skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Blockchain, not specifically crypto currencies, are also a means to operate anonymously outside of an authoritarian government. Sure there are gotchas with remaining anonymous, but I am sure China wouldn't want a blockchain-based, mesh, peer-to-peer, or distrubuted network, that could operate outside of the Great Firewall's ability to regulate or censor it. High-power, long-range WiFi and mesh networks would be hard to control or stop with reasonable efforts.
I am rather disapointed to see HN has more power to seed a story than the EFF.
I'd love to hear what else you believe is a narrative manipulation op.
Hum... You are aiding in an illegal act.

You know perfectly well what the browser will do when presented to that link, you know the site doesn't follow the law, and you know your user will be harmed on this specific way. I don't see a problem with you being held responsible. (Also, civil laws have a tendency of spreading blame over as many parties as possible when the victim is seen as powerless. That's a very good tradition that the EU started by the way.)

If you didn't know that the linked site would misbehave, or what the browser would do, then you shouldn't be blamed. Still, if the victims are seen as very powerless compared to you, it's not rare for laws to still place you as an intermediary and require that you go settle your damages down with the other party. I think the GDPR shouldn't do that, but I don't know if it does.
It is illegal [1]. The phrasing is very broad:

> (a)Except as permitted by subsection (b) hereof, whoever ... participates personally and substantially as a Government officer or employee ... in a judicial or other proceeding ... in which, to his knowledge, he ... has a financial interest— Shall be subject to the penalties set forth in section 216 of this title.

All that is lacking is the willingness of law enforcement (and the executive branch) to take action.

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/208
I don't understand baseball and never collected any type of cards, but I do get people who own a rare baseball card and see its value (limited production, has history behind it, it can only be lost, not multiplied). I don't see the status value of someone owning an $180k NFT more than that he indeed has $180k, money that will probably go down in value over time. Anyone can create an identical or improved NFT at any point, and its value can be the same of higher simply if someone pays that amount of money for it.

I still see it as someone paying $180k for a common, non-original, useless rock, it doesn't mean that the value of that rock is now $180k.
Should probably just use "men" and "women", boys and girls, unless otherwise necessary, for clarity and simplicity. Someone offended by a lack of preemptive qualifying verbiage is not worth placating. If they ask for different words, you can add them in later conversation.

Preemptively tacking on qualifiers can bury the actual meaning of the idea you're trying to communicate.
Beanie Babies also looked stupid. It's just another fad and bubble.

https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2015/03/02/beanie-baby-bubbl...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28640964 has another source, but the same scoop. 290 comments vs 46 here.

Edit: And that title isn't talking about mining.
You can do it faster if you restrict yourself to questions that you already have researched. That is, to questions about bugs like ones you've fixed in your own code, or features you've found out how to use.
> Skimming the docs, it also looks like it's meant to be a kind of cleaned-up OCaml. I guess that's not very different from Reason, Rescript, or even Fable.

It's implemented in Reason, so presumably the authors see some advantage to this over Reason. Personally I think more distance from the OCaml ecosystem is a competitive advantage relative to Reason et al. Yeah, there are advantages to being able to plug into an existing ecosystem, but the disadvantage is that in practice you have to understand the host language that you're plugging into.
Bitcoin has nothing to do with all these scams like NFTs and "internet computers" like Ethereum, which are pushed by tech gurus, influencers and marketers. It's time to stop conflating these under the same umbrella. Bitcoiners are not the same people who push these useless things.
It would be trivial to find the source of high-powered wifi/antennas. Consider how easy it is already for one to find the source of an unlicensed ham radio stream.

It's definitely not impossible to obfuscate and use crypto even in a country where it's banned, but it isn't that easy.
Thanks for the reply, and what you say makes sense and is a familiar tale. Weirdly a lot of people describe their coding past with a burnout, reassessment, and subsequent pullback, almost like a drug relationship.

Kudos on the community activism; talk about building something of meaning.
The art world is definitely a sham(1). That doesn't mean there isn't money making opportunity, nor does it mean there isn't intrinsic value in artwork; if anything it tends to mean there are outsized winners and losers that are divorced from any intrinsic value of the art.

(1)Consider all the artists "unrecognized" during their lifetime; did their genius just get discovered after their deaths? No, it was just at that point their works were a limited commodity, and not well distributed yet, and so suddenly became good places to park wealth. That isn't to say there isn't good and interesting and thought provoking work being done, but it's definitely only loosely, if at all, correlated to price. A good artist with nothing else can expect to sell a custom painting for $1k, tops. A hack artist with a known PR person in the art world can get themselves selling them for hundreds of thousands, if not millions.
If anyone is interested, I've been building dashboards that display trades made by U.S. congressmen and estimate their returns over time from their trading while in office.

https://www.quiverquant.com/sources/senatetrading

https://www.quiverquant.com/sources/housetrading

One weakness of the performance visualization is that some of the most extreme results are from people who have only made one or two trades while in office, as their returns are more volatile off of those few transactions.
Also, the end results look quite good, but not amazing.
I agree there is a difference but nothing about a cryptocurrency or blockchain requires a distributed ledger or distributed consensus mechanism. In fact there are plenty of centralized cryptocurrencies out there today.
How much BTC is likely to be held in accounts that can no longer legally trade?
I think it's clear from the languages given that the added complexity is to handle UI workflows, no?
One aspect of C# async/await I don't ever see talked about is the ecosystem integration.

Async/await was delivered after the popular .NET UI frameworks (WPF, UWP) were designed, and it shows.

Trying to work with data bindings with async is a pain. There are things WPF has to make it a bit easier, but UWP doesn't have them. A lot of the infrastructure (IValueConverter, for example) just won't allow async. There are workarounds, but they are ugly. It gets tricky when, as the document mentions, async is viral. Constructors and void methods (basically the only options for running initialization code when a UI component appears) give you not good options for async/await. A lot of the WinRT API (which has buggy C# bindings and is markedly unreliable) require async for things that were never async in the older implementations. It makes cross-platform library development a pain, and exacerbates the 'async is viral' issue.

None of what I mentioned is a 'problem' in that it can all be worked around and people have been delivering applications with such workarounds for a decade. But it is disappointing that Microsoft hasn't modernized the UI frameworks to take advantage of modern programming patterns.
We usually encourage people to open-source their code after the competition so that the community improves over time (but only if they're open to it).

Speaking of Tensorflow, we're working on some ML starter kits and would love some feedback on how to improve the workflow for people using TF, PyTorch etc! If you do end up trying it out and get stuck anywhere, please feel free to ping either myself or Matt (@thegalah) on our Discord (https://discord.gg/tRUMgdfC).
Holding any elected position should come with a lifetime ban against holding stock in any publicly traded company, full stop. Congressman, president, sheriff, county commissioner, I don't care. Either you're a public servant or you aren't. My position in the government wasn't even an elected one and I still believe the oath I took is fundamentally incompatible with holding stock.
Why do we need the `async` keyword? What is the difference between a function which returns a Task<int>, and an async function which returns a Task<int>?
This really makes common sense, why should lawmakers who have access to privileged information be allowed to execute stock trades. This only beuilds more resentment from the common man.
Is there a Congress ETF?
Around 50% of my work .NET coding and I find It's becoming really hard to keep up with this. .NET more and more feels to me like the typical MS approach where they just keep cranking out new stuff without cleaning up existing stuff. Some of the new things are very good, some are half baked, and it's difficult to figure out on what side these new features are.

Just lately I did some Entity Framework coding and noticed that some things are async compatible, but others aren't, so you end up doing a lot of strategizing coding around these omissions and creating questionable workarounds.

I really wish they would go back to the drawing board and simplify things. Same could be said for their various XAML dialects. It's just too damn verbose.
That's not the definition. Insider trading non-public information also needs to be material, and not given or received by someone in breach of duty to the company or stolen from the company.

Your definition would mean a cab driver would be insider trading if he overheard random speculation about a company that turned out to be true--that's not illegal. However, if the cab driver's passenger said, "hey, I'm an executive at at XYZ and I saw that we're acquiring FGH," that is insider trading three ways: the driver believed they were receiving confidential information, the executive breached his duty, and the executive caused stolen information to be traded. And an acquisition would of course meet the material test.
Could not be bothered to try (my daily driver on Android is Firefox)
I think the easiest solution is they should not be allow to buy individual stocks + options. Only indexes.
it’s orders of magnitude worse than mere profiting from inside knowledge. these people make policy for the entire country and they have conflicts of interest.
Ah, the Ringworld model.

Realistically, it's not just urbanisation. Back when people regularly had 15 children, that meant that people were (a) basically continuously pregnant for 15 years and (b) spent around 30 years of their life bringing up children. Even without economic constraints I doubt it would be a very common approach; if nothing else you don't see that many billionaires with 15 children.
if this comment is serious i strongly suggest you inform yourself about nvme drives. they're absolutely worth their money.

i haven't encountered anyone in years that didn't have at least one in their pc/laptop, but if you dont: i strongly suggest you buy one. because writing 30 Gbyte sequentially generally does takes about 10 seconds.
If you think about crypto as a MMOG, people’s behaviors start to make a lot more sense.
Yeah, but it can be fun to speculate and share information. One interesting theory that I have is that it relates to stimulus checks and Drug crime. A huge amount of money flowed into the economy and it's plausible that The Fallout of drug organizations fighting to capture that influx of cash
> Geopolymer Institute is an amazing resource on the subject. https://geopolymer.org

I find it odd that so much of their front page and entire site is dedicated to defending the theory that the pyramids were made of man-made or re-agglometared stone. The hypothesis is mentioned in the Wikipedia article "Egyptian pyramid construction techniques"[0] under the hypothesis subsection but mostly dismissed:

Dipayan Jana, a petrographer, made a presentation to the ICMA (International Cement Microscopy Association) in 2007[46] and gave a paper[47] in which he discusses Davidovits's and Barsoum's work and concludes "we are far from accepting even as a remote possibility a 'man-made' origin of pyramid stones."

Apart from that, the only other references to the theory or institute are in the Pyramidology article subsection Ancient astronauts [1] which references an article by Joseph Davidovits of the Geopolymer Institute:

Several proponents of ancient astronauts claim that the Great Pyramid of Giza was constructed by extraterrestrials, or influenced by them.

Reading through all of this it comes off as fanciful and reminds me of reading those books about Ghosts, Bigfoot or Monsters in elementary school.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_pyramid_construction_...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramidology#Ancient_astronaut...
We won't be getting unlimited QE or bailouts, so it's all good.

As a democracy, there's no alternative to the government working with whatever majority it gets.
Take a professional photographer who knows what he's doing and put him in a fantastic looking setting, and BAM! Magic.

Let me review the camera and nobody will buy the phone.
Absolutely. And with anything that involves greed and riches.
Will you make a fast implementation of the environment available? The best AIs right now are model based (AlphaGo), so the best bots will probably have to reimplement the environment, unless you make a model available for everyone?

I've been trying to create a Slay the Spire AI and am burned out on reimplementing environments, it's rather boring code, but there sure is a lot of it, and it takes a lot of work trying to figure out subtle details. It would be nice to be able to spend more than 20% of my time on actual AI stuff, rather than trying to reverse engineer the game so I can make a good model.
No, no, he said "die in." It's a great hill to die in, probably lots of twisty tunnels to explore before being eaten by a gru.
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I think the cleanest law here is to change the law to clarify that non-public information gained by public servants and representatives that can have an affect on a stock's price should be treated as "material non-public information." Then the SEC can do their jobs like they do with other insider traders.

Remember that ONLY elected congresspeople are exempt from rules like that. Other public servants are not. This is one of the biggest signals that the US is an oligarchy and not a democracy.
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Consider also time of introduction (of the vulnerability) to time of patch.

We have now seen bugs that have been around for 4-5 years before being discovered by ethical hackers and subsequently patched.
Unless specifically encouraged, GPT-3 would probably prefer to use common language.
Synology's implementation of BTRFS is rocksolid, in my experience. This guy [1] tried to break it and couldn't.

[1] https://daltondur.st/syno_btrfs_1/
Sounds like someone gets it...
Really, all of our political problems were more or less solved in ancient Rome.
Incentivizing that large public companies do well, not quite the same.
There's land adjacent to many of these cables. It is cheaper to bury cables in water -- there's a lot fewer shovels needed and fewer property disputes.
One can hope, it's been a problem for a while now that's impacting the regular cycle of game development.
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Apple could have chosen to simply not release a new iPhone or iOS version this year, if it wanted to. To the extent that they prioritized that over fixing up their security infra, that's on them.
Are you sure these consequences were entirely unintended?
The production proof-of-stake system has actually been running in parallel since last December, staking real ETH, with over 200K full nodes. What's left is just to repoint the main clients, so instead of choosing blocks by the most work, they let the staking network choose blocks.
I can't help but shake off the weird tricks that Apple do to the video and images that make these videos obviously shot on an iPhone. You can see the lack of sharpness where de-noising occurs, and where the colours are blobbed together. I think marketing the iPhone as being anything close to a replacement for a DSLR, even be it an entry level 100 dollar DSLR is silly as there's clearly a difference in quality just from camera sensor size and higher quality lenses. Especially editing iPhone photos using Lightroom limits you as many of the pre-processing steps compensate for the small lens and the small sensor.

The iPhone's camera is great for what it is, but it's definitely not anything close to a replacement of an entry level DSLR and shouldn't really be marketed as such.
I've always been jealous of this kind of drive. To have the type of mind that is never bored of action and productivity.
First we should ban giftcards. I never understood the idea of using my versatile, national, currency to buy a restricted, local, currency. Esp. without getting a discount for the risk I take.
Personally I clicked into the "getting started" page and the examples answered more of my questions, however indirectly. "Oh, this is an ML dialect with a readable syntax (and presumably none of the OCaml baggage)! It's a bit like Rust with a GC!"
Yes, but an NFT is not like owning a Rolex, it's like owning the "first photo taken" of that Rolex.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_copyright_law_in_the_...

If the difference is awareness (demonstrated) and profiting off it, would a banner ad on the page be enough?
I'm still dailying a 2015 MacBook Pro and I've literally only started considering upgrading in the next year or so. Apple have their faults, but the hardware isn't bad at all in my opinion.
The worst is when I ignore their preamble, waiting on the question and the other person turns around and shoots an email to my manager, cc'ing me and saying 'so and so was away, do you know who I might ask about x?'. Like, no, I was just waiting for you to get to the point!
A lifetime ban seems a bit extreme. I can see a ban on activities while in office and perhaps a little after, but a lifetime is a long time in the stock market.

US officials should be investing in broad market index funds. It would allow them to still reap the benefits of owning stocks without the conflicts of interests. They should be betting on America, not individual companies.

And without insider knowledge, they would have basically no chance of beating — or even competing — with index funds long term.
idk mullvad seems pretty alright
and now you've learned something new about the language
I love this idea so much. It'll definitely come in handy next time I'm writing a config, thanks for sharing!
Federal lawmakers aren't capable of NOT insider trading.
That’s what I was looking for
> Bitcoin itself is incredibly volatile.

Largely in the right direction.
Thanks! Didn't expect this much info, but then I looked into your profile, which explained things.

BTW, perhaps this could be of interest in regard to this topic: I previously was able to use Tasker to remap headphones' control buttons to keyboard keys, and thus trigger AnkiDroid's buttons. However, this turned out to be pretty awkward for me—but it's a generic mechanism for remapping, so may come in handy for someone who has other not-natively-supported inputs. (Though it will likely require additional paid addons for Tasker, namely AutoInput.)
I might have the details wrong, but isn't there a mechanism so that the original artist can get some portion of the proceeds every time an NFT is sold?
Absolutely correct. Bitcoin isn't the domain of NFT grifters, it's the domain of ransomware hostage-takers.

We need to be accurate when discussing the various scams proposed.
" many gotchas which are not obvious at all that it's actually not that easy after all"

Totally agree. At first look async/await is simple and straightforward but it's way to easy to mess up in subtle ways. Most people don't even notice that their code has problems until they get weird behavior in production.

In general I believe they made async way too pervasive in the framework and are also inconsistent.
'this' is on HN right now becuase rastafang posted it.

I do not pretent to know what their motivation in doing so is, but I for one appreciate them bringing it to attention, 3 days after the EFF published it, in turn 7 days after the actual event itself.

It was unnoticed at the event itself, barely noticed when they wrote a story about it and is only now noticed thanks to being upvoted on here.
I like this. It allows me to ask "do you think you could use your project management framework/institution to manage the ongoing production of a broadway play for say 10 years ongoing production? No, you say? Then you should probably find a new way of coping with this software production."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tymnet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telenet
No os/mobile platform is free of security bugs. No amount of “QA” will be enough. Just look at the number of vulnerabilities literally any OS has, or even any component such as Chrome or Safari.

It is a shame that the author didn’t get replies in time and felt the need to disclose. I’m sure it’ll at least get quickly patched now.
Sorry.My bad.
Of courses they can, you just have to pay for your own meal.

What are you trying to achieve with your sarcasm?

If you have a job you can probably have a look at your ethics or anti corruption guidelines for a good idea of what is appropriate.
In c# async only enables the await keyword. If await was a reserved word from the start it wouldn't be needed.
> Anti vaccine activists don’t tend to be too good at math.

Pro-forced vaccine activists don't tend to be too good at ethics or morals.
It's far from a waste of money. They help with things such as skipping geoblocking, able to deceive ISPs that send mail warning users about pirated content, can in some cases help with gaming ping, allow users to trick sites that rely on IP logging and many other applications besides cybersecurity and privacy.

The main issue is that they all seem to advertise themselves as these privacy and cybersecurity services first, while ignoring all the other added benefits.
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My memory is that this mapping does have to be contiguous, but I'll dig it up in the code and link it here either way.
Exactly. And I doubt that this device is used in any lab, except in a clinical lab setting. I have seen it in clinical trials. Focus on the word "arterial blood", this gives you an idea. :-)
> Ruin marble is a kind of limestone or marble that contains light and dark patterns.

The HN crowd frowns on dark patterns, do they not?
The people with the best morals/ethics understand the subconscious part and remove themself from the situation by not holding individual stocks in that capacity. As a society, I would hope we could do a similar thing and legislate it as a requirement.
At least it loads quickly.

More important then mobile styling honestly.
Synology DSM 7.0
> there are plenty of bigger fish

Sure, but in most cases people would, at best, be seriously inconvenienced if they were immediately banned. At worst, people would die.

If bitcoin was banned worldwide tomorrow, it would be an interesting story in the news and the internet would be furious for a while; there would be no significant real-life impact. It would probably be the most slam-dunk "obviously we should do this" environmental regulation in history; even things like "we should not put mercury in lakes" had significant downsides compared to banning bitcoin.