skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This doesn't really detail any money laundering scheme. This is just how to access scammed money. Simply cashing out a large deposit of tether isn't laundering money. You still need a legitimate way to explain how you earned the money for it to be considered laundered.

Although I'm not sure it matters in Cambodia, for 3rd world country scammers the challenge is just getting the money at all.

In my area people launder through AirBnb. Put a nice listing up, then have a 3rd party "rent" it with cash purchased AirBnB gift cards. You get a very clean 10-99.

AirBnb does minimal validation on guests, and their gift cards are "closed loop" so no AML / KYC regulations at the grocery store.

Not much incentive to stop it, AirBnB and state / local governments all get a nice cut.
The many false claims around those isomorphic frameworks (SSR and CSR after hydration) drive me crazy. But why should marketing fail at smart people?

"Drink this soda pop and see, you have pretty friends and look how happy you are!"

"Drive this car and be a successful business person and have a great house and family!"

"Use NextJS and be as successful and popular as those tech bros at X and YT".

Those frameworks have some small use cases (e-commerce, semi dynamic content delivered to low end devices with lots of JS later on for analytics), but most of the time old school SSR (RoR, Django, ASP.NET MVC, ...) or SPA (Vue with Vue router) are the more appropriate solutions.

Hype driven development is a very real thing.
There's a common misconception about placebos that they are merely a "reporting/statistical effect", but this is inaccurate. The placebo effect can have measurable effects on things that are not subjective. Wiki cites (in response to a controversial study claiming to have found the placebo effect is not "real") : "...the existence of placebo effects seems undeniable. For example, recent research has linked placebo interventions to improved motor functions in patients with Parkinson's disease. Other objective outcomes affected by placebos include immune and endocrine parameters, end-organ functions regulated by the autonomic nervous system, and sport performance." [1] And that should not be taken as an exhaustive list of examples - placebos can show objectively measurable improvements in a vast array of domains. It's certainly real.

The evil twin of the placebo, the nocebo, has even more dramatic proof of its realness: "there is a small group of patients in whom the realization of impending death is a blow so terrible that they are quite unable to adjust to it, and they die rapidly before the malignancy seems to have developed enough to cause death. This problem of self-willed death is in some ways analogous to the death produced in primitive peoples by witchcraft ('pointing the bone')". [2] This could also largely explain why elderly married couples tend to follow each other into the grave in short order - dying of heartbreak, perhaps not being an entirely rhetorical expression.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placebo#Effects

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nocebo#Ambiguity_of_anthropolo...
Honestly it's always seemed completely insane to me that people signed up for these services.

Possible Pros: You find out you are 20% Norwegian! Fun!

Possible Cons: Grandma is going to prison for an unsolved crime. Assume a non-threatening position and comply with all orders of the new Department of Racial Purity. Also, that's not your real Dad.
I see, yeah if you need performance then TS is probably not a good choice, but I'm not familiar enough with HFT to know if that's always needed. Maybe that's only in certain subdomains. I've just seen some talks on optimizing HFT with C++, and it sounds like nanosecond performance is the target.
Just deleted my data. Who knows who will own it after this?
Might it be that he’s so good everyone comes to him first and not you?
I do wonder whether the data is actually deleted or they just do like every other large tech company and set a “deleted = true” flag that hides it from the user, since actually deleting it and all of its replicates across data centres, backup images, and tape storage is from what I’ve been told, virtually impossible even if the will was there.
That is what this article is about.
Wait, are you seriously saying the mechanism that has existed in Express for years is broken in Next.js?

What a joke.
Because they want to advertise that they CAN break into phones loaded with GrapheneOS. Just not the latest version. Likewise they "announce" that they can't unlock BFU iPhone-s running latest iOS, and the real message is "we can unlock just slightly older iPhone-s and you may expect us to be able to unlock current version after few months".
They can pry my vertical taskbar from my cold dead hands
Is it possible to use ChatGPT voice feature in a similar manner to Alexa where I only need to say an activation word? I’m aiming to set up a system for my 7-year-old son to let him engage in conversations with ChatGPT as he does with Alexa.
Ycombinator startups?
> If software development is your 9-5, and not your passion. How do you keep improving?

I'd flip the question and ask: why do you think the 40+ hours of work you do for your employer every week isn't also helping to improve your skills?

> Where does your confidence come from?

Your employer hired you because they think you'll be able to do the job well; after 6 months your manager is telling you that you're doing the job well. Where is your lack of confidence coming from? Literally the only people who matter are saying that they're confident in you.

> When layoffs come around, how do you know that you are safe?

Ah, this one's easy: you're not. No one is. Stick with the industry long enough and you will: (a) get laid off, and (b) watch better engineers get laid off while you don't. Decisions for layoffs are made at a high level by people who don't know your name and don't care about you.

> how do you know that your skill set is relevant and desirable?

That one's tough. I've always chosen to focus on fundamentals rather than learning the latest language/framework/whatever, and so far it has worked out quite well for me. Beyond that, I'd recommend worrying more about building a network of people who respect you and your work -- they're the ones who will get you a new job when you need it. Meritocracy is a half-truth at best, and having someone who will help you get your foot in the door at a company is a huge benefit.
Under the hood OpenSSL is a very solid, high performance library that implements crypto primitives. When it is all said and done there is not a lot to crypto primitives as they are all very well defined with straight forward interfaces. Nonetheless, you see lots alternatives to OpenSSL, most of which have headline banners like "easy to use correctly". My guess is the EVP API is the major reason OpenSSL is so difficult to use. Yes, it is poorly documented, but I suspect documentation alone can't save a difficult API.

It doesn't have to be that way. Rust is a good example of a language that like Java and OpenSSL is built on lots of abstractions, but nonetheless the doco is a joy to read and follow. A lot of thought has goes into most Rust API's, so that good doco is a product of good API design combined with good document writing.

It will be a challenge to put lipstick on this particular pig - but on behalf of all OpenSSL users out there, I wish you luck.
absolutely legendary. Like they would throw a concrete weight off the top of the wall, and you would catch it with a hip belay?
I tried to post the same post on /r/i2p on reddit, but the post didn't go up.
If anyone could please post this to /r/i2p instead, I'd appreciate it.
It's not totally a bad thing but I think a lot of people get undergrad degrees in something they think they're interested in and it turns out they're really not so they end up only peripherally using their undergrad major when they get a job.
Our industry's dark secrets getting exposed like this ... yeah you are right, we don't even need a whistleblower for this :)
In my experience, the biggest obstacle to ESM in production systems is every observability/tracing tool relies on require-in-the-middle or in some other form CJS require().
The immediate reaction here is customer data but I think it’s worth a reminder that this data has significant implications for non customers as well.

I nearly cut contact with my mother over he wanting to use 23andme for genealogy purposes. The threat was ugly but as far as I know got her to not do it.

There are a lot of people who have now made major choices for others personal data who had little meaningful informed consent. Now it’s up for the highest bidder. I have some small hope the EFF will say something on behalf of consumers and a court will listen. I it pure hopium but it’s all I’ve got.
I should have access to the data about me, it shouldn't be for sale ever. It's gross that we have access to this technology but only if we give away all our rights to a company even for a paid service.

The murder one is a little more nuanced but ideally it should be a legal matter where it can only be used with a warrant or your explicit single time consent and not buried in a TOS. If you don't want to help the police convict your grandma it could not legally be used.
It is the law in California, and it is certainly possible at scale, just not cheap or trivial. Presumably, given the intense focus of the state government on their company in particular, they have long since implemented a compliant deletion mechanism!

The question, of course, is whether that same functionality is applied to residents of other states wishing to delete their data…
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/soft_deletion
Two Hundred Fifty Things an Architect Should Know (2018)
Eh, so in reality there are a lot of AI products people are trying to build and it's very unclear at the outset "if it's possible", where "possible" is a business question that includes factors like:

- How hard is the task? Can it be completed with cheaper/faster models or does it require heavyweight SOTA tier models?

- What's your cost envelope for AI compute?

- How are you going to test/refine the exact prompt and examples you give the AI?

- How much scaffolding (aka, dev time = $$$) do you need to set up to integrate the AI with other systems?

- Is the result reliable enough to productize and show to users?

What you realize when designing these systems is there is a sliding scale where the more scaffolding and domain expertise you put into the system as a whole, the less you need to rely on the AI, but the more expensive it is in terms of man-hours it is to develop and maintain. It looks more and more just like a traditional system. And vice versa, perhaps with the most powerful SOTA models you can just dump 20K tokens of context and get an answer that is highly reliable and accurate with almost no extra work on your end (but costs more to run).

It's very individualized and task-dependent. But we do know from recent history, you can generally assume models are going to get faster/smarter/cheaper pretty quickly. So you try to figure out how close to the latter scenario you can get away with for now, knowing that in 6 months the equation could have completely changed in favor of "let the AI do most of the work".

As an addendum, I think it's completely crazy right now to be in the business of training your own models unless you have HIGHLY specialized needs or like to light money on fire. You are never going to achieve the performance/$ of the big AI labs, and they/their investors are doing all your R&D for FREE. It's like if Ford was releasing a new car every 6 months made out of ever more efficient and stronger carbon nanotubes or whatever, because the carbon nanotube companies were all competing for market share and wanted to win the "carbon nanotube race". It's crazy, never seen anything like it.
If you want to create a genuinely effective treatment, you want to maximize the placebo effect so much as possible - so that anything above that is 100% driven by the medicine.

Though in practice I expect it is probably already exploited in the opposite direction. By minimizing the effect of the placebo (or even pushing it into nocebo territory) pharmaceutical companies can construct studies that are much more likely to show statistically significant effects that do not exist. There's some seriously perverse incentives in play when a few percent this way or that is the difference between losing millions, and earning billions.
I wonder if an analogy with graphics would be that "simple algorithms that leveraged compute" would not be "brute force everything with 1000 gpus + ray tracing", it might be a pixel shader that simulated water taking the state of the art a bit further.
They key thing is that require(esm) shipped in node 22, and is being back ported to node 20.

Since Node 18 maintenance ends in less than a month, this means all Node versions will have good esm support, including for consuming esm-only libraries (which until recently did not work!)

This is noted somewhat in the article, but basically is the whole story to me. Its now possible to stop doing CJS libraries entirely. And with that, I don't see why we would do CJS at all.
I implemented the "2-level rotated array" structure a few years ago, which isn't designed to be used as a deque, but is at least less pathological than this (O(1) push_back/pop_back, O(sqrt(n) push_front/pop_front/insert/delete).

https://github.com/senderista/rotated-vec
Kind of odd that the beautiful 2880x1800 display needs to be run at 1920x1080 to be readable. What happned to display scaling? And 100% sRGB is nice, but what about DCI-P3? My instinct is that this is a great laptop and a somewhat less great reviewer.
Stop logical fallacies in their tracks with Fallogical
Don't you just hate when you're having a healthy argument and logic just gets thrown out the window making it a waste of everyone's time?!?!

Fallogical is an application that listens to conversations, detects logical fallacies in real-time, and interrupts with explanations when fallacies are identified.
This ain't a resume. You'd still need to apply for jobs. This is probably closer to your blog but hosted by someone else. A way to build connections outside of the recruitment process.
Still waiting for my "deletion confirmation e-mail". Hopefully it arrives.
I remember reading an article about how these companies were big bad conglomerates who had complete ownership over valuable personal data. Not really downplaying the potential harm that can come with these "assets" in the wrong hands, but nice to know corporate is so inefficient they couldn't even avoid bankruptcy... it will be a long time before they can even hope to orchestrate complex nefarious schemes.
if enough of your relatives did, you're already toast

source: I'm already toast
Oh of course, if you just want to practice sight reading on your own, correct pitch is irrelevant, but if you want to use an app like this and have it follow along and check if you’re accurate with your sight reading, you have to agree with the app on pitch!
No photos of humans interestingly.
I've mentioned here that I got to study with him in his summer course the very last year it was held in Rome (when he got sick and ultimately came back to the U.S.).

He was a really cool guy and teacher of some really cool students, many of whom are still teaching Latin with their own spins on it.

This article was published in 2017, so it doesn't mention that Foster subsequently died in 2020.
It's reported working but not with LM Studio: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1j9reim/comment...
>I want to make usable replicas by 3d scanning them

Cool, the artifacts should be preserved for people studying new haptics device designs.

The MPU6050 is not a great IMU, but the cost might be your best option.

>USB-C connector

One can force the interface into legacy USB 2.0 HID mode, and I would highly recommend that approach if you are excluding a USBC device PMIC. The TP4056 also have some weirdness about entering charge modes, and exiting trickle mode.

Would recommend contacting some museum staff if additional hardware is missing:

https://vintagegeek.com/

Best of luck =3
Agile methods are often applied wrong and then are a disservice. There is no one-size-fits-all method to manage people and teams. Leadership naturally buys into those method as they are promised an easier life, but there is no shortcut to management and leadership. It's always situational.

At my (very large) company Scrum and SAFe is applied to all kind of projects. Even to manage organisations with highly heterogeneous responsibilities and workloads. Think of 2 people doing dev, 2 conceptional work for various larger projects, 3 are basically consultants for other orgs, 4 are data analysts and 1 is doing some spreadsheet work all day long. Now our manager had the great idea to manage us with Scrum.
Struct tags = reflection, and reflection is nasty. They also aren't validated at compile time. Liberal use like this should be avoided.
Fine-Tuning Nvidia's GR00T 2B Robotic Model on a RTX 3090
FWIW I tried apple maps today, motivated by this thread. I doubt my observations are one-of-a-kind but:

- Apple Maps has a different UI (obviously), which I think was the most annoying aspect of the switch

- Google Maps shows the speed limit, and the speed you're going at. Apple Maps just shows the limit. I prefer the google maps version here

- Apple Maps gave instructions like "go through this light, and turn left at the next one" or "turn right after the Starbucks". This is very close to how a human would give instructions, and I like that -- I'm already 'familiar' with it. I find Google's spoken instructions less natural.

I didn't notice anything else very different. Are there killer features that I missed? If not, I'll probably stay with google maps for just because of the UI familiarity.
...who do you think is gonna buy 23andMe when they go bankrupt?
This is insanely detailed and (mostly) accurate.

It’s a great guide for Chinese-focused foodies.
The Shape of Firms to Come
Evidence that it works?
8 key values

Intelligence Amplification/Augmentation not Artificial Intelligence (IA not AI)
Human Touch at Scale: Enable Customer Intimacy not an Instrumentality
Tap Expertise Like Electricity: Rely on Recon Pull Over Centralized Command
Focus on Learning and Teaching: View Customer Requests as Opportunities Not Costs
Play a Long Game: Focus on Longer Term Possibilities Over Short Term Gains
Play a Fast Game: Act on Good Enough Now Don’t Wait for Perfection or Certainty
Embrace the Possibility of Failure to Prevent it, the Reality of Failure to Learn from It
Act Entrepreneurially and Foster Ecosystems to Create More Value Than You Capture
Nuclear desalination. We could have had this decades ago, the real atoms for peace dividend. The boomers are stupid though, and the fact that the world has freshwater shortages and we have to consider carbon emissions (to whatever degree it will be a problem) from electricity generation is entirely their fault. And they are still squandering this gift.
Wait, ssh doesn't let you specify the remote command without running it through the user's shell? That seems like a deficiency too IMHO.
Plot twist: you’re adopted.
std::vector doesn't support efficient random deletes, so this (a generalization of std::vector along one specific axis) won't either.

Efficient random deletes and contiguous hole-free storage are completely at odds with each other.
To add a bit of detail: At least in English etymologies, there are significant differences between classical Latin and post-classical Latin.

But post-classical Latin unhelpfully covers Rome from ~200 CE into the 20th century, including the Catholic Church and all those scholars and scientists. I'm not sure what differences arose before or after the fall of Rome in 476 CE, which began the Middle Ages.
On a CoW filesystem like btrfs/bcachefs/zfs, a snapshot only has the overhead of the delta, so are cheap.

Btrbk can also take disk space into account for garbage collecting snapshots? Not sure.
I have never participated in any of these DNA sites but I have an aunt that pretty much put in our full family tree. Is there anything I can do to remove myself without making an account?
I can go and get DNA tests for somewhere between 200-1000 AUD right now. So it’s not crazy if you have a medical reason to do so.

What 23andMe did was try and build a startup around this with the intention of monetising that data in other ways later. That’s why it was so cheap that people gave them away for Xmas. Had this just been a private data base of people and connections, it would have cost many times more to get the test.

Nothing has gone wrong, except for those who handed over DNA.
He's quite a character! I found a great video[0] of him speaking for over an hour to a classroom filled with former students.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZLcWl_NCMY
It's absurd to me how soft deletion took over the entire industry and 'DELETE FROM' became taboo.
Why would that be painful in C? The code is already handling all the pieces
People preserve past technology for various reasons, but I have always appreciated the investment lessons about what persists... and what faded away.

For example, most modern architectures were not the best choice, and have pigeonholed both AMD and Intel for decades. =3
Well, purely going on who it is of value to, probably life insurance providers or pharmaceutical companies.
Google confirms it deleted Maps Timeline data for some
On a side note, I recently experimented with native TS support in Node.js and it felt like magic: no need for extra flags; debugging and watch just work; types are simple to re-use between browser and server. Erasable syntax seems like the way forward, can't wait for it to land in browsers.
docker compose is way too good to be fiddling around with alternatives. Podman is nice but the quadlet solution doesn't even come close to what docker compose offers
Dang this is crazy level of detail

> And yet, there is regionality. Jilin - around the city of Changchun - hues to my personal stereotype of ‘Northeastern’ food the closest, with their hearty stews and love of fermented cabbage.

Hahah yuuuup. Every other day we have sauerkraut mixed with something. Literally just ate some random Jilin style sauerkraut dish a couple of hours ago.

> In Yanbian along the North Korean border, there is a large group of ethnic Koreans called the Joseon, which have Korean food similar to what is found in North Korea.

And yes, wow. If you pop down to Yanbian from Jilin/Changchun, you can get really good North Korean food, which is harder to find like anywhere else.
There's nothing you can do even with an account.
I guess this was an inspiration for this character
https://lain.wiki/wiki/Nezumi
Really found this paper interesting and concerning. I don’t work in marketing or run these kinds of studies. I do work at Qualtrics and have experience with A/B testing, in general. For those who work in this space and can relate to this paper, would it be helpful if Qualtrics developed some kind of audit panel in our product to help surface potential platform bias? For example, sample ratio mismatch or metadata balance checks.
I advise against taking aGPC because it is very much associated with TMAO production due to adverse gut fermentation, leading to harmful effects on blood vessels. Switch to citicoline which doesn't look to have this issue.
"Problem" in this context did not mean "a challenging engineering issue to be solved by cleverness and skill and determination". It means "shit dying, ecosystems being destroyed, earth and air and water being polluted, bounds not under human control".
Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43447421