skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The largest chunk of savings (~85%!) is from Card Account Updater, which many payment processors offer. In some ways that says more about the B in the A/B test than it does about Stripe.
A combination of advances in nutrition, training programs, technology and, unfortunately, performance enhancing drugs. This last point is contentious but make no mistake: PEDs are ahead of detection capabilities. I think that at this point any elite athlete _not_ on PEDs is doomed to fall behind.
Strapping a giant teddy bear to a car in the name of highway safety
beautiful site. but this notion, that covid-19 came from bats is tricky. origin tracing a virus is tricky, specially one year too late. and the wuhan wet market didn't house bats. origins of covid-19 could be from anything whether the virus leaked from a lab, due to lax security policies. some other carrier animal or human we will never figure out etc.
I think the issue isn't that they're spending money on an order in the moment, it's an auto-renewing subscription that users may not even remember about.
I guess it depends on how often you plan to change jobs. I don't like the idea, and kind of hate the concept of gatekeeping, BUT at this point, I'd be willing to go pass a single "programming bar exam" if it meant I would not have to grind for months before every. damn. time. I. job. hunt.
When you buy a painting you have genuine rights to the physical object. When you buy an NFT you have genuine rights to the NFT but usually none to the linked item. When you buy digital art more normally you’re essentially licensing use of it within a specified context. As you do with other IP. In theory you could do that with NFTs I think but in practice it doesn’t seem to be the case.
A certain unprintable Redditor with initials DFV?
When’s autohotkey going to IPO?

Should be worth about $10b.

A lot of complexity is from buying a general purpose system (e.g. ERP software) to do a handful of specific workflows. 99% of cognitive effort is tip-toeing around all of the unused functionality minefields.

But we can’t blame our $100m or whatever ERP « investment » that makes staff slow and error-prone. It’s the human’s fault.
See the novel Tau Zero by Poul Anderson. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tau_Zero
If possible (they won't always accommodate) ask the desk clerk at your hotel (assuming they're a local, not always the case especially at hostels) what they eat for breakfast/lunch and where you can get that. After a terrible "English breakfast" of undercooked bacon & burned sausage at a tourist restaurant in a small Indian tourist town, I asked the fellow manning the small hotel what he had for breakfast and where I could get it. None of the tourist places served pav bhaji (or "baji pao" as I'd understood him to call it) but when I found the little hole-in-the-wall place he directed me to I was rewarded with a new experience, a dish I hadn't tried before, and one I really enjoyed and continued eating for breakfast during the remainder of my short stay.

It can take some doing in some places to convince people that you (in my case a Westerner) really are interested in their food, culture, etc.. Learning a bit of the language can help. I was happy to be able to memorize "ek paav bhaajee aur ek samosa aur chaay chaahie" and order for myself in Hindi, hoping that if there were any complications the server would speak English as that's as far as I could go. But people appreciate that a lot, even just learning "my name is, what's your name, how are you" etc.

When I said "my name is sequoia, what is your name" to a taxi driver they would sometimes say "You speak hindi?!" incredulously, to which I'd reply "well I wouldn't go that far..."
Why is stripe doing fraud detection, when someone like Visa or MasterCard would have far more data and be able to offer much better fraud detection?
I wish I could accept the article's belief that this is something that "the Internet" can fix. Or that if things had been just slightly different ~30 years ago, all of this could have been avoided. I wish I could follow their line from what de Tocqueville saw, of happy communities, to a better 2020s.

Unfortunately, I don't see it. The grievance culture that I believe is at the root of it goes back long before the Internet, by decades if not centuries. The Internet could not have redirected it. It would have been swamped by it, regardless of its architecture.

The kinds of shifts they're talking about are easily coopted to feed the grievance culture. People booted out from the monolith complain bitterly, and use it as proof that their grievance is justified. Eliminate the monolith and you'd create silos for people to nurse their grievance in -- and then go seek out the other silos to poison. Until they were removed, at which point they'd head back to have their grievance reassured and topped up.

The Internet didn't create that. It may date right back to de Tocqueville, who politely only applauded us for our positive attributes.

I'd love to believe that the Internet can fix it, but I am doubtful. I don't think any algorithms can overcome divides when there is so much content produced to exacerbate them. And when people are already so invested in the latter as to deliberately ignore the former.
Why did the guy behind Bitcoin disappear?
Film of Boeing 727 rocket-assisted take-off (2013)
Interesting, maybe they have a referral program so now some spammer is masquerading as the real thing to earn some affiliate money?
> In particular, don't put "close this window" on control-W and "quit this application" on control-Q. I'm looking at you, Firefox.

Or MacOS.

I disagree with this one almost entirely though. Keyboard shortcuts are for power users. Memorizing easy key combos for common tasks is the whole point, and they’re designed for touch-typists. There is a semantic reason behind mapping ctrl-q to “quit” and ctrl-w to “close window”. They use different fingers, and they are both used from “home position,” I.e. it’s not a hand shift and ring finger reach like ctrl-tab vs ctrl-~ is. That’s a better example of bad mapping IMO.

Good design should prevent you from closing a window or application that has unsaved changes without a confirmation dialog. Good design should make it easy to restore your last “saved” state for both, e.g. Chrome’s ctrl-shift-w to reopen closed tabs, and most browsers’ “reload all open tabs/windows on launch.”
This is a great article about certification testing and why it might not be a great idea. He points out that certs generally test for the previous methods and processes and fail to account for evolution of them. I completely agree with him in that I don't value these type of certifications much anymore. In fact, you could say that I de-value them; the more time you've spent trying to prove that you know something, the less time you've actually spent doing that thing.
Interesting to hear.

What are the blockers?

Feel like this would be very much for people who are happy with both / either.
since I can't edit the comment anymore by "bus voltage conversion" I meant signal level conversion.
I would worry it wouldn’t be steady enough to make money, so I would lose out compared to renting a room out. I would have to require them to clean up after themselves too, and vet them like renters so I would feel safe with them in my home
Arguably, if external (not comment-based) documentation is important, it would make sense to hire a technical writer whose sole job is to ask questions about the codebase and maintain proper documentation.
How would you define "intrinsic value"? This would imply that things have value whether or not humans agree they have value. Money itself should not have any value from utility other than being money.

> It doesn’t seem to have a path towards becoming a global medium of exchange

Money is layered. The Fedwire is not a global medium of exchange, nor was gold. But as the base layer that scales with solutions like the Lightning Network and others, Bitcoin has the obscene advantage of being digital, decentralized, and salable across space and time.

All value is inherently speculative - you likely speculate that your fiat savings won't inflate away rapidly. What is being speculated upon is that Bitcoin is an improvement upon the monetary system.
And if someone intercepts the shoe in transit and replaces it with a counterfeit, how does the token notice?

Nike could just publish a public key in an SEC filing and you could use that to verify that you're actually talking to the company. That would be exactly as good and much simpler.
Don't forget recutils.

https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/manual/A-Little-Exampl...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recfiles
Actions speak louder than words. This happens as a direct result of HN's design, which has downvotes and which downvotes are designed to suppress comments. This has never changed as far as I know, hence they do not care about this pattern of behaviour. And yes, I am aware that we are not to discuss the voting of comments. It may have been OK before when the community was smaller and more mature, but now it's a real turn off and so I think it's fair to bring it up.

In his reply above dang also refers to "flamewars" and "flamewar commments", which is a disappointing generalisation, not far from victim blaming because all and any comments and users are targeted simply for putting forward a different point of view.
Sigh. If any of the downvoters knew how well connected parent commenter is (as in, has had years of extensive and direct communications with) basically everyone of note in crypto, Buterin included. Many of these discussions are published, as well. He's choosing to use a handle here on HN so I'll just leave it at that.

This perspective is blunt, but correct. Crypto is successful primarily by virtue of its unregulated rube goldberg casino revenue model, with just enough of a plausible tech veneer to allow people to rationalize behavior otherwise indistinguishable from naked gambling.

Crypto does not solve the centralization of leverage over liquidity (and thus the ability of a few to manipulate the wealth of many), which is the sole centralization "problem" that matters to the vast majority of people who would use it.

Take away the Potemkin decentralization apparatus known as a blockchain (the premise of which holds that The State and its central bank minions are the only centralizing agents capable of public harm) and you are left with plain old unsexy digital currency.
Legacy of Computers by Gerry Sussman
Glad you liked what you saw!

Yes there is syntax reserved for backtracking constructs. It all starts with !! so you can audit it.

https://www.oilshell.org/release/0.8.7/doc/eggex.html#backtr...

So I think your example would be something like:

var pat = / 'my_fn(LIBNAME MyLib VERSION '
dot*
!!AHEAD(' REQUIRED)')
/

(since we translate only to ERE at the moment this isn't implemented, but space is reserved in the language)

Not sure what \K is offhand. Oh that's to replace the whole thing?

Can you just use 2 groups, like this?

var pat = / <'my_fn(LIBNAME Mylib VERSION '>
dot*
<' REQUIRED)'>
/

Then you replace it with '$1 ^1.2.3 $2' essentially.

I forget if sed has submatches. I know it has the weird & for $0.

But if not then you can use eggex with perl -pie. You can use either the lookahead style (in theory), or the submatch style (already supported).

Let me know if that doesn't make sense... I think this is a good example to work through the APIs
I hate writing documentation, really appreciate reading great documentation, and hate reading ok or marginal documentation.

My current approach is just to read source only for docs so whatever is in the readme.md and the source files is good enough if a project doesn’t have someone smart who’s into documentation.

And then like “meta docs” generated from markdown in git that links to logs of projects.

Most of the stuff I work on is internal only and even paid people seem to have bad docs as well.

Source + markdown is good enough and seems to attract more internal edits so at least material is more likely to be correct.

Any other scheme seems to fail based on the size of the group so I don’t bother trying to make a specific structure other than “use your judgement, make code readable, make sure any design work not in code is in markdown in the same repo.”
Dropbox keeps it synced, that is its function. I simlink from ~/.emacs.d into Dropox. Its fairly seamless, you change it in one machine and it just pops up in the other.
Yeah lol I agree. But I thought I might be dumb.

Someone I follow who is always right is big on them. Their argument is that people buy expensive and rare shit just to have it and project superiority.

Thus “owning” the HD Clíp of Lebron slam dunking is like cred they are willing to pay USD for.
This "life hack", just like doing chargebacks to your gym because it's easier than calling them, isn't valid. Your complaint is an extreme example of https://www.xkcd.com/1172/
> Another common problem in caching is the "thundering herd".

> you have a fleet of web nodes going at full bore, and the cache expires. If the data takes 10 seconds to compute, then for the whole next 10 seconds, every new request will find the data missing from the cache since it has expired and not yet been replaced, and so each of those requests will take on the expensive and redundant work of repopulating that data.

Wait, is the problem that as soon as the cache entry expires everyone requests the new data all at once, overwhelming the backend ("thundering herd"), or is it that requests follow whatever the normal pattern is but the backend doesn't know how to queue them?
Wonder if annoying housemates would be evaded by peer rating systems.

i.e. people who left a mess / required lots of cleaning would get a low rating and thereafter struggle to use the platform.
>> the initial sale of stock raised the money that let the company buy the tools

Maybe in the movies. Modern IPOs rarely work that way. Some companies take the money and do things, but the norm is that IPO money goes to existing shareholders (founder et al) and the company continues as before. If the money is enough, the founders disappear into ultra-rich-person nirvana, or go on to found other projects, and the new shareholder-elected board heads the company.

A modern shareholder could not care less about future profits. All they care about is deltas on future stock price, whether the price moves up or down. Their profits come when they hand their shared to someone else. Whether the company turns any profits is beside the point.
Designer PEDs. Probably importantly, increased global prosperity, more genetic variations are competing now. Last 10 years has been crazy for powerlifting records due to broader particapation.
WSB is straight-up crazy town. Granted, you can win money in crazy town. And one can stumble across an interesting idea or two. But it's still fucking crazy town.
Rolls-Royce Gets One Step Closer to the Fastest Electric Plane
Read the Best 100 Books over and over Again
The training, equipment etc improvements themselves follow population. More natural and designed experiments, more alternatives available, more accumulated know-how and theory.

But any given combination of factors is itself part of the athletic trial. The Soviet Russian system of weightlifting carefully husbanded the outstanding weightlifters they had to work with and so selected for athletes who responded well to that training. The Bulgarian system was based on masses of warm bodies, enormous drug regimens and ruthless elimination upon injury. It selected for athletes who responded well to drugs and weren't injury prone. Afficionados of the sport argue constantly about which is "better", since both turned out world record upon world record. But such a debate was beside the point: an athletic system selects whatever it is set up to select for. The rest of the effect is then down to numbers.
Well, for one, I think a lot of existing systems have the assumption that "this place is UTC-8 except for in this special case" and not the other way around. Also, the UTC-5 zone in North America (for instance) aligns geographically with the band of the Earth you'd get if you split it into 24 equal zones and went 5 back from Greenwich. If you went to permanent DST the bounds would all be shifted by 15 degrees of longitude.
> The Reddit belief is short squeeze. That there are fewer shares available than people (hedge funds) have shorted. Thus if price goes up, they have to buy to cover, pushing price up even more, and the cycle continues. Until it bursts at some point (not really talked about).

The problem is that Reddit is full of morons, who don't understand a single thing about short sales.

When a stock is 150% shorted, there exist 250% shares of stock. That's because for every short sale, a new long position is created.

It is impossible for there to be more short positions, than there are long positions. [1]

Now, if[2], say 150% of the shares are held by buy-and-forget investors, who won't sell, regardless of where the price goes, a short squeeze is possible (Because there are fewer shares being actively traded, than there are short positions open.)

The thing is, when GME goes to some ridiculous valuation like $300, some of those buy-and-forget investors may be inclined to take their money, and sell. Any half-actively managed fund would be crazy not to.

Are short sellers getting margin-called applying upwards price pressure? Yes. Is that the only source of upwards price pressure? No, there's also a mountain of people with either FOMO, or the hope to unload the stock to a bigger fool. This is rational, in the same sense that investing early into a bubble, or a pyramid scheme is rational.

[1] Unless you do a naked short sell[3]. Reddit screams about illegal naked short selling, without offering a shred of proof, because it doesn't understand the concept mentioned in the paragraph above.

[2] Reddit also has no proof that this is the case, it's just a tribe of apes screaming 'hodl' at eachother.

[3] The only people who naked short sell are market makers, who are incredibly risk averse, and balance their positions out on a regular basis. Hedge funds aren't market makers, and aren't allowed to naked short sell.
Sure, but likewise that's because they're in the UK.

It's not so clear that the sale or performance is in the US if it happens online.

If a band live streams a concert from a server in the UK and someone in America watches, ... I don't think it's so clear.
My friends realized there is money to be made here, but I think the thing I realized is how time consuming it is. You really have to be on the prices all day.

I am squarely of the belief that all of this fun and games will probably end shortly after people start going out and doing things again.
I have Ubuntu 20 and sometimes switch between "Ubuntu" and "Ubuntu on Wayland" and can't tell any speed difference.
You can transact Bitcoin on the Lightning Network for near-0 cost. Scarcity is arguably the most desirable property of money since it ensures the store of value property. That's why gold was chosen over other precious metals. Bitcoin is a significant upgrade to the dollar.

Try sending $1B from the U.S. to Europe and compare transaction time and costs vs. BTC.
He did quit, there should not be shame in quitting, but he did quit. Others have the same difficulties as him, they don't quit, nor they achieved anything, that is the risk. Now he makes money in Wall Street. By his standards, he hasn't achieve anything yet, nor will ever, other than procuring for his family, which is not a small thing! But his dreams were about "The Grail", if they still are, then he quit. He quit a path that would most likely left him in the dust, but that it was the only path that could have possibly taken him to "The Grail", the current path won't take him anywhere near it. So unless he is able to change the narrative of his own life, he will forever be a failure, independently of how much money he can make in the trading floor.
Article's summary of what this means for webdevs:

1. Decide when (not!) to respond to requests by examining incoming headers, paying special attention to the Origin header on the one hand, and various Sec-Fetch- prefixed headers on the other, as described in [resource-isolation-policy].

2. Restrict attackers' ability to load your data as a subresource by setting a cross-origin resource policy (CORP) of same-origin (opening up to same-site or cross-origin only when necessary).

3. Restrict attackers' ability to frame your data as a document by opt-ing into framing protections via X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN or CSP’s more granular frame-ancestors directive (frame-ancestors 'self' https://trusted.embedder, for example).

4. Restrict attackers' ability to obtain a handle to your window by setting a cross-origin opener policy (COOP). In the best case, you can default to a restrictive same-origin value, opening up to same-origin-allow-popups or unsafe-none only if necessary.

5. Prevent MIME-type confusion attacks and increase the robustness of passive defenses like cross-origin read blocking (CORB) / opaque response blocking ([ORB]) by setting correct Content-Type headers, and globally asserting X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff.
How can you mandate that DRM be licensed to clients that can't or won't actually enforce it? That would be mandatory support for copyright violations.
Sorry, what’s Slab? I couldn’t figure it out by googling “slab source.”
One of my favourite (and simultaneously most depressing) documentaries, Icarus, leaves no doubt professional sport is riddled with it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icarus_(2017_film)
Fair distinction. There's a kind of unwritten understanding of what programs should and shouldn't do based on isatty, and I've never seen it explicitly documented.

Things many programs do if attached to a TTY: add color, add progress bars and similar uses of erase-and-redisplay, add/modify whitespace characters for readability, refuse to print raw binary, etc.

Things some programs do, which can be problematic: prompt interactively when they're otherwise non-interactive.

Things no program does or should do: change command-line processing, semantic behavior, or similar.
This is interesting feedback.

Even a kitchen table could be interesting for people without plausible alternatives.

Alternatively, if you go to work in the day, you could rent out any spare desk space that you would otherwise use if you were at home.
I'm glad that people are pursuing end-of-pipe solutions as well. For a long time (at least by my understanding), they've been considered verboten by environmental groups, but I think there are all sorts of sensible uses cases.

Good luck to you!
They're not meant for physical items. Never really understood that tokenized real estate thing
I'm guessing your puts will be ITM but you'll get raked over the coals with volatility going way way way down. Good luck
Also in governance! Lot of research is now financed directly by grants from the Ethereum Foundation! That’s a game changer for researchers. I know a few people who were able to get grants for their research projects, without the need to pass by the traditional academics system (I mean, they are academics but didn’t have to play the usual academics politics game to be funded).
The most commonly accepted definition of money is:
(1) Store of value.
(2) Medium of Exchange.
(3) Unit of account.
This is specified in the article.
Did you reply to the right comment? Professional sport is riddled with... pacing lights?
This happened to me as well. I am so glad I had a copy of my CV with me that I could hand over.

The recruiter had copy and pasted from my perfectly formatted LaTeX typeset resume and changed what I did and when. They were looking for someone to help them migrate from one system to another and I didn't have experience in the first to help with that.