skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Crowd SAFE under Reg CF [1] allows you to invest pre-seed to late stage. Gumroad on Republic.co is a recent example [2] [3]. Whether a startup brokerage flying by the seat of it's risk management department should be handing out high risk options levels to unsophisticated investors for meme stocks is an issue for FINRA (Rule 2359, 2360).

[1] https://www.sec.gov/smallbusiness/exemptofferings/regcrowdfu...

[2] https://republic.co/gumroad

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26473408
Good question. It's about $0.023 per GB per month for a US East Coast instance, so some $1700/mo for 75TB. Plus you don't really control the data if it's on someone else's computer so there's a potential opportunity cost there as well.
So, I am not American, but I am curious, what do you expect from your institutions? Do you expect them to intervene with the markets harsher and sooner? The thing is, lot of people disagree on that one.

Also, I feel like in a democracy (yes, maybe US isn't but I am talking about your vision now), institutions are owned by the public. It's the public (i.e. you) that needs to take initiative about what their government should do. Otherwise it just runs on autopilot (which has benefits, too), or is overtaken by business interests.

My feeling is that people are actually happy in the bubble. Yes, some if not most are going to be unhappy, eventually, when it blows up. But who should tell them better?
That has been already done, as far as I know: https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/n3ht2a/how_to_disabl...
Philips LEDs from Dubai: The Royal Lights You Can’t Buy
This is a cool tool. Nice work. Fun to play with. Also, I think it could benefit yet another hacker trying to hack HackerNews.
OP has the same username as the GitHub repository owner.
An earlier effort: http://hnrankings.info/
> It is literally explicit in the 1990 rendition.

> You pick a door, say #1, and the host, who knows what’s behind the doors, opens another door, say #3, which has a goat

Remove the parenthetical example "say #3", and the parenthetical "who knows what's behind the doors" and that sentence reads: "...and the host opens another door which has a goat".

The "has a goat" is not a hypothetical example. It's a (both literal and explicit) declaration of the rules statement. The rules seem very clear that the host will open a door with a goat.
I've always seen "EDM" as the bastardization of electronic music by the American festival scene in the late 2000s.

That's not a knock on the USA as a whole (a lot of garage/acid can be traced back to Detroit house and techno), but it is mostly an American genre.
It really depends on the culture. If you’re invited to meals and you consistently don’t eat, you will just stop getting invited (unless they are formal meetings).

WRT drinking, it can take a lot longer to build trust without the shared alcohol experiences. You’re correct that there isn’t direct social pressure, but you end up getting left out of “after-event” drinks as well.

I noticed these things when I had to go on a strict diet with no alcohol for about a year. You might argue that nothing important happens during non-formal events, but that’s a big mistake.
The co-creator of Dogecoin sold his coins to buy a Honda Civic. Now Dogecoin has a market capitalization that is higher than Honda.

Why? it doesn't matter. People decided to speculate over the money of Dogecoin, that's it. It doesn't matter that it is a cryptocurrency or that it is based on doge. People will speculate over anything if it's profitable. Frozen concentrated orange juice? Gamestop? Whatever, it doesn't matter.
Iirc none of the alternate methods is available until you have given them a phone number.

A few months back I finally enabled 2FA on one of my accounts, I wanted to use totp and that option was completely unavailable until I enabled SMS 2FA.
The problem they are trying to solve is offering more stable online learning options. Methinks it may have been spurred on by this whole "global pandemic" situation.

The article explains that teachers are primarily unhappy because one of the options would involve moving online education to a for-profit corporation, which would not only ostensibly divert funds from public education, but also operate without the oversight of the pub ed system.
It kind of has, at least as a mainstream music genre.

What passes for rap (or hip hop) in 2020 is far removed from the golden era of the 80s and 90s.
...when in reality, all that was probably necessary was some password strength requirements including a check for previously leaked passwords.
if you measure accurately enough there is a lot of variation in those qualities from one person to the next.
> For many, learning Clojure can make them better developers but most don't keep using it once they realized they can apply all the hindsights they learn from Clojure to a more productive ecosystem.

Exactly. I feel Clojure/Script too heavy to jump fully in, but it taught me about data structures, sequences, composition which lead me to Ramda.js.

This little functional library can be learnt in no time, and gives similar powers like Clojure, while learning Clojure and the ecosystem would take at least months.
This is the same explanation I arrived at too. Crucial to answering the problem correctly is understanding that the host doesn't reveal a random door, but a door that you have not chosen, and also is wrong. And then the reasoning follows naturally to the correct answer. It's amazing to be so prejudiced that someone would be adamant on the incorrect answer, when it can be explained in 3 simple lemmas.
That he always opens a door that is not the contestant's choice is a necessary implication of saying that he opens "another" door. That he opens a door containing a goat is similarly implicated. It's not even an implication, really; it's just definitional in vernacular English. And in any event, any of the academics writing in would have been perfectly familiar with the semantic structure of such logic puzzles.

Also, most of the population of the country would have been familiar with the game show. Let's Make a Deal was one of the most popular programs on television. Even if they didn't particularly like it, people didn't have much of a TV program selection back then. And even if someone didn't regularly watch TV, it's likely they would have seen it and been familiar w/ the rules regardless simply because it was so widely watched around them. The vehemence of the respondents may even have been an effect of their familiarity, unable to recognize and accept that they'd missed a crucial analytical element after having watched the show so many times before.

What makes the puzzle counterintuitive, IMO, is that you're actually answering two different questions: the first before the host makes his selection, and the second (the only one that matters) after he makes his selection. Developing the habit of rigorously "updating your priors"--that is, recognizing when the available evidence has changed, requiring a reassessment--is an applied skill that even experts aren't particularly good at. (Nor was I the first time I read the problem.) The real-life narrative structure actually makes for a great logic puzzle as people are primed to miss the final constraint (his selection) for what it is. They're used to analyzing static situations, or a series of linked static situations--solve X correctly to solve Y. That makes the Monty Hall Problem peculiarly distinct from the typical type of logic puzzle that simply includes a misleading, irrelevant constraint or requires resolving a complex set of constraints.
> “Naming the farmer who grew the vegetables or the breed of a pig can help to add authenticity to a product,” says Spence. “Consumers take that as a sign of quality, even it has been made up.”

That's an interesting use of the world authenticity.
A) It's not a halting problem. B) Digital borders exist all over the net. We use them every day to secure all sorts of things.
It asked me for a secret question and answer when I signed up years ago. Didn’t make any difference though.
Jup, so are my thoughts too...

But the web can become a lot more usable even on a raspberry pi 1: Just ditch the graphical browser and install something like w3m or links...
The regulations are not really in place to protect "the poor from their own stupidity." The regulations are in place because the lesson of the Depression is that one person losing their shirt is personal responsibility, and that's fine, but millions of people losing their shirts at the same time will pull the rug out from under the wider economy and be a societal disaster.

The criteria for accredited investors is a very crude way to address this problem by reducing blast radius; we could come up with something more convoluted like requiring a minimum amount of bond posted to act as a floor (similar to how non-insured people driving cars works in some states) but the effect would be roughly the same.
Back in the 19th century there was no birth control, and women were in a constant cycle of pregnancy and breastfeeding once married until they became infertile, also puberty started significantly later. To have a society of single family children, they had to figure out how to stop having children, which was figuring out how to have way less sex and thus a bunch of sexually frustrated people.
People with an interest in cosmology and bleeding edge physics can do worse than follow Sabine Hossenfelders blog or Youtube channel. Maybe everyone already does, but personally I discovered it just a few months ago.

She is the kind of specialist that we expected to find more of in the early days of the internet: deep knowledge and an interest in and capability for explaining things clearly to non-experts. We need more people like her, if only to be able to evaluate if she is right or not in some key questions (like her opposition to still more powerful particle accelerators).

In this case I find her explanation of Einstein's famous phrase regarding quantum mechanics quite rational, which is a novel experience for me when it comes to quantum mechanics.
Love it. The answer is 1/2. The first event occurs with a population of 2,2 and the second event has no causal effect. The trap is that the observation doesn’t change the sample population of the first event, exactly like the Monty Hall case: opening doors itself does not change the probability to 1/2 as people think it does (it remains 1/3) — it’s the switch that changes the odds.

Similar question with a similar trap: there are new neighbors moving in next door, and you know they have two kids. You see a boy in their yard, so you know they have at least one boy. What’s the probability they have two boys?
As someone who doesn't play piano, what you were describing reminded me exactly of my typing experience. I'm glad to see you thought the same! You mentioned the 4th and 5th fingers on the keyboard specifically — what is the correct finger placement for those keys relative to what you think most people do?
I've been occasionally tutoring my nephew for the past few years. Based on that I'm pretty skeptical of online learning for kids.

A lot of exercises and tasks are never done, because it's much easier to pretend that you're studying online than it is in person. It leads to less experience with the exercises. This isn't all that bad in subjects like History or Literature, because if you miss out on ancient Rome then you simply don't know about ancient Rome. However if you miss out on mathematics or chemistry, then it's going to affect you down the line. What you learn a year from now is most likely built upon what you're learning today. It makes learning future topics harder.

Online learning for kids might work, but I think it needs to come with a change of teaching materials. Printed out workbooks and exercises from textbooks written into your notebooks don't work well with online learning. Teachers don't really have a good way of getting kids to consistently do the exercises they need to do. Teachers only have so much time.

I'm not in Canada though. Perhaps the situation is better over there.
Epic and especially FortNite is it’s own marketplace. You can’t buy in game merchandise without going through Epic’s payment system. T

As far as relationships, I don’t want every business to have relationship with me. For those companies that need one, they can have users register.

How is the App Store any more illegal than the consoles? Yes every physical game you buy for a console still has to be approved by the console makers.
Isn’t it great how they will let you sign up for an account with just a password then demand a phone number later on when you’re already using it.
When you stop sleeping the money stops.
One of the more surprising combos at university was Physics and Music. That was the degree, and the numbers were similar to those doing Computational Physics.
I've never had one of those work for that kind of stuff. I assumed they were all blacklisted by default.
They live in a productive location. When they leave it their productivity collapses.

I understand it’s emotionally satisfying to see them deprived, but the government also ends up with less revenue when they apply their skills to lower impact projects.
One teacher broadcasting to thousands does scale. The best course material being taught to all does scale. Teachers assistants working with small 5-6 person groups scales better than 1 to 30.
Bitwarden can do it too.
Warhammer 40k lore is an exercise in making Space Catholic Nazis look good by constructing a world where everyone else is (arguably) even worse than they are. One starts to wonder what the point is of this exercise. Do we need a fantasy universe where we can roleplay as Space Nazis and feel justified about it?
If we shouldn't care about any of this then why are we even here?
There are still N possible outcomes, and you have 2 of them instead of 1. Your chance of winning is 2/N instead of 1/N and has exactly doubled.

And most lottery games allow numbers to be re-used, so you haven't "eliminated" anything. If you exhaustively bought all N number combinations, you have a 100% chance of winning, but you also have a decent chance to split the pot with someone else who also bought the winning numbers.

Next time your family screams and shouts at you that you're wrong, maybe you should actually listen to what they're saying?
Thanks for the link. Do you know if it supports interactive Plotły plots?

I have tried emacs a couple of times over the last 20 years (spacemacs most recently) and it always made me feel stupid. I love the idea and flexibility, and it just seems so cool, but setting up the environment and config were pretty overwhelming to me.
Yes, I think we are on the same page.

I was trying to explain that having a separate monitoring infra and network group wouldn't work as a replacement for unidirectional network setup, because you sill need to open network access between critical infra and the monitoring system in your design, which will expose it to the internet.

So like you said, you still need to have an unidirectional network in place.
You can remove the phone number and the other options stay enabled. I removed the phone years ago, because I did not want all of my security for more or less all of my online accounts (password recovery via email) to hinge on the unhelpfulness of a customer service agent of my cell phone provider who is heavily incentivized to be as helpful as possible to any criminal impersonating me
He wrote that he‘s changing apartments every few months and that he’s always wrapping his face in a scarf as much as possible when going outside. Didn’t sound like a tremendously free and relaxed life. Plus he’s in exile.
Those things already exist in electrical plants/pipelines/nuclear reactors and other objects of critical infrastructure. Eliminating the ability of people to casually enter and access/alter/destroy this infrastructure isn't the issue.

And yeah... we exactly can say that. We do it all the time. We almost blew up the world because Russia sent some missiles to Cuba.

There's no reason the digital war can't have physical repercussions. If a foreign nation invades our digital properties, we drop a bomb on their electric plant.

Simple as that.
Unfortunately, musk wants to present himself as if he is some kind of Tony Stark character like in the iron man movie. He also says the he doesn't care about college degrees, but I bet that all the people at SpaceX have the necessary degrees and are not drop outs, so that's probably also not really true about him either. The Tesla car company was also not founded by him but by someone else who actually engineered a car. I will give him some credit for SpaceX though, I think the company is doing well, but I doubt he is directly involved in engineering.
The Optimistic Layer 2 Wars
whenever i reinstall a computer i have the same problem for like two weeks unless i just copy over the .mozilla directory from a previous install. and that's on an IP that is already accessing the same account on another computer. if you keep trying it may eventually work, but maybe not
Newly identified species of saber-toothed cat in North America during Miocene
> Fed and SEC etc all claim they want to make things safe for retail investors

The Fed makes no such claim and has no such mandate.

The SEC does, though it's hampered by its jurisdiction over securities and little else. Cryptocurrencies have succeeded, in part, by branding as and behaving like currencies more than securities. They operate in a space that likely requires legislation to be regulated.

> you will see a ton of regulations coming down like SOX to “protect” investors when we could have been protected RIGHT NOW, May 2021. It’s utter bullshit.

Rulemaking has a cost, economically and politically. For better or for worse, the most effective rule making tends to be reactionary. Regulating cryptocurrencies now would be political suicide. There isn't a clear cut, broadly comprehensible case for it.
To address the app and phone number concern I have; I doubt it's possible to remain a user of Google services without being forced to give them my phone number at least once, and even if they don't keep it, they'll keep a hash of it to bypass the spirit of the law, and track me across data brokers using a derivative of my phone number instead.

My guess is, if they aren't nagging you about verification by phone number, you've likely provided them with your number at least once in the past.

On a related note, there's been a push for supporting the Payment Services Directive (PSD2), which requires strong customer authentication (SCA) in most cases, which implies 2FA.
Are you suggesting that buying a home right now is a good decision?
Gell-man amnesia is the principle you're thinking of.
Yawn. People lose a lot of money in Las Vegas too. How about the government fucks off and lets us gamble how we see fit?
I would argue that "broadcasting" is lecturing not teaching though so the original point about not scaling stands
You don't need philosophy, you need action
> Regulating cryptocurrencies now would be political suicide.

That seems like a stretch. Most people wouldn't care, and the institutions that own it haven't bet that heavily on it. It's a fear-of-missing-out trade for the most part.
> Two similar societies warring over a trivial idea probably means neither is right.

Well, sure, that it’s a trivial idea pretty much inherently means either that neither is right or (and this is very much not an exclusive or) being right doesn’t matter.

The problem with real cases is that people inside the conflict don’t believe the idea is trivial (conversely, to people outside rhe conflict—or caught in the middle—even the conflicts we think of as about foundational ideas seem like trivial or irrelevant differences.)
You say it moves in tandem but the only time I’ve ever see it approach mathematical correlation was the Covid dump day when all markets were correlated.

Play around with the link I provided and see for yourself.

Watching charts we can see all sorts of things we think are correlated but mathematics provides a way to check if those things are real or noise.
You cannot fill two buckets at the same time. You're right though that from bird's eye view, they are both correlated with the overall amount of available money.
> I would like to use U2F, but some companies (looking at you AWS team) only allow 1 MFA method period. And that just doesn't work.

That doesn't seem like an objection to U2F (or its successor WebAuthn) but more a reason not to use it for AWS or perhaps, if you have an alternative that does offer decent authentication, not to use AWS at all.

In this particular topic for example, the failures of AWS are no reason to avoid using the Yubikey's safer FIDO/ FIDO2 mode for your Google account.
I just don't know what to do with my savings.

I have 80% of it in cash just losing value to inflation. 20% invested in ETFs and 0.1% in meme stocks and crypto.

Its no enough to buy a house (I need twice what I have now to reasonably finance a house, 2-3 more years of saving). It's really frustrating.
I guess the counterpoint to this would be to say that it's policy, not human stupidity which has led to the bubble. By keeping the interest rate at almost zero for over a decade, the fed has incentivized dumping money in the market, since there's really nowhere else to put it. And dumping trillions into the economy in the past year has only added fuel to the fire.

It can be argued that trying to "regulate away losses and negative outcomes" is exactly what has been happening over the past decade.
> Don't even know what this means. What coding standard is based on old TTY terminals? TTY is part of Linux.

I'm guessing they're trying to poke fun at people who care about your code being too wide, and hard to read?

(But, while I no longer stick to a strict 80 column limit, like I used to, wide lines in code sucks. A proud mutt using systems engineer.)
All this compiler sophistication represents a step backwards for binary interfaces. For example, C++ compilers emit such incredible machinery that it's essentially impossible for foreign code to interface with the compiled objects at the binary level. As a result everything eventually gets reduced to the C ABI: simple symbols and calling conventions.
The lesson of the Depression is that the Fed at the time sat on their ass and let the economy collapse around them instead of doing something. It had little to do with retail investor euphoria.
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Bitcoin was a stupid at a penny. $60,000 doesn't make it somehow smarter.

Everyone knows. No one is buying it because it's worth anything. They are buying it because they think there's someone more ignorant behind them to believe the lies.