skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You just added another several levels of speculation. Could the CIA pull off an Op like this? Maybe. Have they ever assassinated an American citizen on American soil? Not that we know of. Would they take orders from a president looking to cover up his involvement in sex trafficking and obey without question and leak no details? No. That's pure fantasy.
to not realize capital gains. same reason why jeff bezos doesn't sell his amazon stocks and instead takes out loans on them.
Lending money (with interest obviously) is a ponzi scheme. It's not surprising to be honest, and this shouldn't be news. We've known this for literally thousands of years now. It has nothing to do with crypto currencies per se.
And you can still buy leaded fuel today decades and decades later due to the "temporary" exemption for airplanes while they implement alternatives (hint - they won't while they can just burn leaded gas).

The problem here is the people burning the leaded gas are not the ones impacted - babies, pregnant women not burning it but impacted by it most significantly. Old guys with $ (average, yes there are amazing young female pilots) flying GA planes but less likely to be impacted.
I think this is a pragmatic decision. Direct messages are somewhat private (though I do understand that is not always the case with companies). It seems to me to be a privacy / security thing. I am not aware of any companies who solely use DMs, I am sure they exist. But the point of Quill was to not lock up information in DMs and to better organize channels. I would think users of Quill most likely did not solely use DMs, if they did, why bother with Quill in the first place?

Edit: ah the linked tweet (sorry, on a mainstream social media break), well that is certainly one company. I feel for them.
(1) Something remarkable about the stimulus program in general is that there was very little means-testing.

My family got stimulus check despite the Coronavirus having positive effects on our finances as opposed to negative effects (Quit spending money on certain things, my job wasn't affected, my wife teaches people to ride horses which is a great socially distanced activity.)

On one hand we know means-testing denies benefits to many people who deserve them because they cannot or will not do the paperwork. One might make the case that if I get a stimulus check and spend it that demand will help people who would otherwise be unemployed. However, extra money kicking around might feed the shortages-and-inflation phenomenon... I have been looking for ways to spend money on my photography hobby but whenever I find a printer I want or a lens I want it is out of stock.

(2) The "public private partnership" approach which is typified by Obamacare and PPP erodes the legitimacy of the government even when it is effective policy. One could say it is the role of banks to make loans to make a profit, not to make loans to bail out the economy. If the government wants to bail people out they should do it directly.
Several reasons:

- People hope that the value of the underlying coins will rise in the meantime. (It may, of course, also fall but crypto enthusiasts usually don't worry too much about that)

- Quite often the volume available is not that high for many coins, so if it hovers around (say) USD 100 per coin but you want to sell 10 million coins, you would not be able to get 100*10 million is 1 billion USD for them. The market simply can't absorb that much, but if you use the coins as collateral you won't "sell" them and thus won't impact the market price.

- Selling things of value can have tax implications in certain jurisdictions, which you can avoid by lending against those things instead.
So I have a friend putting his Crypto into Nexo.io and I am 100% sure these are scammers as well, promising of up to 20% yields per annum.

How can I find out and warn him (with more data)?
When your country's currency is shit. you would probably view it differently.
It's a health and safety precaution so the Kool-Aid jug thing can bust into your house without injuring itself.
I think this is a valuable idea. There are online archives that allow for paper updating for academics, like SSRN, but as a CONSUMER of academic literature, the land is pretty barren.

The difficulty in such a thing would be the journals and database companies are holding on to their exclusivity and profit motives with an iron fist, so unless you want to get sued into oblivion, you'd have to stick with open source or accessible articles, so you'd need to either specialize in disciplines that have moved away from closed-source enough that the tool wouldn't have massive holes in it.

Also determining which new references and reviews have relevance (like if anybody can comment with new references, who goes through to check they're actually relevant or say what the person says they say?), preventing academics/administrators from gaming the system if it DOES get popular, etc. In open source, this is crowd-sourced, but for some academic fields the number of people who are qualified to speak on a matter is extremely small.

/academic librarian thoughts
I see this point rehashed on HN over and over. I'd love if there was a more productive discussion of cryptocurrencies. I don't think they are going away anytime soon. Too many technologists and others are thinking about them now. I personally think store of value is a strong use case, at least for those of us who consider them to have value.

Just wondering, what would it take for you (and others who share similar views) to change your mind about crypto? How long does the technology need to be around to be validated? Would you feel better about the space if it was regulated (which would bring scams, manipulation, and illicit activity down), or would you still think it's all nonsense?
I figured it would be a "told you so" for those who doubted long term efficacy. Pfizer didn't want to let that dangle in the wind too long, so they went directly to the public and told them to just get a booster "ya'll'll getcher antibodies back right quick no problem". Wow really? Thanks so much pfizer for your clearly unconfounded direct to public advice.
It is worth pointing out that while Google will not push an emergency hotfix for this for a whole month (promised time: January 4 update), they did push a contract tracing malware for everyone in Massachusetts https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27558500 no problem. The latter even overrode all "please don't auto-update apps" settings.
The real problem solved by BWX wasn't shifting and masking necessary in handling 8-bit values, as that was handled pretty transparently by compilers, it was how complicated it made dealing with hardware I/O which often expected 8bit or 16bit atomic writes - whereas Alpha could not do shorter i/o than halfword, i.e. 32 bits (All I/O on Alpha was MMIO).

This is visible in form of big split in Alpha hw support (drivers etc) on VMS and OSF/1 between "non-BWX" and "BWX" hardware.
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It's not congruent with a free press and it undermines democracy. Otherwise they wouldn't be doing it.
except the business model for casinos and lotteries is pretty simple: straight-forward mariginal odds that favour the house and maximize throughput. This is not the case with crypto.
Edge Impulse wants to bring machine learning at the edge to everyone, raise $34M
Well that's an interesting idea, isn't it (even if completely impractical today)? Self-training AI robot scientist who not only reads the literature but actually chats with other scientists and tries to do science to improve its understanding. AlphaZero but for science.
This is the CPJ definition:

"CPJ defines journalists as people who cover the news or comment on public affairs in any media, including print, photographs, radio, television, and online."

I'd say that both Murray and Assange legitimately fit into this definition.

Unfortunately in the UK you're only considered a "journalist" if you can join the cosy boys club that is the NUJ, which is a bit like saying you're not a real train driver unless you're a member of ASLEF which is clearly nonsense.
Thank you for digesting the argument and identifying the key points where we differ.
Why do people on HN assume that if they don’t find something valuable, others shouldn’t either.

I think of NFTs like car titles.

Having the car title in your name is the only way to prove you own a car. Someone can burrow your car, and have it in their possession but that doesn’t make them the owner - the title does. When you buy a car, what you’re really buying is a little paper that says you’re the owner - without it, you’re just renting.

NFTs work the same but for digital items. When you buy an NFT, you’re really buying the title for that artwork. Sure, people can copy and paste a JPEG, but they can’t take the title from you - Just like possesing a car without a title doesn’t make you the owner.

The concept of an NFT isn’t absurd, it’s a digital version of a real world use case we all rely on daily to prove ownership.
Yep agreed, and other underlying applications (NFTs as evidence of group membership or ownership that can be easily owned and transferred, an auditable historical record) have a lot of value.

The ability to hold decentralized state is a resilient way is pretty cool and a lot of the finance applications are better than legacy stuff - try sending large amounts of money around in the legacy system, expect to wait several days for every action.

HN people can continue to cynically dismiss it, but the nice thing about economic bets is it doesn't really matter. Those that see the value will become rich anyway. There are always people dismissing any new thing - the value of that signal is near zero.

I'm excited about what kind incentive alignment we might be able to achieve with programmable money. The city coins stuff I think is pretty cool, maybe a way out of NIMBY type incentive problems. There's a ton of stuff that's being figured out on the frontier - it's exciting. Like I imagine the web was like in 1999 (with the good, and as potentially the case in the OP's article, the bad).
Buildings are demolished in Manhattan on a regular basis, granted not that often. There are real sales of empty plots.

Also if you know a building would cost $X to replace, but the plot with it sells for $X+$Y, you have some real information, not just guesses!
Ask HN: I'm looking for a good book on the fundamentals of CS
I'm at the beginning of my software dev career, and as I didn't go to school for anything related (B.Sc. Chemistry), I feel like I really would like to have the fundamentals of CS down. Doubly so as I would like to go into the field of VR, and right now I'm working on my own toy rendering engine, which I feel is really exposing my lack of knowledge...

Anyways, any suggestions welcome. Ideally it'd be more digestible than just a plain textbook but I'm open to anything. I imagine either way it'll be a tough but great read to work through :)
>Apple pays the most tax in the US //

Interesting, how much, what percentage is that of Apple revenue and what percentage of total federal tax income?
You aren’t unlucky.

Humanity is full of shit.

Take no one else seriously because they’re just projecting their own biological awareness, and since none of them matter, fuck em.

There’s billions of people on the planet that know nothing about computers. Let’s shut a lot off and see how valuable these folks are.

It’s a stupid contemporary con just like all the rest. Relying on the same biochemical addiction capacity as religion did before it.

I don’t believe in any of this shit (oh wow you can make a machine designed to do just that do just that! amazing). I just extract my $1xxk/year now and let less politically networked people bear the costs like a rich person.
> New variants can emerge wherever populations remain unvaccinated.

I’d expect science distrust due to scientists and the media spouting these kinds of easily disproven blanket statements to be a major driver of vaccine hesitancy.

Keep in mind that covid-19 spreads through wildlife and vaccines do not grant a large amount of protection against spread (declining from about 80% to about 20% in about 6 months).

So to pin the blame squarely on unvaccinated people is unwarranted. The reality is that new variants can emerge anywhere and vaccination is not going to end the emergence of new variants.
I'm not a fan or user of Celsius, but this is an incredibly inflammatory title with very little evidence to back it up. Claims like that demand greater proof. This is an incredibly lazy article

The author pretty much failed to do any research on DeFi investments (point 3 in the OP). Compound and Aave are just 2 of many places investors place their assets, and are definitely near the lower end of APYs. Badger, which Celsius has already said they used, offers much higher returns. So do other projects like e.g. Convex Finance.

Where do these high APYs come from? Well a lot of it is coming from incentives of these protocols and speculation in those native assets. But the author doesn't even know that, so I won't bother steelmanning his argument
Firstly, tech of any sort is almost unavoidable in anime. It's just a matter of whether said tech is a significant part of the world-building or just there to keep the plot moving. Even a sword-and-sorcery shoujo isekai like Escaflowne has mech battles.

Secondly, I've watched many of these shows myself, so when you mentioned Knights and Magic (which I enjoyed when it came out in 2017), I knew the kind of premise you were looking for; Coder/office worker/intelligent & talented student uses his knowledge of the laws of nature of his previous world to become overpowered in the new one.
Interesting trick they're employing: in the graphs they draw a datapoint (i.e. revenue or # of followers) relative to the competition, but they put labels like "$?B" or "?M".

I guess this is done to avoid misrepresentation, but the number is still suggested from the graphs (i.e. bar charts, or pie charts).

Also, listing all employees and the tech stack is ridiculous.
It also means you can't open a link in a private/incognito tab, which I like to do to cater my history and cookies.
So instead of making the applications use a good RPC library, we're going to shove more crap into the kernel? No thanks, from a security context and complexity perspective.

Per https://blog.dave.tf/post/new-kubernetes/ , the way that this was solved in Borg was:

> "Borg solves that complexity by fiat, decreeing that Thou Shalt Use Our Client Libraries For Everything, so there’s an obvious point at which to plug in arbitrarily fancy service discovery and load-balancing. "

Which seems like a better solution, if requiring some reengineering of apps.
Yes, but if you want to enforce something that the buyer doesn’t want to do, you’ll have to give up something else, typically money.

If it’s something the buyer really doesn’t want to do, it would be a lot of money and could kill the deal.
it's really great at that compared to competing products
I created a quick UserScript that does just this. Hacked together but seems to work well. You can find it here [0][1]

[0] https://gist.github.com/evanreichard/96d89512cbfe23e5d7a8147...

[1] https://i.imgur.com/qGUltI8.png
A somewhat niche spot of full stack + GIS + mapping + robotics.

My recruiters are almost all working for stealth mode mobile robotics startups.
>I didn't want to test more in fear of banning...

This line says so much more than the words alone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Farmer_and_the_Viper

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:If_you_lie_down_with...
By the "growth in inequality" what I'm really talking about is the share of the economy that's distributed to capital rather than labor.

Section 1.4 presents extensive documents that land represents a majority of the assets in nearly all advanced economies. And not agricultural land, residential land. This comes from Piketty and others.

It also shows the analysis that other tacked on to Piketty to show that the increase in the share of the economy returning to capital comes from housing.

Finally, the linked article compares the size of the LVT to a 100% tax on all billionaires, and it turns out that the billionaires don't have that much of a share of the economy. It took decades for their billionaires to build their wealth, but that wealth would only fund about a year of US gov expenditures. Whereas the LVT serves to almost fund every year in perpetuity. (Though I also support additional taxes too)

To actually alleviate inequality, we don't need to just tax the billionaire capitalists, we also need some amount of tax on the multimillionaires that have also been taking money away from labor through increased returns to their housing assets.

All this is to say is that perhaps your intuitions about the economy might not be right, and if you evaluate some of the data here, you might come away with a radically changed view of who has all the wealth in our nation, and where it is held (largely in land).
The legal costs make this a non-starter unless it's done by a giant company. Who would, in my opinion, ruin it, and the odds of enough academics complying with a big tech company are small imo.

It'd be viable for fields that don't use/rely on for-profit or closed journals, but I don't know if the money to run it would be there, especially since the odds of the big Schol Comm players suing is still there, because it'd be worth it to ruin the tool/effort before it can challenge them.

Building this would be my dream job, but hahaha no.
It's not entirely clear to me what the OP was talking about, as the claim in their original post is quite vague.

I just wanted to point out that people have been able to "own" music since long before it was possible to record music. So there is a long history of music being a product.
North American houses have environmental forces constantly try to destroy them that are stronger than those in Central Europe. In the north, we get frosts down to -35 degrees Celsius, that can freeze ground about 1.5m deep in extreme cases. In the south, they get humidity and termites.

That being said, what's important about a house is the foundation and the roof. The foundation of mine is as good as any in Europe. The roof, well, asphalt shingles on top of 5/8" plywood on top of roof trusses. Ho hum. But such a roof and attic can be properly maintained, which means keeping it vented even when there are 3 feet of snow on the roof - the modern pagoda style vents go a long way to solving that problem - to avoid ice dam issues, and of course replacing the shingles every 20-30 years.

It is possible to get European style masonry roofs here. Perhaps such a roof over a properly insulated and vented (i.e. cold!) attic would work here. I see them here and there but don't know anyone personally who has one.

I have encountered the occasional North American house owned by traditional Europeans. And they looked just as nice and impeccably maintained as any in Europe. And while maintained this well, will last for centuries. Unmaintained, they certainly deteriorate more quickly.
that's also one of my favorite parts ;)
That would make sense if, say, any phrase in square brackets was the reason for the rejection. The fact it appears to be only "no ads" means that clearly isn't the reason.
So, what your saying is cryto needs an army...
Well a journalist -a US citizen- (Jamal Khashoggi) was killed in a foreign (Saudi) embassy; evidence (including, Audio evidence) was presented of the killing and was found to be credible, CIA concluded that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the killing.... then.... what happened? Nothing.

In a world where you can kill a US journalist so brazenly without any repercussions, would you be surprised journalists being jailed for $reasons ?
Having raised this point in the past, the other example of where goods are priced in crypto that has come up recently is NFTs.
They are a ponzi scheme, the world is full of ponzi schemes. Stock market growth partly relies on young people getting educated about stocks in high school and college then investing.

You literally have the previous generation indoctrinating the newest generation into the scheme.
If you like the "knees over toes guy" exercises, I'd definitely recommend signing up for his online coaching program for a couple of months. The Youtube videos are a bit scattered and there are some nuances to the progressions that don't come through very well, plus the feedback on your form is helpful when starting out.

I also started from the Youtube videos but I got a lot more out of it after I started doing the full program with coaching.
You didn't have to bail out all home owners for the full amount, you could just give out some small amount that will let those who were almost able to make their payments continue to stay afloat, while letting those who wildly misrepresented their assets and liabilities to go under. This would still ripple through and hit those who bought the most truly bad debt, but that's how it should be.
Take solace in the fact this is a fairly peaceful era. Space while fun to fantasize about, would probably not be as "fun" in reality.

Weeks or months of travel between star systems with no internet, not fun. Oh, and we'd definitely make enemies of any alien civilizations.
From Google's response:

> If you are unsure what Android version you are on, confirm you are running Android 10 or above

My Xperia X is still on 8.0.0, it only got a few months of updates before they just silently stopped sending them, displaying that my "device is up to date!". This is a widespread problem in the Android market, in comparison, my iPad Air 2 is still getting updates 8 years after release. Google keep saying that they want to work on this, but realistically, is it ever going to happen?
I don't get this, you'd have to be entirely crazy to do this right? Why post twice the loan value as collateral?

Why not sell half of the crypto assets instead? On the assumption that suddenly your crypto can go to the moon?! It might equally well lose its value...
Ah, I see what you mean by "simply".

Yeah, I guess there's definitely a ton of side effects depending on which way you go.

However, the optics of giving banks more "free" money at the expense of "the people" is not good regardless. I wonder what would happen if the government extends almost-free loans to whoever has a mortgage.

I imagine a lot of people would use it to pay it, but probably a ton more would just use it to get a bigger TV, a car or something similar.

No way to win either way it seems.
> Of course there's masses of stuff written and spoken about those things too, but not the incredible fly-on-the-wall view you get in Get Back.
There are those who the law binds and does not protect, and those it protects but does not bind.
> What can help make the literature more accessible?

Review articles, sometimes called surveys.

I've always thought that new PhDs would be excellent authors for those, having digested lots literature for their dissertation.
The Italian retail sector (i.e., small local shops) is ripe for disruption. The shops pretty much just buy from wholesalers and provide some local inventory in the shop. This usually comes with a high markup. Competition is highly regulated (e.g., sales can only happen during a certain time window each year, most places have a cap on the maximum discount, returns are close to non-existent). I am not sure what other value they add to the retail experience beyond maybe having a relationship with the shopkeeper and going in to shoot the shit while buying stuff.

I'm not surprised that something like Amazon is able to disrupt the system. Even my parents have started buying stuff on Amazon instead of going to the store and they barely use a credit card.

I'm also not surprised that the retail guild/cartel is pushing back through legal means. It will be interesting to see what will happen. My guess is that the Italian consumer will end up losing at the end and will have to pay more for stuff from Amazon.