"...This evening, Genesis Global Capital, LLC (Genesis) filed for bankruptcy under Chapter 11. This is a crucial step towards us being able to recover your assets."
So Gemini is helping depositors of Genesis, or depositors of Gemini? If depositors of Gemini, did the depositors know that their monies were going to Genesis when they deposited them into Gemini?
If a Gemini user opted into Gemini's Earn product they were notified that any Earn deposits were going to Genesis.
You can argue those warnings weren't big enough or obvious enough, but it was spelled out in various places that Earn deposits were not held by Gemini, but sent to third parties (in this case Genesis being the only third party in the program).
Brings up a question: what is the chance of blaming some of this on an "innocent" coding error? Can you get jail for not writing unit tests, swallowing an exception, a type conversion you did not expect?
Zero Chance. Singh already proved intent with his source code comment. Him claiming to be unaware of violating the law won't prevent him from getting almost certainly jailed.
> The Underhanded C Contest is an annual contest to write innocent-looking C code implementing malicious behavior. In this contest you must write C code that is as readable, clear, innocent and straightforward as possible, and yet it must fail to perform at its apparent function. To be more specific, it should perform some specific underhanded task that will not be detected by examining the source code.
> Every year, we will propose a challenge to coders to solve a simple data processing problem, but with covert malicious behavior. Examples include miscounting votes, shaving money from financial transactions, or leaking information to an eavesdropper. The main goal, however, is to write source code that easily passes visual inspection by other programmers.
I believe that really depends on (a) how much harm it caused downstream, (b) how much of it is caused by your actions. Per Matt Levine's column today, it's not the whole problem that FTX had sloppy accounting – rather that SBF went around advertising the "sophisticated risk engine" which in reality was crap. This action accounts for fraud.
I don't see you being jailed for your random GitHub project being sloppy. However, if your closed source software that you advertise as 100% safe and secure gets used by a chemotherapy clinic, and then it comes out to be downright sloppy after killing 20 patients you may be accused of fraud. Anyway, not a lawyer so take it with a grain of salt.
I hope it also depends on a reasonable expectation of oversight and access controls when you're working in high-risk fields. Finance engineers should probably be expected to be familiar with laws concerning what they do.
"Pilot Glenn Ashby successfully sailed the team's wind-powered craft at a speed of 222.4 kilometres per hour on Sunday — in 22 knots (40.7 kph) of wind."
I am sure someone has already explained this elsewhere on HN, but how is it possible for a wind-powered craft to travel faster than the wind?
Imagine pinching an ice cube. One finger applies force like the sails, the other finger applies force like the keel+rudder, and the cube is the vessel.
This...but the ice "cube" has a slight taper to it, like a wedge. As you might recall from high school or freshman Physics, a slight-taper wedge has a large "mechanical advantage". By squeezing it, you use that in reverse - a slow-but-strong push from your fingers (the wind vs. the keel+rudder) results in a fast-but-weak movement of the ice "cube". (Hence the ultra-streamlined shape of the vehicle, low-rolling-resistance tires, etc.)
Wind powered craft are generally powered by deflecting the wind at an angle, rather than using the wind behind them to travel forwards. It's the same reason that sailboats can move into the wind.
Echoing the sibling comment from byhemechi, performance sailing vessels generally do not sail directly downwind (or directly upwind for that matter).
The sails are positioned at an angle to the wind, so that they deflect the incoming air in such a way as to propel the craft forward. It might help to imagine air "coming out the back" of the boat.
The fastest set-up is for the boat to travel roughly perpendicular to the wind, with the sails set at (approximately) 45 degrees. In sailing jargon this is called "reaching".
The speed of the craft is determined by the balance between the force exerted on the sails by the air, and the drag (air resistance) and friction between the boat and the water -- or, in the present case, the ground. In a world without friction or drag the boat would accelerate indefinitely, provided there is some wind to deflect.
Note that although it's not generally how fast boats are sailed, "sailing" a wind-powered craft directly downwind faster than the wind is also possible by, for example, using propellers.
Imagine pushing a matchbox car on a table with a ruler, where the ruler is perpendicular to the direction of movement. When the car is on an angle, the car will be moving faster than the ruler (wind). The steeper the angle, the faster the car can go relative to the wind.
7am early morning ride before work, then ~ 2pm in the afternoon. Both around 1 hour, often longer.
My whole mood lifts the closer I get to ride time, and for a whole hour or so afterwards I am buzzing and I seem to write my best code. I never get stressed any more. I am fitter than ever with no sore knees or bad back or any other stuff I used to suffer when I was running. I sleep really well.
I am 54 and I live next to a dedicated bike path that goes for ~4 hours in two directions. I work almost exclusively from home in Brisbane, Australia.
I second that. Get any bike you can, you won't regret it. I have a few beater bikes and use them all the time. I feel better, I enjoy the landscape changing quickly in front of my eyes, I enjoy speed but also being a part of the landscape, not sitting isolated in a metal box. Marvelous!
One pint since you mentioned that Merida bike: if you cycle a lot, get a version with shock absorbers (wheel + seat). Yes, they will make the bike minimally heavier. Yes, your spine will thank you later, even if you mostly use dedicated good quality lanes.
George Lucas was an admirer of the works of Akira Kurosawa, and "Jedi" was said to be derived from "Jidaigeki". which the name of Samurai soap operas popular in Japan.
"since this got boosted if anyone happens to know about service manuals for appliances, lmk. i’m textin a buddy about this and now we just wanna kill it instead my backup plan (forever dhcp lease + block IP from pf.conf). even the manuals i can find online from samsung don’t mention the smart features, it seems to be more of a “don’t burn down your house idiot” thing "
It seems their plan was to block it at a network level if they couldn't do this.
After I cut over to a new wifi router I left my old one partially configured with no internet connection and mirroring everything to one of the LAN ports that goes to an un-numbered (no IP address, no IP egress) port on my main server where I can maniacally sniff their futile unrequited traffic at my leisure.
The idea is to some day make a per-gadget catalog of all the hostnames and addresses these things want to reach, but hopefully someone beat me to it already and you folks can let me know where to find it.
Might work on this model but more and more appliances refuse to work at all until they’re connected to WiFi. Additionally, “Amazon Sidewalk” allows appliances to connect to your neighbors Wi-Fi automatically if your own isn’t working for it.
According to Samsung's site, assuming this is the same model of fridge (Family Hub Refrigerator?), it is technically possible to skip the WiFi setup, but some people are pointing out there are rumors that it will try to connect to open wifi to still phone home to samsung.
I am using both Dolphin Smalltalk and Free Pascal/Lazarus. Both produce very good looking forms in Windows at least, which is my target platform. Both are easy and quick to develop in, particularly Dolphin. Both have powerful events systems, sane object systems, both very amenable to MVC. Both backed backed by SQLite3.
Selling point for users is that user data is retained locally and not sent to a remote server, execution speed, and familiar workflows.
I regularly eat bunya nuts from the Australian bunya or false monkey puzzle tree (Araucaria bidwillii). It is said to have appeared in the Jurassic (~200 - 145 mya). They are very tasty.
I scrolled looking for these. I get a few every year at my place but tend to marvel at their size, eat a couple raw then throw them away. I've tried oven/fire roasting them like we do macadamias but wasnt too great. Any preparation you recommend?
For people that dont know these, think pine cone thats a little bigger than a bowling ball. They are pretty amazing looking things.
I leave the cone in a bowl until the individual seeds just start separating. Then I pull them off and put them on a tray and in the oven (~150 degrees) for 10 - 15 mins.
I am up in Brisbane. I get them from my brother who has a few trees on his property in Maleny. I used to get them from the staff at Roma Street Parkland.
