skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Until it turns out that whoops, the money wasn't actually there because someone got a fat paycheck to make a honest mistake, ahah...

Do you have any examples of this happening with a reputable (read: top 5) auditing firm in the last decade? Because I can find a dozen examples of crypto frauds happening in the past week.
How is abuse/spam handled?

What prevents anyone from registering thousands of accounts and send messages to a single user until the account becomes unusable?
Not directly related to your post but tinnitus + Airpods.

I have tinnitus. And after starting to use Airpod Pros, I feel the tinnitus has become *much* worse. And I basically don't have any music on. And if I do, at very low levers. I basically just use the transparent mode, or silence mode.

Am I the only one experience this? I'm sort of hestistant to use Airpods to not risk getting permanent worse tinnitus. At the same time, they are very practical. And the dampening of noise makes work and concentration easier.
> generate more entertainment than the world has cash to consume

But the world doesn't have will to look at it.
I was going betting crypto myself.
The reason weed is less cancerous than tobacco is because weed smokers typically smoke far less total volume of plant matter than tobacco smokers. Cigarette smokers light up many times every day. Most weed smokers only use it recreationally on an occasional basis, because it's not as addictive.
Well, the ICE will be around quite some time yet. Electric cars are viable for many now, even superior for growing numbers, but inadequate for many too.

I could potentially use one for my normal car drive. My truck uses are a different matter.

To really put the ICE down will require a much better battery scenario. Replacements are coming due for early owners soon. As that painful discussion plays out, so will better fuels for ICE tech.

I too look forward to the day when the ICE is just not a thing. I see that being a while yet.

And that continues to mean teaching young ones to drive manual.
Depends, I was an havid magazine collector of PC Techniques, The C Users Journal (latter The C/C++ Users Journal), DrDobbs, Crash, Amiga Format, Computer Shopper UK, Portuguese and Spanisch versions of them like Spooler, Microhobby, Micromania, Programacion and the local library computing section.
"either fix it now, or be OK with it never being fixed" - this is in fact the decision that is being made, but saying "later" allows everyone to pretend that it isn't, and do what's actually the right thing (accept "good enough" as good enough) instead of letting perfectionism demand that a perfect solution must take priority over everything else.
Original discussion of the mentioned incident at the time:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22573467
So what I really don't get about the decentralized fans: They repeatedly say, our goal is to replace entities like DEX.

But replace with what? With people like Vitalik? He seems to be an influential figure and calling the shots. How is this in any way different than a "normal" company with a CEO and a board.
I always wondered why DOS extenders were separate .exes. It looks like you were supposed to be able to replace them, or start them in advance and share one with multiple programs. But that wasn't the case, when you launch it you just got a message to launch the main executable. Why did they bother to make it a proper executable? Wouldn't it make more sense to give it a .sys or .dat extension and to just load it yourself (in DOS a matter of reading it into memory and jumping to that address). Or, since it is proprietary and often delivered with the compiler, just link it in statically?

Random anecdote: as a kid, DOS/4GW stood for "DOS for great win(dows)" (which I know makes absolutely no sense).
The state of open source Minecraft is nuanced enough to be interesting. The Minecraft ip and codebases are currently owned by Microsoft and have technically always been closed source, but the nature of the game and its development history are such that third party mods and modding apis are very common. Because the original edition of the game is written in Java, it's relatively easy to decompile and develop for. In fact, Mojang Studios has been including a deobfuscation map with each snapshot release of the game for a few years now which would allow you to decompile the Java edition of the game and use the same names that they use internally [0]. Though, most modders prefer to use the mappings provided by modding apis like forge and fabric due to tradition and licensing conflicts. Depending on your definition of Minecraft, there's also plenty of open source implementations of Minecraft Classic, a much older version of the game that's easy to reimplement but apparently still has an active community [1]. Then of course there's Minetest, an independent totally open source voxel game that happens to have a lot in common with Minecraft [2].

I should probably also note that there's something of a conflict in this area surrounding the other edition of Minecraft, Bedrock Edition, which is written in C++ and therefore difficult to decompile and mod. Bedrock Edition is much more closed than Java edition in a number of ways, such as including a store built into the launcher for buying maps, texture packs and skins whereas these would need to retrieved externally (usually for free) on Java edition. However, Bedrock Edition does have a first party modding api, a more feature rich internal scripting system with the concept of "behavior packs" [3], and has led to the development of a number of tools used by mod authors for both editions, such as Blockbench [4]. Ultimately Java Edition and its community have the legacy of Notch and Mojang with a long history of community contribution while Bedrock Edition was only developed after the Microsoft acquisition and is much more in Microsoft's style.

EDIT: Turns out the Bedrock Edition modding api was discontinued earlier this year [5].

[0]https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Obfuscation_map
[1]https://wiki.vg/Category:Minecraft_Classic
[2]https://www.minetest.net/
[3]https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/minecraft/creator/document...
[4]https://www.blockbench.net/
[5]https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/creator/article/removing-the...
It absolutely does not. As a developer who has worked to secure software systems, I fundamentally reject your assertion that "just trust the code" is a better security policy than "employ trustworthy people".
The clever part about this writing is that it's so vague it applies to everyone. If you squint one way it's the group you are in. If you look sideways it's the group you dislike.

It's brilliantly subversive and makes you think.
> Ultimately if the air is smokey, it contains particulate matter. That particulate matter is not good for your lungs, no matter what it is.

This reads like medieval miasmatic theory.

In other news, breathing and living is the #1 cause of death.

The quality of the air you breathe is what affects your risk of developing cancer. Burning tobacco releases the most amount of harmful particles, and even then, many people spend years inhaling it without ever developing cancer.

Vaporizing marijuana is done by exposing it to much lower temperatures, which doesn't release the same particles as burning. Thus, it's not the same kind of smoke.

Additionally, marijuana doesn't have the chemicals linked to cancer to begin with. Tobacco even if ingested can increase the risk of cancer.

But ultimately, everything you do, from the city you live in, to your household environment, to your genetic predisposition and lifestyle choices, affects your risk of developing cancer. Living is a balance act between these risk sources and actually enjoying your life.

Vaping marijuana is probably not great for you, but many people do so for many years without negative consequences, and the risks compared to smoking tobacco are much, much lower. All of this is handwavy, of course, since the effects of marijuana have been historically poorly researched.

But making a blanket statement that all smoke causes cancer is fearmongering at best, and objectively wrong at worst.
"The oppressor has the upper hand so we shouldn't try to help the oppressed!"

It's about giving people slightly better odds of escaping abuse. It's about helping humanity.
LOL.

Far from the first RISC-V site.
Here's my calendar for the week.

Red = External (Very Likely, I need preparation + Notes).
Blue = Internal
Green = 121 Session etc.
Black = Self-Blocked to Stop People trying to Add me to Calls

Basically, I have 40+ events a week. If I have to go through each one and self-organise when I already organise in my Gmail calendar via Color Coding, it would be huge barrier for me.

https://imgur.com/qXfg5PC

I ended up loving the interface, but the extra work I was creating for myself to "filter" and prioritise which activities needed Tasks was a deal breaker for me.
Editing Out the Real World with 'Diminished Reality'
On the other hand, if you spend all your time tidying and cleaning, you never get anything done.

There is such a thing as "too tidy", and while everyone disagrees on where the point is, companies tend to be very good at forcing that point through constrained resources.
how is that handled in other p2p apps like Briar, Status or Session?
Yup, Adderal. When I take it the two sides of my brain stop fighting each other and I'm able to be what I think is normal. But then i get nerve pain (which I've had, mildly, in general due to two surgeries when I was a kid.)
This smart working Python vs hard working low level languages anecdote becomes even better when you consider that it's using the pure-python heap queue implementation.
Are you talking to me? I'm not saying the 'bro' stereotype is good, but that SBF didn't fit it. Fairly obviously, I would have thought.
Tonga volcanic eruption reshaped Pacific seafloor
That's a good point but that's the case with all fraud because the digital tokens have to be converted back into fiat at some point. FTT was created without much oversight because no one had enough experience to properly audit anomalous activity. Presumably someone can trace all the fraudulent FTT transactions because it's all public but it doesn't seem like anyone has actually managed to do that. Everyone knows the money is gone but no one knows how that happened and through which FTT transactions.
Orion is worth the try if you're on Mac.

https://browser.kagi.com
I'm not sure if I have ADHD, they say if you get a high from the medication you probably don't have it. But I always play music. All the time. It has to be music I already know for focus. If not working, podcast. Or some YT video. I also am a loner/have lived alone for a few years so idk it's a way to not remember that I guess.
From where I stand many of do-what-i-mean programming languages are doing just great in distributed computing, Web and mobile OSes, taking over roles that used to be done in C and C++ during the last century.
Linux is one of the biggest, shining examples of publicly viewable code. Unfortunately, it has a history of bugs, issues, gotchas, and major flaws that can go unnoticed for years. [1]

Just because something can be audited by everyone doesn't automatically make it better.

[1] https://threatpost.com/linux-bug-in-all-major-distros-an-att...
At one point there were two "search" input fields side by side. They were identical except one had border radius, the other had corners.

I selected the one with corners.

It turns out I was wrong, and the reason given was "Border radius".
> It's merely a tool in our arsenal of confirming trust, that makes it easier to tell where the problem lies if someone along the chain is lying.

That makes it a useful tool, no?

> people trying to create the "feature" of not having that feature are called anarchists

Smart contracts are partial to neither law nor anarchy. It's trivial to write token code that allows a centralized service to transfer said token without the owner's permission. And that token still enjoys the benefits of being interoperable by default with other tokens and contracts that may not be under that same centralized service's control, yet are written to the same protocol standard.

> All of these are reasons for actual cryptography - Signatures and Merkel Trees. Blockchains have no advantages in any of them.

Blockchains provide reliable ordering and timestamping, something that cryptography itself cannot provide. Cryptographic shipment signing/tracking isn't very useful if the company can retroactively create a conflicting chain of backdated signatures and purport it to be the canonical one.
> In a virtualized world there's no consequences.

... so let's have pilots use simulators, but not drivers?
yes, the entire reason a bank is needed in all online transactions is because nobody trusts YOU to not double spend, but they do trust the bank to make sure they don't let you spend your money twice.
So to get all or some of those features you can use IRCCloud. Is it the same as IRC having those features?

I could (and do) access IRC over Matrix and then I also have access to those features. But in this case also users not using the same client or same server as I am get to see those things.
Yeah, you're right here. My point was more than it doesn't take biological successors to continue traditions. Was more meant to add a light of hope to an all around depressing situation.
It's not a single, difficult feature.

It's a system wide tuning of voltage frequency plus idle times for all sorts of micro-controllers, plus who knows what else.

In its own way, it's extremely, extremely difficult.
I disagree with semantics but get what you mean in general.
Unbelievable ignorance.

We just witnessed one of the largest frauds in all of human history. It would have been nearly impossible to trick every client that exists that can examine the chain. You are so wrong it is unfathomable that you are being honest right now.
Basically a hypothetical scenario was pitched to a clueless reporter who embroidered it into a phony story.
You don't need that until uni, do you?
Sounds like you've never heard of Enron and Arthur Andersen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Andersen#Enron_scandal

Or the S&L crisis, where most big failures had clean audits from the top audit firms.
are you talking specifically about a rapper without a backing track? that's not a genre, it's an element like a drummer is

regardless it's no fact, even the rapper very frequently uses melodic elements. you seem ignorant of it and have no ear for it.
Loyal Wingman specifically intends to do all that, remove pilot and associated operation overheads with lower cost MQ28s as force multiplier to support/augment expensive manned overseer. Next potential step is to make overseer unmanned as well.
Ledgers are quite easy to build. Git is a ledger. It doesn't use a block chain but it does link commits via their hashes; which makes it an audit proof ledger. Unless you can break the hashes, you can't modify its history.

And git is used between many different developers and companies working on the same projects. It was actually designed for this use case. The reason git doesn't need blockchains for this is because it funnels all the commits and pull requests through trusted code owners: people. The consensus model is very simple: a mutually respected developer has looked at the thing and gave their thumbs up.

Banks, insurers, etc. use ledgers. But mostly they lack cryptographic safety. And they use a similar reputation based consensus model. Auditors, regulators, accountants, etc. It's good enough but the failure modes can be somewhat expensive. And of course the flaky nature of the whole system actually represents a business opportunity in it self. Banking is a very lucrative business.

Blockchains are potentially a nicer/cheaper technical alternative for all this. But so far not an essential or very practical one. And of course most block chains have scaling challenges. Ethereum is a non starter for running anything at scale. Transactions are too slow, too costly and the throughput sucks. Even with the new version it's still nowhere good enough to run even a small bank. Highly unsuitable for running millions of accounts on where the cost of each transaction would far exceed the value of that transaction.
According to some estimates, as much as 20% of the entire supply of bitcoin might be lost and irretrievable.

Oftentimes, it can be impossible to find or recover lost bitcoin. That’s why it’s important for users who choose to hold their own private keys, a 256-bit string of numbers, to have a backup seed phrase stored safely. The best way to deal with this problem might be to make sure it never happens in the first place.

That being said, there are some ways to try and recover an old bitcoin wallet. The best approach methods–and whether or not it will work–depends on how you lost the wallet. Read on for a guide that could help you find lost bitcoin in cases, when possible.

Some developers have created programs that help recover the private keys to a bitcoin wallet. That this only works in cases in which the loser has deleted some or all of their keys. A program usually can’t help those who have forgotten their passwords, PIN numbers, or backup seed phrases. But if the user mistakenly deleted files with the relevant information, they may be able to recover them. If a user has a portion of the private key, it may be possible to find the rest of the key.

DARKTRACER DIGITAL IS up foe the Task to recover all online transaction
Reminder of the difference between a cult and a mere religion: a religion only wants 10% but a cult wants it all.
How is this keyboard related to electronic wind instruments?
I find the Marvel movies boring and insulting to my intelligence. Which isn't really surprising since they are made for mass appeal and I generally don't like that sort of stuff.

However, and this statement is made with no actual knowledge of the economics of Disney content creation budgets, but I like to imagine that one positive thing that comes from the monetary success of the Marvel movies is the Pixar Shorts that are being made for Disney+ .

If you haven't seen them I recommend them. They are these original ~4 minute short films that are pet-projects by various creatives working at Disney/Pixar. The shorts include a small interview from the creator where they discuss their inspiration and the fun they had working on the project.

I remember a line from the Daily Show when it was still Craig Kilborn. The show had just gotten a nice newly renovated set, and Kilborn thanked South Park for the money to pay for it.

I suspect (again with no real knowledge) that the Pixar Shorts are financed from the success of the Marvel movies. Or maybe it's just Disney+ subscriber fees.
https://github.com/berty/berty/tree/master/docs/protocol

On the subject of rendezvous, some years ago I came across a personal P2P project where the author provided an unusual, additional, alternative method for a peer to succinctly and confidentially provide another peer with their address via any arbitrary web page, e.g., a pastebin. Unfortunately I cannot seem to find this project again. Running one's own rendezvous server that only serves up peer addresses and passes no traffic between peers is relatively easy and inexpensive, but it does involve some maintenance. This author had thought about other possible means of exchanging addresses over the public internet. IME that is unusual in P2P projects.
Could you give an example of such an intro? I'm not entirely sure what style you are referring to and am quite curious.
According to some estimates, as much as 20% of the entire supply of bitcoin might be lost and irretrievable.

Oftentimes, it can be impossible to find or recover lost bitcoin. That’s why it’s important for users who choose to hold their own private keys, a 256-bit string of numbers, to have a backup seed phrase stored safely. The best way to deal with this problem might be to make sure it never happens in the first place.

That being said, there are some ways to try and recover an old bitcoin wallet. The best approach methods–and whether or not it will work–depends on how you lost the wallet. Read on for a guide that could help you find lost bitcoin in cases, when possible.

Some developers have created programs that help recover the private keys to a bitcoin wallet. That this only works in cases in which the loser has deleted some or all of their keys. A program usually can’t help those who have forgotten their passwords, PIN numbers, or backup seed phrases. But if the user mistakenly deleted files with the relevant information, they may be able to recover them. If a user has a portion of the private key, it may be possible to find the rest of the key.

DARK TRACER DIGITAL is up for the Task to recover All stolen Asset
Most people that still cling to C instead of C++, do it because they are stuck in UNIX clones kernel stuff, embedded, or are religiously against anything else.

So whatever language Rust "replaces" is a kind of moot point, and then there is the whole ongoing integration with Linux, a UNIX clone kernel.
With the number of collapsed stablecoins this year and the biggest one of them all being a complete fraud, I'm not sure they're any safer. Also, every fiat-backed stablecoin is by definition 100% centralized to a single legal entity.
Ask HN: What every teenager of 2020's knows but minds of ancient Greece did not?
Wow, Copilot's must be very domain-dependent. For me, it saves a ton of time, I'd hate to have to code without it.
Old thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27188989
Anxiety too in my personal experience. I have an iOS shortcut on my Lock Screen that launches the music app with brown noise on loop and 80% volume. Combined with noise cancelling headphones my life outside is usually very peaceful.
Unfortunately sports gambling has already become a world-wide problem by this point, for reasons similar to what say apply to the US working people.

I live in an Eastern-European country, and the half-time pause of yesterday's football World Cup opener was more than 75% filled with sports bet adds. This was happening on national television. I can sincerely say that that wasn't the case 10 to 15 years ago.
Even better for the land owner, they (or more likely a "subcontractor") can force the transfer once and even if courts get involved and decide in favor of the farmer, the records can't be corrected if they are based on blockchain technology.

A less violent example would be a fraud based on social engineering.
Until the peg is lost, like what happened with UST (now USTC).

https://jumpcrypto.com/the-depegging-of-ust/

That coin was supposed to be pegged to $1 USD.
> in the beginning of the 21st century, some said cars are not for the masses.

I guess you mean the 20th century?

In any case, those people were actually right. A car for everyone and their daughter is one of the biggest contributing factor for pollution and noise.
> Blockchain, no matter how good it might be or might have been, is clearly not that system due to its now tarnished reputation at this point in time.

I never understand how people can consider the reputation of glorified timestamped linked lists to be "tarnished". This isn't a company or even a particular piece of software, it's a class of data structures. You're trying to tell me that a particular way of structuring data has a reputation that can be tarnished?
1. Students aren't the only people who use productivity software in schools.

2. You don't need computers at all until uni, and yet...

And generally speaking, the alternative to this stuff in schools isn't FOSS, it's proprietary shit that costs $XY(Z)/seat and steals student data for use in its anti-plagiarism feature.

The court's ruling is fine and reasonable, but the conclusions people are drawing from it are not.
For a 11 year-old?

I mean, even at uni i worked locally.