skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If anything crypto-enthusiasts should be happy to hear that the US government treats crypto as a legitimate means of moving money between nations, and punishes actors accordingly.

Cryptocurrencies being easy to move is old news. It would be much more interesting to discover that some cryptocurrency is actually immune to government sanctions.

Monero has shown hints of this. US treasury tried to sanction a wallet and ended up sanctioning a transaction hash.

https://www.treasury.gov/ofac/downloads/sdnlist.txt

> Digital Currency Address - XMR 5be5543ff73456ab9f2d207887e2af87322c651ea1a873c5b25b7ffae456c320;

https://localmonero.co/blocks/search/5be5543ff73456ab9f2d207...
No, they probably don't.
or this for the sentencing itself: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/us-citizen-who-conspired-assi...
I think more people give up and quit on compatible people than we care to admit. Getting along is hard for everyone under stressful situations. (combined with our own personal flaws)
I checked your link, I'm not sure what to make of it though.

To be honest, I probably need to be schooled on the whole thing. Generally, when there's issues at a local level, my gut reaction is I probably just don't understand the problem. But I'll also probably start by asking naive questions.

My first question is, it seems that yes there are lots of people trying to smuggle drugs or illegally enter the US for... Maybe working under the radar? Escaping Mexico?

And I can believe that it is a hard job to prevent this.

But it also seems to me like we made up the problem, why are we wanting to prevent the drugs and migrants in the first place?

For the drugs, seems we might as well manufacture them ourselves, make them in the US, label them properly, dispense correct dosers, list out side effects and risks, and tax their sales.

If people can get them through other channels, the demand for the Mexican one will reduce and that seems like it would naturally cause the smuggling to decrease. Or maybe, it wouldn't be smuggling anymore, just another import they self-declare and we tax, just like avocados.

For migrants, I'm curious what they're looking for. Are they running away from danger and trying to find safety? Are they looking for work? And why don't we want them? We're worried they resort to crime and theft? We don't have jobs for them? They bring anti-democratic values with them and promote things that we worry would eventually destroy our democracy and take away our freedom?

I think if any of those were true for migrants, I could see it being a harder problem. I'm not sure they are true though. But say they do lead to crime, violence, loss of democracy, loss of employment, and loss of freedom. If that's the case, it's definitely going to be challenging to stop so many people from entering such a big border. I get that. I guess I'm just missing that first link, do they cause all that trouble? Or are we just making up the problem?
When she did the mind trick on accident(?) and without a single lick of instruction, I was done.
There's also an ongoing problem in the analysis of MRI functional connectivity. About 2010, someone had the idea to apply concepts from graph theory to fcMRI. That is fraught with a number of heroic assumptions (fcMRI correlations do not necessarily represent physical connections, and continuous relationships must be binarized with arbitrary thresholds). But most importantly, there are so many different graph theory metrics, and ways to tweak the analysis, that a determined postdoc is basically guaranteed to find something that can reach statistical significance. I suspect something like that has happened here.
The Bulgarians were very visible, but not the main reason:

https://www.vpro.nl/argos/lees/onderwerpen/artikelen/2021/bu...
> It's coming from an expectation of femininity that she's internalized.

This is a sexist assumption which denies the woman individual agency. One person in a relationship having a higher standard for cleanliness than the other isn’t necessarily the result of some society-wide conditioning. There are plenty of very tidy men and more relaxed women out there in the wide world. And plenty of relationships where both partners are very neat or very messy.

When people have different standards, they need to communicate and work together to solve problems in a mutually acceptable way. Both “I don’t care if we live in a pigsty so it’s all your fault for caring about it” and “everything needs to be perfectly spotless and you need to contribute equal time to maintaining the space to my exacting specification” are one-sided cop outs.
And a video too, please :)
I worked at company that architected their multi-tenancy in almost exactly this style. In their particular case, only a few of the very largest customers had their database set aside on their own dedicated instance, but every customer did have their own DB with their own set of tables. Having worked in that world (every customer had their own DB) and on a product where all customers had their data intermingled in one gigantic set of tables in one giant DB on one logical instance, I'd definitely encourage the "every customer gets their own DB".

Giving every customer their own table means you're going to need database administrators. For these folks their dedicated job was maintaining, operating, and changing their fleet of databases, but they where very technical and were amazing to work with.
I saw a link to the "chief editor's" Twitter, but fuck Twitter. I just noticed "Report a correction or typo" which has the words "As a local news organization, we are committed to upholding our journalistic standards online, including accuracy." so I just told them now how they violated that standard.

Well fuck, I've become a "Letters to the Editor" writter.
I don't agree with the last point, it's somewhat culturally charged. In many cultures a marriage that isn't intended to be permanent is normal.
Refusing to trade with a country is not a violation of their national autonomy.
For the same aperture, sure. But you are not going to be shooting macro photos at f1.5 on full frame (for depth of field reasons alone). For real world macro photography you'd typically be stopping down at least to f8 on a full frame camera. At that point the DSLR has a considerably smaller advantage in terms of the total amount of light gathered.

One thing that people often miss is that you can think about all of this just in terms of the absolute diameter of the aperture (not the f number, just the diameter in mm). For a given angle of view, the diameter of the aperture determines how much light you gather. The question is simply whether a photographer using a DSLR is going to be able to use an aperture that is significantly wider (in mm) than the ~4mm aperture of a phone camera. For depth of field reasons, it's unlikely that they will be able to do so.
In TFA he says it wasn't about the dish. He also strongly implies that it's not about not doing things around the house. It was that for all things that he considered unimportant, he treated as unimportant. Even if his wife said they were important to her.

To him, a single glass by the sink was no big deal if there was no company. She didn't want the glass by the sink. Him refusing to even consider a compromise here was communicating "what you think is important doesn't matter."

My wife is one of those people that thrives on a regular bedtime schedule (always go to bed at X PM, every day). I'm the sort of person who goes to bet at 9pm one day, 2am the next, but I always get up at the same time.

So far, all good.

However, she really wants me in bed next to her if we are both home. I think this is silly. It was a constant fight for a while until we had a couple of good talks about it; she sleeps just fine with a light on, so I can have a book or a laptop[1] in bed next to her and be awake as long as I want and she is perfectly happy; me being a voracious reader am also pretty darn happy with this. Also, had we not talked this out, this solution would never have occurred to me; I can't fall asleep with a light on in the room unless I am seriously sleep deprived. At first I was reading only e-books on my phone to not disturb her, but when I mentioned that to her she said "oh I don't mind a light on."

Perhaps in the author's example, if he thought he might want another more water before running the dishwasher, there might be another place he could put his water glass that his wife would be fine with. Maybe she'd even be happy to check there and put it in the dishwasher before running it! Maybe he'd have just had to come to terms with "We got 12 glasses at at our wedding and there's only 3 people in the house, so I can just get another glass." We will never know because these conversations just didn't happen.

1: The laptop I reserve for emergencies only; I really don't want to do anything even slightly work related in bed, if at all possible.
https://www.vpro.nl/argos/lees/onderwerpen/artikelen/2021/bu...
How Not to Change Someone's Mind
"Just from working with a few psychiatrists for the past month, none seemed to be enthused about trialing or studying psychedelics for depressed patients."

How old are these psychiatrists?

Many psychiatrists grew up during the days of prohibition and paranoia about psychedelics, and their training exclusively focused on treating depression with non-psychedelic antidepressant drugs.. not to mention all the kickbacks that psychiatrists received from the pharma companies peddling those antidepressants.

So I'm not at all surprised to hear skepticism from some of the more conservative ones.

That said, there's been an overwhelming amount of research showing the effectiveness of psychedelics on treatment-resistant depression -- effectiveness that dwarfs the effect of antidepressants. So many other psychiatrists and therapists are much more open to trying them than the psychiatrists you met with.

"psychedelics used to be researched for military purposes and mind control, wondering if this is still a risk factor for patients?"

They were not found to be effective at "mind-control" and the "research" (if it could be called that) was abandoned. All such abuse resulted in was traumatized, broken people. Really horrific stuff. See the history for MKUltra[1] for details.

It's still a concern that you might be unlucky enough to work with an abusive psychiatrist or therapist.. so you should really be vetting the people you work with very carefully. That said, there are training, certification and licensing procedures and organizations that are there to help prevent abuse and deal with it if/when it happens. For example, see: [2]

Also, at least with MDMA therapy the standard is to have two therapists with you at all times, to decrease the chance that one of them will abuse you. Also, at least in the studies, it has been common to videotape the sessions, so there is a record of what happened, which should decrease the risk of people completely getting away with abuse.

But, yeah, it's still a risk and I don't think any therapy will be completely risk free... especially not psychedelic therapy, where the patient is so incredibly vulnerable and suggestible during the session. That's why, again, it's very important that you vet the therapist you're working with to best of your ability before you trust them with your mind.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra

[2] - https://maps.org/safety/
Years ago, an engineer working in videoconferencing told me that the algorithm they used for avoiding feedback loops involved listening at how it comes out at the other end.

I suppose that perhaps there could be audible artefacts when muting/unmuting if these algorithms didn't continuously do this.
> Any pointers to where this is elaborated on more precisely?

No, not off the top of my head. There is "Thinking Forth" by Leo Brodie (it's a whole book but worth the read. You can get official free PDFs here: http://thinking-forth.sourceforge.net/ )

It's a natural consequence from the ease of refactoring. Boilerplate and repetitious stuff gets refactored, leaving just the actual gnarly bits to take up most of the LoC.

> every language must surely make some things awkward right?

I think there's some theorem to that effect, no? (I want to say Rice's Theorem but that's not it.)

Forth is typically implemented in such a way as to give easy access to the underlying hardware, so in theory (and often in practice too) if there's some faculty you're missing from some other language or execution model you can implement it in Forth. People have made, e.g. object models and logic engines in Forth.
This is so unthankful, to not invite Putin, as he have done so much to this happen!
Scott Ritter: My Personal Experience in Twitter's Ongoing Assault on Free Speech
I do that sometimes. If a sentence is hard to understand then I select it. And read it few times.
The market will react at the next earnings report, not now. And only if customers start to bail.
a confounding factor is whether he had cruise control active or not. Not ruling out that this could have happened as described however my understanding (and in my experience as a Tesla owner) is that the main screen only only for user feedback. The main screen crashes maybe once a month for me, and although everything works while it reboots, the indicator sounds don't play giving you the impression they’re not working.

If you have autopilot or cruise control on they’ll continue to operate even though you can’t see any feedback or hear the indicators.

I could see how someone could get into this situation and while panicking accidentally activate cruise control and think the car is stuck.
Many proteins have intrinsically disordered regions that are hypothesized to be directly related to the protein's role in the cell. These regions are termed disordered because current methods used to determine the structure of proteins are unable to resolve a regular structure for these regions in the context of a protein crystal or protein in solution. This publication is an informative review on the topic: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/cr400525m
> Interesting implications for the case of Cuba. If so, their primary crime is being a country in close proximity to the USA. So much for arguments of respecting national autonomy.

I believe their primary crime is being a country in close proximity to the USA, that is unfriendly to US interests, and at least once offered the USSR, a then enemy of the US, to host nuclear ICBMs on their territory so they could more easily target Americans.

It’s not like the US randomly and unilaterally decided to sanction Cuba, nor is it like thousands of Cubans fled the country by any means possible to end up seeking asylum in the US for no reason.
If coding is theatrical then ops is operatic. You have to telegraph stuff so over the top that the people in the cheap seats know what’s going on.

I think what we’ve lost in the post-XP world is that just because you build something incrementally doesn’t mean it’s designed incrementally (read: myopically).

My idiot coworkers are “fixing” redundancy issues by adding caching, which recreates the same problem they’re (un?)knowingly trying to avoid, which is having to iterate over things twice to accomplish anything. They’ve just moved the conditional branches to the cache and added more.

Most of the time, and especially on a concurrent system, you are better off building a plan of action first and then executing it second. You can dedupe while assembling the plan (dynamic programming) and you don’t have to worry about weird eviction issues dropping you into a logic problem like an infinite loop.

More importantly, you can build the plan and then explain the plan. You can explain the plan without running it. You can abort the plan in the middle when you realize you’ve clicked the wrong button. And you can clean up on abort because the plan is not twelve levels deep in a recursive call, where trying to clean up will have bugs you don’t see in a Dev sandbox.

Deleting 500 users…

Versus

Permanently deleting 500 users…

Maybe with a nice 10 second pause (what’s an extra ten seconds for a task that takes five minutes?)
Note that the 4 reasons you've listed have little to do with the technical merits of what you're working on. If anything, your point 2 and 3 talks more about the drawbacks of the technologies you're using rather than their advantages.
In a lot of ways, JIRA disrupted Remedy Action Request System, which had a painful transition from X to Windows client. Remedy was even more admin dependent and unwieldy.
There is this excellent HN-recommended fiction called Red Plenty that dramatised the efforts on the other side of the Atlantic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8417882

> It seems really weird that control theory is in EE departments considering it's sooo much more mathematical than most EE subdisciplines except signals processing.

I agree, apparently Bellman's reasoning for calling dynamic programming what it is was because he needed grant funding during the Cold War days and was advised to give his mathematical theories a more "interesting" name.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_programming#History

The generalised form of the Bellman Equation (co-formulated by Kalman of the Kalman filters fame) to control theory and EE is in some ways what the Maximum Likelihood function is to ML.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton%E2%80%93Jacobi%E2%8...
This is indeed fascinating, but is it unique to crypto? Seems like analyzing any electronic transfer like this would get you into a discussion of which bits are stored where on earth. If you're doing something which transfers value to a party under sanctions, and you're publicly announcing that as your intent, then I think courts are unlikely to be interested in metaphysical discussions like this.
Title is a bit misleading, there's no insider info here. This is all stuff we knew from the official statements, the blog post, reddit and twitter.
Where does that leave superpolylogarithmic subexponential functions (sung to the tune from Mary Poppins)?

https://www.csee.umbc.edu/~sherman/Papers/superpoly.ps
This is the exact reason that made me develop MuteMyMic. I was really fed up with all these apps that alter input volume behind your back. Now, I can at least know that somebody is playing nasty as MMM beeps whenever mic's volume was changed.

This is not an advertisement ;) I no longer actively develop this app, however, I am still a happy user ;)
Because big business is great at selling us more than we really need (can consume). We are buying full loaves and rarely using them up. This is likely by design too... Margins are probably higher for the seller this way. So the website helps you pass off your excess.
I have yet to hear a convincing argument how sanctions do anything aside from impoverish the 25 million people living in North Korea.

They don't bring about regime change, They don't impose hardship on the despots, and they don't take away nuclear capability from North Korea.
Working brakes are mechanically able to stop an out of control engine. The limit is how much force a person can apply to the brake pedal. NHTSA and manufacturers target a 5th percentile person being able to stop the car, assuming power braking is still working.

PDF https://www.autosafety.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/The-Br...
I can't handle Agadmator because he skips so many important moves without analysis, and when he does provide analysis it's not very insightful. I think he's just a weaker player than the others.

Levy (GothamChess) is a much better player, although it's tedious that a lot of his content is silly stuff like laughing at beginner games. He also tilts really hard which makes me feel really bad because I just want to sit down with him and show some him positivity and I can't, but maybe that's just me.

IMO the best of the chess streamers for actually getting better is Eric Rosen, and maybe John Bartholomew but he's not as prolific. Both are very good but also good at explaining good ideas. Hikaru is almost too good to be instructive, given that he solves hard tactical puzzles completely with muscle memory instead of analysis.
GitHub / GitHub Enterprise?
Why does it have to be electronics for my reference to matter?

The idea is just because the brakes and steering still work doesn't mean the car is safe.
I agree with you, but I also agree with the other commenter because I think the words we use matter. I think the failure could and should have been described a bit more accurately in the title.
The performance advantages of transformer architectures have little to do with "transformers" themselves, but rather other architecture changes that were made along the way. They can be matched or beat in performance by tweaked conventional CNNs: https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.03545
Yes, in a way I think it's almost easier to have two incomes and pay for help/services with the excess.

Even if there is a 2:1 income ratio, each side can feel they are contributing monetarily and collectively decide what tasks are worth doing vs paying for.

I can understand the psychology of both sides - the breadwinner thinks they are doing their job outside the house so why is the spouse not doing all the stuff inside the house.

Any subset of tasks breadwinner spouse pick up (like dishes or laundry) they expects a gold star sticker for doing extra. Meanwhile the homemaker spouse feels put upon for the 1000 other things they do around the house and dealing with the kids.

Likewise this is akin to the homemaker spouse tutored the neighbors kid for $100/week and then telling the 6-figure breadwinner that they are also contributing to the families income. Each side feels correct and like they are going above and beyond their scope..
Business Insider isn't a great source, but I don't like primary sources: They will be very biased in their own interest. A good secondary source can provide context, information from sources that disagree or have other perspectives or concerns, etc. That's one reason Wikipedia requires secondary sources.
I've had my screen freeze once before while on the highway. I did a soft reset to be able to restore it but it took about a minute. I was still able to drive, speed up, and slow down while the screen wasn't working but I could only guess how fast I was driving without the screen displaying it.
> I mean, according to the Supreme Court you can squint your way into justifying almost anything using the commerce clause.

Yeah, but actual cross-border trade being an exclusive federal authority isn't one of the squinty bits.
And how many percentage of people suffering from depression do you think have this physical brain imbalance ONLY? Doctors prescribing depression drugs do not care nor do they have the tools to make such a diagnosis.
It would be pretty hard to create a carnot heat engine that can withstand 2600k. I'm not even sure if for example Tungsten has structurally integrity at that point.
Content marketing has been on HN since the beginning.

At the least, it's fine ethically as long as it's high effort and there's unique content/approaches, which this is.
Ouch - that would certainly be a significant cost. Regardless, individuals should always have the option to buy a plan on the market. We really need to decouple health insurance from employment.
Literally some 15 yr old speaking in Eastern European lecture halls “I think free software would make the world better” is a better spokesperson.
Parallel CDK Stack Deployments
visual studio online is what it was called internally, the marketing may have changed. It's okay, and is what was/probably still is used at MS internally to develop windows.
> make sending Bitcoin to Russian people illegal

Isn't it impossible? Bitcoins are being sent to random 256bits, not to people. Unless some Russian person reveals some adress and promises that he really owns the key, this kind of transaction may be hard to proove.
> HPPD

I've had some experience with HPPD but luckily mine went away. My experience ranges from 'oh that is pretty cool to look at' to 'this visual distortion is hurting my ability to focus on an important conversation'. I wish we better understood HPPD.