skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't mean iterated game in the game theory sense, because that implies both counter-parties play against each other repeatedly.

It's like when you get a mortgage - it's a once-in-a-lifetime for you, and a Tuesday for them. They know exactly how to (and have mechanisms in place) enforce every part of a contract they've been using and improving for decades; you barely understand the contract because its the first time you've ever seen anything like it, and you have no machinery in place to understand or enforce your side of it. They have one contract they enforce against 1M counter-parties; meanwhile you have 100 different contracts you're supposed to enforce ...at the same level of care and capability? That's never going to happen, and so all you're left with is heuristics like "surely they'll treat me fairly!"

It honestly seems extremely foolish to take VC money under these circumstances.
Strong recommendation for Zena Hitz's book _Lost in Thought_. As an engineer, it's hard to take a step back and enjoy the pure intellectual pleasures of my work and hobbies, but I found it quite worthwhile to do so, and her book did a lot to encourage me here.
You might want to leave contact info in your bio so people don't have to post in public for the images. If you have a place to put them up you probably should.
@matijash what was the content of the follow up email you sent, was it updates on WASP, more data on traction, fundraising, ect? What did you say to prompt people to act? And did you ever pre-empt by just sending a SAFE (assuming the round is not priced) on a follow up email?
The pushback on the lab leak theory happens because proponents of the lab leak theory are pushing that theory in bad faith. If there's a lab leak, then they can excuse mis-handling of the USA COVID response.
Miners already put up a fuss over some of preparatory changes for PoS and definitely don't like having to give up mining. They're free to run a parallel Ethereum chain of their own (which has already happened, most prominently with Ethereum Classic - $ETC). Everyone will have parallel balances on both chains from the point of departure. The cultural weight is with the developers however and all of the popular apps will use the proof of stake chain instead of whatever forks emerge from grumpy miners.
>removing money from someone’s wallet and concentrating it in someone else’s wallet

Have you forced someone to give their money to someone else, or have they done so willingly? Has anyone given you money for no reason, or was it generally in exchange for something useful to them?

Υou most likely are saving people time, and what is life if not time? You're freeing chunks of life so people could spend that doing something they want to do, with people they want to do it with.

"parsing XML" is a means to cumulatively save lifetimes. Imagine someone inventing the washing machine and describing that as "making something rotate with water, detergent, and fabric inside".
It still really depends how far down the stack you go. One of the better observations Eric Raymond made in his essay The Magic Cauldron was that the closer you get to infrastructure the stronger the demands become for open protocols (emphasis added):

> The network effects behind TCP/IP's and Linux's success are fairly clear and reduce ultimately to issues of trust and symmetry -- potential parties to a shared infrastructure can rationally trust it more if they can see how it works all the way down, and will prefer an infrastructure in which all parties have symmetrical rights to one in which a single party is in a privileged position to extract rents or exert control.

Sure you may be able to build a bespoke proprietary protocol on top of the open foundations of http or the bitcoin and etheream blockchains, but businesses will have an incentive to shop for more open systems if they are staking anything important on it.

http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/magic-cauldron/magic-cauldr...
I don't actually, although that's a good guess--I think a lot of the really fast solvers use Python. Makes sense--not a lot of typing, big stdlib to lean on. I use JS though, because it happens to be the language I'm most comfortable in. (Which is probably the most important thing if speed is a goal!)
Lest us forget Reagan-nomics, slash our taxes, and then instead, increase military spending - whilst stealing money... sorry, allocating money from social security for spending on say... military needs.
I find it amusing the baked in assumption of your post that currencies can only be real if they are backed by a state. I think that is... No necessarily true. Just because something held up for a long time does not mean there is some essential reason why things can't be another way.

That holds true of a lot of human innovations. People could not imagine automobiles or flying or computers, but that did not make them impossible.
Sure, a black market is possible - I explicitly mentioned legitimate sellers.

But why would you want to sell a house this way instead for a permitted means of payment? Even if your scheme is unlikely to be detected, if does add a nontrivial risk of getting detected (or getting intentionally exposed, or blackmailed to get exposed) and get very unpleasant consequences for that, and given the extra difficulties of enforcing the deal, you would likely expect a significant extra markup above "normal price" to sell the house this way. Furthermore, if this is criminalized, then even offering or requesting this as an option carries some risk.

Also, I'm not informed of Indian law, but in most western countries this "donation of house" would definitely incur a significant tax and possibly trigger a tax audit/money laundering investigation. Combined with the risk markup, that would meant that laundering cryptocurrencies would be somewhat expensive. Not impossible, of course, money gets laundered - but it would mean that you would actually have to follow all the inconveniences, risks and costs of a money laundering process if you'd want to handle cryptocurrency, and that would discourage many people from doing so.
Am using AlpineJS on a new production Django app. Works fine.
Since we are bringing up Max Headroom, I would like to put a word in for Blipverts. These were part of the fictional subject matter of the first Max Headroom TV Show. They were advertisements that make old people watching them explode. Bryce, the engineer behind these adverts, uses the wonderful line, "I only invent the bomb, I don't drop it." This was amazingly prescient back in the 80s given where we are now in adtech.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekg45ub8bsk
That is true, but I don't see how firing the CEO typically would give gains somewhere else in the portfolio. For example VC's very rarely invest in competing companies.

However what affects the situation is that VC's want a lot of risk, and the risk preferences of the CEO could be considerably lower - eg. the CEO would be fine with moderately profitable company, while the VC wants all or nothing.

I don't think it is common to change CEO's for truly successful companies which actually show good numbers. No one wants to change the CEO, they do it because they think that it clearly increases their possible returns so they basically have to do it because otherwise they would look incompetent as board members.
It could have been put together in one of several schools in the area from consumer grade sources.
Yeah, people making these arguments haven't lived in developing countries with terrible, inconsistent, reactionary, arbitrarily applied laws. Where you have to "break the law" constantly in order to survive.
Do you have evidence that "a desire to create centralized digital currencies" has anything to do with "banning cryptocurrencies"? Because lots of countries have expressed interest in CBDCs and most of them aren't talking about banning anything. Indeed, it's often central banks talking about CDBCs, which aren't even in the position of banning anything.

Seems to me that CDBCs are just the new topic for conspiracies about how cryptocurrencies are being held back by the Powers That Be.
> armchair poverty quarterbacks

HA! I'm picturing the kid that owned the football and would threaten to take it home if he didn't get to be quarterback :)
An additional reason is that Pfizer/Biontech was available first, so old or otherwise vulnerable people are more likely to have been vaccinated with that.

That is, Moderna is probably more effective, but people vaccinated with it have an even lower death rate because they're less likely to have been in a vulnerable group.

This is also a major factor that can be missed when going over the vaxxed vs unvaxxed death rates. If (eg) 75% of the population is vaxxed, 5% chose not to take it and 20% are too young (and thus very unlikely to die of Covid), then the difference in death rate will be much smaller than you'd expect based on vaccine effectiveness.
From Ryan:
"It's so fun to see people's takes on what Remix is. Especially the "this isn't any different than [x]" and I'm screaming from my office "open the network tab, slow down your network, click the button really fast, click back/forward really fast! then you'll see the difference!"

https://twitter.com/ryanflorence/status/1463241922168774658
> Go users have to work around using ugly hacks when hit, because they don't have tuning knobs

Yeah, Java users just have to hire Java performance tuning experts from sprawling Java perf consulting cottage industry. Can't get much simpler than that.
I've read that HashMap will use a tree if a single bucket gets too large so long as the keys are comparable.
Well, I definitely appreciate your response :-) I know this is kinda meta, but I was fascinated by how my comment yesterday jumped to +5, then down to zero, and seems to have ended up at +2 now.

I had no idea that NVC would be such a polarizing discussion. I'm wondering if maybe some other folks had some bad experiences with it?
There's the paper on Google's Zanzibar:

https://research.google/pubs/pub48190/

"This paper presents the design, implementation, and deployment of Zanzibar, a global system for storing and evaluating access control lists. Zanzibar provides a uniform data model and configuration language for expressing a wide range of access control policies from hundreds of client services at Google, including Calendar, Cloud, Drive, Maps, Photos, and YouTube. Its authorization decisions respect causal ordering of user actions and thus provide external consistency amid changes to access control lists and object contents. Zanzibar scales to trillions of access control lists and millions of authorization requests per second to support services used by billions of people. It has maintained 95th-percentile latency of less than 10 milliseconds and availability of greater than 99.999% over 3 years of production use."
As long as the categories can be boiled down into reasonable, discrete levels, I'm a huge fan of radar charts for quick comparisons. They communicate multivariate differences pretty well, compared to alternatives. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radar_chart

Unfortunately, they also require summarization, so they're only as good as the individual quality projections into discrete levels. Powerful when used correctly. Useless when incorrectly, or your audience isn't visually-oriented.
Wirecutter runs a live update feed on major sale days that aggregates surprise/short term deals.
this for me, just bought the kit needed to help out on the PSX core https://github.com/RobertPeip/PlayStation_MiSTer
Hanlon's Razor says, never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

In this case, the malice explanation demands stupidity because it was released in their own city. Not sure what Hanlon would say about that.
As a user who might prefer the first version of the code to the second, why should I be excited about a software system that can force me to use the upgraded version? That's a design flaw in the current Web -- when a Web service I rely on changes its behavior and goes out of business, I'm SOL. Web3, with immutable smart contracts that stay online, has the potential to fix this.
> You really need to optimize for calories. Pasta, dried beans, potatoes, not much meat or dairy, even produce is a bit of a luxury.

Pasta, rice, beans, and potatoes are good for calories but time consuming to prepare. They're also difficult to prepare if you've got a shitty stove, a lot of cheap apartments have ridiculously terrible electric stoves. The above food are also bland without some seasoning which is another thing to buy. A microwave a one or two good microwave safe containers is usually much cheaper, faster, and more consistent.

If you're on $5 a day to eat you'll get more variety and options just getting canned food. While dollar stores lack fresh produce they usually have a fair amount of canned produce. While obviously not as good it's better than pasta and rice every day.
> is it impossible to get VC levels of investment without giving away board seats?

Microsoft, interestingly, was after the opposite. They took a rather nominal $1M VC funding to get someone knowledgeable on their board. Probably helped when it came time to IPO. They definitely didn't need the funding. VCs would love for the world to believe that their funding is necessary. But often that sort of rocket fuel is detrimental to the growth of a company. It puts immense sudden pressure on a company, relationships are strained, and really weird things start to happen as your headcount shoots past 20-30 people.
What's with the font? It's impossible to read this.
How are CBDCs the "endgame for tyranny" in a way that (presumably) fiat currencies or cryptocurrencies aren't? Seems a bit hyperbolic, but maybe you have good reasons to be so alarmed.
"But it's also boring and soulcrushing to have everyday" It's also rich in vegetable protein and a great source of fiber.
Geez, when I think of "boring and soulcrushing" meals I think of SOYLENT not a nutritious meal enjoyed by tens of millions across LATAM on a daily basis.
You jumped on that particular point huh? My comment was primarily about lockdowns. Lockdowns AND masks are but tools for preventing COVID.

Maybe you lockdown supertight until leadership decisions figured out, communicated and logistically sorted out. One of those decisions may be that some lockdown restrictions can be eased if people wear masks. IE relax one mitigation measure by using another.

But that's up to each society to decide for themselves.

My own opinion, once everyone is vaccinated as best as they will, ease lockdowns and mask usage in stages so that vaccines can be tested in real world conditions for effectiveness AND hospitalisation rates are kept under control.

In an ideal future with covid, we'd have perfect vaccines, zero lockdown and zero masks. In reality, I think we can get pretty close but with vaccine booster shots instead.
It's that Data Science meme plane with dots again
It's not so much about trusting your doctor. For me, it's more about utter absurdity of the image of every single patient of a GP calling said doctor to ask this question, and thinking that the answer given is going to be any more specific for most of those patients than, say, guidance from the CDC.

Yes, if you have existing medical conditions that your doctor is aware of, they may be in a better position to point out any potential interactions between those conditions, any treatment you already receive, and a booster. But I'm guessing that this isn't a description of most of the population.

I'm also not sure that most doctor's offices really want every single patient calling in to ask "Should I get the booster?", and might simply be unable to deal with such a flood of questions.

There's also the little detail of millions of Americans not actually having "a doctor" in the traditional sense.
And that severe illness is what is clogging up the healthcare system, putting a strain on those who do not have COVID and seek treatment. Again, still affecting everyone else.
Not so much related to the submission per se, but, I have to say that https://sirc.org is probably one of the most random websites I've ever seen. The number of different topics they cover is pretty wild.
The discussions around crypto here kind of proves that you cannot use popular opinion in HN to predict the future. People were very negative (and still are) about crypto. Market cap kept proving them wrong year after year and we are here with around $2.6 Trillion and yet people here still think crypto is going to die.

It's interesting because in startups, you learn from the first day that you should listen to customers and follow the demand. The demand is very high and some people were puzzled how other people where depositing money in "shady" exchanges. Yet, that's a perfect example of "demand" that needs instruments to be satisfied.

Reality check: Most of the world suffers from hyper-inflation at worst and inflation at best. Not everyone lives in the USA/Europe and has access to good banking and investment options. Not everyone cares about their governments like in a developed first-world country.

Crypto is here to stay and it is going to play a significant role in global finance. Somebody here should read what the bureaucrats at the IMF thinks, or look at the roads in New Delhi. Gov. blocking crypto, yeah, right.
Fauci funded "research" that ripped vocal cords out of puppies so the "scientists" wouldn't have to hear them scream in pain as they were EATEN TO DEATH by horseflies.

He also funded "research" that poured acid on monkeys' brains to 'induce terror'.

and you people still trust this raging piece of shit? He should be fucking shot.
It would definitely have a lot more buy-in from banks if it were centrally sanctioned but I'm not sure if the functionality would be much different from a stablecoin on an efficient L2. I would personally rather have banks integrate with e.g. USDC on zkSync but I suspect that the lack of control is what makes that scenario undesirable for governments.
The irony in this statement is palpable. You're so obviously ready to confirm your priors that you'll actively go out of your way to avoid other plausible explanations.
> I don’t think it can be awarded posthumously.

Correct.

> I work in science. It hasn’t been always like this and it is getting worse. Nobody does basic or risky research anymore.

Getting scooped has always been a risk. Crick and Watson fretted about it when they were working on the structure of DNA. Newton and Leibniz bickered over priority for calculus hundreds of years ago. My wife fretted about it when she was isolating and studying the function of a 450kDa protein for her PhD a decade ago. I don't think it has really changed that much.
hah! that'll show 'em /s
I claimed nothing of the sort; I'm not sure how you jumped to that.

I'm simply pointing out that the ability for media to complain about the local actions of security forces, .gov policy decisions, and the occasional high ranking official who serves as a focal point for malcontent does not make for a free and open society, using an example that we can both agree is neither free nor open.
As a note, please do not try this at home. There would be a large amount of selective pressure for the virus to change the genetic sequence it recognizes / is inhibited by, and suddenly you've got a virus that can infect the "wrong" people. Likewise a vaccine puts significant selective pressure towards immune escape.
Alan Turing Law
Scalar replacement does not work even in very trivial cases: https://pkolaczk.github.io/overhead-of-optional/

In all those cases, Optionals were inlined, didn't escape, yet they haven't been properly optimized out.
Whoops - appears I overreacted in this specific case, the feature just seems to be moving to the firefox app on Android, didn't catch that from the announcement.
But doesn’t this power dynamic - the fact that there is a miners committee somehow talking to a devs committee -beat the purpose of decentralization (no single decision-maker)?

Won’t this become politicized eventually and we’ll end up with a Central Bank-like structure? Imagine some elected dev going on CNBC to tell us they need to mint more coins.
I'm under the impression that the viral precursor they were expecting to find in animal populations has not been found (and that if it were a natural occurrence it would have been found) and that at least one researcher at the Wuhan lab had previously proposed gain of function research like this before. I'm sure stranger coincidences have happened but with that in mind I think its fair to elevate a lab leak theory from 'premature/purely political in intent' to 'reasonable'.
If you are willing to break the law and risk being caught, sure, there is no way to actually stop from transacting using decentralized protocols. But there are plenty of other ways for the government to find out whether or not you are using crypto. Your bank will definitely keep tabs on your fiat transactions and continue to report KYC/AML information. Current KYC/AML is actually pretty good at detecting anomalies in cashflow and spending. Sure, you can lie about all this stuff but you might just be digging yourself into a hole.
I'm picking your response, but it's typical of an archetype that's bothersome in a different way to the GP's archetype of pointing out that volume discounts exist. When you're poor, your food budget isn't a crisp reliable $40/wk that you give like an API call to the store for a constant amount of the same food with $0 left. No, the amount varies up and down, as does the kind of food you get that week, as does the amount left over after all ordinary expenses. This leads to the conclusion that if your time frame expands beyond one week, saving is possible! Even poor people understand saving up, despite archetypes like the GP imagining this is unknown to them and that their particular proposal is the best course of action, or archetypes like yours imagining that it's somehow impossible for them. Oh, and a savings account is unnecessary.

Incidentally, the median US household is said by the BLS to be capable of saving $1k/mo after all ordinary expenses. For those who actually save, a savings account typically isn't the mechanism to do it. This leads to "funny" statistics pushed by news outlets on how a huge percentage of people, even HNers who have thousands or even millions saved up in mostly liquid assets, have no savings, because they're sampling either non-existent or non-useful-and-thus-empty savings accounts.
No, it is same reasoning as Java not needing dense memory layouts
> People could not imagine automobiles or flying or computers, but that did not make them impossible.

People imagined versions of those things for a long time before they were practical. People have imagined other types of currency as well, and non-state backed currencies aren't even novel given plenty of examples have and do exist.
>For example, a similar year Toyota, Subaru, or pre-CVT Nissans will hold higher values than equivalent American brand vehicles, with some exceptions.

Cars move down the economic ladder as they age. A similiar year Camry, Accord, or other InternetApproved(TM) cheap to run commuter car, is going to be in much nicer shape because it started a few dozen rungs higher than that '04 Impala, Sebring or whatever domestic we're comparing to. The price will reflect that niceness.

The Camry that's the same price as the average '04 Impala is going to be in equivalently rough shape and will be an older model year because it took it longer to get to that point because it started in nicer hands.

Seriously, punch in a $3000 price limit into your preferred classified section and see what it gets you.

These people are poor, not stupid. They're buying Big3/Korean/VW/Nissan sedans because that's what's available in the best condition and lowest miles at that price point because nobody wants them because they're not as practical as crossovers and people making white collar money don't fetishize them as ideal beater cars the way they do Toyotas and Hondas of that era.