skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The frontend started blocking OFAC-sanctioned addresses earlier this year.

Do you think this logic should also apply to encrypted messaging apps? If you're a contributor to Matrix, or another open source FOSS tool, and you hear reports that criminals are using it (because criminals are a subset of the human population), should you be legally required to take all steps to backdoor it?
Alternatively people avoid using the feature because it is too slow, so it appears not to matter.
In a self-contained fantasy economy with no attachment points to the real world, this might be compelling. In practice, the rest of the economy, society, etc. doesn't operate in a self-sovereign way, and neither do you.

It's not much different than the problem of micronations[1]. Exciting as they are for D&Ders of a sort, they aren't real nations for the simple reason that they lack a defining feature of a nation (among others): that everyone else think they're a nation.

Cryptocurrency is perhaps not as extreme; a reasonably large number of people appear to be persuaded that units of cryptocurrency are a real asset, and some begrudging convertibility into other kinds of assets (a defining feature of a currency) does exist. Still, it suffers from a similar problem, in kind if not in degree.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micronation
I'm currently over 2 months and 4 emails into a battle to get a tiny amount of compensation for a train delay in the UK. Similar situation, it's not about the money, it's the principle.
Direct democracy would allow to discuss and debate ideas for their own sake rather than choosing one of a very few camps. A person could be pro-guns and pro-vaccination without needing to identify with a party, their people, etc... Disinformation will still exist (see brexit!),it might even be worse, but people will be able to point to it without being called a plant for the other side.

The problem with current systems, representative democracy, especially with non-proportional voting systems, is that getting elected becomes the only goal, and supporting extreme views is one of the strategy, which has been pushing parties, from all sides, towards extremes. There is a self-feeding vicious circle as soon as one party supports extreme views, it reinforces the opposite party support for the party over ideas, and that now affects the first party etc...

Being informed is like driving, every single person thinks they are better informed than the average! If you don't believe in democracy, can you please tell us what system is better?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_superiority#Driving_a...

Experiences with "sortition" has shown that a group of "average people" tend to make better decisions for the group then a few supposedly "elite".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition
We Built an Open Source ML Model Registry with Git
If the international law enforcement community is really trying to go after "all cryptographers" why do you think we haven't seen more arrests? Why do you think they only arrested this guy?

I get that you really want to defend crypto, but I think a simpler explanation is that they have good reasons to believe that this guy was doing more than just the stuff you're trying to defend (making privacy code).

It would be like... if two dozen people were picketing outside of a big corporation, and the police came and arrested one dude. You would be the guy saying "they're coming for the protesters!" and I'm the guy saying "Well, if they're really after protesters why didn't they arrest all of them? And isn't that the guy they were investigating for a bank robbery?"

Defending literally every crypto guy is short-sighted if you're a true proponent of the tech. It's possible that there are bad people involved in crypto, and you'll be a lot more credible as an advocate if you acknowledge that possibility and wait for the facts.
There are open source options that work fine on Linux for most of those though and things like Proton do a pretty amazing job now too. But people have set/complex workflows or existing familiarity that is not so easy to just flick over and that's reasonable.

It's not a "Linux can't do it" problem though.

Business founders/entrepreneurs are not exactly a large part of the userbase either...
Redwood: A JavaScript Framework Designed for Startups
FTA: The ACCC’s best estimate, based on available data, is that the users of 1.3 million Google accounts in Australia may have viewed a screen found by the Court to have breached the Australian Consumer Law.
And if you've been working on proprietary things for those 20 years and don't work on your own open projects at home--as would be considered utterly unremarkable if you were a chemical engineer for example--you wouldn't have a portfolio. Yes, if you're a photographer I'd expect to see a portfolio. But that's not true for basically the majority of technical, scientific, and business fields.
That’s not the point they are are making at all. They further expanded on this by talking about the straw man hacker news user who doesn’t think they should have to do anything to get hired.
In contemporary American English (the only language I claim to be somewhat familiar with), they mean the exact same thing - I would say a sort of collective, unspoken understanding of a subject. English is kind of a crazy language I think.
I do think that take home tasks are the best way to hire somebody (or letting somebody bring their existing, recent code and talk about that). At the same time, I think companies should pay applications if this take home task takes more than 1-2 hours. I'm not saying you need to pay a lot, I think it's more a symbolic gesture of respect. Those costs are negligible for a company compared to the money and resources they spend on hiring/recruiting.
https://www.miodo.io/

This is what you need (friends’ startup).
> Equally surprising was that Indian Railways, the country’s largest employer, chose to continue fighting the case.

If you think it's crazy for this lone lawyer to have gone through this crusade, keep in mind that Indian Railways fought in a 100 hearings for ~25 cents, and their lawyers don't work for free. How bonkers is that?
While I come from a much lower CoL area, 30USD gets me tailored pants with good material and tailoring
Seems he is going to sue Biden admin.

https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/if-youre-wondering-if-i-...

Will be interesting to follow.
> perhaps "I haven't it" is syntactically more similar than "I don't have it" to what they actually say

Neither is particularly close, as Irish doesn't have a verb for have, and uses Verb-Subject-Object rather than Subject-Verb-Object as english does:

- I haven't it
- I have-NEG it

- I don't have it
- I NEG.AUX have it

- Níl sé agam
- is-NEG it.NOM at-me

(Saying that "sé" is nominative isn't quite accurate, it's a little bit more subtle than that, but it's close enough).
This guy spreads vaccine and mask disinformation and as a result should be deplatformed. No sympathy for liars.
I recently went through an interview/exam with a takehome portion. The company indicated "this shouldn't take more than 2-3 hours". For me, it was 2.5 hours. And... I wouldn't want to do dozens of these, but doing one or two every couple of years isn't too much of a burden, imo. But I know everyone's tolerance is a bit different.
I agree completely. These things are ways for companies to waste your time in the interview, and make it harder. Job interviews used to be 1 hour and a handshake. Then a reference check.

Let me tell you why that was better than the current hiring meta.

1) I can learn everything I need to know in an hour with someone. 2 will likely not drastically give me a better idea. 8 hours with someone is not 8 times better, it just doesn't scale like that. So the idea that the more work you give a candidate, or the more interviews, or whatever, the better your hiring practice, it's just not true.

2) People can be very nervous in interviews. It's an intimidating, adversarial environment that has no relation at all to the job or work. It's almost the beginning of the way for the company to treat you as lesser, and they will take advantage of that to screw you these days. As you say, they will just ghost you. They didn't used to do this nearly so much. They'd at least send you a letter, or give you a call.

3) Even if 1 and 2 weren't true, the questions asked in interviews have no relationship with the real job. You just can't ramp up in time, etc. There's too much learning. Picture an intern. They do nothing except take everyone's time for the first month, but it's the rest that matters. Will they get something useful done before they leave? Maybe. But it does take a while to ramp up. So interview questions don't judge job performance.

But we still do it, because people like that tinge of power I guess. That feeling of control in that you can say yes or no to someone, they have to placate you for the job, etc. A lot of interviewers I know act very strange in interviews too, and they don't act that normally.

For the interviewee, it's even worse. You waste your time, you spend a lot of emotional energy, you don't know if you like the people you'd be working with, you don't know really what you'll work on, and no matter what you have to do what your boss says anyway, which can change at any time. Oh and it's "right-to-work" so they can fire you any time for any reason.

It's much more useful to talk to their previous boss or friends or references. Even if they are biased, you can usually tell pretty quick again who is telling you nonsense. At least then you can hear real stories about real situations in the past, rather than useless hypotheticals. But we don't do that anymore because of liability from lawsuits in hiring. Because a lot of companies are actively discriminating. Some are passively doing it, some are trying to do better but are hopeless. So everyone is just covering their ass.

Sounds like a great deal!
The company I work for now has a similar approach. I showed a personal project and eventually got an offer. It's not even a particularly great one, as I had not worked on it in a couple years.
In my humble opinion, I feel like many commenters here aren’t veterans or don’t understand how thin the line is between a stable and unstable world. Or simply don’t care to look deeper at why the USA military does what it does, along with the different three letter agencies.

Yeah, a lot of mistakes have been made. Many of them will continue to be made. The hope is that we still leave the world better off than it was before.

Inaction can lead to just as bad a result, if not worse, than taking an educated action at all. It’s simple to sit there behind the desk reading articles and history when you’re not one making the decisions, good or bad.
> The ability to have your new game instantly have access to a giant catalog of compatible things is useful for game studios.

Again - you have a fundamental misunderstanding of what drives game development. It is neither useful nor desirable for a studio to immediately have to work through balance issues in a game before they have even written one line of code. Think about this for half a second. You don't get to wave your arms and just magically get a functioning, workable in-game economy. There is a huge amount of real world capital and human overhead to make sure this magical spec of yours doesn't completely wreck people's enjoyment of playing, which is, you know, the entire point of a game.

The moment that people recognize "oh, I can get a +1% health bump by going into game X and doing some mundane task, then go into game Y where a 1% health bump is the difference between winning and losing a PVP battle" guess what's going to happen over and over and over and over again. You are talking about a fractal amount of complexity for a game designer, developer, product manager, design team, the list just goes on and on. Nobody who wanted their game to be successful would ever latch onto this.
I've found one of the easiest ways to enforce privacy on Windows is using the Local Group Policy Editor, which can then be backed up using LGPO.exe from the Security Compliance Toolkit and re-imported to other machines. Another option is PowerShell Desired State Configuration which you can then use to backup your local GPO into a MOF file, and reapplied to multiple machines or even added as part of an unattended setup:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/dsc/quickstarts/...

I'm glad other people are working on tools, but you'll probably realize sooner or later that a few registry edits are not sufficient to maintain privacy, and policies are really the better approach.
You would need cartel-like control over the industry to make that work--as exists in the medical industry or legal industry. Without that hiring people just under a generally accepted cut off like 90 would be a form of gaming the system (hiring someone good and cheap but unavailable to bigtechco) that would kill the system.
I'll have to look for that! But then we are picky when it comes to mustard, Maille for example is usually rather easy to find in Germany but completely unacceptable on the dinner table! What can I say...
I'm not sure what the takeaway is supposed to be from this comment, because clearly a Googler is capable of passing Google-difficult coding interviews. If the emperor has no cloths, so to speak, then coding tests don't filter that out either.
Actually, when I was an undergrad looking for internships, I interviewed at Blue Origin for some embedded role and was asked to draw an simple RC circuit. I was super nervous and forgot the symbol for a capacitor, and just told my interviewer that and made one up. I did not get an offer from them (luckily, in retrospect)
Mandarin also does not have direct equivalents of ‘yes’ and ‘no’. There is a negator word 不 bù, but just answering 「不」 wouldn’t make sense. You answer a question with the verb that was asked. ‘Do you like coffee?’ ‘Like!’ or ‘不like‘. It doesn’t feel any different or make me experience any sort of mental contortion to use this pattern to convey the exact same information I’d convey in English.

I used to really like these pop linguistics kind of articles about exotic languages without tenses or plurals or what have you. It made my imagination churn to think about how it might influence your conception of the world if you expressed time in terms of length, size, or quantity. I remember a RadioLab show about the ancient Greeks having no word for blue, and that as a result they couldn’t perceive it.

I’ve since learned that this all stems from a theory called linguistic relativism, that the language we use constructs our worldview. I’m much less excited in this kind of idea since learning mandarin. I express the exact same thoughts and ideas I have in English, even if I express them without syntactical tenses, plurals, or whatever. Feels the same.
Decentralization really is starting to matter. It's a wake up call for a lot of developers in this space, that pragmatic shortcuts (e.g. centralized RPCs, centralized stablecoins like USDC) have disadvantages that may no longer outweigh the advantages.
Correct, the fines are those set in legislation and collected by the government. I suppose in the US you might say Google was found guilty of a "corporate misdemeanor"? I think the ACCC overlaps with some functions of the FTC; they are the investigator and prosecutor in such cases.

(It's worth noting that while Australia does have class actions for collecting compensation, here civil cases can never collect punitive damages so it's probably hard to extract a large sum from Google through that route in this particular case).
PE is a long-standing title for a professional engineer which requires time on the job and another rigorous test and is common vernacular if you ever intersected with an engineering school or department in college or worked with an engineer in a professional capacity. And software “engineering” doesn’t count.

Would you expect MD or CPA to be spelled out every time?
If it's anon, how does the government get their property taxes?
Or a more pressing question: if you create an encrypted messaging app, and people use it to do illegal stuff, can you be charged for facilitation?

Let's cut to the chase: it's virtually guaranteed that Signal and Matrix are used for sharing child porn.
Hey, at least it isn't a political board or something. That would be much worse.
>> but this just seems like... a lot of work.

At that point it's not about work or fun. It's about winning. Same thing is happening at companies - it's not about great product, it's about maximizing profit. Winning and money are obvious reasonable things to strive for, so I'm not sure how we can refocus either of these areas on QoL.
When I lived in Toronto, my favorite place to find clothes was the thrift shop. Especially when my first child was born. Often I was able to get like-new looking brand-name clothes for a fifth of the price, which was especially great for children's clothing that are only worn a handful of times before the baby no longer fits.
Buzzwordy, what exactly do you mean. Management of digital assets via NFT is just fraud imho.
Naysayers (and the Grifters)
The argument that fast fashion is wasteful doesn’t include “and billionaires should do whatever they want”.

The attitude of “if that group can cause harm then I can too” is how we got to the current situation and why we can’t get out of it. It doesn’t allow us the leeway to solve even the first problem on the list.
> first time a developer of open source, non-custodial and autonomous smart contract code has been arrested comes days after the US sanctions the same smart contract. Probably just a coincidence

Zero chance this is solely on account of U.S. sanctions. It takes time to build an arrest case under domestic law, as well as for sanctions to percolate across legal systems.

There was likely coördination. Maybe the Dutch waited, to bolster their arrest case. Maybe the evidence that Tornado was used to launder money processed under similar time frames at OFAC and the FIOD.
SQLite has different “modes” to facilitate recovery, this new WAL2 mode addresses the problem in WAL (version 1) where the recovery log could potentially grow very large.

It’s solving a real problem, but not considered stable for production yet.
Because that line about preferring commercials completely rang false to me, I followed the link....it's from 2010...

"You still haven’t accounted for the popularity of, say,The Sopranos and all the subscription-channel programs. Don’t we pay to get those shows without commercials?

Contemporary shows like The Sopranos might be interrupting themselves. Remember, it’s not the commercial that increases the enjoyment, it’s the interruption. These shows often run six or more parallel plots and constantly shuffle between them. One plot interrupts another."

...so, that entire concept has, IMO, been disproven by the rise of streaming services.
You pass the bar 1 time. Not every couple years.
There is no fee paid to the developer when it comes to Tornado Cash, although there is the TORN token, which is a "governance" token.
I really think these unpaid home assignments are just to rule out people with kids. You are expecting people wake up, get kids ready, work a 8+ hour day, commute (?), pick up kids, feed kids, and then after all of this be functional for some assignment that realistically has nothing to do the job I am applying for since it has been water down to fit into a "small" time frame.
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LeetCode is not spec work.
Yeah, in that case unless there are specific laws violated by the code (earlier DMCA violations come to mind) then it should be safe as I said.

But as usual things are only legal until it’s tried.

A machine that prints counterfeit bills might be illegal to make or sell even without ever being used in some jurisdictions while not in others. And whether the machine has other, legal purposes, may or may not matter.

The “dual use” thing is a common argument for most technical things when there is talk of bans and regulation. I think it’s mostly a hollow argument in cases where the primary actual users are criminal users. That some technology can be used for illegal purposes should not be enough to ban it, but nor should whether there exists a legal use for a technology be enough argument that it shouldn’t be outlawed.
No, it isn't. Buy a few pieces of clothing that you like, wear them until the threads are paper thin, or it becomes unwearable. Its frugal, it saves money, and its good for the environment.
> Most attempts at linguistic innovation fail. This one didn’t.

Didn't it? I've never seen a "10 items or fewer" lane at a supermarket but I sure see "10 items or less"

In terms of language I see and read daily I see less occurrences of fewer than less (In London, UK. I'm sure it varies slightly by region)
If that's true, it was pretty stupid of the administration. I don't know who this person is, but if he was banned it's one less anti-vaxxer out of thousands, but having the request come from the White House just validates and amplifies the unjust persecution narrative (which is one of the most compelling ones these people have).
No, it's expected social bahavior assuming you have ever looked into what consequences fast fashion has.
>everyone smaller

Like who? Since 2019, Android and iOS control <99.7% of the market in Australia.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/245191/market-share-of-m...
No, but acts like it has. Xbox is Phil's own little fiefdom inside Microsoft, since it's business is rather unique from the rest of the company.
Levity Polymorphism (2017) [pdf]
What are you trying to say? Windows was the target of three out of six successful exploits, four if you consider the platform-agnostic exploit on Virtualbox.
> the company faced “one really tough question about why Alex Berenson hasn’t been kicked off from the platform,” a Twitter employee wrote.

Don’t kid yourself. This is not about curiosity.
>Programming jobs are the only type of technical job left that actually pays shit (well enough to buy a house and start a family),

Meh, in the Midwest plenty of jobs pay enough for that, 6-figure tech jobs put you at 3-4x the median income (31k here in Indiana), but plenty of other jobs absolutely pay enough to buy a house (teaching - my wife makes just shy of double median income as a high school teacher, nursing, law enforcement, fire fighting, all sorts of trades, etc).
People don't seem to realize that there is little fundamental distinction between a crypto privacy service, and encrypted messaging apps like Signal and matrix.

A bitcoin private key is just "KwTHJw865SLeTAjK7otYb5bL5mwutBb2vDxxF7kGf5XvY7QttnvM" after all.
In order to get a $40k/year job, no. (This isn't your case) In order to get a $250k/yr job, probably yes.

Putting an hour limit on them makes sense.
> Inaction can lead to just as bad a result, if not worse

Those damn soviets would have won if we didn’t torture US citizens.
I always thought fantasy sports leagues were careful about allocating budgets so that if you bought any one of the top 3-5 available players, you'd have trouble making the rest of your team well-balanced.
Government actions like this make the legal theory advanced in Missouri et al v. Biden et al at least somewhat plausible. The attorneys general of Louisiana and Missouri sued President Joe Biden alleging that his administration colluded with private social media companies to censor speech in violation of the First Amendment. Normally private companies aren't limited by the First Amendment, but the suit claims that they are now effectively acting as an arm of the federal government. I'm skeptical that the court will accept this argument, but it will be interesting to see how the case plays out.

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/tech-and-telecom-law/republica...
But you have the seller and buyer's name in the title no?