skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is nothing more than FUD designed to benefit a short position. The reason why exchanges like Binance and Bybit have their inflows from Tether... is because (as the author explains) they only take Tether!

Why do they only take Tether? Because US banking is incredibly expensive and a regulatory nightmare.

Why do people use Tether exchanges, over Coinbase? Not just because of leverage, but also because many do not AML/KYC, especially if you only deal with crypto. A LOT of people in the crypto community don't like to pay taxes, and we've known this from day one.

Many crypto enthusiasts also boycott "regulated" exchanges like Coinbase, because they shut down accounts if you use it to gamble on a sportsbook, or whatever their surveillance doesn't like.

So it should not be a surprise that many people in the crypto community, me being one of them, actually prefer to use Tether and Tether exchanges.
I remember my student housing in Europe delaying turning on the heating 1 winter, because of high oil prices.. then I thought, "God damn George W. Bush, I'm freezing because of his Iraq fuckery".

At the moment there's a xenophobia/refugee crisis in Europe, refugees that are escaping conflicts in e.g. Syria or Afghanistan. Arguably Syria isn't the fault of USA (although ISIS grew from the chaos of the Iraqi occupation), and the xenophobia has a bit to do with austerity politics of Merkel.

And then someone started bombing Yemen and now there's another proxy regional war there..
They could easily have left the unsubscribe in the email, and linked to a UID of the mass mailout text instead for the web view.
USDT-USD markets are indeed marginal. however, implied USDT price using BTC as a cross shows USDT is valued pretty much at parity with the dollar by the market:

https://www.tradingview.com/symbols/spread/BINANCE%3ABTCUSDT...
I'm creating a course for Hotwire. I'll be explaining the concepts of Hotwire and then use many example to show Turbo and Stimulus work. At the end, I will deconstruct some parts of hey.com and show how it works.

No website yet but you can follow me on twitter.com/n4cr if you're interested for the release.

Another project is https://speqt.co where it helps you automate fetching digital invoices from your SaaS providers.
What slows us down when building software?
I feel pretty incredible on TRT.

I’m 36, and started summer of last year with levels in the low 500’s. I’ve done a ton of research to get properly dialed-in.

It’s nice knowing that I’m now shielded from these external causes of low T.
While it's a massive simplification of programming as a whole, I think you're at least partly right.

Programming is in some cases over-complicated, for no reason. If you dig deeper however, you'll sometimes learn that the thing you considered overly complicated, was actually designed that way, not to annoy you, but because the same tool has to support use cases you didn't consider or don't understand.

That's not to say that things couldn't be simpler in many cases.
Welp, here we go again - Signal[0] as an alternative. It's fully Open-Source (including the backend) and their crypto is public and independently verified[1][2][3]...

[0] https://signal.org/en/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_(software)#Encryption_p...

[2] https://threatpost.com/signal-audit-reveals-protocol-cryptog...

[3] https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/1013.pdf [PDF]
Honestly?

Laziness.

Pick an idea, dedicate a timeline, work on it during that timeline, and reassess.

Creative paralysis can be easily stopped by just implementing a concrete time frame to do something in. Not doing so is just lazy and frankly, I sense it's a masturbatory habit of a lot of brilliant people, capable of incredible engineering. It's more FUN to dream about what could be engineered than to do engineering of something.

Edit: perhaps it's not lazy if they don't realize they're doing it. I didn't account for that. Either way, timeline budgeting eliminates many categories of excuses.
I recall astalavista.box.sk for cracks etc, but don't think I've heard altervista. do you happen to remember the full domain? would be interested to see if there is a web archive of it.
> alcohol is one of few (if not the only) drug that actively increases aggressiveness

Why would you write something like this?

Have you seen someone on meth, or any kind of amphetamines?

It's a whole different degree of bad. Not to mention in combinations where someone can be horrendously violent and completely indifferent to it.
You don't need a Great Stone Tablet to make things worth fighting for.
Wikipedia edits have impact on tourism, say economists (2020)
> - if there was abuse, you earn 99% of the refund amount and rePOWCHA earns 1%

> - if there was no abuse, you earn 0.75% of the refund amount and rePOWCHA earns 0.25%

> - the minimum earned amount is the cryptocurrency's network fee

I'm a bit confused by the fees here. Seems like avg transaction fee right now is .05 USD. What's the practical cost of this? Seems rather expensive.
Why not TSLA/gold? That proves there is inflation! Or I know, BTC/USD, that clearly proves there's lots inflation and look at that bitcoin price is perfectly correlated with it!

(I am only half-joking here, the point is that broad inflation is much much more important than some bull market in this or that asset class)

On a more serious note a lot of commodities are looking really bullish, including some foodstuffs, and that's obviously not good news ...
I'm working on a CSS framework without any styling (!). It is a collection of selectors and meant to be used as a clean CSS boilerplate. Thus it can jump start your next project or design system.

https://github.com/frontaid/natural-selection
What would be the layer below it? It's certainly not GUIs, which are a significantly more complex layer of abstraction.
What's the demographic of the scammers? Are they immoral rich people who don't need the money and just love the idea of scamming the government? Are they poor people desperate enough to steal from the government? If the latter then the stimulus was actually quite well spent.
Ask HN: What are the minimum metrics to monitor when launching a SaaS product?
I am launching a new SaaS application with 2 associates and was wondering what were the minimal metrics to monitor when launching?

I looked to products like baremetrics but it seems a bit overkill for us.

Are there any self-hosted solutions that could help us get started? Or just rely on some SQL queries?
Yes, and that parity is precisely the thesis behind the author's contrarian short position.
Hi,
I am working on this project, "linkish" is a bookmark manager which embeds audio, video and text from your saved links to view in a dashboard organized with tags and nested collections. The browser extension also comes with a URL shortener and persistent web page text highlighter which syncs highlighted text between different browsers and your dashboard.
Thank you. This is really needed. Have you considered having community supplied component library? Also have you considered premium elements that are richly documented? The official Apple docs are poor so it would definitely be worth a premium to get access.
The vast majority of iOS development is the same stuff over and over with slightly different colours or backgrounds or effects. If you could get navigation, onboarding/login/password reset screens, maps, api queries bound to components, you’d have 80% of the app and developers could instead focus on the critical bits that add real business value. I’ll definitely follow your project.
How is your comment different from his post?

Why I am questioning you is that You cannot call the author lazy. Just because one post gives you that opinion, doesn't mean he is a lazy person.

The author gave a fresh opinion about web browsers and shared it with everyone. appreciate that.

Problem - Browsers dont allow us to write code/
Solution - create browser extension / use console.

Thinkers talk, doers do.
Bail funds are a great example of non-profits with bad incentive structures.

In Portland, when bail money is returned it goes directly to the person arrested, not the bail fund that paid it out. If that bail was paid by a fund like Defense Fund PDX which raised over $100k this summer, the arrestee tends to just pocket the money [0][1]. When a permissive DA such as the one in Portland drops most charges against protestors and rioters [2], they are effectively paid (financially incentivized) to protest, riot, and get arrested with zero negative long-term consequences. One Portland bail fund raised over a million dollars this summer [3].

One night of setting fires and attacking the police can net an arrestee hundreds or thousands of dollars [4] in bail repayments. If their bail is paid in a timely manner, the arrestee can "earn" even more money the next night. This has the effect of prolonging the violent sort of protests we have seen in the Portland area since June. The effect is not obvious to well-intentioned bail fund donors, who in the best case simply wish to support peaceful protest.

When these bail funds are run by the arrestees and their friends, or by people who understand the violent feedback loop and seek to sustain it, the ethical problems inherent to this system become even more pronounced.

[0] https://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1333353403825545216

[1] https://twitter.com/DefenseFundPdx/status/133278556527677440...

[2] https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2020/08/hundreds-of-portlan...

[3] https://www.gofundme.com/f/pdx-protest-bail-fund

[4] https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2020/06/whos-behind-the-port...
Stopped after half of the talk, when he was talking about some Epic games. I thought this was broader, but his horizon seems to be the nerd and gamer world.
It’s Ayrton, he also knew as much about mechanics as his mechanics
Creamy, I am 42 and I spent most of my dating period offline.

There is more to sexual attraction than photos. Sense of humor plays a great role. If you can make a girl laugh out loud, you're half way to wherever you want to have her. As are other elements of personality; some people are so irresistible in person that you forget their homely face. This works for both sexes, btw.

Yes, this does not work on Tinder, unfortunately. Dating apps are absolutely unnatural in this regard, very one-dimensional.
If people want to short bitcoin or tether, they should do so. However, I don't really get all the internet whining. If they're right they'll make a lot of money. I don't buy these concerned citizen FUD posts though, they reek of manipulation. If there's one thing I've learned over the last 25 years it's.. don't trust random people on the internet.
Problem is that attempts at change are important, so fights about what should change and in what direction get very very vicious. To use a non-political example: Some new starters want to switch to Rust, some lifers don't want to have to learn yet another toolset or be made redundant. The stakes are future career prospects and continued employment respectively. Imagine how much higher the stakes can be when you think your political opponents are plotting your genocide? (which is a real, if fringe, belief of some on both the American left and American right)

On the other hand, the status quo at least is known and not as bad as it could be (e.g. Bronze Age Collapse)...
You say it like pointing out an obvious problem is hard to do. Programming is a very complicated activity, and of course it can be improved. Anything can be improved. There is no doubt about that.

The question is whether it is easy to improve.

Writing good software is hard. You say it like programmers have ego, but you know what is better than ego? Money. People would lay down their ego to make money (by making a more user-friendly app).

But clearly it’s hard to write good apps. If you try any graphical programs you would see that it sucks. You default back to the terminal and vim because it’s better. I choose what works, not what gives me pride because this is work not hobby.
Note that this is just one of the ideas implemented in Slashcode, which for all its faults was and still is probably the most sophisticated discussion forum software on the internet.
Everyone will go through anger and frustration phase. Be supportive.
I'm more interested in the collective psychology of a nation that voted Trump in to the US presidency. Also the individuals that constitute it.

Definitely looking less and less like the US sets the tone for much at all, but Australia and the USA have an important military alliance and we're part of the Five Eyes.
If tether is pumping BTC then it’ll stop pumping BTC when it’s taken away. Weak hands will fold and then there will be a crash
Tether is lovely for many people, because there are many entry points without AML/KYC.

This allows you to trade while minimising your exposure to the taxman, something that many people in crypto value.

Of course, there is the calculated risk of Tether being seized, but that's part of doing business.

Bitcoin itself was born out of active rebellion with the existing financial system, and depending on who you ask, rebellion of the state itself.

Go to a bitcoin meetup that's a few drinks in, and ask how many people pay taxes ;)
I make no opinion on the author but something like this: https://twitter.com/ibdknox/status/1328797793138266113?s=20

Does make me think programming can be radically different and maybe a lot easier
> An analogy from a couple years ago is bridge building before physics. You accumulate rules of thumb, you get a vague understand what works. You get better. But you aren't producing a systematic field.

This would be more like Kuhn's pre-paradigmatic (pre-scientific) activity, than moving from one scientific paradigm to another ?

https://samzdat.com/2018/05/19/science-under-high-modernism/

(I don't know which one is more appropriate here.)
One more thing while we're fantasising. It would be nice if the sharp edge round the edge of the working surface was removed.
Tether will almost certainly collapse, and then you'll have a lot of bitcoin chasing very few dollars. There is likely to be a stampede for dollars, which becomes a vicious cycle deflating the price of Bitcoin - the liquidity is consumed (Bitfinex is printing Tether because there aren't enough dollars to go around at unbanked exchanges, afterall) at the same time the downward volatility dramatically increases the perception of Bitcoin's risk; market makers start heading for the door; the cost of liquidity becomes massive.

There's some magic number for the price of Bitcoin, and it's hard to say what it is, where the miners start to lose money. If it stays too cheap for too long, it puts pressure on the miners to either switch to other coins or get out of the game entirely.

Things could get very bad, very quick. The only reason I don't have a bearish position in Bitcoin is that I can't find a counterparty that a.) I can afford at my account size (eg not CME) and b.) that I'm confident will still be around after this crash.

Stay cautious. Happy trading.
Seen many of those countless times on the internet without credits. Great to see the original source, thanks for sharing!
You can try using console or open debugger or you can build an extension. It will help you to write code inside the browser.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19945452
this is art. my mind is blown away!
Hah, it's been a while, I haven't used it recently. I think we were using it on a self-hosted server just available to a couple of friends.
I agree, the inefficiency of advertisement might be the main reason for the surplus we are paying (also let's not forget the platform - the middleman).

However:

> been unable to prove, in many or most cases, that it actually succeeds in its goal of improving both profits and reducing prices

Neither has it been able to prove the opposite. The long-term effects of brand awareness are difficult to measure. Anecdotally, I've seen cases when a very expensive billboard didn't move the download figures even by an iota but local people began talking about the company casually and even recognizing some of the employees on the streets, telling them how they like the product.
Agreed, I much prefer the 2X smaller trackpad of the last generation.

At max sensitivity in MacOS you could move so much faster and with less strain on the wrist.

It’s too bad they never adjusted MacOS to compensate for the new massive trackpad, max sensitivity should be higher. It’s like the right hand never told the left what it was doing. But not surprising, considering Apple’s entire organization is built around secrecy and people NOT collaborating.
SQL anyone? High level language, immediate feedback mostly, does the low level optimisation for you, you can performance tune with indices where needed... :)
https://github.com/veemshq/veems

An open-source platform for online video .
I find the subreddit funny but I think that the level of knowledge/memeing is too high for me right now
Only problem with nitter.net is that 'this instance is over loaded' and so on. Nitter.net is running on some hetzner low instance and at least since beginning of 2021 nitter has said ' this instance is over loaded ' half the time you use nitter. So it goes
It’s not that the Touch Bar was bad.

It’s that they removed the Function Keys!

They should’ve just placed the Touch Bar, above the Function Keys.
It's actually up to the paper to prove that it's not a p-hack. That's done by declaring a null hypothesis and the intended stats analysis to be done before doing the experiment and collecting the data, because otherwise you can just compare arbitrary things until you find that some of them are correlated in the set you have. There's no numerical post-hoc analysis that would be able to prove that.
Install excel and nodejs. Then evaluate which was easier. I suspect node will win by a wide margin.
> Now let's look at some Reddit /r/bitcoin posts in January 2020.

This is a very amateurish attempt at analyzing what "Bitcoin community" (which you haven't even really defined properly either) are thinking or are interested in. Bitcoin reddit is a bunch of kids who like memes and hating on the FED. I know a lot of serious investors who would never be seen posting or commenting there. It is just not a place for a lot of people.
Excel is great for prototyping. It produces immediate results without any configuration. And it saves your database along with your code in a single file.

This is huge. Can you name any other programming language that automatically saves database + code in a single file?

Think about how many files you have to share if you use a script + database. At least 2 files. And then you have to zip it and the recipient has to unzip it. (cluttering your downloads folder)

However, at a certain point you have to make the jump and install/configure a database, even if it's just SQLite.
Why Use Web Scraping: Top Reasons for Its Use in Tech and Non-Tech Spheres
While I'm not sure I agree that IDEs need to be bundled directly into browsers (as other commenters have said: at that point, why not Photoshop? Or Excel?), I think that Github Codespaces [1] is an interesting foray into a much-simplified dev setup experience that will help beginners start writing code without learning the more arcane utilities of professional programming like terminal emulators, shells, and the *nix userspace tools. And it's (optionally) browser-based, so you can get started without installing any dependencies, even though it doesn't ship as part of the Chrome binary.

I agree with a lot of the commenters here that eventually you'll need to learn the arcane things! But I think there's something to be said for being able to just get started writing code and having it run. I did a lot of my early programming on a TI-83 in math class in high school while pretending to pay attention to my teacher. I didn't have to configure it, or do much other than learn the programming language I was writing code in. Later, in college, my intro-level classes were in purpose-built educational IDEs like DrScheme, where I once again just typed my code into the textbox and then ran it from the same UI. I probably would've grit my teeth and pushed through learning all the extra stuff anyway if confronted with an emulator, a shell, and figuring out what `$PATH` refers to, because I was pretty into computers and had high mental pain tolerance. But I can't say it would've been a better onboarding experience, and eventually, I learned all of that stuff anyway -- so why put people off with it at the beginning? Let them do the fun stuff first, then teach them how to do it "for real." In a lot of cases, the not-"for real" version might even be enough to suit their needs.

1: https://github.com/features/codespaces
Backup. Encrypt the backup. Run the deletion. Verify you haven't lost anything. Verify it again. Put the backup encryption key beyond use other than in the case of a suitably agreed emergency (e.g. in the case of an agreement with another party, hand them the key). Then after a suitable grace period, once you're sure everything is ok, you destroy the backup.
Wow thanks ! It's really the perfect app that I was looking for !
So many blocked out sections. Makes me wonder if those techniques are (a) truly unknown outside of the NSA (et al.) or (b) known, but they just don't want to further publicize them.
Why in the world would you want to do that? Have you bought into the false notion that estrogen is merely the "female" hormone, simply because it is produced in the ovaries, without critically wondering if there are other hormones involved?

If it weren't for progesterone, women would die from their own estrogen, probably as a result of metastatic hyperplasia.

Is it still just the female hormone in your mind? Are you even aware why you have this false dichotomy stuck somewhere in your brain?
What does SOTA means ? "State of the Art" ?
I think the Amish optimize not for minimum spoon use but for maximum spoon availability.
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Taking a position and then publicizing the position and the thesis behind it is standard procedure everywhere in finance. It's a way of accelerating pricing-in of the information.

You can indeed just short an artificially inflated asset, but if the sham is only revealed long after you're insolvent, you lose your money.

BTW, your bull case for Bitcoin wasn't built from trusting random people on the internet?
I already had one recycling company come to talk about applying the tech to sorting waste. It never came to anything concrete though.
Apache Velocity tools XSS flaw impacts GOV domains
Internally tracked as CVE-2020-13959.
Ah, I see. The lid and bottom of the MBP have a slight convexity, which they could flatten out to make it more like an iPhone 12.
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So looking at: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization
I see that the host supports virtio for providing devices - but this is a hypervisor, not an emulator? You can't run amd64 VMs on m1 and vice-versa? Is there a "standard" 64bit arm target that means pre-built VMs are available? It should also be possible to run windows arm VMs?
https://standup.flicken.net/

After trying[1] multiple[2] alternatives[3][4], I built this to keep track of who speaks when and for how long at a daily standup. The question of "who's next?" is no longer asked.

Team members are saved to local storage so you can re-use for the next standup.

[1] https://standuptimer.app/
[2] https://dailytoast.io/
[3] https://github.com/nemtsov/scrum-standup-timer
[4] https://kirk.is/tools/standuptimer/
5.10 is LTS
Yes, I mean of course randomness beats any algorithm or applied theory, but it is not uncommon to find statements like "this algorithm gain x% in this stock simulator", whilst no real world validation was actually performed. I think that putting a little bit of "skin in the game" might help me better understand how the stock buying/selling/predicting actually works.