skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every retail instition I know of, and appears on CNBC (a place that bankers, hedge fund guys, Jimmy Prop guy Cramer (I actually feel for Cramer. I had no idea he was having migraines over half the days in a month.), etc.) are creating their own crypto.

They are all believers now.

It does seem like they are just in it to take money from the Retail Investors investors though like they always do. Meaning I have seen to many Bull to Bear Markets, and when the switch happens--it's the Retail investor that looses everything.

(I guess we will know how it all turns out in a few years. If I had Bitcoins, I would sell. The competition is almost exponential. New crypto are coming on daily. Every money licker wants their own crypto.)
Facebook, Twitch and Silk Road – The Life Stories of 3 Tech Founders
> Never mind his new employer has built one of the most polarizing and divisive platforms in the history of humankind.

Pretty much all the FAANGs operate in pretty much the same way. Google just has a very benign image, even while they ban people left, right and center on Youtube, censor search results, and delete adsense accounts of inconvenient news orgs.

It's a bit ironic that I've to now use Yandex, from "repressive" Russia no less, in order to access sites and information not approved by the Ministry of Truth in the "freedom-loving" lands of the yee United States.

If you know your "banned, unapproved, history" (the kind even Chomsky would admonish you for), you'd also know this is not new for either the US, or its predecessor, the British Empire.

Hypocrisy, you tempt us, and protect us so.
> as I said, it can work with a few giant hubs

right, there will definitely be huge hubs. what you didn't even try to demonstrate is why can't there be smaller hubs?

> it just progressively works worse and worse. Doing multiple routes atomically just gives you more reasons a single payment can fail.

no, exactly the opposite is true. in case with single payment for X satoshi you need to re-try it multiple times until you find a route that has X capacity on every hop. with atomic multipath payments you need to find N routes that support X/N capacity (much easier) and if any number of those fail you can retry only those failed parts, so after 2-3 iterations your entire payment succeeds.
Everyone knows that daily reality isn't in sync with corporate training videos, regardless of the company.

They are only used for public image and putting the legal department on the safe side when things go wrong.
Wrong. Again:
Pfizer's chief scientific officer, Mikael Dolsten, said the recently reported dip in the vaccine's effectiveness in Israel was mostly due to infections in people who had been vaccinated in January or February. The country's health ministry said vaccine effectiveness in preventing both infection and symptomatic disease fell to 64% in June.

95% is based on faulty/old data.

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/...
The distubuted open-source deeplearning framework OneFlow released v0.4.0
Don't worry if you have 10 years experience in a tech that is only 3 years old they will also hire you without side projects.
To me, the idea that Mother Earth is giving birth to something is very clear. I just don't know how that birth is going to end up. Will the child kill the mother? Will they both die? And what is being born? Maybe it's a space-fairing race of humans. Or maybe humans are just the eggshell that machine consciousness will break on its way out.
Ah yes so the e-commerce site knows purchasers come fro FB but FB doesn’t know the purchase was successful so can’t how the ad to more similar people.
It's the same in Dutch: "zoeken naar een speld in een hooiberg" is a well known analogy.
How does it compare to Mudrex? [0] Also congratulations on being registered with the FCA and on your recent funding round.

Also:

> Of course we understand that the HN community has a lot of cryptocurrency sceptics and we respect that. The cryptocurrency market is still full of scams and bad actors. Whether you like it or not though, it is now big enough that it is here to stay.

Exactly. Although the cryptocurrency market is still a wild west, the direction it is going is more regulation. For the sceptics, it is going to be very hard for them to ignore and I'm sorry, cryptocurrencies are here to stay. Like it or not.

> If one of our users does not have the right mindset or could be vulnerable and should not be trading, we tell them that.

That also goes for trading forex or stocks and using complex instruments like CFDs.

[0] https://mudrex.com/
How do Apple, Amazon, and Netflix operate like this?
In this context, vaccines that do not provide sterilizing immunity (and therefore continue to permit transmission) will lead to the buildup of large standing populations of virus [47], greatly increasing the risk of immune escape

And this sentence is from the study. A study about Covid "vaccines". Not me.
Thank you very much for explaining what Pharo is in one sentence on the linked page. Seriously, other projects and submissions should take notice because the general attitude is as if everybody knew exactly what your project is and what can be used for.
That's annoying. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6miHXytFWQ is the original. He has done some followups.

For non-chess people, the Stafford is pretty dubious but very trappy.
But not real HiDPI. AFAIK Windows 10 just treats FullHD (1080p) as HiDPI and scales everything up to 125% by default but I always switch it back to 100% so I have reasonable screen space capacity. If the 13-inch displays were 4K that would be HiDPI.
If you look at the requirements set by the Whitehouse in 2019 it said the goal was 80% for F-22, F-35, F-15, and F-16. I presume the F-35, along with the others, was able to meet it.
The blog post doesn't quite do justice as much as the book "Conspiracy" by Ryan Holiday does. Do read it to understand how it died.

[0]https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36681909-conspiracy
>Established social media companies innovating is how you get new reddit

I'd argue new reddit isn't innovating, there is no vision or passion behind that product. The team is clearly being given metrics they need to move and all the work is focused around moving those metrics.
Lesson learnt: If I had consultants, I’d ask for open-source delivery. Which has the side-effect of also advancing humanity, so we all win.
fair, but on the other hand - client side being ransomware'd affects datacenter too
> A. Let's not mince words, it hasn't done the US any favours.

It’s done phenomenal favors for centuries. Aside from freedom of speech being very effective for growth in ideas and innovation, it’s prevented National religions, limited press interference, limited censorship.

It’s odd to even hear the idea that it’s a bad thing.
Crypto is money but this time I'm the one in power instead of the government! There are entrenched powers in the government system? No problem, we can become the entrenched power in the new cryptocurrency!

Literally nobody in the cryptocurrency space is thinking about how to make fiat fair and sustainable because they actually like the flaws of fiat and just want to amplify them for their own benefit.
> … "it's nice to see a civilized discussion for once."

I've seen far more of that here than just about anywhere else on the Web where news is discussed. I appreciate it greatly, and the world needs more of it for sure.
Galileo the Science Publicist
Old world: desktops + 56kps modem + IE 5/6 + HTML/WAP + Windows 95/98/Me + x86 Mhz 32bit processors + dozens of ports + MS Office + VB/C++

New world: desktop/laptop/mobile + 100Mbps+ cable + W3C 'compliant' browser + HTTPS/WS + Win10/Linux/MacOS + GHz 64bit x64/ARM64 + USB-esque port + MS Office/Google Docs/Open Office + js/Java/C#/C++/etc.
> I'll never forgive my parents for putting us through that.

Maybe worth keeping in mind that they were probably doing what they were force fed to believe was the right thing to do. Everyone is just trying their best (usually, and even if they aren’t, it is generally better for your own mental health to go through life assuming they are).
Not the OP, but we have some sort of subsidized housing here, for example for people who worked for the German State Railway (before it was privatized).

So the parents got an X m2 apartment for N EUR (below market rate). When the children move out, they now have to pay N+M EUR because with 2 people they would only have been alotted an X-Y m2 apartment. Maybe an edge case, I know.
In principle it could. But A) it would be a bit pointless because cmov is used to avoid badly predictable branches and B) IIRC after the whole spectre affair Intel gave the guarantee that cmov is never speculated.

Regarding A, you could have a meta predictor that decides whether you should speculate or not, trained on the misprediciton rate. But then you do not need the cmov in the first place and you can just dynamically convert non-diverging jumps to predication. This is, I think, called Dynamic Hammock Predication and was implemented, in some restricted cases (IIRC jumping over a single instruction) in some recent POWER cpus from IBM. I think that RISC-V also doesn't have predication and an implementation is supposed to use this optimization instead.
I am not getting it for free, I am already paying for it with my share of the ad budget included in all the products I buy. And I am not asking for anything to be for free, just allow me to pay for it.
For sure. It really has become a more distributed lottery.
The people I know who are obsessed with slot machines and buying lottery tickets are the people I know that own dogecoin.

This whole thing gets more absurd as USD Coin and Binance USD climb to the top with Tether.

The whole space to me feels like such a massive waste of resources and brain power.
If you don't find most of the content here interesting, then go to a different website because clearly the community here disagrees.

Maybe you could try reddit, and then just subscribe to the subreddits about topics you care about? Redditors may not have a great reputation, but the the niche subreddits have nice communities in my experience.
I think I will take strong precautions forever, if needed.

I think COVID19 spread because, at every point, people said "It can't be that bad," and it turned out it was. Our response was characterized by wishful thinking.

People can and do catch COVID19 multiple times, and that will only increase as it mutates. Let's start with your assumptions and go one level deeper:

1. COVID19 is highly transmissible

2. COVID19 will become endemic

3. You'll be exposed to COVID19 multiple times

With vaccine breakthrough rates of 5% for the original, and perhaps 20% for delta, and more with growing mutations, you'll catch COVID19 multiple times. Each time, you'll lose a little bit of gray matter in the brain, and sustain other damage. By the time you're old, you'll be a drooling, exhausted zombie idiot.

This makes a lot of additional assumptions, a key one being that breakthrough and brain damage are random events (as opposed to e.g. at-risk individuals), but it is a plausible scenario. We can argue about whether it's 20% odds or 80% odds, but it's definitely not 5% or 95%.

From my perspective, social distancing, masking, and similar just aren't that bad relative to even a moderate risk of the alternative. Proper masks are $2 (ones that filter down to <300nm), mildly uncomfortable, and more effective than vaccines. If we assume independence, proper mask+vaccine+modest social distancing reduces odds of infection to be infinitesimal. I don't believe in independence, but they certainly reduce R0 below 1. Why not?
Right? And then just changes his own mind after reevaluating it all and standing behind it and not being ashamed or anything.

And then advocating for something which makes logically sense to help other who don't follow to deep into the topic itself.

Awesome person :)
Similarly, they gain points for including a screenshot, but then lose those points for the bizarre photo-like cropping and skewing.
An anomalous phase of matter brings energy-efficient technologies closer
I don't really get what you're arguing? This seems to be just semantics on a 3rd party comment on a forum.

> The text preemptively claims that people will reject it because they are too politically correct.

The text was right.

> From the beginning it was a slanted criticism of Google’s hiring practices.

Yes, how does this relate to the original point?
Now do software users who believe they’re entitled to the labor of other people for free…
Yeah it's great, in the meantime:

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/air-force-admits-f-35-...

But hey, it's maybe too expensive for the US but not for Switzerland...because we really need them...for air policing and other hardcore war stuff.

Next, we need a Aircraft carrier for the Bodensee, and some virgia-class subs to protect it, and a massive dry-dock so the carrier can turn around.

Oh and since this is HN:

https://www.news.com.au/technology/online/security/spy-f35s-...
Recruiters don't look for people who do side projects. Doing side projects is just an indication of a passionate developer. Recruiters need to evaluate you, and talking about a side project is an easy verifiable thing
It is worth noting that he is the one telling the story here.
> Software engineer Manu Cornet says Google went from being "like Disneyland" to like any other profit-driven company.

Presumably he means the fantasy of Disneyland, and not the corporation that owns it.

He raises a larger question, which is how these soulless, ethically barren profit seeking entities are able to take over everything we value as human beings, and turn them into something else.
It's a free-of-charge business model.
Can you clarify how this correlate to the definition of hypocritical?

I'm really lost.
gRPC for .NET: Creating a gRPC Client Application
>as though one day after a promotion you get taken into a dark room and taught the new corporate language, and how to not answer questions directly.

remove the dark room and that is exactly what happens, at least according to my manager friends from several BigCo-s. And not only "how to not answer questions directly", there is a lot of what can be summarized as how to manipulate the employees, etc.
The issue isn't the misinformation in itself. We've had misinformation before the internet and social media as well. The issue is algorithmic amplification of misinformation into cult-like echo-chambers for which these companies are themselves responsible.

And the solution to this isn't to let the companies responsible for the problem in the first place attempt to self-regulate with more black-box algorithms. The fundamental product they are selling is to manipulate people. There is a clear conflict of interest.
Guy:

1) Holds tremendously narrow view of cryptocurrency & blockchain applications.

2) Holds some fair criticism of various elements of that narrow view.

3) Incorrectly expands that criticism to cover the entirety of the space that he therefore reveals himself to not understand.

Conclusion: narrow-minded, arrogant guy comes to false conclusions based on ignorance.
Purely object oriented languages did fall out of fashion lately. While the environment looks sophisticated, I have the feeling I would bet on a limping horse?
Why Emerging Market Economies Are Fertile Ground for Fintech
Here are some facts on how many people actually earn minimum wage. It helps put emotionally fueled opinions into perspective.

https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/minimum-wage/2017/home.htm
> Maybe the best moral option is to in fact try as hard as you can to get an influencial position in the industry to promote energy transition, reduce harm from smoking, etc.

I think this makes sense in situations where there’s an oligopoly or exclusive options (eg, work in government or not).

But when there are thousands of options for engineers (including starting your own) then it doesn’t make sense to me and definitely seems like a societal net negative as well would be really stressful to me.

Knowing that every day, my code is making people angrier and more disconnected would be tough to outweigh with the hope of one day being able to fix things.

It’s not my duty to fix every broken thing so I should focus on fixing and building good things. Maybe one day when all the causes that I think are important are solved, I would consider moving down the chain.
But again, at actual scale, there is no guarantee that the transactions that worked on your previous attempt will work on the next one, because lots of other people will also be attempting to use them.
> For people that complain about SQL being hard to read/write... it could have been worse.

Thank you for the link. To me, however, this sounds like writing "ADD a TO b" instead of "a + b" and saying using the latter would be worse. Surely the former can be easier for a totally uneducated person to pick up immediately but as soon as you invest some humble time into learning the notation the latter becomes much easier to read than the former.
> The HN response here is a pretty good demo with regards to why large scale companies have a hard time trying out new things, IMO. And why smaller companies are able to bubble to the top on occasion.

I think your type of response may also indicate why. Some commenters and large companies' sensitivities are too high to accept/provide genuine feedback and therefore have a hard time trying new things. Other commenters and smaller companies aren't so sensitive and build/react accordingly.
It's about the Engine, which is 'normally' the most robust and dependable system in a aircraft.
Modern switches detect the device on the wire and only allow configured ones to connect. If you care about security you know the instant a switch is pluged in, and where it must be.

You won't get this from home grade switches of course.
Simple, he doesn't want to let go of a big wage so makes some ethical compromises. As if we all don't do the same, and I am not sure what value does your comment bring to the discussion because almost none of us can afford to bring 100% of their ethics into their work.

If you actually can, I am happy for you, but do recognize that then you'd be in a tiny minority.
A problem of their own making.
> untenable

Not able to sustain a 10 person gathering? ;)
About half a million workers earn minimum wage out of around 80 million workers. Your assertion is statistically incorrect.
> Losing the ability to re-target products to customers after they viewed them online but didn’t buy hurts businesses trying to sell more expensive products, advertisers say

How is this the case?

If I have an online shop using any of the major tools and platforms out there, they all have the ability to tell when someone puts something into their carts and did or didn't buy it. They can all send an email to say "oi there, you forgot to buy <thing>. Here's a 10% discount if you buy it". In addition, I do know that there are addons in Shopify that will re-target stuff along the lines of "customers who bought X bought Y".

It sounds like advertisers are the ones losing out and crying here, not the shop owners!
An interesting project for devs is Glamorous Toolkit (https://github.com/feenkcom/gtoolkit) as an experiment/exploration of better dev tooling.
How much of his unethical Google stock did he donate to charity?
Find stuff and give it away for very little money.

Such vuln could sell for much more.
Admittedly it's been a long time since this has been something I've had to worry about - but back when I just asked for it to be cut out the contract. Generally everyone was fine with it, especially when you explain "it's how I learn to do stuff that benefits me in the office". I think the general worry was twofold - that a) working on my own stuff would mean I didn't get my actual job done, and b) that working on my own stuff would mean I leave sooner and it's costly to pay for recruiters and refill roles.

It probably helps explaining what sort of side projects you do, how much time they take, your 'real' job pays for you to live and this is the nerdy equivalent to playing 5-a-side football or watching movies.

Anecdotally a (very skilled) dev friend recently got a job with a (UK) challenger bank and was required to sign a similar thing, they were happy to carve add exceptions for a couple of things he was working on.
Open C source file, read five minutes, done. The existence of C style strings by itself already guarantees that any C code will be 50% memory access exploits. Sadly instead of adopting one of hundreds sane string types that have been around as long as C if not longer the C standards committee only did the the C equivalent of my_sql_real_escape_string by introducing dozens of overloads that let you specify a "string size" yourself, without any ability to ensure that the provided size is correct. The only good thing about that is that they cannot mess up anything else while they work on the C standard.
Are the stacks more then 4m tall and you build them with someone on top , while someone else lifts the hey with a long fork? I am curious if are similar or smaller in dimensions.
Network Topology: Understanding How IoT Devices Connect in Your Smart Home
What is also rare is the quality of the site. Impressive.
I was nearly killed by a series of vaccine injuries. It was excruciating and slow. I'm alive today because I'm a biochemist and was able to pursue experimental treatment.

I'm going to do what I need to survive. I will not be a sacrifice for your fake greater good.

There are several practical options for defending against respiratory infections. There are no practical options for defending against serious vaccine injury. We either cure ourselves or our lives are destroyed. We do not get any healthcare.
Thanks!

Re Mudrex, they are more of a strategies marketplace nowadays and we want to allow people to build their own 'rules'. We're a bit more like Zapier for trading, they are a bit more of an investments marketplace.
“The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.

— Commonly attributed to H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)
Even NASA concedes that the last 20 years has seen the planet become greener. Humans planting trees for reforestation have almost nothing to do with that trend. People are trying to claim credit for things they have nothing to do with. The surface area of the earth is absolutely massive. Humans likely occupy less than 2% of it. Even if all humanity was mobilozed to planting trees 24/7 with the most advanced machines imaginable, our labor would mean nothing compared to what birds could do on their own by merely shitting on new pieces of fertile soil and thus inadvertantly planting the plant seeds that they consumed a few hours earlier.

Birds do more for nature using only their assholes than humanity could do with their entire beings... The birds don't even need to think about it.
D is such a pleasant language. Super easy to learn too.
People are still doing it as satire just with billions of $ and people making a profit.

Elon Musk could have picked anything, he picked Dogecoin because... satire.

I think people still don't get in an inter-connected world for 7 billion people and losing established religions and other old mind memes jokes are worth billions, people will lose and gain lives over them, they will spend parts of their lives centred around jokes. They won't go to church, community markets or medieval fairs, they'll go to Dogecoin stores, why not?

Dogecoin was just a cookie cutter crypto with marketing and I would think mostly others took his idea and meme'ed it to the moon.

He can change his mind, but it still is what is was day one.