skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do not do this - I believe it may even be illegal in the UK without per-arranging.

In the UK you need to email BT (who operate the emergency system) and arrange a window to place a series of test calls to both 999 and 112. They will give you a time, a date and a script to exactly follow. If you pre-schedule with them it's supported.

Their email is 999testcalls@bt.com

Not sure if US have a system like it.
You meant to say "All crypto lending companies are ponzi schemes"
You do have your own private keys when you enable authenticator on your mobile device for TWO-Factor auth.
Submit the link as a submission, and then add a comment with your comment.
Twitter DM’s
really annoying, pretty sure because they incentivize watch time
> What makes it so huge in your opinion?

Whatsapp has 2 billion users, PayPal and Venmo probably only small fraction of that.

On Whatsapp you already have your friends in the list, on PayPal I personally have nobody. It's an additional hurdle, I've never actually sent money to friend/family through PayPal.
I said "trash disposal" for a reason. Rather than handwave that things cost "more" with area, the sane way to analyze it is in terms of their growth. Rather than talking in terms of lot area, it's clearer to discuss in terms of single dimension distance between houses (lot area ~= L^2), holding population constant.

Schools/hospitals/trash disposal/wastewater treatment - heavily proportional to population, with a negligible increase per area due to convenience - O(1).

Distribution (telecom, electric, trash hauling, water, sewer) - Picture a square town with a single N-S route and one E-W route per row of lots - O(L)

General transportation - The average distance between any two points also goes up linearly - O(L)

Roads themselves - probably the closest thing proportional to area, but that's not even true as in less dense areas it's easier to drive further in the wrong direction (say further east before being able to cut north). O(L^1.5) ? In the absolute worse this is O(L^2), but what else is?

Note that based on lot sizes I'm basically talking about denser or less dense suburbs here. Suburbs are their own hellhole regardless of density, but I've seen many developments with neighbors right on top of one another in areas that are otherwise more spread out. Despite the increased density, those developments are straight residential (no stores, restaurants, or even parks to walk to), and thus gain little from the increased density besides the developer packing in the maximum number of economic rent streams.

And tying this back to Georgism - what does that look like if you're a neighbor to one of these developments? The town increases their valuation to pay for the per-resident cost. Then it declares that your land is worth a similar amount. So you're either stuck paying the same real estate taxes as a multiple family development, or selling your house so another development can be built.
The funny thing is that you assume crypto enthusiasts are the irrational ones.
Can you explain the math on how lending money is a ponzi scheme? I don't entirely understand.
There's nothing wrong with being against forced vaccination.
Not only this. Before the criminal trial there were no restrictions on reporting the identity of the accusers. Murray had even pointed this out in his affidavit to the court that he had chosen not to though it would have been quite legitimate to do so at that time.
Show HN: Minimalist offline journal app with a chat interface
Distillation may be a more appropriate analogy. The unwanted part evaporates away, leaving the more concentrated solution behind.
Tesla Update Allows Video Games While Driving, and the Feds Aren’t Happy
Yeah they don’t want you to realize that it can all be done locally much more easily now

Wireguard or similar simple VPNs would make file sharing 1:contacts makes everything easier now.

Kubernetes + Kilo obsoletes cloud DCs.

But you won’t get to participate in agency manipulating big business that way.
Maker here. I’ve went against the grain[1] and maintained this journaling app for the third year now. This is V3 that I just pushed few months ago that added photo logs (iOS only for now unlike V2). It may help people reflect now we are entering the holidays with a new start soon.

Why make another journaling app when there are so many other Day One look-alikes? Because it’s unique in the following ways:

- Offline only, no cloud, no tracking

- Easy to export to JSON (you own your data)

- Minimalism design taken to it’s logical conclusion

- Open and type, no step 2

- Type “?” to search, no step 2

- Type “#” to use hashtag to organize

- Double-tap timeline to hide and keep logging in discreet

- Pull up the timeline to see a 100 day GitHub like heatmap

Also it tries to avoid the following anti-features:

- journal titles (my pet peeves, way too much info up front)

- Sparse timeline with main/detail layout that forces you to drill down to see your full journal entry

- Notifications/reminders

I try to expand the answer in this post too: https://thezenjournal.com/why

Feedback and suggestions welcomed. Thank you!

[1]: https://twitter.com/levelsio/status/1303812935773556736
When you buy an NFT, you're really buying an NFT and not the artwork. It's like the opposite of a car title.
Architecture - microservices mostly connected through GraphQL and gRPC (certificate based auth is the shit)

Languages - Java for backend, pure JS for frontend

Frameworks - Spring Boot on backend, pure React on frontend (I like to keep it simple)

Infrastructure - Mostly k8s (with helm to make life easier), Nix for more complex stuff

Databases - Postgres, Mongo, Redis, Elastic... Really depends on use-case...
It is the technically better solution IMO/IME, too.

But that doesn't work when you're trying to sell enterprises the idea of 'just move your workloads to Kubernetes!'. :)
My understanding is that the original motivation behind BTC and crypto was avoiding the centralized authority behind the USD and other fiat currencies.

Early adopters didn't like that the USD was influenced/controlled by one central entity, especially in the days of the 2008 financial crisis, when BTC was created.

I can't speak for all of crypto, but BTC's motivations didn't seem to revolve around "opposing all legislation", in some pursuit of anarcho-capitalism, but rather opposing currencies that are controlled/influenced by one central entity.

But to your original point, yes the most likely way that the scammers will be flushed out of the system is through regulation, just like all the other wild west phases of industries/concepts.
Cancel Mainstream Media
I agree.

I'm an academic librarian, and they're completely different ways of working: When I do academic work, I (ideally) have to take my time and I'm not supposed to present my work until it's developed enough that I'm confident it presents a substantial improvement; I have to prove that it's worth a colleague's time to engage with by meeting certain requirements. Coding/developing, on the other hand, requires a lot more back and forth, a lot more "I don't know", and is more immediate in a way I find very satisfying.

I would LOVE to see more back and forth between engineers and academics in terms of ways of working; I think there's a lot of benefit to be gained there: Tech tends to not consider the future as much as they should, but the academics could really benefit from doing what you mentioned and improve the system they work in rather than accepting it.

One of the things I'm trying to do is get better at/learn some ML so I can play around with turning the things I learned in grad school into useful tools, but I'm a single journeyman dev doing this in my spare time so odds of anything actually useful coming out of it is small.
wait... how does this work without the schema? Since protobuf payloads are not self describing
Idea to Product in a Week
> I am really getting fed up with these black and white verdicts on DeFi. I am missing a nuanced view of the potential but also the possibilities behind DeFi.

Are we reading the same article here? The only mention of defi is how celius' yields isn't consistent with returns on defi platforms. I'm not really seeing it as an indictment on defi.
If you're in a position of privilege then there is zero reason to tolerate that behaviour from an employer. If you're in a minimum wage job scraping by then it's understandable that you would tolerate uncomfortable situations, because it's a question of survival, however if you're a software engineer... just walk. You're making a choice, every day, to be treated poorly. The moment an employer mistreats you is the moment you start applying to new jobs. Don't leave your career in their hands, if you want a promotion... go out and get one.
Yes.

I think it's quite easy being yourself in the workplace by remembering that 1) you're working with other people who don't always share your viewpoint & 2) realising that there is a sense of professionalism that is implicitly required.

At the end of the day you're meant to enjoy what you do, but you're likely also meant to do it alongside other people.
It's more about the token than the JPEG. Gated experiences, communities, in-game items, in-game art, etc is the driving force. And for digitally-native art, there's never been a better way to sell/trade it while preserving provenance.

People are betting on the fact that we'll spend more and more of our time in digital spaces, and I don't think that's necessarily a bad bet.
What if a client library does not yet exist for your language?
Curious as well
I'm not necessarily advocating for the approach described in the article but it wouldn't worry me from a security perspective. The security model of eBPF is pretty impressive. The security issues arising from engineers struggling to keep the entire model in their head would concern me though.
I'm actually glad to see editorializing disallowed in app titles. If everybody did it, the store would be a mess. I mean, it's already a mess, but even more so.
Thank you for reminding me of the IT crowd. Now I have the music in my head
> Seems like without high level attention, we do almost exactly what GPT does.

Absolutely so. Without higher order of organizing patterns in activity, brain is just a bunch of neurons firing up - this will correlate with random phenomena in consciousness.
Years ago I read that visions of going through tunnels and into the light at a distance in near-death experiences is just what visual pathways in brain will produce when activity in them fades away. 'Signal lost' experience of a (still conscious) brain. (That would be interesting to dig into this. I have no reference.)
The world is STILL unprepared for the next pandemic after two years of Covid
This isn't possible on slack either. We lost messages from even private channels, let alone direct messages when we migrated
Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science, by Ronald Graham, Donald Knuth, and Oren Patashnik.
In a world without (D)COM, I find it's much, much harder to make common base libraries and force people to use them, especially if you can't also force limit the set of toolchains used in the environment.
When you get a title from the real DMV, it's backed by a lot of mutually reinforcing real power. A group of kids can get together and play DMV, issuing titles to each other in crayon on notebook paper. In both cases there is only meaning by consensus, but NFTs sure seem much, much closer to the kids playing.

Everybody except a few conspiracy nuts believe a title is what it is supposed to be. Your friends and neighbors, your parents, the government, the courts, law enforcement, car dealers… but the only people who believe NFTs are what they are supposed to be are insiders.
In a HN comment around 2014 I referred to it as 'kludgy and annoying to code for, but ahead of its time'. It's funny how time has sort of reversed the order of those two attributes in my memory.
You have to pay taxes if you sell. Loaning against collateral is tax minimization strategy
Discriminating Data with Wendy Chun and Hito Steyerl
In her book ‘Discriminating Data‘ (2021), Wendy Chun reveals how polarization is a goal — not an error — within big data and machine learning. These methods, she argues, encode segregation, eugenics, and identity politics through their default assumptions and conditions. Hito Steyerl and Wendy Chun will discuss how can people release themselves from the vice-like grip of discriminatory data and consider alternative algorithms, defaults, and interdisciplinary coalitions in order to desegregate networks.
This viewpoint really discounts the experiences of those living in countries with rampant inflation or hyperinflation.
Don't we all comment on public affairs online?
I’m old too (43) and I enjoy short videos that get to the point as well. If a video is too long or takes too long I’ll just skip ahead and until I hear them talking about specifics.

There was a point a few years ago where there was this sudden shift to longer videos on YouTube. I think part of it was greater engagement is seen on such videos, leading to more ad time. As a result though, the actual quality of the content is down but I would say the “showmanship” is up. In a longer video, you have to be good at delivery and keeping people interested, so it starts to favor entertaining speakers. So now people watch videos for a large part because they want to “hang out” with the presenter. Also, Twitch is essentially just hanging out with someone. Anyway, now I’m just rambling like an old man.
A 2 bedroom in Boston for $500k, where are you shopping, Dorchester?
My take: answering questions using clinical data > answering questions with papers
Yes, it is a choice borne of a deeply-seeded prejudice and fear which likely was reasonable once upon a time.
The Picasso is truly scarce. The NFT is artificially scarce.
composability, security, persistence, liquidity
I see that this applies to intra-university stratification. Does this trend also explain inter-university stratification, i.e. major universities having majority asian and white students, and lesser universities having larger proportions URM as a majority?

Also, why was B.F. Skinner allowed to have so much influence on the way we structure our educational system?
Names are hard. When you have 10 of something you can reconcile the ontological needs (e.g. unique id for unique concept or entity) and ‘understandable’ names.

Wikipedia URLs hover on the edge of what is possible but look close and you see temporal stability is poor and often the ontological properties are wrong. (E.g. you can’t say that a Boeing 777 has a certain weight or length because there are various variants of it that don’t have individual Wikipedia pages, same is true for fighter jets, car models, etc.)

When you have a million entities you are often better off using randomly generate UUID’s. People won’t know what they mean but at least sound reasoning would be possible over the domain.
I only get the option to disable that when I've completely deleted my (Youtube/Google) cookies. If later I go to the Settings, it wants me to log in (which I am not going to do). Does anyone here known which button lets me revisit these settings without logging in?
Wait, am I the person who doesn't care about SV or startups?
This. Plus, if you deposit Eth on Aave, it's not for the 1% returns but because it then allows you to borrow other coins which you can use somewhere else in DeFi, where it can bring you much higher returns (convex/curve for instance).
I'm amazed that this guy wrote such a big article on a topic he obviously doesn't fully understand.
I suggest Harmonic for Android, an app front-end to HN with a similarly minimal aesthetic but a pleasure to use on mobile.
Given what this expose says about institutional lending not being able to account for high ROI, how is Gemini Earn[0] able to offer up to 8% on GUSD and slightly less on other coins? Gemini is audited and says all GUSD Earn backing funds are FDIC insured up to 250k. Definitely concerning.

[0]:https://www.gemini.com/earn
Which ones of them guarantee yield?
I also ended up with Fender's, but it wasn't terribly responsive so eventually purchased a strobe tuner [0]. Has some disadvantages over something like a smartphone, but better for my simple usage.

[0]: https://www.thomann.de/intl/ee/peterson_stroboclip_hd.htm
I don't know what happens behind the scenes at Celsius.

I do know there are many ways to get those high ROIs in DeFi.

With zero evidence suggesting they are lying about returns, the charitable guess I can make is that they are getting high DeFi returns and giving their customers slightly lower ones after taking a cut.
Ponzi schemes don't lend money to anyone, they just shuffle money from late investors to early investors.
I always wondered why all these stores are so fucking awful to filter. Is it calculated ?
Also I truly hope that an end to public school would not mean an end to public education. Given how poorly our country provides childcare to parents, that is not a given. Ever optimistic , I hope we can move to a more modular, decentralized, public education system that has better childcare and learning too and is better able to serve the needs of unique communities. As pointed out in these comments, some public schools are pretty great considering it’s still one class in one place learning the same things the same ways. Others more resemble prisons where no learning is happening and teachers, kids and admins are miserable and underserved. Public education is critical to taking care and nurturing
our children, exposing them to diverse ideas and scientific values, but that’s not happening in public schools for the most part today. Also the system itself is incredible stiff and slow to adapt to a changing world.
I don't really get all the "crypto is a Ponzi scheme" responses. This is about one company probably being shady with their books and claims. It's like saying Bernie Madoff built a Ponzi so USD is a Ponzi. Maybe crypto is a Ponzi, but this article is no evidence at all besides a hot market that provides the chum for sharks. It's very reminiscent of the housing bubble and the insane claims and over leverage (which is what they are probably doing in part).
one sustained by their own walls and that of frenemies: browser, OS, device. https://blog.mojeek.com/2021/09/multiple-choice-in-search.ht...
Im naive, can you explain the scammy VPN industry to me?
Repeating my comment from every time PyInstaller is being discussed:

One issue with PyInstaller is that, by default, it includes all dynamic libraries that the Python interpreter has on your machine. It makes sense, it needs an interpreter and collects what is needed for it to run.

Unfortunately this might include libreadline.so, which is licensed under GPL, making your resulting executable unable to be distributed under a proprietary license.

There are ways to solve this issue, but one has to search and read documentation (and code, in my case -- when I was researching it, the docs were not clear).
Thank you for sharing those insights! What an arresting origin story. May I ask how/where all those amazing yet consistent logos come from?
It isn't. The fine art market is a scam, too.
Interesting angle, I hadn't considered that. Thanks.
Fully transparent that this is just from a quick search, and maybe a degree separate from this, but I kinda didn't know Seller Fulfilled Prime was ever a thing (not accepting registrations now though?).

I would have to look back through my order history, legit I thought prime was always fulfilled by amazon, and that was how they could guarantee the shipping process. But amazon's page even talks about why FBA might not be right for your products (too bulky large etc., i.e. whatever isn't efficient for amazon to store/distribute). But then amazon probably was not content to say "that entire class of products cannot be Prime".

So my view to this was, amazon is selling a product (FBA) and part of what you get is use of the Prime label. But, certainly willing to cede being mistaken if that is not the case.
Apple: My Key to Success
Just because Russia is a mafia state doesn't mean they're behind Facebook's payments initiatives.

To make this sound a bit less like mad conspiratorial ravings, could you flesh out how Whatsapp would allow Russian banks, government agencies, companies and oligarchs to move large quantities of money if they're disconnected from SWIFT?

For example, how would Russia get around the fact that Whatsapp is only offering this in the United States? How would Russians get fiat currency in and out? How would Russians circumvent the very low transaction limits?
> store of value is a strong use case

The "change my mind" criterion for this would be actual price stability. That is, a significant market for goods and services which can be bought at a fixed crypto price over a period of a year or more with zero price variation. People getting paid salary in fixed crypto denominations. People taking out 10-year mortgages in fixed crypto denominations at interest rates comparable to fiat mortgages.

It is feasible that cryptocurrency might be more stable than, say, the Bolivar. It is not feasible that it will be more stable than the dollar.

If you want a really concrete use case, suppose you want to buy a new Macbook next year and you want to save on a weekly basis. If you'd done that over various periods over the last year you'd end up with between 150% and 70% of the price of the Macbook. Now, so long as "number go up" you're winning ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7lm7IHnKDw
IMO you shouldn't be yourself at work. Develop a work personality that aligns with your internal ethical compass. Keep your private life private, and do your job as a true professional would.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29474199

Look, this is the root of this thread.

> I've no doubt a modern warship can shoot down a lot of drones, but at a few thousand bucks a pop, an adversary can field a lot of drones.

"A few thousand bucks a pop" per drone sounds like a quadcopter drone to me. That's not a jet-drone or a rocket-drone.

Now if you are saying that a bunch of Predator drones shooting a bunch of missiles at a carrier can probably disable it... well... sure. I can agree to that. That probably will work. But such a drone will be rather expensive, and you wouldn't want those drones shot down by a CIWS.
I’ve always been interested but confused by these concepts mostly trying to understand people’s intent. On many websites with logins we create our identity, but have to “validate” it against an email one time token. Me claiming I’m someone famous on most websites is, mostly innocent, and mostly not trusted. However, how do we verify real world identity to key pair? By some centralized authority we have trusted to “validate” said identity, aka public key infrastructure.

So, at best case we have some proof that our key is created/controlled by “me” via a trusted channel but not a centralized authority. Do I upload a video of me showing my public key to the world and upload to some hosting site? Could a deep fake me do that too? Then of course the gpg web of trust model comes to mind, if we attend key signing parties and sign each other’s keys we can verify through associative trust vs centralized trust.

Or is really the point to not have a real world to key identity linkage at all, for “privacy reasons,” and we just all do our business online with full anonymity?
There's no actual mechanism that matches capital to risk-adjusted returns. Reasoning as if there is reliably leads to incorrect conclusions.

Celsius is probably a scam, but the reasoning above is not why.