skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>Try sending money to Al Qaeda and you'll find out this not exactly a new thing.

Sending money to al-Qaeda involves the intent to aid al-Qaeda. Increasing the anonymity set of cash, by using cash, or the anonymity set of tornado cash, by using tornado cash, and inadvertedly helping a select group of criminals avoid financial surveillance (among a huge number of inadvertent effects), is not in the same category of actions as acting with the intent of helping a criminal.

>>The argument you're making is that the laws made by a democratic government should not apply to a part of the world,

The argument I'm making is that the laws violate human rights, because privacy is a human right, even if the CCP or the US Treasury disagrees. Something being a law does not automatically make it just.

Moreover, there is no law prohibiting the use of privacy technology. All the privacy violating laws were designed around the reliance of people on financial intermediaries, which don't exist on a public ledger with direct write access for end-users. The current US Treasury measure is a misapplication of the sanctions laws. The law wasn't designed to allow software to be sanctioned.

>>The idea that "no-one runs" them is also bogus: every Ethereum node runs them.

We may as well act as if "no one runs it" for the purposes of deciding on the appropriate legal treatment of privacy protected transactions, since the idea of forcing every one in the world to not run some popular node software, or creating an American firewall to prevent people in the US from connecting to those nodes, is such an affront to liberal democratic principles - including the right to use strong encryption - that it's not even worth addressing.
There is A solution. Is it the best solution? Are there other solutions which may offer better performance or safety.

I don't we should stop trying to improve just because an existing solution exists, especially in the space of systems programming which has barely moved in decades
For anyone who hasn't seen "the problem with nfts":
The basic, fundamental problem of play to earn games is that they rely on the fact that the thing that makes you come back is a want for fiat money. The problem with that is that what i just described isn't a game, it's a job.

Sure, current games are basically just gachas with nfts slapped on them, but eventually you'll get actually playable games with actual gameplay, and you might think that that might entice non-worker gamers to give it a try, but the reality of it is that if your game can be pay to win, which play to earn games have to be (otherwise the reward you get cannot be re-invested in the game, which is bad for busines), then people are going to pay for that win, making the game fun exclusively to whales. Current not play to earn games struggle with this problem already, eg WoW has had to control inflation heavily, in part because of a lack of real money sinks, but also in part because paying to win by buying gold is extremely efficient and often times the optimal strategy.

Basically, take the age-old "given the opportunity, players will optimize the fun out of a game", and merge it with the fact that play-to-earn games are typically not fun at all the begin with, and you end up reinventing a job that is entirely artificial and whose value-add is null to everyone but its creators and highest whales.
The Battery RV thing will probably hit the same issue as people who already tried this housing hack, legal bans.

They're still going back and forth in the courts but Mountain View, LA, San Diego and probably other such places that become the next target will probably fight this legally, for the same reasons they fight any other type of cheap housing.
> with the same unit meaning something different with each manufacturer and not everyone even uses the same units.

It's even worse. Some manufacturers have a single rough sizing table for an entire product category, like all shirts or pants. They will happily ignore different fittings and styles like slim fit, oversized, loose fit etc.
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The problem is not with the data but what's under it: a flash memory chip the manufacturer cheaped out on.
GitHub Moves to Guard Open Source Against Supply Chain Attacks
Related discussions:

>GitHub suspends Tornado Cash developer account

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32389706

>U.S. Treasury sanctions virtual currency mixer Tornado Cash

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32386189
I do believe mechanisms for secession can make sense. I hope Scotland stays in the Union but I also believe they should have the right to choose not to. However then you get into the question of what constitutes a region that could reasonably secede. That must imply a historic and inalienable right to the territory, to be able to make that decision. It’s a difficult one.

If you and your neighbours want to not be subject to the French government, you can always go somewhere else. The fact there’s probably nowhere better for you to go is hardly France’s problem.
I might agree with you if pandemic prevention actually seemed oversubscribed. Instead, when I went looking for what needed doing I found lots of valuable potential projects that didn't have anyone working on them, and others that had been started but limited by hiring.

One good list of projects: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/u5JesqQ3jdLENXBtB/...

In any case, my 'alpha' was something like, I'm a software engineer and engineering manager willing to work in an academic environment well below market wages, in a situation where the organization needed someone with my skills.
> How do you convince merchants to accept your card (and potentially additional payment processing terminals) when none of the merchants customers have the card.

Well, at least at the national scale, it can and is done. You start with terminal providers or select the niche that doesn't use them at all (online payments). Then you need top 5 banks to support your new method in their mobile apps/transaction systems. All is left is massive advertising campaign, and if it is successful, other banks will join. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_payment contains a huge list of attempts that worked out (or not).

It is going international where things get very tricky. Even Paypal and Stripe had to be based on Visa/MC, there are no other worldwide options than credit cards. It is a bit better if you want to only cover EU(thanks to PSD2 banks had to provide APIs), but that is all. Google's and Apple's payment systems could become independent from Visa/MC but people just don't want to top up some weird accounts when they can just "connect" a card instead.
I'm guessing it's because you can easily whip up an OS project and pay nothing on Github.
The developer time is saved by not writing multiple apps, fuck the end user, who cares about their time?

Seriously, I have to really think about when was the last time there wasn't some degree of unnecessary friction in an application. It really feels like being an end user of modern tech is like being in an abusive relationship.
> Taking AI risk seriously doesn't mean you can't give time and money to other causes with more tangible results.

But if you've spent the past decade arguing precisely the opposite - that instead of spreading philanthropic dollars over broad portfolios because true efficacy is unmeasurable, they should be directed to causes which provide hard evidence that they're among the most efficient use of a marginal dollar, and that charities that aren't conducting RCTs to prove how much better off people are after being fed aren't really evidence-based enough to recommend - it's going to raise eyebrows when you pivot to recommending people also give their money to opaque organisations with vague goals and zero evidence they can achieve them, whose only thing in common with the highly evidence-focused aid agencies is that their pitch is nerdier than the average nonprofit. I mean, there's nothing particularly wrong with "I give to causes because their pitch speaks to me" as a heuristic for philanthropy - it's how most altruists think - but it's not how EA pitched itself as being different from that and caring about efficacy and evidence.

The Wells analogy is awkward for the AI safety crowd for another reason too. Wells' central thesis that an atomic super weapon would guarantee a peaceful, utopian world turned out to be horribly wrong. We got actually used bombs, arms races, proxy wars and very nearly used bombs instead, and that's without Nazi atomic scientists getting a heads up. To the extent his writings on the subject of atomic weapon safety had any effect at all on atomic weapons, they made them more imminent and more likely to be used. If marginal dollars spent on promoting the distribution of The World Set Free would have had any effect at all on the probability of armageddon, they would probably have increased it.
Found the instruction on how to play the game in the further reading of the Wiki - https://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ro...

It was nice to see the original write up and to read how about it worked for the user.
The Plop boot managers are very useful tools for both physical hardware and for VMs.

I used to use these tools a lot, for booting Linux from USB on machines that only supported floppy/CD boot, and occasionally for booting from CD on machines that only supported floppy boot.

Note: this does not just mean physical machines.

I have used several hypervisors in which VMs could not boot from USB devices, well within the last decade. You can boot the Plop boot manager from a virtual floppy or virtual CD, and then start the VM from a real physical USB key that is attached to a physical USB port which is assigned to the VM.

This is a useful function: for instance, one can install DOS onto a USB key from inside a VM, then stop the VM to readily put files onto, or take them off, the key. That works with a physical partition too but most modern OSes do not play nicely with DOS. Linux does, but Windows doesn't.

You can install Linux onto a USB key and boot it both from within the VM and on bare metal. Note, not copy an ISO image, I mean a fully-installed Linux system. The VM continues to be useful because if you update the Linux-on-a-key, it will tend to add any OSes on the hard disk in the PC you are using, which you probably do not want. Update in a VM and this doesn't happen.
Read the comment again. The recipient clearly didn't like the poems, and yet he still wrote four hundred of them.

> In fact, I was told by her that these notes put her in guilt.

No healthy relationship has one partner who cares so little about the other's feelings that they do something 400 times without finding out if it's welcome or not.
> Someone could invent a time machine and destroy the Earth before humanity had a chance to exist, etc.

I struggle with assigning infinite weight and unlikely possibilities. But we can stay in the every day world and ask what credence do we place on the time machine possibility, and why? All information I have read suggests that it is essentially impossible, and so effectively I don't worry about this contingency at all. And then, is there anything we could do to prevent the time machine scenario? I can't think of anything at all.

On the other hand, to focus on one particular risk, there are compelling arguments made by experts in the field of artificial intelligence (e.g. Stuart Russell) that say that we face real risks based on the current trajectory of the technology. Is there anything we can do to reduce the risks? That seems like an important question.

It is important to be sceptical, and whilst I don't place 100% credence on the likelihood of a truly catastrophic AI outcome, I do think it is worth taking this possibility very seriously. There is a strong chain of reasoning behind the claims, and they are worth engaging with, especially given the fact that we are in a position to influence the outcome.

> if you're going to be so abstract about it... what's wrong with a future with flourishing AI and without humanity?

We can park the abstract side for a moment and think concretely about such a future. I want humanity to flourish, particularly during my lifetime. Credible people are currently ringing alarm bells about the potential destructive power of a technology we are actively developing, and so I think on balance it is better (at a minimum) to listen and be vigilant than to dismiss it. Better yet, I think we should engage with the arguments and see if there is anything we can do to reduce the risk of a potential bad outcome.
I wouldn't expect a non-resident to know without doing research. But I would expect them to do that research because opening a bank account in another country because it is not a standard thing to do. I don't think it's the job of an app store page to explain this.
Interesting, what about whole villages or modules of a town. Kickstarter, where if everyone commits a certain cost a whole new concept village or town is built somewhere.

Cities at sea may need something like this to get going.

A company wanting to build a plant next to a resource they need could acquire a town for its workforce.
Your infosec department doesn't know how to stage patches then and should be ashamed.
The real overhead is not safety code but inefficient design and unnecessary (and often detrimental to the user) features. The added 10% of safety checks is nothing compared to orders of magnitude of bloat modern software has. Moreover, a lot of C codebases have the same safety checks manually implemented into them, sacrificing performance in order to have less bugs. And when it comes to designing a modern C alternative, it's not just a performance/safety tradeoff, the are parts of C that are simply bad, like null-terminated strings, and are long due to be replaced with something better.
Sounds like a shit EDR that's constantly scanning every file
You have to compare the compact stored energy of liquid fuels after it gets converted to useful forward motion via a heavy, noisy, inefficient, costly to maintain and fuel engines.

It's basically a thought terminating cliche at this point.
That is a very exceptionalist view of the US. Imagine if a Chinese national said:

"China has financial laws. Enforcing those laws is not tyranny" to justify an incredible government over-reach into what any one in the world may publish, and how any one in the world may encrypt their digital financial transactions.

>>The simplest way to understand this is that money from crime is tracked so that investigators can follow it to the bad guys.

While there is abundant evidence that these laws impose massive costs on law-abiding citizens and companies, there is little to no evidence that they are effective at reducing crime:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/25741292.2020.1...

They do support the burgeoning regulatory compliance industry though.
I have an original Samsung edge with a cracked screen. I keep it because it has an ANT+ radio on it that actually works, and still use it for updating and tuning my old Quarq power meter on my bicycle. It also works seamlessly with the ODB II Bluetooth scanner for working on my car. I migrated to apple and overall I'm much less annoyed than I was with android, but their support for non typical hardware devices still lacks. Somewhat intentionally, I might add. The iPhone should 100% be able to communicate for example with that bluetooth device but it refuses to pair with it because that protocol is locked down.
Awesome service! Will include something I built recently called Bookee: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bookee-instant-boo...

I ran into similar challenges w/ bookmarks: namely, being able to navigate them differently / more visually. It doesn't have the date-centered approach, but I use it daily to access bookmarks quickly (Command+Shift+K), and search/browse through them visually :)
The classic representative democracy suffers from a problem that it promotes a-holes to power. Because they have no scrupules to lie and cheat they have to get and hold power. And this explain the fact that the percentage of a-holes in political elites is way bigger then in rest of populations. (btw this specific problem could be easily solved by replacing elections by some form of lottery)
What is relatively unknown about Swiss democracy is that on the referendums on national level are extremely rare, but a possibility of a referendum looms like a Damocles sword over political elites and prevent them from abusing their legislative power.
The same technology that makes realtime collaboration (e.g., figma) go is the technology that makes it possible to build high performance single-user apps that you can open on your phone and desktop at the same time (e.g., roam). It's collaboration whether it's two users or two devices from the same user.

The web will go multiplayer because it's the only way to make high performance UIs that are multi-device without locking. The multi-user realtime collaboration bit just comes along for the ride.
> Not network connected, so it can't spy on me.

In the age post-bluepwn and broadpwn, I'd assume otherwise. Especially considering that most OEM images come with admob, which even has ultrasonic RCEs that can be delivered by your TV's or radio's audio signal.

Opsec kinda mandates to destroy all broadcom chips :D
yep.

OP asked "Are all or most of these still in use today?" and I haven't heard "cornuto" in a long time.

It's been largely replaced (IMO) by the internationally acclaimed middle finger gesture.
It's a whole subfield, 'population ethics'. A lot of effective altruists revere Derik Parfit, a rather staid Oxford philosopher who effectively founded the subject.
Show HN: Learn any language by speaking to a Language Model
Hi all,

Last year I wanted to learn how to SPEAK greek. I did not really need to learn perfect grammar or know how to spell every word perfectly (fun fact: greek has three letters that are pronounced like "i"). Since private tutoring is expensive, dependent on the teacher's schedule, and 1-1 conversations don't scale, I started working on Quazel.

Quazel is a language learning website where you can talk in any* language with an AI(aka language model) in different scenes. You do so by using your device's microphone and hearing the AI's response through your speakers. There is a lot more to it, but I'll let you discover that for yourselves.

My team and I built this tool in a relatively short timeframe, so you should have no problem finding some bugs.

Ask: If any of you are currently trying to learn a new language, I would love to better tailor Quazel to your needs. Send me an email: philipp.hadjimina@berkeley.edu

Cheers
Philipp

*: Currently, we only support Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese (from Portugal), and Swedish.
Pointing out that you are spreading misinformation is "Proclamation of someone's idiocy"? Stop spreading factually incorrect information and people will stop calling you out on it.

>Usually the person making that claim is incapable of making any substantial argument, and that's their crutch at stopping any more criticism of their position.

In this case this is describing you tho, on top of you spreading clear cut misinformation.
>especially with broken voting systems that are not even remotely representative such as in the US, UK, and most of the world.

There are many flavours of representative democracy. It depend what is being represented. In the British system that’s constituencies. In proportional systems, that’s political parties. Neither are particularly more or less inherently legitimate IMHO.

Ultimately whether a democracy and its system is legitimate rests on a consensus of the consent of the people to that system. I think would clearly ludicrous to argue that the British people do not consent to their system of government.
300 dollar was like 10 years ago, now it's more like 3000.
The Apple M1 processor should be used as a benchmark. Not other Intel processors.
“Take Me, I'm Yours”: The Autobiography of the Sail Timesharing System (1991)
Your face is one factor of identification, the solution is to add more.

A one time password that is shown or spoken would ensure authentication.

This is a general comment, in reality you want to do a real risk analysis, i.e. understand what you want to protect against, exactly.
The Met Office says England has had its dryest July since 1935, and some parts of England the dryest on record [1]

Whilst we havent had wars, there have certainly been water conflicts even _within_ the UK. Consider Treweryn [2]. This was a town rich with Welsh culture and the Welsh language. It was flooded to become a reservoir to supply water to Liverpool in 1965. The decision to flood the town was made by UK Parliament, without gaining consent from Wales. The plans triggered mass opposition and protests, but they were ignored and the plan went ahead. The story of Treweryn acts as a beacon for the Welsh independence movement to this day [3]

Interestingly, the remains of the town became visible for the first time in decades a few years ago. Possibly a further sign of things getting dryer.

[1] https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/press-office/news/weat...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llyn_Celyn

[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cofiwch_Dryweryn
Many diesel trains and ships are using the engine as a generator to drive electric motors.

It provides a lot of flexibility.
Parallels Desktop 18 Released
One cannot imagine C++ failing to emulate Rust's borrow checker by the end of the decade, even if compiler support is required.

Has C++ ever failed to snarf a feature?
Any reason as to why this is not open source?
(I'm not saying, everyone should make everything OS, just interested to understand your reasoning behind the decision?)
This is basically a story of well connected people who used their connections and existing wealth to buy their way into a market. I truly despise this “method” of building a business, and I doubt it will lead to long term results.

These guys apparently had spent $160 million and according to the article, had “no product here.” It’s perplexing to me that they were then able to so easily raise hundreds of millions of dollars to buy competitors that did have a successful product.

And this was barely a year ago. Why do investors believe two failed founders will be able to grow and scale this business when they couldn’t grow and scale their own business?

I’ll personally make sure to avoid this company as I don’t at all respect their method for creating a viable “business.”
German retailer Netto to invest EUR 100m in solar roofs, heat pumps
I think the most common view within EA is that future people and matter the same amount as current people, conditional on actually existing. So if you think there is a 50% chance the world will be destroyed by 2200, then you would discount lives in 2200 by 50%.

I definitely agree with your second paragraph, however, and people who value current lives more than future lives will often come to different philosophical conclusions. It's interesting, however, that this frequently doesn't cash out into different beliefs about what we should do today. For example, I think the value of work on pandemic prevention or AI alignment does not depend on multiplying by zillions of potential future people: they're worth doing even just for people alive today.

Ex: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/KDjEogAqWNTdddF9g/... :

Let me rephrase this in a deliberately inflammatory way: if you're under ~50, unaligned AI might kill you and everyone you know. Not your great-great-(...)-great-grandchildren in the year 30,000 AD. Not even your children. You and everyone you know. As a pitch to get people to care about something, this is a pretty strong one.

But right now, a lot of EA discussion about this goes through an argument that starts with "did you know you might want to assign your descendants in the year 30,000 AD exactly equal moral value to yourself? Did you know that maybe you should care about their problems exactly as much as you care about global warming and other problems happening today?"