skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm guessing this is sarcasm? crypto.com is very very far from a single point of failure.
I took the thousand dollars and went to spend a week with my best friend.
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That's a pretty impressive feat. I'm tempted to link to things I think are more detached, but I'd prefer if you tried to correct me instead of insult me so that if I am detached I can become re-attached.

As I led with, there are a lot of us, so that you don't personally know anyone (now you know at least one impersonally) says more about your social circle than anything. Hence my curiosity on whether you're in the US, outside of which I admit to not having much data apart from there often being low salaries and high taxes. I also realize exceptions exist, one might have a non-working partner and/or multiple kids and/or other circumstances that make it hard but to spend almost one's entire paycheck. I think these are exceptions though and they don't characterize most (happy to concede down to many if you can convince me) US-based software engineers/software managers/PMs/devops/... (what I meant by 'tech'; you might have me if we investigate other roles e.g. technical writers). There is also the situation where they spend but could save if they organized their finances. I want to refer to the candles budget meme, since it points to an underlying truth for a lot of people...
Bitwarden is a bit of a pain to self-host, it's built for a much bigger scale. Vaultwarden is a simpler solution, and is compatible with the Bitwarden apps. For a handful of users it is worth a look: https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden
I wish we stopped using the Roman numerals. (On the other hand, they are good for coding interviews, and MMXXII looks pretty!)
It's also worth pointing out that, if you scroll to the bottom of the article and look at the state-by-state data, Texas does worse than California on most of the power outage metrics.
That's not what NFTs are.
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It's not the only important thing harming the biosphere and GHG emissions are not the only unsustainable human practice. But we are talking here about global warming specifically and that is driven by net GHG emissions.
Same here! I wouldn't even work at a company that has a handbook page about how to act on HN, but then most companies are too big for me nowadays anyways.
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This is one of the worst analogies I've ever seen.
Alcohol is one of the worst "drugs" on a personal/societal harm scale - if we're going to tolerate this at large, we should probably consider legalizing everything else that's less harmful to at least be consistent.

While we're at it, let's de-stigmatize the abuse of substances and treat it like a real mental health issue.
At least one US investment banks I've used require a waiting period before transacting with a newly added account/routing number for wires/ACH. I've even got calls from customer service manually confirming transfers/withdrawals if it's a new account or one that's been unused for a long period of time.

That said, there is no waiting period on me withdrawing from my checking account.
> why would the US unwinding QE and raising interest rates do anything but good for the USD?

On first order effects yes, but first order effects are not the whole story. If this severely blows up markets, it wouldn't matter that we prevented inflation for a few months. The response to that blowup would probably be massive stimulus and therefor future inflation.

> Let me ask you this, if the world does wish to replace it, what currency will they chose? Really. Look around. Everyone is printing money.

A single global reserve currency is far from a fact of history. You could easily argue that whatever the dollar is right now, has never existed before. I don't think Sterling maintained hegemony through anything like petrodollar recycling.

So what currency will they choose? Probably a lot more currencies. Why shouldn't Japan trade oil in Yen. Why shouldn't China trade oil in RMB? Thing have already been moving in this direction for a long time anyway.

No other currency replaces the dollar. A more complicated system is what replaces the dollar.
The statement about math is inaccurate:

> [Standard engineering] is where we work over a continuous domain, like real numbers. Things like calculus, trigonometry, and differential equations are in this category. This is what most people in the US learn in high school, codifying it as what they think of as “math”.

> In software, we don’t use these things, leading to the conception that we don’t use math. But we actually use discrete math ...

It is false to say that we never work over a continuous domain in software. We have continuous domains in software all the time whether its audio-related software, self-driving cars, networking, or many other examples. And we definitely _also_ have to use discrete math alongside these continuous domains.
I’d be curious to give it a try, but I dislike the idea of lying in someone else’s bath water. What if the last guy had been poaching eggs in there?
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So their backend allowed withdrawal transactions without 2FA control. Not a good sign for a system that should thrive on secure transactions.

Ethereum seems to be the token most prized during a breach, most likely to be used on tornado.cash.

Cheers
> What I find interesting and promising is the ability to give uniqueness to THINGS in the digital world

That's hashes you're thinking of. NFTs require hashes, but hashes don't require NFTs.

Whenever any cryptocurrency-related thing seems useful, you're seeing the potential of the underlying cryptography. Not the potential of the cryptocurrency thing.
Nutritional yeast is basically the same thing if you need a powder. If you don't there are lots of common liquid options.

edit: if for some reason you just don't want to buy a shaker of MSG.
That depends on whether or not you consider stealing cryptocurrency to be brave.
How is this a single point of failure? The issue was limited to a subset of users keeping funds in a Crypto.com wallet.

Unless by "it" you mean crypto.com and not Ethereum. Crypto.com is not decentralized.
That sounds like Blinkist. They pitch it as a way to avoid having to read books, but it seems like you could use it to get the gist and decide if you want to read the whole thing.
Interestingly enough, the mean center of population for NY State is only about 9 miles from the NJ border. Given NYC's location, not suprising. I wonder if there are any states with centers of population closer to the border than that. Given NY's geometry, if NYC continues to grow relative to upstate, I could imagine the center of population of the state actually being outside of NY State boundaries.

It's also possible in the past the NJ's state center of population might have been in NY - if Newark and Northern NJ were more relatively populous, I think that the mean center of population might be in Staten Island or the NY-NJ harbor.
What are some sites you use for this? Curious for myself to check out, I don’t mean to be mean with the question.

I haven’t seen RSS feeds being advertised like this in a long time. I think people mostly use email newsletters instead now. Email is also easy to filter into groups like that though.
The New York Department Of Taxation has a rule that threatens to fine you if you file a paper return when having the ability to send one electronically. Though to my knowledge they do not actually enforce that rule - just leave lots of warnings around.

Reminds me of those stupid "Must Observe All Warning Signs - State Law" signs that used to be all over Texas highways. I didn't see any my last trip so maybe those are gone finally, but I just passed through the panhandle briefly. They used to be the first thing you would see after crossing the state line, then periodically along all the interstate highways.
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If you add DAX you are not guaranteed to read your writes. Terrible consistency model.
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> Truth is binary.

My name is Steve and I’m 35 years old. This statement is half true.

The speed of light is 3x10^8 m/s. This is false, but really not far from the truth.

I think given these examples, there is definitely room for a spectrum rather than a binary. Otherwise everything is false because language cannot 100% accurately represent reality, and therefore you’ll always be able to find an angle to claim something is false.
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I feel like monetizing digital artists is a problem better addressed by subscription services like Patreon. The way I see it, an NFT basically locks a sale to one follower whereas a support/subscription services allows the creator to receive money from multiple followers for the same piece. When the creator perceives 'art-theft' as a problem, they can always resort to using a third party watermarking service. The NFT itself has no such anti-copying measures. Sure, someone "owns" it but there is no practical way to identify who made a copy and distributed it.

Just my two cents.
You can’t even access the arch repositories from manjaro. It’s pretty wack.
I am pretty certain that

> I can't help but think this trend will damage shared knowledge in the long run.

is an understatement. There will be a few people in the know on how to run "the cloud", and lots and lots of people consuming their services, at bewildering premiums.
Making sites fit would be pretty easy. Images will probably be your biggest piece of data.

Sony used to have a floppy disk based digital camera. I think it could take about 20 pictures per disk. Plus, I’m sure you could reduce that size.
Be careful with the lifetime of data on SSDs (though not the drive itself unless it SW bricks itself), if you don't have it powered and/or you don't give it a chance to read and rewrite data. Especially at elevated temperatures and/or if the drive has been used a lot, maybe also with higher bits per cell.

We've had consumer drives lose data after only a few months if it isn't accessed, though that was at 60+℃, so data should last some amount of time in normal conditions.
Maybe it shouldn't be mandatory, but it might be a nice (default) option to have.
I don't know how you got from me saying "it was nice" to "you sound like someone (who had) a terrible experience".
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I found one of my earliest web sites from 1996 on a floppy not long ago. It was surprisingly awesome.
I think they were alluding to the Bored Apes Yacht Club, one of the most popular "profile picture" NFT collections.
>It should just be a free-for-all. You see someone with a better mousetrap, you make a better mousetrap. You compete on actually bringing it to market, which is not the same thing as whatever you think the innovation is. Surely that creates the most value for society, or at least should be the default until the quite high hurdle of evidence for patents is cleared.

As I understand it, this is how IP is valued in China - not the idea, but the execution.

Yes, ultimately it means better mousetraps for the consumer. Maybe even cheaper, better mousetraps. But it sucks for the guy who actually designed and engineered the better, cheaper mousetrap if he doesn't have the knowledge or capital required to actually produce it better/cheaper.

So, it seems like neither the idea nor the execution alone carries the full value. There must be some happy medium.
I think my only strong opinions on fact checking are that the situation has exposed the problems inherent in techne without episteme, and that it is no longer tenable to punt on philosophical questions.
Also, if you are using your GSuite account with Google Play, any purchases you made could be lost.
How many startups do you talk to that are "on the fence" with somehow using crypto in their product? Seems pretty core to what the company would be doing.
> everything was happening in lower dimensional manifolds curving through that space where “all the action was.”

I feel like this would have to be true in a very high dimensional space, since an infinite dimensional orange is all skin.

> systems obeyed solid state physics type laws: stars formed an outer lattice and planets in small lattices around stars.

This sounds really fun, could you try explaining a bit more about it?

Thanks for sharing.
Without trying to express any opinion on the correctness of Facebook's behavior in this specific instance... this quote in the BMJ writeup concerned me

> The Lead Stories article, though it failed to identify any errors in The BMJ’s investigation, nevertheless carried the title, “Fact Check: The British Medical Journal Did NOT Reveal Disqualifying and Ignored Reports of Flaws in Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine Trials.”

> The first paragraph wrongly described The BMJ as a “news blog” and was accompanied by a screenshot of the investigation article with a stamp over it stating “Flaws Reviewed,” despite the Lead Stories article not identifying anything false or inaccurate.

It is _entirely_ possible for a story to be factually correct and still be completely misleading. Just because it doesn't outright lie doesn't mean it's not misleading.

For example, I can point out that "Senator <X> voted, multiple times, against adding funds for the support of military veterans", and that would leave a lot of people with the idea that Senator <X> is specifically trying to prevent funding for veterans. However, it's just as likely that the bills in question were primarily about something that the senator was against, and the veterans part was a tiny "pet addon"; and the senator was voting against the more substantial goal of the bill.

That type of misleading information is used ALL the time, and nothing about it is factually incorrect... but it's still intentionally misleading. It's goal is to make people believe something that isn't true.
When I was in sixth grade my parents convinced my (private) school to allow me to join the ninth/tenth grader's Geometry class. Two problems developed:

1. The material wasn't challenging; I didn't grasp what the point of "proving" a bunch of obvious stuff was, although I was willing to go through the motions. So I was an 11-year-old smart aleck in a room filled with 14 year olds who found me annoying (because, truthfully, I was super annoying at that age!). This contributed to:

2. The 14 year olds were super mean to me, AND they basically revolted against the teacher when I was in the classroom

In the end the teacher was happy to just privately tutor me, which was kind of her, but I have to acknowledge that I was genuinely disruptive to her class.

So I think there are real repercussions to allowing socially undeveloped kids into a classroom filled with kids at a very different (social) level.

There might have been a different outcome if I'd been in a school with a larger pool of moderately-to-very-gifted-at-math kids.

The next year my parents sent me to a school that had an agreement with the local university to send kids gifted at math to take university classes. The college kids were much more tolerant of me as a curiosity (and I was actually challenged, so I didn't spend my time annoying anyone, which probably helped, too).
NFTs don't give uniqueness to things any more than URLs. Give a URL to a thing (whether it's a JPEG or something else) and that thing has a clear name and a clear domain, but the association to the thing is one-way and somebody else can still present the same content at another URL.

Whether the URL is verifiable with the domain's key is HTTPS and still doesn't do what you claim.
They certainly have similar requirements. ACH transfers take days, wire transfers require you to jump through verification hoops, ATMs have low daily limits.
And, to that end, there's a lot of routes they could go to get this sort of thing done.

A public bug tracker + bounty, for example, would go a LONG way in messaging what needs to be done. Even a small amount of money ($100, $200) towards whatever issues are important would be a good signal to the community that "hey, we really need someone to do this".
> I bought a PinePhone hoping to be able to start using it and developing on it. But until it can reliably make it through the day, stay connected to the network, and not miss calls and texts, I have to use my android phone and I don't have two sim cards, so I can't really use it and develop on it.

I recently also looked at the PinePhone but felt it was too early for me to get involved, because it's very, very clear that you can't actually use it as a day-to-day phone yet, at least that's from what I gathered, but somehow you ended up with the idea that you could actually use it as a phone. I'm wondering if you never looked at their official resources for PinePhone as they make it kind of clear it's not ready to be used in any normal fashion yet?
I suppose you won't eat a pizza with that red berry paste on it then?
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It's almost like we need a centralized authority that can undo these withdrawals and a know your customer paper trail.
If you have to change one of the underlying values, you only need to change it in one place. Of course, you could just use constants, but then you’ll just have a const enum with extra steps.
I fail to see the problem with this. Especially when it's products made from animals that eat the grass around that place. Or anything soil-dependant really. Wine is very different depending on where it comes from.
In my experience on psychedelics, I was observing myself freaking out in third person from a calm conscious perspective. I remember asking and thinking to myself that it was strange and funny that I was freaking out because this is all just temporary.

(freaking out might be a strong term, but my heart was racing, I was breathing heavily, shaking/shivering, etc, but still laying relatively still)

So to me the weirdest thing about an out of body experience was that I could observe my brain in a similar way to how I observe my hand right now. I can move my fingers around, and the hand is definitely part of me, but my hand does not feel conscious. So when having this experience it felt like my consciousness moved out of my head to the room and that I was observing how my head was processing thoughts while still being somewhat in control of those thoughts.
Here in Austria, I also think it's hilarious how cookbooks always lists "beef stock" in the ingredients, and then refer to a recipe for beef stock, but in reality everyone just uses soup powder (which is mostly salt, MSG, and fat).

And the funniest part is how some people claim they don't tolerate Asian food because of the glutamate, but when they eat at traditional Austrian restaurants they have absolutely no issue with all the glutamate in the beef soup.

Or how every steak restaurant has the chefs secret spice mix which is basically just some herbs mixed with a generous scoop of MSG.
I do disable those things. But mostly out of aesthetics. That and I am easily distracted. I remember used to trying to find how to accommodate all items in the menu bar into my use.

Completely agree with this article, though. Happy with my purchase of this book a while back.
Some other discussion at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30009529
To be fair, a more honest ad wouldn't be as compelling: "Exchange your real money for online scrip because reasons!"
What I find interesting and promising is the ability to give uniqueness to THINGS in the digital world (not art necessarily)..

That's not real though. Any scarcity in the digital world is people pretending that they have some sort of unique object. Just look at the number of people who post "bored ape" JPEGs in the comments on any story about NFT ownership - very obviously there is no uniqueness or scarcity or even ownership there.

Abundance is a fundamental property of digital data. It's trivially copyable at basically no cost. You can't remove that property and still share whatever the thing is with people.
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If they had access to the private keys they wouldn't have to go through the crypto.com platform at all.

They'd just pop it in any wallet and sign withdrawal transactions.

There's no 2FA or whitelisted withdrawal addresses (for most tokens) or emails on-chain.
I’m really uncomfortable with Fact Checking on the Internet, particularly because we don’t know who we are anointing as the checkers. But I have yet to see a better alternative. The status quo of just giving everyone in the world a megaphone is clearly worse and not working.

It would be better if, instead of trying to claim that they were some kind of authority on what is a fact and what isn’t, they just said “this content is not the kind of content we want to host” and got rid of it that way. There’s no need to justify it as some search for the True Truth.

At the end of the day, Company X hosts the servers and decides what they host and if Company X don’t want to host some kind of content they won’t. If I started posting the n word all over HN, they have the right to get rid of it/me. They don’t want that content here and they have the justification to ban it.
Wouldn't this also allow an attacker to add his own 2FA?
A couple of edits:

> all about disclosure

was post-hoc justified using disclosure.

> It had nothing to do with "encouraging innovation"

Technically disclosure is supposed to encourage innovation by allowing people to see what's up and then either choose to iterate on it (and wait till expiry to deploy the iteration) or "find a better way", either inspired by disclosed patent, or knowing that you have to skirt the bounds of the disclosed patent.

Open question about whether that actually works (I personally think the answer is no).
Disagree, it’s one of the best. Community access is the primary value of the “prestige nfts”.
Do you think people like ape jpegs?

It’s membership cards.
> In an abundance of caution, we revamped and migrated to a completely new 2FA infrastructure.

Can someone setup, test and rollout a _completely new_ authentication system in 3 days?
Same hat, though I've mostly moved on to TikTok for my mindless entertainment.

HN is better because there are other internet olds here and more of the content is interesting, but as somebody with MS, the sigma male grindset thing gets under my skin because there's an undercurrent of 'If you do these things, you can ward off insecurity or poverty' and there are cases where that's just not true. Plus the ability to do those things often relies on external support, which for some reason just isn't mentioned when people talk about how they've worked to get where they are. (Which I'm not discounting; it's just that two people can put in the same effort and get drastically different results.)

It's a mindset for people in their 20s or people who can outsource most life activities.
You might take some comfort that the ending works a little differently in the screenplay version PKD wrote later so that it makes more conventional 'sense'. Even the author had second thoughts about it. Whether it's really better that way is a debatable point.
That's interesting to know. I had this heat pump in Florida that couldn't keep up with an external temperature of 49 F. That kind of made decide they were useless. Maybe if at some point in the future I have to buy a unit I will reconsider it.
Because alcohol has been purposely drunk by people for literally thousands of years, and the vast, vast majority of people are able to drink without having a problem?
After a brief search, Hawaii's is in the ocean between O'ahu and Moloka'i. DC's might be the closest to the state border (about 3.1 miles) but still just about directly in the center of the DC polygon.