skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's one example of a retroactive grant (though not by Optimism):

https://twitter.com/StatefulWorks/status/1417157834702209031
You're not wrong, but this is really only relevant if a significant number of users actually treated these systems as currencies. Monero and others are not very popular, because the public transaction metadata of BTC and ETH doesn't matter if it's just a casino.
When the simulator shows a previously unseen object, it must first simulate all its history accounting for all effects to ensure that the shown state is legit and doesn't expose the conspiracy. This state should also account for all future investigations. The easiest way to achieve this is to run a precise simulation, so it doesn't save any resources.
He's also in his mid 70's. A decade from now a lot of these folks will no longer hold the reins of power. For better or worse.
Haha thank you for noticing! Gun for hire here ;)

Typing the domain into the url box is exactly what I did a week ago (game 3 or so of the series), and it seemed like too good of a chance to pass up, so I bought it.

I had fun pondering the possibilities, but figured a little bit of self promotion was the most appropriate and least likely to offend anyone.
It is. And ironic, considering the vitriol displayed is what he's criticizing.
Well, sure. Just keep in mind how supply chains are working right now. Fiasco / failure - well, most workers didn't even get raises yearly to keep up with annual inflation. I'd say that's negative, although the market "working". Where is the equilibrium then? The balance will be found but at what detriment to society on numerous levels? How many people don't have healthcare? How many people work three jobs? All this is catching up and to me, it's a fiasco...will we see social unrest because of it, or better yet, have we in some ways? What about people finding purpose in life and taking pride in their careers at these lower levels of labor. Compared to 100 years ago maybe we are better off, but I think there could be at least an 80% improvement in the system.
Restraunts are high turnover businesses, as in most new owners don't make it more than 2 years. Many small businesses are owned by people without much knowledge or experience outside of that business. Very little classical education/degrees. The only businesses that thrive become survivor bias, they believe what worked before is what will work now, not realizing that markets do change.

I can perfectly see a dysfunctional small company draining their business away by just not changing. Happens all the time on Kitchen Nightmares.
It's not that you're wrong, it's that the balance of power in the financial system is weighted strongly to the very rich, who own most of the money supply not held by banks and the treasury. Private transactions offer them incredible opportunities to screw the rest of us over.
Because it’s stupid to respond to someone that assumes the conclusion.

There is no such thing as “free food, free healthcare, and free education” until we have robots that literally do all of those things for us without us needing to work. Speaking like communism provides free things without discussing the real cost of that (forced labor, poor quality, etc) is like pitching a religion touting the benefits of heaven. Big shocker when nobody cares to engage in an argument.
Here in the UK the police attend. They're armed with tasers only (and some don't have those). They're trained to deescalate violence. If they assess the situation is bad enough they can call in armed backup but it's rarely needed.
> Under the proposal, mathematics is flexible with no right or wrong answer.

Please cite the specific material in the framework that supports your characterization that it holds that “mathematics is flexible with no right or wrong answer.”
It's because there's multiple versions which are fundamentally incompatible.
My reason to not like Perl is that the language does not support function arguments explicitly. What? People wrote web apps in a language with bash-style argument handling. You have to shift your arguments off the @_ argv array. That, and my student job was maintaining ISP software written in the 90s in Perl by several generations of new programmers. It was very educational. :)
Slippery slope towards what exactly? What problems do you foresee? Do you foresee that all women in america, per your example, would:
1. Start working for GitLab
2. Want to move to the Netherlands?
it seems a little bit strange to compare paying for journalism to paying for a piece of software that basically exists because of regulatory capture and lobbying.
This is really interesting, and I can see how this would be very useful, especially for someone like me who doesn't work with JS all day long.

FYI, when messing with the Array, I got into an unexpected state where clicking one of the entries selected it (applied it?) as the "grey" text, and I wasn't able to get back to the full array details.

As an aside, I have been using Joplin's Math Mode plugin[0] for a while, and this reminds me of it.

[0] https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/plugin-math-mode/13254
Reading it on mobile is a horror experience.
Not sending out militarized police teams based on anonymous tips.

(FWIW, I've been swatted before, and live in constant anxiety every since. I don't feel safe.)
The Magic of 10K Instagram Followers – A No-Gimmicks Approach – Mari Smith
IANAL but to a layperson it might look like Daniel Ray of Muse Group violated https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/873 , punishable by up to one year imprisonment.

It does seem that the developer is probably violating copyrights - you usually can’t just post Disney’s IP for others to freely use.

There does seem to be some gray area. Recent cases have been relaxing the grip of CFAA as it pertains to accessing publicly available APIs. 10-15 years ago it likely would have been a violation. Today I genuinely doubt it, especially if it received a knowledgeable judge like Alsup. But I bet a court would look at the copyright issues separately from the API access. While the API access is (probably?) not against the law, the copyright violations would probably stick without some amazing lawyer work. Perhaps you could make the argument that Muse made these public via their API rather than the developer who scraped them but I don’t feel like that would succeed because it’s really two independent faults. Muse failed to secure the IP and the developer didn’t just access, they republished on IPFS.

I had been very critical of the extreme nonsense of Tenacity / Sneedacity. I also felt the general outrage over un-materialized concerns of nebulous “telemetry” was unconvincing. I certainly never expected Muse Group to somehow lower the already low bar down to the Marianas Trench, and yet, here we are.

Here’s what Daniel wrote to the developer, in public:

>> Upon further investigation, it became clear that <developer> is a Chinese national, but not resident in China. As a guest in his current country, his residency status is predicated on a number of conditions, one of which is not violating the law.

>> If found in violation of laws, residency may be revoked and he may be deported to his home country.

>> This becomes even further complicated given another repo of his - Fuck XXQG which is highly critical of the Chinese government. Were he deported to China, who knows how he may be received.

As marcan said, that does appear to be blackmail. I have trouble finding a view of that in which it is not blackmail. Blackmail is a crime at state and federal levels for good reason.

I’m not a lawyer so I’d be interested to learn ways that this isn’t a violation of California penal code PC 519, very specifically PC 523, and more generally PC 518. If anyone could educate me and help me see how it is not blackmail/extortion, I would genuinely appreciate that.

Penal Code 518 defines the California crime of extortion. The law says that a person commits extortion by:

obtaining property or other consideration from another person without that person’s consent, …and doing so by means of force or fear.

Penal Code 519 says that, for purposes of extortion charges, fear is an emotion generated by certain specific threats.

These include the threat to:
…accuse a person, or that person’s relative or family member, of a crime,
…report a person’s immigration status or suspected immigration status.

New York’s law is quite similar, https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/PEN/135.60 but merely a class A misdemeanor.
>it was seen to be successful

That has a Chicken-or-the-Egg problem.

You need high level talent and resources to develop your 'High Quality Implementation'; but those talents and resources only start to become available, at least to us mere mortals, if there is already an MVP Prototype in hand to work with.

Squaring that Circle, while still holding on to the steering wheel, is a big part of crossing the chasm from a potential Idea to a real world product you can bring to market and test if it actually was a good Idea to work with in the first place.
Correlation aspect sure, but perhaps not the process lf entanglement
That's one reason I REALLY liked the "recent folders" quicklaunch shortcut under Windows 7. I used that all the time.
Hashcode is not used for identity and is explicitly not intended for this and never was. The whole point of this article is that the modern default implementation does not even rely on object identity anymore (it used to). Java has object identity of course. Most good equals implementations rely on that to figure out if the object is being compared to itself before running more expensive operations do field by field comparison.

Collisions are a good thing actually if you are implementing a hash table. Otherwise you end up with one bucket per object; which does not scale very well. The reason hashcode can be overridden is so you can have some control over these collisions if you need to.
> The filesystem doesn't support it.

Remember that Linux supports hierarchical mounts! You can mount anything at any depth of directory nesting. Even if it were true that MAX_PATH were an FS limitation, you could still nest mounts and encounter absolute paths exceeding MAX_PATH. MAX_PATH is simply the length in bytes of the longest string you should expect system calls to accept as a path parameter.

> I use Linux computer with 16Mb of RAM, total. Of course they don't run systemd nowadays since it's too big, but in my opinion systemd is good, and I would like to see it more in the embedded world.

It sounds like using systemd is a terrible idea for memory-constrained devices, so you really don’t want to see it in the embedded world.
Yet another HN front-end
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

basically, made for fun. I hope someone benefits from it?
> The original proposed framework that intends to make math worse for unrealistic reasons

The proposed framework doesn't make math any different. It proposes making the teaching of math better, based on extensive empirical research (both directly on differential methods and outcomes, and on the underlying causal processes) about how existing math teaching approaches are deficient.
That's one of my complaints too. But, you can use this kind of trick to get around it and make your code more readable:

sub pretty_print {
my ($filename, $text, $text_width) = @_;

Not as good as if it was just built into the language itself but better then the alternative.
There was an article recently extolling the virtues of glue code. Perl was the duct tape of the internet for a long time. And, it deserves acknowledgement for that fact.
AI May Play a Big Role in the Discovery of New Materials
when you add your private address to every transaction
I agree. The state of international migration is very worrying indeed. More people are dying on migration routes then by terrorism ~by a factor of two~ by 50%. That is, hostile border policy by western nations are causing at least many more deaths then global terrorists. And this seems to be getting worse. The global pandemic saw countries double down on their harsh border policy, and there is little reason to believe there is relief in sight.

The climate crisis is rendering more and more places inhospitable which will only deepen the ongoing migration crisis. European nations seem indifferent to this fact and continue their hostile border policy even though a global emergency is imminent.

I indeed applaud any private efforts to offer any help they are able through this crisis, as much help is needed. But I do wish governments would take this humanitarian crisis more seriously. People are dying, there is an emergency, and we governments need to change their immigration policies to reflect that. We need to open our borders and stop this needless suffering of migrants.

But while governments are hellbent on keeping theirs borders this closed, hopefully we will see more companies take action like GitLab here and offer help where they can.

EDIT: I cited wrong numbers. Migrant deaths were at least 3,170 by mid December 2019 according to IOM (https://www.iom.int/news/global-migrant-deaths-decline-trage...) while terrorist deaths were around 2051 according to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents_in...).
I filed a lawsuit against someone who is using the money they stole frome to defend themselves. Basically if I win the money I get will be essentially gone and the Defendant will not have the means to pay anything back.
Co-author here. I definitely use the phrase "public goods" in the economic sense: goods that are non-rival and non-excludable.

This post has nothing to do with assurance contracts (which that paper seems at first glance to be equivalent to). Instead, it's tackling the different problem of what if there is some established mechanism that is already collecting fee revenue, and it wants to do use that revenue to support its wider ecosystem.
Is there a version of the article without obfuscated/redirect/tracking links?

I clicked what seemed to be the most important link and got to (removed cruft) https://onepercentsteps.com/policy-briefs/addressing-hospita...
Julia has a bunch of semantic differences that are also responsible. For a quick list:

1. you can't add fields to structs (ie all types have __slots__) This is really important since it means you can store structs inline which avoids a ton of pointer chasing
2. eval always happens in the global scope (and world age means that eval doesn't have effect until you hit the global scope). This means that you can inline code which is one of the most important optimizations.

There are a few of other careful compromises like this where Julia gives up the small amount of dynamism that makes optimization impossible, while keeping enough dynamic behavior to be highly usable without doing anything that makes optimization impossible.
Yes exactly, I really do not like it when programs edit my bashrc/zshrc.

I will admit though that the PATH stuff was confusing when I was first starting out with programming. But now that I'm a unix nerd, I much prefer to have more control and set things up exactly how I like.
> Lots of places like US federal institutions or universities use FTP to this day to distribute their open datasetes.

Then they can use an FTP client which will perform better anyways. This is Mozilla removing it from their web browser, not L3 black holing port 21 traffic.

Why do you need to use a web browser?
Have you ever employed a teenager? They lack life exp. They lack confidence. They really don't know much at all about anything on a professional level. Sometimes you get good ones, but the majority are not sticking around for long or are doing a poor job. Your customers wont return with bad experiences and low quality. College is a scam for most. Put these young kids in debt for most of their life to earn a degree for which they are not even into. Better off going to trade school. And by the way, the lack of labor in skilled trades is astounding right now. Making $20/hr is better than $12/hr, but it's not really going to make a big dent in your college debt.

edit: talk to any large employer and ask them about employing the younger generation. All of them will say they have no work ethic and sit on their phones the whole time. You know what else, they think they should be paid $100k/hr and be millionaires...so try managing a bunch of people with that attitude and try not to go crazy. These companies are now reaching out to the older crowd for which they used to discriminate against because the young people suck.
I think this was discovered by Alan Kay and team in the 80's and resulted in the implementation later of prototype based computer languages like Self an Javascript
Explaining Rust-Analyzer
A modern compiler front-end lecture series.
Here's a case where the law is far behind a new crime. I had a guy who went after my Facebook handle. I won't go into details, but it went on for two years. Cops were of no help and I had to turn to a net savvy lawyer.

It will continue to increase before Congress takes it seriously. When there's a clear law with penalties that interest prosecutors then it will end.
Consequences for the parents of such budding psychopaths should be so severe that they actually take their parental obligations seriously.
>In Greece all cash transactions above €500 have to go through an AML due diligence process which includes a full KYC for both the buyer, seller and any beneficiaries of the transaction.

And this applies to trivial things as well, such selling a used bike or laptop to someone?
Direct anal interface to Apple HQ. Can't wait.
This was shared 5 hours ago aka ~1:30–3:30am in Europe
Single-issue voting in the primaries can be extremely effective. Case in point is how the NRA electorate dominates Republican primaries, even though the majority of Republicans actually support various gun control proposals (e.g. AWB).
The "hacked" part is only an assumption, isn't it? The leaked information could also come from, say, a whistleblower. An employee that suddenly developed a sense of ethics.
And why can't you just use a dedicated FTP client?
We need the IRS to simply file on behalf of the user and they just have to sign off.
For Americans part of disproportionately disenfranchised groups, this is better than asylum applications to EU/EFTA/EEA countries because with asylum you have to work a shitty job for a while to prove you can integrate. Whereas with a VC backed tech company you already have a familiar experience and comfortable relatable surroundings.

Yes, US citizens get accepted into asylum processes. No, not all countries offer transparency into their asylum process or metrics.
Exactly. This is why systemd is a terrible design. The fastest and most secure code, that never crashes and never needs patching, is code that doesn't exist.
The mere existence of a third party being able to look at financial data doesn't automatically make you vulnerable, so having convoluted additional third parties like insurers pay out with “clean money” isnt necessary, nor is absolute anonymity to banks or government necessary.

Just because there could be a bank or lawyer or someone that can see where the money came from doesn't mean that you can't successfully pass muster.

Protip: A federal money laundering conviction requires an illicit origin. Successful money laundering never has an illicit origin.

Therefore, money laundering charges can only be tacked on retroactively, in addition to another charge based on an illegal action that occurred.

And simply having or moving money is not probable cause. But obviously people can mess this up if they really didn't bother covering their tracks. But if they actually laundered it already then no.
I think it could be argued that the average software developer should know how PATH works and how to edit their shell's dotfile. So "most users" may not know how to do this, but they really should. It doesn't take that long to learn and it will help out tremendously. Compared to all the fancy web frameworks and complex languages, editing a dotfile is relatively simple and the skills involved are not likely to "go out of style" any time soon.
This is a unique and staggeringly awful aspect of Perl. What other mainstream language lacks function arguments?
There’s a fundamental difference between an UK “armed squad”, and SWAT in the US.
Since Windows 8 added the ribbon to Explorer I've always put the copy-as-path button in the quick access toolbar (right click on the button -> Add to Quick Access Toolbar) for simple pervasive one-click access.

Apparently Windows 11's Explorer is ditching the ribbon for a simpler looking toolbar. Most people I've seen who've tried it seem to be responding positively due to the less cluttered appearance, which is understandable, but TBH as someone who actually uses a lot of the Explorer functionality I'm not looking forward to more stuff being buried.
How about we do both? Think of strategies that minimize harm in case of a false alert and severe punishment for malicious false alerts? Death by heart attack is not the only possible bad outcome of a SWAT team storming a house.
Seems a bit of a premature announcement. Train is supposedly capable of it. No tracks it can do it on though. Both are required for this to work.

600kph is awful quick and with that much mass behind it I hope the engineering is super well sorted out.
Fair enough. I see this as a price worth paying for privacy.
Is the Netherlands OK with being the destination for all of these mistreated people?
It's one of the first steps for a new macos install, enable path bar and add root and home to the sidebar
No it is not. For that you send the police, not the military and not quasi military.
You realize there are checkpoints on all the roads to Mecca where they check your documents and religious affiliation, right?
Dammit, I've still been using it up until now and was hoping it could slip under the radar.

Google is as google does.
Huh. Not Syria? South Sudan? Venezuela? Honduras? Belarus?
My understanding is that this is precisely how it works in many other developed nations - the US is a bit of an outlier in this regard.
> Stockfish argues that ChessBase isn’t compliant because they refuse to release the weights.

No. The first license violation was that ChessBase released FF2 without source code for their modified Stockfish, and without the GPL license. This was later fixed after we reported it. The second license violation was Houdini, which contains Stockfish code, and even today is not a available under the GPL.
That was emphatically not true when I graduated (2009)
Okay, but if Perl wasn't going to implode it probably would have stopped collapsing before now. Honestly this feels like being told not to speak ill of the dead.
Watching Jeff Bezos Go to Space Was More Depressing Than Inspiring
Optimism and naivety on my part. When I bought a few (legal) things with bitcoin I have acquired from my friend around 2014 I really thought I was living in a better, more free future. Reality only started to dissapoint me more and more from there.

>government knowing every single transaction of yours plus being able to confiscate every single e-penny at will.

That can already happen with or without crypto.
The person saying there was no way to handle it differently was talking about the specific case in this article where we know the details and can consider each of the police's actions logically using common sense.
Yep. In about '96.

(Well, it came out late '96, so I suppose a bunch of that was actually done in '95.)
This is a great project and the most fun I had since playing around with ink as a basis - compliments and can't wait to see how it will develop :)