skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Been working on a legacy WPF project recently.

C# has been pretty great to work with.
(Updating from framework to NET 6 has been a slog though)

Anything to do with the WPF and the UI just seems way too complicated. I can 100% understand why electron has taken over.

Keeping my eye on blazor for desktop as I think that would be ideal.
Interesting how the players change but the script is exactly the same and yet, people keep falling for it. I really don't get it.

I once knew some people that were up to their necks in an MLM/pyramid scheme, it was like a cult, no matter how many examples you gave them of people ending up losing their shirts they would buy more of the crap and stuff it in every nook and cranny of their house being sure that they were the ones to cash out this time. Only they weren't.

If you have any money at all at one of those crypto companies get it out now, don't wait to see if this time it will be different because it won't be.
Thanks. It would be interesting to see if you would do better with "installing" (i.e. using it for your project) LeanQt.
From what I gather, they could be on the hook during bankruptcy proceedings if they said everything was a-ok when it actually wasn’t. Exiting the space should shield them from that.
Smoke and mirrors :)
What a misleading title

> However, the accounting firm said on Friday that it had “paused its activity relating to the provision of proof of reserves reports for entities in the cryptocurrency sector due to concerns regarding the way these reports are understood by the public”. According to communications seen by the Financial Times, the level of media focus on the matter was also a factor in Mazars’ decision ... Mazars’ decision to halt work on proof of reserves reports was not driven by specific financial problems at any of the companies, said a person briefed on its decision. The firm’s work was so limited that it had “not looked that much” into the financial position of the companies ... Some people at Mazars feared that despite caveats in its reports the firm was “lending credibility to a very volatile sector” and felt it had been “naive” and “silly” to take on the work, the person added.

Nothing indicating that audit did not go well, but that because of its limited scope, the auditor wants to avoid bad PR.

Binance being an exchange, they make money whether cash goes in or out. so outflows are in a way good business?
Blame IBM, PC doesn't mean Personal Computer, it means IBM PC Compatible
That opens it right up. Pleased to be wrong in my suspicion. I see
that it's possible to configure Mutt [1] and Gnus [2] with
SMIME. Perhaps 2023 will finally be the year of encrypted email.

[1] https://wiki.netbsd.org/users/wiz/mutt-smime/

[2] https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GnusSMIME
Needs less Blade Runner and more Pong:

https://arcadeblogger.com/2022/12/04/what-if-ataris-pong-was...
> There is a problem with correlation vs causation in the article’s logic.

No there isn't. You just didn't read any of the links in the article that it used for support, IE https://www.epi.org/blog/union-decline-rising-inequality-cha...

> The Union-driven higher costs of manufacturing also drove outsourcing, off-shoring, and did not lead to higher quality output, (if Unions were producing higher quality that would have kept Japanese-manufactured cars from dominating US car sales shortly after).

You can't have it both ways in your argument. You set up an initial statement about high Union costs driving outsourcing, and then immediately drop that point as you pivoted to an argument about quality being the driver.
Proof of reserves != proof of liabilities.

Proof today != proof tomorrow.
You're not wrong, but is there any common client software today that isn't susceptible to rogue updates?
Or you could just be ‘friends’ or whatever on social media with people you’ve actually met in person.

This could be great for killing the whole ‘influencer’ economy and people posturing online for someone they’ve never met.
In Germany at least, I have the feeling the Unions don't do much.

I know a bunch of nurses, and they still are paid badly.
Effort has nothing to do with it. I don't see anything about effort in the FTC's definition of monopoly. [1]

"Courts do not require a literal monopoly before applying rules for single firm conduct; that term is used as shorthand for a firm with significant and durable market power — that is, the long term ability to raise price or exclude competitors."

[1] https://www.ftc.gov/advice-guidance/competition-guidance/gui...
Looks like someone external does an audit(1), and then the auditor creates a Merkle tree which you can then validate (by a Markle leaf which you can access from your account).

Specifically for Crypto.com the auditors:

> obtained and inspected the scripts used by management to extract the Customer Liability Report from the database. Based on management’s explanation of the various parameters we ensured that the logic and the parameters are designed to extract a complete and accurate listing of client liability balances of the In-Scope Assets as at 00:00:00 UTC on 7 December 2022 while excluding any company internal accounts. It was found that the script was queried against the latest production data at the time of the data extract, which showed latest updated
time as of 23:59:59 UTC on 6 December 2022. We observed management access the
database and execute the scripts to extract the relevant data from the database. We
subsequently obtained the data produced from management (i.e. the Customer Liability
Report) and performed a row count and sum check on the data set. We did not identify any
discrepancies based on the row count and sum check performed.

> Using the Mazars’ Silver Sixpence Merkle Tree Generating tool, we aggregated the client data obtained from management in this procedure and computed the Merkle Root Hash. The Hash for the Merkle Root based on the information supplied in procedure 6 is e535cf418ab603cc4b338069a814037d53 c50bf37dc5776631f3d9c3110e08af

So you do still have to trust the audit, and assume no foul-play, because I think this just shows that your balance was included in the audit (as a liability). I believe this just stops Binance from being able to hide customer liabilities from Mazars.

* (1) In Binance's case this wasn't actually an audit, and Mazars did this piece of work with Binance assuming good-faith according to processes mutually agreed between Mazars and Binance. As per the Mazars disclaimer, "This AUP engagement is not an assurance (financial audit) engagement. Accordingly, we do not express an opinion or an assurance conclusion. Had we performed additional procedures, other matters might have come to our attention that would have been reported". I would note that IMO the Binance page does use the word "Auditor" a lot on the PoR page which might be slightly misleading (they are an auditor, but they aren't financially auditing Binance...?).
Sure, that's what it's good at: it's effectively a gigantic supercomputer with petabytes of memory (precompiled onto neural network form), recombining things it's what it's good at.
I have to admit that I was a bit taken aback by that section. I don't think I've heard an open source software project (even linux) articulate a desire to dominate other projects.

The principle of open source yes, but not a particular implementation.

Also an ISA is quite different to a networking protocol where inter-operability is key.
There are no tanks in Baghdad.
Really? News to me. If NSA has had this secret ability, and if it is indeed a secret, how is it that some random person knows all about it and now feels perfectly safe revealing it on a public web site? Changing data in real time on private databases goes way beyond traffic monitoring & intelligence-gathering.
It doesn't solve the same problem. They want to know if the password is in the file, not if the password could be in the file.
Right. Spin off a company and the spin-off now needs all those corporate functions that cause many developers to ask "What do all those people do?" It's not purely duplicative as such things scale with size to a certain degree. And it depends to some degree on how the spin off is structured but there's almost certainly a lot of incremental headcount and other expense.
I mean what else are they supposed to say?
append concatenates lists so you'd need (append nil '(foo))
NopeCHA – ECAPTCHA, HCaptcha, FunCAPTCHA, AWS WAF, and Text Captcha Solver
There is a Big Four of auditing, and Armanino is certainly not one of them. I've never heard of them.
Less money on the exchange means less money to be traded
The GDPR has been passed since then. At least in the EU, it would be illegal for Google to gather video of people.
> Microsoft is doing the same thing to the runtime, too. How many different versions of dotnet are there? Which one do you need? Are they interoperable?

Easy, .NET Framework is the Python 2 of the .NET world.

.NET Core, renamed to just .NET as of .NET 5, is the Python 3 of the .NET world.

Xamarin (mono), matters mostly when targeting iOS or Android, and some parts of it were used in Blazor AOT compilation infrastructure.

MDIL runtime was only for Windows 8.x, while .NET Native is only for Windows 10 UWP workloads.

Unity uses mono for interactive development, IL2CPP for production deployments, and the HPC# subset with Burst compiler for DOTS.

Yes there are plenty, but so there are C, C++, Java, Python, Ruby,.... implementations.
I actually believe this (probably the only thing I believe Elon says). As a user of both Mastodon and Twitter, and a solid Elon-hater, I’ve been wanting to leave Twitter ever since he took over. But it is simply impossible to look away from this garbage fire. Every day I log on to twitter hoping to see the flames go up, and I simply can’t stop it, no matter how hard I try. I believe this to be true for more people.

Although, if this is the main driver for the increased numbers, then it is hardly sustainable. There is only so much fuel a garbage fire can consume before it dies out.
Outflows are good business only if you are fully backed....
FBI bust ‘tech support’ scam that targeted U.S., Canadian citizens
There's https://github.com/atom-community/atom, hoping that or similar will gain traction
ChatGPT doesn't "notice" anything at all. It's a search engine for an internet text corpus, with a lossy compression step.
I don't know what crypto.com or KuCoin did, but here are some cryptographic schemes for proof of solvency Vitalik wrote up post-ftx collapse: https://vitalik.ca/general/2022/11/19/proof_of_solvency.html
It is an engine but in the context of inhouse engines taking up a significant portion of the market I don't think it counts. In Riot's case they're not going to use that engine for any more games and Riot is now more of an Unreal/Unity company.
There's no technical reason why internal accounting systems didn't post to a Blockchain based ledger.

However most companies don't build their own accounting systems, it's too much of a liability and good luck getting an auditor to sign off on financials from something homegrown.

And I not even sure if a commercial off the shelf blockchain-based accounting system exists, does one?
I built everything with Drupal once upon a time but I got so tired of having to rebuild my theme practically from scratch whenever I needed to upgrade Drupal.

This is how WordPress won, the devs didn’t rewrite their APIs whenever they saw something shiny.
I think zigbee is more "resilient" because it piggybacks off all the other zigbee devices via mesh instead of each device talking to the central router.
Exactly. And people act like this is a problem with cryptcurrency, but it's really a problem with people in corporations behaving badly.
Except there was no audit, only an attestation.

Outflows are as good as they were for FTX - if there is no 100% coverage of customer deposits.
> I will never understand how some working class Americans can be against unions

It seems as though decades of corporate puppets have done a wonderful job of convincing the blue-collar worker that unions are corrupt and exist solely to milk worker's dues.

I don't understand it either.
Metrics are great if they measure the correct thing and are part ofba properly defined metrics system, and not just a dashboard. E.g., in material flow, every metric should measure onr process / dub-flow performance and output, as this outpit is used downstream. Special emphasis on interfaces between teams and departments. Ideally, those low level, high detail metrics are consolidated into a few high level ones. This makes it easier to measure overall performance, and do diagnose root causes.

Most, well almost all, metric systems I encountered in my life so failed misserably at that.
Linux foundation is essentially puppet of their sponsors
Yes, definitely that but also it's not even a guess, they said they were going to monetize it. But yeah, if it's not being released as commons like free software is then one is wise to assume the capital is being created for profit if not outright rent seeking (which I think is most likely in this particular case.)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_The_Sun_Wot_Won_It

Murdoch's own papers claim credit for election victories. I don't know the exact conversion rate from dollars to votes, but it's absurd to suggest one doesn't exist and that Murdoch's organizations don't know what it is.
You can try to cross check it on browser developer tooling.
Would you not try to do something similar in working as minimally as possible for the pay? Does that make someone a bad person? Everyone tries to min-max life. Doesn’t make them enemies or bad people, it just makes them…people.
Based on other posts in this thread, it sounds like SOP as far as content moderation goes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34026457

It sounds like most of this discussion is entirely driven by normative fancies rather than any actual knowledge of how these processes are already being run in the industry, let alone how the first amendment actually applies. For the latter, it would seem that a whole bevy of court cases undergird this whole endeavor:

https://reason.com/volokh/2021/07/19/when-government-urges-p...
The lack of street labels drives me crazy sometimes! I used to love GMaps a decade ago. It was snappy and still did most of what it does today, but quicker. Now it's just frustrating with all the cards automatically sliding around. Thanks for the bookmarking tips!
Nah. Win32 is the only stable userspace ABI on Linux, so I'm glad they're supporting it. There's no point in supporting native ports of games that simply won't work anymore 4 years from now because everything else changed.
I know it’s not everybody’s cup of tea but I wish that global menubar options on Linux were more robust.

There are extensions to add one to GNOME and XFCE, and KDE has it as a built in option, which is great. Problem is, this feature relies on programs advertising their menus via dbus, and a lot of them don’t bother at all, meaning that it’s sitting up there blank half the time. The only reason that this is even possible is because the desktop paradigm moved menus into the space of the app UI, which I think is a mistake. Menus are such an important accessibility feature that even if they’re glued to windows, it should be a standardized system owned widget so overzealous IKEA-minded designers can’t screw with them.

This is very frustrating to me because with hamburger menus and window attached menus I feel like I’m chasing a frequently used widget around the screen.
Lit waters and wet lasers.

Band name?
Based on their performance recently, badly.
Is this part of a new Embrace, Extend, Extinguish campaign? Legit question, at this point I trust the Linux Foundation as much as the corps behind it, but I'd appreciate being contradicted.
Law enforcement absolutely do refer Islamist content to their social media liaisons...?
The 2% Way by Myron Rolle
New employees are less productive than veteran employees.

And, when you increase head count in an already large company by 32% in a year, you should expect to lose institutional knowledge, on average, until new employees come up to speed.

And, undoubtedly, it's harder to transfer institutional knowledge in a remote environment IF you have a primarily oral, face-to-face culture.

The solution is to start documenting your practices so that remote and asynchronous employees can learn them too.
> - Meta brings in a huge list of POI data and attendance information because almost all businesses still have (validated) Facebook pages with coordinates, and the Facebook app is notorious for being a data vacuum

They could also steal the user's pics instead of driving cars filming streets around! /s
If you want to fight against Google, add them!
> OSM isn't the be-all and end-all of GIS data. It's very incomplete in places

I know very little about the space, but couldn't Overture members focus primarily on just filling in those gaps?

> doesn't always spatially match with Google's data or other sources

The map isn't the territory. Consistency with reality is what matters, not what Google says.

I've never run into glaring issues with either. In the past year, the only mistake I've come across was a missing stoplight in Google's.
Open source has the same problem. You can review source, great, but you can’t prove it’s the same source that’s executing.

From evil compilers to source/binary modification in flight to supply chain attacks, it is probably impossible to prove secure operation of open (or closed) source.

All we have are mitigations and risk reduction. If the bar is provably perfect security, nothing can meet it.
I think the point was, it wasn't even an audit, and Mazars is worried that people will misconstrue it as them giving Binance a clean bill of health (and then hate Mazars if Binance comes crashing down).

Also, presumably Binance has reserves because it needs them. Also, wouldn't the same logic apply to FTX? But then it turned out they were playing with the customers' money.
Mass is also a physical property and the CPU has mass
This is what actual problematic coercion looks like:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/05/27/trump-t...

To the extent that "informal coercion" could be problematic. This is pretty standard practice for most politicians of course and I think we all know where all those "Free Speech" proponents that are worried that Twitter was "informally coerced by FBI's emails" stood on this, when Trump was constantly threatening Twitter.
Let's just read the title: "As unions decline, inequality rises"

That is very much a statement about correlation. Otherwise it would say, "Unions' Decline CAUSED Inequality". But, to anyone with a passing knowledge of statistics, that is clearly an impossible claim to make. This is one time series realization for one country.

Let's go further. Is there any mention of causality in the article. And I do mean quantified causality. The answer is "no". Is there even any mention of correlation? Again, the answer is "no".

Let's keep going. Let's evaluate the aims and intent of the article. Let's start with EPI, the publisher of this article. The Chair of EPI is "Elizabeth H. Shuler ... president of the AFL-CIO, a federation of 58 unions and 12.5 million working people". Other board members include current and former union leadership from the United Steelworkers, the UAW, the Nonprofit Professional Employees Union, Service Employees International Union, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, the Communication Workers of America, and the American Federation of Teachers. All huge unions.

In other words, this publication is not a work of science. It is not a credible academic publication. It is the motivated, self interested rhetoric of union leadership.
> where does one get all the prompts that will be given to it, in advance?

By exhaustive enumeration.

I never said it was going to be quick
Which is why I quoted the original meaning and root words. etymonline.com
> FTX was also audited by a top firm, Armanino!

This is misleading. FTX, either referring to the specific the company or the whole network of companies, did not. What was referred to as the “WRS Silo” in the bankruptcy proceedings, which includes FTX.US, did.

The “Dotcom Silo”, which includes FTX-the-specific-company, had an audit, too, but by Prager Metis not Armanino, which, in contrast to Armanino’s known status, the post-SBF CEO handling the FTX bankruptcy describes in the bankruptcy papers as a firm with which I am not familiar and whose website indicates that they are the “first-ever CPA firm to officially open its Metaverse headquarters in the metaverse platform Decentraland.”

The other silos, including the Alameda Silo (which naturally includes Alameda Research) had no audited financials.
You could absolutely submitted a freedom of information request to the FBI about this activity
Agreed. In many more regulated industries (medical devices, automotive, aerospace) the kind of testing you mention is required by law. In all cases it's good form, good practice to test your product to make sure it works as promised by its labeling. Typically you put an operating temperature and humidity range in your manual or labeling. In many industries testing to those operating parameters is required by law.
I've been running a private email server for nearly a decade. It serves as the primary email for both myself and the guy I was dating at the time.

I use this email for everything, and why wouldn't I? I have a domain with my first and last name, then my email is simply my first name. It's easy to spell out, looks professional, and since it's not one of the five other websites I don't get much spam.

It took me probably a year or so to fully work out the kinks, but I can send and receive email to and from any service with no problem.

Would I recommend running your own email server? No. Absolutely not. But you definitely can.

If you want email attached to your domain, just pay a service. I use Hover for my domain names, and they offer free or reasonably priced email depending on your needs. Running a full in server is too much trouble IMO. Unless you're the kind of nerd who runs two dozen websites from a server in their closet, in which case go for it.
I agree with you. I'd buy this at a $200 price point without hesitation.
Stop using Slack
No one's quoted this yet, so:

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Be prepared! And be careful not to do

Your good deeds when there's no one watching you

If you're looking for adventure of a

New and different kind

And you come across a Girl Scout who is

Similarly inclined

Don't be nervous, don't be flustered, don't be scared

Be prepared!
Only that crypto is so unregulated that is hard to define what to audit against. And FTX wad never fully audited anyways, something which woupd be impossible with non-crypto equivalents of whatever FTX was beyond a major scam.
I don't know if you have ever worked with a large accounting firm but when they 'pause their activity' that means that they are not going to tie their name to yours, effectively that's as much as saying we will not go down with you. Alternative reading is that they found fraud but they don't want to be the ones to ring the bell on a customer.

Binance is an exchange that holds balances, and those balances are in their internal coin, which supposedly is backed by their reserves. But as you've been able to see in the FTX affair that isn't always true and that is exactly the bit that Mazars refuses to continue to work on. Let's assume they know more than you and I and take it as a sign.

Keep in mind that an internal stable coin ledger is just a bunch of numbers that need not necessarily be backed by anything at all.