skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>but people disillusioned by the establishment parties who then fall prey to the the less extremist public messaging the AfD

In particular in German discourse on fascism there's always been the observation that this is precisely its most dangerous form, a popular term used to be Extremismus der Mitte (literally, extremism of the middle).

In its most serious form fascism is an extremism of the middle-class, the small merchants, the bureaucracy, the policeman, the lawyer, the doctor and so forth. The meathead with the swastika tattoo on his arm looks scary but nobody takes him seriously. One of the strongest backbones of the NSDAP, which people tend to forget, were women.(https://scroll.in/article/959951/why-i-became-a-nazi-essays-...)
> It's also the ballpark of what 2 technical founders could easily make by working for ~6 months in the bay area

I think you're assuming the two founders don't need to pay rent or taxes.
Thanks, yes, I can't access it now either.
There are heaps of reasons to do that, you could want to use crypto but also want your transactions to not be public.

An obvious example would be a software engineer working in web3 that gets a portion of their pay check in a crypto asset.
What are some examples of popular python libraries that use this ideal python development paradigm?
It is a much larger percentage of North Korea’s total economy, however, and I think that’s going to turn out to be the primary motivation here: not that OFAC woke up one morning and said that Tornado Cash is public enemy #1 but that the people watching North Korea saw that ransomware proceeds were being laundered using this specific system and wanted to stop it.
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mDNS [0] itself is "just" send/listen to multicast UDP packets on a specific address (224.0.0.251 and/or ff02::fb) on a specific port (5353). The only real complication to mDNS itself is that the format of the packets you send/receive are designed to resemble (regular, unicast) DNS and it's a complex (but well known) binary packet format.

The complications most people associate with Bonjour/Avahi and its "points of failure" are most often issues with optional add-on standards such as DNS-SD [1] UPnP [2], and other related add-on standards on top of mDNS that make up so called "zero-conf networking". You don't need DNS-SD or UPnP to use mDNS for basic hostname discovery.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicast_DNS

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-configuration_networking#...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Plug_and_Play
What made it a headache to incorporate in Delaware?
Volume 13 of WERGO's Computer Music Currents series includes this catalog as a large printed appendix to the booklet. There's also about 17 minutes of sound examples from the catalog on the CD along with a collection of other historical computer music dating back to 1957. It's a good collection: https://www.discogs.com/release/4671468-Various-Computer-Mus...
This feels like another in a long line of questionably written essays that get posted here. As an example:

> Right now, every ML “breakthrough” is going towards making addictive media products more addictive and towards advertising that exerts more control over consumers. So this needs to change.

> Luckily, regulation is doable! As is fighting the system. I mean, it’s won’t be easy, but local organizations everywhere, such as social democratic organizations, are working together to push for positive economic change. And they’re quite social.

A claim backed up by zero evidence . We need "more regulation"? To what end? Even the long form article doesn't illustrate the point. It says

>If we made a pie chart representing the money that is made from deep learning

but doesn't bother to present neither a pie chart nor any underlying facts to back up this claim. It also talks about regulating political donations which seems... difficult to connect to the topic at hand.

I am in favour of people trying to improve their writing and publishing blog posts but this just looks like the author didn't spend much time collecting their thoughts. If they have edited this down, they could have fooled me.

I don't mean to discourage the author - I am confident they can improve their writing and should definitely attempt to do so. I am just trying to understand why these articles are being upvoted when to my eyes they aren't of high quality.
I’m going to get pushback but the far right has really made it easy for the common person to look away. All that hate has made it easy to get the general public to not care when privacy is being taken away. They always ruin everything.
This is a preview, H100 hasn't started shipping yet.

There's been some speculation that if the Ethereum merge puts a lot of 3000-series cards on the used market then Nvidia might delay releasing this generation of GPU.
Ideally we don't debate/decide public policy based on one person's preferences, and clearly a solid majority of people want a thinner phone, or else companies wouldn't waste the effort competing on thinness.
I think one downside is that because you are optimizing for sales in the short-term, it can lead to product design/architecture decisions which unknowingly constrain the direction or limits of future development/innovation (or at least make it very expensive to retrofit). I think Notion is potentially suffering from this now as users try to push its limits into more complex applications.
Keeping transactions private is as money laundering as end-to-end-encryption is terrorism communications.
Well, there was a study ("a study finds"). Anyway, jokes aside, I can dig it out, but, in general, if something is good, then taking more of it does not increase its benefits. On the contrary, every nutrient has a range, which could also vary from a person to a person, below or above those thresholds you not only are not receiving any benefits, but you can also be doing damage. Have you heard the saying "too much of a good thing"? From "kale has good nutrients", we're not selling kilos of kale juice, which, for sure, has tons of detriments especially on their pitiful thyroids!

For example, a lot of people don't know it, but vitamin C increases your blood sugar. Not to mention the other type of kidney issues with too much vitamin C.
Love Stripe.

But their record on de-platforming people for dubious reasons is not great.
> there's no reason to do that unless

the owner of the money decides to do that; private transactions are a thing
"In my experience, companies are typically evaluating spend on other platforms and after some testing, moving additional workloads there to displace cost elsewhere"

Fair point, some of that net revenue increase is because of consolidation of workloads, although the majority of the cost is likely still driven by consumers expanding usage beyond what they expected. As I mention in my article, the second part of increase in costs has to do with data governance, and my argument is that snowflake doesn't make governance easy. Why can't they stand up a IAM-like service with a nice UI and dashboards? why can't they make integrations with pagerduty, slack, email work out of the box? Why can't I specify team based budgets and instead have to do it on a per warehouse-team basis? Why do I have to build custom bespoke tooling on top to make governance work?

I can unequivocally say that at a certain scale you need to move on and that Snowflake and many of the SaaS providers are too expensive even at medium scale companies. This article describes this paradox better than I could: https://a16z.com/2021/05/27/cost-of-cloud-paradox-market-cap...

Moreover Snowflake's enterprise pricing model is even more non-scalable. Why do companies often have to pay two times higher price per credit relative to the standard model? Shouldn't guarantees on security or support come with a fixed cost? Shouldn't enterprise offer economies of scale in pricing?

I also wish folks would read my article from end to end because my conclusion in the article is that you don't really have a choice but to use an enterprise solution when your scale is small. If I had to start my own company and had only 2 data engineers, you betcha I would use Snowflake and DataBricks.

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btw, it really surprises me that nobody has commented on the workload manager. Am I the only one seeing that as an issue? I have enough exposure to compare it with Redshift and I can say that Snowflake's workload manager is just very bad at optimizing throughput.
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> We all like different things, so you do you

I 100% agree which is why I started with that article probably isn't for you. Especially since you didn't read it but posted as if you had. I get it, no one is the seer of all things I just thought the article was accurate, easy to read and explained the point well. Absolutely to each their own.
> If at some point you decide the way one of those sub-libraries works is wrong, could be done better, etc. then you can write a new sub-library that just provides the same public interface.

That's...that's literally how type systems and interfaces work. You do know Python supports behavioral subtyping (Protocol), right?

It sounds like you certainly have had some bad experiences with poorly-written typed python. But that speaks more to those maintainers not knowing how to actually use types effectively, vs a shortcoming of static typing in python. Python's type system has plenty of shortcomings, but has plenty of escape hatches as well.
You could post a paid job ad on HN. Replying like you did risks looking like recruiter spam. I’m not saying you are doing that, just that there are other legit ways to let people know about opportunities on HN.
I don't need a reason to do it or not, it is legal under the law.

Tornado Cash has legal uses under the law (like the one I described above), because it can be used to conceal the origins of legally obtained money.

See the legal definition of money laundering here: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1956 , it specifically calls out "unlawful activity".
By can, I mean it already is a requirement under various existing rules in specific situations.

I don’t know the degree to which it applies in this specific situation.
There have been restaurants that have tried this but both patrons and workers have rejected the change where it has been tried. Patrons hate the higher prices and workers feel they can make more money with tips. It's a no win for the restaurants. The top tier restaurants is where worker can make multiple times their hourly pay.

It's been tried many times with tipping winning every time.
At 7:44 they go into the “magic numbers” used to define kernel syscalls like how Cosmopolitan [0] uses for building things like RedBean [1].

0. https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan

1. https://redbean.dev/
As one packaging Go daily for a distro, this doesn't surprise me (though thanks God we are not affected, probably because we unbundle everything and the license for each lib is then verified). Contrary to the Rust ecosystem, there is no central repo location or Cargo.toml that easily allow to parse the licenses used. So no cargo license commands. For static binaries we build, we don't have the entire set of licenses because the chain of dependencies can reach up to 650 packages.
V=IR, I=V/R, R = 0 , I = Well A Very Very Big Number if all goes well

And it should stay cool as Power = Volts x Amps
996 culture in China is getting so bad the actual government is taking steps against it. Shenzhen working conditions will eventually reach parity with that in Silicon Valley. You think Chinese tech employees don't also want remote work?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDzTKI9a78k
Marry. A wife will do that for you for free, all day every day, loudly.
They're not asking. They're demanding. That's entitlement. And if there's a big problem at Apple already, it's the decline in software quality and usability. You really think these whiners have leverage? They fired Forestall and Ives. They had leverage.
Would be interesting to seem them try pyright on their codebase. IME pyright is faster, catches more potential bugs, and doesn't require its own custom plugin system (which seems to be a major burden on other libraries).
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Twitter tells employees they might get only half their annual bonus
I think it is uncontroversial that touchscreens do (can do, on some models do, ...) more things than physical buttons could, without having so many buttons as to be un-navigatable.

Maybe the solution would be:

1) physical buttons for the most common and critical while-driving tasks

2) Physical buttons with little screens showing context dependent meanings, aligned on the side of a big screen, for quick selections beyond (1).

The button screens do most the work of providing options-for-current-context, with the screen adding more helpful context.

3) Touch buttons on screen for unimportant but high-option tasks, such as selecting a song, album or artist. Or changing settings that largely keep stable values.

In other words, get the most out of every mode. Maximize the utility of physical buttons with the de-cluttering effect of a touch screen.
The best and worst of 1994 and predictions for '95
Considering the phenomenal progression of Dall-E-1 to Dall-E-2 in just over a year, I'm not really understanding your confidence on the limits of AI content generation.
I’ve asked this repeatedly and never heard a good answer. The wealthiest countries are generally those that have _more_ cultural drinking (Germany South Korea Japan ) not less.
Can you provide a source for "gotten thicker"? I'm looking at https://www.knowyourmobile.com/user-guides/iphone-size-compa... and the iphone x (2017) was 7.7mm and the iphones 12 and 13 were both 7.3-7.4mm. Only the iPhone 11 increased thickness and even then only by a fraction of a millimeter.
The article simply (and, one might argue, rather effectively) shows data; the comments here have been far more interesting.

This seems to be a surprisingly polarizing (pun not intended) issue. Why are some people sanguine with the diminishing of color, yet others find it upsetting? Why is it a fashion trend to some, yet a crucial piece of identity to others? I don't know, but I'd love to find out.

So here's my addition to the brew: urbanization. What if the trend is not entirely fashion or economy, but also a function of population density? I've spent my fair share of time in both urban and rural areas, and the urban seem to be much more chromatically homogeneous in terms of surface area, punctuated with more vivid splashes. Rural areas tend to lack the sudden bright splashes, but have miles upon miles of subtle variation. Could increasing population densities be contributing to a loss of color?
The person who runs Kiwifarms is deeply, deeply mentally sick. As are the users he's cultivated on that twisted ecochamber of hatred

https://i.imgur.com/cpk8z8W.png

He posted to the forum decrying his users for immolating anyone they could possibly get their hands on. Talked about how they've been booted from hundreds of hosting providers over the years and how he's spent thousands of dollars keeping that hateful raft of shit afloat

And then concludes by saying "we are in the right"

The person who lead the charge to cause Byuu/Near, a person who spent over 20 years of their life on a Super Nintendo emulator to end their own life proudly proclaims they're "in the right"

These people need to be sectioned
It was an internal lecture at IOHK, a crypto company [0]. I don’t work in the field anymore but IOHK was very fun for the chance to listen to people like Cerf, Leslie, Wolfson, etc.

[0] https://youtu.be/PvmreRAlHMg
Why Apple products are more vulnerable than ever to security threats
It certainly still feels half baked. Ironically the best type checker imo, pyright, is written in typescript.
I am reading the spec, discussing online and trying to understand the subject better, what is wrong with that?

I said I might be wrong _multiple times_, and its genuine. I'm glad you appeared with an in-depth explanation that proves me wrong. I asked exactly for that.

The first examples in this thread are not zero-width-joiners (á, â) or complex graphemes. They all could be stored in 4 bytes. It took some time to come up with the woman golfing example.

By the way, one can still implement reading "character" by "character" in sequences of 4 UTF-32 bytes, and decide to abstract the grapheme units on top of that. It still saves a lot of leading byte checks.

Maybe someone else learned a little bit reading through the whole thing as well. If you are afraid I'm framing the subject with the wrong facts, this is me assuming, once again, that I never claimed to be a Unicode expert. I don't regret a single thing, I love being actually proven wrong.
> the unending list of topics to learn and the vast swings of urgent demands puts you in a state of constant stress and reinvention

At least all these tasks use (mostly) the same tools, and stick to the same (couple of) languages. A full-stack workflow usually adds an entirely different set of tooling and languages, and then DevOps adds an entirely different set of tooling, languages, concerns, domain, and mindset.
I could be interested. My app is currently translation based(word alignments, sense disambiguating) but had planned to venture into assisted writing for people who need translation assistance, but not 100% help, then giving them a score regarding how much help they needed, or how accurate their portion was. Then using that to help give advice on what they struggle with. Language is hugely complex so I’m currently focusing on ES-EN(or is that spa-eng? Depends on if you’re using nltk or spacy).
> can use Torando Cash to conceal the origins of my paycheck, for example to preserve my privacy when transacting with peers

Probably. After it’s been publicly outed as a known money laundering venue, however, you should switch to another service. It’s also reasonable for everyone who deals with you henceforth to subject you to additional scrutiny, to make sure you were not in face laundering. Because while the privacy vs. friction tradeoff may be acceptable to you, it’s not to everyone, and just as you have a right to privacy they have a right to not associating with you.
Children may be one of the cause of the breakage. It's not always been possible to keep my phone out of their hands, and for young children, they don't have fully developed motor skills yet, and drop things often. Even with a case, they managed to find the exact angle to drop the phone to crack the screen. I'm considering whether to get a full coverage case including screen cover to protect the phone from every possible drop angle, just so I don't have to worry about this anymore.
That's great and all, but that doesn't change the responsibilities incumbent on a service that transfers value under the law. And that is to ensure their compliance with AML and KYC rules - and best effort verification that sanctioned individuals aren't using it. None of which this particular service did. RIP.

I think something like 1/4 of all the transactions on Tornado were laundering lol. Imagine any other business that operated like that. For instance, a bank where 1/4 of tellers are stealing the deposits of customers. At some point, the banking that happens is incidental to the actual business.

So like, if you have a legitimate use for the service, and you know that by participating you're facilitating money laundering, you're complicit IMO. And if you don't want to be complicit, go find a different service.

This privacy-absolutism is silly though.
The thing that bugs me is that the netflix blur doesn't seem related to depth. Like, someone will be standing 10 feet away from the camera and their face is in focus but their torso is a blur. Which is why it looks cheap to me, it hides the detail of the costumes, sets, etc and doesn't actually look good.
> Some people just care and willing to lend a hand in cases where they can help.

Why don't they (whoever at the company is in a position to make a difference) care before there is bad publicity? It's either incompetence or indifference. krisoft left another comment already that explains it quite well. There is little - if any - reason to give Stripe the benefit of the doubt here, and there are a lot of reasons to believe it's intentional.
Self-promotion: If you're interested in the MUSIC-V language (the software the catalogue uses) or the hardware, I created a video on the subject a few months ago: https://rumble.com/v153i3p-dawn-of-computer-music.html
"Plaid's Nurb lap only showed how far behind these cars really are still. "

It basically has the all-drivetrain production sedan. Oh sure... Tesla doesn't offer 50 racing trims like Porsche and BMW. Whatever. Tesla did some afterthought track kit and broke the record. But... sure, go ahead and pretend it doesn't. I loved how Jalopnik commenters collectively shit their pants and called false news like they are used to from watching OAN. Good to see its still alive.

You think tesla has teams of engineers devoted to cranking out racing versions of Plaid? Yeah, uh, no. That's what makes their Nurb time even funnier. It was probably a couple weekends of air kit testing and a cage retrofit.

You'd have a better argument talking about how the IDR is 45 seconds off of the LMP derivative. But I think you know in the back of your head when about 10 years of forthcoming battery and motor tech gets developed... that isn't standing.

Motorheads can talk about 1000HP engines and top speeds they never hit, it doesn't matter. 0-60 is owned by EVs. Quarter miles are a wash. Endurance racing? Battery swaps. Wireless charging built into the track. Who cares.

Racing will need to make a decision: have all racing be like NASCAR with carburetors in the year 2010, or be at the forefront of transportation evolution and development. F1 and LMP is already behind with hybrids, those were introduced in 1997 with the Prius.
Because it is still tied to the original purpose of the site. Being an offshoot of ycombinator means the focus never shifts and it doesn't have to follow trends, it just is a place to talk about tech and tech startups.

It doesn't have to update the ui to stay popular with young people, it doesn't need to have a crisis moment or pivot to a new idea. It can't be replaced by a tech alternative as it's not in competition with other forums for eyeballs and income.

It's not really run like a business, I guess.
Potentially you’re just depressed
Any additional bugs per lines of code, which would be less in a strictly typed language anyway, is worth the structure you get from a typed language.

I disliked JavaScript and love python. Typescript has replaced python as my labor of love language for now but a typed python in a similar manner would be great
An AI would need to generate:

* Coherent video

* Characters with backstory

* Dialogue (including jokes and witty banter)

* Music

...among many other things. Plus, the training set for video is orders of magnitude smaller than for digital art. (And is additionally burdened with copyright issues.)

As I see it, there's simply no path from the DALL-E of today to something like that. And all for art that, essentially, "says nothing and means nothing".
Again, Tornado Cash is not money laundering. It only provides transaction privacy. Here is the difference:

The result of money laundering is clean money: you can deposit it into your bank, pay taxes on it, and buy a Ferrari. That only happens if you can give the IRS a plausible explanation for how you obtained the funds legally.

Tornado Cash does not give you this plausible explanation. After using it, you still will not have clean money with an IRS-approved explanation of income. All you gain is privacy from chain analysis.

You could launder money through a restaurant or minting a NFT, since those are otherwise legal activities that could plausibly explain ending the day with more money than you started with. But Tornado Cash does not fit that description.