skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Customers don’t infer the purpose of a product from it’s company mission. The audience of a company mission are employees themselves.

ok sure then why is it in big red text on a customer-facing page, then?
I don't see why a startup would even offer a bonus or perhaps why employees would expect one if they aren't already showing a profit..., but I've experienced the latter first hand.
> Their SegWit code, defined by BIP141, activates if 95 percent of hash power within a single difficulty period of about two weeks signals readiness before November 15th.
What is the other thing they're doing? Nothing I've seen in their tax bills affects average americans
Nuclear reactors are very much hardened against such attacks, and of course, those were both very different situations. No need to spread FUD about the safest form of electricity in the entire world in terms of deaths per TWh. [1] It's also roughly zero carbon.

You know the worst nuclear accident, Chernobyl, killed 4000 people in the full course of time - and we've learned a ton since then. Fukushima killed 1 person.

On the other hand the worst hydro accident, Banqiao Dam, killed 200,000 people instantly. [2] Such an outlier it's frequently excluded from all analyses on hydro safety. No such luck for the Soviets though.

I know what I'd target for maximum effect.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/494425/death-rate-worldw...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Banqiao_Dam_failure
But electricity would be cheaper... offsetting imported natural gas... if they left the nuclear power plants on.
Signal and Discord seem pretty high risk programs there, handling network input from strangers.
If you are talking about Erlang and D etc then your uses are unusual and not typically commercial and so I don't put much value in your response. No offense intended though.
The article mentions his kidnapping.

That was a big deal in SV, and resulted in big-company executives getting bodyguards, black SUVs, and sometimes even separate office buildings for top mgmt.
> Overwork sucks but if you have evidence that it’s bad for productivity please cite it.

Seriously? Of all things, something so obvious like this needs needs citation?
It's still a cohort much, much larger than one.

I've had webgl disabled for almost two years now because I don't find that webgl provides no benefit that I care about, yet lets websites slow down my laptop and drain my battery.

I disabled wasm a few months ago for the same reason.

You are welcome to join my cohort!
don't you think "paid work" is a dramatic oversimplification of, at least, what OP is alluding to?
At Google there are bonuses known as peer bonuses and spot bonuses. They are indeed infrequent, irregular, and unannounced, though not large at all. People feel way happier receiving these sub-$1000 (or slightly above $1000) bonuses than the rather more predictable but large annual bonuses.
Most big grocery stores in the US sell day old donuts for half-off and in bulk, probably working out to something like $0.30/donut.
Bitcoin plunges to $52,000 in one hour
In theory yes, but in practice it's rather infeasible to do 51% attacks IRL --- the main constraint is the people not the math.

A 51% attack mainly lets you double spend, so you have to:
(1) get a lot of coins and spend them on something
(2) start mining a fork where that spending didn't happen (but other real transactions continue to happen) --- your hash power will now need to be dedicated to this new fork at the exclusion of the old "real" fork since all future hashes will diverge
(3) wait until the thing you paid for with coins can no longer be "taken back", all while continuing efforts on the alternate fork
(4) do the 51% attack to swap out the old "real" fork with your new fork where you never bought the thing, thus keeping the thing _and_ the coins you spent on them
(5) all this needs to be balanced with the opportunity cost had you just continued mining on the real chain...

Such an attack would trigger immediate attention since at (2) the main chain would suddenly see a drop in contributions. Also realistically most things you can purchase with coins (like fiat or other goods/services) can be relatively easily "taken back" unless a considerable amount of time is spent to launder them --- say if you "buy" a car with crypto and reverse the transaction, what you've really done is just stolen a car with a lot of extra steps... Which means your only real viable path is to redeem for some other cryptocurrency... Now given that a big attack just happened on the largest market cap crypto, there's a pretty good chance the other coins are going to take a hit and exchanges might even temporarily limit activities while this situation is "investigated", greatly reducing what you can actually do at the end of the day.

This kind of thing is more reasonable on the smaller market cap "meme" coins where you can just exchange them for for a mass-market crypto.
It is nice to get some reminders why I still use a so called 'dumb'-phone.

Very easy to use and with extremely long battery life.

And if I lose it or damage it, the replacement cost is a non-issue. I had a Nokia costing 79 NOK (approx USD 10) for over ten years. Eventually the screen died. Now I am using my daughters old Nokia, which I got free of charge because she swithced to Apple.

And even better, the kids can not demand 'better' or more expensive phones than what I use myself. That is where the big savings are :) :) :)
> The main purpose of the parable is to describe that everybody who makes it to Heaven is there on equal terms.

I believe a closer reading of that passage suggests that the purpose of the parable is to show that Jesus is upending the social order that currently exists* to show favor to the those who are currently the downtrodden and outcast. See the end of chapter 19 where Jesus says the rich will not enter the kingdom of heaven and the first will be last.

Then chapter 20, the parable in question, and the parable ends with:

"Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or do you begrudge my generosity? So the last will be first, and the first last."

Jesus would die for sinners, both Jews and gentiles. The gentiles would be grafted in, as Paul says in Romans 11. An incredibly offensive idea to the Jews of the day but demonstrative of a God who is rich in mercy.

> But there's another truth to it that the article also describes--if you agreed to work for a wage and then receive that wage, can it really be called unfair?

FWIW, I think you are exactly right on that part.

* I don't think this meaning parallels or supports current cultural efforts to "upend social order." Completely different culture and circumstances being discussed and Jesus' desired outcome is very different IMO from what I see many in our current culture fighting for. He was concerned primarily for people's souls, not their economic or political standing. In fact, that was one of the reasons he died the death he did...to show that his kingdom was not of this world, his concerns were not primarily those of this world, and his disciples should do likewise.
I'm a video game guy, so I tend to see things in video game terms. Some things are consumables and some things are permanent upgrades.

Some clothes are consumable, underwear, t-shirts. jeans. I buy conformable, well fitting and cheap, with no expectation that it will last. I don't think too much about it. (A $5 t-shirt will not last as long as a $50 t-shirt, but there is not _that_much difference)

Other clothes, I now know, if I choose carefully can last 20-30 years. My winter jacket that I only wear 2 months of the year is at least 20 years old. My belt that I wear almost every day is at least 15 years old.

Sometimes I find myself doing an insane amount of research trying to find the perfect product, but its a kind of procrastination because I don't actually really need any more stuff. The backpack I take to work everyday is a little ratty, and I have spend a lot of time looking at backpacks on the web while watching TV.
He may have only been engaging in petty schadenfreude. Given that they stiffed him, they may have been chronically a day late and a dollar short and counting on people to make an exception "just this once" (every single time) because of some sob story or other.

Telling them "no" instead of falling for their con job wouldn't be corruption.

I'm not condoning corruption. But I do certainly find the story funny.
"Rolling back" the network means successfully creating a new longest chain that forks off of an arbitrary old block.

The further back in time you to "rollback" to, the less probable it is for the 51% to successfully mine all those needed blocks to get up to par with the existing longest chain.

Realistically speaking, this sort of attack is highly improbable.
Bringing up AOC as a virtuous example then calling others "nutjobs" is pretty rich though.
I've visited people who live on less than $1.90 a day. They generally have power to run any led lights that might run off a potato. They often had access to a motorcycle and access to a cell phone.

One example for electricity is to rent car batteries for the night to charge their phones and run TV's, both vital to help people escape poverty.

They don't want solar lights or bicycles. They need mobility and information flow on their own terms. Give them eBay not Wikipedia / a book with a light.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/315719288_Can_Solar...

Those minority who don't even have a led light have some pretty big issues. Night time lighting is low on the list, you could just give them a torch and battery not a complicated potato device if it mattered.
This is the way for companies to do right by the first few employees (and have a longer than 90 exercise window when leaving). I know a super early employee who left and had to take a loan to exercise and pay taxes. It's kind of sad to think about it.
Not the OP, but now I got it, thanks.
Title rings like a Amazon interview question tbh
I think this because an enormous amount of energy was use to smelt the metal from ore. Oxidizing it slowly for electricity is possibly just a weak and inefficient battery.
Suppose a businesswoman built a completely automated company/factory that manufactures shoes. She runs the whole thing herself.

Would you consider that the businesswoman is exploiting society? And what if she decides that she wants to employ people again instead of using robots?
There are many roofing companies over 50 years old that have stood by their guarantees. The choices are there in the market - you can buy a service from an upstart with no reputation and take a risk (but usually save some cash) or you can buy from an established provider with a reputation and pay a premium.

This used to just be the way the world worked before we regulated it. I don't see what was wrong with it exactly.
Shorting Bitcoin, even theoretically, is a bad idea.

He doesn't short it because he understands convexity. This is an arbitrary "asset" and can therefore go as high as it wants. If he shorts it, the risk that he'll get squeezed out is high.
I think you mean "blocked, then investigated", which it sounds like you're doing. A company running a large variety of software - particularly third party - needs to have staffing sufficient to such investigations.
Is technology changing our circadian rhythm?
As another comment explains, it is merely getting back some of the energy expended in extracting metallic zinc and copper from their ores.

Also such potato batteries have been a school science projects for long.
Twitter Fleets ads are on the way, here's the first look
> Fair point, given how the markets reacted to this drop in hashrate.

What makes you think the market reacted to the drop in hash rate? A 20% move is pretty typical in crypto. IMO this is more likely due to Bitcoin not having moved in price in almost 2 months (it's below its 2/18 price now, by a lot). People moved their get-rich-quick energy over to Doge. And once that sputtered out, they tried to cash out.

Tether by the way, had its two biggest outflow days ever on Thursday and Friday (200 and 300M respectively via the Kraken USDT:USD pair). If Tether is actually just backed by crypto and hope as we suspect, they'd have had to sell crypto to refill their depleted cash reserves. To be clear this is pure speculation.

Another possibility is the market is reacting to all the Coinbase executives dumping massive quantities of equity on retail bag holders, signaling a potential top.

Since all cryptos are dumping, primary and alt, it's probably a more systemic issue.
Why don't they count? I use them. I don't really care if they only work on mobile. This questionable DIY scheme operates under the assumption that Moxie is the only one allowed to roll his own crypto: MTProto 2 is fine.

Everything is a convenience trade-off, all the time, for everyone.
Loongson unveils LoongArch CPU architecture for processors made in China
Bitcoal.
That does not mean much.

Part of the SPAC structure is that you can redeem each share for roughly the IPO price in cash instead of taking shares in the new company (actually it's tied to the amount of the cash in the SPAC), at merger. So this basically sets a price floor on pre-merger SPACs, minus opportunity cost.

And, indeed, 1 out of his 3 merged SPACs is below IPO price.
This was a very interesting essay. I learned about Material Culture at design school but had never considered it through the lens of literature before. The physicality of the written word is itself very ephemeral, which is something I spend too much time worrying about
Ah Sweet, the old “exportweltmeister” scam never seems to get old.

Germany is exporting so much energy because (and only because) without the base load provided by conventional power plants it’s energy grid routinely is on the brink of collapse, whenever there are weather based shifts in renewable energy production.

This causes the electricity price to routinely go negative because our neighboring countries don’t want to have it either.

What a failure. And what a failure that people still fall for that exportweltmeister lie
U.S. Treasury to Charge Several Institutions for Money Laundering Using Crypto
No. True decentralization requires proof of person. Proof of work, stake, capacity, etc. all make it possible for a single person to buy their way into higher voting power.
As other comments have noted, one answer is that work is fun for many people. Another is that work gives purpose and structure to life, just like having children does. Another answer is that most rich people are self made and have had to work hard to get where they are. That means more hours at work and more sacrifice of other life experiences. Delayed gratification is a key part of the path to success but it then also becomes its own blessing or curse. On the positive side, it can be like being in love in a happy marriage - you develop deeper and deeper appreciation for your partner, discover greater richness and depth in them, and yes it comes at the exclusion of other things but that’s fine. A more cynical answer is the relentless grit that gets a rich person to that point of wealth is hard to turn off, and having not developed other comparably significant interests in their adult life, it consumes them and becomes the default way to keep occupied.
Killing Flutter would probably kill Dart, as they're the ones working on it, and killing a UI library is totally the sort of thing Google does.
When you make a charitable donation of cash, you get a tax deduction to undo the income tax you paid when you originally got that cash. If a company directly donates to charity, you don't pay income tax on that money in the first place, so you don't need a deduction to undo it.

The end result is the same $0 net change in your bank account balance.

Also, companies can deduct all expenses from corporate income tax. So if a company pays you money via payroll, or pays that money directly to a charity,t he company will deduct it from corporate income tax either way.

The benefit of a company making charitable donations directly is that payroll taxes are avoided (not to be confused with income taxes). Both the employee and the company benefit from this, because normally both the employee and the company pay payroll taxes.
Of course they do. Children hurt themselves all the time on bicycles.
Well the employee doesn't have to pay income tax or payroll tax on the money, so in that sense there is a tax break compared to if the money was given to the employee.
A good reminder that Bitcoin runs on cheap renewables is BS. See also miners buying gas power plants in New York.[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26828479
What kind of sovereignty do you have if a powerful neighbour can put your people to freeze in the winter by cutting your energy supplies, forcing you to accept their conditions? National security is more than weapons.
You can't do that because of the anti-anti-anti-fingerprinting, I know this because of reasons
Can you give some examples of where this is happening today?
Finally a voice of reason. The front end isnt the only thing that has become complicated. How many services are running on k8s? Now how many of them actually need it?

The list goes on. The front end isnt that complicated relative to back end, there is just one ecosystem vs 10 for the back end.
Yeah, blogging is free. Just click the pencil icon and start writing. Yunaru is still new, so let me know if you run into issues or have feedback. There’s a GitHub link in the footer, so feel free to open an issue.
Amazing of you to share this.
It will get better. You will feel better.

I understand how you feel now, but (I am sure) very many people out there would rather trust their data to (a future) you given how careful you have been, how much you have cared, and how much you have learned from this.
Indeed. See the "bitcoin snack machine" for some hard numbers: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=423.0

> The network nodes only accept the first version of a transaction they receive to incorporate into the block they're trying to generate. When you broadcast a transaction, if someone else broadcasts a double-spend at the same time, it's a race to propagate to the most nodes first. If one has a slight head start, it'll geometrically spread through the network faster and get most of the nodes.

> A rough back-of-the-envelope example:

1 0
4 1
16 4
64 16
80% 20%

> So if a double-spend has to wait even a second, it has a huge disadvantage.

I'm not sure anyone has put the infrastructure into place, though.
> “He was a famous businessman, the founder of a major company in the U.S. and the world, and of course he was very, very proud of that and it was huge achievement in his life, but it wasn’t his focus — really, his family was,” Nancy “Nan” Geschke, 78, told the Mercury News on Saturday. “He always called himself the luckiest man in the world.”

I haven’t heard of Geschke before this but that may actually be a reason I believe this description. So many other technology giants have egos and cult-like personas and a need to be visible and known. It sounds like Geschke was a humble and balanced man who knew his priorities in life. Rest In Peace.
There's a lot of different answers to this, but the simplest one answer is that access pass (the token) becomes something that can be easily traded on any kind of crypto market. You could even trustlessly lend your token to someone to access content and effectively earn rent. It's a whole new way to engage with content when the access itself is a tradable limited resource.
... as would a bucket of salt water. Or piss.
I don't understand how they released it like that. When my mom told me about kids getting stuck I immediately said "yeah under the back right?" And I've only seen Peloton in ads.

What a stupid design. They deserve to get sued into oblivion
They're nice and I'd like to see some more advanced ones.

But, why are the programs in Python instead of Ada, if it's Project Lovelace? For Python, maybe it could be Project Monty. Heh.
> success is it's own perk

aka, equity compensation. Because i sure aint gonna consider it a perk if a CEO (or owners) to get richer, while i just get praise for making the success!
That’s very surprising, I didn’t know that about Huawei and didn’t expect it at all!

100% with you on the parable.
Discussed a little bit here:

Potato-powered web server - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3346741 - Dec 2011 (10 comments)

Spud, potato powered web server - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=887160 - Oct 2009 (6 comments)
This happened at the Japanese megaCorp I worked at but wrt overtime pay after the financial crisis.

Everyone worked huge overtime, boosting their pay by 50-80% in some cases. Economy crashed, corporate orders to cut overtime ( but obv not the work deliverables), and people were having difficulty paying their mortgages.
No it's not. $300 can be an above-the-line deduction. Any donation beyond that is below the line.

https://www.aarp.org/money/taxes/info-2020/how-to-deduct-202...
From 58000 to 55000 seems typical of bitcoin, no?
Yes that's a very good point. I was aiming for getting picked up by a big publishing house. These days though It's pretty essential you have some kind of audience first.

As I'm sure you know, marketing really is the worst. After years of work it's hard to be motivated enough to do too. But it's pretty essential.
No, we're talking federally. There's a $300 federal above-the-line charitable deduction. Everything after that is below the line.

https://www.aarp.org/money/taxes/info-2020/how-to-deduct-202...
Rowing is a lot closer to swimming than running, primarily because the load on your joints is dictated by the output of your muscles, whereas in running the load is primarily impacted by each of the small "falls back to Earth" you do with each step.

That's not to say that improper rowing cannot cause injury, but the correct technique for rowing alleviates all of the injury-causing jolts to your joints that occur with each stride in running.
Sounds like a great idea for a blog post :)
Lots of comments about this being the agents’ fault, but I’ve also seen where homeowners just want to get out and aren’t willing to wait even just a little bit.
If curious, past threads:

The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21366618 - Oct 2019 (28 comments)

The online encyclopaedia of integer sequences - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18524115 - Nov 2018 (3 comments)

The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18015493 - Sept 2018 (4 comments)

The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15900294 - Dec 2017 (1 comment)

Pictures from the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11711212 - May 2016 (5 comments)

The Surprising Power of Neil Sloane’s Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10435690 - Oct 2015 (7 comments)

The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9919535 - July 2015 (19 comments)

Neil Sloane: the man who loved only integer sequences - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9380292 - April 2015 (2 comments)

The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6650490 - Oct 2013 (20 comments)

The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2496629 - April 2011 (7 comments)

The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=888577 - Oct 2009 (2 comments)

I thought there were larger ones...perhaps somebody will find one.