skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The primary beneficiaries of this will be organized crime

Michael Morell, a former acting director of the CIA, has some things to say about the use of BTC in crime:

> Based on our research and discussions with industry experts, I have confidence in two conclusions:
• The broad generalizations about the use of Bitcoin in illicit finance are significantly overstated.
• The blockchain ledger on which Bitcoin transactions are recorded is an underutilized forensic tool that can be used more widely by law enforcement and the intelligence community to identify and disrupt illicit activities. Put simply, blockchain analysis is a highly effective crime fighting and intelligence gathering tool.

Source: https://casebitcoin.com/story/former-cia-director-finds-bitc...

There's also a strong (IMO) argument that energy-intensive crypto-mining can make renewable energy more competitive, by only mining when renewables are producing excess power. That lessens the problem of renewables creating excess energy (which can be damaging to power grids).

I'm not trying to downplay El Salvador's vulnerability to climate change. But actual solutions to climate change - or even just mitigating its effects - is going to require considerable capital and other resources. If using BTC gives El Salvador an economic advantage, then more power to them.
A friend of mine is good friends with an IM. The IM showed him a position he had found which computers analyze incorrectly, which he was waiting to use in a match. It arises form the Open Sicilian, but fairly deep in. It's been about 10 years since he showed it to me, and AFAIK he still hasn't been able to use it. I've since forgotten the position, but I did find that it had occurred many times in GM play, just not for him. Part of that is likely that he's well known for being good at the Open Sicilian, so people he plays are likely to avoid it.

I asked him how long it took him to find such a position, which was met with laughter and a statement to the affect of "Way more than I want to admit". Which led us into a discussion of the obvious, that it's great to find such situations, but you can't rely on them. Even if he ever gets to use it, he only gets to use it once, after that, everyone will know about it. So, not only does he have to wait for the position to occur, but he'll only use it in a game that really matters.

There are many books on "opening traps", and every one that I've read always has the disclaimer that it's not at all good to rely on these, it's only a good idea to be familiar with them so you don't fall for them. And, on the off chance that you do gain an advantage, you still have to convert that into a win. We didn't actually play a game from the position mentioned above, but we did discuss it, and it's pretty clear I'd still get my *ss handed to me against an IM.
Property taxes are supposed to cover your local government's running services - police, fire brigade, trash/sanitation, water and roads.

Properly distributed, they should not be high.

Property taxes are not a slush fund for the government, nor should they be deferrable. They are intended to be running expenses.
Not really, the article says:

> “We will always ask the Commission to send us in French the letters it wishes to address to the French authorities, and if they fail to do so, we will wait for the French version before sending it,” the diplomat said.

"Send us French or consider your request to be second-class and ignored until you send us French".
I'm all in for subways everywhere but do you feel as comfortable getting in a rush hour car after covid? I'm starting to think subways and megacities might not be the safest way to live.
Tom Scott has made a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRz-Dl60Lfc

According to Encyclopaedia Britannica:

> Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), the name for mean solar time of the longitude (0°) of the Royal Greenwich Observatory in England

> ...in 1928 the International Astronomical Union changed the designation of the standard time of the Greenwich meridian to Universal Time. Universal Time remains in general use in a modified form as Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), which serves to accommodate the timekeeping differences that arise between atomic time (derived from atomic clocks) and solar time.
The Victoria Line was the first automatic (computer controlled) railway in the world.

The driver presses a button to close the doors, the rest is done by computer.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20573429

Serial numbers that should have 64 bits of randomness only had 63.
Your version actually makes a better argument for causality than the original one (which appears to be essentially bank and government debt may be less efficient allocation of capital than other theoretical uses the corporations could have put the money to but chose not to because they couldn't find any more efficient uses for it). But it's still not quite right: banks can and always do lend much more than is deposited with them, and the main thing that reduces their lending is changes in interest rates, which is a policy decision taken by the Fed (whose primary driver is actually stopping most prices rising too fast). If the Fed raised the interest rate tomorrow, the rich would actually expect to earn more from their money being loaned to consumers, but the demand for mortgages and personal loans would be lower. As the supply of money available for banks to lend is largely not determined by the rich (unlike a Gold Standard type system with fixed money supply), their preference for putting money in banks is like pushing on a string when it comes to consumers loaning more money.

It's almost the other way round: corporations raking in massive profits and having the option to keep funds in banks rather than reinvest in the corporation is a symptom of not much competition. That lack of competition does push prices for poor people up and wages down and that may be one of the reasons why they need to borrow more.

(Housing market policy obviously also plays a massive role in the size of mortgage debt too.)
I think we misunderstand each other, I'm talking about batching channel open/closes, I'm not talking about with whom you open channels.
if they have NUKES to support their claims - they absolutely should
Lol, is not , but thank you
If you are in the EU I would definitely advise to use separate databases due to privacy laws (GDPR). This also keeps your database and queries simpler because you don't need to use a separate a separate tenant ID column.
aalto never ceases to amaze
To be fair: it also concentrates poorly (there are no "lithium veins"), making extraction comparatively expensive in relation to common metals. So there's a real problem to be solved here. But it's not a "shortage" and we won't "run out".

The other components of Lithium battery chemistries, however, tend to be much rarer. Most (by kWh capacity) manufactured battery chemistries today are dependent on cobalt, which is a rare earth with some finite quantity of reserves that absolutely can "run out". Some manufacturers (Tesla in particular) seem to be having some success moving off that and onto nickel chemistries. We'll see.
Possibly, though I would say that is a little paranoid.

But anyway I was really using "backtrace" as a synonym for "technical details that users don't understand". Not very clear, sorry!
Did Van Halen ever actually cancel any shows because of brown M&Ms? The Snopes article says David Lee Roth found a brown M&M, but the show proceeded (and technical problems caused damage to the venue floor).

"I found some brown M&M’s, I went into full Shakespearean “What is this before me?” … you know, with the skull in one hand … and promptly trashed the dressing room. Dumped the buffet, kicked a hole in the door, twelve thousand dollars’ worth of fun.

The staging sank through their floor. They didn’t bother to look at the weight requirements or anything, and this sank through their new flooring and did eighty thousand dollars’ worth of damage to the arena floor. The whole thing had to be replaced.
So all anyone one needs to do to steal your money is DDoS you?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26834333
Only played for like a half hour. Fun, but brutal lol. So easy to die.
Bingo. Balance is way more important than density. It should be mandated by state law. Doesn't need to be per-city; you could have a system to trade jobs vs housing with neighboring cities or something.

A major irony is that California is approaching this all wrong. The "let Scott Wiener build whatever he wants" laws are in some cases being used to make the problem worse. See: Vallco Mall redevelopment plan, more jobs than housing.
PyRGG 1.1 Released: Python Random Graph Generator
Ireland: 99% English
Yes, but what's your point?
> This might be an easier approach than creating fake data & fake schema.

I doubt this. This is for two reasons: the first is that the development database usually shares the same schema as the production database so that's not an issue.

The second is that fake data convincingly takes care of various issues surrounding de-anonymization of data using correlations among bits of data that ostensibly have had their PII-sensitive bits removed.

If protection of user data is a priority, there are far fewer headaches associated with creating entirely fake data to populate the same schema than trying to figure out post-hoc censoring of production data.

That's not to say there aren't valid use cases of the latter. You often will want to do post-hoc censoring/aggregation if you wish to track e.g. usage metrics. This is in fact often a component of ETLs. However, those are removed from everyday development tasks.
Right, financing is the word we’re looking for. We give people credit cards, college loans, car loans, home loans, your phone is a loan, etc. Everything is financed so people don’t really save up to outright purchase something.

It brings us to a fundamental question, and that is, how many years should it really take for someone to buy anything with straight cash. For homes the market believes 15-30 years. For college, it believes something like 2 years to the day you die lol.

Dare I say the people that actually own this stuff before everyone else may believe you should never be able to afford it. That you will buy any number of these things and keep paying until the day you die. Life-as-a-service.

If we ever answer the question of ‘how many years of income’, we’ll have no choice but to come to the conclusion that sellers are operating in the realm of cruelty. That one can charge 30 years of your income and frugality for what they are selling. It’s unreasonable to ask for such a thing, so instead we don’t speak about it and hide the disgusting asking price behind financing.
> Symantec VIP

See https://www.reddit.com/r/1Password/comments/8yey6y/how_do_i_...

(PITA, I know, but running little auth gateways like this is part-and-parcel of doing security for an org.)

> Considering how easily actual factual professional security engineers fall for phishing, I don't believe you.

It's almost always the service's fault for being designed in such a way that its real async user interactions are indistinguishable from phishing. You can't train a user to distinguish X from X.

• It's hard to train users to not forward TOTP tokens sent to them to someone else, if the real service will text or push-notifies the user their TOTP token "at random" (i.e. because the attacker tried to log in.) But if the service never does that — if you always have to go and fetch the token from your TOTP app — then you can just tell the user that the only time they are to go do that, is right after they've typed their username and password as part of logging in themselves; and that anything else is a phishing attempt.

• It's hard to train users to not type their username+password into phishing login pages, if the services you use constantly send you emails containing deep links. But if the service never does that — if the service always tells you to go your browser and navigate to the site yourself — then it's easy to teach users to never trust a login initiated through an email.

Security, in this case, is less about "good security hygiene", and more about priming/expectations. And because of that, the practice of being an IT admin for such an org, is a practice of picking services, or negotiating with services, to ensure that the service is following secure workflows when dealing with your users, so that your users can be trained.
Kelly criterion is just the square of Sharpe ratio. Sharpe is used pretty extensively from a strategy selection and risk management perspective.
Perhaps it is time to go back to the Gold standard. No more fractional reserve banking, Bretton Woods anyone?
How to circumvent Sci-Hub ISP block
I’m a bit confused by this comment. For One thing , comics accessibility != manga accessibility. I have more means of reading DC and Marvel comics than I do reading non-shonen jump manga and non-WEBTOON Webtoons. The biggest barrier being that most manga have to be translated to the majority language in NA while comics do not. This often leaves a gap between where English readers are Japanese/Korean readers are. While They are making strides towards closing this gap (Shonen Jump App & Webtoons App) there’s still hundreds of literature that don’t receive this treatment and require per volume purchases instead of Netflix Style curation.

Some Manga has not closed its hole to connivence it is pirated by services like these.
I think they are. They are purchasing an asset that others may not be able to afford and making it available. Additionally, they're funding construction of more housing wherever possible. Are tenants just money conduits for the corporations they work for?
I can't seem to find anywhere in the RFC that the resolution is indeed a second. The actual format for storing the time indeed has a resolution of a second, but where exactly in the RFC does it say that a certificate with notAfter 2020-01-01 00:00:05 is valid at 2020-01-01 00:00:05.22?
> Surely you can configure your email client to not to load remote content automatically, but most of the clients will still leak information in various html/css elements.

I believe MailMate does this by default? I've been using MailMate for a little over a year now and I've fallen completely in love with it.

https://freron.com/
Every now and then I watch one of these Japanese "video walk" channels on YouTube and find myself despairing at how wildly better their land use is than in the US.

Obviously some of that is to be expected of an island nation versus a continent-spanning one. And yet, so much of Tokyo seems like it's built at the scale of a small-town main street: Between the major roads with their skyscrapers sit networks of pedestrian-friendly streets with little shops and restaurants, often crossed by even smaller yokocho which themselves have bars and flats. Quiet side streets intermix residential buildings and even single-family homes, and yet somehow these little districts are all linked up together into the world's largest metropolis.
Demos in trackpad settings were quite informative for me.

Also, aren't there notifications with change notes when you upgrade?

Maybe something changed in Big Sur, I only used old MacBook Air up to Catalina.
Ah, thanks. Like the poster you responded to probably, the actual bit (hah) that I was missing was that the last bit was apparently no used by the framebuffer in any way, i.e. it's available for synchronization because changes to it are not visible on the screen.
If the distribution of p is ergodic, then Kelly criterion (re-sized at every p) still maximizes expected growth rate.
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding, but the post says that the optimal bet size f = 1-2p (where p is the probability of winning). But, this seems backwards. As p goes up, you should be betting more.

Shouldn't the optimal bet size, f, be 2p-1?
At the moment the program only run on PCs, however a few users have figured out how to run it on mobile. But that's just for the server, the server that is tunneled can be connected to by anything. We have a few users hosting Minecraft Bedrock servers that are being connected to by mobile and consoles.
This is so great. I have a keyboard that I switch Bluetooth to control my iPad a lot during the day so this will make things easier.
nano to name one
Junicode: A MUFI-compliant medieval character font
I’m still not seeing the value of Bitcoin for smaller transactions. Just use the existing banking system and if you want to buy Bitcoin then buy Bitcoin.
I'm not a car nerd, I don't want a car. I want to transport me where I want to go at a certain level of comfort, reliability, cost, privacy, speed etc.

If I can get that for $200/month for a new car for 3 years then hand it back, with just known costs of insurance and gas, that's valuable. I don't care what the cost of the car is, only what the cash flow is.

Sure, I could buy a car for $5k and hope that it's cheaper over the 3 years, hope it doesn't depreciate too much, and after 25 months (plus however many months to pay for the extra maintenance and servicing included in the first car) but I'm taking the extra risk. Maybe I'll come out on top, maybe I won't.

Interest rates have been at record lows for over a decade, but the cost of the basket of goods the typical person buys hasn't changed much.
Brussels being an phrase often used to mean EU governmental officials and diplomats.
> 2. If you are poor, which do you think is easier? A higher initial capital expenditure? Or a higher upkeep cost?

Higher upkeep cost is the easier one. Many poor people have a steady an income, but no saved wealth. That's why there are many people able to pay 1800/mo for rent for years, and never able to buy their own home.

And this would make LVT the better option for a poor person, since it would turn "buying" a home into "renting" the land from the state, along with buying the building, which is obviously possible (as seen by the existence of poor renters).
But how did the get that 10m? Presumably they paid taxes on the 10m when it was earned.
If you did not read to the last sentence, go back an do so. It's worth it.
Yes, this is the right answer
Blight is a direct result of people in the area being to poor to afford to maintain infrastructure.

As to driving prices down, some houses in good condition are selling for ~25-50k which would be worth more basically anywhere else in the US.
Possibly, or since it could be one protein like melatonin that controls all sleep function, it could be just one gene just as easily.
In nominal terms, they are zero-sum. If you consider inflation then debtors have the advantage since we live in an inflationary economy, so wages will keep pace with general inflation but the debt amount remains constant.

Debt is an essential part to accelerating growth if used for productive investments (say, a degree in computer science). What the "middle class" (really the working poor but people call it the middle class) are using debt for is not productive; when we have layaway and things like Affirm financing, etc. we have lots of debt being used to purchase luxury goods and services. You can argue the "system" is to blame for people buying electronics on layaway or you can blame the people for being irresponsible.

To whoever is going to respond by saying poor people buy food on credit cards: you can't use layaway and Affirm like services for food.
I chuckled at the headline because financial planners have always said that owning real estate for renting out was a more reliable source of retirement income than anything else. However, it is annoying at how some places where there is strong demand, there are few new projects going up. I personally have been amazed at how much new housing has been (and is currently being) developed in the "south bay" (which are the communities Mtn View, Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, and San Jose.

Ever since mixed commercial/residential started getting approved we've had over a dozen large re-developments of lots that were purely commercial/industrial into mixed residential / commercial. The entire AMD and former Spansion campuses have been re-done this way and produced both hundreds of new homes and several new commercial leasing opportunities. Sunnyvale's revised downtown went from 100% commercial to 50 / 50 commercial and residential. So that is pretty amazing to me.
There's something I don't get about that method, as clever as it sounds. The method is if there are brown M&Ms, then check the entire production for safety. What about the else? Don't check everything? So if the person in charge of the green room happens to be on top of things and picks out a few M&Ms, they don't line-check the entire production even though there could be something "literally life-threatening"?

It's easy to say that the brown M&Ms acted as a signal, but I can't think of any way to depend on that signal that isn't reckless. Just check the actual production, since that seems to be an option.
That's weird though, a screen painted like that isn't very useful. It seems to me that the bit used for synchronization here either has no effect, or a not very visible one.
Yup. Same reason college costs are obscenely high. Everyone’s guaranteed a loan to cover whatever amount of educational expenses they have, so colleges can charge however much money they want.
I'm on my phone so can't list the previous threads but if you put Propublica in the search box at the bottom of HN pages, they'll show up.
I'm not saying the tax system in the US is designed properly (I think it's obvious that it's not), but unless I'm missing something here, all this article shows is that:

1. Rich people got really rich because the value of their stocks (and probably property portfolios) increased a lot in the past 20 years. This is not surprising if you look follow the Fed policy of printing money and look at a simple graph of the S&P 500 over 20 years.

2. Rich people that have their money tied up in these things only get taxed when they sell them (in the form of long term capital gain). This is by design, and I'm very curious how a system could be re-designed to tax people when the value of something like a stock increases, but is not sold. This would effect literally everyone who owns property and/or stocks outside of their 401ks.

What is honestly interesting about this ProPublica article? The only interesting thing (as far as I can tell) about it is someone in the IRS is leaking these people's filings, which is a felony.
I've used the software Synergy [1] in the past as a software based KVM which has the advantage of being cross-platform with linux and Windows. It works fairly well but some of the features that Apple is promising with Universal Control are ones that Symless has struggled to deliver in their product, probably due to the fact that they don't control the entire stack like Apple does. They've promised drag and drop, copy and paste, and other features between systems but it seems that they've stopped advertising them as upcoming features.

Universal Control stood out to me as one of the more interesting ones of the WWDC keynote and one that I could see myself using, but am a tad skeptical it'll deliver on its promise fully. Apple's other continuity features are remarkably useful and great when they work, but in the cases that they don't (which while not normal, isn't uncommon enough to say they're a non-issue) it can be a real pain. This sort of feature needs to be rock-solid if you intend to integrate it into your personal workflow.

[1] https://symless.com/synergy