skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
[0] mentions the "Cheddar Man" from 10,000 years ago as having dark skin and blue eyes, whereas originally he was depicted as having light skin - and that was probably just an assumption. I don't think there was as much awareness before that there was a time in Europe where people were dark skinned, and it didn't spread over night. The article from the post is talking about fossils from between 400,000 to 500,000 years ago, and uses the word ancient, but it's not something you can compare in timescale to say ancient Egypt, which may evoke images of the pyramids or something. Humans were drastically different and wildly more diverse.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ancient-briton-had...
A lot of other frauds seem to be more about creating an aura of wonder and a cult of personality that people invest in, and they are smart enough not to make specific claims. For example, "you'll be in on the ground floor of this rocket" is entirely metaphorical if there is no floor and no rocket. "The Army is using this machine on the battlefield with Med-Evac teams" is a potentially fraudulent statement without a lot of nuance, and you can't walk it back by saying what you mean is that someone you were talking to in the DOD mentioned the finished product could be useful for them.
Another question that I can't quite figure out from your docs is if your bots functionality works with non-AWS hosting?
Even found herself a spouse to have 2 kids with while on her journey through the criminal court system. Actually kind of impressive.
In my career I have two clear examples of projects that

a) Got cancelled shortly before launching

b) Took several people several months to complete (amounting to a number of people-years)

and most importantly

c) Would not have started if someone had asked the right questions early on

I believe as engineers we can achieve big impact by preventing doomed projects from lifting off. That being said, it requires a certain support and company culture that aren't available everywhere.
At least MMDF was (a little) earlier. Maybe it lacked some features compared to sendmail? It ran at several university sites at least. It was an early adopter of least-privilege architecture, predating qmail by a lot.
Isn't it the case that he could not spend the Bitcoins? The original Silk Road account obtained the funds illegally. He obtained them from the Silk Road account illegally. As long as the funds remained as Bitcoin the Feds didn't know who he was or where they existed. Once he tried to exchange the Bitcoin for something usable like dollars his identity can be obtained.

Laundering Bitcoin can likely be done - it just isn't as easy as everyone assumes.
Would the $5 droplet scale (and charge appropriately) if their specified bandwidth is exceeded?
I have adhd and i take a (very small) dosage of a stimulant at times. It has quite bad side effects for me which is why I take so little.
I think the reason why it is an "open secret" is because it is not possible to be open about such handicaps. If i was open to my employer about my adhd I would have to fear losing my job, even though that is illegal. That is rule number one that was ingrained into me, never tell anyone about this condition. It's sad because being open would help deconstruct stigmas etc.
Curious why you say that it mocks the original intention.

If they're infringing on you, and you're infringing on them, then it nets out. By patenting your own developments, you allow yourself to legally net out. If you don't patent it, then in the eyes of the law it is not equal. Seems like its a quantification of intellectual property, which doesn't mock anything.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/01/magazine/fbi-terrorism-te...

Nice article. How about when they threatened Muslims with being added to the no fly list or deportation if they didn't inform on their friends or people at their mosque? I think the fundamental problem is that bringing a big case can make someone's career. This can motivate some law enforcement agents to do all kinds of things that are either illegal or probably should be. On the other hand the prestige/career factor motivates lots of good police work too.
This is the crypto ponzi falling apart. First the smaller ponzis fall apart so the larger ponzis need to step in so the fact that the entire thing is one big Ponzi doesn’t get fully exposed.

The Ponzi falling and subsequent cover up by the bigger Ponzi keeps going up the chain until those at the top of the Ponzi food chains collapse.

Right now it looks like that might be Binance.
Your car likely does not have enough volume to accommodate the required equipment. Just one of these subwoofers occupies the entire bed of a typical pickup truck. Two of these are used in my listening space.

The lower the loudspeaker goes, the bigger it needs to be.
To put it explicitly: if you don't tip, you're personally choosing for that person to make as little as $2.13 an hour for that transaction. Most would balk at pulling that lever.
It's worth examining how much of the current failure and stalemating in the US government is the deliberate product of mass foreign psy-op campaigns, conducted significantly via social media, to undermine the quality of the electoral field, and the electorate itself.
Raising rates seems to help. The more they're paying you, the more they're willing to listen, it seems. Though of course you can never completely escape bad clients.
Your opinion here is highly ignorant.

There’s been tons of advancements on higher fidelity motion, better interaction , pose blending, constraint targeting, secondary motion, pose based deformation etc..
Their specific claim is "not consciously detectable" (different from "inaudible"), which they had a side-experiment to verify:

>To confirm that the VLFs were not consciously detectable, 17 new participants completed a two-alternative forced choice task using the same VLF speakers ... Participants performed at chance
Storing money costs money: at least the bank fees, if not the negative interest rates.

Processing money costs even more money: operations must be scrutinized, international movements require validation and communication, and various AML/CFT/Fraud procedures must perform investigations etc. You have accounts in various currencies, perform conversions to maintain liquidity…

So I can see why they would start dipping their toes into investments. Once they start, they probably don’t consider enforcing Basel III to their procedures, and things just unfold.
All the more reason for them to go down sooner rather than later because they’re eventually gonna go down, so better now where they will have less impact outside the crypto world than they would a few months or years later.
Thanks! It means a lot from someone in the space. There is a ton of duplicated effort out there.
1) Are there any legal issues with Elon lying about the health of his private company to the public? No.

2) All that activity increase AND none of them are bots?

One would expect a drop in active users since Elon was so dead set on dismantling the supposed bot network that fuels Twitter.
I agree that the false positives (I wouldn’t call these mistakes, and certainly not screw ups) might be about as common as with other companies. After all, they often more or less did the same tests (but IIRC, ¿sometimes? with samples that were too small to work well)

I also think it would be much harder to prove intent to hurt than intent to defraud investors, making it easier to prosecute for fraud.
If I recall correctly, some Lisp dialects had a super character that world close n open parentheses left open.

You may have confused interesting with useful...

Have a nice say ;)
Seems like a non-binding agreement. DD has not yet been done, deal could fall through.

SBF just got Jack Ma'ed by CZ.
The article you linked says credits are "over 20%" of overall profit. Carbon Credits matter less and less for Tesla.

In Q3 2022, CCs were $286M, revenue $21.5B, GAAP net income $3.3B. So CCs were only 8.7% of the profits and 1.3% of the revenue.
Black MIDI is post-punk since MIDI came in the 1980’s and Black MIDI only became possible years later when computers became much more powerful.

And of course, Black MIDI has a formalism consistent with academic music and modernist composition of the 20th century.

Which is to say, Black MIDI is avant-garde and insiders sitting at computer looking at notes on a screen.

There’s no outrage and nothing outrageous.
Thanks for the thoughts! I agree that FHIR extensions are clunky and very commonly the data you're trying to store can be represented by a FHIR resource. Extensions are clunky, but for some of our projects have been the only way to store a couple pieces of data that we need.
It sucks though since I sort of liked that work and had some respect of my peers. Now I just bounce from team to team every 18 months (lateral moves, no raise). I probably could have stayed there and gotten a promotion if I played the politics and kept my mouth shut. Now I'm just a lazy slacker because I've gotten shafted by the company a couple time.

It's a great compliment for your peers to call you a senior or tech lead, but it only opens the door to the great insult of your managers keeping you from the actual roles.
This is the only justice I ever get as an IC/tech lead - to watch things crumble just as I expect.

It's happened several times. It's happening right now in my team, in fact. It's so off the rails I don't have time to interview for a new job.
You could try to associate this with the rubber duck trick where you just tell your problem to anyone, just to articulate the problem may very well solve it. You don't need input.

In my experience this is also a women-men difference in brain wiring. Men often looks for help when he fails to solve a problem, women always looking for emotional support before solving a problem.

If you give a solution for someone looking for an emotional support or vica-versa you've expreienced one of the main source of frustration in relationships :)
> smells like Binance played 4D chess all along

It's not really "4D chess" to screw over your competitor to corner the market.

That's like, business 101.
Yeah, it seems like scope needed to be reduced in order to deliver an MVP on time.
edit: luckily we can read the story from sibling comment.

edit 2: it's back online and I just re-archived the page in case it goes down again: https://archive.ph/vrgsQ

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yes and both archive.org and archive.is have archived an empty version of the page unfortunately[1][2]... it seems that as of right now (9th Nov 6:26am AEDT) there is no way to read the article. Hopefully it will be back online.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20221108183338/https://doomedpro...

[2] https://archive.ph/uHF4m
It might help to learn about how they spend their time out of work, and to learn about their upbringing and parents. And how they see their goals at work.

I can tell you that many of them also see work as a necessary evil they need to do what they really want.
> There is no meaning in dreams. For many people, it (seems to) repeat memories, and not in a consistent or logical manner. It doesn't tell anything about the future, and doesn't include wise lessons about the past. It's an almost random side effect of the brain.

We don't know what the heck dreams are for yet, or really where they come from, and you are likely correct that they are random signals that occur while your body cleans out your brain at night, or something like that, but you still shouldn't just state that as fact.

Something many people don't understand about drugs, religious experiences, dream interpretation, or anything like that, is that it doesn't matter if anything "real" or "magic" is actually happening, it only matters that it perturbs your mind-scape for a bit to make you look at your life and your problems from a different direction, even if it turns out to be a strange take or totally useless. Often, it helps you to see opportunities or create new stories or ideas that are somewhat useful. Mysticism isn't for everyone, but it is a useful tool for some people.
At present, Bots are AWS-only. We have an active enterprise customer who is exploring porting Bots to Google Cloud Functions. Azure Functions are on the longer term roadmap too.
> Why is it apparently so difficult to run a solvent crypto exchange?

Running a stock exchange is a hard business too; you are the market maker, you set the spread, and the most sophisticated investors in the world are trying to arbitrage you. Any mistake can potentially ruin you. If you do you job right you take a tiny sliver of profit from each transaction.

Now consider crypto, where your ability to pause the market or unwind clearly-erroneous transactions is reduced or removed.

Sounds excruciatingly hard to me.
Why not word processing and a spreadsheet?
When I was in high school, 1996-1999 (and 1999-2002 I suppose? I'm never sure when "high school" ends in English-speaking places) the only elective class was Latin, exterior doors were closed and guarded and when you were late the teachers often sent you to the office. In some especially boring classes with boring teachers, some kids would read books (not school books). It got progressively more free towards the later years (not because of policy changes, older pupils were just less supervised).

I never really enjoyed school or authority after primary school, but I certainly wouldn't call it a nightmare. It was quite fine and I learnt things that I found interesting then, and others that I find useful now. I'm not sure having the exit doors open during class would have improved anything.

Anyway, I just wanted to give my experience because even though we have probably experienced high school in different countries, in my experience it has not gotten more boring than it used to be. And in the country where I live, it's also very different from how it was in mine when I was a kid.
Show HN: The World Election Map
With election day being today in the US, my coworker and I were talking about different election days based on countries, and thought it’d be interesting to have a map showing upcoming voting days across the world. World Election Map visualizes upcoming elections across the planet, and shows different colors based on proximity to the date, basically the more red, the closer to election day. In the future we’d like to add even more sources to make it more useful for people.
It's all lies. Just like everything else involving cryptocurrency.
Watch out for data transfer costs on aws after HN
Why not both? Centralized where people trust, decentralized where people don't trust. In my interpretation, the Bitcoin white paper states that BTC is an answer to _the lack of regulation_ that allowed the fat cats to abuse the money supplies. It's kind of ironic, but to see crypto as purely anarchistic is to ignore that it is essentially _democratized_ money. Both: I use exchanges as well as cold storage.
Thanks! We all have our HL7 v2 pipe delimited scar tissue.
I'm not sure what you're deriving satisfaction out of. That the market prevented someone from being able to earn a living and fulfilling their potential at the same time? I'm genuinely confused
https://ssti.us/2021/07/27/underreported-crashes-are-a-barri...

You're still not zooming out and showing a large lack of empathy. I beg you to go to any cyclist thread on any platform and look at the lived experiences of cyclists vs drivers. Or just talk to some. Or try riding a bike through a city or suburb yourself to do things like get groceries and follow non-standard bike paths to actually do things. I'm not talking about riding a hidden off the road bike path, I mean commuting.

Car-centric infrastructure is violent and makes it so that the default affordance is towards the driver.

1. Turning right on red is dangerous for cyclists, yet legal for cars.
2. Bike lanes are unprotected and far too dangerous for the average commuter, forcing cyclists onto shitty sidewalks with obscured visibility.
3. Intersections and right of way laws in most states make it so cyclists must remain in a dangerous area (an intersection) for longer than is necessary with safe stop laws.
4. Automobiles have such diversity that many people cant even safely see cyclists if they were to follow the "rules of the road" because their visibility is so severely limited. Source : Me any time some asshole in a lifted truck pulls up next to me at a red light when I'm in the bike lane and his door handle is above my fucking head.
5. Bike paths are often obscured from cars until it's too late. Also drivers aren't checking bike paths when turning or approaching an intersection
6. Ever seen someone pull out of a gas station or parking lot? Zero percent chance they are checking the bike lane. Quick head turn to the left, see no cars, then full speed ahead. This is also caused by shitty infrastructure that puts cyclists in the blind spot.

You wanna license cyclists? Fine. I expect an equal amount of my tax money to go to bike-centric infrastructure then. I want to see new bike lanes being built instead of new 6 lane roads.

but it doesn't matter, all I ever see from people who haven't had to ride a bike or walk to work is the same ol "well ackshually bikes are dangerous too". And it's so fucking tone-deaf; and after a literally uncountable number of incidents where I've almost been killed, or I've been injured, or thrown from my bike, or cut off; I'm tired of pretending I'm not upset about it.

It's my lived experience where I have to either drive, or be in a stress induced hyper-vigilant ride for my fucking life every time I want to go to a store 4-5 miles away. I just can't imagine being wrapped in 2000 pounds of steel with airbag pillow cloud fucking crumple zone impact rated death machine, and pointing to 100 lbs of flesh on a 10lb aluminum frame and being like "No actually that's the problem and I'm so scared of them I need to make sure the entire world conforms to what I'm doing and leaves no room for them to interact with me"
I hate that prompt from Alexa and I’ll never pay it. Like why on earth would I pay for yet another streaming service?
Nonviolent Public Licenses
There is also another way of looking at this doomed project.

1. A client didn't know what they wanted, had 60 million to spend on figuring it out, and hired a firm that would let them spend 60 million.

2. The firm was incentivized to provide a nice looking underestimate and then adapt as new work was discovered.

3. The firm continued getting paid as long as the client was happy.

4. The client did not want to be told that the project was a year late in advance.

One unfortunate aspect of the customer is always right is that the customer may often be very wrong.
Always send marketing email from your verified domain
I mean, being threatened is a "cheap education" relative to being fired, sure.
Background on the author's stated biases is good to have. Besides, while we can tell it's an opinion piece from the title, there are many different groups from all parts of the political spectrum that have issues with the FBI so it's not immediately obvious which perspective this comes from.
Awesome, thanks for the pointer. I just added it to our backlog for investigation.
You are claiming 6% is mainstream?
Not a fair take. If you have the pre-requisite knowledge, it is easier than ever. Just order the ingredients online (even the semi-regulated ones can be easily obtained from overseas) at prices that are impossibly low compared to the RadioShack days where everything is overpriced with value being mostly captured by thermofisher middlemen and retailers.

I think the lack of science kits is because CS, iPads and coding have replaced messy kitchen science for children growing up now. Swift Playgrounds only needs a tablet and it is just as educational without needing any cleanup or supervision.
Just do it is great advice and much of the people that have big problems with it should just do it.

It means don't sit there thinking about how I said "just". Or how it means I think you're dumb. It means just fucking do it. Just do it. Do it.

The people I've enjoyed working the most have just sat down and done it. Difficult things too. Things that took time. They just did the work. So stop thinking about the shenanigans and just do it.

It's sad and funny how much people will fight the words and spend time arguing this is too crass or not kind instead of just doing it.

This is my hill I guess.
Visca el barça!
Your approach is great. It’s odd to see so many penny pinching comments here, the HN crowd usually skews the other way.
Was immediately thinking about those, passing them every morning on my way to work, as they weren't removed except where the road is!
The mention of Bluey in the footnotes is as valuable as any other paragraph.

open-ended story, and play are a MUCH bigger springboard

AND

This is so analogous to the UNIX model of "don't make it so big on it's own, rather make it great and give it a friend" -- that pipe function is the door of imagination
"Medplum aims to provide a well-known technology to a very buzzwordy sector, thus mooching off government funds."
I earned $1,200 from Gemini's stablecoin GUSD's interest last year. Withdrew the extra and bought some nice pendant lights for my new kitchen.
Looks like the Feds will try and sell around 3 billion in bitcoin. I predict a drop in bitcoin price.
CZ SBF’ed SBF
Delivering information.

Now, it takes a lot of company culture work to make it safe to actually deliver that, but you have to choose: do you want to have some awkward meetings, or some awkward subpoenas?
Somehow, this sounds like one of those "use paintballs to blind enemy tanks" things that work out better in theory than practice.

A snazzy demo video for an anti-personnel artillery round: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G18Rwoa7c1kt25

The demo starts at :20 or so.
> Crypto is an anarchist experiment

And, like every anarchist experiment before it, it failed. It continues to draw in new suckers every day, and that is a problem for society.

It doesn't matter if you didn't cause the problem. Because you live in that society, you still have to pay the cost to fix it or continue to take the losses from the problem existing.

It's the same with slavery, not educating blacks, and then not employing blacks in America. I had nothing to do with it. My family had nothing to do with it. But because I live in America, I have to either pay the cost to fix the problem or pay the ongoing cost of crime that the problem produces. Taking on the cost of problems others created is the cost of living in society, just as benefiting from the value that others create is the benefit of living in society.

The time to regulate crypto and cut our future losses was yesterday.