skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Clearly" to you, but not at all to me. The fact that he brings up unnaturalness in one sentence and then spends the following few paragraph discussing actual ethical issues tells me he isn't dismissing ethical issues.

Saying "clearly" is not offering any counter argument; it is just an assertion.
Software do not send people to jail, people send people to jail.
The users/supervisors and those involved in the persecution are to blame not to investigate the matter much much sooner and using software output blindly.
Agreed - the common rental ones really have no power. I think Lime and its ilk are usually in the 300w range.

I bought my own scooter on a whim; it can toggle between 500w and 1000w of power, and I rarely need the 1000w except for the craziest Seattle hills.

Basically what I'm trying to say here is: totally solvable problem, just comes down to the unit cost of the rental scooters
A simple toString() with side effects can be insidious when mixed with other bugs...
Every time I've seen this it's because of inefficient and wasteful use of 10/8 internally. Like, not every tiny site or thing needs a /24. Once the wasteful use becomes entrenched as a practice, it would be very labor intensive and time-consuming to go on a renumbering plan. As compared to the effort to just use 11/8.

And then ultimately because of refusal to get over the technical hurdle of using IPv6 for internal management.
Contrary to popular belief, HN traffic is not as huge as people think for the hug of death. Its the reddit traffic, when people either repost or post at both places. HN can barely send 5 users per second, which can surely be handled by a potato.
It basically maps addresses visible on one interface to those on a different interface. So you can route many addresses on 10.x to a single 10.x address that is on a different network.

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/ip/network-addres...
how much is it costing to keep 10PB on AWS S3?
according to calculator.s3.amazonaws.com is usd 200000+ per month
It seems that he was referring to the Bulgarian oligarchs. Some of the early ones were part of the security services or were married to a family members who were involved in security.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilia_Pavlov
Taleb rivals Trump for sheer narcissism.
I remember attending Dan Kaminsky’s talk at DEFCON 12 and being blown away by it. Three years later, I went on the original “Hackers on a Plane” trip and ended up seated next to Dan on one of the flights. We quickly became friends. His mentorship over the years had an enormous impact on me.

We both went back to CCCamp in 2011. I excitedly told him about a reverse DNS scanning project (0.0.0.0/0 in 12 hours on AWS for like $50), and then we ended up talking about the Debian RNG bug and password security, walking around camp watching the lightning in the distance.

When I was doing my original brainwallet research back in 2013 and cracked the woodchuck wallet the first thing I did after showing my ex (then girlfriend) was call him. I told him I’d found something but didn’t feel comfortable discussing over the phone. He invited me over.

My ex and I hopped on BART headed into SF and met him at the loft he was living at above a motorcycle shop. We talked and carefully planned and then I accidentally made 250 BTC vanish.

Dan looked at me and said “[my ex] and I are going to go for a walk and return with burritos. You’re going to calm down and have this fixed by the time we get back. It’ll be okay.”

It was, and I did. I’d simply forgotten about change addresses for a brief moment of terror.

I think the first time he mentioned wanting to hire me was a few months later at a Bitcoin conference in San Jose. He believed in me. I went on to work alongside him at White Ops (now known as Human Security) in 2014. He brought me on stage with him at DEFCON that year.

He spent a lot of time helping me put together a CFP submission about my brainwallet research for DEFCON the following year and then helped me put together slides, rehearse, and had a professional help me refine everything. I couldn’t have done it without him.

My wedding was about six weeks before DEFCON - Dan showed up in an Uber, about an hour late. He explained that he’d confused Menlo Park for Morgan Hill when planning to leave. I was just thrilled to have him there.

Dan was a supportive friend, a great mentor, and a delightful colleague. I really can’t overstate what a positive impact he had on my life. It’s hard to believe he’s really gone. That I’ll never get to swap stories about our respective side projects with him again.

I miss him.

https://rya.nc/threads/dakami-eulogy.html

https://twitter.com/ryancdotorg/status/1385989257638993922
Might not work most places you need at least a partial Bike license and often for sensible commuting scooters >125 cc you need a full bike license.

I mean a Vespa here and not those tiny wheel abominations
No, I think how things were done almost 120 years and 20 US administrations ago does not in any way relate to how the modern organization works, and how the current institutional knowledge is acted on by its employees (from CEO all the way down to the foot workers).

The late 19th century has so much "nothing to do" with today that it's literally irrelevant other than being a good window into how different things were, and as historical setup to then transition into "and then everything changed as a result of the great depression, with the US further burdened in the years following until the repeal of prohibition" which forced literally every government agency to change the way it worked.
I don't think that is the answer to the question.

The OP asked, "doesn't there need to be evidence beyond just 'a computer said so'?".

You said the answer is that "the computer said so" and then the operator of the computer said "I agree with the computer".

In my mind, the question still remains. Isn't there any requirement to show where the money went, what account it went into, give dates and details about how they stole the money, etc?

Of course, hiding the known bugs in the software is a scandal and worth talking about, but it doesn't answer the original question I think.
Metalshub is working on this
There's plenty more where those come from. Society rightly puts limits on what you can do with your property after you are dead. By analogy, there are legitimate limits on what you can ask your successors to do with your bodily remains - and it makes perfect sense to set sensible defaults.
Allowing high skilled immigration as part of a trade deal would not only be a massive benefit to both parties, but also wouldn't be anything at all like allowing another state to make law in your nation.

The sovereignty part is about being able to decide your immigration policy, not about having one.
Am I correct if I say: the amount of money in circulation should match the amount of wealth produced by a given society, and therefore anything that doesn't follow the same principle can't be called currency?
> The worrying thing is that the West gave international legitimacy to these wealthy elites, while only pointing fingers at the endemic corruption in their countries.

The whole Western commitment to anticorruption is on display on Mayfair street in London.
The TDA1541 digital to analog converter
Pavel Zhovner, creator of Flipper[1] had this cool post [2] in June 2020 on how he used Apple AirDrop for automated dating and fun. It included the phone number recovery component as well.

1 - https://flipperzero.one/

2 - https://m.habr.com/ru/company/ruvds/blog/505384/
The 'Capitalism Is Broken' Economy
Individual Differences in Brain Activity Related to Human Intelligence
Is microbial contamination of weed more dangerous than contamination of vegetables?
The Tina Economy
Ontario put out for bids for new nuclear plants a decade ago. The newest CANDU reactor came in 3x what they were looking for. It's simply not competitive.

https://www.thestar.com/business/2009/07/14/26b_cost_killed_...

Going forward, Canada will likely go with some combination of wind and hydro. There is enormous hydro capacity in Canada, and it pairs very naturally with wind. There are good wind resources in many places east of the Rockies in Canada, especially Quebec (near large hydro resources) and around Hudson Bay.

https://aws-dewi.ul.com/assets/Wind-Resource-Map-CANADA-11x1...
Great read, thank you!
I want to know what will this recognition does to your own country both in short and long term. Will Turkey pay a fee for the genocide or will they have to just give up from Ağrı?

This subject was always used against Turkey in political confrontations for years. Turkey has been better and stronger ally to USA. This recognition is nothing but a political warning against Erdoğan and his latest actions against USA and also this will make Armenian residents in USA happy.

IMHO nothing will change for us (Turkish and Armenian folks living in Turkey), don’t know about Armenians living in Armenia.

So why are you happy?
It's also probably the camera amplifying that effect.
Thanks for clarifying! So are the true wave energy designs the variants that use vertical oscillations rather than propeller designs?
In one case (Seema Misra) the judge asked the jury this in his/her summing up:

“There is no direct evidence of her taking any money... She adamantly denies stealing. There is no CCTV evidence. There are no fingerprints or marked bank notes or anything of that kind. There is no evidence of her accumulating cash anywhere else or spending large sums of money or paying off debts, no evidence about her bank accounts at all. Nothing incriminating was found when her home was searched...Do you accept the prosecution case that there is ample evidence before you to establish that Horizon is a tried and tested system in use at thousands of post offices for several years, fundamentally robust and reliable?”

The jury pronounced Seema Misra guilty.

There are many more details in this very comprehensive report by Private Eye: https://www.private-eye.co.uk/special-reports/justice-lost-i...
To the people these pages are for, doesn't seem like they were built and spread for the author's own reading. Not that "I wanted to build my own to learn" isn't justification as well or wouldn't let people know what's special about it one just can't find such information in the pages.
Ask any criminal on the dark web weather Bitcoin has value or not. Having an asset that no government can take away from you is invaluable.
For those who are unaware, this was headed by Alan Kay and was researching various concepts in human-computer interaction, including ideas about the future of coding (http://www.vpri.org/work/ifnct.htm).

It's a real shame to see them close up shop, we need that kind of research to continue.
Then the US dollar isn't a currency either..?
I think gp's saying that the banks are in on it. ie. they knew in advance that the loan was going to go bad, but that was fine to them because they saw as a price of gaining favor (bribe).
Agreed. Also certain classes of bugs (such as bugs in parallelism) are easier to debug via print than using a debugger.
The places it was attempted recently in the US (GA, SC) had great local and state support. That didn't stop the efforts from becoming expensive fiascos.
I've read the entire study many times. Perhaps you can point out how explicitly how they adjust for shifts of how definitions like "consistently liberal" shift over time?

Even the fact that "liberal" means left now is a function of how far to the right the democrats have gone, the Third Way Democrats having cemented their hold on the party.

Additionally being "fiscally right wing" is an overall right wing position. Being lukewarm for left wing positions only on the condition that it doesn't come out of public funding is at best a center right wing viewpoint.
I've made this point on LinkedIn and I'll make it here - bad software did not send postal workers to jail.

Read the judgment: https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Hamilton...

The Post Office knew Horizon had faults and had a legal duty to disclose its knowledge to the defendants when prosecuting them. They failed to do so.

Paragraphs 81-90 are frankly unbelievable and I question what Post Office's own lawyers were doing.

Paragraph 91(iii):

A memorandum dated 22 October 2010 by a senior lawyer in POL’s Criminal Law Division reported the successful prosecution of Seema Misra. The memorandum complained that the case had involved “an unprecedented attack on the Horizon system” which, the author said, the prosecution team had been able to “destroy”. He ended the memorandum, which was copied to the Press Office, by expressing the hope that “the case will set a marker to dissuade other defendants from jumping on the Horizon bashing bandwagon”.

The prosecution team had "destroyed" it because they had withheld crucial evidence supporting the allegations against the Horizon system.

The Seema Misra case is what started the unravelling because her husband called a journalist, Nick Wallis [1], who has spent 10 years investigating and reporting on this case.

It's a scandal of immense proportions and three convicted individuals died before seeing their convictions quashed. It is very sad.

[1] https://www.nickwallis.com
Disclaimer: *I work for Nutanix*

Consider looking at Nutanix - you can get the hardware from HPE (including Apollo).

Object storage from Nutanix doesn’t even break a sweat at 10PB of usable storage.

However the main reasons to look at Nutanix would be ease of use for

day 0 (bootstrapping)
day 1 (administration operations, capacity management), fault tolerance and
day n operations (upgrades, security patches etc)

Nutanix spends considerable time and resources on all this to make life of our customers easy.
Only if others want it. This is transferable to any medium. If we do a little thought experiment and say one person owns all the gold in the world, and another owns all the wheat in the world, which one is richer?
Well, it depends on which you’re interested in.
Adjacently though, if you’re starving you can’t eat the gold.
Whether it's a failure depends on what you were hoping it would achieve, and how long you're willing to keep watching it before making up your mind. The experiment is still going. Maybe humanity millenia from now will be snuffing out whole stars to mine Bitcoin. I'd consider that a failure, but surely some miner would consider it a success.
As they will be again, as soon as they stop huffing death unto the faces of others.

Now stop derailing a serious discussion with this stupid tinfoilhattery.

Thank you.
This wiki page might help a bit, it lists a bunch of different available software that relates to the PineTime: https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/PineTime_Development
How many layers of copyright infringement are in Emily Ratajkowski’s new NFT?
That's not reinfection (later infection of recovered covid patients). That's infection among vaccinated people.
But that's still circumstantial evidence.

If the computer says money amounts don't match, that still doesn't say who stole it.

It could have been the person directly responsible for it -- or it could have been a third party attempting to steal from them, or someone hacking the system, etc.

You still need to go beyond reasonable doubt -- establish motive, establish corroborating evidence, etc.
Ha! Twitter is all over the place. In India they take down dissent at the request of the government, in the US they do the same voluntarily and also block activists they disagree with.
Is it a sustainable product?
He does not really state any good points to support his claim.

Ponzi one is baseless (in this piece).

Volatility one is incomplete. Clearly people use volatile currencies. Usually people avoid ones that are in downward spiral. If he (or even majority) can not wrap their heads around the question of how to transact under current conditions, it does not mean nobody can.
The big thing I see is that it was only three hours from security report receipt to primary mitigation in place. That’s a very quick turnaround for a volunteer open source project.

Kudos to the Homebrew team for running a disclosure program to find risks like this, and for their speedy mitigation!
Yes, but it's the worlds leading openly accessible settlements network.
I was a bit surprised nobody’s tried a “verified” implementation in something like Coq/Idris/Agda (unless i missed one - I wasn’t familiar with all the languages in the list).

Might be a fun project!
It actually works on any Linux that can run Qt stuff and has Bluetooth.
> while you cannot get a compiler out of the door withot a parser, you can indeed leave all the fancy optimization features out, don't you? And if you want to get a MVP out of the door, do you focus your effort in developing optional features or the basic, critical part that ensures that your language exists?

> And then there's developer experience. Syntax/grammar errors? You need the parser for that, don't you agree?

These two statements are at odds with each other as having great developer experience is indeed a "fancy optimization" that you shouldn't spend too much time on when starting a project (and I say that as someone spending their time every day thinking about making compiler errors better), and part of the reason the literature around parsers is problematic is because graceful error recovery isn't explored in detail.

> And this is a parser optimized for speed.

Parse time is never the bottleneck. It is a waste of time to focus on optimizing parse speed at the beginning. It is worth it to eventually measure and tune it, and to think about the implications when designing your grammar, but beyond that the slowness of compilers is never driven by their parsers.

> you cannot get a compiler out of the door withot a parser

Technically, you can: you make your compiler something that consumes an already existing bytecode (like the JVM's or .Net's CLI) or only implement an AST parser that isn't intended for humans to actually write while you nail down the specifics.

> Syntax/grammar errors? You need the parser for that, don't you agree?

Error recovery in a parser is a tricky thing: it is intimately tied to the choices you've made in your grammar. The more redundancy and uniqueness between scopes you can have, the easier it can be for your parser to identify where things have gone badly. For example, in python if you write

if foo = bar:
print(foo)

you have little information but can still infer that you likely wanted to compare equality instead using ==. But because Python has a very flexible grammar and semantics, the following is valid but likely not what was intended:

class Foo:
def bar(self):
print("hi!")

foo = Foo()
foo.bar = "hi!"

If you make different more restrictive decisions on both grammar and semantics you can still provide tools to allow people to do this, by being more verbose, but people who do this by accident can be given excellent diagnostics.
The algorithms radicalize people:

https://www.wired.com/story/christchurch-shooter-youtube-rad...

Just because Facebook and Youtube managemt aren't doing as intentionally as Fox News management does, doesn't make the effect not real.
I agree with Taleb but what will convince potential buyers that Bitcoin doesn't have some sort of property that makes it a valuable asset: it's abstract nature and mystique seems to me to be tailor made for the hype to continue for a long time.
Here in Brussels, e-scooters are a serious plague. They are so often left in the middle of sidewalks, and they are super heavy so moving them out of the way is very annoying. Plus they start beeping like crazy.

I was on roller skates a while back, someone left a scooter in the middle of the park. I picked it up to move it, it started beeping, startled me, i fell and it fell on my hand. Took me five weeks to heal.

More bike sharing please. People tend to leave the bikes in appropriate spots. I agree the station-based bikes are awful (we have Villo here which is ridiculously bad). But JUMP and our local alternative Billy are cheaper and better ways to get through the city.

Plus those scooters fail hard on cobblestone. It took Lime almost two years to realize their scooters were not appropriate for half the city, and to replace them with a beefier model.
At one point the Post Office's own barrister had to tell them in no uncertain terms that their attempts to prevent disclosure might amount to a conspiracy to pervert the course of justice (a pretty serious crime).

The Post Office might not be bankrupted, but I don't think this is going to go well for many of the people involved in the prosecution. The wheels of justice run slow but grind exceedingly fine etc.
Dang. I used to look forward to the 20KLOC OS/GUI/IDE. I guess they never really achieved that.

Maybe it was just time for Alan Kay to retire.
Way to go Indian Govt! Now you get to see the Streisand effect in all of its glory as you try to burn bodies & still hold political rallies.
‘Divisive’: How Corporate Media Dismiss Ideas Unpopular with Elites
LeetCode Palindrome Number
I Can't agree more. Overly specific details in a ticket might mean that's the only place where the problem exists or it might mean that's the only place the problem was detected. Which lead to very different root causes...
> For something that takes up the overwhelming bulk of a developer's time...

It isn't the bulk of my time.

Most of my time is spent figuring out what to do.

Once I have decided that, telling the computer is usually straightforward.

> Programmers don't often talk about debugging techniques in my experience.

No they don't, but look at it this way: Bugs are mistakes, and nobody wants to be told they're making too many mistakes. Anyone who discovers some amazing debugging technique will struggle to share it with anyone else for a lot of reasons, and this is one.

> It may be that nobody has a method superior to print debugging.

Print debugging always works. Getting "a debugger" to work isn't always easy, and if you aren't already comfortable using the debugger to track down the kind of bug you're facing, you will find it very difficult to find the bug and cure it faster than with print debugging. And since people don't tend to make the same mistakes over and over again, debuggers tend to have a very limited utility in those few mistakes made frequently.

My experience is that mistakes like that are the fault of some kind of fundamental misunderstanding, and rather than spend time to learn all of the different fundamental misunderstandings that the debugger was designed to work around, time is better spent simply correcting your misunderstandings.
Not sure what is your point here. Same question can be applied to US dollars.
Imagine believing in nationality as anything more than high-end sports teams for the elite.
Back when I worked first line at a University, I had access to the student records system (so that I could verify students if they required a password reset).

I was able to see current and past residence data, which I suppose could have helped me verify the student's identity ("what post code[0] do you currently live at?"), but I tried not to look at that information when possible.

Lecturers also had access to this system (it dealt with some submission data), so I guess they may have had access to view residency data?

This is just an educated guess based on my experience, though.

[0]: For American readers, think ZIP code
I'd say the criminal energy & logistical effort of finding an impersonator who looks sufficiently similar and is down for shady stuff makes buying a decent GPU workstation look downright trivial...
he says he had bitcoin but sold it at $45,000
Lol no. But when you’ve been laundering money for them for years what introduction is needed?
Limited places it will work and you cant just flood valleys and displace the residents anymore in the west.
This will come to other countries with most of the west calling for censorship of the internet.