skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Web3 Security: Attack Types and Lessons Learned
You changed your post, so this is a reply to the changes.

Boxes are containers, not pointers or references. Let's look at all of those those using the star syntax and operator inside of an unsafe block? You'll end up with stuff like:

fn main() {
let mut a = [0i32; 10];
let p: *mut [i32] = &mut a;

// Rust did NOT solve this problem
let x: i32 = unsafe { (*p)[1] };

print!("{x}\n");
}

Note the annoying parentheses because they used prefix syntax for pointers, again.
This is a good point, and the banking system is certainly bloated - just before the GFC more than a third of US GDP went to the financial sector, WTF.

However, the traditional banking system also performs way more functions than crypto and DeFi, and I very much doubt that DeFi can provide them.

Lastly, disrupting banking with good old Fintech would be great, as it is vastly more efficient than blockchain.
What provider?
Fascism is anathema to capitalism. Capitalism means free markets, for which you need free market actors, free speech, freedom of association, freedom of movement.

Capitalism means trusting other adults to be able to use their own intelligence to make the best choices for them.

Fascism and other authoritarian systems like communism is, at heart, pompous, arrogant, and disrespectful because it presumes to dictate what the people must do.
Reading the posts here I have to take a radically different point of view. Maybe even an unpopular one.

These topics, as with most politically discussed topics just aren't important. At least to most constituents. If I look around and talk to people they don't care about digital privacy. On the contrary. They don't want these cookie banners. They blame the GDPR for those. They are pissed because online and offline they need to click banners or fill out paper forms to get even basic services.

If I think about the GDPR related things I had to fill out at doctors, veterinarians and such when I (or my animals) needed help I can relate. You just want help not read page after page of legalese.

People were trained to correlate data privacy with stuff that annoys them.

So no. It doesn't matter. Not to the majority of people I believe. Especially not when it is at the EU level.
> But bitcoin does not suffer from these defects.

Ok. So you're a nation whose official currency is backed by Bitcoin. Suppose that years of economic depression have left your country's Bitcoin reserves relatively sparse. Suddenly, your neighboring country Fiatland is starting to mobilize for war thanks to their freshly printed money. Meanwhile, your nation is only able to raise Bitcoin bonds that must be paid with interest from your already tight Bitcoin reserves. Due to the uncertainty caused by the looming threat of war, Bitcoin interest rates skyrocket, so you're even further limited by the how much you're able to finance. The very obvious solution to this problem is to switch to fiat currency, so you're no longer constrained by some arbitrary limit defined in 2008.
I think it's just an interesting technical challenge, not for practical purposes (other than sites that never update content maybe).
> Exactly. Such that bank / wire transfer, didn't take off or gained significant adoption by normies?

ACH has reversal built in. Wire transfers are harder but there are remedies through the legal system. In neither case is the money simply locked up and never usable again.
Ask HN: Should I purse a masters to become a Research Engineer?
Background: Currently working as a 3D Graphics Engineer at a FAANG. I have done my Bachelors with Electronics as my Major and have a total experience of 10 years.

I am doing very well in my current IC role and prefer to transition into a Research Engineer in Visual Computing space. I have done some internal homework at where I work and the feedback I get is it's worth doing a Masters which have a thesis component.

I have really enjoyed the subject of 3D Graphics and a deep dive seems exciting.

I am looking at doing the following two courses: 9 month M.Phil at University of Cambridge [1] and follow up that with a Masters in Visual Computing [2].

There are no constraints whatsoever for me to pursue these full time for 3 years.

I would like to draw upon the wisdom of those in the HN crowd who have followed similar routes to become Research Engineers (your subject of research is orthogonal). Did you do a Masters, did it make a difference? Or what alternative approaches you followed? Any insight welcome, thanks in advance!!!

[1] https://www.postgraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/courses/directory/cscsmpacs

[2] https://inf.ethz.ch/studies/master/master-cs-2020.html
Nope, I think what he said and what he thinks are different things.
Shaw in canada. Maybe Telus is better, I’m not sure
Well, basically everyone I've talked with on here about it that supports blockchain and cryptocurrencies has either explicitly or implicitly taken that position (that "fiat" should be replaced by cryptocurrency), so yeah, that is my assumption.
Also, if you set your namespace path like so:

namespace path {::tcl::mathop ::tcl::mathfunc}

Then you get very LISP like math operators

% set x [+ 2 3 [- 5 20]]
-10

and math functions

% set x [abs -12]
12
Will is strong, but the body is soft and flabby
Not convinced by the use case section. Very few servers will allow you a full 25gbit download, let alone anything more than a 1gbit (and often less). And if you own the server on the other end, that sort of bandwidth comes at a cost.

I think beyond 1gbit, the benefit become super marginal and the hardware expensive.
U.S. interest rates have soared everywhere but savings accounts
If you code it properly you can release a new version and disable the old version, forcing your users to use the new contract. It doesn't mean you can retrieve the money locked by this particular contract though. If the logic doesn't allow it you're out of luck.
I think the idea is that it’s a dynamically pathed swarm attacking another swarm.

Not the pre configured stuff at the Olympics. These things are also ~30 lbs
Each time I’ve given crypto a chance, I get about 5 minutes into looking at Ethereum contracts and the EVM and end up walking away because it’s such a mess IMO. It really all feel very junior.
Which country if it not indiscreet ? I know internet access quality vary a lot between countries and I'm curious.
I know Breyer's agenda while ascertaining what EURACTIV's agenda is seems like year long endeavor. Plus their About page actually has the phrase EURACTIV content is produced in full impartiality, a phrase whose laugability is a major BS marker. EURACTIV is not impartial and then refuse to clearly state their bias; they're dishonest from the very beginning.

Unsurprisingly, the article simply repeats EU marketing speak and the facts in it are in the vein of bathing in nuclear waste will kill cancer cells.
On behalf of all tech-minded Americans, I would like to say... I hate you.

I just got a notice in the mail that my ISP is "upgrading" their network so now I can pay $200 USD/month to get a whopping 2gbps, which I actually thought was pretty amazing until I read your post. So, thanks.

In all seriousness, congrats! You made a good case for why one would need that much bandwidth. Also, we need to catch up here. :)
> I 100% guarantee each of those institutions admitted white non-donor non-legacy students with Bs on their transcript.

Probably, but that's a fallacy. The important question is how many relative to others with similar academics. I think thanks to a lawsuit [1], we have some data on that for Harvard.

Here's the relevant chart by the Economist: [2]. I think it corroborates what the article's anecdote suggests.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Students_for_Fair_Admissions...

[2]: https://www.economist.com/sites/default/files/images/print-e...
Ah, Shaw. What a scourge. I wish we could get more competition in the market here
hi! I've been using your software more actively, what's the best way to provide feedback?
I thought you could appreciate input on things as a "pair of fresh eyes"
Consider me drooling.

I'm currently on 1000/50 cable internet, which is already quite nice. Telekom is laying fibre but it's not clear yet whether or not they will stop short of this house. Also i suspect it will be a while before they offer better than 1000/500 service.
Many places make a distinction between "homeserver" (e.g mediacenter, NAS,.. ) and "homelab" (learning, test bed and fucking around).

Some people are interested in only one of these, so the distinction is not pointless.
True believers think court interpretation is inherently corrupt and a systemic flaw, while these are just implementation bugs and ultimately fixable. Everyone else is either running a con, or a mark. There's really only three categories here and very little to miss I think.
Typesense is an open source alternative.

If you cannot self-host it, there is a paid cloud option. It differs from Algolia in that they do not charge by records or search operations. Instead, you get a dedicated cluster and you can throw as much data and traffic at it as it can handle.

https://github.com/typesense/typesense

https://cloud.typesense.org/pricing
Lithium-ion battery fires are self-oxidising, so I don’t think a blanket would have much effect.
Saying “Encore!” in 2640…
More than that, Google actually has business reasons to resist all decentralization. Even shitty half-assed decentralization like IPFS.
“Boat, (noun): a hole in the water you throw money into”
I might believe it. The Philippines is today dominated by large plantations. One thesis of How Asia Works is that, although these plantations are a labor-efficient way to produce wealth for their owners, they are, net, less ecologically/biologically productive than smallholdings are (which are farmed by labor-intensive "gardening"). So the nearby countries, like Vietnam, that had land reform, which put land back into the hands of smallholders, were able to produce more food and provide more reliable subsistence to their people (if less measurable wealth).

I suspect this strongly depends on local culture, farming skills, and environment, however. The (admittedly not-unbiased) stories of land reform in e.g. Uganda (and the outcomes) are very different from those in Vietnam.

In a tropical place like the Philippines, however, I am more than willing to believe that unaccounted "ecosystem services" could provide a comfortable lifestyle for many people, if the environment were unharnessed from plantation cash-crop production. Largely because the carrying capacity is so high.
The consumer protection aspects of this law are simply cover for its real purpose: installing tighter controls on what people are allowed to say and read on the internet, in the convenient guise of clamping down on "disinformation" and "hate speech". The ruling elite are furiously scrambling to censor, stamp out and criminalize any mass communication that they perceive as a threat to their entrenched power.
The speed aside there are multiple other positive aspects mentioned that serve as a role model for larger providers, sadly…
The mathematical development of non-Euclidean geometry required for Einstein's general relativity took place over the previous century and really changed people's thinking. From Poincare 1905, chapter on non-Eucliden space, the conclusion was then:

> "In other words, the axioms of geometry (I do not speak of those of arithmetic) are only definitions in disguise. What, then, are we to think of the question: Is Euclidean geometry true? It has no meaning. We might as well ask if the metric system is true, and if the old weights and measures are false; if Cartesian co-ordinates are true and polar co-ordinates false. One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient."

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37157/37157-pdf.pdf

Prior to those developments by Riemann etc., people like Kant claimed space was flat, as there was no other possible mathematically consistent geometrical option:

https://www.ln.edu.hk/philoso/staff/sesardic/Kant.html

This is all comparable to a quote in the posted article:

> "But. There are many different ways to resolve an inconsistency because there are many different assumptions you can throw out. And this means there are many possible solutions to the problem which are mathematically correct. But only one of them will be correct in the sense of describing what indeed happens in nature. Physics isn’t math. Mathematics is a great tool, but in the end you have to make an actual measurement to see what happens in reality."

It would seem, then, that the study of black hole information loss is more in the area of mathematics at present then it is in physics, much as is the case with string theory (for which Fields Medals have been awarded, but not Nobel Prizes in Physics). It might however go the way of non-Euclidean geometry and Einstein's general relativity at some point in the future.
> They are completely described by only three properties: their mass, angular moment, and electric charge

What about linear momentum, if the black hole has some velocity through space is that not also a parameter of it?
As that article mentions, data quality was abysmal. I once saw a remark about the error bars being larger than the supposed effect - though o cannot find it and think that might be overly harsh.

The 1922 test of starlight deflection by the Sun was much, much more accurate. And it did take about 100 years to detect gravitational waves. Though the earliest test was probably the perihelion of Mercury, which I think was covered in the original GR paper.
> fiber7 costs only 65 CHF per month and comes with a symmetric 1 Gbit/s connection.

65 CHF = US $67.89
While hemoglobin in blood has magnetic properties there’s no evidence that it leads to anyone being able to feel magnetic fields. At least one study has shown evidence for humans sensing magnetic fields but the author's do not make a case for blood being the biophysical mechanism https://authors.library.caltech.edu/90480/. The earths magnetic field is very weak and the force felt on our blood is even weaker.

It’s still a debate how animals sense the earths magnetic field. However, all theories rely on special adaptions and not on the extremely weak magnetic properties of blood.
Gist.new
It's funny that you mentioned war because Bitcoin proponents pointed fiat enables reckless wars.

"Since the start of organized warfare, the crucial sinew of war had been “endless streams of money.”

https://publications.armywarcollege.edu/pubs/2339.pdf
My point is that there's an entire subbranch of the law, generally called private international law, that has been created to deal with conflict of laws and jurisdictional issues. You're implying that there are simple deterministic rules to determine those kinds of questions but in fact it's a meta-problem.
> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith

Adding willful seems to violate these. The first, maybe a stretch, as willful applies to the author and not the argument. But more the second as it does not assume good faith. I think the comment holds the same value without adding willful.
Consumers have been beaten down an now don't expect interest on savings account to amount to much. There are a small group that chase the limited time 5% offers, but like all corps, banks are taking that margin for profits.
> (Nb. We can already see how DAOs are being usurped by regressives and real estate moguls in the United States.)

What is V. referring to?
My first internet, and my internet for up until my teenage years until ~2005 was 14.8kbps, we couldn't get faster than that for some reason.

When we got 2Mbit I was AMAZED. The entire internet now actually semi-worked.

Now in 2022 I have gigabit (down, 50Mbit up) internet, with WiFi6 on my devices it's amazing (I'm hardwired for my desktop).

Aussie Broadband here in Australia is my current ISP, and they are amazing. FTTP was a major upgrade.

But the thing which hurts where I am (Perth, AU) is the latency to everything, not the download speeds :).
I think broadwell was a process shift, not a microarchitecture shift.
I don't think linear velocity is necessary to describe a black hole. Basically, a black hole that moves behaves exactly the same as one that stands still.
> I’m not sure, and that’s important: being trapped in a torrent of self-reinforcing falsehoods is something I fell for in my teenage-goth-New-Age phase, which Carl Sagen condemned in The Demon-Haunted World.

Genuinely curious here: how can you tell you've escaped one set of self-reinforcing falsehoods while being sure you haven't fallen into another, different set?
Exactly, at that point you let the AIs play against each other and go back to watch some TV. (or in the case of DALL-E, we won't be able to understand the concept/description space of the images anymore, let alone the images generated from it).
How silly. As though there are gangs of teenagers throughout the country that can’t get “banned” books, whatever that means, despite having the freaking internet, and books being basically free. As though they’re living in communist China or something! Kids can buy these books, and get all sorts of other vile pornographic material online well before their teenage years. Local school boards are not the CCP and they have different liabilities, funding sources and constituencies than public libraries. Signaling likes this needs to be mocked or we end up with purity spirals. There is no problem being solved by this, just adults acting out a larp to feel like the saviors of “literature.” Why not actually save literature by promoting the reading of great books? There’s plenty of sex and debauchery in Shakespeare, even for Brooklyn kids like Howard Bloom (rip).
Blog post with more context: https://bowtiedisland.com/akudreams-griefed-careless-code-le...
It's crazy that at this speeds (and I mean, it's not a new thing) your internal infrastructure can be the bottleneck

You have 100Mbit internet? Cool, your 54Mbit only WLAN devices are now the bottleneck.

But now it's your 10GB ethernet that's the limit.
Just to be clear: I downvoted this because I sincerely believe it is not true. I have seen enough negative things about YC backed companies here, especially about Stripe, that I don't buy support spreading this kind of narrative without any evidence. It's not helpful or healthy for this community to spread false accusations.
For now. Hopefully competition will come to savings accounts eventually.

Wouldn't expect the rate to ever beat inflation, though, since it is risk free (thanks FDIC!).
Weird that must have just happened! They are also available here.. This site has a crazy amount of old magazines and has been running for years : https://worldradiohistory.com/Byte_Magazine.htm
> i.e. if signup is "email and credit card number" then you're going to be hard pressed to explain why a similar option to cancel does not exist

So you argue that to cancel a subscription, you should have to provide your credit card number again. If a check on the credit card fails for some obscure reason, you cannot cancel your subscription.

This is what "subscribe is as easy as unsubscribe" also means.
What’s the best way to put out the fire in that video? I assume a regular fire extinguisher isn’t equipped to resolve an electrical fire
Answering a question with a question (especially a totally unrelated one) isn't a great start to a conversation.

Given that we have seen tons of scams in crypto like this random project and now a payments platform called Stripe has joined in (needs no introduction), I am now asking you, (assuming you know what Stripe is and what they do) where is the scam that Stripe is doing in their announcement of Crypto payouts?
I second this - but I’m biased! Thanks @9woc
Despite the punchy title (as usual), this is a good and nuanced discussion of the issue. Highly recommended.

Personally, I feel that the "opposition to opposition" is less of a problem than Gelman thinks, mainly because (a) these people will die out (literally, at some point), and (b) I believe (and hope) that professionalization in science is a ratchet. Once the knowledge is out (e.g. on power, replication crisis etc.), it doesn't go back in the genie's bottle.
I'm confident in my guess - both you & Yanis will be proven wrong in time. So far nobody in history has taken the complex heaving mass of the global economy and boiled it down to a simple forecast about what it will do when confronted with a new technology. We cannot foresee what is about to hit us. Roughly every possible outcome has been forecast by someone.

An untracable, unstoppable & untaxable cryptocurrency might be developed if we get lucky with the research into Zero-Knowledge proofs or a related field. That would be revolutionary in a profound sense.
I'm far from an expert on L3-L2 ISPs and their tech, but they usually rent the line from whoever owns it and then sell it back to you - then they cap the speed between you and the box.

It's most likely an operational mistake - have you called and asked for them to nuke the line and then set it up again?

Or are you saying that you are getting your advertised speeds, and those just didn't go up when you "got fiber"?

Don't know which one is more worrying if true, to be honest.
I've heard people say recently that electric vehicles catch fire at the same rate as gas vehicles. Proof that they're basically safe enough.

Except that has vehicles catch fire after an accident, or after 200k miles when someone let's an oil leak go on for way too long.

Electric vehicles are catching fire while basically new, and while being used in standard ways like being parked and charging in your garage. It's not common at all for newish gas cars to catch fire while parked.
Given the topic, if I want to get a reasonably reliable and safe e-scooter, which would you recommend?
Yep, and the virus has changed a lot since those trials were conducted, and even been subjected to certain evolutionary pressures by mass deployment of the vaccines themselves, which is not something it is possible to study in clinical trials. It's also not really possible to test for OAS because trial participants (at least, those in a highly abbreviated trial like those which were conducted for the COVID vaccines) only encounter one strain of the virus.
They also left out the whole Netburst (and it's decedents) arch too.
The banned books part is besides the point.

> allows anyone across the country between the ages of 13 and 21 to get a free eCard from BPL, which will give them access to 350,000 ebooks and 200,000 audiobooks, as well as access to databases.

The cool part is that BPL made all of their ebooks available to a group of people around the country. All libraries should go this route and not just for teens.
But if it enables war for fiat countries and constrains it for BTC countries, doesn't they imply a significant likelihood that the fiat countries will conquer the others?
I'm sure there are a lot of other bottlenecks as well. I have a pretty run of the mill mid-tier cable plan for $100/month in the US and, assuming it's working like it's supposed to, I've pretty much never been on another connection anywhere including in company offices that made me go "This is so much faster than at home."
AFAIK linear momenum depends on the choice of inertial reference frame, so you may assume it is 0.
Damn, that's impressive. Technically I could get 2Gbps with the two providers running their own fiber in the neighborhood. But I don't even fully use one gigabit connection, running a torrent client is about the only thing that can do it. Any ideas welcome :D

Curious thing, the ISPs don't oversell even though they easily could. I get exactly what I pay for, speed is never below ~940Mbps (down or up), and uptime has been stellar.