skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Paper ballots are better than any purely electronic form. Like that's not even a debate except by people who are trying to sell electronic voting machines. The gold standard is either print outs from a voting machine or a ballot you fill in with circles with a pencil that a machine can verify. Counting these ballots is nondestructive (unlike punch cards) and highly accurate. Audits of elections involving these can be done easily by hand.

As for the 2000 election, this is a whole rabbit hole. You're right the butterfly ballot probably caused miscast votes. But that's user error. Punch cards are a ridiculous form of voting technology. All the recounts weren't about being more accurate. They were about passing punch cards through counting machines that would knock out chads every run through and changing voting standards after the fact (eg pregnant and dimpled chads).

Blaming 9/11 and the grand misadventure of the Iraq war on paper ballots is... a stretch. I mean, 9/11 had been in planning for years and probably would've happened anyway. I suspect a war in Iraq would've happened anyway with Gore in office. I mean a good chunk of Democrats (including Hilary Clinton) voted for the Iraqi war resolution. Many of these same people (including Biden) are now threatening to start a war with Russia over Ukraine.

> Just one of hundreds of innovations.

I disagree. Contracts enforced by the blockchain only have value when the entire context of that contract is on the blockchain. As soon as you leave that system you need traditional infrastructure and systems to enforce contracts and handle disputes.
Bitcoin does not replace banks. People and business still need loans, they still want to invest money and have money invested with them. Crypto doesn't solve that problem.

The 2008 collapse had nothing to do with ACH or any of the aspects which crypto has a plausible case for improving.
Apparently Hamurabi was inspired by The Sumerian Game.

I played it as a kid too, but in my case it was on my iPod. I had been looking for programming apps and found a BASIC app. Turns out, it was just classic BASIC games and not an interpreter, but it was good fun regardless!
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1489041221947375616.html

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1489044939732406275.html

It's unfortunate that the images don't load in that view, but it's still better than the twitter UI
does a google search find data that might be visible in google maps?
doesn't federal not have parole
In high school and college I was in a vicious cycle of insufficient sleep, lethargy during the day, and panicked heroics the night before deadlines. It worked! I got into and out of a selective institution that way. But my life got immeasurably better once I started working. I would put in an honest day’s effort, leave it wherever it was at the end of the day, unwind all evening, and wake up again when I felt like it (hooray for 11am standup).

Holy shit. The quality of life improvement was unbelievable. It is incredibly tragic to have wasted those years that way.
Bailed out by the FDIC...

https://www.valuewalk.com/2020/02/top-10-biggest-bank-failur...
Drupal/Laravel/React freelancer in Minneapolis. $125/hr or $100/hr if through a design agency. Although I get the feeling I should raise my rates again.
In this model the protocols are often community funded and there is sentiment for more competitors. Just copy the same model and tweak a small variable.

Its not the same as the highly capitalized opaque insurance company you need to be skeptical about, the analogy from a lived experience almost doesnt work at all. it does have the function of derisking things though.

So it exists, I know it exists, you dont know it exists, I’m not the encyclopedia of the specific nuances of each protocol, so go check it out
Design blockchain token economic models. Paid in % of total token supply.

Prior, consulted on intellectual property strategy $550/hr.
I seem to recall that one of the regulars here said this would never happen just a few months ago. Have they issued a mea culpa yet?
But... they are both toxic cesspools. [Insert office meme of Pam saying both pictures are the same]
I was curious too, this is right in the article:

> A path analysis suggests that the interactive relationship between sigh inhibition and overactivity in the prefrontal cortex causes comprehension decline.
> have intentional design complexity?

yes, more like this (in special Rust, that deal with many challenges like system programming, safety, etc).
Something something system addresses.
"Banks get bailed out" seems to be a feature for stability of systems (counterargument: "Let all the banks fail" would have been helpful for what part of society?)

There is of course the very legitimate argument of bailing out homeowners (banks still get their money and people get to actually be in houses), but letting the pieces fall where they may is extreme orthodoxy when the real world is at stake. And of course the crypto ecosystem has shown this pragmatism so many times now when basically forking off to other things to reverse unwanted transactions.
"Sorry I was skiing in Vail when I said I would be working. Oops."
> Micro: Right this second, one of my checking accounts at a "reputable" institution (efirstbank.com) is blocked from ACH transfers until April due to hitting an inactivity threshold they refuse to elaborate on. The only way I can move money out is by paying $50 per wire.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/credit_12666.htm

https://www.consumerfinance.gov/complaint/

https://www.helpwithmybank.gov/file-a-complaint/index-file-a...

You have some recourse with regulators when dealing with fiat banking systems. You have zero recourse when dealing with crypto losses (unless you’ve lost enough that a criminal prosecutor makes it their problem and you can convince them it’s worth their time).
The tradeoff is 10x faster reenergizing
Grafana would do well to look into the thinkorswim desktop platform and the ability to write code around metrics. They are entirely different use cases but I feel the desired goals are the same, which is making the most of an ocean of metrics. Financial world crushes at this for obvious reasons. Tech world? not so much.
Sometimes it sounds like bay area programmers think how expensive their area is, is how it is for programmers elsewhere. I also get paid around the same range in NYC, but my mortgage is nowhere near 10k, my taxes eat maybe 40%, and I can definitely find restaurant meals for less than $30.

The high expenses of the bay area are a policy choice by the local and state government to disallow investment. As such everyone is competing for the same old housing stock and office space that cost a 1/3rd of what it does now years ago. In effect, house owners and landlords are appropriating tech profits to themselves.

I hope the banning of single home zoning in California helps to alleviate this issue.
UniFi Cloudflare DDNS via Workers
So you don't have any experience using Lisp on large scale projects. And the project you are starting now is only using Lisp as a glue language. Count me not surprised.
As far as I know, not one has been caught by law enforcement.

But several attackers have been tracked down by blockchain sleuths, or by the hacked projects themselves. In the usual case, when messaged with personal details about themselves, the attacker gives back 90%, and everyone calls it a day.

Except for this guy.

https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2021/12/22/teenage-suspect-i...

Who might be first DeFi hacker to go to trial.
> Metaverse is like a video game with WAY more money and reach.

Metaverse is like a video game, except every time you play you are forced to have an awkward family and high school reunion (both at the same time).
> The important thing is that you can objectively quantify the color and appearance of the car in great detail mostly limited by your dedication and budget

I used to think that, but my current belief is that there is no objective reality. I don’t mean you’re a figment of my imagination or I’m one of yours (though if we want to go down that philosophical rabbit hole, how could we refute either possibility), but that I now believe reality is not objective, it just is. I no longer believe there is a clear limit between subjects and objects. I think reality is whatever it is, and then our subjective experience is whatever our minds make out of the input from our senses, and anything objective is just whatever enough subjective people agree in consensus. In the vast majority of cases, the simplified vision that there’s an objective reality we can grasp given enough time and resources works well enough to appear true, but it’s important to stay aware of our limitations (I believe, our insurmountable limitations) in completely (to be fair, you did write “in great detail”), reliably, “objectively” arriving at a specific truth about some arbitrary part of reality.
(Edited for typos)
The governing authority is unimportant in this situation. The IDF is not going to be happy with splinter groups of any size shooting weapons either. Would they not react similar to how they have?
Excellent, excellent addition. This is so useful. For people who haven't tried another way: turns out nested folders inside more nested folders is a terrible way to organize your bookmarks!

I've been using the xBrowserSync extension to handle bookmarking across browsers; it also uses tags / descriptions + search for organization and recall. Its made a huge difference. But Nyxt now takes things even further; locally saving a copy of the page you're annotating. Great job!
> Does it matter?

As long at you don't make reckless assumptions then it not for some application, unklike (not going to name here) build a cult a like that GPT like models in near future will perform most if not all tasks better then humans.

Where it really matters is for mission critical application for example; in Windows or Linux terminal would you allow GPT to run terminals commands based of events in automated way ?
The ACH thing sounds annoying, but your money is not at risk.

I think the more concerning thing I have seen is banks deciding that they no longer want to do business with you with no appeals process or recourse as to why your account was flagged.
I think we're sort of aggressively agreeing with each other. It's not the CGI (or lack thereof) that makes the modern superhero films bad (except as a sort of demoscene-with-infinite-budget visual spectacle where they're great). It's the writing. To a lesser extent the cinematography is poor, which makes it hard to really feel what's going on. There's lots of unnecessary camera movement, frenetic jump cuts during fights, and all the colors are dull and muted.

Every Frame a Painting has a good video on Kurosawa's use of movement in his films, and actually uses The Avengers as a contrasting example and how the cinematography & direction makes the scene in question feel meaningless.[1]

So I agree that it's not the CGI that's the problem. It's the writing, the direction, the cinematography, the editing, the music[2] (though they improved since the linked video came out, directly in response to it), etc. The films are bad in many ways, but the CGI isn't really one of them.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doaQC-S8de8

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vfqkvwW2fs
It’s free though…
Telling you “this is hard” is not usually saying “I don’t know how to do this”, it’s usually “I recognize this and it’s more involved than the thing you think you’re asking for”.
Is an open platform if it’s built on RTX?

That seems very much “open” in the marketing sense of the word.
I do occasional consulting in cryptography and security design, and anything related to FreeBSD/EC2.

$300/hour with discounts for open source, startups based in Canada, longer engagements, and anything which particularly piques my interest.
I mean, springs would do that. Maybe a latch with slightly delayed release mechanism would work better to time the energy release for optimal running. But unless you want to violate conservation of energy (like flubber presumably does) then springs would get you there.
Some things can't be solved with money. (Or rather, it would take infinite money to solve them in a given amount of time, but allow enough time and solving it is free.)
Ahhh so you have written zero production software in Lisp. As expected.
The replication crisis is not at all about some papers not being replicable or being fraudulent - the crisis is about the issue that in certain domains a huge proportion of the papers (e.g. half!) turn out not replicable and actually false.

I'd consider it appropriate to say that physics is indeed immune to replication crisis unless it turns out that a significant proportion (e.g. more than 5%, one order of magnitude less than for psychology) physics papers fail replication.
I don't think this is for customers, they are using Google's network for customers. More likely it's for the Starlink building.
Well hope the upside is way better for you to offset that fear
What even is the point of restitution at this point? The state practically re-victimizing victims of financial crimes, “You can be made while, but only if the convicted can survive society’s collective blood lust and never makes another mistake for the rest of their life” lmao
I did a couple of Ruby trainings in last 6 months for $8000/day (2 total, so it was a bit more than $30k). I wrote a book (free, 400 page) about Ruby. I do it with my partner, I'm happy to pay 20% for all unrelated stuff (organizing, filling in gaps, communicating with people, etc).
I wonder what percentage of Facebook's users are only there because of 3 or fewer friends, bands, groups/clubs/interests, or businesses that still use Facebook as their primary means of communication.
Sorry for all the questions but:

Generally what percentage of the total supply do you get?

Do you have a lockup period?

Are these primarily defi protocols?

Can you disclose what projects you worked on?
It replies with:

1st try:
As the word question already gives you the answer to the question, "are you able to?" the rest of the question

2nd try:
A. three
B. four
C. eleven
D. five fewer.
Woah cool!!
They specifically stated that they tested it on 10 challenges that were newer than their training data, so it couldn’t just be plagiarizing content.
Even if they were a "normal" company, trust level ought to be low by default by virtue of their name being a fairly obvious ripoff of a well known lawtech and risk analysis company.

https://www.lexisnexis.com/en-us/gateway.page
> 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

And rely on the same people who accidentally voted for Pat Buchanan on the butterfly ballot to understand merkle trees and verify their vote?

We already know how to increase participation if we wanted to - mandatory voting like they do in Australia.

Paper ballots work fine as long as they aren't silly designs like the butterfly ballot or the hole punch. Filling in circles with a pen and then running it through the machine yourself to verify the ballot is machine readable works very well.
Direct costs to government, maybe, but no compensation for the effects on locals and commerce of the downtime.
As the other comment responded to you, I'll add on. That isn't what happened with 9/11. We didn't touch Saudi Arabia or any Al Qaeda strongholds. We went after Afghanistan and the Taliban. Soon after, Iraq. During that mid 00s time period, polls showed a strong minority if not majority of Americans believed Iraq had something to do with 9/11.
$2180/hour mining magic numbers
My local ferry https://www.libertylandingcityferry.com/ only has its service updates on FB https://www.facebook.com/LibertyLandingFerry
Yeah, let's privatize the gains and socialize the losses because the banks are too big to fail. What a great system! But hey, at least it's stable.
In there just for collectible items, in my country most of the second hand sellers use facebook.
Is something new really going on here, or is this just standard asset speculation with the word “currency” incorrectly applied to it?

I mean, nearly nothing is priced in units of crypto and almost no GDP transactions pass through it…
It'll be interesting to see how this compares to the FF VI Pixel Remaster which is scheduled to come out sometime this month. The previous Pixel Remasters have been very good, especially the music which has been absolutely phenomenal
Here's what I'm wondering, and pardon me if this is a stupid question:

Why go through all of the trouble generating true randomness with a Geiger counter just to use the result as the seed to a PRNG, rather than using your true random method to generate the lottery numbers directly?
its not federal prison
"the technique or practice of responding to an accusation or difficult question by making a counteraccusation or raising a different issue."

I didn't raise a different issue or make an accusation.

I do agree that history plays an important part in the future, but the assumption that 'hackers' are not versed in history, seems awkward at best.

Never mind that a lot of the people building DeFi and writing the contracts today, have traditional finance backgrounds.
Anyone know of a metamaterial actually being used in the real world?
Also for reference, the entire rest of the world outside the US has an average P/E of 14.5 right now.

Make of that what you will.

Also, re: the parent comment, a P/E of 22 would traditionally never be called "value stock territory"...whether or not that valuation is too pessimistic about Facebook's growth prospects.
> For example copyright and DRM is being replaced with NFTs and POAPs.

…no it's not, where's the contract that says someone gets "the rights" when you transfer an NFT? What if you split the rights up and sell Sony Pictures the movie rights to your ape then sell someone else the NFT?

Even actual NFT ownership isn't respected when it's a hack, it turns out. OpenSea blacklists it and the rest of the ape picture community doesn't start treating the hacker like they own it, even though the data says they can now set a hexagonal Twitter avatar.
tl;dl?

nobody has time for that or a transcript full of the podcast’s time wasting sensationalized format

am curious about it though!
About time. Unlike Google or Microsoft before them, this company was evil from day 1.

0/10 for them and anybody who made their money there
$300/hr for your time is a steal.
Not directly related but while I have the eyes of some technical people reading about the lottery, I want to throw this out there.

I have 4+ years worth of daily scratch off lottery ticket results from a dozen or so different states.

Every day, the state updates their website with the numbers of tickets remaining at each ticket level. I've been scraping that and saving it.

If anyone would find this data interesting I'd be happy to share the SQLite database. I just ask that you share your code/queries and what you find.

- Are the grand prizes truly random? Or are they stratified?

- Do games end with an unusually high number of grand prizes unclaimed?

- Is there a buffer when a game is first released when no grand prize is possible?

You could scan some Working Papers to get ideas of things to check the integrity of: https://docs.zohopublic.com/file/pze38fbeed85562834d5696105b...

Those working papers have things like "guaranteed low-end prize structures" per pack of tickets.

Tips based on those working papers:

- Buy from a fresh pack until you get a winner then stop. Since there's a guaranteed number of winners per pack, each loser you scratch improves the odds for the rest of the pack.

- Don't buy from a pack that's already had a big winner. Most working papers stipulate no more than 1 large prize per pack.
IIOT iOS and nodeJS consulting, $200/hour in Minnesota, USA.
N-Gate is! They directly make fun of “Hacker” “News” and its brogrammer circle jerk bike shedding.

Heads up though, their stuff up to 1-2 years ago is a lot funnier than now. Also they’re a lot less active.

http://n-gate.com/
There's even a metric for that: Daily Active Users. I bet Facebook does not publish that number (or the historical values for it). I bet that number has been going down lately, at least for North American users. There's a reason they changed their name.
I'm guessing because the lottery system needed to generate a large number of random numbers (given that they are running lots of lottery systems), and this gives a fairly verifiable way of doing that from one initial chunk of randomness.

That said, I don't work in this area, so you should give my comment very little weight. :)
I'm not sure to what you're referring. I can't find reference to any reddit CEO being fired. Ellen Pao resigned, but the catalyst for her resignation wasn't related to fascism as best I can tell, it was related to firing the person most responsible for AMAs without any suitable replacement.
Have you hiked a long trail before?

I did the Camino de Santiago, starting at Vezelay, and I am not a sentimental person, but I very much cherish my stamp book. It elicits very different memories from me compared to when I look back at pictures I took, or read my diary from that time.
That's what I fear. I usually join social networks too late but I joined TikTok just in time to have a good time before it all turns to shit. It's already happening, my bubble is being slowly invaded by conspiracy/political/gamed videos even though I try to avoid them as hard as I can. I dread to see what new user experience looks like these days.
You’re saying things that are true but don’t really make sense.

The history of transactions has no importance to the value currency. A dollar that was stolen is just as valuable as any other because they are bearer bonds (like most currencies).

The whole Immutable thing is just translating the concept of a bearer bond to digital space, nothing to do with its intrinsic value.
What would be the actual cost in USD to do this, assuming a short term resolution?

Let's they actually had $320M USD ready and waiting. I assume the order book would not allow them to reach the fixed amount of ETH lost.

.. Sort of curious what would be the actual USD cost if someone actually tried to purchase the amount of ETH lost given a fixed order book. Do any exchanges make that information available where you could calculate that?
Github comments, tweets saying you didn't mean to get hacked like that.

Contracts also need things like consideration and not being "against public policy".
Totally agree wrt marketplace. For awhile it was great, the only reason to sign on to Facebook. You could sell anything locally easily and quickly. It really pulled off being a better craigslist which is no easy feat and not something I ever would have thought Facebook would do.

Then maybe a year ago they started focusing on non local/commercial sales and it rapidly degraded to the point where it's not worth using now. It seems like they have diverted all traffic to paid listings so my cheap yardsale-esque deals on stuff I'm trying to get rid of get no views (where a year ago I would get ten messages a day for the same item)
Rack Rate: $225USD/hour.
Friends and Family rate: 1 beer per incident.
You keep it in an insulated container. Or, you let the environment warm it back to room temperature as it expands.
Now if he'd just taken that one level deeper, and had code to pick the Julian date of the rigged draws on days that _appeared_ random, but actually weren't ...

At NSA there's a "Peter Jenks Award" for people who do this sort of thing. Great story which started with LFSRs in the 60s.

https://www.cryptomuseum.com/intel/cia/rubicon.htm