skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US is printing money which will lead to like a 10% inflation rate probably.

Even now food is noticable more expensive.

So, over the course of a few years these are good investments.

For the same reason people (and Blackrock is interested or has already) bought Bitcoin.
Thing is, shared hosting providers have offered web app installers like Installatron, Softaculous and Fantastico for many years. They allow users to visually install web apps but are still difficult to use and require lots of maintenance.

I think a radically different approach is needed, one that emphasizes real end-user value and data over APIs and tech. Something that's driven by deep UX design and can follow ordinary people throughout their lives without requiring them to become admins or worry too much about security and privacy.
So you agree that you were wrong to say that you don’t have the option even in theory? Convenience is a discussion point but it’s predicated on being possible – and since this happens not-infrequently (people buy cars, farm equipment, even houses with cash) it’s far from theoretical.

One other area to learn about: security – while it’s true that you can move millions on yourself own, the risks of theft or accidental loss are why most people do not avail themselves of these theoretical options since they consider the cost of banking fees to be an acceptable trade off for the security and convenience of letting a professional handle those problems.
It's not an API. It's just a demo site :)
Thanks jFriedensreich! Yes, we are seeing Apache 2.0 as the gold standard for open source licenses and are happy to use it.
So "off chain" means LN holds the BTC in some other data structure then batches it up as one big transaction? Kinda like how a broker covers small retail trades until they hit enough volume to register an NYSE trade on the floor? Is that how it works? If so , this means lots of BTC is tied up in LN ... that seems dubious as heck.
A bit of fun with Prometheus, Grafana and the Twitter API. What's not to like? Watch out, the Grafana image renderer is a real memory hog.
Please sell
>The new law means every business must accept Bitcoin as legal tender for goods or services, unless it is unable to provide the technology needed to do the transaction.

how easy is it for businesses to incorporate tech like this?
The middle class continues to get raped and fleeced by corporations while our governments do nothing. This is how America dies.
Something like this would effectively bar any person born in India who tried to immigrate to the U.S. in the last ~5 years from ever buying a house, unless they got married to a citizen. Broad strokes, I agree that residency requirements might help with reducing speculative investment, but maybe phrased in terms of how long you're in the country, not literally permanent residency as a legal threshold.
Just the fact that we have not been able to find a medicine to reduce plaques does not imply that

"The amyloid hypothesis for Alzheimer's is WRONG."

Amyloid plaques are correlated with Alzheimer. AFAIK it is still an open question if they play a role in the causation of the symptoms.
Do not miss the bigger thing.

A generation ago : trade policy => offshoring of shippable jobs

This generation : monetary policy => institutional ownership of the common home
Regulatory backlash.
What if Google did not develop flight search but acquired it by buying someone out. What if they did not develop image search but acquired it by buying someone out. What if they did not develop the good-looking timer but copied it from someone else.

If Google was 100% responsible for developing everything they offer to consumers, then perhaps there is an argument that Google is good for consumers. However the truth is that Google Search is what they developed, it became the only search engine that most people use, and being a gateway tot he web and having the ability to spy on the world's web use is an unfair advantage that virtually no one else has.

Anything that becomes popular Google can gobble it up. Consumers cannot get superior direct benefits from non-Google companies for long. Google will acquire any such companies sooner than later.
I've used Scrivener for a few years, too. Prior to Scrivener I used text files with lots of back end work. When the day came for me to switch I looked at both Ulysses and Scrivener. Today, in retrospect I am extremely happy that I chose Scrivener, since it has treated me so kindly!

Recently, Vellum was recommended to me. Vellum looks very good, and I will test it on my next work.
I don't understand how you can manage, honestly. The absolute swarm of conspiracies around COVID and the election overwhelmed me and i wasn't even trying to stay informed on them. Furthermore, even if i was trying to stay informed on them it seems like a full time job trying to discern the "maybe not entirely moronic" conspiracies to the completely batshit ones. Most are batshit, it seems.

Sounds exhausting.
Untrue. This is a huge misconception.

Value could have increased for many reasons having nothing to do with labor effectuated by either party.

The neighborhood might have changed, and now there are more restaurants. Or maybe it’s just considered more fashionable for intangible reasons.

The house could be on the beach, and Alice has decided to take up surfing, so values the location more than Bob ever did in the past.

And so on.

There can be an almost infinite combination of reasons why Alice may find more value in the property than Bob.

Edit: my previous version of this comment had Alice and Bob reversed.
Only partially true. You pay a *property* tax, which does sometimes have a land component to it, but mostly is a tax on the purchase price of your home.

A Georgist-style land tax proposes a tax on solely the land, so a 2000sq-ft lot is the same regardless of a $10mil home or not.

This would require an appraiser that regularly re-evaluates the value of the land-- but we already do that! But with homes.

Furthermore, a property tax still leaves open lots of tax-shenanigans. "Look, my home is actually worth half the appraised price, thus I should be taxed half." It's harder to do so with land, since you can't easily "hide"/play tricks with its value from a regulator.
> I didn't say household water use is minimal, I said a tiny portion of it is used for drinking.

I think you only read the first part of my comment and missed the edit.

Also if we're talking about drinking water, transporting it through pipes is way more efficient than putting it in plastic bottles and trucking it all over the place. Sorry, bottled water is a loser whichever way you look at it, even if it's primarily drunk.
So, also make holiday homes also illegal?
so it's not the market naturally pricing it in then is it?
Bitcoin is legally an asset. Processing the transfer of bitcoin is legally no different from processing the exchange of baseball cards. Transferring $100 worth of baseball cards might be a money transmission, but transferring a signed Barry Bonds card regardless of its value is not. Likewise, sending $100 dollars in the form of bitcoin might be money transmission, but sending 0.03 BTC regardless of the dollar value is not. And those are exactly the sort of transfers processed by miners. To subject miners to FinCEN rules, the US would have to recognize bitcoin (and any other cryptocurrency one wanted to so regulate) as a legal currency.

Further the idea that removing a transaction, which is functionally equivalent to moving funds back, is not a money transmission while the original movement of funds is a money transmission is absurd. Otherwise it would be trivial to create a cryptocurrency where initial payments are never validated and you simply rely on removing the superfluous transactions to achieve the same effect.
It's the same as property taxes. Do they factor capital gains in some obvious sense? Sure! They're based on assessed value, which should be closer to market value than original sale price. But no one looks at them as the same as forcing gains realizations. Just two different things conceptually. Just so for wealth taxes, with are just property taxes for non-RE property.
There is a brainfuck implementation in the samples directory.
There's a distinction in [1]:

> Common property taxes include land value, which usually has a separate assessment. Thus, land value taxation already exists in many jurisdictions. Some jurisdictions have attempted to rely more heavily on it. In Pennsylvania certain cities raised the tax on land value while reducing the tax on improvement/building/structure values.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax#United_States
You can put in a Spotify playlist link, and pull in all the songs from that into a local playlist, but it can't directly play a remote playlist (i.e. updating when new songs are added).
The argument might be that in that event, housing becomes less attractive as an investment to the Blackrocks of the world, and they have alternative lower risk sources of return in a higher interest rate environment?
They should have chosen NANO instead of BTC: Fast transactions and no transaction fees.
Automatic Persistent Queries for Absinthe-GraphQL
They also push the idea of "The Great Reset" in that thread, which is another conspiracy theory that is tied up with FEMA putting people in camps in abandoned Walmarts, Bill Gates chipping us through the Covid-19 vaccine, and Q-anon.

As soon as they brought up "The Great Reset" I found the whole thread lost credibility.
No you have to bribe them :-)
> Not everyone in the country does siesta. We just have lunch.

Obviously nothing is universal. But to an American visiting Spain the hours of operation there are striking! I only visited Madrid and Sevilla, but I found that restaurants and many stores were open much later than I was accustomed to (my hometown mostly shuts down around 8pm or 9pm, for example), and the fact that anything was closed around lunch was very odd! It definitely gave a fun "flavor" to my trip that was quite different from, say, Singapore.
I recently went down the Geoist/LVT rabbit-hole myself. It strikes me as uniquely appealing across the political spectrum, since it reduces tax on wealth-creation AND redistributes wealth from the rich to the poor.

Sadly, this very fact provokes enough superficial resistance to keep it out of the Overton window. Whenever it comes up, shouters on either side have plenty of ammo to blast it, saying things to the effect of "how could you propose giving the other side what they want!?!"
We agree on attention, but the "and respect" part is the whole point of the what the poster I am responding to just said. (I get confused if that is the OP or GP)
Choosing a React component library for a large application
Great question! Explo is designed specifically for embedding, so our product is designed with features such as design flexibility, security, and responsiveness top of mind.

We allow users to customize the design of their dashboards using CSS and Markdown, and have design elements such as containers to group analyses together. We found that users were hesitant to embed Tableau, Quicksight, or other BI dashboards because they didn't fit into their application.

Also, Quicksight and a number of other tools require you to define a data model, create analyses, and then add them to dashboards. Our platform is oriented around the dashboard, so you write SQL, create visualizations, and design dashboards all in the same view. This gives users a lot of flexibility when creating dashboards and also speed up the time to implementation.
Haha, I'm working on a multi tenant guide for my employer (an identity provider), which will at least cover the login/logout/registration behavior.

> What is the correct term for this multi-tenant setup

Private label, white label.

> I can use the site I have as a template to spin off new sites in the new SaaS?

Do you want to update the application to handle multiple tenants? You could also spin up an entirely separate physical application (a new WAR file, if you were building it in java). But this is simpler to start, but will lead to complexity in the end, as you will have to deploy to N sep instances on update.

> What technologies am I looking at utilizing to build out such

Any tech can do it. Here's the example app I'm building in PHP: https://github.com/FusionAuth/fusionauth-example-symfony-mul...
Hundreds arrested worldwide with help of a trojan app by FBI
Ulysses is "sorta Markdown". There are a bunch of fiddly proprietary differences from "real Markdown" that get in the way of things like being able to cleanly copy-paste material across, especially the second you touch images or other media (which are just magic placeholders in the Ulysses UI rather than properly handled Markdown text).
There are wallets that will show a fake lower balance in distress mode.

Further, why walk around with all of your BTC available to you? If you really have enough to worry about gangs stealing it, put it in cold storage or on an exchange, but don't carry access to it around in your pocket the same way you wouldn't carry cash around in your pocket.
Yes, all 3 (user who sold access, "bad actor", and FB as the market maker) are complicit. But the user may make this choice knowing all this, because who believes stuff anyway on fb, or maybe they are politically aligned with the "bad actors".
Like this?
https://archive.curbed.com/2019/5/31/18639098/california-cit...
I was thinking along a similar line while reading that article.

I understand that from the perspective of somebody living in a country where Facebook has all sorts of relevance/influence on people's daily lives (and certainly more than any company should ever have), this "abuse" of their precious products/services may be a serious thing.

However, I have seen other countries where many have already all but ditched Facebook (often after having been bombarded with local BS), or just never let it become a significant factor in their lives in the first place.

The problems these comprised accounts pose is mostly (if not only) a problem for Facebook itself. Facebook wants to sell the idea that a user account reveals information about the person operating that account. However, these user may have no interest in playing along with Facebook's wish to sell that information. They found a different use for Facebook's services. One that serves them better than Facebook's original intended.

It should also be noted that blatant disinformation, especially from governments, is very common in South America (and plenty of other places too). Many (maybe even most) locals grow up with it and are aware that nothing is as it appears. Especially when power is at play. It's probably more remarkable how naive people in the USA and EU still are , when it comes to their propaganda (be that state or commercially driven). Probably because their propaganda has been more subtle and less obviously in-your-face unbelievable. Either way, the way locals may look at propaganda and misinformation (or even their participation in it) may be very different from how people in the USA (or working at Facebook) look at it.
Not necessarily - for example in China foreigners are limited to owning one house. That limits speculation but does not provide hindrance for someone honestly trying to live.
A.k.a. The Carvana model. This is what Carvana and other "no-haggle, no-test-drive" startups are doing with the whole used car market in many areas. They aggresively buy up all the used cars in an area (or at least as many as they can) from dealerships and private sellers in order to make themselves the only entity with used cars for sale. Which they happen to be selling at 20% above true market value. But hey, you can buy the car from an app on your phone without the burden of haggling with a salesman or even a test-drive!
That's true, rent keeps going up?

A fixed loan doesn't change with interest rates either.
Wow crazed conspiracy stuff topping hacker news.
App Store: 12 years later, a form for developers to report suspicious apps
Interesting that this model incentivizes railroads to build more.

A railroad investor could look at existing flights and accurately project how many passengers they can expect, since flights would be blocked the second they open their carriage doors.
>When the lump sum doubles yet the monthly payment is the same, has the cost really changed?

Yes of course it has. You've just over doubled (interest rates are low but they're not nil) the time it's taken to pay back that loan.
lol ... wtf????
Interesting approach comparing the immune system to computer systems and security.
>Sea-to-Sea plans would augment the declining volume of water flowing into the Salton Sea by importing water from either the Gulf of California or the Pacific Ocean. Because such ocean water will bring tens of millions of tons of new salts into the Salton Sea, such plans also need to either pump a lot of water out of the Salton Sea to export the millions of tons of salt, desalinate the water before it enters the Salton Sea, or run multiple desalination plants at the Salton Sea itself.

https://pacinst.org/salton-sea-import-export-plans/
The whole thread is off the rails, just conspiracy and rumour
He understands currencies, which is enough. The tech part of bitcoin doesn't really matter, to be honest.
For whatever it's worth, a pretty good book that covers this in a lot of detail is https://databaserefactoring.com/. One of the authors had several notes on his website about this prior to putting them into a book: http://www.ambysoft.com/books/agileDatabaseTechniques.html
I think you are right, it is my bad.
Eh yea, I had some issues with this on a larger scale. Even with loadbalancing it, it was a bit tedious! Still, for out of the box capabilities, I still like it :D
It's not clear to me that implementing the same concept after having seen and written some of their code constitutes copyright infringement.

If you hire an intern to work on your code base you own merely own the work that person creates for the duration of their internship. Your piddling money doesn't buy you the general knowledge of how such a solution works any more than an auto shop acquires by dint of buying a few hours of labor owns the mechanics understanding of how a transmission works.
bvm: A version manager for all binaries
Dismissing someone because they hold a viewpoint you disagree with is childish and dangerous to our society. By that logic we should all be dismissing CNN reporting because they were peddling Covington kids and russian collusion among other things proven to be false. We should all be striving to take in all sources of information and use our best judgement to judge and interpret them.
If you think that was disturbing, check out the substack linked to the twitter account. Full on nut job.
There is a point rarely mentioned but likely important: Academic research is highly competitive. Doing well in an academic career is essentially the same as doing well in the competition.

In particular, the Federal government, Congress, the NSF and NIH don't have to check the quality of the work closely for each grant because the academic system will check the quality before a researcher gets progress in their career.
> Its only the most expensive thing in most people's lives

For homeowners, it is the most expensive thing, but homeowners are winning on it because they get the value of the asset appreciating.

For non-homeowners, the reason CPI isn’t going up is that rents aren’t rising with purchase prices, its the purchase:rent ratio going up. So it isn’t hurting them, either.
by comparing it to Linux do you mean where the backbone of finance is run by Bitcoin (like Linux running servers), or where <1% of users directly use Bitcoin themselves?
This comment reads as someone who doesn’t read much fiction. Your misconception is that fiction is merely a capsule for the delivery of ideas rather than being a multifaceted work. It is like someone who proclaims that cuisine is not the best delivery of nutrients, that it’s much easier to blend ingredients, and then, impressed with his assessment, proclaims that he should make his own smoothie.
The root cause here isn't really the Fed. We've been under-building housing since 1990, back when rates were 5-8%. If you track new housing starts against adult population, you'll see some pretty terrible things.

Granted this is lower than rates were in the 1980s. But if the answer here is you need to keep rates at 10-15% to build sufficient housing I don't see how that's politically tenable.
> People are not satisfied with the existing solutions, thus the need for innovation.

IMHO, that describes maybe a tenth (maybe) of crypto buyers. Everyone else is just speculating on volatile new assets that are gaining value rapidly.
The same is arguably true for HN. For myself I wrote an extension to hide the likes (points)

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hn-points-exorcism...
I value HN for these moments in which someone lucidly debunks an abstraction and undoes the epistemic closure that it had performed. Attempting to articulate my thanks brought to my attention this general idea, that all abstractions are [perhaps I should say 'also'] epistemic closures, so thank you twice.
I love Lawfare and listen to their podcast quite often, but the argument presented is so odd: 1) specifically calling for not introducing new
legislation to deal with this and 2) trying to fit mining into a bucket of legislation designed to kill it. This is not in good faith at all.

Money laundering is despicable, specially when it happens at high level. And we have to admit that Bitcoin, ZCash, Ethereum (Tornado Cash) and other cryptocurrencies are facilitating that. But we're getting better at tracking that. After all, transactions are all public and once you can label one wallet address, you can perform all sorts of graph analysis and learn a lot. Contrast that with trying to subpoena banks to follow money trails.

The other aspect of this is that, like it or not, banks are not playing by the rules all the time. See HSBC laundering almost 1 billion for Mexican and Colombian cartels. See Austria’s Raiffeisen Bank enabling former Ukraine's president to steal money with offshore accounts (https://www.occrp.org/en/investigations/former-ukrainian-pre...)

We should absolutely deal with this, but the first place to start is the Bank -> Cryptocurrency (and vice versa) transfers, or as they call them, the fiat gateways. You still can't pay for stuff with cryptocurrencies so ultimately, whoever steals or launders using cryptocurrencies, will need to eventually convert back into fiat money.

Edit: correct typo in first paragraph
I find that the times it is exhausting is when I've been overly attached to my own beliefs such that there's an emotional response to being exposed to claims in conflict to them. The best way to overcome this inhibitor to open mindedness in my opinion is to just ensure you have a broad exposure such that it becomes normal and unimpactful to read many things you strongly disagree with regularly.
How can anyone read and conclude that the US is anything other than dying and on life support? Our government is ran by corporations, and it is not going to change. Not to say that we have some cyberpunk future ahead of us - that looks a bit too optimistic at this point. As much as I personally despise communism, it's hard not to admit that the Chinese have a much superior government (not that they're even communist at this point) to our own. Larry Fink and most of his associates should be getting the "Jack Ma treatment".
I'm not saying he's lying. I'm just saying he's beyond a reasonable doubt wrong. In the same way when someone says "Vaccines cause autism" I know they aren't lying for the most part. They honestly believe what they are saying. But they are wrong.
Announcement and link to the new form: https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=dovxb62h

Please use it, and help make the App Store better for everyone!

Of note, the ability for users to report apps from their App Store page was removed years ago, and remains unavailable:

https://twitter.com/keleftheriou/status/1381002562782908417?...