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> But in our email exchanges, he argued that he'd executed a perfectly legal series of trades.

In real finance, there is an understanding that technical loopholes can exist, since not every outcome can be foreseen when writing laws, but the legal system can frequently prosecute against a series of actions which are, individually, legal, but which together are taken in order to achieve something illegal.

That is, modern finance and the law also attempt to deal with intent.

But in the Ethereum smart contracts world isn't the whole premise that the code is the law? That we don't need any of these pesky courts or banks or auditors or anything: the code is the law, and the decentralized blockchain will enforce it.

With this worldview, if the attacker simply exploited poorly-written code to find a loophole, how do the owners of Index have a leg to stand on?
Nuclear is producing 100% output during peak power needs. Solar varies greatly but in the winter may be producing little output during peak power needs. So yes, a 100% all the time output requires peaking, but a variable power source that is not producing during peak times requires much more.
Fision power is no long term solution https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kahih8RT1k
Same, and I wasn't judging you for it fwiw, just enjoyed it.
(OP Here) Yes. I am homeless and have a Mental Illness (Neuropsychiatric Lupus) and on Permanent Disability. Just had COVID as well that triggered a psychosis. That was fun. I think about killing myself every other day but only alive because I do not know what dead is like and if it is any better.

The small town I live no longer is accepting Medicare for Mental Health treatment. They can not pay people enough to afford to live here, Too bad, so sad.

I know at times I need to be in an institution. I remember when my mother used to go in the 70s. It was a nice place. This is not true anymore. But yes, people want me to be upset about some Ukrainian child and then they wonder why people vote for people like Trump.

I am not asking for much, just a small, safe studio apartment when I can have some stability and work part time. But the MBAs all want to build "luxury" studios because ROI.

I know I can do it, I know what is wrong with me and how to treat myself. The delusion is that people think the homeless are lazy/do not want to work. Having a job is easy. Being homeless is work.

Then they make laws like this? We need national laws regarding the rights of the homeless.
I think you're right on both... adding noise would reduce the accuracy of the fingerprint, but boarder biases would continue to be detectable. For instance i'm aware of some quite significant biases between firefox and chrome in antialiasing fillRect() for subipixel values as the dimensions drop bellow 1x1 pixel that only a distracting amount of noise would be able to conceal for one sample. I know that's already detectable via the useragent string, but I suspect those who are focused on collecting those biases will find strong ones for other data points.
In this, I think I agree. Picking the proxy of minority is certainly playing to the current atmosphere more than it is helping to make the message.

That said, it is the current atmosphere. Hard to have that as a major complaint on this article, and more against the atmosphere. Hate the game, as it were.
I find that many of the PhD students who struggle are not prepared for the mostly self-driven nature of the pursuit, and have not had enough work experience to know how to choose a supervisor.

The statistics support this: a majority of the PhD dropouts are students straight from undergrad who performed well academically, but have never had work experience.

Finishing a PhD is as much about selecting a good PI as it is love of the science. Anecdotally I've seen many great students struggle because of lack of support from their PI, and many "worse" students do extremely well because they chose a terrific PI who builds a support system around their students so they almost cannot fail.
I quit my PhD with a masters after I heard one really good saying that went against my ADD: PhDs learn a lot about almost nothing. Said differently, 20 years ago, if you got a PhD in chemistry it was typically very specialized (synthetic, analytical, etc) and that’s all you could really do in the field. I business I’ve moved pretty easily between functions and it’s just what I needed personally. I know some people love making new discoveries and becoming the preeminent expert in something, but I think some folks need to be able to jump around with their financial viability intact.
I don’t know much about the technical aspects of microphones, but over the last 10 years or so I’ve listened to a lot of ASMR on YouTube, and I would say the Yeti is a pretty decent microphone. My advice for ASMRtists would be: don’t buy a 3dio. They sound hollow, tinny, and harsh. One of my favorite ASMRtists just “upgraded” to a 3dio from a Yeti and it sounds so much worse. The rich, deep, bassy low components of her voice that made her so unique are gone. IMHO the best sounding mics for ASMR are Rode shotgun models, I think they’re called NT4 or NT5 or something like that; sound amazing.
Well said. To build on that, it also brings to mind a few of the more expert commentary on YouTube on "why the tank is not dead". Military History Visualized has a good video on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPth_xqBXGY (There's others as well, and he references them)

My overall take away from the Atlantic piece is that they've fallen into the same trap as much of the rest of the internet. Large platforms have not been rendered obsolete because of the advent of these weapons, just as they weren't during the 70s with the first large battles involving Anti-tank and Anti-Ship missiles. (The former has a number of well-cited examples, but for the latter, I call attention to the Battle of Latakia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Latakia )

It's worth nothing as well that the Neptune AShM isn't really a revolutionary weapon, and is marginally improved over classes of AShMs developed in the 80s. It's notary comes from the fact that Ukraine essentially was able redevelop the capability of the old Kh-35, with modest improvements. It's not a next-gen missile such as a LRASM.

Similarly, the Javelin, while effective and having gone through incremental upgrades, is not a wildly new weapon. It's been around for decades, and as we're finding along with the Stinger, the U.S. needs to reactivate the manufacturing to build them from scratch which has been dormant for decades.

I draw attention to the fact that these are older weapons. Drones are giving troops in the field better ability to target than ever before, but the fundamentals haven't changed and the same difficulties apply. WaPo had an exclusive stating that it was U.S. Intelligence that gave the Ukrainians the necessary info to find and target the Moskava with their missiles. The weapons themselves are just one part in long chain of capabilities.

So that's where I think this piece misses much, because it's ignorant of some of the other elements of how all this comes together. The U.S. has been aware of China's long range precision fires for quite some time, and while they're worrysome, they're not terrified. To paraphrase a quote I heard, "a long kill chain provides plenty of opportunities to disrupt it along the way."

And that's where the Russians have failed. Not because they're being surprised for the first time by these weapons (they invented many of the earliest examples themselves!) but because they're not fighting effectively. As some commentators have noted, the supporting elements that would defend against these weapons are not in place, the systems designed to counter them are not active/maintained (which was probably the case of the Moskava), and the intelligence/reconnaissance that would have identified and monitored these threats are not in place. All of this contributes to failure.

The Russians are not getting wrecked by guided missiles because they're so high tech, they're getting wrecked because they're inept.
Sure. I joined the company last year, and Joshua has mainly been busy appearing in court to fight the patent troll. With that fight effectively over, Joshua and Kris are focusing on something new (not sure what specifically).

Michael Lewis has been running the company for two years, so this resignation is more symbolic than anything.
Build You a DIY High-Quality USB-C Microphone
Gimping features like this by default is going way too far and will only lead to giving Chrome more dominance.
It's far more comprehensive (covers more fingerprinting vectors), and since it's baked into the browser you're far less likely to run into webextension limitations causing your protections to be defeated[1]. Finally, being the "official" implementation, and with only an on/off flag, you won't get fingerprinted based on what fingerprint mitigating extensions you have installed (eg. maybe you have canvas blocker installed but not webaudio blocker?).

[1] https://palant.info/2020/12/10/how-anti-fingerprinting-exten...
Interestingly, NYTimes' Wirecutter still favors the Blue Yeti.

https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/the-best-usb-micr...

I don't always agree with them, but have generally found their reviews reliable. Their audio reviews in particular have been on point IMO, although microphones are something I don't know much about so I can't judge them there.

This doesn't mean anything definitive, but it's useful data, and unlike "dontbuyayeti.com" Wirecutter's reviews give a very thorough rationale for their decision.
I have never heard of a PhD student in computing struggling to find a job.
Same way Russia is supposed to have a 2nd army in the world.

AFAIK at this point Kinzhal was successfully used only once, against a barn.
>I disagree. It is extremely unprofessional to act like doing research while pocketing mostly public funds like that.

This can be true while it's also true that making a vague, unsubstantiated assertion about how your love for the field is just too deep and pure for academia is still unprofessional.

Of the people who claim they dropped out of school because they were just too smart or creative to go through the motions, the vast majority are probably very wrong. If you want people to take you seriously, make a better argument.
She must be being facetious, because what is the Euro?

It's simply a made-up unit of account that everyone (currently) agrees can be exchanged for good and services, and other units of account (currencies). If her argument is that governments will 'back up' the currency, what will they back it up with? More of the currency? Basically the Euro is 'worth' nothing too, it's only trust.

Even though I'm not much of a fan of crypto, it's essentially the same, it's just trust, though cryptos maybe have shakier foundations, and could implode with no-one even attempting to maintain their value.

The big difference might be that states can 'back up' their currency by forcing citizens (with violence) to accept, and pay in their currency.

An imposed delusion, rather than a shared delusion, perhaps.
> Academics who defend a broken system are a major factor in why that system continues to decline.

Much like military & law enforcement personnel who wear their medals defending a broken system.

The OP should count themselves lucky they have seen that having a few letters after their name on a piece of paper or business card doesnt cut it with many.

Estate agents (realtors) have devalued the letters after name's obedience to "authority".
That reminds me very strongly how Zig does it
> Like what does a 12 year old who finished the curriculum do for the next 6 years?

Don't have a curriculum that "finishes". Put more material out there, even college-level. Maybe a student gets their PhD by 18, but they're unlikely to get it but 12. And if they do, congratulations.

I think the concepts of grade levels and even different school types (elementary, high, college), useful as they are socially, are getting in the way. We should be trying to make it a granular, smooth progression all the way up.
Before the web there was a hypertext service. Gopher's back
> ...immediately....
Really?
You might want breath a little bit and then relook at Zig. If you've got C code and you're stuck with it, Zig might be the "C" girl that got way!
Aside from side by side vs stackable, every washing machine I've ever encountered is roughly the same shape. Some edges are rounder and the door might be on the front or the top but the shape is the same.
Yeah training data scientists seems like the answer but in reality it’s just not feasible most of the time. Data science is really hard, and good engineering is really hard. Very few people can do both well.
New plan wants to install solar panel canopies over canals
Not quite a sure bet. It depends on your magic TX getting picked up from the mempool by the winning node.
Have been using the Blue Yeti with Zoom for several years now, works like a charm. And yes, it sits on my desk. You can put it in Cardiod setting to avoid other sounds etc. No issues with echo or sound coming from the computer speakers either.
Uranium, being so energy dense, is quite practical to ship from anywhere in the world, and there are stable and democratic countries with ample reserves - so please don't use such a lazy argument here.
There are problems of baseload power that neither solar nor wind reliably solve though. Barring the introduction of a complex system of storage to the electrical grid you don’t just need a certain amount of total power generation you need the distribution of production to match the distribution of consumption. We can generate much of this with solar and wind if we are comfortable with having far less power at night from solar and irregular power generation based on weather conditions from wind. This can work well when these technologies are small portions of the grid but it causes problems when we rely on them for substantial portions of power generation.
A reminder that Sundar Pichai has been Google's CEO for 7 years now.
For the true adventurer explorer:

Build You a DIY High-Quality USB-C Microphone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoQu3XXIayc

(watch at 2x to quickly preview the process)

Turns out it's totally doable to fabricate a high quality one yourself, and the tool requirements are light. Requirements: Hand tolls, soldering iron, time and patience, and $100-$200 USD for sensors, capacitors, and materials.

(Also submitted on by itself @ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31480458)
Gold’s price relative to other commodities will drop, but it’ll still be useful. It might even end up maintaining value since demand could rise in electronic components.

As another example, water literally falls from the sky but people still pay 2 dollars for a bottle of it.

Meanwhile, Bitcoin can’t be used for anything. It’s sole purpose is putting money in and cashing it back out for money.

You could also say stocks are worthless. That wouldn’t be wrong. You just have to hope that company doesn’t go bankrupt overnight.
I encourage someone to correct me, but why are there so many development focused chips like this on the market?

If we compare with a raspberry pi (ignoring supply issues for the moment), they seem to cost upwards of $100, have less online support, sometimes require weird linux hacks, sometimes require special tooling for a RTOS.

The positives seem to be more ports, better specs, and more reliability in exchange. But does your typical robot project really need all that?

And if you're at that point, why not a mini ITX style board, or a modern cellphone with I/O breakouts? Even a cheap laptop I imagine could serve really well depending on what you're doing.

I guess my main question is what's the use case/market for this?
The author lost me with their mention of 'achievement loss' ... how can you lose something that you haven't 'achieved'?

Consider that the primary goal of marketing is to create the perception of a need/want on the part of the target segment.

I would be more interested in seeing a survey on what students have actually learned and done over the past two years (both inside and outside the standard curriculum) instead of this pervasive whining by the educational industry.
I'd recommend finding a healthier hobby than making sarcastic comments that could easily be interpreted as an attempt to defraud crypto holders as gun, child porn and drug buyers. How would you like it if you invested in some new asset class and alongside serious accusations of enabling child porn support, people frequently made 'tongue-in-cheek' comments about you supporting (indirectly or otherwise) child porn with your investment?

I get it, this is just a deep thread with a one-off comment, not the biggest deal, but it's certainly annoying trying to attempt honest conversation about crypto with comments like this.
If anyone could perfectly predict what was going to happen in the next state then those with this ability would only ever make money and never lose it. Yet this can't happen. In the real world there are sniper bots and all sorts of other things that another agent could do in parallel with your own script, which would lead the outcome to be uncertain.
I'd expect most people to read "Zig is a general-purpose programming language and toolchain" as saying Zig has a toolchain for compiling itself, which is unremarkable. The idea that an experimental language's toolchain might be superior at (cross-)compiling and linking C than gcc or clang is not obvious and isn't described that well on the front page. I see the "Maintain it with Zig" section has a bullet point about this, but it's not that prominent IMHO and doesn't say why. I heard elsewhere how great Zig is for cross-compiling C. (Easily targeting arbitrary glibc versions is a great feature!)

IMHO, you'd be wise to consider this paragraph avgcorrection wrote:

> You seem a bit confrontational considering your role.

Not everyone opening up an article on HN will have the context you do that Zig is an experimental language, that it has a toolchain that can do this, etc. Maybe look at how you can work on that rather than say stuff like "The title is as misleading as you want it to be"?
Straight to the point: I live in one of those corrupt societies (Turkey).

Too much government control and I honestly don't feel safe for my money and crypto is a safe haven. Having lived through an oppressive regime for years, I'd support anything that takes power and freedom from authorities back to the people (at least to an extent).

For example: PayPal is blocked in my country and I was able to use Ether to buy a tshirt (and there weren't any other options of payment other than PayPal and crypto). It was actually a better UX than I've expected: it said "send this amount of ether to this address" in the middle of the screen and once I sent it (and it was confirmed) everything was smooth. I could also donate to Ukraine instantly in war.

About smart contracts: yeah a smart contract's code itself can never be changed (for a good reason) but if you need it, there are upgradeable smart contracts:

Basically your initial smart contract is just a proxy with a "pointer" to another smart contract that has a owner-invokable function to change that pointer (which can be changed because it's a state value, not hardcoded into the contract code). That proxy delegates all function calls to the pointed contract and after initial deployment you deploy the actual "implementation" contract and set proxy contract's pointer to the neely deployed contract and it works (See OpenZeppelin's Upgradeable contract class). There are a few caveats like not changing property declaration orders and (obviously) deploying your contract as upgradeable in the first place?, but that's generally it.

While immutable code could be a disaster, it holds value for the core values of blockchain: even I (as the creator of the contract) can't do anything malicious after deploying the contract. Everything that the contract can do is open in the public. Of course nasty bugs have been very costly, but as static analyzers become better and auditing/security practices become more solid, we'll have less disasters and more benefits of the immutability which provides perfect transparency with no trust (as in: no need to trust).
I skimmed it and I'm a little confused by a detail.

> She contacted her insurance agent and was told her application was denied because something on her medication list indicated that Isela uses drugs. Isela, who works in an addiction treatment program at Boston Medical Center (BMC), scanned her med list. It showed a prescription for the opioid-reversal drug naloxone, brand name Narcan.

> Isela had bought naloxone over the counter at a pharmacy, as can anyone in Massachusetts.

If Isela bought the narcan OTC and her PCP didn't know about it (aka it wasn't in the medical records), how did the insurance company find out about it?
A chariot was more similar to a technical or an FAV. It allows one to advance quickly on fairly regular terrain, carry a slightly bigger weapon, and stock yourself with more ammunition. It's not well protected and the weapon is not as devastating.

The mobile ballista was more like a primitive field gun or crew-served mortar. Add black powder and a strong metal barrel and it served the same role through the 19th century.

An actual tank cannot exist without a powerful engine. They were literally designed as the battleships or destroyer of the land. They used big engines and small naval-inspired guns. The most successful have always mounted those guns on turrets just like a naval ship. The reason no primitive tank can be found is that nothing did serve quite the same role.
Ask HN: Health Wearable Recommendations
I'm particularly interested in ongoing ECG measurements, but the whole idea of gathering health data is attractive.

Obviously these need to have some kind of accuracy. Ideally, they would also come without vendor lock-in, but, of course, that's more and more rare.

Do you use any health wearables or recommend any?
My feeling is that the courses teach you the grammar pretty well, but you have to read (with a dictionary ready) to get more of what you are asking for.
I haven't finished the whole article, but I can resonate with this specific statement:

> "However, just a couple of months into my project, I figured out, I wouldn’t find anyone to discuss my research with..."

While studying physics and math, many, and I mean *many* of my friends had a difficult time trying to understand both, sometimes they would get bored and just try to get the "just right" grade to pass. I had that one friend that you like to discuss things and exchange ideas and concepts from this world, but this friend would halt his course and move on with other things and/or job.

After some time, I would get bored because none of my fellows had the patience to understand or try to grasp the basics of what makes, at least for me, these fields so interesting, like "bootstrap concepts" (Newton's laws, Thermodynamics, Trigonometry, etc...).

I don't blame them. The basic education in my country (Brazil) is somewhat crippled, not all of it mind you, but in my experience, it was depressing.

And of course, no one is obliged to have fun with this, I'm not complaining about this, I'm sad because there's almost no one I can talk to about this, and not that "I was better" than them, by no means, it's just that had an acute interest in these topics; this is one of the reasons I quit my degree in Computer Science, half a year through.

Nowadays I look for someone to interact with, about something new that I learned or that now I understand better. Right now, I'm looking for a friend that wants to study chemistry, physics or mathematics for fun, but with a deep interest.
I can't seem to find this option in firefox, perhaps it refers to the feature in Tor browser that restricts the window size to a few most common resolutions.