skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>Curb criminality. The anonymity of cryptocurrency transactions means that they appeal to criminals and bad actors.

There is no evidence that laws instituted ostensibly to stop money laundering, like the warrantless financial mass-surveillance mandates of AML regulations, have done anything to reduce crime:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/25741292.2020.1...

All these laws do is concentrate power in the hands of the regulated financial sector, which acts as the deputized agent of the state's AML apparatus, along with financial surveillance agencies, who together are privy to the enormous amounts of private financial information gathered via AML mass-surveillance.

>>it’s been estimated that up to half of bitcoin transactions could support illegal activities4.

The methodology for this study is absolutely absurd:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E6H8ue6X0AorZB5?format=jpg&name=...

"For example, we measure the extent to which individual take actions to conceal their identity and trading records, which predicts involvement in criminal activity"

Taking actions to protect one's privacy is NOT an indication of criminality.

Moreover, this study collected data in 2017 and was published in 2019. I'm a bit puzzled why the authors of this article didn't look at the much more recent Chainanalysis study, which estimates that 0.64% of cryptocurrency transactions are associated with illegal activity:

https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/cryptocurrency-crime-2021...

>>CBDCs have the opposite problem. They could allow central banks and governments to track everyone’s transactions — a digital panopticon. However, if implications for privacy and rights were addressed, such transparency might deter and expose crime, as well as increasing tax revenues and diminishing black-market trade.

This is completely absurd. "Transparency" is the opposite of "privacy". You cannot have transparency in private financial interactions, without tautologically invading privacy.
What a great answer! I have similar questions as OP in my head. Would like to have a return-on-investment on my following of technical or philisophical blogs or reading books about it. Or on what I learned about my Arduino hobby projects. But my formal education combined with practical experiences is the trick that pays the bills, even though it is often hard or boring. The rest of knowledge makes great conversations at the coffee machine or at a party.
> I can't imagine moving to the US, and I'm sure that lots of smart people in the EU are in the same camp. At the same time, I'd be very interested in providing high value to and being part of a company with the velocity and dynamics of a start-up.

I personally do this via contracting. I’m in Europe and work for people in the US. I’m currently working with two companies, both are very early stage startups, it’s very dynamic, everything has to be built from scratch and I feel I have lot of influence over products and devices which is something I enjoy.

And I still have all benefits from Western European countries.

Not sure how things will evolve if they start to focus on hiring employees and move to a more standard company structure but so far things are going well.
>It depends on the reasonable man who would put in the sweat and blood, but might be inspired or paid by the unreasonable man.

It's just the same thing as parent poster said, just with extra steps.
Messing around with OpenID connect for a web service template has proven to be a mistake for me in this regard.

A template has no immediate utility, and OAuth2 and OpenID are nightmare protocols where dreams go to die.
Blogspam will exist everywhere people are allowed to blog, the real issue is your latter point.
My wife uses it, hates it, finds workarounds for its weird issues. After several years using it she still doesn't like it.

Her biggest complaints: bold/italic, and hitting return in a text box switches back to the default font.

To be fair to her, she's not what you'd call "into tech". Not clueless by long chalk, but not into exploring every inch of a product. I've offered to sit with her and go through some of the issues, but she just stick to her current workflow and bitch about it occasionally. Part of me knows what she feels like. A lot of people never learn vim, bitch about it when they find themselves on a remote server having to edit a long config file in vim, but still never learn vim.

In the case of Scribus, her biggest gripe isn't a bug it's a "WON'T FIX STOP ASKING"
The issue with seasonal storage is that efficiency is much less important than capital cost. The cost of inefficiency is proportional to the number of charge/discharge cycles, the capital cost is not.

So, it makes sense to look at systems like ones using hydrogen, since hydrogen can be stored underground as a compressed gas at a storage capacity cost of $1/kWh. Minimizing that capacity cost is crucial. Sure, the round trip efficiency will be poor (maybe 40%?) but as argued above that doesn't matter much.
Kid me got burned so hard by this. Upgraded my GeForce 2 MX to a GeForce 4 MX. It was slightly better and had I think 4 times the VRAM but I learned to pay a lot more attention after that.
Some people don’t know you have to skip the odd ones. There’s even people who like Star Trek vii.
The question is “what is all that talent doing with Twitter?” Truly talented people are typically restless and discontent with mediocrity. Perhaps, the talent is overrated?
It works for me, using Firefox to scan the QR code in the video.

Do you have a smart phone? You could try it yourself.
Not a fan at all. I'm on a 1080p monitor and the main font is janky and tiring to read.

There is far too much going on all over the place, popups and side notes distracting from all directions and apparently it loads ~4Mb of resources to achieve what is largely a text only site.
Yes. USA. Good catch. Sorry about that.
Hypothesis Testing and its Discontents, Part 1: How is it Supposed to Work?
Right, when pecresse is defending against laicity, next to Mohammed Heniche who as later involved in the samuel paty murder, she's "conservative", way to go.
Email is exhausting. I've decided that I just don't care about quick turn-around on email. It sucks, but the cost of checking email throughout the day is too high - not just in terms of time, but the psychological impact of it is surprisingly negative.

I now check it ~2x. Morning and midday. If I'm doing a back and forth I may go back to that one specific thread, but that's it.
Exactly why he would've won in appeal if only he had wanted to.
2022 and we still have to see WordPress Database Errors.
I'm not making the connections in the article - business success isn't about whether or not you are boring. Neither is happiness. They even said they were happy. Just not motivated. But living a simple and happy life is not a bad thing. Being boring is different than being bored. Enjoying boring hobbies is still enjoying your world. I don't need to entertain others to live a fulfilling life.

So if the author has problems they want to fix with their work or life, by all means fix them. But "being boring" is not a problem in and of itself.
Y’all REALLY care about Twitter and it is adorable.
Yes, every day since 2012 - I was a little late to the party, but managed to show up right around when it was really getting going. Unless the form is tiny and unzoomable, checkboxes have always seemed to work fine, no worse affected than any other web UI element by the essential imprecision of the interaction style.
Debian didn't "choose" anything. It's just a bunch of people who wanted merged-/usr to become reality created a tool to convert a system until a project-wide decision is made. The decision has been made ultimately, but the dpkg maintainer blocks it from being implemented.
Honestly, this is an area where the op would be far better served by using go/rust/c++ or another backend language. Can launch a server with microsecond latency, and if it grows get good elastic behavior. No awkward route precompilation or thirty minute build times... Julia sure is neat, but this isn't an area where it's strong.
Airbnb is irrelevant for people within Russia, and it's not the point. But for fleeing dissidents, two points:

1) to get a asylum they somehow need to escape the country first, and stay somewhere before getting to the country of destination. This policy makes it a problem.

2) the policy, as it is worded, is applied to everyone who holds russian citisenship, regardless of residence. This is supported by the acecdotical evidence of my friend's reservation cancelled, who has a residence in South Africa.

But your overall position about punishing people staying in Russia regardless of their views is rather myopic. How do you ever plan to overthrow Putin's regime if you are severing all means of support for your allies within Russia? They are already oppressed from within, and you further their oppression from the outside. Good job!
> Catar needs to be measured by modern worker protection laws or standards.

But why? Western countries with modern worker protection laws would never grant visas to these people. Qatar lets them in by the millions.

How is this supposed to be a reasonable comparison?
For me, all of those task trackers are radically slower than even a pen and paper or just a single document. Load times, the million buttons, search, etc are all worse. They're fine for teams that need to share work and make asks of other teams and prioritize etc, but for one person they're extremely inefficient.
Yeah, while the GF2MX was a stripped down GF2 the GF4MX was NOT a stripped down GF4, rather a slightly improved GF2MX. My feeling at the time was that the original MX was powerful enough for most and ate into sales of the higher end GF 2 GTS cards.
I believe you can suspend a firecracker VM to disk and resume it way faster than starting a container. If I'm not mistaken firecracker powers things like AWS lambda
What sorts of packages are these though? I've not had a single problem with anything practical in years.
I agree. But also, why don't insurance companies make payment contingent upon best practices? It's baffling that Entity I who wants to maximize results let's Entity H intentionally overlook ththe easy and obvious.
I recently did something similar refactoring XDG endpoints to get rid of the standard home layout. I was quite surprised everything just worked, and there wasn't an issue of directories being recreated in their original locations or file templates being missing. Quite liberating if you ask me.
Yaetos-A framework to simplify the creation of data pipelines
50% of everything is below the average.
No worries, enjoy your stay. :)
You can "make the world a better place" simply by not lying to yourself or others:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_road_to_hell_is_paved_wi...
Well if nominative determinism has any weight, they have a great name for it.

It could be better, I suppose; if there are any large holding companies out there named Nande or Norr they might have stiff competition.
I posted above before I'd read this -- I'd really stress again that, at least in the humanities, writing is the difference between mere 'accumulation of knowledge', which we all know will eventually be forgotten, and understanding. I would actually recommend Umberto Eco's book How to Write a Thesis as a great foundation for how to structure your cross-disciplinary studies and synthesize, again even if just for yourself. If you do start a blog, however 'cliched', you can also start to seek validation (or, even better, critical commentary!) from individuals in your fields of interest.

It feels very 'old internet' and his particular objects of study may not be of interest to you, but http://www.autodidactproject.org/ is the very interesting record of one man's lifelong studies outside the academy, as well as reflection on that process.

Best of luck! Certainly ignore those who say this is no different than watching TV if you feel a genuine 'conatus', i.e. striving and desire, for these pursuits.
Happy to get some feedback on the article and the tool!
It definitely can be a weakness and some of us are just wired this way.

When it comes to the job market I think it's important, for those of us who are generalists, to NOT attempt to compete in fields where there are massive numbers of candidates all aiming for the same kinds of jobs. In any "hot career track" one would be competing against others who are much more narrowly focused. There's always going to be someone who is more capable and has gained more achievement in any particular activity "silo".

Ironically, generalists do much better in niche jobs where they can apply peculiar combinations of skills. The hard part is these jobs are hard to find, and worse, the situation can be miserable for generalists early in their career.
I think we’re all worried about that, especially since Bill Gates started investing billions of dollars in vaccine production facilities.
It specifically asks you too, but if you just next next next next through life you might miss it.

Also that behavior isn't unique to Debian at all.
>> The problem is when extra knowledge is acquired at the expense of deeper focus (knowledge) in another area.

How it this a problem? It is just another way.
The P4-era Intel Netburst pipeline, in order to chase the highest clock speed, at some point (Prescott) degenerated from 20 stages into a 31-stages deep abomination (which would suffer so badly at any branch mispredict).

The pipeline actually has a couple stages called "Drive"... allegedly for allowing signals to propagate between key areas in the CPU.
Pilots of AF11 reported their B777 didn't react to commands on final [audio]
If it works for Common Lisp and C++ [0], it certainly does for Julia as well.

[0] - In C++ you can emulate it via a mix of function overloading and template metaprogramming.
Eh, GNU Taler does enable income transparency (income = business) while enabling privacy for private (personal) expenses. So the only thing absurd here is for the article to call this a research priority, given that since Chaum (1983) solutions that do this exist.
Air France Landing Scare Prompts French Probe on Boeing 777 Flight
So you're working in bio but yearning for IT? I'm almost the opposite. IT pays the bills, but I wish I was in evolutionary biology.
Yes, and I'm sure you could in 2013 when this happened as well, but it comes enabled by default and I learned not to enable automatic upgrades on Debian derivatives instead.

These days we mostly deploy our stuff using containers anyway, and for my own personal machines I've just switched to Arch Linux since.
I find the role based FreeBSD core team approach more adapted to projects such as Debian. They also started with BDLF and then moved on to the core team approach. That's several BDFLs, every one of them with different responsibilities. It's 9 people in the case of FreeBSD. They've tried it with 20 people and then scaled back to 9:

"Deadwood and apathy in the 20-member core team lead to creating bylaws that set up a 9-member elected core team
First elected core team in 2000 with few carryovers from old core team" [1]

It should also be an odd number if they vote, so that there won't be a tie in votes. The same approach is used in kendo and other Japanese martial arts examinations, the number of examinators is always an odd number.

This also solves the "what if the BDFL is hit by a bus" problem: another member is appointed.

1. https://papers.freebsd.org/2018/bsdcan/mckusick-The_Evolutio...
That is some solid bullshit and is exactly the opposite of everything known in design theory and studies alike.

Left-aligning text actually helps by providing a fixed start, so your eyes/brain know that they have to start left and a little bit lower. With your way it's exactly the opposite.

Will save further details, doesn't look like it's worth the time.
Requesting you take cloud out of your name. We release you from the team. I regret to say we are going to have to provide you with a win11 laptop, and the authorities are on the way to claim the hardware you appear to be currently abusing.
Actually, the ability to re-license has more to do with who owns the copyright than it has with what the license is. A problem with a lot of GPL and AGPL software is that the copyright holder is a single corporate entity that insists on a copyright transfer for every OSS contribution. Often the whole point of using the GPL or AGPL license by these companies is that they are so restrictive that their customers have an incentive to buy a commercial license.

Nothing wrong with that of course and a valid business model. But it can become a problem when they choose to switch license or withdraw their product from the OSS market entirely (like Elastic did this last year). OSS where the individual contributors retain their copyright are much more robust. For example, Linux will never change license. It would be a legal nightmare to do that. They'd be chasing tens of thousands of copyright owners for their permission, or in some cases their surviving relatives. Every single one of them would have the power to say no. It would probably be cheaper to build a completely new OS kernel from scratch than to do that. Some companies that take issue with the license conditions actually are doing that. It's probably a big reason why Google is working on Fuchsia for example.

A lot of Apache software has distributed copyright ownership. Particularly everything hosted by the Apache Foundation. Nothing wrong with that license. Great software. Has existed for decades, will continue to exist for centuries.
The contemporary consumer OSes of the time, MacOS 8 and Windows 95/98 were pretty crash prone back then. If you weren’t religious about hitting command-S as your worked it definitely wasn’t unusual to lose your work.
"> The exodus of tech talent and lack of startup creation in Italy has worried investors"

Working hard for investors and shareholders!
> For these reasons I am completely shit-scared of them. I see them as my option of last resort but increasingly I feel my options running out.

I couldn’t even take ibuprofen or daily vitamins at a certain point of being depressed out of fear it would make it worse. There were a few things that helped me calm the storm:

1. Exercise (30 mins elevated heart rate each day)

2. Talk about it (Friends, family, strangers on the internet)

3. Moderation (screen time, work, diet, etc)

4. Read about different philosophies (stoicism, buddhism, taoism, etc)

5. Sleep (Make it a top priority to get the right amount 8+ hrs)
Link to GitHub project gives 404
Michael Moorcock: “I think Tolkien was a crypto-fascist” (2015)
People are not reasonable. They simply have their reasonable moments. If someone is angry because someone else asked for something then I think it's pretty obvious they're not in reasonable-mode.
Ask HN: Best Tool for Investors Reporting?
We are a Series-A company looking for a tool that automatically connects to our Stripe account and sends monthly reports to investors

What do you guys use/suggest?
Meanwhile, I purposefully change the font of ebooks I read on my kindle to serif as I find it easier to read.
Did Kerouac ever told you not to die an alcoholic?

If anything, he advised travelling, drinking, experiencing stuff, and burning life like a candle from both ends...
Saying every German was a Nazi is like saying every American during Gulf War was a Republican.
most devs just use the terminal in VSCode these days anyways.

Are there _really_ enough terminal users and companies willing to shell out $$$ to make more than 1 million gross per year?

This kind of reminds me of that prettification of the node repl fad a few years ago, but when they switched to pay only people were like "hard naw"
Right, the numbers are so far in Qatar's favour that we know they must be wrong. Which makes it even more ridiculous that The Guardian has managed to fabricate a negative article from them.
I've deleted my FB account several years ago, but this is what I remember: There was a note like "Bearbeitet" ("changed") right in the post header, when a post had been changed after initial posting. You could click on that and see at least one previous version of the post.

A note like this, with a changelog, should therefore be fine for twitter and counter all "I never posted sth. like that!" talk, as it would be easily to be debunked.
I wish GitHub Actions worked more like Drone. Just run commands in specified Docker containers. None of this weird probably dangerous in-channel signaling via STDOUT. Completely skip the base level OS with a billion tools people might want pre installed that shifts over time, that’s just asking for your build to break while you’re on vacation. It’s a very Microsoft way to do it. It’s messy.

I know GitHub Actions has a built in opinion to kinda run like that, but I have had a ton of problems with permissions in that mode and it incurs an unavoidable 30 second overhead as it sets up Docker, every single time. Which for a 2 second unit test suite is an eternity.

I loved Drone CI when it was OSS. I contributed to Drone, I loved Drone with my whole heart. Drone stopped loving me; they pulled the rug out from under me, made my contributions non-free, and charged more than me and my company could possibly justify to use my own contributions. I learned the valuable lesson of why you don’t want to sign a CLA the hard way.

I am using GitHub Actions and I am not particularly happy about it. GitHub Actions: “It’s better than Jenkins and about on par with Travis”
The reason you mentioned is why I got sick of using Linux desktop, which I had done for several years. With Macs, yeah great...to a point but every corporation I've worked with has had 99% Windows machines and so I don't like to be the guy developing on something completely different to what people are running on.

Windows 7 and 10 have been ok for me, sounds like things are going downhill AGAIN!
Mint: Late-Stage Adversarial Interoperability Demonstrates What We Had and Lost
I do webdev in Go, and freely recompile as it takes a second or less on my hardware which consists of a rock, a rubber band and two sesame seeds on 20x2 liquid crystal. Its no struggle to recompile 100x in a day just iterating.
Class Charts – Classroom Behaviour Management
Good to know, thanks for pointing it out.
-->But the law has never been changed, and there is nothing to stop the theme park going nuclear.

I too thought this sentence was flippant.
The sum of these affordances adds up to a market for lemons.

A startup can hire Italians anywhere, certainly anywhere in EU, so the benefit of pair-for education doesn't require Italian jurisdiction.

Everything else sounds really handy if your company is destined for failure, since there are so many ways to get a bailout or take a "loan" with no interest which, hey, you also don't have to pay it back! That's a grant coupled to a later and optional donation, not a loan.

A full-time employer pays for their employee's health care, it doesn't matter if it comes out of taxes or not.

Business in Italy is too expensive, and bureaucracy too high, and you have done a fantastic job of explaining why that is while touting it as benefits!

If I looked into the relationship between nepotism and getting access to all this free money, would I be surprised? Bet I wouldn't be.
When I was eight years old, I read the children's book "Charlotte's Web".

Charlotte is a spider, and at the end, she produces a sac of baby spiders that hatch and fly away.

Ever since then, I've been terrified by the idea of hordes of superintelligent flying spiders swarming around a human.
Using `/usr/bin/` readonly is also a thing on some few distros (e.g.: Fedora Silverblue), so maybe you want to consider that for your usecase.

For device-local binaries (e.g.: not part of firmware), /usr/local/bin sounds like the right choice (also, somewhat in line what some BSDs do).
Some years ago I used to write some Gtk software (in C of course), and it seems to me that gtk4-rs is rather nicer than what I remember.