skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Matt Levine's article, which has some greater detail, pointed out that there was an "Some of this money is going to an external account. Are you sure this is correct?" confirmation pop-up. The problem was they intended to actually send the interest, so there was an assumption that that's what the dialog was referring to.
I guess after that regime fell, Lithuanians had much say in whether to continue operating that plant, and between 1990 and 2009 their say was "aye".
It's already running with $5 billion in ETH deposited. It'll take some more time before migrating the legacy chain, but the really hard part is live. There was nothing like that two years ago.
It’s definitely possible while holding down a job, especially if you consider its 75 drinks a week, which allows for heavier drinking on the weekend then during the middle of the week.
That was an interesting graphic, so I decided to revisit the Israeli graph on EuroMOMO.

The delay in registration is for deaths that occur up until the week-end update; it is a one-week retrospective potential bump. The fall to baseline in Israel began three weeks ago, and has shown a continuous and steady slope.

You spoke too late, and I hope you issue a correction.
Thank you, a wonderful day to you too!

I think it's completely okay to talk about drugs, creating taboos around dangerous things has rarely been helpful in the past.

However, I think people's reaction to this piece shows what's missing: more warnings around it than seem entirely necessary to the average person. You just don't want today's lucky 10,000 [0] to come away with the impression that heroin is a pretty casual thing, and while the fact of talking about it is great, the words themselves can be dangerous if they promote unsafe behavior without adequate warnings.

All that being said, I have to admit that people might be over-reacting a smidge to the interview, but I can't really fault them. I haven't personally lost anyone to heroin addiction, but I imagine I might read the article less generously if I had.

Cheers!

[0]: https://xkcd.com/1053/
No, you misunderstand. The comment asserts that the NYTimes, specifically, is biased, and this bias is harder for people on the left to see, because it aligns with their sensibilities. Meanwhile, it's easy for people on the right to see it.

The comment doesn't say anything about people on the right being immune to it (and I would suspect there's a similar effect there in reverse, for eg Fox News).
Except you won't be able to buy any of them, even when they are released.
The practical utility of crypto is such a joke when compared to the intended use cases that all of the speculators fawn over. The idea that crypto is a "store of value" seems like meager coping with the fact that transaction rates in a distributed system necessarily must suck compared to what Visa, et. al. are doing with IBM mainframes and racks of x86 hardware contained in the same datacenter (i.e. 1~2ms latency domain vs seconds to minutes).

For reference, Visa does thousands to tens-of-thousands of transactions per second. The cost to run one of these transactions is negligible because it can be handled so quickly. Contrast with BTC, which struggles to hit 10 transactions per second on a good day. I used to work in a facility that monitored debit transactions. Our SLAs were ridiculous. Certain customers had requirements that if a single transaction took more than 100 ms, we were to open a ticket and contact their help desk immediately. This is the type of rigor it takes to maintain a financial payment network that consumers will have confidence in using.

This is not something that can be solved with current crypto approaches. There are information theory constraints regarding how long it would take to reach consensus across a distributed system and in such a way that transactions are serializable.
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No, we just know that they paid for a lesson
I worked for a "startup within a Big Co." for a few months, set up as an "innovation lab" for a big stuffy 3-letter HR tech / payroll vendor everyone knows (at least in the US). It wasn't bad, and I felt like they really tried to make things feel all fun and "silicon alley" (I'm in NYC), but boy did that whole facade disappear once you realized you need to use on corporate VPN to view things on the public internet and a second one to connect to source control. Or when the companies patent lawyer comes by to talk to the team about the importance of patenting every last little idea you have.

I don't even blame them either, they are a huge company that can't just change the way they fundamentally do business. But it does make the whole thing feel a bit artificial. I'm sure for startups that are acquired it's a bit different but in the end the same result.
That is a valid issue. Should be remedied in an upcoming release.
The important part is you have community to look out for them. The US no longer has shared community in a given locale.
I think the law envisions a case where you owe money to someone, and the due date for repayment is already in the past.

So, if I borrow $1,000 from you and am supposed to pay it back next month, and then the due date arrives, and I accidentally transfer $1,000 to you, then yeah, it makes sense that you should be able to keep the money you are owed, even if it was sent mistakenly. It would be bizarre to demand that the creditor return the money to a debtor who is at risk of stiffing them.

But in this case, the due date for repayment was far in the future, and it makes far less sense for the exception to come into play.

That said, I don't understand why the creditor would want to hold onto the money. If they made a loan, they did so to make money off of interest payments, and if the loan is prepaid, they make less.

EDIT:

I read more about the lawsuit. In most cases, it doesn't make sense for the creditor to want to hold onto the money.

But in this case, the creditors were on bad terms with the debtor and were worried that if they returned the erroneously transferred money, they might never see it paid. So the exception to the law, which seems unnecessary unless the loan is past due, ended up benefiting them, because they got their at-risk loan paid back.
I just pulled up two Reuters articles to look.

First article had 12 paragraphs, and a grand total of 12 sentences. 7 of those are quotes/paraphrases of what people said/claimed. Oh and the page had 20 ad images.

60% of the article is "s/he said X". The remaining 40% are low-fat versions of something one can find on Wikipedia.

Another one:

10 paragraphs, 11 sentences. 5 are quotes/paraphrases. 15 (fifteen) ad images!

That is not journalism, that's Twitter with extra steps, masquerading as news. At this point, if I didn't know any better, I'd call Reuters a glorified ad farm!
$900M
This is postmodernism 101, "there is no objective truth, we are shackled by subjectivity"

This is dangerous!
>2) MacOS has never destroyed it's own bootloader because it was Tuesday and it was bored: Windows did it once, but it was repaired automatically by the recovery partition.

Must have been one hell of a hangover from that Mardi Gras ball.
This is the whole gist of the (potential) problem.
This article may be old. It took my GF just 10 seconds to cancel her subscription.
Distilling some of this news:

- The 2.9 and earlier 'ansible' you got when running `pip install ansible` was built from the ansible/ansible repo on GitHub.
- That repo is now building the package 'ansible-core' (well, temporarily 'ansible-base'), which just has the core Python that runs the 'engine' behind Ansible.
- The 'ansible' you get with `pip install ansible` is now at 3.0.0, and includes all the 'batteries included' modules and such that used to be part of Ansible 2.9 and earlier (and many new things too), which come from 'community collections' that are on https://galaxy.ansible.com
- Separately, Red Hat sells services/licensing around the 'Ansible Automation Platform', which packages up ansible differently, and uses collections that are stored in a curated 'Automation Hub' which is similar to, but separate from, https://galaxy.ansible.com
While I hate the GPU shortage, I dont think this is the right way to go. Artificially limiting what you can and cannot do on your hardware is a bad precedent.
I think Brazil did a better job of this than The Fifth Element, but yeah, I'd love to read/see more modern equivalents. Recommendations welcome.
Rust does not solve the memory safety issue. It does mitigate it, and the post is about mitigation. That study finds that Rust "successfully limits memory-safety risks to the realm of unsafe code".

It also finds that Rust has novel patterns of unsafety in unsafe code. That's important! But it's fully compatible with the claim that Rust is much safer than C overall.

I don't think it ever says that the sum of safety in safe code and novel unsafety in unsafe code adds up to as much unsafety as C. The paper's overarching claims aren't quantitative.

I think you're overstating the claims of both the blog post and the study.
>I understand Nvidia is no angel. And I'm totally OK with them doing the right thing for the wrong reason.

My argument is they should and could have scaled up the production rather than just shuffling around which group they hurt or help at the expense of which other (be it miners, ML folks or gamers). This isn't the 'right thing', it just helps the group you prefer on this round.
If ever there were a direct challenge to the (regrettable) idea that UX experts are just a luxury, it's this.
For what its worth, the aside comment here about car seat regulations lowering birth rate in the U.S. is a reference to this study: https://poseidon01.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=8170780781160050...

It's also a correlation study, and I'd hesitate to quote it as fact currently.
I love it so much when colleagues turn up at work with one of these obnoxiously loud keyboards
Yes, I know that. I was just pointing out to the person claiming that Apple was the one that initiated DRM in iTunes that Apple never wanted it to begin with.
So how’s it different now?

Housing prices have gone up almost $200,000 in some areas.
50% reduction in hash rate through software detection. How easy will it be for hackers to get around this since it doesn't seem to be hardware based? And if its easy, will this actually do anything to increase supply for gamers?
Yes this is indeed true for Swiss citizens (or companies incorporated in Switzerland).

But not for the EU citizens/companies with accounts in Switzerland, and several other countries in the world (including Singapore - another ex money heaven).
>> Why couldn’t intersatellite laser links have similar capacity to fiber? In principle, if not practice?

Because laser energies, signal paths, traveling through free space must literally share that space with each other. It is effectively one wire. An underground cable can have hundreds, thousands, even millions of wires lying beside each other without interference.

It is comparable to the difference between a wifi connection and bundle of ethernet cables. One can scale and one cannot.
Lol, if you got your way you would immediately crash the economy.

See for example any country that has ever tried anything close to this - Zimbabwe, Venezuela or post-war Hungary, to name just a few examples.

When that happens, perhaps you’d understand why a stable money supply is important.
I've used Citizens Bank before for business reasons and their UI is probably one of the worst I have ever seen. I don't understand why consumers get such good stuff and enterprises get such crap.
> Maybe we're getting a very different view of the US from the UK, but despite all of America's flaws and how weak the beer is

[laughs in Belgian Trappiste at the English ales]

Is beer in the US still as bad as it was 10 years ago? I understood it now has a huge craft-/micro brewery scene with some very drinkable APA/IPA's? Or is this just a tiny fraction of the market still?
In all my previous companies whenever we earned more than expected from a given project, we'd routinely analyze it and it was our job to make sure we can somehow repeat or benefit from this lesson for the future. In the same way, whenever there was a significant drop, it was our job to make sure we know the reasons behind it and implement preventive measures if applicable. The only factor that changed was the level of 'why?'s asked.

I can't imagine it's any different in Citibank.
ethereum was especialy designed to be mined with gpu, i think asic or fpga will miss the memory size that gpu have.
Might be reinventing the wheel ;D
It’s in the Scottish-related article, lots of pre-Christian symbols and traditions got absorbed into Christianity, it was only normal, one couldn’t have imposed a “tabula rasa” in those times over an entire continent (even today is not that easy, even with all the communications and PR industries)
It is one of the innovations behind the security. A big piece of the security posture is the App Store review process which specifically checks to make sure apps are following the sandbox model. That wouldn't exist outside of that and apps could definitely bypass the sandbox.
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Show HN: Components to build interactive and explorable explanations
I’ve responded to some of your other comments with corrections. You’ve been stating falsehoods as facts throughout this thread. If you really believe that we could “take all of Bezo’s wealth” or that it would improve the situation rather than worsen it (seizing private assets to punish business owners is the fastest way to ensure no business owners want to operate in your country) then it’s clear that you don’t understand how basic economics works.

We’re not going to get anywhere productive as long as the goal is to punish the rich no matter the cost. The economy isn’t a zero-sum game where every dollar of Bezos’ net worth is a dollar subtracted from the poor. Amazon had created value across the economy, far beyond Bezos’ net worth. Likewise, arbitrarily destroying Amazon or Bezos would likewise destroy value across the economy, as well as destroy the institutional trust that enables the economy in the first place.
> We’re limiting the hash rate of GeForce RTX 3060 GPUs so they’re less desirable to miners and launching NVIDIA CMP for professional mining.

Limiting to justify a new product. Like they do to fp64 rates and virtualization support.

>RTX 3060 software drivers are designed to detect specific attributes of the Ethereum cryptocurrency mining algorithm, and limit the hash rate, or cryptocurrency mining efficiency, by around 50 percent.

Nice, one more reason to get the open source driver moving.

edit: formatting
This is also not a new idea that even comes from the software world. I'm not entirely sure of the original of such ideas, but the first time I heard about was in conjunction with airplanes and their UX. Basically, crashes and other issues from flying is never attributed to the operator, but the UX of the controls as if it was done better, would have prevented the operator of committing the error in the first place.
Surely the cost of upgrading their user interfaces is less than the $500M lost here? What about next time? What about previous losses that were small enough not to warrant press attention but still add up over time?
That's not the problem though.

The issues is "drug decriminalization" people treating addictions like it's not a real problem for many people.

Many of these folks want it to get to a point where you can quite easily buy heroin and suffer no legal consequences.

I'm not saying our drug laws are just or can't be reformed but the fact that heroin is illegal prevents a LOT of people from using it. How many people will then use, aided by these pronouncements that "Heroin isn't actually that addictive!" and ruin their lives?

We already have an opioid epidemic in this country that has destroyed communities.

There's a middle ground between our terrible war on drugs and the naive "make it all legal and experiment with heroin!"
It's not that smart to mistake the purpose or specification of a program, with its implementation.

Anyway, if everybody can judge for themselves, then I guess it's cool to judge that giving Google an inch over many critical open source projects is a horrible idea.
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What is the success rate of folks who use heroin with some effort to not be addicted ... and what is the cost of getting them out of the cycle of addition? and what is even the success rate of getting them out of that cycle?

The impact of failure to somehow prevent yourself from being addicted can be catastrophic ... even if you are successful in getting them out of the cycle of addition. And that impact can extend WAY beyond the individual.

I'm open to the possibility that some drugs really can't be used responsibly by enough people that they absolutely should not be legal.
> Inflation rates are very low, particularly when considering the debt load. We could quite simply increase the target inflation rate from 2% to 4% inflation.

You probably mean CPI, not inflation. Inflation is really only loosely correlated if at all with the price of goods that consumers actually buy. Things like hedonic quality adjustments leave CPI largely up to whims of the regulators.
Hi HN!

I have been working on components/tools to help with interactive scientific writing and authoring explorable explanations. The collection at curvenote.dev has two main parts (1) a WYSIWYG text editor/schema; and (2) a set of reactive (web-)components to create explorable explanations.

Super inspired by the work that @mathisonian++ have been doing on Idyll (https://hn.algolia.com/?q=idyll), which has similar goals. I am hoping that our WYSIWYG editor will start to talk Idyll-lang soon, we started with MyST (https://myst-parser.readthedocs.io/) which has been getting traction in the Jupyter Notebook community lately.

All open source, MIT. Happy to answer any questions!
Cloud automation with Ansible: Main benefits and use cases
Do enterprises change banks because of bad UI/UX? There's your answer.
Amazing! Looking forward to trying you out the next time we're hiring :)
The perception from the UK is despite what seems like a growing trend in microbreweries, Americans still don't venture out much further than IPAs

Edit: And as a lover of belgian beers I can only agree. I wonder why people even drink so many IPAs when there's so many different and delicious varieties of beers around.
You forget the first law of UI: nobody reads messages.
And the second law of UI: if the user wants to see porn^H^H^H^Hdancing bunnies, they will do everything they can until they get to the dancing bunnies.
I would like to point out that Flexcube is built by Oracle. Citi's mistake here was in tying themselves to what is likely the "safest", "market leading" solution.

If you all could see how frustrating Ariba (by SAP) is, you'd have a great laugh.
The exception I make is that I use Google Authenticator for my work 2FA (via Okta). I also have a yubikey set up but our VPN application doesn't work with it.
Which is very sad, because I think first-class support for `--dry-run` is a great way to architect a tool! Anything I write for which it's meaningful is divided into a "work out and represent in memory what I'm going to do" stage and a "do it" stage. Then `--dry-run` is a simple matter of `print` instead of `execute`.

This paid off really well for me recently, where the `execute` stage turned out not to be fit for purpose, but the statement of intent was all still correct. The rewrite didn't have to touch the "gather" stage at all. Huge rewrite becomes naturally much more limited in scope. Just another tool in the modular-design toolbox: you create a strongly-typed API boundary down the middle of the program.

(hashtag defunctionalisation)
That's true in general, but not in this case. The UI shown in the screenshot violates every single usability principle for dialogues as defined in DIN ISO 9241-110 - and that's just one part of the screen! I'm 100% you put that in front on a random usability professional and he will immediately see that the UI is wrong.

Explain on top of that the scheme for the interest payments and he will notice that the UI does not fit to that purpose at all. Why would paying interests involve a wash account and a real money transfer at all? If that's the job to do the UI has to facilitate it directly, not with crazy schemes. That's Aufgabenangemessenheit (to be fit for the purpose, not sure about the official translation) and it's the highest dialogue principle. That got completely ignored here. This was never usability tested, I'm certain - or if it was the results were ignored.
I'm not bullshitting and I'll use myself as an example. I love the fact that any payments on iOS go through Apple Pay. If anything ever happens to my payment or contact info, I know who to blame. If every developer is able to process transactions and collect my personal info, then every developer is a vector for my payment or account information getting out to the world. I don't know what they do with my info, I don't know who they sell my data to. With Apple, I know the answers to all those questions.
dups : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26180260
The high rise keys are a problem. There are a variant of mech keyboards with low risk keys that I definitely prefer. https://www.amazon.com/s?k=low+profile+mechnical+keyboard
-may i ask why do you want to cancel your subscription?
-no.

case closed
> Only responsible and healthy individuals should self-use drugs, generally speaking.

This not a very helpful observation, as we all know that this is far from what happens and is not going to become the norm.

Furthermore, quite a lot of people became addicted to opiates through acting seemingly responsibly (at least initially taking the drugs under the supervision of a doctor whom they could reasonably assume was looking out for their best interests) and in the persuit of better health.

I should add that Hart himself punted on this issue when the interviewer touched on it. In the interview, he does this a lot - for example, when the interviewer raised the question of physical addiction, Hart merely discussed the physiological basis, without touching the obvious issues it raises for the concept of responsible use. It may be telling that, in his description of himself as a responsible user, he avoided saying anything about this particular issue.

> Then you can also argue that you might not have lost your friends only because of Heroin the substance, but also how people with heroin addiction is "treated" and frowned upon in society.

This is also rather beside the point, as, while the way addiction is treated is also a problem, it is not an issue except where there is already a problem with addiction.

That aside, there is such a thing as responsible addictive-drug use (including, but not necessarily limited to, people with chronic pain that only responds to such drugs) and the way we respond to addiction today is in many ways ineffective and in some ways very harmful. One cannot make a very good argument for reform, however, on the basis that some people can use some of these drugs responsibly.
An overview of declassified CIA cables on Thailand
I'm still waiting for a hacker's keyboard. Should have a lambda key for sure. And special symbols like ⊥, ≤, ≥, ≠, ≔, ¬, ∀, ∃, → ... And a large escape key. Otherwise should just be a US keyboard.
They often repackage a shit ton of open source software developed by volunteers, all of which is running on Internet standards originally developed by the Department of Defense for military use. Most of the tech in the servers was developed by various DARPA initiatives surrounding transistors and solid-state memory.

Mind you these things were invented at companies, yes, but almost every time if you dig deep enough you'll start finding the lists of the various grants given to said companies to fund this research, because otherwise they just tend to not do that. This is not controversial stuff, it's very normal.