skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is true, and the expectation of "real names" has made this enormously worse. If you were "snopes" or "diogenes", nobody could harass you online for being a woman, because they didn't know you were a woman. Even a feminine name was no guarantee that your real-life gender identity was female. Contrast Fecebutt, which extorts photos of your government ID from you by cutting you off from your social network, then publishes your walletnym for every wanker to see.

During the period in question, IRC (EFNet) was governed for many years by Helen Rose, known as Trillian.
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What's the hardest area?

Have you got a list from easiest to hardest areas?
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This has always been obvious to anyone who spent the smallest amount of time working in consumer retail. Customer comes in and wants to buy a patio set they saw in the catalog. You check the database - says there are two in the back. You go to the back. You look for like ten minutes. Patio set is nowhere to be found. Customer has left in frustration by the time you return.

The hard problem has never been the specific form of database used to store info about the real world. The hard problem has always - and will always - be enforcing the correspondence between what's in the database and what's in the real world. This problem couldn't be solved at a single store in a single fairly small city. It's not gonna be solved worldwide.
I dunno who the "We" is in "We are founding a new network with the same goals and ambitions to support foss and likeminded communities: libera.chat."

But if it is the same people who mismanaged freenode into this joke then maybe nobody should go there. Just a heads up. I think this Andrew Lee person would have a tough time being worse than them.

How long until they sell libera.chat for a pack of magic beans? I give it 2 years max.
An experienced programmer in Python or Java would certainly know the difference between an array and a set.

But someone doing embedded C programming, where a mere printf function is an extravagant luxury? You could program for years and not encounter a set.
My dad sends me articles about it on WeChat all the time, but I have difficulty reading it since my Chinese reading comprehension is barely at a 3rd grade level. They do make a big deal about it and it gets lots of coverage.
Bill Gates divorcing is not as big of a story as Bill Gates' connection to Epstein coming out recently. In my eyes he dropped more than the cryptos did
The phone itself was hardwired into the wall? TIL
If possible I recommend applying for work at a mobile game company. Even as a backend dev you can learn a lot. There's a ton of interesting stuff to learn about game design, marketing, analytics, ads vs iap, etc.
Are you suggesting that she chose to be employed at a start up and is actively choosing to stay there because it's a worse situation than she had before?
That's like saying uber shares are infinite because you can start your own ridesharing startup and issue more shares.
bitcoin never went up 2x in a week except before 2013 . bitcoin hardly done much since jan 2018.
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Does 1000+ Leetcode questions mean you've grasped the fundamentals?
Just curious how do you find the market for your projects
The fact the community felt the need to invent a "stablecoin" isn't terribly reassuring
Wouldn't this only ever be true if we enforced some sort of blockchain-based Torrens title, though? Otherwise it will always become a matter of title research, and at that point I struggle to imagine how a blockchain is more useful than a conventional recorded deed.
You appear to be conflating "wheat" with "carbohydrates." Wheat contains many necessary nutrients, including, importantly, protein.

This article about staple crops provides additional details: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staple_food
I think it depends on which perspective your inputs/outputs are coming from ;) The way for all people in a room to sound at the same volume is to normalise the audio you capture from them. If you normalise the mixed signal you play back to the other users in the room, it's too late (at least if they speak over the top of each other), plus it'd be too hard as you'd be constantly yoyoing around.
Yes, and the sugar content of the wheat bread mentioned is extremely high. Further, wheat's glycemic index isn't too far off from sugar.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/diseases-and-conditions/glyce...

HIGH-CARBOHYDRATE FOODS

White wheat bread* 75 ± 2

Whole wheat/whole meal bread 74 ± 2

Specialty grain bread 53 ± 2

SUGARS

Fructose 15 ± 4

Sucrose 65 ± 4

Glucose 103 ± 3

Honey 61 ± 3
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Easy! Let's just make sure the people who stole the two patio sets update the blockchain. I mean, people who steal / ransom / hack bitcoin still update the blockchain, so criminals clearly can follow the rules
Getting a maybe after the YC Interview
> Jesuses (Jesii?)

Pet peeve, honed by endless discussions on Slashdot in the late 1990s: -ii is not a Latin plural marker. -i is a Latin plural marker which can correspond to a singular -us. Plurals can look like -ii, but only if the singular word ends in -ius. That's simply because you replace -us by -i, and if there was an i before the -us, then there will be an i before the -i. (Example: the gladiator's sword, gladius, becomes gladii. But one of those i-s is part of the stem already.)

Neither Jesus nor virus end in -ius, so their plurals can definitely, certainly, 100% never be Jesii and virii. They also happen to be words that end in -us but belong to declensions that don't use -i for the plural at all. (So no Jesi and viri either. "Viri" is a Latin word but means something else.) And on top of that IIRC virus is uncountable in Latin and Jesus is irregular even for the declension it sort of belongs to, and are proper names even countable?

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The stock market is, was and always will be a game.
Why shouldn't you pay for food and lodging? You would outside of prison. Why should taxpayers foot the bill? Privatized prisons aside, because that is perverse and should be flat out illegal.
Inflation is a technique created for stable countries with stable markets. Fiat is based on market conditions, not on hypes and memes like BTC. BTC isn't really a hedge against inflation either, since the lack of underlying value.

Hyperinflation means that that market is in trouble, you can already hedge with USD/gold in most cases, which is actually backed by something. Losing a couple of % over years is a tested strategy and a requirement for healthy economies. Most people that talk about BTC and hyperinflation don't understand basic economy and are just looking for an excuse for BTC to rise because of... Greed.

Additionally, BTC was new in 2009 and I cashed out 2017 and never looked back. It's not new anymore and hasn't been for a long time, a lot of accountants even got courses about the blockchain in Belgium 5 years ago.

Everything of 2016-2017 repeats. Then it was adopted by steam, woocommerce, square, Amazon, ... and they all removed it again or never finalized the integration, because of not enough usage. That's 5 years ago and everyone was talking about it and it was in every possible media in every country. That is: Newspaper, tv, going out, Reddit, here, ads, ... I even had a site with some popular articles on it ( how to recover your bitcoin password was by far the most popular one fyi)

Today it's just Tesla and they also removed payment.

Ps. Countries going to do digital currencies are not going to base it on a existing one. So that's unrelated to the topic of currently tradeable crypto.

Ps2. A bit of regret not thinking about it in March last year. But that's just the greed talking.
That sounds super-fraudulent.
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I’ve been a gym rat for 15 years and the regulars I know will champion hardest for the people attempting a change.

Sorry you had foul experiences, but I’ll stick to 2% of the people being in that bucket.
Here's an example:

https://www.notion.so/dheeranet/Foo-a4b0f734fdab4ec4949a9b69...

What are you looking for that is not this?
Everyone is encouraging risk taking. If you don't follow suit you will won't make money. It's basic strategy.

Eventually the risk taking will result in you no longer making money when things go bad.

But at that point when your fund, brokerage, whatever, goes bust you will have a very nice personal bank account.

The person who didn't encourage risk will also go out of business (because everything will be dragged down) but they won't have a nice personal bank account.

Why would you choose to be the poor person?
Except real estate. Someone can already come with a made up deed and say they own your house. Blockchain would make this much more secure than it is today.
It's been discussed a few times on here, but one way is through technical sales. For me it was that or management. I was a coder for 25 years. At some point, it doesn't matter if you are still getting better at code. There's a ceiling there that doesn't seem to budge. Sales has given me a lot of money and free time for my family.
Furious masturbation on HN today as crypto prices drop to what they were... 3 months ago. Let’s not write the whole industry off quite yet!
> Also I dont recall this much media turmoil over the credit default swap mortgage crisis fiasco of 2008.

Were you a small child in 2008 or something? The GFC and its causes (CDS and CDO blowups, among other things) were widely talked about when it was happening, you couldnt go a day without hearing about exotic derivatives and their effects on the economy/markets in the news.
The universe is pretty big. It also has 3 useful dimensions. Earth has basically only two and one very narrow one.

I think we can keep going for quite some time.
Not being able to spend $25 a day for lunch?

Not going for 3-day weekend to Greece?

Not getting Uber to work?

Count me in, I'm poor.
And at this point, people pushing blockchain for representing real world ownership is either scamming you or stupid.
Do you eat garlic? Specifically peeled garlic?

Slaves in China peel that garlic, and the garlic is grown in california and shipped to china for slaves to peel it all, and they lose their fingernails due to how much garlic they need to peel.

I love garlic, but on par with the fucking Sackler family of Oxycontin, The garlic ranches of Gilroy are fucking despicable.
>The comment wasn't that opposition to welfare programs was solely caused by racism, just that it was one motivation

Ok so how would one oppose welfare programs and not be labeled racist? Do you believe there are no individuals taking advantage of the welfare system and that pointing out anyone who is would be racist?
> Crypto has never and can never be an investment

Whether you like or dislike crypto, this seems false according to both the dictionary and common use definition
DateTime was added in Elixir 1.8.0. Timex filled a vacuum for a long time, and still has a few nice convenience functions. In new codebases, I of course drop Timex, but it was very much needed until those APIs were added.
Inflation ultimately means that the money that you own now could buy you way less than it used to or that it will buy you products of a lesser quality than it used to. And I think that we are very much seeing the effects of that.
I would not be able to afford as much as I can today if I were only able to buy goods produced in my region (EU). We live under the impression that everything is fine because the decrease in purchasing power has been hidden by the fact that we buy mostly from goods produced very cheaply in the East.
Ask HN: What is it like being in an up and coming tech city?
As someone who's lived in the Bay for a while now, we always hear these rumors that the next Silicon Valley is going to be Austin, or Santa Monica, or more recently Miami and so on.

I've had friends of friends move to Austin and from what I've heard its apparently life changing and all they ever wanted etc.

So for those who live in up and comer tech cities like the above or any other that I've missed, what is the experience like?

How does it compare to SF/SJ/Oakland/anything in between?

How is tech valued there?

How competitive is the job market?

How do the different rules, regulations, markets benefit / hinder tech in your city?
What do you mean? I tried looking up what a mechanical lock is, it's not clear to me. Would it be bad for a locksmith to sell one to you?
Negging != Nagging

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negging
You have asked a mix of questions...

Is the price of crypto/BTC versus USD going to go up or down? No one knows for sure and there is little helpful discussion to come from that question.

Is BTC going to "replace" USD? Almost surely not (US cannot control BTC sufficiently).

Is crypto going to "replace" USD? USD may at some point acquire some features of crypto but not without years of advance notice, massive debates in Congress, etc. Crypto will almost surely not replace USD without US government adoption. Simplest explanation is that the US government only accepts USD for payment (IRS or any other department). The US government is by far the largest player in the world monetary system.
While i agree that this is not really a crash as much as a long overdue correction, i have to respectfully disagree with your point about cryptos being little more than a ponzi scheme. Unfortunately the ones that have been getting most attention (Bitcoin, Doge, Ether) have been a poor representation of what the crypto space has been brewing thse past couple of years. I would highly recommend looking into DeFi projects such as AAVE or maybe a better representation of whats possible with Smart contracta on Cardano or Solana. There are a lot of "shitcoins" but there are also a few innovative gems that are going to make a major difference over the next decade imo.
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WinCompose also works great on Windows.

https://github.com/samhocevar/wincompose
Just a tangent. Thomas Midgley invented both CFCs and leaded gasoline.
Sounds like two separate arguments, I don't really see the through line. The value of BTC comes from the mining security, and you cannot mine multiple chains at once with the same hardware.

> The fact that pretty much every crypto of non-trivial float trades in lock step with BTC definitely supports the "no intrinsic value" theory.

They are highly correlated but certainly not lock step, see the 1 month ETH/BTC chart. Assets on the stock market are also highly correlated to each other, so I don't quite follow.
Unless there's a private window, which gets lost during these forced restart after updates.
The smell coming out of the Subway franchises here is wonky. Will not eat.
Read it again and replace poor with sane.
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I didn't grow up poor but we didn't have extra of anything and we sure couldn't afford to lose a paycheck. The thing I find absolutely unbelievable and will never understand is when people quit their job and just plan to relax for a while. What ??? You have a job you are making money, why would you give that up? I feel so lucky to have a job and to do something that isn't back breaking labor, I will never understand this and firmly feel like this is rich people stuff.
That was not a direct quote on anyone here or elsewhere, more like a sentiment that was around last year.

https://twitter.com/shortthebanks/status/1133735039596994560

https://twitter.com/Joe_wants_BTC/status/1316044080690929666

Dropping X% in 24h sounds bad, but without putting it in the context of the asset's historical volatility, sharpe ratio, overall portfolio construction, etc; it looks like a very superficial reading (perhaps just good enough for a headline)
If blockchains make the court's job easier, then presumably the Bitcoin world would demonstrate that. Given the vast amount of fraud and theft in that world, though, the opposite seems to be the case. One example among many is the QuadrigaCX case, a mess the courts have been trying to clean up for a couple of years without success: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadriga_Fintech_Solutions
How does this work with privacy, though? Would you be able to see all the properties someone owns?
Given the decentralized nature of cryptos, won't they always be used for what the richest people want them used for? They will always want to form an oligopoly
That's a matter of perspective. Lilo's dead so it's not like we'll hear his side of the story. For other examples of forks which may or may not be considered hostile by some, see the ffmpeg/libav split from some years back (that just like Freenode, eventually reconverged).
I love Bittman's work and this is an interesting overview of what I'm sure is a great book, but I can't help but be hung up on this line:

it is perhaps not surprising that the largest municipal water treatment plant in the world is required to allow the people of Des Moines to drink the tap water.

That seems nuts to me so I did a quick search and almost instantly figured out that the author's statement is totally inaccurate. All of the world's largest municipal water treatment plants are in major cities like Chicago, Los Angeles, Moscow, and Shanghai. What the author meant was Des Moines is home of one of, if not the largest nitrate removal facilities in the world. Which to me is even more damning than having a huge municipal water treatment plant for a small city.

I get the intention, and maybe the author understood the difference but just didn't want to waste words explaining it, but I think they could incorporate something on nitrate pollution ruining their rivers alongside the 'world's largest' comment.

From the Des Moines Register: https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2017/05/25/wate...
Actually changing the world for the better is hard, isn't it? Much easier to zero in on bitcoin's inconsequential energy usage I guess.
The society would benefit the most from policies that encourage smart and successful people to have more children.
> make sure the people who stole the two patio sets

It probably isn’t stolen. It’s more likely delivered to another store, still on the truck, still at the factory, or was sold and not recorded.
Why would anyone record their theft of a real world item on the blockchain? Can you clarify, if I am misunderstanding?
exactly this. Blockchain is more authoritative than random pieces of paper (deeds) declaring ownership.
All that other stuff is fucked up in its own right, as is the privatization of prisons, but I'm only talking about room and board. I don't think taxpayers should foot that bill, if the prisoner is able-bodied.
Sure, they could have made better choices, but the decentralisation is really a fundamental problem that can't be designed away.

If you want it decentralised it's going to be significantly slower and more expensive than centralised networks.
If transactions on the blockchain don't enforce ownership, then why would the corrupted official put their transactions on the blockchain?
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I forgot I still get her newsletter despite her enmity towards me, so here's what she said in her April email:

"Now... At some point in April I was supposed to begin a new job which would have brought the Foenix back to the Hobby level but things didn't work out quite as planned, did I dodged a bullet? Time will tell! So in a way, what I am trying to say is that for almost a year I have been resisting the idea to make the Foenix a full-time gig and despite my best effort to avoid it, it seems pretty obvious to me that I won't be able to escape it..."

She then goes on to discuss project future and sustainability and even hints at maybe moving beyond the 816 at some point.

So TLDR she's still working on it on an aggressive basis and it's not going to be abandoned.
I feel like I can relate to many of the things here. It reminds me of the few times I got into enough of a pickle that I needed an advance on my salary. Just a lot of chickens that came home to roost.

At the same time, I recognise my own privilege in that I managed to escape that and get to a place of comfort, and also that there were other things I was fortunate to not experience.

To that extent, I could tell by my reaction sometimes that me-with-success was the one speaking, and not me-with-empathy.
I'd imagine the default world currency will have a dog on it by then
As someone who signed up to participate in the Tiramisù World Cup in Treviso (near Venice) [but ended up not going], I can only offer my condolences :_(
> Would you be able to see all the properties someone owns?

Property records are public in most jurisdictions.
I deleted Robinhood about a year ago but I remember early in Robinhood days that I deposited cash and it flipped back to green. Hopefully they changed that behavior by now.
I mean a fake deed document will only get you so far. Depends on what kind of scam you're trying to pull though. I am renting someone's apartment and I didn't look at any deed, but every property is registered with the city and I can verify ownership that way.
I'm just trying to put into perspective "poor people around the world" vs "poor people in the US". From my pov, if one can afford a car, it's a little rich to call oneself poor when compared to all the people who can't afford basic necessities. And no, a car isn't a basic necessity, not even in the US.
Marketing.

They've marketed non fossil fuel vehicles to consumers, which other car companies have not managed to do
And that consists of taking gold out of the ground and putting it back under the ground - in vaults and adding an extra dash on paper. That's a lot of energy expenditure with destruction of the environment as well (cyanide is still used in gold mining).

What we need is a more efficient digital currency and stores of value. Gold is not the answer either.
Its a fraud in that the money/gold/intrinsic fiat that is supposed to be backing it has not been credibly proven to exist, at least at a value matching the current amount of USDT in supply.

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Let's say I decide to make NerdBucks. I offer to sell you n NerdBucks for n dollars, 1-to-1, and tell you I will always buy those NerdBucks back at the same price. This is how NerdBucks get "pegged" to a dollar -- if someone will always buy the currency for a given rate, it will then always be worth at least that much.

Now, you might say, "Okay, what's from stopping you from selling a billion NerdBucks, and when people try to sell them back to you, you just refuse?" Well, normally nothing (outside of litigation, but that is a rabbit hole I'm not going to talk about here). In theory, though, I could have a bank account that I publish the amount of inside it, to show you I am prepared to buy every single NerdBuck back in a worst-case scenario.

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Going back to Tether: The issuing body of Tether has suggested they are holding reserves of USD equivalent to USDT in circulation. If you look at some of the other articles linked in this thread [0] you can find deep-dives that suggest they are lying, and in fact have been using USDT as a way to print money.

They are relying on the hope that more people will buy USDT than come calling to cash in. That is fundamentally the same hope that a Ponzi scheme relies on.

[0]:https://medium.com/@bitfinexed/bitfinex-and-tether-is-unaudi...
Large corporations that can afford to build and organize vertically integrated supply chains are pursuing this angle (e.g. Walmart Amazon Alibaba), and although it's unlikely they'll be totally robust, they've certainly made strides in accounting for the location and ownership status of goods at large scales.