skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the late 2000s, as a teenager, I was gifted a Runescape account. This account had level 80+ woodcutting, allowing one to chop magic trees - which would produce the most expensive lumber in the game. It took a staggering number of real hours to achieve this skill level, we're talking several hundred hours minimum.

At some point I had realized that there were different sketchy websites that would buy and sell the in-game currency, gold pieces or GP. It was something like $10 to 1M GP. I could chop enough magic logs in about 4-6 hours to make $10.

I had a breakthrough. What if I wrote a macro to record my cursor and clicks during my route from the 'bank' (where you can deposit any amount of any material) to the nearby respawning magic tree forest?

Weeks went by and I had passive income. Runescape eventually introduced the Grand Exchange, a literal in-game stock market that allowed power users like me to sell much larger quantities of certain items instantly, across all Runescape servers (referred to as Worlds) simultaneously. This required a standardized pricing mechanism, like an order book, where prices of any item would fluctuate based on buy and sell orders.

Suddenly, I now could see a +-10% change on the value of my digital assets, on which my passive income was built.

I could go on; Runescape in fact taught me much about economics. What's extraordinary is selling Runescape gold led me to Bitcoin, and I've watched cryptocurrency for nearly a decade, seeing trends from a MMO propagate throughout the world. It seems human nature to innovate and stagnate, and the more immediate our collective feedback loops, the quicker these cycles are.
Web3 as a concept is decentralization primarily, though it was invented by people championing crypto. The idea that the web can't be censored or controlled by gov't or large corporations. Everyone should be able to easily contribute and maintain web3. The blockchain is the "logical" place for it to live since a blockchain is just a distributed compute and database platform.

There are several massive hurdles to overcome that non-technical people gloss over or flat out don't understand. Even if you store all the data in a distributed database, store all static files in distributed file systems, a single user would still need a single point of entry to access this network. It seems like a centralized DNS like system would still be needed.

Even if there were multiple providers of this DNS like service, it would put the onus on the user to figure it out. This has never historically worked well for the average user. Also, internet access itself is still typically controlled by a few providers given a users area.

The reality is web3 and crypto is putting too much responsibility on the user. Everyone uses gmail and google because its easy and effective and no one cares its centralized. iPhones are popular because they are easy and the average user doesn't care that Apple controls the ecosystem.
You can add multiple keys to the account.
Should you contribute to yourself for free?
Come on, this is hacker news.

Some of our skulls are so thick you’d need at least a $10 wrench
Presumably you're an introvert then? As OP said, they're extrovert, and hate being on their own.
You don't need a new SIM to which phones, that's the point. You only need a different phone.

Who can do it faster? Me? Or the dude I just waited on hold for for 45 minutes (on someone else's phone i borrowed because I'm lucky enough to be around someone who is there to let me use their phone for 45 minutes) sitting in a call center somewhere?
>it's no more "might-makes-right" than the original theft/"sale" was, and is arguably less so

Clearly the specifics matter, but it gets more interesting when these 2 ‘sides’ have equally tenuous claim to the artifact, as IMO is quite often the case.

I suspect like in most ambiguous situations we’ll get a lot of politics/feelings based decision making. But again I don’t know, which is why I’m interested.
Depending on code, a quite large fraction of your java code is run as x86 machine code at any times. It hardly gets more native than that.
Graveyards.
How much does this cost ?

Most of the mentorship programs I've seen are quasi scams, as in I guess they offer a product but most of the time it's useless.
Consistent daily price oscillations on the Steam Community Market
> Dual SIM devices were available for a long time.

Dual eSIM, however, are fairly new.
> Colleges do. At least, liberal arts colleges do.

Engineering/Scientific schools do as well.

The scientific method pretty much requires to question every assumption and serious engineering is all about looking at and understanding tradeoffs.

> I feel the understated problem in our educational system is that people are being encouraged to think of it as a place to get job skills to get your first job, and thereby people don't even realize the underlying lessons that it really teaches.

Exactly. Why take rigorous classes and master the fundamentals when you can go to a coding bootcamp and rote memorise algorithmic questions to pass interviews?
Yeah, I had been experiencing it for years before I ever tried psychedelics, I just didn't know it was something "real".

Before I knew what it was, if I had an episode of "harm OCD", I would sometimes feel physically ill and excuse myself to the bathroom and repeatedly splash water on my face until the feeling went away. Sometimes I'd keep my hands behind my back on purpose (the idea being that I would harm someone with my hands).

Since learning what it is, I'm more easily able to dispel it when it arises. Simply knowing "oh, this is OCD" is powerful enough for me to get on with my life. For the record, I completely abstain from psychedelics or any recreational drugs now (with the exception of coffee, and light alcohol at social gatherings).
OG means "original gangster": https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/OG (see History and Etymology section)

> slang: someone or something that is an original or originator and especially one that is highly respected or regarded
Not really. Closest I know is the PL papers, but even there I would say there is too much new stuff without the criticism. But that is more the general development bottleneck / research traffic jam. With few of those able to make to to the "real world", there is less experience to ground such criticism in.
> start-up or the R&D division

Well certainly a large R&D division is similar to a university, but if you go that way, of course it makes sense to have a PhD. The question is whether the skill is applicable to things that aren't basically the same thing.

For start-ups, getting funding does not look like a university grant application, surely? At least I've heard many many versions of what people did, and none of them sounded much like what my PhD friends did.
As a cloud, CI/CD engineer. What should i learn from doing deliveries?

My customers are the developers.
when I was at GDC 2016 I met a couple who are somewhat well-known in those circles and while hanging out one night they started talking about the complex mix of feelings they had about having just moved back to San Francisco after being away for years. they said that because the weather is so mild and largely unvaried there, it's easy for one to lose track of time month after month, and the years sometimes just seem to run together as a result. this was incredibly interesting to me, having grown up in South Dakota (whose status as "midwest" is disputed (if not "midwest," then what?)), which was an experience much like the one in this article. recently worsening cold-season arthritis aside, I very much enjoy the seasonal weather. "The summers are humid, hot, and fleeting, yet caked in an energy that can only be felt when a resource is limited" really resonates with me (except for the humid part).
Plot twist, you are the hacker
The article doesn’t show evidence or direct to evidence that it does an equal or better job for safety.

The people who set the requirements (e.g. insurance companies) care about safety effectiveness.
There are plenty of university classes that go beyond “teaching assignments and tests”, though they’re easy to miss. My favorite courses were those in a room of less than 20 where speaking in the class felt natural and encouraged, whether a math or philosophy class, and grades were evaluated from demonstrating understanding.

I believe that making student loans expellable in bankruptcy would go a long way to righting the bloated costs and budgets we see today. There’s also probably a case for setting a price ceiling based on a multiple of the local minimum wage, as well as a whole slew of strategies to be explored before launching a salvo against the research institutions that power our scientific progress.
No one is certain what Roman bronze dodecahedrons were used for (2018)
A friend uses YAML in that way. Each entry is valid JS code. The result is you have a mixed declarative-imperative configuration language. It's very powerful and I have found a few uses too. The best part is that the evaluator is at most 30 lines of code.
There's a lot of spam domains on .xyz and .icu. Definitely not a good choice of domain if you want to host a blog or send emails. It's up there with having a chinese IP in terms of red flags.
Wow this is fascinating. I wondered how people deal with boredom, loneliness in retirement. Is this a FIRE situation? Did you enjoy it?
I wish politicians would have to only use public services.
I don’t know if they still do it, but Home Depot used to have the same policy when you went to work at the headquarters in Atlanta. No matter your role, you had to go work at a Home Depot store for a week. You got to choose which store though, didn’t have to be the ones in Atlanta.
As a new englander, living in the PNW, dreaming of returning to california sun, I sure do miss my time in the midwest (although i've never been to Minnesota specifically).

Obviously you can't generalize everyone, but the people i met in the MW were way nicer than the people i knew from the east coast or west coast. I've been invited into many strangers homes as if i was a close friend. Very few people seem to be captured by a blind viral drive towards success the way you find in places like NYC or SF, and instead people are just happy and enjoy their position in life. (not to say people don't do good work, or don't succeed at goals). If you dream of a nice middle class life, with a quaint house and a nice family, and all that jazz, it seems like a great place to be, and a culture that wants you to have it... if you're straight and white and "normal".

The weather sure does suck though. Hot summers, cold snowy winters. Worse than new england, with less money to keep roads and infra in shape. That said, i find myself every fall on the west coast missing "real fall" where the leaves change and the brisk wind cools you down outside as you can see your breath. Throwing on a soft flannel and grabbing something warm to drink while you stand outside and enjoy nature...
I imagine this is geographic. Texts are quite expensive in some places, and that means people use alternatives instead. Also some people had pervasive mobile phone usage for a long time before smartphones made other options available, which I imagine would add to their popularity. Here in Denmark SMS is very entrenched, but I know it varies in other countries.
I meant this (from the same article):

> When outside the United States, cellular phone calls cost $0.20 per minute, data costs the same $10 per gigabyte (i.e. there are no extra data charges outside of the US), and texting is free
Ask HN: Buy a used 1U as a compiler server
Lately (last ~6 months) I've transitioned to working on large C++ projects (e.g., LLVM). Naturally compile times are long and a serious barrier to learning/iteration. At work I have a beefy workstation (32 core threadripper, 128GB RAM, 2TB ssd) so I don't feel the pain as much. I'd like to get something comparable at home but I don't want to spend 5k or whatever. Looking around on ebay you find lots of decommissioned 1U units that are pretty cheap, pretty old, but multicore. Would it be a bad idea to get one of these if I'm going to use it just to offload compiling (either through vscode remote or by some other means)?
In this case, you should provide the proof of the opposite)
So is the recommendation to get something like 3 keys and keep them in different safe places and bring one when you travel? I’ve been considering getting a Yubikey. Do they work on mobile?

Edit: Looks like some Yubikey work via nfc for mobile.
It's different inasmuch as it's even stupider.

Gold farming is, at least, based on the premise that there are people who are willing to pay other people money to perform repetitive actions in a video game for them. It's still kind of dumb and it has harmful effects on in-game economies, but at least there's some semblance of money being exchanged for goods and services.

"Play to earn", on the other hand, is based on the premise of cutting out the middleman and having the game developer just straight-up hand players money (or something money-equivalent) for playing their game. How this is even supposed to work from an economic standpoint is a question that I've never seen adequately answered.
I hate when people refer to our regime of interest-rate intervention as capitalism. The primary feature of capitalism is price discovery, which we have intentionally given up.

EDIT: If there are any economists out there who can point me in the direction of a primary source that elucidates the relationship between price discovery and interest rates in a way that will help me understand contemporary monetary policy as something other than political expediency, I would greatly appreciate it.
Empathy is a powerful thing. We make many little decisions during the work week around if it's ok to take something down, if an engineer's request needs to be handled immediately, etc. I think the goal of the company is to align everyone around empathy for the drivers (I presume you're all already customers), so that you make those decisions in ways which enable engineers to deliver software well.
The article makes a point that Hoenig did repeatedly not mentioned inflation. Instead his main point is about the inequality as well as asset bubbles QE would cause.

I think he is right, also about the point that you cannot walk back without causing massive pain in the economy. I too think central banks have painted themselves in a corner, as when central banks drop even a slight hint of changing course, panic in the markets follows.
Can't and don't are different. There's no reason google couldn't just change what they consider to be on-spec.
My friend in physics who has written multiple federal grant applications supporting multiple people tells a similar story to GP.
> Well, yes, ...

I'm not sure why you think I'm arguing against that. My GP comment was intended merely to address why the German visa situation for UK citizens is a near-inevitable consequence of the UK's decisions (as opposed to being entirely up to Germany as you suggested); my comment had little to say about why the UK made those decisions.

It really was down to decisions made on the UK side, not the German side. It seems irrelevant whether those UK side decisions were due to politicians, government as a whole, or the people.

That said, I looked up the last election's conservative manifesto, curious after you cited it, and ending freedom of movement for EU citizens isn't one of the key manifesto pledges. An "Australian-style points-based system to control immigration" is, but that is more about changing the worldwide immigration entry requirements.

I do not believe ending freedom of movement for themselves was what the minority who voted for Brexit had in mind - witness all the leave-voting holiday home owners who were distressed when they found out they can no longer visit their own Spain residence as much as they did before, for example.

Many surveys about people's views of Brexit have been done by now, and if there is one thing that stands out, it is that what people who voted leave voted for is lots of different things, many of whom now say "this is not the Brexit I voted for". Those I know personally did not even particularly want to end freedom of movement for EU citizens, although it's obvious they didn't think too hard about their reasons for voting. As for the 2019 election, there are only two things I would say with confidence based on what others have said: Many just wanted Brexit "done" and didn't really care how it was done, and many people found Boris more exciting as a "leader" than Jeremy. I think the conservatives would have won just as much of a majority if the "oven-ready" Brexit deal had been quite different.
I can sell you a picture of my pliers for 1eth
But there's an economic drain if you fire all the rock breakers, and they end up on the streets.

With automation coming for most jobs, we can either live in a low to no work Utopia or a hypercapitalist hell. Given recent trends, my money is on hypercapitalist hell.
I have a collection of international eSIMs, they certainly make my life much easier.
Rental properties can be great, but beware they are high risk, not low risk. Properties come with many inherent risks you can sometimes assess before purchase, but they also come with hidden risks, not the least of which is the tenants. I used to own many rental properties. In one, a neighbors contractor sawed into the water main of the high rise, flooding over 200 units below. In another, a gas furnace cracked in the winter, and poisoned the tenants with carbon monoxide. In another, a layer cake of black mold grew 6 inches thick and had to be remediated for tens of thousands. In another, a contractor moved a pile of dirt and triggered 5 years of litigation and 100s of thousands in legal fees.

Better to rent properties for monetizing, insure your risks, and let others bear the big risks. I have a friend who owns timeshares and rents them on Airbnb, thereby avoiding most of these risks. Always look at what is possible in terms of risks. The worst will happen, it’s only a matter of time.
Humility?

The possibility there could be something to learn by personally understanding/experiencing your employer's core business?

Developing a shared sense of empathy and responsibility towards making the jobs of the drivers as efficient as possible?
The sounds were loud and lasted several seconds. These were removed because most computing devices are now mobile. The sounds are extremely annoying and disruptive to hear from a stranger's laptop every few minutes during a meeting, a classroom lecture, wifi shop, cubicle environment, auditorium, airplane, etc... They could also be embarrassing to anyone who just revealed that they were not paying attention.
A thought exercise you should undertake if you're thinking about / talking about crypto/NFT/web3-related projects: If the financial instrument that underlies the project were to stop going up in value XX% per month, would you still be interested in the project?

I do this a lot because I've made the conscious (and perhaps financially foolish) choice to stay away from everything crypto/blockchain related (for now, at least). So I have some perspective in being able to ask myself "Why is this interesting?" without any emotional-financial attachment. I do this little exercise every time I read about some new brain-twisting scheme to move money around and capture some of the XX%/month rise.

Play-to-earn seems to fit the same mold: You can talk all you want about how play-to-earn is "the new new" and how it's helping people out of poverty and changing the dymanics of gaming and yadda yadda yadda. But just ask yourself: If the money music stopped tomorrow, would you play the game?

Is there a "there" there without an underlying token that's gone up XX% in the last N months and everyone hopes will still go up XX% in the next N months?

It sounds like the answer, at least when it comes to Axie Infinity, is no. It doesn't sound fun. It doesn't sound compelling. It DOES sound like an opportunity for people to extract money from the crypto system that's fundamentally based on the assumption that the crypto system will continue rising in value forever.
I think people do think that for the most part, the airplane goes on autopilot, requiring minimal input from the pilot, and when everything goes smoothly, no input is required from the pilot. Input is only required when things go wrong. I think this is what people think, but I am just speculating.
Inflation of assets and goods and services are two completely different phenomenon's with different causes.

Inflation of assets are caused by lowered by interest rates, they don't spiral and they don't effect the cost of living. Just a straightforward result of net present value calculations.

Inflation of goods is caused by a supply shock or too much demand (too much spending chasing two few resources).
He left off the word Operating, and everyone assumed he meant something else... there really are no new operating systems these days, they're all clone of Unix in some fashion.

Containers and virtual machines are stopgap measures we're all adopted because nothing new has come along, and the Unix model of security isn't up to the task.

We need to be able to download code from the internet, and run it against X, where X is a folder, or a photo, or a URL, and know that the Operating System will only let that code access the things we gave it, and nothing else.

We don't have capability based Operating Systems, all we have that's even close is the ham fisted "capability" flags that allow an "app" on a phone to access or location, or not.

Analogy time: If I'm making a cash purchase, and I owe $14.21, I can pull out exact change, or hand over $20, knowing full well that the other party isn't going to magically be able to sell my house, or otherwise cost me more than that $20 capability I chose to exchange with the hope of getting $5.79 in change.

Linux/Unix has no easy way to say... here's a file, run this code with this file as input. The security model of Linux isn't suitable for the any date after the Eternal September of 1993.

The only thing close is to put the code in a virtual machine, or container, to try to limit the scope of the damage a piece of code can do. It's massive overkill, and does the wrong job anyway.

I think he was right, perhaps someone here can convince me otherwise.