skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Totally. The number of people who really felt the implication of the Libor scandal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libor_scandal) among the general population, for example, is close to 0.

Not only this, but term "white collar crime" has been abused to include what is properly termed "implies unwanted externalities", and so it weakens the meaning. Enron executives are not criminals simply because their industry pollutes! Nor are bankers criminals simply because their industry depends entirely on enforcing artificial scarcity and information asymmetry. Crime specifically requires breaking a law!

Another related disturbing trend that weakens the concept of "white collar crime" is the "wouldn't you gave done it, too?" argument. That is, to defend cheating or bad faith behavior by arguing that you would have done if you were in the same situation. There is a lot wrong with this kind of argument, and it is similar to "whataboutism" in that it functions as a kind of strawman that tacitly assumes egoism and moral relativism, and moreover projects that lack of principle onto the counter-party. (And if you claim you wouldn't do that, the other person can say you are posturing, etc. A very nasty rhetorical tactic indeed!

None of these effects are really new, but I think what is new is that the attention economy has as a side-effect cause an overall drop in the critical thinking skills needed in a large chunk of the population to ensure these cognitive mistakes don't become official policy. There has always been an unofficial bulwark against populism in America, comprised of the "elite" - the well educated, thoughtful, articulate, careful men and women trained in philosophy, morality, and religion, and who are wealthy enough to have time to spend on such matters. Obama was and is such a one. But apocalyptic levels of egoism and intellectual laziness has spread to all corners of our society, even, shockingly, to the elites themselves. (See: Josh Haweley).

The net effect is to weaken the notion of "white collar crime" into nothingness, which is great news for those that do it, and terrible news for the rest of us.
If anybody is looking for a book, I'm half way through The Leader's Guide to Storytelling by Stephen Denning. It focuses on business use, explores different use cases, and provides actionable advice. It is somewhat lacking in scientific foundations despite a long bibliography and gives rather anecdotal evidence. Still a good broad overview targeted at corporate use.
Thank you for this response. You went through options in both sides of the fence and that's something I wanted to hear.

I was considering a PhD in ETH or EPFL. Going deep is mostly what I've been thinking. Actually getting an understanding and contributing to the field is more important to me than just working on something more interesting. My current job is already on something interesting but the actual work I end up doing is on the surface level, often avoiding any kind of innovation to minimize the risk. The time I can spend on learning is also way more limited than what I could get if I was doing dedicated research.

In the end, I'm not sure if I want to end up in academia. It's hard to know if something is a fit without trying. The article you linked is a very helpful sample of what to expect.
Sure, ok, so they have an encrypted version of the private key!?
Congrats on the launch Feroot folks!

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The relationship between feelings of safety and actual crime rate is incidental. Feelings of safety are moreso a product of the media up until a certain threshold we are very far from.

Conversely, white collar crime absolutely does cause physical harm, as does most economic ruin, which is highly correlated with morbidity for the less fortunate.
Similar in the UK, although with a caveat that in the UK at least it can take a long time to register suicdes. Even in normal times only 50% of suicides are registered in the year they happen, and with covid there's a backlog. I suspect we won't know the real level of suicide in 2020 until 2022.

That said, the data that is available doesn't point to an increase outside of the historical increase (suicides in the UK have been increasing for a long time)
The pretty awesome "Philosophize This" podcast* episode on Foucault, where he discusses crime and punishment over the years, makes an interesting point that always stuck with me regarding punishment of white collar crime:

"9 times out of 10 they are not going to see the inside of a prison cell because their behavior...doesn't really need much reformation in the eyes of the people in power. Keep doing almost everything you're doing...keep working, keep creating jobs, keep starting new companies and going to badminton on Sundays...just pay your taxes. Whereas the guy that robbed the Taco Bell...it doesn't matter if he marches back into the store...hands over the 85 bucks directly to the manager...baby birds the burrito supreme back into his mouth...9 times out of 10 that guy is going to jail because the goal of the penal system is reforming criminals to fit a pre-existing mold of what a normal person is."

Of course this doesn't get into the very real issues of how modern US police departments work, systematic racism and other factors, but it's still an interesting perspective IMO.

*transcript: https://www.philosophizethis.org/podcast/episode-121-transcr...
Haha freudian slip there,

*online encyclopedia.
I guess it depends on the nature of the street crime. If people don't feel physically safe and that they can't reasonably protect their belongings, then yes that would have broad negative impact.
My takeaway was this was an impact from a meteorite but I'm not 100% sure. Is there an "explain this like we are having a real life conversion" version?
When I researched this last year, some people suggested m-disc, but it's >10x the expense of spinning rust. If you're a home-labber, you might want to try buying a used LTO drive, but researching, sourcing, caring, and feeding of LTO is a lot unless it's a hobby project you're doing for fun.

Here are the alternatives I found:
<https://photostructure.com/faq/how-do-i-safely-store-files/#...>
There is also unemployment, which for a married/partnered dev should be sufficent to cover most rent and essentials in the interim.

You may need to pare down your expenses a lot prior to quitting but that's why you quit. You trade your toys in exchange for your well being
> but they don’t feel physically unsafe because of it.

That seems like a mistake since it can so easily and often cause poverty.
Perhaps it is the 3D artists that are using the term incorrectly. Or maybe the term can have more than one meaning.
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It is very possible for a type checker to catch this mistake. I illustrate the intuition here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26046808
Take off both ends. Slides right out.
If you were an investigator and liked promotions and job security, would you put 3 years into trying to get 60X, but getting 30X $100k fines or trying to get 2X but getting 1X $100m fine? Who could pay such a large fine?

Where does the article say they corrected for that, and what miraculous method did they use?
but every site nowadays use https. Doesn't it prevent issue with public wifi ?
Extreme Ironing
Not everyone can setup their own web/mail/vpn/whatever server.
> I would not say that - maybe you meant only dynamically typed languages?

No I don't? A breaking change means working code doesn't work anymore. In a statically typed language, if a dependency adds a parameter to a function your code stops compiling. That's very much a breaking change.
Your post is an example of attributing to technical people the bad habits of all people. Much like, "engineers are bad at business" -- people in general are bad at business.

Every person out there has a brilliant idea that just needs to be implemented (by someone else), fitting nicely into the "why don't they just".

Engineers are conspicuously good at something and then it's fun to make fun of them, but I don't think their behavior in this regard is any different than anyone else, except that they may more frequently give thought to solving something.
Well https takes care of that.

The hotel might be able to see that you visited a certain website but thats about it.
> Enron executives are not criminals simply because their industry pollutes! Nor are bankers criminals simply because their industry depends entirely on enforcing artificial scarcity and information asymmetry.

Not sure about this point. They're only not criminals because their industries can afford lobbyists and few others can.
From the Wiki:

> The wallet.dat file is located in the Bitcoin data directory and may be encrypted with a password.

I guess they have the encrypted wallet.dat, but not the password for decrypting it.
Eye transmission. Shocker. Eye protection is for you. Masks protect others against you. It’s always this way with aerosol viruses. I don’t know why they were so certain that this one only infects through the lungs. Actually they also said masks don’t work, until they did. Why would any rational person keep trusting para-scientific authorities? I’m not authority nor expert, but I’d recommend mask and goggles for any high-traffic low-volume spaces. In other SARS epidemics, it was spreading through poorly-designed ventilation of hospital bathrooms. Apparently thats the worst aerosol environment, so be especially careful in public bathrooms, avoid if possible. Don’t expect that we’ll ever snap back to normal.
If he doesn't have a copy of the file, then even if the cops can't access it, semantically they could be said to have seized them?
> Universities started out as trade schools for the clergy, lawyers and doctors.

You mean, "the clergy, lawyers and physicians?" :)
IDK not a real thing, you just never see it. I feel like it's a forum not a chat room and it doesn't collapse deep threads by default so the long code makes the page very long. Probably doesn't matter though.

At this point we can go ahead and break the world:

add.toString = () => `function add({ ...args }) { const { a, b, ...rest } = args; if (typeof a !== "number" || typeof b !== "number") { throw "no"; } if (Object.keys(rest).length > 0) { throw "no";} return a + b;}`;
_add.toString = () => `function add({ ...args }) { const { a, b, ...rest } = args; if (typeof a !== "number" || typeof b !== "number") { throw "no"; } if (Object.keys(rest).length > 0) { throw "no";} return a + b;}`;
Function.prototype.toString = () => `function add({ ...args }) { const { a, b, ...rest } = args; if (typeof a !== "number" || typeof b !== "number") { throw "no"; } if (Object.keys(rest).length > 0) { throw "no";} return a + b;}`;
Well, the trades do vary a lot in quality.

Especially carpentry, which is the most varied.

You can work on a construction site, framing and drywalling and never pick up any real skills outside of that narrow set.

Carpentry skills generally only come by doing. So find one who's older, or who came from a family of carpenters.
I like the outline you have here for a crash course on Pandas. I've been tinkering with it myself off and on for a while but have been wanting to to really dig in lately for the same reasons you mention. Just a couple of nitpicks:

1. The style of your website makes it pretty much impossible to tell if a bit of text is linked anywhere. I only figured it out after clicking on the word "here" in the first paragraph and coming back and clicking on essentially everything. None of this happened until after I visited the site on my desktop instead of my mobile and slowed down to read things carefully.

2. It would be great to get a link to the denvergov.org data set, or corresponding area of the site.
That may be the case on a local level, but if we could stop corporate crime we would all (theoretically) be better off -> less street crime overall.
I mentioned this in another thread, but I was wondering if you had any examples of complexity theory informing what investments to make into the power grid? e.g. emergent behaviour is predictably reduced by adding X MWh of batteries in a certain region?
I got to to the point of an antagonistic relationship with our oncology team on this one. I had to constantly fight with them to get regular labs done even after two separate occasions where our treatment was paused because the numbers were out of whack. I started ordering them directly via the home nurses that were doing or saline and sent them with a giant fuck you to the oncology team when they started dipping.

I don't know if your username came from this road you're on but it is absolutely appropriate for it. I wish the best for your and your loved ones.
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What ‘bank info etc.’ are you accessing that isn’t TLS encrypted already? Adding IPSEC on top of that isn’t helping much, if at all…
This is a very American-centric view of policing.
Borders definitely are products of lots of historical events, but still hard to see how it relates to your original statement. Yes, borders are complicated, and what?

And the undisputable fact that humans are neither sunlight, nor air, nor water (even if technically made mostly of water) should show the absurdity of nations how?
How do you add subtitles automatically? Are you using a library or you programed your own version?

Does it handle only English or also other languages? es-us? en-ca? en-gb?
Good point. I suppose I just don't think education on frameworks of the individual mind are the main path out of this. Frameworks of the social spaces and relationships between minds are where I'd place my bets. I feel re-education campaigns, essentially sowing of specific knowledge into minds, are overrepresented in the solution space, prob because it's how we did it in the past. I'm more a believer in primarily changing/repairing the SHAPE of the network, and deemphasizing focus on the content flowing through it.

Of course, neglecting either is ignorant. I just think we've leaned in recent history quite hard on hand-tuning information flowing in the network, and the world is changing in ways that weaken that
Sorry, for some reason I must have over-read your "defaults". Without those you are certainly right.
Philip McShane wrote something similar

"...a thing is defined by... systematizations of coincidental aggregates of the properties of lower things [and] the emergence of the systematic from the non-systematic"
I get a little upset when people want a crackdown on street crime but seem to forgive white-collar crime because "you won't get them anyway", while you easily could say that about street crime too. Arguably the US has one of the harshest policies regarding small time criminals with the highest incarceration rates of any developed country, but can't seem to actually get it under control.

What people fail to see that these small crimes like theft, drug dealing, assassinations are done because white-collar criminals can launder money. If the money can't be laundered, drug money loses much of its worth.

It is understandable that seeing young men lying dead in the street is more tangible than a bank looking away or cooperating when they come across suspicious transactions. Yet if we want to really have an impact we'll have to do something else than (just) busting small time criminals for their crimes. The big guys make the small guys do the dirty stuff.
Programming for cat.

$ /bin/cat - | python -
print("Hello, world!")
^D
Hello, world!
This is a good idea. One quick way to get started might be Upwork and other such sites. These sites are full of lowing paying jobs but use then as a quick way to learn and build a portfolio.
Arguably fuzzing is property testing with a constrained set of properties, although in practice the communities differ.
The political agenda does not undermine the substantial point: American institutions have been shamelessly lying. This isn't new: the US entered Iraq on a lie and the NSA was caught lying to congress during the Snowden leaks. What has changed is that the public is more aware of the cynical manipulation due to the ridiculous treatment of the pandemic, the very real consequences, and the alternative distribution media that are now more common.

I'd love to just list off the lies. But the problem is systemic. The media has established their own echo chamber on Twitter, policy experts are politically captured if not beholden to special interests, and anyone with a sincere interest in the truth must blog under a pseudonym lest they be cancelled for raising inconvenient lines of reasoning.

The working class public is not aware of the precise institutional failures which happened during Covid, or of credible information sources. They see position "A" being pushed one week and then a month later position "not A" being pushed, and the same for B, C, D,... and slowly they start trusting the conspiracy theorists who say that it's all lies, and actually Alpha, Beta, Gamma...
>doesn't allow implementing dark patterns like this.

or does it? Call from the past "3D" tooth paste marketing, whitening agents, microplastics, multi-color squirts, same FUD "brush like a pro only with XXX". Those are just few (top of my head) of the levels marketing goes to attempt and sell toothpaste.
In the US there is a high rank of Professor, Professor Emeritus, that specifically confers that it is kept after retirement.
Care to describe what devices/programs you're using?
They show you a BTC address and you send BTC to that address. Whatever arrives at the address is credited to your account. No "invoicing system" involved.
You should have included some string manipulation.
> When the Director of the CDC asserts an opinion, she has to optimize for two things - being right, and keeping power

Perhaps there is some context that you have elided, but as it stands, this is terribly cynical and almost certainly not true.

Being CDC Director is an entry on a resume, albeit a prestigious one. It can only come after outstanding achievement in medical and/or scientific pursuits. Assuming one does not leave in disgrace, it is followed by even more prestigious, and highly compensated appointments.

There is a strong analogy here with the obsession of finding "signaling" everywhere one looks. As if everybody is an automaton, or even a malicious actor, that behaves in a facile, self-serving manner.

Occam's Razor should be your north star here.
Well afaik seeding on public torrents is just about the only way, where you would get in trouble for pirating.

Just don't do that, use a private tracker and use Tor for small stuff like ebooks.
One way to see it is that any measurement will collapse the wave function, which can be detected can by the communicating parties.
If possible, can you share how the non-mass metrics have trended? RHR, HRV, VO2 Max, respiratory rate, etc, whatever you got.

Had a smaller health concern as well and did about half the work you have...wondering how much value comes from being able to jog a few miles to completing a distance event. Empirically, of course and ignoring any psychological / self-worth principles: on a effort per heart improvement metric, how much is that juice worth the squeeze, because running a triathlon seems very very hard.
index funds (of stock), private equity investments (generally stock), and vc equity investments (of private stock) are all also “stocks”.
OOH! OOH! I Seen Dis Movie!
It is intellectual scam.
Raspberry Pi: 68k Hardware Emulator
You typically get on an airplane because you have to travel someplace. With VPNs I fail to see a reason beyond circumventing geo-blocking.
Maybe add an ethics section. https://hackernoon.com/learnings-from-the-meow-bot-attack-on...
Yes, it’s mostly network transit that’s the problem. The issue is that there is a lot of network transit behind the scenes that’s not going through nginx and a client browser.
youtube ads is the reason i am most familiar with. especially with nordvpn.

so, essentially, even the most knowledgeable people on youtube tell you that nordvpn is a must have thing. and they "use it all the time". what do you want people who don't know better to do?

that's the sad online world we live in.
Asssuming they don't MITM your connection.
Direct link to study: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07418825.2020.18...

This type of analysis has some obvious limitations:

- Fraud is more likely to be recorded in public record when committed at big corporations. Many small companies also commit fraud, but it goes unnoticed, unpunished, or otherwise not recorded in ways accessible to researchers because they're too small to make waves. Maybe too small to bother prosecuting.

- Big companies have, by definition, more people, more activity, more transactions, and more opportunities for fraud. It's a mistake to assume that all fraud is orchestrated from the top of these companies. Often, it's mid-level managers looking to get a bonus, raise, or promotion who think they can get away with fraud in their little department.

In my anecdotal experience, big companies are far less likely to behave fraudulently than small, local companies. A big company knows that endemic fraud is a death sentence for their reputation and can bring intense regulatory scrutiny. A small company knows that they can defraud you out of a couple thousand dollars one time and it's not worth your time to pursue legal action.

Of course, most small companies I've worked with are not out to defraud your customers. Building a long-term relationship with a small company can be much more fruitful than being customer number 10,001 for a big company.

Always be careful, regardless of who you're dealing with.
It moves the source of threat from local (eg someone around you on shared wifi) and the local(ish) ISP to remote and abstract and possibly uncaring (foreign company and whoever has the resources to monitor their firehose). It doesn't eliminate threat, but it changes it in ways that may be relevant - eg with a VPN the people around me can't see that I'm surfing midget porn, and my ISP can tell that I'm torrenting but can't tell what or from where. Other torrent watchers (eg whoever goes after pirates these days) will also have a hard time isolating me back to an IP with which they might be able to get account holder information - and entities with the resources to monitor what's coming out of the fat pipes at the VPN provider probably don't care about me.
Thanks for the link! I'm looking for a course that really does get into the weeds about applying complexity theory to create value for my work. Would you recommend one of their listed courses in particular?
> That’s not how we do things in America, where the title for the head of state is just “Mr. President.”

So, just like in Europe? “Mr. Prime Minister”, “M. le Président”, “Frau Bundeskanzlerin”, “Herr Bundeskanzler”, ...
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