skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Providing a proof of reserves is about putting user/investor minds at ease. If you're not willing to go all the way, why bother doing it at all?

Though I guess post FTX, all exchanges are scrambling to avoid losing a large chunk of their userbase. Claiming to have a proof of reserves, even if it was done in a half-assed and non transparent way, is probably good enough for the non-scrutinous user.
Great, keep me posted on your progress. Just ordered 2. The price point was just too good to pass up for that much horsepower and ram.
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"deserve" doesn't exist. What does exist is "what price makes the market clear".

Assigned moral worth or whatever "deserve" is trying to get at has nothing to do with economics.
If you hired WeWork for a reliable context-switch to help you focus on work, a more affordable alternative could be virtual co-working spaces like https://www.flow.club/.

I know most of the time as an independent consultant, the physical space to get away from your house is the reason why you pay WeWork, but if it's about structuring your work day, more focus, more energy from other people around you, and potentially meeting a person or two, virtual co-working offers all of that.
Exactly, and one more: they may have been shuttling money around from account to account to look solvent but aren't.
Why the switch, though? You can check the news and take quick photos on an Android, too; The vast majority of Android phones aren't being used for tinkering.
Which is more of a limit of clock speed, signal propagation or transistor switch time? I know heat dissipation is a large factor.
The same devs that most likely are also shipping Playstation or Android versions of their game....
I think it was kind of possible to go so hard on services, as part of the EU Single Market. It was a place where the EU concentrated lots of its finance industry, for instance.

We know how that went...
And not to forget: in German :)
> prices are largely based on supply and demand

Then we'd better unionize before AI starts doing all the easy stuff
If your baby monitor signals go into my home and I am able to demodulate them into a clear signal then why shouldn't I be able to?

With wifi, an unencrypted network is an open invitation to connect to it, as this is the way to connect through portals which transfer to encrypted tunnels. Intercepting other traffic on the network is not OK since you would be violating hacking laws since it isn't your network.

Same thing with cell networks. Your phone broadcasts its data, which is perfectly legal to pick up, but if you have to use any network resources which aren't yours then it's a no-go.

Overall, if it is being broadcast into my house I can capture it, but I can't send things back to the source and try and get it to do things.

Your argument falls flat, sorry.
Nix is effectively transforming dynamic binaries to static ones. Might as well skip the step, stop pretending that drive space is expensive, and link everything statically.
4 million just in Ukraine. (All this is pre-WWII.) How many of 30M Soviets died because the whole officer corps was executed just shy of WWII? Or because all military assets were poised at the border, easily bypassed, not defending cities?

The first actual census in USSR came up 15M "short", but it is unknown how many were killed, vs. previously overcounted because of weird czarist policy inherited from Mongol rule: peasants who escaped were still counted against a town's tax obligations.

Making nukes whose spiritual descendants will be handed over to Putin's insane successors, as Russian Federation splinters, might do in the whole world.
I don't see too many parallels there tbh, so genuinely no idea how this will play out in the long run. But it's pretty exciting to watch.
There was a time a proper English accent earned one instant respect among Americans. We fixed that by taking some Englishmen and letting them talk on cable TV.
> the rest of your comment seems to contradict your initial claim -- i.e. they are not Big Four and they have had a recent scandal.

It doesn't contradict it IMO:

1) In terms of the criticism from the FRC (which I believe is the 'scandal' you are talking about) KPMG were also criticised by the FRC so also would fall foul of this.

2) Just because a company isn't one of the 'big four' doesn't mean that they are lower tier.
Would this help to reverse engineer an encrypted API?
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I didn't know that. If accurate, this puts Telegram more in the category of something like Signal on the desktop than WhatsApp or this Google thing.
Nope! It’s a price floor.
to me its a tell investors are not fully committed. they are throwing an MVP at the wall to see if it sticks
Thanks to Valve Linux is single OS on my home computer. Most of the games from my medium sized Steam library are working, and few that does not work today, will probably be fixed in the future. Need to mention that I do not play new AAA titles or multiplayer games, but I enjoy older games, and some of those are broken on modern versions of Windows.
Ask HN: Is there a vfx artists react equivalent for Software development?
Corridor crew is a youtube channel which has a segment VFX artists react where they host guests/veterans from industry and then react to VFX shots and deconstruct how it would have been created or could have been done better. It is great to watch.

Is there something like this for software developers? Or maybe Computer Science?
Tools facilitate the process, but can’t replace it.

I wonder if there’s a measure for how well 2 GPT chat prompts collaborate with one another?
I think applying actual engineering wisdom to software in this case is a mistake. Nobody writes an automated test for a bug and then deletes it once the bug is fixed. You wrote the test in the first place so you get alerted when there is a regression before it gets into production. Regressions happen all the time.
The comment above yours said "and then ... detect the difference", implying sequential action and a real change of state - not simultaneous action+measure.

"""Because the laser pulse is so fast, the water can switch states in a matter of picoseconds, which are trillionths of a second."""

Although after reading, I must agree that the time-scale feels quite ridiculous!!

(EDIT: RE: "Capacitors can't be logic gates" below - Maybe. But if 1+0=1, and 1+1=2, then surely differentiating 0/1 vs 2 on the output creates an AND gate?)

(I am "posting too fast" with 3 posts in the last hour. Sorry :)
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There are a number of churches like this in the USA, yes.

But before anybody freaks out too much, it's probably worth pointing out that the median church size is 75 people.
Hypothetically I would steal from the walmart self checkout because it's easy. There's so little chance of getting caught.

I also have a political motivation so I have no moral qualms about it.
"Stop the shredding!"
I know it's heartbreaking to accept, but there are some problems in the world that apps cannot help with.
I don't trust the initiative much either.

But I'll use it (and maybe contribute) if it improves my life without affecting my privacy or control of own devices.
Past experience is not a perfect predictor, but still much better than almost anything else. I'm pretty sure you'd feel safer going into an operations if the surgeon said "I've done this 100 times now" instead of "This is my first time with this procedure".

Of course, it matters if the experience is directly relevant, and that's where hero worshiping often gets it wrong.
I don't think you quite understand how the unions work.

-in most cases, the employer is able to fire with cause. The union keeps the employer from using layoffs as a weapon.

- pay scales reward loyalty and keeps the workplace stable.

- without the union, you have almost no bargaining power. The union usually gets a better rate for everyone than any one person could have negotiated. This is in fact the point of collective bargaining. Even the presence of a union job site can lift wages across industries. I see this in Oshawa, where the CAW jobs making car bits helps waitresses and sales associates draw higher wages.

-the employer is rent-seeking on their capital. The union balances this.

-unions are not criminal organizations. The teamsters have done some things in the past. If we didn't have so much union busting, there would be more unions competing for workplaces, and this would drive bad unions out of business.

-unions are political, and need legal protections for workers. Tesla will eventually have to deal with a union or treat their workers better than the UAW.

-I don't like that the state grants asymmetric privileges to the employer class, like never prosecuting white collar crimes, and not clawing back exec severances during bankruptcy, and giving them a lower tax rate than their employees.

-there are many things wrong with policing in the us, but all could be fixed with fedral legislation. The unions are aligned with their membership, and doing great work. The wider outcomes are horrible, but that's a good union doing good work.
> maybe they just see themselves as embarrassed millionaires that would want to crush their workers to squeeze money out of them?

What a lazy take. Unions only protect their current members. It's common for companies to hire fewer people or hire more people at only part time schedules because full time employees are required to cost exaggeratedly more or are harder to fire due to union contracts. What organization represents the people who are unemployed or underemployed because of unions? These people are much worse off than if the unions didn't exist.
Every time I do the swipe gesture to open up the activities overview on my laptop I am delighted at how smooth and polished it is now. It's such a small thing but you do it so often throughout the day that it matters. The way the desktop moves backwards spatially, how the icons slowly fade in, how the windows correctly stay at the elevation they were at based on how recently they were clicked, how the animation curve isn't flat but feels bouncy. Just nice! Same thing applies to switching between desktops. It feels a lot better than on Windows.
What is there to get over? They run better on Linux most of the time, plus I don't need to groan when Microsoft asks me to enable the Windows™ Gaming Hub™.
Tiktok and Instagram are both dopamine slot machines that hijack their users’ attention.

It’s sad to see them proliferate and take the minds and attention of 2 entire generations now.

Addictive drugs by another name. Porn for the other part of your brain.

Their secret sauce is they exploit human psychology with inhuman efficiency and feel no remorse about it.
Ok so it wasn't just me. I thought not having a Quest 3 ready for the holiday season was the biggest and most obvious opportunity missed considering that the immediate goal is VR adoption.
Annoyingly, what you can't always do is use it to uniquely identify a process. After a process exits, its PID can be reused. On Linux this (by default) only happens after PID 32767 is assigned, but generally it's implementation-defined. A rare edge case, of course, but it can have security implications.
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Valve is using the 'wrong' AMD gpu driver.
I was referring to him being benelovent.
Interesting stuff. I often wonder if all humans are just a little schizophrenic, and only when the condition develops do things like auditory hallucinations occur.

One model might be several different people running around in a maze, only able to communicate with each other by shouting over the walls. The brain is the maze, but the fractioning of the individual's identity (internal schizms) is what creates the internal illusion of disassociated individuals. This might even develop into neural schizms, different parts of the brain not actually being able to communicate well with other parts of the brain.

I don't know if that model is even vaguely correct, but it would explain auditory hallucinations, as one part of the brain might only be able to communicate with another by utilizing the auditory channel.

Here's an interesting 1993 paper on the subject, lays out the background:

Diagnosis and Classification of Schizophrenia

available via title search at:

https://scholar.archive.org/
A participant in an abusive relationship can move back to her parents any day, all she needs is a bus ticket. For a person born under Communism the best case is to go to the Gulag if he tries to cross the border.

It gets better, in the USSR until the early 70s the peasants were not even allowed to leave their villages. Technically, they were simply not issued passports which were required to register themselves to live in a town.

I bet nobody in your family was born within the reach of the Commies. In places such as the US the people have always been free to go if they felt marginalized. To another state or even abroad without asking the government for permission. So you fail to conceptualize what it means when the Socialists come to power.
I asked it "What's an easy recipe to make bread" and it gave me a pretty direct answer, so that's not it:

Here is a simple recipe for homemade bread:

Ingredients:

- 3 cups all-purpose flour

- 1 tablespoon sugar

- 1 teaspoon salt

- 1 packet (2 1/4 teaspoons) active dry yeast

- 1 cup warm water

- 2 tablespoons butter, melted

Instructions:

- In a large mixing bowl, combine the flour, sugar, salt, and yeast. Mix well.

- Add the warm water and melted butter to the dry ingredients and mix until a dough forms.

- Knead the dough for about 5-10 minutes until it becomes smooth and elastic.

- Place the dough in a lightly greased bowl, cover it with a towel, and set it aside in a warm place to rise for about 1 hour or until it has doubled in size.

- Punch down the dough and shape it into a loaf. Place the loaf in a greased 9x5-inch loaf pan.

- Cover the pan with a towel and let the dough rise again for about 30 minutes.

- Preheat your oven to 350°F (175°C).

- Bake the bread for 30-35 minutes or until it is golden brown on top.

- Remove the bread from the oven and let it cool in the pan for a few minutes before removing it and slicing it. Enjoy!

I hope you find this recipe helpful! Let me know if you have any questions.
I switched to a job that gives me more free time, can't be happier. Money past a comfortable level (enough for food, living and some savings) clearly can't buy not having to run around everywhere and think about your next move all the time. I've seen so many people regretting they spent their life just for their job(s) chasing they didn't even knew what.
I feel so sorry when I ask how are you and the reply is "busy".
Well, no one is stopping them...
I'd much rather use OSM. I don't care about any company's walled garden wheel reinvention.
Dipping into customers funds for operating expenses or other uses (loans to associated parties, investment, leveraging) is a big no for an exchange, obviously, whether or not it is fraud is ultimately for a judge to determine but it sure looks like that to me.

The lure of those balances is invariably too great to resist.
I haven't said I'm not willing to trust Apple. The Apple example is included exactly because you have to trust Apple, whether they use E2EE or not, so E2EE doesn't make a difference and is security theatre.

E2EE has value in the case where it (at least in principle) allows you to remove something from the list of trusted entities. Signal on the desktop is one such case, where E2EE lets us avoid trusting the Signal organisation.
I may have misunderstood. The first paragraph of your comment seems reassuring (like it's just risk aversion at Mazars) but then:

> If this was a canary in the coalmine it just started wheezing strangely and it looks a little dizzy.

sounds like a reason to leave the mine (i.e. there's something really wrong and this is a warning sign).
> is there some other feature that justifies the price?

Physical lens zoom on most of those, with decent lens sizes, but that's not that helpful for a Zoom call, unless you've got a very weird setup.
Even an audited exchange like Coinbase that is trying to do everything right is still self reporting loses like $430M in quarter 1 of 2022 just by operating their business correctly.

Not your keys, not your crypto. Anyone storing their crypto on any exchange has this risk.
Most people not exercising their rights is entirely distinct from people not having been educated on them. The Bill of Rights is surely a required item on every single curriculum in the country. I, having paid attention in high school, am aware that I have no obligation to comply with arbitrary LEO requests, and certainly not those pertaining to the content of speech.

Yes, they did talk of their own volition. As they are free (under their 1st Amendment rights) to do. We have no reason to suspect that they’ve been coerced except for the fact that you disagree with the choice they made! They on the other hand were surely aware of their rights when they chose to talk.
I like the way scheme does it, but IMO this is one of the least significant reasons scheme choices are much preferable to cl imo. It’s just a much cleaner, friendlier language overall
How does Kraken/proof of reserves ensure that in case of bankruptcy there are no creditors with higher privileges?
Especially with entertainment, I haven't understood the anti-Putin sentiment. Is it really in the West's interest to stop exporting soft power there? Sanctions make sense to me, but this particular industry we should make an exception for, I'd say. Authoritarian regimes try to isolate their populace anyways, it'd be a shame to co-opt that.
I see people arguing that micropayments can't work.

I'll say I eagerly want to pay for interesting articles across a number of newspapers/blogs/magazines instead of paying for subscriptions to a few of them.

I really liked the original blendle, but didn't use it much because it didn't have the stuff I wanted.
I've been told that after Drupal 8, they decided that mandatory nightmarish upgrades every few years was not a good idea and introduced much better backwards compatibility. They lost half the community during the D7 to D8 transition, many quit Drupal altogether or went with a D7 fork named Backdrop.

For the record, I've done D6 to D7 and D7 to D8 data migrations on fairly complex sites. I say "data migration" and not "upgrade" because you're effectively creating a new site, then migrating the data over. Essential modules in one Drupal version may not exist in the next, though I understand D8, 9 & 10 modules are near identical so upgrading is way easier.

There's another thing that really split the community, many want automatic security updates to Drupal core, but the Drupal core devs have taken a hard stance against this. Letting the site rewrite it's core files is seen as a major security risk, which I agree, but in my opinion that's outweighed by an even greater security risk. Every Drupal site needs an active dev to immediately perform security updates, but this isn't the case for half (or more) of Drupal sites and those sites get burned badly by the policy of forbidding automatic security updates. Drupal's adherence to "best security" has led to some absolute disasters (see Drupalgeddon parts 1, 2 & 3 where thousands and thousands of sites were hacked).

Regarding Drupal versus Wordpress comparisons. Drupal has been moving towards being a Content Management Framework that requires a knowledgeable PHP developer to build and maintain. If you want an easy way of creating a blog/website that practically runs itself and has thousands of plugins for just about any functionality you can imagine, you don't want Drupal, you want Wordpress.
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EY was the Wirecard's auditor, and PwC did an ad-hoc audit of the same before everything fell apart.
For now at least with Coinbase it is the investors funds at risk, not the customers funds. And that example shows how hard it is to run such a business profitably.
Yeah, I think for multiple desktops the key is a stable organization. Otherwise there's a lot of frustration because much of what you're doing is not on your current desktop and you're going to be hunting for it, and where is it this time?

The left-to-right principle also helps with the organization of the work desktops, which is more fluid and project-dependent.
Replace the word unions with cops (in the us) and then see if you come to the conclusion that there should be no cops because the system isn't working right now. The answer is most likely "No, of course not". So why do so many come to the conclusion that since unions aren't working well right now, you should just get rid of them altogether?
That is a problem in every company to be honest. And bigger problem as it gets bigger
> The lure of those balances is invariably too great to resist.

I think the folks at JP, etrade, and all of the other regulated exchanges would object to that characterization.
There's nothing wrong with liking things. Go open source!
Ask HN: What are some good language learning games?
Other than the well known ones like Scrabble.

Some examples of the games I like:

TypeShift - http://www.playtypeshift.com/
Alpha Omega - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/alpha-omega/id748048441
Blackbar - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/blackbar/id672002602

Any other games you can recommend? Doesn't need to be digital - it can be board games, digital etc
What's the real impact of a downpour year (like the 1980s had) downstream of Glen canyon dam without the Hoover dam in place? It looks like Yuma is the only population center before you get to Mexico. Mexico historically gets basically 0 water from the river from what I understand.
Shortcomings and Future Improvements

In the interest of championing transparency, we would like to share some of the shortcomings in the Proof of Reserves process that we’ve identified.

A Proof of Reserves involves proving control over on-chain funds at the point in time of the audit, but cannot prove exclusive possession of private keys that may have theoretically been duplicated by an attacker.

The procedure cannot identify any hidden encumbrances or prove that funds had not been borrowed for purposes of passing the audit. Similarly, keys may have been lost or funds stolen since the latest audit.

The auditor must be competent and independent to minimize the risk of duplicity on the part of the auditee, or collusion amongst the parties.
If the goal was to spend 10 billion on establishing a money losing operation in Phoenix then maybe you would have point.

But in fact that isn't actually why 10 billion $ were invested.
IEEE and ACM memberships are a good choice; the orgs run good journals and good conferences.
> if every accounting system were a relational database, and every entry had multiple foreign keys to every appropriate classification, we could virtually eliminate CPA's.

i'd like to hear it confirmed from additional sources but this is what i suspected.

i also imagine those with the necessary skills to formalise these practices are (understandably) not eager to automate themselves out of the value capture loop.