skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Banks won’t protect you from wire fraud either.

I’ve written this elsewhere when this topic routinely comes up and crypto is dismissed, but the capability of self-custody is the thing to pay attention to.

Nothing else has this capability to the same extent.

Today we store most of our wealth in assets (market index funds, stocks, real estate, etc.) and some (typically very little, and rarely outside of a bank account) in cash.

Most of this is not actually controlled by you.

With BTC (and cryptocurrency more generally) you have the capability of having your private key in a hardware wallet under your control and retain the capability to transact independently of other institutions.

If you keep some percentage of your wealth here you retain certain advantages that you can't get elsewhere. The closest alternative would be having cash (in cash form), but it's hard to have that much, hard to travel with it (you can memorize your wallet seed words and recreate your wallet on the other side of a border), and cash is vulnerable to government stupidity (see: Russia).

I'm not sympathetic to the Canadian truck protests, but whether or not you care about what they're protesting - it's the capability wielded by the Canadian government over their private finances that's alarming.

All this is to say the focus on what crypto is worse at is kind of missing the forest for the trees.

The capability of a global self-custody capable store of value that can be trivially moved anywhere is a big deal and puts power back in the hands of individuals.

I don't pretend there are no risks with cryptocurrency. The security requirements are obviously harder, the UX is bad and even technical users fuck it up.

Some of this will be improved by tooling, some of it is just what's required for self-custody.

Still, the capability it provides is new and gives individuals more power even with these tradeoffs. That capability is valuable and shouldn't be dismissed imo. It's a lever against authoritarian control and increasing centralization of power.
If Americans were singled out by the entire world, forbidden from traveling and targeted by even the software the install it would have just led to much much more patriotism and unity. There is no better way to unite a divided group than to target it as a single entity. Makes it a lot easier to set aside your differences and a lot harder to dissent within your group. That's what happened after 9/11, no one paused to think what actions lead to that event or the geopolitical context. It just united every American overnight.

In a way that already has happened in Russia. The sanctions did not lead to less (or more) support for the war. The initial sanctions were justified as they targeted the russian state, but the knee jerk reaction of also imposing sanctions that explicitly were aimed at the population lead to nothing but resentment against the west.

Whether you are on the morally right side or not, it does not matter in that context; you cant really debate your way into convincing someone that you are doing something for his own good when you are doing everything you can to also make him suffer

If the intention is just to hurt them for the war, then sure that will work as intended... but I think it's dishonest to pretend we are doing it for anything more "noble" than that
(That’s the joke.)
That's two blanket statements in one headline.

Google search is fast, accurate enough for the most users, very widely adopted.

GMail is fast, good with SPAM, free.

Google has some practices that might be considered as evil but this affects a relatively narrow list of people, it definitely doesn't "suck" for everyone. Lotus Notes, on the hand...
Regarding the "inefficiency" point, the combination of zkrollups and sharding should reduce costs dramatically on Ethereum. Rollups without sharding are already doing it to some extent.
Your friends and family won't judge you poorly for this. Don't worry.

Early in my career I lost a job at a startup and it also shook me up. I say "lost" because I asked if I was fired or laid off and they said I could call it whatever I wanted lol.

But yeah, basically, the head of the company had an inhuman work ethic and expected the same from his employees. I got in trouble for leaving work at 10pm on a Friday. I got in trouble for coming in late on the weekend because I was doing laundry. I got in trouble for spending time with my friends on my birthday (on a Saturday).

Basically, startups can be extremely unprofessional so if you get fired by a startup, it's no big deal.
Which is why we need more competitors in this space.

When you are an underdog, making something "better" even for no direct monetisation path, is an obvious win because it all creates more noise and attracts people to your platform. More noise = more business - but Google don't need more noise, they have all the attention they need, they are basically king, they just need to figure out how to milk it, which means the only intrinsic business force is direct monetisation paths... completely different incentives.
They view it as a feature, but for all the reasons this poster pointed out, the rest of us view it as an anti-feature.
It's substantially better than Google for what I do with it (mostly work-related queries). A few reasons why:

* It blocks all the GitHub and Stack Overflow copycat sites out of the box.

* I can add additional sites to the block list with two clicks.

* It up-ranks (semi-)official documentation like the Python docs or MDN over blog spam sites.

* I can manually up-rank sites (and even pin them to the top of the results) if I'd like to see them more often.

Kagi is awesome because where Google thinks it can guess what you want, Kagi gives you an easy way to tell it what you want.
The "all you see is all there is" fallacy is probably in play here; if respondents were asked about each minority individually, simply the fact that other minorities not named didn't come readily to mind could account for the obviously poor math here. If all the minorities were listed and the respondents were asked to estimate all of them at the same time, you'd see a dramatically different result. I suspect that similar over estimations would happen if you exposed a test subject to a chart showing the relative proportion of ten different quantities (eg, a chart partitioned into different sized regions, distinctly colored) then asked them to estimate one of the quantities without referring back to the chart. It's not so much an estimation problem as it is a limited working memory problem (the old "seven, plus or minus two" rule).
look up Opendoor’s buy with cash product. Turns every buyer into a cash buyer in exchange for the same commission as any other buyer agent (maybe lower?)
First off, nice work!

This seems like a reasonable fallback option but it's also a weaker one. By "most of the issues are non-technical", do you mean that you need special permission from someone like cloudflare to get "crawl rights"?
I want to live in the alternate 90's universe where a slim laptop with an alpha processor and Apple badge exists. RISC architecture is going to change everything!
LFP batteries don't handle below-freezing temperatures very well, but that could be mitigated by using insulation and water cooling/heating depending on the time of year. Also maybe hooking them up to a pre-heater system that gets the batteries up to temperature before their route begins. (Sort of like those oil pan heaters they use in really cold climates.)

Cabin heating could be done with a heat pump for more efficiency, I suppose. Heating could consume quite a bit of power, but I suppose compared to the energy required to move a school bus around it's probably fairly minor.
I was too young to remember how was it in USSR and left Russia roughly 10 years ago. It's hard for me to believe in 75%, even considering state propaganda. Maybe things changed, I don't know.

> Yet, there is no need to enthusiastically point to a next country. Almost all pointing to the same one is extremely suggestive of it being a genuine result.

We don't know how many people refused to answer.

Don't get me wrong, I think even 20% support is unacceptable, and my gut feeling tells me that it is higher than that. Just not 75%. However, sadly I agree that situation is bad and shock therapy may be necessary. We'll see if it helps.
I don't think this is limited to Russian oligarchs, I thought that because of its trust and crown dependencies system, London is a popular place for people to hide this kind of stuff. Russian oligarchs and other unsavory individuals like corrupt leaders in Africa, the Middle East and the developing world all dump their ill gotten gains into the opaque system away from prying eyes. The stuff you can actually see, like mansions in Knightsbridge are probably just the tiniest tip of the iceberg, everything else is held in such opaque ways that nobody even knows who it actually belongs to. It is so blatant that you couldn't really call it a dirty secret.
This is ridiculous. Linux, including Bluetooth, works great on regular PCs. In fact with Pipewire, Bluetooth on Linux these days is generally in better shape than on other OSes.
How many times are we going to have this conversation? Yes crypto is an asset bubble, alongside equities, real estate, precious metals, you name it. Money printer go brrrr, more dollars are chasing the same amount of Apple sells iPhones.

Crypto has no intrinsic value, it pays no dividend and doesn’t give you proxy rights, just like all the tech equities.

Proof of work burns a lot of electricity, though this is complicated because it drives up demand for renewables.

I also wish I had bought BTC when it was like a basis point, and if I had I’d be a booster instead of a skeptic, like everyone else.

Can we go back to arguing about Rust vs C? This horse has been flogged into quarks at this point.
I don't usually mail physical cash to online retailers when I make a purchase. The context of your typical cash purchase precludes most of the outlined scenarios where being able to undo a transaction is a desirable feature.
You're starting a fight you can't win here

Your base assumption of knowing or finding them is not strong

Crypto means you will always know who has your money and where it goes.

We can build systems around repercussions for crypto too.
You're suggesting invading a country to impose sanctions on individuals from a different country? This seems extreme and unjustified.
The funny thing is that while that number sounds like a lot, it would only be about 900 houses in places like Cali and NY.
Bitcoin is vastly worse than fiat. Like orders of magnitude. Bitcoin at this point isn't even currency. If it were, it would be in a cataclysmic deflationary spiral. Instead it's an investment vehicle. One backed by absolutely nothing. The Bitcoin market is 100% rents and 0% utility. Arguably negative utility because of the massive climate costs involved in mining. On the flip side, central banks managed to dig us out both a financial disaster and a pandemic and only now seeing inflation nudged a bit high. Fiat has massively outperformed crypto.
Who are these "war critics" you speak of? I presume you're talking about the people who oppose russia's invasion, but that seems like normal usage to me. For instance, if we were in 2003 and someone mentioned "war critic", I would interpret that as someone who was against the US invasion of Iraq, not someone who was supporting the war.
It was not suggested that he get drugs, i.e. go to a psychiatrist. That’s very likely to be immediately helpful. Therapists are crap shoots. Going out and meeting people is something this person could go out and do right now, that they have identified as the root of their problem. The analogy is by no means perfect but we’re talking “Oh, you have scurvy, why don’t you eat five oranges.” levels of direct cause and effect relationship here.

There are interventions that reliably have large positive effects on depression for many people. Exercise, sleep deprivation, ketamine. Therapy is great if you find a therapist who vibes with you but it’s the vibes that do it, not the therapy. That’s what the therapeutic relationship is about.

If you’re depressed and can manage to try something that might work immediately you should. Therapy is not that.

> Client perception: that the client perceives, to at least a minimal degree, the therapist's unconditional positive regard and empathic understanding.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therapeutic_relationship#:~:....
The result I got was a list, with maps and prices with an option to refine stay dates.

Not sure how that could be improved to be honest.

Next entry was a non-ad from Tripadvisor.
Hi, I understand your concern. Let me explain.

First of all, a GitHub app can only "act on your behalf" in the repository/organization where it's installed (which is only https://github.com/ByteLegendQuest). It has no permission to access any other resources outside.

When you finish the code challenges, you actually create a pull request on GitHub and trigger a GitHub action (which is opensource and you can examine the whole process). So "act on your behalf" means "invoke GitHub API to create pull request in github.com/ByteLegendQuest organization". The app won't and can't access any resources outside github.com/ByteLegendQuest organization.

I know the permission request looks a bit scary. But I'm an individual developer, using GitHub API/webhook/actions would be the easiest and cheapest solution for me.
The latter option is illegal though?

My understanding was you could legally move to the UAE for a time as a Canadian citizen and do what I described.

It seems easy enough to not have day to day operations in Canada during that time. This seems like a way better option than tax evasion and prison imo.
>> One of the biggest drawbacks for blockchain is that transactions can't be revoked after the fact (with the only exception being costly forks of the entire ledger), and there's no additional human oversight (like I'd get when sending a large amount of money through a bank) to protect me.

>> With crypto, a software flaw used to steal crypto can kill an entire company. They're largely powerless to stop it once the transaction has gone through.

>> With crypto, a xss attack or a misplaced password can cost me all of my coins.

>> With crypto, I have to triple check the address I'm sending coins to because I can't undo it.

>> With crypto, I have to spend what's sometimes a significant amount of money just to complete a transaction, and transactions can take minutes or hours to complete.

> You can transfer money to an escrow smart contract that reverts the transaction if a third party confirms malicious activity.

In practice, who would you trust with such significant transactions as a company though? If you want to get anywhere close to the level of protection that you'd get in the "old" system, you'd need to thoroughly vet both the smart contract and the third party to be sure that there are no additional bugs in the contract (after all, it's just software like anything else, so there can be exploitable bugs) and that the third party won't screw you over. Some sort of neutral third party that both the buyer and seller can trust due to being known for such trusted transactions...like a bank. How is this any different than what we have, just with extra steps?
curious - did your other employer know you had another job?
>Gp talks from a perspective of authority.

That's pretty much every poster on HN, TBH.
But bitcoin isn't being billed as a value-store like gold, it's being sold more as a replacement for payment systems like credit cards, ACH transfers, or PayPal.

There is a reason nobody goes around trading tiny bits of gold for goods and services. It is useful to have an abstraction that makes transactions easier and helps mitigate risk.
I mean this argument falls apart easily on the debate about use cases for crypto.

I'd stay away from making statements like this without backing them up.
> Banks won’t protect you from wire fraud.

They will if you didn't initiate the wire. If you typed the wrong account number then you are SOL, but that's true of BTC too.
However, 29% of Americans are non-religious: https://www.pewforum.org/2021/12/14/about-three-in-ten-u-s-a...
Thanks, issue created: https://github.com/ByteLegend/ByteLegend/issues/120
Yes! it did cross my mind, I was just more familiar with canvas API so I cracked on with it... but I suppose encoding a simple format like bitmap would be trivial, almost like being able to access the canvas pixel buffer but with a lower overhead.

This thread is a good perf test, I might give it a quick go.

Also as others mentions the pixelation style thing is now finally fully cross browser supported, which should make it easier to achieve nearest neighbour upscaling for url encoding.

[edit]

I underestimated how involved image format headers are!
Right, but the law doesn’t prohibit me from farming turnips*. It prohibits me from running a website without doing certain things. That’s what will be enforced, in escalating fashion up to and including violence.

If someone “asks” me to do something, they usually don’t mean “otherwise I will take your money and/or jail you”. But all laws have that threat, otherwise they wouldn’t mean anything. Hence why I take issue with saying the govt is “asking” us to do something - even though that thing is good and honorable, it’s still not an “ask”.

*well, I mean, there’s probably mountain turnip preservation zones or something, where it would prohibit me from farming mountain turnips.
That is circular reasoning. Bitcoin is also a collectable, with a fixed number of them (21 million) out there to collect.

Every investment we are talking about is only rare because the community that participates in it has decided they are rare. Otherwise there is nothing stopping me from taking a picture of a piece of art or trading card and reproducing it a million times.
Thanks. I created an issue here: https://github.com/ByteLegend/ByteLegend/issues/121
How big is your company? That’s ideal imo. Or have a meet up every month or two. Or have a quarterly week somewhere.
Perception does not equal reality.
Yeah, the similarity there was more of my point. Wire Fraud theft often happens by scammers that have hacked title companies and send emails with fraudulent account numbers to people expecting them.

Frankly banks also rarely help people scammed via other means (Venmo, Apple Pay, Zelle, etc.)
> The book Flash Boys

Is a hopelessly bad book. It's a thinly disguised advertisement for IEX.

> front-run

I do not think it means what you think it means.
hmm, which of these two am I drawn to:

>“Theory and practice of effective sleep”

>“Seven insights about sleep”

hmm, the first one sounds like an in-depth exhaustive text on the subject that if I have the time to read it I will definitely learn something from.

The second sounds like SEO listicle crap at least 5 of which insights will be really obvious things that only an idiot would need explained to them, 1 of which will sound deep and insightful but if I read the first text will turn out to have been misinterpreted and actually mean almost the obvious of what is supposed, and 1 of which might be slightly helpful.

I think I might want to read the first, but only if I really want to learn something about sleep, and I might read the second one for some reason at some point and immediately think why do I waste my time with this stuff.
>Crypto has no intrinsic value, it pays no dividend and doesn’t give you proxy rights, just like all the tech equities.

Tech companies return money to their investors via buybacks. Most investors prefer this as they get to choose when they get taxed.
Yep. Turns out paying talented and motivated people works.
Did you miss the part about waiting 18 months for a court date?

A legal contract is only as strong as the incentives to litigate it. Doesn't seem likely a contract would've helped, it may even have existed.
i think the other problem with crypto, is that all of those things sound like great solutions that either involve significantly more hoops for a user to jump through or are problems the modern banking system have already solved for most people. the point was to have a bankless future, which turned out to be something absolutely no one wanted, so now it's just banks but the money has no consumer safeguards whatsoever. I don't see how this becomes a product someone like my parents would use with any regularity, even if indirectly
You seriously care? Why did you get fired?

Two jobs is awesome. Was it easy to get that going and did they both know?
Imagine this defense to other crimes.

It's illegal to run over pedestrians, but I built my car without any windows, so there's no way for me to know who or what I might be running over!

Good luck with that!
People say the problem is google, but the real problem is content. All these new search engines are searching on the same space, filled with crap.
DigiLocker India's app for issuance and verification of documents gets 100M usrs
The diesel engines in the Thomas busses my school district had in the 90s would like to have a word with you. Those fuckers were always breaking down. lol.

Plus they smelled like death and produced gross amounts of black smoke.
Drummer is his current project:

http://scripting.com/2021/04/03/133021.html?title=theMakingO...
LFP doesn't use nickel or cobalt, which are usually the most expensive materials. Lithium prices will probably go up, but I don't think they're hugely significant yet. LFP cells also use plastic, iron, fertilizer (phosphate), and typically copper and aluminum. I think there's some graphite too.

Maybe there'll be some equilibrium price as manufacturing costs drop and material prices go up. It would be surprising though if LFP prices didn't keep dropping. (Especially retail prices, which seem to be around $300/kwh in the U.S.)
Tech equities have buybacks.
What’s your counterexample?
Unless they go under, then the money is just gone.
No, but they certainly have provided or paid for previously paid capital that allowed housing to be build.

Ofc, it might be better if everyone build their own houses like some slums around the world.
>If Putin wishes to attack them, than he'll be the one escalating.

So you want to send boots on the ground in ukraine. Presumably you also think doing so isn't escalatory. However, you also think if some of them get killed, it's putin that's escalating? That almost sounds like "if you get hit it's your own fault"[1] logic.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZSoJDUD_bU
Well, they certainly like to pay putler for its gas and oil while it repeats certain stuff from WW2.
That seems excessive unless the monitor also has Wi-Fi and future updates allow for wireless streaming/docking. Let’s see what ifixit find!
Then we should absolutely stop and do our best to reverse immigration. Under your model immigration is how 3rd world countries export their unsustainable behavior.
http://docserver.scripting.com/drummer/about.opml
Russia's invasion of Ukraine is being opposed by NATO, and they are fighting troops on the ground holding NATO-built weapons, NATO-built planes and controlling NATO-built drones. Possibly with training from NATO countries.

From the Russian perspective, I expect they already understand that they are at war with NATO. Since Russia can't "win" a war with NATO in any reasonable sense, it is really just a question of how scorched-earth they feel like going in defeat.
Yes, but in most cases the advice isn’t potentially catastrophically bad.
Here are what I found:

If you are in Montreal or be able to travel to Montreal from May-30 to Jun-02, RECON 2022 is going to present a lot of trainings.

If you are in EU, someone on HN mentioned Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam which has some excellent malware analysis classes.