skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed, and I was doing cross exchange arb with mt gox in 2012 and knew never to keep anything on there overnight when I wouldn't run the bot.

I think this quote from somewhere describes this best: "It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so."

If you ask me, i think the big thing™ most people trust and don't question that's pretty much backed into tradfi mm funds and centralized crypto stablecoin reserves alike is US treasuries. Most assume that they are super safe and that nothing can go wrong, however most ignore or are in ignorance of the rehypothication of them in eurodollar markets (and the rehypothication of collateral more generally). The heavy usage of them as collateral in the post 2008 monetary system has basically tied the super-safe-risk-free-asset™ asset to the credit risk of the most junkiest actors globally (that for the most part, whose balance sheets go unseen and will never see the light of day).
Oh, oops, I'm sorry about my sloppy writing that seemed rude. I intended the generic "you". I see now how that failed to come across.

I wrote:

> You're already in a less open, less curious state when your language is that of "blame".

And DUH, that reads first to almost anyone (including myself on re-reading) as "you (yes, you, person I'm replying to) are in a less open state… blah blah blah"

When what I meant to express was the other way around in the emphasis. The better edit could be:

When our language is that of "blame", it's a good indicator of being in a less open, less curious state.

And I only mean that in terms of a general idea that being in a blaming mindset is a common thing, and it's not as conducive to real curious learning as other ways of talking about something.

I didn't really know what your mindset was before, but I think I now know that at least after reading my poorly-phrased post, you then were in a triggered and reactive state. I'm sorry about that. Thanks for replying so that I could learn from this instead of me not noticing the issues with my post.

P.S. I think condescension is the worst derailer of any communication, and I don't blame you for reacting when you read my post as having that tone. I didn't actually have a condescending view. I get into reactive blaming states too, and I don't think I'm any better than you, and I don't think there's any shame in having common reactive feelings.
I think it's funny that someone added 1 CoffeeScript file to the codebase and didn't write a single comment about it.
I'm in similar situation, not as bad as you but I have to use one hand at some points.

Here are the tricks:

1. Use split keyboards

2. Use two monitors: with 2 hand I can do alt+tab all day long but now It's harder

3. Assign hotkey to a certain applications/shortcuts

Then just consitently force yourself to do that everyday. It's terrible at first but you will get use to it.
> Spot It!, in its distinctive round tin, is hugely popular—it’s in the top ten of Amazon’s list of best-selling card games, right up there with classics such as Uno and Taboo.

Taboo is not a card game.
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> Python is the tool I pick ... not for highly performant systems

Many high-throughput, high-concurrency systems run on Python, famously including Instagram and Pinterest (which see quite a lot of traffic).
I use python mostly for numpy/tensorflow/etc. The machine learning ecosystem. That ecosystem cares a lot about multithreaded performance. So historically answer has been write c/c++ and then bind to python. This work is mainly motivated by libraries like that wanting to write less c extensions and be able to just write python and still have proper thread performance.
You might be interested in the following:

https://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?A2=CONLANG;a5...

And the New Yorker article he references (which is citation 34 in the OP article here):

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/12/24/utopian-for-beg...
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Natural boundaries often don't make borders. Rivers are as much a highway as a barrier. Likewise, mountain ranges might seperate highlanders from lowlanders, instead of one side from the other.

Also, it wasn't for want of trying. King William's War, Queen Anne's War, King George's War, the French and Indian War, the American Revolution, the War of 1812. Not to mention the Fenian Raids.
No one argued against that. We argue that the value proposition is dependent on defeating the other. I prefer not to because, how many others will I race against in life? The indefinite race is unfulfilling. More commonly, we call this the rat race.

I’ve beaten people in the race, and have been beaten myself. My career as a perpetual online matchmaking ranked game is … in so many words, not what I want.

To be forever racing, in age, under duress, or worse, needlessly, villages are not built this way.

Agile pits people against each other in an ultimate form of relativism. The constant question is ‘what did you do yesterday’, every single day. Hey, I did what I could, with the constant retort being ‘oh, but the other did this’, it’s gladiators. Forever stuck in the coliseum. And there will always be the other.

They use the simplest shittiest psychological tactic.
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ARR is completely irrelevant metric for individuals and does not tell anything about actual risk reduction because it is always relative. I want to know by how much is my risk greater when I am not vaccinating.

ARR is only relevant for specific study/time that in most cases is unknown property - you will have no idea what would be the epidemiological situation after 3 months for example.
Yes they do. I’ve written cython/numba as work arounds before. A lot of times if you need a small operation done many times the multiprocessor overhead is bad, but writing a pure python for loop over numpy/other tensors is awful for performance.

The answer historically has been c/c++ and bind to python. This work is mainly motivated by one of those libraries wanting to write less c++ bindings and be able to do operations like these parallel directly in python.
Maybe later there'll be a browser version which you can use with a regular display and mouse?
The problem is that the solutions that SF is doing to reduce poverty and inequality are blind to unintended consequences, even when they cause the opposite of the intended goal.

Sure, less prosecution means less ruined lives for convicted criminals... but it also leads to much more crime, and it is hard to argue that (unless you change the definition of crime/crime reporting, which is exactly SF's move here).

Anyone who has lived in SF for 10+ years can see the marked difference across the board for things like car break-ins and store theft. This isn't just one-off "anecdotal" evidence but across the board changes.

Walgreen's is a good example - the store near me had very little crime at one point, then crime increased: brazen theft, roving groups of teenagers locusting the store repeatedly, holdups at gunpoint, more and more things put behind glass, employees quitting after being threatened repeatedly, a security guard getting hired by the store... next is store closing and I am not surprised so many in worse areas have closed and are closing. But we measure reported crimes so they optimize for that, not actually making anything better for anyone.

If the DA won't prosecute, the cops don't arrest anyone - no reason for them to bother. And if the cops won't show up, the store won't bother reporting it. And because the gov't can play the media game with fudged numbers, hey our plan is working. But anyone remotely close to the situation can see the causal reality of this whole mess.

Most of this comes down to arrogance of policymakers/sympathizers who think they know what people want are need. It is a lot of white knighting. If you haven't actually been poor or been part of a poor environment, you end up looking at stats and trying to "save" people with policy, but ignoring people's desire for independence.

People do not steal apples from Walgreen's because they are starving. How things actually work is people go rob Walgreen's for razor blades and shampoo, then go sell them to neighbors at a discount - cash is the goal and cash is freedom. People buy stolen goods because they are cheap and they need cash for other things.

What nobody wants is to fill out forms in triplicate to be told which government shampoo they are allowed to have for free - that makes people feel like shit across the board.
> Kirkman had actually solved the problem three years prior, when he determined how many schoolgirls he’d need to make the puzzle work. This proof was in response to a question posed in the same magazine in 1844: “Determine the number of combinations that can be made of n symbols, p symbols in each; with this limitation, that no combination of q symbols which may appear in any one of them shall be repeated in any other.” Kirkman extrapolated this as a question of unrepeated pairs in triplets, asking from a certain number of elements, how many unique triplets can you have before you start repeating pairs?

This is not an extrapolation. It is a specialization of the problem in which p is 3 and q is 2. If either is an extrapolation of the other, it's the first one being an "extrapolation" of the chronologically-later second.
Hehe. I used to rehearse with a singer who I also taught music theory to. She in turn taught young kids music, usually whatever chord she'd learnt from me in the previous week. I imagine she was a far better teacher for them than I could've been.
> Facebook ... the only company ... that doesn't sell your data

Was that CNN style reporting where Dr. Zuckerberg sells users' personal data left and right in bulk quantities and seems privacy-friendly at same time? Or just NBC style Let's Go Brandon?

> GDPR

Also, I blame Dr. Zuckerberg for constantly getting caught brown-handed while selling data to private intelligence firms. His miserable failures to do shady business in shady way resulted in this extremely idiotic legislation which rendered a significant number of US websites inaccessible to, say, Frankfurt VPDN endpoint and polluted the rest with ridiculous cookie police which is even more annoying than popup and animated porn banners.
Tl;dr: I'm parroting someone else's opinion on a show I didn't watch.
I’m looking for bank import tools (ala Plaid) for customers, and it occurs to me that it is absolutely ridiculous in this day and age that there is no universal API for securely delegating read only access to bank transactions. My personal banks managed to finally work with Mint, but even then, some will break if two factor authentication is enabled. This should be a standard.
What a ridiculous waste of time and money.

HHMI is going to invest $2B in this, hiring legions of bureaucrats and PowerPoint masters for endless “DEI training” instead of spending that money on curing cancer

https://www.hhmi.org/news/hhmi-launches-2-billion-10-year-in...
I sort of agree. I think people know they're taking a risk with Tether, but they think they'll get out in time. Maybe they're right. Maybe it will be slowly and then all at once and if you get out in the slowly phase you'll be fine. People did that with Gox.

Everyone certainly knows the risk exists by now. And the markets keep on chugging.
:mindblown: I've been using *nix shells for 30 years and just learned and tried this now. Thank you!
makes me wonder if they loaned Tethers to their buddies (or themselves) so they can buy cryptos then "backed" the Tethers with the loans. wouldn't surprise me given the kind of unscrupulous scumbags that are often found operating crypto related ventures.
This suggestion runs counter to the US system of finance. The secret service was created to protect the value of the dollar against attempts like those made by tether. Why would the government today want to do a 180 and give up the power of the dollar? If there was another major collapse by messing with the crypto too abruptly, it would probably help establish the dollar for a while longer. I don’t think that such an event would be a bad thing for the global economy either.
Yeah I've heard of the fuel param (although I've only ever used fuel params as a hack to brute force "prove" termination). I'm interested in whether there are frameworks that don't require you to change the function signature. I've skimmed (very very quickly) through Concrete Semantics in the past, but never actually sat down to read it. Does it have anything on proving time or space complexity?
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I'm not sure it's a good idea to use Google's "monolithic cloud operation system".

Such a monoculture has the same issues as MS Windows had, even for the same reasons.

The "Unix Way" of simple tools interacting seems more reasonable. Especially when it comes to lock-in effects.
Yeah when you really think about it, the proposition is that you can play games and truly participate in it as an actual owner, and ultimately make money. That’s why Axie Infinity is blowing up right now.

This plus DAO’s (Decentralized Autonomous Organizations) could get really interesting because in a blockchain game you could have the high council being players that can make decisions in game, that were themselves elected by the community.

Furthermore, when you introduce real economics into virtual worlds, you start to output something that starts represents a digital society, which is the basis for the metaverse.

Bravo to Epic for having the foresight and curiousity to entertain this new paradigm shift.
Yeah, so, I’m sorry to hear about this innocent person who was wrongly accused. Let me share a few anecdotes of my own:

- a college roommate’s girlfriend who was sleeping over at our dorm awoke in the morning to find another roommate standing over her and masturbating while looking at her. The schools response? “What were you wearing?” and “don’t worry, we will make sure he can’t end up in your boyfriend’s dorm room next year”

- another friend was raped at a party, and then was accused of claiming rape because the rapist was the boyfriend of another girl, so clearly she didn’t want to get in trouble for sleeping with someone’s boyfriend.

- someone I knew in college got drunk and raped his passed-out girlfriend because he was angry she didn’t want to sleep with him that night. The next day he confessed to myself and a few other people, his girlfriend complained to the school, his parents got a lawyer involved, and that was the end of it. Our description of what he told us was dismissed as our attempt to help the girlfriend by lying. The school year was about to end and they just didn’t want to deal with it. Easier to just sort of let things sort themselves out at the end.

Also, btw, the worst part about this last story was that the rapist, when he first came to us was horrified and ashamed of what he had done, and told us in order to ask what he should do. Then, once the girl reported him, he got defensive and started backtracking - “it wasn’t really that bad”, and “she likes stuff like that”, and “it’s just one screwup, why should it ruin my life”. The only redeeming part of this story is that I ran into him many years later and he had gotten sober, done years of therapy, and tried to make amends for his actions.

The common things in all three of those stories is that 1) I know them to be true, and 2) someone innocent was harmed in each case.

So yes, it sucks when someone is falsely accused of something, and I do think that the way colleges handle complaints could be improved to be more fair to both parties. But let’s not pretend that for every false accusation there aren’t many many actual sexual assaults with innocent victims.
Seems the implementation is Haskell, would've been much cleaner in Ocaml. Appearently it's a grad coruse in functional algorithms but can't even see the time-complexity analysis of heapify.
The Tate didn't buy the license. Neither did MASS MoCA, which owns many Wall Paintings. They bought a certificate of ownership.

The certificate will still be valuable even if the copyright on the work expires. If the artist would work with say WeWork to reproduce this work across their offices, the certificate still has value. The Tate is still able to resell that certificate.

It's actually not clear to me that Sol Le Witts estate could enforce a copyright claim on an "unauthorized reproduction", since describing a drawing in words is not the same thing as actually drawing it. But regardless, the copyright question is entirely incidental.

There is a reason why the guy didn't just drew the damn lines himself, and why his such an influential figure in art history. It's precisely because he intended to interrogate some of these ideas.

Note that even if we suppose your way of thinking about this, in terms of a license grant that will move over to any would-be buyer of this certificate, is the correct one, that means this certificate shown above either a) grants such a license implicitly, or b) a separate license grant is communicated somehow. In both cases, this is still exactly like an NFT, where artists often communicate licenses to buyers of NFT certificates.
The cost thing was just looking at the bill. I've worked at some companies where engineering didn't even have access to the AWS bill, for example, which is rather unfortunate, since engineering is where the knowledge of "wow, this pie slice shouldn't exist" is. (I do think finance could? should? have noticed that bill, since I in part noticed it b/c the monthly total was too high. But I might have been looking at a more broken-out number than the actual, final total there were some other things that might have gotten mixed in that would have dulled the signal enough to make it plausibly missable.

But after seeing the number, it was a pretty quick task to break it out into various areas over time (like total VM$/time, total storage$/time), find the category that grew, and repeat until the offender was found.

The script thing was mostly about time. Bash's output was only so intelligible (it was basically |grep|awk|grep sort of thing) and engineers would get confused, ask questions, and it soaked up enough time to make me say "let's rewrite this so I never have to answer these questions again".
It’s not accurate to say Google has a monopoly on the “internet discoverability” information network.

Bing and yahoo contain near equal information networks and Google isn’t dominate in many important Asian regions.
Your search history on "$700 saving deposit" instantly became much more valuable. Think about that.
When I quit Facebook a few years back I read up on the details of how these profiles function. They're tied to a name, birthday and phone number. Now Facebook takes the deleted profile of a user and can still sell it for a tidy sum ($600). But get this; the birthdate, name spelling and phone number can be changed at any time by the user. So you can make their profile on you worthless for resale to data brokers by changing those details before deleting your account. I did exactly that and am banned for life. They were pissed.
I never had an issue with facebook (granted I haven't used either for years), rather instagram. When I was in college instagram really took a toll on my mental health. I'd see friends post the exact same photos as I did and get 2x-3x-4x more likes, and I'd follow people who wouldn't follow me back, It made me question my self worth or social standing. I think facebooks system of "friends" rather than "followers" and reduced emphasis on likes is much less harmful, I always felt like I was being rated in front of everyone on insta.

Looking back on it, it really bothers me because I had a lot of good friends that I am still close with, partied a lot, had good relationships, and overall had a really good college experience. I feel like instagram took a bit of that away from me. At some point I realized this and deleted the app, shortly after I was happy as could be.
"Functional Algorithms" is a strange topic for me since algorithms seem very imperative, compared to the declarative nature of FP.
I have a feeling the ubuntu equivalent will just show up.
> Anyone with more than $600 in their bank accounts

I hadn't heard this, but there is indeed such a proposal[1] by the Department of the Treasury dated May 2021. I'm quoting the proposal here from the PDF:

"This proposal would create a comprehensive financial account information reporting regime. Financial institutions would report data on financial accounts in an information return. The annual return will report gross inflows and outflows with a breakdown for physical cash, transactions with a foreign account, and transfers to and from another account with the same owner. This requirement would apply to all business and personal accounts from financial institutions, including bank, loan, and investment accounts, with the exception of accounts below a low de minimis gross flow threshold of $600 or fair market value of $600.

Other accounts with characteristics similar to financial institution accounts will be covered under this information reporting regime. In particular, payment settlement entities would collect Taxpayer Identification Numbers (TINs) and file a revised Form 1099-K expanded to all payee accounts (subject to the same de minimis threshold), reporting not only gross receipts but also gross purchases, physical cash, as well as payments to and from foreign accounts, and transfer inflows and outflows.

Similar reporting requirements would apply to crypto asset exchanges and custodians. Separately, reporting requirements would apply in cases in which taxpayers buy crypto assets from one broker and then transfer the crypto assets to another broker, and businesses that receive crypto assets in transactions with a fair market value of more than $10,000 would have to report such transactions.

The Secretary would be given broad authority to issue regulations necessary to implement this proposal.

The proposal would be effective for tax years beginning after December 31, 2022."

[1] https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/131/General-Explanati...
This is my experience as well. I work for a pretty large consultancy and the majority of my projects, when i look up the primary stake holder on the client side that brought us in, oh would you look at that he used to work at my consultancy 3 years ago.

Most of our biggest clients leadership is filled with ex-employees of my firm.
Isn't liquidity good for buyers and sellers? They're essentially acting as a market maker, no?
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Don’t do this. Both sides have to stop with generalizations. And both sides have to stop using their handful of [x] friends to represent a non monolithic community. One’s experience doesn’t justify bigoted actions.
I wear N95s and KN95s all the time. I can’t imagine how a person would think adding layers of filters in front of their mouth would not restrict breathing. It’s basic physics - you have to expend energy to pull the air through the filter.
Correction

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Thanks - I will give it another watch
Per earlier comment[1], Swift uses the biased refcounting approach Gross is proposing for Python.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28882299