skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>Legacy financial applications are fine.

They are not at all. Governments and financial institutions can lock funds, do 'hair cuts', as they did in the European financial crisis, and engage in other such shenanigans. They can debank or otherwise exclude people and companies from the payment system, or refuse them banking services at all.

But really, your statement says it all. This is what anti-Ethereum advocacy amounts to: advocating for the legacy financial system, and the one Satoshi Nakamoto specifically criticized, including in the Bitcoin white paper:

https://www.bitcoin.com/bitcoin.pdf

"Commerce on the Internet has come to rely almost exclusively on financial institutions serving as
trusted third parties to process electronic payments. While the system works well enough for
most transactions, it still suffers from the inherent weaknesses of the trust based model.
Completely non-reversible transactions are not really possible, since financial institutions cannot
avoid mediating disputes. The cost of mediation increases transaction costs, limiting the
minimum practical transaction size and cutting off the possibility for small casual transactions,
and there is a broader cost in the loss of ability to make non-reversible payments for nonreversible services. With the possibility of reversal, the need for trust spreads.

Merchants must be wary of their customers, hassling them for more information than they would otherwise need.
A certain percentage of fraud is accepted as unavoidable. These costs and payment uncertainties
can be avoided in person by using physical currency, but no mechanism exists to make payments
over a communications channel without a trusted party.
What is needed is an electronic payment system based on cryptographic proof instead of trust,
allowing any two willing parties to transact directly with each other without the need for a trusted
third party. "

>>Also DeFi apps are very illiquid and extremely complicated to use.

Uniswap had $10 billion in trading volume over the last week. That's in the same league as major exchanges like Bitfinex and Kraken. It's also extremely easy to use, with no sign-up/registration required, and a trade being possible with 3 clicks.
So a malicious actor can just take a single online summer class. Bonus points if they manage to use a fake ID to enroll at the university.
University of Minnesota banned from submitting fixes to Linux Kernel
Sorry, I honestly don't understand what you're getting at.
Twitter is now letting everyone tweet pictures in 4K on Android and iOS
An interesting (if horrifying) exercise:

$ ndisasm -b 64 /dev/urandom
Vaguely related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noise:_The_Political_Economy_o...
I’ve looked into it. It’s not really the right use case for pushing data to and from a build server. It’s more designed for a continuous backup situation with a GUI.
Well, this story is a part of our history in the sense that we wrote it:

The Road Not Taken by Harry Turtledove

(It's a great, short sci-fi story for anyone that may be interested. It should be pretty easy to find the PDF.)
If your product is integrated closely enough with grafana to constitute a derivative work under copyright law, yes. That's a complicated and murky area of law, but it's unlikely that just iframing in an otherwise separate webapp as a metrics page would be enough to trigger it.

(Whereas if you integrate e.g. editing metrics and calling grafana's API to add them to a dashboard, at that point it seems far more likely your system would be considered a derivative of grafana - but at that point you really are implementing a grafana editor product (or at least a product that includes a grafana editor) rather than just using grafana to monitor a separate product).
Very cool! Just a heads up there's a bug with the event control flow example where it requires pressing the "stop pulsing" button the same number of times you've pressed the "start pulsing" button. I figured the behavior should be regardless of how many times I've clicked "start pulsing" the next time I press stop, it should stop.
I watched the talk and didn't find it that interesting. Worst case scenario you can experiment to figure it out. Experiments in software are cheap.

Compare it to the hardware level. The technology required to build a modern CPU is fucking amazing compared to things like being aware of cache coherency when writing code. The amount of time and experimentation to regain the knowledge required for building the full supply chain a modern CPU would be monumental compared to learning to go from something like JS to C.
use the multi-account container extension. this is a firefox feature originally developed by mozilla
I really don't like how most sponsored segments are just downright misleading about what VPNs do. Making them funny doesn't change the fact that the ads are deceptive.

There's always some fearmongering about people stealing your data on public networks, but no actual substance about feasible attacks that could happen in reality.

In the UK, similar ads have been banned by the advertising regulator for being misleading, and it's about time that spurious claims in YouTube videos got more scrutiny.
Or to expand on that, nicotine gum or nasal sprays
A potential future head of our satellite office in Hyderabad has just lost his father. Just 57
Experiment: let's blow up the world to find out who might stop us so we can write a paper about it.
The comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15881150
> Your tech department being blackballed from submitting Linux patches is a pretty embarrassing consequence. What else would happen? It's not like anyone will fine them.

The ban could affect donations from alumni or corporations.
I'm really sorry you have to live with that. Yeah few people understand how a manic episode works, that can definitely be masked as being a functional person but you are still harming yourself. Maybe it's time to change your medication? The brain changes as you age, maybe you can have a better quality of life if you try new stuff.
I suggest you peruse the wikipedia page for the CAN-SPAM Act, and some of the footnotes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAN-SPAM_Act_of_2003#Private_r...

Basically, it's not enforced.
> I know companies typically can't comment for legal reasons

Funny how they never actually say "we can't comment due to law X paragraph Y/contract clause Z" - they just say nothing, and let us assume they have a legitimate reason.
Depends what you're doing and how windows-centric your files are I guess. At my last job I mixed and matched tools like that, and it generally worked great aside from the mediocre disk throughput.
It doesn't really sound like that's the case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_human_experimentation#Aft...

are there more impactful benefits that aren't listed on the wikipedia page? It sounds like the main research contribution is philosophical discussions over whether or not it would be okay to use the data if someone had a good reason for it.
we don't have the full communication and I understand that the intention is to be stealthy (why use an university email that can be linked to the previous research then?). However the researcher's response seems to be disingenuous:

> I sent patches on the hopes to get feedback. We are not experts in the Linux kernel and repeatedly making these statements is disgusting to hear.

this is after they're caught, why continue lying instead of apologizing and explain? Is the lying also part of the experiments?

On top of that, they played cards, you can see why people would be triggered by this level of dishonesty:

> I will not be sending any more patches due to the attitude that is not only unwelcome but also intimidating to newbies
Isn't that common in Italy with the mafia? (i.e. getting your family members on payroll without them having to actually show up?)

Edit: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-show_job
What is the plan to police/moderate the content to prevent scams? I think something like this works great when you know the people or at least believe that they have positive intent, but is hard to do right at scale (as WSB has experienced over the last few months).
Not quite - the faster the rise in cases is, the more you overshoot the herd immunity threshold by.
Sizle.io (funded B2B SaaS) needs a FT remote React engineer
When you can call into question the data integrity of the items on the device and whether the information from that device is accurate or was inserted by the machine used to break into it, that is some very basic fourth amendment stuff that could possibly get all items taken from the device deemed inadmissible.
At my last job there were stories of an employee who worked for both that company and a tech company across the street: just using “meetings” and other excuses to split his time and collect two salaries. The story goes that he was only discovered because the HR people at the companies would occasionally go out to lunch together and, one day, his name came up.
In shows like The Sopranos at least they're called "no-show jobs".

Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-show_job
> You can’t take that paragraph break out without putting one back exactly there.

Exactly. And paragraphs are used to separate concepts and statements into conceptual units. That you're letting a concept and interpretation from one apply to and influence the reading of another as if there is no break is the problem.

> It’s not a contortion, it’s just how it reads to me.

I think you have some interesting ideas of how to read. I don't think that follows necessarily for the majority of other people, and I don't think that's what was intended by the writer.

At he same time, I'm not entirely surprised. This is why writing is hard, and sometimes thankless. Regardless of intention and how clear you think you're being, someone will always read it otherwise. It's just the nature of the medium, to some degree. It can happen through something like this, where you're inferring intent across boundaries where I think that boundary is intended to clearly separate it, and it can happen if they are absolutely literally clear and denounce other stances, because people will read those denouncements as indicators of the opposite, as crazy as that sounds ("The lady doth protest too much, methinks").

I think you're better off taking a separate paragraph for what it usually meant to be. A way to separate statements so they are clearly distinct.
Not if your intention is to cause harm....
Good points. I should have qualified my statement by saying that IMO the ban should stay in place for at least five years. A prison sentence, if you will, for the offense that was committed by their organization. I completely agree with you though that no organization can have absolute control over the humans working for them, especially your point about misrepresenting intentions. However, I believe that by handing out heavy penalties like this, not only will it make organizations think twice before approving questionable research, it will also help prevent malicious researchers from engaging in this type of activity. I don't imagine it's going to look great being the person who got an entire university banned from committing to the Linux kernel.

Of course, in a few years this will all be forgotten. It begs the question... how effective is it to ban entire organizations due to the actions of a few people? Part of me thinks that it would very good to have something like this happen every five years (because it puts the maintainers on guard), but another part of me recognizes that these maintainers are working for free, and they didn't sign up to be gaslighted, they signed up to make the world a better place. It's not an easy problem.
Totally false. This is like saying JS isn’t a core skill because there are site builders out there. You can get away without knowing a lot CSS but it absolutely makes a huge difference the more you learn
Yet another reason to absolutely despise the culture within academia. The US Federal government is subsidizing a collection of pathologically toxic institutions, and this is one of many results, along with HR departments increasingly mimicking the campus tribalism.
Had to log in to correct a point made above. The paper does -not- say that the plaques are not removed over a 4 week period. The paper and supplement call out that at a 4-week follow up "there was no sign of residual tracer in brain tissue".
A Few Short Stories
I can't agree that widespread challenge testing would have been ethical. It's a larger topic than HN can accommodate, but some factors I consider important: (1) NPIs are effective at reducing transmission, (2) the consequences of an outcome with side effects could include global and long-lived anti-vax sentiment -- COVID19 is unlikely to be our last pandemic.

Issue (2) arose with the EU response to rare AZ/J+J side effects, where I believe the EU is more deserving of criticism. They will undoubtedly cause more deaths in their own populations and throughout the world than would occur from clotting complications, but no one will hold them to account. But they weighed their equities as more important than global benefit.
35% of Bitcoin mining is powered by one coal mine in China
This article is from 2018 FYI.
This user has commented on Ethereum posts numerous times, and I have actually corrected them on the spelling in the past. That this is deliberate provocating/trolling is not an assumption.
Cygwin is faster than WSL2 but not faster than WSL1 from the last time we tested.

Our builds involve syncing directories that have several hundred thousand files in them so the speed of stat() is really the bottleneck.

I’ll give unison a look, I haven’t tried that.

The libraries are an interesting idea, I’ll look into that too.
I agree. I don't think any of the kernel developers ever signed up for reviewing malicious patches done by people who managed to sneak their research project past the ethics board, and it's not really fair to them to have to deal with that. I'm pretty sure they have enough work to do already without having to deal with additional nonsense.

I don't think it's unreasonable for maintainers of software to ignore or outright ban problematic users/contributors. It's up to them to manage their software project the way they want, and if banning organizations with malicious actors is the way to do it, the more power to them.
There's an entire slough of old "I automated my job" threads, some of which are more interesting than this story. Perhaps someone will dig up a few.
Now do capslock,scroll lock, and numlock in excel.
They're already picking a fight with Cellebrite simply by existing, as Signal is antithetical to everything that Cellebrite stands for.
This post is a dupe. Please see:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26887670
Recursion.

I can write a factorial-computing program, but I'm slow at it.

I think my biggest problem is working out those instances when I should use a recursive function.
How promising is this really in terms if making this at scale?

What are the practical challenges? That is, how far are we before the industry adopts biodegradable plastics for their use?

Are there any challenges with biodegradable plastic containers not being able to hold liquids, or most of the household liquid items because they would degrade?

I am basically trying to get a sense of how closer does this research bring us to solving the plastic crisis.

Edit: grammar
What it's like as a new entrepreneur
Wait, this is something that would have been cool to have had on those startup lists: do this and become an MVP and you get $13k free Azure credits. I don't even like Azure and that would have been $1k free spend per month.
Manhattan DA says his office to stop prosecuting prostitution
I mean, the "publicity" here was the paper announcement and some arguing on Twitter involving the professor, that's not automatic "department leadership needs to look into this" material. If the IRB didn't find anything, it also didn't have a reason to involve leadership. As said elsewhere, something should probably have been noticed at that point, but they intend to look into that. Seems fair, as long as that's what they do properly.
I do though. You can't force people to watch your content the way you like. You can hope, encourage, or maybe even incentivize. I do not have the right to watch a video, but I do have the right, once the video is publicly available, to watch the parts of the video I want. In the same way I have the right of changing channels during tv ads breaks. You can't dictate how people use their time.
Is getting reactions from HN also part of their experiment and should we expect our comments to be written about in their paper?
What "legal action" do you think applies here?
> Most people prefer lighting from the left when resolving a convex–concave ambiguity, and this preference may be stronger for right-handed people.

interesting, that's probably why box shadows are primarily to the bottom right in web pages
It also says if this is a false positive to let the "experimental semi-automated" bot know...
Assuming you are not joking, they would presumably partner with someone who does write such code. And similarly for other kinds open source projects.
Thank you for this response. I enjoyed reading it.
computers don't need to boot "close to instantly" because nobody ever turns them off now. The "open browser" step in the previous comment is probably a noop because who even closes their browsers?
Talking about side effects that are of public health concern.

The smallpox vaccine could blind you if you touched the vaccine site and then your eye. It had a 1 or 2 deaths per million vaccines side effect rate.

The live-attenuated polio vaccine can revert to wild type.

"Moderna has a high rate of fever and soreness at the injection site" because it's doing it's job is a very different thing.
I've tried to squeeze it in above. It required an abbrev (which we try to avoid).
"Survival of our species" is a bit extreme. Not to diminish the severity of our pandemic but it kills 1%. If we did nothing and just let everyone get it, 1% of us would die (not in any way advocating for that) our species would survive just fine. Perhaps you could just say "responding to a public health emergency"
these arnt incompatible things, in that the shitty idiots could have thought their shitty car was on autopilot when it wasnt.
Originally a Window dev, moved to Linux, eventually MacOS due to a lack of nice a DE on Linux and the nice UNIX base of MacOS.

Before WSL1 I would run Linux inside a VM from Windows and use remote development tools (like VSCode via SSH, SSH tunnels for port sharing, etc). It was all pretty straight forward, stable and I had no issues.

I used WSL1 when it launched and it was _incredible_. Bash actually on Windows. My workflow changed because of the level of integration I had with Windows. I could run browser automation tools against my Windows browsers, from Linux. I could run Windows programs from bash.

WSL2 came on the scene and introduced a hypervisor layer and I essentially came full circle. Sure it has some smarts around memory VM allocation - but it doesn't always work right and you're never really certain it's not running, consuming memory. Network port mappings were automatically tunneled, but only in one direction and they would occasionally fail causing random issues that require a reboot to solve. Now GUI windows are shared with Windows via RDP, cool..

Ultimately, WSL2 is the attempt to take Linux VM and make it appear like it's not a VM. Maybe it'll get there one day, but due to the got-ya's it's not for me.

I have since reverted back to using my choice of distro inside my choice of hypervisor, where I know what's going on and don't have to mentally reverse engineer the magic when it goes wrong.
Missed the adjunct part... I'm with you on this one.
Wel one can go to about: debugging and load unsigned add-ons from there. It's just temporary.

Edit: Forgot to mention you can also self host extensions once they get signed. Chrome does not allow this, or at least not without group policy.
> That is Calvinball.

Stop with the condescension. The wikipedia article literally defines "razor" as "distinguishing between two hypotheses." If you disagree with that, edit the article, but don't tell me to read the article ("No, please, really do") and then dispute it.

> The two people in the car and sufficed to have caused an accident.

You keep saying that. I don't know it's true. Do you know it's true?

Like others have said said, this would go against every prior experience with Teslas, and our understanding of how the system works. It would be the first Tesla, ever, to have gotten into an accident on a narrow residential road with no one in the driver's seat.

You need something else in the explanation, even just "the system actually works in some other way." That is also multiplying entities. That was my point, which you missed.

You can't simply state, ipso facto, that the description given "sufficed to have caused an accident," when numerous people have disagreed with that.
Does it matter? They intentionally used their position as a university to push patches with malicious intent through.
Like everyone else I think these emails are legal.

But it is wild that Comcast gets away with performing man-in-the-middle javascript injection attacks on it's customers' HTTP connections.
No, but a comment like yours would be considered a false equivalence.
The China numbers seem ... mostly consistent. There doesn't seem to be unexplained excess mortality, after the initial Wuhan lockdown, there are few reports of additional restrictions on mobility (outside the separate set of issues in Xinjiang associated with the Uyghur genocide). The case numbers remain remarkably low, given global experience and as the origin point of the pandemic. I'm keeping an open mind to the prospect that a more severe story may still emerge, though as of yet, that's not something I can point to specific evidence of.

It wouldn't surprise me to see a several-multiples underreporting, largely based on limitations of available diagnostic testing as of a year ago, but I'd doubt it's the 10x -- 20x (or far worse) underreporting seen elsewhere.

East and Southeast Asia generally (you report in another comment you're in Vietnam), along with Australia/New Zealand, have been the standout success stories in the Covid story so far. This runs strongly against early expectations and narratives, and has been pretty fascinating to watch.

I've seen and called out underreporting in Iran (last March--April) and Turkey (last October--November), previously, each of which saw case counts revised sharply upwards within days or weeks. In both cases based on deaths vs. cases, which is one of the more reliable indications of underreporting. I've also noted Sweden's very long lags (up to 2--3 weeks) in simply compiling case and deaths data, which tended to understate the severity of the runaway growth in the October--November period last year.

(Discussions of all of this in my Joindiaspora posts, these are hard to search.)

Deaths lagging cases by 14--21 days means that strong demonstration of underreporting via deaths data often only comes after the situation's gotten sharply out of hand. We're seeing cases of thirtyfold growth of cases in Thailand (over the course of three weeks) and India (since mid-Feburary). The problem with pandemics is that given increased transmission rates, cases can take off tremendously in a very short time period, something various denialists and critics seem to pointedly fail to grasp. (No, I'm not accusing you of that here, though there are clearly some matching that description posting in this thread.)
Would you mind opening an issue on how the debounce is incorrect? I'd like to fix it if possible.