skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This.

If an exchange cannot 1:1 fund withdrawals it is not an exchange, it's a ponzi scheme. Full stop.

All real exchanges should be releasing evidence of 1:1 backed customer deposits ASAP like Coinbase has. And if they don't, it should be considered a canary of systemic risk.
Kanaye Nagasawa: A samurai who changed California
There are many different books and courses on thermodynamics, but as far as fundamental worldview, that's the most significant 'before and after' viewpoint shift, 'oh that's how everything works' experience. Everything is system and surroundings, and it's basically arbitrary how you divide up the universe into system and surroundings, although there are obvious natural divisions (sun and planets as a relatively isolated system, biosphere of a planet, physical boundary of a living organism, etc.). Peter Atkins does a good job with his books and lectures on the topic, for example:

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

However, what generally happens is something 'clicks' and you get it for a while, then you realize you only had a low-level understanding, so then you get into higher-level abstractions, and it 'clicks' again, and so on.
IMO, the entire crypto market cap broadly hangs on folks believing that last part.
A VPS to do that is $120/yr. While nothing for a professionally employed software developer in the west, some of us contributed to open source back when we were broke high schoolers and would like the current generation to be able to also, while others have less fortunate economic situations.

Also let's say 4 hours/month of amortised maintenence. Some people just aren't willing to spend that time, and while I self host a lot, I can't blame them
As someone who was preparing for International physics Olympiad in heydays in senior year of high school, reading Feynman Lectures of Physics (especially part-2 on Electrodynamics), made the real difference. I was reasonably prepared competing at regional level, but Feynman's way of prodding the deep questions made me realize how many cracks I had missed. It also helped me build the skill of stopping at a reasonable point - its incredibly easy to keep grappling at really hard problems which may never lead to solution with existing skillsets. Judging what you don't know & incapable to solve is very important and perhaps applicable to all disciplines.
The only ledger that two different banks share is the ledger of reserves at the central bank. The bank deposit that is created through the mortgage process has no means of escaping the buyer's bank and into the seller's account -- it's an artifact of the contract between the buyer and their bank. The seller's account grows only in response to a bank-to-bank transfer of reserves or a huge cash withdrawal and deposit (which are essentially similar.)
The existence of siri “as it is” (sending the audio/message to Apple) is the proof that they do monetize your data. Siri is not free…
There is Tatortreiniger and Stromberg, both of which are funnier.
@dang, if you can read this, would you please delete this submission.

I've found an alternative solution for my problem, so the question is not relevant anymore.
if you type a letter of which there are multiple, tiles of that letter should be used from top to bottom
> I'm guessing algebra is difficult for journalists.

Not sure what you're saying here? The amount of money the FTX Foundation was distributing was plausible given FTX's fees and volume.

> Major investors had all the incentives to keep the scam going.

That ignores new investors buying in, who I don't think had those incentives?
But you realize that banks (and individuals) could have all the advantages of decentralization if they just chose to be decentralized too, right? This prompts the question: why are they so centralized? It turns out the advantages of centralization are more significant than the advantages of decentralization, and this is true even in a market with religious orientation toward decentralization.

All you've gotta do to get people to keep their coins "correctly" is eliminate the benefits of agglomeration. Good luck!
Understanding Effective Altruism's move into politics (May 2022)
Too early for me to do a moral 180 on the man, but I‘ll try to keep an open mind
VC Money is one factor which could make bootstrapping harder. If you are able to raise money from VC, you can offer much better salaries to attract talent whether you are profitable or not. They can throw money at Sales/Marketing. They can hire Customer Support people faster. We all know there are companies that bleed money but can easily spend money because they hope to make it big one fine day and it's not their money.

Source: A Bootstrapper who is beginning to see value of VC Money even though it comes with its own issues.

Note that outliers are always there but it is usually harder/slower to scale a company without VC Money.
> There's an entire cottage industry built around people etching their seed phrases on steel plates for people to (I'm not kidding) bury them like they're gold in the 1800s.

I was stunned to see so many of these products on Amazon last time I searched for smartcard stuff. On that note, I hate that you can't search for smartcard products anymore without 80% of your results being crypto wallets.
Unless I'm missing something, does the lack of an 'install' command (be it for non-npm or npm libraries so you can bundle the packages with your image) not mean it's detrimental to any deployment where you have either horizontal scaling or cold starts (eg. GCP Cloud Run)?
What's frustrating to me is that seemingly no one who complains about billionaires actually understands why they are billionaires and what the difference between a checking account and a 20% equity stake are.

I've spent a lot of time trying to think of ways to remedy wealth inequality, and the best I can come up with is "If you hate Bezos so much, you should probably quit your addiction to Amazon Prime."
Just one of the sides. Sadly the president of India doesn't seem interested responding. Nevertheless I'm sure many government agencies of India use VLC.
I don't see an advantage in holding Bitcoin over say, stocks, other than speculation, if for every transaction you have to choice to either identify yourself or produce tainted Bitcoin.
Facebook was one of the first big companies to implement https in a non-payment / checkout page. They also have not suffered a data breach as far as I can remember.

So your data is safe with Facebook too.

The only difference that I see between Apple and Facebook is that Apple is doing the labeling of its users on device, while Facebook does it on the cloud.

At the end the result is the same: targeted ads to specific classes of users.
Personal websites are useful tools for organizing and re-organizing your mind. For me, a few simple practices have been life-changing:

1. Keeping a public list of soon/current/recent projects forces me to keep priorities straight over long stretches of time.

2. Maintaining a monthly newsletter organizes my life into personal "sprints". It also provides a tiny community of like-minded people.

3. Essays supercharge reflections on deep questions. If you have any big ideas or strong opinions, public writing is incredible distillation.

4. Writing for fun is fun! It's a productive craft well-suited to curious/obsessive minds (much like programming).

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https://taylor.town
Someone else suggested putting Peter at risk - inform him that in 3 months he will be part of a layoff, so that he has those 3 months to find a new job.
I am with Jesus on this one:

Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
Try opening up a Madrasa in your neighborhood and you may find a lot of pushback to private religious schools, even from people who say they are in favor of such a thing.
All your comments seem to be flagged by default, please reach an admin to clear that up
You have to look at the business model of the exchange. They way you describe it is how it SHOULD work. The exchange makes money directly from you through transaction fees or just account fees. They would not need to "invest" your crypto in anything, because they have other ways to make money. This is (I think) the way Binance and Coinbase operate.

But a lot of these exchanges have attracted customers by offering interest (rather than charging a fee) and/or free transactions. But then how can the exchange make money and keep the lights on? Well they have to "invest" the customer's money. Then the investments go bad and it all blows up.
That's not really an explanation as Tether does not make cooking the books any easier. You could just as easily lie about how much USD or BTC you have. It would also be a whole lot less visible, having huge unexplained stablecoin holdings is a giant red flag visible to everyone. It does not make sense.

That said, the Tether situation is clearly fraudulent in some way, just not the one people usually put forward. So stay away, if you aren't already.
Was the pledge to give away most of us while still alive? I know Warren Buffett's original plan was to give away nothing until death and then give away all of it and his wife or something convinced him to at least give away some while still alive.

Note that while I think most of the other replies are not necessarily pertinent in that giving away trickles is clearly not "most," the Gates Foundation has given a total of $65.6 billion to date, which is more than half of the Gates family's current net worth, but it isn't funded solely by him. That also means he can't decide unilaterally what to spend the money on, though. I was under the impression it was mostly global health until recently. The education initiatives are relatively new.

He could easily still be on track to give away some amount equal to whatever his net worth is on death by his death, though, and still meet a pledge to do it while alive. I don't know that anyone of extremely high net worth has ever tried to give away 50% all at once. I'm not sure that's even feasible in terms of finding organizations that could take and use that much money in a single year, other than donating directly to the US Treasury general fund.
Basic statistics, really.

Nothing is yes/no. Everything is maybe/maybe not. We're just moving the needle towards maybe or towards maybe not.

A seat belt moves the needle a lot in the "maybe not" section for the "dying in a car crash" category.

Government regulation is mixed but guess what, the empirical evidence shows it works. How do we know that? What do we call countries with crap, weak and abused regulation? Failed states.
It would be great if the author backed up, really, any of their points with some kind of demonstration about what they're talking about. This article otherwise is seemingly a bunch of handwaving about vague "problems" that exist but without actually clearly stating examples.

Also the author is flat out incorrect on this:

> This decentralization however came with a lot of challenges and today decentralized package hosting is no longer supported by the Python ecosystem.

pip has supported github urls for a long time.

edit Further:

> The second thing that became apparent over time was also that decentralized services came with a lot of security risks. Every one of those hosts allowed the re-publishing of already existing packages. Domains that lapsed could be re-registered by other people and new packages could be placed there.

Linux package management systems solved the decentralization "problem" years ago. It's why there's so many mirrors available when you download packages. Signed packages, and even "trusted-source" checksums can provide for integrity in cases where decentralization exists.

That some package managers threw this away in favour of monolithic repositories is kind of irrelevant to how ActivityPub works.
Pollution has costs and benefits. This focuses on the costs, which is fine and useful. But what would a map look like that attempted to show both sides of the equation? Which polluters emit least per arbitrary-unit-of-human-flourishing?

I don't know how to gather that data, so I don't know how to make that map. But it would display very differently a power plant that is mining for bitcoin with one that is keeping a lot of people from freezing in a region disrupted by war.
Most of us don't have a problem with _private schools_, just with state money or charity being aimed at them. Private schools are fundamentally capitalistic - they serve their (generally wealthy) patrons, not society.
"supernatural gift"? He's probably smart, at least that's what his MIT degree would tend to show.. but supernatural because he took advantage of the price difference in Bitcoin between Japan and the USA? .. that was just taking advantage of what he was trained for on Jane Street, nothing supernatural there .. that worship for someone who makes money speculating is what shows the decay in our society .. for me someone with a supernatural gift is Newton for example ..
The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli. Mind-bending read that made all the principles that had previously confused me (relatively, thermodynamics, entropy, etc) clear and awe-inspiring.
Twitter has locked down it’s code base, freezing production changes
I found it difficult to parse this sentence and not think this is maybe one of the worst euphemisms in public relations I have seen:

>"Due to the failure of our third-party partner, some users' balance data were found abnormally recorded in our system."
I only clicked on 15 or so from the areas that I have lived but they were all airports and land fills. That tells me that our personal consumption is a big problem and we as individuals can make a difference.

Quick disclaimer though I have always thought that pollution is more an individual consumption problem so I am biased to that conclusion.
You're living black and white, is the problem.

Do I read all work contracts and terms? Of course.

Do I read all contracts in my personal life related to property, finance, or other important things? Of course.

Do I read the 10 pages of EULA every time Angry Birds updates new levels? Absolutely not.

In the context of Apple: When you activate a phone, the salesperson who sets it up (most people in middle america still do go to the store to get their phones activated) literally flashes the screen at you and says something to the effect of, "do you agree? If not, you can't use this phone."
I would clarify further. High rates of violence were an exaggeration of 19th Century East Coast newspapers that created a myth that was perpetuated by Hollywood.
Yeah. In that case I think the intention was to have them look bad. And since the faked person is a celebrity, enough data was available to produce a fake of suitable quality.

Maybe we will see this in the future for CEO scams. Though in that case maybe a good UI that clearly indicates that the victim is called by an external user "Mr. Big CEO <hackerperson@totally-not-s.us>" might already be helpful.
Vendors of goods and services have virtually no interest in self custody. They want deposits going to a bank/exchange. So you are not going to be able to buy many goods or services directly. How many businesses are CASH only today? That is best case scenario for buy/sell crypto directly.
Thinking that competitive advantages will not accrue to centralized entities may as well be the very definition of wishful thinking.
Why Elizabeth Holmes thinks she shouldn’t go to prison
I'm not talking about socialism, I'm talking about worker coops.
Phobos surface striations tell a story of its rupturing interior
Isn't Amazon running on razor thin margins?

That cashflow has to come from somewhere.

His wealth is paper money. Paying them more would require giving up ownership of the company.
Original title: "Open-source software vs. the proposed Cyber Resilience Act"

Emphasis on "proposed", the current edited title sounds like it's already in effect.
why not just build multithreading into deno? Is this only a paid feature?
I had just moved into my first shared student house in Headingly, Leeds Uni in 1982 and The Young Ones perfectly captured the feeling. My basement room had snail trails on the floor, extensive damp and while unpacking I found a stolen road sign under the bed.

Luckily we were able to afford a TV and this was our goto TV programme that was watched every week, regardless of which band were performing at the student union that week. Awesome, life-affirming comedy.
Because the reality is those "user contracts" have no real value and if you ask me, it's good they are not printed because they would be a waste of paper.

Of course that reality does not suit well companies and they try very hard to create their own bubble world of user contracts.

Proper country laws enforce consumer laws instead based on intent
It's not just helicopter parents. I'd love to let my kids have more freedom. But there are roadblocks at every turn:

- There aren't as many kids, and other parents don't let their kids out these days, so your kids are often the only ones out there.

- Without other kids being out there, it's much harder to estimate what is safe. There is just no data.

- Because there are no other kids out there, things that used to be safe no longer are. Our roads don't have sidewalks. Because there are very rarely any kids, people fly down the curvy residential roads at 40+ mph. Even I feel uncomfortable walking carefully on our local roads because people they are so curvy and low-visibility and our neighbors drive so insanely fast.

- Because there are no other kids out there, people who see kids by themselves treat it like it's an emergency. I literally had someone run out of a restaurant and grab one of our kids and ask if they are OK, because I wasn't walking close enough to them. Then she treated me like I was the crazy one.

- Their teachers tell them its not safe to be out without parents.

- Their public school doesn't allow them to be by themselves at the bus stop and won't drop them off without an adult present.

- If you send them into a store by themselves, people treat them like aliens or like something is wrong.

- Even just leaving your kids by themselves in a temperate car for a reasonable time to go into a store has resulted in a child protective services action in our area.

There aren't as many kids any more so people just can't tell what is safe and what is not, and so they assume everything is unsafe.

When I was a kid I rode my bike all over town and had free reign, and there were kids everywhere. Now as an adult I have to work hard just to find things that my kids can do without us that won't get the police or child protective services called on us. What is going to happen to the people who grow up this way?
I mean, they're both US companies. Embedding assets from either would clearly be illegal. Arguably if your entire site is on one, accepting user's IP addresses might be considered necessary. I'm not sure a court has addressed that. (They might say you should use an EU host still.)
Need I point out that one can avoid both the issues highlighted here by just using Tcl?

Regexps in Tcl use a non-backtracking implementation which handles such cases with minimal slowdown, e.g. the example shown with 16 and 32-character inputs:

(dep) 7 % timerate {regexp (a+)+b aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa}
0.353737 µs/# 2826961 # 2826961 #/sec 1000.000 net-ms
(dep) 8 % timerate {regexp (a+)+b aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa}
0.412612 µs/# 2423587 # 2423587 #/sec 1000.000 net-ms

One discussion of this can be found at https://comp.lang.tcl.narkive.com/XPVME8zS/tcl-regexp-perfor... .

Tcl's threading implementation has no GIL, which not only avoids the type of lock-up described here, but also allows performance to scale to use all cores of your machine, see: https://www.hammerdb.com/blog/uncategorized/why-tcl-is-700-f... .
Thank you. I appreciate you wanting and choosing to respond.
The article goes into some details beyond scaling that I can resonate with. I had a few forums and IRC servers in the past that grew rather large. I eventually shut them down, not because of scalability but because of legal liability and dealing with the myriad of personality issues that put my domains at risk. Scaling a forum or IRC to hundreds of thousands or even millions of people is not hard especially nowadays with cloud scaling and the current state of modern kernels and hardware.

What I found too challenging was having to moderate the content and finding moderators that could be trusted to remove illegal content in a timely manor. Worse, there were trolls that would use bots to post highly illegal material and then automatically submit their own posts to my registrars, server providers and government. The bots somehow even grabbed screenshots right after they posted content. I say bots because there was no way a human to perform their actions so quickly. This was a losing battle and I did not have the legal resources to deal with it, nor the development resources to play the cat and mouse arms race 24/7. I do have my own conspiracy theories as to who these bot owners were but that doesn't matter any more. Nowadays I could probably block more of those bots with techniques I have learned but I just do not have the desire to get back into that quagmire.

I suspect some of the Mastodon admins will learn this lesson with time. They, like me, will probably start in a state of denial and dismiss the risk until it gets real. And it certainly gets real.

The only technical work around I could find was to set forums to make all posts moderator-approved, meaning only the poster can see their post until a moderator approves it. This does not scale and people want their posts to be instantly available. With IRC I had to constantly add new file sharing domains to word filters to block the links to illegal material and that was also a losing battle.

[Edit] BeefWellington brings up a good point. I should add that I am referring to public instances of forums and IRC servers that anyone may join. Private servers are at much lower risk assuming the trusted members are good at setting strong passwords and static content is not accessible at all without an account and Mastodon servers are not linked to lesser trusted or non-private instances.
This will be a hard lesson but a good lesson for a lot of people.

To be honest, crypto doesn't even need exchanges. Some even have smart contract capability that can explicitly outline the terms and conditions of any single trade. An exchange is superfluous. So as soon as you see people going to an exchange en masse, to trade assets with smart contracts on them, you know something is out of place.
I remember watching the show when I was very young and loved the pure anarchy of it.

This documentary is a really great coverage of the young ones, including interviews with all the main cast. Not sure quite how much of it is in overlap with the article, but fun bit of background watching.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4reFlDsnGM0
You use the setsockopt system call. This is an example in C:

int sfd = socket(domain, socktype, 0);

int optval = 1;
setsockopt(sfd, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEPORT, &optval, sizeof(optval));

bind(sfd, (struct sockaddr *) &addr, addrlen);

In Go, you can use syscall.SetsockoptInt. Most languages have a way of setting this option. You have to create the socket yourself and pass it into your HTTP server in most cases, but it depends on the library.

Edit: oh sorry, you meant when systemd is opening the port for you. It looks like you can set ReusePort=yes in your configuration? https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.soc...