skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> their [job] to prove you stole it.

That's a sound legal principle, but unfortunately it doesn't apply in all situations and in all jurisdictions:

"If the defendant is considered to have a criminal lifestyle, the court ... must decide whether he has benefited from his ‘general criminal conduct’ and, if so, by how much. ... The burden is on the defendant to rebut any assumption made."

https://www.rahmanravelli.co.uk/expertise/confiscation/confi...
> Apple produces a vastly inferior browser and only gets to maintain market share via absolute, monopolistic control over their OS

I must have missed the implied “for developers” preface there
> That's like if the passengers of an airplane, having zero experience with aviation, deciding on who the captain should be.

I guess they would vote for an airliner captain? E.g. most people go to doctors for medical adcive rather than new age mumbo jumbo. I don't see the problem in this particular case.
See the update here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31853107

It was a problem sending the email to wrong accounts. The CEO states later in the thread that they don't track that kind of info from selfhosted instances.
That sounds really cool. How difficult is this to set up?

How confident are you that this will keep your bookmarks safe? Losing indexed data might not be such a big concern for a search engine that is intended to re-index everything continuously.

I defnitely felt betrayed when I found out that Firefox automatically deletes old history :/ I guess they think that most users need to trash their profile to fix some obscure bug before that anyway...
Wow that's very interesting, and much better
Agreed. For me, it was the coolest living in the future thing imaginable. My eyes were crap, something that in days gone by might have condemned me to the scrapheap, and it got fixed, by science. With a LASER. Just an incredible barometer of progress.
In practice if you want to do something private with your crypto just send it from Coinbase to your own wallet and thence to something like a privacy coin like Monero. Privacy tech exists, it's just not Coinbase.
I think you've missed the point entirely.

Practically, there are a ton of ways to turn 500,000 EUR into "anonymous" crypto, depending on what you mean by "anonymous".

You can use an exchange (KYC or non-KYC) that lets you trade USDT/XMR pairs. Wire 500,000 EUR and convert to USDT. Buy the full amount worth of XMR and send it to your own XMR hardware wallet. You now have anonymous XMR (assuming you trust their math).

You can do something similar with ZEC shielded transactions. Many KYC exchanges support ZEC (but without shielded transactions). You can get your ZEC this way and then shield it.

If you're interested in anonymous crypto, XMR or ZEC is probably what you'd want to have anyway instead of BTC.

Also, LTC recently adopted a new privacy-enabling feature. It's not functional yet as far as I know, but it did cause LTC to be delisted from several korean exchanges last week. This one is interesting because of the widespread adoption of litecoin before it added privacy features.

Or if you'd rather use the ETH ecosystem, you can use https://tornado.cash/. Buy your KYC'd ETH, send to tornado.cash, wait, withdraw a partial amount to a fresh anonymous ethereum address.

There are even privacy-oriented wallets like https://unstoppable.money/ that can use tor to further improve anonymity while doing wallet actions.

But let's say you really do want bitcoin only. Take your 500,000 EUR and wire it to a KYC exchange. Buy your bitcoin and send it to your wallet. Send that BTC into renVM pools, wait, send your renBTC to a new address, release renBTC back to BTC on the new address: https://bridge.renproject.io/.

In other words, your point does not hold at all. There are probably a dozen different ways to get anonymous crypto right now. In the near future, many common coins will have privacy features anyway, maybe even by default.

You have to think about what level of anonymity you want and what premium you're willing to pay, but there's a wide spectrum of options.

And if you think it's not easy enough yet, just wait. The math works, it's just not wrapped up into a convenient user experience yet.
> one by one the promises of crypto

Many countries have anti-money-laundering provisions. It shouldn't be any surprise that entities like Coinbase are forcing users through due-diligence checks; they'd be torn apart otherwise.

If you need anonymity and want to evade the legal checks, and declarations that your government might require, you have to rely on the protocol, not interstitial companies. But also if you're not declaring required information to your government, don't be too shocked when they knock your door down.
Another thing I recommend everyone to learn at least once is sum types aka algebraic data types. And how they are the dual to class based dispatch (what some call the "expression problem"). Sum types aren't exclusively found in functional languages, but they are certainly prominent in them.
No, that’s not how new works. Any method in the base class will still call the “hidden” method.

https://dotnetfiddle.net/zcVPof
Because you still have to buy food with Fiat
Show HN: Domfetch.com - free tool to find expired domains with history
We have finally launched Domfetch!

Domfetch is a free platform to find expired domains. Users can search through domains that are (almost) available for registration. We enrich these domains with extra data to help users find valuable domains.

We created this tool because we found the (free) alternatives lacking certain data, such as Moz, Alexa history (we check 5 years of data) & search volume history over a period of 1 year.

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The tooltip you get when you hover your cursor over the comic:

"In the 60s, Marvin Minsky assigned a couple of undergrads to spend the summer programming a computer to use a camera to identify objects in a scene. He figured they'd have the problem solved by the end of the summer. Half a century later, we're still working on it."

I'm working with his son Henry Minsky and other great people at Leela AI on that same old problem, applying hybrid symbolic-connectionist constructivist AI by combining neat neural networks with scruffy symbolic logic to understand video, and it's mind boggling what is possible now:

https://leela.ai/

>Our AI system, Leela, is motivated by intrinsic curiosity. Leela creates theories about cause and effect in her world, and then conducts experiments to test these theories. Leela can connect all her knowledge and use this network to make plans, reason about goals, and communicate using grounded natural language.

>Leela has at her core a hybrid symbolic-connectionist network. This means that she uses a dynamic combination of artificial neural networks and symbol networks to learn. Hybrid networks open the door to AI agents that can build their own abstractions on the fly, while still taking full advantage of the power of deep learning.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neats_and_scruffies

>Neats and scruffies: Neat and scruffy are two contrasting approaches to artificial intelligence (AI) research. The distinction was made in the 70s and was a subject of discussion until the middle 80s. In the 1990s and 21st century AI research adopted "neat" approaches almost exclusively and these have proven to be the most successful.

>"Neats" use algorithms based on formal paradigms such as logic, mathematical optimization or neural networks. Neat researchers and analysts have expressed the hope that a single formal paradigm can be extended and improved to achieve general intelligence and superintelligence.

>"Scruffies" use any number of different algorithms and methods to achieve intelligent behavior. Scruffy programs may require large amounts of hand coding or knowledge engineering. Scruffies have argued that the general intelligence can only be implemented by solving a large number of essentially unrelated problems, and that there is no magic bullet that will allow programs to develop general intelligence autonomously.

>The neat approach is similar to physics, in that it uses simple mathematical models as its foundation. The scruffy approach is more like biology, where much of the work involves studying and categorizing diverse phenomena.

We're looking for talented engineers and designers to help, including neats and scruffies working together!

https://leela.ai/jobs/
Absolutely. The older the better in some cases, as your prescription will change over time. I'm actually starting to get long sighted now as I age.
Those pools don't have sharp drops and are rather safe I guess. I wonder if that is the reason some pools are built like that ...
I think this is a false dichotomy. Gmail is popular, does not undermine the “openness of email”. Both statements are true, and people can and do run their own mail servers, or choose other more trusted providers. It’s a good analogy to crypto actually.

Google scanning all your emails does not undermine the promise of email, just as coinbase forcing addresses doesn’t undermine the promise of crypto.
Steam has family sharing.
Practically speaking this isn’t a big deal. Just transfer to a wallet you own and from there you can do whatever you want without providing that additional detail.

Also this silly rule only applies in a particular country.
Even there I'd argue; I loved LotR and the Hobbit, but I couldn't get into any of the others; they don't flow as well as those, they come across as disjointed, etc. Maybe if you're more into the world building than the books, and if you don't mind a more "biblical" narrative.
Tell HN: Brother printers now locking out non-OEM paraphernalia
I recently bought a Brother colour laser printer, with the understanding that OEM toner was not chip-locked.

Wanting to update the firmware, and being on Linux, I started to look at ways to do it manually.

After finding a few guides to do so manually:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/CUPS/Printer-specific_probl...
https://www.earth.li/~noodles/blog/2015/11/updating-hl3040cn...

I decided to poll my printer. I then noticed an OSS/python project to just handle it via a package. However, I noticed this issue:

https://github.com/sedrubal/brother_printer_fwupd/issues/9

Startled, I Googled... and the printer listed is an inkjet. For a second I was relieved, but then started to search for other issues, and found this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/printers/comments/s9b2eg/brother_mf...

Not only is the above, post-sale firwmware update a change of what I understood to be Brother's historical policy, the method is beyond evil.

Brother seems to be apparently accepting the ink, but then purposefully making the print quality poorer.

I literally cannot think of something, product wise, more evil. It's one thing to say "We refuse to use 3rd party toner", and another to accept the toner, and then just purposefully print like garbage.

I was a happy HP customer for years, and only switched to Brother (which, by all accounts, is a much smaller / less renowned company) for the sole reason to not be vendor locked.

I will likely return this printer, but thought HN should know what Brother seems to be up to.
make some artwork or music, mint as nft via a gasless minting service. sell your nft work for eth. tornado cash eth. swap eth for wbtc, claim wbtc over bridge.

its clunky but i actually think this is a pretty fun on ramp. im all for people getting paid crypto as a way in rather than buying it.
I don't get why when they have to fabricate examples, article authors choose males for the villain roles and females for the heroes roles.

Is somewhat socially reprehensible to have whites, males and heterosexuals in positive roles when you are writing a narrative?
There is a lot of circumstancial evidence that supports the backdoor story, e.g. the extended random extension or the events around RSA Inc. and Juniper. I mean... it's a question what would qualify as prooof (a copy of "here are our secret numbers" from inside NSA maybe), but basically: There are a lot of events that definitely happened that make a lot of sense with the backdoor story and make no sense otherwise.
I suppose photochromic glasses would go a long way in increasing the coolness factor, considering that they turn into shades in the sun.

But don't take my advice at face value - I'm a parent to a toddler, so literally the uncoolest person in the eyes of a pre-teen, not to mention teenagers.
Agreed on the LASIK. Huge step-level increase in quality of life.
I skimmed the code and there are a ton of language features in there that you might not be super familiar with:

- pattern matching is quite expressive and ubiquitous in Rust, as in "stuff on the left" is almost always a pattern even in places that you might not expect at first

- lifetime annotations, a form of generics, are quite unique and make the code more verbose/noisy if you are not familiar with them

- Rust is expression based (a bit lispy) so you might not quite see the flow of the program as well if you are used to statement based syntax

- traits are are an important part of the language and some of the methods and method chains you see there might look arbitrary, but many of them are very common. A more experienced reader can identify many of them and see the code very differently.

- there is no syntax highlighting on the article's snippets so you already have to know how to parse them
can you elaborate on the 'younger des know everything'.

I am not sure I understand your point
…and when you do need a large number of dynamically allocced/deallocced objects, then using indices to arrays instead of pointers. Which kinda defeats the purpose of using the Rust borrow checker…
Mattermost v7 was released on Thursday and includes video conferencing functionality! [0]

> Channels: Voice calls and screen share (beta)

[0] https://mattermost.com/blog/mattermost-v7-0-is-now-available...
How mozzilla is not pursuing that kind of innovation in Firefox itself is beyond me. Instead they continously try to ape the Chrome UI and collect telemetry without permission so that they can give you "exciting" "new" features like colorways.
Actually, it doesn't. I'm pretty sure HN links are nofollow. I don't care. I don't do it for SEO, and I'm not looking for work.

I have been linking to my work for as long as I've been posting, here, and will continue to do so, for as long as I participate.

You will also note that I am not anonymous. I make it very easy to find out who I am. You could probably easily find my home address and phone number, from what I post.

Helps me to be accountable for what I write. I spent my entire career, being highly accountable. I feel that it helps me to build my character.

I don't care whether or not I'm some kind of "Internet essay star" (Spoiler alert: I'm not). I write what I write, for my own good, and so that anyone that is interested in finding out more about me, can do so.

I've been at this stuff for a long time. I also spent almost 27 years at one of the most anal corporations on Earth, so my work has a lot of polish. It has nothing to do with trying to be "better than" anyone else. It's just the way I am. I feel it's pretty good.

I've certainly encountered worse. When I do, I take it as a lesson, and don't get too bogged down in nursing a grudge. I also regularly encounter better, and I like to take that as inspiration.

Additionally, 27 years at a Japanese corporation taught me to back up what I say. If I say "I do this," then I'd damn well better be able to prove it; which is a big reason that I keep linking to my work. One advantage of being old in the game, is that I have a lot of track record that I can reference.

I like working with people. I always have. I'm a decent chap. I want to be a contributor to the world. I know that writing positive, contributory stuff is a bit quixotic, but, that's me; tilting at windmills. I won't add to the negativity; even if I can't singlehandedly make things more positive.

I'm retired. I have no interest, whatsoever in ever working for anyone again. I'm not interested in selling a brand. I work for free, for folks that can't afford the kind of talent I have. Whether or not some random, anonymous Internet dude loves me, is of little concern.

Listen, this is the second time (that I know of) that you've insulted me, and I don't remember ever attacking you (or anyone else, here, for that matter) out of the blue.

Would you like to try resetting the relationship? You'll find that I'm actually a kind, generous person, with a very positive outlook on life, and a true desire to Bring Light.

I'm really, really good at some stuff, and really, really bad, at other stuff. I don't hide either.
What a great link.

At the time of writing, Goal Conversions:

- Visit/blog 12800

- Signup 8

I knew anecdotally that HN doesn't convert but, oof, that's rough..
The argument wasn’t chrome winning on it’s merits.

The argument is Google has such a stranglehold on the web that they can extend their monopoly to the browser engine.
Hey HN crowd, founder here. The fact that we hit the frontpage somehow broke the new app signup flow. While we are fixing it, we are temporarily redirecting to app.digger.dev (the old UI). Will keep you posted here!
High integrity computing is still not widespread enough, because unfortunely lawsuits and liability procedures aren't yet common, but they eventually will.

We only need a few more media star exploits landing across social media for goverments to finally act upon it.

That web app would have a process just like anything else.

It would be more expensive?

Certainly, yet the food joint down the corner also needs to oblige to safety regulations if it doesn't want to be closed down by health inspection, and yet they manage.

Hospitals have workflow and treatment guidelines for a reason, they aren't the same process in every single one, not even on the same region on the same country.

It is clear which side of the line each one of us is, so not worthile to discuss this any further.
Before reading, put a a glass and a bottle of your preferred drink next to you.

Then have a drink whenever you read "Clausewitz".
I'm pretty sure coinbase users don't send crypto anywhere. They just "invest" in crypto.
> With all due respect to Christopher, most of us would probably have been better off with a writer creating original storyline(s) that drew from JRR Tolkein's unpublished material but which weren't constrained by it--except perhaps to the extent it remained consistent with LoTR.

But that wouldn't have sold as well. In spite of it being actually honest. See the Dune "sequels". They might have been fine if they didn't have the Herbert name on it, but they do and there's no resemblance in depth and writing style between them and the actual Dune series.

If you just want more in the same universe, that works. But for me they're just cash grabs.
> Is it really true that every human who does evil thinks he's doing good?

Either they do and truly believe in their self-righteousness, or they... simply don't care. I think this last category is very prevalent everywhere. I don't believe that e.g. a manager who exploits and sacks their staff actually thinks they're doing the right thing, but that they simply don't care about their staff. They get rewarded for saving money, too, so they care more about personal gains than that of those they preside over.
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Look into P2P crypto trading
Carbon layer may have sparked ancient bout of global warming
> I just eat what I like and am happy

An unacceptably selfish attitude in 2022 where industrial-scale mass production of meat foods are literally making our planet unlivable at alarming rates.

As a conscious human being within civilized society you have a responsibility to do the right thing, even if it means taking on a little discomfort in the short term.

Your happiness has less priority than our survival as a species.
> can they be responsible? Or have they bought into the fantasy where they offload responsibility to a “decider” while they play the role exclusively of “doer”?

I do want to care but decisions feel remote even when you ask or provide feedback and it's overlooked only for it to come back later that what you had suggested was plausible and is being done only a few months late when you've already implemented an RMQ integration that was possibly avoidable.

It's demoralizing when your company starts moving in the direction of bug resolution is simple of a legacy system whose original authors are no longer with the company and you need to be pushing out 10 JIRA tickets in two weeks. Clearly trying to turn the engineers into code monkeys how am I supposed to care in this environment?
Ask HN: Your admittedly useless side projects?
What were some side projects of yours that you deep down knew nobody would deem very valuable yet kept spending quite some time on?

And do you regret those endeavours?
You make the assumption that people who vape would smoke if they couldn't vape.

No, I'm saying that enough people have switched from smoking to vaping to more than make up for the health damage caused by people who only started vaping.
Reading these threads is like reading a political debate. “I’m for free speech, but this needs to be banned”, “people have a right to assembly, but I don’t want your parade in my town”, etc

Basically, free software zealots supporting super closed source Apple software and DRMed hardware lockdown because of tribalist bias.

We’ve been through this before with Win95 IE vs Netscape Navigator and Opera. Why are the arguments for freedom of choice on the desktop suddenly invalidated on mobile?
I’m pretty sure Jeff got 45Drives.com to sponsor this by sending him the hardware for free.
> red asbestos playgrounds

Can you elaborate a little? The phrase raised some very old very vague memories, but I can't find anything, neither by probing my memory nor by a web search.
I feel like this about a lot of derived works - there's tons of novels derived from video games as well, for example. But they all feel like fanfiction.

That said, there was a fantasy series I've read part of where the author himself started writing tons of spinoffs and whatnot; almost like writing fanfiction of their own works.
Having lots of competition doesn't mean they have equal market share. It doesn't matter than there are lots of competitors if all of them are fighting for less than 1% of the market share. In fact, you don't even need to worry about them since none of them have figured out how to wrestle market share away from Google.

As for competition, you want to enter a market with competition. If there is no competition, then there must be a reason. Either a) there is no market at all, b) the market is not profitable or c) you are inventing a new market. I have seen many founders try to do c) because of your reasoning of finding something with no competition and fail.

Competition also shows you might have timing correct. If they had no competition except Google, then why would Plausible be the only ones to see the market opportunity? That's extremely unlikely and would indicate to me that Google still had a stronghold on the market.
ill check it out thanks. i dont care about running a desktop. i just need a shell and network connectivity and GPIO
Great illustration of systemic inequality
When you're introducing OOP to beginning programming students, these metaphors still have some value. Beyond that, though, it's time to go with more realistic examples of polymorphism.
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Are you saying that this is a multicellular bacterium? That might be even more spectacular. Although it also sounds a bit like this might be some new type of eukaryote.

Either way, it's not exactly blech.
Not necessarily just parents. Sometimes is feels our society has become less tolerant for accidents. If something bad happens, somebody must be held responsible.
What do you like about Mattermost that’s missing in MS Teams?