skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, please. You say "It is not so dangerous" (note the it is) and then refer to a webpage that makes some handwavy aggregation of deaths and attribute them to this or that source of energy, based on the events up to now. That may or may not be accurate (probably not), the real problem with nuclear is not the disasters that have happened so far (and are still ongoing), it is mainly what potentially can happen.

I say so without diminishing the fact that people have heroically sacrificed their health and lives in order to prevent even greater disasters at primarily Chernobyl and Fukushima [0]. Or that we are no longer able to eat wild mushrooms in large swathes of Sweden where I live because of the fallout in 1986, and much of the hunted game, especially wild boar, is not fit for human consumption. [1]

It honestly doesn't impress me much when people simply spout the industry talking points seemingly without even considering that there is a risk involved: 'here, look at this website it says "safe"'. The wikipedia entry on the debate is more like what one could expect from otherwise thinking people: there are some pros and grave cons [2]. The pros are in my opinion negligible, now that we have safer and cheaper sources, and nuclear can be scrapped in an orderly fashion, for example by demanding that each plant starts paying their own insurance cost. Which would make the whole thing economically unsustainable because the insurance companies would charge an insane premium. [3] Which says it all really.

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/chernobyl-volunteers-divers-...

NB: Both Chernobyl and Fukushima are at the top level 7 of the International Nuclear Event Scale, which is a good reminder that those things that the nuclear industry say can never happen, actually do happen. Anyway, it's just Murphys law. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Nuclear_Event_Sc...

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidnikel/2019/06/08/chernobyl...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_debate

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price%E2%80%93Anderson_Nuclear...
Profile-guided optimization is considered pretty effective:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profile-guided_optimization

One example of an optimization that cannot be performed AOT is anything that can be done in response to "noticing" that every time you get a List, you actually have an ArrayList. AOT can't make the assumption, but a JIT can start doing things like specializing/inlining code the implementation in question.
Search engines that roll their own unique crawlers:

(a big list of them) https://seirdy.one/posts/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-...
>There was a dream of remote education, where the best educators in the world can reach out and teach students anywhere in the world, and be a great equalizer of education.

Realistically the dream was always that large hall, largely broadcast, lectures could be replaced with video of world-class lecturers. And while there are obstacles--most schools don't want to replace half their course content with videos--it's eminently doable. The key point though is that the other half of the content and in-person assistance can't be replaced in the same manner nor can courses requiring equipment, hand-on work, etc.
The chief selling point of Tornado Cash is that it's distributed open-source software, with no man in the middle, no single point of failure.

That's right: Government sanctioned open-source SOFTWARE. Are you sure you want this precedent set?
Yes, but as someone who has struggled with discipline in both environments, it is a relative comparison: it’s easier to slack off at home than at the office.

Whether and how much employees should be given the leniency to slack off is a different question.
When someone sets up a meeting with me in a different time zone I'll google "what time is it in [timezone]?" then calculate the difference with my timezone and apply that the day of the meeting.
If you ran an establishment where people would come in with big bags of cash with dubious source, swirl them around in a big vat, and someone else would come in with a chit to take out some cash from your vat, I am sure your establishment will get investigated and shut down. In this way it's no different from the real world. Just because it's online doesn't make it ok.
> I’d also like to see them switch to git for the plugin repos.

Could you explain this idea some more? It doesn't seem related to your first suggestion.

Some people just use the svn plugin repos as a release system, the actual development being done in git. There are even github actions to automate it.
Cracking the Case of the Giant Fern Genome
That's like saying knives are designed to facilitate murder.

TC is made for privacy, which either is or should be a basic right.

Without tools such as TC if I send you money, show you some POAPs[1] I own, or otherwise interact in any way with my crypto, it is fairly simple to deduce or make educated guesses of how much crypto I own, who I send it to or from, and more. This has serious implications not only for privacy, but for safety reasons too.

TC makes it so you can transfer from your cold wallet to your hot wallet, without trivially revealing what your cold wallet is (and thus your funds).

Furthermore TC also allows you to keep a receipt of these anonymous transfers, so you can in the future prove the origin of your funds or reveal such transactions.

[1] https://poap.xyz/
On the demo page [1], the <main> element starts with an <hr>. That doesn’t seem right. The <hr> element is meant for section breaks (where there is content both before and after the <hr> element), not for decorative horizontal lines.

[1]: https://andybrewer.github.io/mvp/mvp.html
I’d be willing to bet there is US government black budget money that moved over Tornado Cash, too. The issue then becomes that Tornado Cash wasn’t originally developed by the govt and whatever further implications that has.
Great to see this go live! Really excited to move this forward with the community. A number of the maintainers and core team will try to be on this thread if people have questions.
I know essentially nothing about this topic, but it seems likely that some particles are more dangerous than others (though I've seen no suggestion of that). I'd prefer to go after the elephants in the room before the hamsters.

There are MULTITUDES of particles in circulation everywhere everyday. If the impact of only some these are especially dire, we should be able to triage each particle simply by: 1) looking at who suffers most from 'lung cancer of unknown etiology' and what environmental particles they were exposed to, and to a lesser extent, 2) looking at who is exposed to each type of particle and whether they suffer from it.

It'd be nice if we had some clear hypotheses in mind before charging off in all directions.
I believe it's this : https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txwd.11...

Courtesy of https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=coinbase-funds-lawsuit-agai...
Plan Your Trip in 1 Click – Product Demo
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This is why we are working on a new platform that generates unique travel recommendations in 1 click. What makes Less different is that it’s lightning fast, and saves you plenty of time and stress when organizing your next trip. Itineraries are never identical to one another, and we plan to bring customization based on one’s preferences, interests, and needs to a whole new level.

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Oh its a human right. you've won the argument then
in rwanda? read the schematic diagram then hack left and right
I want to come up with such an idea and do the same but I always think "wow my idea is amazing" but then after a few days I realize that it's not really what the market needs. Do you have any tips on how to improve this ideation process?
No, it isn't. Banks exist to induce stability and liquidity (i.e., the efficient flow of capital) within the economy. Hot dog stands exist to sell hot dogs. Money exchanges exist to transfer currencies to (you guessed it) facilitate commerce in different regions.

The hair you're attempting to split between "laundering" and "washing" does not exist in the financial world, and would not impress financial regulators.
I wonder if this is the main reason the Apple Card hasn't expanded to other countries? I don't know if the Apple brand is incentive enough for banks in Canada or the UK to expand who they offer their credit cards to. At the end of the day, it's the Bank that is taking all the risk.
This wasn't true of software, so I don't know that we should expect it to be true of AI.
> As a larger point, it is important to have multiple web stacks so that no one player can dictate what the web should look like, or gate access through that stack.

That strikes me as a pretty naive view. If you y've got a webstack with >90% market share, you effectively have one webstack which dictates what the web should look like.

Because most devs will only test for it (best ROI) and most users will switch to it when their ability to use the web on other stacks starts degrading.
The commute can optionally be replaced by other activities with a bit of diligence. Personally, I'll go for a run mid day. I know others that will go for a walk in the morning and after work. Others will perform some other task to decompress.

It's all about what's knowing what's best for you. If you need to get in the car and sit in traffic to decompress, you still have that option if you WFH. But just like commuting takes energy, so does getting up and decompressing in a way that is beneficial for yourself.
> one large industrial conglomerate had resorted to buying washing machines just to scavenge the chips inside them for its products

Is this really more efficient than say, contacting the washing machine manufacturer and buying up the chips at a premium (i.e. above the washing machine cost).

I usually applaud hacky solutions, but this just feels like a ton of unnecessary waste. I would prefer scrapping features (like Tesla did with the USB ports) over trashing a ton of washing machines.
Article is dated 2008 but the timeline clearly goes up to 2011 so I believe the date I appended to title is correct.
How would you distinguish cognitive limitations from having insufficient data?
I think that is an idea behind many air filters. You will get build up in areas of the "maze", but ideally the lighter portions of the air will be able to basically bounce out and through. Some bigger particles will get lucky and find an exit.
It seems like you're projecting modern abundance backwards onto a period of relative scarcity. Hunter-gatherers could not possibly have satisfied half of their calories with honey.

A google search indicates that:
a) a pound of honey (~1500 calories) would account for a little over half of a man's daily required calories (Google says 2500, but presumably an active hunter-gatherer required more), and
b) the average (wild) beehive creates ~50 pounds of honey per year.

For a single man to satisfy half of his caloric intake with honey, he'd have to consume ~7.3 beehives per year. A tribe of 100 would consume the production of ~700 wild beehives each year!
anti-trust law would prevent the most egregious forms of this
I do wish more email clients could render markdown from a plaintext message (written with markdown syntax, of course).
The problem at least with MSSQL is that these Table Valued Functions or User Defined Functions (scalar) are definitely not zero-cost abstractions.

Another issue is that the “SELECT” is also part of the function, which makes it even worse - so you can’t create just one function and reuse it all over the place. If only you could tell SQL that a certain JOIN always contains one row, or zero or one row (for a LEFT JOIN), then there would be more room for optimization.
Amazon has your shipping address. Given an address, I can get the size of your house, the number of floors, room distribution and price from a few API calls, no ML required.
* "lower-level" / "system-level" / "middle-level"
Blue Origin New Shepard fails during first stage ascent, capsule survives
It’s not true that SQLite is tiny. I don’t know what portion of the test harnesses you’re seeing in the GitHub repo you looked at, but a portion of SQLite’s tests are proprietary. [0] The size of the SQLite test code is legendary, and exceeds that of the program code by an order of magnitude.

[0] https://www.sqlite.org/testing.html
True, but these are all less than 20%, a change which is likely indistinguishable for any sort of risk factors, and likely well within the measurement error for something difficult to measure like this.

The true change we need to make is drastically reduce car use, to a tiny fraction of its current use. This is a hard social problem, however, particularly for the older generations who tend to wield power in most governments. Younger folks seem pretty excited to allow more biking and walking and rolling, though.
I don't know that it's really an apples-to-apples comparison. Console emulators are a copyright issue and those are generally (but not always) civil matters.
Also, the Swiss diet is interesting. Pretty carb heavy with morning pastries, and bread, and cheese throughout the day.

They also bike and spend time outside a lot, when the weather is amenable.

Maybe part of our problem in the USA comes down to availability of cost effective, convenient, semi-healthy options on average- Way too much preservative-heavy calorie festivals day in and day out?

I'm not a dietician, but the state of affairs stateside is without a doubted tragic and sad.
All these could be submissions to https://instagram.com/influencersinthewild
Energy equals force times distance equals mass times acceleration times distance.

The energy to move 50kg to 100kg+ many kilometers dwarfs any difference in energy usage due to efficiency and transporting the fuel to a home.
I would describe myself as a practical royalist. If I were writing a constitution from scratch I'd never have an undemocratically elected head of state. But, what we have works. Id rather have the queen any day over another politician. I'm British I can understand other nations having differing pov.

I don't know how Canada does it but in the UK the prime minister is chosen by the party. You don't vote directly for them. As such it isn't a democratically elected position so it isn't really any better than the status quo.
If Tornado Cash implemented KYC requirements and a 100% traceable log, what fraction of their existing users would continue to use them?
> Our elected head of state would not be allowed to make decisions based on their own political opinions (much like a judge uses their power according to the law and the facts of the case, not letting their personal politics get in the way).

How do you judge the internal forum in that case? If the head of state says that they chose X because it is the right choice, but it's pretty clear to everyone that they wanted to choose X for personal political reasons, how do you prove it?

And if you have a method to prove it, why not use that method to arbitrate instead?
What might look like a most successful set of design decisions for you, can be viewed as a set of unfavorable tradeoffs by somebody else.

To squash or not to squash is a never ending debate precisely because of that. There isn't a right way to do it, each approach has a set of tradeoffs.

Maybe they are reinventing the wheel, but at their scale it's a tiny decision that doesn't mean that much. If they find out they are wrong, they can choose to migrate to Git instantly.
Prepare to pay for Akka – the open source toolkit you may not know you’re using
Why reinvent the wheel?

If you give me a choice between implementing a solver in an imperative language or a website in Prolog, I'll choose writing the solver. Every time.

Problems in the context of a programming environment where you're already using other languages. Introducing a specialized one does not necessarily make much sense.
I have no problem with Tornado Cash being openly available software under a permissive license. I have a problem with people running a Tornado Cash-based service that is really just a money laundering service.

You should take a step back: "open source" does not rinse away the underlying properties of a service. I can't write and deploy a web application that contracts hitmen and use the MIT license as a defense; the latter simply isn't being litigated.
"[Plain-text email] is strongly preferred"

I think it's significant that this is written in the passive voice. Because written this way it has the semblance of officialness, of generalness. Whereas writing it in the active voice would reveal that the people doing the preferring are just the people who made this website, and this preference is just that: a preference.

I love HTML emails, because I use italics basically all the time in my writing, and underscores _just don't offer the same experience_.
> The chief selling point of Tornado Cash is that it's distributed open-source software, with no man in the middle, no single point of failure

for laundering money. You can't remove the key feature from metaproperties of the software and call the latter the "chief selling point."
It's worth noting your second reference only mentions illicit activity volume in passing, linking to this study as a source: https://blog.chainalysis.com/reports/crypto-mixer-criminal-v...

It's also worth noting the headline of that link: "Crypto Mixer Usage Reaches All-time Highs in 2022, With Nation State Actors and Cybercriminals Contributing Significant Volume"

Quoting from later in that study, "Overall, if we label cybercriminal organizations with known nation state affiliations, we can see that these groups make up a significant and growing share of all illicit cryptocurrency sent to mixers."

It's not 10-30% as you summarized. It's 12% last year increasing to 23% this year, or nearly doubling from a 1/8 to 1/4 share.

This source does not support the position that illicit traffic is an insignificant share of mixer traffic.
And what windowing toolkit do you think it sould use on Linux? GTK? Meh. Qt is fine and using QtWidgets is pretty far from depending on QtWebEngine.
This comment makes no sense, walking towards bystanders to stave them off is definitely "police work" and actively involved. And even if it isn't, you can just start arguing with the bystanders, and suddenly it is police work.
I've been using MailMate[1] on MacOS, but I don't know any other email clients that render Markdown.

[1]: https://freron.com/
The chief purpose of a mixer is financial privacy. It’s just that on a public blockchain privacy from snoops and privacy from law enforcement can’t be differentiated.
HTML in email was a deeply horrible idea with no justification beyond "Well, Microsoft wanted to make some emails prettier…"
Does anyone have a link to a video of what this will look like on rainy roads, snow and ice?
This is truly shocking.

"...tributyltin or TBT, a chemical used in wood preservatives, among other things. In experiments exposing mice to low and supposedly safe levels of TBT, Blumberg and his colleagues found significantly increased fat accumulation in the next three generations."
The report is dated september 1981; the link points to the revised 1982 version; the author is Ric Holt (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ric_Holt).

He was also involved in the implementation of the Euclid programming language used for Tunis. It's remarkable that Euclid was originally designed by Butler Lampson at Xerox PARC, where also Smalltalk, Mesa and Cedar were invented.
Ask HN: Auto refinance your mortgage, any players doing it?
With mortgage rates climbing up with fed rate increases, as they come down, in the next 2-3 years, it will be a refi boom.

Are there any products out they that promote or guarantee automatic refinancing, with calculation of savings goals?

Should the lenders or banks that hold a mortgage loan, gather a "consent" to auto refi?
Can you show me any statement in US law where such a practice is illegal? What you're describing sounds exactly like a casino.
One factor I've run into is the cost of offshore development for non-Java technologies. It's so much more difficult to find .NET Core developers in India than a Java developer for example. Forget about Rust or Go. Many enterprise development operations view developers as fungible which I disagree with, but it's much easier to pretend they are fungible if you're using something like Java rather than Rust.
That depends entirely on what the intent is. If the intent is to launder money then yes it is probably illegal. If the intent is to swap notes with your favourite serial numbers then yes it is probably legal. Intent is a important part of most legislations.
Yes, but when people slack off in the office, they generally do so by engaging someone else in conversation. So slacking off in the office is ruins two people's productivity as opposed to one. Making it harder to slack off feels virtuous, but it's like criminalizing drugs to combat organized crime.
wow. that is impressive.. but surely this CP-SAT solver can't compete with the commercial offerings like Gurobi and CPLEX right? it'd be huge news if so... but I haven't seen it rank at all on the LP-focused benchmarks I've been looking at.
A good manager must be at least good at anything their staff is doing

Completely disagree. I've never had a manager who was as good as me at doing my particular job, even when I was the most junior of developers and that has not once been a problem. Even the bad managers I've had weren't bad because they could help me with my day to day job. If I needed help with those aspects of my job I spoke to the project lead or one of the senior developer.
> We've just decided to be wasteful with our land use to milk more money out of it, and to force the hand of people who might object to that with laws like single family zoning.

Some of us don't want to live in an urban filing cabinet.
Not sure I agree. My anecdotal first hand experience is that it's irrespective of talent or work ethic.
It depends on how you see it.

One way to look at it is to say "I derived this rule based on what the ratio of licit to illicit usage is, thus it should apply everywhere." From that perspective, then yes, your observation that it would apply to both situations is correct.

Another way to look at it is "for this particular scenario, what is the optimal outcome?" If you're running a game console emulator for a system that's not being sold anymore, with games that are not being sold anymore, one could argue that that scenario would be net positive considering the lack of harm; in other words, you get to enjoy the game, while nobody gets hurt, so it's positive overall.

The first perspective is called "rule utilitarianism," while the latter is called "act utilitarianism," in case you want to learn more about those.
Notably, they are not colliding with each other, I don't think. That is what he meant by adding pressure. If you made it more like a "flood fill" of the maze, where new particles are pushing into the maze, that would be similar. Though, I would guess that the earlier particles added would be higher probability to get out first. (Which would fit the intuition.)
The primary reason casinos, banks, money exchanges and hot dog stands exist aren't to facilitate money laundering, unlike Tornado, according to the government.
You can literally go through the rekt leaderboard [1] and count how many of the stories end with "and then the funds were routed to tornado cash, fin." It's not exactly a secret, and it doesn't require any specuation.

[1] https://rekt.news/leaderboard/
The difference between laundering and washing doesn’t exist in current financial regulation.

It does to those who believe in financial privacy.