skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
MakerDAO (aka oasis, dai system) is one of the coolest software project I've ever used, highly recommend anyone checking it out.

It's essentially a system of smart contracts and surrounding system which create a stablecoin pegged to the dollar (1DAI=1$) backed by crypto collateral.

One of the benefits of that is, you can access your crypto and use it without selling your position, which means you're not paying any capital gains taxes. There's a 4% stability fee with borrowing against your collateral (notice it's not an interest, it's a fee, which means many people who can't deal or don't want to pay/receive interest can actually use it). 4% is a drop in the bucket when you consider gains on your assets and a lack of capital gains tax.

p.s. I'm a long term BTC believer who always thought most of these projects were scam until I've actually started researching and trying to understand it.
> The abysmal mobile experience shoehorning you into using their low quality app is frustrating.

This has to be the number one complaint, been hearing it for literally years. Keep ignoring them, reddit. Someone like Discord will launch a web facing community app and eat your lunch soon!
It would be really great if Reddit starts to index words in the linked page.
I’m not discounting the pains that some people are going through because of this change, but this response [1] in the issue says

> The new Rust code adds exactly 0 (zero) runtime packages to Cryptography. Rust, Cargo, pyo3, its dependencies, and setuptools_rust are build-time dependencies only.

Aren’t there tools available to build this on a supported platform and integrate the binaries in the systems in use? It is a bit convoluted, but seems like a solution at least for some (?) cases at additional cost.

[1]: https://github.com/pyca/cryptography/issues/5771#issuecommen...
Cracking down on China’s shady shell companies
Reddit has sucked for years and it doesn’t make money. How anyone can see this funding round as anything but a Ponzi scheme is baffling.
Have you ever been involved with pepper spray? It’s generally terrible for self defense. An attacker isn’t instantly incapacitated — they are still deadly until the full effects of the spray kick in. In the Army, I was trained to keep operating even amongst tear gas. It is horrible, but a violent assailant, especially multiple violent assailants aren’t going to immediately drop to the ground or run away. Being trained and proficient with a firearm is a far better strategy than hoping the attacker happens to be downwind and hoping they aren’t on meth or other drugs that make them seemingly impervious to pepper spray.

Here is one example of why pepper spray is not ideal: https://mynbc15.com/news/local/mobile-woman-shot-after-peppe...

Had the lady shot the suspect, it’s unlikely that she would have been hurt.
Huh, anything skeptical of American media is borderline conspiracy these days.

After Weiss, Greenwald exposes, you still don't believe they're capable of colluding to stir division or drive certain narratives?
If toothbrushes were so great, Page would be in the toothbrush industry and their support models would be relevant.
Read this and the papers mentioned inside it to get an overview of the market:

https://messari.io/pdf/messari-report-crypto-theses-for-2021...

It might be worth it to get a pro subscription at messari.io or theblockcrypto.com for a saner alternative to crypto twitter and other news outlets.

The quickest way to learn is to actually use it. Make trades on uniswap, earn fees with a liquidity pool, get some sushis, stake them, etc. etc. Unfortunately these days eth gas fees are very expensive though and you will spend a lot of money in fees.

It's nice to read about the history how everything involved and get to know some of the characters behind. Two books i enjoyed:
- Bitcoin Billionaires - from the guy who wrote that book from the facebook movie
- Out of Ether, how Ethereum got started
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The interface to use MakerDAO (one of the defi projects mentioned) is a lot more straightforward than any bank I've ever used or had to deal with. Sure there are more complicated defi projects, but over time:
a) they get more user-friendly,
b) users become more educated.
User data my dude. All of that unfiltered data, and conversations are gold in the data mining age.
Why isn't there an email provider that allows you to 1) whitelist the content and 2) manually register the to and from addresses and 3) specify how many emails you estimate you will be sending?

At first glance, #1 seems tricky. But, I could see this as an opportunity to bring my users back to the site by providing very specific content teasers.

#2 feels possible in certain circumstances. If you can register the addresses when the user registers, you could avoid problems like changing addresses.

#3 seems like it would be problematic for the email provider who probably doesn't want to build a feature that reduces the ability to bill you. But I would pay for it.

If you had all this, couldn't this prevent the problems described here and incentivize the spammers to find a different, easier target?
I dated 4 Jennifer's in a row and at the same time had 2 close friends named...Jennifer. I had to give them nicknames for anyone to tell who I was talking about.
Unreal.

If the so-called watchmen of the “MSM” even for a second tired to meet the standards in their own writing that they hold for others, they’d be crushed. This goes triple for the biased “journalist” in the OP.

It’s so gross to see someone like this snipe and cherry pick examples from the vast,
vast media system, and then have otherwise smart people take the bait because thinking it’s some enlightened, contrarian position.

It’s just a way to sell ads to the “ackshyually...” crowd.
hi user FriendlyNormie, I can't reply to you directly since you are banned, but I am really curious as to how you are still able to post despite being banned
Illegally feeding the needy could well get your certifications to produce food revoked. Food is highly regulated, and by more agencies than I would have guessed. Food and Drug Administration, US Department of Agriculture (meat and eggs), plus various state agencies.

Rather than going to a landfill, they may have been delivered to a farm as food for pigs, but I imagine opening hundreds of thousands of boxes wouldn't be economically viable.

I work in food manufacturing. The opinions are my own and do not represent my employer.
I agree. Simply running Facebook ads on subreddits must be worth it.
This is probably because in the beginning they want publicity.
The person could have lost a password. Been at a different machine. Works for reddit. First time poster / long time reader. Some people have been on this site so long they just like to play a game where they try to get to 500 karma as fast as possible. Then they start over and try to beat previous best time.
For comparison, at its peak last month, GameStop was worth $33.6B.
That’s pretty cool! I’m going along in the same vein. I know my median guess was taken first so I can’t actually win but I just wanted to see how close I could get out of curiosity.

I am surprised the median was an accurate estimator in your case but I suppose it makes sense if you are not close to the bound of zero (I.e. it start approximating a normal distribution)
And I thought time libraries were a mess already...
>Until then, Hwang explained, the national discussion about race relations had centered on Black and white Americans

Huh, weird that they capitalize Black and not White.
In many ways, the future is here, there are billions of dollars locked in these defi projects, I'd say now it's more about adoption and user education.
So consider your hydroxychloroquine example again this way;

Nobody has ever searched for hydroxychloroquine before today. Today is the day the word is hypothetically invented. Today 2 million people will search for hydroxychloroquine. But only one of them was the first to do it.

What I know about pop-culture and viral internet culture is telling me that 15% of 1 trillion searches being unique is shady math.

So I am not fully convinced that the 15% claim is completely transparent.
2^28 bytes / 256 MB / CSMB (#1) is the size of current SMR spinning rust drives. The flash zone size used in more modern consoles (E.G. PS5 / Xbox whatever) might similarly be 128 MB / CSMB.

#1 (256 Computer Science Mega Bytes) is the size of the minimum write zone for 'zoned storage' according to the Wikipedia page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shingled_magnetic_recording#Pr...

Edit + Update: I recalled incorrectly, 128 CSMB "Sony's patent proposes going way beyond 32kB chunks to using 128MB chunks for the FTL" https://www.anandtech.com/show/15848/storage-matters-xbox-ps...
Speaking of lego bricks, and I haven't used it yet myself, but https://furucombo.app/ looks really interesting!
This will change the way you read news
> always thought most of these projects were scam until I've actually started researching and trying to understand it.

Unfortunately these seems to be the case for most people. What have you this notion that it's all a scam? What it news pundits? Twitter/Reddit threads?
"What about when people DON'T want to live in a jurisdiction?"

Then the Big Man with the most guns and the heaviest mates becomes the jurisdiction. And you don't get to vote for him.

Because when it boils down to it human beings are just Strategically Shaved Chimps.
Reddit is an intentionally designed dopamine machine with some areas of usefulness. There are pockets of great, high signal communities on Reddit that have not been unbundled. Discovery, however, is a mess.

Some examples of some great subs:

- HomeImprorvement is great for repair advice

- Keto was helpful in my weight loss journey

- Posture for, well, fixing my posture

I've also bought and sold various digital and physical goods through HardwareSwap, GameSale, SteamGameSwap, and others. One of Reddit's strengths is being able to tie a username to a post history across many interests, which has given me enough confidence signals in buying and selling things on there. I'm sure fraud happens, but I have personally not (yet) been affected by it when transacting on the platform.

But the main, core "Reddit experience" as algorithmically produced by r/Popular is a complete dumpster fire. It's the noise of the entire internet, jam packed into a webpage. So many low quality posts and comments that encapsulate all the negatives about "internet culture". There's no room for thoughtful discussion and discourse on the majority of the site, just shitposting and low rung commentary.

Because of that, having a productive/net positive Reddit experience comes with a high barrier to entry in knowing which communities to pay attention to and which time sinks to avoid.
> Chinese immigrants are often the ones first moving into and then buying out people in black neighborhoods.

My mistake, I took this for a confession. I'll admit I got angrier with you than I should have when you said you were "buying a gun". I took that as a threat of violence, and that is what I responded to.

It's not "Asians" I should be angry with, nor even "Immigrants" since, as you say, many flee violence and persecution to come here. My ancestors certainly did. It would be hypocritical of me to now want to draw up the ladder, and for that reason I fully support illegal immigration, and asylum-seeking immigration.

That being said, even being permitted to "scrounge up money for a down payment" when Black and Latino families have been kept unable to is unconscionable, in my thinking.

I know several H1-B holding Asian immigrants who are, in this decade, buying up real-estate that Black & Latino locals will never be able to afford. I have friends and coworkers on both sides of this arrangement, and it's really sickening to see. Can't you understand that?
Maybe in pre-2019 valuations. If anything it’s too cheap now. Probably worth 5-10 times if this was a public company.
I've been in crypto since 2014 and was here for 2017 when all ICOs that did absolutely nothing were being pumped and dumped, so I wrote off ether for a few years until defi kept creeping up in my news couple times.

I think there's still lots of scams out there, but the big projects like Maker, uniswap, compound, etc, have made me change my mind.
What evidence do we actually have that this was a hack and not maybe an accident or an inside job?

It sounds really suspicious that the hack took the form of some sort of remote control which was evident to the actual operator who was present there. At the same time there was an actual operator, who wasn’t even suspicious the first time because apparently remote control was common by the supervisors.

I think there’s a good chance we’re gonna find that either the operator, or one of the remote controllers accidentally, or maliciously, made this change, and blamed it on a “hack”.
Thank you for your ableist dismissal.
For this to be true, then it must be true that trial-run promotions very frequently fail, so they keep the person in the role they perform best in. I think that's not the case. I think trial-run promotions lead to promotions about equally as often as no-trial-run promotions.

The same people end up at the same end rank, they just take lower pay for a year to get there. And that one year drag compounds because raises are %.

Anyway we're likely disagreeing in an entirely vague way. Of course my leadership skills should be evident if I'm going to ask to be Lead, so yes day1 leads aren't starting from 0. But a company's surest bet for who to hire as Lead is me, so why should I put up with them telling me they just aren't sure yet? All hires into new roles are very uncertain, and I'm the most certain, so I get the role. Someone more certain than me is a person with 2yrs of Lead on their resume, but they get Lead 3 pay, and I'm not asking for Lead 3 pay. You're hiring a Lead 1 and I'm sure surest bet (inside the org or out) and we all know it.

Or go ahead whisper promises of a promotion in the ears of two on my team and watch them butt heads as they try to act out the phantom authority you've given them. A politicking horserace like that has a vastly worse impact on the company than just pulling the trigger and naming one of us Lead 1 even if we're obvious greenboots for a year.
A lot of moderation trouble and not really a direct competitor to one of their products in the way WhatsApp threatened Messenger. Much higher risk of users abandoning the platform too due to weaker network effects.
What feels like a big missed opportunity for Reddit is having a front-page without the low-quality subreddits. People often say to just never visit /r/popular because of all the garbage, but it's unfortunately the only way to discover subreddits when you’re not looking for anything in particular. Sure, if you know what you're looking for, it's pretty easy to find the appropriate subreddit. But if you just want to wander around, you have to sift through the terrible crap that shows up on /r/popular.

I'd love it if there was something that helped filter this content automatically. Currently I keep manually blocking these subreddits, which was a lot of work at first (my block list is currently ~200) but it's helped a lot.

I'm trying to solve this for myself actually by starting with filtering low-quality comments on Reddit and HN. I made a Chrome extension that helps me label comments as I read and stores them in Google Sheets. Then I use those labeled comments to train a custom NLP model that can categorize comments (good or bad, hide the comment if it's bad). So far, I'm spending most of my time trying to build a good dataset for my tastes. It's not too bad so far (~80-90% accuracy).
This is pretty depressing unless you can elaborate on your take.

Yes, the system is stacked against the poor, but there are people fighting that. If they are fighting and failing then we need to know why.

If they aren’t fighting at all then (in part, but it’s still a significant part I’m afraid) it’s because of attitudes like this.
(2018), and this doesn't work in Illinois because of their anti-biometrics law: https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-google-art-se...

I assume this is more of Google not wanting to put the effort into researching and complying with the law for a one-off arts and culture project, sort of like how the website for Mom & Pops deli in upstate NY started banning European visitors because of fear/misunderstanding of the GDPR.
If you’re just commenting in order to stir up trouble, please leave.
Pixel Art and the Hardcopy
from @pinot
of course there is a timelapse video too https://twitter.com/pinot/status/1051956971207872512
I don't see why these challenges are attempting to find a solution that captures greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. The concentration is so low, that to process large amounts of CO2, the amounts of energy required to blow the air through a system would be insane. Why can't we just plant more trees and focus on reducing greenhouse gas emissions (transportation and energy production).

its like trying to bail water out of the sinking ship using a cup instead of fixing a breach
My current internet samsara cycle is Reddit, HN and Twitter. I truly feel like there are hooks in my brain that compel me to mindlessly browse these three sites over and over again. The better I get at them, and the more positive feedback my comments get, the deeper the hooks go in.
Central bankers can't do the job because that is about putting debt millstones around people's neck rather than income in people's pockets.

Central bankers are unelected wonks with no more idea about what is happening than the politicians. The cult of central bankers has become a religion.

It's like putting your faith in the pope rather than Henry the Eighth.
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When P&G ships to Walmart, P&G doesn't get paid for ~6 months -- Lockstep bridges that gap so that companies can invest in the things that help them grow their business. Even more interesting is the fact that we tie a monetary incentive to sustainable supply chain practices (i.e. the greener the shipment, the better your interest rate)

Read: we're saving the planet by making the global supply chain a more more sustainable thing through $$$.

Our web stack is Ruby on Rails + react - data stack is python/pytorch. We get a shitload of data tracking every boat in the water (among other datasets).

We're looking for support taking our product to the next level on all fronts (engineering, data, sales, marketing, operations, etc)

Reach out to hello+hn@lockstep.ai if you want to help save the planet with us.
It would take quite a bit time, but with enough dedication, it's not that difficult. The books: Mastering Bitcoin and Mastering Ethereum (although ethereum one is a bit outdated now) cover a lot of it pretty nicely and you can find them for free on github.
Restoring forests and topsoil through economic incentives that change farming practices is what actually might make a difference here. But that's obviously not the techno-fix Musk is looking for. Sigh.
This one is mine.

https://viewer.legacysurvey.org/?ra=264.9876&dec=74.0333&lay...
> what I find awesome about reddit is its ability to connect people and really have group conversations on almost anything

I see Reddit at its best in niche subreddits but it is far from a place to have conversations on almost anything. The site as a whole as well as most of the biggest subs have banned various topics or lines of discussion in a bid to align to progressive left political views.
A Beginner's Guide to NFTs
And scaling. Transaction fees have gotten insane lately, scaling solutions cannot come soon enough.
Well, we have the sufficiently magical kernel function from the gradient descent process -- seems like we could save a lot of computation by extracting out that function and running it as an SVM rather than holding it independent.
Hmm, I would say that cars and computers are pretty different in that a computer is a programmable machine. A car can only do one thing; a computer can do many things. If you don't know how to program, you are confined to using only those programs that others have written for you. In some sense you cannot realize the potential of the machine without this ability.
Originally it probably just sounded like a cool feature to see what blog linked to you. Now its been around for so long that so much has been programmed to actually use it. If you turn it off you get every anti bot script blowing up on you.

I think browsers did drop the path from it at least.
if anyone can sell these as "refurbished" boards, i would like to buy a few like that recent guy who bought like 200 Rpis and fixed them and sold them for charity. it would be a good thing to bring these old devices out of the trashcan
What's the path from random 500 for hours from a services and decision to give them more money? That seems backwards.
r/all is cancer, Reddit is not.
I think this is a massive win for Mozilla, which may end up having a longer and larger impact on the world than Firefox.

Having "control" over Rust didn't ever seem like Mozilla's goal (nor in its interests), so the trajectory of the language since 1.0, its healthy and energetic community, and the founding members of the independent Rust Foundation is a huge achievement.

Thanks to Mozilla for incubating a long shot project.
My personal experience is that I have been having a hell of time finding bucatini. I live the in the East Bay. I once went to 5 grocery stores (Berkeley Bowl, Monterrey Market, Safeway, Andronicos, and local italian market) all of which had NO bucatini.

I just thought it had gone out of fashion and no one was stocking it. This article was very enlightening.
I am just pointing out that there is a range of people trying to absolve themselves of responsibility, and I am not clear what leads folks to conclude that 18-year are the problem.

When COVID/2008 hits the fan, its the young people on zero hour contract that loose their income first, landlords might loose some, and banks loose least.

If anything our system is setup so that the higher you are, the less consequences you face. I believe this is the new phenomenon and its not helped by 'kids these days, back in my day...'.
It isn’t just Asian immigrants buying up real estate. It seems to be a widespread practice in tech irrespective of race.
This is an anecdote.
I suspect you do not really need this explained, but: easy mode doesn't mean you win, it means it's easier to win.
What are the best practices for sourcing passive candidates?
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While not official, there is at least one or two Amazonians working on https://github.com/rusoto/rusoto which is a pretty great Rust AWS SDK.
My plan has always been to use Dvorak left or right in the case of an injury.

At one point I wondered if it would be worthwhile to learn for playing video games but never bothered.
Ethereum seems to have the best network effects, developer community and actual capital running on it. If eth2 succeeds, it would probably be the winner, but there are lots of challengers, like polkadot.

You might get yourself some BTC (as a reserve asset for defi), some ETH (as the oil or the machinery which makes the smart contracts go around) and maybe some DOT in case eth2 fails and dot delivers.

p.s. personal opinions, not responsible for losses, etc etc.
I don't think it really matters - they intentionally leave no ways of getting to a human or even getting to a system that can help.