skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Business email compromise campaign targets wide range of orgs with giftcard scam
> BSC, whose sole purpose is to make scams out of ETH projects and run them on a centralized chain, sits close to 100 billion dollars

Scams are big business, but that just illustrates how delusional and bubbly these are; is BSC, a thing I'd never heard of before, really of equivalent value to .. Square? Lockheed Martin? Target? AirBnB? AMD? NTT? Uber?

https://companiesmarketcap.com/page/2/
I'm sure they have one but these days you offer something for free first to gain users and make you product as premium as possible so you can actually expect someone to pay for it.

>"if it's all crypto then you have no KYC obligations"

Yes, its not that simple but this thread is not legal advice anyway
Luis Von Ahn of ReCAPTCHA and Duolingo
The most popular Tetris was the original, it is one of the most sold video games ever, and it didn't even allow you to hold a piece. That is what people think of when they hear Tetris, it isn't old enough that the people who played it back then are dead.
I’m a former night owl who has finally become a morning person. I like flux, and night shift. But, the biggest change came from adopting a fixed winddown routine. Night shift on its own did almost nothing for me. Here’s what I do now:

* I have cold turkey on my mac. It blocks distracting sites till 6 pm. Then it unblocks them till 8:30. At that point I have to stop

* I use Beeminder, and one of my goals is “less than 3 hours screen time on my phone”. I don’t have phone restrictions on, too finicky and also too easy to circumvent. But having to honestly answer the question at the end of the day and pay money if I fail seems to work

* So from 8:30-9 I kinda putter around and finish and device tasks I need to

* Between 9 and 10 I’ll write in a journal, do some stretches, brush teeth/wash face etc, and go for a walk if I haven’t walked enough. The only part on a device is the journal. I do appreciate dark mode and night shift for that. I have only lamps on in the house in this phase. If I have extra time I’ll read a book or ereader.

* I listen to a podcast while falling asleep with a smart speaker. If I was living with someone I’d use headphones. Either way, no phone in bedroom

* In the morning I get the news from the speaker, log my weight using my watch, and don’t use the phone till later. As much as possible I use my Apple Watch for quickly checking like weather, messages

Writing this out in hopes it may help someone who wants to make a similar shift. I spent the entirety of my life unable to keep a normal sleep schedule or wake up early.

But this has worked, and I am getting enough sleep, no alarm. Moreover it’s fairly modifiable to your life circumstances. The main one that involves others’ is house lighting.

The key elements for me were setting times when I don’t start on the phone and when I am done with the phone and computer, and dimming light and doing a routine at bed.
Proof of stake solves this. Proof of work is basically proof of stake in foreign mining hardware and electricity bills. You've heard of small POW chains getting attacked (vechain, ethereum classic) but have you heard of any POS chains having such problems? Caveat: Crypto founder.
Speaking of Tetris and Hatetris, have you ever heard of Hatris? I just learned about it from last week's No Such Thing as a Fish podcast. Alexey Pajitnov, the creator of Tetris, continued to experiment with the Tetris formula. One of the games he made was called Hatris[2] which involves hats falling on people's heads. Entertainment Weekly reviewed it saying: "There is, after all, a cure for Tetris addiction. It’s Hatris.[3]"

1. https://www.nosuchthingasafish.com/

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioHEQlTxiLY

3. https://ew.com/article/1991/05/24/new-videogames/
> Much of the world is much less left leaning than the united states.

The US ain't "left-leaning" though. The left in the US is almost right elsewhere.
This...this can’t be real right? You are telling me that we brought a closed coal plant back online and we did it to mine Bitcoin?

I have not felt this defeated in a long ducking time.
Canada transitioned CERB into a more-permissible Employment Insurance (EI). I'm sure the poster you are replying to means they've moved onto that.
Alaska has lots of places that are only reachable by air or by extremely difficult overland routes that may only be passable during certain times of year.

Supai, Arizona [0] is only accessible by helicopter or an 8-mile hike from the nearest road.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supai,_Arizona
This caught my eye as well! I was expecting something about authenticating without passwords only to discover a post about...Google's password manager.
That's absolutely veritably false. The Polish government-in-exile in London first reported crimes in the Auschwitz complex to the western public in 1941.
Working on the Internet/online has a lot areas.
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What Bitcoin Did is run by a toxic Bitcoin maximalist who is totally clueless about the tech and is only in it for the money.

Check out Bankless and The Daily Gwei.
Depends on your definition of "radioactive waste". From the figures I've seen, coal fly ash is pretty similar to say granite in terms of overall activity and isotopic composition. It doesn't seem to enhance the concentration to the same worrying levels that say rare earth mining does, probably because the radioisotopes and all the other unwanted non-carbon trash is heavily diluted by all the carbon.
No kidding you would get banned. Are you a pedophile, you sounds like one.
Why can't you compare them? Money is money and I can't pay for groceries or rent with or without "get up and go to work every day", it's completely irrelevant.
Are you me? I've always wanted to go into space and I have the same heart condition. I found your blog where you posted about it further and I get the same migraines too lmao. I'll shoot you an email. Mine is my username at gmail. Cheers!
> I welcome the change. I'm glad someone is doing something to reel these social media giants in

How is a state gov compelling speech by a private entity reeling anything in?

> These billion dollar companies are not immune to regulation just because they exist on the internet.

They have never been immune to regulation. Are you advocating for more regs, so that speech you like will be even more amplified? If not, what specifically are you calling for?

> "it's a private company they don't have to respect your 1A"

You misheard. Private entities aren't governments. It is bad Gov behavior that the 1A restrains.

> "you can't force them to respect people's 1A, that violates the companies 1A!"

That is correct. The 1A protects private entities from Govs. A Gov forcing someone to amplify the opinions of people in power is an ethical abomination that the 1A protects all of us from.
Bitcoin is the worst - super fascinating in its infancy and early days. Devastating at mass consumption levels.
What's the point of amplifying this kind of story?

We know that people exist on both ends of any spectrum - 75 year olds graduate from law school, 12 year olds graduate from college. Individual stories frankly don't matter except to the individuals involved.
How is that relevant to the article? The article states that the power plant was converted to run on gas.
Well, the full story is ...

The vast majority of pilot applicants don't really need to be concerned with their vision:

- civil: will pass the vision requirements with correction to 20/20 near (the instrument panel) and far with glasses, contacts or surgery.

- US military: last time I checked, one service allows laser surgery, and the others are evaluating it.

I don't recommend eye surgery for civil pilots because of the risk of infection, sparkling, regulatory changes and changes in eye geometry in middle-age.

Note that DUIs and epilepsy are disqualifying, and heart problems usually make things difficult.

Source: pilot.
Most people on earth don't have the ability to just invest in traditional commodity markets as a hedge.

Most people on earth DO have a mobile device, which grants them permissionless and censorship resistant access to the bitcoin network. This access allows for an escape hatch against abusive regimes who debase their country's fiat currency.
So I take it you are not willing to accept bitcoin for free since it's not "real and economically useful"?

Commodities don't have a fixed supply, they are not transportable, you can't actually own them. You can't verify them. You can't transact them easily.

Real and economically useful, bitcoin or commodities. which is which?
If you want to start in the project, On you :

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• Choose the field in which you have the knowledge (a wide culture).

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• Submit to google adsense to place ads in.

I will not lie and say you will win from the first month or even the second month, but I promise you that if you start winning, every month will be better than the next (profit).
Remember this wisdom :
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The thing is, reusing nuclear waste is possible, but too expensive in the end, compared to renewables. I think there was 4 research reactor that did that in the world, and Russia launched a new one recently.

I still think nuclear must be part of the solution NOW (for an effect on CO@ in 2030 and on climate drift on 2050). Nuclear in 50 year will be too late. And i don't think nuclear is "the best", nor do i think that it isn't dangerous, nor do i think we should stop with renewables. Nuclear is a crutch and should be used as such.
Don’t forget my favorite: “Slack is just IRC with clever marketing.”
Gold is (relatively) easy to store, transfer, hard to obtain, really limited supply -- the qualities that make commodity good money. Uselessness of gold is actually useful here -- transactions with it does not distort markets. Imagine if we used coffee beans as "gold" -- then changes in monetary velocity would impact consumers, who would be forced to stash it.
There are plenty of useful applications on Ethereum. Maker, Compound, Aave, dYdX, Synthetix, UMA, Uniswap to name very few.
Some forms of disability could be useful in the context of space exploration. For example, using colostomy bags could make longer spacewalks possible and also remove space toilets altogether.
Ask HN: Is building a realtime web application hard (for a startup)?
I've been struggling during the past months building a realtime mobile application that scales.

We started with Firebase which is great to kickstart a project, but after a couple of months we needed to create our own socket-based realtime infrastructure.

It was really tough, especially for our small team.

I wonder if it's a problem that you've ever faced?
Right, I think the $721.5 billion that the US spends every year in weapons and war stuff is a waste. They should spend it to give their population some kind of decent healthcare.
So let me put it this way:

Most businesses do not know how to manage software projects. That's not entirely special to software - most businesses don't really know how to manage anything.

Agile tools offer a framework for technical teams for fighting off and thwarting crappy management that doesn't understand how to make software.

But some crappy management organizations are really, really hard to thwart.

Worse, some crappy management organizations have figured out how to neutralize agile tools, by co-opting them and trying to use them to continue crappily managing the software project. Sometimes they do this pre-emptively, neutering one of the only tools a technology organization has to fight back.

I would love to know what else people have had success with as a way to fix crappy management other than setting up a properly agile 'safe space' for tech to happen in.
I wonder if there could be an "excess power coin" that could only be mined when there was an excess of green energy. I suppose the utilities would have to be in on it to validate power delivery. Even then can't think of a way you could prove a certain block was mined with a specific allotment of energy...
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When you learn about commodity-backed ETFs and mutual funds you're going to be really excited :)
I've seen those twice on the west side of Puerto Rico. Spooked the hell out of me at the time because they fly very low and make virtually no sound.
I have no problem paying for craftsmanship, artistry, and service. The piece should be worth significantly more than it's raw materials. My problem is when the price of the raw material is being artificially controlled. While I'm sure there are shenanigans going on with all valuable materials, I can't think of any that are as blatantly a scam as diamonds.
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what did you tell them when they made you the FTE offer?
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This is a bit like saying DDoS attacks are good because they harden security.

Maybe that's true on a high level but if you are an administrator you should be allowed to try to reduce the number of DDoS attacks you get.
FizzBuzz-style questions are fine. Any coding exercise that takes under 30 minutes and doesn't require you to happen to remember some obscure piece of discrete mathematics trivia.
Aside from the practical concerns with solar sails, there's a fundamental problem with using them to get to the Sun. To lower your orbit, you need to exert thrust in the retrograde direction (directly opposite to the direction you're going). However, that's perpendicular to the direction of the sunlight you receive, so a solar sail cannot generate any thrust in that direction!
Memes can really get into your perceptions of things.

Nowadays I always pay particular attention when I see a video with someone wearing flipflops if it's real life camera footage. I'm always "waiting for the other shoe to drop," so-to-speak.
Since you work at Google, and on ads:

The insanely annoying thing that I have seen for a long time is that despite the fact that you have more information on me than anyone else the ads have been either useless or even insulting for years.

I remember bothering to click through the microscopic x in tve corner and select not relevant or something on Thai mail order brides. What did I get next? Filipino mail orders brides. Out of curiosity I marked a number of them as not relevant and I think I also saw:

- Polish

- Ukrainian

- Chinese

- and possibly a couple of more nationalities

- later I got ads for older women near me

- and then gay cruises

This went on for years.

Last year I finally started seing ads for electronics etc but now I feel no remorse for blocking ads anymore.

I'm just fed up.

Meanwhile Facebook, for all their faults and despite me blocking them for far longer than Google actually has had interesting ads.

Edit: I've nothing against Filipino or Thais or gay people or anyone, but I have something against scantily clad women etc showing up on my monitor both at work and at home and I think it says something about Google that they think this was the most relevant ads they could show me for years.
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Then he'd have to face specific arguments. This way it looks like it's some general wisdom, and anyone who isn't enthusiastic about Mighty App can be painted as the unsavory characters he invents. How easily this army of strawmen is burnt to a crisp!

The Jealous Nerd:

> One reason they do it is envy

The Hipster:

> it's an easy way to seem sophisticated

The Dark Ages Inquisitor:

> Darwin's harshest critics were churchmen

The Luddites and Sheep:

> the sheer pervasiveness of the current paradigm

This replies to none of the legitimate criticism, and manages to be more dismissive by filing everything under "crabs in a bucket, extra salty".
"self-organize" - oh, sooner or later you're in for a treat. Agile coach: "Everybody go to the meeting room, you're going to self-organize. This is how you're going to do it...". I've not yet met an agile coach with the intelligence to parse what they're regurgitating. The only time I've seen agile work was pre-Agile when it had nothing to do with Agile.
No only that anytime you use Google's 2fa, you let them know where you are and what you are doing. Privacy is a commodity we have willingly and unwillingly given up.
Yes "only", meaning it's insufficient for the long run.

It's estimated that the ruins will remain highly radiactive for 20,000 years, meaning that a scarcophagus-like containment is needed at least for that long. If human technology remains as is (ok I am really hoping for tech advancements in this area), we will need to build 200 of such structures if the design specifications work as planned.

The area is only "safe" because we keep the site contained. Without renewal of the containment structure, the radiation will spread.

https://www.power-technology.com/features/making-chernobyl-s...

"Meanwhile, Reactor No. 4, now covered by the New Safe Confinement, is estimated to remain highly radioactive for up to 20,000 years. "
> Are you suggesting that they shouldn't have changed it, because the kid was at fault?

No. "A trooper-involved fatal shooting..." is indeed blurry, and in my opinion the active voice isn't much better because for many (most?) readers it conveys that the cop action was fully intentional, however in such a context things are much more complicated than that.

It doesn't assign fault, indeed, but a more adequate title may be "In a chaotic situation a trooper shot and killed..." because when someone points a gun at you the danger grows as you take time to assess the situation, there is no way to assess from a distance if someone is or isn't able to mount an attack, the "Tueller rule"...
People always bring Dropbox to these discussions as an example of a startup that was dismissed by HN but turned out to be huge, but turns out there are examples of the opposite thing happening too!

Does anyone remember Color Labs? Go read this thread and marvel at the similarities: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2364463. A stellar team backed by top VCs who invested (extraordinary at the time) $41M sets out to build a location enabled photo-sharing app. VCs tout it as "the next Google". Most of HN is pretty critical with some voices advocating caution and saying "let's not be so dismissive, maybe there is something more to it". Well, it turned out there was nothing more to it.

So no, being dismissed by HN does not automatically mean that your idea is good and you will be successful.
K8s H.i.t.: observability, enablement, scale; shifted left.
Do you know the timeframe for moving ethereum to POS?
You could put it near a subduction zone and wait for it to be pushed under a neighboring tectonic plate.
This headline reads a little like the culture war anti-"Big Tech" headlines one sees occasionally. Will we see this turned into a culture war dogma, with adherents of one US political party refusing to do 2FA?
huh? On my Mac it takes .5 seconds, on my Windows machine it takes only slightly longer (.5 - 1 second).
Of course, but you are not actually owning those commodities, then. You are not buying them and this is the point -- with bitcoin you are really in control.
Hobby programming and paying bills are relatively lightweight tasks. Using cloud document editors and social media definitely isn't. At best, your computer will have noticable latency and at worst it'll crawl so slowly it's unusable. Check out https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm for some thoughts on this topic that align with mine.

The network speed is by no means an issue. The problem is that all websites feel the need to mess with their DOM and execute megabytes of JavaScript just to do basic tasks. Then your bottleneck becomes the processor speed and the amount of RAM, the latter a larger obstacle in my experience.
Same here. Compute!'s Gazette. There's an archive if you ever get the hankering for nostalgia lol. https://archive.org/details/compute-gazette

I don't know how many times I spent many hours over several days typing pages of code from the magazines into the C64, have it be buggy, spend hours trying to fix the bugs only to have them release the code for their bug fixes the next issue, which took a month. It was very slow learning.
Would it be better if people poured loads of money into something useful as a speculative investment? Imagine if the price of, say, steel went up by a huge amount due to people hedging against currency. Or housing—I hear this has actually happened.
They're putting it in their job ad. It's fair to conclude they think it's a perk.
ISPs funded effort behind fake net neutrality comments, New York State says
We could easily solve this BTC problem by hard forking to a pure proof of stake consensus protocol for BTC. Same security and decentralization guarantees. No environmental harm, and far more scalable so you can actually buy coffee with it. Ofc that's against the best interests of miners and BTC core devs.