skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More detail here: https://ai.facebook.com/blog/using-ai-to-bring-childrens-dra...
DeFi is not well-suited to do finance, i.e. lending and borrowing, because enforcing financial contracts typically requires the ability to exert coercive power, which DeFi can't do. As a result, DeFi can only implement a small subset of not super-useful financial operations. It cannot replace conventional finance by any stretch of the imagination.
In that case it would be bad to b cut corners, ey?

Though these were not the cases I talked about.

I talked about implementing features that are not necessary for the product because of dogmatic reasons.
The problem with monoliths is that they're written fast and chock full of business logic that isn't reusable anywhere else. With microservices, if done correctly a la hasura, your business logic is abstracted to config, or to the highest level of abstraction your business allows.
I've not read the book, but from your description it maybe has some similarity to Marvin Minsky’s "Society of Mind". Mind and intelligence as the emergent behaviour of many cooperating/competing systems.
I read a post on a crypto forum yesterday:

"I dont care about your research. Pump my bags, racial slur"

That is the level of thinking of many of these folks, i fear.
These are not cryptocurrency scams. They are financial scams. They take place almost %100 off any blockchain. Since ~2015 there has not been a new cryptocurrency of consequence. They're all just complex financial scams with nothing to do with cryptocurrency except the name (which attracts people to fleece).

No, these scams and the $7.7B are going into the pockets of the normal group of capitalists.
Humans are resources in a general sense. More humans means more resources which you can throw at various challenges, problems. So you are right. More humans has benefits.

But unfettered growth isn't sustainable, this has been proved again and again. So what we need is controlled growth or at least sustainable levels. Right now we are switching into a decrease which will be very jarring and not sustainable.

We've never truly has controlled population growth, we just had unfettered growth, which now has slowed down into a decrease. What is next is for us to increase it again and then have control over this. It is basically getting us to the next level of human development.

We just have to be careful about those that want to exercise differential growth/decrease rates based on people's memberships in ideological, religious or racial groups.
Ask HN: Good sources / communities for discussing running LLCs?
I am working on setting up an LLC and it is a huge pain in the ass. This is my first rodeo. I picked up LLCs for dummies and I am working on getting organized. However, I kind of feel like I am always missing something or doing something wrong. It is that fear of the unknown unknowns (not knowing if/what I'm doing wrong) that has driven me to want to ask on HN if there are any good sources or communities for discussing LLC formation. Ostensibly HN is an entrepreneurial place so I hope this is an okay place to ask. I do have an attorney but advice can add up. I am getting a registered agent but that also is hella expensive and I have yet to pull the trigger. Any advice on where I can discuss this stuff on topic would be most appreciated.
Issuing stablecoins isn't a scam by itself. The whole crypto ecosystem cashflow is the real scam. There is no liquidity. All it takes is a few people that panic and the whole thing falls apart, UNLESS there is someone ready to print money and prop up the market when panic sets in. That is why people need to understand what is going on with Tether. Bernie Madoff got shutdown because a whistle blower got the SEC to look at his books. If tether gets shutdown and no one is propibg up the market, it will crash hard.
The major states with higher fertility rates have a population of 330 million, roughly 1/4th of India's population. Uttar Pradesh: 200 million, Bihar: 100 million, Jharkhand: 30 million. Uttar Pradesh itself is roughly as populous as Nigeria or Bangladesh.

It's notable that most areas of the country are below replacement rates of fertility, which is around 2.2 children per woman.
It's not common at all. I lost $10k in crypto to downloaded malware. I filed a police report and tell the story all the time. Very few people are psychopathic enough to blame the victim of a robbery.
I often think of languages like Haskell that could offer the clarity and expressiveness and the static types I want, but the developer experience and killer software (react, phoenix, rails) has just never been there.

TypeScript to me is the compromise I'm willing to settle on. It is also lackluster from many aspects but day by day it gets a bit easier.
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The answer is that I did not know, and that’s why I asked. Mathematica is not a big part of the scientific research world as far as I’m aware. I don’t know anyone who uses it in physics research, for example. The last time I played around with Mathematica was in graduate school before Linux existed, when closed source and proprietary solutions were the norm. Back then I don‘t think there was anything like the Wolfram Language independent of the Mathematica product. So when I heard that this language now existed, I wondered if it was open and, therefore, something that might be interesting to use in research. From your tone I suspect that you won’t believe any of this. I’ll leave it up to your fevered imagination to divine how much I care about that.
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> banks lose a lot of money to fraud and nobody is prosecuted.

That's true some times, but then it works like an insurance policy to me. I like insurance, especially when it's about my life savings.

> a future financial institution will be a third party service providing custody or other protections to your crypto bearer instruments.

As you mentioned, that's a bank. There's no reason to believe that crypto-based banks will be any better than traditional ones, especially if you compare to newer fintechs.

> many people get paid back after being scammed, rug pulled, exploited

I was not aware of that, thank you. But it's still too few compare to the whole.
I don't know what is normal.

I had wrongly assumed that some percent of the stock would be pre allocated for hiring future employees. As far as I know we never got any outside investment after our initial angel investor that we had from the beginning.

Because of how the company was registered we got one financial document per year that they were legally obligated to file. On that I could determine my ownership percentage by calculating how many of my shares had vested and then simple division told me the total number of shares. I correlated this with 3 other employees and we determined the number of shares each year and they had gone up 2.5X from the initial number I was told when I joined.
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> the first national family planning program

An odd euphemism for a program that, in practice, involved forced sterilizations and eugenics: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-30040790

According to Vox: "In 1975, Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi ordered the declaration of a national emergency. She seized dictatorial powers, imprisoned her political rivals, and embarked, with the help of her son Sanjay, on a mass, compulsory sterilization program that registers as one of the most disturbing and vast human rights violations in the country’s modern history." Source: https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/future-perfect/2019/6/5/186...

Of course, as the OP notes, America is partly to blame. The exact quote from Johnson was...a bit more direct:

> When an adviser asked the president if he wanted to promise [Indira] Gandhi more food aid during her visit, he exploded: “Are you out of your fucking mind? … I’m not going to piss away foreign aid in nations where they refuse to deal with their own population problems.”

Source: https://qz.com/india/1414774/the-legacy-of-indias-quest-to-s...
What if there was a congressional index fund where ordinary people could invest in the same basket of trades that congressmen/women are making.
Well, it quickly can become a mess because of people having different ideas about what microservice is, and also decrying things as "for microservices only" when for example I just want to offload auth and monitoring to a specialized service.

It's also a common trope when I'm dealing with k8s decriers - yes, you might have one application that you can easily deploy, but suddenly there are 15 other medium-weight applications that solve different important problems and you want them all ;)

P.S. Recently a common thing in my own architectures is separate keycloak deployment that all services either know how to use, or have it handled at separate request router (service mesh or ingress or loadbalancer)
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Is that really that true any more? From my podunk credit union I have used SWIFT to send overseas and it took under a minute and cost me $20. That's both faster and cheaper than Ethereum transactions. It's costlier than Bitcoin but not that much, and still faster. And that's wire transfer, the expensive bank to bank option... Western Union has been faster than Bitcoin for decades and cheaper for probably a decade now.

The huge popularity of crypto is really eroding the tx capacity advantage.

And even in the backwards US, ACH can now settle later same day and it's free. That makes BTC a lot less attractive.
At least on Reddit, for now, you can sort by New and your setting sticks.
These can be difficult to get for younger, childless men. Even younger men (<40) with children receive push back from physicians in getting the procedure because it can be difficult to reverse.
Will JS/Node become further fragmented by Typescript/Deno? That could make it a bit nasty to build with JS.
Agreed.

Think about the fact that the result of a low birth-rate with better medical tech keeping older people from dying when they otherwise would have. The result will be a far higher percentage of voters in democracies will be beneficiaries of the work of people younger than them. They will increasingly vote to expand the benefits they receive, at the expense of the younger folks who have to pay higher taxes to fund them.

Perhaps one of the most distinct, and deliberately obfuscated, characteristics of COVID is its steep risk stratification by age. According to the US CDC data here: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#demographics
Roughly 94% of all COVID deaths were in people age 50 and up.
28.2% of deaths were in people over the age of 85, 7 years past the average US life expectancy (for men).
If you look at the response to COVID in western nations, you can see that the cost/benefit analysis wasn't being evaluated in the context of the vast majority of people dying (and therefore benefiting) were past retirement age, and the vast majority of people bearing the cost of these policies were younger, lower risk people who were put out of work. The government programs that used debt-financed payments to alleviate these issues for the young generated debt that, again, will hurt the younger generations far more than the older.

Even before covid, the USA has universal health care for people over 65, but not for younger people or kids in working class families who aren't broke enough to qualify for Medicaid. I'm 40, so I'm no spring chicken, but western democracies routinely fuck over young people to help the old. It's going to get far worse until it hits an unsustainable level.

I've paid Social Security and Medicare taxes for 25 years, since my first paycheck, and it's not likely I'll ever receive anything from these programs based on current projections.
I'm the poster. I think you misunderstood the followup post -- the same library is definitely used in the Cloud (same as the standalone Mathematica).
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>Stop trying to shame people for expressing a common, reasonable and fair opinion that you don't like.

I realize the dangers of posting something remotely pro-crypto on HN, but I have to say this is a pretty rich comment. Shame is all that is doled out to the many people who have reasonable and fair opinions about cryptocurrency that you don't like (such as thinking some cryptocurrencies are reasonable or worth speculating over).
I'd use preferences if my accounts didn't keep getting banned from the ever-increasing censorship.
>routinely

And they routinely admit that some cases are not clear cut. But crypto has no grey zones, by design - you either have the keys, or you don't. And that is the explicit agreement code-contract signers agree to when they go out of their way to DeFi their agreements.

Obviously legal precedents and statutes are not fitted for this purpose yet, because they are reactive, not proactive.
because it requires introspection, its intentionally a dig at people that rationalize why someone's windfall is "not actually a windfall"

like the people who say

"$X is not that much these days" (it is and they want it)

"That billionaire doesn't really have that much money" (billionaire then sells 10% of their holdings in 3 days for billions of USD)

"What about after taxes?" (pay for an accountant, you'll see its better than you think)

and the reality is that liquidity changes faster than the culture. especially across all markets over the last 2 years. so its time to force that introspection.
The for-profit colleges are the worst segment of the already degenerative upper education system. That fact alone indicates we should pause on full-on free market vouchers.

I think the problem is that, at least at the high school level, a school under 1000 kids starts to suffer in terms of services: not enough smart kids, not enough activity participants, not enough special needs for the special teacher. Perhaps "specialty" schools would help a bit ...
It's actually a separate package on Fedora called passmenu. Maybe because dmenu is not standard for Fedora users by default.
Its a good thing that it did not take off. Using something for free without source code is the bad thing that could happen to pi wrt to its mission.
> The problem in today's space is that WE CANNOT KNOW! The infrastructure for documenting and fighting scams simply isn't there. We're not capable of resolving disputes...

This is an obvious problem to anyone familiar with traditional banking and finance. I feel bad for the cryptocurrency true believers who didn't see that coming. Even if you take as a given the most idealistic vision for permissionless money and smart contracts, the lack of legal oversight is ultimately a fatal flaw. Unfortunately it's a fundamental part of these ideas.
Tell me again how Microsoft has changed and it isn’t the same company anymore, and how EEE is ancient history.
I've come to believe that the answer will be provided by the "free market". When AIs start to replace humans for tasks that require "intelligence" (how we currently define it for humans), then AI will have achieved "understanding". Sure there will be hype driven companies that replace humans with AI for PR purposes, but eventually those will flatten out. Once I start receiving phone calls from AI telemarketers, have a decent conversation with them and can't tell that I just talked to an AI, then AI will have achieved understanding. And so on for other domains in every day life.
yes i'll be sure to have no sympathy for your grandmother the next time she gets robbed by scammers
Mortgages are the number one cost associated with "working til you are very old".

By far in poor countries healthcare is much more affordable than in rich countries. I think one of the main outcomes of rich countries is just increased costs for everything.
You are a civil servant, why are expecting outsized profit from running our country? Our current political climate attracts folks who are excited to become wealthy and famous from running our country, when we should want people who are excited to run our country.
Yes let's keep making weird incentives for law enforcement like asset forfeiture. I want police to be like an American ambulance and run my credit card before saving my life.
My first production k8s deployment involved around 60~70 monoliths packed tightly onto small amount of hardware. Saved a lot of money :)

(And yes, if you need extra argument to sell k8s, remind them about bin-packing more applications onto less hw)
Nothing annoys me more than arrogant ignorance. It's like, pick one! You speak as if these are handled as federal matters, and they are not. Contract disputes are handed as local matters, usually in a local district court.

Furthermore, when you talk about the court you're talking about a Judge. The Judge gets final say and they can take their sweet time, regard or disregard anything they want. In local matters, Judge's act without restraint. Appellate court, the state bar, the judicial qualification board, federal court, all gets involved so rarely they can be ignored. Additionally, these Judges are no stars of the legal profession: cohorts of lawyers will often rig elections and appointments to favor a well-connected but bad lawyer, because being a judge is actually really easy.

So, yeah, it mostly depends on who the judge likes better, and whether society is better or worse if this dispute is decided this way or the other way. I can't stress enough the arbitrariness, and supreme unaccountably, of a local judge's decisions.
doesn't matter to be honest. We are already overpopulated and those who says it isn't just doesn't know how many people live under poverty and are simply privileged. I understand if we manage resources properly we have very high carrying capacity but it is not pragmatic to solve all those problems. Human greed, corruption has no bounds and will always hinder and there is no solution, is there? Rules, laws are generally made by elites even in democracy. Further, Nature makes us inherently greedy (selfish genes perhaps?) and many of us can't deny it, can we?

I think people like Elon always says declining fertility is huge problem but i simply don't see it as a problem. People like him will never suffer due to money problems and will live luxurious life. But only people working 996 realize how much exploited we are. And old age is not that big deal because of technology. One person can manage hundreds of people. We can scale a lot.
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I suspect that your belief about found things is at odds with the law.
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My best argument to this that I would gladly be proven wrong so I don’t look silly being wrong. Is there any example in the past ~7 years of any major cultural use content sites that had precedence like Digg losing influence the way Digg and others did?

The only examples that I can think of are things like Yahoo Answers, Quora, Tumblr. Leaving Tumblr aside just to see if there’s any other examples, are there? We could expand it to 10 years possibly? I want to stick to the modern smartphone era.

I list many sites that rose and fell as well as apps like IM apps. How many of them had peaks or consistent growth for 10 years?

My thesis is to not look for people’s opinion on changes. Look at the actual numbers. Web giants once they get established in this modern era. Rarely get displaced like Digg did.

> On the other hand, maybe turnover can be more rapid when a domain such as the internet itself is rapidly developing.

Yes whether this is it or not as the reason is what I am saying based on what is happening

> Just seems to me there's broader factors to consider than Digg per se or reddit per se.

Yeah I didn’t intend to say I knew all the reasons why. Just that modern web giants can’t be compared to the web giants of the earlier web.
I've been using Remix a bit and absolutely love it as a framework. It has a great mechanism of separating server and client side code where you can colocate server side code that only applies to a given route on your page.

This makes it trivial to write awesome web apps that don't need any JS on the client to work. Of course if JS is enabled client side you can do a lot more but this way the app is good to go without needing to parse any client side JS.

All data can easily be fetched on the server and passed down to the client for any route.
Might as well link this blog[1] that helped me recently when I created a new GPG key for my yubikey and wanted to re-encrypt all my passwords for two keys.

1. https://medium.com/@davidpiegza/using-pass-in-a-team-1aa7adf...
100% of Crypto "investors" are speculators looking for a quick buck by investing in a system that is pumping needlessly huge amount of carbon into the atmosphere. They're not well-meaning victims who stumbled into the bad part of town, they are greedy thoughtless people in search of free money.
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Android Password Store itself is keen to add age support[1], but I don't know of anything usable right now. You could probably use gopass in termux in the mean time.

[1]: https://github.com/android-password-store/Android-Password-S...
Except for running out of money - or spending a lot of work on optimizing stuff yourself.
Since the first Fortran compiler one of the basic tenets of computer programming has been that the computer itself should help the human programmer express his/her ideas and help the human avoid basic accounting mistakes.

C doesn't do the latter. Blaming the human programmer for stupid accounting mistakes is misplaced. The human's mistake was in choosing a bad language.
Top beneficiary of policy defends it. More news at 11.

Unusual whales has done some fun analysis of this. Given the data, Pelosi’s position is almost uniquely unsurprising.

https://unusualwhales.com/i_am_the_senate/congress
> There's no reason to believe that crypto-based banks will be any better than traditional ones

That wasn't the supposition. Who cares? Wait I know people that do care, you thought I was one of those? I view blockchains as a platform to launch projects, and crypto as the necessary fuel to use those platforms, I like the censorship resistance but I don't care about the ideologies, I would like to seamlessly move unlimited sums in and out of them and thats that. I care about fulfilling market needs and niches, I don't care about the accuracy of those needs.

Regarding Defi insurance protocols, there is a lot of education necessary and some ease of use improvements necessary.
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Touching? What? I did this recently and it's very simple thanks to pass init. I now have two keys, my old one and my new one that is on my yubikey.
Same here. GitHub search sucks for authoritative, governance use cases. I got burned a few times and now just pull everything down myself and search it.

I think there’s code search companies but they are too expensive for me and I suppose some people really value it more highly.

Comically, I need the old Google search appliance and just treat it as a web source for lots of my questions (who is using log4j, etc).
How do you reply to a comment so fast. Is there a way to get notified if your comment gets replied to?
To be fair, if the entire World Wide Web had gone offline then, it would have probably affected Tim Berners-Lee, Robert Cailliau, and maybe one person who was reading http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html
> The “I have no sympathy for the victims” comments are crass.

There are exactly two types of people in the crypto space:

- scammers, who know exactly what they are doing

- fools, who have very little understanding of how the world works

And yes. Fool and his money are easily parted.

So, are the comments crass? No. Not in the least.
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