skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Much of DeFi is funded by venture capital and other professional investors. It is unclear to me how well known this is in the DeFi retail investor community, but the underlying funding deals often grant professional investors equity, options, advisory roles, access to project team management, formal or informal say on governance and operations, anti-dilution rights, and the ability to distribute controlling interests to allies, among other benefits. Rarely are these arrangements disclosed.

Transparency is only transparency if there's transparency.
>I have never received a satisfactory answer for why a lot of people from these fields are all about "Everyone should learn to code" initiatives, but not, say "Everyone should learn to be a citizen journalist"

A few years ago when some journos got laid off, people on twitter meme-ed that they should learn to code. Not only did the journos make it extremely apparent just how far beneath them they think software development is, they also went out of their way to attack the people ribbing them. (With their standard tools: guilt by association to 4chan who got in on the ribbing, and getting twitter to categorize criticism in the wrong direction as abuse.) https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/learn-to-code

It's not the reason, but analyzing this sort of thing is a start.
> The argument was that getting rid of the informal, localized social norm enforcement mechanisms (your nosy neighbors, a meddlesome priest, etc) that used to prevent people from fully expressing their individuality created a vaccuum that was filled by surveillance.

I'm not clear on why this vacuum must exist and more importantly, why it must be filled.
The only reason there is any value at all in owning the Mona Lisa is that it is a physical object that cannot be perfectly duplicated. Even then, only status-wankers would care to.

NFTs aren't the Mona Lisa, they're a Certificate of Ownership for a digital Mona Lisa that entitles the owner to nothing. Everyone and their mother can already have an indistinguishable duplicate of digital Mona Lisa for free.
Ask HN: Is wanting to do CS research a sign that you are lacking imagination?
How else could one explain the dismissal of novel app/game design & implementation as an intellectually rewarding activity?
What’s the correct wealth for white and black families?

If you say “I don’t know, but it needs to be closer” that’s just in group preference - which is fine, but don’t present that statistic as evidence of anything but a disparity. You need to prove (while accounting for all confounds) that this gap is a result of x.
Why NFTs are bad: the long version
This article is about microdosing, which is very small doses of psychedelics, well under the threshold dose for a proper psychedelic "trip". For psilocybin, a microdose would be on the order of 200mg, which is 1/10th the minimum threshold dose for a full-on trip (2 grams).

Microdosing isn't going to alter your ability to reason.
Settlements prove nothing about the truth of the litigious question. It's factual to say they settled, it's not to say it proves anything.

Also the Wikipedia article begins by labeling PV as being "far-right", which is in and of itself an opinion and they proceed to quote opinion pieces.

Why do I have to explain this tho? I feel like a high school teacher explaining yet another time to his students why they can't cite Wikipedia.
But the deception is specifically what I'm objecting to. Yes, it would have been quite reasonable to say "healthcare workers need the masks -- please leave them for them." By doing a public volte-face, the medical authorities opened the door to questioning of their advice and the "macho posturing" that you're talking about. I'm not convinced that it would have played out the same if they hadn't made such a foolish decision.
Well, after spending eight hours working demanding jobs, be it physical or mentally, everyday people usually like to spend their free time with something a little more relaxing, and for most people that isn't reading documentation or reading highky technical engineering papers but rather watching a highly enthusiastic guy try and share his joy of rocket science.
The conditions certainly have to be right but it works for high quality candidates if your reputation is good and you engender enough trust.

High quality candidates are generally confident in their abilities and thankful that they can take 2 weeks to show you their skills instead of doing it in a high pressure setting in a couple of hours.
You are both right, but unlike crypto, casinos and crime facilitating black markets don't pretend to be something other than what they are.

However, I tend to think crypto is a bit more than that: an anti institutional weapon.

Therefore it's not a coincidence that crypto also serves the above use cases that specifically seek to avoid institutional oversight, or in circumstances where institutions have already failed (i.e. Venezuela).

Once the illusions of anarcho-capitalist utopia dissolve, that's what's left, and crypto's fundamental market value - minus the greater fool stuff - reflects the sum of 1) the fear of and 2) enthusiasm for the destruction of institutions, with both of those pushing the value up.

Stronger, trusted, adaptive, and accountable institutions that provide their societies with security and broadly shared well being will push it down.
Why NFTs are bad: the short version
This is specifically about NFTs, and not the general environmental problems with cryptocurrency, which exist, but are solvable with known technology.
Do you have any tips on search terms you've had success with? I've seen a number of good listing from defunct startups that fire sale their remaining hardware on Ebay - but always through a direct link shared elsewhere. I don't know where to begin with finding stuff like that myself.
What, and trust the central planners at Sotheby's to not steal my apes and slimers? They'll sell off half the pixels to the government because of my back taxes.
How exactly would someone distinguish wash trading from legitimate trading? Someone could just be generating volume from one account, or legitimately swing trading.

The only way I can see to distinguish it is if there are fees to making too many transactions per week. Like a "free tier" of transactions and then you pay if you want to transact a lot. That's the proper way to charge fees for mainstream payment networks, btw, rather than how they do it now. Anyway, then the problem becomes how do you mitigate sybil attacks.

Wash trading is a bug in the SYSTEM, and it should be the designer's responsibility to prevent it, not the government's. But the SYSTEM designers don't necessarily WANT to fix it, anymore than they want to fix sybil attacks when they're growing (Twitter or YouTube in startup phase being able to detect and deplatform oodles of new active accounts or content, is against their incentives to attract more money by reporting higher numbers, even if they are bots and illegally uploaded content). Same here.
As one of those non-crypto decentralized advocates, I am not super optimistic. I think the best case would be that we manage to build a bunch of generic decentralized infrastructure while all the easy money is being thrown around at the bottom of the Ponzi pyramid, and then that infrastructure manages to survive and continue to provide value even after the cryptocurrency house of cards collapses.
Unregulated markets have maximum amount of fraudulence. There is no reason to assume anything else.
> you need to do some more maths with the three numbers to figure out what the right date to use is.

We did this all the time at a previous job. We had a spreadsheet in which we put in the three estimates. They were combined in some ratio (I think it was 1 part each for the outliers and 2 parts for the most likely). Then some time was added on for testing, test remediation and project management at a set additional percentage. Worked out pretty well, we seldom ended up with issues when using this method.
Monitoring Rust web application with Prometheus and Grafana
Usually those are called thrusters rather than rocket engines.
How to get started with Rust for RISC-V Linux
That theory doesn't have any ground, but I am more interested what makes people believe that there is such theory. Nobody today claims, that everything that is written in a Bible is true, why would there such belief without any doubt to something that someone claimed just 100 years ago?
As with all history, it never repeats, but it rhymes.

People have always stood up to abuses that were previously hidden. They have always been dismissed as not real problems. A few have always been selfish, and have always been portrayed as if they were the true reason for the movement.

This Time It's Different because of the Internet, enabling more people to talk about it, more people to spread misinformation, more people to say stupid things, and generally creating more heat than light at a vaster scale. Everybody involved adapts their tactics to that. But the core issues are identical.
The prevalence of sex offenders is sufficiently low that the distribution within the tiny group of sex offenders is irrelevant to the overall risk.

Last I checked, the majority of violence against children (including murder) is by women. So women should not be hired into this role. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Journalism and the humanities can pay extremely well for insiders.

The humanities - especially law and some corners of academia - also have far more direct political leverage than tech does.
To the people suggesting that renting or installing a few servers in a leased rack space with redundant cooling, power, conditioning and 24x7 security is somehow dangerous or hard, please go home and sleep it off. You are drunk off cloud kool aid.
Well technically your private key is "IN" the wallet which is how you access the funds. So it's pretty close to the same thing.
Not saying that I know for certain that the button-one is not a urban legend, but the tale is usually that the button on womens’ clothes is due to the fact that the lady of the house is dressed more often by the staff. Unlike the gents, which were only helped if they choose to wear armor.
(Edit: the => they)
> But, the main force for a return to decentralization is in crypto

The more I watch this space, the more I realize that many of these projects are just an excuse to flip novel tokens for a quick profit.

We reached the point where there are enough blockchains and crypto tokens for almost every conceivable purpose. At this point, many of the new entrants feel like they’re just arbitrarily bolting new coins and new tokens on to ideas that could have been executed on top of many existing chains or coins. Or even executed entirely without a blockchain at all. The reason, of course, is that it’s far easier to get rich quickly by minting new arbitrary coins and tokens than it is to build on top of someone else’s coins.

> But, the main force for a return to decentralization is in crypto and the only realistic alternative to a web3 future is one where everything is a property of Google, Facebook, Microsoft, &c

What’s stopping any of these companies from simply buying 51% of the tokens to a decentralized DAO, for example? There’s nothing magical about crypto that makes platforms immune to big company involvement. If anything, many of them make it easier to execute and harder to detect.

There’s nothing stopping anyone from launching a project that isn’t owned by these companies but also doesn’t involve blockchain. In fact, it’s never been easier to get something off the ground and going.

This argument always feels like an appeal to binary thinking: We’re supposed to imagine that there are only two possibilities (web3 or big tech) with the implicit assumption that big tech is the “bad” one and therefore web3 is the obvious choice. Yet there’s a huge middle ground between the two that is more accessible than ever before.
It goes like this, I ask a question and an answer is given, not another question.
Running fewer tests is not necessarily bad, especially if your baseline is a system where the system is paid per-test.
I'm also bummed by the centralization and corporatization of the web. What web3 projects should I be looking at? What stands out as promising?

Because when I look, I just see things that look like grifts, platforms that eschew centralized moderation and become spammy cesspools, or projects that actually aren't decentralized but co-opt the web3 name. But I'm open-minded, if there are things I'm missing.
I agree with the other posters, that evidence is extremely weak and it makes you look like the boy who cried wolf.
Probably still figuratively the case even after that issue is resolved...
You call the manufacturer and a cab and get tf over it.
It will be nigh impossible to prove wash trading without the exchange being very obvious or primary trader identification.

Famously, a Mt. Gox data leak actually proved wash trading on that exchange conclusively as same trader IDs took their own orders. [1] So there definitely is proven precedent in the crypto market.

I am not saying it doesn't happen and isn't likely on unaudited/unregulated exchanges. I just want to highlight that the authors make very strong claims and alternative explanations should be explored.

1. https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3362153
> I have every single game ever made for every console generation from 1978 through 2002. This cost me next to nothing

I think you are confusing the cost of production of these things, and the cost to you personally.
There is a cost (material) and scarcity(human time) involved in making things. I think we have got away as a society with not paying artists and musicians and demanding their content be free and "post-scarcity". That really isnt helpful to people trying to live in this world.
See Gillian Welch sadly singing "Everything is free now... They figured it out, I'm gonna do it anyway even if it doesn't pay".

> which doesn't really benefit the artists in any way.

the default on most marketplaces is a 10% resale royalty paid to the artist. compare this to existing aucition houses where we get 0. or second hand record shops where we get 0%. or spotify or youtube where the ceos are billionaires and we get fractions of pennies for streams AND have our work surrounded by adverts.

when i look at https://foundation.app/collection/clsfd I see an artist i really admire finally getting paid some money for her years of work and experimentation. and retaining control in that system. The work isnt tied and locked in to this particular website like posting on instagram, the provenance is clear and royalties fair (decided by the artist).

I think people need a reminder of Sturgeon's Law. 90% of everything is shit. Don't get blinded by the noise.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law
Also they have no interest in treating elderly (or anyone all that ill) if it requires any effort at all, as future healthy payments will not cover the expense.

It is easy to see an optimal strategy of never treating anything.
I use GitBook for https://docs.uxwizz.com/, but I want to move away from them, mostly because of their poor export features.

I want to pay for the services to be able to export PDF, but their "starting" plan is for $6.40/mo/user AND you are forced to start with at least 5 users. So I would have to pay $384 per year just to be able to export PDF for a single documentation with a single user.
Everybody wins except for the part where a bunch of people wasted a bunch of energy competing to be the one whose computer confirmed the financial transaction in an absurdly inefficient distributed database.

Patreon's been solving the problem of "open source funding" for about a decade without that part.
Maybe I'm missing something about how Toptal works?

It looks to me like they bill the hiring company $X and pay the talent $Y, but the relationship with the company belongs to Toptal and the difference between $X and $Y is their (probably leaky) secret.

So looking past their 3% marketing spiel ("Google only hires the best engineers!") yes, they have a value proposition of reducing your gig-seeking anxiety, but no, they aren't your advocate the way an agent is (supposed to be). I'm not saying that's an unreasonable value proposition, but it's not what an agent does for, say, a television writer.

Is that not how TopTal works?
Not really answering the question there, which was specifically in reference to "People need to be paid to do the work". Clearly, they don't. They do the work first. Maybe if they were not paid they'd not do -further- work (though "starving artist" being a thing tends to imply people create because of a desire to create, not because of how lucrative it is), but with NFTs...no one is actually paying them to do the work. There could be an NFT with no artwork attached (in fact, there is no artwork attached; there's just a link, pointing somewhere on the internet, that can be changed out at any time by the creator).
Getting Started with Opencv on Rust
I would agree that the Constitution would probably not allow it to be banned, but I would say there are many things not protected by the 1st amendment that could be considered an expression of something.

Treason

Obscenity

Libel

Slander

Certain threats

Incitement

Hiring a hit man
episodes are out!
I somewhat agree with your first point about ad-clicking, but I think there is some nuance that you are missing, primarily the fact that all of engineering isn't web design. However, I am fascinated to find that you think that engineering know how isn't a critical aspect of modern societies? Please explain.

I agree that it isn't good that motivated and qualified people that really want to go to a top tier college are rejected. However, that is the basic fact of life when there are 10x more applicants that open spots. I think if we really wanted to tackle this issue as a society the way to start would be to increase the availability and affordability of high quality post-primary education. Let's assume that the lawsuit's basic premise is correct that Asian Americans would be accepted at a much much higher rate if race was eliminated from the acceptance criteria, and then Harvard started evaluating application as such. Harvard would become an Asian American mono-culture to the detriment of not just white people but Hispanic, Black and other under-represented minorities. Is that a good outcome???

I'm speaking loosely because I realize "Asian American" is a quite a broad cultural generalization, but I do personally admire the work-ethic and reverence for science and intellectual pursuit that has gotten this community to where it is today, to quote Drake "You came from the bottom now your whole team here". But as a White male American, I think when you are at the top of the food chain you have a responsibility to see to it that those who are not have an opportunity, otherwise that makes you an asshole.
There’s a tragedy of the commons going on here. The best outcome as a group is if everyone reads the article. The best outcome individually is if you’re the only one that doesn’t read the article, then you get all the informed comments without spending the time to read it personally. The actual outcome is that very few people read the article, and the entire discussion is about the title and how people interpreted it.
I have three different jails configured for the three different OS groups. Windows, Linux and BSD.

And when client want their own set of resources I just create a jail, give it an IP and they can do what they want.
> https://cryptoforthehomeless.org/

This seems like a well-intentioned project, but I have to ask: Why is crypto helpful, or even necessary here? Why not just use normal money?
In all these years the only thing I've seen has been despise against JS, if it was popular it was 'cause we hated it, we hated how bad designed it was, but then Node appeared and someone said that isomorphic JS would be a good idea as looking for backend engineers would be easier.
Now there are tons of JS libs in npm, but a big percentage are quite minimal, unnecessary and of questionable quality.
SSTO is not great, but when you add full reusability to the mix, it becomes attractive. You spend more in propellant but makes operations so much easier.
Ah, I see! Makes sense that you can do much better if you get to compile the programs with your choice of options.
I think it's easy to miss the content at the core of the movement given how thoroughly it's wrapped in gold rush and scamming. But the more time I spend around the space the more it seems that there is a legitimately transformative force which attracts the gold rush in the first place. And the ethos of people working on e.g. research DAOs, decentralized publishing, crypto art, &c feels right compared to the web2 world.
Because being an agent in the movie industry is about finding "talent" and being connected to the right producers. Discovering talent for film, just like in modeling and sports, isn't hard. You go to a few plays and theater productions or hang around enough people and notice which ones seem to have a knack for grabbing attention. This is hard in software because software talent isn't visible. Similarly, being connected in software isn't as relevant as in the movie industry because when software companies hire engineers they want to retain them for as long as possible instead of working on a single project and then putting a whole new team together for another one.

In short, the dynamics in software engineering are stacked against this being viable. The incentives that exist in the movie industry don't exist in software so copying the movie business model and expecting it to work the same in the software industry is a non-starter. There are probably a few more concrete reasons but those are the main differences I could think of off the top of my head.
> Benford's Law is a pretty established method of detecting fraud in forensic accounting

Benford law never had to deal with exchanges where any customer can write a python bot and start trading at sub-second latencies via the exchange API's.

I'd be very surprised if whatever statistical model they're relying on is in any way a match for what real (as in: legitimate orders from actual customers) trading goes on on crypto exchanges.
That's how all Ponzi schemes are marketed. "I got rich, so can you!"
> Blockchain is completely fixing the remittence industry. It is one of the most empowering technologies for the developing world.

I'd love to see some numbers to that effect.
The person you're responding too isn't passing judgement on the ideas expressed per se, but rather than the amount of prose used to express them.
We don't have any 100ms minimums we enforce. We'll charge you on the overall use for the whole month, less any included usage for each model.

For some use cases, Bundled makes sense, for others, Unbound makes sense. Again, flexible + affordable is what we're after as we mention in that blog post!
I ate two bananas before my motorcycle test for their placebo effects to calm nerves. Cool as a cucumber I passed without a jitter on the throttle. It's anect-data-l. I know.
Except there is, they spend money on marketing and fill up telegram groups with tons of people who fall for this scam everyday, 90% of telegram groups involving crypto tokens are scams like these.

People get scammed daily by this.
DRM is a fundamentally broken concept. I feel like there has to be a mathematical proof out there somewhere that it is impossible to both make information consumable and, at the same time, prevent its duplication.
Advanced degrees also make getting certain visas easier. The relative value for spending money and two years on a Masters or six years of your life on a PhD is much higher if it carries with it a ticket to stay in the U.S.
The Simon & Marcy episode is one of the saddest episodes of television, I cannot be convinced otherwise, and it may have ruined the Cheers theme song forever for me. Arguably my favorite TV series ever.
Prominent scientist open to lab-leak now believes evidence points to market