skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Concentrated wealth sponsors high culture. There is extremely limited political will for public funding, and distributed personal spending decisions give you mass culture. You are not getting painters without people who spend tens of thousands on paintings. You are not getting the theater or the symphony or the opera without a class of attendees who write checks for hundreds of times more than a ticket is worth.
I wonder if this is like ancient astronomers finding more and more epicycles.
The point of blockchain isn't that the government can't steal your house; the (well, a) point of blockchain is that the government can't pretend you never owned your house in the first place. It establishes reliable records; that doesn't magically give it the ability to enforce those records.
SponsorBlock will. It does require someone to flag the ads first though but so does most ads on adblocker lists.
I mean, Bitcoin is printed out of thin air as well. Just because you compute some hashes you can get something that people value at $40K?

It's not that different than if we had a "cat picture" coin that anyone with a cat could manufacture cat pictures at will and sell them.

Granted Bitcoin is a little bit more governed in terms of technical difficulty and cryptographic security, but that doesn't change the fact that it's printed out of thin air in a decentralized fashion.

If I developed some hardware in secret that could mine Bitcoin 10X faster, there would be nothing illegal about using it to my advantage. If I had a hypothetical device that could print it 1000X faster, I could do that too. Maybe I do. You wouldn't know if I did.

Bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme as well.

That $1T market cap of Bitcoin? Was there really $1T USD put into it? I don't think so.
@eloff I think our replies crossed. I think that the question is whether you are still at a net positive as a result of inflation (consider the counterfactual).
Generally, you can add a <link> tag in the header, but in practice many websites forgo this or mess up the implementation, so most feed readers have custom search algorithms to try and find them.

Just looked through the Chromium source code, the algorithm for finding RSS feeds is here: https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:com...

[0] https://pypi.org/project/feedsearch/ [1] https://fetchrss.com/api
This is a work of fiction (The author is a novelist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meg_Elison )
Of course that was the most extreme example.

Let's compare "lifelong sentence" in Germany you have a high chance to get out after 15 years. (There is a mechanism for true lifelong, but that's then more of a psychiatric treatment than jail)

Point is: Comparing some statistic without context is not easy
Do you mean Photon? I wouldn't say I'm set on anything right now -- whatever is easiest and most effective/efficient in terms of my time is what I would definitely go with. That's basically what I'm trying to figure out -- what the easiest / most efficient option is.

I have two reasons that I've been reluctant over photon:

1.) It seems to be largely Windows-only. I prefer to develop on Mac or Linux.

2.) Its documentation seems lacking from what I could see. I spent half an hour perusing it and just found myself constantly hitting dead-ends and finding things missing.

GameSparks seemed like a nice option, except their pricing is $299/month for "Standard". [1]

[1] https://www.gamesparks.com/pricing/
> Why should I have faith in the government?

Because you’re allowed to be this naive on a computer forum on an international network of high-tech computing devices, some of which you own, openly call for economic reforms you don’t understand, and not find yourself up against a wall with seconds to live. That’s why.

Your ability to study crypto instead of working a field to feed your family under the watch of rifles, crypto’s entire existence (arguably), the fact that you’re ostensibly literate, the food in your stomach, and countless other secondary concerns that add up to you making this comment right now only happened because you are subject to a government that permitted it and created an existence for you where you can have all of those things. The other side of that wall has guns pointed at it. Note that specifying status quo does not communicate an opinion on it.

There are real concerns with every world government. On the other hand, it’s naive young people who assume their comfortable existence is “just the way it is” for everyone universally and their ethnicity and sovereign power has nothing to do with it. You don’t have to trust the government to tell you the truth. You do have to implicitly trust that governments worth paying attention to can, and will, exercise actual power when they consider it necessary and consequently create a free existence where you are allowed to flourish. Those are different things. That’s what “backed by the full faith” means. Not that we trust the government to be honest about who it’s talking to late at night on Snapchat. The world implicitly trusts the Third Fleet.

“What has the government done for me?”, you’re essentially asking, on the downstream consequences of a decentralized government command and control network experiment which also happened to feed you your entire economic worldview in a society where limits on education are mostly forgotten, particularly by you.
I don't see how this points at evidence of inter-generational trauma which to my knowledge is recognized as bullshit voodoo. Can you explain where it does so?
That’s how the saying goes but what really matters isn’t who you know, but who knows you (and was impressed by your work).
That's fair! I guess I just assume the codebase is terrible (not just because of age, but also judging by the end-product) and will remain terrible; why would you do a refactor, or optimize something, or add new features when it's become a niche project that nobody likes and is on its way out? It's probably just patching over critical bugs from here forward

It's not just about doing something new; a bad codebase that I don't have the opportunity to genuinely improve is probably the most miserable type of project I can possibly think of
See e.g. here: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/tether/
One could argue they "earned" the wealth by taking an enormous risk and holding through crazy swings when no one else would. And ended up be rewarded for taking the risk, as they should.

Along comes the people salty they didn't take the risk, and want to steal the money from the people who did take the risk. It's a tale as old as time.
>There is another theory that if BTC falls below X, mining is no longer profitable so the network would halt

1. difficulty adjustments are a thing, so it wouldn't halt, only be slow until the next adjustment

2. there isn't a single profitability point for all miners, so all the miners won't drop off at once, so barring a massive collapse (eg. 95%) the network won't halt.
I don't believe this would cause any additional inflation, since this is not scenario of creating money, but rather converting one class of money(bank deposit) into another class(reserve notes).
>nobody young was moving to places like Midtown Atlanta or downtown Austin in the early 2000s just because they were priced out of the suburbs.

Sure. But my point was that, in the aggregate, they weren't. Maybe by the early 2000s, there were more jobs there, their parents lived there, their friends were starting to be there, etc. So, yes, at some point especially college-educated young professionals started to pay an urban premium for the lifestyle. We'll see to what degree that continues.
As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will be building the next generation of digital financial services. You’ll have the ability to impact hundreds of thousands of customers with new features that we’re pushing every month. You’ll work with some of the sharpest minds on utilizing bleeding edge architectural design patterns and coding standards. Most importantly, your goal will be pushing rock solid features out in a disciplined and production ready fashion.
> I am not sure what you mean here. This API (available only on macOS) does allow injecting scripts and stylesheets, it does not provide any feasible debugging tools. Granted, you may inject a script that will get some information about what's blocked, but it's far from what's required.

SFSafariExtensionHandler implements SFSafariExtensionHandling protocol, which has this function:

optional func contentBlocker(withIdentifier contentBlockerIdentifier: String,
blockedResourcesWith urls: [URL],
on page: SFSafariPage)

So, this is used in statistics extension that prevents me ever looking into the console. Helps to shorten the time it takes to add a new rule and see if it works.

> Let's take the simple example - unblocking something. For instance, here is the most obvious example that happens all the time. There may be a regional list that unblocks something blocked by EasyList (or EasyPrivacy) because this "something" breaks an important website in that region. Putting EasyList into one content blocker and the regional list into another breaks the regional list.

I totally agree! This is one of the reasons I don't use those lists as is. Thankfully, many unblock rules can be merged into the corresponding block rules in the form of "unless-domain" specifier.

> We accept that argument despite me being literally sick of hearing it (so there's privacy on iOS, but no privacy on macOS since scripts are allowed to extensions there, okaay).

The statement that there's no privacy on macOS is incorrect. The user can see what privileges different extensions require, and can enable only those they are okay with, like content blockers. Due to their design, content blocker extensions can guarantee privacy, unlike the ones that can run JS code.
What? They literally hold 1:1 collateral in USD custody accounts.
It’s true too that 4 out of 5 scrum masters will lament the bothersome dearth of experienced scrumee programmers. Never a shortage of scrum masters, or ceos or vc or debt. But labor you can arbitrage for 10x profits are always hard to find domestically.
I was getting dangerously close to a carpal tunnel territory and what steered me off the collision course were split keyboard (Sinc/ quefrency) and a sliding keyboard tray, altogether they allowed me to keep my wrists at a 45-ish degree angle, tilted inwards (like they should be) and my elbows and shoulders relaxed and never at a sharp angle. Never had even a numbness ever since
Oh, don't get me wrong - it was a Trojan Horse, and my first ever web browsing experience was on Navigator, so it was a hard-hearted appreciation at the time.

But from my stand point then, It Just Worked.
The article says it's about 1.5-2 seconds. For a firmware that's meant to just boot it's not great, but it's not as bad as I expected.
It's misplaced anger, but that anger is valid. Not everyone can adapt nor gets the opportunity to adapt. Our society leaves millions behind, a cruelty that keeps the wheels of capitalism lubricated with fear of the same happening to you.
How is USDC nonsense? If you actually have the associated USD as collateral, it is most definitely not nonsense.
Except the difference is there's a hell of a lot more bandwidth available for telework in Colorado and Nevada than there was the last cycle.
Without a blockchain, couldn't this be done simply by empowering the IRS to do it (e.g. by requiring banks to give oracle access to bank accounts or requiring all employers to list complete transaction outflows?)

Like, you solved an incomplete information problem by saying suppose the state had complete information. If you're willing to do that, we wouldn't have a problem blockchain or no blockchain.
"Gold is a ponzi scheme in the classic sense though. There is no underlying value[1] and the price only goes up if more people buy in."

[1] it's literally a shiny yellow rock. You can argue that there's some intrinsic value for use in jewelry or electronics, but given the demand breakdown (https://www.statista.com/statistics/299609/gold-demand-by-in...) and the current price, anyone buying right now is going to experience massive losses should a collapse happen
Interesting... Only two of my jobs have not.
I'm not sure how much of a breakthrough these conclusions are (basically, psychedelics weaken habits of perception and thought, allowing us to experience the world more directly), but it was fun to read anyway.

I'm on year three of meditating, and the above sounds a lot like one of the primary "jobs" of meditation: to break down habitual thoughts and reactions, and apprehend things more directly. This applies more to the emotions and reason than it does directly to the senses (as in LSD), but it can result in absorptive states (jhana) that feel a lot like the oceanic flow you get from mushrooms.

Coincidentally, my youngest daughter is nearly three years old, and it's been a weird experience watching her developing brain furiously piecing together the ego, sense of self, and habits of thought that I, forty years older, am now furiously trying to break down.
Anatomy of Collector: How World Cataloged over 500M Releases on Discollł
https://regexr.com/ exists, and you don't have to make an account to use it.
And Taleb himself has addressed the pandemic by invoking the "precautionary principle" [0]. We don't know the real risks, so always err on the side of precaution.

[0] https://necsi.edu/systemic-risk-of-pandemic-via-novel-pathog...
Because statistically poor people who remain poor have poor impulse control, prioritize short term pleasure and make bad decisions. Like many people who escaped poverty, I am not poor because lacking these traits elevated me out of poverty.
Some options for automating website tests in Firefox:

WebDriver: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/WebDriver

Marionette: https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/testing/marionette/I...

Puppeteer: https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/04/puppeteer-3-firefox-suppo...

I haven't used these tools, so I don't know which is "best" or why so many different tools are needed. :)
Not OC but flippa.com and bizbuysell.com are the marketplaces I’ve heard of
It was IE 5.5 that was particularly a champ compared to the terrible Netscape Communicator / Netscape 4 product. I continued to regularly use Netscape 4 through those years, as I didn't like IE, and it was a real dog in most every respect. Netscape took their eye off the ball in an attempt to further build their business away from the browser (Communicator of course was their suite attempt), and failed at both things in the process.
Mars Rover Engineer by Day, Space-Rock Musician by Night
You can try keyboard trays (attached to the desk with clamps), about $50 online and hold up well for a couple years, almost completely eliminates this problem
At some point, YouTube is just going to stich these into the main video.
It was not (or that was only some of it.) The same crime rise and fall happened worldwide - this is addressed in the article.

Continues to happen too. The parts of the world with the most terrorism like Iraq/Yemen also most recently had leaded gas.
Just don't use USDT?
You wrote "I can tell where I can park USDC and DAI and get 2% returns per month - and have gotten that consistently for the last 8 months. Can you tell me any traditional bank that can offer this good of a deal? "

If it was not your intention to imply your crypto scheme was as safe as a bank account or a traditional bank product like a CD, you did a bad job of communication what you were trying to say.

If you communicate (however unintentionally it might have been, I'll grant you the benefit of the doubt) like a sucker roped into ponzi scheme, it's only rational to assume you are one.

I didn't care about the details of your speculative business, I cared about the giant red flag you raised when you compared what you were doing to a bank offering.
You'd need to end or severely restrict local zoning.

Everyone loves the idea of cheaper housing for people in theory.

Once they realize it means their own property value won't appreciate as quickly, or may even decrease and then suddenly they are against it. And they will vote out any officials that support it.

There needs to be state or federal intervention. And that doesn't seem likely at any time in the near future.
But isn't this a special case? Unlike shorting a stock there's an upper bound on the price ($1), if it's exceeded they'll print more to depress it, so the risk of getting margin called is low. The only real risk is the financing cost.
Honest question: Why not just drop support for Safari? If Apple wants to make it hard to write content blockers, they can do without content blockers, and the users can see ads and eventually switch to a browser that doesn't show them ads.
If you're interested, David Epstein wrote a book called "Range" that provides an alternate viewpoint to the 10,000 hour rule. I found Epstein's model resonated more for me than the 10k rule.

https://davidepstein.com/the-range/
"Was it laughter or a dominance signal?"

I would argue, laughter can be a dominance signal. The stronger laughs at the weaker one.
Sadly he’s too angry to make the joke funny. As always there probably is a grain of truth to the idea that postmodern feminist critiques occasionally disappear up their own fundamental, and so there’s a joke to be made here. But this isn’t it!
Seriously. I've already started adding YouTube channels I want to follow to Inoreader because Google does such a poor job of showing me new videos.
You can trade USDT for USD on any of the big exchanges that allow trading for USD.
Ask HN: How do I get a FAANG job in security?
I have ~6 years of total IT/Cloud experience, most of that in actual consulting (not House Of Lies consulting). I have a lot of experience with strategy, engineering, architecture, evangelism, etc. I consider myself to have both a technical understanding of security and a very deep managerial/non-technical understanding.

I would like to get a leadership/management position in a FAANG company, particularly Facebook and Netflix. Not really interested in working at Google or Amazon at all.

I know this is a long shot, but does anyone have any advice on finding these jobs? Are they even publicly listed? Do I need to talk to an internal recruiter and ask? Thanks a lot in advance!
Oh, I regularly use 2FA on individual sites. I just don't see the point of using 2FA to access passwords for sites which, if important, have 2FA enabled themselves. 4FA?
Freenode has been dead for years lol. No where near the same level of activity it used to have.
I'm sure you know all this, but just to give other people some context on how Arch expects one as a user to handle this:

> - Arch will release a new version of Xorg before the graphics card vendors release new drivers that are compatible with it. Same for kernel versions too.

You accidentally put a plural in "vendors", but in practice this is just Nvidia.

If you are forced by circumstance to deal with an Nvidia card, use the LTS kernel and most of your problems go away, and you can also pin your X.org version and manually update it. The real solution is to use a GPU vendor that has mainline drivers, the only valid reason nowadays not to do that being CUDA or being unable to acquire hardware with mainline support.

> - I've had gedit start crashing in new minor versions of gnome due to a setting being incompatible, needing to track that down and unset

That's a gedit bug. Complain to gedit devs or stop using it.

> - If you have python virtualenvs for development and system python is upgraded to a new major version, all your virtualenvs break

You should not be using system python for non-system tasks. Use asdf, Nix, Docker, pyenv or a similar tool for projects requiring their own non-system environment.

> - If arch upgrades the major version of[...]

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

> - If you do a full system upgrade and have AUR stuff installed

AUR is not Arch, it's up to each AUR maintainer to keep their scripts up to date and you as a user to keep up with those external dependencies. A common approach is to use an AUR helper to handle both system and AUR upgrades.

> - In general (not specific to arch linux), new versions of software break stuff all the time. You tend to hit way more of this on arch if you keep your system up to date.

And this is why as an Arch user you will be nudged by experience to use software that gives a crap about quality.
Do you have your own server? How hard was it to set up?
Yes, and somebody stole a lot of money from them via the blockchain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mt._Gox#Bankruptcy;_stolen_bit...
> The reason I still wear a watch at all is so I can see the time without having to dig the phone out of my pocket and turn it on, which is hopeless while driving.

I also wear a watch, but almost every car has a built-in clock in the dashboard.
I’m pretty sure almost no one is. There are tons of IE11 layout bugs (not missing features, straight-up bugs) that have not gotten fixed in 8 years. I get the vibe that MS may have totally cut off development and all but the most critical security maintenance in order to speed the plow of Edge adoption.
I use Fluffychat on mobile and Fractal on Gnome. Fluffychat is excellent, but Fractal is still lacking e2ee support (there's a rewrite on the way with support already in place).
Either they allow skipping through the ads or they somehow signal that it’s a different segment.
It went up a lot in 2020, quite possibly as a reaction to unemployment and especially not having anything else to do.

But yes, before that it was limited to a few hotspots like St Louis which still had environmental lead problems. Meanwhile DC in 1990 was more dangerous than the Iraq War.
Maybe they figured Google Reader was the future of RSS.
I mean, PayPal is not a bank, and if for some reason they become insolvent, your deposits will be gone too.

That being said, I don't keep large deposits in PayPal, and I've never had trouble getting PayPal money directly deposited into my bank account via ACH. Can the same be said for USDT?
Binance is an exchange
>I believe CS is now the most popular undergraduate major across US colleges

I saw that in one Google search and it seems incredibly unlikely. This seems much more probable (even if you assign some of the engineering degrees to CS):

https://www.niche.com/blog/the-most-popular-college-majors/
https://www.gemini.com/dollar

Suppposedly it's FDIC insured to $250k per user.
https://www.gemini.com/dollar

Supposedly it's FDIC insured to $250k per user.
It's all about the short term profits. Look how much money we saved leaving SF! Then when the next execs come in it's, look how much money we saved going back to SF!
I use Wipr, I’m in Australia and on Catalina. Now see Ads on YouTube, even when I update. Now I understand why.
For the love of god stop downvoting comments you disagree with. Let's have an interesting discussion about it instead and then maybe downvote bad comments that might pop up later. Downvoting and flagging a comment like this make people not even want to engage in a discussion as they quickly risk having replied to [FLAGGED] which ruins it for everyone as they can't read the thread later.