skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, you've got it. There is no reason why your apple stock should have a greater value if apple does better as a company, other than the fact that as a collective we've all chosen to believe that your share "represents" a "slice" of the company, and we've also all chosen to believe that other people will value your "slice" more when the company does "better". There is no material meaning behind saying that your apple stock is a "slice of the company." In no material way is that true in a practical sense. You are not entitled to a percentage of profits, and you do not have any say in the way the company operates. As for my other point, we've all chosen to believe that other people will buy our stock for more when the company "does better". But "doing better" doesn't necessarily mean "is more profitable." Just look at WeWork for a counterexample. We're all just trading meaningless tickets with ticker symbols on them believing that they're valuable because someone else will buy them for more later. And because we all believe this, it's actually true. It's like a collective fever dream that never ends. Stocks are no different from Air Jordans or Dutch tulips - the value of individual stocks changes according to the stories we tell about them, which can be influenced by the company becoming more profitable, making an acquisition, laying people off, getting a new CEO, or any number of things. The value has so much more to do with the stories we tell about the stocks than anything else - because the stories determine what someone else is willing to pay for them. It's not about math, it's about psychology and group psychology.

I don't say this as like a really angry person shouting as a sky hoping it'll all stop. It just goes to show how as a group, we can make our expectations real by all expecting the same thing.
I get no less than 15 spam calls a day (and even more texts - "hey, we were looking at picking up another property in your area, would you entertain an offer to sell?"). I rarely look at my phone anymore when it rings and view it as a nuisance. I routinely miss calls from friends/family because I've basically been trained to ignore the squawking spam device since the ratio of spam/legit calls is so high.

The one feature that would make my phone usable again is to have a simple option to only ring for numbers that are in my contacts - otherwise go straight to voicemail. I really, really want that. Why shouldn't I be able to decide who gets to interrupt me based on if I know them or not?
> and now you're locked out of your own account because you lost your second factor.

To verify someone's identity ("Identity Proofing") using Stripe Identity [1] costs ~$2. They support IDs from 33 countries, and have implemented fraud detection in the flow. If you were so paranoid as to defend against someone stealing your government issued ID (used in the proofing process), you could paper mail a OTP to physical address on file.

Does it suck and its the cost of no digital ID infrastructure in the US? Yes. Is it insurmountable? Not at all. At the end of the day, people are the weakest link, and we must fallback to meatspace trust anchors (in this case, possession of government provided ID that can be provided on demand with robust fraud detection mechanisms). You are who you are, and own what you own, not because of key material but because of the law.

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Why does it seem as of late (meaning the past 20-30 years) that journalism has been morphed into pushing narratives through writing, as opposed to simply reporting facts/viewpoints like in investigative journalism?

This washington post journalist seems to think it's their obligation/duty to inform the seemingly "uneducated" people of Alaska of the impending doom of climate change, but I'm pretty sure Alaska knows its permafrost is melting.

That all being said - it's a bit disappointing to see such a beautiful landscape change so quickly, however it's just another sign of the times changing and everybody will need to adapt to it.
I could see it going either way, but come on, no one in their right mind would think that that's an appropriate joke to make in a public thread with members of a professional community.
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I hope the wannabe rich crypto scammers will have the same success than the semantic web community about winning the web 3 label.
As a taxpayer / healthcare consumer who is not employed in pharma -- yeah, it would be nice if we (the US) did a little less subsidizing of drug development for the rest of the world. Proportional ownership of sponsored drugs seems like a nicely aligned incentive. What am I missing?
It happens in all forms of government everywhere, large city or small. Especially in southern california I find local city halls to be rife with corruption. The FBI has been probing Los Angeles city hall and has already arrested two former councilmen, Huizar was arrested while in office, for racketeering. In Huizars case hollywood couldn't have written a cheesier plot, it was literally cash in brown paper bags and hookers in vegas from developers. quid pro quo. That good old fashioned cronyism stuff has never left, because literally so many people are doing this stuff. Sanitation department. Water and Power. Building and Safety. LASD. Rife with open, overt corruption, and I honestly believe the press is scared to go after these agencies harder than they have with their union lawyers.
Keeping your life savings in cash under your mattress is more stressful than relying on a bank.
Interesting that majorities in every demographic say that tech companies should restrict and prohibit misinformation (https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/08/18/more-americ...)

People get twitchy when you ask if the government should be restricting it, but are trending in that direction over time. They are clearly in favor of tech companies cleaning up their own mess. Would bet money that if there was a third question that asked if the government should step in if the tech companies fail to do anything to limit the spread of misinformation there would be support levels closer to the tech-only option than the government-only one.
It’s also amazing how many smart people are completely ignorant of the common and routine failure modes of banks, and why hundreds of millions of people might want an alternative to that.

I just had to physically cross an ocean twice because my bank won’t send wires for more than $25k via their website, and that’s one of the gentler failure modes.

Here are some examples: https://old.reddit.com/r/fatFIRE/comments/pycgjx/what_in_the...

Retail banking in the USA is terrible.
And lack of KYC, which enables it to be used for ransomware payments
I have replied to a sibling's comment ISP agreements are nothing like that.
I'm not sure this follows in the case of options? You have a contract to buy stock at X price. You do this at a discount and get the stock. You could just tax the gain on the stock on its sale with existing tax law and you could do this specifically for options if having some broad law would create weird exceptions like you suggest.

ISOs existed to correct for this failure in options, but the income at which AMT removes that protection hasn't been updated substantially since it was created so this protection no longer really covers exercise. I also don't really understand how it could be abused.

My change would be to have option exercise pay no tax on the spread, with all taxes payed on gains on sale.

As it is, people with massive wealth can exercise when there is no spread (because they have lots of cash already when the shares are granted to them) or they get special early exercise via the 83b election with the IRS and special access from their startup.

The people that get hit hardest by this are regular employees starting out that don't have lots of cash to exercise when the spread is zero.
How do you “Log in” to Authy? It’s tied to your Apple/Google ID afaik and the 2fa codes are also protected with a passphrase.
"Unauthorized payments" is a bug. It's an unfixable bug for which they've created a recovery system, but it's still a bug, because the system is not intrinsically secure.

"Steal your secret key" is not a valid analogy to a having a credit card number stolen. The information density of a secret key is orders of magnitude higher than credit card info, and that's why it has provable security properties that credit cards do not. Credit card info can in principle be brute forced where keys cannot.
Currently several year-old cars are selling for nearly as much as brand-new cars. Even before the current car shortage, repossessed zero-money-down cars were commonly resold at basically the same price as the first sale.
For an engine rpm yes, for a moving body, not so much. Energy in a vacuum is proportional to velocity squared, and energy required with wind drag is iirc 4th power of velocity.

So even with an engine designed to be most efficient when the car drives 65 mph, the efficiency of the system will quickly be controlled by drag forces as speed increases.
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Even science reporters are having a hard time keeping up with what materials science has been up to lately. With no disrespect to them really intended, they can just about keep up with the semiconductor world's concept of tracking "holes" rather than electrons, but it seems like going any farther into the quasiparticle world is just too much for them. It's rare to see an article that doesn't have some sort of verbiage that indicates the reporter doesn't really understanding what's going on, if indeed I've ever seen one at all.
> That's why the founder can threaten them with the IRS, because they (likely(1)) do not rightfully (as defined per law) own it.

This seems wrong. Here's the quote from the founder:

> Otherwise, it's being reported as income to the IRS, and most of you are doxxed.

It seems to be "return it or else it will count as your income," which seems... weird. Do most crypto people just not pay taxes on crypto? How is this a threat?
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Technically, there was no rewriting of history. Just a single (but very large) transaction was added to the consensus rules that (IIRC) replaced the TheDAO smart contract code.

Given that this incident resulted in the Ethereum/Ethereum Classic split, the "centralized cabal" was not very effective. The community voted with their feet and many went to Ethereum Classic.
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There's a joke in here about the conflation of the data all throughout the pandemic and how there's been a failure to differentiate between with Covid and from Covid.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/09/covid-hos...
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I can write code that trades bitcoins without having to ask anyone for permission. Without getting into what Bitcoin will change about banking, I'd say that's pretty different from regular banking.
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Its not like that.... If you send you code to github, then deleted that code in our computer, and github goes down before any other person cloned your repo and decided not delete, then you code is lost.

You same question can be applied here: Why someone will download a random repo on the github and store just for fun? No one will do that without any reason. So, on git the only people that keep any file/repo offline, has any interest on that content to be hosted with then.

The same here, if I send any file using IPFS, the same file will be accessible using any gateway, my own gateway, my neighbor, or some other that i dont know who owns in other part of the globe.

The gateway is just a gateway. Its one way to find some asset on the network, and has a optional cache. Months ago I send one file using IPFS, then accessed via cloudflare (and others) gateway, then I deleted my file, and in few hours the file was inaccessible in every gateway that i tested. No gateway keep you file forever....

But then can if they want, anyone can keep any block if they want. So, the same way as my previous example using git! The asset will exists util everyone that hold that asset want to keep, but because you cant control the others nodes, once some asset is public over the network, thats can be "forever" or just few hours.

So... IPFS is more about in how you can share assets privately than the lifetime of the object. And with or without cloudflare IPFS is decentralized because at any point i can setup any gateway that can listen my assets in the same way (same hash) than any other gateway.

IPFS gatway is much more about node discovery + cache.... No centralization happens here. You can store third party blocks in you node if you want, or rely on other nodes if want, but thats is up to you. Its the same as upload anything to any cloud then delete the local copy.
.. and Javascript.
Considering the relative simplicity of this transmitter circuitry the receiver would probably have been comparably simple. Could be two resonance bridges (two capacitors and four resistors each) tuned to the two reference frequencies respectively. A simple rectifying of the bridge outputs would give a differential pulse sequence which would be fed to a comparator. From there it would be bit detection and synchronization as is done in a typical UART.
Let's Encrypt's root certificate has expired, and it might break your devices
A "black swan event" is something which was obviously possible in retrospect, but no one could have predicted other than via blind guessing. If you can explain how it'd happen in advance, it's not one.
I'm interested to see where Hytale goes since this seems to be their approach, roughly and with pre existing community support to boot. Unfortunately they've been pretty unresponsive since their acquisition so I hope the eventual release keeps same spirit they started with.
what about google and youtube?
Replace std:find_if in 80% of the cases
> This seems like another incredible example of a bad product management strategy of "whatever some employee wants to do".

It would be bad if they used this strategy for every employee, but for certain employees, notably, those who are likely to go found their own startups, it can be a great idea. Google gets the potential to finance a "startup" for a fraction of the hypothetical acquisition costs, and the downside is paying the salary of a few dead weights if the produce never takes off.
>Following publication, Hancock resigned after admitting a breach of social distancing rules.

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In Minnesota most farms still have remains of their icehouse - if you know what to look for. Until the 1950s electricity wasn't common (very much location dependent: FDR built dams in many states, but it didn't reach Minnesota for the most part, then WWII stopped most utility expansion). It was a regular thing for farmers to go to the nearby lake in January to cut enough ice for the summer. Of course Minnesota has the climate and enough lakes that this was possible for normal people.
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Static types become less useful as the runtime truth diverges from your static model. For example, different browsers have different APIs. Your code may type check against your browser today, but that doesn't mean it will work correctly in the browser from yesterday or tomorrow, or in other browsers. Dynamic types let you smooth over these differences.

That's an argument for dynamic types, not against static types, and I think languages with both (TypeScript, ObjC) are a sweet spot.
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You have to specify what kind of decentralization you're getting at.

The distribution of ETH was less decentralized before the hard fork than afterwards. 15% of the whole supply in one hand is quite a concentration in the distribution.
>If there comes a real usecase that the average consumer cares about, it could happen. Right now it doesn't seem like it will, but I could be wrong ofc.

Perhaps there is a concrete usecase that drives all this hype: come up with a convoluted scheme that involves attaching the Ethereum buzzword to other impressive buzzwords in order to pump it up. I mean, you need to be a fool to miss out on a profitable scheme that's about to blow up because it's web 3 point oh, am I right?
The OP needs actionable and helpful information, not sympathy. I posted some below. Even if I agreed that OP is the victim of some industry-wide dysfunctional process and posted my own job-hunting sob story that wouldn’t help. Our experiences don’t match for a variety of reasons, sure, but one reason is different approaches to finding a job.
> Over roughly the same period, other countries have seen rates fall, including Japan, China, Russia and most of Western Europe. What is going wrong on our shores-and what lessons can we import from elsewhere?

Keep in mind a 17 years old in 1999 was born in 1982. These were interesting years in Russia, Japan and China to say the least (total collapse of the Soviet Union, for a start, with all the insecurities that ensued) and a pretty nasty economic crisis in Japan [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Decades
I mean I think that's ok at this point. Kids are at greater risk of a lot of other things before Covid. We're going to have to figure out how to get our kids to become nose breathers again and fix their enlarged adenoids.
Parent was actually a part of the team doing the core engine for Wave, so in that case it's more like he never dropped his belief in it.
Having been in 8 foot seas on a small craft, this video is terrifying and astounding all in one.