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> Where is treatment of CSS variables that pierce the shadow DOM and allow global theming of such components?

I feel like, at least with that one, was left behind because there's some work left to do in that regard.

For the redesign of my portfolio, miler.codeberg.page, I used icons I did for the previous one (and did some new ones, but all are a bunch of <symbol>s in a single file) but instead of "injecting" the SVG code in the HTML I tried to use them from CSS as pseudoelements (as a 'content' fragment identifier) and style them (stroke color).

The state of things right now, as I learned, is that it's impossible to do that - neither with some obscure parameter within the SVG fragment identifiers. I had to do some crop filter trickery to "change" their stroke color.
The "technical" issues they cited wouldn't stand in court, especially when experts from the western companies that produced and installed the equipment testify that they are made up and/or trivial to fix.

Practically every country that has it's gas cut off is preparing to sue.

During the summer the price of gas on the European exchanges was often over $2000 for 1000 cubic meters. The long term contracts signed years ago had the price fixed around $200. Russia was losing a ton of money everyday these pipes were pumping gas. On top of that these deliveries were decreasing the global demand for gas - lowering the price Russia could sell gas outside of contract. There was a huge pressure from the top in GasProm to find a way out of those contracts.
Crypto cannot exist in its useful form as a currency while being treated like a security. The regulation has killed the usefulness of bitcoin on purpose
And also the other 2.3%
It's actually worse than that. The entire selling point of crypto is that it's an ungoverned unregulated financial wild west. That makes this space very attractive for people who want to do things that would be more difficult in a regulated environment where actions have legal consequences; and the more such actors enter the space, the more people who do not want to be around such actors leave. So eventually you end up with a population of half a dozen confused normies and a gazillion scammers and gamblers.

It's exactly the same effect as evaporative cooling of online social groups: if you don't set boundaries, trolls kicked out of places that do gather in your space and people who don't like being in such a space leave, until your space is nearly all trolls and one morning you wake up to find you've made a *chan again.
Back in the day, I remember reading instructions on how to build some sort of electrical toy (a Tesla coil? can't remember). The circuit was 120VAC powered, with a hot side and a neutral side.

The problem was that the neutral side was accessible to the user, and the plugs back then were unpolarized. So, if you plugged the "neutral" side of the plug into the "hot" side of the outlet, you would Have A Bad Day.

The workaround: only wire the "hot" side to the plug, and connect the "neutral" side via a separate wire to a nearby radiator (presumably ground). That way, plug the plug in wrong and the toy wouldn't work, rather than becoming dangerously charged.

Was it safe? Safe enough for back then...
Part of what makes Bitcoin decentralised is that it barely matters who declares it dead; it can keep on chugging away with a different group of miners. Even if the price has been knocked down to the before-times of 2020. Eventually the coin dies, but it isn't going to be because anyone declares it so.
You can definitely serve content like that from your server and have the app render it (no website required). The review process would not block that.

You could also serve a change like this with an OTA update, again no app store review required, which ios and android allow (as long as you don't fundamentally change the app, and even then they could only catch that retroactively.

Not sure if they'd care if you load it in a webview as long as the UX wasn't substantially different. I seem to recall getting bounced to web auth flows pretty often.
I guess that explains a lot

No explanation necessary. Anyone paying attention knew this was a scam. SBF used his well connected parents to start a scam company.

He created back doors in his accounting software to hide money flows.

He hired his girlfriend (Harry Potter fan in her 20s) to be CEO of Alameda trading and transferred $10 billion in client funds for her to trade like it was their own money.

Declared bankruptcy and resigned as CEO yesterday.

Late last night someone pushed out new versions of the FTX website and apps with malware in them and stole $600 million worth of cryptocurrency which may be all that’s left of assets.

Tom Brady was a big investor. Sequoia. Ontario Teacher’s Pension. So many more.

https://www.reuters.com/markets/currencies/exclusive-least-1...

https://www.reuters.com/technology/ftx-says-it-is-investigat...

https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/2022/11/caroline-elli...
This misconception is exactly why I made my comment. If you go to Uniswap right now you won't have access to any of these tokens. You are just about as safe as using Charles Schwab.
Cool. On the day when you can actually buy real products with cryptocurrency directly, maybe that will matter.
Tell that to Argentinians, Venezuelans, Iranians where US dollar stablecoins are much more popular among general population.

For different reasons:
- easier & safer to store
- much more stable than their countries own currency
- not controlled by the regime

And they will likely keep using it, despite major crypto exchanges crashing down, or despite the unclear dangers of USDT.
Twitter was a leftist bastion. They censored opponents and favorable media for/of opponents.

Everyone said “it’s a private company that can do whatever it wants” and “free speech needs limits.” Now it’s ruled by someone apparently not actively biased towards leftists (though actually a liberal). And everyone seemingly has soured and claims it’s a bad company now abusing power.

It’s hard for me to see this in any other way than leftists scorned that they can’t arbitrarily abuse their opponents anymore through an important private company.
I would have thought so, considering null safety, but can't find a specific mention either in their docs or by googling. Seems like a weird thing to overlook in a modern inoffensive language.
Your definition covers every investable asset.
Well, sometimes it's better for the business with a feature present, sometimes with the feature absent, sometimes with the feature exchanged for another that's even better. It all depends on the feature in question and the business context.
sure, it was merely a coincedence that they've started doing it after russian minitrue telegram fiasco.

our venerable corporations would never bend to the will of foreign dictators.
The US government is made up of 4 religions: Democrat, Republican, MAGA and Bernie Sanders.
The first article says $1,300 per month for insulin. That almost certainly is a second generation insulin. Wal-Mart’s first generation insulin is $25/vial for the 2-3 vials a month a typical person needs: https://diatribe.org/paying-insulin

As to why people try to ration more expensive insulin is I suspect the “donut hole.” The young man in the first article aged out of his parent’s insurance, which was probably paying for his second-generation insulin. He probably had no idea what other options were available, or was concerned the first generation insulin was less safe.

A lot of people have limited executive functioning and our society isn’t good about helping them access the options available to them. A close family member of mine had a heart attack and was saddled with a $50,000 hospital bill. He had been eligible for Medicaid for years, but just never signed up.
or even a water heater
Yeah? You can't pick apples from an orange tree either. What do shares of a company/futures/fund have to do with this market in particular?

Its a digital marketplace. The digital space is full of attempted scams that never come to fruition, and their presence is no indication of engagement. Is that really that hard to wrap your head around?
I have never provided hacker news my personal data. They aren't transferring the not-personal-data anywhere.
> Isn't the point of Lisps to be endlessly customizable, making the
invention of a new dialect less necessary?

A great question. Maybe everything should have been built on Scheme
once . and . for . all But people and the world aren't like that. We
are restless souls.
There is an endless amount of Lisps because the core to get one working is one page of code. So many people make one as a pet project. Aside from the small unused versions, the rest of the dialects have a lot of differences between them, some of which would be difficult to implement in an existing implementation. Common Lisp is a fairly complex specification to achieve, so few even approach it, and of those that do most aren't fully compliant.
Honestly, could you ever accent a tweet as a source of truth?!
Or gives it a purpose? Because it's pretty useless as it is.
Analogues are not only easier to use, but also allow for regimens and therapies (such as insulin pump therapy) that somewhat improve life expectancy and significantly improve quality of life.

The relatively inelastic demand of insulin analogues when synthetic human insulin is available shows how important analogues are to T1 diabetics.

Sometimes pharma companies try to allude to analogues being a luxury good compared to synthetic human insulin. But to T1 diabetics this notion is generally ridiculous. Analogue insulins allow them to regain a little bit more quality of life lost to the disease, and that should be a human right when insulin manufacturing costs are so low.
And they could have gone for a better title: don't rug me bro.
I reject your Jevons argument. No, it would not be unusual for them to use less energy overall. Whether they do or not is dependent on specifics of the situation.

I think you are misled by historical contingency. When moving from "not mechanized" to "mechanized", energy use increases. People didn't have air conditioning, or refrigeration, or TVs, etc. and then they did. Energy use went up because new use cases were being created. But once they have them, at some point the satisfaction those produce saturates, and the natural progression of efficiency pulls the energy use back down again. We don't eat ever increasing quantities of food just because agriculture has become more efficient. We don't scale the number of TVs we watch because their power use has declined.

Your argument is depending on the existence of ever increasing numbers of new activities to consume the energy, that produce sufficient value to justify them. I am skeptical that such exist, or could exist.
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You buy a digital claim to own a non-scarce jpeg, that anyone can copy, but only you can "own". Problem is, to enforce your ownership rights you are relying on the security of whatever the underlying block chain is.

And, we know that Ethereum has changed history in the past (DAO failure in 2016), and they can do it again anytime a majority of the stakeholders think it ought to be done.

I think rule-of-law property rights are more robust, or simply owning bitcoin, as its just a protocol without a group of people in change.
> The pitch was not that you could skip a meal when you were in a hurry, but skip all meals, every day, forever.

I'm aware, yes. That's what a nutritionally-complete pill would enable you to do.

I mentioned "home-cooked meal" for a few reasons.

1) Some people seriously underestimate the cost and labor that goes into small-scale commercial cooking. Such folks will _usually_ have a better understanding of the details of in-home cooking.

2) Some people have decided that all food that one gets at a restaurant is inherently unhealthy.

3) If you plan well (and/or have a large surplus of time and energy) you can totally set things up so that you can eat home-cooked meals every day. That's what leftovers are for.

> ...cramming 2000 calories into four or five pill sized spaces is practically violating the laws of physics, is it not?

I very much doubt it. I has been decades since I studied any physics, but I'd expect that there are many examples of substances that pack at least 2000kcal of energy in four or five pill-sized spaces. As mentioned elsewhere, it's a biology problem, not a physics problem.
This also is good. I googled “ELI5 FTX”. Regarding the comment below, Binance was asked to buy FTX, and they inspected their books - and found $6B missing. Whether that was embezzlement or poor reinvestment, I don’t know.

https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/yr3ypv/c...
> most (but not all) of the issues people have with FreeCAD come from their inexperience with FreeCAD, not from FreeCAD's actual limitations

I'm much more productive in Fusion than FreeCAD at a similar (low) level of experience. Sadly that means it wins for me, as much as I hate the licensing model.
Who are you gonna trust? Government or a crypto exchange? As you point out, trusting no one is not an option if you want to transact.

Right now, trusting government looks like the better option. And crypto has done nothing but provide proof.
I'm glad to see interest in this functionality taking off in Linux-land. I think there are one or two other projects with similar goals (i.e. implementing BE selection on Linux) and it might be time for me to do a side-by-side.

This capability was something of which the lack on Linux has long puzzled me. Solaris actually implemented a very early incarnation of this ability (called "live upgrades" at the time from its original use case) back in the early '00s- in Solaris 8, and on top of UFS no less, if I recall correctly. It evolved over the next decade first adding ZFS into the mix, then finally morphing from the early "live upgrade" stuff into the full "boot environment" concept around 2010 with Solaris 11. FreeBSD implemented it around 2012, in the early days of their ZFS work. More than a decade ago. That puts Linux at least ten years behind the curve here, and arguably closer to twenty.

I'm a fan of using the right tool for the right job, and jumping freely between Solaris (or OpenIndiana nowadays), Linux, and FreeBSD for any given deployment is par for the course. Until now, all other things being equal, FreeBSD or Solaris would often win out if minimizing downtime* was a much higher priority than ease of replacing admins. Assuming that BE support in Linux matures quickly, that calculus has now swung strongly in Linux's favor.

*Re: minimizing downtime, if somebody is puzzled as to what I mean, think of the last time that you had a Linux installation fail to come back up to full operation after a borked round of package upgrades. It's not often, but it does happen occasionally. Now imagine that the time you spent getting back up and working, whatever it might have been, was reliably less than sixty seconds. Now imagine it's 2am, you're not even fully awake following a panicked phone call from the operations night shift, and your job hangs in the balance. Makes quite a difference.
It does make one wonder what happens if everything is a type instead of a file. Do you get a command line that looks like Mathematica? I too think every program containing a parser is a waste.
Does something like that actually affect a company other than in the very short term? Won't the stock value just go back to where it was before, because nothing about the company and how it should be valued has actually changed?
It's not a "back door" it's a front door for taxation. It says so on
the tin!
I mean, people definitely have.

Even the sketchy product marketplaces are moving toward inevitably decentralized “n of m” payments where the buyer and seller can approve the payment in case the marketplace disappears.
Why Substack will win over everybody
If substack play its cards right, then we're looking at NYT on steroids
Is that meaningfully different from price controls?

US government also represents a huge proportion of the demand but is banned through corruption from exercising similar price pressure.
OMG, you cant honestly beleive this can you?

The US, out of its immense generosity is subsidizing canada?

News flash, Insulin was discovered here (canada).. so how exactly are you subsidizing a Canadian discovery?

How about this for a far more realistic explanation:

"
When inventor Frederick Banting discovered insulin in 1923, he refused to put his name on the patent. He felt it was unethical for a doctor to profit from a discovery that would save lives. Banting’s co-inventors, James Collip and Charles Best, sold the insulin patent to the University of Toronto for a mere $1. They wanted everyone who needed their medication to be able to afford it.

"

https://www.vox.com/2019/4/3/18293950/why-is-insulin-so-expe...

Good god some of the comments you find here are just shocking.
Agree. You don’t need extra special “crypto” regulation to know that customer’s assets should not be stolen.

Arguably, fractional reserve banks “steal” customer deposits to invest and pay interest in exchange. They have a very particular license from the government and are monitored (and insured) and rightly so - they are very dangerous.
I think in terms of potential real-world contagion, FTX might indeed be in a league of its own among the crypto entities that have imploded so far. Add to that the fact that the crypto ecosystem was _already_ under a lot of stress from recent implosions and the generally bad economic mood, and I think we're gonna see some interesting fallout from this.
No. Uniswap will display the Uniswap Labs default list from Token Lists[0], which covers a lot of the legitmate tokens. Token Lists has additional lists from other protocols if you want to expand the listings. Unless a token is playing a long con (FTT I guess) it’s unlikely to be listed in these.

If you want to trade an unlisted token by adding the contract address manually, sure you can do that. But then it’s on you if you get scammed, like if you follow through on a solicitation from a spam email.

[0] https://tokenlists.org/
Retail investors are creditors right? Though I guess you mean only the larger creditors. I think the bigger difference is that bankruptcy proceedings take a long time and to a retail investor ‘you might get some money back in N years’ isn’t so different from ‘you get nothing’.
What are the lies in this article? Did a biological man not win a womens beauty pageant?

While I’m not opposed to this, I struggle to see what is dishonest about the article.
> I suspect, it's likelier that hackers had been aware of a vulnerability for some time, had a plan to drain these funds, but decided to hasten the timeline on the basis of the news FTX was going under.

This make no sense to me. Thieves in the crypto currency world seize the opportunities before other thieves do: what more do "hackers" need than 600m? 700m? 900m?

Why let a vulnerability unexploited, risking someone else to exploit it before you? Because 600m wouldn't be enough? (and before the price crash it was probably worth way more than 600m).

I don't buy it.

Insider job 100%. Especially seen that it's a know fact it was run by scammers.

It's not as if we were talking about honest people playing it fair. We're talking about a scam.

A more than shady company, ran by scammers.

I call insider job unless proven otherwise.
I don't know if it's accurate, but this suggests that on average, diabetics use 2-3 vials per month. So that would be $50 to $75 a month.

However, it also mentions that some people need 50-60 units per meal and a vial contains 1000 units. Assuming three meals per day, someone using 50 vials per meal would spend $666.66 per month.

$666.66 per month would be prohibitively expensive for many people and even $50 to $75 could be a significant expense for people making minimum wage (depending on local minimum wage it could be equivalent to 7-8 hours of work before taxes).

https://4allfamily.com/blogs/diabetes/how-long-does-a-vial-o...
If Mt.Gox didn't kill crypto & BTC back in the early days, it's super unlikely FTX is going to kill crypto.
What is also unlikely to change is HN general opinion on crypto :)
Why is being a Harry Potter fan a pertinent detail? Plenty of people still like things they picked up when they were kids.
Yes.

It's a bit like saying most startups go belly-up in the first years, so we shouldn't do startups anymore.
That would imply that stock prices reflect some type of real life properties of the company itself.
You can handle the post-truth: A pocket guide to the surreal internet (2019)
I thought when this happened, you would be able to specify the dropzone e.g. putting a target symbol on your driveway or some such.

First time this thing drops laundry detergent in the swimming poll, it'll die.
I still remember about ten years ago when Twitter went public an entirely unrelated company named Tweeter went up 2000% because it traded under "TWTRQ". So yep I wouldn't put it past a few geniuses to sell based on a fake tweet.
I’d probably like to charitably interpret some of these ‘no real value’ tokens as “debugging” or “dry-run” or some other kind of harmless experiment.

They didn’t measure how much value was stolen by rug-pull maneuvers. Did 10,000 ‘fake’ tokens start up, run a while, and rug-pull taking $1 with them? I’d guess that’s just ‘debugging’. Did a few big rug pulls run away with a million dollars? Can we detect _those_ better?
Let's add this one to the list. https://buybitcoinworldwide.com/bitcoin-is-dead/
The negotiation goes like this: "Here's what we'll pay you for that. If you don't like it, we'll ignore your patents and intellectual property and manufacture it ourselves."

The companies would rather prevent Canada from funding competition, so they just jack up prices in the US to compensate.

If the US passed a law requiring sales of drugs in the US to match the lowest sale price in any other country, one of 2 things would happen.

The likely thing is that innovation would come to a standstill. Money goes to where it can make the most money. No money in drugs? No new drugs.

Or, the companies would get a lot more hard nosed about sales in countries with price controls, and there would be trade wars between the US and those countries. And then you would see higher prices in Canada.
The parent is talking about “I” versus “l”, not Mona versus Hubot.
I don’t understand what the checkmark on Twitter does.

I thought it was “identity confirmed” and when Elon started charging for it, it would basically allow anyone to confirm they are who they say they are.

Except it allows anybody to say they are anybody and Twitter will go “yep, we can confirm it’s true!”

Like, why the hell does getting the checkmark not update your name to match the credit card used for payment?
Oof, I feel like I should send a comment. This is bad:

1. There is no definition of what the leap smeared timescale means. This may prevent a client from usefully synchronizing with multiple servers using that timescale.

2. There’s enough information in the messages to compute leap smeared time. (The leap second indicator along with UTC is sufficient.). Chrony does this.

As a result, it seems like it would never actually make sense for servers to synchronize to each other in smeared mode.
AI reunites Holocaust survivor with childhood photos
Well, that sucks. What's worse is it is wankers in the "infosec" industry that pushed MS to do this (or at least, are taking credit for it).