skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Similarly if you distribute OSS viruses don't act shocked if people want to harass you over it - distributing viruses is illegal in some places

Plenty of legitimate software can be used for nefarious things (and sometimes the legitimate code is indistinguishable from malicious code, e.g. remote viewers).

We should probably focus on the people and the actions those people take, rather than code itself, or we might end up in a bit of a pickle. Ban encryption because it's used in ransomware. Ban tech-support software like TeamViewer or QuickAssist because it is used in scams.
Asking for entropy that’s easy for a real human to comply with and difficult for a prebuilt AI is at least a short term measure. Such-as show me the back of your head sideways then go from head to feet without cutting the feed.

Easy for a human, difficult for ML/AI
patio11 showed up as a speaker at an event, and the only reason I'd heard of him at the time was HN.
sorry but no way was the relevant revenue number $4b when the asset sold for $250m. unless it was bleeding money, that fails the sniff test.

https://www.vox.com/2016/6/28/12050416/jeff-bezos-saving-was...

> . The last time total operating revenue for the paper was published, in 2012, it was $580 million; one former executive estimates today it’s probably closer to $350 million. Another Post veteran told me that Bezos said in a meeting that the company’s annual budget, currently around $500 million, will have to be cut by 50 percent over the next three years.

there. better.

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edit: jeez, the axios numbers are way off too. they had 60 people in 2018.

now it stands between 380 (https://www.comparably.com/companies/axios-media/headquarter...) and 520 (https://craft.co/axios)
Put the word "porn" on the title and get trillion upvotes.
Thank you for that, BTW -- that shirt had barely hit the drawer before my teenager stole it from me (curse of having kids the same size!) and I know that it has ended up in his rotation. It was great meeting in person in Minnesota, and thanks again for the shirt!
Install Roon on it
> Tornado Cash has never been for the "explicit stated purpose of facilitating illegal money laundering" but for being able to remain private about what transactions you make on the blockchain.

Isn't that literally what money laundering is?

> As long as you file your taxes correctly, it wouldn't be illegal to use services like Tornado Cash.

IIRC, money laundering businesses pay their taxes too (e.g. the Breaking Bad car wash pretended the drug profits came from washing cars, and paid taxes those "car washing" profits).
You might already know though, a lot of chrome's Blink is enrooted in the KHTML project. So I at least feel optimistic that open source has a chance to fight back, I just don't know how or when....
Study identifies facets of American conservatism that differentially pred (cont)
Thanks for linking the article, it's good reading
I think it's basically just the man pages online, but I've found this resource to be pretty helpful:

https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/command-ref/new-cli/nix....
How about "start by helping another colleague" - it often feels like there are different reward systems in my brain for stuff I do "for myself" vs what I do "for others" - even if ultimately I'm just comparing two things the company that pays me wants me to do. I struggle far more with motivation on the "for myself" part, but if a colleague needs help with something I'm more than happy to jump in and provide it, and the act of doing so can be a pretty good impetus helping you refocus on your own tasks.
How far are you willing to take this line of thought?
Would you be OK if your neighbors attached trackers to your car?

Would you be OK for the boyfriend of your daughter to did the same?

How about a tracker embedded in your shoe?
Wisp is an addictive /idea/, even if the net benefit ends up not being terribly strong. But combined with some other changes in assumptions, there might be some interesting insights. I've tinkered with this idea for a bit. https://gist.github.com/armstnp/bb2a88bcb053d2195f42c60a0cf1...

Heading this direction, things almost start to smell point-free. Functions begin to be designed to take elements likely to be recursive as their last argument. And a placeholder ('⎵') could be used to select the recursive slot otherwise.
not exactly milspec, but I have also seen custom laser engraved dust covers on AR platform stuff that has ".300 BLK" or "5.56 NATO" etched into both sides of the cover, in addition to whatever markings might be placed on the lower/upper receiver bodies.
What do you expect to happen? Centralized service have better ux, so it makes sense for most people to use them - but nothing about ethereum or tornado requires them. People will only use their own nodes, tor and/or ipfs if that's the only solution that works - but as long as public rpcs like infura and normal domains aren't censored there's really no reason to (for a normal user, not a dev etc).

What's important is to keep that potential open, of course.
Bypassing cheat protections for Maplestory
Generating Random Floats in [0, 1)
Generally speaking future is more like the present than most would wish. Climate change is really the biggest change coming and one given the progress that’s been made, likely only going to get worse, not better.
True, but my point is that it's just a regulatory issue - technically there's no difference between credit and debit cards from a scam/fraud point of view (in fact scammers don't know nor care what account type it is as long as it authorizes their fraudulent transaction). There's no reason why the law can't be updated to offer the same protections for debit cards and make it where a single phone call or button in your banking app can immediately reverse a transaction (and thus give you the money back) while it is being investigated.

In addition, keep in mind that when it comes to payment cards, there are 2 levels of fraud protection. One is offered by the card networks and in the vast majority of cases doesn't care about the bank or the account type. This will cover the vast majority of fraud and in most cases fraud disputes end there and thus would also apply to debit cards (I've used debit cards for all my life and the few instances of fraud I've had have been resolved by card networks just fine in a timely manner - in fact if the bank is willing they are able to credit you the amount immediately while they investigate, though unlike on credit cards they aren't obligated to by law).

The second level is country-dependent and usually specific to credit cards - this is where laws enforce stronger protections and would force the lender to eat the transaction even if a card network dispute isn't successful. This is a purely regulatory difference, and there's no reason the law can't be updated to also apply to debit cards.
Finally, a mathematical proof to take as many pictures as possible is a good idea :)
> By mathematical definition, a startup cannot fund fast-enough growth on current profits and therefore requires financing and a lot of it.

Untrue.

Sell enough annual SaaS plans and you get cash before your future costs - perhaps enough to self-fund growth depending on specifics for your SaaS. Skip to 14 minutes in of https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=otbnC2zE2rw for explanation.

Jason’s explaination for his own business: income from signups is structured so they get more money per month per user than their Customer Acquisition Cost “literally operate with an infinite marketing budget” - i.e. constraint isn’t marketing growth costs but their other business constraints. See from 15:45 to 16:30 of the video where he is talking about some figures for the business he owned at the time.
It essentially already is a random drawing... at those acceptance rates, you're getting admitted or rejected because the orchestra needed a flute player, or because the admissions officer was feeling gassy after lunch. Having admissions winnow down the applications to say 3x the class size and doing the rest by lottery just makes the luck factor explicit.
Ah yeah that's probably why, our servers are only on the west coast for now, we'll add more locations in the future.
The more you learn the more you gain the ability to encode new facts with fewer "bits." Thanks to associative memory. Adults have an advantage in learning in this regard.
Since you mentioned Zig, I'd like to ask a tangential question in case someone could chime in.

Is there any way to have Zig output a flat binary? I am looking for a higher level FlatAssembler. [0]

[0] https://flatassembler.net/
Nope, but that was super gross too. See cryptography Twitter.
I didn't realise this. Why would anyone accept this risk and use Revolut as anything more than a place for pocket money while abroad?!
Yeah, just clarifying because what you said was "this company doesn't have growth ideas" which is highly negative, makes it sound like it's a tired dinosaur like AT&T.

It can also just be a prudent decision not to flush money down the toilet on expansions or ideas that aren't investable yet because of a misplaced need to show that that company is not "out of ideas"
Would you like to make some specific timebounded claims as to what you believe Amazon will do with this acquisition?

So we can come back later, and tell whether OP is naive and you are a realist, or whether OP is a realist and you are overly paranoid.
I'm kind of confused by what you mean by "re-sign". The repo you linked to says that it's a tool to "re-sign" apps. Does that mean it requires an already-signed app to function?

Mac/iOS app bundles need to be signed, but so does the actual compiled binary within the bundle. The signing process, among other things, embeds entitlement information into the binary (permissions for using certain APIs). Can isignpy do this? Or does it only do app bundle signing?

From the perspective of app development, a tool that can perform full code signing on Linux is huge. Imagine how much of a pain (and expense) it is to maintain a CI pipeline when you need a physical Mac (since you can't legally run MacOS in a VM). There are more than a few cloud companies that offer dedicated Macs pretty much just for this purpose.
Did you know in most parts of the world, credit cards aren't that popular?

From what I've seen, in Latin America and much of the EU debit or even cash is the default.

Even in the UK, there are no weird, arbitrary reward points programs like in the US - it's standardized.

In my experience only the US and Canada have these crazy credit card deals and programs. Which is good for me I guess, I get my points as I can still use my Visa credit card around the world. But man, unless you do the research and understand your card, credit cards can really be shady (especially exploitative for those with low financial understanding) and I do think we should get rid of them.
It's been 45 minutes and I'm still waiting for my Bitcoin transaction to go through.

BTC and Crypto at large don't seem like a viable alternative solution, or even a solution to any real problem at all.
> Can you ask the caller to draw a line on his face with a pen as a test?

I think if the caller did this without objection that would be a bigger indication that it is a deep fake than the alternative. What real person is going to comply with this?
I like how this was down-voted, even when the evidence is staggeringly in its favor. We consistently wait for hazard to materialize before we implement post-event safeguards, instead of putting up health parameters and expect commercial entities to meet them consistently.

We laugh at the regulatory frameworks of places like Europe and Japan, yet they consistently get fewer food recalls, or stories about pink-goo as a food source, let alone the disparity in what they will allow in their food supply.

We nearly had a civil uprising about mandating seat belts. Elsewhere? Some griping and little else. Etc.
Why is browser consolidation such a big problem? If the current market leader starts to fall behind, then whoever does it better will gain adoption. Isn't this how Chrome grew a following?
Yes, sanctions lists are a cat-and-mouse game. Cryptocurrencies did not invent this dynamic. Dictators have been doing the same with shell companies and offshore bank accounts for decades.
I think we'll just have to agree to disagree then.

We don't get to choose where or to whom we are born. If you are then born into "bad cultures and values", as you say, that has a huge influence on your "choices". If you drop the same kid randomly into a more affluent family, I highly doubt he makes the same choices.

I just don't think that the cause can be simply boiled down to choices, when environment clearly has an outsized effect.
Ask HN: Is the adoption of electric cars too fast to be sustained?
Will there be enough charging stations to avoid the problems of queues that take longer than a day to recharge all the cars that need it?
Is the fast charging technology likely to improve fast enough to make this problem disappear?
Are there alternative to horizontal (load balancing over multiple stations) and vertical (faster chargers) scale ups?
Idealogical motivation is such a deceptive phrase. We all have motivations. Motivations form a framework that we make decisions from. We like tastes, textures, new experiences (or not), etc, depending on who we are as a person.

Calling eating a plant meat "idealogical" like it's a bad thing is just pure deceptive rhetoric.
> How do you ensure the tests themselves are accurate?

By adding tests as you build-up and refine code, taking your branch coverage into account, as reported by coverage tools.

If data is too complex, this informs you that the responsibilities of your piece of code needs to be split up into separate components, packages, classes, or whatever. Designing for testability (rather than looks or "design patterns") is one of the most important, if not outright the most important consideration in code organization IMO.

Creating test cases "after the fact" is mostly worthless. TDD, OTOH, gets you best results for a broad range of code bases, but takes a lot of effort, discipline, and energy.
You generally need a sufficient volume of traffic for a mixer to be effective.

A nobody spinning up their own copy of the contract may have trouble attracting the volume. If this becomes a significant issue, the treasury can expand the sanctioned entity definition to include to any smart contract that uses the code from TC. Or automatically scan for such addresses and update the list of aliases for the sanctioned entity. Or several other approaches.
The first time you play it, you will be encountering the game’s art, music, and design for the first time. Will it be good? Bad? Just okay? Will there be one surprise that takes your breath away? It’s full of novelty and possibility.

The second time, you mostly know what you’re in for. There may be different paths to take, there may be new stuff unlocked by your first play through. But if you made it to the end then you’ve probably exhausted most of its unique content. There may be other things to come back for (DLC, competitive play, 100%, achievements, etc) but it’s easy to put it down for good.

How many books, movies, or TV shows do you come back to? How many do you go through once and never again? Why should a game be any different?
I think you are underestimating a few facts in the conflict of Ukraine which downplays it's significance.

The EU and the US have drawn the lines very explicitly, which before they were able to whist away any pressing questions on relations by claiming 'allies'.

Russia has been cut off from the IMF dominated financial system. No FX, No Swift, no IMF support. This is the financial equivilent of going nuclear. This has led Russia and China to announce they are goiing to directly compete with the IMF and start their own federal reserve.

My point is not that nuclear war is imminent, but quite the opposite. We have new tools to declare total war without a single bullet being fired. Cyber, destabilization and financial war might prove deadlier than nuclear could ever be.
In gaming, you can have a single branch that is 8TB with 1+ million files. But those projects aren't using git.
> Deglobalization -- In the US, we're about to be forced to rebuild all the manufacturing we outsourced since the 1970s. It's not going to go well for those countries dependent on imported food or energy

Hogwash. Globalization is good, Globalization is here to stay. Whatever is the current location causing issues with Globalization will simply be routed around. There are plenty of countries that would love to be part of the global supply chain with.
The only way any manufacturing is coming back to the rich industrialized countries is that it involves a lot of really good robots. Which is also good.

> It's possible a billion people will face famine in the next year or two as a result of the loss of grain from Russia and Ukraine, along with the loss of Fertilizers (or being priced out of them)

Again, hogwash. The market will force diets to change and producers will start producing more. Fertilizer production could be an issue but again, diets and markets will adjust.

> Energy Blindness -- We're so used to having free flowing oil cheap enough to burn for energy, it's an assumption built into everything. Unless we plan for the end of easy to reach oil, we could have supply chains collapsing everywhere.

A known issue that will not happen overnight. The world is racing toward non-oil based energy, so I don't see this being an issue. Don't get me wrong, this one I actually agree with, but it won't happen overnight. The world/markets will adapt.
Under which term of the sanction?
>Russia has built new types of aircraft, new rocket

This would be a valid argument six months ago. Now we know those "new types of aircraft" were vaporware, and missiles work really fine only if you can claim that a random barn is a valid military target. Some of the things that did materialize - like the new military telecom system - turned out to be rebranded Chinese products.

>new nuclear icebreakers

Which were co-developed with Ukraine. Btw, do you know Russia's only aircraft carrier was literally stolen from Ukraine?

>its own internet search engine

This one is actually true, but on the other hand Ukraine had wider success with Whatsapp.
To my understanding, the only way for a work to be truly public domain is for the copyright to expire. Anything else is just a permissive license.
I don't think I'd call adding yet another layer of escaping syntax "sane".
Right that’s why companies return money to shareholders. The question is “should we do buybacks or dividends?” and companies are now leaning toward buyback because of the tax advantage.
> I remember the exact point in my life when I realized how much difference rote memorization makes.

I suspect this might have something to do with neurological development. At least in my experience. Something about memory and recollection "clicked" (not a skill but more a capacity) at a really adult age for me.

Almost similar to being taught calculus after not knowing how most physics formula are derived and then looking back in confusion how you struggled with a straightforward thing.
And here I thought Black Mirror's "I'll Be Right Back" did a wonderful job of highlighting why things like this will never work: because we, as humans, don't put every aspect of ourselves on record, so any replica based only recorded data -- text, video, etc. -- will always be missing some parts of who we are. Maybe it's good enough for people who don't know you very well, but those who are close to you will hit Uncanny Valley quickly, whether they understand what they're missing from the replica or not.

Basically, if we want a replica of a dead person, we need full-brain copying, or else somehow record everything the person has ever done in their life.
I’m not trying to be dense here, but exactly all of that was predicted. What about the environment in 1998 caused you to believe that we would stagnate?

Just 3 years later, online banking was ubiquitous in 2001 - such that I stood at a conference for retail banking and personally pitched dozens of banking executives on frameworks and white label software they could use to build their own. Meaning that it wasn’t just one-off banks who were doing it, and surely some were doing this in 1998 as well.

Cable modems were becoming common. ADSL was next best thing.

1998 was a year things really exploded. It was part of the tech bubble upswing. I’m confused what would cause someone to think that was the end of history.
Survival , you need to survive upcoming disasters first.
> credit cards can really be shady (especially exploitative for those with low financial understanding) and I do think we should get rid of them.

Or, promote better financial literacy.
Unfortunately a large percent of the population believes the false narrative of "nothing to hide, nothing to fear" so they believe only criminals have the desire for privacy

these are the same people that will be SHOCKED when something they use, love, or do is ruled illegal or "obvious" violation of US Law,
Right, the author seems to be unfamiliar with H2, which is bizarre for someone who worked on gRPC.
Gwern on GPT-3 2nd Anniversary
Why Not Slow AI Progress?
Lenovo ThinkPad P14s is a mobile workstation with Ryzen Pro 6000U
Yes, if your business engages in plainly illegal activity that relies on a letter of exemption from the relevant regulator, and if you don't abide by the terms of that letter, then the evil government might capriciously decide to shut you down.
> An open, permissionless, and GLOBAL monetary network for final settlement and small payments (and micropayments) which no single competing nation state has unilateral control over would be a game changer for fintech innovation. The function of everything from Visa/Mastercard, Fedwire, SWIFT, Paypal, Western Union, etc, all rebase onto one global network with countless businesses competing on top of it to provide the most appealing user experience.

This is not ever going to happen.

Witness today the Ethereum tumbler getting sanctioned. When a payment method gets significant enough it will either be regulated or squashed by the state.
I am in no way affiliated with the guy but you should read the seminal papers published by John R. Anderson.

This guy has been in this game since the 70s

Carnegie Mellon University Professor of Psychology and Computer Science

http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu/peoplepages/ja/
Yeah, but it would be nigh impossible to guess in advance how much space would be needed. The "solution" where the caller tries again with exponentially increasing buffer sizes really doesn't fit my concept of a good API. And if the callee calculates and returns how much memory it would need, then the caller needs to heap allocate to make use of that information (or resort to nonstandard functions like `alloca`). Honestly best just to return a pointer to a dealloc function (which could simply be `free` if the struct and the data it points to are indeed allocated as a contiguous block of memory).
Are the authors of the finding subject to their finding?
It's black.
There is no tidal wave, Telekom partnered a long time ago with Microsoft for an EU only azure offering and it was sacked quickly because the demand from public procurements where too low since those largely require on-prem solutions.
Don't all UK banks require a UK address?
The best I could come up with regarding the example you alluded to was this:

https://www.axios.com/2019/11/16/china-detention-uighur-musl...

And it seems that they agree that what China did was bad.

So if it's not that, then what are the "China Files"? And how are the "participating in an economic destruction campaign against millions of Muslims"?

You realize these are really bold claims and require more than just a "trust me, it's bad" from you, right?
> This sounds exactly why people like Jack Dorsey are pushing for bitcoin + lightning network adoption.

The solution was in the message you replied to.