skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work in crypto and have done for the last couple years. To be totally transparent, I worked on Cardano, then a couple random projects including a cosmos DEX and writing test suites for a qa consultancy, and now a startup DEX. I've been active in the scene (investing, reading papers, talking about crypto etc) since around 2016 and worked in it since 2019.

I think there's a few things here. I don't believe that many people are actively and knowingly working on deliberate scams, but there definitely are some. I do think a lot of people are working on trash and it's only sustainable as a business model because people are making speculative investments, such as Decentraland clothing brands (wtf?). I'm in the field because I like the technical challenges - I've been really lucky at working on some pretty hard/cool things with some really smart engineers. However I do find the constant onslaught from HN, news articles, random people on the internet and in real life, to be too much for my mental health and I'm considering leaving the industry to work on something else. Even if you're just trying to have fun working with a tech stack you enjoy (I've spent time in Haskell, Rust, Go, etc... most of the hip cool ones), being accused of being a scammer every 5 minutes is just very very draining. I still don't believe I have enabled any scams directly but I don't want to spend the next few years of my career justifying that either. In fact I just was talking to my wife about this before opening HN and seeing this question.

I think I need to take a few months off and start looking for something that's tangible like robotics, or something more visual. I'm just not in the position to do that right now. All the best to you anyway - I hope you can keep it all together better than I can!
Nothing would be sadder to me to see us stagnate forever. As a non corporeal being, I think you could live nearly forever and learn far more. I think creating "children" could be possible too if we had the technology to digitize people in the first place. I don't think we would give up on exploration either. Just build a ship, send it somewhere, and transport your consiousness over the distance. If you wanted to go back in the physical world, I think you could, or at least a copy of you.

Of course it goes without saying that this is all basically magical sci-fi gibberish.
In my experience, at least on macOS, Teams is about the least bad piece of Microsoft programming that I’ve had to deal with.

There are still some things that I think Teams does better than Slack, and some things that Teams does better than Zoom or any other video conferencing software I’ve used.

Yes, I would prefer to lead a Microsoft-free life, both professionally and personally. But Teams is probably the last piece of Microsoft code I would complain about.

I can’t speak for what it’s like on any other OS, however.
Believe that Django used to be rough with postgres so pgbouncer was an easy way to mediate between the two.
The number of times most people will catch COVID is way, way fewer than the number of miles that they'll drive.
Crypto provides a way to launder money, sell drugs, etc., so it is "something" by similar measure.
Right, so what does the GGP mean by "did not have to go to wide chars"?
You know how racecars spectacularly fly to pieces when they crash? That is by design - as it rapidly sheds energy. Same thing applies to things that "burn up on reentry", so long as you prevent the thing from coming down as one solid lump of glowing hot metal - the surface area to mass ratio renders the fragments harmless.

I wonder if anyone has ever tested the whole thing about field mice surviving a drop from any height due to their low terminal velocity... those bat bombs in WWII don't count.
That's exactly it. Residential service is naturally the most expensive to operate. National regulations impose price caps on residential. But Texas is the only state that isn't subject to those rules because they're not synchronously connected to another grid. Which on top of that makes them less reliable, and thus more expensive.
Oh, Palm Vx. I miss that thing. Days of battery life, easy to use, and simple to sync.

I still write my upper-case 'E' in jot.

I miss you, PalmOS.
So it's ok to mislead people so long as you are not lying directly?
it shows that criminal groups aren't always going to pick the most secure option for communication
I've also messed around in the space and have the same doubts. I recently made a small hearthstone-like card game that lets you link NFTs as playable cards for a hackathon but I don't know whether to put it on my github because I don't want people to get the impression that I'm a crypto/nft shill. I'm thinking of stripping all the NFT parts out and putting it up as a generic game because I was quite proud of the implementation in some areas and I ended up putting a significant chunk of time into it.
Need to consider that headline capturing objectives ar a few in a lifetime and training goes on all the time.
Vast majority is indeed a scam.

Perhaps there are some genuine efforts.

Key is to identify what satisfies you as an individual and follow that path.

There are no perfect jobs.

Find your mission and find meaning in striving for that.
No, it’s not about that. I put a lot of it down to love of authority. Lots of folks can’t understand why anyone would want some money that didn’t have men with guns to save them. “My bank is safe”. These folks are trusting. Government will save the day.

And some don’t trust anyone. Hate banks. Love technology. See how detaching monetary systems from authority provides freedom.

It’s about trust. I trust none. Bitcoin is perfect, it is the money of my enemies and my friends.
Is the Omicron subvariant BA.2 more transmissible?
I really think we need a physical microphone shut up switch similar to that we have for webcam shutter available in most laptops now to prevent this kind of intruding stupidity.
Because it provides commodity functionality that most developers with Spring experience can understand quicker, along with the Java philosophy of customization over convention.

I don’t like Java or Spring, but I understand their benefits and why people like them.
I went $300 into debt to my parents when I was 9 years old for a Handspring Visor Deluxe. It had 8MB of RAM, a 16-ish MHz DragonBall processor, and ran Palm OS 3.1H3. I vaguely recall the Handspring version (H3) of the OS having a few additional goodies like a world clock and better notes app. A year or two layer my buddy Will bought a Palm Vx at a yard sale and I beamed him the Space Trader PDB because it was my favorite game.

Good times. I remember reading about the Springboard modem modules that were available and thinking how cool it would be to have the internet in your pocket and chat with friends on the go... if only I knew :-P
Broad-brush crypto whataboutism strikes again.

“Maybe it’s a scam, but so is [central banking / the stock market / every other startup / etc.]”

You’re trying to gaslight the OP to believe that what they’re feeling is normal, but it’s not. In startups with real products and real users and actual growth, the mood is not “we’re just dumping tokens.”
> George Bush was going to invade Iraq either way, and he did.

Which is why I wince at the fact that I ever supported this crime. It had nothing to do with the American interests, but that didn’t stop the bloodshed.

Now they’re determined to do it all over again, saying the same malarkey they said back then about protecting freedom or something.
This seems like grounds for a class action lawsuit. Owners have been harmed by loss of car function and they are reasonably numerous.
For reference, the linked article is in no way an apples-to-apples comparison.
I have a 2016 CX-9. It’s been years since I looked into this, but the Mazda infotainment system is running Linux. You used to be able to login to it over the USB port, but they locked that down at some point with a firmware upgrade so that you could only get to it over a serial connection that you could get to if you were comfortable removing the console.

The UI is developed by a U.S. company and I think is JavaScript based.

Ah, here you go:

https://mazdatweaks.com/

(I retrofitted CarPlay support to mine via an upgrade Mazda offered a couple years after I got the car and I think that closed off access to tweaking, but I forget. I’m generally happy with the UI but I wish it booted faster. It’s a good 1-2 minutes after starting the car before it’s responsive.)
Or a fake "welcome to thunderdome" generator . . .
They call it the "intermediate syndrome" in freeflying.
Even before self-driving cars, you've always been supposed to leave enough room that you won't rear-end the car in front of you if it suddenly brakes hard.
It's definitely a PoC. I started it two weeks ago. Overall I've been super happy with Rust because it was a great safety harness and it gave me a fast concurrent program. PgBouncer implements this in about 30k lines of C, while I managed to get 80% of the way and then some in less than 1k.

As for tests, it's covered with pgbench, python (psycopg2), ruby (pg / active record gems), psql and a couple inline tests for trivial things like config.

As for bytes and hardcoded ints...give pgbouncer's and postgres' source code a look :).
The title misrepresents things (people are posting this everywhere with this wrong title). The satellites were not lost to the geomagnetic storm. They were lost to the atmosphere expanding from the geomagnetic storm. The title implies some kind of electronic damage from the geomagnetic storm when in fact there has been none.
The main "friend" phrase sounds exactly the same as 40 years ago.

I know he sounds like a nice guy. He probably is. But overdoing anything becomes torture after a while. I'll never buy anything from his company, and I won't listen to any radio stations that incessantly run his ads.

The same thing happens when hit radio plays the same hit song 3 times an hour. It isn't long before one starts to hate the song. Decades later, I still hate those songs. I used to like the new "Rasputin" cover. Radio killed it dead for me.

Can you imagine being one of those aging rock bands on tour, and all your fans want to hear are the songs you played 50 years ago? I'd slit my throat.
Telegram is ridiculously smooth, runs on everything, doesn’t treat any platform as an afterthought (despite having the electron thing, Signal is still very mobile oriented), and isn’t Facebook. It’s about as good as you’re going to get without making big sacrifices somewhere.
I don't think I've ever seen any of the stickers from the telegram company actually used in a chat.
I've seen lots of stickers that people have had drawn, though, sometimes even used by the people who commissioned them.
>We have existing solutions that don't result in these excess deaths

The existing solutions <As chosen by the collective will of the American people> cause 40,000 dead Americans every year. Other 'Solutions' are not. Don't ask me why they are not, ask your neighbor, and your congressman -- but they are not. Also ask yourself how many collective minutes spent waiting for a bus is a traffic fatality worth? This isn't rhetorical, the answer is a number.

>Which bill are you talking about?

Lets start with the United States Department of Transportation, followed shortly thereafter by your state's department of transportation.

>it's just proof that we have grandfathered an extremely unsafe system here.

All the reason why a potentially new system should have to meet the safety standard of 'less unsafe' and not 'perfect'. Literally every day the adoption of self driving is delayed kills 109.6 people[0] because that's one more day of the status quo. To save lives we should be damn near throwing people in front of Teslas to help them train instead of wringing our hands over the matter.

[0]As much as, divided by the relative eventually safety of a fully developed self driving. As Americans, more globally of course.
"I think you could live nearly forever and learn far more."

But it wouldn't be you living forever. It would be some copy of you (at best).
its a popular method to launder money, mostly. i think some alt coins will thrive and maybe find a niche but Bitcoin will continue to dominate. dont even try to compete with Bitcoin you will lose. smart contracts. lightning network. etc. hard to beat. i'd like to see more resources put into progressing useful apps like the tox project. (decentralized messaging service). lets take back our data and privacy. i'm sure we'll see some cool stuff built on top of Bitcoin. and i really like what Gamestop is doing with NFTs and defi. stock trading on the blockchain would be great to combat the illegal naked short selling wall street is doing. it's pretty much financial terrorism what these scum bag hedge funds get away with.
That sounds like 2014. We have whole countries in 2022.
I worked for one in DeFi on the Cardano ecosystem and I can say it is definitely a scam. But due to some paperwork I signed I can't (for now) tell who or which startup this is. They have been pulling all kinds of dirty marketing tricks while spending no time developing any actual product. I just look at the crowd that support this project and I am so so teribly disappointed and pitiful for them.
I bought a m105 from my own pocket money. I used it for years. It was neardy but I loved this thing.
Later switched to Windows CE / Mobile. My God these things where powerful. First smartphone was a Web OS device for me. Never had a better Hardware keyboard device. I was SO fast on that thing. Sadly there is no up to date smartphone with a horizontal keyboard. I need it so bad for termux. Sad days...
Blackberry will introduce a new phone in 2022. The priv and the keyONE do not meet my expectations regarding power.
TL:DR - you can't abstract away the need to make a judgement call every time.

Also if you think horses not zebras, make sure to at least glance the picture for stripes.
I use Rust a lot, I enjoy it very much, but there are cases in which compile times are real issues, namely in CI. Testing my code means:

- downloading a Rust compiler;

- downloading/compiling `rustfmt` including dependencies;

- downloading/compiling `mx-tester` (the Rust-bassed tool we use for testing) including dependencies;

- downloading/compiling the actual project including dependencies.

This could be 8-10 minutes wait every time I push code to CI. This also means that debugging CI itself takes days.

Admittedly, caching can help a lot. I just haven't configured it yet.
Now I need a video card to drive it, guessing my laptop won’t cut it.
> let's say hypothetically you create a market for "+100 FB shares, -500 SNAP shares". If everyone is competing on price to quote that combination, that creates the most competitive market

Some combinatorial auctions make this tradeoff, packaging goods either to deal with computational limitations or to concentrate bidding on a few packages. It can work if there's near total consensus on what the economically relevant packages are, but it doesn't work otherwise. US equities is an "otherwise" case given a huge diversity of needs. The chance of someone wanting the opposite side of even a pairs trade at any given point in time is vanishingly rare. It's far more likely that the person doing the pair would interact with two or more counterparties independently actively interested in or willing to for the right price sell FB and buy SNAP (perhaps conditional on hedging). The mechanism design game is more about giving every party the tools they need to communicate their value function to the auctioneer and creating the incentives to bid (close to) truthfully.

> However, if there are many expressive bids with various conditions (e.g. minimum quantities, conditional on execution of another leg, etc), they may not get "implied" into creating a reasonable market, creating exponentially more arbitrage opportunities if they become locked/crossed.

And this is why combinatorial auctions are a global optimization (as opposed to implied, which are effectively an iterative and greedy approximation) and, in our case, one that seeks to find uniform clearing prices. There are formats with price discrimination and others in which mechanical arbitrage within an auction is possible, but ours is not one of them. There isn't a separate price for {A}, {B}, and {A, B} — within each auction there's a uniform price for p_a and p_b, and p_{a,b} = p_a + p_b (and so on for any arbitrary linear combination). Theoretical point: linear prices don't always exist (in practice, they do for interdependent value goods that aren't strongly sub or superadditive, e.g., capital market goods), and they're not inherently desirable. We chose linear pricing largely because it's a natural fit for how capital markets work now, and perceived fairness/simplicity is itself a valid mechanism design consideration.
Yes, the stated goal is the sabatier reaction from solar energy.

The apparent purpose of this is pretty much a tech-demo for mars. In terms of minimizing environmental impact on earth it would pretty clearly be better just to send the solar energy to the grid and divert natural gas that would have gone to generating electricity to launching rockets.
An interesting problem is "how much energy would it take to launch from a super-earth?"

https://www.space.com/40375-super-earth-exoplanets-hard-alie...

> To launch the equivalent of an Apollo moon mission, a rocket on a super-Earth would need to have a mass of about 440,000 tons (400,000 metric tons), due to fuel requirements, the study said. That's on the order of the mass of the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt.

We may be in a Goldilocks zone not only for distance from the primary star (lots of systems are binary which gets problematic), but also in terms of size of the planet (not to light to loose atmosphere, not to heavy to trap everything), and we've got a nice big moon to keep things sloshing around and stabilize the tilt.

I am of the opinion that life is rare because we live in a surprisingly boring solar system with a terrestrial planet in the right range, not to large and not too small, and with a massive moon.
In the case of the article, they got caught in a honeypot. That seems like a different risk than choosing poorly made software.
The race to save the Internet from quantum hackers
It’s a bad argument. React is still a framework and not a “library”.
It was a minor storm. For some reason the atmosphere puffed up more than expected or with a bad timing.
It disproves the assertion.
We use single sign on with Zoom so I never have to login and it takes <1sec to start on my laptop. But even contained using firejail I wouldn't want it running all the time.
Same thing at my uni..we have peta bytes of data saved..it's going to be impossible to get it off in time.
Not gpt-3 specifically, I’m talking about making my own language model.
First I've heard of that but it makes sense.
They’ve raised another $7M on GiveSendGo:
https://www.givesendgo.com/FreedomConvoy2022
New SolarPACES Technology Briefs for Hot Solar Industrial Processes
The Baofengs have two FM chips according to this teardown. [0]

AT1846S Single-Chip Transceiver

RDA 5802N Single-Chip Broadcast FM Radio Tuner

[0](https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/news/teardown-tuesday-baofe...)

You’re totally correct. I just wanted to clarify the various ways that radio can decode FM digitally. Please correct me if I’m mistaken. I’m still real new to this world.
There is a continuous spectrum between being the guy Steve Carrell's character Mark Baum meets with in The Big Short at the restaurant smirking about how he knows he's immoral but earns a bigger paycheque than Baum, and being a hard-working rule-abiding capitalist. Most tech companies are somewhere in the middle. I'm pretty sure if you work somewhere, you can tell where on the spectrum you fit. If you do know, and it's on the bad end, and you keep working there, the fact that there exists a spectrum really has no bearing on the morality of your choices.
Oh my god I think you're right.

Somewhere this morning a low-level SpaceX engineer was apologetically skipping out of the house. A full breakfast—uneaten, except for the toast he grabbed—laid out on the kitchen table and now the focal point of his wife's muttering. In the background a TV has the morning news on, briefly mentioning the geomagnetic storm. "I promise I'll be back in time for Kaitlyn's play. ...Yes I know how much this means to her."

But he won't be, will he? Because by the end of the day, the entire world will have been transformed in ways nobody could have seen that morning. Except for the perennially-ignored news anchor on in the background.

EDIT: Yeah, https://xkcd.com/1387/
It does. The traditional system reinforces systemic biases. Trustless systems don’t care about system biases. Peer to peer systems route around this.

It was always about empowering the individual.
Another honest question that was prompted by the remembering WMD debacle: why is the American military going to fight in a border war between Russia and Ukraine?
When my garage flooded during a storm, can I blame the storm?
Much of modern finance was illegal 50 years ago. The first financial future was traded on May 16, 1972. Before that, futures were confined to agricultural commodities, where they were used mostly by farmers and buyers of agricultural products. The first junk bond was sold in 1986, and it achieved the largest percentage gain on the NYSE, then in 1987 suffered the largest percentage loss. Until 1999, banks and brokerage houses were totally separate. Half a century ago, such activities were viewed as gambling. There were still people around who remembered 1929 and the Great Depression.

Finance used to be a support function for industry. Now, in the US, industry is almost a support function for finance - just something to generate numbers to bet on, like horse racing.

Cryptocurrencies are the ultimate extension of this trend. They're totally detached from any physical reality, or even economic reality. NFTs are worse. Most are overpriced pet rocks.

It's worth noting that China does not work this way. China's government has kept finance in its box, focusing investment on actually making real stuff. That seems to be working out. The US has lost the capability of making consumer electronics and telecom gear. US Steel, once the biggest steelmaker, is now in 35th place. This may end with the US a has-been country, like Britain, pining for the glory days of empire.

How does this unwind? Well, the bottom has fallen out of Axie Infinity, once the biggest NFT. It's really hard to tell the value of NFTs on OpenSea, because there's so much wash trading and not much liquidity.
But it seems to be difficult for a purchaser to sell an NFT at a profit. Profits mostly flow to minters.
As I point out now and then, NFTs as investments work a lot like Beanie Babies on eBay - high asking prices, low actual selling prices, large numbers of items on sale with high reserves and no bids. That's what an illiquid market looks like.

ICOs were a big thing back in 2018. Then the SEC started cracking down. Now there are few ICOs, and the SEC is working through the backlog, bringing the hammer down on about two ICO promoters per month. In the aftermath, not only were most ICOs failures [1], it's hard to find any that created a business outside cryptocurrency speculation. There's much tail-chasing in the cryptocurrency world.

Historically, that doesn't end well.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/tech/most-successful-icos-all-t...
Because there are some write holes around iirc power failures and, more importantly, restore basically doesn't work (the code just doesn't exist in a working variant).

This isn't easy code to write, and it's Linux-Kernel-C, far from "comfy" code to write. I assume it's that kind of effect that continues to keep all competent people from fixing Btrfs's RAID 5/6 code. (If I could gather the motivation, I could probably do it, but that's far from fun to do and I'm already dire for motivation-to-code... it needs to be someone who likes that work, ideally sponsored so they don't loose money from working on that project.)