skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The blockchain itself doesn't do KYC; many individuals/companies interacting with the blockchain do.

Sure, for some transfers just knowing the wallets won't tell you who it is. The problem (for criminals) is that often they ultimately transfer the money to an exchange and that wallet is known. This is where the blockchain ends up coming in clutch. If you did a wire transfer of money to say Wells Fargo; the USG is going to have no idea it happened so they can't even think of freezing the money. However, each of yours (and everybody else's) bitcoin transfers are recorded to a public ledger so the second they notice a series of transactions starting from the theft to a known wallet they can immediately request the money to be frozen.

At this point USG can require the exchange to return the stolen money as well as whatever information they have on the account holder.

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Can one steal bitcoins and get away with it? Yes!

Its just that the public ledger is not your friend in this instances and you'll need to account for it while this fact is not the case with many non-bitcoin thefts. If you commit wire fraud and then cash it out into physically currency and then re-deposit that currency into several banks there is no public way to link those two actions. (Privately one could track the serial numbers; but again private not public).
Same. As I get more experience I find that I tend to think more in patterns now
VPN over TCP really is quite a bit slower than over UDP, which makes it quite undesirable for me. I think it's quite reasonable of them not to want to complicate the wg project by adding and maintaining the option of UDP over TCP. Remember, wg is supposed to be a minimal project. If you really need TCP traffic, you could always use openVPN.

With quic on the way, this problem will diminish with time anyway.
Where is the canonical location to access an email, or read an XMPP message? It's not just that it 'might show up' in my timeline, seeing it on my home server is where I want it to be - that's where I can take actions on it like replying, starring, or boosting. The post belongs in my client because that representation is the one that's relevant to me. I agree that the mastodon software could do better to optimize for public anonymous read, but it's not the most important functionality for the server to do.

> Most people don't even have a fediverse account ffs.

This is why you won't see a Bluesky post linked on HN, no one can open it. Imagine if you could sign up on your choice of thousands of servers and get the same access to the content rather than a central site, that's fediverse, it's not that complex.
While I understand the need to protect sensitive ecosystems, restricting access to nature altogether is extremely problematic. There must be better solutions that don't infringe on what should be a basic human right. If overpopulation is truly an issue, we need to find ways to distribute people more evenly and improve infrastructure to handle more visitors in a sustainable way. A lottery system should really be an absolute last resort.
Huge thanks for pointing these out.

I moved the spec to /docs/spec very recently and forgot to update that link on homepage – fixed now.

"Emali" is a new typo for me, will fix that in the DNS record, thanks.
Use OpenAI API to make two GPT bots talk to each other
I wanted to learn how to use OpenAI API in Python, so I decided to make it fun and created an interesting experiment: what would happen if I let two GPT powered bots "talk" to each other? Let's find out!
The problem I have with most ads is the tracking. I'd compare sponsor messages with print ads in magazine. Theyre probably somewhat relevant to the target audience of the channel but everyone sees the same one.
Christensen's disruptive vs sustaining innovations is more descriptive than predictive. But if it's the same customers, solving the same problem, in the same way (from their point of view), then it's probably "sustaining" and incumbents win.

Different customers, problems, ways - and all bets are off. Worse, incumbents are dependent on their customers, having optimized the company around them. Even if they know the opportunity and could grasp it, if it means losing customers they simply can't do it.

Larry is thinking people will still search... right?
Because pointing out that a slogan is simple and in-nuanced is unhelpful, and in bad faith. They're supposed to be simple. Slogans in a democracy are calls to action towards a general idea, and the more complicated they are the less people they can rally. Obviously the nuance will come when lawmakers actually put the thing into writing.
> Or, if it was written by someone who's older or been a parent, narcissism prevented them from ever growing beyond themselves because they could never see beyond themselves.

I wrote this article because I'm a new parent trying to see beyond myself :)

What beliefs should I impart on my daughter? Why do I justify those beliefs?

I guess that's the goal of this essay, and this was the best I could do with the challenge. I agree that it's not my best work haha

> relationships, love, honor, sacrifice, or any values other than hedonism

I don't really consider myself a hedonist, but I guess that's where my axioms/premises led me.

But I'm extremely curious what basic premises others people accept as ground truth, and where it leads them.
> But if you allow user generated content on the home page of your site, there's not a distinction (from a Mastodon user point of view) between the two.

If you allow UGC with *arbitrary HTML* or explicitly support generating rel=me. Both are you explicitly giving someone control of the site (or at least letting them claim they have it).
Don't let big become an excuse. Sure the US is too big to go NYC->LA via train. However DC->Boston is still a great route to run a train, a high speed train on that route should decimate plane and car travel on the route. Connecting everything east of the Mississippi via train (and possibly just a little west) makes perfect sense. There is also a great north-south route along the west coast.

Yes building those trains would cost a lot. It shouldn't be trillions (that it will be is a problem we should fix!). Lets not be defeatist: lets demand better of our politicians. We have good ideas of where things are going wrong, but politicians see transit as a way to throw money at union labor and consultants (democrats); or a complete waste (the Republicans). Both sides need to do better.
The Trump presidency was the resource curse of news media.

It was so easy to get people outraged and rage reading, that it skewed news’ business models.
A little trick for this is to listen on udp/53 which is almost always unblocked, even before captive portals
Disgruntled Bomb: Java Edition (2011)
Sadly, that's the new reality now. Since the cat is out of the box, AI openness is no more. ClosedAI killed it the moment they decided to go chase the bag. The scary part is everything from here will be ruled by money before anything else.
I have never met Jeff (the author of this blog post), but I come across his work randomly all of the time. Jeff, if you're reading this, I've always been impressed by your efforts, you're a work horse!
The SponsorBlock addon lets you whitelist channels you want to support. Also has options to skip self-promotion (including like and subscribe reminders) and quiet parts of videos.
I'm American and I'm also not understanding the comments about pairing identical socks that were purchased at the same time. I just tend to buy them 10 pairs or so at a time, match them randomly, and wear them until individual socks get lost or worn out.
Man you will do great on Wall Street, any bankrupt company will definitely get bailed out if you are at the negotiation table.
I don't think they said otherwise. I believe the point was that JVM bytecode doesn't expose anything for manual memory deallocation at runtime.
So, sponsored content then? That’s basically what it is - ads without tracking, that don’t block or lock away content.
I don't quite follow? I'd say "s/download content/access information/g", but also by "late 1995" there still wasn't "oh, the internet is an application platform", it was still "connect to the whole world, whoaaaaaa".
New EARN IT Act Has Same Old Problems
Wireguard is known to be fingerprintable[1]. But at this moment it is unlikely UDP traffic will be filtered by Chinese GFW[2]. But this may change any moment.

[1]: https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/wireguard/2018-September/0...

[2]: https://gfw.report/publications/usenixsecurity23/en/#sec:res...
Maybe I was not precise, I in fact use OpenSearch, but since it's a fork to ES, I consider this to be the same DB, architecture-wise.
I gambled against React and lost (and I don’t regret a thing)
Insulin Resistance in Patients with Cancer
This might be the play. I avoid wearing socks and closed-toe shoes as much as I can, but I've found many people in the West are disgusted by the sight of feet.

Cloud slippers are heavenly.
Nobody has insulted you. The Oxford English Dictionary is one of the oldest most authoritative dictionaries in the world, you should learn about it. Enjoy the block.
> This article was a strange read for me. The author claims to "really" (no, really) like Blade Runner 2049, and then admits that he hasn't read the novel upon which the film's universe is based, didn't know that a key scene in the movie was quoting a novel until recently, and did not read the quoted novel either.

You can really like a piece of art without having or wanting to engage with its source material. Maybe you don't have the time, maybe you enjoy/understand a format more than another. Stating that you have to engage with the source material if you really enjoyed something is just elitism and gatekeeping.
Yes. because on top of corrupt they are criminals most of them
Not just modified vehicles or hummers, but a road filled with SUVs, minivans, delivery trucks, crossovers. Even a "standard" Ford F150 is goliath, and an indestructable frame won't save you. To the contrary, a super-rigid frame translates into occupant injury. Crumple zones, energy absorbing materials, deformation of structures = survivability. A 20 mph head-on collision in a 1950s auto with a full frame design is often far more serious than a 40 mph collision in a modern auto. Head-to-head comparison:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPF4fBGNK0U (likely death vs possible foot injury)

Now contemplate a 6' long vehicle with 1' or less of "crumple zone".
Unless they add pronunciation to every article, I don't think that will change. It looks like an English word and will be mentioned in many English contexts. Why/how would anyone choose the alternative?
The widespread use of huge, highway-built vehicles (that is, all American cars) for short trips in US cities has been sticking out to me recently as a major safety hazard and detractor from pleasant urban living. Highway-built cars are fundamentally incompatible with human-scale living: they are loud and accelerate quickly while being soundproof, isolating the occupants from the effects they have on their environment. Sleek, reflective windshields and tinted windows also make it difficult for pedestrians and bikers to make eye contact with car drivers, dehumanizing interactions with vehicles and increasing reliance on inflexible measures like traffic lights that would not be required on a more human scale.

I would love to see small cars like these come into more widespread use in the the U.S., with carsharing programs providing cars as needed for highway driving. This change could come much more quickly than the large-scale urban design improvements we will eventually need to totally reduce reliance on cars in cities.

As it is, many city streets are too fast for these cars to be comfortable. I would love to see a general slowing-down of vehicles in US cities and towns that makes city vehicles like these practical, and, on top of the obvious safety benefits for all the cities that claim to have “vision zero”, I don’t think it would come with many downsides. Even outside of a city center for in-town trips of a few miles, 28mph is really quite fast—a matter of a few extra minutes compared to current dangerous city speeds.
You can book the author for sessions on "Mental health" and "Linguistics incl. NLP" at https://sonnet.io/posts/hi
> Only if one believes that the lack of a home or a house is the root cause of the individuals problem.

There are other ways of seeing this. It can start the other way around for instance. I.e. if you end up on the streets; both drugs and alcohol can numb the pain of your current situation, slowly but surely giving you a drug problem on top of your homelessness problem.

I fully agree about what can easily happen if we just offered free housing to people with severe drug problems. I'm just wondering if we are using that as an excuse not to help people with something we know is an effective method.

Even people with serious drug problems must have a much better chance of kicking their habit if they can avoid living in a tent or under a bridge. How do these horrible conditions with constant fear of being robbed/raped help them kick their habit?

> Help needs to be directed on the root cause and issues and homelessness is a symptom, not a cause.

Lets assume that the root cause is child abuse, i.e. they are on drugs due to being molested, i.e. molestation is the "root cause". How are we helping that person better by allowing them to live in a place like skid row, where they say that almost 100% of the women living there have been raped (while living there)? I'm just not seeing how the tent/under-a-bridge lifestyle adds anything to our "assistance/help" here?
Only if they're buying and selling non-primary residences. Otherwise they'll have to buy in the same crazy market, wiping out much of their gains.
Oddly enough, it may also have the reverse effect.

If the academic crowd stops relying on corporations and promote truly open/scalable tools, then this can start a virtuous cycle that promotes truly open solutions.

Having said that, I wouldn't hold my breath with the current state of academia though.
> There are no moats to being a plumber, a baker, a restaurant...

This line is interesting to me, because actually I think there _is_ a major moat there: locality. I don't disagree with the rest of your comment, but for those examples specifically a lot of the value of specific instances of those business comes from their being in your neighborhood. If I live in Toronto, I'm not going to fly a plumber from Manhattan to fix my pipes; if I want a loaf of sourdough, I'm not going to get it from San Francisco, I'm going to get it from the bakery around the corner; I might travel out of town for a particularly unique and amazing restaurant, but not every week, I've got solid enough options within a ten minute drive. Software is different because that physical accessibility hurdle doesn't exist.

Rest of this is spot-on though
Ironically enough, sponsored content quite cleanly omits all this complexity and lets content makers earn money.
Edit: Kyiv appears to have shot down a hypersonic missile yesterday. Very cool. But still, seems like a bad place for a nuclear reactor.
italy does: both dataset and public websites, but it's italy and the list is more incomplete than not.

see https://github.com/italia
If you don't do business in the EU why accept traffic from there and possibly have to deal with GDPR issues.
"You are free to use everything" ?

It seems you don't know that, in some countries, it is plain illegal to design a CPU using x86/arm ISAs unless you actually pay some licence fees to intel(x86)/amd(x86_64)/arm.

You have similar toxicity with, mpeg which requires to pay for a license for any decoder/encoder (but not av1), same for hdmi (but not displayport). Limited to some countries (USA at least).
I have a paid youtube subscription to avoid the ads, but the in-video sponsored content still appears anyway. At least I can scrub the video timeline forward to get through it faster, but it would be nice if youtube would send an edited feed to paid members so we'd just get the real content.
Wow, if 4 degrees out doesn't give 70k nodes it's extended to 7 degrees out?
I figured almost any website would yield a near complete graph at just ~6 degrees out.

This is a fantastic idea though.
I have been looking for something like this for quite some time to just have basically wikipedia, stackexchange, email, and gitlab available for 'work-mode'.
My solution was to make my own search engine with various tools, but this may be easier.

Anyone know of other good solutions in this area for restricting to just {wikipedia, stackexchange, gitlab}?
How to solve socks:

1. For each type of sock you need, find only one you like best, perhaps on Amazon or at Costco

2. Get a container for each kind - I have the soft shell travel zipup kind.

3. Buy en masse and stuff each container.

4. Don’t let anyone in your house discover your sock nirvana

You never have to match pairs again
Color.

I only buy socks in colors or patterns I do not own. Super simple.
Not like C. They are not comparable. You get a reference to something you allocate on the heap, and you can have primitives on the stack. But you cannot take a reference to a primitive, or a reference to another reference, or a reference to the second element of an array. To run C on the JVM you are really swimming uphill.
Dude stop with your propaganda and post links to direct sources which say against something, don't make BS statements out of thin air.
You are all over this thread with this BS.
I'm going to flip this question around. Would we be worse off if fewer people were unable to start businesses out of Youtube channels? I'd think so. A lot of novel art and education has come out of realizing Youtube could be a full-time job. You jump to MrBeast as the junk food of Youtube but I can honestly say I have never seen a MrBeast video but I frequently look at things like FreeCodeCamp or even the more educational end of entertainment like Tom Scott or extensive product review channels like Project Farm. I'm glad they exist and I'd happily watch a sponsor spot for them.
Why I’m Not So Alarmed About AI and Jobs
What do I mind is that the consent is usually implied a-priori, and when it's not, the UX of opting out is an unnecessary nuissance. Advertising is not about informing users, but creating a need before we're able to say no. I'm driving a car and can't access my phone, YT plays a recommended video with sponsored content I hear before I have the choice to switch it off. That's just a tiny example, but these things add up.

(Speaking as someone with experience in psychology, publishing and ad tech here, so that's my primary focus/perspective.)

Here's my personal ideal for a platform like YT:

- Take a service fee cut (e.g. 30%)

- allocate the remaining 70% of money to the people I watched

(optional) let me allocate some of my budget to a random pool of other creators so I can support their growth/someone else's free access to content.

This can work. An example would be Guardian relying on donations, where many people pay so others can access their content. (look for their case studies to learn more)
There’s a fundamental difference between a sponsor segment and most in-page web advertising (or indeed YouTube ads).

A sponsor segment is an advertiser targeting the whole audience of a video by directly working with the video creator. Trustworthy creators will select sponsors which make sense for their audience and don’t detract from their credibility or brand.

An ad, though, is a break in the content where the host basically takes each of their audiencemembers, and separately auctions off the right to talk to them to a shady back room full of random hawkers.

Each audience member gets a random ad which the content creator has no control over or awareness of, nor any relationship with other than financial.
If you’re going down that rabbit hole, I’d also include the paper on BitTorrent, DHT (Kadmellia) and Onion Routing.
Not if the corporations write the laws.
Just like things keep evolving into crabs, the final stage of vehicular evolution is the humble golf cart.

I don't drive daily, but if I did, I would get this. It's 48% width and 40% the length of a parking spot according to current building standards around here, meaning I could squeeze four of these in there. I'm assuming that at 350kg I could just push this thing into place, thus avoiding the need to exit to the side once it's parked.

And on top of that it even costs around 1/4 of what I would pay for a car.

EDIT: here's a review and test drive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYroDMTLVt4
> When I was a teenager in the 1990s we finally managed to pay the US for selling us WW2. The US took our gold and the rights built military bases on a bunch of strategic islands. They left us as a vassal state.

I find this attitude ironic. If you didn’t engage in this trade there is high likelihood you would not have survived the air battle waged by the German Air Force.

Also the debt wasn’t repaid until 2006.

And the implied threat that you’ll buy Russian gas (and become dependent on it) because we elected a shit-talker? Lol. Salty tears all around, except without a valid reason.
I think the point is that you are unable to address memory in the same way as C because the underlying technologies are different.
It also depends on the nature of the software. Administrative software can usually be exported without issue because it doesn't threaten the administrative service. But certain technology is a strategic investment to create a domestic industry that can self-fund expensive R&D, so you may need a moat if it's inexpensive to copy the result.
I wish they had used the headline to say something about the language rather than the useless tagline "for humans". Is it imperative, functional, object-oriented? For embedded, scripting, system programming?

Is it new? A dialect of something else?

Nope, all I know is it's "for humans", and possibly computers can run it too (?)
Sounds like fun -- here's a try at alliteration scoring for a start: https://github.com/darius/alliterate
I think the next step is creating a PR to another, higher profile package introducing a problematic dependency among other changes. It existing on its own doesn't prove intention of doing that, but it enables it. If I were doing this I'd start by creating an actually useful package and then later change it's behavior, but same principle.

If you were just trying to get people to install it directly you'd go for name collisions / typos / namesquatting in your package name instead.
Seems an odd way of looking at it. The "sponsored content" typically aims to monopolise your attention for 30 seconds of your life. The ad is typically just a box a few hundred pixels wide which either sits in a column I'm not actually reading or is easily scrolled past. "Ad blindness" is a thing

It's like I don't get upset by crappy stock photos or navigation bars, but would give up on a website that took 30 seconds to load...
I do my laundry about once a week, so I’m at most ever looking at 7 socks to pair. If it takes longer I’m still looking at less than 10 socks to pair in the cache.
Highly depends on the region of the world. Street legal golf carts are generally a thing - at least in Europe.
Yes, AI is like social in that regard. You can add social features to any app, and the same applies to AI. But there are also social-centric sites/apps, and it will be the same for AI.
Use the tor/onion ones, always fine.
I don't like the anti-English animosity that seems universal in some circles. There is some room for ribbing but a lot of the time I wonder how much of it is merely and sincerely 'in jest'.

And that is another fear I share for the loss of a monarchy. Something familiar and deeply associated with our long history will be gone, and home will look even more like everywhere else.
Nice! Another reason to prefer YAML is token count — YAML is 3x cheaper than JSON: https://twitter.com/v1aaad/status/1643889605538635782