skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As usual on HN there are a lot of useless comments in this thread that are ill-informed dunks on cryptocurrency, but the real story of what happened is actually about the hazards of not using a blockchain.

The system that was compromised was a "proof of authority" chain. These are different from proof of work or proof of stake chains that have hundreds or thousands of distinct validators. In a "proof of authority" chain, a usually small number of nodes, often run by closely associated entities have control over the chain. This is not a trustless system, and it does not have the same security and decentralization aspects that people usually associate with a blockchain. I would argue that it is not different than a trusted third party custodying the money.

In this case, the system was especially egregiously abused in that 4 of the "validators" were actually controlled by the same entity. This then required the hacker to compromise only two systems to steal the money.

The hacker is guilty of theft, but Axie Infinity, in my opinion, is guilty of falsely advertising their system as a blockchain.
When we raise concerns about crypto’s riskyness, people like you show up and say “investment involves risk” and frame crypto as a speculative investment. Then when you’re gone someone else will show up hyping Bitcoin/Ethereum as a currency that will change the world, which implies that it is or will be stable enough to use to pay for goods and services (as opposed to being a vehicle for speculation).

Our frustration stems from our inability to get both of you in the same room to duke it out once and for all.
> sending screenshots of your computer usage to marketers?

That's exactly the point, and it doesn't even matter whether it does that well (or whether any of that data is valuable), as long as marketers keep believing the illusion that it is.
It does use Horner's rule, but splits the expression into two halves in order to exploit instruction-level parallelism.
You should call it pg_pg
> The authors are not kind to economists, who typically want to put a price on emissions and then let markets do the work. Economists have, the authors allege, skipped a chapter in the textbooks. They have focused on externalities, the damage done to society when carbon is emitted. But they do not think about the elasticity of demand—the extent to which prices change behaviour.

This completely misunderstands the point of setting a tax precisely at the rate of the externality. If a good is taxed at its true, global, long-term rate of externality, then the externality, the damage being done, is precisely being paid for. There is now no longer a net externality. If the tax means demand switches to a product without that externality, then good, problem solved, and if instead people still prefer that good to the alternatives, then they can just go ahead and pay for that good plus the tax that pays for the externality. If this isn't good enough for you then probably the problem is you think the price is being estimated wrong, in which case you shouldn't be complaining about there being a tax, you should complain that the rate it is set at is incorrect.

I also think the inelasticity of demand claim is mostly bogus; it's inelastic on short timescales but there is plenty of momentum to switch to electric cars and renewable energy even at undiscounted price points. Electricity generation in particular is extremely price sensitive; it's just that with cost trends that cover literal orders of magnitude the crossover point was always going to seem like a sudden event.
While the idea is interesting, I imagine this would increase the friction in team interactions. And if everyone in the team have their own "manual" (which is only fair), you pretty much need a cheat sheet just to keep up. To me, that takes away the spontaneity in interactions, which is something I'm sure we all sorely miss after two years of lockdowns.
They'll lose their case if all they did was call you and make a demand. Expecting them to show up in person in some capacity and show you the paperwork is fully reasonable. For a while they mostly operated with letters and sometimes registered mail but that can be faked also.

Look, if you want to preserve your rights you've gotta stand up for them.
As i mentioned on another thread[1], that's one of those American things that really don't make any sense after spending more than a few seconds about it. There is no legitimate excuse for things to be this bad. The best I've heard is that paying taxes being hard is good because it reminds you how much money you give the government, so you are more attentive how it's spent, but it doesn't really make sense either.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30842175
Any plans on open-sourcing the code? I'm not sure if your intention is to build a business using it (or, if you were, using AGPLv3 might help prevent third-parties from unfairly competing with you), but I'm sure a number of people would be interested in trying to run this on their own hardware, building their own personal index, hacking on it to add features they find interesting for themselves, or otherwise just learning something by taking a look under the hood (I'm probably in this category myself).
Usually I'm on /g/ threads pretending to be hacker news, but this time the script got flipped :D
Make a lot of friends, buy up the tickets together, and split the winnings.

Applied another way, everyone in a given class of YC should share a bit of ownership with everyone else in their YC class, and then everyone of them is likely to end up a millionare.
It's just a hobby for me. An outlet to learn tech. Maybe one day it could lead to something, but I prefer to focus on the fun stuff about it for now.
Some of the GHC performance bugs that we ran into during the research have been fixed as far as I know! Though I'd have to double-check
Doing the next step of the root cause analysis leads to "Intuit lobbied Congress and the IRS hard enough that they passed a law, and the IRS conspired to change their procedures".
The problem isn't one of technology but one of procurement processes. Electronic voting is largely a solution in search of a problem (purely manual processes work fine for tallying votes), and so the field is dominated by bad actors selling whatever to clueless politicians.
I don't even understand the concept of voting on workdays. WTF. This is a sacred thing! Especially if you want citizens of all horizons participating (and I want people from all sides to check on each other - without being too disruptive by default... I mean there's a process for reporting and all - doing it on a weekend is a minimum.

See, no need for fancy tech. Paid officials and unpaid volunteers manning everything.
It's handled for your with a library like react-router.
I think off-zero Taylor series along with lookup table should be at least tried. You can approximate cos(x+a) using only cos(a) and sin(a) and the series converges really fast
Yeah tagging is definitely a weak point as the current focus is on search. I just removed the tag requirement.

If you're submitting a blog and we don't already have a tag that fits, you can add it to the "Notes" section.
> Financial markets are not a level playing field; some people will always have faster computers or better resources or more money to spend on research than others,

This is wrong. Being better than someone else doesn't make the playing field unlevel.
The original Wired links are:

https://www.wired.com/2012/07/ff-kaspersky/

https://www.wired.com/2012/07/kaspersky-indy/
> Regardless, we can argue limitations on what is possible in the past from surrounding evidence

We can, but none of that is verifiable. We can come up with hypotheses and test them. We can look at literature which observed things in the past or make truth claims and evaluate them based on evidence.

> Speed of light, river erosion, uranium-lead dating, etc. are very sound in describing what we see around us, you'd need to explain why they don't suggest sound limitations on the past.

I am not aware of any particular claims which argue the veracity of relative measurements (say, maybe river erosion, since I'm not familiar with that).

> It's not that scientists can be incorrect in concluding ages from these tools,

My issue really has more to do with the scientists which demand you accept their theories and laugh off "supernatural intervention" when at the end of the day the vast majority of what they believe is based not on fact but on conjecture (blind faith?). They laugh off one religion and replace it with another.
I should add small point for a story, you pobably wont not realize right solution after initial research. please use expert to check prepared idea and repeat on fail:

1. search with advanced tools or scripts that you wrote to find concrete answers in the code.
2. draw graph of knowledge what youu have, steps, undersand how these knowledge may help to resolve an issue.
3. go to reviewer with the plan.
4. if expert make dicision you plan will not work, then repeat step 1.
5. you may implement fix for an issue.
They did, because they got beat and had to retreat from Irpin. But there is fresh armor sitting in Belarus right now waiting for orders. Claiming de-escalation is perfect moment for regrouping.

https://mobile.twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/15087878472...
How do you know a range is zero indexed? (As in how is it stored in your brain)
I'm not a fan of this.

There are two theories for why school improves outcomes for students:

1. Human Capital Development Theory: School improves students.

2. Signalling Theory: School ranks students.

Both predict that students with higher quality of certain traits (intelligence, self-discipline, social skills) that lead them to all kinds of good outcomes: higher income, donates more, votes more, less likely to experience crime, less likely to commit crime, more likely to marry, less likely to divorce, more friends, etc.

My opinion is that's schools ability to achieve the above comes 20% from HCDT and 80% from Signalling. Reading, writing, and arithmetic make up nearly all of HCDT.

In our society, it seems you're only supposed to acknowledge HCDT. From the perspective of HCDT, this policy of not grading work makes sense. Other feedback is more valuable, and has more room for nuance. The grade is redundant.

But I do acknowledge that Signalling is part of the equation, and believe it provides the majority of the affect. From that perspective, this policy prevents ranking from happening. To make up for that, we will need to extend school even longer just to get the same amount of the long list of good outcomes.
well that is not true.

no code was ever broken with .net 2.0, .net 3.0, .net 3.5, etc. .net was just mostly binary compatible, most often source compatible, but basic syntax never broke, the api/runtime often broke, but that is a different matter.

i.e. why .net core broke a lot of stuff was not syntax it was most often that libraries changed/were missing.

java's runtime was mostly source/binary compatible compared to .net, but thats why a ton of stuff was never used, like http client/serve lul..
We already do know, however, that the US has no shame "asking" US run companies for their customer's data without due process, and that this has been going on for every large US tech company. So I don't see the logic.

You talk about assessing risk, but we know from the Snowden leaks that the risk in this matter in the US approaches 100% as the size of your company increase. What degree of risk is higher than 100%?
Would be really nice to have code md syntax in Google docs. The simple formatting is not such a game changer
> Not all governments are good and even good governments can implement bad policy.

Indeed! Many governments are truly awful. And it's a deeply complex problem to solve. The strategy of "screw it, let's just bypass the laws when I feel like it" is deeply troubling. And I think you needn't look further than the fact that so many despots have wholly embraced Bitcoin: Bukele, Putin, Kim Jong-un, Erdogan, Maduro, Assad, etc. Why do you suspect that is? Are they just clueless dummies who're getting fleeced by the Bitcoin pumper geniuses?

The problems with corrupt governments is the lack of accountability via regulation and legal redress. The solution is increasing accountability—often a difficult problem, no doubt. But advocating for crypto as the solution, is advocating for the harms done to people to be anonymized, and ultimately made unaccountable. That's a Very Bad Idea™.
Who would you even give the data to if they are closed? Fax it over the the courthouse if you are concerned, or tell them it's at your location ready for pickup. If they are legit that won't be a problem.
There are some instances of real data taking much more than 6,389 seconds to travel. Voyager 2 was contacted in November 2020[1], being at the time 18.8 billion km away from Earth. Light takes about 62,000 seconds or 17h25m to travel this distance… each way! Almost a 35-hour ping.

Voyager 1 is further away and still sending data, although I don't think that it has received commands for a very long time.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2020/11/04/voya...
There is a way to win: have new options default to off, requiring active opt-in.
> If people were really incentivized to do their best work, I imagine we'd get a better world.

Assuming wages are a function of the free market. And the less mobile people are, the less job-applicants exist, and the higher wages need to be to poach. Incentivizing for good work might have diminishing returns after a certain point.
That is precisely the point. You have to add more stuff on top.
One thing to mention is that DynamoDb and Postgres are vastly different databases, so the migration won't be a simple "dump and restore".

You're right - it will be a daunting task, but one that only becomes more daunting the longer you wait.
If you make the migration to Hertzner + self-hosting (even just to pure Postgres), I'm certain you will see huge savings. It's hard to give exact numbers without knowing your workload, but feel free to reach out if you want to step through the numbers. We're not one-eyed about Supabase, but we feel that Postgres is a solid choice for your core-OLTP workloads. We love seeing more businesses adopt it. It's good for the ecosystem, and good for open source in general
You’re welcome. Keep rocking!
The point being here, is that these companies do not "own" these citizens. Citizens have the right to vote. And they can vote on laws. And if companies want access to these markets, then they should follow these valid laws.

If you want to talk about the benefits and drawbacks of these laws, thats fine. But please do not phrase it as if these companies are being forced into slavery.

Because that is an absurd framing, because those citizens are fully within their right to set consumer protections, for what is required of companies, if they want access to certain markets.

Law makers, and everyone else, would love to talk about the benefits and cons, to consumers for these laws. Please enter the conversation, and actually talk about that, instead of pretending like these corporations have some moral right to access certain markets, above and beyond the wishes of those citizens who vote on valid consumer protections.

We are not "taking them from companies". Instead, citizens are putting up valid consumer protections and requirements for access to their market, that does not belong to these corporations.

And these corporations can decide to either follow these laws, or leave the market, because those markets do not belong to them.
> Seems like a pretty good incentive to focus on actual improvement and not just now to get a better grade.

Well that's great, but it doesn't help me when I also require the good grade, because the system still works around GPAs.
Chrome for iOS is Safari with a skin on top
This is my favourite genre and I think the photos are quite nice.
> The best I've heard is that paying taxes being hard is good because it reminds you how much money you give the government, so you are more attentive how it's spent

The argument I've heard is that so righteous indignation over the "staggeringly high" taxes "stolen from the hardworking American people" or whatever. This is one of the same arguments as to why sales taxes shouldn't be included in the shelf price of an item or service.

Except it doesn't work. People can be mad about taxes regardless of whether they're easy or hard to file. (Paying taxes is straightforward; the vast majority of us have it done for us from our paychecks every interval.) And where I live, public votes to raise the sales tax for various projects, often public transit, rarely if ever fail.

It seems to me just to be an excuse to not actually deal with our busted as hell tax collection system because that system benefits people who themselves have an excuse to rile people up about taxes.
There are no relevant legal restrictions on the NSA behaviour. We know that the NSA breaks the law without any consequences. This idea that Western intelligence is any less corrupt and morally bankrupt, and indeed any less willing to interfere with people outside their borders as anyone else is frankly entirely ridiculous.
It is quite possible to do them yourself especially if your taxes are relatively simple - and in a lot of other countries you'll just be mailed a bill or credit depending on how much your withholding was along with a receipt to review if you think they messed up somehow. American and Canada are held hostage by tax software lobbyists though.
Forcing WhatsApp and iMessage to Work Together Is Doomed to Fail
TLDR: exploring new ways of doing things or optimising for developer experience is stupid.

"The entry barrier to programming needs to be high!"
GPT-3 is starting to remind me of SCP-914. Give it an input, and its millions of tiny wheels churn and it produces something like what you want, but otherwise quite unexpected.

Let's hope it doesn't turn into something like SCP-079...
There is a long-standing idea in American political thought going back to James Madison that the centralization of capital in too few hands poses a danger for democracy.

In the Gilded Age, Congress passed the Sherman Antitrust Act and later created the FTC.

In 1941, Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis wrote: “We can have a democratic society or we can have the concentration of great wealth in the hands of a few. We cannot have both.”

Then in the 1970s the Supreme Court nerfed the Sherman Act, and it's all been downhill from there.
Idk. I think the IRS gets the better end of the stick here. They have you tell them how much you owe. If you report more than they knew about great they made money. If you tell them less than they knew about, then they'll audit you assuming the difference is large enough (and there being a high likelihood of winning)
You are right, but I cannot come up with a reason why I would want to have no physical connection to my laptop - atleast not until we get true wireless power. At that point I can see the idea in that I can leave the laptop in my bag and use the keyboard/mouse/screen combo on my desk when at home. That will be convenient.

But true wireless is something people actually want, so of course that is not going to happen.
Crypto is a touchy subject here, so if I am a bit harsh on the people that ruined their lives by putting all their eggs in one crypto basket... I was prepared for it not to go well. Although I think some misunderstood my comment as blaming the victim, which was not what I meant. But that's ok, I'll try to phrase it better next time.
Thank you Mark for your selfless work to push this project forward. RTK Toolkit was an absolute game changer and has been a foundation that our product would suffer immensely without.
The school I went to did the same with stripped identity. No logo clothing, everyone got the same haircuts. Kids on punishment “learning experience” wore either a bright Orange shirt or red shirt with the words “learning experience” or orange jumpsuit with “runaway call 911” written all over it.

We didn’t have access to anything like music, computers, phones, etc. The only contact we had with the outside world was through supervised parent phone calls, supervised doctor visits (only if you absolutely had to go off-site), and supervised on-site family visits once you were promoted to strength.

Excel’s program was rooted in AA which they claimed didn’t require a higher power or religion, only a belief in a higher power outside of yourself.

It was an incredibly controlling environment. The amazing thing is, even in such a place I managed to form some good memories and forget a lot of the bad. I immersed myself in schoolwork, and duties like working in the kitchen which was an enjoyable outlet since I like cooking.

At the end though, I guess I was just one of those who faked their way to the top (strength) as I was one of the fastest students ever to reach the appropriate level, but I hid my unhappiness and disagreement with their methods and refused to return as soon as I turned 18 and had my first off-campus visit.
I like them for the most part, but FTU tricked me this year by forcing me to upload certain forms for a state EV tax credit, and then just completely ignoring those uploaded forms and not sending them to my state tax agency. I only noticed it because I went over the final packet of state tax forms and noticed the ones I uploaded weren't included.
the other factor that is not considered is that while the crime happened in the US, there is no single culture in which employees are from, considering immigration, early experiences etc.

the standards that people in a society hold can linked to the level of corruptions in said society and what is ok is vastly different. The temptation is the same, but not the reaction to it....
I'll be honest, I read this comment last night and wanted to revisit it as I haven't heard Siouxsie's version.

What makes you enjoy it more?
Are the white pages a thing in the States?

I mean I want to call some entity in the US that doesn't have its number on a website, how do I do that now in a non emergency situation? Is there any reason that wouldn't work in an emergency?

This doesn't seem like an actual problem anyone has ever had.
That's giving "plausible" quite a workout. (Um, that is, unless by "ocean" you mean "something liquid", not "liquid water". Even then, though, the scientists seem to be leaning toward "shush" rather than "liquid".)
The consensus model of the database isn't relevant when the bridge contract itself was what signed off right?

Isn't the issue that the keys were just for signing that transaction for that contract?

Or did they really compromise 5 of 9 nodes for the entire blockchain? If it was this, it still doesn't suggest that was really necessary and only coincidence. It is just a fine to compromise funds on a centralized blockchain as long as you can get the funds over the bridge before the validators pay attention to block it, that's pretty common too. A flight to security.
I think "very easy" is relative. How do you get the whole world to agree to participate in the blacklist (or even to be aware of it)? If you don't, then obviously it will remain possible to tumble/launder the coins.

By comparison, if PayPal decides to freeze your account, that's it, the end, those funds are frozen unless and until you successfully run the corporate supplication gauntlet.
Thank Grover Norquist for that. Arguably he has had far more effect on this than the pittance Intuit has spent buying politicians.
what ever happened to the plan for chrome to get its own certificate store, anyway? It was announced a while back but never happened

feels like it would be a good thing especially for old android devices (although at least one can use firefox which does have its own store)