skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The great depression was caused by a sudden, significant contraction of the currency supply which occurred as a result of people realizing that banks did not hold enough currency to pay all depositors, this triggered panic and bank runs and then subsequent over-hoarding of currency by individuals.

The real problem was not a fixed currency supply, it was the sudden contraction in the currency supply which caused people to over-react and hold onto currency too tightly. It self-corrected eventually as the panic subsided and investments resumed.

If banks had enough deposits to pay all depositors, bank runs would not have mattered, there would not have been a panic and there would not have been a contraction in the currency supply and there would not have been an economic depression.

I don't know if pure capitalism can work without any regulation but manipulating the money supply is definitely not the solution.
Yeah sort of. But whatever they are paid restarts the tax machine.

I’m not railing against taxes here. Just curious how long it takes the government to completely reconsider each dollar put into circulation.
Here's a the best solution I've found for those looking for password manager recommendations. It's secure, free open source, easy to use, and syncs to all of your devices

1. Password manager for PC / Laptop: KeePassXC. It's not built into your browser, it's a seperate application. It's totally open source, and trusted by many. It also supports two factor authentication, I use a passphrase and a key file. Supports TOTP. Has a ton of "premium" features, totally free. It's awesome.

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3. Password manager for phone: KeePass2Android. Not sure what the options are for Apple, but I'm sure they exist. Allows you to open your KeePassXC database from Google Drive.

4. Browser support: KeePassXC-Browser. Allows you to autofill your username / password / TOTP from your KeePassXC application to Chrome / Firefox.

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That makes a lot of sense. And I think the lack of teaching technique has to do with the broad variety of programming tasks. Techiques are way too specific to the domain and we won’t see more of it in school until «computer science» is split into more and more fine grained studies or get a bigger part of existing studies like math is now. e.g now I feel embedded, backend and frontend are distinct «directions». In the future I expect it to be further branched into for example finance, healthcare, chemical processing, public infrastructure. This is gradually happening all the time though and «true» computer engineering will always exist, but I think it will be more and more niche just like embedded and OS level programming is more niche now but was the only option before. Anyway I think types are key to making programming safe enough to bring it to this kind of broader workforce (in some distant future, with good IDE support).
I wonder if the author has used bitwarden at all? I always access bitwarden through the browser toolbar which for me guarantees that I am dealing with the Bitwarden extension and not the website itself. It seems from the article other password managers inject themselves into the webpage which I can agree is a concern. However this is not how all password managers operate--Bitwarden being one example disapproving that assumption.
That would really depend on what Satoshi would do exactly with his/hers holding. It would probably cause volatility, but imo not larger volatility compared to what we are already used to.
The guru playbook (people who claim to have a broad expertise) [audio]
Yes, I'd assume that creditors preferring USD would convert but that seems like a non trivial overhead for many creditors. The time between receiving payment and actually converting BTC to USD will surely result in a non-negligible balance difference?
yeah it does he is talking about Conway's game of life
> Using objects in your design makes your code easier to understand

To a point.

Past a certain tipping point I find OOP programs become extremely over-abstracted and bloated with way-too-much boilerplate, to the point where it becomes very difficult to work on.
The rational being that they hope to be able to seize devices while they are powered on and decrypted.
Where I work we use debezium to enable “transactional publishing” to kinesis.

Not only does it allow publishing events as part of an ordinary database transaction, it also provides a nice buffer if kinesis ever goes down. During the Nov. 2020 kinesis outage, our services using this mechanism kept chugging with no immediate issues.
The “built in” password manager in your browser only addresses use of a browser. Password managers like 1Password are useful in other contexts as well.
In the case of Firefox, at least, the Lockwise application allows you to use your credentials even outside of the browser, on mobile devices. On the desktop, both Firefox and Chromium allow you to copy passwords so you can paste them in any application.
Avoiding paying more than the US rate doesn't require any of these shenanigans. They could just charge royalties to the US.

Beyond that, the arrangement essentially turns corporate income tax into a corporate dividend/buyback tax. Dividends are always much lower than profits, and many companies don't do them at all.

>> the only way to return the money to shareholders is by paying US corporate tax

"Return" is somewhat ambiguous here. Shareholders already own those profits, and cash is reflected pretty directly in share prices. They don't necessarily have to "return" value this way. Many don't.. eg Berkshire.

The parts that bother me most here is (a) all the wasted effort going into what is essentially a silly ritual. If we had to explain this to aliens, they'd bucket it into the same category that they use for whatever pharaonic priests. were up to. and (b) the unfairness. A small, unsophisticated company doesn't get to (eg) reinvest its profits tax free. If a farmer buys more land, its an investment. It isn't an expense. If Apple buys land, its effectively expensed.
That will be exciting when someone sells some vegetables in the market and then 45 minutes later discovers the transaction was backed out.
Is believing the sun makes an "On" sound, or people believing this hoax is true, harmful (or, how harmful, and How/why)?
Can you explain what you mean by “literal dumpster fire” because this doesn’t align with my own experience. I’ve used it for purchasing a number of apps recently and I saw nothing eyebrow-raising. So long as the app you want has been uploaded to the store, it works perfectly fine.
So deliberate censorship of political groups, manipulating elections, suppression of dissenting opinions on experimental gene therapy aka covid vaccines, is all naivete?

This pandemic is pushing some people towards extremism and conspiracy theories because of the concerted effort to manipulate public opinion and censor dissenting views. It creeps people out.

Accounts get banned for sharing an adverse reaction to mRNA shots and next thing you know people are using code words (like v@xx, wax scene, etc.) and throwaway accounts to post anonymously, sowing even more distrust.
If you believe BLM literally means affirming that “Black lives matter” and nothing else, I’d invite you to consider their exactly 13 principles (for kids no less): https://sites.education.miami.edu/crecer/wp-content/uploads/...

There’s hardly anything genuine about the BLM political organization of today, and it’s clearly not limited, as the gp claimed, to affirming that “Black lives matter.” So yes, Clean Coal(tm) is analogous.
Yes, you're right. I'm not sure how why I was convinced it was GDP. I know offhand that's larger than the GDP of all EU countries. My bad.
Yes of course, I'm still assuming USD denominated loans. However repayments may be done in BTC still, unless I'm misunderstanding what legal tender actually is. Even if I, as a creditor, convert my payments from BTC to USD as soon as I can there will be a volatility, right? I wouldn't dare to predict the impact scale but certainly enough to warrant consideration?
Oh, I see. So reserves held in overseas banks might suddenly become inaccessible, even if not actually seized, and Bitcoin (unlike, say, the euro or yen) offers a way to reduce this risk?
> Are you suggesting he's senile?

Forgetful at the very least. Senile is unnecessarily pejorative. He's an old man who doesnt do much more than make political speeches in public.

> Biden's political experience

His team's political experience is more important, like almost all POTUS before him.
I interview regularly. If I wanted to give some tips to candidates:

1. Audio, audio, audio... It doesn't matter how good or good looking you are if I can't understand any of your eloquence. Using microphone on your phone or webcam may or may not be adequate, you should test this. There is test call functionality in almost every web conferencing software.

In general having microphone close to your mouth and distant from any noises is safest choice. Headsets are cheap and effective.

Also turn off any feature that changes volume dynamically, this can cause volume to change suddenly to painful levels. For example zoom can pick up distant voice and increase volume suddenly. As an interviewer I am already setting the volume as high as I can before it becomes uncomfortable because I don't want to miss anything you say, having the volume change suddenly makes my life this much more difficult.

2. Just because it is remote interview doesn't mean savoir vivre is out the window. Be on time. Don't interrupt. Don't insult the interviewer (yes, I had this happen to me recently).

3. Don't be obvious looking up answers to my technical questions on the internet. And if you need to google something, try to put it in your words rather than read word by word, because maybe I can do the search myself, too. Yes, this also happened to me recently.

4. Make sure you have peace and quiet for the duration of the interview, before the interview and also some margin after. Set the time aside and remove any distractions. Try not to create perception you have something more important to do. It doesn't look good if are jumping from one meeting to the interview to another meeting.
If creditors were obligated to accept Bitcoin, does that mean that to be a creditor, you must maintain a Bitcoin address/wallet? Or could you still just say, "Sorry, you still have to pay in USD because we don't have a Bitcoin wallet"?
It's fantastic. I use the Firefox extension on my laptops. On my Android I have the app. It is very convenient having access to the same password store across multiple devices. If you have iOS it's even better as it hooks into the iOS password manager API so apps and websites that present a login screen can be autofilled using Bitwarden. Android has something similar but doesn't work quite as well but it's easy enough to copy and paste from the Android app. Very happy with it.
if corporations paid less taxes that means more of the revenue could go into the profits section which would most likely end up in the pockets of greedy board members.

is that a bad assumption?
Revenue taxes create predictably perverse incentives with fairly pathological outcomes. There is wide agreement that it is a poor way to tax business entities, with many undesirable side effects. Notably, the most tax efficient business structure is one that is maximally vertically integrated to minimize the number of transactions with suppliers.

Small companies end up paying a higher effective tax rate than larger more integrated companies and it discourages companies from specializing in what they are good at, neither of which is conducive to a robust and vibrant economy.
May 31, 2021
Consider this formulation of complex numbers:

Unit is 2x2 identity matrix.

imaginary unit is the matrix

-1 0
0 1

It is easy to check that imaginary unit squared is -1. And addition and multiplication is just matrices.

It then quickly becomes apparent that all possible matrices you generate _are_ the rotation and scaling matrices. Instead of drawing a connection between rotation and complex numbers, they all of a sudden are the same thing.
My thoughts too. Bitwarden seem to do things differently to the password manager described in the article which perhaps reduces the attack surface.
I actually read it with a more cynical mindset.

The examples he gives like the one in the 1st chapter about the gangster who was in a shootout with the police—he’d killed and robbed people—but he didn’t blame himself for the situation he was in. He actually felt very sorry for himself.

Then Carnegie says “people don’t blame themselves for anything”, which in general is very, very true. It’s not a feature of human nature that makes it easier to care about others so much as it’s confirmation of my own suspicions about human behavior.

There are many such confirmations in that book that made me realize I didn’t have it wrong this whole time. It made me look at human nature more objectively, take it less personally, and navigate it more effectively.
Absolutely. Justification for why My Tribe can kill Your Tribe doesn't need any rational basis. All you have to do is look at the religious fervor and protests/violence/intolerance from The Woke to see that at a level more clear than it's ever been - and NONE of that is because of "religion" per-se, even if the level of energy is the same as the devoutly religious.

I hope we can survive as a species long enough to figure a solution.
> 1. Some of the sites are legit

Legit mailing lists are supposed to have a double-opt-in setup, where you get an initial email asking if you did indeed intend to subscribe. If you just "get subscribed" then the sites are not legit.

> 2. There is a small variety of fake names used consistently

That could imply a scammer with a short list of fake names that they cycle through.

> 3. In some cases they’ve actually made whole dating site accounts with info filled in

This one does weigh more in favor of someone intentionally targeting you vs. a scam artist who wants to target thousands at a time.

> Do the scam operators enter fake names and actually create accounts with logins?

Unknown. Some might, but as most operate on a /volume/ basis, going to the trouble of creating accounts with logins would reduce the volume they could target over unit of time, so that weighs against a general scam artist.

> I had figured if my email were sold they’d also sell my name with it.

Depending upon what the list contains, much more than just your email address /could/ be part of the list.

> If it is being sold on a list, what could I do, if anything?

You, yourself, almost nothing. Illegal operators are already operating illegally, you as one person can't do anything about that. The most you could do is report it somewhere, but the report would likely not be given high priority, so the net result is there is likely nothing you can do (other than continue to try to cross reference to see if you can eventually narrow down to who might possibly be responsible).
Which then means they are, by definition, not legit sites.
Maybe it joined video automatically or accidentally? I normally wait until I'm ready to hit that join button, but most meetings at least make you do the extra step to turn on video. Either way not a good look for a job which requires lots of video calls!
I had an ISDN connection at home in the mid 90's. In many ways, it felt faster than today's broadband because the web was still built for dial up. I later upgraded to an early cable modem sometime around 1998 (3 megabits, I think.) The web was still, very much, built for dialup and things felt incredibly fast. Despite having a connection orders of magnitude faster today, things feel far more bloated and sluggish. Bloated web sites are everywhere.
Maybe they were hoping to get enough information to do browser finger printing?

https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/
Twitter naively overplayed their hand. These are the consequences.
Hi, thanks!

We made a couple of mistakes while being in pre-release hurry, will be adding these as issues :D

BTW, feel free to join our discord to discuss any other problems you notice https://discord.gg/u7fQdqQt8c
Yes, of course. The principle is the same in that you want merit to drive who gets positions. Whether there are a billion applicants or 2.
Of course computer graphics based on linear algebra can do true vanishing points. It wouldn’t look right at all if it couldn’t.

Perhaps what you’re missing is that 3D computer graphics actually uses 4D matrices with homogeneous coordinates. The extra dimension allows perspective projections to be represented, and also allows us to assign coordinates to vanishing points (points at infinity). The usual finite points are represented by (x, y, z, 1), and the vanishing point of (say) lines parallel to the x axis is represented by (1, 0, 0, 0).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homogeneous_coordinates#Use_in...
Only the first three were written.
Just load the analytics async, ezpz
What is two way SSL? Do you mean client certificate authentication?
My prediction. This won't be used hardly at all. Why use bitcoin when the USD is also legal tender and superior as a currency in nearly every way?

About the only thing you can do more easily with bitcoin is buy other cryptos and send it across borders - sometimes.

I would also predict that the failure here would finally get people to stop thinking it's a currency. But I doubt it.
>The naked thing, sure, weird, but maybe the camera was on by accident.

I have the advantage of a separate office but one reason I'm basically never in my office, much less even on a video muted call, unless appropriately dressed. (To be clear this needn't mean dressed up but at least T-shirt and gym shorts.) Too easy to hit a wrong button or otherwise have something on that you think is off.
There have already been 3 HN stories about this in the past day: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=twitter+nigeria

This one has the most comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27404125
This seems to be a bit of a trend with Lenovo. My gen 1 T14s (Ryzen 7 4750u) has a similar issue with heat, I can offer one suggestion, replace the thermal paste. I did it a week after I got mine as well as smoothing the oddly rough surface of the heatsink. Got a 5c drop, still throttles but less quickly.
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Perhaps you didn't read what I was trying to accomplish.

Perhaps you leaped to conclusions, because you got triggered.

Perhaps you should take a moment and realize that I'm not approaching people who already use emacs and org-mode.

Perhaps you might have realized that I looked at the videos online and didn't think that they would make Emacs or org-mode appealing to my target audience.

Perhaps, you might consider, whether you like it or not, that the messenger matters, instead of lecturing people that it shouldn't.

Perhaps you should consider that marketers know something you don't about making products appealing to segments of the market.

Perhaps you could have honored my request to keep discussion on topic instead of hijacking it go on your tirade.

Perhaps you've been shadow banned twice (your words) for a reason.
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Nice, that wasn't the case when I was still okay with Google.

In that case, I find it odd that the author doesn't recommend setting a sync passphrase, as that's not enabled by default.
> Isn't ratifying a treaty something completely different?

Sure, but there is a distinction between treaties in international law and those under the Constitution; by far the most common way for treaties in the international law sense to be adopted in tbe US in the last several decades is as Congressional-executive agreements, which are, procedurally, either normal legislation submitted after an executive-negotiated agreement or an executive-negotiated agreement under authority granted by normal legislation.
I mean, we can say that and be done with the subject. For instance, just look at the seceding states' articles of secession: they quite plainly spell out that they are seceding because of slavery and to join the other slaveholding states.

But there are a whole lot of Americans who wish to believe that the South had a noble cause (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Cause_of_the_Confederacy), and they are more than happy to buy books and watch TV shows explaining what that cause is, so such books and TV shows get written.

The Civil War was just a couple of generations ago, and involved a huge chunk of the country. The various organizations attempting to rehabilitate their legacy (e.g., the Daughters of the Confederacy) are younger still, and active today. It's not actually surprising that there are a large number of Americans who for whatever reason wish to believe that there was a better reason for the Confederacy to do what it did than slavery - the Daughters, for instance, are quite literally descended from Confederate soldiers, so there is a natural desire to believe that they fought for a worthy cause. But the number of people who believe it is hardly evidence that it's true.

What is noteworthy that Paul Graham (who wasn't even born in the US!) is one of those people, and moreover doesn't simply believe (as you're claiming) that there's a legitimate debate about what the Civil War was about - he believes that the possibility that the Civil War was about slavery is a "cartoon version" which can't possibly be true.

And yes, it's a throwaway line in an unrelated talk. But he still said it as if he believed it, and the alternative interpretation - that he doesn't really believe it and said it anyway because he thought it would please his audience - is that he is a man of poor judgment and a loud mouth in things he should judge less and speak less on, which goes to my point that Sam did not "bro up" YC, it was already rotten.
He didn't! It was mentioned later by other people on the conference, but the official announcement only mentioned legal tender
I bought an expensive microphone just for work, and then people complained that it was taking up all their bandwidth, they asked me to go back to using the phone.

No simple answers.
Their work is open source and they are using standard Bitcoin protocols. Zap is their wallet https://zaphq.io

Strike is a payment app that uses Bitcoin Lightning network internally to settle payments between financial institutions. It's useful for sending fiat currency denominated remittances instantly and without fees. https://strike.me

When they released Strike in El Salvador, it was an instant success. The president himself contacted Jack.
What are the "security concerns" for a direct cable between the Americas and Hong Kong?
Not every action requires authorization though.
This is a wild misunderstanding of what the Crusades actually were.
It's pain in the ass and quite extra bit of fees to send money from US to El Salvador. Even when the currency is the same. So using Bitcoin is presumably much better in this situation. 23% of El Salvador's GDP is from remittances, so this is a large use case.