skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DogeCoin is nothing more than a big meme and we are being taken advantage from rich people that know how to trick us.
Possibly some future demand for faraday-caged homes?
Can't speak for Denmark. But usually those border-checks are done couple km/miles after the border. Police will just stop "random" cars/trucks and do a "routine check".

And "random" it might be as much as 50% of the passing cars.
Perhaps... but cryptocurrency makes this far more blatant and obvious. It really is sold as some kind of pipe-dream and a miracle financial instrument.

Yet tell that to those who lost their shirts on Mt. Gox, Binance, any of the black swan events within the past few years, etc.

It's really a technology-packed MLM.
Yasss! I love how this illustrates the fact that anyone can get into coding.

I've tried helping career-stuck people learning to code and build apps, but I've found it difficult teaching them everything from the ground up.

As a mostly self taught developer, I do believe it's just matter of dedication and sheer will though, and thank you for proving that right.
> I hope the comeuppance isn't super destructive outside of cryptocurrency circles.

This is one of my concerns too. I sock away a healthy % of my income in to traditional investments, and I aspire to one day own a home I can raise a family in.

The current asset bubble, which I personally believe is the wedge driving cryptocurrency apart from reality, is really hurting those of us with these rather mundane aspirations.
You’ve conveniently ignored reinvested dividends that in turn fund future growth, splits, reverse splits, mergers and acquisitions...

That’s a very weak strawman.
> How is that different than in the stock market?

Stock holders own the underlying business and businesses do create wealth—all the inputs that are used in making a product are worth less that the product itself.
> ultimately none of these cryptocurrencies are any more useful than they were in 2019

If you really think this, you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about.

Don‘t base your opinion on DOGE. There are plenty of cryptocureencies with actual use cases that provide value.

I think it‘s pretty clear why you are convincing yourself of the opposite though:

> having considered putting a tiny % of my portfolio in to crypto not long before the pandemic and deciding against it

Don’t let that taint your judgement.
Time spent optimizing is time spent not adding features. /s

The "business value" of software optimization is not well known.
I was under the impression that dividends were essentially forced value selloffs, given that stock prices drop the exact amount of the dividend the moment it is paid.

How is value created during dividend payment?
I will definitely give this a go! Looks interesting!
> The European way should be to treat the EU as one country and stop restricting movement.

At least in Italy, movement was restricted inside regions (sometimes provinces) of the same country due to the epidemy.

It's not nice for anyone involved, but the primary goal is to stop/limit the contagion.
I'm an expat, so it goes against one of my interests, but I'm in favor of limiting border crossings, unless you can show that you won't spread COVID around.
Almost no organisation / judge / regulator / ... will hit someone with the full fine immediately. This is an incentive to comply not an attempt at killing the company. It seems to work since I haven't heard of gdpr ruling being repeated for the same offence so far. I expect the fine would just go up.
You can read this to see how modern java differs from the java 15 years ago: https://wittchen.io/posts/an-opinionated-guide-to-modern-jav...

Also the JVM is highly optimized, more stable and faster than most other runtimes (and it can run must of the other languages).
20-30 year olds outside of those few with $300k jobs on HN don’t have anything to lose.

Same reason people play the lottery
Government lays out plans to protect users online
It was “eating the word” when things were happening. Think the collapse of the SSSR, the transition period was politically intense waste of time. That doesn’t mean that it wasn’t for the better, eventually.

You must be thinking that inheritance taxes discussion or carbon emission limits are intense but no I’m not talking about that. I'm talking about situations where you decide if you like something or not depending to the political affiliation of its makers. Like the idea of a CV in a special format that comes from a Chinese company being instantly dismissed is an example of unnecessary politics.

Gradual changed are necessary, maybe full throttle are necessary too however the periods of “everything is about our battle in the politics” are huge waste of life’s.
Oh! I will have the chance to do this sometime soon! If I give it a go, I will update!
First of all it’s entirely false that it’s just “sick and old” people affected; there are also children and young adults with immune disorders who can live somewhat normal lives today because of minor sacrifices from others such as vaccinations. Secondly, sick and old people are also human beings who deserve consideration.

We mandate that people take all kinds of minor risks in life; that’s always been part of being in a society.

The reason vaccine advice is conservative is because anti-intellectualism and belief in conspiracy theories has gone off the charts and politicians now have to coddle these people. It’s a collective mental illness.
This keeps being parroted without any hint of proof
> dare you doubt human's destruction ability?..

I don't doubt human's ability. Which is why I fight those who don't seem to care about preserving earth. Who seem to overlap quite strongly woth those who believe that other planets may provide a viable alternative.

I don't doubt our ability to destroy earth, but I do doubt our ability to successfully live somewhere else.
Cerne Giant in Dorset dates from Anglo-Saxon times, analysis suggests
Wow yes. I hope they add more articles.. only email & internet so far
To truly "cash out", I think you would need to trade into stablecoins or various other coins with low transfer fees (tether, neo, ada) then transfer to a multitude of crypto exchanges who have high enough limits to start converting to fiat. Those with KYC would then report earnings to the IRS. There are some without KYC (KuCoin) which you might be able to hide some earnings. 3rd option is get it into bitcoin, fly offshore and start cashing out from Bitcoin ATMs or offshore banks.
Everyone in crypto and sat on a 5x gain tells you its the "early days" because they can afford to lose 80% and still shrug it off. It's easy to be chipper right now.

Go back to between early 2018 and early 2020 though and look at r/bitcoin and you'll see a bunch of people running themselves in to early graves with anxiety, following every twitch in the market and hyping up every news story about crypto to try and justify to themselves why they bought in.

Bitcoin could go to $1M/coin, but it might do that over a 3 month period 10 years from now after a decade of going nowhere.
If the fine was $1.7-3.4B, you can expect facebook to spend $1.6999-3.3999B on undoing that (or have already spent preventing that, e.g. front pages on newspapers for Apple's ATT feature in iOS 14.5). Looking at a forces perspective, facebook has more weight/ incentive behind it because they stand to lose a lot of money, Zuckerberg will be managing the situation. Governments works with none of these pressures or systems. Yesterday, I got back a complaint I submitted to the ICO (information commissioners office) in February 2021, asking for more information/ data. Responding to my complaint in that quality should've only taken less than 5 minutes.
I found that what gets to people is how expensive obvious stuff like running water would be on Mars.
>This is my fundamental disagreement with libertarianism: your statement "I want the free market to thrive and the state entirely out of everyone's lives" is a complete paradox.

The most extreme thought experiment of this is anarcho-capitalism. You quickly realize that without a security force it boils down to the law of the jungle. Someone else with a gun has better "security" than you and they can make you bend to their will.

With a privatized security force you still run into the problem that paying them doesn't obligate them to protect you. Military coups are common in nation states, it can only get worse if the only reason someone protects you is money, because they can just take your money. Having soldiers believe in their nation and all it's people is much harder to break. Having no loyalty is a problem. What do you do if your enemy simply hires your security force?
What if everything goes well but you simply run out of money?

Similar events happened in the Roman empire from 235 to 284. Armies declared their own leader the emperor. Most of them only ruled for 2 years until they ran out of money or simply died in battle. A lot of the ruling emperors had to devalue their currency to pay for their military.

There was even a case of someone outright buying the position of emperor in 193. [0]

>Julianus ascended the throne after buying it from the Praetorian Guard, who had assassinated his predecessor Pertinax. A civil war ensued in which three rival generals laid claim to the imperial throne. Septimius Severus, commander of the legions in Pannonia and the nearest of the generals to Rome, marched on the capital, gathering support along the way and routing cohorts of the Praetorian Guard Julianus sent to meet him. Abandoned by the Senate and the Praetorian Guard, Julianus was killed by a soldier in the palace and succeeded by Severus.

>When news of the public anger in Rome spread across the Empire, three influential generals, Pescennius Niger in Syria, Septimius Severus in Pannonia, and Clodius Albinus in Britain, each able to muster three legions, rebelled. They refused to accept Julianus' authority as emperor and instead declared themselves emperor.

Ah, yes, the free market. What really happens is that a replacement government will always fill the gap and you only get to choose between a good or bad government, not between government and no government and the only thing that protects you from bad foreign governments is a good domestic government and the ability to kick out bad domestic leaders via democracy.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didius_Julianus
Scientific approach requires you not to proclaim something as “true” if it’s likely that new information would change that.

The 5-sigma approach used in physics is science. The “no evidence of human-to-human transmission” used by the WHO isn’t science.
I see, if we had 0 pages of regulations, then banks would be ethical, then they would not create CDOs and then synthetic CDOs and destroy globaln economy.
Money changing hands changing hands that makes it look like it’s totally legit. Copy that.
Kenya shares census technology with other African countries
> Why would they be?

Because they were saved to the central photo place with WhatsApp, and she likes seeing all of her photos there.
> But isn't there value being created in actual legitimate blockchain projects like Filecoin and Storj (dropbox replacements)? For these slower growing coins, isn't the value coming from the utility of the product?

No. Cryptocurrency valuation is 100% driven by narrative, categorically.

Your post in and of itself exemplifies the narrative pumping rhetoric which is at the core of all cryptocurrency valuation. There are absolutely no exceptions to this, and that is not an exaggeration in any way.
> The stock market has other mechanism of value creation, one of them that the company distributes dividends which is money outside the stock market.

I'm not sure I would describe high-flying tech stocks with no dividends, trading at 30-70 times earnings as much different. How many investors are really snapping up these stocks because they're sold on the 30+ year value proposition?
> No one is giving up any "liberties" by getting vaccinated, but it's more likely they are acquiring liberties by getting vaccinated. At the very least it's the liberty of reducing the risk of dying.

As a person waiting to get his booster shot next week, I find this quite concerning. Those liberties we had and were taken away from us. Nobody cares about people dying. I am sitting now next to my mom who 1 month ago was diagnosed with terminal secondary cancer after all her check-ups were cancelled last year. So yeah, nobody gives a damn about anything else than seeming virtuos and better than others online. But no one cares any more about any other diseases or other people that are suffering, it’s all social signaling for the rich and well off people to show how moral they are, all while their lifestyle is supported by those that can’t afford to have any liberties.
This peg kind of worked because the government also introduced fiscal and monetary policy to contract the money supply at the same time. If you stick to old habits no one will believe the new currency won't inflate and you get stuck in the same cycle.

Pegs don't have a great history; the UK was painfully ejected from the ERM peg (which would be superseded by the Euro) and the 1998 Asian Financial Crisis brought an end to several USD pegs.
Yes, sustained growth of Apple over the past 20 years makes buying Apple stock an investment. Shareholder gains come either from dividends or stock buybacks (which is kinda the same), but not every uptick in the stock price is because of value creation.

Some stock price movements are also zero-sum. Active trading is zero-sum.
Love Skee Mask. New record came out last week and it's pretty good!

https://iliantape.bandcamp.com/album/itlp09-skee-mask-pool
once you're inside schengen, traveling between schengen countries is seamless and magical, whether or not you are an EU citizen.
How would you do that transaction though? Police won't pay for bogus tips, and if they already get a valid tip, what's the incentive to pay for it? What recourse would the tip giver have if they didn't pay?
I wish you well and all the best, nly. I hope we get out of this relatively unscathed.
I've had this idea on a back burner for a while, however having looked at your site, it's clearly being used by people for landing pages that get linked to from spam emails.

If that's how these services get abused, I'm glad now I didn't waste any time on my version :(
How do businesses create wealth?
>BATNA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_alternative_to_a_negotiat...

Today I learned.
Many medieval are called "shields" (ecú, scudo, ...) bacause they are marked with the noble coat of arms of who issues them. The coat of arms is rendered primarily in shields and shields are ore often featured directly in the coins
I'd be totally with you until 2 years ago. Now I'm not so certain. Can you truly look at TSLA and say that there's value creation behind that valuation? Or GME? And frankly, the dollar?

And if it's not the case for these pathetic cases, what does that say about the rest?

BTW I'm not arguing the dollar is worthless, especially not when compared to crypto, obviously the dollar has a lot more use than Bitcoin. But look at what rich people / money managers are doing with their dollars. If a Saudi prince is buying a painting by a student of Da Vinci for 450 billion dollars, what does that really say about the value of the dollar?

Things are not what they seem, I guess it's always been the case that quantities of money don't scale linearly in value but it seems particularly true today. And whatever is going on, it is foolish to dismiss cryptocurrency based on something that's not true for securities and not even for other currency.
I'm stringing you along because I don't believe you are acting in good faith.

You seriously didn't pay any attention to any news during the US election ratification process? You didn't pay any attention to the second impeachment of Trump that focused solely on this matter? You didn't listen to any of his speeches around the new year? You couldn't type "donald trump incite riot" into a search engine and sift through some of the 600,000+ results?

Either you are very bad at Google and pay no attention to news, neither of which seems very likely given the website we're on, or you are sealioning.

So, which is it?
Fair enough. My suspicions could be bunk and this GS employee really just made a leap of faith Hail Mary pass and won this way.
Yes, many people miss this. It's meant to replace banks and provide an alternate system of money. I have my hopes on Bitcoin Cash for this.
This always fascinates me. If you have wallets you know are bad, and wallets you know are good, how can you launder anything if you can trace every transaction down?
To flip it around, the stock had a higher price to begin with because it is expected to pay dividends. I don’t think anyone is saying that the dividends themselves are what creates value.
Shares price shows that they are weathering the public impression quite well. Sales on the other hand...
Value is created by the company making profits. How it uses those profits, whether by paying out dividends, buying back stock, or investing in the business, is mostly irrelevant to the value creation part.
Newly Declassified NSA Document on Cryptography in the 1970s
I suggest you take a look at ArduinoCLI. :)

https://github.com/arduino/arduino-cli/

Docs: https://arduino.github.io/arduino-cli/latest/
> people are now lining up to buy gas

Isn't this due to the pipeline cyberattack though? Completely unrelated to the other points I believe.
> Java is disliked on HN because it represent "enterprise" - big long-lived organizations which maintain a codebases for decades and therefore conservative

I work on mainframes and dislike Java. Conservatism is not a problem, my problem is I perceive lot of Java people being pretty smug, and they are just because Java is #1. (And I also worked in C#, so I know the difference. Java itself is not the thing that makes people smug about it, it's the position on the popularity ladder.)

I mean, if your approach is, we use this old and tested language, it has many warts, but works for us.. good.

If you go, well, we use this language, because it's #1, and therefore it's clearly the best in the world.. no, thanks. I know Forth and Lisp and Haskell, and I know the world out there, which you don't, so I know for a fact there are innovations that didn't make it to Java yet, or pretty badly.

To me, humility in programming is (partly) don't think your tool is the best just because it's the most popular one at the moment.

Finally, this perception of Java is changing (it is being slowly dethroned by Python and JS and other contenders), and with that will come more pragmatism (less of crazy OOP and patterns cargo cults), which will actually make it more likable in the future.
What about people buying time pieces (watches)?
That whole UX issue really needs more explanation. For low-tech usage: you open signal, you select who you want to talk to, you see/type a message. The interface is almost the same as WhatsApp which people of all ages use every day. What's "ridiculously hard to use" here?
They just want someone down the line to buy in to keep the grift going, honestly.
Indian here.

> what exactly does this mean?

That our response to the current wave has been tragic.

> Other countries did not have a corona virus wave?

Yes they did. However, we had the opportunity to learn from the tragic things that happened elsewhere and could have done stuff to prevent it/soften the blow but we didn't.
The problem is not that we "allowed" another wave to happen, but that we allowed people to die due to a lack of oxygen and ICU beds.
National Trust article, May 12 [1]: National Trust archaeologists surprised by likely age of Cerne Abbas giant

- includes video narrative with drone footage.

[1] https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/cerne-giant/news/national-t...
I hit the jackpot in 1999, when I was interning at a small brokerage in London as an IT gopher - the outfit a few floors below us had gone bust, and had just left their offices wide open, hardware heaped up for disposal. A coworker and I quickly whipped up an e-waste disposal flier, stuck it to their door, and lo and behold they were all too happy to have us take away all of their hardware for no charge. A lot of it went on eBay after being scrubbed, as I had rent to pay, but I ended up with a stack of sparcstations, an ultra 1, a few sgi machines and a bunch of decstations. I ended up selling the big sun servers (can’t remember models - one was about the size of a small refrigerator and styled like a 90’s Star Trek prop and the other was a full cabinet, and oh god they were noisy), but had a fascinating time setting them up and tinkering with them at home, and it was where I really first got to grips with unix sysadmin. Set myself up a small renderfarm, as I was dicking around with CG at the time, and later used a hodgepodge of machines to run simulations for my dissertation. I ultimately ended up repurposing the sparcstations into hysteresis testing stations and sold them to a pipeline company through the university. The rest, I still have, and when I have space (and power - I live off grid these days), I absolutely intend to burn many watts to have some fun reminiscing with long-past state-of-the-art hardware.
Different only in it's clothing, not the basic nature of it. "hiding the scam" in plain sight seems like a modern spin on so many things.
Pflege ist #NichtSelbstverständlich | Joko und Klaas

Edit: It's available on a german video on demand service maybe a vpn will work for you https://www.prosieben.de/tv/joko-klaas-gegen-prosieben/video...
“Stealing” from you is a very confrontational view of the situation.

In any negotiated situation, both sides can usually give a bit more until they reach their limit. Maybe the employee could offer an extra few hours of focussed work and the employer can offer an extra 5% salary. That’s where the negotiation lands.

That can flex on either side as leverage and options move, but it’s just business.

The alternative is to nail everyone to the wall in every negotiation but that doesn’t seem constructive long term.
Perhaps "bad" is not adjective you should use. From your description I would say such a programmer is "slow" and hopefully getting "faster" as they learn and gain experience.

As @andreareina points out, rate of completing work and the quality of that work are unrelated factors. In my experience many fast programmers turn out low quality work when you consider the amount of re-work their work requires over a period of time.
A CIA trap for Bin Laden led to vaccine hesitancy in Pakistan
> Frankly, cryptocurrency being invented and created was a huge mistake for society at large. I hope the comeuppance isn't super destructive outside of cryptocurrency circles.

Satoshi Nakamoto did nothing wrong: hard to imagine, but Bitcoin started out as a crummy C++ GUI Windows application hosted on SourceForge and adopted almost exclusively by batshit insane people. It had no value: you could CPU mine it on any ordinary Windows PC. Many people refused to do even that because of how worthless BTC was at the time.

Enter the Libertarian/profiteer cohort, and the rest is history. Really think a bunch of you need to redirect your anger at the ICO game. Try to imagine Vitalik Buterin hard selling a clear gray market IPO on Reddit in combination with a high pressure countdown timer, and lots of fancy lawyers and Swiss foundations. That — the fact so many bitcoins were raised so easily for so little — is what unleashed the hellfire shillnado that has become synonymous with cryptocurrency in the modern era.
Tulips weren't easily transferable, divisible, durable, in limited supply or fungible but hey, let's hear more about this original theory of yours.
I think you're both correct.

I find that the language itself is quite good, simple to use and has some nice features and performance... but the issues you mention are also there, however they're part of the frameworks and individual codebases.
That is the most brain-dead class analysis I have ever read. You can't be serious.
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