skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But we also have to keep the lid on fraid

No we don't. The dangers from allowing use of cryptocurrencies by criminals are far less than dangers to freedoms from corrupt totalitarian governments. When government can easily shut down your finances, you need some kind of way to defy it.

And if you think that your government will never do such thing, think again, harder. Citizens must have a leverage against abuse. With shrinking use of cash, cryptocurrencies allow people to evade a chokehold that can instantly smother them.
He didn't grant them access on his main wallet which holds the amount you describe, he granted them access on a different wallet that didn't hold those assets. Thus "nearly" in the title.
Here's another thing that is unbelievably annoying about HN: people asking for "studies" or "data" for every single fucking claim. Not every statement in life needs a triple-blind peer reviewed study.
Sorry you didn't like it - I just found more content in the comments (and citations) than the actual post itself.
Low-quality comment.
It is definitely a word salad. Two of the most important words ("most" and "light") were probably removed to make the headline fit. It would have been better to remove "telescope" and if necessary, "ever," which would keep the meaning intact.
I think the book has a really high virality factor. I was able to do a few posts on reddit, and people would like and share it. It's that whole "product market fit" thing. If you have a good product that people need or want, then marketing is pretty easy, and word of mouth (whether online or in real life) drives way more sales than anything else.
Behind a paywall, is there an archived version?
> real safety

Spoken by someone who clearly doesn't understand software safety. Neither Rust nor Go are "safe", formally.
Writing a business plan saved me from wasting precious years chasing a dog idea.

I once had a meeting with an investor years ago. I had a dream of starting an internet cafe back when broadband was hard to come by. So I spent a couple weeks writing a business plan to show him. In the process I came to realize the idea was a dog. At least, it didn’t align with my interests once I ran the numbers, and realized that charging by the hour to use a medium to high end gaming machine could never scale. You can’t easily over subscribe which meant you had a real limit on the ROI you could get from the machines. Which meant that all the profit was in selling consumables. That’s when I realized I had very little interest in running a profitable eatery, I just wanted to work with the computers.
> The true economic value of some companies like facebook or amazon may be negative.

I'm disabled and in the winter I can't even leave my apartment building. I get almost everything I need from Amazon and I honestly don't know what I would do without them. Their overall economic value may be negative but they sure have a lot of positive value for me.
I mean, that's a problem, but it's not a privacy problem per se. Civil forfeiture is a much larger issue than police taking cash from people with unconvincing sourcing stories.
> As someone who has never built a wheel but as someone who has spent hundreds of dollars getting a wheel trued up

That sounds like you were ripped off. It isn't hard to do and it isn't hard to do right. It takes very little in terms of investment in tools (the most important thing is a stable stand so you can rotate the wheel, an old fork with a guide attached will do fine for this, and a $15 hardened spoke key).
> If you don’t play ball in certain parts of the world, you end up in a river. The price tag is just different.

Aside from the problems of this statement being a completely vague and unspecific and extreme hypothetical, isn’t there a problem with switching from talking about incentives to talking about threats? Being threatened with death isn’t the same as being offered money, and this ground has been well covered by philosophers who point out that there are things wrong with “admitting that” as you call it. Calling it a price tag seems misleading at best. There’s further a massive problem with suggesting a person’s ethics might be based on what someone threatening them with death wants them to do, no? If the action isn’t something you are choosing to do, and isn’t something you would do if not threatened, for any amount of money, then why would you consider it your actions or part of your ethics?
This post openly advocates being an accessory to fraud to maximize profit.

The true value of exploits is NOT the cost of the damage they could do, because that externalizes various costs to the perpetrator: evade law enforcement for the rest of your life, lose access to friends and family, become a high-value target for traditional organized crime, etc. For many people that is a net negative, even for a 9-figure payout. And that is a good thing, I think.
Amazing! Just placed an order. Im expecting my first child in May, so I couldn’t resist.
What’s a Boundary Anyway? Know When to Set a Boundary
Why Rust instead of C or C++ if you don’t want the borrow checker? That’s the whole thing that makes it superior to alternatives!
There are major issues with this implementation:

- goes down with AWS

- uses mongodb

- money disappeared

- people don't understand it and don't use it

- fees are subsidized

- ...

It's ultimately only used for 5 % of the international transfers AND more expensive currency to currency wise.

( I have a more complete write-up with links somewhere in my comments, if you want them)

Edit: here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30091410
Oh, thank you!!
Elliptic Follows the $7B in Bitcoin stolen from Bitfinex in 2016 (2021)
Nothing new here.

iPads, iPhones, and all Apple's products are built modern slaves.

Apple's execs know it, government knows it, media knows it, people's know it, but no one one cares about it, because they are in China, so they are less than human according America's standards.

And of course, Apple cannot have their profits affected.

In the world we live, unfortunately human lives worth nothing compared to money.
I see.

But.. why? Isn’t that a remarkably bad idea?

Or is there some crypto advantage to keeping every last coin in the same basket? Other than it being a flex.
My biggest challenge is how to decide what to learn. And then how to keep at it without letting the FOMO in. It's an eternal struggle.
Eth is a premine scam sure, but the dude has $130M Of it, so I don’t think he is crying over that part
One cool pattern for tokens is a T! macro:

macro_rules! T {
(+) => { Token::Add },
(-) => { Token::Sub },
// ...
}

This is really nice because it lets you match against tokens with `T![+]` instead of `Token::Add`.
Laravel. Hands down.
If people could just ask a concise question and get a concise answer, they would just do that.

But they don't. Why? For many reasons, one of which is my previous reply.
Why would individuals buy relatively expensive equipment, set it up and manage it, without the potential for return on their investments?

The only reason Helium's LoRaWAN coverage is expanding rapidly is due to the crypto aspects of it.
> Ads, in whatever medium, are fundamentally bad UX.

I'm gonna take that sentence to it's logical conclusion and rebut it with "I like that restaurants have signs, and I appreciate when I can see the menu from the outside"
Is it better to poke or not to poke a bear? I guess it depends on the bear being awake and what you poke it with.

A move like that could just as easily push ARM to go all in on servers and desktops and harm Intel even more.
Spokes can and do stretch differently over time due to manufacturing variance. Checking your wheel periodically by strumming the spokes can help identify spokes that have stretched unevenly compared to the rest. Typically you'll find the opposing spoke to also have lost some tension and probably one or two spokes earlier and later.
I’m fine with weak financial privacy and strong KYC/AML regulations. A lot of garbage humans out there that these tools are necessary to police with.
That would be an incredibly awful deal for a 40yo, since it’s not inflation adjusted, so in 10 years you’ll be kicking yourself for having converted real assets into fixed nominal returns.

Annuities really just work well if you are 80+ and want to insure against longevity risk.
I believe the current rush to the cloud is a transient phenomenon and we will see a return to companies operating more of the applications themselves, especially for large data services with stable workloads.

* Enterprises don't like being locked in to single, large providers. (See examples of IBM, Oracle)

* New providers will attack the high margins of AWS and others, expanding the market. (See Cloudflare for such a provider)

* Building applications in the cloud by combining lots of SaaS services delivers faster time to market but results in complex integrations that are costly to manage and difficult to reduce costs. They also have serious drawbacks related to data privacy. (This looks like a new form of tech debt.)

* Kubernetes abstracts out platform differences and lower switching costs between cloud and self-managed models. As Kubernetes runs in more places it will open up more choices where to operate.

In summary the current cloud land-grab will change. I would bet on new ways to enable self-management and diverse economic models of software operation.
Two amazing things here: The computer program that converts the amount to English knew how to deal with two trillion, and the same computer program had no cut off to say "if the cheque we're sending out is over a few thousand, maybe it needs to go through a workflow involving personal sign-off by the CFO".
A Jack Chick track right here in the middle of a comment thread.
There must be a fair amount of friction happening as well. I wonder what happens to all the heat generated.
In the US, speed limiters have been required on heavy-duty trucks since model years in the early 90s (1992 I think). They are not required to be set to a speed matching the prevailing highway speed limit, but the overwhelming majority of fleet has them.
Agreed - my last post. I am so livid learning that this is how HN works. And there is -no excuse- for this so called "dark pattern". Want to take away certain features, well just disable arrows for that user.

And this also reminds of the completely opaque privacy position of this forum. Who are these 3rd parties, and what precisely do they get from YCombinator?

- Ciao and thanks for the fish!
Thanks. As somebody with a very basic understanding of ETH, it seemed super unlikely that a L2 would be able to able to mint arbitrary ETH. (That would obviously be vulnerability in the L1)
> Ultimately, this a civic matter; as much as we want to ensure we have the right to encrypt our communications, to not disclose our passwords to police even when being prosecuted for a crime, as activists commonly insist on, so should we fight to maintain our existing rights to financial privacy.

But you know, you are not anonymous on Blockchain, you're only pseudonymous. If someone correlate your pseudonym with your real identity, they will know your entire financial history (on Blockchain).
It sounds like buying cryptocurrency might be risky.
>I try to focus on extracting the nature and patterns of relationships, instead of the specific details.

You're a mapper, like me. The only reason I ever want to learn details is if they are important corner cases.

>In tech this can be an obstacle when communicating because many engineers have an extremely fine-grained memory, seemingly all the time.

Those folks are packers, they know all the corner cases, and worry incessantly about them.

Google "mappers vs packers" to learn more, far more.
Oh so at this point it’s unclear what you’ll receive as personal income from the project?
Patricia Highsmith: Diaries and Notebooks
This is a very fascinating chart! It seems that over the five centuries the healthspan (probability of survival within the lifespan) increased drastically but the lifespan itself is more or less fixed at 90-100 years. The healthy plateau is much longer now but the following drop is much faster.
Just a piece of unsolicited advise: either morality should not be defined by feelings. These are not universal.

There are lots of things which feel good but can be bad (like saying yea to a child’s desire) and vice-versa (like saying no to a child’s desire).
Lightning isn't really using Bitcoin is it?

The strike app (which uses Lightning) is not available worldwide which really doesn't give the image that Bitcoin lightning is decentralised at all.
Forgive my pessimism, but I think this essay was less about making people think and more about providing some fluff between ads.

But I'll bite... FP is not the new OO. FP is as old as time, because fundamental truths (and maths) are pure functions. And you cannot use any of the other "paradigms" without ultimately building atop of pure functions. Maybe you're not writing the pure functions, but your base libraries (and compilers) have them.
You would honestly ride in his ‘open source’ VToL? and use his air taxi service?

I don’t think this is legit at all.
Even then I doubt it. The best wheelbuilders are the tradional ones.

Here is a fantastic, compact and very much to the point guide on how to spoke wheels (in dutch, google translate is your friend):

http://www.m-gineering.nl/techdex.htm
You're right, I shouldn't have said "of this kind" because in this case I don't think any sane person would think this was nefarious. But my point was just that, to use you example, the only way you would know that said database had confidential information in it would be to "decrypt" it. Then it is a question of why you did that. Was it malicious? No, but a sufficiently bad faith actor my try to argue that it was so you should be careful.

Take another example. Say you fire up Wireshark in on a public network like a coffee shop and see some unencrypted network traffic with confidential information in it. The packets were delivered to your computer and there for anyone to see. But why are you capturing traffic that wasn't intended for you (in the broader sense)? What if the traffic IS encrypted but with weak encryption that is easily cracked? As soon as you step off the path of "I am viewing information which was clearly meant for me" you're in a gray area. Of course as a society we should recognize that people who do these things and then responsibly disclose them are doing a valuable public service, but not everyone understands these things. Or in this particular case, some people are heavily incentivized to make bad faith arguments in order to deflect blame from their own screw ups. So it's worth being careful.
I just get the feeling that "on-chain data" doesn't mean the same thing in Mina as it does with other blockchain systems. The 22kb is a ZKP and would not contain any contract logic or contract data, I think, so any contract data and logic would have to come from another source.
I think the confusing is in "adding CORS". I think you mean "Adding CORS to the browser standards", and gp means "Adding some kind of CORS interceptor thing in my backend".

It's great that CORS is a thing in browsers, and you can use it if you need. But each person who uses it is allowing more origins, and so allows more requests.

Personally I always avoid CORS and just server every thing I need from the same origin, but that's just because of the kinds of things I've worked on.
To be fair, an extra $50k a year is not "getting rich" in the sense that Charlie is talking about here... This is a perfectly reasonable goal for someone with enough time to devote to a side project.
people have always used wallets in a way very different from the best practices described 10 years ago

no address reuse is almost impossible as the wallets make it very hard as well

people don't really seem to know that Metamask gives you unlimited addresses, fwiw it is expensive to do approvals in each address
That link shows 1 fetch per cycle. “Pipelining does not reduce actual latency”. So your comment fails to explain both multiple fetch per cycle and higher than 1 instruction per cycle throughput on average, which is what we were discussing above.
I actually don't know the details for East Timor, but, presumably Carter didn't personally sponsor this, like as a hobby after he was President or something - instead it was US government policy and it remained US government policy to turn a blind eye to what was happening in East Timor and presumably as the US President receives high quality global intelligence briefings Carter will have had a pretty good idea what it was turning a blind eye to.
Some types of the poliovirus are already eradicated! The polio case is exceedingly frustrating as it's been hindered by the Taliban, Boko Haram, and the likes with their stupid "this is a tool for massacre Muslims!!11" and similar rhetoric. It's not inconceivable Polio would already have need eradicated if it wasn't for that, and COVID didn't help either due to shifting priorities and such.

The good news is that the Taliban did a u-turn on this after taking over last year, and now vaccination efforts in Afghanistan are underway again. Small silver lining from the Taliban takeover I guess :-/

At any rate, current hopes for polio eradication seem to be for 2026[1], whereas Guinea worm is 2030.

[1]: https://polioeradication.org/gpei-strategy-2022-2026/
I never said the answers should be instantaneous. Never thought so.
Honestly the funniest part of all of this is just how much peer review sucks :)

Like as a whole, it’s quite bad. Best we got unfortunately, but making it a “golden standard” is just hilarious to me.
The article omits the incompatibility issues with Lotus, and the patent infringement lawsuit about DoubleSpace.
What that means in practice is that rich people have financial privacy and poor people don't. Personally I think it should be the opposite: poor people should have privacy and rich people shouldn't.

If you're in favor of e2ee messaging but not e2ee financial privacy, you're saying that you don't want people to do anything material with the e2ee messaging.
Classic HN taking analogies literally.
Swiss back further restrictions on tobacco advertising
Are you being sarcastic? I said it is not a human right - no one should guarantee anyone the ability to start a business as it isn't societies responsibility to pay the cost of some individuals risk tolerance.

I'm saying the opposite of what you seem to be implying. I'm saying anyone can gamble or start a business, but it's no ones responsibility to make sure they have the option to do so.
It's ironic because early on, people saw the video but didn't have the link, so his Kickstarter basically showed a huge flood of organic traffic to the campaign.
Be out of debt.

Debt is just ever present crushing infection on your life. Other than persistent health problems, i expect that is the worse thing that happens to people.

I will never be out of debt, i have no hope for that. I just know that inflation and age will make that debt worse until i am homeless. That is my future.
It’s got an ENS address associated which is only used by flexers.

It’s a giant flex.
I've seen more than one overtensioned bikewheel completely lose it, especially wheels with reduced numbers of spokes should be tensioned 'just so', too tight and you're waiting for a wheel failure, which if it is your front wheel at speed could very well land you in the hospital or even kill you.
Been with the same company for ~10 years. Am now making roughly 50k (EUR) more than when I started. Probably no the answer you were looking for, but it's worked out pretty well for me.
With x86 there are common extensions that form a baseline (eg. you need SSE2 for any program to run at all). And there are more specialized extensions, eg. for high performance mathematical work. The specialized extensions can usually be confined to a library, and the library can work out at runtime what the hardware supports and swap in optimized functions.

It'll likely work much the same way for RISC-V, eg. in Fedora we require that the C (compressed) extension is supported, otherwise the distro won't boot, and things like the vector extension will probably be used only by specialized math libraries and the like.
More like the bear poking a sheep in this case!

Seriously though the key issue now is does Arm have resources to invest in better designs - weaken cashflow and that’s in doubt.
Money.

> Based on your ideal, how do you feel about your current path?

Hopelessly lost.
I remember coming across this when you posted about it before. Congrats on the success!
hopefully not but i bet he also doesn’t pretend he can’t search a tree
I don't really like gambling outside of playing poker with my friends but your comment is reeking with a bias for what you define as "Entertainment".
The people who buy a lot of tickets are overrepresented among the winners, to the exact proportion of the size of the ticket pile.
Your description fits well with a 'Golden Japan' (or 'Sungold') and a 'Methley'. Both are standard quality Japanese. Probably picked too early if they lack sugar (or cultured in an cloudy place, or stored in a fridge for too long...). The problem with spring fruits is that they need a long spring to be really good.
This. I would add that Google Sheets is even better. It's less feature-rich than Excel but makes up for it by being shared. It's the most powerful business management tool I've ever used.
sid meier had a software like that he created for the 3do
I have a side project SaaS that nets about $30k/yr income - it takes about 2 hours a week of my time to maintain (99% is responding to user support), though I spend another 5-6/wk trying to grow it (~50/50 marketing and eng development).

Full disclosure, however...I bought it (on Microacquire) for ~$100k. But there's no reason I could not have/you cannot build something with similar economics, though you will need to frontload many more hours to get it going.
An ESP32 version anyone? :)
How many?

I came from Aperture into modern Photos after holding out as long as possible. As versions updated, Photos understood more and more Aperture metadata and edits.

With 10^6 photos, to get this to work I had to use old Aperture Library manager utilities to split those by album (by year for unclassified), then bring those split libs into Photos one at a time.

I brought each into its own Photos library to limit blast radius of import issues, and was able to isolate which image(s) caused faults.

After having an array of Photos libraries, I made a big enough store on a fast Mac that could stay online uninterrupted to act as my library host and iCloud Photos master.

I imported Photos to Photos, and let it sync. Able to use logs and narrow down and retry remaining from an import when issues. Eventually, all good.

There is a rate limit on syncing Photos to cloud. If Photos thinks you’re doing separate syncs, it can hit at 25K. So after that either just let it sit to catch up over the next week(s), or, if you are somehow certain of zero errors, keep cloud sync off until all Photos are imported and indexed locally then turn it on. Helping others with this, I’ve had to try both ways. All at once is best if no errors, as it doesn’t seem to rate limit the first batch.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202299

Note, with 10^6 photos in iCloud Photos and multiple devices syncing, sometimes one or more usually older items lose sync or won’t sync from an iPhone. In my experiences, nothing fixes this, not even disable/enable iCloud Photos — until the next major version number iOS release, which seems to reindex or rebuild device Photos library.