skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TL;DR: the Tornado Cash developer, Alexey Pertsev, was convicted by the Dutch authorities to +5 years in prison for money laundering for developing Tornado Cash (not for actually laundering any money).

I wonder: will they go for the monero devs next? What about the creators of wallets that don’t require KYC before creating an address?
Ask HN: Are there any other sites running HN's forum software?
You know, Arc Forum?

http://arclanguage.org/forum
Result (aka Either) and Maybe are much better than exceptions for parsing. Exceptions should only be used when something truly exceptional occurs (e.g. out of disk space, no network connection). Ill-formed input is not exceptional when you're parsing a URL.
I don't think this is right. From the Wikipedia page:

> In August 2022, the U.S. Department of the Treasury blacklisted the service, making it illegal for US citizens, residents and companies to use.
Does github need a cartoonish cat with 5 octopus-like legs to be its logo? Of course not, but it makes it memorable and funny. And besides, anime is extremely mainstream these days.
A primary KPI is revenue.

Revenue comes from ads.

So making paid ad results more relevant for the click, than ensuring high quality organic search.

Maybe, the more valuable the paid ads, the worse the organic rankings.
Well yeah, but at least they have a lot of housing... The alternative is what we have everywhere else, governments not building anything and also not letting others build anything meaningful. I mean sure, in theory there are better alternatives, but not in my country and probably not in yours either, so housing in even mildly desirable areas is too expensive for normal people.
I guess an unspoken assumption is that the data changes rarely or never, so a preprocessing step can be amortized over a lot of searches, making it essentially "free".
I'm sorry that your workaround was built on the assumption that the US doesn't care about unregulated assets.

Because like damn, that is one hell of a risky bet to hedge your savings on.
My Thoughts on Die with Zero (Book Review)
I didn't see any mention specifically calling out the left wing fear and rage machine either. So that makes sense! Or did I miss it?
For me there's two obvious improvements:

- Support for multiple monitors with different scale factors, eg. a high-DPI internal laptop screen and a low-DPI external screen. Dragging windows between each display is seamless with Wayland, which is better than you can even say for Windows.

- Touchpad scrolling in web browsers is now smooth tear-free 60fps+. For some reason, both Firefox and Chromium-based browsers had frame pacing issues with Xorg, especially on low-powered hardware or with full desktop composition. These issues were so well known that testufo.com refuses to give results on Linux browsers. But both browsers work about as well with Wayland as they do in macOS and Windows.
I normally hate the ChatGPT spam on this forum, but this was not a bad use for it (assuming it wasn't lying).
Recently ran into this where we wanted to avoid new URL for the memory overhead, and was blown away that JavaScript's URL does not contain a static parse method. Things like this are why people working with real languages make fun of us.
> In moderation is again key but doesn't seem to fit into anyone's ideological framework these days.

Well phrased. Too much reasoning these days proceeds backwards from ideological tautology.

Needless overapplication of broadleaf herbicides in pursuit of perfect US lawns has harmed biodiversity. [0]

Herbicide use has also allowed agricultural yields that would have been inconceivable decades ago. [1]

Both of these things can simultaneously be true: there's no need to start from "all chemicals bad" or "all chemicals good" and only accept facts which fit those beliefs.

[0] For anyone who wants to peer into the mountains of madness, ask a Florida lawn company what their recommended annual plan is. There's fertilizer and artificial irrigation (to grow grass at all in sandy, nutrient-poor soil), herbicide, fungicide (in case it happens to be hot and wet at the same time), and then resodding every few years anyway because something goes awry.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/yields-vs-land-use-how-has-the-wo...
But it has "security"

assert(ffmpeg_command.startswith("ffmpeg"))
assert(";" not in ffmpeg_command)
assert("|" not in ffmpeg_command)

:D

Surely there's no way to avoid those checks... /s
User and/or software errors are the likely cause. It could have been a bad UX that led to bad input, or staff that wasn't very trained/diligent, or a bug that added the gas charge anyways (and didn't prevent it on EVs).
without understanding the language, you still understand that it's a book, it has symbols which represent language, and those symbols can be replicated.

we don't understand what consciousness is or how it is achieved, so discussing how to recreate it isn't really a conversation we can have - we can only discuss how to create a simulacrum.
If we're talking about some sort of computational system achieving consciousness, I'm curious how you can escape the fact that computation is observer-relative, i.e. the underlying representation of a computation has no semantics, and requires an external entity to provide an interpretation.
Using GPT-4-turbo or GPT-4o would probably be better than using the old GPT-4.
I really wish when organizations released these kinds of statements that they would provide some clarifying examples, otherwise things can feel very nebulous. For example, their first bullet point was:

> Establishing Red Line Capabilities. We commit to identifying and publishing "Red Line Capabilities" which might emerge in future generations of models and would present too much risk if stored or deployed under our current safety and security practices (referred to as the ASL-2 Standard).

What types of things are they thinking about that would be "red line capabilities" here? Is it purely just "knowledge stuff that shouldn't be that easy to find", e.g. "simple meth recipes" or "make a really big bomb", or is it something deeper? For example, I've already seen AI demos where, with just a couple short audio samples, speech generation can pretty convincingly sound like the person who recorded the samples. Obviously there is huge potential for misuse of that, but given the knowledge is already "out there", is this something that would be considered a red line capability?
> to guns (only have "bad" uses -- but you probably still want your own country's military to have them).

the greatest benefit from guns is their deterrent qualities, which are very difficult to quantify. We never hear of the thefts or violence or other horrors that don't happen because potential perpetrators cannot manage the risk that their victims may fight back.
There is also almost all of the really reliable Toyota diesel engines for Land Cruisers, etc that never made it to the US market.
It's possible for sure, as the big guys flip too soon into commercializing, while the smaller or open-sized guys are becoming more and more efficient for similar results, they are also targets to be partnered with or acquired.

Compute being a huge demand is a part truth, and also part PR.

If we look at open source models, are many not improving.. and needing fewer and fewer resources (say compute) for better and better results?
This reads more like trying to create investor hype than the real world. You have a word generator, a fairly nice one but it’s still a word generator. This safety hype is to try and hide that fact and make it seem like it’s able to generate clear thoughts
Damn, the last two are amazing.

I love generative art and have been recently trying my hands at it (https://circuiter.abhijithota.me) but I'm not sure if I feel positive about it being generally tied to NFTs. I follow a lot of these amazing artists on Twitter and half of them promote their NFTs. I generally tend to ignore that part and focus on the nice patterns made by computers.

Is there no other way to make this a source of income other than NFTs?
Gamification and Why It Shouldn't Be an Afterthought
Publishing this, a few days after OpenAI's safety team was dismantled is interesting.
I'm pretty sure you can dump a stream without transcoding directly to a file, and the stream can be sourced from an url, and the destination file can be users ssh authorized_keys
Just skimmed it, but he mostly agrees with the criticisms right? ("Addresses" often suggests a rebuttal.)
While the mainstream view is that human consciousness is the gold standard AI aspires to, it's possible that artifical minds, not burdened by evolutionary baggage, could achieve higher forms of consciousness in some respects. For instance, an AI uninhibited by human attentional and working memory limits may attain greater metacognitive clarity.
It's annoying that none of these end up parsing quite like the HTML inside a website.

For example, on google.com, you can find:

<img class="lnXdpd" alt="Google" height="92" src="/images/branding/googlelogo/2x/googlelogo_color_272x92dp.png"

But open the console and run this, and it will throw:

let x = new URL("/images/branding/googlelogo/2x/googlelogo_color_272x92dp.png");

You're supposed to address this by adding the base URL on the end, but then correctly obtaining that can be brittle. If you're browsing a folder, the whole document.location is the baseURL, but if you are browsing a file (ie ends in .php or .html) it isn't. If you're taking user URLs, your browser's URL bar will add https:// automatically so people don't think about it, but they'll leave it out of an absolute URL and now you need to detect and add it if needed.
Oh no I had to press alt/Ctrl+L to reset my terminal not being able to display an escape character.
I would likely be just as put off by a picture of Spongebob or Goofy or Goku in a readme as Anya, fwiw.
They're no longer Mindgeek - they go by Aylo now. I worked for the company that hosted PornHub.
They have to keep the hype going to justify the billions that have been dumped on this and making language models look like a menace for humanity seems a good marketing strategy to me.
you can convince normal people quite easily. it's the sci-fi doomsday cultists who are impossible to reason with, because they choose to make themselves blind and deaf to common sense arguments.
Yes, but she uses different glyphs depending on which letters are next to each other, not sure if that is supported.
It definitely cuts both ways. I’m not trying to pretend like that isn’t also the case.
Academic researchers don't use bro-talk, nor hacker jargon. It is a mark of professionalism to communicate in a precise manner and to present reproducible research.

Perhaps you should start your research from papers published in ACM and IEEE journals.
https://datatau.net/ is, I believe.
> You're paying an extra ~3% to credit card companies in exchange for the ability to dispute a charge.

I was responding to this.

I also don't understand after re-reading where the "extra ~3%" comes from. If I go to the store and spend $100 on my CC, I'll get $2 cashback. I can pay the $100 off immediately with no interest for a savings of 2%. How are they getting 3% extra from me?

I know I get at least 2% back on all purchases and sometimes more depending on the card and category.

This is also why I brought up that usually I hear people who pay in cash get overcharged - they pay the full $100.

(leaving out how credit card fees require merchants to increase prices leading to even more expenses for cash buyers)
Simplicity as a feature.

Like TFA says, if you want something to work reliably, keep it simple.

But simple isn't impressive. Tackling complex problems in complex ways is what gets recognised and rewarded. Humans are weird.
Like it or not, the job of the NASA administrator is not to actually do science or engineering, it is to fight for the agency’s budget with the President and Congress—a job for which political schmoozer extraordinaire Bill Nelson is eminently qualified, much more so than “real astronaut” Charlie Bolden, who struggled in this role despite being the epitome of the hypercompetent NASA pilot. I know which one I want at the controls of my aircraft, and which one I want on the witness stand on behalf of my government agency.
In most situations small claims court is generally self-represented, with claims for legal costs capped at a certain level dependent on the amount being claimed. For example, in NSW, Australia, there is a different cap for costs under $1000 vs $1000-$5k, and $5k-$20k. One might expect a judge to look poorly upon a large multinational sending a $2k/hr lawyer to a $500 hire car dispute.
...because they gatekeep everyone via parts, instead.

Tesla is one of very, very few companies for which its parts aren't available via the OEMs; parts made for Teslas can only be had via Tesla. If some part in your VW goes bad or breaks or wears, you often have up to three options: from VW via dealers, via the OEM that made the part for VW, via parts distributors - or via non-OEMs that have made a compatible part. VW (and others) often source from multiple OEMs or switch OEMs, so you sometimes have multiple OEM supplier options.

With Tesla? Only via them. For every fucking part on the car save stuff like brake pads and rotors.

You have to give them a VIN number to buy a part, and if the VIN belongs to a car Tesla has decided isn't roadworthy anymore, they won't go any further.

Want to put a small block chevy V8 into your Yugo? The guy at the GM dealer part counter will happily sell you one as long as you've got the money. Discovered that a Ford temperature sensor is a more reliable replacement for the one in your Jeep? The parts counter staff won't even blink when they sell you one.

The only time you'll get asked for a VIN is if the part you're asking for has varied with production, and certain VIN ranges might require a specific part for compatibility.
Indeed, I love how she's blending technology and art here.
The problem is that oft repeated advice it makes those edge cases so much more painful, to the point where they might just not get done. Like, have you tried renting a Home Depot truck? The last one I rented was barely roadworthy.
Clearly falsifiable.

If I harvest a random apple growing wild, that my labor alone.

But I know where you’re going with that argument - everyone’s work is built upon someone else’s so…the government is entitled to all of it.
I think the argument is that it should look different for the sake of doing better. By, say, using modern tools and techniques rather than trying to resurrect some old parts designed in the 1970s. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle#Design_process
It's more work to switch to podman than it is to just configure docker to run rootless.
In a related US case, the US indictment alleges that "The defendants and their co-conspirators created the core features of the Tornado Cash service, paid for critical infrastructure to operate the Tornado Cash service, promoted the Tornado Cash service, and made millions of dollars in profits from operating the Tornado Cash service."[1]
More analysis of the US case.

[1] https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/tornado-cash-founders-c...

[2] https://www.skadden.com/-/media/files/publications/2023/09/c...
The latest a16z podcast they go into a bit more detail. One of the tests involved letting loose an LLM inside a VM and seeing what it does. Currently it can't develop memory and quickly gets confused but they want to make sure they can't escape, clone etc. The things actually to be afraid of imo. Not things like accidentally being racist or swearing at you.
The cryogenic aspect seems much more distinct than whether it's rocket-to-rocket or rocket-to-ISS.
Exploiting Kids Isn't the Way to Fix the Labor Shortage
Yes you definitely can. Obviously you should buy the pins instead of CNCing pins, but for the complex geometry of the main connector body you can definitely CNC it. Example of the pins being sold on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/JRready-Terminal-Connector-205089-1-c...
I like the question. Bible aside, here are some other options:

Where is my Flying Car?

Zero to One

Paradise Lost

East of Eden
I usually only notice typos after hn has disabled editing... ;-(
Of course, any philosophical zombie could have invented it.
Which makes clear for me how loosely consciousness is bound to senses, including that of introspection. It actually makes me feel that this consciousness we can barely describe is but a faint experience of a distant, largely foreign thing. Like we know the experience of matter that we get from our senses is a grossly simplified version of the real thing (that we still don't know exactly of course, but we already know enough to see how far away our immediate mental model is from the truth)
Yeah, it is superior in everything except for support.
>Our data will be available free of charge, permanently.

Permanently free and available just means until the website fails to pay the hosting bills or gets taken down by lawyers. Akin to a lifetime warranty. The company will surely fail before you do.
If they could do it for ~$20k out the door, it could be a compelling little vehicle for some people. But at $35k this is just a bad joke.
Haynes manuals are infamous for being trash.
Is sunbathing even much of a thing anymore? I feel like I heard of people sunbathing in their yards or at the beach when I was younger (~20 years ago) but not so much now
Remember when OAI said:

"Oh no we're not going to release GPT-2 because its so advanced that it's a threat to humankind" meanwhile it was dumb as rocks.

Scaremongering purely for the sake of it.

The only remotely possible "safety" part I would acknowledge is that it should be balanced against biases if used in systems like loans, grants, etc.
They're objectively rhetorically bad paragraphs, and they weaken the piece by including them.

If the author had just left out the 3rd, 4th, and 5th paragraphs, their argument would have been more pursuasive.

Specifically, because it would have had broader appeal to those who might disagree with the author on a political basis.
The only EV I’ve rented from Turo was the opposite experience. They gave me the car at 75%, they capped charging at 90% in settings, then they charged me for bringing it back at 70% (which was just past their threshold but considering I could only charge it to 90% that should be the baseline).
> I had heard multiple stories of how long that's supposed to take but it really doesn't.

It used to, but that's why they are only stories now.
There's more to the story than what's in this article. US Treasury says they had specific anti-money laundering rules they were supposed to comply with but "repeatedly failed to", and I've also seen allegations of them directly providing instructions for how to launder money using their own service.
Meanwhile Anduril puts AI on anything with a weapon the US military owns.
I think vundercind was implicitly including Twitch in the phrase "except for a very-few other megacorps".

If you're wondering, if you can't get peering, you wind up like Twitch. In South Korea. South Korean telecom law explicitly shifts the capital expenditure costs of ISPs over to other online services, which is sort of like the fucked-up opposite of Net Neutrality regulation. So Twitch was being bled dry to pay for the chaebols' network expansion. Hell, even after Twitch left, South Korea fined them for leaving!
its storing it on the god damn motherboard, not a flashdrive or something
I'm confused. How does a home invader know if I am armed?

How is gun ownership supposed to prevent theft or violence? It seems like it instead paves the road to escalating to violence in less-severe scenarios.

I suspect it is very difficult to qualify because there are no such qualities in practice.
You’re getting scammed with the AWS cost calculator or anything more than $20/mbps
Why wouldn't you just get a Model 3 for that price? It's just much better tech, more fun, much better range and probably has better resale value down the road. Not a fan of the CEO for sure, but it seems like there are worlds between the specs and just very little additional $.
Link: https://sanctionssearch.ofac.treas.gov/Details.aspx?id=39796

What is the actual legal interpretation of OFAC listing a website domain and a set of Ethereum addresses on the OFAC sanction list? Does this simply mean that it is illegal to transact with foreign entities associated with these identifiers? Or does it mean something more? Or nothing at all?
Hasn't this been known for months now? We need them to bring back the gasoline version.. nobody wants an electric car with poor mileage, no matter how cute it is.
Show HN: DeLorean – Super Performant IPv4->IPv6 Reverse Proxy in Golang
I looked up a particular car model I know and they've just made (really terrible) copies of the manuals published by Robert Bentley. The font and diagrams are exactly as I remember.

This is basically wholesale copyright infringement.

For another vehicle I know well, there's basically no actual repair information - just diagrams telling you where to find a particular component in the car. Nothing about how to actually do diagnostics or repairs.
"Transmission" is per se bidirectional. The individual on the other end has received it, whether they understand it or can do anything useful with it is up to them.
Respectfully, that reply shows you have not read the article, not seen any of Amy Goodchild's artwork, and not understood what the topic is.
2017 SketchUp
The President of Iran has died
IMHO that kind of projects should simply go anonymous.

You can’t really take on governments and then complain that they are fighting you back.

It’s pretty clear that the gvts are following the money trail to take down people and organization they consider a security risk. The whole financial system and sanction system are built upon this, that’s why there’s KYC everywhere.

I don’t think that it’s reasonable to expect to get away with building a machine that takes away this tool from the regulators and law enforcement. They will obviously hold you accountable for the instances that your code makes their system useless. In the case of Tornado Cash, you can't even claim that this is an unintended consequence.

Therefore I don’t believe that there are any implications about writing open source code at all.

Just don’t mess with the systems that run the society and take credit for it and not have the means to stay beyond the reach of those you are messing with - all at the same time. That’s hardly a new concept. Revolutionaries are never “the good guy” until the revolution succeeds.
I still remember the fears of Cassini. What a different world it would be if that Earth fly-by* fucked up

* edit I knew I got it wrong the first time, it’s not a transfer
While I agree with your sentiment; if you don't try new stuff you won't learn if something new is better suited than your current framework.

Perhaps wait until things are no longer cutting edge to learn about it is a good compromise.
> We've had nearly 4 years with no scandals

This isn't the flex you think it is. When the media is lapping out of your hand like a 6 week old puppy instead of doing their fifth estate job, of course there are no scandals.

> and gun control bills,

You mean stripping Americans of their constitutional rights.

> not to mention he's ended our two decade war in Afghanistan.

Which was an unmitigated disaster.

> and overseen the fastest wage growth of the two lowest income quintiles seen in modern history.

Hello inflation.
> Ctrl-F baseball doesn't show any results for me.

It's an example in one of the quoted tweets, which is of course an image and not text despite being purely textual content.