skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a frequent Nim user, I can unfortunately confirm that misleading error messages are still a problem.
George Shultz! James Mattis! Henry Kissinger!
97% of the tokens are scams so it is safe to use? Or am I misunderstanding your point?
So, like when using most websites? If you use Hacker News you're trusting Dang and the other folks running this place. If you use Facebook or Twitter, you're trusting Zuck, Elon and the folks working at Meta or Twitter. If you use independently run forums and community sites, you're trusting the people running those places.

Self hosting your own instance is great when possible (and I definitely think it should be possible for almost all services, at least in an ideal world), but you won't be able to do much in life without trusting at least someone along the way.
LeanQt – GUI is here, Widgets are near
The only way this makes sense is, if his neutral wire wasn't at 0V either (which can happen when pulling a lot of current from insufficiently thick wire)
MacBooks and iPads had the "spicy case" issue for quite a long time. In certain countries, the Apple power supply comes with two adapters for plugging it into the wall - one with two contacts, and one with three contacts. Only the one with three contacts is grounded.

When using the ungrounded adapter, the entire case of my 2011 MacBook Air and the iPad 2 got slightly "spicy", although it felt more as if the case suddenly changed texture and was more wavy (probalby an artifact of europes 50Hz mains frequency).

The strangest thing was turning on my touch controlled desk light while working on the laptop. If I touched the light and the laptop at the same time, the light shocked me quite noticeably.
"“I told him: ‘If you follow my advice then you will have no problems and also become an example for other people to follow. You wrap them in a box for each country and go to their embassies. Please use my name – this will protect you. The most honest way is the straightforward way.’”"

What a great way to ensure these countries actually get their stuff back. Seems they would want to just offer amnesty to anyone returning things outright (maybe even a bounty if you really want things back) . I'd have a 6 hour drive to even get to a embassy to begin with
Since the pool itself is imported read-only by default, there's no state to keep. We don't even need to export the pool, no txg's can be generated and left in a pending state.

If a pool is switched to read-write so that the default kernel can be set, a snapshot cloned to a new BE, etc, we check for that and then export the pool just before kexec.

Once kexec is done, your BEs kernel and initramfs essentially start fresh and actas if it's a fresh boot.
Still skeptical and like I said I would not care if they do because it’s none of my business how they use the energy they pay for.

Why don’t you go for power companies instead and demand clean energy investments? Might be a better use of your activism instead of just going for people using their own stuff in a way you don’t like. It’s not going to end well. I’m pretty sure the insane degrowth narrative will target gaming or other power intensive recreative uses sooner or later but that’s another discussion.
It was headline on Singapore FinTech Festival in 2021. I hope the organisers have warm ears now.
I've never been a fan of Musk, but even I'm getting tired of this constant stream negative nonsense.

I have a feeling it's just part and parcel of engaging with people who are part of Twitter and care about it. In other words, now that those people are part of our conversations, it's all turned to shite.

As somebody here already said: It's win/win; either Twitter implodes and does the web a service, or it becomes better. I couldn't care less either way, so I'm happy.
Ask HN: Formal language as a front end to Stable Diffusion models?
Is it possible to create a custom programming language that can serve as a description of an image to the Stable Diffusion model?

Let's say you are describing this image:-
https://c4.wallpaperflare.com/wallpaper/701/754/419/aenami-digital-art-mountains-lake-wallpaper-preview.jpg

#+begin_src

Create grid of size 4x4

Layer 0: Two mountains with snow, spanning the top half

Layer 1: A beautiful lake spanning the bottom half

Layer 2: Flowering plants at the bottom margin

Styling: Waterpainting by Bob Ross

#+end_src

^How can we improve the above language?

Alternately, are you aware of any programming languages that output photos or ascii images?
They defined it as a sudden and complete disappearance of the coin's liquidity. And they defend this as being indicative of a rug pull because it's pretty much definitional: a rug pull is when only one entity is propping up a coin's market in order to make it seem viable, and then suddenly disappears, taking all the liquidity with them. That liquidity is the very "rug" being pulled.

They suggest that this doesn't look like an organic collapse because it happens all at once, in a coordinated manner. I don't have the expertise to evaluate that claim, but it at least seems plausible.

What seems more problematic to me is that I'm not convinced that all of these events can be considered malicious. I would think that me just dicking around on the blockchain looks the same. Maybe I try making a coin, realize getting it off the ground is not going to be worth the effort or otherwise lose interest, and then abandon the project even before it really sells much. If so, then what percentage of these coins can be explained that way? Quite a large one, I'm guessing.

Perhaps there's another argument to be made, though, that that is not a good defense of the health/safety of the market for general consumers. Lots of coins that nobody should be touching because they aren't serious perhaps doesn't look much different from lots of legitimate scams from a consumer perspective. Either way, the story for consumers is a rather rigid formulation of "caveat emptor".
Due to the abstraction that Nim offers, things like autocomplete and refactoring are not needed as much as in Java.
unfortunately funds recovery probably not going to happen here.
Of course not, but the point is that the lower the barrier to entry is, the greater the scammer-to-non-scammer ratio will be, as long as money is involved, or could be involved, either directly or indirectly.
Perhaps the client knows it’s on a free internet tire and blocks anything other than text.

Much easier to implement than encrypted package inspection.
If I remember right there’s an Anthony Jeselnik standup special on Netflix where he asks an audience member where they’re from and the guy replies “frisco” and there’s a loud audible moan from the rest of the audience so Jeselnik starts lampooning him for it.
No wonder. The last tweets from SBF has been lies. In particular he's stated that Alameda Research would stop trading on FTX. This is glossing over the fact that Alameda Research is a major liquidity provider for FTX, meaning that if they stop trading there, there will be no party to take the other side of trades anymore. With a completely illiquid exchange, trading becomes all but impossible and you risk extreme slippage as a consequence of it.
Mastodon is harder than Twitter, and that's ok
> "However, the algorithm is only valuable for detecting scams accurately after they have been executed."

Forgive me, but isn't it only useful to detect scams before they happen?
"Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes should spend 15 years in prison and pay $800 million in restitution to investors defrauded in the blood testing start-up, U.S. prosecutors recommended late on Friday.

"The Department of Justice recommendation, made in a court filing, came as Holmes prepares to be sentenced next week."

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-seeks-15-years-elizabeth...
Which is also what makes it impossible. Trust is a prerequisite to any commercial exchange, since it requires at least two different parties. Big centralized systems use a third party for “scam protection”. Math alone can’t replace trust.
If you go to Uniswap right now you won't see any of these tokens. You run no risk of getting scammed by using Uniswap unless you go out of your way and manually add them.
Batteries make sense on the scale of days. My coming solar installation will yield ~250% of my usage may-September and 10% of my January usage. I’d rather store the summer excess production until winter.
Are trading bots still using the blue check as a signal? Hope nobody knows that
That's exactly right. We also append spl.spl_hostid to the command line, to work around any possible hostid mismatches inside the boot environment.
Just to be sure, did you compile it with -d:release/-d:danger? This is a common mistake people make when benchmarking Nim.
Nnnno; continuing to compete with competitors is what competition is.

Once you have driven your competitors out of business, there's no one left to compete with. That's why it's "anticompetitive".

And yes; there are still other companies in the same space as Walmart; that's not the point. The point is they drive out competitors in the local area where many of their stores set up, so that if the people who live there want to shop, they have no choice except Walmart.

Then they raise prices.
I had to look it up, but did you mean "lysergic", as in lysergic acid diethylamide? (Nice usage...)
I think he meant theyd stop trading but keep market making

Or he just lied yeah
How is it misleading it's an accurate statement of the findings of an analysis. Your argument is they won't see those tokens cause they're gonna search out the one they like (and that one won't be a scam?)

What they'll conclude reading this is "wow, crypto is full of scams" and be right.
Yes. Uniswap and Aave user deposits are not affected by FTX meltdown and withdrawals cannot be paused by a single company.
Misconceptions like yours are why the title is misleading. If you go to Uniswap right now you will not see any of these tokens and have a near 0% chance of being scammed.
I can't imagine this ageing well.

It doesn't feel different. The evangelists will hurt and the whole crypto industry is set back, the cynics gloat and revel in the schadenfreude and claim for the 748th time that crypto is dead... Until 12 months later when we do it all over again.

It's not the biggest, it's not the first, it won't be the last, it's nowhere near the most catastrophic. At least let the dust settle before making such bold declarations. Any such declaration at this point is more hope than expectation.
It sometimes feels like telling lies and then complaining about censorship is Spiked's core function. Fossil fuel funded fascism basically.

https://www.desmog.com/spiked/

I like when they do callbacks to their (fake?) Marxist roots and complain that the British Army shouldn't worry about its Greehouse gas emissions because a) the british army is imperialist, b) any kind of climate action is neo-colonialism. Those are always my favourites, as it feels like a crossover episode.
Genetic engineering breakthrough ups oil content of seeds by 18%
If you live somewhere the seasonality index is high (2ish), you can either buy winter electricity (or use a generator for off grid) or you can run a third of your electricity through a fuel cell/electrolyser combo. This makes full off grid more achievable and (where it doesn't then become legally enforced to have a cinnection) breaks utility monopoly and puts a backstop on price gouging.

I'm not sure how long the window is between this becoming viable and batteries becoming cheaper than hydrogen storage is though.
97.7% of tokens launched in Uniswap were scams or rug pulls so far
Which you have to do to use Uniswap, right?
But you cannot take the tool with you. It belongs to your company (you built it as an employee using the company’s resources).

I don’t get it. I cannot just quit my company and tell them “BTW, I’ll take with me all the code I wrote for you. Pay me X for it if you want it”. Lol. They already paid me (salary) for the code I wrote for them.
You clearly aren’t as much of an NFT hater as you claim to be.

The difference is when I buy a Pokémon card, I own the physical item.

When I buy an NFT I buy a digital claim on some item, but you don’t actually own the item, you own the claim that you own the item.
So... After a decade GNU/Linux have something similar to BEAdm integrated with the boot process...

When we talk about sorry state of REAL tech evolution this and many others features should be counted...
Grounding to a cold-water pipe is pretty common in the US, and is allowed under certain narrow circumstances by the national code (subject, of course, to being disallowed by local codes.). Specifically:

NFPA 70

250.52(A) Electrodes Permitted for Grounding.

(1) Metal Underground Water Pipe. A metal underground water pipe in direct contact with the earth for 3.0 m (10 ft) or more (including any metal well casing bonded to the pipe) and electrically continuous (or made electrically continuous by bonding around insulating joints or insulating pipe) to the points of connection of the grounding electrode conductor and the bonding conductor(s) or jumper(s), if installed.
For anyone else wondering what domain fronting is:

> Domain fronting is a technique for Internet censorship circumvention that uses different domain names in different communication layers of an HTTPS connection to discreetly connect to a different target domain than is discernable to third parties monitoring the requests and connections.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_fronting

Cool, so we are bowing down further to oppressive regimes now.
To me this illustrates an entirely different point nicely. The danger of index investing, or perhaps the imporance of picking a well-curated index.

Otherwise you can be taken to the cleaners by scammers wash-trading piles of dirt.
It depends on the length of the paper, the quality of the writing, and if there is an error near the beginning. Mochizuki's ABC papers had problems near the beginning so that's why at least some problems were found rather quickly, and it also went "viral" in the community so more people looked at it.

However, if this proof is sound, well-written, and is being looked at publicly by the top number theorists then it could be validated in under a year. Actually that's pretty much the same time it takes to peer-review a lot of ten page papers too that are not in the news...
> I was more referring to the apparent accidental inclusion of completely unrelated access credentials. That’s something they’re now learning the hard way.

That's a good point, though! Comment edited, thank you for the clarification.
That is exactly how I feel as I write my dissertation. Writing has always seemed mystical to me. I always thought it required a certain mood. Now I follow a process:

- Select a topic / part to write about

- Write for half an hour without worrying about quality

- Analyzing my writing and summarizing the main points

- Making the text more understandable by reorganizing the thoughts

- Text editing

My productivity has increased following a chore.
It manages the prebuilt binaries...but requires being run as root or adding myself to the list of Nix trustedUsers...on an OS level.

Both of those things are scary and dangerous. I don't know what your software or Cachix is doing.

Can you tell me exactly what it will be doing to my system? What changes? Does it use a lot of disk space? Is it easy to undo? And is there anyone who recommends doing it who isn't associated to IHP?
1. 'Make sure your wife is overseeing your ethical decisions - you won't get anything done without the right support structure in place' - Fauci.

2. 'Work for 40 years in the same job, be responsible for allocation of resources received from pharmaceutical companies, never retire!' - also Fauci.
Number One in Formula One. Leadership Lessons from Toto Wolff and Mercedes
O Blood and Water
NFTs are litterally the anti pokemon cards.

Pokemon cards were sold for kids to have fun, and in the end they actually are valuable, whereas NFTs were marketed as valuable, and in the end kids make fun of people buying them.
I don’t need a beefy windows machine in addition to my MBP for my CAD work so there’s the cross platform/consistent performance benefit.
He writes for Coindesk and Decrypt, journalist are hard to take seriously when they're paid by both sides.
It’s more useful, sure. But it’s certainly still useful to know historical information.
Soon we will hear about this as an example of fake news. I think it shows the power of a baseless rumour when it tells people what they want to hear
Blockchain tech should distance itself from finance and cryptocurrency. The most interesting and promising thing about blockchains is decentralized coordination of group decision making.

Based on your comment and the rest of HN, many people think blockchain = finance with cryptocurrency and NFTs. That’s what FTX was. Boring. DeFi is only slightly more interesting.

Blockchains like ethereum do run on a cryptocurrency, but the currency is not the most interesting part, it’s just lubrication for interesting applications.
Trump, Musk and Kanye Are Twitter Poisoned – Jaron Lanier
My understanding is that the Nordic countries, which tend to be known for being much further up the socialism scale, have significant investment in research.
Looking at the paper abstract, it says the identified scams by looking at transactions. So it seems at least some people are manually adding them and getting scammed. Or are you saying anyone who does that is by definition using Uniswap wrong and shouldn’t be counted as being scammed on Uniswap?
Soda constructor, circa 2000. Draw things with lines. Make some of them springd. Watch them move around. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soda_Constructor

Someone rebuilt it in Javascript. It’s not mobile friendly, so I haven’t been able to try much with it yet. https://peterfidelman.github.io/constructor/
Mike Judge should do a Silicon Valley spinoff, they don't even need writers at this point.
How Sam Bankman-Fried’s ‘Effective’ Altruism Blew Up FTX
Crypto is fine. Its centralized exchanges which are not, its why crypto exists, remove the human element of corruption.

Keep your coins off 3rd party exchanges and 99% of this drama disappears.
There's a trick called "Domain fronting" (ab)using CDN's like that which is useful.

Tor's "meek" pluggable transport uses it, but only supports a couple of cdns as you need to run infra behind the CDN which costs money.

As for Iodine, I used to run a few public DNS tunnel servers with it for people. Its a pain in the ass to get working reliably.
Experiments Deliver Superposition of Photon Going Forward and Backward in Time
A low-fidelity version of Frippertronics.
And I thought that journalists could only serve the readers. Apparently, there is a second side too.
Just start with the standard library and you will be OK, in Go there is rarely a _need_ for some kind of framework to get going as I assume it is in JS.
This is not necessarily true depending on code. Some builds do not have grounded outlets as long as a GFCI is installed at the distribution.

It’s weird and unnatural, but there’s nothing inherently wrong.
Any system that is open to the public will (sadly) have to deal with bad actors.

85% of all email is spam[1]. But that's not a value judgment on the technology--Humanity can still get value from email.

Sturgeon's law says 90% of everything is crap. If you deal with other humans, you need a way to sift through that crap. In the case of email, that means use a spam filter. In the case of crypto, it means don't buy shitcoins.

[1] https://dataprot.net/statistics/spam-statistics/
I don’t think we can accept tweets now as a source of truth or hacker news submissions really. A personal blog post at least has a persons credibility behind it.
Where's the value in crypto? What's the purpose? Decentralisation? Democratisation? And then you have to use wallets, exchanges...
There's literally no value in crypto currency, but trust. Like plain old money, which is highly regulated, so much more stability to use it in real economy. So why should I use crypto currencies? And which one, given that everyone can create their crypto currency?
IMVHO they should remain two separate worlds. Books are for slow, focused and extensive reading. Websites for casual short-time stuff.

Allowing PUBLIC full-text-search & social tagging of all books it's a VERY GOOD thing, but the book itself is not the kind of text I want to read as a website.
Just to make the image's link clickable:
https://c4.wallpaperflare.com/wallpaper/701/754/419/aenami-d...
I know some people who worked with SBF at Jane Street, and their opinion was that he was both very smart and extremely risk tolerant. And this comes from a company where people regularly bet thousands of dollars with each other on trivial things (one guy I know lost $10000 on coin flips at one party).

It turned out that FTX itself was just one giant leveraged trade, not the legitimate exchange business we all thought.

SBF did the kimchi arbitrage back in 2017, which also shows an immense tolerance for risk and a disregard for the exact definitions of rules.
They don't state explicitly, so it's basically source-available software, not Open Source (nor Free Software).

https://www.theregister.com/2011/04/06/nokia_confirms_symbia...
They only seem to have made .moi, .bot, and 5 Japanese gTLDs generally available.

There are many more they’ve been sitting on for a few years now. .bot was the most recent to launch and that was a good few years ago now [1].

Of course, there’s also the saga with Brazil over .amazon

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-bot-gtld-from-amazon/
Indeed a very complex question to answer. One of the most interesting parts of the paper is the discussion of the various types of scam — simple rug pull, sell rug pull, smart contract trap door of various flavors.

From their paper, I think sympathetic to your POV:

> For example, it is not clear that cryptocurrencies such as Doge or Shiba have any use case or intrinsic value, but they are among the most popular meme-coins. In our framework, we say that a token has no intrinsic value or use case if the developer knows that the trading price with respect to USD will eventually be zero. In other words, a tradable malicious token in Uniswap induces a zero-sum game between the users and the developers, i.e. the incentives for the investors are not aligned with those of the token creators. Therefore, the main difference between malicious and non-malicious tokens is the developer’s intentionality towards the token. One of the main problems of these definitions is that it is unfeasible to distinguish between scam tokens and under-performing or abandoned projects without accurate off-chain data.
That's still ridiculously expensive, no?

edit: yes, seems it is indeed - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33572721
And 99% of the market and capital as well.
I never said that. Theoretically, every investment is a gamble in a sense. After all, we've seen high-flying companies crash and burn overnight. FTX is not the first, nor will it be the last.
Even high-fliers like Apple were quite close to collapsing sometime in the past, yet people still poured money into them.

The only difference is that they focused on shipping products people actually wanted to buy.

All I'm saying is that the gambling should be backed up by a significant amount of work aimed at usability, call it a high signal-to-noise ratio, if you will.
Pls explain how you did that. I would like to try it for myself.
Sure.

But what would you do, in this context?
It's accurate in the sense that "97% of email is scams and phishing" which is a neat fact but doesn't indict email as a failure.

Email and Uniswap are both useful tools that are safe to use for even non-technical users. In fact Uniswap is safer as spam filters aren't 100% reliable but Uniswap's lists nearly are.