skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A nice answer from Harry Bawcom, the Layout Designer:

"Q: What do you recall about the lawsuit Motorola filed against MOS Technology?
A: I remember part of the Motorola lawsuit was about the speed of creation of the 6502, particularly the layout. Though I don't have a copy of the lawsuit, my memory says that a major point of the lawsuit was that we stole the layout and did not create it anew. This is because a major problem chip designers had in that era was getting a design through the bottleneck of layout. And though it took seven man years for the 6800 (I came in at the end of the 6800 project), it only took one man year for the 6502, therefore we had to have stolen the layout. We did not. Speed was my skill. You could hire a good engineer by looking at his education and accomplishments. Layout was more of an art and a difficult problem for chip design managers and engineers to solve. Today it is done by computer."
Need some devs help on a small side project (beta/feature request)
Hi all,

I've always been fascinated with quotations from an early age and it has helped me through some very tough times growing up.

I started with creating a collection of my favourite quotes but ended up creating a full blown api service, because why not ? :D

Currently, it has around 80k quotes and would need some help from devs to test the functionality..

Please reach out to me!
When you are in a stage of pulling CoC rules out, you are already nuclear and hostility is already ongoing.

They are US based, yes, but they are usually good rules. Whether a CoC is bad or good is in the hands of the humans enforcing it. The .NET Foundation shows terrible human to human handling of a non CoC related topic.
No,to produce them you need thousands.

To control them you need one- or even none.

You could program a ethereum smart-contract virus, which hires people to scam money, produce slaughterbots, ship them to a city and strategically hit the soft underbelly aka airports, roads and railways and communication.

If you stack the attack into waves and have the slaughterbot parcels piled into flats by gig workers, you can have a ideology free terror attack that kills millions.

Such ATTAC-CELLs without members, are part of my games lore.

Here is a picture of a standardized factory, made from standardized components, making "slaughterbots" made from standardized components.

https://springrts.com/phpbb/download/file.php?mode=view&id=1...

https://springrts.com/phpbb/download/file.php?mode=view&id=1...

PS: The main building block is a sort of hangrenadesized fuel-container, with a fuelcell useable fuel that can be chemically primed to be a explosive. A standardized battery that could be exploded would do too..
As a side note your chances of developing costochondritis are much higher if you’re using multi display setup, especially with only two screens. Got that, moved to 1x32”, never looked back. Not sure if it will ever heal fully at this point (4 years in). So I’d add using multiple displays is not healthy as well (you need to rotate a lot, even if we’re talking inches its still rotation, your muscles will pay the price sooner or later).
> Ask HN: Practically accepting cryptocurrency for businesses without middlemen?

> directly accepting payments from customers?

Your reply:

> handles the transacations and KYC

You seemed to have missed 50% of the post you're answering to.

> as all crypto transactions now need KYC

You might want to specify what country you're thinking about, not all countries have laws around KYC and cryptocurrencies.
> Because the institutions that should have handled these responsibilities got broken down intentionally due to "starve the beast" libertarian ideology. Congress is gridlocked and plagued with cronyism, corruption and obstructionism for decades

Libertarian ideology famously pro-cronyism, corruption and obstructionism?

:)
The conspiracy theorist in me assumes our rulers were worried some workers were actually getting ahead just by working hard and taking some risks and investing for the future. Best get them back in the same race-to-the-bottom employment model before they upperty...

/Rant
Well, they see it as punching up. Now, the editors at Facebook and these magazines really believe that women desperately need encouragement from their adverts to becoming scientists and doctors. I'm not sure if much has changed.
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=kissinger+cambodia&ia=web
I find that unconvincing. Great explanations are usually also great at convincing me.
Yes and over time these can be renegotiated. It's short-sighted to think that once you have a trade deal then that's it "for life".
That is correct, but you are still not.

Many financial institutions will block US taxable people due to the complications supporting them. Especially if you're a peasant whose support costs will exceed your value to the institution.

Additionally, you must still file taxes every year, and declare all bank accounts on which you are a signatory (under threat of seizure), or for which your spouse is a signatory.
Seven (7) Secrets of a Successful Programmer
The Postal Service is slowing the mail to save money
Yes.

He expressed extremely hateful views on Caucasians, gays, immigrants, and Jews in his blog posts and videos around 2010.

He pushed "the great replacement" conspiracy theory right in 2017 saying that Putin conducts Islamization of Russia (his article on why Trump is the opposite of Putin).

All these cases make him controversial for the modern world where people are "cancelled" for much less.
Is RESTFul Paradigm a Type of FFI (Foreign Function Interface)?
FFI is a mechanism by which a program written in one programming language can call routines or make use of services written in another. As far as we know, client can invoke RESTFul API via HTTP to call web server. So is RESTFul paradigm or HTTP a form of FFI?
> some companies don't bother having their own websites/emails/phones (often on purpose - to improve their Facebook rank).

I don't think Joey's Pizza is going to have a web presence if not for Facebook. I don't think they should have to hire a developer or use the latest no-code platform to just throw up their name, location and address on the web. It's centralized, sure, but its free, simple, SEO optimized and as a user I'd prefer that to some home-spun website.

There are issues with Facebook, but people who hate on it tend to try to make everything an issues. And having Joey's pizza on Facebook and it being unavailable for a few hours every decade or so is not a big concern. There's a lot of low hanging fruit in terms of web presence that Facebook addresses. Other websites and apps are still going to exist as long as regulations don't neuter the competition as would invariably be the case.
Novaya Gazeta and Echo of Moscow are state-sanctioned news outlets that help opposition minded people vent off. These media exist because the state allows them to exist. Of course, for them to be of any interest to people resenting Kremlin rule they need to employ some good and brave people. These people do risk their lives, but it is they who are heroes, not their employer. When time comes to choose the sides, like the recent blatant and open fraud committed with the 'electronic voting' in Moscow elections, Muratov was quick to jump in and defend [1] his friend Venediktov, which shows that Muratov knows the rules of the game and will obey and cowtow to Kremlin when needed. That's why Kremlin was so quick to congratulate him: they are very content with this decision, they have won, again.

The most popular proposal for the Peace Prize this year were two people: Maria Kolesnikova and Aleksey Navalny, both currently jailed by the dictatorial regimes of their respective countries. Overlooking them for a journalist with rather flexible moral principles is a big disgrace.

[1]: https://echo.msk.ru/blog/dmitry_muratov/2912018-echo/
>IMHO govt services make sense when private industry can't provide them effectively. That doesn't seem like the case here.

If cash is legal tender, how is it that you can be paid in cheques that nobody would cash for free ? Isn't it the government's job to a) Either cash them for free, or b) Require employers to pay in cash if the employee asks for it ?

I find the fee for cashing a cheque, and most other fees in the US banking system, quite ridiculous.
Or you do the "not normal" thing - which by weight of £'s is the normal thing to do by orders of magnitude - and pay tax on a remittance basis only. The choice is yours, pay tax or keep it offshore and dont pay tax.

You can also become non-resident by moving abroad for a short period of time, no need to do so permanently.
>Wages cannot rise significantly as nations compete in global capitalism.

They can. If every country did balanced trade then there wouldn't be anything wrong with global trade. You'd get the benefits without any of the downsides. It's when countries export more than they intend to import that things are getting worse. Of course, balanced trade wouldn't allow the existence of global reserve currencies. The USD would have to give up a meaningless benefit.
>Many financial institutions will block US taxable people due to the complications supporting time

My apologies. I don't understand the second half of that sentence. Would you please explain?
Yeah, most of those problems (with the arguable exception of the food deserts, at least in urban areas) exist down under too, or at least did until the banking Royal Commission a couple of years back.

That video reminds me too much of my wife's experience before we got settled down.

I wonder why nobody's solved this problem by now.
Amazingly, I agree with every single point.

>> Nobody asks “why” enough

This point is the most important IMO. It's so common for people to do things without asking themselves why they're doing it. Every line of code should fulfill a clear purpose. You want to avoid writing code which is difficult to explain to a non-technical person.

>> People don’t really want innovation... If you believe in what you’re doing, and know it will really improve things, then brace yourself for a long battle.

This sounds ridiculous at a glance, but it 100% matches my own experience in pretty much every company and project I've ever worked on.

It applies to everything; jobs, getting funding. Nobody wants to see real innovation and nobody wants to see real talent. If you're too good as a developer and innovate too much, developers who work for big companies will get jealous and they will reject you. If you're very good, you need to pretend to be mediocre and above all; compliant.
For a company whose mission is "to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together.".. this was very hostile & intimidating.
I'm not surprised that the author(also the OP) prioritised his own resources, mental health over standing up and litigating. He's still brave to share this in the media!
It was in the NYAG settlement. [1] Transcripts here. [2]

Merlin is Bitfinex/Tether CFO Giancarlo Devasini. [3] Oz and CCC is Oz Yosef - their contact at the Panamanian money launderer Crypto Capital Corp. Here, they parked almost $1B of co-mingled funds without a contract at all and had it seized by various world authorities.

Merlin [15.10.18 10:01]
I need to provide customers with precise answer at this point, can't just kick the can a little more
Merlin [15.10.18 10:02]
the international I mean
CCC [15.10.18 10:02]
I will keep you posted here
CCC [15.10.18 10:02]
On the process of all international payments.
Merlin [15.10.18 10:02]
please understand all this could be extremely dangerous for everybody, the entire crypto community
Merlin [15.10.18 10:03]
BTC could tank to below 1k if we don't act quickly

For once, I believe Giancarlo. I recommend reading the rest of the transcripts in [2].

> And this tin foil hat theory about tether pumping btc has been debunked repeatedly.

I mean, you can keep repeating that, but of course, it hasn't. I don't know there's conclusive evidence at this point although a massive class action suit against Tether for market manipulation was recently allowed to proceed by a judge after rejecting Tether's request for summary judgement. 5 of the 10 claims were dismissed - a few on technicalities - but 5 claims were approved to continue on the basis of suitably compelling evidence and off to court we go. [4]

>> The court did dismiss RICO charges against the defendants. However, it found the plaintiffs adequately alleged monopolization, market manipulation, common law fraud, and violation of the Commodities Exchange Act. [4]

I'll let the judge decide if it's FUD thanks :)

[1] https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/2021.02.17_-_settlemen...

[2] https://cryptonews.com/news/how-merlin-lost-patience-trying-...

[3] https://www.ft.com/content/4da3060c-8e1a-439f-a1d7-a6a4688ad...

[4] https://protos.com/tether-market-manipulation-class-action-l...
A note to the readers from the US: "Caucasian" in Russian has the opposite meaning, so some Russians may collide the "Stop feeding Caucasus" slogan with nationalistic statements, but it is more about rule of law and economics.

The status quo is that the Russian state pays loads of money to little czars in Caucasus to keep them comfy instead of fighting them in civil wars.
The Supreme Court has never ruled that corporations are people. They ruled that corporations have 1st amendment protections. But yes, that was exactly the type of substance-free hot take I’m talking about.
As far as undisclosed sources go, Hubbard's work with Jack Parsons was not known at the time, as that was yet another person Hubbard scammed. Hubbard's only acknowledgment of that time was a highly fictionalized account of breaking up a circle of black magicians.
> Invariably people get fired

Is this how the Navy deals with accidents? I can understand being fired for failing to do your duty but operating a sub is both hard and dangerous. Things are going to go wrong. If everyone did their job isn’t this just a learning opportunity?
I meant for the country as a whole not traders that would use non public information.
>Paddle is not two way marketplace like ebay.

Yes I know that but that's not relevant to my point. My point is to emphasize the "hide the email" advantages.

I should have wrote my sentence like this:

- Many services (including many non-payment processor gateways) hide email addresses from sellers including ebay, Etsy, Craigslist, Amazon, etc.

>What companies do with the emails is... up to them. But that goes for any payment processor.

Not it does not for _any_ payment processor. E.g. Apple payment system does not reveal email addresses while PayPal does. Buyers then complain about followup spam because they paid via PayPal.

The assertion of "what companies do with the emails is up to them" is true and yet it is missing the crucial point of the conversation. The distinction is a layer above that: systems that don't give the companies email addresses at all.

The later text revision by Paddle that "sharing email is opt-in" is still suboptimal for consumers because that's just one more tedious item to doublecheck. I.e. is there a UI dark pattern that was silently switch from off to on. Apple payment eliminates that mental tax.
If someone's really freelance i.e. running their own business, then IR35 doesn't affect them.

IR35 is meant to target disguised employment i.e. someone turning up to do the same job as people sitting at the next desk who are salaried.

The latest IR35 changes moved responsibility for policing IR35 onto the client (for large companies) engaging the contractor's company so these large companies started taking notice as they had a new risk

Even then it's still possible to be outside IR35 - provide your own hardware, fix issues you create at your own cost etc.

The big thing that originally brought in IR35 (20 odd years ago) is contractors spending 5yrs at companies essentially doing the same job as permit staff, which avoiding paying employers NI etc.
Ah, nuance, why are you so rare nowadays?

2 or 3 statements in the past = "rich history of hate"
Many (most?) web projects allow hiding performance issues by scaling horizontally, caching and offloading work to native implementations where necessary (like video encoding). Python can work great in such circumstances.

The best testament to this is the reality that popular web services were able to limp along on a slow language for a long time before they had to rewrite their code.

But if one is doing something that requires raw power or precise control over resources, or precise timing then not choosing Python is not merely a tradeoff to be considered, but an obvious architecture decision.
This is a very insightful list. But there is one thing I'd quibble with: while it's inherently a super-subjective metric, I would say that 10x programmers do exist. Both in the "can support a company by themselves" sense and the "mad lone genius" sense. Not all the 10x programmers are good at working with other people or on other people's ideas.

0.1x programmers are often lost or afraid, although they may just be unimaginative. The real risk of fear is introducing 0.1x processes. People are often willing to sacrifice any amount of development velocity to avoid being seen to make mistakes.

Sometimes this makes sense, sometimes it doesn't. Arguably the reason for the success of SpaceX is that they were willing to fly, crashland, and improve a dozen rockets in the time that a conventional company would spend agonizing over whether to launch at all. On the other hand, nobody wants to be on the same roads as the "move fast and break things" self-driving car.
>enrich boomers (low interest rates being one outcome)

Why does it matter if you pay $1000 per month on interest or $1000 per month on the principal? The monthly payment is the same. The only difference is that the bank takes less of your money.
I mean, sure, that's the dystopian version.

But the problem to me with that vision is the existence of "thought crimes" and not the method by which such criminals are being chased.

The government isn't waiting to pass thought crime laws because they just don't quite yet have the ability to search a forest for people. That's not the big barrier here.

But people are still lost in the woods.
They can't do that because they stupidly backed themselves into a corner with 20+yr of "think of the children" rhetoric to justify all sorts of stupid things so now any risk to the children is not acceptable.
You could move somewhere like Pitcairn Island, it’s actively looking for immigrants or at least it was last time I checked. There’s other isolated island communities out there which are a bit less extreme too with limited access to the internet. Saint Helena would be an example, although I’m not sure what the immigration requirements are.

You could also get into sailing, specifically offshore cruising. Until Starlink becomes available for mobile installations your options are either ruinously expensive and slow satellite internet or if you’re a radio amateur shortwave services for email and SSB voice.
It does both. Linting and fixing are done at different times.
hmm same lack of service that gov entities offer? And this is a good idea? Oh yeah we can get out of losses by making it up on banking fees?
Edit: Yes, you're also forgetting how cumbersome it is to transport gold, how to verify that it's real, how we live in a digital era and yet we're still being bogged down by a physical artifact to store/transport value and how if we'd have a futuristic mindset we would want something immaterial that may be future proof.

Also about the 500years thing, no i wouldn't actually trust that. Sorry to burst the bubble but gold hasn't been here that long in our hands compared to humans, and before gold we used other store of values or currencies. Many other civilizations held their value in their (then rare) tokens (see shell money, see Rai stones, (...), and all of them eventually lost all their value.

In this day and age, in 500 years i would be extremely surprised if humans, or super-humans, or human-AI hybrid, whatever, hadn't figure out how to make gold like we make a sandwich for breakfast. Gold (if still useful, and other much better materials haven't been developed by then) will be as common as Rai stones became when some cunning explorers decided to use their higher technology to transport them and make them total valueless to the tribes that used them to store value.

Gold will see it's "store of value" fate fade in not too long. It's just a matter of when. And don't get me wrong, BTC might too. I also can't imagine that in 500 years the encryption we have today won't be child's play for the future hyper-computers. But anyway, my point is that gold is nothing special in terms of store of value. We're just being bogged down right now for lack of technology, but that will come, just like it came to all the other tokens which eventually turned their value to almost 0.
Haha exactly, you joke but...

If you want a society where it's even possible to take down "low-hanging" content, and where physical enforcement of that takedown might span international boundaries, the legal goalposts sometimes need to move.

And I feel like if we don't help move the technical and legal goalposts in a sympathetic manner - like recognising that a caching edge proxy is part of a site's hosting setup - we end up being part of the problem & pushing governments into more draconian solutions.

(I'm not sure why the litigants in this case were targeting Cloudflare, but I assumed because they have no other idea who is hosting these infringing sites)

So e.g. what does a legislature do if internet architecture has completely hardened towards privacy, such that edge proxies, whois, Facebook or whoever don't allow some visbility into the ultimate owner/publisher of a piece of content? They legislate what they can touch - the manufacture of the devices in our hands and on our laps, or the configuration of the access networks we all have to use.
If FB went dark permanently, we would fully "recover" very quickly. Not many needs will be unmet for long. Whether people use FB for messaging, groups, news or whatnot... nine of these are scarce.

This is obvious, but it's worth noting how different this is from most companies of comparable size. If Toyota go dark, the world makes fewer cars. It would take time and investment to recover the capacity.

Whether FB is good or bad, it's interesting how unnecessary it is.
For those interested, in New York, we have Pursuit.org[0].

It was founded by the StackExchange folks.

I wanted to work with them, but they weren't particularly interested in my tech stack (I do Apple development in Swift).

Good folks.

[0] https://www.pursuit.org
Typo. Time == them.

Few non-us financial institutions are willing to shoulder the burden of supporting the US Gov. Requirements. So they ask "are you a US taxable person?" "sorry we cannot offer you services at this time".
There are additional questions here. How long does vaccine immunity last? How many shots do you need? Does the risk of side effects add up or is an absence of side effects indicative of further shots being safe?

With an endemic Covid, how often will people get an infection on average?

It isn't a too trivial calculation at all.
It's not really that different when you consider the impact of employers NI

How different is your gross as a permit + employers NI, versus what your company turned over as a contractor?
A bit of a related question:

What is the best option to offer crypto payments to customers who hold no crypto and are new to crypto?

I have a side project in a domain where I pay about 15-20% for CC verification/foreign exchange/payout.

Huge numbers where crypto should be preferable.

However, even with discounts I can not get any crypto payments. Customers do prefer to use CCs.

I check the crypto payments space every few years but do not see anything remotely user friendly.

Paypal/Revolut/Venmo etc they all offered some benefits/stickiness to the customer.

They were also easy to onboard(for one intially Paypal delayed KYC extra security until later)

I am still looking for a pure crypto solution.