skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Excerpt:

"As solar power gets cheaper and oil becomes more scarce, at some point this decade it will be cheaper to extract carbon from the air than to drill mile-deep holes in the crust on the other side of the world.

Synthetic fuels are fully backwards compatible with existing infrastructure and usage modalities."
Free AOL disks were everywhere in France too.
That's partially true in short term pump and dumps, but not for anything long term or with innovation. Investing in practical innovation and holding is still the easiest way to make money in crypto.
The longer it takes to find the cause of a bug, the more likely the bug is a thinko.
I donno about New Hampshire but he’d definitely be better off as “Florida Man”
I can have all of those positive things on a blockchain for when I need them, and I can do without them when I don’t need them. Blockchains are about choosing the degree of trust you want to have in others and the amount of control you want them to have over you, not completely throwing out ideas that work.
Future archaeologists are going to be sifting through the landfills and determine that AOL discs are going to either be some sort of currency or curious religious artifacts.
Sounds similar to what crypto fanatics say.
Quora is quite unhelpful in any context.
I think you should ride a horse, maybe cars just aren't your thing.
To be quite honest, I have no clue. Your comment was what I'd actually wanted to say, but you found the words instead of me, haha.

I essentially only have been exposed to the architecture and construction of homes for the ultra-wealthy. Numbers weren't that important other than there were more zeroes than I'll ever have.

Things have weird values and a number would be hard to give. I rent and am not super knowledgeable about 'regular people' housing, oddly enough.
If you include Facebook then you may as well include all other social media platforms.

Facebook is the least of my problems when it comes to addictive substances. Youtube, Reddit, Hackernews, TikTok. They're all the same even if they don't go out of their way to insight addiction.
$10m for giving up details on the exploit is probably a good deal rather than operating in the shadows trying to exfiltrate such a huge amount. We've seen other ETH hackers get wiped out by their forks plus there could be voluntary flags on major networks excluding it to fringe markets.
"Someday" doing all the work in this statement.
Also: does visiting a web page with Facebook comments or embedded Facebook video count as login?
So the focus is moving to GTK+3, which came out >10 years ago...

GTK4 is already out. GIMP is massively underfunded, but I suppose that isn't really surprising.
There is a parameter passed in as part of a function call that basically says “here’s where you can find the function to validate the signature”. The attacker was able to point that to a function they wrote instead of using the real one, so the function returned saying “yep, that’s a valid signature” when it wasn’t.
Actually, I disagree. People have said the same about paper voting systems, that the inefficiency is a feature not a bug… yet they have major downsides

eg to take the highest profile example with the most consequences, George W Bush got elected because people were confused with butterfly ballots and then it took too long to do a recount in Florida so the Supreme Court had to step in and stop the recount … as a result we got 9/11 (negligence) the invasion of Iraq (lots of excess deaths and destruction of large swaths of the middle east) the PATRIOT Act (erosion of civil liberties) and much more. Imagine if we had a secure system alongside the paper ballots that involved Merkle Trees and multi-factor verification for voting, so everyone could verify theirvote and participation would be higher. Banking apps are secure enough for people, why not this…

I wrote an article on CoinDesk about this very thing two years ago: https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2020/03/12/in-defense-of-block...

Anyway, going back to “feature not a bug”. The real problem is Blockchain. It uses the full power of the network on every transaction, so it costs just as much to transfer $500 million in one shot as it does $0.50 — that is the wrong pricing structure. It is too cheap to transfer huge amounts and circumvent capital controls, do money laundering etc. The “world computer” is a glorified mainframe with “gas” playing the role of renting time on the mainframe. “Flash loans” shouldn’t be possible, they only are because one transaction in the world can happen at a time.

When we move past blockchains, we will have proper pricing of securing transactions (in % of the amount being managed). And then we can build reversibility ON TOP OF the non-reversible architecture.

The non-reversible architecture and finality in the vast majority of transactions is a GOOD thing just as it is in most databases. Reversibility should be explicitly built on top of it.

Smart contracts and other things are great and we have only scratched the surface because Blockchain holds them back. Having the rules stated upfront and enforced without government violence is great. For example copyright and DRM is being replaced with NFTs and POAPs. Old boys clubs are being replaced with DAOs. New non-coercive business models are emerging. Open source and journalism and other digital content can be monetized without SWAT teams raiding grandmas. Just one of hundreds of innovations.

People just cling to the old ways because the technology is not mature yet.
I'm not a huge fan of medium either, but I was able to scroll through the whole article without logging in. There's a prompt at the top, but nothing too obtrusive. I even tried with ublock origin off. What am I missing?
Hey, listen. I made an effort here to try and help a stranger understand something. In the end it's your choice, and I think your choice is very clear. Take care.
That is exactly what the parent comment is saying. $320M makes it worthwhile to do all that for organized crime.
Tiktok is absolutely more addictive than Facebook.
This is exactly it. They are going to bet the farm on the metaverse. Personally, I don't even like their odds there. Their risk of not existing 10 years from now is 10x any of the other FAANG companies IMO.

They'd be smarter to keep their head down and just keep buying whatever network get's cool down the line IMO.
So like, a functional derivative of differentiation?

Except like, instead of the 2nd order function returning a number,
where the functional derivative would be ((R -> R) -> R) -> ((R -> R) -> R),
uh, instead, the thing you got.

Ok, but, differentiation is linear, so, (\frac{d}{dx}(u(x) + \varepsilon \eta(x)) - \frac{d}{dx}(u(x)) )/\varepsilon is just \frac{d}{dx}(\eta(x)) (and so there's not even much need to take the limit as \varepsilon goes to 0, as it doesn't depend on \varepsilon anyway) ..

Uh, that seems a little odd, that the derivative of differentiation in the direction of a function would be the derivative of that function?
Like, the derivative of something linear should be a constant,
ah, but, the directional derivative of 5 x_1 + 3 x_2 also depends on the direction in which it is taken, though it doesn't depend at all on where it is taken.

Ok, yeah, same situation here then.

Is that the sort of thing you are talking about?

Though, you said "of a derivative" not "of the derivative", so I guess maybe you mean like, more generally things that satisfy Liebniz's law?
You can script tornado.cash deposits

This amount would be up to half of the tornado cash anonymity pool, but can be withdrawn over time

they can always withdraw a bunch of tornado cash notes to virgin addresses and pump a random cryptocurrency they already own and bought with their separate clean money

if $SHIBDOGE rises 30,000% because virgin tornado cash funded whales are buying it, the prior owners are just going to be seen as lucky traders indistinguishable from the rest, all with clean money. one of those owners would ideally already own a lot of the chosen token and be the bridge exploiter. they will be seen as having much more clean money after selling their pumped crypto.
> Breathe through your nose. It can be hard at first but it gets easier over time

I'm stumped here. Isn't that the normal way to breathe? Why would it be hard, unless you have some medical condition like sleep apnea, which requires treatment in itself?
It is what I meant by "the singularity". AIs that are so intelligent that they don't need humans, including when it comes to building better AIs. The idea is that they get in a runaway self-improving cycle and what they do after that and the place of humanity is left to the imagination.

I don't believe in the singularity, but if we get to the point where AIs don't need human programmers anymore, things are going to get... interesting.
You can run in browser as well

https://vscode.dev/
It was Charles Stross, I believe, who once described Bitcoin as an enormous social experiment educating hackers on the historical needs for financial regulation.
For now yes, but I would say it's really meant as replacement for Instagram rather than Facebook. So videos only seems fine compared to a service that was primarily for pictures.

They can always expand, but I feel like these social media services usually have a hard time pivoting to a different medium after their initial success.
Wow! This was the most surprising to me in the thread:

> It's interesting that this commit was made ~9 hours ago and the exploit happened a few hours after that. Possible that an attacker was keeping an eye on the repository and looking out for suspicious commits.

https://twitter.com/kelvinfichter/status/1489050921938132996

> Could be that the Wormhole team spotted the bug, patched it, but the attacker got to it before the patch could be rolled out. Super important to keep these sort of patches lowkey and to try to stuff them into larger commits.

https://twitter.com/kelvinfichter/status/1489051698329014273

Is this something inherent in the cryptocurrency space? Where monitoring for security patches and exploiting them before they are rolled out results in an instant multi-million dollar payday? Is this a common risk? If so, that seems crazy. Vendors already struggle rolling patches in closed source environments.
> I’ll file a police report with the addresses

You are assuming you are still alive.
Christian Muehlhaeuser (@muesli) is an outstanding 10x developer and all his projects and contributions are pretty remarkable!
In this vein, "distrust" means you believe they may have shortchanged you, while "trust but verify" means you're also open to the possibility they gave you a $10 instead of a $5.
I'm sorda looking forward to the Metaverse. Or rather, I'm pleased that FB is baiting the rest of the tech giants into an arms race on VR hardware and software development.

I'm a huge fan of VR gaming. The state of the art is incredible right now, but it'll get so much better the more money is shoveled in.
Enjoy using a music player which doesn't have volume control and a file picker which doesn't have thumbnails. I guess you feel that you don't need those features because "tinkering is just a pain in the ass now".
This gives them more (young) users, a better connection to their users, a ton of patents, and jumps them out of the smartphone era. They are dead in the water without a gambit of a similar size, buying up the competition (their previous primary strategy) only works as long as regulatory agencies are willing to play ball.
Teams runs on Linux. I had a couple of Teams meetings today and I joined from Manjaro. Or is that not what you meant?
Meh, their PE will be like 20 on open tomorrow. That's not really pricing in super growth.
Is this really worth $79?

It took over 4 weeks to build...

4 weeks is not that long and there is no $79 plan.
Show HN: 2/2/22 Jumpy2 (long overdue)
Could you name five successful non-crypto products produced by this innovation? Could you name what sort of risk-adjusted returns they have produced?
Meta Says $1B Has Been Spent in the Oculus Quest Store
GIMP needs to have a GUI redesign and modernization. I hope it gets enough support to take it to Blender's level.
Transformative, can you be more specific? The "lack of vision" seems like an attack more than a justification that VR is something beyond a gimmick.
No one has been arrested either for defi hacks. perfect crime.
Another thing that bugged me about that scene. If they were watering those plants with water so precious, they would not be pouring it on the open ground for the sun to dry up.
How many claims have they paid out?
Fair enough- and agreed. I hope so too.
Medium is extremely inconsistent with their account-/pay-walling. I think it’s intentionally chaotic and confusing to drive signup/subscription rates that wouldn’t happen if they communicated clearly what limits you’ve actually encountered.
This isn't true. There have been numerous organizations of all ranges reporting similar views.

This illogical pattern of assuming a word or concept does not evolve is far too common. The world and people learn from history. Apartheids now and in the future will usually not be the way America was 70 years ago or South Africa 35 years ago. Apartheid may be too serious and specific of a word. We don't have another word to go to besides apartheid. Were the Jim Crow laws and behavior of America from Reconstruction through 1960s not apartheid? Technically not. They didn't go far enough. However, it's reductionist to say it's not apartheid but then not provide a label to practices that are cruel and inhumane and overlap with a majority of apartheid.

If Amnesty International or another organization referred to it as analogous or incredibly similar to Jim Crow Law days. That's hard to do. I don't know expect any one outside the US to know what that is. "apartheid" on the other hand is a world wide known term. So, yeah, this all feels reductionist.

Similarly, tech companies learned from IBM and Microsoft's bullying and monopolistic practices of the 80s and 90s. All the same underlying principles of bullying, EEE, and so much more have been able to evolve and become more subtle with the new current tech giants (including Microsoft ).
Yes this so much. Also true about when it comes to any subject that people feel like you "know" the solution or at least feel like they know more than the idiot next door. This happens so often, people see the tip of the iceberg and assume they know the shape of the whole thing. I think it's pretty logical to do this, however, otherwise how are we going to make sense of the world? We have to use whatever incomplete information we have to form a hypothesis of what is really true. Are we supposed to outsource our sense making to a third party? I think what Dan is suggesting here is even more dangerous than what the people at cocktail parties are doing. Namely, refrain from forming any conjectures about the state of the world because you could be wrong.
He did alter the code. See this comment for details:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30188266
This is trivially stupid. "I like the Corvette, but I'd get it in red" does not mean you hate Corvettes. "I like steak, but only medium or below" does not mean you hate steak.
Motives aside, I see way more concerning content on Facebook than TikTok
I'd like to expand on that large bit. I really used to have elevated heart rates / anxiety while sleeping. I used to get up with a startle and be unable to sleep afterwards. What I found worked for me was crowd noises. I think it provided me, at a subconscious level, the reassurance that I was not alone (thus safe from predators).

After I married, the startle basically went away :). Turns out, having a human beside you while sleeping works wonder!
not a single defi hacker has ever been caught or identified. pretty amazing when you consider the amount of money involved.
The ability to suplex a ghost train while running away from it is probably the most important core functionality of FF6.
I’m getting excited thinking of the possibilities of combining this with org-roam…
That has its limits. Corporate lawyers and investment banking analysts (from a Financial Times report [0]) receive absurd compensation, but still report high rates of burnout and mental health issues due to incredibly long hours (95 hour work weeks with five hours of sleep a night, according to first-year analysts at Goldman Sachs) and high demands.

[0] (Paywalled, but to cite the source) https://www.ft.com/content/f4006248-eb05-49d2-a938-d70118c4c...
> But right now, I want long distance automation, and I can handle the messy last mile.

Me too, and my Tesla handles daytime good-weather non-construction highway driving pretty well with just the standard autosteer. I finish a long road trip much less fatigued in a Tesla than I have in any other car. (Part of that is the seats. Tesla really sweats the details of making seats comfortable.)

But FSD is kind of a sad joke. Off-highway navigation only works in particular major cities, the car stops at green lights, tries to turn right from the left lane, etc. And Elon thinks that's worth an extra $15k. Nope. It really isn't, at least for me.
The metaverse already exists. It has for 10+ years.

FB isn't betting on the metaverse existing. They are betting that they can make some new walled portion off it that will be so big that it will esentially be the whole thing.

Personally, I don't like their odds at all.
Can you even get that without a prescription?
"All science is either physics, or stamp collecting." (Ernest Rutherford)
I can describe a tale of two Facebooks. It was at first the best of times and now the worst of times.. In the beginning was my old account that had basically mostly friend status updates with photos. I deleted this account during the last election and covid pandemic to get a break. I rejoined later and despite adding most of my same friends it's been a complete disaster. So many ads and group suggestions. I feel like I am swamped by craiglist posts if I ever click on the group section even inadvertently. And I have a couple of groups I want to be in!! Just a total cluster f$$$ really.

I am actually grateful b/c I was addicted to FB. I broke that addiction and the reintroduction hasn't been anywhere close to where it was. Now twitter has seemed to become better... but maybe I've changed.

HN is still well, still here, maybe I should leave and see what I think in 6 months.
Then I guess he'll going back to prison.
Reduced… Amazon… what is it, 40/wk?
Facebook is doing great. To put things in perspective:

- On average, they net around 35 billion a year. With a valuation (MC) of 887 billion.

- On average, Google net around 51 billion a year. With a valuation of 1.8 trillion.

Facebook is making 68% as much as Google, with its valuation at less than half the price. And over the past 4-5 years Facebook's revenue has grown on average 32%/year, while Google grows 23%/year.

Really undervalued company IMO.

And their revenue did grow. They grew year-over-year. Just missed their target by 3%.
Even after adjusting, it does look like autopilot is slightly safer (although not a strong enough effect to say for sure). It doesn't appear to be worse, so good enough to allow it, IMHO.

I actually wonder if there's another effect: Drivers only eligible for beta FSD if they meet a super high safety score (which isn't a perfect metric, but probably better than nothing). That incentivizes good driving even when FSD not engaged. Of course, that's a recent thing and hasn't shown up in data.
Um, the upstream post presented a false dichotomy of either supporting free speech (as in reddit allowing people to say whatever) or racism. The parent comment to yours cited the ACLUs defence of public speech as a precedent for the importance of letting people say what they want even if you dont agree with it.

Nobody argues that reddit is constitutionally bound to host free speech. The point is that what's right in a public forum is also right for a company. You appear to be focusing on an irrelevant technicality or parroting the "they can build their own Twitter" defence, but neither of those is relevant here, the only point being made is that free (independent of constitutional obligation) speech is good, and should be broadly supported by platforms
Eight megabytes sounds svelte these days.
Nothing stops them, but that’s why you shouldn’t put your crypto assets into random contracts and just hope for the best.

This is especially true for chains that haven’t had a long history of being attacked and having the right tooling built.

Ethereum isn’t easy to securely develop for, but Solana is too new and untested to be trusted with the amount of money it’s in control of (and that’s ignoring how it’s largely centralized and has gone down multiple times recently).
Can you explain why? Especially if you are to take their comment in good faith? They lamented on the abuse they faced in the Arab world. The overall discussion is about Palestine, with side discussions on the Arab world, Israel against them, et al.
From the link on the home page for the "notice of general meeting" for Nexus Mutual Ltd, the directors are:

KARP, Hugh DANILA, Ionela Roxana MELBARDIS, Reinis MUNOZ-MCDONALD, Nicolas THURGOOD, Graeme George

This matches the company and director information registered in the UK since 2017. Company mailing address is here as well:

https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/c...
It's unfortunate that this post is being downvoted and considered a "personal attack" (debatable) as it seems to be one of if not the only comment suggesting the most likely explanation: a Google employee trying to maximize engagement / usage metrics for their feature without really thinking through the broader implications. This seems much more likely to me than a grand conspiracy to sneakily collect more peoples' data.
We reached peak coffee long ago!? Sad news indeed
I thought these contracts lived on an immutable blockchain, how can they even be patched?
Except that "financial regulation" doesn't seem to really stop much of anything in the traditional finance sector. How quickly we forget 2008 and the litany of other failures.
I barely understand what this is. Wondering would you find these through traceroute or something? huh

Or people populate them at will
Until you said it was someone in SF I was like, dude, we must have got off on the wrong foot, but I live in Canada. But actually, the idea of HN flashers made me think that I should make a version of this app just for HN flashers. We could make them into charity NFTs.
I am in the US, yes
Even if they left for Cuba - it's the famous "bank the unbanked" principle in action. They will be distributing the cash among the poor! Strong fundamentals! Legit team! Bright future!