skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This type of money laundering has always been possible somewhat easily. Shell companies can be used for that, and look way more legitimate than paying possibly millions of euros on speculative art - I'd imagine that declaring to the tax man that those extra millions you made this year came from a few ms paint drawings would eventually get one caught.

Physical art has strict laws about sell value and speculation exactly because of that, if NFTs really take off (somehow), it's easy to imagine that the same scrutiny would follow.

I'm curious to understand how NFTs would be used to launder, for instance, drug cash. I often see the expression "money laundering" being used in these discussions without a real understand of how it would work.
I disagree. It's harder.

> you can just type something random for your nickname.

See, already harder.

I don't want to join something just so I can read it. I'll join it if I want to interact.
My apologies, I shouldn't set out so defensively. It's just the form of question that I have happened upon many times when discussing architecture with architects, or art with artists, and there it's definitely an attempt at gatekeeping :)
You run a random database? The fact nobody has thought to run that particular type of scam ( the Alchemix one for instance) with MySQL instead of a blockchain doesn't mean it can only possibly run on a blockchain.
China cracks down on ‘characteristic towns'
Yeah, I guess if someone asks "does Deno translate TS to JS before executing it?" and someone answers "Yes, it could always do this", it's not hard for the answer to be understood as "Deno doesn't translate TS before running it".

No hard feelings though, context is important and many of us miss it at times :)
Can you explain what non-fungible digital assets are? Because the reason I think NFTs are a scam is that I think of digital assets as inherently fungible.
I wonder if they'll use this to enable ETH or crypto mining on PS5s? There's actually a really interesting initiative to grant similar ability to the new Xbox [0] - which given current GPU prices and availability actually kind of makes sense. People seem to forget that the Ps3 was famously used by the US AirForce to create a low cost linux compute cluster[1], oddly their biggest reason to so this was power efficiency and cost (the ps3 cluster used about 10% of the power for equivalent compute as their legacy systems).

[0] - https://github.com/kgrossnickle/eth-box
[1] - https://phys.org/news/2010-12-air-playstation-3s-supercomput...
There's lots of variation in how companies define their nodes and not really connected to any measurement anymore. I.e. if a company speaks about it's "10nm node" that doesn't mean there is a physical thing 10nm in size (and e.g. Intels 10nm node is often considered to be equivalent to Samsungs 7nm node) - it's better to think of it as a version number in a way. As such, talking about these things gets confusing quickly, and the article also doesn't clarify what exactly it means when it says "10nm in size".
“We’re on the Verge of a Revolution in Travel” Brian Chesky, CEO Airbnb
This was how I knew OSX was a real Un*x....I was messing around with...I dunno...brew's predacessor? A package manager that installed linux apps on OSX...everything was based under /opt, so it was easy to just nuke and restart to clean up the cruft.

typed sudo rm -rf / opt

And let it rip.

Then got a weird error message, like a library couldn't load....then the icons in the dock went away, then the only thing that was working properly was the web browser windows that were still fully loaded in memory

then noticed the SPACE between '/' and 'opt'

rm -rf was rm -rf-ing from root.

Valuable lesson learned that day.
Yes! The difference is on Linux a shared library is not actually required for kernel system calls. The binary interface is stable and will not change.

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/...

On Windows and other operating systems, things such as system call numbers can and do change. There's no way to interface with the kernel without linking to vendor libraries.

So on Linux you can ditch libc and write your own code. A Rust liblinux is definitely possible, I tested it. You can even have a compiler generate the system calls for you! It just needs to support the simple calling convention. No libraries necessary. I've seen a project that does just that:

https://github.com/titzer/virgil
// They cannot imagine how a family of four can get things done without a car, and literally the “how” question is the one I get most.

Everything in life is a trade off. If you want to be car free you can certainly do it. It comes at the cost of being able to take your kid to their grandma on 5 minutes notice or to swing by the store and get a ton of groceries for your party that's coming up.

Even if you don't care about those things, there's something you are giving up in every decision. Don't be shocked if others have a different priority.

I say this as someone who lived in the city and didn't have a car for many decades and just moved to the suburbs and bought an SUV. I totally get why people prefer this life and I wouldn't want to go back. But others have their free choice and what works for them.
The hunt for the cluster-killer Erlang bug
I understand, I've been in the same situation before, not recommending it to anyone.
Having more than 2 or 3 tools is like having no tool at all or worst. This idea was born more for Open Source communities or hobbyst, etc. rather than companies. So yeah I agree the headline here is a little bit misleading in that sense.

Usually these kind of communities probably need that their content should be indexable by Google or other search engines in order to be discovered by new users. So in my mind it shouldn't dilute the attention of the community members. Of course it's still a proof of concept and every feedback is super welcomed to understand better the environment
Diet restricted size of hunter-gatherer societies
> For some reason, NFT art took off (which I don’t understand)

Status and money laundering, so no different to regular art sales.
Ask HN: What are the best LDAP syncing agents out there?
NFTs are not the answer to many questions. Maybe you should start asking the correct questions.

The one problem NFTs solve perfectly: How to do decentralized and pseudonymous proof of community membership.

Successful projects like Bored Ape Yacht Club are not about the fancy drawings, but about the exclusivity of a social club. You may find that silly, but that does not diminish the human craving for status.

NFTs are the digital equivalent of designer clothes, luxury watches, and fancy cars.
I’ve lived in upstate NY and have taken the metro north to Grand Central everyday. I now live in New Jersey and take the path to the WTC everyday. Obviously the Oculus and GC are very different, but the Oculus is still breath taking after so many visits. I agree it’s a very good building. One thing I like about GC is that it has an infinite amount of detail. You can be blown away entering the building and seeing the grand hall, or by inspecting the tiniest detail. The Oculus, with its algorithmic design, is lacking that feature.
> And big corporations are also not automatically bad.

Yes, yes they are automatically bad when they make themselves into infrastructure. I can't avoid google, microsoft or amazon even if I go live in a cave.
IRC (well, EFNET) especially towards the later years was anarchy. If people weren’t instructing newbies to `rm -rf` they were running scripts that resulted in peoples modems hanging up upon joining.

https://everything2.com/title/%252B%252B%252BATH0
Can confirm this as my experience as well. The MX Master series is the best mouse I've ever owned. Great battery life, feels terrific. The author does a real disservice by randomly guessing about it's nature. WTF?
> How do you exchange something that neither of you own?

This seems to be no problem in finance — who owns what in a contract-for-difference?
I've used it only a little bit, but Morningstar[0] has detailed writeups about funds. Some of their stuff you have to pay for, but I find that their free content is enough.

[0] www.morningstar.com
This happened to Steam on Linux.
>doesn't mean that they can just, you know, expand their computer footprint?

A billion times? Would there be enough money in the world to pay for it? Enough resources?
I like the idea of this work paradigm, but I'm not sure if VR is the place to do it. I think I'd enjoy using this more with an AR headset. Having screens floating in a familiar space with a less bulky headset is appealing (having a virtual desktop floating around while you are in an in person meeting, for instance), and it comes with the perk that you are more aware of the space around you rather than being in a detached "space" for the entire day.

I do hope that Simula One keeps refining their approach though. It's an interesting approach.
Taiwan defense report records 384 exchanges, 2799 troops, with US since 2019
Define large risk.
Lambda@Edge unfortunately does not support provisioned concurrency, so you are bound to cold-starts as well (I tried, measured, and reverted before even going live with it).
Exactly. Software development which involves 3rd party code should be done in a sandbox.
conspicuous consumption is not even close to new.

phlegmatic take: hey, at least we’ve improved a little; the conspicuity is now primarily about location of where the meat is eaten, not whether or not you’re permitted to eat at all!
You're nitpicking.

The question was: "Anybody actually uses crypto for legal goods and services?"

I am using crypto to buy suff, how it is facilitated under the hood is an implementation detail and none of my concern. I am using and spending cryptocurrencies to buy things. My balance on the card is currently primarily USDT (and some ETH). Not dollars, not pounds, not euro: a cryptocurrency. The fact that technically they sell that USDT to fiat when I make a purchase is transparent to me and not something I have to care about.
Except DRM where Amazon, Netflix et al. just decide that Linux doesn't get HD streaming, but Windows does (one might claim that Linux is maybe better to circumvent DRM since it's the hacker OS, but there is no material difference between a non-secure-boot non-TPM Windows and Linux here; both allow the user to run kernel code and permit effectively full control of the machine).
> Who here is writing software which runs on Linux, yet needs to be running Windows while they do it?

Anyone whose job also involves writing Word docs, PPT presentations, Excel spreadsheets and Visio diagrams, and communicating via Teams. The web versions are very much second-class citizens to the Windows applications.

> desktop Linux is a pile of burning garbage

That's not my experience at all. I have two nearly identical Dell XPS13 laptop. My Windows 11 laptop is considerably more unstable than the Ubuntu 21.10 one.

Now I'm in Windows most of the time, I am constantly reminded of little Win annoyances...

For instance, inability to rename an open file.

Or updates. Updates on the Ubuntu one take a few seconds, and rarely need a reboot. Updates on the Windows one take more like 20 minutes and always need a reboot, which itself takes 5 minutes or so.
So the "right-clicker mentality" essentially means not being technically illiterate?
It also happened to squid proxy https://access.redhat.com/solutions/1391523
No, which is why the “python-is-python2” and “python-is-python3” packages exist.
But the FAANGS have offices in Europe and pay those employees less, unless I’m mistaken. In which case you can’t argue that US has FAANGS and others don’t.
You don't even need this, there's GitHub Pages where you can serve static sites straight off GitHub
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Moore's law lives on in Kurzweil's law: The amount of compute you get per dollar doubles every 18 months, as proven by GPUs
I believe the question is who actually needs a Windows machine. Office also runs on Macs and, unless you need to do some fancy spreadsheeting, LibreOffice is there for you. If not, the web-based Office or their Google counterparts can do a lot through the browser. WSL is still much slower than a native install of Linux on the same hardware.
Just my personal feeling, but the jitter evident in the video on the website already makes me nauseated. There is absolutely no way that this would be usable by me for any kind of sustained productivity during a work day.

I might be extremely out of touch, but I'm still struggling to understand who is asking for this. In other words, who expects to be more productive with a VR device, rather than a regular laptop or desktop?
In 2015, Steam's Linux updater included

rm -rf "$STEAMROOT/"*

and if $STEAMROOT wasn't set, that amounted to

rm -rf *
Just one post from a long line of debunking posts: https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3497
NFTs are synthetic scarcity.
For me it’s just a useful underlay for Docker development containers with VSCode.

Previously I was using Multipass with Ubuntu (on Hyper-V) but that had some weird issues annoyingly, that WSL2 just doesn’t. It’s basically seamless for me at this point.

But my use case is narrow as heck.
"Keeping it up to date" means updating with common issues that pop up on discord.

Those who only need support are helped and not victims to discords search and discussion -issues.
Creating and Updating Contacts from the Front End
Not to excuse NPM and the entire "broken in new ways every time you look at it" javascript ecosystem, but any installation system that can run arbitrary scripts/commands as a part of the install has this same problem.

This anti-feature should be removed, and other safer workarounds provided.
One interesting aspect of NFT's is that the artist can continue to get paid on each sale of the item, automatically receiving a set percentage of the sale price on each sale in perpetuity.
If you read interviews with Afghan women (outside a small urban elite), they mention similar upsides to the Taliban. At least they prevent crime. At least they have principles, however harsh. At least they're predictable. At least they forced out the thugs that the Americans had backed.
Sokolof's comment elsewhere in this thread: Intro of the book confirms: “It is written in Org-mode, first made by Carsten Dominik and then developed by many other people. Diego Zamboni wrote the Org exporter to convert Org-mode syntax to Markua, expected by Leanpub.”

So the page width probably was set by Leanpub themselves during typesetting. I am assuming that the Markua language is converted to LaTeX, with the page size/layout being set in that language.
Chip Shortage Creates New Power Players
but no, not really? you could duplicate media since the days of the compact cassette, but we had several decades where people weren't losing their minds and creating music NFTs. The craze over scarcity for digital media was entirely a phenomena that appeared in the past few years.
> Agreed Panama is a bad example, but not Croatia - it's politically stable, and I don't believe many people leave because of corruption.

They just announced the results of the census in Croatia this week. It lost a fifth of its population last 20 years. And oh yes, they do, throughout the whole of the Balkans. It's as much a reason to leave for most as the money.

They all believe "the West" is well regulated everywhere, everything is clean, corruption doesn't exist, justice will be fair, they will see no discrimination, bosses will follow the law, etc. It's soft-power working wonders.
Krugman's political takes are scorching, but he's still a respected economist.
Used to do that to noobs all the time.
Turns out that space travel is one of the latest and greatest flexes you can make.
I've never seen such an obvious target for reappropriation[1]. This will probably be reappropriated before it even has time to be commonly established as an insult.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reappropriation
I installed Linux for a couple old ladies. Debian (Mate) on old desktops so they could browse the web and write. Zero issues. Fast and dead stable. They love it.

And installation was a no-brainer.

One service call, dead power supply, in 6 years.
> you can create nfts and have them minted upon sale, that way you dont have to pay anyone as its gasless. all you need is a signature, that doesnt cost anything.

by whom? What NFT platform/gallery allows the free creation of a NFT? As far as I know, artists need to pay to create NFT (buy ETH or whatever).
I think that's the most interesting take on the whole NFT phenomenon I've seen.

Is the whole thing a real-world manifestation of a large group of people's inability to subconsciously accept infinite abundance of digital goods?

I don't know if that's true, but it's interesting.
>> the French Republic put a very strong emphasize on equality among citizens

> That's a strange interpretation. France is one of the countries with the highest levels of inequalities, and one of the most racist countries on earth where even little girls can't be allowed into school if they display signs of muslim worship (but a christian cross is fine). Also, many people who reside in France are denied citizenship.

It is not an interpretation, it is the law that you are either genuinely misunderstanding or knowingly misrepresenting. Most of the time, those misrepresenting it do have an agenda.

The French Republic respect every religion and THUS disallow active proselytism within its institutions PRECISELY to enforce respect of EVERYONE'S freedom of religion choice. And, no a christian cross is not, by law, allowed either. Nor any ostentatious religious sign of any religion. Period.

All that said, it is true that the law is not always correctly applied (or even understand for that matter). That does not make it lawful.
If it just required doing "pip install" then I'd try it to see how fast my test suite runs. But since it only works with Python 3.10 and .NET 6, realistically even just spending five minutes messing with it will require first waiting 18 months or whatever.
What do you mean some OSs?
It works fine on Linux and bash.
With zsh I have to expand the * to make it work.
That's the game. An incentive structure will not fix that.
To be fair, he acknowledges 3D can be good for video games / 3D CAD, he’s just saying that 3D is superfluous for most information-processing tasks.
Its not required at all, I've managed it, but I'm also very good at fps games, but my friends that are not as good are still managing, at a slower pace.

Its only 'required' if you do not want to spend time to learn the game, mechanics, where good loot is on the map, how ammo and armor work. Basically sidestepping what makes this game fun and challenging.

Frankly a bit disgusted at his point of view, seems to have no remorse at all. A subset of people paying for hacks does not make it ok for him to hack, and since he can spot hackers now he seems to have justified it to himself.
First sentence absolutely correct, second sentence absolute garbage.
Though my Ubuntu VM on Hyper-V with multipass giving the Microsoft Terminal integration started up basically just as fast, to be honest.

But the deeper integration and lighter underlying OS for WSL2 is better, especially for Docker dev container usage with VSCode.
Both the US and China have paid the costs as that liquidity has flooded into speculative assets such as land which has increased wealth inequality. In addition it likely has resulted in misallocation of capital and a future tidal wave of bad debt.

While households are typically cash constrained economies operating in a fiat system rarely are because cash is essentially created at will by the banking industry. Economic constraints are largely due to the ability to identify, fund and execute in good investments that will provide a reasonable return on capital given the risk.

Is there any investment area in the economy that is currently constrained by the lack of cash?
Drones Carrying Explosives
Suppose someone scoops the artist’s work and sells their artwork first, without their permission?

Eg, I recently saw the “Charlie bit my finger” family will sell an NFT of their video. Is there anything stopping someone else from selling NFT’s of other viral videos before their makers do so?

Timestamping would only work for works that are tokenised at the same time as (or prior to) their public release.
Genuinely curious: what keeps developers (I'm assuming developers are the main audience for WSL) from moving to either Mac or Linux? What features Windows has that are missing from either platform?
it’s surprising how this very important issue relevant to all of us engineers gets very little attention here on HN.
It is true for any system that has Hyper-V enabled and should work perfectly fine. Same as if you have a Windows VM guest or a traditional Linux VM. WSL2 uses and manages a small VM under the hood so enabling it will cause this change to the windows boot process if it was not already so.
Ahh, in that case, the problem this solves is the database owner has admin power, and could take away your graphics card.

This is similar to how I was always worried that Bank of America would arbitrarily change the balance in my account for some reason, but bitcoin solves this problem. Now I just have to worry about losing my password or getting hacked and losing all of my money, and that's just much less realistic than a major bank abusing their centralized admin powers to change my balance.
a linux VM is an isolated OS, WSL is fully integrated with Windows
WSL2 is architecturally designed to run under Hyper-V, so when you activate WSL2 on your machine, Hyper-V runs on bare metal and your Windows installation just becomes another VM running inside it next to the WSL2 Linux environment. Unfortunately this is imho not explained as well as it should be, because, while most of the time most people won't notice any difference, there is a measurable impact with regards to performance (in games, for example). It depends on your specific setup how bad it gets, and in most cases it's more of a theoretical performance hit than a noticeable one, but it is still there.
It's hilarious that the most liberal companies on Earth like Google or Facebook are so often accused of promoting "right wing" ideas too much, when they very clearly do everything in their power to censor right wing people at every turn.
Put them in ~/Documents and search with Alfred

https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/unix/my-file-system
Secret recordings of NRA officials after Columbine school shooting show strategy
I gotta say Dlang has my favorite approach to this problem, if only we could turn their forum into a simple Debian or Linux package, I wonder if that would help. Basically, you can see t he website or you can open them up with an NNTP reader (Newsreader) client and download the entire history of their forums for offline friendly reading. I don't know what's better than that, bonus points: you can post too!

They also load blazing fast, and post to IRC and I forget what else they do. Regardless, they're not running bloated JS or anything, they just work.
That and I believe I read that most people used the stimulus to paid down/off debt [1][2]. I would suspect at least a portion of those used that opportunity to also take on more debt down the line as jobs came back

[1] https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2021/03/many-american...

[2] https://www.businessinsider.com/half-of-americans-used-1400-...
A no-go fantasy: writing Go in Ruby with Ruby Next