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> No, it feels like my reaction is akin to basic government accountability and asking why enforcement is so inconsistent. Coinbase isn't complaining that the law exists -- as in the Twitter thread, they're happy to comply with the law, so long as they know what it is!

I'm sorry - they know what it is. Any lawyer will tell you exactly what it is. It's the Howey test, it's been the law of the land for 70 years and the SEC issued guidance on how it applies to digital assets. [1] Literally the first page of the Securities Act of 1933 explains that lending products are securities.

Brian is feigning ignorance on twitter while acting indignant that someone told him no. His lawyers told him no. The SEC told him no. He said I'm gonna do it anyways. They said see you in court. He follows up with a late-night twitter rant, roughly "how could the SEC do this? how could a lending product possibly be a security?!"

[edit] The man literally owns an SEC registered broker-dealer lol.

[edit] Even Preston Byrne from Anderson Kill tweeted today that it was obviously a security. That's the most libertarian cypto-sympathizer attorney on the face of the earth.

> Your reaction is akin to someone who sees that going on, and says it's okay because police don't catch every speeder. "As long there aren't accidents: mission accomplished."

Regulators don't act day 1, legal proceedings take time. You're saying "because they took the usual amount of time everyone should be allowed to do whatever they want - or they should sue them all, all at the same time." Nope. That's not how this game works.

They can't stop everyone at the same time, and they can't jump them on day 1. They're not omnipotent, and they certainly don't have unlimited resources.

What Brian wants isn't to work with regulators, its for regulators to let him do whatever he wants on his terms and on his schedule. That's not the same thing.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/files/dlt-framework.pdf
Hello HN,

Today I'm proud to present you a project I've been working on for the last few months: monotn (pronounced: monotone).

You'd probably think that that's too much time for a project this rough around the edges. And I'd agree with you.

That's why I'm so excited to share the link here. It's a huge milestone for me.

So what it does? It records your voice when you ask it to do so. Your voice can be:

- sent a private message to another user;

- accessed only by those who have the link to your "tape" (even those without an account) or;

- accessed by anyone who can visit your profile (so anyone on the internet).

Why did I build this? Because I'm too shy for video, but too lazy for text. I wanted something in the middle where I can speak my thoughts out without having to deal with my face being exposed, or having to type a lot of text (that nobody would read anyway).

I'd really love to hear (pun not intended) your feedback!

# Questions you might ask:

Why is your homepage so "empty"?

To save you the hustle of reading about something you probably don't care much about it. It's as much straight to the point that I was able to make. Please let me know: did I do it right?

Why are you forcing me to sign up straight away? First, show me it's worth it!

Sorry about that. I tried to build a workflow that does not require a logged user, but I'm not there yet.

What's your business model?

Can't we have fun anymore?

Your app is so slow!

Thank you so much for all HNer for coming by! If this (hopefully) true, just know that the app is hosted on the cheapest hosting I could find. So yeah, it's no surprise.

Hey, there's a bug in your app!

Oh, thanks! My code is full of'em :) I'd really appreciate if you can tell me about here in the comments or send me an email on wave@mono.tn! Oh, or maybe send me a voice message on mono.tn/ahmed ? You're the best!!

P.S.: I don't have access to a Mac or an iPhone to test this with Safari, so don't be surprised if it's totally broken. (But please let me know about it!)
> All these "illegal" guns started their life as brand-new perfectly legal firearms.

Citation needed here. Especially in the south.
> The author seems to be under the impression that Rust cannot live harmoniously within the C ABI ecosystem, which is false.

The author is not under any such impression. The key point is that Zig can cross-compile C/C++ code, while Rust can't. If you have a Rust project that depends on C code, you will have to put in some work if you want to compile it for a different target.

That's a pretty big difference in practice. The point about the Python package example is not to say that Zig can get on platforms where Rust can't, but rather that the C infrastructure that we all use is not that easy to replace and every time you touch something, regardless of how decrepit and broken it might have been, you will irritate and break someone else's use case, which can be a necessary evil sometimes but not always.

This is a point I made in the section of the blog post dedicated to explaining the limits or rewriting code.

> since it does not compile to C.

Give it some time, it will.
Out of curiosity, what are you working on that requires a proper string type (rather than encoded UTF-8 bytes)?
These are called trolleybuses and they exist.
> Which is probably why the US stopped reporting on the percentage of gun crime committed with legally versus illegally obtained firearms in 2004

That's interesting! Why would they hide such stats?
Don't knock dollar stores. I get a lot of stuff there because I don't need a large amount before it goes bad or stuff that is good enough or discounted.
If been collecting great posts ,book paragraphs, methods and own learnings from my jobs as well as templates I created along the way and wanted to put all of these things on a webpage. Of course my goal was to a)get better (if I can teach it or rewrite it I consider myself as mastering the topic) and b) to get visibility to ensure my career.

Would this make me a bullshiter part of the complex described in the article?
There's a Section of Yellowstone Where You Can Get Away with Murder (2016)
Who is that an issue for? We make simple websites lol.
After chiding Apple on privacy, Germany says it uses Pegasus spyware
> Work already occupies your most productive working hours

Unfortunately

> why wouldn't you try to make it the most interesting and fulfilling activity in your life?

I can’t. I’d do it if I could, but everything the appears fulfilling seems to end up being a scam or not obtainable or not worth obtaining for the pittance it would pay.
VFL uses a constraint-packing model, which is excellent for UIs that may be resized (can we all say "mobile" ?).

It doesn't offer the same level of fine-grained control over the actual widgets, and tends to feel (in|less ) appropriate with fixed-sized windows.

Also, these are not really comparable examples. The Yad one shows the full interaction with the shell script; the VPL one shows merely how to construct the UI, but does not show any integration with the logic residing in a script.
"Public health messages need to be kept simple." is something I almost agree with. The problem comes is when the simplicity starts leaving things out and edges into "not the full truth," at which point people can identify that you have -- perhaps not intentionally -- deceived them. That lowers trust.

This current pandemic is an excellent example of what happens when you have lowered trust.
> olden days dumb people just died and didnt reproduce.

It seems like this is not an internally consistent statement.

If "dumbness" is genetic and smart people make smart offspring and dumb people make dumb offspring, where do today's dumb people come from? Clearly, not the dumb people who died and did not reproduce.

The correct statement is that people who were not well adapted to their environment died. Some of them actually died after reproducing.

> same reality that you have a .5% chance of dying from covid.

One, "known" averages and individualized "probabilities" are different things.

Two, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28460412

Now you are confounding the probability of a random infected person dying with the probability of a randomly picked person in your own demographic group dying from Covid19.

For example, 3,145 females between 30-39 years of age died from Covid19 between 01/01/2020-09/04/2021. It looks like there are about 22 million people in that age group which corresponds to 0.014% probability of a randomly picked person in that group dying from Covid19 within that period.

[1]: https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Provisional-COVID-19-Deaths-by-Sex...
Maybe OP should have said doordash instead of wife for it to be a 2021 example. It's kinda funny when you see homes of very wealthy people and see what they eat. Usually its their assistant bringing them a premade salad from sweetgreen for lunch and everything in the kitchen is used by a professional cook who makes meals and even packages leftovers rather than the homeowner.
Pretty new: https://github.blog/changelog/2021-08-25-github-actions-redu...
In theory, it locks people out of reward.

In practice, it locks them out of scams.

It is horrendously irresponsible to enable practices that we can predict will, with very high probability, result in significantly greater ability for predatory and unscrupulous actors to take advantage of the public, especially if the purpose is merely to allow the wealthy—and it is only the wealthy who can genuinely take advantage of such things; the rest of us simply can't afford to take those risks—to try their hand at high-stakes gambling.
Your home page overflows on my iPhone11 plus. Missing some max-width: 100vw’s
How many million USD is that?
The UK has the NHS, the HNS is funded by the UK government (as is, if I understand right, healthcare tuition in the UK), and it seems to be one of the best value-for-money medical systems around (somewhat subjective: others are better while being more expensive, others are cheaper but don’t do as much), but despite all that, even the NHS gets criticised for not covering all medicines and surgeries.

So yes, there is a scarcity, even if it’s only in the opportunity cost of what else can be done with the same money, like roads and fire brigades.
He actually mentions that in the video as well.
You're thinking of BBC Studios, the global for-profit arm. The BBC World Service is an international multi-lingual news and discussion service.

Big budget costume drama your commercial broadcaster paid $$$ for? BBC Studios. Guy speaking your language but likely from a radio studio thousands of miles away, telling you stuff that your local news media are too scared (if they exist) to broadcast? BBC World Service.

Historically the UK government saw the BBC World Service as an important way to exercise soft power, and funded it directly. That ended, and today it's all paid for out of the profits of BBC Studios and the license fee.
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LeaksID – protects docs with invisible anti-leak marks against photo/publishing
Hi everyone!
I’m excited to introduce you to our product, LeaksID: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/leaksid

⌛ Background
Several years ago, I was confronted with a leak of a confidential document. Although the document was stored in secure file storage and a minimal circle of people had access, someone took a photo of it and put it on the network. Unfortunately, I never found out who did it. But this failure led me to the idea of creating a solution that could protect other people (and me) from such leaks. I wanted this solution to be able to keep my documents confidential and prevent the spread of my trade secrets and intellectual property beyond the circle to which I entrusted them.

Solution
We have created a solution called LeaksID that converts any document to PDF format, enriching it with invisible steganographic marks. Absolutely everything that is on the document will be marked with the LeaksID system!

How does LeaksID work?

Every time someone opens a confidential document, they will receive a unique copy of it. Then, if someone leaks even a small fragment of it, even one drawing or table, even a paper version, even a photograph of it on a smartphone, then upon discovering such a leak, LeaksID will unambiguously determine the identity of the offender.

Why are we here?
We understand that such a solution is more interesting for large corporations and government organizations. However, we know that small startups also have something to protect from leaks: your inventions, financial statements, and other sensitive documents. Therefore, we made it possible for everyone to use our fully functional version of LeaksID for free.

Store your documents in the systems you’re used to, use mail systems and instant messengers that you trust, but before sending documents to someone, run them through LeaksID, enrich them with anti-leak marks, and prevent illegal publication of your trade secrets.

We would be happy to receive any feedback from you to improve LeaksID!

I will be happy to answer any questions you may have.
I'm fully vaccinated, but that was a choice I made. It was a risk assessment. "How likely am I to get covid and have a bad go of it?" vs "How likely am I to have a bad reaction from the vaccine?" That's a risk assessment that varies from person to person based on where they live, what medical conditions they might have, their age, and other things.

The mRNA vaccines are especially worrisome to some because they are relatively new and aren't fully approved in the US (where I live).

I have a co-morbidity and by the time I was eligible to get vaccinated it looked obvious to me that I'd be better off getting it based on how well they were performing and how low the risk appeared. Things could have turned out wildly different with vaccines that turned out to be both mostly ineffective and potentially dangerous, causing me to assess things differently.

I encourage my friends who aren't vaccinated to get jabbed, but I have no wish to have the government force them to get a medical procedure they specifically don't want.
Wake Up Sailors, Scurvy Is a Hoax
> And now that you’ve got the climate activists antagonizing the mining companies, who are responsible for a very significant percentage of the economy, you’ve got two extremely savvy and powerful groups working together.

I wonder which country is the number one customer of these companies.
Thing is, Nomad isn't trying to go up against K8S. It's part of the Hashicorp family of products, so if you use a couple of those, it's easy to add Nomad into the mix, or just use K8S. While other competitors have tried to out-do K8S, Hashicorp seem to try to work with the broader eco-system, which means some will just use Nomad to keep it simple, but don't need to for Hashicorp to continue working for them in other areas.
I have never seen anyone use metric prefixes with money.
Why only Google problems? Why not homelab problems where I'm managing upwards of 20 apps and I don't want to come up with custom automation to do things like cert renewal, tls termiantion, dynamic storage, and disaster recovery? What if I don't want to come up with my own system for organizing and grouping resources? Lots of homelab people (I assume) chain together hacky scripts and probably many things are not repeatable. With k8s, all my configs are in a single repo and I can spin back up my entire cluster on new hardware anywhere provided I've backed up my storage. How does Swarm handle all of these problems in a more unified or complete way that k8s does?
There are multiple clearances with different requirements, so it is possible that certain types require finger prints while others do not. However, AFAIK everybody who gets a clearance also has their fingerprints taken. The finger prints may not be available to regular LEO for dragnets to reduce the chance of leaking out the personal information of every cleared individual to foreign agents that have infiltrated law enforcement.
Is anyone else disappointed to learn that it won't be impacting the Earth?
there's a related effect that feeds into this, that is the subject of Robert Frost's poem "the road not taken": if we make a decision and things go well, we typically put the outcome down to our decision, regardless of whether it made a difference. So we get to thinking that our decisions really matter, even if they hardly do at all.
I don't know about the UK but here in Europe dishwashers don't use the hot tap.
In this case, each ConstituentID in the Artworks.json records corresponds to an artist in the Artists.json records. I would cross-reference these two datasets and discard "Artist", "ArtistBio", etc from Artworks.json.
The majority of the ~5 million that covid killed would have been dead of old age, heart disease, etc. in 5-10 years anyway. Covid just shaved off a few years of life expectancy; the same people would have shown up in CDC death counts as heart disease or natural causes statistics a few years later. With the 28k killed by terrorism, not so much. You have a lot more young and healthy dying with decades of life expectancy remaining.

Same with comparing covid deaths to WWI deaths. On the one hand you have thousands of healthy 18-year-olds dying, and on the other you have thousands of elderly, obese, and sickly people dying. Not quite a fair comparison.
I get your point, I was just trying to divert the conversation away from an unsubstantiated "domino theory" that seems to be grounded in hysterics and towards analysis of history, geography and geo-politics.
You need location info in addition to distance since roads and infrastructure are owned and maintained by various agencies. The solution could be to build upon EZPASS. Have the EZPass readers in every signboard or lamppost along the highways. They can read and record distance travelled along a particular highway so that revenue can be attributed to appropriate agency.
Thanks! This is super exciting. Unfortunately, since we use GHES we'll be at least 6 months away from having this though :(.
How do you protect confidential documents from taking a photo of the screen?
Would it be accurate to say that if I buy a stock that I am pooling my funds?
> Why do crypto enthusiasts feel the need to use gold as a strawman?

Well, at least the US, the government treats crypto as property, at least tax-wise (actually it's taxed just like real estate or gold). It's just that crypto is much more easily transferable than real estate or gold.

> The vast majority of non-crypto people use digital money (in local currencies), and have never touched gold in their lives. Digital money works great, and doesn’t need a blockchain.

I understand this argument. The traditional financial system is quite mature, and works pretty well. I do have a few concerns with it though:

•Negative interest rates in some parts of the world

•Ever increasing sovereign debt throughout the world, with no intent of ever paying it back

•Lack of ability for 24/7 payments, or even instant payments (at least in the US, however, this fortunately seems to be changing with things like FedNow)

•No APIs for banks which make things like screen scraping necessary for data aggregation, i.e. Mint, or verification tools, i.e. Plaid (and I know this opens a can of worms because banking data should be regulated and private, but still, I've seen this API complaint on HN before, and crypto is a more open system, that could also have layers of permission added to it)

This leads me to another point, which is actually a question. How do people here beat inflation? Stocks? Sure, I have some stocks, too. But crypto yields are some of the highest right now, and it isn't all just some manipulation or leverage or something. Take a look at proof of stake coins, you can stake say, Polkadot, on Kraken, for 12% APR [1]. You can also stake Polkadot, directly, without using an exchange as an intermediary, it just requires more technical skill. The staking return on proof of stake coins is a reward for helping secure the proof of stake network.

I've heard Charles Hoskinson, the creator of Cardano and co-founder of Ethereum, say in one of his videos that we need a new asset class in order to make up for this inflationary environment. And also, I would add, that we need that to accommodate for what I consider to be a war on cash. I'd be happy to keep fiat in a savings account, and I did for many years, until the rates on savings accounts went to basically zero. Now people are basically forced to hold riskier things like stocks, or if they have an even higher appetite for risk, crypto.

In short, I don't think everything in digital fiat is going perfectly well. If it was, I don't think I'd find crypto as attractive.

[1] https://www.kraken.com/en-us/features/staking-coins
Ok, but it's also possible to have a non-shitty 40hour job
People say money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a jet ski. Have you ever seen an unhappy person on a jet ski?
McDonald's food is nice from time to time, at least in France.
Ask HN: Are big tech companies not sponsoring H1B anymore?
Hey HN,

I just got an email from Google stating that they would be unable to secure myself, an European, a working visa.

This is before any interview.

I am wondering if big tech have just stopped offering H1B, if it is just Google, or maybe the period of the year which is bad, or maybe COVID?

Any of you got any insight?

Cheers
> the real outcome is simply delaying those deaths, spreading them out more over time.

Which is still a good outcome, because you don't want to overwhelm the healthcare system to the point that it can't handle anything that isn't COVID.

That was the whole point of the early-pandemic "flatten the curve" campaigns.
> - accessed only by those who have the link to your "tape" (even those without an account) or; - accessed by anyone who can visit your profile (so anyone on the internet).

Any example links to listen to?
I have used various options for that (using VST SDK host, or various librairies etc), but I am happy to have options actually.
Once the virus got out of Wuhan it was probably impossible to contain it. By the time the first news hit, it had already spread around the world. First world countries may have been able to copy China's lockdown but the rest of the world would have never been able to contain it and it would have kept seeping in through frozen food chains. This was a practical inevitability and blaming governments or the WHO is just an attempted to rationalize an irrational natural event. That's why I think natural origin is the most likely explanation. There's too much temptation to assign blame to evil gain-of-function researchers or hypocritical public health funding.
We just spent 20 years in Afghanistan proving how effective and potent a modern military is against guerilla tactics. I think it's become pretty clear that if you're not willing to ignore the generally accepted rules of engagement, they will just outlast you.
> which seems inevitable to have less platform support than LLVM will?

ZLD can link for M1 while LLVM can't yet. And Zig can also use lld alongside it to increase the platform coverage.

> but you can't claim that's a benefit at the same time the problem with Rust is it's lack of fringe system support... :/

I find it hard to believe that a dispassionate reader could misinterpret to this degree the goal of a sentence written in a chapter dedicated entirely to showcase the limits of rewriting code in another language, be it RIIR or RIIZ.

See my reply to the parent comment for the intended meaning of that example.
I'm not sure I would take this bet as them betting against hydrogen that everyone seems hellbent on making the narrative. I would take it as there is clearly a rise in EV that they can capitalize on. We will have both hydrogen and EV. Different use cases.