skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would like to counteranecdote and say that the nice east bay neighborhood I live in is getting flooded by families leaving San Francisco right now.
Here, there is a lot of very in-depth discussion on why Tether is specifically a Ponzi scheme at the top of HN right now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27214342
> If you're really anti ads, don't take the content for free, find another piece of content that answers your ad-free philosophy.

Google is in the process of breaking this deal themselves - they're now adding ads to videos which users did not opt to monetize, and they're keeping 100% of the revenue. Taking the content for free, if you will.
But I don’t see what insecurity around asking for help or mentoring has to do with wealth or lack thereof?

This to me sounds more like an issue of shyness or low self-esteem than anything to do with money or class.

I think the same of a fair few other items on that list as well.
Yes, all of this is definitely true and I'm not actually complaining about it, I have used arch on all my machines for 7 or 8 years and don't plan to change that anytime soon, but these problems are actually unique to using arch and other rolling distros. Ubuntu, Fedora, etc have coordinated releases with some level of testing that things are compatible with each other. On arch, these are problems one must deal with though. I don't mind dealing with it, I live for Linux stuff, but the point is that it does happen to real users and it's not for everyone.

> Partial upgrades are explicitly unsupported by the distro. Pacman allows you to do this, but you're on your own.

Definitely correct, the issue is when you're trying to install a package to get something done, and suddenly your faced with the proposition of either upgrading your whole system while trying to get work done or attempting to upgrade just the required libraries. The latter often carries less risk, but occasionally is very problematic.

> And this is why as an Arch user you will be nudged by experience to use software that gives a crap about quality.

The issue is that this is true of so many very major pieces of linux software. Upstream vendors don't necessarily test their stuff in a ton of contexts, plenty of bugs occur in the kernel/xorg/wayland/gnome/glibc/python/etc. All of these are very mainstream projects that are difficult to avoid.
When the more puerile culture of The September that Never Ended happened, we saw most of this machismo garbage take hold. Myself, having access to AoL for a time, saw what that place was like and agreed it was a seething cesspool. Sexist, racist, homophobic diatribes were *everywhere* on AoL. Most heated arguments you'd get on the internet proper were the gnu vs bsd, or vi vs emacs.

Prior to that infamous date, either the custom was Mr. or Sir, or the like. Or, more commonly, was whatever nickname you chose for yourself. Some names have a more feminine sound, while others had more masculine. Yet more were androgynous. Yet when AoL decided to become the gateway to the internet, is when we saw that "average" (aka: racist, sexist, homophobic, different-phobic) people join for the first time, the old guard of the internet didn't know how to handle it - we've always dealt with a higher class of people, and these distinctly weren't it.

It really didn't start turning really bad until these Web 2.0 companies started linking payment gateways to real names. Overnight, your account would be locked/banned for "fake names or transgender names"... And companies like Facebook would use your friends as that proof. And of course, we know how all that is turning out - it's just as unsafe for women (or really anyone "different") walking on a sidewalk as it is with their real name online.

Fortunately, there's still fringes on the internet. I don't know if you're male, female, young, old, disabled, ,black, white, native, asian, from a different country, etc.... If we leave it out of the discussion, its unimportant. HN is most definitely not one of those areas, as the assumption is that you're a white, probably male, tech worker, and that you're happy with venture capital and startups.

(I really don't want to mention those quieter areas, as it reminds us of our old ideas of the internet and all the wonders we imagined it could do... Unlike today's marketing hell, capitalistic cesspool, and emotional monetization. It doesn't have to be like that.)
At this point a black lotus is so expensive that I wonder how many people can still afford one, and would be comfortable shuffling it into their deck.
> The difference is, of course, that exchanges want to encourage liquidity in USDT and they might not have the means to offer USD, especially if they're based in regions with tighter regulations so bank wires are out of the question. Just because they can convert USDT to USD doesn't necessarily mean they can offer the same means to everybody else.

1. is paying influencers USDT going to increase liquidity or decrease it? From a maker-taker model, I'd think that will decrease liquidity because those influencers are probably going to place a market order which reduces liquidity.

2. Is the typical influencers (or the average influencer they hired) going to have trouble converting USDT to USD? My profile of them would be 18-35 year old, middle to upper class, living in a developed country (or at least not a country that's subject to USD sanctions). It doesn't seem hard for those people to accept a USD wire transfer.

>Even the staunchest believer in crypto will have a hunch there's something funny going on with Tether, but so far most people have been willing to look the other way as Tether and other stablecoins answer a genuine need: how to represent fiat money in the crypto ecosystem when centralized banks refuse to play along with their own downfall.

Agreed, I avoid holding USDT where possible.
It's not a company.
The executives should be punished, yes, but I don't see why the entire workforce should be when insurance can cover the cost.
For what it's worth, we've been throwing around a websocket standard that should be supported across a range of servers. On the decoupling sessions from the TCP connection side, the server that I work on (Oragono https://oragono.io ) does this by default, and I've heard that InspIRCd has plans to do work on this issue as well. Definitely a lotta fun stuff in this area.
What techniques do you use now to cope? I'm going to go get a diagnosis as well, I think I have enough anecdotal evidence to talk to a medical professional.
> The more I write about this, the more I'm convinced somebody could have actually built it, but since the OpenSSH people did the work to bring FIDO to SSH and I did not, I don't really have the right to criticise. For all I know they spent six months trying this approach and ended up in a cul-de-sac.

These were my thoughts exactly when I first read about the new feature in 8.2.

Would be really cool to learn about the internal reasoning for the solution that they ended up with.

> Good point, you could probably build something where the ID lives in (the new type of) SSH public keys or some equivalent file, so it gets concatenated to authorized_keys and then the server just needs to know to dredge the ID out from there and send it to a client in the new message.

That would open you up to being fingerprinted by the server, right? WebAuthN combats this by scoping the ID to the RP domain name, but SSH servers aren't guaranteed to have a (canonical) name.
My friend lives in the Oakland hills which is one of the nicest areas in oakland. His car has been stolen three times in the past five years. They’ve had an attempted break in and a contractor they hired had his truck stolen. Oakland is a hell hole.
I'm reminded of the pitch I heard from the IBM salesperson talking about the "logarithms" they had that were solving client problems. (Being charitable, maybe he was a slide rule enthusiast)

I find it typically very easy to tell someone is full of crap, but trying to call it does not always work in one's favor. Definitely agree it is a good sign you should get yourself out of the situation
In my opinion, SF has peaked. I personally moved to SF during the pandemic, and am planning to move out when my lease is up. The amount of disarray in the city is wild. Crime seems to be entirely ignored, the homeless problem has exploded and there is a widespread hate if you call it for what it is: a public health and humanitarian crisis. And the most important thing that SF had to make it a tech hub has been broken and moved online: the network effect.

I moved here because I felt like I didn't have a choice if I wanted to build or be part of successful startups, now I feel like living here is hindering that process. You can live anywhere and get cheaper talent across the country, pay less taxes, and have almost the same upsides.
Thanks for confirming - I wasn't sure if I was mixing up the version number with Photoshop, which 5.5 was (if memory serves) the one that fixed terribly-kerned typesetting in v5, and added some new web-export wizziness.
Owner of christine.website here. I did stop doing it in the atom feed (though i don't remember why) however the RSS and JSONFeeds do have article text in them. If you want to do more advanced queries against the data I could whip something up I guess. It's a really dumb webapp written in Rust and I'm more than happy to put some extra fun into it.
>I believe the ultimate consumer of a product bears responsibility for its emissions. Without a consumer, the product would not have been made.

That's a nice way to pass the buck from the executives who actually make the decisions
You can still copy the underlying data however you like - if the NFT says http://example.com/foobar.jpg you can just do `wget http://example.com/foobar.jpg`, regardless of whether you've even seen the NFT, and assuming you can access foobar.jpg at all, you can then copy it however you like.
> Anecdotal but this isn't my personal experience at all

Yes, but there have been plenty of nonanecdotal studies, and the surge in Bay Area (and broader urban coastal California) outmigration around the pandemic has been overwhelmingly to inland California, particularly (in the Bay Area case) the Sacramento region. (California had a preexisting net domestic outmigration, too, but that’s separate from the more recent “San Francisco tech exodus”, which is specifically part of the pandemic urban outmigration.)

Unfortunately for my finances (being a Sacramento-area homeowner that isn’t going to sell right now), that’ll reverse when the reasons people valued the coastal urban centers are restored with full economic reopening.
Same here, I can think of a million ways to circumvent DNS blocking. The good thing is, most sites are not gonna adopt them very quickly. Besides, DNS blocking would have value even if all sites started doing that: there's plenty of malware/phishing domains to be blocked and I don't think those have better alternatives!
I always wonder about kids who skip too many grades or who get college degree at 12. Even if they are intellectually there, socially life would be a nightmare. Imagine being a 12 year old which 17 year old peers. I can't imagine the emotional trauma!

I didn't do any IIT coaching and was able to prepare for IIT only for one year in my grade 11. After that I got some major health issue and was harassed by armed bullies in my school, so couldn't study at all in Grade 12. This made me miss Top 200 rank.

But this ended up being a blessing in disguise, because I couldn't get Computer Science at IIT. I have been passionate about computers since I was 8 years old. If I had studied Computer Science as a part of the course curriculum, I might have ended up hating it.

Instead I pursued Computer Science on mine own, based on my interest. I have loved it every single day!

I look forward to my work, versus most of my friends who feel trapped in their jobs!
Central Pennsylvania has a pretty substantial population of people of Italian heritage, and at least throughout the 90s and early 2000s, a great many of the restaurants in the area served Italian food. I used to eat Italian all the time, and I don't have a drop of Mediterranean blood in me. So, arguably, not knowing about Italian food in Lancaster county would be kind of a shocker.
R 4.1.0 has a native pipe as new feature
YouTube has the right to send or not send the file to my computer. My browser has the right to process the video on my behalf, including not showing it to me if it is an ad.

My right to decide what my purchased computer does trumps YouTube's right to make a few cents by showing me ads.
Important context for reading this is that sf.citi is Ron Conway's organization through which he acts as a political power broker and secures political favors for the tech industry. It is in his interest to create the impression that the tech industry in SF is experiencing some kind of crisis in order to extract money, tax breaks or other favorable treatment from the Board of Supervisors.
It doesn't matter what profit rate Tether or any other Ponzi scheme claims to provide. In the case of Tether, they're claiming you'll have a profit rate of 0%, which is still worse than you should be getting, given that it may in fact be not backed by anything in particular
No, I'm making the point that you can't get something on the App Store that is a scam version of basically any reasonably well known product or company that is going to just phish data.

It will not get through the checks you're suggesting are 'not really for security'.
There is no alternative to e-mail. Except perhaps for SMS.
There is no other method for contacting people that is anywhere near as pervasive. It also has the advantage of being federated, not controlled by any specific entity.

Besides that, compared to WhatsApp and signal, email is generally for longer and less urgent messages. Those fit notifications much better.

In that context an email saying "hey this is whats up, login as you normally do if you want to verify or act accordingly".

It's far from ideal. We will probably come to some form of solution at some point. But at this moment it is a clear no-brainer.
How do you extract symbols from official binary builds of Arch? According to official documentation (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Debug_-_Getting_Traces and bug report threads I've seen), Arch lacks both debug packages and symbols bundled with binary packages. As a result, if you want to debug an app crash on Arch, you need to quit the program, recompile the app from source with your makepkg.conf set to !strip, then try to reproduce the bug in your new build.

It seems Firefox has a script at https://github.com/gabrielesvelto/symbol-scrapers/blob/maste..., but I haven't investigated what it does. In any case, this information should be integrated into the Arch Wiki.
Yeah, definitely usually fine to avoid kernel upgrades, so that is a saving grace. The issue is just that pacman -Syu is going to be full of surprises
We shouldn't destroy the industry even more just so that some people can get it even cheaper than they can already.
It's certainly the closest thing to the central idea of the Ponzi scheme https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponzi_scheme
Swimming by myself in the Sea of Cortez, I was surrounded by a pod of bottlenose dolphins. After observing me for a while, they suddenly started laughing, did a few flips and other acrobatic displays, and then swam away.

I was left in no doubt -- none whatsoever -- that they were laughing at the absurdity of what I evidently considered "swimming".

Maybe I'm anthropomorphizing them... but I'm pretty sure they were dolphopomorphizing me first, and it was cracking them up.

Anyhow, those dolphins were a bunch of punks.
You're asking for something that is too good to be true.
If you're playing vs Bitfinex, then what if they stop printing Tether and force the price to go up?

They obliterate your short position, and once you're margin called, they go back to their printing Tethers business. You can't win at this game.

The best move is to just sit back and wait for the chaos to unfold. Even then: what if USDT becoming worthless causes people to hoard BTC? What if BTC-USD spikes severely, as people "rush to safety" ? Is there reason to believe that a Tether collapse would in fact bring down BTC with it?
Examples:

/msg alis LIST *linux*

/msg alis LIST *clojure*

/msg alis LIST *art*

Up to you really, tooling is there for you to explore :)
If you had such a miner, you would be awarded a large proportion of the coins mined in the future. These coins are part of the 21 million capped supply of Bitcoin, and this would not be secret as everyone would be able to see your activity. All you will do is speed up the rate at which the cap of Bitcoin is reached. No unlimited printing is possible.

I have no idea where 'counterfeit miner' even comes into this. If you're the best at mining, you get the most coins. That's not controversial, it's a decentralised system, who would even be deeming you counterfeit? Were the first ASICs 'counterfeit'?
you didn't post a link for your footnote! What happened? I can see how this would interfere with the voltage correction (if you don't decouple them e.g. using somewhat low value resistors) but if they're not put in series, I can't actually immediately see how this would cause damage
You can trade USDT-USD on kraken and coinbase, which are some of the more regulated exchanges out there. So it's not as bad as shorting it on bitfinex itself.
I also notice the mem leaks, but I can usually leave my Firefox process running until there is the next update to install.

What works for me is having the `about:memory` tab open and clicking on "Minimize memory usage" at the end of the day when I suspend the machine. And, I have a lot of tabs and windows open, strewn over various virtual desktops. Though most tabs are not loaded but more expensive bookmarks, but I have no add-on which actively unloads tabs.
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Nope, still using two of their products today, and waiting for the moment (as, I think, promised soon?) wherein I could donate/pay directly to/for firefox.

I don't broadly support Mozilla's aims (I also don't not - I'm an owner of a 1st-gen Firefox phone, for example), but we're just talking browsers here.
Its architecture was literally designed within the past few years.
There is nothing else left to invest in.
From what I can tell, unlike Tether USDC haven't publicly disclosed what proportion of their reserves are backed by treasury bills and what proportion are stuff like commercial paper - just that they're backed with a mixture of both. On the other hand, they do claim that everything backing their token has very good credit ratings and I don't think Tether do.
Maybe that's the case, but instead why not rent apartments on behalf of the homeless people, put them there, and get them evaluated and treated by a mental health professional?

Living in an actual building rather than a tent in a parking lot ("protected" or otherwise) seems like a great first step and healing some of those mental health issues.

When the treatment starts working to a degree that the formerly-homeless person can be trusted with the cash, give it to them, along with the rent bills.
A 40% placement rate implies triplebyte has the hiring bar lower than companies want it to be. Ie, even with rigorous screening, they have a high false positive rate. (Well, that assumes candidates are totally ordered by desirability, which is not at all the case).
The article they cite (https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/People-are-leavi...) for claiming 10% of SF left is kind of misleading; 8 of the top 15 places they went to are _also_ in the bay area, and all but one was in California.

"SF residents move to Oakland and Berkeley" isn't a very exciting headline though
It is normal to worry about smash and grabs in every US urban area I've ever lived in or visited.
In the UK, FTTC (FTTN) with VDSL is very common, but speeds are much higher—-I get 60+ Mbps solidly. Luckier people have G.fast and FTTP, but 60 Mbps is still pretty good.

Here they’ve split the ILEC-equivalent (BT) from the company that is responsible for providing wholesale access to BT and the CLECs and that company owns the physical plant and infrastructure, including last mile (Openreach). BT owns Openreach but it is semi-independent and seems to be heavily regulator-driven to provide as much access to as many people as possible.

Compared to other places I’ve lived, this model seems to be working better than most.
>a lot of time

not really
> SF doesn’t have local payroll tax, it has a local income tax that applies both to residents and to nonresidents on income earned in SF.

This is false. There are some low-quality websites that have incorrect information about a nonexistent 1.50% SF income tax, if that's where you're getting your information.

San Francisco used to have a payroll tax up until last year, when Prop F replaced it with a gross receipts tax. [1]

[1] https://sftreasurer.org/prop-f-overhaul
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I wish people would stop being so entitled. This isn't the nytimes or something. It's somebody's research blog. Your comment is analogous to demanding that Japanese speakers write in English so that you may be able to read their writing. If you don't want to invest the time then simply move on.
A geek code based on distributed peer review (no blockchain) could be very elegant. A kind of shared CV encompassing gitlogs, third party reviews, customer satisfaction, and actual "thinking when it matters" ability recognition.

Where are the semioticians when we need them? Syntax, grammar, pragmatics, all develop at a rate of knots, but we still use a subset of ASCII for the vast majority of our symbolic computation. Could we do better than a joke from the nineties?
But the $ money is still there, it went to whoever had the bitcoin before it was bought.
I use Wipr and I just saw an ad today for the first time on YouTube in Safari. Usually, it throws up an error and you refresh and the video plays, but today’s it was error, then a skippable ad.
That would be more effort than including a single html-script tag to import google analytics. I have hope that most parties would decide that the extra server load and difficulties would make it not worth it.
> You don't have do it because it might be useful somewhere else.

Agreed, and I think this is something mathematicians generally can relate to.
SF is down to 3.9 new cases per 100,000 per day from a peak of 53.9, it is already going to be silly to be wearing masks while walking around in public away from crowds. You were never going to catch coronavirus from walking past someone who had it (which is one reason why the protests were not significant sources of spread). I seriously doubt that masks outside in SF serve any purpose right now in SF.

And the rate is still declining, at some point it'll be under 1 in 100,000 which would be 3,300 cases per day across the united states. I doubt we can achieve a lot better than that given that there's 883 million outpatient visits per year (CDC stats) with 1% of them for influenza like illness in the summertime which is a 24,000/day minimum rate. Having 10% of that background be coronavirus is probably the lowest it'll go.

There's always going to be some level of coronavirus spread, but if you're vaccinated and the level of spread is where its at now in SF then you need to be more worried about getting T-boned by an Escalade (particularly the way people blow red lights in SF).

So the people in this thread are correct. The time to unwind is pretty much now. At the same time they're unreasonable to expect everyone to just instantly drop everything because they're failing to account for the way people behave (and particularly when the strategy has been successful for the past ~15 months).
I think by law, ads have to be declared as such for users.