skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> After this ruling, that excuse no longer applies and that might dissuade a lot of people who might otherwise be tempted to run a mixer of their own.

What is interesting here, though, is that Tornado Cash doesn't run anything: they may as well not exist as an entity anymore. It also isn't a blockchain and doesn't have nodes: third parties thereby also don't run Tornado Cash.

Tornado Cash, instead, is one of many random contracts executing on Ethereum (as well as third-party Ethereum-like constructs; some/many of those are pretty damned centralized, with servers that process and store transactions, so I am gong to concentrate on Ethereum itself as it is the most interesting).

So, with the smart contract of Tornado Cash -- as Tornado Cash isn't a group of people or a company: it is just code -- having been sanctioned, if you are a miner and mine a block on Ethereum that includes a transaction that touches Tornado Cash, is that now illegal? I feel like this is how the concept of sanctions would normally play out in meat space with real people, to prevent the sanctioned services from being utilized.

If so, and I think this is where it "gets good": let's say 99% of miners care about the sanctions, and 1% don't... when you mine a block, you choose a parent for that block; arguably now, if you actively chose to accept a parent block that includes a Tornado Cash transaction, that should also be illegal (due to being sanctioned).
There are three tiers of recruiter.

The top tier is paid by the employer to recruit whether or not someone is hired.

The middle tier has a contract with the employer that pays them when one of their recruits is hired.

The bottom tier has no contract and hopes that they can convince the candidate to apply and the employer to pay if the candidate is hired.

Most recruiters in the world bigger than tech are the bottom tier.

All they need is a computer with a browser and a telephone.

Their economics make extreme longshots attractive...shotgun jobs, shotgun candidates, spam emails and maybe something hits a payday.
Ask HN: Are there any blockchain projects NOT around cryptocurrencies?
It seems that every blockchain related project I see in the wild is always revolving around finance. It's either a coin, exchange, lending platform or DAO for some financial transaction.

This got me wondering. Are there any blockchain projects or products in the wild that use blockchain but are not finance driven.
Not really.

And the truth is I've probably been responsible for bad code that others have inherited, especially early in my career. My favorite way back then was to over-engineer and gold plate. I've also been the "over commenting guy" at times in the past. Thankfully I've mostly recovered from those ailments. Admitting it truly is the first step.

Now, I have a lot more patience for what I used to consider "bad code". I don't get too worked up by SOLID principles or other design issues, although I strive for a well-designed code base when I have a say in the matter (ie. greenfield or refactoring).

The thing that gets to me now is if the developer shows a complete lack of understanding of the language: Like they use concurrency, but they don't understand concurrency; Or they misuse an ORM and fall prey to the N+1 problem.

Those are sort of fundamental problems in my view, and indicate a developer who was in over his or her head.
Or this:

https://419eater.com/html/tope.htm

> On receipt of the form, we will require a photograph of you, or a trusted representative as proof of identity. You will have to get a NEW photograph taken, holding two symbol of ours. The two symbols we need you to hold are a loaf of BREAD and a FISH (the name of our church). This proves that the person in the photograph is genuine. Passport or other photographs will NOT be accepted.

> (...)

> As dumb as he looks, I'm not happy. I asked for the fish to be on his head AND a loaf of bread. I got neither!
On a tangent, are smart contracts automatically “open source” - as in anyone can see the source or is there a way to obfuscate what’s on the blockchain?
Thank you Prantik. With Fueler we are making it easier for knowledge workers to showcase their work
These don’t exist in most countries, you need to show your ID to get any SIM.
I agree wholeheartedly that the price of maintaining the privacy of cash and stopping these seizures, even if +90% of these seizure cases were legitimately illegal earned cash, benefits the people more than the opposite.

That being said, I think there are more pervasive rules in our society that makes these seizures mild in comparison. Using the numbers you posted, that's $65k per seizure. Individuals carrying around the median annual household income is much more suspect than the $10k deposit limit that must be reported to the IRS. If law abiding folks get hassled for $10k, then $65k is obviously questionable. I think banks should not have to report anything but at the very least the limit should be $1M. $10k is a good day (Christmas, Black Friday, etc.) of sales for many regular people. Hell, even bartenders can make $10k in tips over the course of months not even years.
No, 45,000GB wasn’t a quota. At the moment, the 5GB limit is a soft limit, and the rollout plan included tiered enforcement. This is an internal implementation detail of our technical rollout plan.
It definitely is funny that they do not mention crypto at all. Like they're in denial.

I guess crtyptomining also fits in the umbrella of gaming.
Looking at how fast dall-e is improving, and how it "understands" concepts even if you mix them in crazy ways, all of your later examples seem solvable in less than a decade.

But I don't know much about ML so I might be wrong.
I don't deny that even the basic model can figure out the layout of your house.

It can't determine materials. The lidar can't really do that either. Even if it could, whether you buy Charmin or generic toilet paper on Amazon is a better signal of your wealth anyway. Honestly just buying a Roomba is a pretty good signal that you have some money to burn but not so much that you can hire a maid.

The article is just FUD
I try to dig into my children's interests.

Sometimes it is outdoors survival stuff, model rocketry, playing with instruments(they never want to actually take any actual lesson), and electronics.

I want to have them see me work on my own projects and read and be good in the world too.
This is exactly what exchanges already do.
Code katas taken more literally
If the key was extracted from the Secure Enclave, that's huge.
He deleted the tweet lol.
It doesn’t help that energy costs have gone up making mining not palatable when buying coins direct from market is cheaper.
Barney Stinson: When I get sad, I stop being sad and be awesome instead.
Because it's much easier to implement a set of concrete guidelines (have a daily meeting, use story points, etc) and turn them intro strict rules, than to implement the more fundamental but less concrete guidelines (individuals and interactions over processes and tools).

The same reason folk religion often focuses on hard, measurable rules (don't work on X, don't eat Y) instead of the more fundamental abstract ones (treat your fellow man as you want him to treat you).
If you go back to 2009 or so when the recovery of the financial crisis was languishing, there was a lot of talk that automation meant the jobs would just never come back. Flash forward ten years, and we're back to a labor crisis so acute that even contracting GDP can't slow it down.
Thanks. I'd forgotten that was started in the 1980s -- I encountered it in the early 1990s -- and don't think I realized how connected it was to prior transhumanist ideas, or as the post you linked says, an attempt to build a movement based on transhumanism. At the time I was young so everything seemed new, and stuff prior to extropians seemed "proto-" and unrealized -- surely how extropianism must seem to someone young now who encounters whatever the current transhumanist discourse is.
Skiff Drive: Secure file storage
> Capitalism would be bad enough

You do realize that the only alternative to capitalism that's ever been proposed is Scrum for everything inside and outside of work?
The war on drugs is not winnable, but the cartels can be defeated by legalizing all drugs.
What about those mailbox address companies, or they don't quite work in the US?
Which entity? Users of Tornado Cash? Their developers? As a business accepting Ethereum, how do I know whether my customer has used Tornado Cash in the past? It's not really possible to know unless the customer volunteers the information.
... which is why the Berlin police department is trying to ban Tesla vehicles from their grounds [1].

[1] https://www.rbb24.de/panorama/beitrag/2022/06/tesla-verbot-b...
I hear you can exercise your pecs and triceps by punching someone in the face. If you grab their neck with the other arm, you can get your lats involved too.
That's the crux of surveillance capitalism. You're the product and eventually its victim.

Having read the book mentioned, I'd take it a step further and frame the current Gov v Big Tech struggles as Gov realizing that it's losing its grip on control (to Big Tech). So while it might be framed in other ways, ultimately Gov doesn't want to lose its status quo powers.
... what if? I'm not seeing the relevance to my point.
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> who he knew was slimy but decided to trust for some reason. Yes, it would have been good advice for him.

He knew he was slimy, and did so anyway. This advice would not then help.

> You shouldn't go into business with crooks. People do it all the time, and it often ends poorly for them.

The problem isn't that they don't know they shouldn't do business with crooks. Most of them do. Just like many know that murder is wrong and yet people still kill.

Eating vegetables is almost directly actionable. So is taking your car in for service. But this is far from the "don't do business with crooks." Which is generic, unhelpful advice. And many crooks have made it rich and made others rich too. Is the advice even always true? Many a person got rich off of corruption.
Imagine if we had a Right to Replace Software.
https://archive.ph/GyLbL
There's a game where you automate millions of microtransactions through your GPU, and you can even sell some of the in-game currency for USD from time to time, though the conversion rate is at the mercy of the in-game market.
I thought of a better example: Fidel Castro surely persevered right up until the end, but despite leading Cuba for almost 50 years it's a stretch to say he "won" in any significant way against the US.
I think OP is talking about the semiconductor bill that already passed with bipartisan support.
It's really just some shoestring and bubblegum ontop of amazon / google gpu instances. As commodity AND niche as a renderfarm is, it seems like if it was to run, it would have to be via a foundation like ummm the blender foundation.
Well there is Mattereum: https://mattereum.com/
EV prototype with 700 mile range
The link was specifically labeled with a line from the essay: "Live in the future, then build what's missing." PG goes on to say that's how "many if not most of the biggest startups got started," which sounds more descriptive than proscriptive, since the proscription seems like nonsense.
I've been thinking about this a lot with the current congressional action. I need a new roof ~now. But I have a lingering fear that huge product improvement will happen in the next 18 months due to added government money. I don't know enough about the industry to weight in that possibility.
You do have to start somewhere. It's also important to know which goals are realistic relative to what position you're in.

If you're poor, do you go for the moonshot, or do you go for being middle class and then adjust your expectations once you're comfortable that you've achieved your initial goals? Going from nothing to something is more impressive than going from something to... more something.
Not all users of Tornado Cash are money laundering. The US government positions Tornado Cash as a system for money laundering but it is more accurately described as a system for privatizing your transactions. A user with an identifiable ENS name might want to hold and trade some ETH without broadcasting every action to the entire world - this becomes a personal security risk - and Tornado Cash is a way to do this that is decentralized and cryptographically secure.
>Tesla is showing their first humanoid robot prototype in September.

Last time Tesla showed a humanoid robot prototype, it was a guy in unitard, dancing.
Male Microchimerism in the Human Female Brain (2012)
Ransomware payments
Well how do you know someone sent their coins through a mixer? If they’re dumb and go straight from mixer to an exchange it’s easy, but what if they trade the mixed coins for an nft? Is the former nft owner now implicated?
This platform not just helps create proof of work but also helps people deal with creative blocks.
It's more of a social-platform which helps people connect and create together.
Tesla sells every car they can make. Their backlog is about a year long. We won't know how much demand there is until they can actually meet it.

Batteries cost a lot more decades ago. Car giants could have built electrics but they would have been expensive and short range.

If the trend in battery prices continues, electric cars will have lower sticker prices than ICE cars in a couple years, and then anyone who just wants a good price for a new car will change from an ICE customer to an electric customer.
But it is financial blockchain…

Edit: Two out of first three words claims that
Entirely agree with that - and I'm a professional Rust dev, working with video. It's like using C++ for web services. Why would you do that?
"Such silicon-rich anodes, which can squeeze more range from batteries" - Is the primary driver of the increased range, the anode? Why does it make such a big difference
> Are you saying a more inflexible/less agile model is a better model?

No I am saying there is no secure answer. Both choices result in the same thing use one primitive when it becomes broken the protocol is broken, or negotiate a primitive and face downgrade attacks that make the protocol broken.

There is no secure answer to stop mitm attack from the protocol level it has to come from cryptography at which point what happens when that cryptography is broken? The whole thing is a chicken and egg problem, there is no secure answer.
I've built a solution for this for Discord, it's called AnswerOverflow! (https://www.answeroverflow.com/)

Doing this indexing work is a bit different on Discord as their privacy policy doesn't let you publicly share users messages without them consenting first - so this project has got a lot built out for driving user consent to allow for those messages to be displayed publicly.

For users who haven't explicitly said they want their messages to be public, those messages can still be shown on the site they just have to be behind a sign in that checks if the users are in the same server

A big focus of this project is building out tools to improve help channels on Discord and then using what gets built out to drive user consent, for example one feature of it is being able to mark questions as solved which also prompts users to contribute their messages
At what point can we just conclude we are living in a dystopia? Seems pertinent to note that one of the hallmarks of many fictional dystopias is that most folks don't even recognize there is a problem!
To give them credit though, they’ve always tried to downplay crypto for a long time as they knew it was unsustainable even including LHR cards that would gimp Ethereum hashrate.
One runtime panic I wish was a compile-time error in the rust standard library is the use of an incorrect memory order, eg Ordering::Release with AtomicBool::load().

It would have been fairly trivial to set up generic constraints specifying if a read, write, or read-write ordering semantic is expected and to fail to compile if it wasn’t met.
“Trusted” does not mean authorized. I have never seen any (corporate) environment that uses VPN and not require some form of authentication & authorization on top. With “trusted” status often grants those trusted users read only access to internal communication or documentation.
> Have you thought about the obvious implication that embryo selection with polygenic scoring could be used to lower the gap between genetically privileged types of people you describe and the average couple deciding to apply to procedure?

Of course. If we boost an entire generation’s IQ at birth and eventually introduce them into the adult population, what is going to happen is that the boosted generation is going to basically dominate the right hand side of the graph. If you visualize two bell curves superimposed on one another, with one of those curves shifted to the right, then that’s what you’re going to get.

The degree of augmentation is going to make a big difference. During the era of the Flynn effect, we sort of had this happen naturally and we handled it just fine, but a 20 point boost would basically obliterate things.

I’m not necessarily opposed to doing this BTW. I just think it’s going to be extremely disruptive and unpredictable.

> over generations it can compound into a more thoughtful, creative, capable and lively humanity.

Yes, that’s what the original eugenicists thought, too. Here’s the problem, though: what do you do with all of those old and busted natural humans who are less thoughtful, less creative, less capable, less lively? Because those people are really mad that they lost their jobs, and they’re obviously not as intelligent or beautiful or morally good as the new and improved humanity. I mean, all you’ve done was to erase the unfair gap between the below average member of your generation and the above average member of theirs. Those people are all privileged and entitled jerks, and all they’re doing is causing problems.

Oh, did you really think we’d also manage to isolate and eliminate the gene responsible for the human tendency to dehumanize the outgroup? You sweet summer child.
The game is pretty much the same compared for example to the early 2K; now there are lot less players and teams, but it's still a lot of fun.
Asking for a friend, can this be used for porn she wants to know.
"Next year or two" is extremely unlikely. The US is absolutely no going to switch back to a manufacturing base. It's only attempting to gain leverage against adversaries when it comes to critical supply chain components. China is all but guaranteed to see slowing growth compared to the past 40 years simply because there aren't enough farmers left to exploit for cheap labor and living standards are already so much higher. They'll be in for mild economic winter then emerge just fine. Famine seems incredibly unlikely anywhere in the world.
"Legalize all drugs" is de-facto policy in some large west coast cities. It is also an abject failure. Easier access to drugs is not a solution, it is merely calous / criminal negligence.
Go into your router and revoke its IP address.
Existential threats are also really good for procrastination.
> there ARE points in a student's academic path where they HAVE TO memorize stuff and do rote operations like the multiplication tables.

Sure, but imagine learning multiplication tables without having any idea what it means to "multiply"; literally just memorizing sequences of symbols, without ever looking at piles of coins or whatever.

Multiplication is so basic that this is hard to imagine, but I'm sure that, say, difference-of-squares rules feel like this to most beginning algebra students -- and for most people that probably never changes.

I first encountered difference-of-squares in late middle school, memorized the procedure and used it handily through twelfth grade, and had no idea that there was a visualizable geometric basis to it until I read Book 2 of Euclid's Elements in college.
We would just ask them verbally for a first and last name + address.
Friendly reminder: If you're considering incorporating someone else's work into your new work, you need to be aware that you may be violating the copyright to the original work. https://www.legalzoom.com/articles/what-are-derivative-works...
> In banking, boring is better

Exactly, you don't want to hand your money to a fancy organization that experiments with its PR and god knows what it does behind the scenes.

Never heard about the scandals though, do you have any links?
Just wanted to point out that it looks like people will be able to go over that limit but will have to pay extra for it according to https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/subscriptions/gitlab_com/index.ht... . Seems somewhat reasonable.
Exactly. Monero's ringct model is easy to break statistically given some resources. Fees aren't that high. It's practical for a state to know 75+% of spent outputs by a combination of exchange info exchange and spamming. In addition there's zero output privacy (meaning honeypot->suspect->exchange creates extremely strong links when repeated).

Zcash is good, but not popular. Same for zk.money
I don’t get it. Have credentials been entered on third-party sites that then been used to logon from elsewhere?

Would it be stupid to force mTLS for employees?
The latter. I can barely watch him. I'll admit he's incredibly original and I really appreciate a skit or two. But he borders on sociopathic, and his latest movie is a great encapsulation of that.
That was a great read, thanks for posting. Looking forward to sharing.
Elon Musk Is Convinced He's the Future. We Need to Look Beyond Him
80% of all USD have been printed since 2020.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1SL
Even if there’s no genetic basis for intelligence, someone could (and, I’d say, probably will) make a marketing claim that they can select for it. Whatever they’re actually selecting for is going to start showing up in higher rates and who knows what the effects would be.
The fact that Tom Cruise appears to not have aged in 30 years might be telling!
I don't know if I buy that.

> There are people that are surprised when the partner who cheated with them in their previous relationship also cheats on them in the current.

Is it that these people don't know the risk, or they willingly choose to take the risk, because of some potential reward, such as having a partner? I say that is more likely. A lot of people know things are bad decisions and do them anyway - often because of hopes.
>I think any car company is toast, if it sells users' private data. Including Tesla. I really doubt any data is being sold.

Any car company whose parent owner has multi-billion dollar contracts with the US government is toast if it doesn't sell its data, at least to the NSA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwest#Refusal_of_NSA_surveilla...
A Biochemist’s View of Life’s Origin Reframes Cancer and Aging
My brain isn't cached into the issue anymore, because I've since solved the same problem with Zig, but about a year ago there was no way to have a reference counted tagged pointer that points to a boxed DST with the minimum number of bytes. Every path lead through UB or "not yet defined" somewhere.

You wrote a PHD on it so you might have a better idea of the issues that past me ran into, than what present me can still recall ;)
Everywhere in the United States for backup cameras at least, since 2018 -

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2018/05/02/backup-...
I have a Dreame Z10 that's self emptying and has lidar/vision to avoid bumping (and it works well!). I've replaced the firmware with Valetudo so I've got full, local control with no cloud at all.