skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Goodbye CEX

meanwhile Chia Network has launched a new capability called Offers, a native peer-to-peer exchange capability. No counterparty risk. No middleman custodian. No additional fees.

Offers allow “Makers” and “Takers” – buyers and sellers – to seamlessly create and accept trade offers all from the privacy of their Chia wallet. Offers allow two people who have never met to propose and complete a trade in a way that neither side can cheat and does not need escrow. This also empowers users to self-custody while making trades, meaning buyers and sellers retain control of their private keys and coins without counterparty risk, middleman custodians, and trading fees. By contrast, centralized exchanges require users to transfer digital assets to an exchange account, creating a potential security risk.

https://www.chia.net/offers/
Crypto is a decade-long exercise in teaching programmers why the mechanism used to update numbers in databases is the boring part of a money system, and why governance, policy-making and physical territory control are relevant.

What it really does is highlight inadequacies in education and discourse, and how intransparent "how things really work" (and by extension, what the tough problems are) can be even to intelligent people.
You could change the “Lisp” in your comment to “Programming Language” to make the answer less unobvious.
I use my airline miles before dollars when buying plane tickets. This does not mean I value airline miles over dollars.
In the meantime there are >300 communities which switch off lights at late night hours.
164 in Wallonia/Belgium, 50 in Luxembourg, >100 in Germany.
How about your countries?
Why are there multiple programming languages?

Why are there multiple dialects of real-world languages?

LISP is pretty minimal and simple. It's less of a language than a set of constructs for computation. Computers are made of abstractions on top of abstractions, so it makes sense for Lisp-based languages to evolve continuously. No one is better than the other, each target to their own niche. Just like other prog. languages, or real-world dialects.
Yup. The scope of the discussion was around permissioning/security, so I didn't get into billing, but you're absolutely right.

You should have CloudTrail, billing alarms, and dashboards all setup. It may also be a good idea to setup automatic spring cleaning that nukes resources every two weeks or so unless they have special tags to mark retention.
A kenning is also half a bushel, or two pecks.

Don't know how that etymological hat trick happened. Sometimes English gets weird.
The insulin people now use wasn’t developed there
Towards the end of the video, when talking about anonymity they use graphics associated with the loosely defined “Anonymous”.

I wonder what /g/ and /biz/ feel about GNU Taler. I feel like /g/ ought to like it. I don’t know if the opinion of /g/ and /biz/ on this matters anyway though :p The “Anonymous” graphics just got me to think of them.

Also it’s interesting to hear in the video that GNU Taler can work in conjunction with cryptocurrencies, while GNU Taler itself is not a cryptocurrency, and that GNU Taler does not add any additional volatility on top of the volatility of the underlaying payment currency itself. Makes me wonder if they have any resources on accepting payments in BTC or ETH using GNU Taler.
The big question now is whether VCs will pour billions of USD into pump things back up. The real economy isn’t awash with money seeking higher interest rates the way it was a year ago.
Didn’t he change his name when he was first married (to some more distant family name) instead of only one spouse changing name?
> The collapse of SBF’s empire should be a wake-up call not just for the industry that enabled it, but for the millions of people who decided to take their chances on a couple dollars’ worth of crypto over the past couple of years

How is wake up even possible? Info Asymmetry is rising exponentially and the attention economy relies fully on propping up people who exploit the gap.
And to my original point: that a business requirement adds more potential bugs is not sufficient to obviate implementing it. The only sufficient argument is that it doesn’t provide the product owner as much value as it costs to implement and maintain, but rarely is the developer in a position to judge that - they just provide the cost estimates and the PO can decide if they want to wear it or not.
I just did. None of them ever heard of crypto.

It might seem like crypto is all the rage online, but most people don't actually live in this bubble.
One of my quote(which I developed after trading options for a year) I like to reuse is: News doesn't move the stocks. Stocks moves the news.

When CPI went sky high few months back and the stock market still rallied the news was "S&P rallies while investors digest CPI information".

Like, what is this even supposed to mean?
What is surprising is that Symbian did not manage to pivot to embedded market in any way, to compete with VxWorks and its likes. It was a fairly advanced RTOS at it's heart afterall, and proven to work well on ARM platforms.
Banks actually do have terrible behavior if you think fractional reserve banking is a scam. If banks were not backed by the government printing press they would all collapse.
Yes, and that's a mistake.
I worked for an investment company that lost a lot of money once. The first thing we did was go visit the lawyer, who provided great relief for my boss.

Basically as long as you haven't broken the law or the contracts, you're ok. It's no different from "I bought some stuff that lost money".

That's the defense. I don't know anything about that rather large caveat in this case, but for that old boss it was clear since everything was exchange listed and there were never any movements of money other than to the clearing houses.
That definition is incomplete. Threat actors also abuse this to hide their command and control infrastructure.
Nope, much like 9p itself[1] the /dev/draw protocol[2] is a stream of (simple) binary records. And it’s not that the implicit separation is essential for parsing it, it’s that the servers don’t care to implement the additional buffering necessary in case a single message spans several read()s.

(I still don’t remember whether I looked at one of the /dev/draw implementations or at one of the 9p implementations when I was curious about the fiddly buffering question, sorry.)

[1] http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9_3rd_ed/5/intro

[2] http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9_3rd_ed/3/draw
My philosophy is terrible but it appears to me that what causes the chicken to come into existence proceeds the chicken in itself. Whatever is in the egg is unknown until it hatches. This is an example of Schrodinger's box observable as a natural process.

What's wrong with this thought? Where/when/how does the chicken's awareness of itself as a chicken arise? Is the chicken aware of itself as a chicken before it hatches?

If consciousness, sentience, sapience, awareness/feeling, memory, and all the good stuff that makes an individual actually exist is _knowable_ then at what point does individual consciousness not exist?

Wherefore am I/you/us?
Are you still looking to hire a senior engineer?
"St. Louis was built on beer money."

And here I thought it was built on the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers.
"No one expects a multi-billion dollar exchange to vaporize over night."

Actually that is exactly what us 'crypto sceptics' have been saying the whole time. All of crypto is an accidental or intentional Ponzi scheme sitting on top of a vague promise of "democratizing finance"
She's not any younger or more awkward than Vitalik Buterin and many people consider that guy to be some sort of boy-genius.
These are the sort of people the World needs more of! An example to all.
By that reasoning, you can forget about the USD, EUR, and basically anything out there. You can probably also forget about yourself.
> http://bestbuy will get re-write to .com by firefox, I don't like that

You can disable this in firefox by setting "browser.fixup.alternate.enabled" to "false" in about:config

You might have to disable autocomplete too...

I always disable that sort of thing. I figure that when I type a URL in the address bar I'm not making a suggestion and I don't want my browser pulling up some other site instead, especially not based on some guess or assumption about what I "actually" wanted.
My favorite implementation of CSS systems has to be elm-css. Your CSS is just normal elm code included in your view code. E.g. everything is an expression, so can import reusable CSS, compose it from different blocks, have functions calculating the CSS runtime etc. Then runtime the rules are compiled to classes and applied to the elements.

One nice thing about this is that instead of using classes, you can instead statically import the definition and apply it to your element, making it even fail compilation time if you remove some global styling some component still relies on.

And the CSS itself is typed. So the project will not compile if you write invalid css.
Doesn't that go both ways? Eli Lilly is a huge organization negotiating in favor of higher prices, so it makes sense that a huge organization (i.e. the government or insurance companies) would be needed to negotiate against them.

Even if there is a power imbalance between Eli Lilly and the Canadian Government, there would also be a power imbalance if it was instead Eli Lilly vs. individual consumers.
Please do not forget about any of this.

People are way too gullible and already forgot about the previous scams.
There is a stark disconnect between valid crypto scenarios and where the money proportionally actually comes from, that the crypto proponents seem a little too happy to gloss over (who also ironically are the furthest away from being benefactors apart from speculation and speculative fiction) which to this day gives the community a weird cult vibe.
Thanks for the link! Very good video indeed and I'll have to look into some more of his videos. Very funny and well presented.
Coral restoration goes big
> The fall of Sam Bankman-Fried, and the more-than-likely fall of many more firms in the immediate future, has sapped much of that hope.

> Now it’s hard to imagine a near- or even a medium-term future where crypto has a fraction of the influence it did six months ago.

Is he really that wrong?

The short term future for crypto looks pretty bad, there's no denying it.

I'd say the medium term isn't looking that great either.

...because of FTX? No, because the medium term outlook for the whole economy is pretty bleak, and no amount of rubbing your fingers together and finding some more magical tokens is going to fix that.

I think this article won't age particularly badly. It's basically saying someone screwed up, and they did.

/shrug
It's business as usual. When the current crisis/recession ends (probably spring 2024) and there are again billions and billions of cheap dollars looking for investment opportunities the crypto will jump back up.
This could also be Mastodon / ActivityPub's version of Eternal September
Amazon's new robot should strike fear into its warehouse workers
All these TLDs break in the internet and open it op to more scammery.
If you want to hide your domain name you can use eSNI. Keep in mind another name for censorship is moderation, it isn't just signal that uses it bad guys also abuse it and it was not a feature explicitly built to avoid censorship but more like a bug people were abusing.
do I? great question…
I was listening to npr today and there was this guy talking about a book he has written on the artistic similarities of Prince and Charles Dickens. Apparently they had similar patterns of production, both extremely prolific, working on multiple major works/albums simultaneously and generally accepting a non-perfect result (subjective idea I know), and just publishing constantly etc. To beat the perfectionism creeping in I have tried to simply finish the song in one sitting. If I have to go back it’s always weird and difficult and of course my patches are not all the same and totally un-recallable with analog gear. Some of the best stuff comes by forcing a lossy non-revertable approach. Instead of polishing, just go at it again. Your best song is the one you have yet write and all that…
When they sort out the spec issue (R7RS) we will reach programming nirvana and world peace. But I doubt humanity will live long enough to see that day.
What percentage of the internet consists of pornography and scams?

I’m sure the AOL walled garden had much higher quality content than the internet at large.
“crypto” includes all possible electronic money? Your sentiment is vapid and tiresome.
What I find especially amusing is that it is described as if Sam was somehow a genius for playing while talking in a meeting. It takes literally no intellectual effort to play a game once you’ve played it a lot, it’s like driving or eating. Only thing it shows is probably a high level of uncontrolled boredom/stress/anxiety that had to get out somehow. Hard to believe the “experts” at Sequoia and co fell for it.
It was not obviously fake tweet if you are used to blue check meaning verified identity.

Content was super suspicious, sure. But even with that, if you assume others will believe that, you will react even of you yourself don't.
> If you don't like it, we'll ignore your patents and intellectual property and manufacture it ourselves

Citation?

> so they just jack up prices in the US to compensate.

Pharmaceutical companies charge as much as they can anywhere, including in the US. They wouldn't entertain reducing prices in the US even if the Canadian market were different.
"stablecoins" are not decentralized. If you're going to trust a central issuing and custodial authority for a coin, do you even need crypto technology in the first place?
That's a wonderful definition, I'm still turning it over in my mind a day later. I like how it provides a "why" for culture, with a pretty grounded reason. I tried to locate the origin of it, but just found a bunch of paraphrasings without attribution. Any idea where it originated?
Actually.. the negotion goes like this:

" 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.

"

There is no "IP in Canada for Insulin given UofT "owns" the patent.

Most of the price differences between US and Canada stems from the difference in patents and trademarks. Canada has far more "Generics" vs the US.
6. Public health emergencies like a deadly, highly infectious pandemic require emergency measures. Quarantine the infection to reduce the spread. Spend public funds to create and deliver vaccines. Prohibit access to public resources like schools without proof of vaccination.
Or Twitter joins the Fediverse.....
For the same reason as there are many algol-like languages.

The production-ready lisps are:

- Common Lisp: this one is standardized and the ecosystem is NOT fractured. Many implementations exist and work in parallel: SBCL, CCL, LispWorks, ECL, ABCL…

- Clojure (though there is also ABCL and I keep hearing good things about LispWork's Java interface)

- Schemes: some coming from university, with a fractured ecosystem.

Of course, nobody uses Arc for serious stuff (but we can have its syntax in CL and probably in Racket too).
Together with allowing nested forms (finally), I think this would be great.
Always trust a government for money related stuff. Take the USA. The US government doesn't tax much, protects the wealthy and is able to project it's sovereignty all over the world.
Billionaires love living and banking in America and don't find the regulatory environment too tough to navigate.
Crypto kids love to think that btc and other 'asset' classes are like some prepper version of money. When really nothing beats have a stack of cash in a good bank. Seriously, some generic S&P tracking ETF reinvesting dividends is a better store of wealth than most of the crypto assets. And that whole trustless banking shtick is totally overblown. If you;re going to do business or crime, people are going to want to establish trust first.
You managed to canvass Iranians, Venezuelans and Argentinians in 9 minutes flat?
There were far fewer everyday people around the ecosystem when Mt. Gox imploded. The number of ‘normies’ that have told me stories of themselves or people they know losing money in crypto has spiked this year, and each big crash there is, the more people who will be burned. So I think it’s certainly possible that the booms will get much smaller as more people check out each bust and as the next big crypto scams blow up.
I'm missing the arguments for why any of these guidelines are supposedly ethical. The implication of these are that a handful of individual's rights to refuse e.g. vaccines is appropriately balanced against a potentially huge loss of life and societal disruption.

I guess it depends on what system of ethics one goes by. If one believes that you should NEVER force someone to do something against their will and accept the losses as unfortunate but preferable to life under "oppression" this might be defended as ethical. I think that from a principle of least harm, forcing people to get vaccines is not too difficult to justify, however.
My grandpa’s old home only had ground pin outlets in rooms with plumbing because they only wired them up to pipes. I could imagine some wild old codes allowing that kind of thing.
It is tone deaf, I agree. But it should be noted that the insulin you are talking about is about $20 at Walmart these days, which given inflation going back to the 1920s, is incredibly cheap.

The insulin that is incredibly expensive these days, that people drive to Canada for, is analogue insulin, which was developed in the last several decades by the pharmaceutical companies and is far more efficacious and easy to use. It’s a completely different product, which is often missed when these discussions of the donation of the original insulin patent is brought up.
On the other hand, now Canadians drive to the United States to buy children's pain medicine because it is largely unavailable here.
Twitter's biggest/hardest problem seems to be content moderation. With all the people moving to Mastodon now, it's not clear how Mastodon is going to handle this?

Is the hope that just folks of a given political viewpoint will move to Mastodon and moderation will not be necessary?
How would this work out in US bankruptcy court? My first reaction is that contracting on insolvency events is pretty stupid, since there is no more money or firm to pay you. But perhaps things work differently?
It is interesting to read how the compiler behaves when using instructions but the number of generated instructions is only one metric. As always, there is nothing better than measuring the runtime of your actual implementation.

I'm writing this because I had a tight-running loop that returned a bool and in 1 out of 100k or so cases, it would return false. It turns out that instead of checking that bool in each loop iteration, it was actually significantly faster to check nothing and throw an exception in that very rare case. Something like this:

try {
while ( true ) {
foo.read();
}
} catch ( const std::exception& ) {
// foo.read throws on eof
}

instead of this:

while ( !foo.eof() ) {
foo.read();
}

This might not be the most C++-like code but it saved me like 50% of runtime in one case. Afaik as long as exceptions are not thrown, there is zero overhead, which would explain this. And, the call to eof might have been too complex and long-running, maybe I could have optimized that one instead. But there are abstractions that might hinder such optimizations.
I am an indie dev, I have an idea for a product related to this for days now. Do you have some time to talk about this? where can I reach you?
Probably talking about a window unit there.
Algorithmic trading bots took the tweet as a sell signal.
I think it’s quite normal (at least at some companies) for a CTO to spend some time writing code as part of setting technical direction. In that case there might be other executives who do the other parts of the CTO role you imagine (eg having lots of reports).
Or a sudden change of course of the business and simultaneous departures. Obviously not everyone was on-board.

When the RIAA went started suing mp3 downloaders, the CEO left for “family reasons”, but a few decades later it came out that they saw downloading music off the internet as their future business model. Napster was a representation of her vision of a virtual jukebox that could play any song ever made.

(Can’t remember for the life of me which documentary she was filmed describing that)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilary_Rosen
This is interview with Alameda CEO (Caroline Ellisaon) is bonkers. I would not trust her with $10 of my money at the dog track, much less $10B of mis-used client funds.

https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/ys4lmo/she_...
If we’re talking about Uniswap specifically, it actually does a decent job of adding guardrails (only listing curated tokens from the Token Lists standard) and warning about unsafe actions (confirmation prompts when you are adding an unlisted token to swap).

So uneducated users would really have to go out of their way to get scammed through there. Like having to go out of their way to follow up on a solicitation from something caught in a Gmail spam filter.
There is russian kmem-roulette[1] - dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/kmem bs=1 count=1 seek=$RANDOM

1: http://bash.org/?926695
Food for thought:

"Greenough, P. (1995). Intimidation, coercion and resistance in the final stages of the South Asian Smallpox Eradication Campaign, 1973–1975."

https://sci-hub.se/10.1016/0277-9536(95)00035-6

Assignment: As an exercise in arguing both sides of an issue with equal fervor, construct arguments in favor of coercive measures (for example, without such measures, eradication of smallpox would have failed) and against coercive measures (for example, they created a lasting resentment and distrust of medical experts which led to future problems in public health efforts).

Extra credit: set up two Twitter accounts which marshall the opposing arguments and have a flame war with yourself.
I wish you were wrong. When interest rates are 0% and the Fed’s balance sheet is $9 trillion there will be so much money sloshing around in the economy they’ll buy anything.

In the meantime… the fed is reversing all of it that led us to where we are.
People always complain that MS does the Embrace, Extend, Extinguish model but they never remember or refuse to acknowledge that a lot of these other big tech companies have and continue to do that the same thing

XMPP is but one of many protocols that were adopted by Big Tech, then once market share was achieved they took their users and walked away from the open internet
You can also put the fan on top of the bubble blower... probably not very realistic, but a fun edge case :-)
It's not misconceptions, it's accepting that the whole ecosystem is fraudulent, and that as an intermediation layer, uniswap fails to protect consumers. If any payment processor was letting 97.7% of its merchant users be fraudulent, they would be closed yesterday.
It's not possible to block C2 without also helping censorship on the Internet. Whatever mechanism is used to hide one traffic is going to be used by the other one, and reversely.

Morally, the question is which one is the most important?
Being an effective altruist doesn't make someone an intellectual. They teach the boy-in-pond thought experiment the first week of any college elective ethics class. They hand out The Life You Could Save to all harvard undergrads in the first week. Locking yourself into a myopic utilitarianism that avoids all structural critiques seems roughly the opposite of an open intellectual perspective.