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HN gives me Reddit vibes nowadays. Same opinions, but with more text and less images.
Did you read the article? It starts:

“On Wednesday 10 August, the FIOD arrested a 29-year-old man in Amsterdam. He is suspected of involvement in concealing criminal financial flows and facilitating money laundering through the mixing of cryptocurrencies through the decentralised Ethereum mixing service Tornado Cash”

So the suspicion is that he didn’t only develop the tool, but was involved in its illegal use, too.
Which country are you coming from? We initially restricted to the US because we haven't done any translations / internationalization yet.
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Does anybody know if BlackRock will really hold as many Bitcoins as their users "buy"?

It surprises most people that even your stockbroker, who is supposed to hold "your" shares for you, does not do so. The trick they use is that, yes, initially they buy Tesla shares when "you" buy Tesla shares. But then they 1) mix them with all the Tesla share of other customers and 2) lend them out.

So, by some definition, they "have" the shares they owe you. But in reality, they don't. As they lent them out. And the borrowers sell them to some other "shareholder". So now both, you and the other shareholder think they own the same share in Tesla.

If you combine all the gold people think they own, you end up with an amount of gold that is 100x greater than all gold in existence.

I wonder if we will see the same with Bitcoin?
Hard to pursue the perpetrator does not justify pursuing someone else.
Maintaining systems often takes more skill and understanding than building new ones.

That old Oracle database might be old but the business is running on it so it has a lot of importance to the organization. A new project might fall through before it is completed and the people on it would be the first to be laid off because there is nothing for them to do.
Yeah, I've seen it with finance where someone doesn't know how to use Excel or basic finance concepts, but in general they could be taught within a reasonable timeframe. Programming takes many years to become productive. An inexperienced programmer in a code-base is a net negative on the organization. Teaching someone programming on the job is pretty much a non-starter
No, it's a GUI application. There are ways of making the GUI parts cross platform, like webview and such. But the GUI parts in this application are native to the OS. "Only" the core functionality is shared between platforms.

This is also something I have been battling with in the past. All the cross GUI platforms have their quirks and problems and varying OS dependencies you are then married to. Since this is my own personal project, I decided cut the knot differently and just do the GUI parts native.

So far, I have found it be incredibly liberating. Instead of trying to instinctively shoe-horn functionality into something that will fit on all platforms, the code itself becomes much clearer when all the really "abstract" or "logic" code is completely separate from the platform code.

This is of course best practice anyway, but the decision to split this way made separation incredibly obvious. When the "logic" parts code cannot communicate with OS resources, you aren't tempted to put stuff where it doesn't belong.
I swear it must be a unique to the individual. I've been running for a few years now and have completed a few half marathons (still working to get to the full) and I have never once felt any sort of "high".
Yes there are. For now from a regulatory standpoint validating the users identity and their proof of residing in the USA is enough to comply with KYC/AML standpoint
Is it really surprising to you why he didn't respond well to that? I would not be happy if someone said to me what you said to him.
>Burning more energy generates more heat. An icepack on the side of your head doesn't solve the problem; at some point your brain (and the rest of the inside of your head) will cook, which is fatal.

I think they sell a fancy cooling device using water cooling on NewEgg that solves that problem. It has some wild lights though.
I doubt the GP is taking offense to the term influencer.

I'm also disappointed influencers exist (in their current social media state, anyway), but I'm glad we have a term for it. I don't especially care which term we use.
>Presumably is it instead the expectation that some of the food is taken home.

I'd imagine that it might differ based on where you are. Remember that the US is pretty close in size to the entirety of Western Europe. There are a lot of different places here.
This seems to be the gist of the response you've linked:

> mobile searches are the largest category of searches, and local searches are the largest category of searches within mobile. Instead our local search content is a combination of our own indexes in partnership with Apple, TripAdvisor, and others.

This suggests Bing isn't used for local searches, but it is still used for mobile and desktop searches that aren't local. If I am searching for a tech problem or how to tie a knot or recipes or the history of hair metal, I'm getting Bing results wrapped in DDG. Is that inaccurate? Is Bing still used for searches that aren't local searches?
If you wait for projects to get handed down to you by your manager then you'll always end up with work that no one else wants to do. If you want better projects, go find them. Or better yet, start them.
There are definitely a number of installations where this could be useful. My favorite example is Antelope Valley in Southern CA, where the turbines stretch out as far as the eye can see. The scale is absurd. 3288 turbines are there, according to https://eros.usgs.gov/media-gallery/earthshot/wind

Streetview: https://www.google.com/maps/@35.0385954,-118.2567896,3a,75y,...
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The percentage of coal electricity is slightly falling globally.

In non-percentage terms it's still rising as electricity demand rises, particularly in China.

This (non percentage) rise is forecast to peak around 2028 in China (and therefore the rest of the world) currently.
I have this bug on reddit where it keeps enabling nsfw content. I disable it then next day it's re-enabled.
I recently read a long essay by Stephen Wolfram in which he repeatedly suggested liquid-based computation as one possible way forward from current solid 3D substrates.
We have launched web app that is in beta and actually have windows and Mac(M1) apps that just not published yet.
The narrative for 90% is “number go up.” Institutional is good if it make number go up. Institutions are bad if they regulate or do anything that make number not go up.
It has been done earlier; multiple times, by every serious manufacturer. :-]

The real difficulty lies in:

1) Noise in the on-turbine wind speed and direction measurements and/or robustly (see point #2) operating LIDAR or met masts in front of the farm to try to avoid said measurement noise.

2) Actually arriving at a robust, operational in real-world conditions, fully closed-loop control system. A commercial wind farm has to operate 24/7 for 25 years without a bunch of engineers and scientists babysitting it, which is what is likely to end up happening if the cool control system relies on offline simulation results, topographical data, and/or human-supervised calibration & tuning.

It's not all doom and gloom: Ongoing improvements in sensor price/quality will probably make these kind of global control systems more and more practically feasible in the future.
Hey HN, supabase ceo here. The series B was announced earlier this year on Techcrunch, so this article is a bit more of a deep-dive into the round and how we'll use the funds.

I'm repeating the same comment from earlier - I want to give a big shout-out to the HN crowd. You have been instrumental in our growth - both from a traction perspective, but even more so for product development.

From our initial launch 2 years ago[0], where everyone told us we need auth, to our Auth[1], Storage[2], Functions[3], and GraphQL[4] launches. You are always giving great (and usually tough!) feedback which helps guide the team and product direction.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23319901

[1] Auth: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24072051

[2] Storage: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26635184

[3] Functions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30868849

[4] GraphQL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30846006
> On the other end, I’m also surprised by the “one-year” thing: most of my clothes are more than five-year-old and they are fine.

Because these are the minority of clothes despite being used by the majority of people in the example I gave, changing the timeframe doesn't really change the average. Changing the example to use a 5 year timeframe, for instance, only changes the average to 4.92.

> not 20% of the population

Right, and it also ought to be less than 80% that buys clothes no more often than once per year or per 5 years. Both extremes are exaggerated to not have to insert more tiers than needed into the example.
If you look at the paper it's actually a collaboration between MIT researchers, Caltech researchers, a Spanish Siemens groups, and an Indian power company.

MIT just has a more effective marketing division, it seems. Here's the Caltech press release for comparison.

https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/tweaking-turbine-angles-s...

> "Collectively, wind farms generate about 380 billion kilowatt-hours each year in the United States. If every U.S. wind farm were to adopt the new strategy and see efficiency increases similar to those found in the new study, it would be equivalent to adding hundreds of new turbines capable of powering hundreds of thousands of homes to the nation's power grid, says Caltech's John O. Dabiri (MS '03, PhD '05), the Centennial Professor of Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering, and senior author of a paper on the project that was published by the journal Nature Energy on August 11."
Professional C++ 5ed is a good one covers c++17 and c++20.

I also bought the c++-core-guidelines book that is better organized than the website.
Does that Boulder group still meet? I used to go to the ones at Pivotal Labs years ago.
Seeking actual code that you made is totally reasonable for the realm we're in. It's literally what you're being hired for.

1. set up a good GitHub (or other) profile; convince potential employers to look at that rather than test you (I've done this - it can work)
2. if a company still insists you "do the test", then either your GH is too sparse (spruce it up!) or they're full of shit - but you have another data point to work with
3. even the most trivial "toy project" test could be 1 hr for one person and 6hr for another, so what's unreasonable for you may be totally reasonable for the level they're aiming at
1. Reasonable disagreements on the definition of “simplicity”.

2. Neither option is perfect, some people are victims of the bad examples of that, and the here are cases where people have made the wrong decisions. Three blind men and the elephant

3. Normal human emotions in response to change.
Dunning-Kruger has a substantial effect over Linux users, it seems. I say that as a Linux fanboy. You are 100% correct. Linux (especially certain distros) is not secure by default. Especially for as long as the user-friendly distros aim to minimize configuration, without harming convenience. Which is to say always.
The jira command has built in help, so 'jira help' will show all available commands and 'jira help <command>' will give help about each command.

The bit I struggled with a bit was the template system, but once you have your templates set up you don't have to touch them again (unless things change on the Jira side). There's a section in the README about working with templates.

I set up some aliases to make things easier too, for example to see what needs to be worked on I have an alias 'sprint' for:

jira ls -q "sprint='$JIRA_SPRINT' and status in ('In Progress', 'Peer Review', 'To Do')" | sort -k 2
I'm currently considering c++ for a terminal emulator project. I explored rust first, but some crucial libraries don't have rust port or have a rust port, but with bugs.

I don't have the energy to resolve these issues myself. I guess at least my first version will be in c++.
I agree. It's also an ISO standard that IMPO, will be in use for the next 50 to 100 years. Modern C++ is very safe and very fast and very mature.
> It is less exclusionary than proof of work

It is not as permissionless as PoW. Anybody can mine a GPU mineable coin, but to stake you need to find existing owners willing to sell you enough coins to stake with.

This reflects the fact that PoW is also a distribution method in addition to a consensus method, while PoS is only the latter.
Definitely thinking about proposing this in my family.
... there was that time I had a 3-machine Hadoop cluster at home that was highly effective for the graph processing I was doing.
yes. but in that case, maybe also voting with "lawyer getting you a bag"
Government is run by a collection of humans. Why do you give them the benefit of the doubt when you do not give such benefit to the commoner? I can understand giving bother or neither the benefit of the doubt but to pick one seems capricious. Perhaps it is you that is pontificating from safety.
I think Tá/Níl were used (after some debate) as Yes/No on the Irish-language ballot papers in various recent constitutional referenda in Ireland.

(Gaelic in Scotland does not have the same official status as Irish in Ireland or Welsh in Wales, so the Scottish independence referendum ballots were only in English.)
NO Lastpass, we use it at my company and it is terrible, the UX is a nightmare.
Blackrock seeks exit liquidity by building private trust is how I read this. Just like when they were encouraging people to buy Chinese real estate....when they were trying to exit before the big correction. Chinese real estate is down to something like 50% in property value and its not done yet as its banking sector is also under water. Just fyi, I don't see this as a positive signal but those who do can happily take the other side of the position.
There's a bunch of maths around Betz' law that dictates how the efficiency works, but it turns out that the theoretically optimal structure is a single blade: http://www.wind-works.org/cms/index.php?id=543

For mechanical engineering reasons, mostly to do with evening out the load at the point of blade attachment, the industry has mostly converged on three.

This is also linked to tip speed ratio: http://www.reuk.co.uk/wordpress/wind/wind-turbine-tip-speed-... ; the tip speed is usually several times faster than the wind speed.

Remember that the blades are aerofoils, effectively wings. They don't need to touch all the air in their swept area, their effect is given by redirecting the flow of the whole stream of air.

Casings are only useful for small turbines operating at high pressures, where the energy lost to spilling over the tip of the blade would be high.
How is autopilot a scam? I use it all the time and it works great.
> ve already written a tool for generating flame graphs of Bash scripts so stay tuned.

I know I'm focusing on the wrong thing, but this is cool
I don't mind doing home assignments as long as they're interesting. Make learn about some technology or some design pattern or whatever. Something that improves my skill. If I am going to dedicate some of my own time to a project, at least, push my skills to the limit and "help me" grow.

I refuse to do basic projects that make me learn nothing and feel like a wasting of time. Most of the time if the assignment is "not interesting" the future offer would be lower than I expect and the daily job is going to be boring.

I think that my point of view is going to be unique here, maybe is because I need a "push" to improve my skills (I'd rather not to be fair), but although I have been rejected from some processes after a long and hard assignment, I have learn something and I'm happy (almost grateful) about that.
So funny article, I like how the authors refused to use psy* words in it preferring the neuro* words. But I have not seen any understanding about how a neurophysiology works. The article does not even have a column word!
> It's even worse if they frame the mixer as financial institution

Where do they?
That's interesting from the satellite view, seeing the various installations next to each other and various approaches to layout. Some lined up tight, some spaced out, some perfectly straight lines, some meandering a bit.
This is such a good anecdote - the point of gifts is that you sometimes know your people better than they do themselves. You get them something to improve their lives in a way that they might not be aware of.

Referring to the example in the article - That argyle sweater from the aunt. Maybe the aunt doesn't think you need a new iPod. Maybe she wants the girls at your school to think you have an actual healthy family looking out for you.
I think that's a fair perspective, though I also think it's hard to know what has value and we need to invest in high risk high reward projects in addition to those pushing for incremental progress. When I think about designing a nation's scientific portfolio, It's not obvious to me what we pare back on without the benefit of hindsight.
A private key is a 256 bit integer.

> If someone built something that said "Launder your [256 bit integers] here" and it took in a bunch of [256 bit integers], and then [encrypted] it sans fees to hide where it came from... they'd say it was [256 bit integer] laundering and arrest the person.

When you compare this to encrypting 256 bit integers, text, or E2EE chat protocols, the shock is easier to understand. People should not be treated as a criminal for building Matrix E2EE protocol that enables privacy, they should not be treated as criminal for building Tornado Cash protocol that enables privacy.
>So, by some definition, they "have" the shares they owe you. But in reality, they don't. As they lent them out. And the lenders sell them to some other "shareholder". So now both, you and the other shareholder think they own the same share in Tesla.

Pardon, what?
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>How's the housing market in Indiana?

Well... ya know. Things have been weird lately.

My wife and I bought 20 months ago with me making 39k and her making upper 40k. We bought this house with zero down at 170k and it's now estimated at 240-250k per the mortgage company and Zillow. We have about 1200sqft on the ground floor then about 1200 in the basement with a little over half of an acre, we're 30 minutes outside of Indy. House is 1960s.

A new construction house in Plainfield, immediately adjacent to Indy, you get 2 bed, 2 bath, 2 car garage, basically no yard with the house at 1504 sqft is starting at 290k right now and can get a 3 bed with similar sqft for closer to 300k. If you picked the neighborhood well, and were ok with not having the latest and greatest features, a single person could still probably pull a mortgage in a safer neighborhood without issue.

>somewhere around 40k ~ 50k? (which is what high school teachers in the area seem to earn

So this varies wildly. My wife was getting the higher end of that at the rural school she was teaching at, she's moved one school district over and took a considerable pay bump - mind you she has like 12~ years of experience, and once she finishes her masters she'll get a 4-5k pay bump at her next (annual) contract renewal automatically.
The greater the threat which a community represents to the vested control hierarchy, the more intensely it becomes infiltrated and coopted. This is an Iron Law.
For now it is actually a good thing.

But it should probably be looked into the moment the Chrome monopoly is dealt with.
Maintaining Relationships
It's an old article, and it's been discussed before, but understandings, languages, and environments change, so maybe it's worth revisiting.
> MySQL is unfairly treated because of Oracle acquisition

That, and the history of doing things “wrong” for the sake of performance, and the community banging on about how those of us caring about the data were just being picky¹²³, from long before Oracle came along. myISAM was the default for far too long.

> MySQL 8 with MyRocks engine

For those concerned about Oracle, there is of course MariaDB which also supports MyRocks.

I'm not sure what the current state of play is, but for a while at least MySQL was slower moving than MariaDB, getting CTE support (in production ready releases) a couple of years later for example.

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[1] just implement FKs in your own code!

[2] why is 2005-02-31 being sent to the database anyway, why should it check for valid dates?!

[3] … you postgres/sql-server/other people are just expecting things the application should deal with, look how fast this is at bulk inserts compared to your “properly”!
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These problems seem to be fixable either by judges themselves or by lawmakers who presumably have the power to pass laws that speed up the legal system.

Lawyer: "judge, i need more time for an affidavit, why dont you give me 4 more months"

Judge: "gtfo. judgment is for the prepared party"
Thank you for a great product - that’s all :)
I almost exclusively use C++ for my projects. Especially modern C++. When it makes sense(especially for dev tools), I use Python since for those I'm not so worried about distribution and long-term robustness.

Anyway here they are:

Qt desktop app written in C++:https://github.com/thebigG/Tasker

Simple GPIO front-end for linux GPIO driver(could definitely use some improvement) written in C++ and uses boost:https://github.com/thebigG/simple_gpio

WebApp I JUST started working on(This will be a frontend for a YOCTO/FPGA project I'm working on; guitar pedals), and yes it uses good old C++ and runs on the browser:

https://github.com/thebigG/wPedals

And while I'm at it, might as well mention my custom plugins for Godot Game Engine(C++):https://github.com/thebigG/godot-3.x-modules

I have found that C++ is the best compromise for me between performance and elegance ifI do say so myself.
The grass _is not greener_ on the other side of the fence, this I can assure you.

My take is, 25 years ago, people were writing software that _had to work_. We weren't writing stuff for "non essential" smartphones and social media networks. Nowadays, most node packages could care less if it crashes 1-15% of the time because they're just displaying kitten and instagram selfies anyway.

I'm in an industry that _needs_ exactness, and a huge swath of frameworks are insufficient; Poor handling of input verification, no edge case detection written, no unit tests, no branch coverage even if tests are written, and worse, just poor code sanitation in general: no formatter, no consistent architecture, no explanation of operating theory, no gpg signatures. These basic practices that were commonplace were something to be proud of and display of your professionalism, something that's been lost.

Call me old. I'm going to go yell at the kids on my lawn now.
I don’t think great minds engage in such small battles.
It's a matter of time to not fight over some negligible matter of principle. time is limited for us all and is way too valuable to be wasted for such petty pursuits.