skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Worldwide Account Protection Program seems to be a way for Crypto.com to limit their exposure, while marketing it as "protection" for the customers.

Around $34million stolen, 483 users affected. If the funds were spread evenly, then each user would have lost about $71k. But the funds won't be evenly spread (average). It's likely some users will have lost much more, and some much less.

From the announcement, it looks like Crypto.com is making the users whole again;

> No customers experienced a loss of funds.

This means that (in some cases) Crypto.com was on the hook for much more than $71k / user. The WAPP appears to put a series of conditions on the user, and introduce an upper limit to the amount that Crypto.com will return in the future.

> WAPP restores funds up to USD$250,000 for qualified users; terms & conditions apply.

> Enable Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) on all transaction types where MFA is currently available,

> Set up an anti-phishing code at least 21 days prior to the reported unauthorized transaction,

> Not be using jailbroken devices,

> File a police report and provide a copy of it to Crypto.com; and

> Complete a questionnaire to support a forensic investigation.

This looks more like a mechanism to limit Crypto.com's exposure to future events than it does a policy to protect users.
Arrest them for assault...? Basically every study or reasonable implementation of decriminalization has shown both fewer negative effects of drug use, and in many cases decreased drug use itself.

So there is in fact a simple answer, and I think you'll find that drug laws were likely conceived much more cynically than for the protection of the common person.
I saved this article from a similar discussion a few years ago, which argues that moderate drinking (but not binge drinking) is healthy in various ways. Does anyone know if it, or the underlying data it refers to, has been refuted?

https://psmag.com/social-justice/truth-wont-admit-drinking-h...
I would say that intuition is more about synthesis than analysis, and it only looks like inductive analysis because that's what it looks like when you put the parts back together again.
These studies have clearly run into some local maximum... the trick is to blow past it!
Yep, and there's always that one person who trots out that their grandmother smoked 2 packs of unfiltered cigarettes a day and lived to be 100. Anecdata is not data.
I am very disillusioned about the vast majority of patents and patent holders.

I was part of a group working on getting patents.
That is right - we weren't necessarily trying to solve anything but literally just brainstorming possible things we could realistically patent. The rest of the process then devolved into, "how this will look and sound to the committee or the board" rather than being about the functionality. I couldn't stand it and politely excused myself from the group.

The whole experience left a very bad taste with me about the patent system in general.

I can't think of how the process should be improved because I can see how a stricter vetting can stifle _real_ creativity but the current process is not good.
I think it's one of the situations where the fundamentals are well understood (Navier Stokes equation) but the emergent behavior is so complex that many aspects remain poorly understood.
And thank god for that. Very happy to be a luddite with have exposure to the rise in crypto prices without the risk of getting it stolen.
The year is 1633.

Galileo: "Earth and all other planets revolve around the Sun."

Fact Check: Experts say Earth is the center of the universe. Galileo's claim is false and harmful.
IMO, as a sibling comment mentioned, time is key here.
Patents should be strictly enforced for 2-3 years, after that they're made obsolete.
This gives you the benefit of being ahead for a while, or someone else to be ahead for a while if you want to directly sell the process. After that it's free for all.

Current situation is free for nobody but China.
Yes, but wine makes food taste infinitely better. I don't want to eat my rare filet with a glass of water, I want to eat it with and chilled bottle of natural Syrah from the North Rhone (preferably Dard et Ribo)
Simply put, outside of the coasts, Software Engineers don't make nearly as much as you seem to think they do.

"After a year in software engineering, you should have at least a year's living expenses saved up"? What world are you living in?

Been in software nearly 10 years now. There is no way in any universe that after year 1 I would have had living expenses for a _whole year_ saved up. At a base salary of $30k starting (10 years ago, mind you), with rent at $1.5k/mo, that doesn't leave too much after taxes for savings after existing expenses, let alone being able to save up an entire year's worth of those living expenses on that salary.
At the time I started, in my area, $30K/yr was the average, btw.

So yes, your comment was _incredibly_ detached from reality.
There's 48 other states who all have their electricity infrastructure more or less together.

Here in Maine we experience the weather Texas had basically bi-weekly in normal winters (it's been very mild the past few years) and IF your power goes out, it's back on in 4 hours, 20 if it's a particularly bad storm and you are a low priority area. Meanwhile the wind turbines up north will happily keep spinning, and at no point has generation failed.
That's not quite the same argument as implied by the previous statement "the old have done nothing to help the young".

Said argument reminds of Monty Python's "What have the Romans ever done for us".
It is the implementation.

I believe in bitcoin, works well and I don't blame the consumer for the producer's problems when it comes to power.

But exchanges have become a key part of the implementation.

That's not the real issue though. The issue is the _need_ for exchanges. They provide a host of services, mostly all of which are antithetical to the loftier ideals espoused by bitcoin.

Too many crypto fans waltz passed this glaringly obvious issue and these kinds of stories will never go away as a result.

If banks get hacked, nobody blames the internet. "a small sub section of the system" applies as aptly to the blockchain as it does the global financial system, and I'm pretty confident being a locally popular trading commodity amongst edge communities is not the central goal for bitcoin
They both likely have solid 80% solutions (design) and incrementally cover the 20% gap as need arises. This in turn adds to operational complexity.

Alternative would be to attempt a near 'perfect' solution for the product requirements and that may either hit an impossibility wall or may require substantial long term effort that would impede product development cycles. So likely the former approach is the smarter choice.
Watch my psychedelic lovestory, its very very interesting and informative.
I’m sorry I don’t know what a fuck fuck game is, but I’m not sure you aren’t playing one with me.

You’re trying to tell me that “convicted” is not an adjective applying to the following word terrorist? Is that your argument?

Anyway, even if we accept what you say here, that there were two claims: one she was convicted of crimes. True. Two she is a terrorist: subjective. One person’s terrorist is another’s freedom fighter. A verdict of “mixture” given this split seems appropriate.
On most current archs:

> Any piece of code running in a process can construct an integer value and, if this integer corresponds to a valid location in the process’ address space, then it can access memory at that location.

What this adds:

> CHERI changes this. Every load or store instruction and every instruction fetch must be authorized by an architectural capability.

So it should be possibly to call into any function (e.g. from an untrusted blob, and given the capabilities are set up) and on return have the guarantee that none of the callers memory has been touched and all the side effects are contained in the return value, and maybe selected whitelisted addresses?

I remember the mill architecture[1] also claims to have that capability, I think they called these calls "Portals". Btw the talks by Ivan Godard are a must watch if you have any interest in hardware architecture.

But how can existing code be just a recompile away from benefiting from these features, don't the capabilities have to be set up somehow (unless it is purely functional language)?

1: https://millcomputing.com/docs/
Patent applications should be published online right away so they can get roasted by the whole internet. This follows the principal of Cunningham's Law "the best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer."

Generally strong IP rules tend to favor the less wealthy, weaker IP rules tend to favor those with the most capital. That's why billionaire Mark Cuban is funding things like this article. When people say things like "just out execute in the marketplace" what they are really saying is just pour millions into the project. Not everyone has millions and one of the foundational principals of US society is that a poor person with a good idea should be able to get rich. How rich and what they should do to qualify for the patent is worthy of debate. For example patent holders should have to be a "practicing entity" (aka a real business) working to deliver the innovation to the market.

The patent system should be better not gone.
> detected unauthorized activity on a small number of user accounts where transactions were being approved without the 2FA authentication control being inputted by the user.

How am I supposed to read it: is it a 2FA compromise (attacker replaced 2FA codes with their own) or 2FA bypass (attacker found a way to conduct a transaction bypassing a need for 2FA)? These are two very different scenarios.
I have tremendous enjoyment in my life without drinking. Running, hiking, biking, cooking, movies, road trips, museums, concerts, new restaurants, etc…

There are also enjoyable things that involve drinking too, but _needing_ a drink to enjoy oneself seems a bit hyperbolic for the average adult, no?
Spain says Covid-19 is here to stay, and plans to handle it like the flu
Here's one I stumbled upon recently: the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) has an interactive sea level rise map where you can see whether a given location in the US will suffer flooding/inundation from sea level rise based on the value the user selects: https://coast.noaa.gov/slr/#
Alcohol is legal because the population would tear the society down if it weren’t. That’s it. None of the other drugs have that kind of following.
This doesn't include all of the other harmful effects from alcohol, like violence and injures. How much marital physical abuse happens due to alcohol? I'd rather have someone harm themselves from smoking then someone beat their wife while drunk.
I'd argue the biggest cause of the MBS was lack of understanding of risk on the part of those buying the securities, not the risk itself. Markets can tolerate risk when it is priced in appropriately.

>Trusting someone not to destroy something while the use it isn't the same as trusting them to pay you the full value of it upfront.

You don't trust them to pay you. If you did, the house wouldn't have a lien on it. You may mostly kind of trust they won't burn it down or destroy it, so you might trust you'll say get 80% of your money back and thus require a 20% down payment or something.

>But they are and it works just fine.

If the market can find a way to price in risk for someone renting a 700k house which entails them usually paying at least interest on the value of house + property tax + maintenance (this is all indirect payment, but basically what a landlord needs to charge to at least break even), the market can find a way to price in risk for that same person buying a 100k house.
> Location: Barcelona

That is interesting as in winter and summer you will get a noticeable difference in availability. It varies between 9 and 15 hours of sun a day.
> Regulations reducing coal capacity by 20% without on-demand replacement capacity is bad policy.

Why didn't they have this excess capacity before the 20% reduction rule went into effect? When will they have it now that is has gone in to effect? I get the gist, although if the goal is to encourage green alternatives and planning, a policy that requires a reduction is simpler than one that requires reduction and a plan. I would rather have the latter, but if the alternative to the former is no green policy, then that's not a real option. So what could that policy have been to improve the situation?
To be clear, this data is showing correlation, not any kind of causation.

Regardless, if we accept the argument that people need to be coerced for their own good into avoiding harmful behaviors, the data linked seems to argue that we should be restricting access to sugar and high glycemic index foods (flour) much more than alcohol since "High blood sugar" at 6.5MM and "Obesity" at 4.7MM both beat alcohol by a large margin.
>> Arbitrary rules are never a good thing.

Any parent, ever - will be able to tell you this is a fact.

If you think arbitrary rules can stick, wait until your kid hits the 'why'/'how come' phase.

In this case, the government is the parent making an arbitrary rule and the people represent the 5-year-old kid asking why.

Parent: 'You can drink, but you can't do cocaine.'

Kid: 'Why?'

Parent: 'Because cocaine is bad for you.'

Kid: 'But why? Isn't drinking bad for you?'

Parent: 'Cocaine is worse.'

Kid: 'Why?'

Parent: 'It's addictive and it ruins lives.'

Kid: 'But doesn't alcohol do that too?'

Parent: 'Well, yes...'

Kid: 'So why is cocaine so much worse?'

Parent: 'It just is! Just stop asking questions and listen to your parent.'

This kind of shit stops a kid from respecting their parent, because they trust their parent to know what's good for them, and to have reasons behind rules and restrictions.

Similarly, when the government starts making arbitrary decisions for us, but can't provide the logic behind it - and - worse - the evidence from the medical, scientific and psychology communities state the complete opposite - we lose respect for and faith in the government.
They also have high-visibility ads in F1: https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article.formula-1-announc...

I doubt it's very cheap to advertise in F1. You need to outbid large competitors.
Not really. That's a comparison.

"Why do that woman receive half of what that straight white dude gets?"
- "Why are you asking? Why aren't you asking about the black dude get only a quarter?"

THAT is whataboutism. Implying you shouldn't make remarks (about a woman's wage, about Israel, ...) without also taking other cases (transgenders, blacks, China) into account is whataboutism: using a claim to fair and equal treatment as a way to avoid having to answer an isolated question.
Although I live in a place where weed is legal, I don’t use it. I enjoy the occasional glass of a nice scotch, though, and I love a good stout or porter beer. This is where it gets a little strange for me: by every metric I can think of, I’d be better off replacing alcohol with weed. There seem to be fewer negative effects, it’s not a source of empty calories, and looks like a better recreational drug in every way.

And still, growing up with “Just Say No”, I can’t quite bring myself to. In the back of my mind, a little voice asks if that’s the example I want to set for my kids, which is silly when they’ve seen me (responsibly) using alcohol for years. I just can’t imagine using a vape or popping an edible in the same way I might pour a little glass of whisky before settling down for the evening.
Yeah! It's crazy when everything becomes totally still. For me it felt like I was in a bubble being swallowed by outer space. It was really hard to calm myself down and trust that I wouldn't drown.
One very passive method that has worked well for me in the past was to prepare a highly-concentrated salt solution (5M -- 292 g salt per liter of water) and then let the water evaporate very slowly (like only slightly open to the outside world) and left undisturbed. This left me with a roughly 2cm x 2cm x 1cm crystal of salt that is incredibly transparent (save small impurities in the center) with nice cubic features on the broad face.
Because there is ample evidence that saturated fats are not bad for you, or at least no where near as bad as previous science led us to believe.
The integral of occasional short intervals of extremely high prices is not a predictable value. Thus this market dynamic is not one capable of providing appropriate investment.

The alternative market based way is to a have an additional "capacity market" for which providers offer bids for committing to provide future capacity. Thus providers who can guarantee they will provide a certain capacity are compensated for it, without needing to have a shortage of electricity to make the dynamic pay out. This is how it is done for the rest of the US.

Texas uniquely forewent the capacity market as a subsidy for wind, since wind providers are unable to supply guaranteed capacity and thus unable to bid in the capacity market. This creates a much more raw dynamic where grid capacity is fine right up until it is not.
I'd love to read more about these money laundering operations like Tornado Cash. Are they just straight up 100% fraud companies? Do they have any pretense of a legitimate use case or does everyone just understand they're used for criminal activity? Are they regulated at all? I assume you have to trust your magic beans to them at some point; do the money launderers sometimes just steal them? What do they charge for their service?
The ISA is really beautiful (maybe with the exception of BCD additions). I have a m68k disk image/kernel which works with qemu-system-m68k, out of historical sentiment (used to have A500, now I have A4000 - sadly no time to play with it, so in my basement).

As for abi/syscalls. I noticed that strace reports hundreds of calls to get_thread_area() under Linux/m68k. I presume under x86, arm etc. some CPU register is used to store pointer to the TLS, but under m68k "they" decided to invoke syscall every single time. I don't think it'd be very efficient, and also it pollutes strace output, unfortunately, given how frequently TLS is accessed these days.

$ uname -a
Linux ds-m68k 5.16.0-rc1-g02e0dceb9e3b #7 Fri Jan 14 01:27:22 CET 2022 m68k GNU/Linux
$ strace -c /bin/ls
% time seconds usecs/call calls errors syscall
---- ----------- ----------- --------- --------- ----------------
0.00 0.000000 0 6 read
0.00 0.000000 0 1 write
0.00 0.000000 0 10 close
0.00 0.000000 0 1 execve
0.00 0.000000 0 2 2 access
0.00 0.000000 0 3 brk
0.00 0.000000 0 3 ioctl
0.00 0.000000 0 1 munmap
0.00 0.000000 0 2 2 statfs
0.00 0.000000 0 1 uname
0.00 0.000000 0 10 mprotect
0.00 0.000000 0 14 mmap2
0.00 0.000000 0 2 getdents64
0.00 0.000000 0 8 openat
0.00 0.000000 0 285 get_thread_area
0.00 0.000000 0 1 set_thread_area
0.00 0.000000 0 9 statx
---- ----------- ----------- --------- --------- ----------------
100.00 0.000000 0 359 4 total
As long as renewable energy advocates refuse to subsidize sufficient reliable backup capacity as part of the cost accounting in pricing renewables, events like Texas will become even more common, and in places that can't just blame it on "because Texas".
Counterpoint: alcohol is one of the best drugs on the planet for anyone on the spectrum of introversion to crippling social anxiety.

In all my (many) years, I have found no better path to becoming socially acceptable (even likable) to neurotypicals/extroverts than 3-4 shots of vodka. This is an unfortunate, but very real fact for many of us. I've heard good things about Phenibut, but (1) it's very difficult to obtain, and (2) it is also apparently habit-forming.
I use crypto.com and they removed 2FA from me earlier in the week, asking me to set it up again. It was worrying as I wasn't sure if it was a scam, there was no reasoning behind it.
Is anyone surprised by this? Alcohol being good for the body was pushed by the Alcohol lobby a long time ago and made its way into the mainstream consciousness. It has lingered because people enjoy drinking and because of powerful incentives not to change.

How large is the alcohol industry and how many people are directly tied to it?

Am I saying we shouldn't drink? No the amount of stimulating conversations I have had with people is somewhat a function of alcohol and being more comfortable to talk about ideas in a less formal setting.
How covariances behave: views on normal distributions and Gaussian Processes
The difference is that the average smoker dies at 80, and the average alcoholic dies at 35.
"one of the" is weasel words.
That's interesting, I do wish it had a few more items on the "lower" end of the harm spectrum, just to help me gauge this better. Things like Caffeine, or the other "Energy Drink" supplements.
This question shouldn't be asked in January (because of all those New Years Eve celebrations) :)
We are? 550 words and no mention of Splunk? I might be preaching to the choir here, but if you're at the cattle-not-pets stage, you owe it to yourself to setup some form of centralized logging. Splunk (no affiliation other than being a happy user) is the premier application in this space, as evidenced by their pricing model, but there are open source (and also proprietary) alternatives available.

In particular, Splunk's query language makes it easy (once you figure it out) to build graphs, so a pie chart or bar graph of, say, how many requests across the whole fleet are hitting a particular endpoint.
But what purpose does giving uniqueness to things that are by nature infinitely and indistinguishably replicable have?

The limitless perfect replicability of digital things is one of the key benefits of beeing digital. Imposing uniqueness is an artificial limitation.
And so what are we going to do as a society with these stolen funds? Playing a wallet mixing tracking game is a rat race and a waste of energy, otherwise we need a centralized system [on an immutable blockchain] to keep track of stolen funds, to then cross-reference every transaction with at point of sale/transfer - to then prevent it, no?

If not a centralized solution like above then what? We just allow stolen funds to be used now or any point in the future, rewarding criminal behaviour?
I have purchased art. It usually comes in one of two forms - originals and prints/issues (numbered limited copies). There are massive differences between digital and physical art in terms of copyright - with a lot of overlap between digital art, NFT's, and prints. When it comes to "artificial scarcity", an NFT isn't too much different than a print/issue, very similar to photographs. It is possible for an artist to "reissue" prints, and it does happen infrequently with the expected devaluation. But I've never heard of a "drop" or "lootbox" for purchasing fine art. I'm sure it's happened, and imagine it will become more popular in galleries.

The major difference I see is the signature, which artists often use as a control mechanism to create lower-cost versions for sale (e.g. unsigned or pseudonym copies) of original pieces. It's technically impossible to get an inexpensive unsigned NFT and then have it signed later (this often costs one thousand+ dollars for paintings). Since an unsigned piece doesn't have "provenance", it has little-to-no resale value. But if you like the artist and want to support their work it's a great way to get started.