skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Holding is not lack of confidence in a decision. Holding is exactly the same confidence as a buy. It’s always interest to see analysts recommendations go between sell, hold, and buy to me because like the one who initially posted, I believe a hold is the same as a buy. The effect on your return between a hold and a buy is the exact same for those dollars. It would be illogical to say you would hold a stock at a price but would not buy a stock at the same price. Every time you are not selling it should be based on the same factors as if you were buying. Indecision just results in an uninformed decision, it doesn’t make your past decision right.
This is why BNB got huge. It's ETH but more centralized and with less fees. Made it easier to play with smart contracts. Made it easier to scam people too.
Why are you assuming that just because something doesn't involve money, people wouldn't be interested in it?

Music creation is for most people just a hobby, with zero financial incentives to engage in, yet countless amount of people make music as a hobby and release it for free via various channels. Same goes for software with free/open source software.

Not to talk about BitTorrent (or it's predecessors in the P2P space) where people had the opinion of "sharing is caring" and shared data with each other, again with zero financial incentives.

How do you reconcile these facts with your outlook?
What is the use case for that? I never had these needs on servers. Maybe you are doing something very different from me, so I am curious. I use RC on servers and systemd on clients; things run robustly for 15+ years on many servers for me (with security updates included).
Bitcoin value increases 1000% since record low 2016 November.
I've recently discovered `asdf` (https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf). It's not as technically clever as nix, but it does allow you to manage version of most language toolchains with one tool.
Technically there is always another 50% to go possible
n=1 counter-example (ha!)

I know two retired lawyers. When they downsized from a mansion to a luxury condominium, they had an incredible kitchen installed. They don't cook much personally, but they have someone come in and cook a couple of days a week.

They also entertain, and when they do so, they have caterers come in and use the kitchen.

They knew all of this going in, and had the kitchen designed around being convenient for all three scenarios: What they need for themselves, what their chef/cook needs, and what a catering company needs when they throw a party.
Nothing. The entire infrastructure this system runs on is... the Internet. It doesn't work without TCP/IP, TLS/SSL, HTTP, etc.

It's not fixing anything.

It's only adding a way to force people to pay ETH gas fees to like posts and add comments. It's probably most useful for early crypto adopters to keep growing their pyramid with a captive audience and for criminals who want to hide more identities, launder money, and obscure illegal transactions from law enforcement.

"But it can run without crypto," sure and why would anyone want that? You still need the Internet. Now you want to make it slower and burn more of the worlds energy so that we can independently audit who "liked" which post? So that you can "hypothetically" own your profile pic? Give me a break. I'm tired of the centralized services as anyone but there are ways we can solve this without the foregone conclusion that blockchains are the only viable way. They're not technologically sufficient, they're terrible for privacy, etc, etc.

If you want to fundamentally improve the Internet you're going to have a better time improving things that already exist. Find more energy efficient transport layer protocols for modern usage patterns. Make it more secure. Improve privacy. There's a huge demand for this really unsexy, unhyped work that needs to be done.

Heck, if you're interested in improving payment systems in the US there's a fair bit of catching up to do to reach par with some of the international systems.
"bUt iT'S a sTaBLe SToRe oF vaLUe uNLiKe fiAT cURRenCY."
Uniswap, a decentralized exchange. The smart contracts have no centralized administration at all, anyone can set up a GUI for them, and it doesn't break just because the price of ETH falls. This is one of the most successful projects on Ethereum, with trading volume comparable to Coinbase.
I don't completely agree with that. Yes the network must be secured that way, and the native token must be worth real money, but that's not something applications built on top necessarily need to worry about or interface with. You can build applications that do not use the native token (outside of transaction fees) and that doesn't affect the app's security.
I hate MS's stance on privacy like anyone else, but I have serious doubts about your post. This would be a very big thing if actually true. Most likely thing that happened was that you started Edge yourself, then clicked on the pop-up that sometimes shows up (regardless of updates installed) asking you to switch to "recommended settings" which replaces your default browser.

Yes, shitty dark patterns, but definitely not Windows Update replacing those settings behind your back.
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> They just made an argument for cooperative living on a small, local scale.

That depends on your individual capabilities. What you're capable of producing and the value of that production.

If you're around the median or below, there may be an argument for that cooperative style of existence. In a modern, industrial civilization where people in the top tiers of competency are highly rewarded (and sometimes very far beyond that), it makes no sense to stick yourself in a cooperative small scale living context if you're in the top 1/3 to 1/4 or so of competency (you'd become a net charity entity, which is fine, however you'd just be better off donating a share of your surplus output in a manner of your choosing instead (which we've turned into taxation); or alternatively you'd be dragged down to the median output level or below by the cooperative tribe, in the style of crab mentality, they would not long tolerate your exceptionalism unless they get to ride you far beyond their fair share).
The problem is that NFTs and cryptocurrencies don't even try to solve the problems of art ownership or everyday currencies, respectively.
I really like the idea, I'm less enthused about the account tie-in, even though I do get why it exists. I'm not sure off the top of my head what a better solution would even be. It is good that you can still manually maintain your own filters if you want and just copy the rules in, so there's value here even for people who don't want to make accounts.

And I do really like the effort to make this kind of stuff more accessible, I think it's understated how important it is to have a nice a site with a tutorial saying "here's how you add a filter", and that there's a ton of value in making it easier for normal people to update that. I'm happy to see people helping to meet that need.

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I'll look into possibly making a pull request when I have more time, but for whatever it's worth, here are my HN rules that hide my own karma from me without otherwise messing with any of the site's formatting. I've found that making my own karma invisible helps me avoid some of HN's more toxic qualities:

news.ycombinator.com##.comhead .score:style(overflow: hidden; display: inline-block; line-height: 0.1em; width: 0; margin-left: -1.9em;)
news.ycombinator.com##.comhead:not(.sitebit):style(overflow:hidden; display: inline-block);
news.ycombinator.com###hnmain > tbody > tr:first-of-type table td:last-of-type .pagetop:style(font-size: 0!important; color: transparent!important;)
news.ycombinator.com###hnmain > tbody > tr:first-of-type table td:last-of-type .pagetop > *:style(font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.45em;)
news.ycombinator.com###logout::before:style(content: "|"; padding: 0.25em;)
news.ycombinator.com##form.profileform tbody tr:nth-child(3)

HN is pretty annoying to customize because the generated HTML is so bad, but the site is also really static, so filters almost never need to be updated. I've got a couple more janky ones that I use for blocklisting certain users or filtering articles, but they're not really reliable or consistent enough for me to share imo.

Caveats: I haven't tested these on mobile because I tend to avoid HN on mobile anyway, but I probably should test them sometime to make sure they don't break anything there. Also, some of these rules won't completely hide the elements from screen readers. It won't break anything, it just won't get rid of every reference to your karma. Unfortunately because of how HN's HTML is set up, it's kind of tricky to do better, but maybe I can try to think of something later that works better.
It was in the lower spectrum of 6 figures, spread out over 4 years of almost persistent travel. A lot of that money went to plane tickets, which is crazy to think, really. But for the most part, I was renting houses that were maybe $300 a month on the lower side and $600 a month if I was staying in Bali. I enjoy quiet and in a sense it is priceless for me to be away from busy roads.

And, of course, a lot of hotels along the way.

I also learned to eat entirely local, but this took time. The first 6 months of traveling Asia was an absolute nightmare for my gut. And I truly mean that. I don't even want to go into details because it was that gross.

But I understand what you are saying. I made some costly mistakes, especially in the first part of my journey. It certainly taught me a lot about myself in the process.
The theory that big players DO NOT WANT you to deal with your data interlinking in a way that is not their way is ... disturbing.
Funny. I felt attacked by the intro, as I am a very big fan of locking things down with const and getting yelled at by the compiler for attempting to modify a const. But, the article goes on to attack stupid shit that I'd never do with const. (Though, I do think that there's marginal value in non-movable classes with public const data members: you don't need to implement a getter)

We're left with three good uses:

1. returning const references to private data
2. passing const references as arguments
3. const class methods

Ho-hum. I came expecting a fight, not validation.
“I had Martin explain to me three times what he got arrested for because it sounds an awful lot like what I do here every day.”
What would be constructive?

Most of the articles are fairly detailed, people put in effort.
Very likely posted on HN today because of this week's XKCD; 'Hydraulic Analogy': https://xkcd.com/2571/
zeno's paradoxes, crypto edition: Can't go to zero value because it has to drop 50% first.
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A simple maxim: web3 cannot succeed when the underlying currency is a good investment.

Actual web3 users, if they exist, have to convert IRL money to coin to power a dApp. Thus, the price of coin rising against IRL money represents inflation in the cost of using the dApp.

In this fashion, web3 is similar to housing. The enthusiasts want it to be a great investment, but to be best for fulfilling human needs it should be a poor investment. The only difference is you can’t opt out of needing shelter.
Yes, TCO can be higher, depending where you are on the curve of capex, amortization, and staffing costs. Don't forget you still need at least Developers, DevOps, and Security. If you're inefficient at cloud, spinning up ec2s left and right, using a lot of egress, storing a lot of hot/live data, your total cost is much higher, and will easily be more than the salary of that one sysadmin, or team of systems engineers, you would pay to maintain the colo space.

You have to do a lot of things right to get that Cloud Value, as the author of this blog post has shown. You have to do a lot of things right to get value out of on-prem bare metal as well, but those things are generally well-known, standardized, have less moving parts, and people with decades of experience and knowledge of best practices. The opposite of the current cloud landscape.

TCO is not a straight line.
UNC is a public university, not a private institution.

ETA: If you believe that legacy admissions perpetuate the impacts of racism from 1-2 generations ago then there is a moral and ethical grounds to ask them to stop considering legacy.
I just want to plug Playwright by Microsoft as I've been using it over the past month and have had a really great experience with it: https://playwright.dev

It's built by the founders of Puppeteer which came out of the Chrome team. Some things I like about it:

1. It's reliable and implements auto-waiting as described in the article. You can use modern async/await syntax and it ensures elements are a) attached to the DOM, visible, stable (not animating), can receive events, and are enabled: https://playwright.dev/docs/actionability

2. It's fast — It creates multiple processes and runs tests in parallel, unlike e.g. Cypress.

3. It's cross-browser — supports Chrome, Safari, and Firefox out-of-the-box.

4. The tracing tools are incredible, you can step through the entire test execution and get a live DOM that you can inspect with your browser's existing developer tools, see all console.logs, etc...

5. The developers and community are incredibly responsive. This is one of the biggest ones — issues are quickly responded to and addressed often by the founders, pull requests are welcomed and Slack is highly active and respectful.

My prior experience with end-to-end tests was that they were highly buggy and unreliable and so Playwright was a welcome surprise and inspired me to fully test all the variations of our checkout flow.
What? I said I prefer let.
I didn't assert whether sentiment was changing or not, just sharing the pattern in case someone reading hadn't thought of it. Sentiment is easy enough to check. I'm not doing crypto homework though.
> Are you saying that we are not a customer of your organization?

LOL.
Force is a spectrum. Even a gun to the head isn't a force: you could just accept the bullet, after all.
Sacred Scripture Hallucinations – a neural network hallucinates the Bible
I had a managed database go completely haywire. If I'd been able to SSH in or connect as an admin, the problem would have been found and resolved quickly (indices had outgrown the RAM by a significant factor). As it was, I ended up with around 4 hours of down time while waiting for support to do their thing. Now, this was all with a crappy provider (RackSpace) for a legacy app, but still, outsourcing competence is no panacea.
If you need extra customization capabilities, just run a shell script via the ExecStart= parameter and boom, you have all the power of systemd and the shell combined.
The "fiat system" doesn't even compete with crypto currencies.
> how are they supposed to come to your aid through hostile territory?

Isn't that what american taxpayers fund the US military for?
There's also a companion Medium article here: https://medium.com/@p_x_studio/bible-hallucination-pt1-653bd...
In a Fortune 500 company, I'd imagine it could be quite difficult to definitively prove that they are not a customer of any one organization.

The company I work for is not Fortune 500, but we have several Fortune 500 customers. The amount of inane bullshit we have to deal with as a result is mind-boggling.
It doesn’t make sense anyhow, like the old myth that Africa is full of beggars. Who are they begging from?

It’s not particularly likely there’s a society consisting of a few rich people who spend their days walking around dispensing money to the beggars who make up the rest. And neither is a society where everyone is doing nothing but stealing money.
buy the _______
I can definitely relate to the "I wish we could just cancel the trip and take two weeks to relax at home" sentiment, pre-departure. At the same time I'm almost always retrospectively glad that I went on any given trip.

I often feel the same way about social engagements ("I hope the other party cancels so that I can just stay in and relax") which retrospectively were much more enjoyable than being alone at home.

I think both of these are about intentionally complicating your life for a period of time. Sometimes that's called for, but I can imagine if you're raising kids and working full time there's a real appeal to not complicating your life any further.
https://jacobinmag.com/2022/01/cryptocurrency-scam-blockchai...
I don't think it is moral to outlaw a new technology just because some criminals are using it. There is nothing inherently criminal with the technology. Similar to nuclear, guns, computers, cars, anything. Someone is always going to sharpen a stick and use it for murder. Should we assume that everyone who collects sticks is a murderer, and therefore we should outlaw stick collecting (enforced by "good" stick wielders)?

If you object became more criminals are using it, then we simply need to promote its use among B2B and B2C. A trustless and decentralised electronic currency is surely a freedom-enabling idea and should be promoted. It has long been the dream of cryptopunks and cryptographers.

Lots of crime is facilited by, and done in the name of fiat currency too. BTC can limit that. It's just a currency and one consciously designed to avoid the inherent flaws of fait.
For me, Nix is one of those systems where I just had to spend a long time with it to understand it. It wasn't something I could master within a few weeks. After about a year of continued use and struggle, I've finally gotten to the point that I'm comfortable going off the beaten path and even contributing to nixpkgs.
Once you understand how to deploy into AWS, it really is quite simple, and honestly not that expensive. It takes... a day or so of work to get those "IAM roles" and "ingress rules" right, and then you never have to mess with them again, and if you're using a tool like Terraform, you have a blueprint for yourself around how to riff on that concept as well, so future permissions changes are even easier.

In other words, nearly every complaint in this thread about the cloud is solved with some experience in the cloud. There's a reason it's so ubiquitous, and that's because it really is pretty damn simple once you get the hang of it.
You just accidentally rediscovered Zeno’s paradox
How are the people in Ghana transform that crypto allegedly worth 5000$ in real money or in things from real life, like paying utilities, food, transport costs and others?
This decision has always confused me. Does debian use a bunch of scripts that rely specifically on sh or something? Is the speed hit that bad using bash?
I played the 1st version of SimCity years ago, followed by SimEarth. My heartache with it was at the time, you'd be thrilled with a city and watch it be wrecked. I wanted to model my city, but there was no editor for that. Eventually I left it, and it became big.
I could not disagree more about Res Arcana.

I would put it first in my list of games that hold up when attempting to win.

Are you playing it with serious gamers? It has about the highest return to skill of any short game I know these days except Race.

A key test: do any of your games ever take more than 4 rounds to someone winning? If so, your group hasn’t gotten very deep in it yet.
It really is a pity that Guix didn't go for Common Lisp instead — it does allow for gradual typing. And it has standardised a ton of stuff that Guile had to implement on an ad hoc basis.
Not de jure but he can de facto.

If you have bills to pay and a family to support, you can't just quit a job without another income stream set up.
Ahum...

Hosting providers exist for a long time. Way before this hype word 'cloud' was introduced.
I'm not sure of the percentages, but that same article includes this quote: "He was not alone. The F.B.I. deployed at least 12 informants, as well as several undercover agents, according to defense filings."

It depends on who one is counting as a conspirator, and 3/4 may well be an overstatement, but it seems true that a surprising number of the people involved were employed by the FBI in some capacity.
We have a financial system, why not try to optimize it instead of trying to build something from scratch?

The problems we have (long, inefficient transactions for example) are there because it's hard to do regulation right. You're not helping anyone by creating something impossible to regulate. It's like trying to solve misjudgements by completely getting rid of law, or trying to do law by public opinion (the consensus problem).

Also there's always been a lot of new companies that serve customers with new financial tools. How you do banking did not stay the same in the last 20 years right? Yes it's slow but, as I said, it's hard to do innovation when you are playing with people's life savings.

But suddenly a ponzi scheme comes and all sense is out of the window.
Referring specifically to Harvard and other Ivys. I have no idea why any public university would consider legacy as a factor.

Edit: I think it's a leap to tie legacy admission from 2 generations ago to racism. Because that's attributing wide spread societal faults to a few specific institution.
> I'm sure that marine and airspace incursions by russian craft are just happy accidents...

"Incursion" is a very misleading term for these and I wish the press would stop parroting it (including with regards to China/Taiwan). Russia's flying planes into the ADIZ, not the 12 mile limit as recognized by international treaties. It's international airspace; ADIZs don't exist in international law; the US made the first one up out of thin air and others followed.

We fly close to the Russian and Chinese coasts, well within their own air defense zones, on a daily basis. We also deliberately sail ships within China's declared territories; we just like to call them "freedom of navigation operations" when that happens instead of "incursions" when others do it.

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