skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just give them some time, this happens every 3 years.
Can anyone explain why Tornado cash dev was arrested but Zcash has been operating for years?
Financial privacy is definitely a right. The question is whether that right is respected by any given institution. Since it is against the interests of existing institutions to do so, they will not unless compelled by a greater force. Cryptography allows individuals to use the force of mathematical law, superior to all other law, to enforce their privacy rights .

(Tornado cash, like most mixers, leaves too many loopholes in its contract to be proof against a concerted attack in typical practical applications - they usually leak too much partial information.)
"Some will ... arrest anyone who's ever donated to Planned Parenthood"

This is a hysterical prediction.
>What kind of people adopt a pet, and then release it into the wild?

I have a friend who just acquired a ball python because the frat house behind her left the snake tank, with the snake inside it, out with the trash can. Many people have no regard for animals and even less regard for their impact on the world around them.
in my last company, the under performing engineers were moved to work with legacy stuff. greenfield projects were given to senior engineers.

i think management put higher priority in the new project and needed more experienced engineers to get that going as fast as possible
Which is good news, because in most of the world, renewables are the cheapest source and getting cheaper. And if cheapness can get Americans off coal, it should work for everyone else.
So that you can avoid doing the bulk of the tedious crud.
Two things: One, if you don't like the work assigned to you by a job, it's time to find a new job. There's no other way! As long as you fill that role, you'll be working at the behest of your employer, and although you can try, changing the distribution of work you get is ultimately beyond your control.

Second, working on legacy codebases is one of the most challenging things you can do as a SWE, you're in a maze where the walls are Chesterton's fence. I just left a legacy codebase to write a new app in NodeJS. Granted, it was a lot of work to get up to speed on the ecosystem and carefully decide how to set things up, but the CI is blazingly fast, and the complexity of the same feature in the new codebase might be 10x less, at least for the beginning. For example, in the legacy codebase, adding pagination to a route is a PR that touches 25-30 files. Yes, there are anti-patterns involved, but for the new app, and it's in Haskell, that same functionality can be done in a greenfield project much more effectively.

Of course, everyone wants to work on greenfield projects, make the architectural decisions, and build software without the constraint of past decisions weighing us down, but adding features to and improving legacy systems, IMO, is just as valid of a skill. Good luck navigating this.
Another technocrat who wants to improve human life by literally de-humanizing it. Hey let’s upload and outsource how we feel about each other!

It never, ever works.

It reminds me of the trope of monsters that ravenously pursue human flesh in order to feel human, and fail fail fail (see Sandman’s Corinthian for the latest incarnation of that).

Reputation is a complex social phenomenon. What this post recommends is some sort of online reputation-related game that over time everyone would be forced to play. No thank you.
I think the point GP was trying to make is, the 'good old days' when there was no misinformation was when it was still possible to manufacture consent without your rivals interfering. The current wave of competing worldviews is... one could say difficult to assimilate... but if people evolve better bullshit filters as a result, we'll probably be better off than when we were being fed smaller amounts of bullshit from only one entity at a time.

Which doesn't help your family and their weak bullshit filters, of course, and my condolances for their situation - if I knew how to speed up developing such a filter, I'd share it.

Edit: Didn't realise GP wasn't addressing you, my comment on your family was meant for someone else - how easy it is to be confused by online discussion even without bad intentions.
I don't think those two narratives are really conflicting.

Governments can manipulate money and they can't do that with bitcoin because they have no control over the supply. At the same time for the Bitcoin to be significant enough for it to have any impact on governments and money system it needs to adopted as widely as possible so institutuonal adoption is good.

Also the best thing about bitcoin for me is that it doesn't depend on narrative because it survived all narratives and thrives unhindered by their content and validity or the lack thereof.
I wonder what the non-recursive redesign would look like, without using the simulate-recursion-via-callstack translation technique.

I slept on it and the solution still isn't clear to me.

As an aside: It'd be nice if the go unit tests logged an indication of whether or not the ./matchC exec tests ran.
Also check out Unfa and his friends on YouTube. They do lots of live jams using latest new Linux Audio software (which may not always be very stable, but that's half the fun)

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAYKj_peyESIMDp5LtHlH2A
"The ability to play chess is the sign of a gentleman. The ability to play chess well is the sign of a wasted life."
Paul Morphy
Even now it’s still the most guaranteed to work on all systems and platforms, even if very space inefficient.
If you think the government doesnt have the power to knock on your door and take away your bitcoin you are delusional.
Someone had already talked about the draft-based variants, so I was considering the non-draft case, mostly because sports teams where I live don't have a draft system.

I have read up on draft systems, and while I basically get the mechanics of how they work, I don't have a good feel for how getting (or missing) your pick at a particular stage of the draft plays out.
cause it makes money
Games and game engine - C++ with embedded Lua using Bazel as a build system
I remember the hullabaloo around this patent and using GIFs at the time.

But nothing ever came of it, did it? People just ignored the patent and carried on as normal as far as I can tell.
So, we arrest developers of metasploit and Tor?
That has been the main narrative and delusion of the majority of Bitcoin and Ethereum maximalists. 'Bitcoin will be the world reserve currency', 'Bitcoin is a great hedge against inflation', 'It's the future of money', 'Ethereum will be used for everything', 'Smart contracts for DeFi, Healthcare, Law, etc will be the future', etc.

Hence this maximalism, is what infuriates the hard anti-crypto folks for years who are praying for the 'complete and total collapse of all cryptocurrencies' and suggesting 'All of it should die in a fire' and a 'Total ban on everyone using them'. We have heard the same calls for this for more than a decade, yet it's 2022 and they are still here, which tells me that the anti-crypto folks are also under their own delusion and crypto is not going away that easily.

A more realistic outcome of what will happen to crypto rests all on the regulations, which many companies have been waiting for before re-entering again into using them. This is the reason why it won't 'just die in a fire' easily or that it won't 'take over the current system'. The regulators are not after Bitcoin, Ethereum, etc. but are after the truly decentralized privacy coins, privacy tools, etc to be banned from exchanges, de-listed, contract addresses blacklisted etc.

The reality is the two camps that will be disappointed are the absolutist pro-crypto folks and the absolutist anti-crypto folks as both of their utopian goals are unrealistic. With regulations around the corner, this makes sure that customers like Stripe, MoneyGram, etc hand picks cryptocurrencies that work for their use case, especially the ISO 20020 compliant cryptos.

Like it or not, crypto regulation and compliance is coming and that will allow cryptocurrencies and projects to survive and at the same time it will weed out the useless meme projects.
I am a developer who has never worked on C++ but want to get into it full time, I did C in college, Java for the first few years in my career then Python and now exclusively Go.

When I pick up new languages and I did that for a bit with Rust, I read a bit then code a bit and found https://github.com/rust-lang/rustlings very helpful. Is there an equivalent for C++? What would be the top resource to get started on modern C++? Thanks in advance.
but not drag and drop most notably
> unimportant legacy projects

are they really unimportant? My goto question to find out how important something is: what happens if we turn it off?

Usually the answer is "haha please do not".

Ask the same question about "new projects that involve new tech stacks". Then proceed to the next step of the OODA loop.
The US pays about 5x per health service used compared to the OECD. Every reduction in spend would result in massive job losses in overhead that keep our house of cards from collapsing.
Honestly reading this, fashion sounds exhausting. I just buy the same basic single color shirt in 5 colors from Amazon. They cost ~$15 each. 2 pairs of jeans, a single button down and a few polo shirts and I am set for years.
I've been wondering why we don't fabricate huge arrays or stacks of miniature versions of these. The voltage requirements should go down as the size decreases, right? Does some other aspect not scale well?
This is more a criticism of operators than StatefulSets. The promise of operators is easier automated management of your resources. If the operator can't do basic things like resizing disks, it's flawed and needs to be fixed.

However, I've always been suspicious of operators, so maybe my bias is leaking here. Kubernetes is already a level of abstraction and adding another seems risky and unnecessary.
This. Legacy is where revenue is generated.
Not OP, but I've been doing it for a few years. Can't say I've ever seen an issue - with Prometheus Operator, which the article mentions, as few times as well
What joke?
Hmm. If I asked the following (forgive my spelling/grammar, it's be a while since I've studied Scottish Gaelic, so I've probably fecked up the mutations and question particle, I've put what I intend it to mean in English)

> Am bidh thu sgìth? Are you tired? (regularly)

Would you answer "Bidh", "Tha", or "Tha, bidh mi sgìth"?
Renewables weren't an option in those days. They've only recently started to become viable, and are not really viable at scale until the energy storage solution can also be solved at a combined cost equivalent to coal or nuclear. I do think it will get there, but it's not fair to look back at the last 70 years and say why didn't we do more renewables.
Yes, like computers, the internet, electric trains. Computers used to take up a room and compute a few thousand cycles per second. Now they can fit in our pockets and compute billions of cycles per second.

As hardware accelerated and parallel ZK proving technology increases, the amount of users and applications built on this technology can also increase. This is the opposite of Proof of Work, where more efficient mining rigs and higher hash rates will not lead to more network throughput or activity.
I find the phone screens distracting my view with their light to be pretty annoying at a live show. I try not to be too judgemental as I typically will record about 15 seconds of a band that I'm seeing to send to my son and someone else in the crowd could be doing the same thing. People have become content creators for better or worse.

Maybe there could be a "concert" mode on your phone that turns down brightness to a low percentage and cuts the view down to a quarter of your screen.
I would hardly call it immoral. If the owners are curious about the ultimate fate of the rabbit, they could simply ask before returning.
asdf is such an amazing piece of work. Reading this post I can see why the quality is so high. Amazing job.
Excel is pretty dang cool
Better option - uBlock Orgin https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/ - saves me 100's of megabytes of data every day. I am sure it will also soon block ads on the streaming platforms too (provided you don't use Chrome or stream through apps).
OP doesn't want to learn new stacks all the time, they simply want a change for a while. One new stack maybe. But that's what happens when you're too good at what you're doing. No I'm not suggesting they should suddenly suck, but the managers will mostly think at the products - do I want somebody less capable taking over this legacy life-saving component? The only way out is to teach somebody else in the intricacies of those old parts, while getting a chance at some new stuff. This needs management commitment and one must make a solid case in front of them. If they realize that you might be thinking to change jobs out of frustration (no threats please), I'm sure they will make the mix possible.
> Alternate gravity theories

Are not what I'm asking about here. I know Kroupa pushes them, but that's not the part of Kroupa's work that I'm asking about.

> Kroupa is still trying to explain the rotational differences between observation and "normal" Newtonian/Einstein gravity.

Not in the specific item I'm asking about. In that specific item, he's not talking about any alternative theories of gravity at all. He's pointing out what he claims is a conflict between the predictions of the dark matter hypothesis and actual observations. I've already explained what a counter argument to that would look like. Do you have one?
I don't find effectively forcing Safari on users to be a good thing. Even if it takes some market share away from Chrome, it just makes a new platform specific monopoly, and arguably a worse one with less pressure to change.

As a web developer iOS is the most infuriating platform at the moment for me. There are some random nonstandard features.
Just this last month I had an issue with ios "low power mode" causing webkit to throttle all browser animation frame requests by half, with no way to override or even check if it is on. There are open complaints and issues about this going back years but nobody can change it without Apple's blessing, which they don't give, so it affects every browser on iOS with no recourse.

I have had tons of iphone browser specific issues and I am pretty sure their platform monopoly is a big part of why they go ages without being addressed. If there was real competition on the ios browser market they might push each other to do better by comparison.
Money laundering laws in the U.S. require some other crime to be involved.
A perfect understanding of DNS is like having a Ph.D. Not having to scramble and read random blog posts on the spot to figure out the DNS record you configured yourself that's causing a subdomain to resolve is like graduating primary school.
One thing to recognize is that HN has had an influx of new users that are pretty right wing, at times using veiled far right speech. Years ago, it was filled with people who had stock very left wing (at times ridiculous) views that I wouldn't call "counter-culture" either. I only know this because I've had to report many of them.

My hypothesis is that each of these groups come here after being kicked out or pushed out of wherever they usually hang out. The ones that remain on HN after a period of time are the ones that dang doesn't wear out via moderation or haven't been outright banned. They eventually learn to be good HN members and then stay.
It's hard to be definitive, but I can see how if you were A/B testing then all changes would have indicated improvements of all KPIs, yet as a whole cumulatively over long term they led to downfall. It just might not be possible to glean ultimate long term human-nature's response from simple week-over-week active users count. Kind of like falling for local maxima and then falling to global low.
For laptops, maybe. I just built a desktop with a 5900X and a 6900XT, expecting to not be able to get my hands on an MSRP 7000-series CPU or GPU for a long while after their release. Not to mention the shortage of DDR5.

Plus, with the affordable gaming PC market being behind by about 2 years now thanks to lockdowns, video game developers are probably expecting to release their games with lower spec requirements than they otherwise would have if everything continued on pace as usual.
> I have never seen a license or formal certificate that means anything useful.

They are useful in that they at least convey a tiny bare minimum level of skill--something many, many software engineering candidates lack. Passing the bar exam for lawyers and the medical board exam for doctors signals at least some minimal knowledge and qualification. They don't tell you the professional's whole story, but enough to allow you to skip the "Where is the patient's knee?" interview questions.

Software desperately need at least some "barest minimum" gate that lets interviewers at least skip the Fizzbuzz questions.
...and the USD is used for far more illicit transactions than any other exchange medium. This will predictably change as privacy technologies become more widely adopted. For example, transactions on the Monero network have been growing at an exponential rate for several years.
I used to wonder what a conservative intellectual would look like, since there seem to be a dearth of them and Peter Thiel and Jordan Peterson come pretty close.

The thing I can’t get my head around is one, the extremist thinking (Europe defending into Sharia law doesn’t seem like it’s in the top ten list of possible futures). And I just can’t get past the sort of chaotic anger. “Imperialism was good actually” is a bold take.
I see a lot of articles that quote the cost for hacking a product or service. I feel like these type of titles undermine the effort that took place. Surely the lab Wouters used had tools and processes that aren't cheap, nor would you consider his expertise inexpensive.

I'm not impressed by a PCB board being cheap. Does anyone else feel this way about similar headlines?
I bought a 2016 Model S with the promise from Tesla that it would eventually be fully self-driving. Eventually they renamed "auto-pilot" to "auto-steer" with no mea culpa. Works well enough for what it is, but they used a basket of lies to sell the car.
The comic proves the parent's point. Drugging and hitting people with a wrench (i.e. torturing) to extract information is exactly what police states do.
Or his IT people said "no third party clients" as a blanket rule.
> if they cannot buy them back, the lender cannot get them back

In the history of post-Securities Act American stock lending, I don't think this has once happened for a public stock. The lender's broker is entitled to buy the stock in the open market at any price (e.g. [1]) and stick the bill to the borrower's broker. The borrower's broker will chase the borrower. But the broker is immediately responsible.

For every share in oversupply there is someone naturally short. Between them and the market are layers of collateral and covenant, from the broker to the borrower to their clearing broker, from the clearinghouse to the banks mutualizing it.

[1] https://www.contractscounsel.com/t/us/securities-loan-agreem... § 13.1(a)
I'm trying out supabase db & auth for a side project and I'm very impressed so far.

I would love to have a usage-based pricing tier, as once I'm live I doubt I'll have enough users to merit $25/mo but I would still like to pay for daily backups etc
Sounds like you and I wouldn’t get along. :P

The joy of synchronous communication is that it is also asynchronous. If you didn’t get my Teams message at the time - you will after!

Email offers no benefits I can see compared to instant messaging. Plus, you can always turn off notifications. I also don’t need to make filters to drown out the massive amount of sheer noise and unrelated garbage.

When someone sends me a direct message on Teams, I know that’s a real person, asking for me directly.

I have never had a Teams notification, at my current workplace of 3+ years - sent to me by a robot. Imagine that!

In contrast - least 90% of the email sent to ‘me’ from within my company is not from a real person. I’d say 98% of email - not exaggerating whatsoever - is completely unrelated to me, or effectively ‘corporate spam’.

What benefit does email provide above a service like Teams, and how does it curtail all of the above issues?

By requesting people use email exclusively to reach you; you’re choosing to inconvenience me, and many others - because you’ve refused to move on to the next logical step in communicating with your coworkers. You’re forcing me to use a service to communicate with others that is ineffective at best - frustrating at hell at worst.

It appears entitled, and; frankly, you’re the type of person I’d hate working with because of it.

An email sent to me is a fish in a bucket of mostly fake fish.

An IM sent to me is a direct message, sent by a human; specially to me - and if I don’t see it when it’s sent to me - I can still see it later.
What do you think the purpose of this code is?

There are people operating on blockchains in which transaction parameters are a matter of public record who:
1. May not want individual amounts and recipients to be publicly inspectable.
2. And are not criminals.

It may not be a right, but Tornado Cash is absolutely a tool to increase privacy. It is not solely for criminals to liquidate blockchain assets.
Author Salman Rushdie attacked on lecture stage in New York
I’ve recently started using node for a new client and it’s been a horrible experience. I’ve found bugs in PGP implementations. Bugs in SSH implementations. And bugs in certificate handling for TLS too.

It really doesn’t feel like the ecosystem is ready for prime time yet, yet here we are…
https://archive.ph/eEl3s
> your tolerance for meaninglessness decreases

I think part of what keeps me locked on to the hedonistic treadmill is that a lot of other people (including my partner) don't like who I am when I'm trying to stay off it. I tend to get more intense about a lot of things most folks don't care about.

It's funny, out of my whole family & friend circle I'm probably doing the most damage to myself via self medication, but when I try to get serious about things that matter and take a break from intoxicants, I end up doing just as much damage or more by putting my relationships through pointless trials of fire.

But I know what you mean about meaning. When it's good, it's really good and worth every bit of seeking.

It's unfortunate there are so many pitfalls to dodge for so many of us.
i wish HN would just adopt a subset of markdown (eg minus headers and other attention grabby tricks) - its such a standard at this point
This whole situation gives crypto more utility/validity. Arresting open source devs for such a simple smart contract? Insane!
As long as it uses NAND they are fine
So in the end instead of a new form of money that’s separate from central backs what we get is a… hollow stock. It’s a stock in nothing but the hype about the stock. Once the hype wears off then what?
> Well, when you know one of the words in a two word initialism, I suspect it helps the search engine quite a bit.

"Most working engineers don’t even bother with a PE."

Engineer is right there, no need for you know the E of PE is for engineer.

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=working+engineers+PE

https://search.brave.com/search?q=working+engineer+PE

https://www.google.com/search?q=working+engineer+PE

You are giving off troll vibes. Maybe you are in the wrong forum? HN has been called all sorts of things but never a "general public" forum. Next time, just ask if you don't know - no shame in that.
People are wary of these God-complex "elites" and their entourage of sociopaths wherever they go. It doesn't matter if it's them getting into Bitcoin or them getting into soup kitchens. The end result is always bad for society at large.