skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't know what the solutions is. Writing these people off as terrorists just doesn't seem right to me.

The minute a group starts pulling out the guns and shooting people, they are no longer just "sad people", they are now "sad people with guns and violent tendencies".

Look, Jesus said to love your neighbor and I get that. Unlike a lot of people, I don't wish death to ISIS or Al-Qaeda or Palestine or Hamas. I understand their perspective: they see America as a world power stomping on their culture and demonizing them. I don't wish death on any group of people.

That doesn't change the fact that they've declared themselves to be enemies and are actively trying to kill us. So an appropriate response is necessary. It also should be noted that individuals with violent tendencies tend to kill people who are closest to them. (Shootings, even "Mass Shootings", are rarely random. They're often at parties, or workplaces that are socially-connected to the individual). Trying to socialize with a violent person actively puts you in their crosshairs. So its necessary to understand the scope of the violent threat.

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Incels have similarly taken the step towards violent domestic terrorism. They've begun to organize and recognize each other as martyrs... those who "die" for the cause. It is what it is. At some point, you need to start actively defending yourself against a growing threat.

I don't know when that point is: a few more mass shootings perhaps? They've already accumulated a number of mass shootings under their banner: so its only a question of how many before our collective consciousness is tipped off. But its worth talking about at this point, but never appropriate to panic about it.

I don't think Incels as big of an overall threat as say... ISIS / Al-Qaeda. But unlike ISIS / Al-Qaeda (who operate in the Middle East), Incels do primarily operate inside the USA. So they're less dangerous, but they're closer.

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On the timescale of my memories, Al-Qaeda existed before I was born (as well as other various extremist groups of the Muslim world: Wahhabisim, Hamas, etc. etc.). On the other hand, Incels have gone from literally zero (non-existant) into... well... existing. That's a growing threat. Its not as big as others yet but anything that's growing, dangerous, and domestic deserves eyes.

We also live in a country where gun background checks are easily avoided. Violent philosophies quickly turn into actual violence, because there's an easy and legal means to purchase weapons. If our laws demand that we can't stop distribution of weapons, it is only natural to take a step back and start analyzing violent groups from their philosophy. We don't really have other means of control.
First Party Isolation is the native version of this (AKA Total Cookie Protection). Set Enhanced Tracking Protection to Strict to enable it.
It doesn’t take many people for that to multiply into many millions of dollars…
Few academic disciplines lend themselves to monetarisation via startups. Indeed, many academic disciplines don't lend themselves to any kind of monetarisation, except academic funding.
Apparently it’s in the UK, where judges are prompt to issue “superinjunctions” where even discussing the injunction is contempt of court and can incur a prison sentence.

Whether a monarchy without a written constitution, or separation of Church and State can be considered a democracy is left as an exercise to the reader.
After college I lived with a bunch of UT students (good university; median family income of students is $123,900[0]) while working at a school for high school dropouts (median family income unknown, but definitely under $30k) and it really impressed upon me that people coming from families in the 75th income percentile expect to live free of the poverty/class markers mentioned in the article, while for people in poverty, they're merely effects of actual, pervasive struggles.

Rich kid will thinks they're poor if they're low on petty cash, or if their phone is two years old and has a cracked screen. They never worry that they'll not be able to pay for their phone next month, or have skip a meal to make rent.

I grew up in a well-off-but-frugal household, so I had a lot of the poverty markers listed, but for me they were frugality markers.

The core of poverty isn't the visible markers. Anyone can have those. It's the pervasive stress of not having money, constantly being on the precipice of your life going into a sudden, deep dive. I never had that. Even when I earned ~$13k/year in Americorps, I was fine because I had no debt, I was used to living cheaply, and I knew that if it really came down to it, my parents could help me out. The poor high school students I worked with had the opposite family situation: they'd miss school because family depended on them to help with the bills.

If I ever have kids, I feel like I'll need to go out of my way to ensure they don't grow up segregated into wealthy enclaves. The US is sorted by income--neighborhoods, schools, social circles, and workplaces--and it makes us blind to others' situations. I don't want them to be constantly stressed about money, but it's important to be able to handle financial constraints, and to be aware and understand of the actual reality so many people live with.

[0] https://thedailytexan.com/2019/04/25/median-family-income-of...
I’m not trying to single you out but I think you are making an incredibly common mistake that I see everyone make all the time, and it almost never gets called out, so I’m going to do it here now:

Just because a study finds that some cause, on average, has some effect, I don’t think it is correct to start believing that that cause and effect will hold for you or any else in particular.

I’m convinced that for you noise is distracting, and that it is probably the case for most people, but I also totally believe that for some people it can work the other way around. I don’t think you can use the aggregate result of a study to argue against somebody else’s personal experience.
But at least gold has some inherent value, crypto is just math that is worth whatever the buyers/sellers think it should be. Stock in a company that stays in business will never go to zero as the company always has some value due to having revenue, but crypto has no real world floor (though unlikely to actually get to zero since someone will always buy).
Diamond hands baby!
People are envious generally and when something they don't understand does well, they're confused. When that thing goes down, they feel relieved and their worldview makes more sense.

Schadenfreude in general.
China has recently banned banks from providing cryptocurrency services.
Then it seems like your replying to me with your experience not matching isn’t very reasonable, eh? I’m being very explicit about the US SV/NYC/SEA experience.
He probably got told "have fun staying poor" too many times.
Smart Contract Rescue
Bitcoin is a "decentralized" digital currency.
But you didn't and don't have to just to survive, and neither do those with generational wealth. The context certainly matters.
"Rich people mostly ignore poor people because visible poverty makes them uncomfortable so they look away. They hate themselves if they see our humanity so they try not to."

It has to be amazing having such a simple world model. Or better yet, being able to know the deepest ideas and thoughts in other people's minds and to explain their behaviour.

Going back to seriousness, and leaving sit-com cliches aside, do you have any solid evidence about this? and when you say rich, could you give a ballpark of the money they have to have to be considered rich? Because poor people in US would have better living conditions than in other countries in Europe, for example.
> If $SPY dropped 40% we'd all call it a crash. This isn't that different

If $SPY was 40% up since last month, would that be normal? ETH is still currently higher than its value from April 19th.

Cryptocurrency market is extremely volatile. This isn't that far from normal.
thanks for this! I've always wondered what the deal was, and teen me did not do any research on why the hack worked- once I got the files visible I just moved on. It was almost certainly this RDOS attribute stuff you show here I was playing with (also I took some artistic license in the post, not really sure it was 'F' vs. 'E'.)
You need to provide KYC info to open an account right?
UK Government Wants to Sell Your Medical Records – Here’s How to Opt-Out
Same. I hate the arrogant stupidity of the crypto cult.
I can’t tell if your comments are serious or sarcastic.

I don’t belong to three of four of those groups.
How is it OK? Isn't the point of this that it's the wild west?
https://crypto-anonymous-2021.medium.com/the-bit-short-insid...

Posted on HN a while back.

"To be crystal clear: every time you sell Tethers on Kraken, you are forcing Tether Ltd. to pay you in US dollars. If you can manage to sell enough Tethers for USD on Kraken, then Tether Ltd. will run out of dollars and this whole machine — which currently undergirds 70% of all crypto trading flows — will fall apart.

Well-capitalized hedge fund managers may wish to re-read the above paragraph, and ponder its implications."
> The mathematics itself is greater than the mathematician, who himself craps on the toilet like anyone else. Focus on the math, not the mathematician. It will make you happier.

To each his own I guess, but personally I don’t want to waste my time on something I’m not good at nor do I have the capability to be good at.
I find it interesting that Thea always uses "Our" with respect to "our products", "our firmware". It's super interesting that even though it could be "my", she thinks of it as a product of a team.

I also don't see anything that is specific to a "one-woman" company vs "one-person". Not that there's anything wrong with that; the title is accurate. Just wanted to point out this is applicable to everyone regardless of gender.
ASICs presumably take up valuable chip fab capacity at a time where we are going through a lengthy chips shortage that has real-world manufacturing impact on real goods people use to perform useful work.
First point: I live in Scandinavia. Poor people are just as dumb here as in USA, but we take better care of them. USA assumes that poor people should be able to take care of themselves, which doesn't work. Taking care of them doesn't make them smarter, but it makes their lives better which is the point.
> The Matrix identity server system is entirely optional to use,

I remember that I gave my email when I signed up for Matrix at element.io but haven't found a way how to find out if I'm using the identity server. If my email ended up there, how can I see if it is public? How do I actually query the identity system for information, especially which information it has about myself?

I have tried to find this out, but it is not obvious at all and I could not find much information except the repeated statement that the identity system is optional. Any hints about the identity system are appreciated.
Ethereum does though

e: Take a look at this https://www.reddit.com/r/EtherMining/comments/nfppnv/120_rtx...

There are countless people like that
MSTR is massivly leveraged. How will they not go bust if BTC keeps falling
Naw, it's mostly fueled by and helps make green energy viable.
Gould wrote a controversial book attacking whole swathes of science done in the past. The existence of a senior lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire who has written a criticism of it doesn't seem that surprising and certainly doesn't seem sufficient evidence that we should disregard what he has to say.
BTC hasn't used GPUs to mine in 8+ years man.
You forgot to put /s in your comment.
America's Satanic Panic Returns – This Time Through QAnon
Do we have to pay separately for an ALB? I don't see anything about that in the App Runner pricing page, but there must be a load balancer there. If the load balancer is included in the App Runner pricing, then it would be nice if we could have a new version of ALB, or a new separate load-balancing service, that has purely usage-based pricing without the base hourly rate. That way we could save money on load balancing even if we can't work within the restrictions of App Runner (e.g. no VPC).
I'm sure this is true in the US, but this is a problem with the US prison system and the extremely strange system of using volunteers. In many places (Scandinavia, Germany, etc.) the people who help rehabilitate are hired by the state and the main reason for prison is rehabilitation first, punishment second.
She is a writer at a tech startup. Likely all her peers were engineers.
Ok, so what was it like when your President/Prime Minister/Criminal in Charge (Modi?) canceled all your money overnight? Did you too lose all your savings?
That's not for the Dynamic version as far as I'm aware.
What if the “buy in” is too high on that day?
This is probably some remnants of Christianity and disgust about easy money. (I think there is no such thing)

But also, I really don't like Bitcoin as an alternative currency, on many levels it is worse than what it was engineered to replace.

There is value behind behind the ideas of blockchain algorithms, and I believe the future of currency is digital, but not necessarily decentralized in the way that Bitcoin is decentralized.

We're not there yet, and because of that, Bitcoin is as close to a scam as tulips bulbs were.
Gold does not have inherent value either. It's price is determined purely by a market and there are no other pricing mechanisms.

You can't use discounted cash flow. You can't use comparables. You can use raw materials. It's a straight up rock that people price.
Maybe take a longer view.
This feels like it defeats the purpose of writing tests though. For me writing test very much has to do with validating my assumptions... it helps me gain confidence in my code. Now I'd have to trust these automated tests? My confidence just wouldn't be there.
You should always have some "R&D" regardless of what you do, what you're working on, etc.

Focus is great. But it has a tendency to create blinders, feed confirmation bias, etc.
If it was like last time (2018), prices remained higher than what they should have been for months after. Then Nvidia got the message about how much people were willing to spend on GPUs, and overpriced their RTX 2000 cards.
Looks like the plot of Greg Egan's "Crystal Nights" (2008):

https://www.gregegan.net/MISC/CRYSTAL/Crystal.html
Seeing the exchange price graphs coalesce in red like that... it's a sight to behold. I feel for the vulnerable recent converts.
It might prove foolish to move decades-old communities to something that can’t withstand HN front page, or freenode jumping. (Libera is currently down for many people.)

One thing I learned with my own community is that building one on negatives isn’t sustainable. Think about it: all of the big communities had a positive purpose for being created. They stood for something. What does Libera stand for?

Mission statement is crucial, and it seems to be absent here.
I don't think one is setup currently, though based upon some of the IRC channels I'm in it sounds like one is getting actively worked on.
The key point seems to be that the new owner wants to harvest user data. If I were one of the staff commanded to violate users' expectations, I might also resign in protest.

That being said, sifting that out from the messaging they've presented was not easy. Most of it seems like either posturing for negotiation (e.g. the line "I have code running on two planets," which is admittedly a strong statement, albeit less impressive once examined critically) or just dunking on the new owner for the amusement of Twitter followers and maybe a few people on HN. Regardless, most of it seems to be targeting an audience who already agrees with them, and not to inform and persuade those of us who don't know.

If leaking IRC logs is the tactic du jour, it'd be much more effective if we had IRC logs where the disgruntled staffers repeatedly questioned the new owner about the substantive actions they have an issue with (e.g. harvesting user data for commercial purposes), and either got him to back down, admit or evade. That would tell a story that can transcend internecine organizational politics and/or tribalism. But, alas, the medium is the message, and so we get Twitter dunking.
It unfortunately seems that many people in the tech world are very pro-capitalism and defensive of their own wealth. The attitude seems to boil down to "I got mine" with little to no consideration of others. Specifically, as regulation begins to intensify in the tech sphere, there's this feeling of people coming for their piece of the pie.

Which seems pretty far from the point, but those people could view this as just another attack on their estate. They might feel like they deserve it, and deserve to act that way. This article highlights the ugly side, where someone who isn't already indoctrinated into that elitism is rubbing shoulders with the type who are used to the privilege available to those of us with longer running tech careers. And it looks bad. So in response, I suppose it inspires those people to circle the wagons and just accuse the author or not getting theirs effectively enough.
amazing how it's called "libera" (free as in freedom) and you cannot connect if on VPN -.-
They're called PP, and when you run out of PP on all your moves, you automatically use "struggle" which hurts both you and the enemy.
What a tedious read.

Note how the writer is simultaneously both a victim and a hero.... and everyone else is vapid and shallow.
This is what a healthy market looks like, without circuit breakers, without Powell stepping in, without the POTUS making emergency statements to contain the panic. Price discovery at its finest.

When you buy crypto you are effectively voting with your wallet against the Fed and all those phony protection systems

Every day more and more people are understanding the machinations of the Fed.

BTFD
> You are focusing too much on the visual aspects of design

No, I’m not; aesthetic preferences are not limited to the visual, and preferences and relative importance of all the elements you identify are within the scope of subjective aesthetic preference. Though grandparent who I was responding to was focussed entirely on the visual—their whole criticism of Google design was: “...end up looking juvenile and Fisher-Price-like. On mobile, the font is too big and too ragged. The colors and shapes look like a Kleenex box aesthetic. The spacing isn’t all that great.”—so if I was focussed, even exclusively, on the visual aspects of design in my response it would have been appropriate in context.
I personally didn't find Verilog all that hard to learn, and it's frankly simpler to understand and modify the "hardware" in that form than using a multimeter and logic analyzer and futzing with solder. I built myself a simple retro-style machine around a RISC-V core and my own custom designed video controller in a few weeks, without any prior Verilog experience. Although I am a software engineer, I don't feel like those skills actually helped that much.
What is the map projection called in that map from NASA?
Silly comparison. Crypto holds value for its utility. Why do you seem to think that its utility will just vanish?
or someone that's considered poor, can't afford one.
Also, I think that most people have some unconscious bias that associate your apparent wealth level as a proxy for your competence level.

People inherently trust more the judgement of people they think are rich. If you avoid looking obviously poor, you'll find out that you'd be given better assignments, more freedom, that your mistakes won't be scrutinized as much.

The day you find this out and act accordingly, it is like as if you were black and them suddenly find out you woke white one day. All the invisible barriers, the glass ceiling, are subtly not there anymore.

Yes, like racism, classism sucks. But you have only one life, your time is short, and while we must fight to try to change things, you'd also better be smart and try to work around classism just by not giving obvious clues about you have ever been poor.
30% decline in a day is a crash by any definition
> It was previously run by a company who kept trying to monetize the IP, then it was run by a few people who split off that company (and still kept trying to figure out how to monetize it and pay themselves a wage with it).

This is just false. Speaking as co-founder and project lead for Matrix, it's been the same team all along since we began in 2013. We were incubated until 2017 in a company which never tried to monetize the protocol, and then we span out to set up Element (formerly New Vector) where we keep the lights on by selling Matrix hosting and support/consulting.

At the same time we set up The Matrix.org Foundation as a non-profit neutral standards body, with an independent board where the original founders are deliberately in the minority - and when we set it up, half of the spec core team were independent of Element too. (This changed as folks on the team opted to join Element so they could work on Matrix fulltime).

Rather than spreading FUD about Matrix, why not collaborate and work together? Or at least spend the energy on improving XMPP rather than negging us...
I wonder if with this "big" Italian company you mean Olivetti.
They had their own 8088 PC and if I remember well they also sold IBM back in the 80s.
Some of these "guaranteed" returns if you pass custody of your btc scammers must be working on exit strategies now.

The article says china banned transactions, does this include mining rewards? Technically, that involves a transaction, right?
This feels like the computing equivalent of epicycles in medieval physics.

Will we ever just admit that the vt100 tty is just no longer suitable as a basic OS abstraction, and needs to be torn out and replaced? Or in 50 years will simple interactive programs still not be able to detect keyup without importing a bunch of bloat from x11/wayland?
I officially consider FreeNode nodes hostile.
There's another side of this which is that you and the janitor have very little common ground so while you can say hi to each other anything beyond the most basic small-talk is going to get very uncomfortable for both parties very fast.

I'm not going to post my credentials on HN but I have it on good authority that these jobs suck enough without having to pretend to relate to your customer. Hello is fine but beyond that and the janitor probably has their shields up lest they say something stupid the same way a white collar professional would be very careful talking to Bill Gates.
Coinbase goes down every single year when the market corrects.
I'm saying that controlling the number of times a dollar is taxed simply isn't a policy objective I care about.

I.e., "so what?"
I happen to like nickserv's UX. There are far worse UIs on the web. Simple is good.
At the purely technical level, Bitcoin’s current transactions per minute heavily limit it’s utility. The original goal was solving micro transactions which crypto coins could do, they just need to scale to ~100 Billion transactions a day +/- orders of magnitude.

Unfortunately, miners benefit from the current artificial limitations. Which demonstrates an inherent issue with crypto currency, miners and users have very different goals yet only miners get a vote.
It's worse than a Ponzi. Crypto lost its marginal USD buyers, which were victims of ransomware extortion schemes. The correlation now is exposed for everyone to see.
Bitcoin is the high water that floats all the other boats in crypto. When BTC drops, they all drop. So their core point is certainly valid.

Not to mention that BTC-specific ASICs are a big reason there is a chip manufacturing squeeze. Millions of completely useless, power gobbling devices.