skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No problem, I'll spell it out for you:

Calling a person who is dedicating his life and actually spending time in Africa a "digital colonist who is doing it wrong" based on some vague gut feeling is somewhat unhinged.

Not providing even a whiff of a suggestion as to "the right way" is not constructive. And doing all this whilst likely contributing absolutely diddlqysquat of value yourself is, to use your parlance, problematic.

Topping it off with pointing out his alleged western origins is flat out bigoted.

As for yourself, Star Trek-esque non interference is the morally superior path? You've tried nothing and you're all out of ideas? Certainly an interesting approach. Perhaps more of a peanut gallery ethos than a hacker one.

You could explain how on earth cryptobros factor into all this or offer any shred of specific concerns and criticisms you have with regards to the OP but that would involve actually reading the article and making an effort and that's not in keeping with your moral philosophy of doing nothing.
Excellent points. I'd suggest that even if the financial records are completely untraceable that policing would still be possible. Of course, it wouldn't be as easy as full transparency.

Perhaps I'm in a stage of paranoia when I think that all democracies are on a slow inevitable slide toward a China-like fully monitored economic system. Either with or without cryptos.
Seriously though... Maybe this is something that should be done.
> I don't recall last time seeing news on someone's bank account being hacked and drained, if anything its mostly family fraud.

Anecdote time. My wife and I have a shared checking account that got hacked and drained. First her debit card got skimmed. Then the perp called USAA a half dozen times claiming to be her and asking for account credentials. Finally they got a helpful account rep to reset the password, disable MFA, and tell them the username. Yep. You heard that right. Social engineering works even on bank tellers who should know better.

Fortunately it's just a daily use account and I'm paranoid, so there was only 5K they could access there. USAA owned up to the whole thing and restored the funds, but now they punish my wife with a 10-minute interrogation to prove her identity if she ever has to get them on the phone for a legitimate reason.
That's all well and good when the thieves are in the US or a country that will extradite them. What happens when the thieves are operating out of a country without an extradition treaty?

In the regular financial world you can at least reverse the transaction. With crypto, is there anything you can do?
This is awesome, and I didn't even think of looking on Wikipedia. Thanks!

(Post author here)
It seems to vary substantially for me. I'll get 2-3 spam calls a day for a week or two on my personal cell number, then nothing for several months, then they'll resume again.

One of the most annoying incidents was when I get new work cell from AT&T. It must have been a recycled number from someone who signed up for a lot of.... crap, because that phone got 10+ spam texts and 5+ spam calls every day I had it, from the moment I put the SIM card in a phone. Eventually had to get a different number from AT&T.
I had multiple arguments around situations like this.

There are essentially two camps. The one side says:

- You can sell for cash, use mixers, NFT sales, $other_sophisitacted_technology and get away with it

The other side argues:

- You won't be able to ever cash out this sum and law enforcement will use sophisticated data mining on the blockchain and will eventually bust you

I think in reality it is like any illicit asset worth $650 Mio. It's gonna be extremely hard to launder but not impossible.
That talk has been inspiration for me.
OSINT decoding Russian artillery strikes by listening in on radio communications
True, but you would think they’d notice $650,000,000 missing before a user reported an issue withdrawing $5,000 (edit - 5k ETH). It’s honestly so impossible to believe that I’d wager the real story is they knew and were actively trying to recover the funds.
But the attacker used 2 transactions. The first one should have been flagged immediately. Plus the servers themselves were compromised. Four of them. The attacker was able to take control of 4 different servers without even being noticed. This is just one massive secops fail.
You aren't insured for $650M in a bank account
Yup. I get as close to this as reasonably possible. For most of my classes the biggest grade is an ongoing project that you get multiple submissions for.

Where it's something "basic" like first year web design, I'm a huge fan of specs grading (and surprised that people take advantage of it) -- like

You get a 50% if there's a file on the server with the name "index.html."

You get a 60% if there is valid HTML on it...

on up to

You get a 100% if you have a fully responsive page with css and javascript that views differently on phones etc.

(and many people are fine with the 80 or 90 level)
> How were they storing the keys in such a way that they were accessible from the internet

It's almost always either phishing or insider help.
Is there some CCPA-style remedy where you can get every piece of information that went into your score?
Not by the way they charge.

If this is your viewpoint, I can only conclude that you're from an elte family born into money.

The rest of us go to uni to get a higher paying job and avoid wage-slavery and/or poverty.

And if this is you, ewww https://gfmsouthwest.org/ Academics, work and "jesus" have no place together.
I would love a great XML diff tool, and after seeing the demo of this I was sad to see XML not in there. Would pay for.
The only software most Windows PCs need out of the box is TinyWall (https://tinywall.pados.hu/)
He's also written this, basically warning about something like the very situation now happening 2 months ago: reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/rwojtk/ama_we_are_the_efs_research_team_pt_7_07_january/hrngyk8

The DAO "hack" was a bit different from this, around 14% of all Ether were in that contract. There isn't going to be another rollback, especially not for something like the here discussed attack. Trusting third parties is risky. It's like taking your money out of your bank account and sending it to a bank in Nigeria. Things can go wrong, the chain can't be rolled back every time someone loses money. People have to be more careful.
The entire point for many americans, is there is really no choice for the most part. It's either rural areas, suburbs or hyper expensive urban areas because building an urban city is effectively illegal in most of the USA, so the few legacy cities that still exist have extremely high demand. In countries where there is a choice, this debate hardly happens.

People who want their village life surrounded by farmland can go live in a small village with a train line stop and commute into the huge downtown city for work within 45 - 60 minutes. Look at berlin for example:

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Dabendorf,+15806+Zossen,+Ger...

"Move to another country" is a complete non-starter for most Americans too.

What Americans have done to their country is a fence sitting exercise that creates the worse of both worlds. Cities in Europe are smaller, more dense and the drop off into nature is significantly faster. When americans attempt to make something city like, they're noisy, dirty, traffic clogged and crime ridden because it's against the culture to make walkable, transit orientated cities that are significantly quieter, than an american car dependent 'city'. They still give themselves long commutes, but you get huge suburban sprawl that never really ends until your hours out, so you still don't get your log cabin lifestyle anyway.

By allowing cities to properly happen, you ironically create the conditions that make what you want more frequent and would still let you work close enough to a city core to actually make good money. A key issue with rural living is a bad income, because your too far away from other humans to make large productive groups than can make money.
My favorite implementation of a super fast but not that accurate cosinus is from a now defunct forum. Good thing we have webarchive ! https://web.archive.org/web/20111104163237/http://www.devmas...
No, $625M transfer out of a single bank account would raise tons of eyebrows. No way it’s authorized by some env vars.
Government institutions are some of the best places where centralized certificate handling/signing infrastructures shine.
It's worth pointing out that the 'vision' for formal education is that you show up, the teacher teaches you what you need to know, and then the grades are supposed to assess how well you learned the material that the teacher taught you.

I'm not claiming that it always works this way; a long-term transformative process isn't going to be as simple as "show up -> get taught -> git gud". There are substantial and structural issues with how formal education works - for example, it's well known amongst people who study education in the US that the single biggest predictor of your grades is the socio-economic level of your parents.

But please let's not forget the "teaching" part of education :)
Visa's marketing opt-out has been down for over a week. Is this a legal issue?
Can someone attempt to explain or speculate at what the attacker is doing with their wallet right now?

https://etherscan.io/txs?a=0x098b716b8aaf21512996dc57eb0615e...

As I write this at about 17:00 UTC, they seem to be doing lots of small transactions (about $1 USD), and they are coming "From" many different places, but only showing "To" the "Ronin Bridge Exploiter".

I don't understand this stuff well enough to see what it is they're doing, but I'm curious. I'd imagine they're working diligently to secure their rather large fortune...
They forget, freedom to be screwed is also freedom
Cloudless
I think that saying was updated to "even if you're paying, you're still probably the product"? No? There's some truth to it, but it's not as simple as these sayings suggest.
The email server typically does not contain key material. If you’ve ever interacted with the military or related contractors you may recognize this card: https://www.cac.mil/common-access-card/

That’s a smart card, containing a certificate that can be used to sign email, be used as a client cert for web access, etc.

Now, it has moved the problem to some extent, in that now you have to secure the CA that’s issuing these certs.
How would you phish my private key?
Russia is free to ban Microsoft Defender et al.
> but he can launder it like old school people used to and have some.

Crypto provides exciting new ways to do that, too. First send it through a mixer service. Then, invest in some new NFT project. Six months later, oh nice, someone bought your NFT for 10x what you paid for it. What a great investment.
You are arguing that it would be cheaper to pave every inch of remote god-forsaken farm backroads? Heavy rains and floods also do extensive damage to paved roads that can't be fixed by pushing some dirt around with a bulldozer. BTW, those bridges that service 35 vehicles oftentimes keep the more densely populated areas fed
Phoenix LiveView works great for this.
Why would a President know what a burner phone is anymore than they would know what a cutout means? I'd think heads of government would recieve executive summaries, not primers on tradecraft.
I seem to recall an article about a big org, probably in Finance, which took a serious look at the Excel Macro thing. Only a puny fraction of their employees, pretty much all in a couple specialized departments, actually used those. SO - outside of those few and their dept's, all macros were disabled/banned by fiat. Which allowed the relevant malicious-macro-prevention resources & training to be focused on those few.
Haha nope, we Badger roll here.
This isn't so different in the EU is it? Smaller countries don't want their needs ignored by the bigger countries so they get more seats relative to their population than big countries.

Maybe it's hard to imagine the United States of American to become 50 independent countries but isn't the way you keep them united is by promising the smaller ones that they won't be trampled on by the big ones?
Many of the things he says in that article bear no resemblance to how problems are solved in the modern era.

Nobody other than andrew seems to believe strongly that "transparency" is a required component of procedure calls.
Cool to see terminusdb is majority written in Prolog (Have fond memories of writing Prolog in Uni). Is this the most prominent open source Prolog project
Right-to-Repair Expert Explains How Customers Are Screwed over by Big Tech
Debian developers are not representatives. They were not elected, and they are not representing anyone's opinion other than their own. The elected positions in Debian are mostly administrative and any decision requiring voting goes to the developers as a whole, not just the elected officials.
Telegram is run by a citizen of St Kitts and Nevis. He escaped Russia after they beat down his door.
Venode: The missing child of Node.js and Deno
Venode is a node runner that supports deno features like vendoring and http imports!

https://github.com/Aslemammad/venode
Just a little updating here.

GMRS repeaters (which use the same receive frequencies as FRS channels 15-22 if your radio has them) do not strictly require identification (the Morse code you hear), but many do it anyway as good practice. Users ARE required to identify every 10 minutes of conversation (and at start of conversation).

It’s really fun to learn Morse well enough to catch these IDs. FWIW, GMRS licenses generally (always? I think) start with W, and are seven chars long; the first four are letters, followed by three numbers. Some idents follow ham conventions and are followed by “/r” meaning “repeater”.
The pro's of YC are staggeringly overweight in comparison to the cons. You trade 7% of your mostly-worthless startup for $500k and the YC network? That's such an easy decision.

You cannot literally connect with anyone through Linkedin or social media. It just doesn't work like that.
The US has historically, and continues to, invest a lot of money into improving or maintaining rural life. Without those efforts I guarantee there'd be fewer people living that way.
From TFA;

"While anger makes us certain in our righteous indignation, anxiety,
and surprise make us unsure of what’s going on and what will happen
next. And when we feel uncertain, we tend to fall back on what we know
to be true — namely, our own perspectives and feelings"
Voluntarily transferring money is very different from having it stolen. The bank should protect your money while holding it from theft. They can't protect you from your own decisions on how to use your money.
I wasn't commenting on OP's comment. I was commenting on yours.

Shouldn't assume people are acting in bad faith simply because you disagree. If OP's advice is as sound as you think, then it should stand up to scrutiny, not shrink from it.
Thanks! I have been inspired by Web Desktops of the past. It was indeed more popular about a decade ago. I am hoping it's having a resurgence.
I had the same pain points with Flask, so I built Flask Unchained to integrate many of the best extensions (IMO) to all work together out of the box in a reusable way:

https://github.com/briancappello/flask-unchained
In principle if you had enough desire among world governments you could plausibly try and legally force a blockchain fork.
Since cosine is even and periodic, you really only need like, up to x = 0 to pi/4 and the rest you can infer just from that data.
Show HN: A data-backed quiz to identify what city you should live in
Or malicious...similar to the DAO hack from 2017 suspected of being an inside job (with evidence pointing to the insider who lawyered up to refute it with code-is-law argument), somebody was accountable for security and they deemed it not worth it to secure it.

Axie Infinity was already struggling, and this happens a day or two away from scheduled distribution of rewards & update release.

Cui bono? Who could've known they were carrying funds in a hot wallet other than the people directly involved with the project? Unless there was a way to discover this from the outside?

Somebody at Axie Infinity could have been asking whether they want to get paid 0.025% of that hot wallet yearly or have it all up front, today. After all it isn't cash sitting at a bank they have to rob.
The sad thing is they are not a web3 company.

Someday the last post on their blog might be "we are proud to admit that we got acqui-hired" and it will all be because their customers, employers and investors left because of this blog post and the thinking behind it.

The management team should stop what they are doing now, remove this post from their blog and make a public apology to all their stakeholders.
It's only an open question to people who haven't actually looked into it. Yeah, criminals get caught trying to move around stolen cryptocurrencies all the time.
> The only way to apply the court’s judgement (in the case of ETH) is to hark fork, because there is no governance contract in place.

Courts can and do issue orders against any kind of asset in order to enforce justice and unlike smart contracts, their orders are backed by men and women with dogs and guns.

Put another way: a court will not say "gee, gosh, if only ETH had a mechanism I could give orders for! I guess I'm beaten". They will instead say "you owe $X and I will seize all assets you have today, or will ever possess in future, in order to pay that debt". And when it turns out that people thought they were clever by evading the court order by keeping everything in a coin, they will then learn that ethereum can't buy top bunk at the federal penitentiary if you don't have access to a computer.
That might have just been a standard bell-curve. If you got the best score, you might have been bumped up to 100%.
She was converting her Bitcoin into Monero first before laundering it. The weak point is converting the resulting crypto coins into fiat money.
A description of what you are supposed to be able to opt-out from on Visa cards is here:

"In some countries, Visa enhances card transaction data and uses it to generate anonymised and aggregated consumer spending and marketing reports and other data products that enable companies to improve their marketing efforts. These solutions help companies identify consumers that they can target."

https://www.visa.co.uk/legal/privacy-policy-opt-out.html
You have a legal system available, and banks that have to rigorously comply with that system.
The united states consumer protection twitter has been championing humor in this area
https://mobile.twitter.com/USCPSC/status/1478844214574305282?

I like your points about the necessity of humor and i think its the only way to the future for us without mass psychosis and cultural schizming. When biomorphic-engineered bird-drones can fly autonomously, and pigeons have been carrying IP for the ruling class for thousands of years, we are going to need some comedy to settle the #birdsarereal issue
Ah, true, coverage can be an issue. We were willing and able to pay out of pocket for tests, if needed.

So were they hesitant to do the test at all, or was it that they didn't know how to order it for your insurance to cover it? That would be a big difference in my mind. Most doctors don't fight having blood tests done if there's at least some rationale for why to do it. They're so common and low risk.

Yeah, I have had doctors just totally dismiss things when they know nothing about them (like saying things that are unsupported and contrary to new research). I have also had doctors say they didn't know but would do some research (good sign, but less common).
Can you also drop an explanation as to why OP deserves to be classified as a mzungu or is your classification automatic?
Replace Flask with Bottle.py. It's a single-file dependency (don't even need pip) and includes routing, and a templating engine. Super simple to prototype and iterate a backend API.
Indeed.

In my most challenging and valuable CS classes, the ones I think about still to this day, the grades were practically irrelevant. We spent most of our time looking over our solutions, talking about why one person did it one way and another person did it another way. We could tell when a solution was efficient or elegant, and when a solution was awkward or clumsy. And we all learned from it.

We never compared each other's grades. Honestly, I have no idea what anyone else's grade ever was. And today I have no idea what my own grades ever were. But when our project was up on the screen for the whole class to see, we knew right away where we stood relative to our peers. And that is every bit as true today in my work as it was back then.

"Un-grading" strikes me as better preparation for being a real-world contributor and, dare I say, leader, than grades.
I think the only reason at this point is a certain prolific member involved in it wanting Mono to still be a thing. They have recently left Microsoft though so I think it won't be long until .NET 6 and above is the only runtime rather than the duplicated effort that happens today.
I think I would want one written by someone else. It’d be more honest.
At work we are required to have EDR software by our accounting firm (accounts inserting themselves into IT is annoying). We were running Kaspersky as well until this happened though we were already unhappy with it so no loss.

Anyway it made me think: is there a way to roll your own EDR for Windows/Linux/BSD? Basically, can we do EDR without the EDR software?
Thank you very much! I am always trying to tighten up performance and use tricks I learn to make the UX better. I hope to keep growing it over a long time.
Sergey Brin: The Facebook phenomenon is a problem (2007)
Someone actually made a gif of that scene with those words at that point, during the bitcoin scaling debate (where some wanted the block size to increase and decentralization was being ridiculed as a spurious defense of the small size).

I’ll see if I can find it.
this is where they drop support for IE

https://reactjs.org/blog/2022/03/08/react-18-upgrade-guide.h...
'ungrading' is what used to be called remedial education.
So which accountant is going to be programming your node.js files?

There's a reason companies use excel.
“ The thing that really spins my head about this, is that since you never get concrete feedback on whether you're meeting the goals you need to meet, this system forces you into over-committing to the course.”

I think this is a problem in educaion in the N. America. What are these “goals” that your are potentially “overcommitting” to?

Nothing you produce in undergrad is of any value except to advance your knowledge. The grade isn't the teacher’s payment for good work, its an assessment of how well you’ve mastered the topic.

Seen this way, you know how well you’ve mastered a subject even if you get nothing back.
It's like neo beatnik philosophy or something
Regarding styled-components and many similar CSS-in-JS libraries, I don't think there are any breaking changes currently with React 18, but it does seem like the writing is on the wall that React intends to not support libraries that inject styles into <style> tags, or at least has some specific rules these libraries need to follow to avoid performance problems. See this discussion: https://github.com/reactwg/react-18/discussions/110
Banks won't reverse transfers depiberately initiated by the account holder. You would have had to go through the legal system to get your money back.

But that's a different case than money being "drained" from an account by someone else.
Thanks! That was indeed a goal of mine to throw in the kitchen sink. I hope to keep adding things as I discover cool things and learn new tricks.
>This parenting style is growing in popularity and I don't think it's a surprise that we now see an epidemic of kids with mental health problems.

Mmm, let's ignore the profound changes in society, as well as the life-altering technologies... Yeah, being nicer to your kids is making them fucked up.