skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, not safe in Russia. From https://mobile.twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/15791389474472...

"In contrast, Russian cryptobros that I know tend to act very, very lowkey. The fewer people know about your activities, the better. Posting about dealing with crypto in social media is absolutely unthinkable. Why? Because that makes you too easy and lucrative prey"

That thread describes how a basement was found, in the house of an official in the Russian prison system, which appears to have been specifically designed for the capture and torture of crypto owners to give up their coins. It had its own crematorium for disposing of the remains.

If these guys think that they can take some coins and live a nice life in a place without strong rule of law, they have a nasty surprise waiting for them
Correct. But in a bull run it will continue even more (like it has). While the recession should force it to explode instead of failing even later.
The problem is the crypto community’s skepticism of proven financial safeguards. Large financial systems are centralized for a reason and they seem intent on finding out why by hitting every bump in the road at full speed.
I suspect you mean trawl, not troll
They wouldn't care. At this point crypto is simply a form of gambling.

And the people being hurt are more than educated about the risks they take.
It's definitely not the easiest way to talk about it. I've used heating, in Europe, in late spring and in my cabin even in summer. Am I just living in a perpetual winter?
I agree that the algorithms powering crypto are sophisticated pieces of technology. Just look at the zero-knowledge proofs.

The thing is that "not being regulated like a bank" is exactly what many people like / liked about it. (Yield farming, using DeFi for mortgages, etc.)

What I'm saying is that Crypto seems to be headed to being taught alongside, if not the Therac-25, then the Mars Climate Orbiter (which was lost to some people working in metric vs standard.)
Paypal keeps separate bank accounts for each customer?
FDIC. Everyone else pays for your shitty banking choices via inflation instead.

To me the crypto version is better TBH, which would force either private insurance or none at all. Believe it or not you can buy private insurance for crypto, which would achieve something like FDIC.
Fun! Would love to be able to throw the pin.
This sounds like a great insider action to cover the fraud and mismanagement: leak the keys to the kingdom in a dark web forum, so that in the resulting commotion you can blame the hackers who had access all along and obviously made your platform fail. Something, anything that your lawyers can grasp at.
feed it through fuckit.js

https://github.com/mattdiamond/fuckitjs/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4157777
Let's keep out eyes on this. It is a super lurid scenario (to use a word introduced by @dang on this posting).

By "this" I don't mean the earlier bits of the FTX debacle, but specifically this draining event. The statement that "FTX apps are malware" is weird in that it implies they became malware a while back. I could see either hackers penetrating due to inadequate security, or insiders setting up for an opportune time. Until the crypto is tumbled, it will be possible to trace its movements. Perhaps it'll just get frozen somewhere to keep it inaccessible by FTX interests. Let's see how long it takes to determine and locate any suspects for this. I have no guess aa to that, but watching with interest.

Who says the Binance app won't turn into a threat at some point?
This having the GPL license is an interesting choice. If I understand licenses correctly (I am not a lawyer), integrating this into your code, will instantly cause your website's source code to become open source.

That seems like a non-starter for almost every major usage, to me.
> Others speculated that the outflows could be coordinated by a member of Bankman-Fried’s inner circle

They announced the hack and told users not to log in so insiders could get their funds out first, right?
Create products, real value and make money.

At least that’s how I think of it, speculation creates nothing new. Instead it depletes resources that could have otherwise been used on something more meaningful.
What, they argue over whether I came from nothing? I doubt it.
Well then, he's only got 3 to 4 other options. I'm particularly displeased by this situation. I got Gox'd thrice over. It hasn't happened in 8 years, so I'm not effected in this instance. However, I am just rather unhappy that it is still happening to folks.
Indeed. In a way it reminds me of how easy it is to be utopian if you ignore incentives.
Forced-hybrid is just using a sledgehammer on the calendar rather than providing the flexibility that is actually liked by optional-attendance-office.

If the staff actually find this face-to-face time valuable, they'll organize and go into the office themselves, personally I've had zero requests from anyone to do that outside of explicit team-building activities.
Tens? Pretty sure I've seen nodes (code-golfed to be fair) doing millions, on ec2.
If it is a bit rot you want to simulate, change a bit in random file
Man arrested in Canada for alleged participation in LockBit ransomware campaign
Banksy unveils Ukraine gymnast mural on building shelled by Russia
My understanding is that this is true only if you distribute your executables which most people don't do for server-side code.
If we're linking to internet toys, here's a bit of shameless self-promotion. Something I made a little while back: https://frogulis.net/little-bits/eye-on-a-string
One of my favorite quotes from Justin Vernon is (paraphrased as) "I wasn't ready to really study music until my 30s" -- not entirely certain of his meaning but it's stuck with me as a reminder that music is and was an omnipresence, so many of my friends and peers would have just considered it another tasking or chore and left their potential inner artistry undiscovered.

Music is a universal language we all can speak, we have to understand how to listen to the muse and translate, like any language, but it's there.

Working on the grammar, lexicon, syntax, and then building interesting vocabulatory repertoire is the "work," but it's hardly work if your only goal is to make something that moves the audience.

I recommend anyone with any passing interest in music or musicianship read Victor Wooten's "The Music Lesson." It's short, but an absolutely beautiful expression of what music is - and why it's more about community and communication and connection than anything else we (humans) have - music and fire are the foundations of humanity.
He must be happy not to take the call with Sam Bankman-Fried to invest money https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1591107918816247808
Hmm, tbh, that's a point I hadn't fully considered. To flip your point around, what hypothetical scenario would be bad for the crypto ecosystem long term?
Can confirm. Lost 100% of my mtgox holdings in 2013. Theoretically my account balance is 7.73 BTC. I can still log in and see it. Maybe by the time I retire I’ll have recovered like 0.7 BTC. Which amusingly would be the sum of my original $11k investment.

A lot of this is just gambling. People need to go into it with the mindset that the money will be gone tomorrow, and then be pleasantly surprised if it doesn’t.

See this millionaire who is now worth $10k due to FTX: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRxWq77B/
Of course it depends on whom you ask.

But at least the usual programming language rankings would suggest that Scala is quite mainstream by now.

We have it currently at place 15 on RedMonk, place 15 on the IEEE Spectrum ranking, place 19 on PYPL; whereas Haskell does not show up in the Top20 anywhere there.

Also Scala job opportunities and salaries are quite good when looking at the IEEE and Stackoverflow surveys, ranking quite a bit ahead of Haskell.

I would say Scala is pretty much a mainstream language. There's not much room in the Top20 given there are hundreds of languages out there.
Grapheme OS is the best OS. I really like the sensor and network permissions they add. It is quite a clean and professional OS with hardening that just works under the hood without getting in your way. It looks amazing with the new material 3 theming. My only regret is that a supported (Pixel) tablet won't be released until 2023. I'll gladly wait for it though.
There is a very opinionated and batteries-included "Vim-y" Emacs called Doom [0]. A decent way to approach this if you don't want to start writing elisp outta the gate to have fancy editor features is to learn enough of the Doom config to tweak it to your liking, then add some elisp customization in as needed. I personally use this approach, usually cribbing config and elisp tweaks from the top contributors' configs.

The Evil layer that Doom and most everyone seems to use for Vim modes works really well, and has a lot of ways to tweak things (e.g. changing `j` to `gj` for going through line breaks in normal mode; I forgot what that setting is called...).

There is something to be said by bootstrapping your config entirely from scratch instead of using a "config framework" like Doom, but that can be too daunting and end up preventing one from trying things out.

[0] https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs
Optics. The timing of the hack is suspicious
I ask them:

Me: "You're a chatbot, aren't you?"

Chatbot: "hahaha, I get that all the time!"

I bet you do!
I'm not sure what the value of a "framework" is in Go.
I like to meditate behind the fretboard, get into a groove and let my muscle memory take over, while trying to remove my self and be present for the inspiration. Listening intently while not thinking or anticipating is difficult, but it's nice to have my fundamentals to the point where I can do this. It's made my practice routines more rewarding and unlocked me when I hit sort-of ruts in my playing.
I wouldn't say JSON killed XML: it's still widely in use for documents whose type definition changes rarely and which are more content oriented. The one benefit to XML/SGML languages is that you've got simple, ubiquotious support for "attributes", plain text content and nested tree content.

I.e. to represent

<p>An <acronym expanded="HyperText Markup Language">HTML</> page was the driver for interactive web.

in JSON, you have to come up with your own conventions for attributes and content:

[
{
"type": "p",
"content": [
{"type": "STRING", "value": "An "},
{"type": "acronym", "attributes": {"expanded": "HyperText Markup Language"}, "content": [{"type": "STRING", "content": "HTML"}]},
{"type": "STRING", "content": " page was the driver for interactive web."}
]
}
]

I know which one I'd prefer ;)

So with JSON, everyone comes up with their own format. And in these cases that XML was designed for (to mark up textual content), it handily beats JSON in expressiveness, simplicity and terseness too. The fact that it was misused for defining protocols and objects (i.e. SOAP, ugh) is a different matter.

I would say that SGML/XML languages still have this benefit over even Markdown: any contextual modifier is either impossible or uses a one-off syntax (like images or links with text).
What's amusing about your comment is that exchanges are the one centralized part of crypto due to the interfce with fiat and they also tend to be where all of the fraud occurs.
this is mt gox all over again, one would think people will learn something over the years
Waymo’s driverless taxis keep making incremental progress, while others flounder
I think most people would say that they want banking to be boring.
Twitter was already unusable as a social network before Musk started sinking it.
You mean a hacker that would need to enter your house, look for your hardware wallet, beat the mnemonic out of you and quickly enough steal the coins for you to not be able to transfer them yourself before he manages to find a computer with internet access that is sufficiently hidden to not be traced back?
I actually see this as an opportunity for the established financial companies to insert themselves into the ecosystem, using their established reputation, processes, and adherence to traditional bank regulation as a 'trust' base that's been both lacking permanently and (whatever was there) eroded over the last 12 months.

Both exchanges and coins / tokens are going at what looks like very cheap right now.
So bank regulation worked in 2008, is was just a human failure?

Communism works, it's just human failures?

The measure of whether something works is whether it prevents human failure.
The simplest solution would be have normally verified ticks, but they are paid for like a subscription. A user applies for a tick just like they used to. Once verified, they get a month of blue tick for free. After that if they want to keep it, they pay 10 bucks a month.

They can then add purely cosmetic tiers - silver and gold for 20 & 50 bucks.

Essentially keep the meaning of ticks the same, but make people pay for using it.

Another simple solution would be to just not allow people to change their name once verified. Name change should require a paid reverification.

There are so many ways they can monetize the ticks.bor salvage the current situation with small tweaks.
> exchanges are the one centralized part of crypto

Crypto is immensely more centralised than the American banking system. That’s what makes it resilient. Every wallet’s state is always globally known. Compare that with the series of subpoenas one must serve to learn what’s in whose bank account.
Copyright 2016. Huh. Did anything ever happen to this?
This is one of the bigger discussions I've been involved with lately; and I agree it really comes down to "bespokeness".

When you have a 'system' which is 500 LOC, and 10 usages of that system totaling 10 lines each; compared to 10 bespoke implementations of 50-100 LOC each... you get into a spot where the system is battlehardened because of all the users, while the bespoke implementation have issues all over. Then when someone goes to add the 11th use-case of this; they are going to learn from and copy/paste the other version, probably exposing some latent bug in the bespoke version.
And volume.
That's what an average is.
The data supports it. Some African countries are more corrupt than Russia, and some less corrupt. But it's totally fair to say that Russia's degree of corruption would be typical for Africa.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index
I worked at Nokia when management stubbornly kept flogging the dead horse that was Symbian. It didn't work. It just wasn't good enough. Android, even in it's early versions was hardly perfect but still ran circles around Symbian. Android at the time had issues with stability, features, performance, etc. But it was a breath of fresh air compared to Symbian devices which had even more of those type of issues. And of course the iphone redefined what a smart phone should be around the same time.

Nokia actually opensourced it around that time as well. Symbian has been open source for well over a decade. This looks more like the retirement of what remains of that effort, which included the Symbian Foundation. Presumably, by now there are very few; if any, commercial users of Symbian left. So, they are parking the source code at Github for whomever still has some use for it. As you can see from the commit logs, development has been dead since 2010. I seriously doubt that is going to change.
and how is it opposing my comment? I just said it's fad enjoying its 15 minutes of fame with bunch of people promoting it right now before it will be all forgotten again in few months

we all remember that "huge" WhatsApp exodus due to privacy policy, this is exactly same thing
The project with 3 stars which was written in a month? You certainly don't have to use it.
I'd be curious to read anyone's thoughts on what would have to happen for crypto to improve its image at this point. Would being regulated exactly like traditional banking / finance be enough? More regulation? Would it be regulation + lower rates of fraud, hacks, collapse, and abuse? Or something else I'm not thinking of?
i volonteer to take some "responsibility" as well
Further details emerge on FTX bankruptcy and missing funds
> A problem I have at my current place is that the dev team in my opinion is far too happy to add new features whenever they're requested.

> And you might argue, "well why don't you abstract more".

A place I work was acquired by a company that owned our main competitor. When we were comparing them, I used to joke that the team had spent 10 years saying "yes!" to literally every feature request.

They of course did it with abstractions, so it "wasn't that much more complicated".

Feature-for-feature, our software could only maybe 15% of what theirs did, while theirs could do 95% of ours. The difference was the features we picked were the only ones 80% of the customer base actually used.

Worse, because everything was abstracted, setting up those simple use cases was usually an order of magnitude more complex for the users: something that was a checkbox in ours was 15 different toggles and inputs, and very easy to screw up. Sure it could also be setup to handle hunderds more scenarios.. but in reality only there were just a few that only a tiny fraction of users even cared about.

That, to me, is the danger of abstractions - at least it they make it up to the UI layer. QA (and automated testing, if it was written) still has to test the hunderds of scenarios because they're possible. Support has to understand. Dev has to maintain.

It was interesting to compare the approaches, at least, and I came away with the conclusion: I never want to build that way. I'm all for internal abstraction: build the capability and flexibility to expand in, but have a very concrete and constrained UI that only exposes what actually has real value. And make it dirt simple to do the most popular use cases.
> where all of the fraud occurs

Might want to look into the rug-pulling with shitcoins, NFTs etc.

That is far more insidious since it is targeted at young adults/children by influencers such as Jake Paul, Lil Uzi, David Dobrik etc.
If you want to work as a developer for places like Verizon or Home Depot, you'll find a job fairly easily.
What are the best resources for getting better at working with IAM? Already pretty experienced but I feel like my mental model could be better.
FTX General Counsel confirmed unauthorized transactions: https://twitter.com/_ryne_miller/status/1591326796305530880?...
- Bugs or some fundamental/unfixable exploits in bitcoin algorithms

- Successful or semi-successful 51% attack (maybe state sponsored)

- Global energy crisis/crackdown on mining

- Global economic crisis of the scale where people desperately need cash/commodities and can't waste their money in speculation
Sam Bankman-Fried's sudden turn from white knight to washout
And the first time you'd be able to DDoS site for charity
and? how is it mutually exclusive with being fad right now? pretty much nobody heard about mastodon up until now
Agreed. It's by far the simplest answer. They already have the keys and have the code.
The difference is that Truth Social never intended to federate, while Gab was defederated and isolated by the community. You can still federate with Gab if you own your server.
FUD. Nothing wrong with GPL. GPL might "protect" the user by granting them certain rights.
A CEX is "like a bank" because it's a human that takes custody of assets, not because it does trades and loans. Smart Contracts, however, can't be regulated the same way that human custodians can, but they are also designed not to be able to do unexpected things.
oh wait, so that's why there are so few tech founders in Sydney? Really hard to find any engineers hungry to start their own thing
Also the BS-136 Orenburg, among others. Both Russia and America definitely have the capability.
Yep. Military, coast guard are both often without AIS. Actually, I think the only times I’ve seen military vessels with AIS on has been during some courtesy visits to other countries. The AIS static data is often not super useful (I think I saw a carrier reporting itself as something like “Uswarship03”).

Fishing boats reputedly run without AIS as well to hide their (potentially illegal) activities.

Then there are obviously pleasure craft that are not required to have AIS. But at least in the southern Baltic, most seem to carry a transponder.
"Common sense is neither common nor sense"

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-power-prime/2011...

> single forecast.

Nope, it was a bundle of forecasts that the participants, including the one who had your position, considered representative.

Of course your position happens to be based on...nothing. Except the idea that the earth is not infinite. Well guess what, the lifespan of the solar system is also not infinite. So that's a wash.
Isn't it ironic that we can give concrete "virtually any form", and yet most new buildings are boring cubes? Old brick houses used to have a lot more ornamentation.

And if you think about it, it makes sense. To
ornament, simply use a differently colored brick, or turn it 45 degrees. Or give the wall a slight convex shape. You were just a lot more flexible.
Everyone knew FTX was lending and borrowing, they didn't know the extent or how much they relied on shoddy collateral to be credit worthy, they didn't know they were using customer funds as well.

Is Crypto.com a lender? That's not what this discussion is about, that's not what Proof of Reserves are about. The folly comes from using collateral, not having assets at all.
I love to cook. I also cook in a giant wok on a large gas burner sometimes. I guess I look at it like that’s a treat, because in no way, shape, or form is extremely high heat cooking with fats and proteins ever going to be particularly healthy. At the same time, it’s extremely tasty. Once in a while I think it’s great.

I make a point of avoiding refined fats in general though. They’re essential to some cooking methods for sure, but normalizing them in my diet seems riskier than it’s worth and there are so many amazing foods that don’t require them.

I also tend to avoid cooking with them, but I think something like a chilli oil on a soup isn’t as bad. You know how much you’re using, it doesn’t have to be exposed to high heat, and it’s affordable to use healthier (and even tastier) oils.
Only 100 can be editors.

Can create 1000 versions and 10 ppl each :)
Transparency. Crypto has almost everything needed to be fully transparent with a public ledger but exchanges (CEXes) still operate behind closed doors.
Up to a certain degree one can interpret the folders as tags. I think fastmail does it that way, iirc.

Edit: Checked it: Yes, they treat folders as labels/tags,
i.e., they simply copy the mail into all folders/labels/tags.

See: https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/1500000278282
Not everything that calls itself "crypto" is decentralized, peer to peer, or a crypto-currency.

https://www.corbettreport.com/bitcoinpsyop/
Yes, smart contracts can be programmed to allow terrible human behavior. Banks also have this feature.

But... they can also be programmed NOT to allow terrible human behavior. Banks do not have this feature.
> I am not saying that it's proven that the "dark" ship is responsible here. I am objecting to the opinion that blowing up NS/NS2 is somehow not an obvious act of sabotage.

Then you completely misread the comment you originally responded to, and this entire thread is a waste of time. All they said was that the dark ship evidence does not prove sabotage. And you say the same thing, that the dark ship may or may not be responsible.
The search is surprisingly horrible! The sad thing is, the engine itself works great. I can input "eh eh eh ah ah ah" and the first result is "Million voices", the song where they loop this vocal sample a lot. But the presentation of the results is just.... Netflix-level. As all majorly popular apps will be in the future, I think. The web was just too good otherwise, too much power "to the people". They'll find that people tolerate a lot more abuse, so these anti-features won't ever go away.