skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Now compare financial loss from bugs/hackers in smart contracts to financial loss from deception on the part of bankers, brokers, company execs, etc - the exact kind of fraud that's much harder to perpetrate with smart contracts. I'd wager the second number is and always will be orders of magnitude larger.

Enron alone was responsible for ~$74bn of loss.
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They're also looking to investigate:

Also the investigator will use it as a prophylaxis for health care workers to disinfect the virus as soon as possible while it is present in nasal mucosa and upper airway.

So the comment you replied to isn't _totally_ off the mark.
Eh same here, same age and years experience.

Toughest part is the salary/time demand ratio is pretty great, I doubt there's many normal jobs that come close. Maybe sales, once you get the ball rolling.

I think the key is to compartmentalize it as a source of income (my coworker says "whelp, back to the salt mines"), find a niche that people want you for, and get other things you're interested in.

I assume this job will be valuable for at least 10 more years.
If you find any mistakes or see room for improvements please let me know.
Do Vitamin D, Zinc, and Other Vitamins Protect Against Covid-19?
Just out of curiosity, is there an allowed way to access directories like this? Sudo doesn't let me see the contents of the ~/Library/Safari directory. Can non-Apple programs access this, like backup programs? Can I bless a script to access this? Can Mozilla or others import bookmarks from Safari any more?
Pllay raises $3M so gamers can wager on duels in popular games
We had a terrible experience with Fitbit. My wife’s Versa delaminated just out of warranty. Screen and guts all fell out. Fitbit basically shrugged their shoulders and said too bad.

My experience with them years ago when they first launched was really positive. Any issues with a device, and another one was in the mail.
Depends on how upfront the school was on its COVID plans. Many schools were pretty clear in letting students know things can change throughout the semester. For those schools I don't see a fraud issue.
https://twitter.com/arbingsam/status/1333669126125068289

Heres one novel idea I have just seen in my twitter feed for a yearn strategy[1].

You deposit tokens to the yearn contract which employs different strategies to lend/spend those tokens in ways that generate profit for everyone participating in the contract.

This strategy is taking up the rest of the bets that trump wont be re-elected on a decentralised prediction market (blah blah see crypto is all gambling). This ability to be able to program collectively program money is fascinating (and is scary with bugs, but with time hopefully becomes more robust).

[1]https://yearn.finance/vaults
This may have changed, but in the past, I believe they were essentially just rebranded Xiaomi cameras (possibly from other suppliers) with different firmware. I originally thought the Chinese products were clones of Wyze, but it appears Wyze is actually just using existing low-cost hardware from overseas. Happy to be corrected if I'm wrong though.

FYI - for some camera models (Xiaomi or Wyze), you can flash them with this custom firmware[1], allowing for a lot more customization.

[1] https://github.com/EliasKotlyar/Xiaomi-Dafang-Hacks
Absolutely not true at all that you'll get attention if it's "interesting". There's tons of people jostling for eyes on their posts in medium-to-large hobby subreddits, oftentimes posting things to multiple ones. Makes it even harder because one can't self-promote their own stuff. Bots/burner astroturfing accounts are also a massive problem on reddit.
Thanks! I think you are correct, after the successful completion I added that statement as a safety before deleting all other previous attempts. Reading this code again it really could have used the data more efficiently to predict the correct ID faster, but if I remember correctly it didn't take very long to run so I never made another attempt.
That $68,703 figure is the median HOUSEHOLD income that encompasses more than one bread winner on average.
Study: Covid-19 Reached U.S. Earlier Than Health Officials Previously Thought
Keep in mind the size of the subreddit. A subreddit with a few thousand followers is more likely to see your post than, say, /r/funny’s followers would
> Where exactly did everyone think the pandemic would go after a few months of lockdown?

We thought we'd combine lockdown with tighter quarantines for visitors and excellent test & trace systems with quarantines for people with covid and that we would, like several countries, get covid under control.
I accept and appreciate the correction.
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When it comes to the matter of cables failing, you should look to a specialist in cables, not radio telescopes.
Yes but it isn't defined by the lack of multitasking
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Bitcoin lightning. Please check it out.

A ton of electricity is wasted. Maybe outlaw giant SUVs with 1 person in them?
I don't think I understand your question? Yes, I'd say the system presumably works via some form of pattern matching.
Beyond Idiot-Savant AI (2012) [pdf]
Here's my attempt to summarize what this service actually does, after reading the documentation in more detail:

Proton is an opinionated, 'self-service' application CI/CD workflow built on top of CloudFormation (for now, however it appears intentionally designed for future expansion).

The service defines separate workflows for two distinct teams in an organization, the 'Platform Team' and 'Developers'.

The Platform Team publishes two types of 'Template Bundles' ('Environment' and 'Service') for self-service usage by Developers:

- 'Template bundles' consist of a stack template (CloudFormation yaml that gets passed through a Jinja template filter), a schema file (defining inputs and outputs), and a manifest (metadata specifying the template language [CFn] and rendering engine [Jinja], intended for future expansion).

- 'Environment' templates define the set of shared resources and policies that Services are deployed into (e.g., VPCs, clusters, and shared load balancers or API Gateways);

- 'Service' templates define the AWS resources specific to the service (e.g., Lambda functions, ECS tasks, associated IAM roles, etc), Service bundles also include a separate 'Pipeline' template which defines a separate set of resources (e.g., CodeBuild Projects + CodePipeline Pipelines) used for building/testing/deploying instances of the service.

Developers then consume these template bundles for self-service deployment of CI/CD pipelines for their applications. First they create an Environment from a published Environment template, then create Services (containing one or more Service Instances) in an Environment from published Service templates. When a Developer creates a Service they connect it to their code repository, so new commits trigger the service pipeline to build+deploy the application code.

Finally, the Platform Team maintains its template bundles over time by publishing new minor/major revisions, and Developers manually opt-in to these version updates for their deployed Environments/Services.

The service also provides some curated template bundles (for Lambda and Fargate-based services), which is helpful because there's a ton of boilerplate in wiring up all of these parts together.

Overall, Proton seems to occupy a similar space as Service Catalog (admin-curated CloudFormation stack templates for self-service deployment by developers), but it provides a more managed, opinionated workflow with a shared Environment stack and separate CI/CD pipeline stack for each Service. Seems like an interesting attempt to standardize a bunch of these elements that go into a common use-case of CloudFormation-managed CI/CD pipelines for self-service application development.
>But there are lots of other ways–the key observation is that as long as you are right, being misunderstood by most people is a strength not a weakness. You and a small group of rebels get the space to solve an important problem that might otherwise not get solved.

The ability to make that bet and be right (unless you just flipped a coin), took some skills or insight, and that likely took effort and time, but then that only bought you space which probably should have been granted in the first place. Even junior developers get some space to work.

Now you've done all that work just to be able to work on the problem and you now have to deliver, which may or may not be easier than the initial bet. If it's easier, you've just fought an unnecessary battle to be able to do something you know you can do.

How many other unnecessary battles are you going to have to fight?

This seems like it gets in the way of progress more than anything. I don't want to be misunderstood in this way. If they misunderstand, one or both of us has messed up. Maybe I need more or better proof, or maybe I need to explain it better, or maybe it's the other side who needs to do more work.

There's definitely a strength in being misunderstood, but it's not about moving ahead (getting space), it's about finding out who you shouldn't be working with. This is sometimes a very hard signal to get.
Maybe this is ok, because AWS is so large, competition of technologies is good and probably necessary for long term survival.
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In fact if you get "good enough" at the low end there is more money there than up top. Sure $200 isn't much compared to me income, but it is still more than an impulse buy. If you can get the $20 market it becomes an impulse buy for a lot more people. If you are good enough they compare with their friends and the friends also buy - those who would never spend $200 on an impulse buy, and those who already have and are looking to replace theirs.
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Really depends on how long the page rendering time is. And you also didn't account for any traffic yet - that's another 0.09$/GB on top.

Taking the statistics from some old Ask HN thread [0] (which is probably an underestimate?) you would need to render your site in less than 2ms to stay below 1$ for that day. And serve less than 51kB of data per page view to stay in the free 1GB of traffic region (this part should be pretty doable if you don't include any large images).

Of course assuming you don't have any existing VM or web hosting you could reuse for that.

Edit: Ups.. Used per-second billing instead of per-ms by accident. So even up to >1s per request it's below 1$ for that actually. So only leaves significant more traffic and lots of bandwidth usage as possible sore points for tiny web services.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8107658
Some technologies are very difficult to learn all on one's own without relevant experience, either personally or within a team. Or to put it another way, you could solve your specific problem by hiring experts. But it would still take them some time to implement a solution despite their expertise and experience. Computer science and software engineering are hard. Image recognition was developed by large well funded teams of engineers over many years. Not solo-developers in an afternoon. Some technologies require person-years for proficiency.
True, but on the other hand if you have options or futures contracts, you expect them to execute as specified. That's the sort of thing mainly running on Ethereum.
I used to work in one of the top labs doing protein folding, in fact I recognize some lab mates who survived to have their own labs in this year's CASP top ten ranking. Something is a bit rotten though because I'd guess about half of us burned out of academia entirely, and the state of the art at the time was regrettable. I remember one model doing rather well except the weights of the various physical forces were wrong, so much that some signs were negative and what should have been electrostatic repulsion was actually electrostatic attraction between similar charges. This was 10 years ago of course, but all of the field improvements were relatively incremental and small until AlphaFold came along.

Modern academia exists to further modern academia, no more and no less. I became disillusioned of any search for truth and progress during my time there, it was really just about showing up the Baker lab at the next CASP and getting the next round of grants secured.
Yeah, I have an Apple Watch but I usually just wear a $30 Timex because I don't need to worry about charging. When the band and/or battery give out after a few years I replace it with another of the same model.

I buy lots of cheap things even though there are "better" versions available for more money.
Wait, there is an automatic tool to create the USB stick. I use it regularly.

I think it is interesting that you can still buy old Windows 7 hardware, and just stick the Windows 10 install USB into it, reboot, and be on your way.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

The second option. Easy as pie.
Why did you not add "Who can guarantee that? Nobody." to the PoW description as well?
Has anyone done a thorough security analysis of any of their devices? Do they phone home or otherwise open some sort of back door? I agree that it does seem too good to be true
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Excellent comment, I did both parts last year up to day 17 and just had to stop, but learning about things like A* were really what made it worthwhile.

I have no formal CS training, but did a lot of online courses and so I use events like this to help plug gaps and learn new languages, and it would have been great to have a mentor like yourself through some of these puzzles last year as it can be quite hard to solve algorithm knowledge gaps etc. when also quickly trying to roll your own solutions.

Still, really a cool thing. I couldn't resist starting again today.
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Plus they managed to run the gamut of security failures including RCE on users home computers.
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They trade a token, sometimes called a stablecoin, that represent BTC as its underlying value.

Primarily two extremes for how this is done: Centralized, like WBTC (https://coinlist.co/help/what-is-wrapped-bitcoin-wbtc), and decentralized, like tBTC (https://defirate.com/tbtc/)
How much of that income is spent on healthcare, food, and housing? 40% americans can't afford an unexpected $400 bill [0] https://abcnews.go.com/US/10-americans-struggle-cover-400-em....
Dumb question, but why not just tell windows you're on a metered connection? It won't auto update then right?
I think you absolutely could just ask. Once you get over the need for surprise, the hand-off can still be a moment of delight. It's just a different sort of delight: it's the one you are anticipating because the thing you were excited about is finally arriving.
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I've recently landed $75 worth of Apple gift cards and don't know how best to spend it. All ideas welcome.
When you say AWS? You mean EC2?

Cause when I think AWS, I think of using Lambda, Fargate, DynamoDB, RDS, SQS, SNS, S3, Kinesis, Redshift, Elastic search, etc.

All these managed services arn't just about cost or scale, a lot of it is about convenience and development speed and flexibility, as well as reduced maintainance and operational burden.
We shouldn’t put the burden on the bug finder to be “nice” and persistent about doing Apple’s job for them. We should put the burden on Apple - the first trillion dollar company - to take bug reports seriously. Given that iOS and macOS have pretty novice security vulnerabilities (allowing apps to view Safari browsing history, allowing iOS apps to detect if a device is jailbroken), why is it up to the bug finder to be nice about it?
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Running my site on dedicated servers costs me $500 a month, running it on AWS would cost me about $20,000 a month (probably just for the egress traffic alone).

I could hire four system administrators for that money to look after each of my four dedicated servers full time.

On top of that you first need to learn AWS. That thing is complicated - but I can set up a dedicated server in minutes because it's indistinguishable from my development environment.

I joke that dedicated servers are only expensive if your time and money are worthless. Because AWS is going to eat both.
I have seen a 1 million tx per second on bitcoin lightning demos.

USD dollar hasn't seen intense inflation recently. Or a kleptocratic government like most of the world.

That said there are large issues using it as a payment mechanism due to volatility in USD.
Up until recently, you could also read the contents of the files after getting the inode number, I got that fixed in Catalina. Good times.
I've been using their products since their first cam came out (was skeptical but hey, $20-odd bucks was low risk).

Now have multiple cams, bulbs, and so on. Getting the watch is a low dough no brainer.

Solid stuff for not a lot of money.
Between a 40b strcmp method (If I had/if it was more widely supported I could use sse4.2 strcmp) and ~74b of resolving said exports a couple syscalls sounds pretty nice provided the context switch isn't more expensive than resolving the imports.
Tesla (TSLA) is open to merging with other automakers
Installing packages onto the system (“pip install”) is different than the interpreter importing them (loading them when the interpreter hits an “import” statement). Not only is it resolving imports into file paths and loading them into memory, but it’s also executing module-level code which tends to be quite common in Python, so it’s not at all uncommon for imports to take 5s or more.

Meanwhile in Go, dependencies are baked into the executable so there is no resolving of dependencies, and the analog to “module level code” (i.e., package init() functions) are discouraged and thus much less common and where they occur they don’t do as much work compared to the average Python package.
I’m so used to the fuggeaboutit reliability of my digital and automatic watches that the battery life of the Apple Watch is absolutely appalling.