skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lack of SNI encryption is the Achilles heel of modern web when it comes to oppressive regimes blocking access.

Between encrypted SNI (Or domain name fronting), encrypted DNS and of course HTTPS. The biggest legitimate use case of Tor would vanish.
> But the problem is more fundamental than losing a bit of money. Crypto was built on the idea that you shouldn’t have to trust banks with your money, that people should be able to hold it themselves, hopefully somewhere a little more secure than a mattress.

Yes, and some of these tokens, like BTC, allow this since "crypto was built". You can clone and build https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin and set up your own wallet. Noone will touch coins in it if you're careful. They can lose their value but they will still be there.

If you trust someone else to hold your wallet, which is more or less a necessity when you trade/exchange your coins, that's whole other ball game. But having all your money in bunch of wallets kept by a single entity that is not you, is just plain stupidity.
How are you evaluating which tokens are legitimate here?
I noticed this when I was playing guitar and using my laptop at the same time. The strings and bridge on an electric guitar are grounded. When I had my arm touching the bridge and I put my hand on the MacBook's case, I would get a mild shock.

I measured the voltage difference and, if I recall correctly, it was something like 20V. I started using the 3-prong adapter and haven't had any more issues.
Not sure what gemini has to do with this, but most people who actually think crypto is interesting will tell you that _any_ centralized exchange (to include coinbase, gemini, the NYSE, even the ones in the future that haven’t been made yet) is against the ethos of crypto. Uniswap is an entirely different class of thing.

The only scams possible in the _logic_ of Uniswap are those which would be considered bugs in the code.

Obviously, as this article points out — that’s not a panacea for _all_ scams. But I am surprised that people on a forum about hacking can’t see why eliminating an entire class of bugs could be useful.
The stablecoin argument in failed states is always so funny... yes people in these countries want USD without the legal framework (of their own country and/or the US). It should be pretty clear to anyone that allowing a private and possibly criminal actor like Tether to fulfill this role isn't exactly viable in the long run. For starters when the US DoJ will finally get annoyed that USDT are used to evade international sanctions and launder billions of USD linked to large scale criminal networks, I believe a few people will learn about the ramification of the US extra-territorial jurisdiction. Good luck to your stash of USDT then.

Same with the "funding activists in repressive states" argument. Now you have a few centralized entities that can share data with the authorities. And they do, cf. Binance in Russia.

Ironically a CBDC from a powerful but non-cooperative state like China would probably be much safer for these people in Iran or Venezuela.
Is this because of your area? Apple Maps has been tangibly improving over the last few years.
Rainbow.js: an implementation of the Arc programming language for JavaScript
The best software is very old and has been polished to a mirror-like gloss.

Having any ongoing development means you get an equilibrium level of defects, though.
I agree. This is the problem that Google has. A big chunk of the websites are seo spam, fake support scams, and other nasty or untuneful sites. And Google has to find the few useful ones. Some people ask to not use pagerank[1] and just show all the results in random order, but in that case you would get a irrelevant list.

[1] or whatever they are using now
Investors Who Put $2B into FTX Face Scrutiny
My house built in 1950s in the US is the same. Grounds were’t in style yet.

There are very few things that actually need grounded. Kitchen appliances and laundry (which are both retrofitted with grounds).
I think they used to recommend using .local as the TLD for internal stuff. Not sure if that is a good idea or if you are shooting yourself in the foot these days with if you plan on using AAD.
Wanted to submit this because 1: I think a lot of people on Hacker News are interested in getting into the game industry - and 2: Many of the tips that Sakurai recommends for video games are easily as relevant for developers and entrepreneurs.
strong buy signal
> an organization meant to scam…They provide no value or merit.

I hope this irony was intended!
Own my own time
Maybe, but the regulation would inevitably come with changes that probably turn a lot of crypto folks away.

An FDIC-style framework, for example, would require exchanges to submit regular audits. The key difference between this and the proof-of-reserve stuff that Binance has been putting out is that a government auditor determines the outstanding risk of the reserves, not the entity themselves.

I'm a bit skeptical because crypto exchanges have largely been able to create these weird tokens that kind of act like corporate securities while not being actual corporate securities, and any regulatory intervention would put an end to that because that's where a ton of the risk was being laundered in the case of FTX.

Coinbase is probably the best example of an established exchange that's playing by the rules, but crypto enthusiasts hate it for that exact reason.
It counts as a creditor and the judge has pretty large leeway in negotiating how it gets paid out.

They might be lucky enough to get removal costs but I doubt anything more.

These contract clauses are to prevent FTX going through restructuring and keeping the naming rights without payment, basically.
This is also why just 'use the cloud' is not really good advice, as with any broad and scaled system you can't just tack it on to a project you happen to be doing. Inversely, not using the cloud because you need to know what you're doing isn't a good argument either; if you are going to build something that has to scale, be a bit elastic, and want to build on existing knowledge, you will end up using a larger system that requires domain-specific knowledge either way.

AWS isn't a hosting company (and that includes let-us-pretend-we-are services; looking at you: lightsail), just like Azure and GCP aren't. But even if you get a hosting company (Vultr? prgmr? DO?) you'll still need to know how to build virtual machine images, how to deploy them, and how to cycle them. None of that knowledge will be something native to whatever project you are building.

The only thing that gets somewhat close is the Deno and Vercel style of stuff, but even then you'll need to know how those work in order to make your project fit.
Sure, just like any proxy though
thought experiment:

Write a twitter clone for a moderately sized community, lets say 10k with probably, 1-5% of community active at any given time. hell, even throw in activitypub if you want.

vs.

Write twitter.

I know which I'd rather do! Only one of the two is easier than rocket science! (haha)

Its inefficient because it hasn't needed to be efficient, but that will change in the future or someone else'll take over. Cascade issues are fixable. the end result is proven achievable (see telcos and the SMS systems that cover the world, global scale federated messaging exists and works!)
If bots are scraping the twitter front end to grab the checkmark, and making irrational trades now by selling based on the news from parody accounts, humans would buy the dip. The price only stays down if all the rational actors agree the new price is fair, and not underpriced because of a bot mistake.
The title is in the conclusion of the paper.

Yes, they built a fraud detection system... and with it discovered that 97.7% of tokens were rug pulls

"Based on this theoretical foundation, we provided a methodology to find rug pulls that had already been executed. Not surprisingly, we found that more than the 97,7% of the tokens labelled were rug pulls."
> Do something about it. Rollback the filesystem or transaction so things can retry or the process can exit.

So when the system appears to be hanging, it might actually be trying to rollback and retry? When should it give up?

Sounds like a recipe for debug-hell. Better fail and write a log message.
One thing to note about Warren Buffett:

He has a massive pile of money.

That makes getting a great return hard - every investment opportunity has a saturation limit. You can invest a million dollars in a local McDonalds, but not a billion or a trillion. This makes finding a good job for every one of his many dollars impossible.

A theoretical super-investor who can buy the entire market will eventually get average returns, since they own everything.

Warren Buffett also said that if his pot was only a million dollars, he'd be able to generate 50% + annual returns by following his value investment strategy, for the inverse of the reasons outlined above.
they've attempted to block it several years ago, likely due to its popularity among dissidents and/or refusal to cooperate with russian Disinformation Governance Board. they've botched it and a lot of unrelated services got blocked as well. they gave up and stopped trying.
And NewPipe + Sponsorblock does wonders at getting rid of unwanted in-video segments (intro, sponsors, etc, outro).
Do the fees include the loss of around two thirds of BTC's value over the last year?

Or the mysterious disappearance of literally billions from various exchanges?
It's probably no accident that SBF made substantial donations to one of the major US political parties. And by substantial, I mean that party's second biggest donor in the '20-21 cycle.
You should probably read up on FTX a bit and which pies it has its fingers in then.
Potlatch
I don't get the iMessage hate.

Just use another app if you want. They already provide compatibility with SMS. What more do you want?
> caracans

In Poland it's a mild slur meaning short man
If I were to explain it in terms of react, it would be to use <Component style={{mystyle: someValue}} /> everywhere. Except that you also can define nested stuff, media queries, hover/active states, pseudo-elements etc. So yeah, syntactically a bit more like CSS in JS / JSS, but much more ergonomic, and much more easily composable.
Judging by some of the kneejerky comments in this thread, we should definitely shut down email.
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If this means that people who forget to pay attention to security are likely to use code generation, that makes sense.

But don't blame the code generator. If you are prompting an AI for your security model, you're already in a bad place.

A vast amount of code that's not directly related to security, however, can be usefully generated when using AI tools interactively, line by line.
> If WhatsApp wasn’t blocked in China

The answer is yes, this could be used if WhatsApp wasn't blocked.

But since it blocked in China, you would first need to bypass the firewall anyway.
You're mostly right about the "A+" ratings--businesses that pay can get their ratings cleaned up--but I'd certainly take an "F" rating as a datapoint.
Reasonable principles.

I think by now most of us know that in the most recent pandemic, the public has been repeatedly deceived if not straightup lied to regarding efficacy and side-effects of the vaccines as well as the origin of the virus, and public individuals shamed and silenced for stating things that half a year later became mainstream news, over and over again.
I got the idea myself on a bar, did a quick look online and didnt find anything, later on when I had it built I found that 8 years ago this guy did a similar one: https://github.com/matiasinsaurralde/facebook-tunnel but probably wont work since its using curl
This isn’t about where you keep your coins, not really. That’s an implementation detail. This is about the entire system of wealth protection built up around fiat currency.

The word of the week is “contagion”: even if you did no business with FTX at all, even if you have your coins on a hard drive locked in the doomsday seed vault, crypto is crashing because investors are learning that the old system that protects wealth is necessary after all.
The narrative that crypto is usefull jusy for buying drugs or laundering money is ridiculous.

A couple a weeks ago I did a wire half way across the globe. It took almost 7 days for the money to arrive. With bitcoin? 60 minutes.

Remember when OnlyFans was in trouble because of the payments processors wanting to pull the rug? You probably don't and you probably are not aware how many people would have been impacted.

Do you watch porn? How many times have have sites that provide it been in trouble because of some puritan bs from the dark ages? Do you know this is the majority of the internet? Are you aware that a lot of innovations (the internet included) took off and became mainstream because of porn?

Do you know about civil asset forfeiture? How do you feel about losing everything you own just on the suspicion that maybe you did something?

You are a target for crypto. You believe you are not because of all the bs the media peddles. Stick with Bitcoin and ETH and treat it as a high risk investment and you'll be fine.

Apart from everything else, even if all crypto goes away tomorrow, the real innovation when it comes to crypto is the blockchain. Without the blockchain crypto is just digital money (and 90%+ of money is already digital - ie numbers in bank systems, ie not real).

Blockchain tech is here to stay.
We have a 20:1 ratio of developers and platform engineers where developers cannot do anything in AWS except via Infrastructure as Code. Works very well. Yes, you do need to make sure you only platform things you actually need, and not try to abstract the entire service catalog. But if you just pick 4 RDBMS options, 2 Document-oriented options, 2 queues, 2 PubSubs, 1 object store, 1 traffic management option, and one catch-all observability option, you really don't need to do all that much over time. Granted, this doesn't work for small-scale stuff or immature organisations.
I think the move to FP cements my view that exception handling is more trouble than its worth. Golang is good too that it doesn't use exceptions except in the extreme. Java with checked exceptions was kinda fashionable for a while but is now unloved. Down with exceptions!
If half of this drama happened to JP Morgan, it would be bank runs and global depression.
It's important to note that this paper is discussing listings and not transactions/volume. Almost no one used or bought these tokens and 99% of Uniswap's volume is normal safe things like ETH, DAI, etc.

If 98% of Uniswap trades were scams then I definitely wouldn't be here discussing it.
Oh boy CF if a difficult one to replace :/ will have to start looking for EU alternatives.
Thank you! I'll fix it!
A decade of money printing left investors with more money than they knew what to do with, so they threw it at anything related to current thing chasing the next FANG (which by the way, hasn't really happened since the last crash...probably because the startup market is saturated). It was a good thing after the 2008 crash and we needed to revive the economy, but it went on for far far too long and now we have a bunch of overvalued/unprofitable/scam companies.
Another Theranos. How many until SV investors lose credibility?
Ah the “No True Scotsman” fallacy.

No true crypto enthusiasts would use a centralized exchange. If they’re using an exchange, they must not be a true crypto enthusiast.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
Well the question has come up before, and since I also know people from all these countries. I have talked about insecure financial environments with them it is an interesting topic but not always ok to talk about. While I try not to bring up cryptos to normal people, I think it is telling that almost no one brings up crypto as a way to transfer money. People invested in bring it up but very seldom as a practical thing more as an investment.
The title itself suggests what reads like "the end of crypto". Investors tend to buy dips and, compared to stocks, it's harder to predict where's the bottom. People are buying BTC's "dip" every second.
I still see Cloudflare.
> The fact that the lowest level of interaction you can have with a computer is writing memory.

While this is true as far as it goes, it's worth keeping in mind that not all memory controllers are equally low-level. Some of them expose cache architecture or the rectangular organization of DRAM in interesting ways.
No, because the number of tokens doesn't matter, the trade volume does. It's not the case that 98% of trade volume/value is scams.

The same applies to your USD analogy. It doesn't matter if 98% of transactions are scams if these 98% are worth a few dollars only. A scammer could make a million transaction worth a cent each. That's very different from a trillion dollars being used in a few big scam transactions.
When you say "normally", do you mean "badly, with fsck"?

ZFS is growing incredibly quickly in popularity, and the only reason it's not the dominant filesystem already is because A) it took linux a long time to add support, and only dedicated appliance vendors had the will and ability to move to freebsd and B) macos was going to switch to zfs in the late '00s, but they got scared off by oracle's legal shenanigans, which seems to no longer be a relevant factor.
Bonus example: Urgroßvater -> great-grandfather. You can add as many Ur-s as you wish.
> The MBPs I've had only came with an USB-C charger.

That's not exclusive, USB-C has ground pins.

> Those come with a Europlug, which doesn't have an earth connector.

Yes, but if you remove the europlug you should see that the charger has a metallic nub onto which the adapter clips. The 140W charger has one at least, and so did the old 85W chargers. Non-earthed chargers (e.g. iphone chargers) have a plastic nub instead.

As I wrote the europlug adapter is not earthed, but the cables (with a CEE 7/7 or whatever the standard is in your country) are earthed. I'd assume the UK wall wart adapter is also earthed but I've never seen one.

You can see the earthing on the charger side of the cable, because it has two metallic strips inside the recesses, to connect to the nub.
My Schwab account has insurance and oversight…there’s no universe where Uniswap is anywhere close to as safe as Schwab.
There are so many VCs that invested in blockchain startups. Now their source of money is dried up, I can't imagine they will be able to pump these startup valuations for long. At some point, they have to write it down. It will be the dot com crash for blockchain startups.
Yeah I hadn't considered that and I should have, that's a good point. Should have brought been using my gamedev brain more.

Probably because I was coming up with various ideas of making it more gamified, where visitors could help keep the page from falling into entropy by spotting errors and fixing them (like it'd only work if they changed it back to the correct word or whatever).

But yeah, pseudorandom might be the way to do this on a basic level. Good idea.
Allow failure 'with grace.' People deny as long as they can that which they fear above a threshold. If failure/etc can be viewed as just a part of a larger life then it can be easier to admit failure. "Fail early, fail often" and all that.

We're in a state of a maximum denialism though. It reminds me of working in a casino for several hours, walking outside, and only then realizing just how much second hand smoke I was immersed within the casino. Those first few breaths of 'fresher air' would have a tint of second hand smoke, still, and of course my clothes would stink. (I work a mask at the time and it helped, a little. I'd go home and take a very long shower.) Society is so immersed in denialism and "second-hand" denialism that it doesn't even realize how bad it is, yet.
It's loud because some of wallstreet burnt their fingers for the first time on crypto. But there are already people on wallstreet who just laugh now becuse that's not their first rodeo.
as most of the companies in EU
It's pretty hard to stab people with rocks, especially multiple people.
Last time I tried Sublime to code in Go I had success with LSP extension and gopls, actually.
I have a similar electrical issue at my house as well. I plug my laptop over I
USB-C into my AC-DC converter, which comes with a two-prong US power cable, which is connected to a two-prong US-EU adapter, into a power strip connected to the wall (EU outlet). My laptop wrist rest is also "spicy" (most noticeable if my girlfriend touches my arm when I'm typing, we will both get shocked). So I obviously have a grounding issue but I'm at a loss because the equipment doesn't have anywhere to attach a ground rail to. Any suggestions?
For anyone who wants a deeper understanding of the atmosphere,
it's good to know that in the series B round, they raised $420.69m from 69 investors.
https://blockworks.co/news/sam-bankman-frieds-ftx-raises-pre...

I don't know what those numbers mean, but those investors probably thought it was the funniest thing on earth, and they created history.
I'm not. One of the points is that I don't have to as TokenLists provides a distributed way of curating legitimate tokens which means you can choose who you personally trust to determine what is legitimate.
Not a traditional billionaire indeed.

https://twitter.com/The_Prologuist/status/158967849854920704...
They almost certainly broke the contracts at a bare minimum.
How does domain fronting negatively affect microsoft? Why do they care? Is this all just about making peoples lifes worse?
Sure, differentiating between two categories of things is a logical fallacy I guess.
I guess the price of adding additional solar panels was pretty small compared to the labour and inverter costs or why is it so overdimensioned?

I don't think private homes will have their own hydrogen production and storage facilities, this is more for industrial scale facilities.
"which provides a guaranteed way to swap any asset for any other asset no matter who created it or how controversial it is which is a good primitive for humanity to be able to rely on."

Finally, somewhere I can sell my slaves easily!
This reminds me of something Goggins said, along the lines of working out is almost entirely a mental thing.

You access parts of your brain and your being when you’re giving everything you got to squeeze out that extra rep, or when you are going for a new PR with heavy weight. Or even when you don’t feel like working out, and you say okay I have to get my brain out of this and just do it, similar to life where I have to do work when I sometimes don’t want to.

The physical benefits (muscle mass, testosterone, appearance, strength) for me are entirely secondary to the mental/emotional benefits of working out.

It’s all mental
It was flagged (rightfully I think, although without feedback to improve on).
> 0. Don't lie

I think this is also good advice for engineering teams, companies, humans.
Apparently there is some work being done to give the non-admins even more power/control over their own content, which currently needs GPG shenanigans.

I learned this from this talk:

A New HOPE (2022): ActivityPub Four Years Later: The Good, the Bad, and the Fedi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnciCz83t70

Which notably is a recent talk (July) but was given before the recent influx.