skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While watching the USSR collapse in real time, I noted a reporter say the core of the breakdown was inability to issue paychecks to bureaucrats. No pay = no bureaucracy = no government.

I've long wondered if that really was the case, seemed absolutely sensible...
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"At least" means more than or equal to. In other words, the 'least' it can be is 100 characters, with no upper bound.
> There’s no inherent value.

I don't see this as a good argument because all value is subjective. Value is not a property of nature that can be measured by an objective measure: it's a subjective assessment. There's no inherent value to anything, whether fiat, crypto, or even precious metals: it's all subjective.
If you're defining inherent value as functionality, crypto has significant utility through its mostly unique attributes, such as being permissionless, trustless, and borderless, among others. Without anybody's permission, I can send crypto anywhere in minutes (or even seconds, depending on the tech chosen). As useful as fiat and gold can be, try doing that with anything other than crypto.

> People can collectively decide that it has no worth and then you’re stuck with nothing.

Of course nobody knows the future and literally anything can happen. Who would have thought that in CURRENT_YEAR there'd be a series of events taking place that would make you a criminal to enter a bank WITHOUT wearing a mask.
Maybe Elon Musk can figure out how to mine asteroids and gold/silver might drop in value to near zero.
Or maybe the dollar might inflate its way to oblivion (IMO heading that way) like many fiat currencies have done before.
Of course, crypto might significantly drop in popularity too...who knows....but I think there's enough people out there that want a medium of exchange that cannot be inflated. If you're not yet angry about your savings being reduced to print ~infinite money, you will be soon. Bitcoin, as one example, is an asset that cannot be inflated: until the end of time, there can only ever be 21 million of them.

> We have seen the same thing over and over again in history with stuff like Bitcoin. Dotcom bust, housing bust, etc. I don’t believe Bitcoin will be anything different.

You can believe this, but IMO this is a bad argument and a fundamental misunderstanding of what the business cycle is caused by...this is a property of fiat, not crypto. When the government's national bank inflates the money supply by increasing the supply of currency, it reduces the rate of interest and can increase the price of some assets. This malinvestment is the boom and bust cycle we've seen in many other assets. Unless you're talking about some specific crypto that doesn't have a maximum number of units of account, this is impossible through crypto.

> When Bitcoin is actively being used as a currency and not speculation then that’s when I will change my mind.

I'm literally scratching my head because Bitcoin has been used to exchange goods and services for years now.

> It will go to zero soon afterwards in my opinion.

Cool beans. This is not financial advice, but if you want to make money on your hypothesis, you can short Bitcoin and make an absolute killing if you really believe that.
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His own lawyers admitted to it in documents they tried (and failed) to redact:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/manafort...

Because apparently we're going to pretend that NBCnews is somehow not a reputable news source, the link to the actual document so we can stop trying to change the subject:

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5677512/Manafort-...

Page 6, copy and paste the blacked out text:

>The same is true with regard to the Government’s allegation that Mr. Manafort lied about sharing polling
data with Mr. Kilimnik related to the 2016 presidential campaign. (See Doc. 460 at 6). The simple
fact that Mr. Manafort could not recall, or incorrectly recalled, specific events from his past
dealings with Mr. Kilimnik – but often (after being shown or told about relevant documents or
other evidence) corrected himself or clarified his responses – does not support a determination that
he intentionally lied.
I don't understand how that could be (!).
That's not an annoying thing, that's the whole feature. The point is to prevent people from avoiding the tax - if the tax was announced and not applied retroactively, people would change their behavior to avoid it (or sell right before the tax was raised). That's precisely what you want to avoid to be fair to everyone.

The point of a tax is to redistribute the money a government thinks should be redistributed to account for externalities in the market (and support social / infrastructure programs).
> Do you not get the flu shot every year?

I do not. I have never had a flu shot in my life.
First 100 Days
An Interview with the Developer of GamerOS
What the founders want is not terribly relevant for monopoly laws. They're for the protection of the consumers, not of the company owners.
They don’t mislead customers saying that they are the IRS. I view my CPA as a domain expert anyway so while I could do my own taxes and have done so in the past.. but I agree the IRS already basically knows everything.
From the article:

>In its entire history, only 43 individuals — all men, all white — have risen to the rank of Pictet managing partner, creating a bond more enduring than your typical marriage. From their Geneva perch, they oversee more than 600 billion francs ($662 billion) in assets under management and a level of profitability far beyond larger, publicly-listed peers, often rewarding each of them with more than 20 million francs a year.

>But in recent years, an unsettling new trend crept into Pictet, cracking the façade of corporate cohesion: key employees began leaving. Over the course of 2019, a dozen long-tenured relationship managers at the wealth unit departed. Within days in September of that year, four leading bankers from the team looking after Russian clients handed in their resignations. Bankers for Scandinavia and Israel followed, putting billions in assets under management at stake.

[...]

>Interviews with a dozen people familiar with Pictet’s private-wealth arm reveal a business at a crossroads, confronted with the reality that, in order to stay ahead, Switzerland’s preeminent private bank must adapt. That means embracing more risk and changing the client relationship — away from the concierge-like approach that endured for generations toward a more transactional model.
I posted to corroborate that FBI is able to access iCloud accounts, with what appears to me, minimal legal oversight.
Not really trying to convince anyone. But even the best arguments only fall on reasonable people's ears.

That would be a heavy burden to try convince someone that gets their world view from Borat, based on a staged scene in a fictional movie. You are right.

On a side note, tricking people to laugh at them, and to make money from their moment of ambush, and racial stereotypes is gross on many levels.

Instead of viewing people as only representatives of some ethnic group like "white man". Try treating them as individuals. People very more inside an ethnic group anyway. Perhaps your scorn should be directed towards tall people, or short people, the intersectional list is endless.
Nope, I can’t reliably depend on the score to indicate value. HN readers frequently post and upvote offtopic and inflammatory comments, leading to pages of discussions that have high integers but no value. Removing the display of positive integers from comments ought to curb these behaviors considerably.
It really is insane that after all these years, there are still updates being released for Amiga. Talk about dedication to a platform.
Skeema sounds something I would try, but fully open source is a must.
Thank you, I fixed it! You should have gotten a Getting Started email by now. And I changed the redirect to a different page.
on the front page already https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27156859
I have 14 pinned, those are tools I use at least daily at work.

Add in a page of search results, 3 or 4 of those opened, HN and some article I'm reading during "clear my head" time, and I'm at 20.

I'm usually working on multiple tasks, many of which take multiple days. I have tried to group tabs in windows thematically, but browsers are shit about respecting that (for instance when opening new tabs from other apps).

I'd rather read what's in my tabs than mess around with them, so I tend not to fight it.
I love Onetab as well. The problem I often have is sending a lot of tabs to Onetab, then never looking at them again. Which may not actually be a problem and more of an indication for how "important" the tab actually was.

The dream for me would be if Onetab has a search feature that allowed you to search the text on all the tabbed pages that you saved. Because sometimes you save a tab because of a specific topic, but the topic is not in the Title of the page and it can get lost in the clutter.

Or maybe more useful, a search service that just crawled the pages in your Chrome history, rather than the entire web.
I am currently at $3M liquid and plan to pull the plug at $5M, which hopefully won’t be in too long because I have private equity in a pre IPO unicorn…

My biggest fear is running out of funds, so I will maintain an irrationally low withdrawal rate of 1-1.5% during the first ~5 years of retirement, and up my spending after that, in the statistically likely event of those 5 years of frugality eliminating the sequence of return risk. I am 34.
Apple’s AirTags Are a Gift to Stalkers
How in the heck is Patel Brothers in competition with 99 Ranch or H Mart? They're completely different markets.
> it's not possible in US ... if you decrease your hours by one hour you will count as half-time employee and lose all benefits

/thread for US employees

really surprised 80 other comments ITT and no one else mentioning this
>And then tweaking assignments to not be video game focused

Our only program of any significance in CS101 was a space invaders clone, but because we were so inexperienced, they provided a project template where we really just had to fill in some methods with a bunch of for-loops. When we got to the later courses and had to write our programs from scratch, we really had no idea where to begin because the 101 coursework had done all of that for us.

The video game assignments were asinine because they were beyond our skill level to do from scratch, so their templates handled all the I/O for us and that part of the program was treated like a bunch of magical incantations. As a result, we never fully internalized how all the moving parts fit together, and it kept us from learning useful stuff like how to read/write from files or execute system commands.
I spent some time looking at similar specs for more recent browsers, but wasn't able to find anything useful. This was for a proof-of-concept I made that stores entire web pages in URLs (creatively named "URL Pages") by base64-encoding them and putting them in the URL fragment (the part after the "#").

https://github.com/jstrieb/urlpages

The URLs this thing generates get pretty damn big sometimes, since I never got around to implementing compression. I can confirm that massive URLs from pages with inline images do work, but probably take some not-so-optimized code paths because they make my computer's fans spin up. Click at your own peril:

https://git.io/Jss7V
Thank you! Let me know if you want any help getting set up!
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This is a terminological problem then, because many, many people argue "we" are neither civilized nor ruled by law. Furthermore, you could just write a law that says experimenting on serial killers is legal. You'd have to explain how that suddenly makes such a society uncivil, so either civility is the requirement or the law is the requirement, but not both.

So really, you're saying, "not according to our laws" which wasn't the question. It was a moral philosophical question, so your answer doesn't really address the question. It's not even on the same plane. Your answer is just a glib dismissal of the question's philosophical merit.
That is very true, and it's a nice differentiator relative to Electron— you still get your own app launcher and access to system APIs, but without shipping and launching the entirety of Chromium.
I think that's right if you already know how to use a shell, but if you don't yet know how to use any shell, or even know what a shell is, the bash book is not going to do you any favors.

Imagine handing this to a person who's never heard of a shell, doesn't know how to `cd` or `ls`:

https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/What-is-a...

> 1.2 What is a shell?

> At its base, a shell is simply a macro processor that executes commands. The term macro processor means functionality where text and symbols are expanded to create larger expressions.

> A Unix shell is both a command interpreter and a programming language. As a command interpreter, the shell provides the user interface to the rich set of GNU utilities. The programming language features allow these utilities to be combined. Files containing commands can be created, and become commands themselves. These new commands have the same status as system commands in directories such as /bin, allowing users or groups to establish custom environments to automate their common tasks.

"Macro processor?" "Expressions?" "Unix?" "Command interpreter?" "GNU utilities?" "Directories?" (you mean folders?) "/bin?" "Environments?"
True that. Finder is only slightly better than nautilus, but it gets beaten up by Dolphin badly. It would win outright for me with the "Press F4 for an integrated shell" feature alone.
"At least" seems like a very good way of introducing a DoS vector.

I think that 1024 was probably too short as a limit, but I think that it does make sense to impose an arbitrary upper bound to reject malformed requests early.

I don't see what you mean by "the HW vendor's problem", I can assure you that any browser in existence is going to have an issue if you send a 1TB URL, while the NIC will have no issue transmitting it.
My favorite thing about internationalization is that some languages have 6 different translations for different amounts.
Rust should not be a status symbol, but as someone very wary of Rust-hype myself, I'm very wary of the number of 1/2 developers out there.

There are people who pick up a few lines of JS, a few lines of Python and are technically 'developers'.

There are others with much stronger fundamentals.

PG was big on using arcane languages as a form of natural selection, Rust may be nice for that, in the sense that I think anyone who can approach rust and make an app with it, probably fits in the 'developer' camp at least on some level.

I like it because when looking for C++ people, I also want people who have enough self-awareness, and Rust makes you think about things in a different way, and at least contemplate some of the bad habits that exist in C++.
Well, now you have to pay 28% in taxes on the liquidated value rather than 30% on the full value. You don't actually get the same amount.

If you had X, you would pay 0.3X in taxes - if you got liquidated at 0.7X, you pay (0.7X * ~0.28 = 0.2X in taxes). So in this case your net goes from 0.7X to 0.5X, not stays the same.

What you can do is get a hedge (short via futures or options) on your long position to flatten yourself against the market (or part of your position) - basically creating synthetic dollars, and then take out a loan against that. The only problem is margin maintenance on the futures position or rolling the option for however long you need the loan for (Likely you would do this option if you want to spread out liquidating your crypto over multiple years for more favorable tax treatment).
Now this is a quality comment on the speculation of new and advanced technology for saving peoples lives.
"So Sergey has pulled the inevitable exit scam, proving yet again, that there really is no honour amongst thieves.

I sincerely hope that no companies had paid the Tsar’s ransom before Sergey headed off for his dacha in the Urals. Forking out millions and still having your network out would be a bitter pill indeed to swallow."
> How did this concept proliferate and propagate without the internet, or at least written records?

I'm perplexed by the author's perplexity. Isn't it obvious that short sayings like this (and other similar things, e.g. children's playground rhymes) propagate orally?
I worked with a Corba based system back in the nineties and what killed ours wasn't network costs, it was circular hidden dependencies making the system fragile.

The support guys had a complicated procedure for restarting it that involved a very carefully orchestrated sequence, which sometimes didn't work so they had to start from scratch.

It was awful to watch.
Yes, even better because the smart contract execution is private and all the variables (receiver, quantity) are only temporarily stored with the validator’s SGX chips and not onchain.

Less liquidity there, for now. Meaning the exits would more likely be the same beneficial owner, but definitely an additional route for liquidity.

Similarly, I think there should be a version of Tornado.cash that stores notes in SGX and Secure Enclaves, as enough devices have this now. (Although that forces only one device to have the note. Instead of a transferable IOU)

How well does Keplr or Cosmos wallets work over Tor? Are their any onion nodes that can resolve broadcasted transactions?
> But if it's not a wireless, split, ergonomic keyboard, I am not interested

Not wireless, but I've recnetly gotten a ZSA Moonlander [1] keyboard and I'm in love. It's wonderful. Like the System76 one, it's open source and you store the keyboard config on-device.

[1] https://www.zsa.io/moonlander/
Safari on iOS actually does that exact thing when the device is in landscape mode.
Ask HN: Tips for Memorizing Code?
My DSA class requires I memorize both algorithms and code for algorithms. While it's my understanding that memorizing algorithms is where I should put most of my effort, I lost a substantial amount of points on last semester's final for not knowing code (even when I knew the corresponding algorithm). Does anyone have any techniques to memorize code?
> HMRC does sometimes make mistakes with people's tax codes, resulting in
> the wrong amount being taken off your pay, and your employer doesn't
> (and can't) correct those mistakes for you

That is correct. However, HMRC sends you a letter with every tax code change, which is calculated and posted automatically; I've once received two separate letters, with two different tax codes, sent literally one day apart from each other. :D

And if you feel that you tax code is incorrect it is very easy to check your online HNRC account and correct any information they might have.
Like I said, unethical and unskilled losers.
Hehe. Reminds me of Freaking Huge URL, which sadly is no longer with us.

https://lifehacker.com/freaking-huge-url-lengthens-too-short...
Lets not forget a lot of the images they were showing of plastic bags in car trunks were stock photos from Mexican fuel smugglers etc, media was used to fuel panic to protect the oil company, and justify retaliation.
Thanks, and thanks for getting it. :)
I'd say it isn't. IQ is the best thing we've found for measuring people's intelligence so far. That doesn't mean that it explains all the variance in people's results but I'm pretty sure it explains the majority of it, through the g factor. So it's not perfect, or maybe even very good, but I'd say it's still very far from "bad".
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> No more braces necessary

Optional braces seems like a weird feature to me. I would prefer consistently. I think a language should either be "bracey" or not. Just pick one!
Court allows Irish regulator to proceed with inquiry into Facebook data flows
I love long URLs and build them into my apps for sharing. You can have powerful apps that are 100% clientside and use just a dumb file web server.

For example, here's a URL that contains both the grammar for a language that compiles to CSS and also example code. Works like a charm.

https://jtree.treenotation.org/designer/#grammar%0A%20toolin...
How is this different than burying gold?
Evolution is not a moral obligation; it's just the best nature could manage without thinking.

If civilization crumbles, then natural selection will take the reins and a lot of people will die, but that's not a goal we should aim for.
Hi Hieu, thank you! That's a great way to explain it: dynamic HTML. I should use that.

Let me know if you need any help getting set up. I can hop on a video call if you want.
But wouldn't the response the mockup gets only work for that page, not something they could pass through?

If any page can request any other pages response that'd make the whole system pointless
I misused someone's credentials with good intent. It's an example of why intent matters, and the CFAA (and lots of other laws) includes wording like "knowingly and with intent to x" in quite a few spots.
HN is full of assholes who practice deprecating others to find their own worth. Set yourself free of their dogma and change the world the way you see it!
It started off as an allegedly positive thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_smoke_enema
And here's the answer to the sibling asking why it's a problem, since they mean exactly the same on practice :)

What it literally means and what people understand when reading it aren't the same thing. On this case, for people creating sites, "up to" leads immediately into the real meaning of the phrase, while "at least" strongly implies the opposite. But for people creating browsers, the implication is inverted.
I wish there was a way to completely force firefox to keep only one window open.

I imagine that would help with my tab-hoarding, as I tend to branch into more windows (up to ~50) once they reach too many (20 or so) tabs each.