skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It ended up being worth billions, but at the time of the back years ago, Bitcoin was much less valuable than it is now.
I took a quick scan of your articles and I love what you are doing. They were very clear. I will definitely come back for more.

When reading the news, I’m often not searching for “facts”, but instead I’m trying to understand the “facts” from the perspective of people I disagree with.
I haven't read the whole thing yet but could the gov recreate Monero? Or just fork it? It seems like they already did the work to do a privacy respecting digital payment system, why re-invent the wheel.
GGP is still 4 orders of magnitude off.
That wasn't defi. That was a more traditional exchange hack.
The amount that was stolen in that case is worth billions now, but at the time of the theft it was only a couple million. It has since increased in value which led to the “billions” headlines.
>Funny how Biden became President, and now Russia is invading Ukraine to maintain their stranglehold on Europe's energy supply, and all the pro-Russian bot accounts on Twitter and Facebook that were repeating the "Hunter's Laptop" and "But Her Emails" stories to divide and conquer, suddenly vanished.

It's not "funny." It makes complete sense. Services for .ru accounts are being suspended around the world.
Thermador Gas Cooktop 30" Stainless Steel SGSP305TS [1]

I was not planning to spend that much, but I'm glad I did. I was replacing an obsolete 32 inch cooktop, which had a roughly 31.5 inch cutout in the counter. I found out that this 30 inch cooktop actually covers about 31 inches of counter, more than any of the others that I saw. I epoxied a stainless steel shim to narrow the opening on the far side of the cooktop. It looks good and works well.

I chose this model in particular since it has a high power center burner. With a lightweight steel wok you can make great stir fry with good temperature control.

https://www.thermador.com/us/products-list/cooktops-rangetop...
My guess is that I read it in a book by Robert Sapolsky titled Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers, but I won't reread the book just to give you the exact page number. It could also be one of the youtube talks by him where he go through epigenetics.

What I will do is a simple web search: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18197594/ and https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6463748/

To quote the later study: "Given that risk for diabetes and its complications is linked to both genetic and environmental factors, it is not surprising that there are now more than 1,000 articles that address the intersection of diabetes and epigenetics or epigenomics"

The case study that I remember was studies done on Indigenous populations when they got introduced to a west-style diet by being integrated into west society. The following generations had higher rate of type 2 diabetes compared to children of existing demographics. There has also been a plentora of studies done on children born after the dutch hunger winter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgenerational_epigenetic_i...), where one of the finding was increased risk of glucose intolerance in adulthood.
Require police stations to register their callback number for EDRs. Require a response before releasing information.

You still have the issue of vetting each police station, but you can do that once before the EDR comes in. Then when the EDR comes in, you call that number, confirm the details.

It can still be hacked, but not nearly as easily as a random officer's email account.
Integrated circuit qbits and readouts operable at surprisingly "high" temperatures.
> Somehow there were ways to get this done before websites existed

Ah yeah, because fake subpoenas didn’t work before the internet existed?

> I do not believe that those channels for government no longer exist. If they choose to make themselves impossible to locate offline, this is on them.

Who says they ever existed? Back in the pre-internet days the situation was just worse.

Even the federal government can’t manage this, just look at misissuances of .gov domain names.
When I was in university for engineering I didn't get a choice which classes I took. You took the classes that were part of your degree. You also didn't get a ton of flexibility in when you take a course. Courses were generally offered once per year as all students would progress at the same rate.
My experience is that there are a lot of synergies to be leveraged. It's almost ridiculously easy to start a successful startup in a place like Nigeria or Ghana which either:

- Providing things Nigeria excels at to Western markets (e.g. the same types of call center models India started out with a few decades back).

- Launch services in Nigeria common in Western markets but not yet there.

- Integrate Western and African models

Those sorts of things tend to benefit everyone involved on both sides of the pond. Compared to, for example, making web frameworks, there is a lot more low-hanging fruit. Silicon Valley has an almost unlimited supply of people wanting to do startups for people like themselves. This leaves many other markets under-tapped.

In terms of fostering local entrepreneurs, that happens naturally. Look at China, Taiwan, Korea, or Japan. They started with this model, at which point locals noticed they could do the same better and cheaper themselves, while retaining more profit. India is about half-way there now. It's very hard to foster entrepreneurship by telling. It's very easy by modeling.

China, Korea, Taiwan, India, and Japan never turned into Western colonies, as you're predicting.
Operating systems, the middleman for computer data – Explain OSes like I’m 5
This is a fascinating list. I wonder if it would make a cool open-source project to automate much of this analysis and package it as a tool that journalists and others can use for investigatory purposes.
This is not a better way of making apps. Or a worse way. In solutions there is no such thing as good or bad—only more and less fit for the problem.

If your problem and requirements are such that you will always be outside the part of the solution space that SPAs are meant for, HTMX and progressive enhancement are great. If not, you may discover the transition like a boat discovers the transition between water and ice.

If you don't immediately know the shortest path from your requirements to that transition, but you're sure that SPAs are Bad and this is Good, please take a moment to consider why you think that.
"Hacked" makes it sound like they had security measures against theft.

I wonder how good their security was? (Also, could an insider have done it.)
It's how Facebook originally (still?) used react.

Anything works that way as long as it doesn't come with a built in router and you are careful not to accidentally bundle two different versions of your runtime.
You're not counting tax or insurance? And what kind of mortgage is that? Usually early payments are dominated by interest.
Pagerduty does something kind of interesting - they create a contact on your phone with all their possible outbound numbers so you can allow them to ring through.. would be cool if other apps could do this without needing access to read every contact in your address book (at least on iOS).

It still doesn’t solve the problem of someone unexpected calling you though, or someone for whom you don’t know the number..
People can do great harm or completely eliminate a corporation via many methods:

- Investors/banks can refuse to finance a bad corp

- Legislatures can regulate it into oblivion

- Justice departments can break it up

- Employees can refuse to work there

- Consumers/Advertisers can refuse to purchase/use its products

Overthrowing a government in contrast typically has a single method: a bloody revolution.
The people discussed in this article are absolutely capable and willing to pick up phone calls.
It is ok until new hardware is purchased that won’t run on the older kernels. For pure VM stuff, the 2.6.32 s fine (Go supports it without patches) but the newer kernels have much better scheduler and other cpu optimizations. I saw about a 25% efficiency gain from upgrading to 4 series kernels after specter etc.
With the exponential lowering of the costs of wind power, solar and storage that band should increase every year right?

South Australia sits at 25 to 37 degrees south. The longest HVDC line (in China) is 3300 km, that is 30 degrees.

Based on existing HVDC lines and South Australian circumstances we can say that we should reliably be able to supply somewhere up to 55 to 67 degrees from the equator, in general. Do you know what is at 66 degrees north? The arctic circle. That is how far north we end up.

This is not even considering that closer to the poles the wind resources are much better, especially in winter time.

The 4 million people living north of the Arctic circle might have a harder time. But it would seem that it is a trivially easy to solve edge case when the rest of the world has a solution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_Circle#Human_habitation

This of course discounts any geopolitical concerns, which makes it harder. But on a US or EU continental scale we easily have the technology today.
Trivial for someone who is suspicious and cares, sure. But that is not _prevention_ by any stretch. People still get phished via email every single day. I wish I could rely on something more robust than just the services I use being extra careful.
If search is free, then you are the product. Now if there was a paid search engine, and you were the customer, you would expect customer service, customization, no ads, privacy protection, etc.
In theory you could automate it, but that would require a different architecture.

It's honestly pretty stupid that email is being used for this instead of having a secure portal which could include things like RSA hard tokens, or even just passwords with 2FA would be a step up. Nothing is fool proof, but this sort of stuff is common with other sensitive information like finance.
JDBI is pretty slick. We used it as a previous company. Previous experience was with Hibernate, lower level JDBC, and some other half baked proprietary ORMs.
This is exactly why I use you.com -> Reddit, SO, Github, they are all integrated already
I think Rails is the best fit for this, alternatively something like SvelteKit + Supabase (the latter if you need a db).
> make sure all funds are recovered or reimbursed

Does anyone know if they have the liquidity to actually reimburse over half a billion?
Wouldn't it be better if federal government would open a service for handling all EDRs nation-wide, and then forward the legit ones to the IT companies as needed? It would simplify the verification, maybe scare some hackers away because it'd become a federal crime to fake it, and also allow for some stats on how many such request are really urgent, and how many (I presume a lot) are just used to circumvent the law because courts would reject them.
HTMX has quite a few before/after events that you can respond to:

https://htmx.org/reference/#events
So close to April (greater) fools day. Who on earth is going to fill that $600M black hole? (No one.)

Or is someone going to reverse the Ethereum blockchain this time? (No one. Not even Vitalik this time.)

So I don't think there is anything going to save them from this hack.
I wish React removed all the compatibility code it has with Internet Explorer and the likes and worked on minimising the weight. Also the synthetic events reactivity system seems a bit outdated.

https://www.solidjs.com is quite awesome but lacks the React ecosystem.
My experience of two games going free to play, PUBG and Rocket League, is that in the former 100% of games now have cheaters in and in the latter ~25-40% games have people playing on fresh accounts to keep their rank artificially low.
> The validator key scheme is set up to be decentralized so that it limits an attack vector such as this

Even now, when it's obvious to everyone that only two parties needed to be compromised for this to happen (4/5 compromised nodes were effectively under one party it seems), they keep calling it "decentralized". Apart from the lack of gifs, memes and emojis in the post, I have a hard time coming up with a worse response.
Ask HN: How do you visualize calendar time?
I often have difficulty keeping track of upcoming dates and effectively understanding where the current day fits in relative to previous and future dates. One recent symptom of this is when it didn't occur to me during the last week of February that my March 2 plans were for the following week. Some time ago I started using a wall calendar instead of just a digital calendar and that's been a noticeable improvement in my time tracking, but since I only see one month at time, it still failed to prevent that Feb - March issue. Shortly after that happened, I bought a second wall calendar so I could see two months at once.

One thing I've noticed with the physical wall calendars is that it allows me to associate a date with a location (eg. third row down on the calendar). This makes it easier to mentally anticipate upcoming events since I have a general sense of where today falls on the calendar and what I've thought about for the time associated with the nearby area. Thinking about events that aren't in the current or following month though puts me back at square one. I don't have a place to visualize them and I'm not aware of approaching them unless I look ahead on the calendar or until the event falls on the following month.

Something I'm considering is trying to apply the method of loci memorization technique to the calendar for a year. That way I could visualize a real or imaginary linear landscape where each location is associated with a month and day. I'm not great at visualizing things though and have always found the method of loci difficult to implement, so I'm skeptical of how well I could get this to work for myself.

In thinking about this, I'm reminded of the recent post on HN about how someone visualizes numbers [1]. I imagine people with more active or capable visualization abilities might have a similarly effective approach to conceptualizing time.

How do you visualize calendar time?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30539292
Over half a billion in assets and..

> We discovered the attack this morning after a report from a user

Fuck me.
> Every year is a point of no return, it's an adage that has lost it's original meaning.

The hole might be too deep to get out of it, so let's keep on digging down.

> On the other hand, there may come a point where clean energy is so abundant that it hardly matters anymore.

It still matters, even with free energy I wouldn't want to live in a place where it's miserable to take a walk.
So to understand it better are those devices like a hardware crypto wallet like Ledger?
But Ukraine is under martial law. Wouldn't that effectively mean every civilian would be treated as military?
From what I see, this system is supposed to run independently of centralized servers, so as long as you can make some small amount of electricity eventually, it will work.

If that is not possible, then you have bigger problems to worry about and no more printing presses either, so humanity will make some alternative fairly quickly.
Best I can do is bus seats so narrow that you can't sit two 5'6" men comfortably side by side.
The unwritten policy in many math departments is that if you get an A on the final you get an A in the class.
I see its more fair to compare to AJAX...then I'm curious in what ways does liveview create "magic" over HTMx here, to my knowledge the mechanics here with HTMx seem a lot simpler and less bloat doing the same things.

With LiveView, it seems to be just sending application state up and down the websocket wire, does HTMx not do this as well if it was setup that way with WS?
Remembering things about them like a birthday is a really good idea. Thanks!
I slightly revised it based on feedback from this thread here.
If you have a legal system, then breaking my lock is unlawful intrusion, and if you take something from behind my locked door, it's theft.

Without a legal system, e.g. crypto, if you solve my puzzle, then you deserve the reward. It's just math!
Yeah, of course the federal government could legislate this problem away. Not gonna happen though.

It is literally impossible for request recipients to solve this problem.
Amazon GameSparks: Managed Backend Game Services
Really excited about the transitions (edit: I mean batching) for state updates. I always found it so frustrating that updating 3 different state values in a callback would cause 3 separate renders.
> My experience in Australia is that there are basic standards of decency that can be expected. This is not the case in the US.

This varies, perhaps regionally but definitely from individual to individual. I can assure you that some of us in America grew up learning to be more like how you characterize Australians, and totally bought into that, only to be rudely awakened by the actual reality in much of this country. The shock took me about a decade of adulthood to really start to get over.
I like to distinguish attacks where money was stolen using stolen credentials from those that occured simply by manipulating smart contracts. Some crypto enthusiasts would consider the second type of attack to be legitimate activity rather than theft, so long as the attacker stayed within the letter of the 'law' as expressed on chain.
Doesn‘t Preact do that? (in regards to the Synthetic Event System)
Sometimes I am searching for information, and I want facts. Sometimes I am researching a purchase, and I want the sellers to compete for my purchase. Perhaps it makes sense to give search engines more context, such as, whether your intent is to spend money or not.
If you want to measure improvement in addition to mastery that is yet another good argument for focusing more on the final scores than in the earlier grades.

One student gets 30%, 60%, 90%, and 100% on a series of four cumulative projects throughout the semester while another student consistently gets 70% on all four.

I would argue that the former likely has greater mastery and certainly has learned more during the semester. If you want to make sure those two things (mastery and learning ability) are measured by the final grade you need to use some method that de-emphasizes the earlier grades.
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I disagree here. I think this batch is actually extremely interesting for a few reasons.

The B2B companies all seem to be providing non-incremental changes to industries.

Seeing CX prioritized is something that makes me happy -- a large number of B2B companies have to build out undifferentiated CX tooling to help support large business teams that need to interact with their APIs.

Cloud architecture management is also something that seems to have gotten some love. Existing tooling works on IAC to try to derive insights, but often these are artifacts created after a visual representation of the infrastructure. Skipping this hop and avoiding disconnects here is very interesting, and there are a lot of ways to extend the functionality of this tech.

Further, there's some real-estate tech that has a chance to eat away at a large and unmodernized industry.

Beyond B2B, expanding YC's footprint in Africa is something that has the potential to bring a lot of customer impact in an area that often functions differently than the rest of the world. Africa has been siloed off and developed tech in a radically different direction than the rest of the world. Just looking at the payments infrastructure in places like Nigeria, you can see why a barrage of companies would come out that seem similar but require completely different tech solutions. I'm excited to see how this moves forward, and happy that YC is going to help foster the tech ecosystem in places like Lagos.

I do agree with you on Web3 investment though. I think it's mainly a waste.
I don't understand your response. It's very common for empathetic people to feel great suffering. It's not "common sense" knowledge to learn how to maintain deep compassion while preventing the pain from affecting your own being. In fact, most highly empathetic people, like OP, feel burdened by this emotional state because the untrained person experiences compassion as double suffering (the suffering of the object of compassion and the suffering to oneself that comes from untrained empathy). The result is that highly empathetic people try to numb out or attempt to restrict their capacity for empathy.

The early Buddhist texts (the canonical suttas) describe meditations and trainings to develop this skill. The reason the suttas devote so much time to explaining these techniques is because they are NOT common knowledge.

The etymology of compassion means "suffering with". It's baked into the word (in English) the assumption that compassion involves suffering for both parties.

In Buddhism, we learn that compassion doesn't have to create suffering for the holder of compassion. We learn that it's possible to dwell in the state of compassion as a way of moving out of suffering, rather than moving into it.
According to TFA, they are searching for a solution that does not involve a decentralized blockchain. They are looking at portable physical devices (either dedicated or built into your phone) to store balances and verify transactions.

I'm concerned about whether or not this whole thing is a sham right off the bat because any security expert will tell you that there's no such thing as guaranteed security of a device in the physical possession of a motivated attacker. The best you can do is make it "pretty hard" below some threshold of spending.
Might want to give this a try. Thanks for sharing!
For years, legislation was pushed and successfully passed to "coerce" people to live a suburban lifestyle.

From FHA to single-family home zoning, there are many laws that specifically encouraged sprawl into what were, at the time, rural areas. That became the suburbs.

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/us-history/postwarera...

I've lived in both "sardines in a can" and "sardines scattered all around the room" (less dense) levels of density for significant portions of my life, and I've experienced firsthand the many benefits and downsides of each. I imagine you have, too.

One thing I've only recently learned is suburbs are subsidized by the people living in the denser areas that you seem to strongly dislike.

This video gets into the math behind why that is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nw6qyyrTeI
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That’s the implication. A lengthy verification process makes speedy processing of requests impossible.
Apartments don't have to be cramped, they can be spacious, and they don't have to be noisy, if you build them with thick walls. So the question becomes: why aren't we building more apartments like this?

City living (at least near me) is definitely worse than suburban or rural living, but I don't think that's an unchangeable fact. More and better dense housing, mixed use areas, public transportation, and public common space are all vital to a healthy city. I believe that the lack of these is what drives people out of the city and into suburbs.