skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no “success of the company that you can share in”.

This is a zero sum game: as long as more people buy tokens to get in the game, then it continue going up, and every one feels like they are getting richer. But anyone selling their tokens is taking money out of the system, from all the players. If everyone sell their tokens, there will be exactly the same amount of money that comes out than that went in, just redistributed differently amongst the players, some will lose some will win.

That’s what makes it a Ponzi scheme.
The real winners here are the company behind Axie and the people like the guy from the article that just take money out of the system (from other players) on a regular basis, they are guaranteed to get more out. That's where the real success of the company happens, and you have no mechanism to get a share of that success unless you are an actual investor in $ of that company.

In that story, there are no external consumers that are willingly paying money to the company in exchange for some good or service, that would make the players richer.
The Sahara used to be the breadbasket of Europe, full of water, plants, animals, ... before people fucked it over circa 2000 years ago. It would be nice to get it back.
Processed legumes and coconut oil has its own issues.
there is the commonmark specification https://spec.commonmark.org/0.30/
I'll attempt to cite this before the edit timer expires.

If you live above 35° North, a full day of sun is not enough to get all the vitamin D you need. There's a reason foods (like bread, milk, cereal) are fortified.
> It really makes me reconsider the group-think on hacker news.

This is pretty bad when it comes to crypto topics. A lot of the crypto ecosystem is toxic and gross. Schemes, scams, marketing fluff, and meme bro attitudes galore. BUT, if you can bear to pay attention and cut through the noise, there are some pretty incredible innovations occurring in crypto, gaming, and defi. HN is very dismissive on these topics. It feels to me this community dates itself when crypto topics come up, reminding me more of my grandma at thanksgiving than young innovative technophiles.
Why does anyone need a payment plan for a $35 item though?
Every time the user scrolls, this site updates a style attribute on the root <html> element with this a CSS variable: --scrolltop:700 (that appears to be first updating to the actual scrollTop value, THEN re-updating the value rounded to 100 increments). So TWO updates to this variable every scroll event.

There's a media query consuming this variable, and doing a calculation:

--logo-y: calc(3em - var(--scrolltop, 0) * 1px);

So every time the user scrolls, TWO variable updates take place, TWO redraws, and TWO of these calculations take place, TWO more redraws, just to center the sunburst background on the logo.
They are doing the exact same mistakes Mozilla did (and still is doing) with firefox..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi_Jinping
Since this got posted on HN I asked myself, "does my crypto portfolio include Axie?" I saw it didn't, so I bought some, and already made a 3% profit, and likely to increase in the coming month. Thanks HN.
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This seems to be a Ponzi, in that payouts come from the pay-in of later users. Axie itself does not seem to be paying users to recruit more users. There's nothing like the "downline" of a multi-level marketing scheme. Users are independent players.
Look at how addicting Candy Crush, Clash of Clans, Genshin Impact, etc. are. Now imagine games like these but you have the ability to win real money.

Or imagine a digital casino, because that's basically what this game is.

I'm surprised these games aren't more popular. Maybe because if they truly become mainstream, they're basically guaranteed to be shut down or heavily regulated. Either that or millions of people will go broke, already-broke people will accumulate massive debt, and people will be playing these games instead of getting a job. It would probably affect so many people that it would actually cause major economic problems.

Like, I honestly think crypto-games are really cool. I kind of want them to succeed and would play some myself (in moderation). But just, considering what we know about addiction and human nature, a game where you can actually win enough money to play them as a full-time job seems like the ultimate way to take money from disadvantaged people. "The addictiveness of social media, the addictiveness of lootboxes, the addictiveness of casinos - those have nothing on games where you can actually make money.
For personal finance and investing topics, I recommend the BogleHeads community.

https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/index.php
This is about my experience as well. Google has just about become useless for a ton of searches I had no problem with a few years ago.

The results take so much longer to find relevant results for just about anything
Reminds me of the xkcd: https://xkcd.com/810/
I don't think it follows that because the largest fraction of soy consumption is as animal feed, that animal agriculture drives soy consumption. Soy animal feed is mostly a byproduct of soy oil and biofuel production. If not for that production, we'd just move to the next cheapest feed.
Just look at the latest post on r/Purism on how people have a really hard time to get some refunds.

* https://www.reddit.com/r/Purism/comments/r1n6a9/this_is_a_pu...

* https://www.reddit.com/r/Purism/comments/qyhc04/i_will_avoid...

* https://www.reddit.com/r/Purism/comments/quz8t4/a_year_and_a...
Do You Know Foxconn Technology Manufacture All iPhones
The BlackBerry, iPad, iPhone, iPod, Kindle, all Nintendo gaming systems since the GameCube (except subsequent Nintendo DS models), Nokia devices, Sony devices (including the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 gaming consoles), Google Pixel devices, Xiaomi devices, every successor to Microsoft’s first Xbox console, and several CPU sockets, including the TR4 CPU socket on some motherboards, are among the notable products manufactured by Foxconn.
To be more specific: works fine under DuckDuckGo (app v5.102.3) on Android 11 (phone) but not under DuckDuckGo (app v5.102.3) tablet on Android 9.

The four buttons on the left could use some tooltips to explain their jobs, btw.
That solves a different problem. The ground is only used if there is a short somewhere in the unit. (Potentially getting a shock from touching the toaster.)

A polarized plug prevents the elements from being a live wire.
Look normally i would get mad at you, BUT since i made some pretty bad purchases in the past Openmoko, Loongson Laptop (was not a bad server, but horrible laptop), GPD3, i will never ever purchase a bad spec/newtec product ever again (i don't like creating electronic waste), for example i can buy a Samsung A12 for the price of a Pinephone, if i want something like a pinephone i buy a raspberrypi and a A12
I don't expect the plant based products to outcompete high-quality, expensive, free-roaming cattle.

I hope it will outcompete cheap, monoculture-soy fed, medicine pumped, densely grown and factory slaughtered cheap meat.

The second is far more common than the first. As you said, good meat from well-raised animals is expensive.

So not the awesome and expensive steak you may eat from time to time, but the cheap meat in fast-food, the chicken-wings, burgers, lasagnas, pizzas, tacos, currys and more.
We'll pray for you.
> While the service is being promoted as ‘interest-free’, some were quick to point out that all transactions are subject to a “$4 flat fee”.
On the idea of having Smart Glasses so you have information displayed when you are running.

"You should get a girlfriend to keep you company while running."

-Steve Jobs.
Incarceration per other comments iirc
I’m glad you were the one to break the news
still some ways to reach omega (the larger sibling of omicron)
>The plain fact of the matter is that humans evolved on an almost exclusively meat-based diet

At one point in our evolutionary chain (that of Homo erectus and early Homo sapiens), sure. At other points (Australopithecus) we were exclusively vegetarian. For much of our history (that of Homo habilis and more recent Homo sapiens) we've eaten significant amounts of both plants and animals.

I'd love to see a source for the claim that plants are toxic for humans. Considering that many humans eat exclusively plants, and that those people seem to have lower all-cause mortality rates than people with otherwise similar characteristics [0], I suspect that that could only be true if you're using a very non-standard definition of "toxic."

[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24898223/
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FUD and shame on the rest of you for spreading it like it's covid. pathetic
Invest in yourself and make that a priority.

- exercise, at least three days a week

- save and invest

- read. Not just HN or Reddit but actual books
Your grandparents used to say the same thing about the stock market
>It's astounding that they would do this now, when monitor resolutions higher than 1080p are becoming increasingly common, rather than back in the Windows 98 800x600 CRT era.

When you think like a developer/power user it astounding, but not when you think like some MS UX product manager who's chasing some promotion. They most likely justified to the higher-ups "Hey look, the new consumers are more accustomed to mobile devices, which hide or simply don't have any advanced options at all. And mobile devices are selling like hot cakes, right? So if we try to emulate that mobile OS feeling by hiding away all the advanced options that confuse the average user, then consumers will buy those instead of Macs, right? Right?! "

They did the exact same shit with Windows 8 where they pushed a tablet UX on the desktop and consumers hated it so much, it entrenched Windows 7 as one of the longest running Windows versions of all time. They fixed some of the issues via Windows 8.1, and reverted back to the more sane classical desktop approach with Windows 10, since most of the consumers were sticking to Windows 7 or even XP.

So I expect a Windows 11.1 to follow soon that will bring back some sanity following all the backlash. Or not.
>>Mild Vitamin D supplementation is low risk, but Vitamin D isn't going to be life-changing for anyone but those with severe deficiencies.

It would be life-changing if it kept you from dying of Covid, though. Which the OP says could happen even if your levels are 20ng, which is not typically considered a severe deficiency.
If a SaaS provides services it doesn't fit the definition of a pyramid scheme, no.
Well, the argument is about expressing intent, so I guess we agree.
Contracts are amended all the time in exactly this method. That’s how contracts work (IANAL so maybe I’ve missed something, but I was taught this by lawyer left)
I'm a bit confused about the 3rd paragraph. As far as I know, you had to have a v6 license for BSD not a v7. I think BSD independently implemented v7 functionality.

There also the license change going from v6 to v7. With v7, universities where no longer allowed to show v7 source code to students. Many universities were teaching operating system concepts using v6 source code (and the Lion book).

This inspired Andy Tanenbaum to create MINIX as a v7-like operating system written from scratch.
Futurama fans are going to have fun with this one and the Omicron Persei invasion.
Ask HN: How worrying is the new Covid variant?
The news coverage I'm reading (BBC, FT, NYT, etc.) seems very concerned in saying this new variant has a strong chance of evading vaccines, existing immune responses, etc.

Whenever they quote scientists, however, it sounds more like "We don't know, so better safe than sorry."

Are there any HN readers who know a thing or two about biotech that could shed light on the science of what we know and the current risk of this variant?
It takes an extraordinary level of ignorance about basic elements of how business works (which I am sure the investors in this company have in spades) to think this makes sense.

In order for someone to make money for something, there has to be an activity that generates a cashflow. There is no cash flow being generated, there is no outside money, what value are these people creating for other people? If you are playing a game to make money, you have to be providing some kind of value. So far, this company has convinced people to put money in, the rest of the money is probably coming from investors...there is no other money (and btw, the people playing the game are clearly much smarter than Andressen & Partners, they are taking out whatever isn't nailed down and making a swift exit).

If you look at poker, it is obvious why some people are paid to play that game: they provide liquidity, they provide someone to gamble with, they provide the capital to take risk. It is the same with a bookmaker. This example has none of these characteristics because there is no outside money (the quote from a partner at Andressen's firm is incredible, I worked in fund management, I have seen some incompetent people, people who are truly clueless...what we are seeing in VC is unlike anything that has occurred in financial culture since the 20s).

This reminds me of Football Index: the details of this are complex but they essentially paid people to play a game, there was no outside money, investors didn't understand this, management didn't fully understand this, they went bankrupt earlier this year taking down tens of millions in client money (no-one who plays this games understand that they are investing in an OTC product secured against the developer, it is nothing to do with the underlying game).
because:

- it's a venture capitalist baby

- people are paid be getting funded rather than selling their product to actual people

because of the two points, you see it promoted online like propaganda because the venture capitalists want their money back, with profit
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Not actually related to your post, but as a non native English speaker, it took me a lot of time to remember the meaning of "SO" on mainstream Internet. I don't know why, but I kept forgetting it and wasn't able to infer its meaning, so each time I had to look for it.
Nowadays it's ok, to the point that reading your comment I was able to understand that it was not the mainstream "SO" you were talking about, but another one more related to HN.
Anyway, what I found funny in this is that I can think as "SO" being my "SO" because I 100% relate to what you shared.
Why does every layout, template and site-builder tool assumes all websites are a three-page thing, with big blocks of images and one or two products?

Do you actually visit such sites on a daily basis? Last time I did it was a page for a hip local barber shop.

How about a bit more complexity for the sake of realism?
The trick of jumping out of bed the second you hear the alarm does seem to work for me too. It's only hard the first few days.
V7 absolutely used the MMU. V6 did too; you can see it's use in Lyon's commentary.
I’d be really pissed about this if they hadn’t pissed me off for the last decade and I hadn’t eviscerated every trace of Microsoft from my existence already. Thus I shall merely respond with ”meh” and ”I thought edge was only used to download Chrome”
If you're American, you must be used to stuff like being required to show your driver's license for admittance to a brewery. I'd call it a draw.
Not debating you on the work life balance part, but I’m curious to know which F500 companies have total comp comparable to big tech.
EU coalition urges EU to push back against gate keeping by Microsoft
Why Linkerd doesn't use Envoy (2020)
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If your developer-first finance platform fails to capture the interest of developers, I daresay you've built the wrong product.
Yes, but you can only do this because the industry has used the courts to squash things like Napster.
This new variant (B.1.1.529) isn't widespread enough to definitively say what effect vaccines have on it, and the Nature article doesn't go into any detail about it (other than saying it's a "question" and the threat it poses is "far from clear") with the bonus quote "at this stage it’s too early to tell anything". Some of the mutations are concerning (particularly wrt transmission and antibody resistance), but it's not the first variant of concern with those properties.

B.1.351 (Beta) and P.1 (Gamma) and several other variants also reduced vaccine effectiveness, but vaccinations proved still more effective than not being unvaccinated. The possibility for a mutation that completely avoids a vaccinated body's preparatory methods has always been a concern -- however, 1) no variant so far has come even remotely close, and 2) that's exactly why everyone needs to get vaccinated: to cut down on spread and, therefore, potential mutations (and ultimately, of course, to contain the outbreak and get back to a relatively normal status quo).

I'd love to see whatever "reports" you're referring to about those with the vaccine having a lesser ability to respond as those without it. That's something I haven't seen, nor am I seeing anything from a few searches online or in recent publications, nor does that really even make sense with how vaccines as a concept (or in real-world applications) have worked for centuries.
I don't have any knowledge of V7, but V6 definitely used an MMU (as does xv6).
I would applaud the convenience, but the terms are not nearly as useful as other services. If I can spread a purchase over four months, that's really useful. Affirm has been good to me this year. ...But what is even the point when you bill twice as often as most people get paychecks?
Xi Jinping is the current leader of China.
Totally agree!! Ancient Aliens has depleted the American market.. They they seem to have a pathological focus on RSS and BJP propaganda.
Germany's new government plans to give millions of people a 25% pay rise
Yep, this is exactly the recipe we referenced. If Kenji is in the byline you usually won't go wrong!
This is kind of funny, but trialog or trialogue are both reasonably correct. Thanks to my friend Christine (I genuinely thought simiones was Christine), I can tell you that tria is Greek for trio.

Dialogue would come from “dia” and “legein”, or “through” and “speak”. Trialog could be seen as coming from “tria” “legein”, or “trio” “speak”.

Greek is really cool. For the most part, if it would work in math, it’s likely okay in Greek.

Edit - Dia is still most precise. It means ‘through’ or ‘between’ and implies you can have a dialogue between two up to a limit of an infinite number of people.
Can you provide some examples? I use sqlalchemy, and the amount of work that it does for me when it comes to handling mutating data is pretty remarkable.
They've been having a hard time with the funds, so they probably have to delay refunds in order not to go bankrupt. Recently they got some inestments, so it should get better: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27949435. This is not exactly "constantly lying about their products".
But just if you browse with lynx.
> Is there any decent software to save all messages from the IMAP server to one file per message on a regular basis

The mail client Claws-mail used to do that, I didn't check since a few years though
Indeed. Also, this notation was lifted straight from Fortran 90 (which itself got it from Matlab, Algol, and the primitive slicing that was possible in older FORTRANs). The idea that a concise notation is helpful for the concept of “put a thing in all the buckets of an array” really is quite old. It does make a lot of sense.
Too bad but you’re still really cool. Bringing out the Greek??? Completely rad…
What's worked for me is to just set my alarm for 7 am (or whatever time you want to get up) and forcing myself to get up then. For the first week you'll be a zombie, but then you get used to it and you'll get sleepy earlier. Sometimes it helps to take a bit of melatonin 1-2h before you want to fall asleep.
Interviewed with them back in 2017. Was very impressed with what they were doing and the apparent talent of their team. Didn't get an offer because I hadn't leetcoded enough but left a good impression on me.
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You reached 100ng by supplementing 5000 IU per day? That doesn’t add up.
What part of 'pushes ahead' is click-bait? Microsoft announced the feature, backlash ensued, and despite the backlash there has been no intention of halting the feature. Is that not 'pushing ahead'?
> I hate dealing with the various escaping characters for SQL

I don't understand that bit, with something like Slonik you don't use escape characters, it does it transparently for you by taking advantage of JavaScript's string template literals.
> Have you ever seen how many foals are chewed up in a combine?

I'm going with zero.

Where do you live that stray horses or donkeys are roaming into crop fields at harvest time?
Well said! And when this clarity is lacking in a codebase, damn do I find it incredibly frustrating! Like, can’t you just tell me whether you are trying to operate on the items of the collection or the collection as a whole??? Why did you need to adopt this ambiguous formation??
>LocalCDN(Replacing Decentraleyes),

I am sure this isn't the first time the idea has popped up.

Should LocalCDN be a built-in feature in Browser?
The original claim I am responding to is "International remittances in seconds for less than a penny".

That, in any reasonable reading, would mean that the sum of all feels required to do "international remittance" would be less than a penny. This is clearly not true.

The claim that one small part of the fees is actually less than a penny is not really relevant to this.
Not necessarily. The later expression might be more common though:

"For every item in this truck, remove that item and put in in the warehouse."

"While this truck is not empty, keep unloading items to the warehouse."
The pdp-11 had a very primitive virtual memory system. It was not page based. So you had to swap in and out entire processes (with seperate instruction and data you could leave the program in memory, swap out data, and swap in data from another process running the same program).

Later pdp-11 models could have a few processes in ram at the same time.
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This is why IP stifles creativity.

God forbid someone do something fun!
Besides going the path of least resistance in AWS, possibly to get OS & package support from AWS if there's already an enterprise-level support plan in place, rather than needing to buy other support subscriptions (eg, RHEL)?

AM2 is able to run in other places so there doesn't seem to be much vendor lock-in compared to a service like DynamoDB, though.
>Second, every intelligence estimate predicted the Taliban would eventually win post-withdrawal (since they still got a state to support them)

Which state would that be?
New Covid variant sparks tougher restrictions worldwide
I'm heavily invested into axie (5 figures), happy to answer any questions.
Japan-based Astroscale raises $109M series F round
"With this latest round, Astroscale has raised $300 million, providing the company with capital to move ahead on several initiatives for servicing satellites and removing debris. That includes its End-of-Life Services by Astroscale-demonstration (ELSA-d) mission, which demonstrated in August the ability to release and capture an object in orbit. Another demonstration of ELSA-d’s ability to capture a tumbling object is expected to take place before the end of the year.

“'This latest round of funding will dramatically accelerate our ability to make on-orbit servicing routine by 2030,' Nobu Okada, founder and chief executive of Astroscale, said in a statement. 'It also shows that investors around the world acknowledge the tremendous potential in the emerging on-orbit servicing market, which will revolutionize the future of space.'”