skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> persuading each other to do things in an organized fashion, believing there will be reciprocation at some later date.

Sounds like it has parallels to society in general. It is just that society with it’s deeds, titles, government issued promises to pay etc. has been around for a very long time, so has proven itself. But it is all based on faith.

For example borrow 1M tokens in exchange for a piece if paper that says you own some land, with confidence that you can earn more tokens (or get someone to rent the land for tokens) and that the legal system will give you continued access to that land and so on.
Two members of Google’s Ethical AI group leave to join Timnit Gebru’s nonprofit
It's definitely something, I would call it a crappy ineffective and poorly advised lockdown
Well, yeah you make a fair point there. I can't speak to who used them but it at least felt like free AOL and Compuserve hours were in heavy use. Might just have been in my tiny sphere though.
Social media worsens people’s perceptions of the world can actively influences what they share and consider their own opinion.

The same point applies to family, for example, and whether I need better family or not they’re all I’ve got. And Facebook has pushed them really far down whatever fringe they had a slight inclination to. Before Facebook any extreme views could be tempered a bit in family conversations, but now everyone thinks they have the weight and authority of the whole world, or at least their tribe, behind every argument.

This bait and switch is not something we agreed to as a society. We joined for the pics of partners, kids and puppies, and to stalk and ‘poke’ people we had real life crushes on. We stayed because we found a million welcoming tribes all defined by hatred and anger.
15.3B in profit on 426B investment is 3.6% yield, and that's over 6 years. US inflation alone between 2008 and 2014 was about 10%.
It is amazing that they crowdsourced their QA department and got people to pay $12k for the privilege of doing the work.
The decline is only one-sided. Facebook down, TikTok up. The mean amount of social network users is not declining at all.
I would wager most contracts deployed these days are immutable. Upgradable contracts are frowned upon in the space, moreso every day.

But given that humans are prone to making mistakes, when code is fresh and unproven, proxies are a practical way to go. Once you've ironed out all issues, you blow the fuse so that the contract can't be changed anymore.
This is usually the case for people who’ve been running them since the 90s because of IP address trust and all that, as far as I can tell.
> Your end-users of the Omniverse-based extension, app, microservice, or connector will need either an Omniverse for Individuals license or an Omniverse Enterprise license.

https://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-omniverse-platform/code-...

With hardware restrictions (Nvidia RTX only) and software restrictions (closed source and licenses required for users), I don't see how this is "open", either.
Magnetic Zaps to the Brain Can Alter People’s Moral Judgments (2010)
In theory a higher block reward will incentivize and allow for greater computational power to be thrown at it, thereby increasing the cost to attack it.
I almost remember the exact moment I realised that AOL in fact wasn't the internet but rather some shovelware that sat above it. As soon as I got winsock working I never went back.
Holy cow, that is great, I had no idea that trainings paid so well. I taught a Python class for free which makes me think I could do traiinings. Was there a lot of specialized stuff in your Ruby trainings? I had figured doing that type of stuff got at best normal hourly rates. Maybe I should pursue this type of thing more.
Django Issue Tracker inaccessible due to expired certificate
> despite working for them for 4.5 years

wow.
Is this the first time a civilian has been able to perpetrate an attack on a country? I find the novelty of it amusing.
How much money you have to earn to be in the top% in every US state
Safety, tolerability and viral kinetics during SARS-CoV-2 human challenge
You'll be surprised. People post videos with walls of text or post a video of them narrating whatever they were planning to write.
Ah, I sit corrected. I have the blockers and don't think I've ever used Medium before.
The basic argument you seem to be making is "This exists, and there is self-evidently a market for it, therefore it must be good. (Or, if it isn't good, tweaking some parameters could make it good.)" That's a bad way to evaluate the risk of something so new, in a market that is so volatile. People get suckered into buying bad insurance all the time, even in highly regulated markets.

But anyway, I went ahead and checked out the white paper of nexus mutual [1], because I was curious. It appears to have a serious amount of hand-waving on one of the most important topics: the risk correlation between offered insurance products. They do reference the correlation matrix, but the only mention of how the value of the matrix is determined is to say that if independence between cells can be assumed, the math is very simple. Doing a quick search through their website and code, it looks like they are indeed just assuming that products aren't correlated, instead of trying to estimate real correlation values. This means that their minimum capital requirements (and thus the implied risk of default) are incorrectly calculated if that assumption is violated--which it certainly is.

This seems to be by design, and baked into the incentive structure of the whole concept. There's just no practical way to crowdsource proper correlation evaluation and adjustment, and the economics stop being remotely competitive if you just guess at correlations and treat it as another risk to be hedged. You can see this later on in the white paper (appendix A), where they point out that the economic viability of the project depends on lowered labour costs because product creation, assessment, and policy issuance are crowdsourced or automated. Their game theory/tokenomics are focused on providing incentives for individual products to price risk accurately, however: they do not propose any mechanism for adjusting or calculating MCR based on correlation risk when new products/coverage are offered. This is further evidence that they're just assuming independence without any real justification, and thus being chronically undercapitalized.

[1] https://nexusmutual.io/assets/docs/nmx_white_paperv2_3.pdf
> but now everyone thinks they have the weight and authority of the whole world, or at least their tribe, behind every argument.

You hit the nail on the head. I have close relatives I'd never ever imagined I'd not want showing up at family functions :(
I feel that way except I’m older than 16.

In my circles the only time I have to use Facebook is when Gen Xers are organizing something that requires my participation there, and I delete the account afterwards.

Or I wind up in small town America and the people there believe that Facebook marketplace + groups has better resources for sale and meetups. My experience with that was that generally accessible forums (even with being private and an “approval” process) all being full of scammers and time wasters. I found resources and niches in person. I checked the same groups 6 months later and nobody was getting anywhere with anything. YMMV of course, but the scammers are integrated everywhere.

Small town America is a big place so there is a market for the illusion of utility!
Ask HN: How do startups decide which VC firms to approach first?
I founded a fintech company late last year and have been focused on developing the MVP and signing up alpha testers, key employees, advisors and potentially an independent board member. All is progressing, however, I anticipate reaching out for external capital in march/april - and I'm at a loss at how to structure my search for which VCs to approach first. Or in otherwords, how do other startups develop their target list of VCs to approach first and pitch?

I've identified Pitcbhook as a resource for researching VCs and thier portfolio companies, despite what seems to be expensive pricing. Also the thefunded.com, which appears to be a yelp-like service for entrepreneurs. Do people use placement agents like PE firms do? Bankers - i'm guessing no. Is it all networking and asking around?

Any insight would be much appreciated.
I hear this very often and while deep down it's a reasonable take, the more you think about it, the less useful as advice it becomes.

While I can't comment about Facebook specifically (I haven't been on it for over a decade by now), but I've seen the same happen on many other platforms as social media has become staple of life.

I know people I've been friends with (and I mean, close friends) for almost two decades by now. I have all kinds of family members, far and close friends, acquaintances, online friends that go back to a decade or two ago on IRC channels, etc. I'm not saying every single one of them has changed, but a very LARGE portion of them has. We all have our own demons, our own beliefs, our own pet peeves and general grievances. People are sharing all kinds of sensationalist news and (let's say it) garbage all the time related to whatever orbits their belief or view of the world (or what they are afraid of). The more sensationalist something is, the more divisive it is, the more rounds it will do and the more it will get entrenched into the minds of someone.

Very often, that someone can be you, your friends, or your family. That doesn't make them (or you) bad people necessarily. I know people who I'd consider to be very good people, nice, caring, outgoing, friendly, etc. And yet they still share their demons on social media. The vitriol-induced "us vs them" articles, the fake news-style misinformation, the half truth, whatever fits their view of the world (because we simply don't know better).

It's a huge mental and emotional toll to be consistently bombarded by this kind of stuff. I don't mind talking about certain topics with certain people, what I do mind is getting consistently dragged (either willingly or not) into the same topics/conversations all the time, mostly fueled by emotional outrage (whether it is justified or not).

This doesn't make them "bad" friends. It just makes them "human" friends. You can definitely be completely and utterly emotionally drained talking with friends about topics that you care about, not in a bad way, it's just the way it is. The world is being more and more painted like it's all going to shit (whether or not that's true depends on what news you're being fed, I'm not making judgement here), and that does have a toll on you as a human.

Sorry for the long rant, but I just had to get it out there.
Most of the commentary about the 2008 bank bailouts presumes all the money was spent or given to banks. Banks paid everything back. A couple billion dollars in opportunity cost because of inflation is definitely worth preventing a collapse of the financial system.
How are these transactions conducted? If I wanted to buy some IPv4 and an ASN, where would I go and how much would, say, a /28 cost me?
People need to be careful with that because Instagram is much more powerful while seeming innocuous. (Even before copying TikTok with the reels feature, and before chilling Snapchat with the stories feature. Now it’s all amplified.)
Please don't use HN as your personal blog. This is a place for serious discussion.
Commander Keen
I wonder if the same thing will be said about crypto or about current asset prices (e.g. TSLA mkt cap of +$1tn.. in what time horizon are they going to recoup that in actual profits?)
Why?

If the opposite result is "some people are prisoners, some are guards, and they all sit around and have a jolly old time" then what's unethical about running that experiment?
Certificate expired 2022-02-03 which, depending on your timezone, means that you can't access it.

Since they have enabled HSTS, browsers will not let you add an exception, so this site is effectively offline for my half of the world.
okay I’ll google it
I work on a team in AWS and while I am average there are many really strong engineers in my org. Some are stuck due to visa issues, some just really like the area we work in. We all know we are paid below market and many of my team members have left, but I will say some that stayed got a really nice out of cycle raise because attrition was so bad.
Almost everyone I know is getting off Facebook. It distorts reality and takes over lives. I got out a month ago and don't miss it.
HN Users typically read the heading and jump to the comment section..
I'd rather have 0.1% of my money stolen than do business with banks.
Everyone I know is getting off Facebook. I got out a month ago. It distorts reality and takes over your life.
Have you ever used Facebook? You see divisive rage-bait garbage regardless of whether your connections specifically shared it. The Algorithm(tm) decides what you see, and it favors whatever is as "engagement"-worthy as possible.
I think you need to wake up and see what is happening in your lifetime.

Is this not hacker news? Is this not of interest to technologists?

I think you must know a bunch of not very interesting technologists, because I know countless technologists who are deeply passionate about decentralized monetary systems. They think the kind that reject all new technology as luddites. Which is what you and the nocoiner are. And we don’t like luddites on hacker news, because we are hackers. Savvy?

The wrong function call was made in a program, exposing it to a vulnerability that allowed a cryptographic validation bypass.
That had economic consequences as hundreds of millions of dollars worth of collateral was now worthless.

This is definitely of interest to hackers. If you ignore it the whole living on Solana blockchain thing, this Would be front page news in any cryptographic context.
She did label specific respondents "Nazis" and "incels" without any indication that she actually knew anything about the individuals being labeled... which mirrors the exact behavior she complains about.
It seems to legally retail at 0.25 USD per pill: https://www.1mg.com/drugs/modalert-100-tablet-19037

I assume online pharmacies sell at a heavy markup. It hardly seems like counterfeiting would be worth the effort.
But that doesn't prove anything about how effective they are at preventing injury.
While I agree that there is somewhat over-reliance on CGI in movies nowadays, this post is like cherry picking the examples. Comparing bad CGI shots to few of the greatest films ever made (and with high budget for the time as well) just seems odd. I wouldn't say CGI itself ruined the movies, but how it is now implemented. There are films like Gravity which in my opinion, blended the CGI perfectly with what was happening in the scene and that's where CGI enhances the experience rather than otherwise.
I tried a couple of projects that are way too small to get alternatives listed. I got 404s, I expected a page with the libhunt design with some basic metadata and a vague assertion that they will be checked out.

Also: you should be logging those misses.
It's so interesting how different people's Facebook feeds are so different. I do have excessive ads for products, that's fair enough, but I have absolutely nothing political. My only issue with Facebook is that it's poorly designed, actually very dated and cluttered, and none of my friends really use it for personal posts except me.

I suspect that each Facebook user exists in a different bubble. Possibly they see someone reporting frequently and think "oh great, here's an engaged user, let's show them some more hate speech to get them even more engaged".
Yup, especially the enforcement arms. Despite dollar for dollar being the most effective anti crime spending.
If you think about GNU Emacs, that one is written in C and Emacs Lisp. The original one was written in TECO. I'm using two other ones, which are written in Lisp.
They're for different things.

Krita is primarily for painting and drawing, while GIMP is for photo editing.
There are applications that would really not perform well under a whole chain gets locked situation, e.g. anything that requires collateral ratios, things protected by timelocks, bridges.

You can build in things that limit velocity of transactions, send limits etc in the smart contract it's self, no need for it to be at the chain layer, it's just that many of the largest protocols haven't done that (also you either enable some form of DoS or you are vulnerable to sybil attacks)
> What everybody seems to leave out is that fully settling on the blockchain is slow and costly.

What do you mean?
I find this comment attractive.
You’ve identified what makes Facebook evil. If your friend shares two things, one of which enrages you and causes you to post an angry comment, and one of which causes you to smile gently and scroll on by, which one do you think Facebook is going to show you?

They probably don’t need better friends. We need a communication medium that isn’t powered by hate.
Hey, honest question: how does one get into competitive programming? I imagine it goes far beyond just leetcoding but honestly i don't even know where to start.
Have you done work in Python/Django?
Individual experience reports are nice, yet it does not really account to a decent study.

Reading the paper mentioned, I also feel that we need more than just experience reports (e.g. comments and feelings in forums like hackernews) and controlled experiments.

Comprehension is down, yet I wonder about recall and the general amount of information we are processing. As we experience a lot of information in context, it might lead to a decrease in overall comprehension, yet a stronger recall on the bits we do remember. It would be super interesting to setup a larger scale in-situ study on the topic. Yet, I wonder how to get a baseline on that.
A lot of the internet is things like this
I see. Yeah, I've played plenty of JRPGs and have noticed similar patterns in them overall. I wonder if there isn't a connection between their storytelling, fanbase and a phenomena called "Chuunibyo", literally "second year middle school sickness" (which can apply to anyone of any age) where someone does tons of ruminating, brooding, angsting on things like some young teens. It's a condition I've been accused of having! My suspicion is there's a real important connection to that and the coming of age story in the society that produces these games.
I really don't understand the hate that the ternary operator gets. If you know how to read if/else, you know how to read ?/:.
Found it on my shelves! Closer to 100 main categories! [1]

Random example: Talking to Kitists. Do you fly a traditional or manueverable Kite? How big is it? .. (If maneuverable: How many lines does your kite have?) .. Do you have trouble finding enough open space to fly your kite? .. Have you ever been dragged by your kite? .. Do you anchor your kite, or do you hold onto it. .. Do you fly your kite in competitions? .. Do you do any kite building or kite painting?

[1] By Leil Lownes How to talk to anybody about anything: Breaking the ice with everyone from accountants to zen buddhists 1993

Offhand I am seeing no match on archive.org or Amazon. Worth hunting down. Thanks for the prompt to look for it!
The big reason behind losses was likely the iOS 14 tracking update. Right after it a ton of Facebook Advertisers groups on Facebook started complaining all of their carefully crafted campaigns were not producing revenue anymore. Targeting and regathering stopped making sales for advertisers and they quickly stopped spending on FB. The people who still spend are now doing videos as ads. Small advertisers were the canary in the coal mine.
So how did the debate in architecture get resolved?
It wasn’t an argument, it was acknowledgement. I would consider to both open a policy in defi insurance protocols including Nexus mutual, or consider to provide capital to the insurance pool for passive income or simply trade the associated token. But that’s because all 3 may periodically fit my personal risk profile. This post only acknowledges that they exist and work and are options that require evaluating differently than a traditional insurance company. I don’t care thaat much about how they currently function or your own personal risk tolerance. I’m fine with them blowing up on occasion or permanently, I expect it to happen and for more resilient ones to exist in their place.

You’ll be better off asking around in their community or using the product to see what the current state is, usually they diverge far from the white paper such that analyzing it that was is a waste of energy. Sorry about your dissertation. You can branch the chain onto localhost to prod at it if you don’t want to spend any money.
They're not talking about locking the whole chain. They're saying individual contracts should fail to execute at certain times.
Actually, seems like you want a train
I think if locking up crooks cause them to stop doing crooked things in your country, that's an absolute success, and one of the ideal outcomes of putting people in prison. ;)

But also, I would strongly encourage the United States to do this. Extradition is obviously far more complicated, and as you say, could just lead them to excluding the geographic region that holds them responsible.
Any tips on structuring trainings? Would love to incorporate some trainings this year for data science/data engineering.
This has always been my go to and it works like a charm. I ask “and what do you do?” and follow up whatever they say with “that sounds incredible! Tell me more!”
Well - faith, taxes, guns, and a monopoly on legal violence.
I'm the same age and deleted my FB account around the same time. Got rid of Instagram a few years ago. I used to think I had a LOT of friends because they would 'like' all of my photos and I was in my 20s so I'd see lots of these social-media-friends out at parties. Once I dropped out of the night life and got rid of social media, I made a big effort to text a large portion of my friend group, but gradually I realized that I was the one putting in most of the effort and the social media interaction was shallow. Now I have a core group of friends in a group chat, and occasionally meet up with people IRL for coffee/lunch/whatever. Social media amplified my perception of social life in my 20s, but for the most part it wasn't nearly as important/real/deep as I once believed it was.
> folks who need both a lawyer and a software developer

Strange intersection, but can you give examples?
The Stanford Prison experiment was theater. Milgram was only slightly better. Never mind being unethical, they are just poor science. This is the core of the replication crisis in psychology: theatrical, grandiose claims get all the attention and people leap through hoops to defend them.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/01/rethinkin...

https://www.vox.com/2018/6/13/17449118/stanford-prison-exper...
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The office address in that link is just a virtual office.
Phase-transforming metamaterial with magnetic interactions
Yeah, given that they're adding customers continuously they should be adding peering and transit proportionally.
its written in emacs lisp and c. most of the code base is in the former :)