skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think zx is a neat project but it's important to clarify that it is not endorsed or attached to Google in any capacity. The Google account on GitHub is open for Google employees to post their pet open source projects, but they are otherwise entirely the responsibility of those employees.
:) unfalsifiable to breakdown a belief system as only some relatable combination within that system would behave this way right
High-wage-high-cost and medium-wage-medium-cost arrangements are on balance pretty similar for the employee. Dramatically higher taxes on the former will push people to the latter. Which, as you note, they can do without even changing employers. There might be some lens through which this is good. Decentralization, or inequality. But tax revenue from this cohort will go down, not up, because there’s so much less income to tax in the first place.
Monero currently cannot be traced. All known weaknesses currently require correlation with exchange metadata, they can be avoided by simply not transacting through the exchange.
Maybe I care too much about market power and consolidation, but this part struck me:

> [Simple] was purchased by BBVA in 2014.
> BBVA said in January that it would be shutting down Simple later in 2021. The decision came from the company “reassessing its goals” as part of a planned sale to PNC Bank, which reached an agreement to acquire BBVA’s US operations in November 2020.

The consolidation problem seems to be getting worse everywhere. [1]. Gotta imagine they're connected.

[2] https://concentrationcrisis.openmarketsinstitute.org/
And if I want automatic previews because that's convenient but not for shows and movies to start themselves because that's annoying?
To me, planes are still mesmerizing, as they are so big that it doesn't seem like they move fast enough to achieve lift off. It's magic.
As per the article:

> The emergency status enables fuel to be transported by road.
So, a very limited state of emergency which allows fuel that is ordinarily piped to be transported by truck.

Ancillarily, It's not evident this cyberattack actually compromised the industrial controls, but rather trashed the administrative system controlling the controls.
This is a very privileged viewpoint
There are many theories in this space to consider and we can't feasibly consider them all. Some amount of rigidity is of course required to even begin probing into something new.

Since humans have finite lifespans, we all develop some heuristics (probably heavily biased ones) to serve as filters for what is efficient to consider.

As such, one of my (again, heavily biased) filters are any such claims that meditation could have an outsized impact on the level of deviance/crime in the Washington DC.

" We present the published results of a National Demonstration Project-in which 4,000 advanced meditators markedly reduced violent crime in Washington, DC."

I simply don't have time to consider this as my personal biases are telling me to ignore it and that it is bad science.

Furthermore, the researcher here very frequently makes use of highly theoretical and even unproven concepts such as string theory and a particular variant of the multiple universes idea which has also not been proven. Both are presented misleadingly as concrete fact rather than assumptions made. I dislike being misled and distrust the researcher moreso because of that.

I assume your biases are quite different from mine. I assume some level of experimentation with hallucinogenic drugs may be involved? No judgement - I've just seen lots of similar appeals to philosophical interpretations of physics from other LSD users I know.
Inflation means consumer's purchasing power remains the same, regardless of money supply. Therefore in an inflated economy people won't have the extra money now to subscribe to Netflix as they still are struggling to make ends meet even with the extra money, as everything else has increased in price proportional to his income increase.
No but they want to get a reputation that paying them makes the problem go away. With that reputation, more people will pay instead of thinking it's a waste of money as the data are gone one way or another.
Eastern Washington gets plenty of sun and it’s not that far as grids go.
This is pretty unfortunate. I loved using Simple for three or so years; it was my first independent bank account. It was a great app and beautiful design with innovative banking features, like budgeting and super easy high-interest savings accounts. As soon as I heard about the shutdown I closed my accounts and moved away from Simple, and it seems like it was the right decision.

For anyone looking for an alternative, I'm using Wealthfront Cash now and I highly recommend it. They used to have super great interest rates but are now at about 0.10% APY, which is worse than others (I think you can get up to 0.50% APY right now at other places, with caveats). Although I keep minimal cash so it's not a huge difference. They do track the Fed interest rates pretty well, so I think many of the alternatives are just behind and will eventually have to lower their interest rates too. They have some nice features that Simple used to, like different categories and automatic savings/transfer to investment. The one sticking point is that they don't support cash deposits (perhaps it's possible through their partner Green Dot?), so I use a big bank checking account for that and nothing else.
That's correct and I agree. But you were asking about watching things, not studying them in depth :).
yeah, can transfer my account due to technical issues.. ffs
No, you’d break even after 10 years, actually less than even due to inflation. Then add on top maintenance, property taxes, opportunity cost of your down payment (market was up 107% over that period).

Again, not saying you can make good money but there is no reason why the opposite can’t happen.
> The US Gov should make it clear, if you are a critical service and if your service drops due to items being on the internet, for each occurances 10% of your total revenue (including your parent companies) are forfeited.

I would love to see this but somehow I doubt it will happen any more than my pipe dream of holding the CXO and the board criminally liable for the criminal actions of management/employees/contractors/agents of a corporation during the course of their work for the corporation.

It is nice to dream though. I would certainly welcome any kind of accountability.
I generally agree on not choosing dividend stocks (a solid ETF can include a reasonable dividend payout, which feels more like a bonus), but just a note that the tax rate on qualified dividends is the same as long term capital gains (0%, 15%, 20%).

Not all dividends can be qualified (payouts from REITs for example are a common exception), but most typical blue chip stocks that pay dividends will become qualified after holding the underlying asset for enough time.
> I'd argue that it's actually more complex now. I programmed in the early 1980s, and did have to worry about where my data physically resided inside the machine, but I never had to worry about whether it was in a different room on a different machine, or sitting on a hard drive in some Amazon Data Center a continent away.

Oof, I hear that. That’s just the tip of the iceberg. We also design for those computers being deleted or disconnected spontaneously. Even more complex than designing distributed systems (in my opinion) is designing the continuous deployment systems which get our code from git to running in production (without running incompatible versions of services even for a moment). It certainly makes the idea of writing single-host software seem simple and romantic.
Are you proposing that iOS might be so broken it's impossible to flawlessly copy a handful of screen-size rendering buffers at 120Hz? Because if you can do that, then it's possible to make a flawless no-lag non-native 120Hz UI.
I suspect the confounding variable is that late 20’s/early 30’s is when most people have kids. Happiness levels improve in late 50’s when kids are out of the house.

Kids may be “a complete joy and the best thing you’ve ever done”, but they’re also a huge financial burden, source of stress, and limiter on doing what you wanna do.
You can definitely find a used vending machine on craigslist. I see them regularly. Buying one isn't the hard part (maybe moving it). As others have said, finding a location for it and keeping it stocked is the hard part.
Mmm, it's still best taken with a small pile of salt. If you spend much time editing in any topic area, you will quickly find a few editors with a lot of time on their hands and a particular bone to pick. These people can be exhausting and tend to get their way, so particular biases don't get corrected.

It's still "the world according to people with the most free time (and sometimes strong opinions)". Which mostly works out, but... yeah. Keep that salt handy.
Workaholism is only one of the many addictions people trap themselves into. The pursuit of a reward is part of the mammalian makeup. Then there is the need to escape due to the "fight or flight" response. There are many good techniques to address these core issues in our makeup.
I said that in another thread already but 1mg selegiline daily is worth a try, it shows spectacular results in rodents and at worst don't harm humans while restoring dopamine levels.
I remember laughing when I first saw what the villain of the movie Hackers was plotting.

Now almost 30 years later it seems prophetic.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0113243/
Anyone know what went wrong at Simple (if anything) that led to them selling to BBVA?
Why do you think you can tell other people what is meaningful to them? Your statements are incredibly arrogant. And empty.
GPL License (?)

https://github.com/logicalclocks/rondb
> That's why Monero devs keep trying to increase the ring size.

Is there anything stopping them? It is my understanding that larger signature rings are always better. Currently it seems to be fixed at 11 signatures. Why not a larger number?

https://www.getmonero.org/resources/moneropedia/ring-size.ht...
Fair enough. Not something you can spot with a naked eye, though. In this sense, when I'm looking at the night sky, I find satellites more interesting than stars.

(My favorite thing to spot were always Iridium flares. I miss those.)
Interview: Canon's Larry Thorpe reflects on 60 years in the business
No, the point is that a daughter would not need inheritance as much if she marries well. She would still get something, just not the lion share. Everyone benefits that way. That’s actually philogyny.
NIST Cyber Security Framework is the new hotness for enterprise cybersec. Pretty good if you ask me.

This is a nice summary though, for a personal blog. Props to the author for taking the time to put their thoughts out there.

I would emphasize the "threat model" idea whenever you go down a rabbit hole of security. "What kind of bad actors could try to access my network/data, and how hard do I want to protect against it?"

I used to be more paranoid about storing certain data in the cloud. Why would I put my highly encrypted password safe file on my Google Cloud? The NSA could get it!

Listen, if you're being targeted by the nation-state, you have 99 problems. So always balance that usability with reasonable security that aligns with your realistic threat model.
Melinda Gates tapped divorce lawyers in 2019 after Epstein links to husband
That gang may have bitten off more than they can chew. They've now gotten the US government involved officially, which means that beyond the sheer mass of resources that will go into tracking this gang, the government also has something to prove now.

Being at the center of an international incident is probably not good for business.
Wow. This is fantastic writing. I’m not a big reader, and I was unaware of Robin Hobb.

This definitely makes me want to read more of her stuff though. Kudos!
ransomware is full disk encrpytion but you dont know the key. this is hard to do with modern bios settings. Upgrading to windows 10 makes ransomware much harder to install.
Starting the worlds first V8 powered Tesla
> I'd say inheritance is NOT a good use-case for Person / Employee

Good call. If I wanted Person distinct from Employee, how I'd probably start, in an analysis model, is have Employment as an association/relationship between Person and Company.

In my meta-model, associations like Employment can have attributes, and that might be where things like "employee number" and "salary" come in.

And, taking that a little further, we can represent the history of how things like salary change over time.

(Meanwhile, a project that went with only an Employee record/object might not have saved any coding time initially, and they're quickly piling on expensive, hard-to-maintain kludges, just to meet evolving business needs. Even the first time an employee got a raise, they might've already been hitting incorrectness cases, just trying to get two parts of the system to use the right salary for the right time.)
You can block individual channels from recommendations ("Don't recommend channel").
That's quite removed from reality. In java8+ you'd have to import a BiFunction class to be able to talk about a fold. Don't underestimate the mainstream.
> I like how they are charging 10% more if you pay with Bitcoin than with Monero.

I smell a business opportunity... Kick off a ransomware attack and accept Bitcoin or a Shitcoin at a 30% discount.

Some shitcoins have such little liquidity... a 50k buy would push their price off by hundreds of percentage points. You can even refund their money back after they pay... a modern day pump/dump.

The thing about being an ethical player in unethical markets is coming up with ideas that could make you richer but not wanting break laws / be a terrible person.
By reclaiming* his estate to the community he created.
A litle more than 100 years ago.

*If someone creates a digital museum for the free culture and its founders. It would make Aaron Swartz richer in various ways.
Aww, if only Australia's 2G network were still up and running (it got turned down back when dinosaurs still roamed the earth :/), and 3G's getting nuked in 3 years as well.

These tiny things are so cheap!! Wow... but thinking about it, I'm not seeing SIMCom's logo in the corner, so it looks like some no-name factory somewhere has basically cloned the entire chip. Which is pretty incredible considering everything it does.
Thanks for taking the time to detail this out.
>In an attempt to lure newcomers, Santa Fiora in Tuscany and Rieti in Lazio will pay up to 50% of the rent of anyone who decides to move and telecommute on a long-term basis.

Not spot on at all.
>But millions of us overwork because somehow we think it’s exciting – a status symbol that puts us on the path to success, whether we define that by wealth or an Instagram post that makes it seem like we're living a dream life with a dream job.

Work _IS_ exciting if it fits with one's target. I think the key takeaway is that one _CAN_ love his work, or at least part of it, which results in overwork, which is normal and even should be encouraged. But none should be forced to overwork in the ideal world.

>"We glorify the lifestyle, and the lifestyle is: you breathe something, you sleep with something, you wake up and work on it all day long, then you go to sleep," says Anat Lechner, clinical associate professor of management at New York University. "Again and again and again."

IMO this is actually indeed the ideal way to live. You burn your life for something you love. You live with it, expose your soul to it and you bet all your awaken time on it. Gekko, regardless whether his actions were legal or not, indeed worked the job he loved and as a fund manager he had his way in the fund. This is perfect for anyone.

On my side, let's just say that work, albeit that 80% of it is boring, is still a lot more interesting than non-work, that includes changing diapers, cooking meals and others. Plus it pays the bills.
Inflation was not high in 1945-1970. It was high after 1970.
Because: it’s sold to those for whom untold fortunes may arise. It’s re-sold to every two-bit manager and unfortunate employee inside the rest of the economy.
This is just irony. Try not to read too hard into it.
It was an honest question. It didn’t mess up any googling. I just don’t know anything about the particular legal structure/origin/whatever of the court you brought up, and so I had no way to know if the slight difference in name was meaningful or not.
I seriously don't understand why the pipeline operators don't have some contingency plan or have simulated scenarios like this which enables them to roll-back systems immediately to some usable state.

How the hell is some random ransomware gang able to shut down critical infrastructure at purely a software level
You're right, CBD, turmeric, Raspberry lactone, chlorophylls, resveratrol, colloidal silver...
Something that always throws me off is web apps. I'll be looking at docs or something in one tab and then want to interact with something in another tab but will naturally reach for the taskbar to switch from reading to interacting. Breaking the web app off into another window helps a bit, but it still ends up grouped under the browser. Switching to non-grouped taskbar buttons might help, but in general I prefer having them grouped.
I'm not telling you about some people, but about very specific person with specific experiences - my grandmother. The war period did not look the same to everyone.

And yes, I'm telling you that my grandmother herself has better memories of Germans than Red Army soldiers. She was a nice blond girl who knew a bit of German and that was according to her helping her a lot with Germans. But she had to hide from front line Red Army soldiers because everyone knew that they were mass raping women.

The worst direct story about about Germans in my family is that one of my great grandfathers was forced as a recruit into Wehrmacht. Germans threatened to kill the whole family if we would not agree. He probably died somewhere on front lines, but nobody knows what exactly happened to him.
http://archive.is/rTLT5
It'd be great to know what invidious is in the first place. No description of it in the docs site, and the main site is an empty placeholder. Super.
Oh I'm not saying we force people to do space jobs or livings, only that it should wayyyyy more accessible and common than it currently is and certain sectors of the economy will need to support that. It gives us more of what we can't realistically create on Earth, which is more land.

The American dream is a challenge for people now. If we advance to where it's no longer a challenge because the pieces of that are plentiful and cheap and is given to everyone by virtue of existing, then we need a higher challenge because we've essentially "solved survival on Earth" and must now expand. IMO it's way better than just becoming an economy that focuses on producing luxuries or inventing new financial gadgets.
http://archive.is/6tQE5
This has been happening everywhere over the last decade or so, and it's the result of super loose fiscal policy. When debt is cheap for megacorps, banks and high net worth individual, money creation goes into over-drive, but not for cash strapped companies or individuals. Central banks doubled down on this last year as well -- it's debatable whether it's what they had to do or not but at this point I'm convinced all central banks really do is start bubbles and encourage moral hazard. Monopolies and duopolies emerging left and right.

"Tech" Startups these days look more and more like convenient customer/innovation acquisition vehicles for inevitable big fish and less like small businesses.
Thanks! Looking forward to you trying it!
I feel you are making a very big and incorrect generalization about all workers based on a study of World War 1 factory workers.
fascinating and informative talk. highly recommend to listen if you want to learn more about Ethereum.

My short summary:

a) In Ethereum, smart contracts must execute calls to other contracts within a 'single transaction'. A transaction can be rolled back or committed.

b) if an engineer of contract missed a step a call,
but a transaction is committed, there is no way to reverse/cancel it.

c) In this specific case a person executed steps in a transaction, but missed one of the steps.
That step was to 'retrieve' the money due to him/her from another exchange contract, after sending to it some valuable tokens.

d) so the money were not retrieved (I think worth 12K USD).

e) On Ethereum, it is possible to execute steps, ahead of another user, if you offered to pay more 'gas'.
Meaning that somebody could call the 'retrieve money' from a contract, if they paid more 'gas' for that call, and if you failed to execute 'retrieve money' from within
a transaction you started earlier.

f) there are these complex/powerfull boats on etherium
that examine the call stack of 'interesting' contracts.
Then decide to 'front run' them, to see if they get
unclaimed money due to the mistake.

g) This is what happened in the situation described in this audio clip.

The user who made a mistake (represented by this researcher/engineering team) - tried to reclaim the lost money by executing another transaction (as the original transaction was committed, so no way to reverse it).

But a bot noticed what they are doing, paid more 'gas' and executed that in front of them -- and got the money.
So the rescue operation was not successful.
But existence of these powerful bots witnessed.

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There was also an interesting philosophical discussion, where an environment were the smartest, the most inventive and the most resourceful win -- can lead to life depleting competition that never ends until the most powerful wins.

And what type of governing system could prevent that, without unfairness, selectivity and corruption that typically comes (at later stages) -- with the 'oversight'.
I generally agree with your points, I might disagree on whether the personality is necessarily the key driver, after all, if you don’t meet the right people, they don’t get a chance to be charmed. But that doesn’t take away from the core of your point.

The sort of meta-comment that I think the article kind of doesn’t address at all is that there’s a lot of personal growth and development books that are all about “core competency”. Figure out what your core competency is and double down on that, make sure that is tended and watered and growing every single day, because that’s the thing you do better than other people.

Sam’s core competency is presumably being a doctor, but he has all these distractions. The author can say “passive income”, but it’s a drag even when things don’t go as wrong as my overwrought scenario. My father had a ton of “side hustles”, and some worked better than others, but they were all some amount of psychic drag on his attention and focus.

Mark isn’t necessarily doing the right thing from that perspective either, but we could imagine a third person, Alice. Alice is making the same money, but instead of either of the two previous paths, she devoted her free time to working in a clinic, did research, wrote papers, went to conferences. She studied on her own time, and worked to improve her craft and reputation. She hires an accountant to deal with her taxes, a money manager (or roboadvisor) for investments, outsources everything so she can focus on being the best at what she does.

That seems pretty likely to yield dividends too, imho.
"An idle mind is the devil's workshop" was the exact quote.
That's an awful thing to say.

I think a better response would be "why are you proud of having less free time than me?" I remember in school people would often brag about how little sleep they got and when they said that to me I'd say "why are you proud of how unhealthy your life is?" I would NOT say "sucks for you that you're too dumb to study enough and get to bed by 11". That would be a dick move.