skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't done a lot of infrastructure work in the past few years so haven't stayed super on top of the latest changes. I last used it heavily in the earlier days, roughly 4-7 years ago now. And while a lot of the community was great, put in a lot of work on the product, and generally wanted to improve the tool, there were also a lot of very vocal stodgy old timers that were really resistant to any improvements from the very earliest days. It definitely rubbed me the wrong way at times and made me want to look at alternatives.

I remember some old threads about loops for instance, and a lot of the core community was fully convinced that it was a terrible idea, nobody should ever need loops, and if you're a complete weirdo who does want them you should just use a separate templating language to generate your terraform configs instead. And when modules were first released, the support for using them as a means of local code encapsulation and reuse was pretty weak (it would for some reason hard-code absolute file paths in the tfstate file IIRC, so if one person ran a terraform plan on a state file somebody else had last pushed it would always show up as needing to be changed even if it was already up to date). Again I remember core developers insisting that nobody needs features for local code reuse, and modules are only needed for publishing public resources that others can pull in.

Anyway, by no means do I hate Terraform, but I definitely associate it with being unnecessarily clunky and convoluted and full of gotchas even for fairly common use cases. In my opinion that reputation is pretty deserved and built up over probably a hundred hours of experience struggling with it a few years ago. I'm glad to hear that it sounds like that is changing, but I'd still be very cautious and carefully evaluate all the newer alternatives before rushing back to use it again.
Client identification information that banks and brokerages are required to collect.
I used to work at ASOS in London where they had a 'bring your parents to work' day. At the time (2015ish) more than half the staff were under 30yo.

Mum got a tour of the office, did workshops with the CEO and other leaders. It was pretty cool.
The real issue is conversations that talk about a single cause or single solution. There are lots of causes that need to be addressed and solved separately.

But what happens is one person says “build more housing” and another person says “the park near me is full of people who intentionally live on the street!” And you just end up with these intractable conversations where everyone talks past each other.

Humans are bad at nuance
There is no strong separation between 3/4 of your categories. People freely move from financial misfortune to mental illness to drug abuse. I'm sure you have the empathy to imagine the toll being homeless takes on your mental health, and in turn the difficulty with holding down stable employment when you have mental health problems. Drug addiction is of course a mental health issue, not something to be moralized - it's long past time to leave the war on drugs mindset in the past. So developing a drug addiction is a similarly high risk factor for the unhoused. Then you're really screwed. Thinking people with severe drug addictions are living in "paradise" in SF is extremely out-of-touch.

All of this is a cycle, of course. Drug addiction will lead to financial misfortune, as will mental health issues.

The solution to homelessness is to build free socialized housing, lots of it, with integrated mental health treatment.
I think 2008 had a massive impact on California that hasn't really been accounted for. Add to that, and the article points this out, wages aren't tracking with the price of goods and I think this has an oversized impact in a state like California that has such a high out-of-state and out-of-country interest in living here.

I'm also concerned that Newsom is planning spend $12 billion but barely make a dent in the problem itself; particularly when HUD puts the cost at solving homelessness in the United States as a whole at $20 billion. This is another "consultant giveaway" that Newsom and the state of California are particularly good at.

Meanwhile, the street that our company is on is literally _filled_ back to back with RVs, litter, crime and literal human waste running down the gutters. It's beyond frustrating.
There are millions of people for whom psychiatric medication makes a huge difference in their day to day life.
Ask HN: What does your job as a machine learning engineer look like?
Therein lies the difference between "authority" and "power".
A significant number of websites ignore Safari on mobile; not because its Safari, but because its mobile. Not necessarily with a big banner that says "Please use a desktop", but rather a half-assed layout.

Within the US, Safari and Chrome mobile have roughly equivalent marketshare, recently with an edge to Safari. Globally, Chrome mobile is significantly larger than Safari mobile.

None of that actually matters though; Firefox, Safari, and Edge all deploy advanced analytics blocking features which distort their marketshare. In many instances, these blockers self-report their browser as Chrome, as a "blend in with the crowd" strategy.
The dude is my tech hero, just awe inspiring.
Twitter only does that when it facilitates manipulation of important elections. They’ve moved on to protecting Fauci, Harris, Biden from the harsh reality of their own incompetence and rapidly vanishing facade of legitimacy.
That is basically nothing when you consider the other parts of my comment.
Read the article again. The "true tax rate" is calculated on the _increase in wealth_, which is a very reasonable alternative to income.
I could send you my wallet and you still couldn't cash them out... they are GPG encrypted
Do Yourself a Favor – Read More Code – By Guy Gadon – Nerd for Tech – May, 2021
I'll just say that it is way, way more fun to work with people who also look at software engineering as a hobby.

End of the day we're just playing with lego bricks that happen to be computer bits. Do you want to be the person who only knows how to follow the step by step book, or can build anything out of any legos?
> Children want to learn from "real" work, not the fake work of school, which is why so many of them can't sit still in class, and get poor grades despite being smart, etc.

Furthermore, you could argue that not paying attention to more abstract lessons is actually way more rational of a decision than sitting straight and taking notes. The human brain is expensive to run, and our ancestors didn't survive by squandering calories to process worthless information.

In contrast, as any parent can attest, when kids see something that has clear real-world benefits for them (e.g. Minecraft), they'll jump in with unequaled gusto and learn everything they possibly can.
I'm actually kind of bullish on blockchain for these sorts of scenarios, because yes, the malicious actor can claim that someone else in the chain screwed up, but all parties involved can verify all claims that were made in the entire chain. In other words, the malicious actor can't destroy or modify the paperwork and then claim something different.
There were an equal number of investors how bought those risky assets, albeit at a lower price than the day before.
Interesting, but Pro Publica’s calculation of effective tax rate as taxes payed divided by wealth increase is weird. I don’t think there’s a jurisdiction in the world that calculates tax that way, and there are good reasons for that.
Apparently through the FBI docs...

Ransom was paid to darkside

Darkside tries to launder money on blockchain

Through blockchain explorer, the BTC ends up on Coinbase in attempt to liquidate. Coinbase has keys, and hands them over to FBI.
The thing I learn early in my career when I was working in finance was that research analysts are pretty useless. There are too many factors that go into why a stock goes up and down including unknown parties executing large trades for their corporate strategy. I used to joke the weatherman has better predictions because at least he has a satellite. There are simply too many parties trading to truly know.
6x returns over 8 months for no explicable reason after 3 years of going sideways was bound to unwind

The question is, is this a sign that froth in other markets will bubble away after everyone stops diddling in financial markets and gets back to work?
I can't definitively know, sure, but I can make guesses based on what I see, and what I see so far continues to match my model of how Apple thinks about Macs vs. iPads, even as Apple passes by obvious inflection points for changing things up if they wanted to (e.g., the shift to Apple Silicon, the macOS redesign in Big Sur).

In the future, though, we run into the footnote in my original comment that I said I'm not willing to make any strongly-worded predictions about yet. I'm still not. :)
Called “Tiger parents” because this is common in China?

Coined by Yale Law School professor Amy Chua who have Chinese parents.
Microdosing shrooms is 100% a thing - I would even go so far as to say on par with microdosing LSD.
People rarely get fired for outages. The comment you are replying to is saying that engineers shouldn’t stress out over an outage that only impacts a corporation.

It’s a commentary on work / life balance and the all-too-common phenomenon of employees sacrificing for a company (in this case, feeling such personal stress that they would lose sleep) and contrasting it with the fact that most employers will fire you without a second thought if it’s what’s best for the business (they won’t lose any sleep).

It’s a critique of the asymmetry that often exists and is frequently exploited by companies. This is often seen in statements like, “we are one big family so put in a few more hours for this launch” coupled with announcements like, “profit projections didn’t meet expectations so we are downsizing 5% of the work force.” You are family when they need you to work hard, and an expendable free market agent when your continued employment might risk hitting the quarterly goal.

It is, of course, reasonable to lose sleep if you think your employment is in jeopardy. Very few companies, especially in the competitive SV market are firing engineers because of a single outage, even a bad one, because you just paid a bunch of money to train those engineers how to see this coming and fix it.
I once toured a homeless shelter in downtown Los Angeles, the guy that ran it said, "see all those people that are sleeping under the awning outside, we're trying to get them to come in and get help, but most of them don't want to come in. Because most of them are addicts and you have to be clean inside here." He said, "I'm on the front lines and I'm telling you right now, 90 percent of the homeless problem is because of drugs and alcohol"
Appreciate your speaking up with an unpopular opinion; I fear coerced treatments because individuals vary more than medical practice allows for.

For example, there's people for whom opioids do not provide any pain relief; but try getting a doctor to understand that you're one of those people. You'll get the opiate pills prescribed anyway, and noted as a foolish drug seeker to boot.
I agree.

As someone from a poor family, never received inheritance of any kind, and now (40 years old) makes +/- $1M per year, I climbed through every 'tax bracket'. The income tax system is absolutely designed to make it very hard to move through working class into middle class, and then from middle class to upper middle class.

Once you have escape velocity, you've got room to move with debt facilities and other options. Everyone wants to give you free, high quality banking services. It gets easier. But moving from, say $70K to $500K is very very hard specifically because of taxes.

For a very long time, the cumulative sum of taxes I'd paid were more than the money I actually had in my account, to invest and pay for things.

Ted Cruz was right, taxes should fit on a postcard for everyone.

And no, unrealized investments shouldn't be taxed and no one except do-nothing journalists are surprised to learn that they aren't - this ProPublica article is really the definition of fake news.

Actually let me just say what it is: propaganda leaked in order to build support for the president's tax increases, which are a very bad idea.
This was not about $2M. It was a response to what was publicly interpreted as a nation-state cyber attack on infrastructure.

This was about principle and demonstration of capability.

If it is true the US has the ability to calculate BTC wallet keys as fast as it did, the price should fall.
Yeah, and it makes it even easier to do legally because nobody owns the network.
You're literally replying to an article about Apple opening up their technology to other users who aren't in their ecosystem...
Most homeless people can build their own houses/shelters. But cities should provide access points for water, electricity and other utilities. And it should be illegal to bulldoze structure where somebody lives!
> My passion for my own project/business is highest whenever my passion is aligned with the passion of my target audience.

This is a critical insight. Taking this out of the business domain and into psychology/philosophy, I think the key question is "What does working on the project mean for me?"

Here's an interesting thought experiment: Take the hobby project you are working on now and imagine that when it was all done, you planned to just delete all the code without another soul ever seeing it. Would you still work on it?

Sometimes the answer is "yes". In those cases, I think the meaning of project is usually either:

1. A way to relax and unwind. Essentially a videogame. It just feels good to use one's skills in a low stakes way.

2. Where the output is to develop your own skills with the expectation that you will use those skills later in ways that touch other people. Essentially piano practice.

If the answer is "no", then you have hit the realization that for many projects, the meaning is intrinsically tied to making something that benefits other humans. This is probably obvious for most but is easily overlooked by us awkward introvert types.

Knowing why you are doing something is key to being able to do it well.
Most of the wealth tax proposals I've seen don't even kick in until you have tens or hundreds of millions of dollars. I don't think anybody needs to be worried about those people having to work until they die.
I would be surprised if they would reveal themselves as having it for $2.3 million.
Mike Saylor buys another 11000 btc. His past 7 purchases are all underwater. This is not sustainable. He is taking on so much debt. Really dumb
Know Your Customer (KYC) — a compliance process required by Anti-Money Laundering (AML) laws, involving getting a unique government-issued identification document or other similar "identity proof" from your customers, before allowing them to use your service.

Any service that takes deposits or processes payments in certain countries is required to follow those countries' KYC/AML regulations.

The actual AML laws are mostly about noticing when a given person has processed $10k or more through your service in a single day. But note that that's "person", not "account." You have to de-anonymize your accounts, in order to associate them with people, in order to obey the law.

The conventional KYC "compliance" measures — gathering ID documents et al — are actually not part of the law itself, but rather are industry best-practices for following the AML laws. The KYC process gives service-providers the information needed to restrict each person to having only a single account; and therefore allow service-providers to treat each account as a person under the letter of the AML laws.
Firefox is doing quite well with the standards. Chrome is implementing things beyond the agreed-upon standards. Which to some extent has to happen in order to advance standards, but that only works if the changes are agreed upon or at least not disagreed upon by other implementations. These days Chrome is forging ahead even in the face of disagreements (usually on grounds of privacy or security).

And to be clear, Firefox is behind on the relevant standard here. Though even then, it's more nuanced than that: Mozilla is ok with prototyping it even though they would prefer for it to use a more secure mechanism -- see https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/#webrtc-insert...

From what I can tell, Mozilla is in the place of playing catch-up because the other players chose to forge ahead without resolving their objections.

[Ok, "our objections". I work for Mozilla. Not in a relevant area until recently, but it looks like I will be doing some very relevant work starting as soon as I close this damn tab.]
It's all about deferring to death and then hoping for the best possible tax treatment at death allowing basis step-up and avoiding estate taxes via various trusts.
I wish they weren't zoning more single family homes but the true vacancy is not a few empty houses but the fact that the houses are not apartment complexes.

The vertical space is the true vacancy. When people say the LA vacancy rate is higher than the homeless rate this implies A) apartments empty because they are switching leases or getting renovated are usable (they aren't) and B) also implies that everyone who wants their own housing has it (not true - plenty of young people are living at home and plenty of people are crammed into apartments with strangers they don't want to be).

Until you build enough housing for everyone who wants a house there isn't enough housing.
Code as Infrastructure: The Next Critical Talent Shortage Won’t Be Fortran
Enabled by a critical error, from the article:

"...the attackers made an unusual error in this case by failing to keep money moving. The $2.3 million that ultimately was recovered was still sitting in the same Bitcoin account it had been delivered to."

If that's the kind of negligence that enabled this recovery, I wouldn't put much stock in similar recoveries becoming commonplace.
Then advertising it as a feature of PM is still misleading. The correct way to advertise it would be as "GPG Support", or "GPG Integration".
As best I can tell, Bitcoin has moved more than [it has so far today, ~6%] on 42 days in the last year, and 38 days the year before that, considering open-to-open values.

10% daily moves happened four times in May: twice in each direction.

Statistically, we should consider it just a normal, unremarkable day for Bitcoin.
Because one is presented as an option that you are free to turn down, and the other is a threat to your family that forces you to comply.
The news business makes no money if there isn't any news. And financial news has a high value audience for advertisers, so there's huge incentives to create drama where it may not exist.

Much harder to get clicks if your headlines are accurate. This would have to be the headline on most days:

"Millions of People Bought/Sold for Thousands of Competing Reasons Again Today, Short Term Randomness Continues"

Would anybody upvote that article on hacker news?
Psychiatric medication that has run a gauntlet of clinical tests/trials and is prescribed by a physician > street drugs
wow, only one top-level comment on the first page of comments... Maybe HN should load all comments minimized by default, and only load them when you expend them.
No not really

People are content with crypto

They can invest, buy computer games, hardware and acquire general goods and services

There is no “I want to buy this flashy house/yacht how do I get crypto out”

Its easy to launder and easy to use without doing so, but also easy to launder whenever they get around to it

These guys didnt
>In general not microdosing or taking any drugs at all is better than microdosing.

I would agree with this part of your post, but the rest is just stuff you seem to have made up or read from someone who made it up, at least in regards to psychedelics. Sounds like you are describing an opioid or nicotine or something. Not all illegal drugs have the same properties. This reads like old reefer madness propaganda.
If memory serves, there are a couple of these in the Outer Banks (North Carolina). I think there’s one on Hatteras, but alas it’s not open to the public and doesn’t look like it’s in great shape.
I used fastmail for a bit but kept with gmail. I recently switched everything to protonmail. The key advantage of protonmail over fastmail is that protonmail doesn't have the private keys to your email storage.
I agree with others about correlation, and bitcoin has been on a wild ride for the last few months, but shines light on one of bitcoin's few use cases as a currency--crime--not being as good as people used to claim.
Reminds me of that Irvine Welsh quote: "If 'it' wasn't so shit, people wouldn't be trying to get 'out of it'." Not sure I agree that's anything like the sole cause though. I think there's a lot of people who've drunk the kool-aid of miracle fixes when being kind to yourself is the much simpler (and cheaper) option.
> You've just witnessed almost the entire internet break because of a catastrophic cascading outage that affected lots of huge companies, since third party services used and trusted Fastly.

Blame the companies that relied on Fastly being up 100% of the time, even though Fastly explicitly states that they might be down any number of hours, and they will even give you money back for that [1]. If they did offer 100% SLA, it would probably be out of budget for most users, as that kind of systems are prohibitively expensive to run.

Depending on a single CDN like Fastly is building an SPOF into your product. It is not less of a design blunder that whatever Fastly did internally to have an outage. If Shopify lost millions because of a short, simple third-party outage they have at least as much of a high-priority postmortem to write and issues to address as Fastly.

[1] - https://docs.fastly.com/products/service-availability-sla
The marginal economic model of housing is much easier to explain. If I were to bulldoze a million houses, what would happen to the price of houses?

Now what happens if I build a million houses?
If I had to guess, a better explanation might be that there is going to be downward pressure and regular dips of the prices of cryptocurrencies at least til fall as the covid stimulus programs wind down making less cash available for speculation and as things reopen providing more other places to spend money.
> The fallacy is that if you do not get the positive effect (i.e., getting high), you won't get the negative effect (i.e., addiction, tolerance, and the slew of other health damaging effects for each particular drug).

Addiction is hardly a problem for psychedelics, as most users don't use them regularly. In fact, they can be used as treatment for other addictive substances[1].

High doses and long term usage does carry some risk of health issues, mostly psychological, but these are much less severe than effects from similar uses of alcohol or tobacco. Besides, this risk is pretty much nonexistent in the context of microdosing.

Psychedelics have been used in cultures around the world for millennia, yet have been severely understudied in modern medicine. The least we can do is to stop categorizing them alongside much more harmful drugs like heroin and meth, and to fund further research that can determine and mitigate any harmful effects, so that we can establish a legal framework for people to consume them safely.

[1]: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25563446/
"there is no legal argument to be had"

Oh bless your heart.
> A lot of the homeless are on disability due to some physical issue that prevents working , or are seniors. The social security checks do not pay the bills and you need an under the table side hustle in the bay to afford a room and be on social security checks.

Naive follow-up question: why does such a person need to live in the bay area? If you're living off disability, why would you try to do it in the most expensive place in the country? Is community that important?