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Did you read the post at all?

> Binance.US was described as a separate entity from Binance that was merely licensing the name and certain features from the main company.

> In public, Zhao said the new U.S. exchange – called Binance.US – was a “fully independent entity.” In reality, Zhao controlled Binance.US, directing its management from abroad, according to regulatory filings from 2020, company messages and interviews with former team members. An adviser, in a message to Binance executives, described the U.S. exchange as a “de facto subsidiary.”

> These public issues have led many to wonder whether Binance and Binance.US are truly separate entities. We can now report that based on blockchain transfers, market data, and company disclosures, it appears that there is no meaningful separation between the two firms. In fact, we show that Binance.US both transfers customer deposits to Binance and pays customer withdrawals using transfers back from the offshore exchange’s wallets. Further, we demonstrate that trades allegedly happening on Binance.US’s exchange are likely being conducted directly on the main Binance exchange.

> It turned out that Binance US apparently didn’t have enough USDT in its wallets to pay back customers for several hours.

> However, Binance.US apparently had to pull money from the main Binance exchange to pay back customer withdrawals. In other words, Binance.US customers were paid back using funds transferred from the offshore Binance exchange! We must ask, why were U.S. customer assets held in Binance addresses?

> We conclude that a significant portion of Binance.US customer deposits are commingled with other deposits on Binance’s main exchange.

> Our data suggest that Binance.US’s “market maker” is a single pair of addresses that exclusively transfer funds between Binance and Binance.US. These addresses move customer assets from the U.S.-based exchange to the much larger offshore entity to perform trades. This means that for all practical purposes, there is no real difference between having your money with Binance.US or directly with Binance. Given that Binance was barred from doing business in the United States, it certainly appears that Binance.US is little more than a convenient fiction to evade regulators.

> In reality, Binance.US appears to be little more than a facade to obfuscate the fact that an unregulated offshore crypto business currently under investigation for money laundering and sanctions violations is doing business in the United States despite being banned from the country.

The post explains quite clearly why they call it a trick.

If I use Vanguard in the US, it is a completely separate entity from Vanguard in Europe. This is to ensure they meet the regulations of where they're operating. This is standard operating procedure. What Binance is doing is not.
This idea gets brought up in every thread about Insight's dust issues - there is not enough air pressure on Mars for the downwash to clean the panels. For Ingenuity specifically the problem is that it is also far too far away - it would take over ten years for the chopper to reach Insight.
At the risk of being too specific, the US has some pretty well-observed behavioral issues in parts of its population that Switzerland has managed to avoid, which is why the "unexpected item control" and "AI-powered cameras" have been deemed necessary in the US. Trust me, it makes me sad to see it too.
I don't deny that it had lots of issues. In addition to what you mentioned, it was an accessibility nightmare, and had tons of security problems. All that said, it's difficult to argue with results.
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I've tried pizza stones in my oven, but I get far better results with a pizza screen. Bought a 5-pack from Amazon for $20 and never looked back.

Cast iron also works better than stones I found.
Do a reverse whois lookup on the IP. Ban the whole block. Many times, if you block just 1 IP address, they just move to a nearby one. By blocking the whole block, you prevent this. Do this enough times and they move on. Also make the ban permanent.

Do geoblocking. Block all of China, Russia, and North & South Korea. 90% of hacking attempts come from these areas.
For anyone on Arch, there is a third-party repository called arch4edu[0] that provides up to date builds of ROCm and its dependencies. On my iGPU, OpenCL sometimes works, sometimes crashes. Even finding a list of supported hardware is close to impossible. The whole situation is just ridiculous and makes AMD look bad.

[0] https://github.com/arch4edu/arch4edu
Trick question: Bitcoin-style systems make all your transaction information public. Including before confirmation, so people can front-run you.

The "security" is trying to hide your payment addresses to avoid people associating them with you.
Remind me to change the combination on my luggage...
Well, they do. iPhones are still valuable after being parted out, although Apple has been combating this by requiring parts to be registered by them (and shamed for much of the same on HN)
It allows a cleanly filling a freeform shape with a colour without weird aliasing effects that I get in Morpholio trace or messing around with tolerance in Affinity photo or having to think about control points in one of the more illustrator like apps. I wonder how they are doing that, since I’ve been asking Morpholio for that feature for a while and they don’t seem’to be able to implement it.
previous discussions:
- The physics of baking good pizza [2018] [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17437229]
- The Physics of baking good Pizza [pdf] [2021] [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26142082]
I'd recommend following author of this thread for technical analysis of chatgpt and other models
https://twitter.com/goodside/status/1598874674204618753?t=5W...
Unfortunately no dice. It's a more recent video, maybe 5-7 years old. Modern stage.
Maybe one day we'll break free of the lie that election == democracy.
Don’t try to install it from its store page, but from your “Purchased” list on your account. That should get the latest version you had access to. I haven’t tried that in years, so something may have changed.
Not sure why this was labeled [dead]. It seems relevant to me.
> My other suggestion is that to practise banking, one needs a license, which can be revoked.

That's slightly true already with SEC sanctions, but it doesn't really matter. If I make my millions in bonuses but then I can't practice banking anymore? Oh well nbd.
Thank you for obliging me, that's very interesting!
Tools often have serviceable parts. A burnt out motor is just worn out carbon brushes, which are easily replaceable.
I fully expect to see one of the rovers to be at the Smithsonian before I die, and I’m almost 50 sooo chop chop!
As a programmer my first thought reading this was:

If I was designing a program to send me back a message and it was super critical I received it, I wouldn't put any quotes or non-alphanumerics in the message. Even if my string handling checks out, if the stakes are sufficiently high, I don't trust em!
Yeah. I wish there were terms to exclude certain banks when getting a mortgage. WF fines since 2000 should be closer to $100B for all the fraud they’ve committed. Will anything change without jail time? I doubt it.
> JVM can only run apps written for it: Docker & WASM don't have that limitation.

Of course they do. You can only run apps on WASM that have been compiled to WASM bytecode. You can only run apps on Docker that have been compiled to whatever bytecode is supported by the container runtime (which can be x86, ARM, x64, etc.).

> but WASM can run Postgres

WASM can run WASM-compiled Postgres. It has to be specifically compiled for WASM, which also means it generally needs to be ported to WASM first (as WASM runtimes have a lot of limitations that arbitrary C programs probably don't conform to).
Hi, my company offers exactly this. Data collection, stitching, anonymization, and so on. I have been doing this for over 15 years. Https://www.mosaic51.com

Get in touch, let's talk.

Stay away from the home grown solutions, they are not robust, reliable, or scalable. You'll waste a ton of time and money on them with bad results.

Our systems have been used all over the world to map entire countries with no hardware failures.

Happy to talk!
>Which is great. Higher prices = less usage.

Don't lie to us by not mentioning the tradeoffs.

Reduced standards of living = less spare f-s to give about abstract big picture issues (like pollution and climate change).
Ironically you actually can run LLVM bitcode on the JVM these days, including inside an optional sandbox. It can run "anything" in the unsandboxed mode (as long as it can compile with LLVM), because it allows native calls out to the OS. So the universal [J]VM vision has actually happened, it's just nobody really knows about it.

LLVM bitcode isn't all that portable though, and of course, the binary will still be OS specific because C/C++ code relies on native APIs. The primary reason to do this is so the Graal JIT compiler can optimize native code and higher level dynamic script/bytecode together and remove interop overhead.

However, you can theoretically run whole programs this way inside the Graal sandbox. If you do that you get an emulation of POSIX that is reimplemented on top of the Java standard library, so the code becomes portable, and in managed mode there's an additional party trick - the native C/C++ malloc is replaced with garbage collected allocations and memory accesses are bounds checked. So code run this way gets all the memory safety errors blocked automatically. This upgrade comes with two costs though, one is slower execution/more memory usage, and the other is you have to buy GraalVM EE. The community edition can run bitcode, but not in the sandboxed/managed mode.

Oh and GraalVM can also run WASM. So you can have cake and eat it, everything running together via their 'polyglot' interop system.
How much money Google estimates Microsoft’s cloud business is losing
You mean as a layer on top of a rule engine, OptaPlanner or so? That would be cool.
It's sounds like you're arguing for war with Russia while they are weak?
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No. In the US, ant any given time the fed nominates about 10 banks that are “too big to fail”. There are hundreds of banks in the US and a couple fail every year.

An interesting question is should the fed use that distinction at all? And if so should it be removed as a penalty for bad behavior.
girls!
They handle it just fine, of course. I disagree with the statement that Japanese has a relatively high incidence of homophones. It is true that Japanese TV shows, particularly variety shoes and lighter fare like that, have a lot of on-screen captions and I don’t know the reason for that, but I doubt it’s homophones, and at any rates more “serious” shows like dramas as well as all movies are caption-free (but will likely have a subtle track you can enable).
“2. Enforce a level playing field
Getting regulatory clarity would be a good first step, but if we don't enforce these rules evenly, both domestically and abroad, we will not have a path forward.”

How ironic, so a crypto exchange wishes the U.S. government, an immensely powerful centralized entity crypto was designed to omit, makes everyone else play nice on the global stage. How would the US do that? Hmm… guessing regulating flow of dollars.

Ha!
> The drop in quality and rise in quantity of papers published makes keeping up with the scientific literature both expensive and inefficient in terms of time and energy, which slows down acquisition of knowledge and leaves less time for reflection and gaining experiences that are prerequisites for wisdom. So what incentives are there for a scientist or engineer to aspire to be wise given the lack of prizes and career rewards for wisdom? In Chinese thought wisdom is perceived as expertise in the art of living, the ability to grasp what is happening, and to adjust to the imminent future (Simandan, 2018). All of these attributes seem to be advantageous to a career based on solving problems but you need the sagacity to realise that the rewards are indirect and often intangible.
Of course they do. Until third party repair shops created a huge market for stolen iPhone parts, stealing them was significantly less attractive than other phones.
I've been trying to set up local SD (on windows or WSL) of and on for a few weeks now. Seems to be extremely complicated even with the packages that say they are "1 click install". Then I find out they have dependencies on Cuda, a million python machine learning packages, some package called xformers that I have to compile for my specific GPU, I have to download the right SD image and config, then I have to find and install the right upscaling package and on and on.

So no, I'm not using SD. I paid for a year of Midjourney for $100. Well worth it so far and honestly I think their latest V4 is just as good as SD. Probably is SD in fact, and it doesn't have that "Midjourney style" that previous versions had.
Binance.US was supposed to be a separate entity, operating under US regulations and thus allowing people in the US to use it directly.

Quoting the article:

>Our data suggest that Binance.US’s “market maker” is a single pair of addresses that exclusively transfer funds between Binance and Binance.US. These addresses move customer assets from the U.S.-based exchange to the much larger offshore entity to perform trades. This means that for all practical purposes, there is no real difference between having your money with Binance.US or directly with Binance. Given that Binance was barred from doing business in the United States, it certainly appears that Binance.US is little more than a convenient fiction to evade regulators.

So yes, Binance.US was created to give the impression of a separate business entity to appease US regulators and entice US investors. But it appears to all be a shell game. Deposited funds may as well have been deposited directly into Binance, which is against the public perception they created.
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Oh the crimes against engineering that were required to run chroots and such, I don't miss those. Even LXC/LXD was a bit janky with it desperately trying to be "light sorta VM"
> Just once, for one device

The Mini 2 was ruined by iOS 11. I was lucky that I was able to immediately downgrade back to iOS 10.
The technology isn't really important, but its what makes this possible. Without it, no one would do the alternative of employing dozens of people to look at faces and search them in record books of people they want to ban.

I'm also critical of the legal argument - too often in HN someone will about stuff that isn't illegal. My question is: so what? This is a forum for discussions, not a tribunal. We are not judging, we can argue that something is shitty, or that laws should be changed.
>Credit cards seem to be doing the same thing these days

Credit card companies have been doing this since day 1
This badly needs to be the top answer, not languishing down at the bottom of the page like it is right now.

It never stops amazing me when weight manipulation curious people just ignore the entire history of bodybuilding and weight class sports. A standard American diet, especially if you ever eat out, is very high in sodium, and a high sodium:potassium ratio is one of the chief reasons people retain excess water. Either reducing sodium or increasing potassium is a time-honored way to quickly lose water weight that people in sports have been practicing for decades.
Hell, just scroll down in this thread to see the clowns. Maybe envy that their favourite toy/niche language didn't get popular instead ?

Like, there is plenty of flaws clear to see in Go but it does some jobs well and that's all that's needed to be useful language.
Man I wish Apple bought out Figma instead.
If you don't update your iPad, if apps stop working it's because the app developer has declared your iPad obsolete probably because older APIs are not supported. It's not something about the iPad or Apple per se.

It's hard to understand because software does not degrade with use so everything else being equal it should last an eternity. But in this particular case, everything is not equal because the 3rd party app has moved on.
> This isn’t a ploy or trick any more than a separate website for GDPR countries is a trick.

If the EU citizens data is sneakily transferred out of jurisdiction and used without consent it's a trick and illegal by the GDPR.
The "correct" way to do that would be to maintain two sets of accounts, two bank accounts, and two wallets. Do settlement between the two of them as necessary.

Additionally, the "broker/dealer" function wallets and bank accounts should be separate, preferably in separate corporate identities, from the "free lunch and buy a castle" corporate accounts.
The general problem I’ve seen is complexity and action at a distance - basically many things where anyone trying to figure out how it works or make changes has to understand a lot of code in multiple places.

A mundane version of this problem is dependency management: every Spring app I know is constantly patching CVEs, almost always in optional code for features they aren’t even using, and sometimes upgrades are not trivial because you have to push around a lot of framework code. Node is similar but at least the tools are better.

None of that is specific to Spring, and I’m sure someone will pop up to say that’s doing it wrong but it’s been 100% of the work I’ve seen from multiple contractor teams so perhaps the way to characterize it is that the community doesn’t have enough culture of pushing back against support burden or complexity.
"Say again? You're dropping out, my battery is low
Just so you know, we're going to a place nearby
Gotta go!"

- Mars rover
Also see Pikchr: https://pikchr.org/home/doc/trunk/homepage.md
canvas zeitgeist?
Yesterday there were two posts about two other apps featuring an infinite canvas, and today has the same thing but by Apple.

hn is canvasing us for canvases
Even in the case described by OP, exchanges would still be a thing, just like they are between EUR & USD.
Art NFTs seem legit. I like this piece of digital art, I pay in crypto for the piece. It's like an open art collection database.

Is it a billion dollar opportunity, don't think so but I can understand the appeal.
That's the heart of the problem; society can't decide what behavior, if any, is deviant, and so we err on the hands-off side. Except that we then have unused outrage, so we lash out when somebody runs an errand and leaves their dog in a locked car.
Huh, the one reason that I'd wish most languages would die and we picked like... 5 is that seemingly every time I hit a project I'd want to hack upon it's in language I don't know...
Too many times I have been the guy in the top left quadrant of the chart in the post. I eventually came to the realization that I have often been disrespectful to the intelligence and capacity of my colleagues. I am lucky that I get to work with smart people, and I have to remind myself that these smart people know what they are doing and don't want to do more work than necessary. This has helped me set my tone and ask better questions.
Banking/finance regulations are very strict. Just because you might want that kind of functionality doesn't mean you get to implement it even if it breaks regulations.
Check out https://bauble.studio too
> the one group of people I have absolutely no sympathy for are landlords

Going through life categorizing people into buckets and then proudly proclaiming you have zero sympathy for ANYONE in that bucket isn't a mature or healthy way to view the world. It seems like you have some really intense bones to pick (your reptile story) and are extending that anecdotal experience onto a group of tens of millions, a mental leap which is usually frowned upon in circles like this. Just my thoughts.
I used to make pizza with a stone, but got a Roccbox outdoor oven a few years back and have never regretted it. Massive upping in my pizza game.
I agree that Docker actually has a relatively good track record, but it is true that Docker will never be on the same level as a VM hypervisor that was designed from the ground up to be a security barrier.

Thus, when people bring up "Docker is insecure" I try not to get down in the weeds arguing about the specifics, and instead point out alternative projects that are designed with security in mind. I find it's a much stronger counterargument.
In life sciences, knowledge stagnates and rots. An undergrad-level Pathophysiology textbook published 10 years ago would probably mention that Alzheimer’s dementia is caused by the formation of plaques in the brain.

This might not be apparent to engineers who see everything as a formula waiting to be solved from first principles.
This is an article about an idiosyncratic and fairly interesting approach to writing a fast generic striped map in Golang. Responding to it with a language war appeal is arson; maybe not the "pouring gasoline onto the building" kind of arson, but certainly the "tossing your lit cigarette into the dried up pile of brush" kind. Almost the entire thread on this story has been consumed by a litigation of whether Go is good or not.

If you don't like Go (or Rust or Haskell or Elixir or Ruby), that's fine. Just don't comment.
Is there no company in the entire crypto space that isn't a wretched hive of scum and villainy? We must be cautious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xcb4_QwP6fE
Apple prohibits tablets: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34080367
>it's like wtf leave it alone guys, we are not in north Korea

we will eventually get everything they have in NK/China/Russia/Iran, under a thin veneer of being done for our own good and accompanied by a mass media campaign that will convince a sizeable population of useful idiots to accept it all.
the venerable western democracies hate and fear dissent as much as those loathsome dictators do
No but I don't find anything else meaningful either so my job isn't special in this regard.
That would be the easy part. From the post they are already stored as such, but the complexity would be to render the vector graphics in C++ at 60FPS. There is no simple solution to this, and rolling it yourself is quite the task too.

If you look at some of the modern approaches to animation in C++ (like Lottie or Rive) their C++ clients are pretty poorly supported in my opinion, mostly for anti-aliasing quality in native clients over their web equivalents.
Tasty, and that's it!
Eskil's perspective on moderation is very curious:

4, Moderation needs to be distributed and crowd sourced. The users should be able to choose to what moderation groups they subscribe to. Anyone can start a moderation group.

This seems similar to filter groups for adblockers. A neat side effect of such groups is that they enable adblocker to be extended beyond its original purpose of blocking ads. For example, through custom blockers I can make common websites less distracting or block websites altogether, enabling an adblocker to be an anti-distraction tool.

I envision a similar utility for layered moderation. Many people use twitter for work and it would be nice to subscribe to a group that filters out content irrelevant to work. Maybe even people struggling with drug addiction would like drug references filtered.

IMO this approach falls short in viability of implementation. Unlike creation of automated filter lists, moderation is not a fun activity that can be crowdsourced. Whereas, making the users pay for each moderation is unlikely to work.
I haven't done any serious functional programming but I think the point is that overall it saves you time. It might take longer to write the program but you get fewer bugs, reliable caching and so on.

I know that with Rust the time-to-robustness is much lower than with Python for example.
But this press release suggests otherwise! Apparently there are so many cabs that it's worth it for them to pay money to skip to the front of the line.
It's nothing to be ashamed o..., wait, Flash you said? Well, then it is...