skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I learned vim back in college using this:
https://vim-adventures.com
Interesting, and useful to know. Thanks for that.
A bunch of companies called "Meta" already exist.

Going by that definition, these guys are the ones that were attempting to reuse a name that already belonged to someone else. They can't have their cake and eat it too.
> There is no societal benefit to buying, holding, selling a crypto currency.

If you live a country where the govt mismanages the economy and drop the value of the nation's currency then in that case BTC has a lot of value.
What are you talking about? I can't find any posts here that are sympathetic to them. To the point that I honestly can't tell if there's some fb astroturfing happening.
I want to learn all there is to know about JS. Which/what manual should RTFM? Should I read it front to back completely before attempting to write my first bit of code? Before writing any php, should I read every single word written on php.net?

Docs for programming languages are not written like a book to be read starting with the first page through to the last. Kind of like the bible.
It should probably be the Kernel Newbies entries that gets posted to HN, or a summary from LWN or the like. Linus announcements are for the kernel dev community.

(probably better to use lore.kernel.org/lkml instead of lkml.org too)
Pretty sure this is a different Meta. The Meta the Bloomberg article is talking about used the stymied Chinese deal to cover up the fact that they were already dead, because their product just plain sucked.
They're already the largest holding in a diversified US index. IMO not cheap enough to merit further concentrating.
$() and $$() are handy but very annoyingly the first is overridden by any website that installs jQuery globally. IIRC in chrome you then use x$()? I always have to look it up.
My understanding is that many Western firms had willingly entered into business agreements with Chinese firms, primarily for manufacturing but also for access to the Chinese market. It was always understood that such agreements included technology transfer, even if that wasn't always communicated to e.g. shareholders of Western firms. Not all Western firms entered such agreements, but those who did can't very well start crying about "hacking" now. When you tell someone a way to make money, they're going to remember that.
Online banks offer a risk free higher yield but it comes at the cost of local branches. If you’re closing on a house and the extra business day to get a cashier’s check delivered costs you a deal you’ll be pissed.
Currently people are losing money (in real terms) on cash holdings; the spread between inflation and interest rates is what people are paying for the liquidity.

So the idea that retail depositors won't chase higher rates is saying that retail depositors don't care how much it costs to park cash in a bank, which seems absurd to me. 100bps would certainly be enough for me to move my savings around annually, given that ACH transfers are nearly free.
Exactly this. My wife knows not to panic if she can get my messages, but I don't reply to her.
If any hams live in an area w/o a two-way i-gate, consider putting one up. It isn't that hard and provides a nice service.
Invidiual stocks collapse all the time. Selling down large positions is a real problem that institutional investors face and they plan for a haircut on the list price when doing so.
Don't Ship the Org Chart
https://www.wsj.com/articles/banks-to-companies-no-more-depo...
> the stock market / BTC market went crazy.

Probably because the govt/Fed is printing more money.
Do you think we will forever be organized and segregated by governments?

Do you ever think a human being can be a sovereign individual in his own right, without owing fealty, taxes and morality to a government in some future?

The current financial system is not all software. When i pay in crypto, i give you my money. When i pay in the current financial system I am giving you every bit of information to rob me blind and hoping you don't take it all. My currency(Value i produce) is not my own and at any moment in time some outside entity can cause rapid inflation, devaluing of my currency or take everything i own straight out of my bank account. My contracts are not upheld by code, but by courts of law. I have to do a credit check to outside entity's to ensure you've got the collateral to extend you a loan. I have to physically go into a bank, have a minimum balance, an address, a phone number in order to even have a bank account. That doesn't sound like all code to me.

Also, you're right. POW as a consensus method is flawed. But again, all V3 cryptos have essentially transitioned to delegated proof of stake at this point.

Lastly, in a generation of cancel culture gone wild and as an avid reader of history, I'm glad crypto is available to me as the nation-state that we've all known and loved is looking more and more stressed.

If you still claim there's absolutely no value in any of it, then me and you have very different definitions of the term.

Edit: There are 104 protocols/coins that have over $1B market cap. Value isn't a personal judgement, it's a group one.
> Put simply, American courts have no authority over Chinese in China

Fortunately, this is of no significant barrier.

It is not a barrier because we, in the US, can ban their hardware anyways, and cause serious economic damage to them anyway.

So it doesn't particularly matter if we use IP law itself, in the courts, against china, when we have other options, such as simply banning their products in this other way.
I think if people want this, it could be opt-in.

But I have issues with the wisdom of such a feature, given that we're entering the age of client-side CSAM scanning.
I’m interested in applying to and working at Signal. But is there a chance I would get put on a list of some sort making my life more difficult by the government?
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>All the V3 crypto protocols have exactly as you describe above. However, instead of the money going into the coffers of the company, it goes into a 'Development fund' That will award the crypto to people who have applied and been voted on by the community to launch a project/technology in the protocol.

So you replaced "shareholders" with "developers of cryptocurrencies/beneficiaries of the development fund".

Does a rose, by any other name, not smell as sweet? I mean, from the case you're making, these v3 protocols seem more like securities.

Stablecoins sound exactly like banks. Which means AML/KYC/Reserves on the horizon.

The entire cryptocurrency space recreated the current financial system, rooked in a new generation of suckers (and some old one's that should have known better), did everything current financial product regulations were put in place to prevent, made it as energy inefficient as humanly possible in the case of PoW, but it isn't all that cause it's called something different.

My distinction without a difference alarm is ringing itself off the wall at the moment.
I'm starting to make some progress with an Unreal Engine crafting game.
Everything is going to be data driven, and have the spawn rates for forage, trees, and mobs working ok.
Now up to the fun part - getting a good amount of recipes for the crafting stations, and once the core stuff is all running nicely, I will get to polishing animations and models.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6xtnfSVQMw
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Spending four billion dollars to prove (to whom?) that we are really good at building super colliders is not something I personally would like to see my government do. If I want to prove my country is worth defending I want it to be a place where no children go hungry and the citizens have the resources and feel empowered to continue our elimination of human suffering in this world. I personally can't see what a new accelerator would provide to humanity over using that money providing food to the hungry.
I just want to add that you cannot migrate across ios and android, at all :( https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007059752-Ba...
I'm responding to TFA which claims that banks have such a large supply of retail deposits that higher rates will just lead to banks extending more credits. If retail deposits don't matter than TFA is completely irrelevant.
Not all families should have long range car. Short range cars should be the best for second car that never used for trip. It's also best usage of EV for now because it uses less batteries.
Competition in banking is peculiar. Banking only works well with a stable deposit base. For this reason, banks don't like to chase after the customer that will take their money across the street for a ten basis point increase in yield.
Can't remeber where I read it or if it's an original thought but reading lotr was like reading the main story, okay, but also sitting at the campfire and hearing about stories from before.

The whole book is as much about the fellowship's quest than the backstory of the whole world and that's what got me in when reading it. It's not about what's happening to our heroes but what happened to others before.
I’m honestly surprised this location kept 24/7 hours for so long.
The documentary of the same name, which chronicles the last ever hot metal typeset edition of the New York Times, is fascinating and I highly recommend it.

It's 30 minutes and you can watch it for free on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/127605643
I'd love to hear more, specifically about moving outside of FinTech. Do you foresee yourself leaving tech altogther, or are you thinking about moving into another industry of tech?
the most amusing is the "family" size of the different cheerios blend that make it clear they are just throwing random sizes at people in an effort to confuse honest $/wt comparisons.
Sounds like whataboutism. They both suck.

If you live in the west, you probably don’t want to be at the pity of two superpowers, so I don’t mind the current rhetoric against China anyway.
I remember a article already quite some years ago, expressing much frustration with that. Basically the spec is complicated - and the vendors were unwilling to integrate more complexy. And that seemed to not have changed. Most parties are just interested in making things faster and more stable. (And then one bright day, implement a better, cleaner designed 2D vector standard)
It's just another way of saying "kids grow by themselves and school educates them" instead of actually becoming involved with the process and shielding the child from big tech which feels like a rather big threat to underage humans.

I have so many friends who leave their tablet babysit the baby and feeding them so much multimedia content it's making me physically sick. And it's a lot more widespread, kid sees shiny and soundy and quiets down, then won't eat without a tablet shoved to their face.
> I’ve always presupposed the set of people who pick mongo is a mutually exclusive from the set of people that pick Postgres.

I think that in the real world it’s not so black and white. These sorts of articles seem to trigger people.
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I completely agree with this; the prior example given for bitcoins value (that it is used in defi for flash loans, etc) is literally deriving its value from moving value around (internal to the crypto ecosystem).

Flash loans are used to arbitrage across exchanges, not create any extrinsic value.
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The image in the linked twitter suggests that Michael McDonald officially asked if he could testify pro bono and was denied by Gray Wimsett, Assistant Vice President of Conflicts of Interest.

So Gray Wimsett at least claims it is against the policy to volunteer to do the work in this case.
Not really. How about a definite article e.g. "the"?
> It's dystopian but it's the future many are predicting.

Not only predicting but apparently hoping for and trying to bring about.

Trying to bring about a dystopia: Yup, they're the baddies all right.
Hmm, perhaps. Though the first part are just private benefits to the homeowners (which of course, should go into the cost-benefit analysis), and the latter is basically the same kind of benefit that the proposed ocean seeding has.

I have no data on which method is best here, I was just confused by 'social benefit'.
That just seems to be a reluctance to learn and stay relevant? You can indeed get away with writing C++98 but the rest of the world keeps turning.

I used to work with a guy who would hate all the "new stuff" and then belittle and berate newbies for not understanding his "simpler" code full of void* and COM code. A bizarre tradeoff of not learning anything new himself for 20 years, and then demanding everyone else knew what he learned 30 years ago. Inflexible.
He'd still be using his Amiga if he had his way, cursing every new OS and computer system.

The interesting thing about the newer C++ stuff is that it really does look like a new language - because it is.
The "media" outrage is not indicative of what people think or the world.
If there's a run on a stable coin then so what? Systematically important financial institutions don't have very much exposure so there wouldn't be a significant impact on the real economy.
> Do you have any internal knowledge of product this company is working on and hence it is of no real value to “you”?

Regardless of what they are working on, if it doesn't exist, the value of it is presently zero.

Also, as others have mentioned, FB fully legally bought the trademark on Meta back in 2017 (through Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative). The company in the OP has no claims towards the name. Well, it appears they have a trademark on Metacompany (no space or dots), while FB (or rather, Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative) had the trademark for Meta since 2017. If anything, the company in the article is infringing on a trademark that FB has been the owner of for nearly 4 years.
How can the SEC and the Treasury let these crypto coins continue to exist when it's so rife with scams? Based on the TOS of Tether, it's clearly as scam with no protections for any investors.

Why hasn't the US government regulated all these coins out of existence? I feel like it's turning into a systemic risk to our economy given how much money is being turned towards them.
I am building two apps one for algo trading and one for eating well. This in addition to client work for 20 hrs per week. Not sure how to switch context and I keep thinking about client work in my personal days.
Building a meeting timer app as there is none for Teams right now. Will be releasing its as a Teams Meeting Tabs app. Will do a ShownHN soon
Not so much that I don’t want to be hired so much as I’m struggling to find the right fit. Would love to start something, as I don’t seem well built for larger orgs and have done well in the past with startups. Just spinning my wheels at the moment on what is feasible to pursue.
Snow crash?
> But in the course of businesses squeezing more out of less the cashier now does double duty. He just has to work harder.

It's always nice to get an ideological dig in, ain't it?

In Germany, the businesses 'squeeze' the customer instead. There are no baggers, customers bag their own groceries.
Thinking of working on something related to AR/VR but the target device will be low-cost such as google cardboard.
What about transdermal cream?

I am interested in the domain too, but I never pulled the trigger on the exogenous T.

I am at 600 but that means nothing because there's also the SHBG value and the T/Estradiol ratio and the T/DHT ratio , but most importantly the density of the AR receptors in the muscle fibers.

So somebody can be golden with T at 300 , whereas somebody else might need 950.

In any event I wanted to try and improve my T number via winning physical fights.
Delphi and vb were crazy cheap. Vb cost 200 bucks. Delphi could be had for 50. It’s one of the reasons for their incredible success.
How long have you been training pre-steroids?
Chickenpants escapes spooky town. Should have been released a week ago, but got sick for a week.

Now I'm back to struggling with static classes.
Ethnic cleansing? Do you happen to know something that U.S State Department lawyers don’t know? [1]

[1] State Department Lawyers Concluded Insufficient Evidence to Prove Genocide in China https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/02/19/china-uighurs-genocide-...
100% agreee on everything except:

> Read paper books that you actually own.

What's wrong with reading borrowed books? Public libraries are a marvellous invention!
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That's not how business works at all. You don't need to have a massive social media presence (or even a website) to be an operational business. And, in fact, a huge portion of startups operate in stealth mode until they are ready for public consumption -- but that doesn't mean they don't have a product or customers or investment.
I guess the parent poster is referring to the fact that oil fields near Santa Barbara, California and the Columbia River in Oregon were attacked during WWII. But this has negligible relevance to the current US-China tensions.
a lot of folks (me included) have no idea what the differences are :)
Not specific to developer tools, but definitely handy for using console.log etc: in JS, an expression can be any comma-separated set of expressions. Every sub-expression is evaluated, the last sub-expression’s value produces the value of the full expression. So for example:

const add = (a, b) => (
a + b
);

produces the same return value as:

const add = (a, b) => (
console.log('adding', { a, b }),
a + b
);

The log call will be evaluated, producing the desired side effect, its return value (`undefined`) is ignored, and otherwise add behaves the same as before.

This can save 100s of paper cuts where you might otherwise rewrite a function or some other expression into a block of statements—in the arrow function case requiring curly braces and a return statement.

Caveats:

- sometimes you need to wrap the expression in parentheses to avoid syntax errors

- it does not work with debugger statements, which have no expression equivalent
You respond to a study with "your belief". That's... not a convincing response.
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YouTube recommended this to me and I actually watched it... When he got to the end and talked about his site I realized it was on the front page! I was confused because I'm not into game programming, but I watched it anyways. I was surprised that it was more about system design, which I am actually into!

I'm just a little weirded out that YouTube knows me a little better than I know myself.
In essence, it's not theft because they can get away with it.
it'd be nice if there's an async-trace feature, where you get a (ascii?) visualization of the graph of async calls, if given a promise.

It'd have to be able to reach deep into the core of the vm to find out where the promise was created (which might be lost if that info wasn't recorded i suppose), so may not be possible.
Surely you can replace "C++" with any other language and it'd still be true?

I look at the colossal ancient Delphi codebase that my old employer had as a great example.

Or the Magento system in PHP as another example.

Or all the Objective C in the world that won't work on modern macos or iOS/iPadOS as another example.
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It's crazy how this "flamewar" perspective has changed on HN about Mongo DB in the last 10 years. It used to be that any comment critical of MongoDB would get a warning. Now it's any comment supportive of it!
"The cloud" was always bullshit. There is no "cloud"; it's only other people's computers.
the hell? hacked?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_liability:

“Product liability is the area of law in which manufacturers, distributors, suppliers, retailers, and others who make products available to the public are held responsible for the injuries those products cause.”

A specific example is
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escola_v._Coca-Cola_Bottling_C.... : somebody uses a soda bottle as intended, gets hurt, and wins a case against the manufacturer of the bottle.

If you don’t follow instructions, that still can happen, but it will be harder to argue that a problem originated with the manufacturer.