skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's an interesting perspective, I have to acknowledge. I'm viewing it from an extreme outside position (I literally kill and eat wild animals as a hobby), but an interesting comparison I can see might be to cannibalism. There's nothing practically wrong with making a facsimile human leg out of pork, calling it "I can't believe it's not human flesh", and selling it in a grocery store...but I mean, most people would find it distasteful and upsetting. They're not engaging in cannibalism of course, but the ritual of cannibalism, the idea of cannibalism, is unsettling in its own right to most people. If someone said "man, I wish I could eat people" unironically, I might not want to attend their next barbecue.

Your view seems perfectly consistent to me -- if you believe killing animals is morally equivalent to killing humans, then meat eating could be considered morally equivalent to cannibalism. Even fake human leg is still creepy to such a non-cannibal -- even fake turkey thus may be creepy to a vegan.

Perhaps it's because of the variety of reasons people are vegans -- many aren't truly abstaining from eating animal meat because they think it's wrong. Some are vegan for health reasons, or for environmental reasons, or because it's fashionable in their social tribe, or because they vaguely agree with anti-animal-eating philosophy but still internalize contradictory opinions. I know multiple adventurous vegans who would be ok eating roadkill deer if I served it to them (from their perspective, it does not contradict their belief that killing animals for meat is wrong -- it died in an accident, after all). But they would have a different opinion if I served them roadkill human, even if I showed them the human's death was purely accidental.
Twenty Years of .NET with Miguel de Icaza [audio]
> With no throttle plate, the remaining mechanical components in a diesel engine provide minimal friction, certainly not enough to produce any brake effect.

I don't understand. I've driven multiple diesel engine cars throughout the years, and they most definitely have a brake effect. I'm not even sure they brake less than the gasoline cars I've driven. Easily enough to slow down for taking an exit from the freeway, for example, when shifting down appropriately. To the point that there regularly are situations when I lightly press the brake pedal not to brake but to simply light the brake lights, if there are cars behind me.

It does sound plausible that the lack of a throttle leads to less or no brake effect, but it simply doesn't fit my observations.

I'm talking about regular cars here, both recent and less recent (the oldest one was built in 1989).

Maybe there are different diesel engine types with different brake capabilities? Or do some gasoline engines brake much more than what I'm used to, and my reference for what is and isn't significant braking is all wrong?
Guessing from the available information, Wormhole works by having a pile of ETH in its account, a piles of wETH tokens backed 1-to-1 by the ETH in the account, and piles of other types of tokens, like Solana.

When the wETH coins are initially set up, there's a way to deposit the initial ETH tokens into the Wormhole's ETH account to jump start the whole process.

When a user wants to convert Solana to ETH, he deposits the Solana tokens to the Wormhole smart contract and it issues the wETH tokens at some exchange rate, taking a 1-1 ETH from Wormhole's ETH account, tying the Solana and the ETH in the wETH tokens. After the dust is settled, the user can convert the wETH tokens to ETH. The Solana tokens held in the wETH tokens are deposited in Wormhole's Solana account, the ETH tokens held in the wETH tokens are released to the user. Everything is good.

The hack was to create a bunch of Solana based wETH tokens out of the thin air, exploiting a bug in teh Wormhole smart contract. The hackers forced a settling of the fake wETH tokens against Wormhole's ETH account, taking the ETH away. In the process, leaving whole bunch garbage Solana tokens in Wormhole's Solana account. Now Wormhole's ETH account is down by $320M. Whatever wETH tokens floating out there have no 1-1 backing from the ETH account. The whole thing can collapse with a bank run.

They fixed it by depositing $320M ETH tokens into the Wormhole's ETH account to ensure the fake wETH tokens are backed as well. The fake Solana tokens are still in their account. It's basically they're using $320M ETH tokens to buy a bunch of Solana tokens, which the hackers created.

So at the end, they're not really out of $320M money; they still have the $320M Solana tokens, fake or not. It's just the general public got screwed by having $320M of Solana tokens inflated on them.
Law Enforcement definitely do not have "meh" pay in "most municipalities".
Lot of assertions without citations in this thread. HN can do better.

If you’ve never had something stolen before, let me flesh out your data point. The police almost never investigate theft of private property—if they do, it’s when there’s serial theft in an area. That’s anywhere in the US, in any year. They’re only there as a notary of sorts for your claim to the insurance company.

It’d be cool if police used the surveillance tech built into our products for our benefit, but that’s not how the world works. They’re not standing by for hot pursuit of your earbuds.
a) Nothing is stopping you from charging people from outside the app e.g. your own web site. It's how Netflix works.

b) Multiple keyboards have existed on iOS for years.

c) Spotify and Tidal are examples of non iTunes music players.

d) Nothing is stopping you from running a web server, creating funky projects etc. You are just not allowed to disseminate to others through the App Store.
Hence my first proposed comment, "that stat would just make dense countries look 'better'".

The U.S has a lot of empty land, so this would just be a manufactured stat with arguable meaning.
I would also argue that there is a relative lack of bad software because unqualified or bad actors have to go through these same hoops.
Not a common thing != not a thing
Video games and tablets are not eroding our societies.

Children’s usage of video games and tablets is their parents job, not the national government’s.

I don’t know what country you’re in, but the thought of whoever is in control of mine “protecting” anyone from bad contents, let alone children, is enough to send chills down one’s spine.

That is a blank check on info consumption and the sheer naivety required to entertain that idea for more than a second is bewildering.
What's being removed from you again? Don't sideload apps if you don't like sideloading. Keep using Apple's app store if you like it, or maybe in the future, you will find you like an app store better than Apple's. We will never find out if someone does it better than Apple, if nobody can even try.
1 million at a safe withdrawal rate of 4% is $40,000 a year. Portland, Oregon in the US is somewhere around the 20th most expensive city to live in. You could survive in Portland on $40k/year but not exactly in some enviable lifestyle.
Ah, I wasn't aware of the previously existing coins. This being DeFi though, was it clear who owned those particular coins or were they "owned" by the program?

I'd actually be interested to know if crypto can, from a legal perspective, be owned. Has crypto theft been successfully prosecuted before?

As for exceeding authorisation, yes, true, but IIUC, CFAA only makes illegal the unauthorised access to a _computer_. Since this is a crypto program, is there an identifiable computer that was accessed without consent?

To be clear, I'm not making any moral judgements here, I'm just curious how our current laws and moral positions apply to crypto.
How is it forcefully being removed from you?
Location: Canada

Remote: Only

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Frontend, CSS, JS, React, Next, Vue,
WordPress, a11y

Résumé/CV: https://jumpship.dev/candidate/82216d60-bd18-467c-bf34-39165...

Email: hnwhoshiringfe@gmail.com

—

Hey! I'm a lead level frontend engineer. Over a decade of production experience. Worked with many huge companies on giant projects. Current favourite stack is Next and Tailwind. Deeply involved in leading, mentoring and doing technical assessments / recruiting at current company. Just ready for a change.
There is really not any way to give anyone a guide to doing what this guy does because it's not applying any special techniques to do anything. This isn't a binary reversing guide using a specific way to decode an encrypted executable, or whatever. This is quite literally just a guy who uses what he knows to figure out what is going on, and then learn more as is needed.

It will help not to put yourself into a box beforehand, like calling yourself a "purely frontend engineer." This is the kind of useless label for yourself that only serves to make you yourself think that you should stay in some arbitrary, badly specified corner of CS knowledge.

Literally just read about things, then use that knowledge to deconstruct other things. That's all that's going on.
actually you just gave me an idea where can I apply TLA+ in my job right now, we were thinking hard of many kafka streams and retry mechanisms we need to use, and still guarantee order without being blocking, and I think TLA+ is the perfect tool for the job of checking if we are not missing any edge cases with our current plan
Reminds me The Expert and 7 perpendicular lines - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7MIJP90biM
Well, my user experience is my problem. Other people dictating how should I experience my devices is hugely condescending.
What do you use to block ads at DNS-level?
How will a candidate be able to vote on "unbundled" policies if they are not written that way? How do you expect to the process to change without replacing all members (which cannot be done in a single election)

Why do you call them users? What keeps a policy maker true to what is signaled in the app? Is the in app signal the same as what the entire constituents want?
... Yuuup.

I knew a person who tried to put in triple-glaze, in New Westminster, BC, and it took a special lien on the property along with special approval from the Province because they weren't allowed by the building codes at the time.

That was ~10y ago, so maybe it's changed now.
They clearly mean from one specific event. What one event in the USA has lead to 2 million deaths? You're combining all deaths and treating it as if it were the same thing.
Apple's "Tracker Detect" app for Android will not automatically notify you about a tag that is following you as an iPhone will. Tracker Detect only supports manual scans for tags.
DACA is a true slap in the face to everyone who made the decision to follow and respect the law.

> Full path to citizenship is for those who 'were brought as kids/infants' i.e. who had no say in how they came into the country.

It's true they had no say, but as adults they do have a say and can decide to leave at any time and apply for the proper visa from their country.
This flowchart makes it seem way more difficult than it actually is. The USAG and the Secretary of HHS both serve at the pleasure of the President. Biden cannot unilaterally reschedule marijuana but he can tell the USAG and Secretary of HHS to do what it takes to reschedule it.

Biden pretending he can't make this happen is equivalent to Tim Cook pretending he can't get Jeff Williams to do something. Everyone ultimately responsible for changing the schedule ultimately reports to Biden.
Thor's Rock – Thurstaston, England
The addiction definition requires negative effect on you or closed ones. And inability to stop even when you rationally think you should stop. So, depending on how much tension and what kind of tension, it can be qualified as addiction or not.

> I know many men that have a very similar relationship with golf, but are they golf addicts?

Very time consuming hobbies do have higher rates of divorced participants. Regardless of whether they are popular enough for people to know about hobby related issues or not.
I once wired a cheap 120db siren to a 9v battery and a pressure switch with the default "on" position. Packed it in a plastic pint sized ice cream container with a hole drilled in the bottom for the switch. Packed that full of rocks for weight, with the switch pointed down towards the floor. Packed it all inside an Amazon box with a hole cutout for the switch.

Lift the box, and immediate piercing sound blast. For < $10 in parts off AliExpress. Unit price could be a couple bucks max at volume.
> I wonder what it is about Crypto that causes large players to cover user loses.

The answer is in the comment you replied to:

> there are a lot of awfully rich people who are scared of the bubble popping.

The value or cryptocurrencies depends on hype and on convincing the next chump that they should buy in. The large players have a lot of money invested which they will lose if the cryptocurrency value tanks because people lost trust. Covering user loses is itself an investment; it contains the damage by making the issue die down.
Sounds like you're thinking about how the first pill costs $7 million to make, but pills 2-inf only cost $0.02. Sure, it doesn't cost anything to wiggle some electrons, but it took effort to build out the infrastructure to do something when those electrons move. It takes effort to maintain it as well.

I'm able to see both sides. We all like free things, but free things cost some body some thing some where. If the vendor/maker of a thing needs to pay a license to make it look free to the consumer, that doesn't seem egregious to me. After all, they'll just roll that into the price of the product.
> The entire floor's conference rooms were all named thematically after popular board games.

Getting OT, but I worked somewhere where the conference rooms were named after birds of prey (Eagle, kestrel, etc etc). The smokers' room was informally known as 'Puffin'
Unofficial Minecraft NFT Project Runs Off with $1.2M
You’ve just posted a link that proves my point:

Despite its complex challenges, Sweden is in a better position on housing than many other EU countries.
Only around 8% of Swedes live in households spending more than 40% of disposable income on housing, compared to 15% in the UK and almost 40% in Greece, according Eurostat data.
Swedes are also less likely to live with their parents than any other young Europeans.
But until recently, getting a well-maintained, rent-controlled apartment straight after school is something some Swedes have just taken "for granted", argues Liza, a 37-year-old tech worker, who didn't want to share her last name.
She moved to London from Stockholm last year, and believes Swedes complaining about housing shortages would do well to put their struggles in a wider context.
"In the UK, apartments are often super old and not of good standard, even though the rent would be much more than in Sweden."
I just can't believe any financial institution would underwrite a large business plan with no collateral but would not underwrite a mortgage for the same person when they could repo the house/property if the mortgage failed.

I have no problem personally getting a mortgage, but even with a fantastic business plan I wouldn't give myself $10M for a shipping startup.

Am I totally out of touch?
Democratic Party can't get any bills passed. Did you miss the whole debacle with the dead "Build Back Better" bill? Watered down to almost nothing over many months and in the end, it failed regardless. You really expect to depend on them for anything? They only serve their donors and everything else they say is fluff. The most they can do is executive order which gets reversed when the next Republican enters office. Keep in mind each Republican that enters is getting more and more aggressive. Trump instituted a new 40 question immigration test. Doing anything other than following the law with perfection is strongly not recommended.

Your best bet is to secure 500K-1M in assets to invest in the US and use that route. I know some rich people who have given up their citizenship for tax purposes and will regain the citizenship using this route when they wish to retire in Montana.
It's what's on fire now in North Carolina: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/winston-salem-fertilizer-plant-...
I have something much, much worse: I've got a rabbit hole!
Here's two mirrors of a quite old website that is heavy on reverse engineering lore. While technological details may be outdated, many of the teachings certainly still apply.

http://www.darkridge.com/~jpr5/mirror/fravia.org/index.html
http://woodmann.com/fravia/

Edit: Sorry that the page is somewhat labyrinthine.
I mean, I'm sure European truckers would love a full kitchen, a shower and a double bed if they could get it. But the length limits would still be a problem and it would be hard enough to stay competitive without having to refuse the standard length trailers.
The Perfect Tech Stack for a SaaS Product
This is relative, so maybe the right answer is like 100 times the (average) amount you can live on for a year.
A Mathematician’s Guide to Wordle
If you have no alternative, you get reasonable internet (100+ up/20+ down) with no data caps or throttling. It's a big step up from a hotspot/LTE connection (if you can even see the cell tower).
This is thoroughly wrong.

Government does not invest a limited pot of money like 'savings', it conjures up money out of nowhere and can deploy ulimited amount of capital. The only limit on this activity is literally breaking the economy, causing inflation, etc,

If you propose we dump that money in education, well, we should, but it does not mean we should not bail out the banks - these two problems do not compete for same resources.
in color? luxury! we had black and white and we were grateful for it!

kids: get off my lawn

the grenade explosion was the most satisfying ever. "Take that Nazi scum!"

the 1st Rogue-like I ever made was something I called WolfenHack. my personal cross between Castle Wolfenstein and NetHack. I later genericized my engine and built a zombie apocalypse on top of it.
Your assuming everyone will use PayPal for subscriptions.

When with this there are no rules forcing them to do anything since they can just ship outside the store.

This doesn't address my issue (also I don't want another one I want to keep everything in a single place in settings on my phone). Considering I have never used PayPal for any of my subscriptions on the web I don't see this catching on for mobile either.

If a company wants to put me through hoops to make unsubscribing hard, there is zero chance they will opt to use something that makes it easy if they have the choice.
Wow this looks amazing. Will keep an eye out for when this comes to EU/UK.

ps. Your interest form doesn’t have a submit button on mobile and at least on safari ios couldn’t register.
Maybe there will end up being a single app store for both Android and Apple? As a small dev, you'd only have to deal with 1 upload, a single review process, one set of user reviews, etc.
An increase in supply alone isn't debasement. A higher supply doesn't imply a lower value, because what you do with that new supply matters. If you mint a $10T coin and throw it under your mattress, then you haven't decreased the value of anything even though the supply has increased dramatically.

This is why we measure, and why Austrian economics fell out of favor decades ago.

See Japan for a concrete example. [1, 2] Their M2 money supply is almost 2.5X higher since 1990 but their CPI is dead flat over the same time period. It's actually seriously problematic for them.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/JPNCPIALLMINMEI

[2] https://tradingeconomics.com/japan/money-supply-m2
and ironically, this is definitely the sort of criminal act the DA would go after.
Destroying the night sky is only inevitable if people choose to use Starlink and similar services. Considering most people use the internet for cat pics, porn, and mindless entertainment not sure the trade off is worth it.
I guess you didn't get the memo. The US abandoned the gold standard in the 1930s and with that the US dollar became a fiat currency, i.e. a currency that isn't backed by anything. A fiat currency cannot be debased because it has no "base".
I'm not sure what your point is? The issue is if someone can continue eating the food of their own region or culture while also following a more plant-based diet. In all but the most arid and inhospitable parts of the world, there are already a fair amount of local plant-based dishes.

It's true that people may need to supplement their diets with some kind of substitute that provides a similar nutritional content to meat and dairy, or add alternative dishes from outside their region, but for the most part it shouldn't be all that difficult for most people from most parts of the world to eat plant-based without fully changing up their entire diet.
> How does this chart [0] show a debasement of any sort?

It's the gigantic jump in the blue line almost halfway between 2008 and 2010. A spike in the value of "all assets" is the definition of currency devaluation.
I did not know software engineers could get this rich. It seems outlandish. That house must have cost a fortune. Or am I just way under-paid compared to the rest of you?

Also, who checked off on the flat roofs in that location?
Lockdowns only reduced Covid deaths by 0.2 per cent
Congrats on getting your green-card Swizec!

I wouldn't generalize to Europe here. I think it's a common mistake that I often make myself is to compare the US to Europe as if both were homogenous. San Francisco is different from Detroit, and Germany is different from Poland both economically and regarding people's mindset.

I've moved from Switzerland to NYC on an E-2 visa. I've worked multiple years for both a Swiss and a German startup and have been in contact with Swiss and German founders through an accelerator. I've never heard any founder or software engineer say that taxes, administration, or other people kept them from reaching for the stars. I've also learned that taxes in NYC are easily as high as in Germany and that paperwork in the US is just as burdensome as everywhere else I've had to do it.

I think the reason that so many ambitious people are drawn to Silicon Valley and NYC is that they know it's a place where other ambitious people are. That's precisely why I came, and it's a self-fulfilling prophecy. And I went despite the high taxes (easily 3x of what I paid in Switzerland), higher rent, and burdensome immigration process because I want to be in this environment.

You allude to the fact that people are what matters, but I feel that a lot of the discussion about what makes a good startup ecosystem is about money, taxes, and other administrative side-shows. Those only matter if you have the right atmosphere to start with, and I think we should talk about this more. Especially now that most of us are working remotely and physical location will become less critical.
Gasoline engines have a throttle plate that, when you let off the throttle, prevents intake air from reaching the cylinders. The pistons try to draw air into the cylinders and create a pretty decent vacuum. (Respect to the throttle plate. :-))

Diesel engines don't; the throttle controls fuel flow into the cylinders. Let off the throttle and air flows through the intake, cylinders, and exhaust just without producing any power.

The effects of friction are roughly the same on both engines, and they are what engine designers and builders want to minimize to maximize fuel efficiency and power.
Genuinely curious:

What are other examples where specific protocols (open or not) are mandated by regulation ?
Aw geez one more reason to want one of those things…
They did use some of the fake weETH to trade for 430k SOL, valued at a little under $40 million.

https://explorer.solana.com/address/CxegPrfn2ge5dNiQberUrQJk...