skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ever wondered why so many crypto projects come from China and Russia and former Soviet states?

Because people who live there know what oppressive governments can do and how unreliable fiat is. I don't think people in the developed world understand it because they haven't really faced oppressive governments.
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There's no hard evidence, CIA isn't that stupid. But most of of the current Russian opposition is funded by CIA. Sometimes it's evident (some of the opposition media outlets are funded directly from Washington), sometimes it's less evident (e.g. Navalny receiving millions of USD via "anonymous bitcoin donation").

Another indirect evidence is that their discourse is exactly aligned with western media discourse. They have no points of disagreement. If western media criticize something in Russia, we hear same criticism from Russian opposition. You can translate your Economist or CNN website, and you'll get Meduza.io or Radio Freedom. It's hard to believe that such 100% agreement in tiniest details is accidental.
I'm not sure that's specific to scarcity, though.

Imagine two rooms, each with a caged bear. The bear is not happy being in a cage. A rich man, and a poor man, are ushered into their respective rooms, and told that the lock on the cage isn't all that reliable.

I'd wager that they'd both suffer roughly equally on a provided IQ test.

If you can't afford it, that car repair is an existential threat.

You don't get that car fixed, you don't get to work, you lose your job, and then everything else that goes with that. Not to mention figuring out what you're going to do while your car is in the shop. Maybe you skimp on the repair, just do what you need to get it running again, and hope it doesn't turn into a bigger problem down the road.

If you can afford it, it's an inconvenience.

You drop your car off with the mechanic, get a rental or just Uber it to work, and pick up your car when it's ready. You'll pay to fix things properly, of course, because you can.

I think it's not scarcity itself, but constantly living under existential fear that causes so many problems.
> It can't because the demand is relatively inelastic. Heroin addicts gonna buy heroin.

It is elastic if you can regulate the number of heroin addicts.
SuperChef: Empowering Chefs Beyond the Restaurant
Hi All,

I'm Florent and I am the cofounder of SuperChef. Over the last months, we have been building a platform dedicated for Chefs. Fondamentally, Chefs are artists - they create everyday , to delight their customers and to connect people together.As the matter of fact, we believe that the table is the one and only social network, and food is the catalyst to community building.

We started SuperChef's journey building a chain of restaurants where top chefs would come in residence to display their talent and activate new markets ( think WeWork for Top Chefs), got to 4 restaurants ( 3 in the US & 1 in Asia) but the pandemy forced us to rethink our approach.

Since, we have been on a journey to help Chefs exist beyond the Restaurant by building Direct-To-Audiences initiatives. We are now building the Chefs community toolkit at the crossing of booking & commerce. The first brick has been a platform Online Cooking events, and since it has morphed into a 360 booking platform: Bookings, Virtual Brands & Commerce.

We are now working with a pool of ~20 Chefs to refine our model and we would love to connect and exchange with fellow foodies around the world to build together the future of food.

In Food we trust,

Florent de Rocca-Serra
I think I have figured crypto currencies out, I mean I have a theory. The old school people, bankers and what not, cannot wrap their heads around exponential growth. That's why valuations of tech companies are confusing to them. And they are using their old thinking to cope with what they consider a huge inflation risk. It's not real (imho) but that's what they see and they think Bitcoin maybe a safe haven. (The whole idea of Bitcoin has to do with slowing things down. The whole thing is a huge brake on what computers do. Whoa, slow down, calculate these n^x hashes first.)

(Ok I'm just random internet guy with conspiracy theories I suppose..)
I wonder if this would have been enforceable. Just because their contract says something does not mean it holds up in court.
So you think you could end up homeless under a bridge even trough you would do everything you can do avoid that?
I dont think so. Long time homeless people are a very niche type of persons that "gave up" for whatever reason. Usually mental health, age, drugs. I worked for 2 year with someone who was homeless for a few months. The reason he wasn't anymore and other still are is solely his own actions. But he was young didn't do hard drugs and had the will to do whatever it takes to get out.
Would someone care to write an ELI5 about this? It sounds revolutionary but I just can't get my head around what he's actually saying.
It's worth noting that stock market crashes don't happen when market sentiment suddenly inverts - they happen when one day is slightly less positive than the last...
Ironic that Chrome has an RCE bug without a patch in stable right now and the only protection is the sandbox.
which comes back to the original question - people who are used to larger spaces prefer to continue having those larger spaces. So houses are more sought after, which causes apartments' prices to not grow, which causes fewer of them to be built (as not as high appreciation).

It's partially a cultural problem imho.
But what are the actual environmental benefits of ants? Anyone care to explain?

Ive looked around on the net for this but imo the info is a bit scarce.
As John Green once wisely said: "Do not go to war with a noun; you will always lose."
I'm curious what it means to say that savings must be invested. I have an account with an online broker/trading platform in which I put a portion of my money each month (most goes into stocks, some into ETFs). I think that counts as investing, but I also save money in the bank for paying bills, rent, food, and emergencies. That's not invested, and it makes up a large portion of my 'wealth'.
Russia Today treated as a reliable source about political opponents of Putin? Seriously?
Not sure if I'm missing something, but the pricing of Creative Cloud has always been made very clear from the order form:

"Monthly Plan - £75.85/mo"
"Annual plan, paid monthly - £49.94/mo"
"Annual plan, prepaid - £596.33"

I can't see how there's any confusion here, or do they only show the options like this in the UK?

Also I just upgraded from Premiere Pro to the Creative Cloud and was given the full upgrade T&Cs, including that there'd be a cancellation fee to pay if I signed up for the yearly option and cancelled mid-way through.

Again, a genuine question: am I missing something?
I think Adobe offers were even more confusing few years ago. This is not honest company, gently speaking.

I have another good example. I bought an Adobe license few years ago, and as a business in EU, I had to bought in excluding VAT, and pay VAX tax here locally. I provided my valid EU-VAT, price dropped to net price in interface (let's say 100 EUR), in confirmation, and even in invoice I get. However, to my surprise, my credit card was charged with full gross price (123EUR), meaning I lost 23% of purchase - as I was obligated to pay VAT anyway second time, as there was 0 VAT tax on the invoice.

Well, such things happen, you may think. This should be childishly easy to fix with support, as clearly amount from the invoice and amount charged simply didn't match. However, after dozen attempts with support, dealing with various support level people from Adobe support from India, not knowing even what the VAT tax is, and without any interest on helping me out, I had to give up. I decided to use PayPal protection for buyers, as transaction was made through the PayPal. Tu my surprise, despite clear evidence, they rejected claim after consultation with Adobe, without providing any reason. So I decided to not deal with those thieves any more and called my bank to fill chargeback request. It was so clear, that they recognised the request the next day and returned the money.

Takeaways are:
- Adobe is a shady corporation focused on robbing their customers, with other examples you can find online I cannot call that otherwise (among others, deceptive offers, blocking perpetual licenses, and as in my case simply stealing money from customers credit cards)
- PayPal protections are completely useless, even with so clear cases
- It's good to make transactions with shady companies with credit cards.
"I'm sorry, your 6 month old daughter was selling carfentanil to her grandparents, with a probability of 99.63%" Privacy also saves us from lots of machine learning fishing expeditions gone wrong.
Isn't that just what IRS does? If your tip leads to IRS collecting some money you get a percentage of that.
Love Paul's line in the notes of his post about labor finally defeating capital. Complete and utter detachment from reality.
The complaint here isn't that there is a contract; it's that the user is deceived by dark patterns into thinking they've entered a plan with no contract.

By contrast, going to tmobile.de or blau.de, even without speaking German it's extremely clear that prices are based on 24-month contracts. Never is the monthly price mentioned without a clear label below it indicating 24 month terms. Blau even takes it a step further and places the text twice in the box, once in the UI and another time directly below the price.
Are you aware of https://github.com/nexB/vulnerablecode? which offers a similar solution, is also open source and written in Python.
Interesting! As a Dutch person I've never heard of this before. I'm not quite sure what numbers I'm looking at though, is it just because the Netherlands mostly exports cucumbers and watery tomatoes?
If people ate money, that would be true. But the important thing for self-sufficiency is not the monetary balance of trade, but the caloric value of trade. It is typical for smaller countries to export high-value refined agricultural products (wine, cheese, etc.) while importing lower-value bulk commodities (grains, oilcrops, etc.) This can cause a vast disparity between the economic and caloric balance of trade. In the case of the UK, it imports about twice as many calories as it exports, so the disappearance of trade would have a major impact. If food waste were eliminated, starvation could probably be avoided. But a few years of malnutrition, while the domestic agricultural sector reconfigured itself for self-sufficiency, would probably be unavoidable.
> But it's not the governments job to legalize theft and pick the winners and losers, it's the governments job to fix the underlying issues.

So in other words, don't try to paper over the flaws of capitalism by instantiating a welfare state from taxes; instead abolish capitalism directly?

Probably not what you meant, but it could be read that way.
This valuation is insane. $100 billion for a company that is doing approx $2 billion in annual revenues.

I know that investors are pricing in future earnings potential - but this valuation seems like drinking too much Kool Aid to me.

Competition will change Coinbase's future profitability. Coinbase cannot get away with charging such high commissions/fees for much longer. The entry barriers to setting up crypto exchanges aren't that high. There are plenty of opportunities for people to step with the single USP of lower fees/commissions than Coinbase.
Implementing Geoffrey Hinton's latest paper
Depends on what you want of course, but I want to extract peak performance from myself that's why it sounds good to me. (I do not however like working overtime.)
Are you using alternatives to Qubes tools such as the secure clipboard (qvm-copy-to-vm), or just using a lower security setup?
But wait... That is an entire company, valued for over 1bn usd. That can "potentialy" ( but yet not realistically, yet for now) be compeletley wiped out to 0 if someone managed to "guess" their cold wallet priv key....

Interesting......

Edit: my bad, binance has a single cold wallet (165k btc) , coinbase I think keeps their btc in 8k btc wallets each.

Still that is 500k mil for each key guess
I hope they float enough shares that each share isn't 1000 USD.
This is such a sad thing. I know a lot of Russians, and most of them share your sentiment. It basically reads "Putin isn't great, but compared to other leaders we've had in the past hundred years, he is phenomenal." Maybe it's a legit point of view, that Putin is a stepping stone toward true democracy and liberty. It just seems so defeatist.
With Binance starting to have Tesla stock tokens, it would be funny if they started doing the same for Coinbase shares.
Maybe boilerplate free?
This may work in the US (does it, really?) but mostly not in Europe. If the service provider thinks you are a subscriber and don't pay, you will eventually end up in collections. You can't just "stop paying", that will not terminate your subscription.
The dark pattern is that "pay monthly" is just an installment option for the annual contract.

It's not a subscription per month, and it's not marked as such.
Lazy?
Ah, yes let's bring freedom to a nuclear power, with no consequences for the us or the world.

Regardless if your post is serious or not, this post is the dumbest "dare" to Americans I ever seen.
Targeted sanctions work. Removing sanctions was the main goal of Russian "lobbying" (let's call it that way) of the Trump administration.

Personally annoying leaders and oligarchs by preventing them to move around, if only to bring their kids to Disneyland, is not flashy but is convincing Putin's inner circle that he is turning Russia into a third world country.

Hit at the wallet. Especially at the personal one.
Ironically, this story is also exactly what Uber did to every market it expanded to.
You might be missing that you're getting double charged, as I was after I upgraded my subscription last year. They started the new subscription but didn't cancel the old one, so I got billed for both until I caught and fixed it last month.
Taking out the Archduke Franz Ferdinand went well, didn't it?

That wasn't even done by another major power, I think. (I'm no good at history.) Presumably there's a reason why major countries don't usually murder the heads of state of other major countries. I imagine it has something to do the military having standing orders to retaliate in such cases.
It’s really hard to not blame the people that do ‘not closely’ read the 10 words they need to read to not get fucked by their $75 / month subscription.

Like, some basic due diligence when spending a lot of money is normal right?
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I don't know where you live, but I live in the Netherlands and here it is illegal to bill you for a second year of a subscription automatically. After year one, you can cancel at any time (with, I think, a month of notice period).
Out of curiosity, do you work in this space? Would be interested in finding out more about the state of the field.
I would not buy a car that has BCM/ECU modules with Intel chips inside. Undocumented instructions and hidden SoC inside the chip itself (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine) that you have zero control of, is enough reasons to not trust Intel anymore.
So they are going to become a contract manufacturer of +300 nm chips that are sold a few dollars a piece? How is that going be a good business for them?
If me and my buddies can get rich off the war in the meantime, that’s an acceptable outcome
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I might be wrong as I don't live in the UK. But wasn't it the more Tony Blair like (center left ish) that were against him. Making it more right leaning relative to Corbyn
What would stop Adobe selling the unpaid amount as a bad debt to a collections agency in this case? I have been hounded by debt collectors for far smaller amounts that slipped through the net.
What’s even crazier is that GS has 30k plus employees while CB has 1500. The value per employee difference is insane.

Then consider that CB might find side revenue sources (HS has many sources of revenue for example) and think about what multiple of current value CB can grow to and how comparatively “easy” it is for CB to double compared to GS.
Let's pretend that most creators of free content on the internet are compensated by ads.
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Thanks for this link to another project that I'd prefer.

Just a small nitpick though, both are "open source" but only one of them is "free". I know that's what you meant but wanted to point it out. Some open source software that most people like (ex. Sentry) is BSL so it's not an uncommon license.

BSL is open source software but you cannot "free"ly use it (to make money) -- GPL v2 is free software.
I don't know anything about India politics and I don't think it's equal to Russian politics. Anyway, I can't compare. But I don't think I'm the reason for Modi or people like me. It's a different situation. E.g. Modi is nationalist and Putin isn't. Modi is pushing one predominant religion and Putin isn't. Etc.
I wasn't commenting on what they ought to do, it's not like I'm disappointed they didn't do a startup (lol how could I be disappointed in someone becoming a doctor when I'm the kid of refugees?) . Just commenting on the dynamics of who decides to try, and who knows who.

Keep in mind that as an immigrant you also you also only know a few traditional things a kid can do. The main thing that would get you into a startup is probably a CS degree, which what not high on the list for my aunts and uncles.

This might also be something about American society. People seem to cluster very closely with similar people. At least when I go there it seems that way.
Would love to see a rewritten version based on this!
Man has quite a lot of security against on-the-ground "deniable" attacks.

Then you have the question of whether the surviving second in command decides to just eat the loss and surrender his country to the United States without firing a shot, or .. fire a shot.

The bare minimum is probably the televised execution of all US embassy staff in Russia; the maximum retaliation is, of course, nuclear war.
Ah yes. Perfect timing.

Just 2 days after I was heavily downvoted for saying that you're not particularly safe if you don't disable JS.

This absolutely made my day. HN truly is a source of nonstop entertainment.
Huh. I actually write my code in this style. Perhaps not quite as detailed, but with the same idea in mind.

I wish code like this was more common. Over and over, I've heard fellow programmers reply with something along the lines of "well it should be obvious what it does! just look at the name and implementation - all you need is right there", when it was suggested that they add documentation to their implementations. What never seems to quite get across fully is that, yes, the code is all there, and it may even be clean and fairly readable, but the inherent complexity is such that only programmers experienced in subject X will ever have a chance of actually understanding it.

"So, what? If it's that complex, then maybe only programmers who are that experienced should attempt to read and/or contribute to it"* is another sentiment I've seen expressed. Of course, this misses the logic that, in order for such programmers to exist, they have to learn from somewhere, and start from something.

And how will we ever have programmers experienced in that subject
Where are all the 8051 jokes?
That's something I encounter a lot too when wondering what tool to propose kids to start programming.

I had GW-BASIC. It took two lines to draw a line on the screen. There are not a lot of things as easy nowadays
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What else source do you suggest. Mind you, as living in Russia I don't trust western media, because things they say about Russia is 90% lie which is evident to any Russian that possess some English knowledge and can fact check what they're telling about Russia.
That’s true for a handful of companies. It’s not true for the broader industry where things trade at 30x earnings.

Tech gets a pass to trade at those multiples. If any insurance or financial company add ‘tech’ at the end (fintech, insurancetech), they get this pass for some reason. If Hershey came up with candytech, it too would be allowed to trade like that.

This is a serious bubble if we keep playing games like this. We know how ridiculous this can be from GameStop, where it has no business trading above $100, but somehow is doing it. Game tech.
Can AI agents manipulate you into taking real-world actions?
I agree that sounds shitty. I’m not trying to say Adobe isn’t shady as hell, it’s just that the page mentioned in OP isn’t.
> Frankly, we don't have a choice. I favour Putin, but mostly because there's no alternative. There's not a single opposition leader that is trustworthy and competent.

Maybe because every alternative that pops up gets assassinated or jailed by Kremlin.

If it was a democracy maybe more viable alternatives would be seen.
You still need to make an effort turn up though.
Modelling a Wealth Tax Correctly (2020)
Wealthy enough to hire a few postdoc-months. If he's any good he must have made upwards of $300k/year.
> cryptocurrencies are truly decentralized and resilient to censorship

If a major government wanted to break crypto, it would simply credibly threaten to launch a 51% attack. This is within the budget of most developed economies, and much simpler than enforcing a ban. Nobody does it because it would be stupid. Crypto is part of the economy. Destroying it would be akin to bombing a domestic factory because one doesn’t like its products.
Undoubtedly this will get censored again, since for some reason it appears to be morally just to dig in Stallman's past but not in Zuckerberg's. According to newspapers, Zuckerberg had a business card that said "I'm CEO, Bitch":

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2267295/Bill-Gates-...

Cited also here, if you don't trust the Daily Mail:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/02/opinion/zuckerberg-elizab...

Ok, perhaps all newspapers are wrong, but in that did not prevent anyone from posting similar stories about Stallman.
I think you've changed what you were talking about. Suddenly you're talking about "long term" homeless, which makes me think you realised you made a mistake and now are backtracking.

I see that you're also presenting one single case known to you; this is effectively meaningless, and you know it.
He said it got picked up by RT. So what? It's ancillary to the story.

Deranged psychotics and pensioners do not show this pattern of behavior.

This account is clearly being operated by a team who clock in and clock out.

If the account were editing pages in a way through Russian government would approve of I guarantee that you would not have a shadow of a doubt that this was definitrly not an obsessed pensioner and neither would I.