skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't pushing Robinhood gold (leverage) onto users with repeated in app messaging about how great it is, Robinhood pushing users to do irresponsible things? Or the fact that if you end the day down, your whole app is red, unless you deposit enough additional cash to cover your losses and then it switches back to green? (edit note: not sure if this is still the case but it was true in the early days of the android app). The app feels like a mobile game developer switched to the stock market.
> It's a strange combination between modesty and strategically bending rules. I kind of adore that.

It's very earnestly human. Being rigid is fine and all but it also kind of sucks a hell of a lot. So it turns into a "how can I make this suck a little less without breaking what I believe in too much?" which is something I think we all struggle with but it's really laid bare here with the contrast between their lifestyle and ours.
We still support our customers using 1Password 3 (originally released in 2009).

You are probably right though. We should be more clear on where the future development of the product and service is going.
Given the percentage of wheat that makes up the diets of certain demographics in the US, and the lack of vegetables that go along with it, micronutrient deficient diets are predominant and fortification has been seen as a public health necessity.

For those who eat healthy, calorie appropriate, nutrient dense diets... fortification isn't necessary, but that doesn't seem to be the public health version of the world many people operate in.
What's risky? If there were one easy and legal way to make a lot of money in a non-risky way, then everyone would do that. Is it more risky to invest in Doge or to give it to some professional hedge funds that have been losing money every year?

Maybe S&P is the closest to legal, free, easy, little-risk?
What’s going on with the comments in this thread? They’re out of character.
No, what I'm saying is that right now if you have a product on Ethereum with consistent cashflows, you can borrow money on credit from DAOs with large treasuries willing to lend them out using OpenLaw contracts as arbitration. The goal for these protocols is to expand this using decentralized identities and onchain credit scores.
What are you even talking about lol
>We were able to do that in the 70s with servers that had no more power than today's raspberry pis.

You weren't able to send value from one part of the world to another in minutes without an intermediary for a tiny fraction of the transaction amount in the 70's and you still can't do it today without crypto.
(Consider also: just not owning a car. Bikes and transit for the day to day and occasional outlays for wknds in the mountains is cheaper than owning any car.)
The janitor knows that if he pisses you off in any way, you might complain and he would lose his job, which he probably can't afford to. Why risk it?
However, it will have transferred a lot of money from people who are bad at predicting the future to people who are good at predicting the future. This is good for the economy, because more capital is in the hands of people who are likely to invest in things that work.
America needs to send a lot lot fewer people to jail. Once that is accomplished, I'd be a lot more relaxed about their conditions including workong...
I don't care what $SPY does. Crypto market isn't the stock market. 40% crash in crypto -- even in bull markets -- doesn't mean shit.
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> I don't understand what legitimate value ordinary currency produces. Can anyone help me understand?

I'm not sure what "legitimate value" means in this context, but the most terse way I can think of to answer what I think is the spirit of your question is that currencies can be used to pay taxes and so there is an inherent demand, if geographically limited, for them; since you have to pay taxes, it makes sense to settle debts denominated in that currency because you have a use case for it going forward. This inherent demand creates stability--and yes, everyone loves to talk about hyperinflation but at the same time hyperinflating currencies are usually those of governments who are not long for this world!

If you want to go further, I would submit that a modern currency is one where the supply of it can be controlled in response to other economic factors, and my personal position is that that control turns crashes and depressions into dips and recessions. But this is an opinion, and reasonable people could disagree. (Though candidly--in my experience, few who do, are.)

Cryptocurrencies instead function more as commodities, and as they have few enough actual uses that are not by and large self-contained ones that require a certain amount of willing participation for them to have value at all (whereas gold is pretty and doesn't corrode, you can eat wheat, etc.) they are functionally inherently speculative vehicles. They lack any sort of external stabilizing factor because nobody needs them and so as a "legitimate currency" I can't see why anyone would ever tack on the phrase "legitimate currency" to that sort of virtual porkbelly.
Ramanujan: Srinivasa Ramanujan. born December 22, 1887, Erode, India—died April 26, 1920, Kumbakonam

in 1913, the English mathematician G. H. Hardy received a strange letter from an unknown clerk in Madras, India. The ten-page letter contained about 120 statements of theorems on infinite series, improper integrals, continued fractions, and number theory .... Every prominent mathematician gets letters from cranks, and at first glance Hardy no doubt put this letter in that class. But something about the formulas made him take a second look, and show it to his collaborator J. E. Littlewood. After a few hours, they concluded that the results "must be true because, if they were not true, no one would have had the imagination to invent them".

https://www.usna.edu/Users/math/meh/ramanujan.html
A seemingly obscure feature of meeting in person or visiting a vendor at their own offices, it offers a chance to peak behind the curtains, to feel social cues that are hard to explain/justify. There’s a lot of bulls*t in the corporate/smb world.
> I don't 100% percent know this for sure, but since a lot of gamers are using "how long the game is" as a significant portion of their "is this game worth buying" metric, we've unfortunately incentivized game developers to pad this unnecessarily.

I can confirm that this is a common, intentional practice in the games industry.
Housing. Also "if numbers are to believed".

Recommend to watch the Drukenmiller interview in my other comment below. (https://twitter.com/i/status/1393965498618978308)

Hyperinflation is unlikely in the short run because historically the bubble deflates rapidly before it occurs. If that happens what do we suppose the fed and Biden administration will do? Then maybe we see more inflation then can reasonably be expected in the short term.
The value of crypto is the access to the underlying network, which lets the users of that network transfer a known supply of tokens in a manner that's not forgeable, repudiable, confiscable, etc. or reliant on the permission of outside authorities. Final settlement takes an hour. It's worth whatever people will pay for that access.
> A coke is a coke and no amount of money can get you a better coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking.

Not strictly accurate, as you can get bottled coke made with cane sugar instead of HFCS for a bit more and it is, in fact, better.
The danish one has even less safety features, because it is your choice whether to use a printed document (which you can download as a PDF that you can then edit), through the official app or, by the SMS that was sent to you at the test place where you took your test.

You can trivially fake either, but you can also just claim you are excempt. Almost nobody is, of course, but they are not allowed to ask for documentation and must let the doubt come to your benefit.

In practice, this works mostly. Probably because people don't want to fake their tests, which is a serious crime.
So it'd be immature to suggest that we shouldn't write new code in BASIC or COBOL? Give me a break. Some language wars are the mark of immaturity, sure. Others are the result of a mature career of dealing with shitty legacy code in a language practically guaranteed to produce it.
It's true you don't have to bank switch... but... the 816 doesn't have 32 bit or even 24-bit registers, so working with memory regions over 64k (such as the video framebuffer) is surprisingly awkward. You end up fiddling with the bank registers a lot, and doing a lot of futzing around. Having screen resolutions that require a framebuffer >64k isn't a good match for it, for example. And the program counter is a 16-bit register, too, so you can't have programs over 64k without incrementing the program bank register at the end of the 64k region, etc. Also the stack and direct page can't be located out of the bottom 64k, etc.

So while changing a bank register is easier than doing bank switching with a 6502, it's actually not that different. And using the 16-bit registers on the 816 require a mode change, so working back and forth between 8 and 16 bit values is also awkward.

The 816 on paper sounds good at first. In practice, after working with it for a while (I wrote an emulator for an earlier version of her machine and then started working on software) I found I didn't enjoy the 816 as much as I thought I would and understand better now why Commodore and Atari made the jump to the 68000 instead of to the 816 or other modifications to the 6502.
Obesity causes suffering. It seems like if we could communicate that effectively, something would change. But that doesn't account for how addictive modern junk food is. Just like everyone knows smoking meth leads to suffering, people still do it.

Our food supply is poisonous and highly addictive. We need to take drastic measures in the name of public-health and national security... just like with climate change.
>> Your pay is forever tied to what you used to make.

It's not just a psychological "avoid the subject" kind of trick. They literally refuse to give you raises no matter what. In my last job, I was likely the top developer in the company (the company had hundreds of millions of $ of runway just sitting there) and I was putting constant pressure on my boss for a raise and promotion for years (they even admitted that I was one of their top devs). Instead of trying to give me a good deal, the CTO snapped and threatened me with violence - The next day, I continued the discussion and was still pushing forward with my demands (threatening to quit) and they refused to give me anything at all. I had a nervous breakdown right there (first time ever in my entire career) and I ended up rage-quitting (it got to shouting and personal insults).

The only reason I took things this far was because I thought the system would finally yield some rewards once I showed enough initiative and ambition (backed by years of hard work and delivering great results). It didn't.

The system is completely rigged. It's an illusion that there is any kind of meritocracy. Once you really buy into all the "you control your own destiny" rhetoric and start to push yourself and others beyond the limits you thought you were capable of (when you start to impress people with your skills and ambition), you realize that it achieves nothing. It's all a big show.

"It's all a big club, and you ain't in it" - George Carlin
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>Generically moaning about how people are speaking from a position of being uninformed.

That's because you're misrepresenting my position, which I have been very careful to explain.

There is nothing wrong or shameful about being uninformed on a topic and wanting to discuss topics that one is uninformed about. I am uninformed on a lot of topics, including law, and I'd love to participate in a discussion to better inform myself. I also encourage people to seek out information and participate in discussions that they do not understand, it's a great way to learn.

My complaint is that on this site, people who are uninformed speak with a degree of certitude that a reader who didn't know any better could confuse with expertise, and that results in widespread misinformation and degrades trust in this site. It also discourages actual experts from participating in discussions since people informed on a topic have to then compete with those who are uninformed, and based on my own experience having done so repeatedly, the amount of effort needed to do so is disproportionate. It's a lot easier to spread false information that's appealing and sounds good than it is to spread truthful information.

Asking questions is great, having experts answer questions is great, having people with different backgrounds relating topics outside of their area of expertise is also great and can lead to unique insights. But having someone make bold, unverifiable claims and everyone else upvoting and giving those claims prominence when they are false, simply because it sounds appealing is not good because it pushes away people who are experts.
I don't think 2% is EU-wide, but Ireland-specific. (And not present in all contexts -- sugary bread like milk bread or Subway rolls are considered bread for some legal purposes in Ireland.)
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Well, it's not a ponzi scheme. It's a MLM/pyramid style scheme. The idea over the long term is that there are more future investors than past investors and therefore there will be more money in the future than in the past. However, returns only last until growth limits have been reached. The problem is that everyone who buys Bitcoin wants those gains but they are exclusionary/rivalrous by definition.
For context:

- The stock market crash of 1929 was a ~25% crash
- The dot com bubble crash was also roughly a ~25% drop
- The 2008 market crash was a roughly 20-30% drop

Various coins have now lost 10-30% of their value in the course of a couple of days. But it's just steam being let off? No big deal? Business as usual? If the same thing happened to the actual markets it would be another historic event.
US government, (might apply to others). They do so much paperwork and analysis to ensure no nickel is misspent. The cost to protect a nickel seems to be about a dollar.
USDC, DAI, USDT are all used more than ever, orders of magnitude more

People dont have to talk about them as currencies because they just work

No different than cellular reception in an underground subway, you dont have to think about it anymore
Bitcoin couldn't exist without the same endless wars and hegemony. Where do you think the computational power COMES from?

That's why it's a bad faith argument. The only thing bitcoiners want to compare is the power cost of running the mining rigs. Why don't they include the cost to manufacture said rigs? To mine minerals to build the silicon needed to power their currency? Why don't they include the governments needed to make sure the equipment supply chains are properly maintained? Why don't they include the amount of power needed to run the servers and switches needed to power the internet needed to run btc? Why aren't you looking at the construction costs for the buildings housing the mining rigs?

I'll tell you why, because they aren't making a good faith argument. They are trying to come up with ways to make BTC good and banking bad. That's it.

Lots of things cost energy. The question has to be "what are we accomplishing with that spent energy". When two algorithms do the same thing and one burns TWh while the other burns kwh.. guess which one I'm going to favor?
If you deposit more cash than you lost in a day, does it flip back to green?

As far as I remember, it's just based on the gains / losses you had during the day. So depositing cash at the end of the day shouldn't affect your gain/loss.
I'd also add it is pretty amazing how responsive and friendly the core team is. They generally are very clear, but polite when they don't accept something and super fast about addressing bugs.

I started following phoenix and a few other important Elixir repos on github several months ago. I'm amazed how many times the community has taken the time to help someone debug why their specific scenario isn't a bug with the library and pointed them to the right solution.
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> Are those the kinds of people you want being in charge of online communities?

As long as they do a good job running the servers and don't censor me, sure. Life's too short for me to add more hate to the world in anticipation of receiving hate even though I am several flavors of minority in the tech world.
Of those 3, McDonalds and Subway aren't that bad I find, whereas KFC is genuinely dire.

If I get a subway I tend to ram it with as many vegetables as possible, at McDonalds I pretty much always £5s worth of burgers inc. a small fries, not healthy but not that bad. I made the mistake of getting a KFC delivered recently and Jesus Christ it was like an Oil Well.
I'm currently going through the process of trying to get my own record expunged, the entire thing is a complete joke.

The amount of forms that need to be filled out is obscene. Determining which forms need to be filled out is a nightmarish exercise all to its own. Many of them need to be submitted in person. Email and online submission forms apparently don't exist. Each step has an absurdly short deadline for the the petitioner, and multiple month turnaround times for the state.

Then comes the fees. I had to pay out several thousand between attorney fees, application fees, filing fees.... Then come additional charges for each certified copy that you need, as you need to send one copy to any facility that would have any record for you. In my case, that came out to be 13 different facilities. Thankfully I've managed to get a decently paying job, but for most of those trying to get their life back in order, this is a complete non-starter.

I'm still in the process of trying to do this, and have been working on it for months now. It was made apparent to me that the process is designed extremely asymmetrically, and is just another form of exerting control.

Edit: This process will likely vary from state to state, but that's just what I've experienced.
Fair point. I should have said pay back period, I had the term confused
Rust has the same number of issues open then what? You're comparing a simple language that is built on top of Erlang. It has a few issues because:

- the code base is small

- it has a few users compare to other languages

- it's built on top of something else

I was curious and I looked at the std lib for Elixir it's very minimal.
Similar story. A couple years ago I tried to set up Synapse. I've set up and administered IRC before. I've twice gone from nothing to having an XMPP server (different daemon each time) working and hooked into web services and custom auth serving production traffic. And that's just the chat-related work I've done. I kind of know what I'm doing, at least.

After a couple hours I gave up on Synapse, having accomplished nothing and only being more confused than when I started out, as far as any path to a deployed config I'd be comfortable with. That they sell hosting, and it was such an incredible pain in the ass to run sanely on one's own, sets off some alarm bells.
If you like going to the cafeteria or out to lunch, by all means you should do so if you can afford it. But it's also entirely reasonable not to spend money out of habit. For example, while I may do so when traveling, I have zero interest in getting a daily Starbucks fix.

(I often drive by a local Starbucks which usually has a line of cars around the block getting to go. I have to wonder who these people are who want to wait for 20 minutes or whatever to get their $5 latte at all hours of the day.)
I always viewed the stock market as another form of gambling. Regulation existed to create enough friction to justify calling it "not gambling", but it was always gambling. Absent of regulation the two are indistingushable, robinhood is just taking advantage of the asymmetry
Leave SF, problem solved. Why anyone would choose to live in a city where a closet living space costs what houses do in much of the rest of the country is beyond me.

If that's what you want then fine but don't start crying to everyone else that you can't afford a living in one of the most overpriced markets in the world and you don't fit in with the elitists.

And... the reality is that this woman's perception of poor is a standard of living that a large portion of the world doesn't even dream of. It's understandable to be upset because people only have so many experiences in their own little bubble but keep yourself in check and maybe consider that putting things like this out on the internet just make you look spoiled.
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> Apparently my CV was worse than I thought.

I have seen some awful resumes, including for people with PhDs and long records of accomplishments. Even people who have been through resume writing seminars at job search organizations.
> This negotiation as written was just moving down by the same amount offered by the buyer

Huh, didn't even notice. Thanks for pointing that out!
> So this issue implies that there is a startup idea?

It's definitely a do things that don't scale idea. You need humans in the transaction confirming what's actually occurring. That tends to be expensive, because you also need them to know what they're doing, understand the broad details of the exchange and be trustworthy. That cost and difficulty of scaling is exactly why Escrow.com doesn't try to do it for every transaction across their system.
Tether is used for the purchase of other cryptocurrency (i.e. creates demand). If more Tether has been created then dollars burned, then there has been artificial demand generated for cryptocurrency. Artificial demand, artificial prices. I think sometimes Tether's affect on the market is blown out of proportion, but it could have cooling effect on the trustworthiness of cryptocurrency and then exchanges used to facilitate trades.
Somehow I think it's a team of supervillains. I can't see any individual giving up the wealth that has accrued to bitcoins "founder"
The advantage eventually will be easier ways to get funding for startups or businesses of all kinds. You need highly liquid markets in order to facilitate global finance at scale so that's where it's starting today. Rebuilding all of the financial primitives onchain. Why? Because composability of contracts onchain results in higher velocities of money; higher than whats possible in traditional finance. Imagine a world where you can list ownership of a stock and have that be immediately accessible by millions of people around the world regardless of jurisdiction 24/7 in highly liquid markets, all from a browser app. That's where this is going in my opinion.
Personally I don't think racism is a binary. Trying to bucket people into racist and not-racist seems like an overly-simplistic way to look at humans.
Twitch is proof that a random approach to policy is even worse than a draconian one. At least with a draconian approach to policy you know exactly what the rules are whereas the random approach makes you second guess what's allowed or not and makes it difficult to make future plans.
No. The Freenode guy.
From what I have heard is that they are working towards 1 day settlement, which isn't too bad.

Intraday settlement may sound good on paper but it also opens up a whole bunch of extra problems that you might not like.
Here's the specific thread from smdiehl talking about how tethers are not actually worth $1 as they claim [1].

[1] https://mobile.twitter.com/smdiehl/status/139366981222046516...