skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a bit odd to indict Mullvad for not doing anything about nefarious actors using their service, as the whole selling point of their service is that they don't keep track of who is up to what. If they start policing user traffic, I will cancel my service, and I'm sure many others would to.

FWIW I run my own VPN server on a common cloud provider, and I actually encounter more trouble there than when I'm logged into Mullvad. I think the services who can't think of more creative solutions than blanket IP bans are the real problem here.
I'm trying not to be too rude here, but this reads like Baby's First Crypto Article. Every reason they've listed here has been discussed to death and refuted by most people "in the know" so to speak.

- Self-custody is being dismantled by regulators, and the people who do cater to self-custody are selling P2P which is far too inconvenient for the average person.

- Interest rates are higher, but gas fees are even worse if you want to push an L1 transaction (L2 transactions undermine your security/decentralization/transparency benefits).

- Modern DeFi is hardly transparent, and the parts that are visible have only proven useful to speculative investors and law enforcement agencies.

- Sure it might go beyond investment, but what examples can we point to? The dumpster fire of NFTs? The Wild-West world of crypto loans? I've been watching for nearly 8 years now, and nothing has come up.

- The whole "distributed" nature of these systems is definitely nerd porn, but the general public doesn't care. On top of that, there's really no benefit to decentralizing a currency that will be treated and handled like a regulated asset when all is said and done, so the only "benefit" is that we're now using hundreds of times more computation/energy/time to process and verify individual transactions. It was cool in 2012. Today it's just a burden.

I'm someone who likes crypto. I think it's cool, and while there might not be a finance revolution in the next decade, I think there's a great deal of problems that could be solved with decentralized fiat. Every argument here is terrible, though. This article is all hype and no substance, like it was written by a Bitcoin maxi from 2012 who just woke up from cryosleep stasis to defend their favorite currency.

Oh, and towards the bottom it's sponsored by a blockchain API company. Go figure.
I'm also on NixOS but hating Nix language (while loving the model, and sadly Guix System so far miss a bit of things I want like LVM, LUKS, zsf support) I keep my dotfiles as org-mode, org-roam managed notes, from the NixOS config to individual apps, tangling them in their right place.

Respect of using Nix it might be a bit less strong, but it's far simpler and an issue here does not means anything else stop (failed rebuild for a single derivation error).

In the past I have kept my dotfiles under a common root and {sym,hard}link them or copy via a single wrapper script, such setup was fragile but still effective.

Before that, many years ago, I've just have the dotfiles I'm interested in regularly sync-ed in a dedicated tree via unison.

I've briefly tried GNU RCS, then mercurial to track changes but fail to see a real use case for personal use, I see one in an Ops team where multiple people makes change and anyone need to see them, who and when and (hopefully) why they was made, but for me, myself and I at home... A classic backup suffice to protect against accidental mistakes and adding a reason to backup AND RESTORE is a good thing :-)

I've also tried Salt and Ansible for local usage but even if far simpler than other similar their YAML+python is still too much for my taste...
The most important marriage lesson is: don’t get married. The person you marry is not the person you divorce. You can lose a huge amount of money battling it out even if YOU bend over backwards to be reasonable. If you want to flip a coin to see if you lose ten years of earnings, then marriage is for you.
In reply to just the FTA quote (not the parent comment's content): The 20% long-term gains might also be subject to 3.8% net investment income tax, right? There is still a difference but it's closer to "about 2/3" than "about half."

And the article does omit state taxes but California would tax both LTCGs and income at 13.3% for this cohort.

That might be splitting hairs and I'm not justifying billionaires' tax rates. Politically I probably line up with the ProPublica stance more than not, but feel there is some hand-waving in this series of articles that distracts from the argument, especially around defining the term "true tax rate."
Did his PhD at Caltech under Christof Koch in computation and neural systems, was a super talented mathematician... and then he gets involved in crypto.

I remember conversations with friends only a few years ago in which we would lament how young brilliant minds were eventually going on to work on adtech, and we would sigh and hope that the tide would turn.

Boy, we were not prepared for this tide.

Anyway, the NYSD release gives some interesting details: (https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/manhattan-us-attorney-a...)

GRIFFITH identified several DPRK Cryptocurrency Conference attendees who
appeared to work for the North Korean government, and who, during his
presentation, asked GRIFFITH specific questions about blockchain and
cryptocurrency and prompted discussions on technical aspects of those technologies.

After the DPRK Cryptocurrency Conference, GRIFFITH began formulating plans to
facilitate the exchange of cryptocurrency between the DPRK and South Korea, despite
knowing that assisting with such an exchange would violate sanctions against the
DPRK. GRIFFITH also encouraged other U.S. citizens to travel to North Korea,
including to attend the same DPRK Cryptocurrency Conference the following year.

Smart enough as he was, I'm sure he knew of the terrible human rights track record NK had. That he chose to start helping the NK government evade sanctions, I am not able to muster a lot of sympathy for the guy at this point.
We're in agreement - I did not mean to imply it's an exclusively Dutch problem, I was just pointing out that it's a problem that isn't brought up that much when people talk about issues in Dutch society.

Also, since "white" is a flexible term that varies per country but always basically designates which socially constructed ethnicities are the "exclusive clubs" on top of society, it should probably be pointed out to for everyone who has no experience with North-Western European whiteness that people from Eastern and Southern European countries are not considered white in these countries most of the time either, except perhaps when they're compared to immigrants from countries even further away.
I could be wrong. If you give it bad data then it could still overfit.

https://datacadamia.com/data_mining/overfitting

But if all your data is good There’s no training step per se. And it just keeps improving with more data.
> How are people going to pay their taxes

The government is going to have to suck it up and accept taxes in cryptocurrency. In my country such laws have already been proposed.
I think the reason might be much simpler. For businesses, cash involves the risk of robbery, and in any case someone must drop it off at the bank periodically, or a pick-up must be arranged (adding cost). If your customers have a card anyway, why bother?
You have any links for those answers? I appreciate them.
yes, I would say that intrisnically disordered proteins adopt something like an unfolded state, which is to say that they can visit a wide range of structures that are at similar energy levels, all of which are accessible at ~room temp. I can't really answer in more detail because all the ID proteins are fairly different an dhow they do their job is hard to understand compared to stable static "rocks" like enzyymes.
RTO: Return to Office and Perks
Absolute nonsense.

Your "advice" is idiotic and dangerous.
This reminds me of the design used to denote a graph whose y axis does not start at 0:

https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/79272
> If I counted correctly, 8/10 of the selected submissions specifically mention the iPhone and the macro feature by name. Same with the comments on different submissions

The contest was only open to photos taken from an iPhone. This is mentioned in the heading, sub-heading and opening paragraph.
that’s what crypto is trying to be - the alternative to the global banking system, because the banking system has some issues.
> Why? Because unlike the American pension system which is mostly backed by the stock market, European pension systems depend on young and healthy workers to pay the pensions of the current pensioner generation.

Using investment returns to pay for retirement is no less dependent on young and healthy workers. Us retirees own the companies, working people work for them, and we skim the returns. It accomplishes the same thing but with less central planning. It's still vulnerable to demographic traps.
Testing New Tools for Horizon Worlds Creators to Earn Money
Should that be the standard we hold ourselves to?
Learning garment manipulation policies toward robot-assisted dressing
Sounds reasonable. And yes, I am a one-man team. But then, after collecting all this information, how do you organize and store all this information for on-demand availability? For tables extracted from the publication, you can create a new table withing a relational database. But how do you organize single data points extracted from the text? Where do you store them?
Microdosing - definitely not. Regardless of what the proponents say, even small doses of psychedelics induce some degree of impairment (please don't microdose and drive!)

But you touched on one of the key problems with psychedelics: We can't really expect people to trip every few months forever. If psychedelics are used, I would expect them to be in the context of intense therapy. Many of the studies will require patients to go through 10 or more therapy sessions before, during, and after their psychedelic dose.
My partner is an hobbyist painter and often looks for hours on Google image search for a source image to paint off of. He was excited to get access to Dall-e because it would give him a vast new source of stock images he could do style transfer on to give him a better source for his art. It is very common in art classes to mash something up in Photoshop to use as reference. This tool is far from useless.
Probably the kind of thing you should go over with your lawyer first.
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As this continues I suspect that this might be one of the few times where a lack of transparency / good communication really ... might not be better or worse because the situation is so bad that transparency would be horrible just the same.

Granted that's how all lies start / what sometimes people assume and they're wrong but ... maybe this is that time?

Maybe it is in fact so bad that honesty would be a push or worse?
Starry's model of fixed wireless on mmWave could pose threat to cable
> The water cup example isn't symbolic, it is prototypical.

Thank you! I knew there had to be a better word to describe it but all I could think of was "exemplary" and that didn't feel quite right.
Yes, many proteins have transitional global arrangements that it traverses as it meets some goal. For example, kinesin and dynein walk along microtubules in a way where we could never perfectly characterize the intermediary states since it's effectively a motor with free rotation around certain elements.

A lot of crystallography is focused on enzymatic reactions where you bind a ligand that sits there for the sake of introducing some conformation that you can study. The ligands generally approximate the natural substrate at either the beginning, end, or some intermediate step in enzyme catalyzed synthesis.
> I'm not sure what that adds to your post besides to antagonize. I'd respectfully suggest rethinking that as an opener on future comments.

Then you interpreted my statement as more harsh than I intended, and I'll own up to my side of that, so I apologize. I don't necessarily take it as an insult for someone to say I misunderstood their point (if my statement to them comes across as a non-sequitur, I expect something like that), not that I've misunderstood some of the conversation. Sometimes comments are building on the context of a few prior comments in the chain, and seeing just the last two or three gives a distorted view of the context in which the current argument is being made. I'm not saying that happened here, but it is a reason I generally don't consider that statement to be very aggressive, but honestly it depends on the state of mind of the person hearing it.

> I don't disagree with most of your post, and I don't think you seem to disagree with mine, preface aside. Yes, it's still difficult, but I think there is a world of difference between being under physical duress versus being very inconvenienced.

My point was about control. No simile is going to be perfect. There will obviously be differences to being a fief than being a citizen in a democracy where the local company controls a lot of the resources and services.

That said, perhaps fiefdom wasn't what I was going for. Perhaps a Duchy is more appropriate? I admit to not being confident enough in the structures to know whether colloquially one implies more specific behavior than the other which might confuse the point (whether or not that implication is accurate).

> Keeping the analogy, it's very inconvenient to change even a normal job, and we are held hostage with things like healthcare. That's fief like too. Scale matters.

Yes. And I think adding power to this structure to reinforce those problems rather than a structure you have more control over which might alleviate them is the rational choice. I'm honestly surprised and confused that so many people are against that in this discussion.
It’s super hard no doubt but I wonder how much of the data was hot vs cold.
It is obvious that the US penal system is designed for retribution not rehabilitation. Furthermore, you are not allowed to do anything important unless you are affiliated with the Party.
I wonder what John Gottman would say? My guess is he would recommend something like this: https://www.gottman.com/blog/manage-conflict-the-art-of-comp..., https://www.gottman.com/blog/two-views-every-conflict-valid/, https://www.gottman.com/blog/for-better-or-for-worse-conflic..., or https://www.gottman.com/blog/overcoming-gridlocked-conflict/.

This is surprisingly, to me at least, a mostly solved problem. When I started having conflicts with my wife over similar issues I dug into the research and found that most of this is surprisingly easy, in principle. In practice it's a lot harder but reading a handful of books goes a long way.
The state of moviemaking today shows how dead innovation has become. Unless the film can make upwards of $100 million across international distribution, it has no chance of being distributed, much less made. Trying to tell a script for adults that employs smart dialogue, unexpected plot twists, or quirky characters is a total nonstarter. Funding for those kinds of films is kaput. Instead, CGI bloodbaths sporting childish oversexualized cartoon characters that "whup up on each other" is the drek that has dominated our silver screens for over a decade.

No golden age there.
He sucks at selling, however the guy who he buys the salt from is excellent at selling. Therefore capable of getting the shop owner to buy excessive amounts of salt.
Factor (https://github.com/factor/factor) is a pretty good language!
Why would it ? On our end everything works fine. If you’re not one of the 400 companies, there's no difference
Put them in a peanut butter sandwich (with jelly/bananas/etc) and you taste them way less
So then you agree that accredited investing requirements aren't the problem?
North Korea actively threatens the use of nuclear weapons, offensively, against its neighbors and enemies. There should be no sympathy for this regime or anyone who collaborates with it.
That's what macrophotography means.
What about when there's some environment-specific (or otherwise problematic) dependency that you need to mock because it can't be imported where you want to run the unit tests? Patching it afterwards doesn't work when the import of the default implementation fails.

If you patch it ahead of time by inserting a dummy module, that dummy module might be used to initialize other modules that you weren't targeting, so undoing the patch after the test might be very tricky.

You can sort of make it work, but it seems really hacky, so for that reason I'm currently refactoring towards DI (without frameworks). But I'm open to better ideas.
> They are Hmong

How is this relevant?
“The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.”
I am quite certain since having COVID my sense of smell has never been the same. It has fully returned in terms of sensitivity (things don't smell weak or undetectable). But certain things just don't smell or taste the same anymore.
>... I have to smell weed pretty much all the time now.

Life could be worse.

>They are Hmong...

Why is this at all relevant?
That is another great option, especially for getting started. This is something we have done at work to build our internal DSL. We used the wonderful Lark parsing library for Python. It allowed us to iterate very quickly and get the tool in the hands of the people that were intended to use it asap.

I don't think I would use a parsing lib to build a general purpose programming language though. At least not one that I intended to ship.
I know. Though he presumably doesn’t know about that tool.
Ending prohibition would mean that criminals would no longer be involved in drugs, because people can buy them at the store.

It doesn't work super well if the regulations and taxes make legal drugs more or as expensive as legal drugs, so that needs to be managed well for things to work.
If my wife were doing this, our grocery bill would double and it would all be frozen dinners and takeout.

that's pretty dismissive. do you know this from experience? have you tried it? that's the point. not the outcome. does your wife understand the effort you go through? does she respect that? does she want it?

the point is not to train each other to be equally suited to every task, but to better understand each other.

if you are both happy with the arrangement as it is then you don't need to do anything, but but if one of you is unhappy about the efforts of the other then it may help to bring these things to light.
They don't need hot wallets for exchange trading. That's just normal accounting, numbers in a centralized database. They could have zero reserves and it'd still work. Only when you withdraw cryptocurrency from the exchange and into your own wallet do they need to produce actual coins for the transaction.
In practice, light gathering correlates to F-stop quite well on most normal modern lenses, transmission losses are very low. The main exceptions are deliberately apodized lenses, which have considerably transmission losses wide open.

For the rest - yeah, f# is just one of important specifications.
A modern self-referential weight matrix that learns to modify itself
Sounds like the continuity planners at Atlassian (the fall guys) will be looking for a new job.
That's pretty close to my list as well. For me it's GothamChess > Agadmator > Hikaru. I don't care about the Botez sisters. But I watch only on Youtube.

1. GothamChess is the most educational and entertaining. The video format also varies quite a bit which helps.

2. Agadmator is less entertaining than Gotham, but very consistent.

3. Hikaru is of course very strong, but sometimes he doesn't care about explaining what he's thinking and even when he does its harder to follow.

I've ben watching Gotham and Agadmator, almost daily. My wife is a bit annoyed sometimes, but I remember it could be worse. I could be into football.
That was my impression too
A link between zeroth powers and the logarithm function is such a simple idea but potentially fruitful. Exponentials and logarithms often translate between additive groups and multiplicative groups. Maybe there are interesting isomorphisms where the logarithm can be generalized as a zeroth power.
Same. Never seen that symbol in my life. I've seen ¬, ~, !, etc used for not/negation in computer science, math, logic, etc.

And some commenters said they used it to mark proof by contradiction, but why is there a need to mark it when you are showing it via proof? A canonical example of proof by contradiction is proving sqrt(2) is not rational. Never have I seen it marked with that symbol. Where would you even mark it? At the beginning with the assumption? Or at the end like QED?
I remember when I could connect to nearly any server on the internet on port 25 and manually type the commands to send an email.

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This was my first thought as well. Either a misdrawn version of this, or a corrupt SVG, that somehow made it to production.
I took a large dose of mushrooms about 11 years ago and haven't had depression since. My life was on track to nowhere and now I'm doing great. Hard to not give mushrooms a bit of the credit, the results were immediate.
> The effort put into this video I’ve only seen matched by on YouTube by “Stuff Made Here”

Captain Disillusion is definitely up there. His Flight of the Navigator video is one of the most remarkable things I've ever seen on the internet.
All that education and they still didn’t have the common sense to maybe not go to North Korea
fuck perks, give me a raise.
> don't want an oxygen subscription

And that's fine! As long as you stay within the bounds of the free plan, you can have ad-supported oxygen! Terms & Conditions apply.
"first they came for ..."
I know you think what you're doing is "elevating" conversations, but ... "calling out" people for the slightest bit of negativity is an extremely toxic behavior. Quality discourse requires negativity and fosters a healthy span of tolerance for it. Your interpretation is also very narrow and passive aggressive itself, to me it seems completely neutral that in a case when someone has a strong opinion based on ignorance, you remind them of their ignorance - not just for people reading it but for their own sake.
For anyone who's never tried mushrooms before, 3 grams is a pretty large dose. If it's your first time start with 1 gram or so. After all, you can always take more, but you can't take less.
The USA junta will punish you if you go against them, constitution be damned, the judges are on their side.
>but his work was exploring how digital systems can help bring peace to the world, and he thought a good place for that to happen is NK, so who doesn't agree with that?

Anyone who understands that trying to transfer technology to North Korea that aids in avoiding sanctions is not going to contribute to peace. That a bank got away with doing something similar is of course equally stupid and hypocritical, but doesn't really change the point.
I guess this is wake call for the people rushing to SaaS solutions.
The wealth gap isn't going to shrink by making it easy for startups (or "startups") that can't convince rich strangers (or friends and family, or crowdfunding platforms) they're worth investing in to convince larger numbers of less rich strangers to do it instead.

Most companies funded by professionals go bust and the risk adjusted returns to VC as an asset class aren't that great: the funds that have spectacular returns being balanced out by those that lose their LPs money. And few unicorns are going to be spending their effort pitching average earners for $2k cheques. Why would we expect the average joe to invest better than the pros with less capital to diversify, no board seats and substantially worse dealflow?