skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nonsense.

Go to GBTC ATM shops in Barcelona, they'll do KYC-less $100K transactions for 4% transaction fees. I was shocked and walked out of the shop.

If you come to South Florida, you'll find that there was an era where cartels would pay high schoolers to roll up to ATM's and empty them of cash one by one.

Crypto ATMs have 7%-15% fees with no KYC up to 1k USD and have grown about 5x-10x in the last 5 years in the USA.

Ask yourself, do Somalis in Minneapolis care about cryptocurrency or did the proliferation of Crypto ATMs in the city and subsequent drought of court cases around Al Shabab money laundering in the region have some sort of relevant relationship?

If you go to China, from what I've been told, there's private OTC massive wechat groups that have coded words for crypto transactions.

In India, it's the same now, you can liquidate crypto on the street with ease.

The real problem now for the market cap of cryptos is the ultimate draw down in the growth rate of KYC'd accounts in demographically high gdp growth countries.

India implemented 1% per trade, zero loss deduction, 30% cap gains taxes on crypto...essentially incentivizing indigenous stock ownership over any and all crypto assets.

Portugal implemented crypto short term capital gain taxes as well.

It might be easier to trace than paper money, but it's still a world class indefatigable money laundering substrate that trades well with watches and other asset classes.

Customs agents at major ports of entries have not been checking watches. Miami etc...
What about tumblers?
Could we tell if an image was fake before? There are plenty of cases where people have been fooled by images, even predating computers and photoshop:

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-apr-07-oe-russ7...

In many cases, the way people learn that images were faked is by someone recognizing details that only they could have known. For example, in the case where Oprah's head was put on Anne Margeret's body on the cover of TV Guide, the fake was discovered because someone recognized the dress, not because of a formal analysis of the photo in some way.
People switch apps almost instantly once there is better service elsewhere. Nothing gets you searching for a new taxi app quicker than seeing a 10 minute wait for your Uber.

There is almost 0 stickiness to taxi apps like Uber or Bolt or Lyft or [...]
And if you don't like Kustomize, try Jsonnet. I wish this was a more common setup. This works very well at my company.
1.) Create incredibly useful company that the public mass adopts and uses.

2.) Fuel adoption by running in the red, subsidising consumer costs to keep prices low and fuel adoption.

3.) IPO and sucker all those consumers into buying shares in a company they know and love.

4.) Cash out and let the new shareholders figure out that the company isn't at all sustainable.
It's absurd to call capitalism the problem for e.g. pollution (which is a typical example of 'capitalism is the problem' statements), which every economic system faced (and the communist systems handled much worse than the capitalist), not to mention comparing slavery to 21st century employment in the West. The people uttering those statements know that, they're neither stupid nor children who haven't yet gotten an education, so they're lying, and they're doing so to manipulate.

A similar absurd lie that is intended to manipulate: Russia is being attacked by NATO and only defends itself against the fascists in Ukraine.

> It's self evident that there should be separate standards for that.

Sure, but they shouldn't be based on whether something is true or wrong, absurd or plausible, or said with intent to manipulate or inform.

Better criteria are required, or we'll be back to Twitter's stance of "this instance is against TOS, and that same thing isn't, because we feel like the author didn't mean it the same way", which comes down to "there are no rules other than don't do something/be someone I dislike".
> Well, except for the important detail that KYC requirements don't preclude the need for warrants...

Banks and law enforcement frequently share data without caring about warrants. One example: if you send a $10K wire (in the US), your bank may voluntarily submit a Suspicious Activity Report. And since they may be liable if they choose not to report, but are not liable if they do report, guess which option they typically choose?
See eg https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/09/18/too-much-dark-money-in...
Or https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/luminous/ for more fine-grained control (block individual JS events, not all JS from a given page).

Or uBlockOrigin in "medium mode" or higher incorporates JS blocking on a per-site basis.
> Avoid state like the plague
This really depends on the problem domain. Application state is fine in many areas, and in the case the state is non trivial managing it in the application is a lot easier that pushing to databases.
It may be useful to remember, from 2014 to 2018, 95%+ of HN comments were for Digital Payment and Anti-Paper Money.
Twenty years ago, a friend of mine noted that if cash were invented today, it would be illegal.
As much as any sane development team tries to avoid breaking changes, they're virtually inevitable for a long-enough-lived client/server platform.

A nice poison pill built in up front lets the ancient clients that for whatever reason aren't being upgraded at least get a nice informational prompt when those breaking changes happen, instead of a potentially uglier failure mode

Its one of those things that you think you'll never need because of course you wouldn't make breaking changes, but then at some point an unstoppable force hits an immovable object and this becomes the least-bad way out for user experience
I largely agree with the take that Uber is an inefficient company, but I don't think Uber is as simple as "an app company". Uber's main challenge is people. They're basically one of the largest employers on Earth (est. ~4 million drivers). They operate across all regions. All of that adds complexity.
I'd guess a business like Uber must need legions of driver / customer support.
No, but I have higher demands for evidence of their necessity if they do. Otherwise I may just leave the question open.
> Also, putting in 6B to get back 6B 10 or so years later sounds like a shitty investment to me

Note that the investment wasn't to get back $6b ten years later, it was for all future profits.

This was one of the very best investments in decades.
I wonder who you think are those "globalist elites" and why are you against them?

(that's a rhetorical question, don't answer please)
Engine Sim: Procedurally generating audio using a real-time fluid simulation
I see no reason to assume that configuration would be the only (or dominant) source of unchecked interpolation inputs. Might be a common use case, but certainly not exclusive. The big issue is that many projects, perhaps deep in the transitive dependency stack, use the library, likely just for some trivial missing convenience methods on the standard lib String (and in the StringUtils of commons-lang/lang3), and once it's on the classpath it will get used by every intern who ever committed something to the code. Most dependors will likely not use interpolation at all so the impact is much lower than in the log4j incident, but a lot of things will need to be checked and/or updated. Commons text is much less ubiquitous than commons lang, but that might just put it in the perfect position for a sneaky transitive presence.

According to the sentence before the of about untrusted configurations, "untrusted" configuration includes the default: unless your configuration is explicitly hardened, any call to the string interpolator with unsanitized content is an open door. (the open question is wether calls to the string interpolator exist)
Even a vacuum system would imply pressurised (well at least forced, I'm not sure if there's technically a difference here) air.
I had to create a new thread because this one was flagged (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33232983)
https://www.econlib.org/wokism-in-the-developing-world/
Hence, why my original post said Uber will have to shrink tech/HQ employees, reduce incentives, and admit that growth will reverse/decline.
A permanent public ledger of all transactions -- I was never clear why that was private. Could anybody explain why it is considered hard to trace?
Jerry: "Who’s McKinsey?"

It’s a consulting firm.

"Are they funny?"

No.

"Then I don’t need them"

I like this.
The main problem is that in the US, it is nearly illegal to engage in a private, anonymous financial transactions - whether in Bitcoin, Dollars, or anything else. There is a loophole for small transactions in paper money, but that loophole is slowly being closed.

This is not a technology problem. It is a policy problem.
Apparently Arecibo was the source for the cover art for Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures. Neat.

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/sa-visual/pop-culture-p...
American Airlines is trying to stop a popular app used by flight attendants
That's a lot of words to levy a simple ad hominem.

Regardless of the truth or falsehood of your observation, publicly-verified blockchain-backed currencies are easily traced (especially now that they've become valuable enough for companies with money to invest in solving the problem). The possibility that the messenger has a vested interest in amplifying this message is orthogonal to the truth of it.
More companies worldwide train people instead of taking them already trained from academia and alike. So it makes perfect sense to charge for something you had to be educated about.
Large swaths of land, but not absurdly large; the apartment towers two streets from me as I write, could generate about half their needs from PV cladding, and I'm in Berlin, slightly further north than the US-Canada border.

Likewise, PV cladding on electric cars, even though this is absolutely not the optimal place for PV, can generate 50-80% of the mean demand for that vehicle in most places.

But PV scales up and down, so you can also use it as a roofing material in a car park (one of the reasons cladding cars themselves in PV isn't the best idea), or on otherwise worthless land like the gap between the eastbound and westbound I-80 [0], or on top of reservoirs and rivers where we want to reduce evaporation [1].

Given where the sunlight mostly falls and where people mostly live, the biggest discrepancies are the UK (mostly as bad as the coastal mountains on the strip of Canada between Washington state and Alaska), and China (the people mostly live in the east which is relatively cloudy, the desert where they put some (but not all) of their PV is in the west).

For the small settlements that can't use PV and which it would be uneconomical to connect to a grid, there's wind and geothermal, and the rest may be so few as to not actually matter for environmental purposes if they do keep using diesel or methane. But probably not nuclear, because you can get a lot of transmission cable for the price of a reactor.

[0] I'm not sure how big that gap is, but a few random samples suggest 15 meters width, which means 20% efficient PV there has a nameplate capacity of 14 GW, and even assuming just 10% duty factor that's still more than a nuclear power plant, but the capacity factor is mostly going to be 18% in the area the I-80 goes through.

The entire US interstate network, assuming 15 m direction separation and 20% efficiency, has room for 235 GW nameplate, adjust accordingly for capacity factor.

There's much more length of railway line in the US, though I have no idea what the average width is over its length, and I don't understand the engineering constraints well enough to know how close PV could be placed to the rails (between the sleepers?)

[1] Lake Mead by itself would be enough for 128 GW nameplate, looking at the solar potential in that area it probably has a capacity factor of 22%.
> What is better for employees - to have the option to get training and have to stay at the company one year, or to not have the option at all?

What is better for employers, provide free training to cheaper employees, or choosing more expensive employees from a smaller pool of trained people?
If it makes you feel better, this post is published on the blog of Metaphysic, a company that makes hyperrealistic avatars (aka deepfakes).
But what is capitalism for if I'm not guaranteed a profit (says every large corporation)?

You are right though in that's its just another way to socialise the costs and privatise the profits.
Selling a Company
I struggle to remember the paper, I'll post it here if I think of it.
oh, it's just a small project I created, and that I hope not too many people use as I prefer pure SQL queries... so hopefully this doesn't create a big confusion.

Also, they are for very different stuff.. and it's hard coming up with a small easy name that hasn't been used by anything else nowadays.
This is really concerning. How are people going to use blockchain to do nefarious things if it's easier to track?
Largely issue is not the loss of anonymity, which average person does not care about, but economically, long-term, blockchain-based financial systems will likely create more centralized systems, not less.

If I am missing something, would be interested in understanding why.
I saw the same thing in college, but I narrowed it down not to intelligence, but aptitude for abstract vs concrete thought.

In high school everyone either struggles with geometry or algebra, while finding the other relatively accessible. College magnifies this effect.

I intensely struggled with calculus, far and away my hardest subject. Friends those raw intelligence was similar to my own found calculus to be laughably easy - I complained about how poorly our textbook explained new concepts, and my friends praised exactly the traits I criticized.

I also found that some people had to learn computer science bottom-up, while others (like myself) had to learn top-down. Some friends couldn't get comfortable with high-level concepts until they understood how every piece worked, down to the metal, while I couldn't wrap my head around the low-level concepts until I understood how they fit into the big picture of problem solving.

I've seen this pattern repeat again and again during and after college. And it doesn't help that the people who like teaching abstract subjects are the people who never found those subjects a struggle.
My wife and I have wanted to learn it for years so we could communicate to each other while holding hands. But who has the time?
Yup. My slavish devotion to “personal responsibility” means I can’t even understand how decisions made at a corporation, insulated from the very personal responsibility I care so much about and powered by unlimited piles of cash can run human lives.
however whether the people working through uber are considered uber's employees varies by jurisdiction.

so you should only count those drivers in jurdistiction where they've been clearly defined as Uber's employees
Okay, but the social contract defends you from the violence of everyone else starting a few months before you're actually born. Sure, it might not be a great contract even given that, and I agree it should be easier to shop around the social contract you want (or that there should be the option not to have one a la seasteading). But given how much it provides before someone is able to understand the terms of a contract like that, it makes sense for it to be opt-in.
That paper is from 2018. I expect they've been remediated by now, though everything is going to be vulnerable at some point in some way. What matters is for how long.
More deserving then all 50 other states and D.C.?
My first one would be "can I hire any reasonable sysadmin for that at all?"

Among others - is it supported by any hosting vendor or I'll be forced to tinker with it myself without even cloud-init tooling?
The fact that they got different numerical results from the same data and the difference wasn't explained by the choice of statistical tools the applied us very concering.

I interpret it to mean that different researchers applied same math to same data and got different results.
Does 5.46B Gross Profit in Q1 alone sound like a shitty investment to you? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
not entirely correct; if you both earn and spend all of your crypto directly as cryptocurrency, then you can fairly easily just remain entirely anonymous. This just doesn't apply to most people, at least most who do legal business.
Tether is a centralized bank that happens to use a blockchain as a backend. When people say "crypto is transparent" that doesn't mean you can't build things that are not transparent that use crypto. Similarly, one can benefit from a fully-open laptop (with open firmware running Linux or whatever) even if it allows people to still develop closed source software that runs on it, and even if some of that software is merely a front for software that runs on it is just a client for some remote server whose behavior cannot be modeled... because on the locked down device (imagine an iPhone) you can never develop something whose behavior is transparent as you can never discount what the platform is letting the developer hide from you.
The problem is even if/when you get to a reasonable facsimile of self-driving for easier conditions, e.g. highways in good weather, that does very little to get you door-to-door service in generally urban areas in most kinds of weather.
In the supplementary behind the scenes footage, the other cast members specifically mention that their job was easy in comparison because they showed up, said their lines, then left for the summer, while Jerry (and Larry, when he was working on the show) were putting in grueling, obsessive 18 hour days, all year long, for the duration of the series.
Kanye “Ye” West Buys Parler
Russia, up to this point, has lacked in manpower, but has plenty of equipment (questionable quality, sure, but they do have it). Ukraine has had the opposite problem, but they've been receiving heavy training and equipment from NATO. Now that Ukraine has built up stockpiles and trained enough people they are mobilizing and retaking territory. However, with the Russian conscription underway, there's no saying if that momentum will continue.

Ukraine will still have an advantage in numbers, but if the war drags on too long they risk losing some political/material support, as the economic war has hit Europe especially hard (US support can/will probably continue indefinitely, though). There have already been many times in the past months when European leaders called for negotiations and ceasefire according to domestic political shifts, so I think this is a big "hidden" danger for UA.
I don't imagine businesses are expending these capital costs with the intention of closing up shop the next day. So, yes, clearly.
> Do we want to eradicate mosquitoes?

Yes; fuck them.

We (intentionally or no, mostly not) cause the extinction of hundreds to thousands of species every year for much more mundane reasons: deforestation is the big one, climate change another. And that buys us arguably nothing but enriching people that benefit from the process of deforestation and climate change--folks that're economically desperate enough to log illegally, and energy barons. These extinctions are mostly tragic, and the net benefit to human societies is likely negative.

Mosquitoes are fucking evil. They kill more humans every year than any other animal. Malaria is only the most well-known disease they spread; see also dengue ("breakbone fever", named for what it feels like), West Nile virus, and more. Those that malaria doesn't kill are frequently left with a low-level chronic infection that makes them less effective as people. Malaria and mosquitoes kill children, disable the working population, and economically cripple entire nations.

As best we can tell, things that eat mosquitoes also eat other things. But I'd vote for nuking the mozzies from orbit even if that weren't the case. They're such an unmitigated cause of human suffering and hardship.
They did indeed write down their investment in Rivian, but they still made a healthy 3x gain, just not 30x.
Yes, because remember, humans hear frequency doubling as an octave pitch change. So 1200 divided or multiplied by any multiple of 2 sounds like the same note. You are finding the note in between N and 2N, to find the version of the note in the same octave, to approximate your scale note to.
Also, bad for the employer that trained you, they may be employers willing to immediately pay you more because you have already been trained and so they don't have to bear that cost.
https://archive.ph/tIKXh
Can't agree with you there. I've never seen a situation in which it was necessary to recover "optimistically" soft-deleted data. I have seen multiple situations in which soft-deleted data was accidentally included in live queries.
The point being made, if we scroll way back up this thread, is that Rust (supposedly, I have maybe 30 mins of experience with it) has these protections built into the language, and doesn't require compiler flags with "DEBUG" in their name to get them.

If this is true, for new projects, such as the experimental OS we're all talking about, Rust (or any language with a similar feature) could be a better choice.
I've wondered how he does this too. He alludes to it "go back to the same place every day for weeks at a time". But he doesn't really go beyond this. I need to remember to ask for an article that goes into more detail about his approach. It could be that he's just very gregarious with strangers - don't really know.
It's decoupled of when that happens but tightly coupled with the rejection of that attempt.
Yeah but it's decentralized financial surveillance!
I don’t think there is any one addition to the C that has moved C to far up the complexity hierarchy. It is the cumulative effect of all the proposals submitted, some of which are approved, and the movement to continue to add more. Like I said, C still enables developers to restrict themselves to a simple and long existing subset of features and idioms making coding in C a productive exercise for experienced developers. But the continued push from all directions, and with varying likelihood of being accepted, to change the language wear on me, to the point I continually want to just make a C99 clone with my preferred improvements and just use that instead.

Also, I suspect I phrased the ‘C in head CS C in 2022’ line backwards from what I thought I was saying. In my mind I was saying the arguments for the simplicity of C had less to do with the language as it exists now and more to do with the closeness of the language to some ISA/actual machine’s operating characteristic in the past. It was that closeness that enabled (or necessitated) C’s simplicity.

It wasn’t about the changes the committee has made to the language since the 1990’s. The tie in point was (in my mind) implied to be that now that C has become even less of a mapping to actual hardware the simplicity sought in a C replacement should look different, but commenters seem to be looking at a very surface level.
Pokemon Deckz – realistic looking CSS effects for Pokemon cards
>At least for me, the most obvious cases are when a person from a non-protected class

That only works for the very obvious cases. Plenty of 'protected class' individuals exist who in reality live far more privileged than those not in a 'protected class'.

The basis being people are trying to substitute empathy and common sense with catch-all rules. Which in the context of humans has worked out a grand total of 0 times across our entire existence.