skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's what I was asking about, though. If there are any crypto projects that provide this given that the traditional payment flow [0]. Chargebacks seem to be conflated with escrow a lot while also simply pinning chargebacks to an oracle problem. If it really is that trivial, there should be a team that someone is aware of offering this?

From what I can find around current crypto "credit cards", it seems they are in reality just debit cards.

[0] Not money, but Visa - though this was ambiguous as written
Your words aren't that reassuring, since this is the same SEC that failed to find Madhoff's Ponzi scheme.[0]

> since 1992, there had been six investigations of Madoff by the SEC, which were botched either through incompetent staff work or by neglecting allegations of financial experts and whistle-blowers

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Madoff
I think he's talking about white supremacy
Thanks, I've created my personal blog with this style :D
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With Bitcoin you have to enable the "replace by fee" flag on a transaction to allow that. Merchants could check transactions for if it is set.

If miners did change their Bitcoin nodes to facilitate double spending even with RBF disabled, that would erode trust in Bitcoin and thereby de-valuate it, which is probably not in the interest of miners. They'd damage the thing they're heavily invested in.
Introduction to Dapps – Ethereum.org
> I just don’t know how many more times I’m going to have to say that Melvin is going to lose everything.

Well, it just contradicts your previous point:

> Billionaires can remain solvent longer than you can remain irrational.

Anyway, we're obvious not agreeing. That's fine. I wish you luck as well!
Former home of an Aryan Nations compound.
We have a [#BCMesh started here in British Colombia](https://krisconstable.com/bc-mesh-using-LoRa-devices) if you want to join.
You don't need Kafka if you don't know (and I mean really know, because it's hurting) where you need it.

But if you do know where you need it, you wish you had it yesterday.

This is the way with scaling in startups. Product-market fit and agility and lean operations is what you want early on, and scaling should come later. Big architectural decisions are hard to reverse and committing to some pattern that needs something like Kafka, like event sourcing, is probably too much risk for most products. Most event-sourced CQRS implementations fail.

I say choose Kafka somewhere in the middle, when scaling needs are somewhat predictable and product market fit is good, but try and use Confluent's hosted service or something similarly light on ops. Do non-critical things with it first and ramp up. Don't build big from the get go - that rarely ends well.
I thought most of the online brokers had it by default now? Isn't it part of the "no commission but we do literally anything else to make a buck" business model?

If not then he either doesn't own all the stock or there is some fraud here. As it is, it's the simplest explanation and one he hasn't ruled out. So he needs to check there first. It's possible they lent it by mistake or he agreed as part of the 10,000 page T&C he signed when he joined...
>Naked Shorting is illegal.

Unless you're a market maker and thus exempt from the regulation, because your market making function requires buying and selling lots and lots of unsettled shares in order to provide liquidity.
This was more like a state sanctioned oligarchy, whereas this loophole kind of gives anyone a chance to start EIC if they find a niche, exploit and then expand. Beyond certain point you buy laws so that nobody else can copy your steps. Rinse and repeat. This should be stopped.
> This is the first time I have heard this quote

You're one of today's lucky 10 000 then[0]! It's a common quote, a standard and vague answer for the question of limits to individual freedoms.

I'm not GP, but I agree that it often doesn't make sense - because it doesn't convey any concrete meaning. It requires your conversation partners to infer what exactly you meant by this, and it invites debating the abstract point under unrelated examples (particularly edge cases), or what is or isn't a freedom.

In a context of a particular conversation - say, short-time rentals - you could say it to argue that just because one can run a short-term rental in residential area, doesn't mean they should. But saying "my freedom ends when your begins" doesn't communicate much. You could, instead, say that "your freedom to make money off random strangers ends where my freedom to have a good night's sleep begins". Or, better yet, you could simply say something like "my problem is that, in practice, such rentals tend to be a source of constant loud noise and other bad behavior - which goes against mine and other permanent residents' desire to live in a safe neighborhood and be able to sleep well at night".

(And speaking of landmines, don't ever mention "zoning" in such conversations.)

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[0] - https://xkcd.com/1053/
One of them involves them deciding they'd rather be prosecuted by the SEC for lying than use the bailout for what they said they used it for, and the other involves some people on Reddit being wrong. I don't think "either are just as likely"
When WhatsApp first came out, lots of people (in the West) paid punishingly high costs for sending an SMS at all.

Being able to communicate via [free wifi/a much smaller data cost] was a big selling point.
According to the Earthbound wiki, the default name of the protagonist in Mother 2 (the Japanese version of Earthbound) is ネス (Ness), which doesn't really resemble the name of the Japanese name of the console (Super Famicom).

The default name of the protagonist of Mother 1 (released on the original Nintendo Famicom) was... ニンテン (Ninten).
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My take on it re CPI is that I don’t know enough to know whether CPI is a suitable metric or not. I defer to economists here which is something you’re free to hold against me.

Re (2) I’d be very interested in learning more about the delta between CPI and these baskets. Do you happen to have a reference? I’m always down to learn more.

Re (3) I agree that inequality has gotten worse but I see that as a social and fiscal policy matter and not a monetary policy matter. If we’d been using gold, the same trend would have manifest. Poor people don’t hold onto money anyways they’re hand to mouth. And any extra they happen to hold onto could have been invested anyways. Frankly minimum wage over the period hasn’t been indexed to inflation either!

I’m a huge advocate of decreasing the gap between the rich and poor, I have more than I need to be sure, and the best way to do that is taxation.

This gap between rich and poor really started widening after the Reagan era tax cuts and trickle down economics. If you look back the top marginal tax rate in the US in much of the 1900s was 80-90%. Estate tax the same. If you reduce that to 37%, rich people get richer because they keep more and more of their wealth. A practically 0% estate tax ensures the next generation starts on a monopoly board where there’s a hotel on every square. To me that’s a much clearer correlation than the spooky action at a distance of this 2% (a figure you admittedly contested) inflation rate. Do the ultra wealthy really hold cash? Do the poor? Does anyone?
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Thanks, I am glad you seem on the right path!
you believe markets are rational. they are not. if the hedge funds that messed up unload shares of other companies they own to eventually cover, this could easily escalate via a positive feedback loop collapsing the whole market (the fact that we’re in a market that ignores fundamentals is also not helping).

so the fed just just force the hedge funds to cover in a controller way (ie you’re no longer allowed to short, you have 3 months to cover or you’re gone)
Without slashing, I'm wondering whether they've adequately accounted for attacks motivated by extraneous factors, rather than simply for profit within the system. The abstract says "we prove that, given this mechanism, honest behavior is an approximate Nash equilibrium," but does that still hold if an attacker has shorted the coin?

With slashing, even if someone finds it advantageous to attack, you quickly take away their ability to attack.

(I haven't yet read past the abstract, so for all I know they do address this.)
> Hopefully China will keep advancing science

Except they seem to be fully kowtowing to the West.

Like this case. Or even the reported - "China bans skyscrapers taller than 500 meters"

Every student they send overseas to study is one more indoctrinated scientist.
Right, I know you can get really beefy servers these days. We use thousands of them.
192 is exactly @2X scale... so it probably just means, you have 200% scale and you probably have increased the point size of system fonts.

You laptop display is higher density than 192 dpi; at 4k, that would be 23" display.
That's fair - said another way you just have to have a plan in place to borrow the share but don't actually have to have it borrowed yet. And all this discussion is fairly moot given the number of shares that routinely fail to deliver and the general lack of meaningful enforcement actions.
A Fauci hatchet job is a waste of ink. There's lots more richly deserving targets. He's universally admired by experts in his field for many years of high quality public service. If you want to blame somebody for poor pandemic response, there's a much more obvious person to go after.
Yep. WhatsApp scaled their software with over 10m users per engineer on their team.

I read an article a few years ago about how StackOverflow ran (still?) their entire site off just 6 physical computers or something. And before you claim its because they have hand written assembly everywhere - nope. Their code is just clean C#.

I adore Kafka - I think its a lovely way to build scalable software. But almost every website out there will never need to scale past what a simple postgres + rails/nodejs/whatever + nginx setup can provide, assuming each of those pieces is set up correctly. And you personally probably aren't working on software at that scale.

I personally also suspect we can make the experience of building on top of event sourcing better than the experience of building on top of a traditional database, because decoupling reads from writes gives you more architecture options. But I don't think we're there yet.
I can't personally evaluate his credibility, but his claim seems to be that "the algorithm" will be running overnight because new data from Friday's trades is still coming in.
"Except for the fact there was a Black Bart pilot, nothing else here is true. This was written as a joke."

https://www.facebook.com/OrmsbyCinemaInsane/posts/1015802750...
That word is increasingly believed to be inappropriate even in depictions of the slavery and Jim Crow eras that aim at historical accuracy. There was controversy over the film 12 Years a Slave using the word, for example.
> doesn't pay dividends

Tech/growth doesn't pay dividends as dividends are a signal your business is done growing. Dividend companies would rather return capital to investors than place more bets and keep growing.

Tech and growth stocks have minted many millionaires. And sometimes overnight.

This is also why growth companies sometimes don't reach profitability. They're spending their revenue eating the rest of the market and gaining monopoly.

> no control?

People that invested in Facebook made lots of money. They were probably fine with the arrangement. If they stop being fine with it, the stock price will decline.
who cares though tbh?
No distributed consensus algorithm can tolerate more than f faults with 3f+1 replicas and maintain liveness. This includes Bitcoin (replace "replicas" with "hashes per unit time").
I wouldn't call it a conspiracy theory or call this out as an example of Occam's razor.

> Collectively they can, and did, cause this.. no need to invent other actors to explain it.

The thing is, people imagine this requires a lot of capital to pull off. How did WSB get so many people to invest so much into GME as to hit a hedge fund so hard? Do so many people really have that much money just to throw away? There is a need to explain this, and inventing other big actors does explain this much better for people.
You would be wrong, please assume good faith per the HN guidelines.
That's about fictional TV shows, not news.
It makes a difference that there is not an obvious comparable alternative.

The network effect works both ways: if key people in my network are convinced to switch, other people will follow.
6 < 10
I have heard of brain fog and other related issues coming from COVID - that would be my first guess. I am 51, no covid, exercise daily, wife, 1yr old and 9yr old. No burnout here. Do you have music or other things that can help inspire/motivate you?
>"...learning Scheme ..., ...You will, however, be a much better programmer if you do and you will come to appreciate the beauty of these languages...

Sorry but this could be said just about any language as this is very personal opinion.

I for one think that knowledge of any particular language does not define being "much better programmer". Rather it is the good understanding of a general concepts and knowing how computers work.

Author's opinion about performance is also one sided. For some tasks it matters not yet it is never good enough for others.
I use Schwab. They have the things that are actually important for someone getting started: ~free trades and fractional shares, but the app and website aren't as slick (though it does feel like a serious tool), and they make you go to more effort to get options trading or a margin account--I've never seen them actively promote either.
Because closing their position is not what any sane shorter wants to do. The bottom line of GameStop sucks baddly. Anyone who can add to their shorts stands to make a fortune in a few months after this all calms down.

Though they might have seen what was happening and exited at 50 to reenter at 300. That would be incredible foresight.
My Experience Using WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) – Web Universe
This doesn't work for ETH1, which is PoW, but memory hard, which ties the network to GPUs over ASICs due to the cost structure of producing ASICs. It is cheaper to buy an off the shelf GPU than it is to buy an ASIC.

You also have to factor in the fact that the latest GPUs are not necessarily the best ROI. If you can get lower speed GPUs for a fraction of the cost, then your return on that is much faster. Of course, that is starting to change now that mining is becoming so profitable again. But regardless, you are still tied to GPUs, so anything you can get there is good.
Yes, but that’s a small amount of all transactions. And small business restaurants/shops might do the same, but I don’t see any major business or retailer going with a discount strategy for debit cards.

And you can get a minimum 2% cash back on no fee cards, so unless the discount is at least that much, I don’t see a reason to not use a credit card.
this is a classic example of a positive feedback loop. wsb did not do all of this but they were the spark that created the fire.
How is this even a question?

Online brokerages are from the first dotcom boom. They are over 20 years old. There are many well establish reliable brokers.

And many of them have cut their transaction fees to $0.

All Robinhood seems to have done is layer a fun UI over a weak trading back end and pretend to be empowering their users.
This is the kind of css I would use as an easter egg. Enter the konami code and swap the css for this.
> I work for a large CDN, with many thousands of servers pushing near line-rate out of our NICs... we certainly can't vertically scale that.

A CDN is essentially "horizontal scale as a service". The vast majority of products are very different.
'spending' on random kickstarter products and investing your savings is obviously quite different. So you can't use one to judge the other
> You can't physically centralize energy production.

But you can centralize ownership of energy production.
Databases are notoriously better scaled with more iron. Web servers on the other hand are a great fit for horizontal.

Horizontally scaling your database is a last resort used at truly mindboggling scales.
Isn't this the exact same situation with nukes? Why are we banning gene editing when nuclear proliferation is all but expected at this point? Is it because MAD does provide some stability, or because we're more used to nukes as a concept?
On your last point, I think it only applies to things like bitcoin where the resource cost for mining and validating is high. Litecoin and BCH are quite different and result in far lower transaction costs, but they aren’t as popular yet.

There’s every reason to think in the longer term there will be some cryptocurrencies with higher costs that behave more like a custodial store of value like gold, some that behave like a cheap medium of exchange, and some that have other purposes like hedging against fiat currency or operating some smart contract based app / game / service.

The valuation model would be different for each.
I hate to be pedantic, but they're both part of Citadel LLC. So yeah, they're the same company. They just happen to be two different businesses within the same company.
> how can you deduce facts about Bitcoin from them?

The first thing is a speculative asset.

The second is a store of value.

The third is a currency.

I did not mention that bitcoin is taxed as a commodity in the US.

Bitcoin is easy to transfer - but you still need to wait for a transaction to get stored in a block and processed by miners, and wait for the odds of a double spend reducing to near zero. Venmo is just as easy, with different risks.

Note that I am not entirely bearish about bitcoin. It’s cool tech! But it has some real limitations and there seems to be no upside to paying with it through Visa of all things.
I would be interested in something like this to visualize and inspect the structure of proofs, for example those contained in the Lean mathematical components library https://github.com/leanprover-community/mathlib
I'm strongly sympathetic to the Alan Kay vision of browsers-as-operating systems (see an earlier comment on a similar topic [0]) and yet I still miss the days where I could read what someone had to say without loading yet another JS webapp. The dumb document viewer model for the web was probably doomed from the start. There are just too many unique ways to consume media, so instead, we as an industry repurposed the document layer (http) as a portable distribution platform for all the new web browsers that could just be dumb document viewers accessible to a mass audience of creators (facebook, twitter, youtube, etc...).

I think the Electron/ChromeOS/FirefoxOS/WebOS/Early iOS model is us finally recognizing that we've made some levels redundant and are now collapsing the stack (browser/native OS). It's slow, it's ugly, but we're getting there.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25855029
Ok, changed from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFfjX8dW-QQ. Thanks!
I don't know why this focused on WhatsApp when this is the fundamental problem of free markets - somebody is going to win, and then they're not going to want to give up their top spot, using all sorts of barely-legal tactics to accomplish that goal.

Notice I said barely-legal - there lies the answer - the legal system. You're not going to fix dominant players abusing their power with anything but laws and culture that make it untenable to treat people like shit.

Now comes the kicker - who is going to make sure the law-makers and law-enforcers don't abuse their power? Where's your 'free software' solution to that dilemma?
What is running in parallel is just a heartbeat chain that doesn't do anything of what ETH1 does (no EVM).

It will be much longer than a year. 2-3, at best.
Because regulation is bad and therefore we have been left at the mercy of the invisible hand of the free market.

Even this recent spate of "deplatforming" events can't seem to sway (a certain subset of) the tech community towards the idea that some amount of regulation can be a good thing.
> WebHID is good for long tail devices, or handling more unusual features of specific device

And that’s exactly why it will never be widely used. I’m not saying that there isn’t a use-case for it, I’m saying that the article overstates the usefulness of this API.
word on the wall street bets street is that there are a couple of big whales that are long on gme,amc and they are trying to generate a squeeze. at this point in time it’s basically a battle of the trading bots with the whole world watching.
> Or, maybe they're lying to discourage more calls?

Is this something they are legally allowed to lie about?

If it is not, is this the sort of thing they can lie about anyway because unless an insider blabs no one would know, or is it one of those things that someone would be able to figure out from required SEC filing or other public records?
If only we can weaponize this collective power for shorting shitty companies that have caused irreparable damage to society and the world (O&G, Koch Industries).

Right now the power of shorting companies is held by "institutional" investors simply because of how much funds are controlled by a select group of people and thus can buy and manipulate the market.

I would die happy if I saw Exxon or BP go to zero.
There is no startup in the scaling phase that doesn’t have stuff that needs to be rewritten.

If your startup’s product is constantly iterating to find product market fit, it’s a fool’s errand to keep making sure everything is perfectly horizontally scalable in the first place. It’s very rare that the things you expect to be important early on actually are in the product that gets popular.

You’re absolutely right to change your mantra now that you’re scaling, but you were right to not do it early on. The difference between life an death in an early startup is quick iteration.
Hey, if anyone at Microsoft is lurking here, the custom cursor on this theme doesn’t[0] scale properly according to the user’s EoA setting in Windows 10.

I tried to reach out a few times last year to get someone to fix the affected API[1], or to tell me a suitable replacement so I could patch Blink and Gecko[2][3], and had no luck.

If you could look into this, and maybe let me know what to do or what is going on, I would be grateful. Thanks!

[0] Probably; I don’t run Windows so I don’t have an fully up-to-date version to check right now, but nobody told me it was fixed, so I assume it is still broken.

[1] `CreateIconIndirect`, when `fIcon = FALSE`.

[2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1609827

[3] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=104298...
I see the problem with steroids in sports. They are unhealthy and sports is a zero-sum game.

But what's the problem with manipulating people to be healthier, smarter and more attractive? Wouldn't that improve the world? Everyone benefits if humankind becomes less dumb.
The problem with puts is they can expire before this calms down. If you can get a short in and not get a margin call this is the opportunity of a lifetime. Only the biggest players dare risk it though.