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> Tornado Cash runs autonomously on immutable code. Nobody can force the already-running code to start doing AML/KYC

The hypothetical involved creating “a new TC instance with new addresses and website.” That’s not already-running code. If you do that and then it’s used for money laundering and you do and don’t do all the things Tornado Cash did and didn’t, yes, obviously, we have that precedent.
What you should be scared of is Biden's executive order banning "Proof of Work".

"Using the energy-intensive proof-of-work consensus mechanism, could be banned in the U.S. under a proposal made by the White House Office of Science and Technology."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/billybambrough/2022/09/08/limit...
> I never tried VR and when I intended to try VR as I hear good things about Half Life: Alyx

Think of VR as a really good arcade on-rails shooter game and that's the gist of Half Life Alyx. It's a good game. But it also left me feeling very disappointed.

* You won't move much. You'll peek in and out of cover, which is fun, but you won't actually "move" around all that much for most encounters. People really like ducking in and out of cover to shoot at things, and again, that is genuinely fun.

* Some enemies break this mold and require you to move; doing extremely telegraphed attacks that pretty much just require you to move to anywhere that isn't exactly where you're standing at that moment. Specifically just enough that you need to use the controller inputs to move rather than stepping physically. If you stop to think about why the game is designed this way, it's because people are bad at moving irl, and this is about all they can handle.

* In general all enemies have this feel of an on rails shooter though, and you have no way to interact with them besides throwing grenades and shooting. You can't melee and a lot of enemies stand just a little too far to seem realistic so that they don't do weird overlaps with your camera.

* There's some physical interaction stuff that is good. Stuff that in other games would have been "Press X to do Y" is now a physical machine you need to move around with your hands, especially reloading. But it's also very limited because most of the game is a static mesh that you can't really do anything with.

So... yeah, I enjoyed it but it made me pessimistic for the future. I think they worked hard to deal with VR's limitations but they are same damn high walls.
Also can carry serious criminal liability via Enron Response Regulation Sarbanes Oxley "The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 requires the CEO and CFO of publicly traded companies to issue a statement certifying that the accompanying financial statements and disclosures fairly present, in all material respects, the operations and financial condition of the company."
> “engagement” is a model that leads to a death spiral

Good article on that point: https://rosie.land/posts/stop-measuring-community-engagement...
> "This statement is false"

My take on that statement is that it is not saying anything about the world. It only refers to itself, making it a self-contained mini-universe with no relation to the real world.

So, since it's not saying anything, it's neither true nor false. Only something confusing that feels like it should have some meaning.
Big result for the dream of federated machine learning without prohibitive latency overhead
The Luckin one actually identified an enormous fraud.
> taking "Rapture" literature and replacing a few words and publishing it as Singularity literature

What if I told you that's not a coincidence?

https://www.christianevidence.net/2019/01/gods-7000-year-pla...
In my opinion, with rare exceptions, trying to predict what will or will not change more 50 years out likely is a waste of time. For example, say you wanted to backup data for 1000 years, then it makes sense to think through the logistics. Climate change is also another good example. To me though, wondering if “cars” will still be around feels like a waste of time. As for not dying, not aware of any meaningful progress that would be of note; feel free to give a more detailed reasoning for why the future of death is increasingly uncertain.
> Bazel is much too hard for TypeScript and JavaScript. We don't use Bazel for our frontend. New bundlers like Vite are much faster and have a developer experience that's hard to replicate with Bazel. Aspect.dev is doing some work on this front. One large hurdle is there's not automatic BUILD file dependency updater like Gazelle for Go.

I built this[0] for the Bazel + yarn setup that we use at Uber. We currently manage a 1000+ package monorepo with it.

[0] https://github.com/uber-web/jazelle
Thanks! Looks like it is a glibc (and musl) feature, though this led me to discover funopen() in BSD and macOS: https://man.openbsd.org/funopen.3
> Another is knowing that right isn't always right.

Right isn't always correct.
Being correct is being free of error.
Being right is being free of blame.
We should be correct in the technical, and right in the moral. If the problem involves both we should make it someone else's.
I think you really hit the nail on the head there. In the brave new world of tractors that actually have (lots of) software in them, we need to make the right comparisons/analogies.

Saying "no farmer wants this" is the equivalent of saying that "no farmer wants the technical manual" for their pre-software-filled tractor. I bet it helps tremendously if you have the manual for your 1950 International Harvester Farmall MD and you want to keep repairing it. I have no idea how to repair tractors, nor do I own one or will probably ever own one but for some reason watching this was fun: https://youtu.be/7yuHIu1IfPw?list=PL-1mGLAjHPWy0BL-MO6MrSr-m... And somewhere in there (or maybe somewhere else on his channel) he shows these manuals, where to get them etc. Apparently even though some of the companies are out of business or no longer provide these themselves, there are re-prints of these and other companies that still make parts for these engines and tractors. The guy has a pretty small operation it seems and uses tractors mostly to make hay for his cattle but it looks like he's using that 72 year old MD as well as some other slightly (!) newer tractors to run his operation.
"We must restrict the freedom of Americans so we can better restrict the freedom of people we say are bad". What's more important, the freedom of Americans or the possibility that North Koreans or other "bad" people on the other side of the world can escape the edicts of the US government? Personally I'm far more concerned with the former than the latter. I'm far from alone in thinking that we should massively downsize the federal government and strip them of most of their powers.
Honestly, the perfidy claims just really throws me for a loop. I genuinely don't understand how the police using evidence you willingly provide them to charge you is perfidy.

> like pretending to surrender and then attacking somebody in war or pretending to be a medic in order to attack somebody

There's international courts with the lofty goal of prosecuting "war crimes" and if you submit evidence that some country or group is committing war crimes, like killing medics, you don't get some special protection from the evidence you submit. If you submit a video where you and your opponent are both killing medics, everyone involved can be tried for war crimes. If you submit a video where you're killing A's medics and B is killing your medics, everyone involved can be prosecuted. In the US if the prosecution, has evidence that's both inculpatory and exculpatory they don't get to just tell the jury to ignore the exculpatory elements. I don't see how any court could be fair if this was not the case.
All I can think of is "no, not like that" meme
Windows Terminal gets support for creating custom themes
The goal posts! How did they get so fast?!

The fact remains. Farmers who don't knowingly plant patented seeds have nothing to worry about. The fact that the vast majority use the patented seeds means the seeds are worth more than they cost and the seed researchers are creating value.
Generating Power from Gym Equipment
That's just playing semantic games. Like saying "well, the police only has authority over people, and a person didn't kill him - a bullet shot from a gun did!". Somebody was on the back end of that gun, and somebody deployed Tornado Cash. And the police can confiscate the gun and the bullets, and prosecute whoever shot it. The autonomous part here does not solve anything - it's only work if the whole system, ab initio, was autonomous without human intention - but even then the government could claim to regulate an access to it - just as it could, for example, restrict access to an erupting volcano if it wanted, even if no person caused it to erupt. But here it's much simpler because somebody definitely caused TC to operate, so the whole argument disappears.
I think ML, at least when I was involved in it, had a much more sane way of approaching publication than other fields (I came from a biology background).

Open science addresses a lot of the pain points that are mentioned in the article. I think we can all agree that having certain magazines that include what can be considered the best works is a good thing; people for better or worse need these instruments to seamlessly judge the base quality of an article. Regardless of my personal criticisms and potential declining quality of a particular magazine it is obviously very helpful to be able to know "hey, at least I can expect some degree of quality given that it was published in this or another magazine" specially as a student.

But this does not mean we ought to gate-keep research. Not only that, but having your publication out can open up a lot of feedback that can be incorporated and addressed. And this is where I go back to my original statement, in ML, it was very common to publish your work to arxiv for people to read through it and I think that greatly improved the speed upon which the field developed. Access is very important.

So I'm all for abolishing "pre-publication peer review".
Having spent a great deal of time getting bazel set up as you describe, I feel you have given readers a misleading impression. Bazel does not come out of the box that way. It uses whatever toolchain is laying around on the host, by default. It builds with system headers and links with system libraries. It looks at your environment variables. You need to do a lot of surgery on the toolchain to make it hermetic and reproducible.
axum's Response is an alias for `http::Response<UnsyncBoxBody<Bytes, Error>>`. It's not a fallback or catch-all, it's the type that axum expects to be returned by handler directly or indirectly via `IntoResponse` trait. All of that is very clear if you open : https://docs.rs/axum/latest/axum/index.html

Look at `IntoResponse` trait, you will see that it's the type you need to return. The difference between `impl IntoResponse`, Some type that implements `IntoResponse` and `http::Response<UnsyncBoxBody<Bytes, Error>>` is where conversion happens: explicitly by your handler or by axum implicitly.

You don't have to "explicitly convert to Bytes", you call `into_response` on whatever implements it.
Perhaps you are a grug brain. Not such a bad thing.

https://grugbrain.dev/

The fact that you write testable (and tested) code, and that your CI needs are met by simple scripts is a good thing. I personally try to ensure that all CI can be done locally, and that basically forces you to just use shell scripts (or make, or similar — but to keep it simple)
What’s going on in game dev? I’m seeing a ton of companies, big and small pump out what seems to be the opposite of what their fans want.

The other day, I clicked on a video ranting about one of the latest Battlefield games. I used to play BF4 years ago. I enjoyed it, and remember plenty of CoD vs BF debates. As I was watching the guys rant, I couldn’t help but agree with everything. Everything shown in the video, was exactly the opposite of why BF built a great franchise. It seemed more like the company tried to be every shooter game that’s been popular in the past decade at once, and seemed more like a cheesy Fortnite ripoff than the tactical arcade shooter I remember.

I can name numerous other games (mostly in shooter/strategy genres because that’s what I mostly play) with similar stories of games starting to flop because the companies ignore their customers, usually so they can ripoff some recently successful games.

FWIW, there are some great companies making amazing games (this year has been awesome for Paradox, for example), it’s just odd that many franchises I remember being quite good take such odd direction that people will hate.
Caplan can still get a push on that bet if NOAA stops publishing the data before the end of 2029. Two presidential elections to go.
There is a 12 step program for Internet addiction. It's so small that most of the meetings are on Zoom
I dunno maybe? I don’t think the outcome is obvious.

It’s easy to imagine Ukraine coming out just as big a loser as Russia even if they “win”. The EU is in for a tough time too.

I do wonder where we’ll be in 12 months time.
Ctrl-F never
I didn't say anything about GMOs. They've done some nice things for humanity. When it's done with the goal of trying to "own" nature via imaginary concepts such as copyright, that is an odious act that must be called out and resisted.

I'm also not inherently anti-Monsanto. You're the one that brought up a scenario where they were acting like cartoon villians. Maybe that should make you pause and think. If you're involved with Monsanto in some way, perhaps you could take some initiative to discourage them from acts of cartoon villiany?
Also worth noting that many disabled people cannot drive due to their disabilities.
It would be interesting to see a breakdown of shared / unique entries
across the different competitors in this space.

I have a feeling that there would be overwhelming overlap.

That might not be bad, just low hanging fruit everyone can get.

The speed at acquiring high probability threats I guess would be a better / more valuable comparison.

Perhaps running two or more of these offerings side by side for a couple of months.

I would prefer a feed of ALL, with frequent updates, instead of querying a 3rd party every time. (well obviously you can cache responses for a period of time locally at least)
> made the API by screen scraping their webUI.

Had fun ideas of improving the finance sector with ideas like this, that for any other industry would be at worst : 'TODO's to fix later.

Finance sector taught me a lot about security, but also about standards.

Standards are a real PITA to code for, from HTTP to PCI payment compliance. They're so worth it in the end though.
I'm am often amazed that the entire world financial system hasn't collapsed yet, considering what I now know about how it is put together.
What Gödel Discovered (2020)
We built something like this. SDK you can drop into your API code, then we generate an OpenAPI spec based off of your traffic. Demo here: https://www.loom.com/share/c5b242d25de84e1d95b03fd35eab7099
Or you can keep business as usual while build a separate high skilled team to do the rewrite. Things are hard to build but easy to copy. Unless you're talking about massive progress like OS/Browser, a few highly competent engineers can copy anything in a better structure within a short amount of time.
As pointed out by wahern above see this: https://www.genomebc.ca/blog/forensics-breakthrough-dna-extr...
> Cruelty Squad and Luck Be a Landlord are both respectable indie successes.

They can be respectable by quantity but quality not much, Cuelty Squad simple ps1-style graphics isn't much different from the dozens out there games being developed on godot sporting the very same dull style.
W3.css – A minimal alternative to Bootstrap
Is there a way we can please for the love of god summit exceptions? We need a corporate vpn and we don’t need every friggen website blocking us.

Without this you were also probably inadvertently contributing to the de-democratization of email. I used to run my own email off a cloud server, but that time has passed.
stack overflow has too many limitations, suprpowr is pretty cheap and works well for my company. Def worth a try IMO.
The SEC has brought some novel cases lately and won so I am much less sure of myself than I would have been 5 or 10 years ago, but this certainly doesn’t look like classical American insider trading to me.

The analyst in this case has no fiduciary duty to the harmed parties so they wouldn’t be insiders.

I’d talk to a lawyer but it’s for sure not “totally illegal”. It’s in the grey area.
Surely it's the death of Akka inside large enterprises (outside of very niche, already written, applications). How can they justify the enormous departmental cost? If a small team in a large company is creating a new product why on earth would they choose to use Akka?

If you're a small company, likely to never hit $25m ARR, this won't affect you... Or is a ticking time bomb should you ever cross that threshold.
For postmortems the basis is having document templates that are linked to the incident. From there the ability to automatically add information to the individual postmortem documents with things like timeline and MTTA/MTTR. Add the ability to comment on, share, export, and collaborate on these documents.

The second piece of functionality is around action items. Almost all postmortems generate action items. I need a way to tie action items to a specific post mortem and integrate automatically with my project tracking software (Jira, Asana, Linear, whatever). Ideally there's some top level reporting functionality that shows me the status of post mortem action items.

A nice to have would be automatically scheduling the post mortem meeting with a calendar integration.
Instructions unclear bought datacenter to run heavily modded Rimworld.
Apparently they're so popular that people who don't even know Japanese have been motivated enough to create tools for reading them which extract the text and put it into various machine translators and dictionary lookups; and more recently, someone even trained an ML model to do it:

https://www.reddit.com/r/visualnovels/comments/rzhbdz/from_s...
Could someone dumb this down for me?
ELI5?
"Patented seeds" is an oxymoron. Applying imaginary human concepts like that to nature is absurd, full stop.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/internetaddictsanonymous.org/%3...
Do note that the site the article is on does seem to be a bit agenda driven, regardless of the sources. Little grain of salt is always a good thing when messy situations like this arise.
this should be illegal to even create unless you are 100% convicted of a crime. Government should not have access to such a databse.
> you can't absolve yourself by building a robot that does the crime for you.

But the argument isn't at all about absolving the robot builder. In fact, they explicitly take no view on whether the sanctions against the Tornado Cash entity are justified. They also do not take a view on whether the government would be justified in prosecuting the individuals behind Tornado Cash.

They are saying the government does not have the statutory authority to sanction the robot you built.
While it's not as natural to use for non-jvm projects, gradle has many of the same properties as bazel.

It's just a graph of tasks that take inputs in, and produces artifacts out.
So long as the inputs to a task don't change then it can be cached.
If 377 Million people were killed annually by something, would it make a difference what the population was?

It's a horrific number whether you've got a population of a billion or 10 billion.
I meant that in response to why Discord can be so successful with 1% of the employees of other chat products. It's because they're not actually similar products. One is for casual chat (with no pretense of security) and one is for business chat.

It's not specifically about avoiding enterprise, it's about them recognizing what sort of business decisions are sustainable with small team capabilities. Enterprise chat adds a TON of requirements and harsher penalties for mistakes.

In Patreon's case, it's one of those business models that a small team just cannot survive in at scale.

Sure, storing some payment data in a database and charging a payment API once a month in a job queue is a weekend project. But then you get your first email about a stolen credit card being used. And one from Disney lawyers about how someone is using their Patreon account to sell Disney intellectual property. And an email from FBI because someone is using it to sell illegal images. And from creators whose account got hacked and all their payments redirected to a new bank account. Or the subscribers who want a refund because they're unhappy. Or the people who realize that if you say your credit card was stolen, you can access the exclusive content from any creator and get a refund the next day.
What's UPS? Something to do with simulation speed?
According to this:

https://observatoriodefinanzas.com/el-salario-promedio-del-s...

Avg monthly salary in Q1 2022 was $101.

Using the cost of the iphone 14 in the US ($800)

That would be 8 months or 66%.
Rust's slices (the most obvious thing you would index) have three ways to index them, if you are out of bounds the consequences are Undefined Behaviour; panic; and return None. Today those are provided by get_unchecked(), the Index operator and get() respectively. [[ Calling get_unchecked() is unsafe of course, but it's potentially faster because it has no bounds check ]]

I'm confident we sometimes want each of the three options, so if we're having the Index operator return None then get() presumably panics, or at least some new function is provided with that behaviour.

I reckon this just drives annoyance that [k] has to be unwrapped, while get(k) does what people actually wanted [k] to do. I could be wrong, but that's my sense.
Architecture from 196 Countries
A better design for ethernet on thin laptops is a hinge that expands when the cable is plugged in: https://1.img-dpreview.com/files/p/TS560x560~forums/59371721...
Ask HN: What are examples of companies dying due to many people quitting?
Curious what are some notable examples of companies being forced to shut down due to many people leaving within a short timeframe?

I imagine if half the staff left a nursing home, it would be forced to shut down.
Hasn't this always been the case? I assume if you were after a foreign general and there are some American mercenaries in the same building well "I guess they're out of luck"; still gonna bomb the complex.
>An obvious counter observation: Isn’t an extended medical issue likely to cause a person to lose their job and health insurance?

You are correct in that most US health insurance is tied to employment. But the discussion point was the claim that "[insert high percentage here] of US bankruptcies are because of medical bills".

Any illness, extended long enough, is going to cause people to lose their jobs, whether in the US or elsewhere. Certainly any illness long enough to exhaust COBRA coverage. That said, in the US that's where Medicaid will step in, assuming that the loss of income is sufficient to trigger Medicaid's income-based eligibility.
I'm willing to roll the dice for a while. Chat and events planning are pretty basic features, if Facebook screw those up then it probably means that someone else has come along and does them better.
I guess credit and undos smooth over most of the problems.
did you become a geneticist?
but isn't MongoDB webscale?
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There’s a possibility this is due to corporate antivirus. Many AV solutions (seemingly not Windows Defender) scan every file that’s written, massively slowing down IO, but they can’t scan VHDs. Excluding the folder where node_modules is or running npm inside WSL2 has good performance on my work laptop, in a random windows folder not so much.
Stalking would be the first issue I'd worry about.