skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cryptos is about separating governments and currencies, not about fixing what is wrong with governments (an impossibility if there ever was one).

Just like church and state haven been separated in most civilized places, there is absolutely no reason to allow governments to manage or control the means to exchange value between economic entities.

If you need proof of that last assertion, all it takes is looking at the history of currency in the last 2000 years, starting with the Romans.

Governments can never resist the appeal of the infinite money faucet.

Every single mistake they make, every single problem they face, can seemingly be fixed short term by opening the faucet a little wider.

Until it all goes to shit, of course.

The story of currency debasement leading to societal collapse is as old as money and has repeated itself countless times over the course of history.

Cryptos take the sharp tool out of the hand of the retarded child.

It's certainly not fixing the fact that the child is retarded, and he can and will certainly find other ways to cut himself, but at least not with that particular tool.
Well mix was a no go for me for a few technical reasons:

* No multihost support, I want to share / between many hosts, nixos ideas support this but the implementation doesn't (and no I don't want to just share the nixstore)

* No package security, ideally package deps chains should have a per user/group created which won't allow broken programs from rm -rf / or worse.

* Nixos treats a filesystem as an object store, this goes against how most Unix tooling works (e.g how many Unix tools take a s3 obj?)

Things that might be incorrect on my part:

* No config validation, minor and hard though it would be nice if nixos had config validation.

* Single hash for store objects(?), it would be nice to use something like TLSH, etc in addition to a crypto hash
Again, incorrect in every way.

> There's no such thing as passive income; there's only delayed income.

Wrong. If you have $500k in assets, that yields an average of $35k/year, market average over interest. You get paid money for already having money. This is not additional work. This is additional money as a result of having money.

> Some people work hard (on their career - not necessarily at their current job!), others take it easy. Both are valid options, but there will be consequences for the respective groups (both good and bad).

The difficulty of work is absolutely unrelated to the amount paid. Many low wage jobs, such as customer service, landscaping, or meat packing are absolutely ruinous on one's physical and mental health. They are high effort, and low pay. Other jobs are low effort and high income.

Edit: For comparison, Jeff Bezos is 57 years old, and has $192.5 billion. If he were working 24/7 throughout his entire life, that comes out to $107/second. That is 53,140 times the minimum wage. There is no humanly possible amount of effort that is 50 thousand times harder than a minimum wage job.

> If you're against inherited wealth, I expect you to leave none to your own children.

Complete non sequitur. Inherited wealth is an example of how money, time, and effort are absolutely uncorrelated.

Following up on that non sequitur, though, there must be limitations to inherited wealth such that society doesn't separate into a landed gentry. You are also ignoring the middle ground between being against a generational aristocracy and forbidding inherited wealth altogether, such as an estate tax. Even if somebody is morally against inherited wealth, it is not inconsistent to still give wealth to their children, such that they can use it to lobby against inherited wealth. It's the same reason why I donate money to groups pushing for economic and tax reform, rather than deliberately paying more than the current tax rate. I still spend what I consider to be my fair share supporting society that way, and it goes toward making sure that others do as well.
From what I remember from LOTS of movies from the 80s, UFOs where always after the US military because they have stolen some advanced tech (their ship / engines to get back home), or because they have alien prisoners.

just saying
Not exactly random access, but things like finding the last character, trimming trailing whitespace, etc. are all less efficient with linked lists because you have to copy the head of the list to change the tail.

As far as UTF-8 goes, it does add a whole layer of complexity that I had overlooked: although, I suspect intelligent data structure choices could mitigate the random access cost (something like an array of bytes plus an array of grapheme cluster offsets, or similar).

I personally have never found the memory locality concerns relevant to the vast majority of programs I write: when using a language like Python or Ruby or Haskell, you already have a lot of pointer chasing going on because of your non-string data structures such that the memory locality of strings is nearly irrelevant.
Yeah, I know it's always an arms race, but the trick is to always give them something they weren't anticipating that's hard to deal with in code. There are always methods that would alert a human to something odd going on that don't alert the bot's methods for perceiving its surroundings.

One of the best tricks is to show them messages via a method outside of normal chat which a normal player would see on their screen, but which a bot would not receive as 'chat'.
Huh? You get cash from the bank, just like you do today. The ATM, 99% of the time.

What businesses pay salaries in cash?

My entire life, I've gotten nearly all my cash from the bank, except for tips when I worked in the service industry.

Again, this isn't about abolishing cash. It's just about enabling businesses to go card-only if they so choose.
How do you think VCs are getting rich? IPOs and transactions are more profitable than building companies with sustainable business models (by definition, it is usually cheaper to buy a bad company, attempt to flip it in the capital cycle than buy a good company which is likely expensive/impossible to buy).
some of these are inaccurate.

"a = 'foo'" is exactly the same performance as "a like 'foo'" and very close to the performance as "a like 'foo%'" and is fully indexed. When you put a wildcard in the front, the entire index is avoided, so you gotta switch to full text search.
This is how I feel. Regardless of whether or not my app has images or not, nobody is going to come across it.

I don't think I've ever just gone "App Window Shopping"

Maybe other people do, though. I don't know.
she won't use it because you say "significant other" when talking about her
Looking at the financials, it's pretty obvious that there was no huge deal that brought in additional hundreds of millions, not even once, and definitely not every year.
> I dont see something wrong with startup cities. They are not for everyone nor advertised as such.

Well, if you are building one where

The economy of Senegal is driven by mining, construction, tourism, fishing and agriculture, which are the main sources of employment and 75% of the population lives in chronic poverty, maybe there is something more urgent that could be done.

Unless you think that UAE and Dubai are a good example of development.
If you can just define a market to whatever you want, then everyone has a 100% market share. By your definition, Samsung has a 100% market share on Samsung TVs.
Unfortunately it doesn't :/

Working on getting that data in to provide better filters.

Thanks for checking it out :)
https://www.quora.com/Has-anyone-tried-Turing-Is-it-any-good...

TL;DR: they are OK but they take more than 50% of your paycheck forever and give you practically zero benefits for it. It’s better to avoid them and wait for another opportunity.
What is wrong with FloC and what's a better alternative?
In Estonia, my home country, public opinion of doctors in general are pretty bad. They only want to subscribe you pills and never actually treat you and so those with money go towards private clinics to fix their issues. I have anxiety disorder and my publicly assigned doctor flat out refused to allow me a therapist (the general practitioners e.g family doctors are gate-keepers to all actual treatment) and instead insisted on more pills that don't cure anything, but symptoms.
Netlify, Svelte, Hasura. Plus a serverless function here or there if really necessary (but usually not)
> I think the HN sentiment is more that when a coin is managed by a single entity, it's no better than a coin managed by the government, might even be worse.

To me, at least, it's that blockchains are being shoehorned into use cases that are better suited by other technology. In many cases, the blockchain solution is a worse choice technologically and economically.

For example, Bitcoin is a poor substitute for electronic payment networks because the network can only handle a few dozen transactions per second.

It's also a poor choice economically, because the transaction fees are more than $25 right now. I've seen posts claiming that Bitcoin would be a great choice for people in 3rd world countries, but they don't acknowledge that the fees alone would cost many multiples of whatever goods they're using BTC to buy.
Femtech and Fem Products Takeover
Right click the open space and select "Customize...", or "Customize Toolbar" from the menu, and you can change the button sizes a bit and remove those default spacers.
This is also great personal advice. Every month or two look around and see what is missing on your team. Do you need more shared vision? More code? Does your team lack expertise in some area? Do you need more support and acknowledgement from upper management? Are bug reports piling up?

Whatever you need, work on that.
I agree! I wanted to also add in restaurants because of a similar problem.

I really do think there is a consensus opportunity, especially when there are infinite options in the digital world
You likely look at different sites, like HN that is well designed rather that a decoration around ad delivery mechanism.
Like all other languages voted to the HN front page that claim that they have magically solved memory management, this project's website is simply lying.

Looking at https://github.com/evincarofautumn/kitten/issues/193: "Does kitten require garbage collection?" -- "Nope. [...] The plan is that boxed lists ([…], List<T>) and closures ({…}) are reference-counted" and https://github.com/evincarofautumn/kitten/issues/131: "Explore GC strategies" -- "The C backend currently uses naïve reference counting."

A quick skim of kitten.c confirms that objects have a reference count field and are only really released when it drops to zero. (I didn't find code that increments the reference count, but I find it hard to care.)

The project's website claims:

> Automatic management of memory and resources with no garbage collector.

One can weakly argue that many people mean tracing garbage collection when they speak of garbage collection, and that reference counting is not garbage collection in this narrow sense. This is unhelpful at best.

The FAQ has the claim I quoted above, of which the "when you drop a value from the stack, it gets deallocated" appears to be simply false.

I should add that I'm aware that this project is incomplete, but that doesn't excuse making wildly implausible claims.
Casinos absolutely have that failure mode (which is why there are table limits)

Casinos need to ensure that they have enough liquidity to withstand a large bet hitting. The law of large numbers only works if you can survive the short term swings.
It does that if you have the same filters! I also wanted to try and have the algorithm find what your friends have liked that you haven't decided on yet and show you those first.
Because if feels faster.

I open a lot of tabs and keep my browser open for days. After a while, Firefox becomes slow, while Chromium always feels fast. It's hard to measure, but it's real. In addition, sometimes I encounter sites that do not work or are slower in Firefox (I don't have an example in my mind right now).

Also, more than once, I see that something is not supported/slower in Firefox just because of some unresolved bugs. They get fixed after a while, but that makes Chrome always ahead and ready when you need a specific feature right away. See for example:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26189604
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25916574
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24801058
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23690908
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22943131
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24896489
I'm sure for another app I build that will be the case
Not many people keep all their money in cash. Most people count their money via their bank balances. If the government is after your money, they can seize your bank account today.

But to be clear, I never once suggested abolishing cash. And I'm not suggesting that now. I'm saying that cash continues to exist, we allow businesses that want to go card-only to do so, but make sure that everyone can easily get a card.
Yes please! We're already mostly there, so it's an empty promise!
I once spoke to a man who’d shared consciousness with an octopus.

I’d expected his tale to be far less frightening than those I’d studied up to that point. Identity has a critical mass, after all; fuse with a million-brain hive and you become little more than a neuron in that network, an insignificant lobe at most. Is the Olfactory Bulb self-aware? Does Broca’s Area demand the vote? Hives don’t just assimilate the self; they annihilate it. They are not banned in the West without reason.

But octopi? Mere invertebrates. Glorified snails. There’s no risk of losing yourself in a mind that small. I might have even tried it myself, for the sheer voyeuristic thrill of perceiving the world through alien eyes.

Before I met Guo, at least. [...]

-- Peter Watts' _Colony Creature_ https://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=5875
In the scenario of a company that is obviously not a going concern you can sell stock short to passive investors. The company will then fail and it’s stock will be worth 0. You get to keep the money. I guess the worry would be that the company could raise money by selling shares and use that to avoid becoming insolvent, but at some point a company is going insolvent faster than it can issue new stock.
Firefox also has vertical tab extensions you could switch on as needed.
While anti-maskers are definitely more likely to be politically right, due to weird behavior of the last administration, the reality is, the majority of Americans are fine wearing masks in public. Polling i have seen showed 75%+ were fine with masks.
How are you going to hoard "at no risk"? You're trying to corner the market for a given stock in an index pushing it's price way up and thus exposing yourself to the price crashing down and wiping you out. Meanwhile the passives are routinely buying and selling index funds depending on their need to save or raise cash so the net inflows into that stock are positive or negative depending on that. And that stock is only a small part of the total portfolio. Depending on how their specific timing works out your scheme is a net positive or negative but it never wipes them out. Your risk is way worse, particularly if you need to leverage to buy the whole position. Even if your play was to corner the market completely and own almost the full company the end result would be it being removed from the index for there not being enough float around. Then all the index funds dump what they had of it, and you lose your shirt.
No you are not only paying to get access to publish. You're paying because upkeep of the entire App Store ecosystem is not free. You also get a bunch of tooling, code-level technical support, and more importantly a bunch of SDKs that are tremendously powerful and useful (Metal, ARKit, etc).

Yes Xcode and APIs like ARKit are free to develop (for obvious reasons), but Apple captures some of the costs at publish time (as it should be).

Here's a full list of stuff that the fee go towards supporting and developing: https://developer.apple.com/programs/whats-included/
Or you randomly get moved to a NordVPN IP that BBC does not recognize as belonging to a VPN after a few days. Would be my theory.
I think if your program is string heavy you would definitely notice. It is quite a difference between chasing one pointer per structure and one per character.
I hear you. It is not a huge deal in my life, just a minor inconvenience I used as an opportunity to learn
Very cool. What do the different colors for the dots refer to though?
> the Play Store is a fragmented wasteland of low-effort shovelware

Wait how does this differ from the appstore?
I agree with the concept of getting to know the person; that's not my problem. And a hiring manager advocating for someone that has untraditional qualifications is awesome. There's just so many red flags in the way this guy talks about hiring.

I personally definitely aim to hire awesome people regardless of their experience.

I write a lot about how I hire, if you wanna read more! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24457170
It still makes sense to expose those codepoint sequences as individual symbols for the sake of the programmer's sanity. In most cases we don't really need to care if it's a single latin letter or a combination of bytes that make up a weird emoji, we just want a simple way to iterate over what a human reader would call a single character.
Ishango Bone
I have no problem paying for content. However, I'm not going to feel guilty for not going to a movie theater early so that I can see all of the trailers and commercials that are shown before the movie I want to see. I'm also not going to feel guilty for fast forwarding through commercials on TV.

Content creators are not entitled to decide what ads I choose to see and not see.
> would take way too long

I think the right way to do it would be to swipe a few movies every few days, whenever you're wasting time on your phone anyway. That way you'd have a queue of matches ready to go on Friday night.
I'm absolutely not an Akon fan in any way, but I think you'll need to provide some sort of evidence that he "went to jail for banging a 13 year old", because it seems to me that if that in fact happened, it would be relatively easy to find details via Google.
Im pretty sure that was on the ballot during the recent election and the Americans voted against that sort of protectionist mindset.
How do you start these conversations?

For example, you ask "what du you think about meritocracy?"

I'm curious about some of the questions you ask / things you say to get the conversation going

(Btw seems a bit random to pick different topics with different people, then how can you compare?)
You're under no obligation to visit a site without sending a payment either.
What percentage of hedge fund clientele exclusively invested in a single hedge fund 50 years ago? Many index fund evangelists focus on that assumption. It’s a strawman.

You can invest actively and intelligently. For example, my 401k offered an emerging markets fund (MGEMX) that isn’t the ideal fund from a cost structure perspective... but it performed really well for a few years. It wasn’t speculation or reckless behavior to have exposure to that sector. Portfolio rebalancing booked my gains when it was rising 30%, and I ended up doing well when 2008 killed that sector.

That doesn’t mean buy and hold doesn’t make sense either. If I was lucky and held on to an early fun money Bitcoin buy I’d be on an island right now!
> you want to be perceived as hiring the best

Only idiots perceive that consultancies hire "the best" - the best are off doing other things.

> project work that is not known in advance, you need very versatile people

No, you need a load of dimwits you can throw at a project and make some apparent effect.
Its pretty gruesome here, with nobody really looking out for the rights of US workers you can only expect more and more civil unrest, as Bob Marley once said, a hungry mob is an angry mob! Not to promote or condone out of control mobs but when you simply push people out of the economy while those of us better off can fall in with family a lot of others are being pushed into a brick wall, the ruling class simply wants to crush you out of existence if it cannot hyper-exploit your labor.
Signal has a mega-FAQ article on troubleshooting notifications per Android version and vendor:

https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007318711-Tr...
Sites that respect user privacy can disable FLoC on the server side. I’ve already done so with the five that I manage.

https://spreadprivacy.com/block-floc-with-duckduckgo/
The fire is 1/3 of the cost of the frying pan.
> One might argue that you are then not entitled to view the content on ad-supported pages as well.

This is true, and websites are entitled to try to detect and block users who use adblockers. And users are entitled to use better adblockers that are harder to detect.
This assumes that all money stays in the market. Some people selling shares to active traders are pulling money out of the market to use for other purposes. Are they ‘losing’ money because they don’t get the profits from a later rise in price? Maybe, but it isnt so cut and dry.
Unless this conviction is really recent, you're mistaken. In fact he has much less of a record than he admits himself.
There are much better options to provide people with educational, informative and entertaining content.

Well funded public broadcasters like Australia ABC provide news and entertainment content free. (both text and video)

Well funded public libraries can provide a wide range of alternate content.
One of the issues is that it is HackerOne making the demand, not Valve.

I have been involved with other bounties on that site in that time, related to other companies & products.

I suspect if I had "broken their (Hackerone) policy" with this issue in that time, there would have been problems receiving a reward from the other bounty programs relating to different companies...

This isn't the only reason I haven't publicised the issue more widely, I've had other things on my plate, but it is a consideration.
https://www.sqlinform.com/ is an excellent SQL formatting tool, where you can tweak the settings to whatever extent you like. I keep it around in notepad++ just for formatting SQL the way I like, even when writing/testing the SQL in VSCode or a DB tool.
Suboxone is the trademark name of a eponymous mix of the inhibitor Naloxone added to Buprenorphine.

Many formulations contain small enough amounts of Naloxone to permit a addict to take opiates without any significant adverse effects within a few hours.

The reason why people use the name synonymously is because Buprenorphine is a Mu Kappa Delta antagonist with sufficiently higher affinity to those receptors making it very much harder for other opiods to bind preferentially. Slow release formulation and slow linear bioavailability decline profiles suffice to do the rest of the job of making say heroin ineffective if the patient takes anything else.

I'm saying this so no one is under any impression that Suboxone is a safe drug for anyone to take (accidentally or otherwise) and off the top of my head a commonly used 8mg dose is roughly 100mg Morphine equivalent.

https://www.gloshospitals.nhs.uk/gps/treatment-guidelines/op...
You can't sell stock short specifically to passive investors. You have to sell it into the market. And since you're trying to sell only that stock and passive investors are buying the whole market your actual net counterparty is a set of some other active traders that hold the mirror position to yours, not the passive traders. The passives will always get the average of the market in that scenario and your above average returns have to come from someone else's below average returns.