skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In most western democracies I think mass surveillance will counter most efforts by private individuals to get off using deep fakes, I'm much more concerned about police using it to get evidence against people they "know" are guilty. The old scandals of police taking mixing evidence from the scene with dna collected from the suspect, using the latter twice then pointing to it as evidence comes to mind.

I really dont think any country is really ready for what is coming, but I also think its exactly the repressive countries that are in the most trouble, not democracies. Lets say some mid level bureaucrat sees a faked video of Xi telling everyone to spray their airport runways with disinfectant. Does so, cracks down on anyone critiquing it, even if its on reasonable basis such as saying Xi said airports, not airport runways, that they would stop. Lets say the video really gets wide spread, and is something even more stupid, what is Xi going to do? Admit he failed to control the internet, and tell people to think critically about the orders he gives?

Hmm, now I'm going to go tell 4chan to get me the script for the dumbest vaguely plausible thing to have Xi say. A tip btw, you want to create videos of politicians saying something and moving reasonably for a longer period of time, use one of the classic/old face to face transforms, then use that as prior for the deep fake.
220 minus your age, right? :D. (From the CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/physicalactivity/basics/measuring/heartr...)
The article calls out hospitals engaging in predatory lending. I called out non-profit status as fraud, medical coders, room fees, and financial officers taking over hospitals. I think there's plenty to change here. I'm happy to come off as shrill in exchange for awareness. I'm also not sure what the negativity is around urgency.
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I have a few opinions about distance running. A coworker explained it has a way of turning down the volume on the rest of your perception. Something about running 10 miles makes other problems less anxiety inducing. They're still important, they're just not, like, scary.

If you consider distance running, get good shoes. go to the kind of place that puts you in shoes, and videos you running on a treadmill. Some people are biomechanically sound. I'm not. I need a lot of support to keep my ankle in line with the rest of my leg. Get good shoes and replace them when needed.

You can run anywhere, but pay close attention to the surface you're running on. It's very subtle, but running on a concrete sidewalk is different than running on asphalt right next to the sidewalk. try to run on dirt if you can, it's easier on your body. It also takes a while to really get a good sense of what is normal and what is excessive.

Pay attention to your muscles joints and tendons, take rest days, and cut runs short when you need to. I've called to have someone pick me up, because my legs were done. It can take a while to figure out when you're just dealing with normal "running sucks" and when you're actually pushing the red line where you're damaging things.
They know you're concerned or worried about the site. Who knows, maybe they regularly clone sites and sees who reaches out.
You excluded the first part of that paragraph:

> We show that the vast majority of Bitcoin transactions between real entities are
for trading and speculative purposes. Starting from 2015, 75% of the real bitcoin
volume has been linked to exchanges or exchange-like entities such as on-line wallets,
OTC desks, and large institutional traders.

So 75% of the transactions are just speculative trading, not transactions for goods or services, which is what is being discussed. Taking the paper's numbers at face value, as a percentage of non-speculative transactions, illicit transactions are 12%, which is quite high.

There are also papers which quantify the amount of illegal activity as high as 46% [1] in 2018.

Illicit activity is still probably the most durable use non-investment use-case for Bitcoin, and realistically will be the most enduring use case going forward.

1. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3102645
Swinging back to open standards
I can't understand the mentality of anyone who buys crypto...and stores it in a centralized exchange.

What's the point of holding USDT or USDC if you're going to keep it in a quasi-bank? Isn't the whole point of crypto NOT to trust governments and centralized authorities?
My beard's not even grey yet, c'mon!
I remember reading about people crossing the border to sell plasma for money over a decade ago. This isn't anything new. America is a meat grinder, and, increasingly, I'm glad I don't live there.
Tweek/Teuxdeux works great as a minimal weekly planner. If you want a more feature-rich Monthly/Weekly/Daily planner, check out https://upbase.io/

I'm the founder of Upbase, and it was on Show HN just a few days ago.
Secret is to not take the pitch meeting seriously and play league of legends.
Capitalism is not any more at fault here than GPUs or math.

Yes, the right regulations are indeed vital for a capitalistic system. Saying "capitalism will create abuse and problems without regulations" is like saying "cars will cause death and destruction without a steering wheel". That's why we don't build them without steering wheels, and a car without a steering wheel is not really a car.

A financial market is a market, the very word "market" necessarily implies regulation, like all markets had since the dawn of time (it's why you brought your stuff there, and why the customers came). If a new technology creates a new niche in the financial market, and regulation has not caught up yet, nothing is wrong with the concept of capitalism, the problem is that regulation has not caught up yet. And now it largely has, and these companies are blowing up, and the system works. Not sure what is supposed to make us "discuss deep changes in how capitalism functions" if how modern capitalism functions is fixing the problem.
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Instead talking theory why don't you post a couple similar cases where a person was successfully prosecuted?
Looking at your own way of learning and knowledge growth
I like how the story always comes down to private-government collusion in other countries bad.

While in the US policy has for decades been intentionally designed to stifle worker gains[0], tacitly a re-education program to rebuild the “essential worker base” of our society, to remember we best keep propping up our civic traditions never mind they’re as sacrosanct in any real terms as religious catechism and routines of worship; not at all.

There are other geometric patterns human agency could conceptually “draw upon the globe”. But the agency wealth creation hive mind is familiar with are to be taken as immutable.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/27/business/job-insecurity-o...
I stayed at a company I hated for too long because it was safe - I was literally the only person who could fix the legacy system that was responsible for half of the company.

After I left, I realised how much of a negative effect the company was having on me. I had coworkers point it out and say they were sad about it but I never realised it myself until after I left and realised the difference just in my dreams nevermind all the other stuff.
Deaf people exist.
well that's excellent, thank you.
i don't think we'll go through 6th grade ($$$$), but we have our youngest in Montessori pre-K and love it. Since our local school doesn't have full day kindergarten, we'll likely keep him there through that as well.
It does however make it infeasible to redefine.
Asked my teen what they'd switch to if TikTok disappeared. Instagram Reels? YouTube Shorts? Snapchat Spotlight?

Response: "Nothing, I'd probably just watch more Netflix"
I don't think that this is a general Democratic position as of yet. There are liberals and Democrats who concur that Tiktok is a serious problem, mostly those directly involved in intelligence.

But it seems a minority opinion. The majority opinion seems to see it as on par with other social media: certainly a problem, but not worse than others just because it's Chinese.

Perhaps because it's an intelligence issue, they can't make their case without classified information. Or perhaps viewing things through the intelligence lens makes everything associated with China look dangerous, even if it's not really any more dangerous than the non-Chinese equivalents.
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> He tried to sway a foreign election to help himself.

In a free society, everybody is entitled to advocate for their own interests. Foreigners have every right to voice their opinion on American politics, particularly those foreigners who've been threatened with murder by American politicians. Would you get bent out of shape about Iraqi, Afghani, or Mexican journalists publicly advocating against another republican in the White House? You certainly shouldn't.

You obviously don't agree with Assange's priorities, but that doesn't mean he isn't a journalist. By that standard of journalism, only people who agree with you can be journalists. Obvious bullshit.

He wasn't lying, he wasn't scripting bots to impersonate Americans to astoturf a false consensus. He didn't do anything except publish information that embarrassed a politician who threatened to murder him. What he did was journalism, plain and simple. Journalists have no obligation to be politically neutral; journalists have been partisan from the very beginning. Benjamin Franklin founded partisan newspapers to push his political agenda before this country was even formed. Do you think he went out of his way to embarrass revolutionaries, just to be fair to the loyalists he opposed? Hell no.
Granny Smiths are also good for baking in general. They have a twang to them that offsets some of the sweet, as well as being a crunchy apple that doesn't turn to mush during the cook.
? Thats the way it was just a few decades ago. Red delicious, and Granny smith.

Now we have more choices, which is good because apples are a species that produce offspring that is frequently quite different than the parents. Meaning every single one of those supermarket apples is the product of a long dead tree being propagated.
I believe the drones belong to the US military, not the website owner.
IANAL, but they may have structured their investment as senior debt, and depositors may have some other funny legal status. Also Alameda has to be dissolved before FTX, so technically FTX depositors are a creditor to Alameda while the Alameda investors are depositors, and typically Chapter 11 discharges debts. Also, Alameda is under Bahamian law, and so is FTX, and US courts will only get what's left.
Refuting Weinstein's and Wolfram's Theories (Scott Aaronson and Timothy Nguyen)
Speculating against the national currency is legal business. And blockchain affords the existence of cryptocurrency, which is one way of doing it.
> When that happened he shuttered the website and kept everyone's bitcoins.

> I knew of bitcoin early on due to this guy, but even then I had no interest and considered it bullshit. Then when I saw what this guy did it just solidified my opinion that it can't be trusted.

But isn't it instead an early lesson in "not your keys not your coin" maxim that Bitcoin advocates preach?

> If the value of gold crashes it still has an inherent value because it's a useful physical good (looking pretty is not the only application of gold). a bitcoin has ZERO inherent value.

Yes, but: 1) it's very difficult to self-custody gold (it's bulky, needs a safe place for storage — and if you put it in a bank, you need to be able to trust that you can get it out again); 2) it's very difficult to transfer, especially cross borders, especially in large amounts; 3) it's very difficult to use as an actual money, whereas bitcoin could conceivably be used as such (especially with Lightning).
> It's already almost difficult to discuss it criticize growth

turning the social meta from positive sum to zero or negative sum is the most disastrous idea conceivable. everything you cherish, including your physical safety, is built on an assumption of shared future rewards. people will seek advantage no matter what; they must have a socially productive avenue or it will be taken from others.

if you are so sure an alternative is possible, i encourage you to demonstrate it -- live your life with others in a way that defies market forces. the proof is in the pudding; for now, there is only one game in town.
Microsoft is the king in another way.

Apple has made Rosetta 2, one of the most impressive software/hardware mixture ever, and they can’t wait to get rid of it.

Microsoft will make a crappy conversion shim and keep it in their code forever. For. Ever.
Offer times when you're available to help milk their new goats.
> Why would I make transactions with a unit of currency that sees hundreds of percentage change over just a few years?

Why wouldn't I? If I'm going to hold bitcoin for five minutes, what do I care how its price changes over years?

The problem with bitcoin is that the technology is shit, and sucks for transactions, unless the world is prepared to only do like 50 transactions a minute.
>A more productive approach would be to publicly fund authors but according to Americans that's filthy communism.

That's how you get books written by authors who are good at filling out government forms, not books written by good authors. See the many terrible pieces of public art that is required in many places as part of public construction projects as an example of what I'm talking about.
FTX had various betting markets where you could wager on the outcome of the 2024 election. Some larger speculators wanted to buy bets bigger than what the orderbook for the market could handle, so FTX directly acted as the counterparty to their bets. Source is Twitter, so grain of salt, caveat emptor, etc.
> The value it has is because people agree it has value. Imagine I started a blockchain using the exact same code as bitcoin and called it Bitcoin9890812894. It would have the same functionality as bitcoin but a value of $0 since virtually no one else would agree that it has any value.

That doesn’t seem like a contradiction at all, right? If your fork somehow became well known and replaced the original, then yeah, your fork would have some intrinsic value as a medium of exchange and a store of value.
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If TikTok decides to stay up even when we don't let US companies advertise, you know it was more of a an issue than we originally thought.
“The IO monad does not make a function pure. It just makes it obvious that it’s impure.”

— Martin Odersky

https://alvinalexander.com/scala/fp-book/pure-functions-and-...
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I think it's possible market velocity is lower now (house prices still somehow insanely-high while mortgage rates are also much higher than they've been for many years) and expected to remain so longer, than in 2008, which might mean it is worse for Open Door, if not overall.
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those researchers from the YouTube video have amended their suggestions.

from https://www.runnersworld.com/news/a20806916/excessive-exerci... :

“First, low exercise is a much more prevalent problem for our society than is excessive exercise. Second, the maximal health benefits of exercise typically occur at quite low levels. More exercise may burn more calories and improve athletic performance, but probably does not lead to better health outcomes.

“Three, in keeping with what Ben Levine said in his Circulation Commentary in 2014, I do not believe that we should go overboard to frighten athletes who want to compete in vigorous endurance sports like marathons and triathlons.”

Lavie also pointed out two new exercise studies in JAMA Internal Medicine....

When mortality rates were adjusted for exercise levels, the researchers found the lowest rate among those who exercised about three to five times the amount recommended by federal guidelines (i.e., 150 minutes per week of moderate exercise, or 75 minutes of vigorous exercise like running). However, the increased benefit of working out three to five times more than the guidelines was modest, the researchers wrote.

More importantly to serious runners, there was no evidence of harm at ten or more times the recommended minimum.

Another JAMA Internal Medicine paper looked at mortality rates in relation to moderate vs. vigorous exercise. In other words, what’s the proof for the federal government’s guideline showing vigorous exercise is roughly twice as good per minute as moderate exercise (75 minutes vs. 150 minutes)?

The conclusion, based on an analysis of 204,000 Australians aged 45 to 75: The current federal guidelines likely underestimate the value of vigorous exercise. The Australian results showed an inverse relationship between vigorous exercise and mortality rates.
plenty of sleep, exercise, and nutrition
I agree 100%. It's the same as public outcries about world leaders flying government planes to climate summits. It's not controversial at all to me, but it seems to be to a vast number of people out there for some reason.
Is the author insane?
Tether is arguably itself a scam based on their incredibly creative account and likely outright lies about the backing of Tether.
American (and other British common-law style) legal systems are not ready for deep fakes. Probable cause based on deep fakes is too easy. A criminal record in America is deeply disenfranchising, even if there is no conviction. The legal process sucks the life out of people.
Better do something about companies like FTX operating illegally in the Netherlands as opposed to some legit Dutch exchanges who want to do things by the book, but get scrutinized.

F EU, or wait that should probably read EF U
It was maybe his second gig. A lot of us are still little monsters at that point. Not to say that’s okay, but just to say I wasn’t that surprised. What I was surprised by was that I didn’t think he had that kind of animosity. Pretty good at hiding his feelings.

I never understood that “shut them out” reaction for people giving notice. Getting laid off, maybe. But I pick the time and place where I hand over my 2 weeks. I have all day or even a few days to do it, but I have known for a month or three that this was coming, I’ve known for days when it was likely to come, and I’ve known for hours or even days that it was happening today.

You don’t think if I was going to do something shitty that I would have done it first? You guys are really underestimating my intelligence, or at least my ability to plan. But then that’s probably part of why I’m leaving.

Also they say that liars think everyone else is lying, thieves think everyone else is stealing. So I wonder what this says about the paranoid person? Are they a danger to the company?
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Happened where? At "range 72"? That was what the comment I was replying to claimed.

F-117 and HAVE BLUE testing primarily occurred at Area 51, not some place called "range 72". They were developed and built at Lockheed in California.

I don't believe I was particularly aggressive. The commenter posted a bunch of incorrect information. I called them out. That's how it should work. I see far worse on HN when it comes to programming language/editor wars.
Well sure. And one Papiermark is still worth one Papiermark.
Everyone? It is about apple(s)
Are you responding to me, the original poster who was claiming sociopathy, or responding to the world in general?

All I was doing is pointing out that if person A claims person B is lying about their motivations and good deeds and actually causing harm because they are a sociopath, saying person A can’t claim that doesn’t make much sense.

I have no particularly strong opinion in if anyone is or is not a sociopath. I’m just pointing out that lying about your intentions and good deeds while causing harm is a pretty textbook element of ASPD. It’s certainly not unique to ASPD of course!

Do you have specific elements of sociopathy you think can’t apply?

Or more just pointing out all of this is bullshit speculation anyway because no one can diagnose someone off a couple of tweets in the middle of a scandal anyway?
That's true. The US gov only needs to intimidate enough, more authoritan reactions on journalism wouldn't stop the people still risking it either.
Sam Bankman Fried marked his 1 billion Serum (a dex on Solana) tokens at $2.1B on his balance sheet.

The last time Serum was worth $2.1+ per token, it was Jan 2022. At current market prices, that same stake is worth less than $250M (given liquidity conditions).

Serum was also a dex that SBF's company, Alameda, pretty much made in-house, and then allocated themselves 1 billion tokens.

So this "wealth" was created out of thin air. And disappeared into thin air.

Ergo, it was not real. It wasn't lost. It never really existed in the first place.
> I'm not saying we can't do better. We absolutely can

> Profit margins of the healthcare industry as an aggregate are a single digit percentage

Link these two together and what you are saying is that we can assist fewer people because of efficiency problems. A failure in my eyes. I would be willing to put my money in a system like Shetty hospitals (as an investor) to improve the lives of people. But no, I have to do it through a tax system because yes and this has consequences. Even you recognize it in some way if you link those two propositions.
how is this different from apache beam? also, any orgs using this at scale?
To get that rate, how much do you have to send in one batch?

Just obtaining Bitcoin is expensive unless you have a high trust off-chain method to prevent double-spending.
New CEO says FTX had 'complete failure of corporate control'
PREFACE: I am politically neutral. You can all fight it out for yourselves, it's fun to watch.

> I think TikTok is filling a void for Democrat messaging that Republicans/Conservatives have ie: Fox, conservative youtubers, breitbart, etc. The left is doesn't have this

Fox/Breitbart -> The left has plenty of media outlets that pitch their side, like CNN.

Conservative Youtubers -> There's not a single liberal/democrat Youtuber? weird...

Not to mention that, up until it started imploding, Twitter (and Facebook to an extent) were both considered heavily left-leaning if not outright liberal. Saying that "the left doesn't have a way to get their message out" just feels outright dishonest to say.

*EDIT:* I had a long conversation with a good friend of mine about the distinctions between "liberal" and "left" here. I acknowledge that I was make an incorrect (and commonly dangerous) equivalence between the two of them, which makes the claim of "left" not having as much media outlet more true (though I would still argue that it's certainly not to the extreme extent suggested by the parent).
>proven effective as cancer treatments

When you're in the midst of trying to find your way through a cancer diagnosis, this statement can be incredibly frustrating. It basically turns into a cop out that medical providers use to wave off any discussion or exploration of a topic. And even if it's been proven to be effective, there's some way to slice your specific case such that it wasn't tested in the trial. Oh, you're BRCA positive? Somatic? Platinum resistant? Recurrent? Have or have not undergone this very specific therapy? Well, the trial didn't cover you so its not proven.

I totally understand why, few doctors would likely want to talk about phase of the moon or rubbing crystals...but in the context of cancer treatment, the lack of any clear guidance or recommendation about diet beyond basic USDA recommendations is maddening.