times.

(Of course, I could be the one that is confused here, misreading this discussion. But I don't think that is the case)
Yep, and we're finding out just how limited raw genomic data is for understanding biology. Epigenetics plays a vastly larger role than anyone expected and the newly-discovered field of bioelectric computation could turn out to be nearly as important as genetics itself. We're still at the stage where what we don't know keeps getting bigger and bigger.
If liquidity was liquidity you'd just pay cash.
I don't know about the UK, but for example in Germany there are official statistics about ICU use. ICU use was at normal levels the whole time. But of course that is also being managed by scheduling risky surgery, for example.

Nevertheless, I don't know what makes you so sure your claims are true. I haven't really seen completely convincing evidence.

I have seen politicians publicly proclaim that the opportunity the pandemic provides should be used. So there definitely ARE politicians who would like to use it. What makes you so sure that none of the politicians in power, or indeed any of the other actors involved, don't share that sentiment?
i did something like that once, over 20 years ago at a now-defunct search engine/portal. once.

thankfully, it was seen by a co-worker and reported directly to me. one quick commit later and it was gone but i considered my lesson to be learned.
The Privacy Front in the Messaging Wars
So uh... what happens if this post doesn’t make it to the front page?
In those cases the residents all worked for the company and had no choice of where to live.

Is this the plan for the nevada corp towns? If not presumably the corp towns would have to compete to offer quality living.
So, I do not personally have a use for this, but I have always wanted to see how to make an Inkscape plugin and this is an excellent example.

Thank you!
BASIC was commonly understood because it had no structure or boilerplate to learn, just a few commands.
Author here, if anyone has questions or comments.
My wife uses a 1060 and runs just about everything at high/60fps. It’s still a great card
Just use a clothes pin? It’s faster too.
I wonder how much of this is because of the OS?
"Hey ma, if I'm locked up I need you to give this pass phrase to my lawyer - he'll know what to do".

Lots of multi-sig schemes you could invent to make your funds accessible.
I recently wrote a high level book on data science with a bunch of pictures and illustrations (not nearly this nice).

I am a big proponent of the idea of fusing art and technical content in a pedagogical way.

This is really nice, even if I'm not the target audience, I can appreciate just how much care and effort went into this work. Best of luck moving forward!
So individual labs can set their own standards for detecting an infection? Isn't that rather support for the skeptic's viewpoint? So there actually is no standard, just labs claiming things?
If you have a paper wallet or memorized it, that file doesn't really matter though. Nothing was seized other than encrypted data.