skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends a lot on your network and pure luck.

Here's an example of how much it can matter:

* I co-founded my first company with people I met at university.

* We got our first investor thanks to a chance encounter between said investor and one of my co-founders at a bar.

* When we exited that company, our investors lawyer arranged a meeting for us with another of his clients, who hired us.

* One of the execs at that company hired me for his next startup, and introduced me to his brothers, so I could work part-time for them until he got funding.

* One of my co-workers at that company was one of my co-founders at my next company, and our other co-founders were friends of that person. One of them had worked for the VCs who invested in our first round.

* [I went to Yahoo for a couple of years -- no connections there.]

* The general counsel at my last pre-Yahoo startup pulled me into my next startup.

* [I then went to a web dev agency, no connections there]

* The co-founder of the company I worked at before the web-dev agency contacted me about some contracting, and I ended up joining full time (my current job)

So Yahoo and the web dev agency are the only places I've worked over the last 26 years where my resume has mattered. Even then, at the web-dev agency I name-dropped one of people who'd hired me previously, and it impressed them, so who knows how much my resume really mattered there either.
Please keep contradicting me as it just exposes your ignorance.
I've always been a bit suspicious of this idea of unrealized potential. You can take anyone and put them in the perfect situation with motivation and there's a good chance they'll succeed. Just as much as a poor child could have the potential to present revolutionary ideas as Einstein did, how many people working in adtech for example could have become revolutionary mathematicians if they put their effort and focus into it? You can apply it to literally anything
Real-time AI video processing in the browser
it reminds me of the time I "hacked" a strip poker game on my C64. I noticed some files on disk had a number after them and assumed they were images. I just reversed the numbers and voila, I started out with a naked lady that gradually got clothed. I didn't really care to learn poker anymore after that.
I wonder how viable a sort of "micro PE" firm would be, basically a company that just buys many of these micro indie projects with positive cash flow with the goal of holding on to them for profit or investing into their operations and eventually reselling them.

There's been this trend of new firms popping up that acquire small ecommerce brands (in fact, there was one on HN just the other day). I'm wondering if the same model can (or has) been applied to small "indie" companies and projects.
Things like Spotify links turning into an embed widget.

I've used the bots api for slack and discord in a corporate environment. Compared to that the matrix api is horribly behind and unreliable.
Wait Elixir didn't have a good approach for env vars until recently?

That is like, item one on my list of things I need to be able to handle in a backend web application.
I believe there are bitcoin futures yes.
I said "relatively slim". I actually meant by that a bit of a tummy, but not morbidly obese. I'm not recommending six packs for all. God knows I don't have one.

Also, being "overweight" could be for a variety of reasons, including excess muscle. I'd be interested to see mortality correlated with % body fat.
My review of the Moonlander MK1 split keyboard
It gets harder every day to take seriously the people that say this is a viable currency alternative
Well lucky you, that you always get download-and-compile rights on any machine you access. Not everyone is so lucky.
Temporary. Back up to $37K now.
Matrix DOES NOT require an email or phone#.
He also cares about Tesla stock price though, and that is significantly down today since they have so much Bitcoin holdings.
Does it matter? The economic stimulus money "simply appeared" when checks were printed or payments were direct deposited.
>A group of Jewish Google employees is calling on the company to increase its support of Palestinians amid Israel’s deadly bombing campaign in Gaza.

I don't see how anyone could not support this. Guess I'm biased.
The probability of BTC going to zero is very very low, the probability of you not winning the lotto is very very high.
Naturally occurring Ponzi scheme is the term of art:

https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/19358
It is hard not to be negative about something with such a huge environmental impact that doesn't seem to do anything but let gamblers gamble.
The stock market has plunged 30% in a short period of time. Sure, it might be over a few weeks as opposed to days, but that's just a quantitative difference, not qualitative.

The main value propositions behind bitcoin are:

- stable store of value in its end state (minimal inflation)(note: you'll see wild fluctuations during the interim period where its future is uncertain)

- not under the control of any government or central authority (no risk of hyperinflation)

- easy to store in large quantities (you don't need to buy a large vault just to store all your bitcoin)

- easy to trade in large quantities (you don't need to hire trucks to transport your bitcoin)

- easy to hide from a predatory tax regime (ie, communist takeovers)

- may one day be accepted as a common currency for the above reasons, just like gold 100 years ago

Investing in bitcoin is like investing in a startup. There are no guarantees, its value proposition is contentious, and it requires a leap of faith. I personally refuse to speculate on its success. But I don't see anything innately nonsensical or zero-sum about it
I used gold as an analogy. I have no idea if gold crashed today because I don't own any, just like I don't own any bitcoin.
Yes, well, when you live with them as next door neighbors you find that they have as many angels and scoundrels, as many wise and as many fools as any other group. The practicalities of their life are different, but they are people like you and me — different priorities.
A lot of questions here:

> christel, now former head of freenode staff sold `freenode ltd` (a holding company) to a third party

why was the previous owner/director(s) of this company (presumably christel) and what rights did they have to sell - and where did the money go?

EDIT: yes https://opencorporates.com/companies/gb/10308021
also, it is claimed by AL that christel was harrassed. Fuchs contests this.

> it seems that Andrew Lee - despite zero involvement in the day-to-day operations of Freenode - has decided that ownership of the domains entitles him to ownership of Freenode as a network and community, and intended to give his own people administrative access to the network

so, did AL get access to "the network" and if so, how? It seems AL sponsored ~3k/month, but did they also sponsor, and thus control, the hardware too?

> this company has absolutely no operational involvement. It does not own any servers, it does not employ any of the staff

Then why are staff resigning? What are they resigning from?

> The democratically elected ... were removed by force[3]

The link shows the 'people' page listing different people in various roles. What does "changed by force means"?
That someone was able to edit a webpage? Or something more (like access revoked)?

How did the website content get changed? By someone with access to the original site, or a clone? Was the domain redirected at any point?

EDIT: AL claims "tomaw" changed the staff page. Fuchs says he made the change - which further complicates what is meant by "by force"...

> have been informed that they are not entitled to act in their respective capacity

How, and by who?
Pilots? Airliners? The PIA in question is Private Internet Access, a VPN company. Unless a VPN company also flies planes?
If you do AGC, you'll already be more usable than Discord, who apparently refuse to implement this. Whenever we're voice chatting in my group, it's extremely annoying that one person is quiet as a whisper and the other is AT 200% VOLUME AND CLIPPING.
dydx is the first that comes to mind. There are also lots of collateralized loan providers (aave, ruler, alphahomora etc) that are probably seeing billions of dollars of liquidations.
The price of gold doesn't drop 30% in a day...
I can’t find the source, but early days of contact tracing I think there were some outdoor transmissions identified, but it was in the low single digits compared to tens of thousands identified indoors.

If you’re outside and whispering in someone’s ear or accidentally cough in their face, it sounds like transmission is possible from what I’ve heard.

But yeah the risks are super low.
It's mind boggling. Even in the age of text, Gibbon spent 10 years writing The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (~1776-1787).

I think that's the fundamental shift that the writing, and then the printing press and then global information networks, produced.

Suddenly the ratio of time_to_share : time_to_discover was permanently decreased, to the benefit of all of humanity.

Contrast with an oral tradition, transmitted via apprenticeship.
I relate to being (somewhat) well-off-but-frugal, and for me there is a danger of falling into the trap of thinking: I don't care that I have some markers of being poor, so you shouldn't either.

It is largely a matter of luck to be in a situation where you don't have to worry about maintaining a certain appearance, and developing some empathy for those who do has been an important positive change for me.
I went though that persons submissions/comments on HN. its literally the only time they mention Elixir, everything else is ruby/rails or python. Makes me wonder if it's a troll post.
My personal feeling is that it's purity, immutability and simplicity of vision. That most of Elixir is also written in Elixir helps.

Erlang/the Beam also helps - there are only 112 open Erlang bugs.

For reference Golang has 6843 open GitHub issues. I am not sure what to make of this.
I made an app that can help you learn Regex syntax
Show HN: Chordmelody.io – A guitar chord-melody arrangement generator
Less relevant? You are the CEO of a company which sells Element Home, a product based on Matrix... and you accuse others of not disclosing properly?
The Israeli Google employees in Google's two Israeli campuses, for instance, who have been under Palestinian rocket fire for about a week now.
Works fine in Dutch too, imo.
Do you guys plan on trying this tool out? Or has anyone seen success with these kinds of online planning poker tools?
There is a difference between “not bothering the cleaning staff” and not acknowledging that they exist and are human and are standing right in front of you.

Author is describing the second, and it happens pervasively in the upper classes.
I noticed where the writer found out they were the lowest paid person.

This is how the wealthy class really keep people from moving up. Your pay is forever tied to what you used to make. It's hard enough to break the circuit in your mind, it's near impossible to do so with your employer.

At my current employer, they offered me a 10% paycut to convert from contract to FTE. I could not afford that, but I also can't afford to be out of work. I pushed back gently and eventually agreed to converting at the same rate. I knew other people in the same job were making at least $10k more.

The next guy to convert, was able to negotiate harder and I believe he ended up with a higher rate, despite making less then me as a contractor. He used the knowledge of my pay (and my name) to negotiate, which I would never do to someone, since I started at the bottom. This impacted my relationship with my boss.

The company did later give me a pay correction of about 5%, after 2 other team members quit for higher paying jobs. One of whom was making more then me and one who was probably making less.
In this instance, PIA is referring to the Private Internet Access VPN service, not Pakistan International Airlines.
I think it comes from Wallstreetbets.

Diamond hands -> Hold regardless of whether the asset is tanking (or spiking).

Paper hands -> Sell the moment there's trouble
The ability for drivers to know how much money they will get for a ride before accepting it I think.
I remember 7% being the historic average that all the classic investing books said. I think it's after adjusting for inflation and dividends. How are you calculating 10%?
99.3% of all notes in circulation were exchanged. A vanishingly small amount of money was lost.

The second order effects of course were much worse.
> 6. Grow/market and gain more customers??? No idea how this works

This is it. Forget everything else, this is the one that matters most for starting out. You can/will learn about most other things along the way.

For materials I'd start from Microconf's youtube channel.
For a video demo of an arrangement, see the instructions page: https://chordmelody.io/instructions

For more info see the background page: https://chordmelody.io/background

This tool is the kind of thing that I'd guess very few people have ever thought about needing or wanting... But if you're one of the few who have, I think this project may be THE thing that you're looking for.

The short version is this: it takes a leadsheet (melody + chord symbols) of the kind you'd typically find for a jazz tune, in MusicXML format, and it generates a chord-melody arrangement using a standardized set of chord voicings. The output includes fretboard diagrams, and the melody can be shown in tablature or in standard notation. There are a few options to fiddle with to get different results, depending on your needs.

This isn't the kind of project I'd ever expect to be profitable, but it's gotten to the point where it's useful enough for me that I think it could be useful for other too.

It's hard to get perspective on a project like this since it's so personal, so I'd love any feedback. If this is something you might find useful, please let me know what you think!
None. It's not meant to be an investment, it just happens to be used like one currently.

It's ironic, the same thing that makes these coins valuable to people (volatility, and mostly in the upwards direction) is a major reason why they are hard to use for mass transactions.

However, there is some good here. People are getting familiar with crypto by participating in this investment strategy. A relatively stable coin capable of high transaction throughput and low fees - one that can actually be used as a currency instead of an investment - will benefit from this in the future.
It varies from state to state, but in the states I'm aware of (at least 3) it's not nearly as hard as you're making it sound. An attorney is not required and, while the non-profit status may take some time to approve, the existence of the corporation itself generally is essentially the same as founding a for-profit corporation. In particular, attorneys are not required, and it is generally pretty easy to get things notarized for free (most banks have notaries on staff and I've never had one charge me.)

I know multiple people who have set up non-profits on their own, without any lawyers, and have not had any difficulties throughout the process.
Second this. And especially the "I participated in" bit - that almost immediately makes me heavily discount the value of that experience because it tells me nothing and it's exactly what someone who has had only peripheral involvements but wants to play up their importance would say.

If they get through to an interview, fine, they'll get a chance to be specific, but failing to be specific might well get them filtered out before that.
Could be that he has separate money pools, and his "toy with markets for amusement" money is kept apart from his "get to Mars" money. It isn't "not smart" if he's just viewing it as a game and he has the means to do so.

Lots of people have messed around with various systems for no reason other than to see if they can.
Literally brought tears to my eyes, like a cheesey Disney movie. Enormous satisfaction, I loved this story!
>Some are pretty clean, e.g. direct democracy is more democratic than representative democracy //

Unless the people want representational democracy but are forced into direct democracy.

Or, in theory (and I can't stress that enough that this is theoretical), representational democracy could better represent people than they can represent for themselves .. I can fix my own windows, but the glazier will probably do a better job. In the same way a group of professional politicians, in theory, could more closely represent the combined will of the demos than could direct democracy -- like how an adult stops a child from eating cake before they're sick -- knowing what is best for oneself, and what's best for society according to ones own choice of self-societal balance, is a hard thing that needs professional input.

I might add I think UK (and probably USA) democracy is seriously broken and that representational democracy isn't working well; but direct democracy is too easy to pervert with propaganda.
you can also use fiat to pay for things. what's the benefit of bitcoin compared to say, USD for paying for things? is it cheaper or faster to buy $1 trinket using bitcoin vs. paypal?
Cultural Competency in the Workplace
It's not something I'd care to speculate over. There's a public ledger, we can find out exactly how many people bought it at every price. I don't have the inclination, but it's something that's precisely knowable.
To me, testing in the REPL is also about validating my assumptions.

REPL-driven development is basically test-driven development with sorter feedback cycles during active development, but the downside is you need to make an extra effort to go back and preserve the important tests for posterity. This might well reduce some of that friction.
Ancient human faeces reveal gut microbes of the past
https://stayhipp.com/glossary/what-does-%F0%9F%92%8E%F0%9F%A...
Stefany's YouTube channel has some additional info: https://www.youtube.com/user/SerasChronicles/videos

I vaguely remember an announcement video there where she discusses the sunsetting process of the project, delivering what was built, etc. But either there has been a change or I'm mistaken.
I’d say quoting Krugman is doing exactly what the ancestor comment said

> and yet we will continue to believe the people making the incorrect predictions, especially when they reinforce our worldview.

I take Krugman’s advice with a grain of salt. In 2002 his suggestion was

“To fight this recession the Fed needs…soaring household spending to offset moribund business investment. [So] Alan Greenspan needs to create a housing bubble to replace the Nasdaq bubble.”

I wouldn’t care but he was the type of thinker who caused people to say Ron Paul was a kook, who warned that the housing bubble was going to burst a couple years before it happened.

Asset inflation is most definitely occurring due to the increase in monetary supply. If I’m sitting in 100k in capital that I’ve saved by being frugal over the last 5 years, it is effectively becoming less and less valuable so I’m forced to spend it on some kind of asset not in hopes that the asset becomes more valuable but because my 100k is becoming less valuable.

To be fair there is much increase in home prices not due to inflation and more due to increased demand with the changes covid brought on.

And here is the legal crime that it brings about, I bought my current house with only 5% down for 350k and it would probably sell now for 390k, meaning my 20k of my frugally saved capital will have a 100% return in one year.
You could argue if it lost 10% I would lose 100% of my invested capital but I bought right after I saw Trump turn on the printing presses so I was 99% sure this wouldn’t be like me buying a condo at the end of 2007.... shudder
Cryotocurrency is real investment in cutting-edge technology, not speculative games, for many investors.

See: Filecoin, Chainlink, etc
Some people really don't like Trump, myself included. Some people find opportunity to stick it to him - so what? I find it funny that a man who so values his notoriety is then defended for his notoriety by those same people who value that man. There are so many walking contradictions in folks who "admire" Trump.
Disable Safari Preload Top Hit
I wanted to say Dodge Journey but they don't make that anymore and it wasn't really a popular fleet vehicle. The nature of the comparison I had to make kind of forced my hand. The Pacifica (minivans in general, too much $$ new) doesn't scream negative equity nearly as loudly as the Journey.

You're right about the PHEV thing attracting a lot of people who otherwise would never own a Chrysler. Checking "just the right boxes" is something FCA is really good at with their more niche vehicles. The high horsepower Charger/Challenger/Cherokee and the Jeep Wrangler are amazingly good at creating a way for the married couple who can't agree on what vehicle want to both leave with enough of their boxes checked.
Clearly it’s failed at being a stable value
As long as you can wait long enough it should always go up, because there's 3 built in methods of deflation. Which also means you should never sell bitcoin.
> I do not understand how every time cryptocurrency comes up armchair HN users come along and comment when they, very apparently, have almost no understanding of the topic

This in itself is a meme - "All criticism is ignorance!"

Bitcoin is not a ponzi or a pyramid scheme, that's true, but it has aspects of both, with its declining emission and stacked rewards for early adopters.

And Bitcoin is for settlement now is it?

That's interesting, and a massive deviation from its original intent (see the white paper) as well as all the other purposes it's been ascribed over the years.

The truth is that bitcoin is an instrument of speculation. Little else.
Your are describing nocturnal animals.
Exactly like that. And thank you for the feedback - working on a FAQ right now, with information like how it works, where your money goes, how the backtests are calculated, and how deposits are kept secure/insured. Cheers!
Depends on the currency. Not all crypto is the same as Bitcoin. I’m pretty positive about cryptocurrency in the long term, once we have a design that incentivizes positive externalities.

Seems like if a large part of the population of the US held Bitcoin, and 51% of the hash power remains in China, there will be some nasty geopolitical consequences.
Another possible explanation is that it feels/looks better for demonstration purposes. For press and initial players, having some time to process the information or make the animation look pretty is probably much more attractive then if information is spewing at them. As you progress, you need less processing time and understand what information on the screen is actually valuable, and therefore don't need as much time, so now the long animations go from being useful to being repetitive and boring.
The usefulness of Bitcoin does not depend on its price, but its power usage does depend on its price (it's bounded by how much power can be bought with the block rewards and transaction fees), so it's a good thing when the Bitcoin price goes down.
The Age of Kayfabe
It was a simpler, more naive time.

People are too forthcoming on the internet today, with some divulging almost their entire being to the megacorp spy machines. It's easy for stalkers, let alone adtech and three letter agencies, to find and track people.

I prefer today's tech, but yesterday's freedom, mindset, and lack of tracking.
> her coworkers come across as privileged, rather than mean or otherwise morally deficient.

Yes, I find a parallel with the representation of the rich/privileged on the movie Parasite.
It's cryptocurrency crash, cryptography is more or less the same as it was yesterday.
You can always try to find some guy on street and trade it for cash or gold or silver... Oh wait, government might have say about using the cash...
When a God-appointed King tells his subjects they live in a democracy, the subjects agree.