skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Correlation isn't causation.

Bitcoin's network started January 3, 2009, so its halving cycles are roughly correlated with US presidential elections. Bitcoin is also global, and countries like France (home to Ledger and active bitcoin communities) have five-year presidential cycles. So I don't see a causal link to US politics.

However, I do think people falling down the bitcoin rabbit hole help them see the state for what it is, which might reduce the importance people place of federal politics, if it increases decentralization and local action.
Take it with a grain of salt as I'm someone who only worked at startups my whole career (~10 years), but I had a very different experience over the years, and it saddens me to see this kind of content on HN.

I love small companies, I love the chaos, I love having that bond around some crazy idea that might never work. I love being in the know about how things work and why people buy our product and things like that.

> You’ll Work Hard Instead of Smart

There's this idea that you're overworked and under constant stress when you work at startups, and I genuinely don't understand what people are talking about. I would say don't work for people that want you to work hard and not smart, regardless of it being a startup or not. Don't let shitty bosses force you to work when you don't want to (e.g weekends). As someone who knows how to code you almost always have leverage here.

> Your Equity Is Worth Nothing

It's not nothing. Sure, it's risky, but people do make money. Do it long enough and you'll get lucky (maybe). And quit shitty startups quickly so that you don't waste your time.

RE expected value, I think it's funny that when people do these calculations it's always all startups vs top 5 tech firms. Why not compare it to YC startups for example? If 1 out of 250 ends up being a $100B company, 0.25% of equity you earn per year is $1M in cash. Try to beat that working at Facebook.

> You’re Giving Up Mentorship

It is true that startups are generally less prepared to mentor you. Personally, I believe that mentorship is overrated, but I could see how this is important for some people, especially early on in their careers.
I had bouts with nightmares and such and a technique I found is that when the horrors begin to appear, I consciously try to be unaffected by them. To try to at least delay what you just described, that feeling of dread taking over you. While you can't really have control over the outside world and the horrors within it, you can at least have control over your reactions to it. And reactions to stimuli like this red flashing thing, and many other situations, are really about just the reaction of the mind, filling in the blanks, trying to make sense. The more you can relax that effort, the less horrific it will become. Similar to relaxing a muscle cramp. I'm not saying that I'm very good at this all, but going this way has helped me a lot already.
Delta variant is forcing officials to rethink Covid-19 measures, even for
As an American that visits Germany, I absolutely hate how eating at a restaurant is seen by many as an event where you hang out forever, as opposed to a routine service I expect as a fairly quick and formulaic pitstop between other obligations. There seems to be no difference between classes of dining out, in this regard.

I also suspect you are out of touch. QR code menus and payments were not a thing in the US before the beginning of 2020 either. It was a very quick adaptation because the infrastructure was already there.
Nearly 1800 day streak, often in the diamond league, mainly using it for German, Esperanto, Greek, Dutch, Spanish, and Arabic.

The art style and animations which they’re so proud of are absolutely the worst part for me, made worse by the fact I can only disable the animations on iOS by going into system settings, Accessibility, and choosing “Reduce Motion”, which affects the entire device and still doesn’t fully eliminate them.

(That said, I know I’m not normal and it may well be a good thing for their business even though I hate that part of it).

This, along with several bugs that never got fixed and the fact that offline mode stopped being useful during the pandemic, is why I am no longer a subscriber.

The language courses I’ve been doing are variable quality: When I finished their German course I tried a GCSE[0] paper from the previous year practice catalogue of the exam board, and found I would’ve gotten a B[1]. However, I would probably not pass a CEFR grade A1 exam[2] because even though it taught me a broad enough vocabulary for B1, it didn’t teach me to conjugate my verbs fluently.

It feels like it’s doing a better job at teaching me Spanish, but I’ll only know if/when I finish that course. The Greek course feels much like the German course («τρώω» vs. «τρώει»? My conjugation sucks).

The Arabic course… I’ve been trying for about nine months and I still don’t know the Arabic alphabet (really doesn’t help that Duo is using numerals 2 and 3 as stand-ins for letters that don’t have Latin alphabet correspondences, even if there is a Wikipedia page for it [3]).

[0] UK high school finishing exam

[1] The scale went from A* to G at the time, since then it has been ‘reformed’ to be numerical

[2] A1 is noob level. The grades are A1, A2, B1, B2, C1, C2. B1 is what you need for citizenship, C2 is essentially “I can defend my PhD thesis without hesitation”.

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_chat_alphabet
The problem isn't the programmers, it's the specs. Most specs are terribly written, and are hundreds or thousands of pages longer than they need to be.

Go read the latest USB Power Delivery spec. Or the BLE spec. Or the HEVC/H.265 spec. You will very quickly want to claw your eyes out.
On my old street (...not Old Street) in central London they installed standard ish plug in the lampposts with this RFID reader that let them know who to charge for the electricity. Seemed to work pretty well. Not sure how easy it is to get them installed though.
How well does this perform with UDP traffic?
Sigh and there my hopes are going out the window...

So... now i have to select even more where i go when i am (finally) vaccinated next month...
Fed Governor says United States doesn't need a central bank digital currency
Speech:

https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/quarles2021...
It does mean the ability to block transactions at will.
I haven't seen anything that bad since last summer. Actually I've seen some QR code and online based checkout systems that were bad, but I just ignore those with a "I'm not signing up for that"
> - Very few trips are long enough to deplete an EVs battery

Ever drive to vacation by car? Or visit relatives a few hours away? Not all of our trips are inner-city or in a similarly small radius. So if you don't want 2 cars, electric is not an option.

> - EVs have significantly lower Total Costs of Ownership

Doesn't help with them being way more expensive in acquisition. There is also no used car market for them AFAIK. This will all change in the future but currently they are no option for many people just because of the price.

> - To refuel your petrol car, you have to make an extra trip to the petrol station. While your EV is simply charged where it is parked overnight

At least in theory.. in practice you maybe use a big garage shared with others and it does not have any sockets.

> - The extraction, refinement and transportation of petrol pollutes way more than that EV battery will

Nice claim but I doubt that. It's always hard to do these comparisons fairly but battery manufacturing and disposal is very dirty business.
No: good security is layered aka "defense-in-depth".

docker breaches the localhost VS external port security model (and others)
Where are you going to get TAI from without a leap second table?
> I have 4 unused Win10 Pro licenses at home now.

Why don't you sell them?
Of course they can. How many services do you they there are, installed, and how long do you think it takes to start them?

How long do you think it takes to start gpsd, or pcsd? Even my laptop has 12 CPU threads, all idle during this time. And including human reaction time (noticing that the login screen has appeared) this is, what, 10 seconds? 120 CPU-seconds is not enough? All desktops run on SSD now too, right?

In fact, how many services do you even think are installed by default?

And Linux, being a multitasking OS, doesn't even have just that window.

But you know, maybe it's a tight race. You could try it. How long does it take to trigger all those?

> a hallmark of good engineering.

In the abstract, as a "neat idea", yes. In actual implementation when actually looking at the requirements and second order effects, absolutely not.

You know you could go even further. You could simply not spin up the VM when the user asks to spin up a VM. Just allocate the IP address. And then when the first IP packet arrives destined for the VM, that's when you spin it up.

That's also a neat idea, and in fact it's the exact SAME idea, but it's absolutely clearly a very bad idea[1] here too.

So do you do this, with your VMs? It's cleary "started lazily, on-demand, one of the classic techniques for performance optimization and a hallmark of good engineering".

[1] Yes, very specific environments could use something like this, but as a default it's completely bananas.
Yes puts or calls can get you liquidated by swings.

I was trying to get across that a lot of people are using high leverage right now to get-rich-quick and, especially in the crypto space, it is risky to the point of being unwise.. unless you have an edge with backtested, medium-term models that adequately account for the wide range of volatility, with automated take-profit / stop-loss in place.
Are people taking selfies in front of the Eiffel Tower involved in ideological war? Let scientists have a win without injecting politics.
Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
> Then start working it on it full time

I have told you multiple times why not.
Must have Martech for fashion ecommerce
I don't think it's nearly as complicated as you fear it is.

However, I do think there is a lot of money depending on making the situation as complicated as possible — especially in the US.

The fact the EU is managing to progress this type of matter, proves it's possible.
I need to serve it from an endpoint because the response includes multiple text files from GCS bundled together (as many as can fit a 10MB chunk). But yeah otherwise that would work (for downloads)
> Letting people go is a great business strategy because it means companies don't need to give salary increases.

Only if you're not replacing them. People typically (in my experience anyway) get much larger raises when they move jobs than year on year at the same job.

So either you're paying more for the new hire than you would have by retaining the old employee, or you're replacing them with someone probably less experienced/valuable in general, and certainly less experienced in the specific role you're trying to fill. Lose/lose.
In the context of working hard and moving ahead in life, having no time to think severely inhibits the ability to move up. Take for example those working 2 or 3 jobs. Their ability to do smart work is low to non-existent.

The context of homelessness changes the dynamic quite a bit. Sure, you have lots of time to think and ponder. But, you have no work. So the question of smart work is moot. Also, those who are homeless, are extremely stressed and constantly worrying about their next meal or next shelter. It's not fair to equate the time they have to the time they can spend doing productive or creative thinking.
> Before the pandemic, I’d shudder at the sight of a restaurant table full of people all staring at their phones. I was always happy not to be them or be sitting with them. I always kept the lively conversation flowing at my table.

I always thought this perspective was funny because it always assumed what the people on their phones were doing. The assumption is that they are disengaged with each other when it's just as likely that they are talking with each other in a group chat alongside a few other non-present participants in the same group chat, and all trying to share photos with each other that they just took from the outting beforehand, or setting up a way to split costs in advance, or something else equally or more interactive than a conversation you can eavesdrop on.

Usually it's just shitty UX slowing them down.
Customers who have not read the terms and conditions of a service they are using to store a significant part of their net worth you mean? Every broker I have ever seen very clearly lists in the T&C that they do this.
The whitepaper is now at https://mimix.io/pdf/on_mimix_v1.3.pdf
Same here! Under 40, and have been using debian, bash and vim for over 25 years in both my private and professional life (as a python dev).
Oh and weechat for libera IRC of course ;)
As i mentioned: No dining out after March 2020... but this will change next month (finally).

Your observation is correct: Many germans like to stay in an restaurant es an event, not just to eat something quick ... for this purpose there are tons of Pommesbuden, bakerys or Dönerläden.
> There’s too much to do and nobody knows what works yet.

As long as you still believe this is true for the problem space you are working with then this means startups are still going to be the better bet.

If you're interested in learning how to build/use disruptive technologies or businesses models then there's no better place. Startups don't have the overhead associated with maintaining a sustainable pace so the speed of learning is incredible. High risk, high reward.

If you're convinced that technology or business models in your problem space has plateaued around some local optimum then you can probably learn more from distilled wisdom in textbooks and tutorials than from hands-on in-the-field experience. Established industry jobs nearly always pay more and there's much less associated risk.
Literally every restaurant I've eaten at since reopening has QR menus, but the host/hostess always asks if we want paper menus.

Maybe the author can ask for the paper menu instead of writing manufactured outrage articles.
The camera app I have (preinstalled from Moto) can read QR codes. Links are OK, but it can't handle QR payments. You'd expect the phone to forward it to the right app, but no - you need to open that one yourself and use the scanner in there. There's probably a reason for it, maybe all the banks I use do something wrong and Android is capable of this, but at the end of the day, this doesn't matter. QR codes are more often than not frustrating experience for end users, especially those not tech-savvy enough. It's ridiculous, we can do better than this.
You're grasping at straws when you imply people have piles of cash at home whom then "give" it to a bank. It's already in the bank. You get paid directly to your bank account and get additional fiat without a single action on your behalf, with full legal protection. Interest, growing fiat from fiat, is directly integrated into fiat itself.

Not true for Bitcoin. Neither owning your coins in a wallet nor leaving them on an exchange grows your amount of Bitcoin.

Can you give away your Bitcoin to some rogue, fully unregulated party claiming you get back more Bitcoin? Yes, in the same way I can give my fiat to some shady character in the streets. I may get back more fiat. Or I may be permanently parted from my coins.

These things are not the same. Bitcoin does not have interest built in. Not at bank level nor at central bank level. This is radically different from fiat.
Kubernetes absolutely doesn't require extensive knowledge of Docker. At least not if you're using a managed, hosted Kubernetes platform, maybe it's different if you're running your own. But it takes almost no knowledge of Docker to stick a .NET 5 build into a Docker container and not a lot of knowledge of Kubernetes to write a deployment manifest which sticks that container in five replicas over however many physical nodes with a service to allow other services in the cluster to call it, or an ingress controller to expose it to the outside world, even with config being injected through the container manifests (admittedly being hugely helped here by how .NET config picks stuff up from environment variables now).

I've found Kubernetes is very well structured, and allows you to ignore just about anything you aren't actively in need of using. I'm sure it gets incredibly complex if you really need all of its power, but based on what my team have done so far with it? I doubt there are many people who are actually going there.

Okay so we're building something that has been mentioned as being "too simple" for Kubernetes and "you could run that on App Service" (we're on Azure hosting), but having looked into that option... Kubernetes is easier. It's pretty open about what it's doing, there's loads of knowledge out there to draw on, and it does what you tell it to. Sure there are Kubernetes concepts you have to learn, but like I said above you don't need to learn all of them at once, and it's pretty easy to get started with deployments and replicas and services.

Kubernetes is a fantastic example, in my opinion, of a product designed to solve a set of very complex problems which actually solves those problems in a decent way rather than just changing them into different, equally complex problems, which just about everything I've used in the past seems to.
You seem to be very sure of your opinions about management's motivation. Are you yourself a manager or executive, or is this your opinion as a worker observing your employer's behavior?
> Why is everything about race nowadays?

Because racism exists and is a real problem for lots of people.

You don't fix that by pretending race doesn't matter, because in the lived experience of all of those people, it matters, a lot. They would love it if it didn't matter, but that is not what happens in reality.
Never run postgres with the default configuration. It comes with some extremely conservative settings so you are unlikely to get decent performance out of the box.
Some advanced Python tricks, like using slotted classes and dict sorting
Assuming there was another restaurant nearby, I'd have simplified the process to "go outside". If a restaurant is too cheap to print a menu, why should I consider it good enough for me?
Duolingo just doesn't have enough content for this, at least when I used it (2017). I did the whole tree, and could remember the correct answers to sentences I couldn't understand.

German only clicked for me when I got a tutor who sat me down and started explaining the grammar.
-- you could rent a petrol car for your vacation trip once a year, or make a charging and sleeping stop, or use fast chargers along the route (also not yet available everywhere)

-- you could private lease an electric car

-- I agree that it is not an option for everybody, everywhere. But with a little effort it will be for a lot of people in a lot of places

-- See this video for a comparison: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oVrIHcdxjA&t=2s

p.s. nice nickname
Believing that a zero trust architecture is a replacement for perimeter security is just as illusory and dangerous. Defense in depth ensures that a vulnerability or temporary configuration mistake in one facet of security does not lead to total compromise.
Might be that because you still have to deal with the hassle of declaring income from that and loads of other small moving parts.

With that levy you should get it from the government tax free and with minimal hassle.

Oh wait just realized why it would not work...
A basic article:

https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2020/1/15/2105805...

Here (Italy) and possibly Eu, it is usually called XLAM (instead of CLT), here is the site of a known manufacturer:

https://www.xlamdolomiti.it/en/production
It’s easy to say “ban this”, but what does it mean? Government laws are nothing without enforcement, and enforcement ultimately means sending armed men to people, and if they resist and protect themselves, ultimately threatening to kill them. Ads are bad, but such force is not justified.

The same with the stipend - we actually have this is my country Sweden, called “press support”. It’s a massive political tool because of the bias of the gov agency workers who administrate it. It has also been used by one party (C) to make a newspaper empire, making the party one of the richest in the world, in large part by milking these press support stipends. The same party recently had multiple pedophilia scandals, which they don’t write about in their own publications.

“Man plans, God laughs” and this applies to any attempt to centrally plan economics.

I personally hope Offset by Freedomlayer can be the solution to micropayments online. If only I could incentivise the author of it to make an iOS version
Any market with high barriers to entry exhibits this.

Banking is very heavily regulated in Canada it's almost impossible to start a new bank. Banks have a very low churn and citizens are already banked.

The ATM system is a cabal, owned by the banks, and they get massive fees from that. That's a form of almost direct collusion and anti-competitive practice to some extent, as nobody could feasibly compete with the installed base of ATM machines.

This happens in other industries and they are smart enough to know now to reduce their prices because it will gain them nothing.

Canada is also a different place in that there is a much greater focus on stability than innovation. Canada does not have economies fluctuations that are created internally - all booms/busts are driven primarily by external/US speculative activity. Canadian consumers are risk averse, much more trusting of institutions and brands. They like 'safe, clean, well lit places with products they know and understand'. It's a actually good for civility but a big hamper on new innovation.
I do not understand the concept of Air Cars.

We already have "air cars", we call them individual private planes. What makes proponents of air cars think the requirements or regulations to share the airspace will be any way less than the ones required for private pilot licenses ?

Unless there are major advances for auto-pilots and self-driving ( not visible at this moment ),what is the momentum behind these projects ? With the exception that you can drive them to your door...
Such a fun website, but as you point out, it's optimized in many ways for complete beginners and children, who looove those animations. In that vein, I was sad when they removed the translation feature (which was their original plan for monetization) - that was fascinating and was how I reached maximum level very quickly in Italian.
So if a person walks under a cliff and a rock falls on them, would an observer be right to deduce that the rock/cliff is cruel, or perhaps that the entire Earth is cruel to its inhabitants?
Each server could have an address that you type into a browser. We could have a 'domain name server' that keeps a list of which address should match to which server.

Then people could easily navigate to cat pictures.
Tailscale supports what you’re looking for I believe https://tailscale.com/kb/1103/exit-nodes/
This is some of the most pretentious crap I've ever read.
Google Dialogflow and Automation
It's really simple: if I can't read your menu, I'm not eating. Goodbye. IIRC there's a law here that mandates a menu visible from outside the premises, it isn't always followed to the letter, but but most places comply, and it's a great way to avoid unpleasant pricing surprises.

Same with paying. You don't accept cash or credit cards? Goodbye. You only accept apple pay or some other nonsense payment system? Goodbye. And you'd better advertise your accepted payment methods outside if you want to avoid unpleasant surprises.

There are plenty of restaurants/bars out there. I'm not spending money in any place that clearly doesn't want me there.

And if you really insist on a silly QR menu, then at least include a human readable version of the URL. Seriously. It's not that hard.