skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In this case, the money-laundering statute with which Chastain is being charged -- 18 USC 1956(a)(1)(B)(i) -- does require that the transaction was originally "designed in whole or in part" for a purpose that is itself illegal, namely the wire fraud.

The wire fraud indictment, in turn, seems to hinge on the allegations that Chastain used "false and fraudulent pretenses, representations and promises" (namely, using anonymous accounts to flip the NFTs) and acted "in violation of the duties he owed to OpenSea" (namely, by using OpenSea's confidential data for personal gain, contrary to an agreement he signed).
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Yep, no problem. Thanks for correcting!
Show HN: A friend and I spent 6 years making a simulation game, finally released
I've seen some interests in (simulation) video games here on HN so I thought I'd share a short version of our story.

More than 6 years ago, me and my friend from university were playing around with an idea of making a game we always wanted to play. We worked on it on weekends but the progress was quite slow, especially due to so many dead ends and wasted effort.

Eventually however, we solidified our direction and decided to take the risk to resign from our well paid SWE jobs and work on it full time. It took more than a year but yesterday we have finally released it on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1594320/Captain_of_Indust...

I am still not sure if this was a good decision financially, but unlike in a corporate environment, I am so much happier working on a product that I can put my love into and see people enjoy it, see my direct impact, and be able to make big decisions (although this also adds a lot of stress).

I also quite enjoy the added SWE challenges. I had to write so many complex algorithms (path-finding, logistics, serialization, ...) and optimize things down to bits (shaders, compression of in-memory data, ...) that were rarely required by my corp job.

Anyhow, this is getting a little long, feel free to ask any questions, I will do my best to answer them.
I was a younger, inexperienced tech lead sitting in on an interview led by an engineer about 10 years older than me.

I was shocked when he spent the whole hour asking soft questions like “So describe your previous team structure. How did ideas and plans arise? Who took responsibility? How was conflict resolved? What were your impressions?”

I always went hard on technical stuff when interviewing, was always worried that an incompetent would sneak through.

I asked the senior engineer his rationale. He told me “This guy went to X school and got Y degree and worked at Z company. So I know he’s smart enough. And I can teach him to write good software. But I can never teach him not to be a prick.”
From a purely security standpoint, "updating your OS" and "updating your image" are equivalent. What matters to the security people are that you're running the latest OpenSSL that isn't vulnerable to the newest branded vulnerability.

If you're truly "serverless" by my interpretation of it, then you wouldn't care. Your cloud provider will have updated their infrastructure, and that's all that matters.
The tooling is far from simplistic to setup and the available options can be overwhelming. Its all the pain of the JS stack but with less easily available help and tooling that produces less helpful error messages.
sounds good

keep using your free time to improve your skills and/or building something on the side
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That's an interesting case. It's basically a single wire fraud charge, with money laundering added on due to making new accounts to commit the alleged crime.

There are recent developments in the area (Kelly and Blaszczak cases) but this probably isn't affected. The crime is using "confidential business information", recognized as a form of intangible property, for personal benefit; the victim is OpenSea. Since the resulting money wasn't taken from anyone, they are seeking forfeiture. It seems like this is somewhat related to a shift from insider trading prosecution to general criminal fraud statutes (insider trading as embezzlement.)

Not a lawyer, would love to see analysis from someone who knows a bit more.

https://www.yalelawjournal.org/pdf/130.Lustbader_r3uhyngc.pd...
> What makes Framework's design different or superior to Apple in this regard?

1) You can change your IO as standards change or as your workflow changes

2) The point of failure for IO is at the point where the cable plugs in and creates stress, this point of stress is now separate from the mainboard - like in a desktop you have 20 pin USB ports on the motherboard that you wire your case up to - yeah that port could fail but it is far less likely to

3) If the mainboard IO fails you don't also have to replace your storage, wifi, ram etc
Not just viewed, but literally called an assistant in the official title.

I am a licensed professional engineer (mechanical) and I work in academia (though my work is varied and does involve some code), my official title (in french) is "Professionnel de recherche", which translates to Research Professional. It is my understanding that in most of the english-speaking world, this position (someone that works for a research lab, who is qualified above the technician level, but not a PI nor a postdoc or student) is called "Research Assistant".

I write "Research Engineer" on my résumé/linkedin, because TBH for most people who don't have much experience in academia, "Research Assistant" sounds like an admin assistant (secretary).
Obfuscate is fine. Redact is more to the point though!

edit: Redactify for instant pre-seed angel funding
And have done nothing but rubber stamped everything they have requested regarding Starlink. No robust discussion of affects on others has been given serious thought other than "we'll paint them flat black" as a PR spin is not serious.
Not all companies (stocks) have the same sensitivity to inflation. Depends on all sorts of things that are business specific. One example is how easily price increases from suppliers can be passed on to customers. A company that sells a commodity into a very liquid market won't suffer as much.

At the other end of the spectrum, inflation decreases the real value of future cash flows, so tech stocks have been hammered. Here's an explanation I like: https://fullstackeconomics.com/rising-interest-rates-are-ham...
LEO has low latency though, which is important. Communications via satellite in higher orbits suck. Ever dealt with 600ms ping times? I have, you get used to it, but I'm glad to be on ground based internet now, things just feel faster. (and the web is still slow)
No, not in theory. Such articles are fine on HN and why-is-this-on-hn comments are not. Again, a really well-settled HN issue for which you can find plenty of moderator comments offering detailed reasoning. You don't have to derive this from first principles.
I live in a humid area and all my Ubiquiti cameras died within a year. If the NVR powered off without a shutdown mongo would get corrupted, losing all recording metadata. I could import videos but what a pain.

I went with Hikvision and wouldn’t look back.
“I want to see RSEs as equals in the academic environment“

Not just in academia, but also in biotech/pharma, where MDs or MBAs are too often the top dog.

This largely explains why Pharma and healthcare is so behind when it comes to tech

(Exceptions are the new, small biotechs. But the larger ones are more like dinosaurs)
About $16K, 20 years ago when I was leaving grad school. It was really magnificent, and the price was not too high at all, but it was beyond anything I could raise at the time.
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James Lovelock's Gaia Hypothesis is more or less the scientific equivalent of this.

think systems theory of life, planet, rock, gas, organism, etc.
More like Zoom IMO
just buy your own planet bro

/s
Incidence of Myocarditis and Pericarditis in Post Covid-19 Unvaccinated Patients
Lots of businesses don't have offices in cities. What is the data for them? That is, is it related to cities or to commutes in general.

Many cities have public transit, which can reduce or simplify commutes.
It got even worse when it was sold (and re-sold?) - don't ever go back.
The thing is depend what you are trying to do. To compress DVD/Blurays, I find handbrake invaluable, because it will automatically deal all kind of weird corner cases in term of pixel format, image ratio, cropping, deinterlacing, etc, that I don't have to write in a command line on every new file (and every disk seems to be doing something different).

But if you are dealing with repeatable, consistent file format (like files coming from the same camera), you are way better off going the command line route, and chances are the command will be pretty simple.
Just use Formik and save yourself the pain!
Why are some folks anti Ubiquiti Unifi?

We use this at some of our clients in the MSP space
The street near where I live has 3 Tim Horton's locations within less than a 1km distance (~800m according to a quick check on Google Maps)
Sheryl Sandberg stepping down as COO of Meta (formerly Facebook)
I live somewhere pretty idyllic, and get approached about remote roles in London paying $$$ regularly. Granted I may need to travel a few hours on the train for a big client meeting once a month, but I accept that the personal touch accelerates things massively in the early stages of a client relationship.

My team is spread out across Europe, and gets a serious amount done. Given the remote first element I can still be in contact with them whilst travelling.

Compare that to the local companies that want me in the office 3-4 days a week for $ (almost half the salary), with a team where communication is not remote first and it's a complete no-brainer which is more attractive.

Remote is here to stay. Some companies will do it, some won't. Time will tell which have the competitive advantage..
Slap on the wrist for willfully violating the privacy of a massive amount of people. Par for the course in the US as well. Yet try violating the Wiretap Act as an individual, even accidentally, and see how it works out for you.

That difference in results between giant corporations and individuals should give you a strong clue about who the “justice” system works for.
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> And I guess your comment is true as long as you ignore the incarceration rates for First Nations. Which is coincidentally something we canadians really like to do whenever it's time to feel smug about our southern neighbors.

The US is at least as bad, absolutely and even relative to the White population, with Native Americans, though it gets less attention because Native Americans get less attention in US politics than First Nations do in Canada, and because it's further masked by the attention to both the general runaway incarceration in the US and the racial impact on Blacks of unequal incarceration.
If they do this wholesale, they should probably block this at their BGP routers.
Consider taking a longish holiday (like 3 weeks)? If at the end of it you don’t want to come back, quit. But that might be long enough to scratch the itch and feel refreshed.
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There are changes that can only be made in one giant change. I refactored a monster class into three smaller classes, and it was a huge change. I don't have a line count, but it might have been 5000 lines. Mostly, though, it was moving some things out of the original class and into two new classes. So the diffs were monstrous, but the actual change wasn't that big.

So I've done that... once. I don't think I've done anything like it any other time.

Maybe a way to do this is to say that yes, you can do a code review that large, but only with justification, and the justification has to be accepted by the reviewer, not just by the change author (or the author's manager).
Ah alright. So you do complex input (example) transformation as part of the business logic in the middle tier, and then forward it to the db? Does that mean you parse the query in the middle end too, or just parts of it (I'm not that knowledgeable about gql, so sorry if the question makes no sense)?

We are soon going to be evaluating a similar idea at work, so I'm just curious how it works. If it's lengthy you don't have to go into too much detail if it's a bother to explain!
for something like this, jail time plus asset seizures is surely too extreme (purdue pharma, on the other hand...). however a severe financial penalty for both company and executives (VPs and up, plus legal counsel) makes a ton of sense. for execs, you'd want to especially financially negate at least some past and future bonuses and stock compensation, because it makes up the bulk of most executive comp.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(real...

Look at North ameria:
2000 to 2010: 0.73%
2010 to 2018: 1.45%
Eurozone is just under 0.7% to 1% for the last 20 years.

Keep in mind I'm projecting forward over the next 100 years. Developing countries have slightly higher growth rates of 1.5% but they will one day be a developed country too, if they keep "growing".

Also, keep in mind that the BLS CPI overstates CPI by 2% (according to shadowstats.org ~ and the BLS's own CPI from the 80s). So, this means that real producitivy is also overstated by 2% since.
Sheryl Sandberg stepping down as Facebook COO
I’ve had similar situations and I empathize with you. I like to “own” things and build and feel excited about what I’m involved in. Collecting money for being alive and sharing wisdom sometimes when called upon leaves me very depressed. Everyone says “what a great job! Do whatever you want!” But what I want to do isn’t a side gig, I enjoy earth changing adventures in building amazing stuff that’s really important and hasn’t been done before. I enjoy the excitement of inventing new things as I fall asleep. I don’t get that from side projects.

Conversely I enjoy throwing myself into an empty pool head first and it leads to burnout and high stress levels that impact my health. So I swing between these poles in my career.
Question for the peanut gallery, because it's vaguely topical and I've spent hours researching problem to no avail.

How can I mux arbitrary data streams into a container? Let's say I have a drone and I want to stream audio, video, and some avionics telemetry.

I know FFMPEG can pass through data encoded, and it lists a few binary stream formats:

ffmpeg -codecs | grep '^ ..D' # shows all -c=d codecs

..D... bin_data binary data
..D... dvd_nav_packet DVD Nav packet
..D... epg Electronic Program Guide
..D... klv SMPTE 336M Key-Length-Value (KLV) metadata
..D... mpegts raw MPEG-TS stream
..D... otf OpenType font
..D... scte_35 SCTE 35 Message Queue
..D... timed_id3 timed ID3 metadata
..D... ttf TrueType font

But I have no idea how to pack some new data stream into the filtergraph.
How about getting the additional full time but potentially demanding job?
The weather control theory is still very prevalent.
> [HTML] itself was influenced by similar efforts like SGML, but has since evolved into a lot more.

Time for some pedantry: HTML is/was envisioned as SGML vocabulary, ie. using SGML as markup meta-language to describe the elements, content models, attributes, predefined entities, and other parsing rules for HTML such as tag inferences and attribute shortforms. Or at least TBL tried to.

Also, the basic rich text vocabulary of HTML for paragraphs, spans, headers, etc. is already used in ISO 8879 (SGML) as a commonly used "folklore" markup convention, with only the anchor element (<a>) and a couple others being genuinely new.

And finally, "similar efforts" at the time would be HyTime (also an SGML application) not SGML itself.
Inflation is (over a long enough time) embedded in stock price, since what you own is really a share of the production and assets of the firm you purchased a share in...it only happens to be denominated in dollars. If a firm you bought stock in is in the business of making shoes, and it is making a larger number of well-received shoes, regardless of the price level for shoes (and the price level of the stock), this kind of stock will generally appreciate in real terms.

In principle, the denominating currency does not matter: someone could give you some number of shoes for your share, and your dividends could likewise be in shoes. We tend to find it more convenient to work in dollars.
Humans generally don't think hard about big issues (perhaps because) in general they have very little they can do about them anyway. Humans consistently feel overconfident (and are incorrect) about many things. On the topic of ethics, many seem to go with gut feelings (an evolutionary kludge to get small groups of people to cooperate, and to cohere as a tribe).

People consistently overestimate (by many orders of magnitude) the amount of their taxes that goes to foreign aid. Many people in the US are reluctant to have open borders because of racism. But most moral frameworks would endorse open borders - and there is tremendous economic benefit to open borders as well. Consider https://openborders.info/
When you have RBAC based on multiple different conditions, e.g. "does user have XYZ?" you will have to architect your entire app around putting these claims into JWT so the GraphQL engine can properly map those onto RLS. In a traditional app auth is on the app level and defined in code, not a mix of code, SQL, JWT claims and Hasura/Supabase configs.
Could you provide some examples of that? Most of what I see is trying to impose the trend of the moment, that cities are bad.
> know deep down this is bad for the long term

It’s bad for your sense of self-worth, even if it’s not objectively a bad thing.

One day you might ask yourself “Where would I be if I went all-in on something exciting rather than just putting 10% effort into my work for all those years?”
Companies are usually okay with people taking unpaid leave. Tell your manager "I'd like to take a 3 month unpaid sabbatical to do $fun, would July - Sep work okay?"
> what's your risk tolerance?

That's the key question the whole matter hangs on, but there's no objective answer for it. Neil Armstrong privately estimated his chance for successfully returning to earth at 90%. That's alarmingly low! That's barely safer than Russian roulette.

Determining how much risk can be tolerated means figuring out how badly you want the thing. The more you want something, the more risk you can tolerate. Satellites are extremely important to our society, so governments would continue launching the satellites they value most, even if the expected lifespan of the satellite due to space debris was very short.

Of course, superfluous and casual use of space would grind to a halt. One of many casualties of war.
> pivot to become some evil-ish adtech thing to survive? Yeah, we've all been there. Northvolt is different! We will make a difference, we _are_ making a difference

Sounds great! If the company wants to make a difference in a not evil-ish way, you could start by improving the working conditions of the 2000 workers building your factory.

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Are you sure about that? I tend to think that Evernote's differentiation is the vast feature diversity. IMO old software like this often continues to succeed because it can support the long-tail of use cases in a way that newer software does not.
There’s also Archipelago:

https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2014/EECS-2014-...

Someone could mix a version of that with the open-source RISC-V IP for an open CPU/FPGA combo.
The veil of ignorance is where we pretend we're gods designing a society and putting social rules and standards in place, and we will be incarnated as humans within that society -- but we don't know specifics about what kind of humans we'll be, what race or gender or class or whatever (the "ignorance" part). So if you put in place rules that favor one group of people over another, you might get screwed when you are incarnated into this society.

Rawls wasn't proposing throwing anything out. He was asking the question, if a bunch of gods got together and set down some social rules under these conditions, what would the society they created look like if they didn't want to end up screwing themselves? His answer was "something like liberal democracy". I don't know if he'd be right, or even if we should pattern our society in the manner of these hypothetical gods. It may be asking the wrong question entirely. Current trends in social justice, for instance, favor rules oriented toward payback for past injustices toward real groups.