skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tornado Cash is a smart contract system that allows you to send fixed denominations of Ethereum, and receive a cryptographic "note" that allows someone who knows the note to withdraw the same amount of Ethereum from the smart contract.

Since zero-knowledge cryptography is used to ensure the generated note cannot be linked to the depositing transaction, it can be used to send money to yourself or another person without revealing the identity of the sender. There are criminal and non-criminal reasons to do this.

Because it is a smart contract system, you do not have to trust a person or organization with the money. You do have to trust the smart contracts defining the system are correct. The smart contracts are publicly available to read and have been reviewed by many people, including software audit organizations.
I made Dutch wordle! https://woordle.nl

Also source (in Elm): https://github.com/pingiun/woordle/
Legalization brings production and sale of recreational drugs under regulation. That will not stop all harms, but those harms are then more likely to be known. Addiction treatment is more accessible when drug use is not criminalized.
Specific subject aside, I totally agree with you. Life’s too short and the world is too amazing to get stuck in a rut, and I’m ready to give it all a try. You’ve got a vacation planned to live with shepherds in the Alps for a couple of weeks? Save me a space in your yurt. Let’s do this.

But truthfully, the third alternative in alcohol vs weed is “none of the above”. I’m not obligated to choose a vice, and if I had to give up alcohol today, say for health reasons, it’d be a small bummer but I don’t know that I’d rush to replace it.
This comes from the point of view that harm is a scalar quantity. There are many different dimensions of harm and they vary wildly for each activity/drug. Reality is more nuanced than any single measure we select.
how to handle c preprocessor using this tool?
People have been diarizing for as long as there's been paper, so I assume that putting events, interactions, feelings, etc on paper is a pretty common human impulse, but perhaps not for everyone.

One thing I've personally found about maintaining relationships is how much the fact that someone bothered to write something down about me is meaningful. There's a lot to be said for the clerical role in friendships. Noting someone's birthday, the things they like, their family life, etc. so you can write a card or just drop them a note on their birthday is quite the opposite of "reducing" someone to text in my opinion.
Very interesting!

To me the takeaway is large/interesting/challenging engineering projects are pretty close to disasters generally. Some time they do become disaster actually.

On the other hand if a project looks like straight up designed, neatly put into JIRA stories, and developers deliver code consistently week after week then it may be a successfully planned and delivered project. But it would mostly be doing stuff that has already been many times over and likely by same people on team.

At least this has been my experience while working on standardized / templated projects vs something new.
European parliament backs big limits on tracking ads
Security scanners across Europe tied to China govt, military
How so? As far as I can tell, this does not indicate that people can’t afford baby formula and diapers, quite important items. Instead the whole system works because the people who need them do have ready access to these vitally important items to keep their children safe, healthy, and happy because the WIC and Medicaid systems successfully perform their intended functions.

I clearly have missed something.
The page says that the Bandwidth Alliance means that partners will charge less or no egress to cloudflare.

I'm not seeing it saying anything about different rules applying regarding CloudFlare ToS such as "2.8 Limitation on Serving Non-HTML Content" to Bandwidth Alliance sources.

But has that been said somewhere I'm not seeing? Would love to see it!
Interesting. But: given the amount of server side software that is running on Linux I think a FreeBSD port, while useful is not going to see the kind of adoption that a Linux port would, it will serve as a useful POC but ultimately the challenge will be to get this into the mass market and there it will not really help.
A friend of mine is retired from pharmaceutical research. Where he did a lot of computer work. His wisdom is that the ease of patent granting should vary enormously by the type of invention being patented, and difficulty of being a credible would-be inventor in the field. And the thing patented must exist, and actually work. (So no "if we use some unobtainium..." patents.)

So - invent a new drug (for humans), where safety regulations guarantee that actual approval to sell the drug will cost many, many millions of dollars? Patentable. (Yes, there are other issues with modern drug companies & patents - Not. The. Point.) If somebody comes up with a working, practical fusion reactor? Very patentable - that can't have been cheap to do, and "thousands of experts have been trying for decades" is proof that this inventor really is something special.

Vs. software, abstract ideas, waterbeds, scanning to e-mail, a clever new way to peel potatoes, etc. - sorry, but patents should simply not exist for such stuff. You can only copyright your code, trademark your brand, etc.
> They break all the time.

Never been a brand zealot, never will be, but also almost never seen what you say either. I used Androids for almost 6 years before jumping to iPhones. Androids were consistently unreliable and had to be repaired or changed often -- severely lagging just mere months after a buy, bugs that go unfixed for a full year, displays randomly getting super dim, batteries getting hot and going to 60% of the original capacity in just several months, volume buttons breaking etc. I am on my 3rd iPhone and I completely forgot that my phone can be a source of trouble. I have no reason to make this up. I am a normal consumer who goes after reliability.

I understand that many people are somewhat offended by Apple's mere existence (because they indeed do plenty of shady stuff) but please strive to be more objective. Not everything that Apple does is bad and your generalization is not helpful.

And as another poster said, any smartphone will break if you're rough with it. I've seen my fair share of drunk girls dropping their phone on a concrete floor, clumsily trying to pick it up, proceed to fall ass-first directly on it, and then rage how the phone is "trash for breaking as easily".

> In my small 50k citizen town there are three shops that only fix iPhones.

I live in a capital city (~2.5M people) and I know a smartphone shop owner who also owns 2 service/repair shops. He gave up on repairing Androids because Android users are very price-sensitive (his words): "they buy a phone for 220 EUR and when they hear a replacement for the display they broke is 90 EUR they just say: screw that, I'll buy a new one, or just grumpily leave". He was paying 2 Android phone technicians to basically sit around twiddling their thumbs all day, for basically 4-8 repairs a month, so he let them go and paid for his iPhone technicians to learn Android repairs for the occasional customer who needed them.

The iPhone "repairs" were mostly routine work in comparison: many people, myself included, routinely swap the battery when it reaches 80% capacity (because at that point you do notice a reduced battery life). Often people break their displays so they need new ones. Very rarely they had to actually replace a logic board or anything else internally.

The shop owner also told me that he can count on the fingers of one hand the iPhones he has to completely replace in warranty during any given 3-6 months period.

As is the case with 98% of everything, the reasons for a phenomena are economic. No grand conspiracies or big bads.
This is the entire arm community, and its so entrenched that despite SBBR/Systemready just about every single SoC manufacture and board vendor continue to follow this one off embedded mindset where everything is bound into a blob containing the firmware, OS and applications. (ex: see rpi) when just focusing on conforming the existing firmware standards would allow not only one off hacked up linux to work, but windows and various other OS's. There isn't any reason other the stubbornness and ignorance that the arm ecosystem doesn't work just like the desktop PC market at this point when it comes to being able to install any random OS on any random board.

There are some notable exceptions to this (Solidrun?) but the senior engineering has blinders on (and lots of false excuses why it wont work), and the mgmt chain likes the status quo because they see it as some kind of market segmentation strategy.
That... makes absolutely no sense.

We're in a golden age for music creation, you don't even need a garage and a band to get started (though it certainly helps for the more complex acts or if you want a band), people like Bo Burnham and Jacob Collier got their start (and part of their early fame) making youtube videos at home.

And probably most importantly you have no need whatsoever to be "discovered" by an "agent" or somesuch, you can have viewers and listeners from the other side of the globe, from your room.

I mean just look at this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcVEx6UrtF8

That's a teenager in england (skillfully) playing with dissonant harmony in split-screen multitrack. The top commenter is a californian who'd go on to found Patreon the following month (or had founded it a month after the video was posted, youtube doesn't show exact dates for comments).
I'm confused.. floating in water makes your neck hurt?
While that is technically correct, mRNA is something your body makes in relatively large quantities every day. As such if it was harmful life itself wouldn't be possible.
Using +1 DynamoDB table is a bad idea in the first place.
> but the data is not nearly as grim as the media seems to imply

1. That's not "data"

2. What you need to make a judgment on is whether Texas is positioned well to handle a tail event, not how it handles the odds and ends of unexceptional power outages that dominate graphs like that. The families of the hundreds who died last winter probably have some opinions about how well Texas handled the last event, handling which was extremely bad and closer than anyone would have liked to power grid "Mad Max." It's a question of how much they've improved.
I had a much more stable upbringing and family life than the author, but one area that I can relate to is being incredibly bored as a kid - most of my friends lived across major roads or outside of walking distance in suburbia. The internet and all it offered was an endless fountain of entertainment for me. I really don't know what I would have done without it.
European Commission's Open Source Programme Office Starts Bug Bounties
IF the "few beers" turns into ONE too many, it will lead to the same career and social suicide. Driving under the influence, fighting, lewd acts, etc... I live in a state where Weed is legal. I don't see people high decide to fight everyone at the party. I have seen this with alcohol more than I care to admit.
> this is the strongest argument in favor of Facebook's original position - that they oughtn't be responsible for distinguishing fact from fiction. Ask any entity to discern truth at scale and there will be errors

the classic anecdote of the husband who does a really bad job washing the dishes so his wife won't ask him to do them anymore
Would any non-trivial substance be deemed "safe" under these criteria?
How do you access the built-in "Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp"?
I had many floats before and after getting T. The floats were as relaxing. They can pipe in white noise/rain/sound if you like.
from my small understanding of "prohibition" it was like thry tried to enforce it by way of brute muscle and people found ingenious ways to fool the system. what would the result have been if they had worked on educating people and building a society wide consensus about its ill effects.
> This looks more like a mechanism to limit Crypto.com's exposure to future events than it does a policy to protect users.

That's fine. It lays out the risk exposure in concrete terms and defining their market offering. If you use a jailbroken device, or have more than $250K in funds, or are holding crypto for illegal purposes, don't put it in Crypto.com. Same as FDIC insured savings accounts that are limited to $250K.
A room full of cardiologists will raise a glass to that.
enum Method {
Get = "method/GET"
// ...
}

The string value can be very helpful for the reader - be it a human or log ingestor
Driving risk statistics are sort of artificially inflated by deaths and injuries of motorcyclists and DUI/ DWI drivers involved in single-vehicle crashes. If you avoid putting yourself in those categories then driving is much safer than the raw statistics suggest.

There's also a huge variance in risk based on what vehicle you drive. Some larger vehicles have a statistical driver death rate close to zero.

https://www.iihs.org/ratings/driver-death-rates-by-make-and-...
What America’s largest technology firms are investing in
https://archive.is/J3k5i
I got the chills when I read this section. What an act of kindness!
Wait, so grains are bad now?
Zombies are the lowest form of horror.
Hope he gets well soon, I got my first job at 18 in 2013 thanks to him, working on a Bootstrap based frontpage.
I agree with solox3 about the need to cite the evidence, not just say "studies show."

That said, my doctor asked how much I drank, and I said about four drinks a week. She said "that's too much." So now I have a pretty strict limit of two per week, and "a glass of wine with dinner" does count towards that. I think she was more in tune with ALL the evidence, not just the articles that tell everyone what they want to hear.

People really don't like to hear that two-per-week thing. The beer or glass of wine with friends is a pretty important part of society. In fact, I really think you only live once, and what's the point if you never have the things you really love? But don't delude yourself that it's healthy; it's not.

That said: I lost a brother to alcohol & cigarettes, so it's a little more personal with me.
NetBSD builds one kernel for all supported ARM64 devices, there is no reason why Linux can't do the same. The devicetree selected by the firmware provides the description of a particular board.
Who decides what is against India?

Who decides what other countries "need protection"?

Who decides where the line between censorship and legality is drawn?

Who dictates morals?
I have a (probably stupid) question - are the tunnels (https://www.indiatimes.com/technology/science-and-future/ear...) the solar system is currently in - connected to black hole at the heart of our galaxy?

Like do black holes extend enormous magnetic tendrils into the surrounding space similar to neutron stars?
I'm confused by what this actually is. When you read the official Suse pages [1] [2] it almost sounds like it is support for various distros not an actual distro.

>Running and maintaining a heterogeneous OS environment is hard; but your diverse workloads depend on it. With SUSE Liberty Linux, you get a world-class support and management solution for your entire Linux estate – from the core to the cloud and all the way to the edge – with no vendor lock-in

>SUSE Liberty Linux is a new technology and support offering that provides customers a unified support experience for managing their heterogeneous IT environments. With SUSE Liberty Linux, you get trusted support with optional proven management tools that are optimized for mixed Linux environments, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, and as you would expect openSUSE and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.

[1] https://www.suse.com/products/suse-liberty-linux/

[2] https://www.suse.com/c/suse-liberty-linux/
Because they relied on an nft marketplace for definitions:

> For more information on NFTs and the terminology used in this article, the
OpenSea NFT Bible is the current de-facto document for NFT knowledge
CryptoPets.com incoming!
Another great introduction is his short stories. I’ll add a link below to one of my favourites. A noble with a big, misguided heart and high, lofty head gets drunk with his aristocratic buddies and talks about humaneness and the people and blah blah, and on his drunken carriage ride home sees a wedding celebration at one of his subordinate’s home and invites himself in and ruins everything.

It’s such an amazing exposition of the gap separating our thoughts and ideals and reality, self grandeur and delusion, etc. It’s also very funny in The Office kind of way.

https://onemorelibrary.com/index.php/en/?option=com_djclassi...
That is the actual text.

https://web.archive.org/web/20170312052208/http://www.cfr.or...
It really depends much more on the access patterns than data shape.

Certain access patterns can do pretty well with 3,000 relational tables denormalized to a single DynamoDB table.
Altos Labs, a $3bn bet on finding the fountain of youth
I don't see a problem here, politics is probably bad for brain development. 25 might actually be more appropriate.
>to at least be consistent.

Also worth noting that consistency could be achieved by outlawing alcohol. In the U.S. at least, that proved an impractical solution. So I don't think "we allow one bad thing and we can't get rid of it, so let's allow all bad things" makes a particularly compelling argument.

(FWIW, I'm generally not against legalization nor do I think all drugs are net-negative. I just find the argument as laid out to be unconvincing.)
In many ways it is not. It's an endless source of procrastination and staying here too long without other influences will cause you to develop a most profound case of engineer's disease and blind you to the specific brand of groupthink here. Still, the level of discourse here is high compared to the worst of Reddit, and sometimes on topics I find highly engaging, which keeps me coming back for more (distraction). Just don't fall into the logical fallacy that any of us here are worth more than any other human being because (some of us) have more money, or that we're able to string English words together to form complete sentences.
Although I don't agree with his broader proposition, I've always wondered if Julian Jaynes' idea of the Bicameral Mind had some basis in the same mechanisms as intuition. In my personal experience, I rely very heavily on intuition and it comes to me sometimes in words not unlike what Jaynes described. Or maybe I'm conflating two different processes?
This is a fantastic article, thanks for sharing, I hadn't remotely considered sublime in this context, probably because they're my favourite band...sublime is great word in this context.
Sounds like the only hard part is a nice interface to select the customer IDs. You can just pass along that data to select build configs or what have you.

How is the rest of the process not applicable to GH or Jenkins?
I suspect this wasn't the best title to get attention on HN; perhaps I should consider that in future, I imagine most people expecting an article on marketing won't be that excited to see an arcade board repair...
see here: http://sbcl.org/manual/index.html#Handling-of-Types
That's what I get for doing math in my head quickly.
> No customers experienced a loss of funds.

I mean, there's still plenty of money in other people's accounts they can use to cover the losses.

Does anybody know whether the regulatory regime they operate under is sound? If a US bank lost this kind of customer money in a theft, I'd have some confidence that the the FDIC and the Federal Reserve would make sure they actually had all the money they were claiming they had. But personally I'd hate to bank purely on the internal controls of a Singaporean subsidiary of a Maltese company.
Want to email me at hi@coolstartupjobs.com? Just let me know the site and I'll add you.
What are some bad things you can do with programming to make a lot of money?
people have purposely been doing a lot of slavery for thousands of years as well. took us some time but we got over the whole "its been fine for millions of years so it must be good or at least fine" to get to the root of the issue. once we found that, slavery was abolished pretty much everywhere.

my point is, why bring "societal pressure of 500 years" into an argument for an inherently bad thing. just thinking out loud
Sports business has always loved sports betting. What you are seeing now is relaxed regulation and new tech that routes around existing regulation.
I dunno, I've seen a lot of mentions of different companies trying to stuff crypto/blockchain in to seem trendy and marketable when it's clear that there's absolutely nothing crypto/blockchain brings to that use case.

(In fact, I have yet to see a single genuine use case for cryptocurrencies or blockchain that aren't served at least as well by more proven technologies, aside from "separating money from fools" and "making libertarians/anarchocapitalists squee".)
WMDs are expensive. They wouldn't need aid if they would have used that money instead.
Is it weird to have nostalgia for sitting in a download queue for patches to Half-Life and its mods on FilePlanet or FileShack?
Exactly. I find the claim "no level of alcohol consumption is safe" hyperbolic. You could claim with far more justification that "no amount of driving is safe" since you could be killed pulling out of your driveway but I think most people who drive on a daily basis would find this claim odd. "safety" is a relative, not an absolute condition, since in some sense being alive is unsafe.
The reasoning used to put the policies in place on those "illegal" substances was hardly reasoning in the first place.

So many countries have had great success with legalization, so what is your reasoning for so much caution? It's only continuing the legacy of pain.
>but a significant percent of people seem to be experiencing it with the Omicron variant

How do we know if this is true? Omicron was only identified two months ago, the bulk the cases have been in the last 30 days. Not enough time has passed to qualify for long covid, so there is very little to even measure at this point. If you were sick two weeks ago and still feel bad, that's not unusual with a respiratory virus or flu.
I take a lot of Non-FDA approved gray market and black market medicine. If all drugs are legal then such medical drugs should be legal as well. At least the ones I take are health promoting, non-addictive and non-habit forming.

I think a big part of the resistance to legalization is the medical establishment maintaining their monopoly supplier status on medicine.
reminds me of when the WHO said fertile aged women should not drink any alcohol and the wine aunts had a meltdown while also citing WHO as a source for anything covid related. hypocrisy at its finest.
Fair.

My feeling is likely impacted as much from the fact that I've never met anyone that used it.
Not GP, but a lot of people have trouble distinguishing "illegal" from "wrong", and the cause and effect. It's "wrong" to take cocaine because it's illegal; it's bad to legalize cocaine because it's "wrong". Cocaine is bad because of all the harms it causes to society; but a lot of the harms it causes to society (some of them listed above) come about solely because it's illegal.
Here in the USA it is most commonly sold on store shelves as "Accent". Worth noting: MSG is naturally occurring in some foods, such as cheese. And if you salt a tomato slice, a lot of MSG is produced.

MSG: The tastiest nocebo.
Bringing the ideas of packet based networking to the world of train based container freight seems really promising.

Question is will the gain in time and cost efficiency (by having each container move individually more or less fully automated) be bigger then the loss in energy and cost efficiency (each container needing it's own motor and energy storage sounds to be more expensive then one big locomotive)