skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article is worth a read. The perpetrator was apparently doing a lot more than just insider trading on the dark web:

> As far back as 2016, the account with that moniker bought names, addresses, dates of birth, and Social Security numbers on the underground marketplaces that traffic in illicit online goods. He took that personal info to open banking accounts in the names of unwitting strangers, and used those accounts to make trades based on insider information he gleaned from others

The claimed amount of Bitcoin he earned from these activities is low. Certainly low in the context of what a talented engineer should be earning. Either he’s hiding his actual profits, or he was simply doing this for the thrill of doing criminal things on the dark web. Strange case.
Teatime Stories (2016)
realizing I do not need a romantic relationship in order to be a "complete person". took me many decades to get here and learning was painful. glad I am here though
To he fair to Windows, if you really want to, you can disable UAC prompts. Obviously that's generally a very bad idea, but it can be done.
Ask HN: Spain - Working as a EU citizen with a criminal record
I am EU-member citizen with a criminal record in my home country looking to get a job and/or relocate to Spain.

I just served 5 years for manslaughter which I did 15 years ago and got released on parole recently. I can travel abroad.

I have 12+ years of experience with adequate skills, certification and recommendations. I am fluent in both Spanish and English. I am up-to-date with recent technologies as I did IT work while serving the sentence.

1) What are my chances of getting a good job on-site ? Remote ?
2) Should/Can I conceal my conviction from employers ?

Any advice is appreciated.
I think the P-51 pilot was a bozo and ran out of fuel in that link.

The P-51 was fragile because it used liquid cooling, which meant it was unsuitable for ground attacks where somebody with a rifle could disable the engine (or flak.)

The P-47 used an air-cooled engine, so was more reliable at low-level attacks.

Note the P-47 was the size of a house - new pilots were literally scared just looking at it parked on the ground.
Ok, but there would still be some point of contact where an SBOM would show “company X fork of Ruby, company X fork of package Z” etc, right?

And then the choice gets back to how much to trust company X and package Z, weighed against alternative solutions.
started hiking to eventually hiking the appalachian trail and falling in love with the endless possibilities of exploration. Made me fall in love the country I now call home (albeit the parts with less humans).
I've had the same issue multiple times lately. It really wouldn't be so bad if Signal could resynchronize the messages, but here you have to restart from scratch every time.

I always found it very dissonant that all I hear coming from the Signal devs is "we know best, you know nothing" but then when it comes to a native client the only thing they manage to implement is a half-assed, bloated-yet-underfeatured electron client (which already suffered at least one significant security vulnerability I might add). If they were a little more open with their development policies they might not be in such an awkward situation right now.
I'm more thinking along the lines of arm server (low power) + VNMe storage + WAF = end of cloud needs for many current cloud consumers
Buying a dishwasher.

1. Less drudgery means more time to relax

2. Less pressure to minimise kitchenware use means more ambitious and enjoyable cooking

3. I just get a little jolt of happiness when I walk into the kitchen and see my large cuboidal son sitting there
I realize given how much hardship other people have experienced so this comes across as rather callous, but for this reason 2020 has been one of the best years in my career.

In-person interactions add stress on top of my normal work stress. I think I can objectively prove I've been more productive at home than at work too. I'm really hoping I can find a way to stay at home.
Sorry, can't find that.

Eth2.0 is actually filed under things_that_are_very_hard_to_research_develop_and_deploy_to_production_as_they_are_currently_supporting_a_200_billion_market.txt
And you don't consider this broken?
I love the videos of ActionKid from New York [1]. I watched them before COVID, but they got really interesting when the crisis hit The Big Apple.

[1] https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCBkcw8h7epT_bK0QzuY2Bmg
In my mind SBOM is similar to food ingredients being listed on the packaging. FDA or someone requires them, very few read them or cares what is in there. BUT now that they are listed on every food product, those who care can read them and make informed decisions. And raise alarm when it is found that someone uses unhealthy amounts of whatever in their cakes or sausages.

As for software, if I had up to date reliable SBOMs for everything I run, it would certainly give me piece of mind. And maybe, even if unlikely, I might be able to do purchasing decisions based on used components, their CVE/etc. history, or sheer amount (in less being generally better, unless there is a reason to suspect the vendor e.g. rolled their own TLS instead of using one of the usual suspects).
So you say that ownership should be kept in physical contracts? There are usecases when you are the owner of something which is not in your physical possession.
I don't care about that NFT stuff, collectible can make sense or not. What bothers me is to do it with so much energy consumption. When you are attracted to lose money, then just do it environment friendly.
https://medium.com/tqtezos/proof-of-work-vs-proof-of-stake-t...
Tezos has what it needs for that.
NFTs on Tezos: https://kalamint.io/ https://www.hicetnunc.xyz/ Minting a NFT costs about 1 cent
>You cannot intrinsically link real world items to tokens.

Patents & trademarks?
"According to the European Space Agency, researchers estimate that Earth orbit is cluttered with about 34,000 debris objects at least 4 inches (10 centimeters) wide and 128 million pieces that are 1 millimeter across or larger."

http://www.stuffin.space does a wonderful job of showing this by searching for "DEB" which is how debris is labeled. When technology will bring down costs, we will likely see a boom in orbit cleaning missions by private companies with their fleet of automated space drones wandering around, capturing objects, putting them in space litter boxes and throwing them either towards the Sun, or down to Earth or the Moon so they can be recycled.
> The claim is that [...] one of those [forks] is going to be dead.

This is much weaker claim than your original one (~"the market values popularity over technical features") and a much less controversial one.

> something like "the half-life of a fork is only X amount of time, so it's a very bad idea to try to pull one off".

> If you find that one of the forks still has, for example, 20% as much hash power as the other, you have disproved the claim.

Again, ETH was forked off the original Ethereum chain and won (it has ~98% hashrate) so it is not necessarily a bad idea to attempt one.

> There's no way [~10 year old Bitcoin 0.8.x nodes] are fully compatible.

You can download v0.8.1 here (https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/releases/tag/v0.8.1) and it should be able to fully sync the Bitcoin blockchain (i.e. including blocks mined today). If you use older clients for mining you might generate blocks that are ignored by other miners but your old client will still keep in sync and follow the same correct chain. (Something that is not true for ETH or Bitcoin forks).

According to your link you can apparently sync even older clients (e.g. v0.3.24) if you take care of non-consensus related bug fixes that would otherwise crash your client.
Went back to Firefox about a year ago, it's sometimes painful but overall the experience is very decent, I only use Chrome for Node debugging now.

"Remember that as it is a shame to be surprised if the fig-tree produces figs."
There is filosofia.org for an Spanish equivalent. The looks are not the most modern in some places (it was created in 1996) but it's actively updated. Managed by the Gustavo Bueno foundation.
> I read the parent as “all next-gen packaging formats should adopt this pattern” and envisioned a hell where said packages are the only way to get new software, if any of them gains enough traction.

Parent here. Whoa, you're reading too deep into that. How do you think that I envision such a future? Even I didn't know I've envisioned such a future.

If I had time to implement such an elaborate subsystem, I'd do it as a user-configurable kernel level interface. Like a more user-configurable, more flexible version of SELinux or AppArmor.

The first thing I'd implement would be a global on/off switch, too. I've seen and worked in enough projects where keeping it on was the only sensible choice, and I know enough that some people (incl. me in some scenarios) would like to keep it turned off.

For clarity, I neither support snaps, commercialization of Linux distributions to create commercial lock-ins, centralizing packages like Snap and dumbing down Linux. I already don't touch Chrome, Electron, VSCode and other pseudo opensource and pseudo free software and use some paid, cross-platform closed source software since they solve some real problems of mine, but I wouldn't dream of a Linux like you're creating by reading my simple comment.

Wow.
It's excellent that Python lets one light off a REPL and work on solving the problem, then annotate the answer later for all of those good reasons.
Bouncing back from losing a deal to an even bigger competitor
My first guess was autostereograms, but that doesn’t seem to be the case. Maybe some steganography?
Pyramid scheme or Money Laundering instrument?

In any event I can’t see authorities keeping a blind eye on this.
> even normal Dell/HP/Supermicro stuff is a PITA to run at datacenter scale

not if you know what you are doing.
i can only find one single motherboard that supports ecc for the new ryzen. im glad amd isn't crippling it, but for all intents and purposes the support still isn't there
> If a cop asks me if I want to buy drugs and I say yes, they most definitely have no case whatsoever here in Denmark

USA, circa 1993: I was in a car with a couple friends going to a neighborhood simply called "Temple", where meth labs were prevalent and you could procure any sort of drugs you wanted, if you knew where to park. Cops were everywhere and they stopped us, as we tried to turn around. "What are you white kids doing in Temple?" Before our driver could answer, a friend stuck his body between the front seats and yelled "we are here to buy drugs but you guys fucked it up!" - The cop did not laugh, but they let us go on our way.
I’ve used Firefox on mobile for a long time. Perfect, no, but it’s not Chrome and can sync my bookmarks.
It should be said that the SEP makes a bona fide effort to cover continental philosophy as well. There are entries on, e.g., Heidegger (two of them, actually), Gadamer, Ricoeur, Deleuze, existentialism, postmodernism, and many other key thinkers and topics.
The one reason I've not done anything with OpenBSD is the lack of a D compiler. Maybe now I'll give OpenBSD a try.
Profiling Python code with py-spy
What is the primary point for which you believe NFTs to be rubbish?
Von Neumann Upset
Okay, 8000 is admirable and scary. :D

I used TGS a few years ago, back when I was still limping along on a 32-bit machine. Generally either the browser process would hit ~3GB VIRT and very abruptly terminate, or (back when Chrome would lump all of the open tabs owned by an extension into a single renderer) the renderer would simply thrash so much (because suspending the current tab, or switching between suspended tabs, invoked the mostly-swapped-to-disk renderer process) the browser would effectively become unusable, eg, 30 second stalls switching between tabs or 2 minute stalls opening new tabs.

Chrome's built-in tab discarding actually closes the renderer process, which solves all of those design fails, but then there's the browser process to contend with; a few days ago the browser process was basically sitting on about 2.5-3GB RAM. Apparently the data structures associated with remembering/showing a few tabs require a lot of memory...?!

The only annoyance with TGS and tab discarding without proper tab serialization/dehydration is page state is thrown out the window. Scrolled 350 pages deep in a tumblr blog or pinterest feed? Permanently gone on restore. I actually actively avoid sites with infinite scrolling where I can ._.

Of course, the real problem is that browsers don't provide good simple mnemonics for "I want to come back to this later" that effectively translate from "this is open and currently a thing" to something that works for squishy brains and finite hardware. Chrome's new reading list feature (which doesn't quite work in Dev yet, clicking the menu item randomly decided to start SEGV/MAPADDRing the other day, glad I wasn't using it lol) will be interesting to watch, but looks about as potent as the tag-less bookmark system, sadly.

This has actually been a problem for some years... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18325632, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16375865, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13537600 make a few references (^F) to 'The Great Suspender' which I've mostly summarized here. (I accidentally locked `i336_` a few years ago - and I also had the English-language equivalent of "more lines of code = more better" back then too, so yeah, if you do have a look I can recommend ^F.)

I've been making "I need to fix this with an extension" noises to myself for years, but the gigantic annoyance is that, at the end of the day, whatever fun system I come up with on desktop will never seamlessly integrate on mobile because of course I can't run extensions there. What on earth is the point of having an external brain if I can't access it without needing to invoke a 30-step process that I have to fully context switch away from whatever I'm doing to perform?!?
I would have thought that is obvious to all. It still has a place in the world - a bit like fortnite skins or something. Bit of harmless fun.

What I don't get is the insane amount of money people are willing to pay. $5 here or there I could understand but thousands??
This felt really scammy to me. Like straight out of the grifters' handbook.
Is it not possible to put the "owned" data itself on the NFT blockchain? If so, that does seem like a serious flaw.
"Working from home. I realised being in an office - especially an open-plan office - was setting off my social anxiety all the time."

This! It's been such a game changer for me too. My career has been turbo charged over the last year. The change has been so dramatic that I won't switch to a company that doesnt have a remote-first policy. I'll forego money and promotion opportunities for it. The stress and anxiety reduction is more a personal thing but the freedom to choose, the fact that I'm not mandated to be at a particular place at a particular time, is such a revolution. It seems oppressive to not allow flexibility where the job allows. Most people I know seem to feel the same.
I agree, it will be the new norm. it's just that this insight hasn't arrived yet in many places (and Europe is generally lagging behind in doing things differently compared to how it was done the past hundreds of years). suppose it won't matter really since majority of companies won't survive the coming years anyway (for other reasons) so their short sightedness wrt WFH doesn't really matter :D
Critical thinking says NFTs could work for say reselling tickets or something where you need to transfer the proof of ownership.

The NFT Art market as it is seems to be about equivalent to the real world autograph market. It is likely vastly overvalued and the current sales are just people buying and hoping they can sell for more later like a Beanie Baby
I'm not doubting that there's a huge interest or market, just that the intersection of that market and the standard American truck driver is not large
An acquaintance of mine made 15k euros in 6 days with auto-generated artworks, he even made it to the local newspaper.

I don't even know why I bother learning new frameworks and languages anymore.
agar.io
I find it obscene that there are some important software tools that are often developed by one guy in his rented basement and big corporations make billions on the back of it without sharing a penny.
We need a royalty system for open source software, so that these companies will have to start paying fair share to the developers they exploit.
This will also ensure the overall safety as developers will have funds to do audits or hire staff to fix security issues or there will be an incentive for people to contribute as successful PRs would be eligible for royalties.
Such system could be embedded in GitHub and other VCS.
Individuals and companies with a revenue below certain threshold would be exempt from paying.
There should be no opt out - in many countries a worker cannot legally work for free, even if they agree to it - they have to be paid at least a minimum wage and in the same vein companies using open source software without payment are circumventing this rule.
This will also level the playing field for developers from poor backgrounds - some developers cannot afford to work for free, so they cannot contribute to open source even if they wanted to do, because they have bills to pay.
This way open source wouldn't be only reserved for privileged developers who can afford to commit their spare time.
That belief is incorrect, but extremely common, so it's dubious to describe it as weird. Indeed, the fact that so many people hold that belief is at the root of the whole NFT situation.
Am I the only one who hate pasta ?
Let people do whatever the F they wanna do with their money. If they lose it, shrug, it’s their money.

I hate this idea of people telling other people what to do or what’s good for them.
I've seen a lot of people comment that they would love these for students, as their computers are locked down and they can't do much. Even trying to get the latest versions of the software installed is a burden if they DO manage to get the software installed.

This unlocks so much, in terms of being able to build games via the web browser without students needing to download software is pretty amazing.
>I can relate to that, sort of, I just don't think one should be supposed to fake feeling sorry or other emotions.

No one is suggesting that. if it's fake, it's not going to work. You need to actively take an interest in what the other person is saying.

Look at what you're describing. It's an algorithm for appearing interested, without any of the actual interest. Your goal here is purely your appearance to the other person.

And it can work. But the follow-up question is: what is your goal?

If your goal is only to get what you want, there are much more effective ways than this sort of insincerity.

If your goal is to have a meaningful reaction with the other person, there is no substitute for mindful presence.

If you're not actually interested in what the other person is saying, examine your won mind for why that is, and decide whether you need to make a change.

But the most important thing is to forget about how you're appearing to the other person. By definition, it removes the authenticity from your interaction.

Now that can be problematic, for a number of reasons. I'm someone who's authentic self has been rejected by many people I've met in life. The temptation is to try to work on how I'm 'appearing' in order to avoid that rejection. But it doesn't work that way.

It turns out I needed to find more compatible people, instead of expecting to be compatible with everyone.
ELI5: What can NFT achieve that a combination of Twitter + public key cryptography cannot achieve? As far as I can tell the only benefit is "decentralization" and just like BTC, the average user is beholden to bank-like entities for all their transactions anyway, so you get all the cons of existing monetary systems without the insurance.
Can you provide any citations for your claim?

I’m reviewing the few countries listed in the Wikipedia page on entrapment ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrapment ) but I don’t see how this would trigger any of the exclusions listed.

The criminal in question was advertising his services across the dark web. Officers simply bought his product and sold him something he was advertising himself as buying.

They didn’t go out and encourage him to do these things. He was doing them and the agents engaged as customers so they could unveil his identity.
Everything is valued economically at whatever people will pay for it. But true value is independent of the price. Van Gogh sold almost nothing in his short 10 years of producing and killed himself because he thought he had no value and didn't want to burden his brother (he had some mental issues of course). Now his art is priceless. Value changes over time, things that people truly love will go up over time, things that have no real "value" will go away. Most of the "art" NFT's I've seen have no real appeal beyond a few minutes; I would happily take the money though if people offered it, but not feel any real value was traded for it, so it would seem less than rewarding other than the money.
Yeah totally agree. The UK is much more enlightened and progressive than a lot of Europe on many things (unfashionable opinion, particularly for a "remainer" like me)
Evidence for a causal role by mouse virus in human breast cancer
In contrast I hate driving cars. I feel like it’s my least favorite tool. I have a nice car, I’ve driven even nicer cars in different styles and hated them all. Driving requires so much of my attention I feel like it’s invasive. In addition I feel like I have to sit relatively still and use my muscles in very particular way. It’s a trap for my mind in body, and an experience I don’t find pleasant.

I am an American and will go out of my way to use any other mode of transportation, even at the expense of time or money. Sometime’s it’s just unavoidable.
Dammit, I thought this was actual audio intercom. Looks great though, going to keep this in my back pocket.
Very interesting. I will take a deeper look at this this afternoon.

In the meantime, you have on small spelling error that you might want to fix.

>For exampke, a...

Looks like your finger grabbed the wrong key.
From experience in medical equipment, a BOM was about as useful as a piece of toilet paper. Trying to keep one up to date when every resistor and nut and bolt is included is a pain and about 20 percent was probably wrong. An SBOM is just more beauracracy, what you need is due companies to actually want to pay for developers to use the right tools for the job. If you have security requirements that don't allow for using as many dependencies or require more updates, then pay developers to write something in house or to keep things up to date with more sprints dedicated to maintenance.
I use Firefox for most things. Sometimes I use Firefox Focus for sites I don't want to store in my history (like Slickdeals.net; I'm on that site too much as it is, so I try to make it less convenient. Totally not to hide my shopping habits :)!)

I use uBlock Origin and Bitwarden on Firefox for Android. It's really nice to have the option to install add-ons!
> AaRR and aArr, byte swapped to little endian of course

Maybe my understanding of endianness is off but isn’t it AaRR -> RRAa?
Brave is a pretty decent choice on mobile.
Transitioning my gender. Living my truth. Coming out to everyone in my life and being forced to confront the shame that held me back for decades.

It took a lot of reflection and was cause for a lot of growth. But now I'm not only mentally happier, I'm taking better care of my body because it finally feels like it's my own.