skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You're starting a fight you can't win here

I'm not starting a fight, I'm having a discussion, which I think is the point of HN.

> Crypto means you will always know who has your money and where it goes.

If a stranger in another country steals $500 from me I'm going to have a really hard time doing anything about it. And knowing their wallet doesn't mean I know who they actually are, as those aren't tied to an identity.

What about exit scams? How many people have gotten their money back in those situations, or had any justice? You can make the argument that these people are investing in something that may not pan out, but we have a ton of legal regulations around that with fiat - lawsuits, criminal charges. Elizabeth Holmes is going to jail for misrepresenting what people were investing in. Institutional investing is limited to high-net-worth individuals or accredited investors to keep uneducated people from getting fleeced.
And is cell division any less magical for that comparison? We still don’t understand it well enough to build with anything close to the robustness & scalability of biological systems.
You’re merely replacing old masters with new. There’s a ton of VC money flowing into “web3”, because they’re replaying the same game of adding a service on top of an open protocol to capture and centralize it.
Some do, Apple is notable for this. If Uber’s done one I missed it.

FTX burns FTT when they have a good quarter, with roughly the same zero accountability to do so as a FAANG with a God Emperor CEO running a dual-class share structure.

Neither of these things are backed by guys with guns who come to your house if you fail to pay taxes in them.
>If someone steals my credit card, I have my credit card company to give me some level of protection. They can block transactions if they think it's stolen, and if I report it as stolen I can claw back money from fraudulent purchases.

The credit card company can also unilaterally decide to block your purchases if it thinks you have become a bad credit risk or if you donate to a frowned upon political cause or any other reason they arbitrarily decide.
That isn't true in my experience at a, "lot of money" scale. They will help you set up the transaction, confirm the receiving party, test and prove the transfer, execute it.

There are also courts etc to get involved, if someone sends you a million dollar wire and you keep it (for no services rendered), courts generally don't let you just have it (cross border caveats etc).
The point here is not "school buses are inherently unsafe", the point is that they seem to lack a basic safety feature that's otherwise common, even in passenger aircraft, that of seatbelts.
As Warren's bill shows, Bitcoin won't protect the truckers from sanctions either. If whatever you have custody of can be demonetized, does the custody even matter?
If and when we have a fusion demonstrator (preferably several of them) operating for a million seconds with a total energy gain of 100 or more, we'll be in a position to make detailed LCOE estimates.

In the mean time, there are arguments from analogy/difference. The market for fusion power is electricity production. (Other possible uses such as hydrogen production, district heat, desalination, or carbon sequestration have been hypothesized[1], but adding fusion to any of those needlessly adds technical risk, and is unlikely to be greenlit.)

At a very high level, fusion electric power plants would be like fission power plants in all economic respects except being more complicated and therefore having higher O & M costs, and that they operate with bigger parasitic losses and startup power and energy requirements. Therefore fusion plants would have a worse return on capital employed than fission plants.

We observe (1) that capital costs are nearly all of the cost of fission plants, and the same would be true of fusion, and (2) that fission power plants are uncompetitive[2] and will almost certainly remain so. Therefore fusion, being strictly less profitable than fission, will not be competitive.

1. ARPA-E review of initial markets for fusion energy: https://arpa-e.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2021-01/105PM_...

2. Lazard's LCOE Analysis: https://www.lazard.com/media/451881/lazards-levelized-cost-o...
I've been in the unfortunate situation of sifting through those resumes before. That 10 second look isn't for me to determine whether or not you're in the interview category, it's literally "person has applied for programming job, have they degree/experience/projects" or do they just want a job and have no relevant experience.

Terrifyingly when I was doing this that filtered out about 75% of the candidates (applying for senior/lead roles with only office admin experience was _really_ common). Once you get past that point you're probably going to get 5 minutes to see what's what.
The year of the Linux desktop was March 2020-March 2021 when millions were given a Chromebook against their will.

EDIT: To everyone downvoting this: nobody cares, nobody is listening to you.
Oh come off it, the notion of collateral damage-free missile strikes is a fantasy, and there are obvious reasons not to pursue a hot war with a nuclear power.
I acquired a Sun mug and card deck from a discard pile at an internship about 7 years ago, a few years after the acquisition by Oracle. Also in the pile was a mug with the pre-merger/acquisition Broadcom big sinc function logo. Glad to see this post that I'm not alone with a small collection of vintage tech swag. (Now I just need to find a Wang Laboratories bag like an older prof proudly carried around...)
You're exactly wrong in my experience.

Maybe some people were hyping it as a PayPal replacement back in the pre-2017 days, but that narrative has largely failed to gain followers and is now very out of favor.

The digital gold narrative and layer one of the new global, open, permisionless, and fair financial system narrative have been big and growing ever since I got involved in 2015ish.

In fact, it was only the emergence of the lightning network that proved the layered system approach that has made me consistently bullish for these past 7 years. If we had to scale payments on the base blockchain's 7tps limit, it would absolutely be an absurd, silly speculative bubble doomed to collapse.

Luckily, the layered approach is proving itself and winning.
TFA offers one reason:

uncertainty-based rescaling — leads people to systematically overestimate the size of small values and underestimate the size of large values.

Basically, when you're not sure what the actual number is, you tend to anchor your guess on 50%, not 0% or 100%.
Not paying sure. Not leaving no. That never should be the case. They own the property the should be able to get it vacated in reasonable time let's say 3 to 6 month. For any reason. There could also be a fixed time contract binding both sides.
If the Earth's ecosystem is being destroyed, why are we, in particular those that are not poor, still consuming so much plastic, energy and stuff in general?

If Facebook is bad for Democracy, why do so many people, especially those who decry the state of democracy, still use it?

If sugar and processed foods are so bad for us, why do so many people consume so much?

If the education system is tilted incredibly against children born into disadvantage and for those with advantage, why do the parents of the later, including liberal ones who fly the flag of equality and justice, hoard as much of quality educational resources for their own children as they can?

(I'm sad that no one else is pointing this out)
I got a list of hotels. not sure how it could be more useful

https://ibb.co/JxfY6BX
Yes and no one minds in that industry
> And bypassing due process is also authoritarian.

No it is not, and even if it were, it's decidedly not the brand of authoritarianism that was being warned about in the poem.

Your entire argument seems to hinge on this idea that heretofore unspecified "due process" (what process is due, you haven't suggested) has been violated.

Yet as far as I'm aware, all appropriate processes and procedures were followed by our elected representatives in the course of levying sanctions against foreign nationals. Please point out where any process that was so due was circumvented. What exactly is the due process being violated?

To understand how sanctioning foreign nationals is not authoritarianism, consider the process by which the sanctions came to be. We came together in November of 2020 to elect a new government, entrusted with among other duties, the task of executing a foreign policy. That foreign policy is being executed now, which involves seizing assets of foreign individuals engaged in waging war against an ally. The seizing of assets is done under law, which was written and passed by our elected representatives, and signed into law buy our elected head of state. If at any point in time we deem their actions unfit to represent us, we are able to elect a new government to replace them. This is not authoritarianism. Calling this process authoritarian gives Putin a pass, because it's not at all like what happens in Russia.

I'm sorry you feel like some Russian billionaire's "due process" was violated, but that's simply not the case, and even if it were that is not "authoritarian". Not every bit of government overreach is "authoritarianism".

> that just gives me "the world must learn of our peaceful ways, by force" vibes.

I'm sorry, but as a point of fact it's government force that is used to preserve and enforce property rights. How do you think private property remains private if not for the government's monopoly to arrest and imprison? Peace and goodwill toward men is not keeping the property of Russian oligarchs private -- it's the threat of imprisonment for violating them.

My advice to you is if you're really worried about the issue of civil asset forfeiture, this is not the right context to argue against it. Billionaire Russian oligarchs are not a sympathetic group to champion, and it's really in poor taste in the moment. Your effort is better spent fighting concrete injustices faced by ordinary Americans, rather than making dozens of posts on HN defending... Russian oligarchs engaged in a war of aggression.
Brave search is fantastic, haven't noticed a difference since moving
Indeed: I think it is a too fine hair to split, generally.

The colloquial distinction is that sociopaths are still capable of a limited form of remorse.

The past view that Putin was not necessarily a psychopath hinged on the idea that his government was more than just him. For example that other people in his regime might have chosen to use a chemical weapon on British soil, but not necessarily Putin himself, directly.

The Ukraine war totally explodes the myth that Russia's foreign policy is under the control of anyone but Putin.

Either way, the point I was making is not that he is evil or violent, but that there's no reason to believe he would think he should act any differently when having people killed on foreign soil; he's unconstrained by any such deference or restraint.
Probably logarithmic due to diminishing returns. Having 20 nullish types isn't much worse than having 2. The biggest difference is going from 0 to 1.
The problem is we may have already seen all of the most interesting applications, and they're just not that impressive. Almost everything that's gotten any amount of buzz in the smart contract blockchain world was predicted in the Ethereum whitepaper. It may have just been a remarkably impressive dredging of nearly everything of value in a small pond.
Gen X zeitgeist mongering
i'm curious what industry/company is it?
I wonder if they stuck the default position of the slider at 50% and that caused such high estimates.

There was a time during early covid where I did a bunch of research surveys to kill time, and there were quite a few where the I was questioning if the intent was to bias the result or if it was accidental with how they set up the survey form.
Google loses if people stop using it. Google has every incentive to downrank them.
Quite correct. The Tor network is designed to be penetrated by hostile actors.

Before passing any sensitive data over it, you must understand what can be seen, and where.

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/06/25/can-you-trust-to...
Chinese elites get preferential treatment? Wow. It never happens in any other country. That's for sure.
That's the beauty of the concept of freedom. In a free society, we'd all be able to choose our own poison. Unfortunately, many who view it as an anti-feature seek to prevent those who view it as a feature from making their own choice, either through regulation or outright bans.
Are you sure you know enough about knock-on effects of nuclear war?

I can recommend the writings of William J. Perry [1] and for blunt emotional effect the BBC movie "Threads" [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._Perry

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threads_(1984_film)
Devops people have to type environment variables quite often which are almost always uppercase by convention.
Yes, I suppose we could all take a radical pay cut, thereby multiplying the measurement of our savings relative to units of yearly income...
They both knew and as long as I was completing all tasks needed then it was okay. I got fired due to 'financial reasons' and wanting to have a more on-site work which I could not do.
Really non fangs pay 150k? Where?
It was kind of a hear-say thing that was presumed about the Vancouver, British Columbia (and surrounding area) Real estate market too

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/russian-money-canada-1.4102...
This is not surprising? If I survey how much an appetizer costs, how much an entree costs, how much dessert costs, and how much a dinner costs, the answer to the fourth is not the sum of the first three, or even close. Or ask people how much time they spend sleeping, eating, working, driving to work, etc., and the answer is nowhere close to 24 hours.

People simply don't approach these questions from starting with a whole, then considering a portion.

Ask people if the government should help group X, yes. Sum up the costs of all their answers, hell no.
Any suggestions for a good way to learn driver development?
The Current Thing
According to a discussion I had here previously with a Kagi user, when they go out of beta they plan to offer a $10/month plan with a quota of 20 searches per day (and $0.015 per each additional search), and an unlimited plan for $20-30/month. Additionally, every time you change something related to your search query (such as clicking "Images", changing the sort order, applying filters, or blocking a website) counts as an additional search, so you could go through your quota pretty fast.

Apparently all of this is to offset the costs from paying Google and Bing to run searches for them (the site basically takes results from Google and Bing and then combines them together with their own special sauce) but with a pricing model like this it seems like Kagi will remain a niche tool solely used by the wealthy.
How would one add this if it's missing?
Seems like the problem was the restraining order. Should have fought that one. Blame the part of the system that was true problem.
I actually thought about the difference between my percentage ratings :(
No, he's not. Every dictator rules only because there are people close to him who benefit from his rule. Every dictator can be replaced at any moment if people who enable him deem him bad for business.

And that's the case with Russia. I think oligarchs would take him down if they got offered clear road forward from current troubles (if they believed it).

Russia is a member of security council but nothing stops the rest of the world from physically not registering Russia's veto. Or not even letting Russia representative into the room where the issue is decided.

Rulebook has been thrown away by Russia. There's not point of respecting anything about it.
Flip it. Why should they trust anything else? They don't, so crypto being untrustworthy doesn't particularly stand out from the stock market, where you can also easily fuck up and lose your shirt without ever quite understanding what you've gotten into. See: options.
now newyorker.com should cover how the kleptocrats bought NYC too, but that'd make a lot of powerful people in NYC uncomfortable.
Have you ever been there before? I thought the same before and then I lived there for a few months.

I left feeling different about the place.
> The landlord doesn't shovel snow or mow grass, I do.

I've rented places where that was my responsibility, enumerated in the lease. Also taking out the trash, keeping porches and exterior areas clean, etc.

These are common expectations when you're renting a full single-family house. I've also seen arrangements where a single tenant of a multi-unit property will accept grass & snow responsibilities in exchange for reduced rent.

I understand that you don't want those jobs though. If they are not in your lease, you are not required to perform them. (Don't take legal advice from me, but that's true everywhere I've lived). You might have trouble finding a SFH lease that doesn't include them, but multi-unit buildings will be easier.

The law will require that grass mowing and snow removal happens. The property owner will be fined if they do not happen. These services cost money, so if the tenant is unable or unwilling to do them as part of the lease contract, the owner will purchase these services and increase the rent correspondingly.
Fusion reactors are trivial to operate. You just turn them on. There are no runaway scenarios related to hidden states of isotope distributions. There are no dangerous refueling procedures. There are many fewer necessary safety measures and no fuel waste disposal. The most expensive operating cost is hull maintenance and that can be dropped to arbitrarily low levels with R&D (swallowed by capex).
what is a reasonable walking distance? 9% seems like a surprisingly small number.
What are the books all junior devs should read in 2022?
I find myself in a situation where I need to recommend some good books on software engineering to some developers who are just entering the workforce after finishing their education. When I was young, there were some books that generally everybody agreed were "must reads". They included:

Refactoring by Martin Fowler,
Design Patterns by the Gang of Four,
Test Driven Development by Example by Kent Beck,
Clean Code by Uncle Bob.

There's others like Pragmatic Programmer but I want to keep this list short to simplify the discussion.

My question is, are these books still relevant? Should any of them be replaced by more relevant books for 2022?

Refactoring is still one of my favorite tech books of all time, and I see it has recently been revised in 2018 to include javascript examples. I think this remains a solid recommendation.

Test Driven Development by Example is probably timeless as a historical record, but I'm wondering if there's a more recent work that covers the same content but also goes into Behavior Driven Development and Acceptance Test Driven Development.

Clean Code I would say is certainly still relevant, but I am wondering if there is any book that covers the same content with more recent code examples.

Design Patterns is the one I'm struggling with the most. Back when I first read it, it changed my life. But in 2022, with OOP looking increasingly dated and more and more people realizing they shouldn't make everything a noun, I wondering if there isn't a better choice out there? In many ways Design Patterns were created as a way for Java programmers to emulate useful tools from functional programming by nounifying them. I'm wondering if there isn't any good book to cover instead basic patterns from functional programming, stuff you see regularly in languages like javascript and python. Stuff like function composition, applying a closure to a container, that kind of thing. Any good options?
I don’t know the content of the bill, but it’s a matter of degree.

It’s harder to control your transactions when you have self-custody. It requires a higher level of coordination.
Disappointed to see Marcan et al asking users to blindly copy and paste a curl command from the internet.

“Ready to give it a shot? Make sure to update your macOS to version 12.3 or later, then just pull up a Terminal in macOS and paste in this command:”

Other than that, fantastic work and I look forward to eventually having an M1 to run Asahi on

Edit: I just wish the wording would encourage you to verify the file. I don’t think there’s something inherently wrong with using shell scripts from the internet. But massive companies let domains expire, why won’t marcan?
I don't think that's true.

Credit cards, paypal and all the rest existed before bitcoin. I mean it's nifty that I can do it without a single intermediary authority, but it's not that special.

I think the lack of revocation available to bitcoin is a (and I had myself for saying this) 'a feature'.
If somebody sends me payment in bitcoin, I definitely know it can't be charged-back for example. It's like sending cash in the mail.
Now that comes with the flip side, that they are putting all their trust in me.
Yeah, IIRC, the very first pattern is a proposal to divide the world into 10,000 nations of 1 million people each (?!).
Can start with people who aren't citizens (overseas "investors"), and then people who may be citizens, but don't have the country as their primary residence. And then beyond a certain number / distance (discourage absentee landlords).
Only because they haven't yet been regulated. That has already changed in China and is about to change in the US. Then that use case goes away.
1. Everything is a bubble.
2. Censorship resistance is the blockchains only real use case, and more important than ever. (Not hyperbole, since we have all time high population and cancel culture.)
3. Crypto is going no where but up. All fiat currencies go to 0 over time, the opposite of the cryptocurrency total market cap chart.

I accept down arrow fate.
If people see other people turning these made up numbers into Lambos then it's not really hard to see why they start to trust it.
I've lived in Dubai for a few months. I'm writing this right now from central London.

I agree.
Let's say he instead did a traditional installer link. Would it be any different for most users? Nobody actually checks the checksum.
Are you saying that lying (to incite a war and perform an invasion) in a manner other than overt and blatant is not really lying, but just a metter of opinion?

High moral standards.
Maybe it's the amount of media dedicated to the phenomenon.
What kind of animal would make the best driver?
Rust is an incredibly difficult language to be productive in and I don't think it will stand the test of time. C has been around for half a century and is a perfectly fine language to use today. Rust is popular because people these days are too risk averse, "unsafe" code is really not that bad.
How much is a heap of sand? It's a Sorites problem. There exists a continuum between "changing your profile picture to be tinted like flag X" and "everyone is saying and doing the same thing and it's an entrenched social norm".

It's certainly less impactful than doing something substantive but it also costs nothing to signal boost. Same like boycotts, it only works en masse.
Thanks. I see now that you're right.
Courts can also get involved in the BTC case too - it’s just an expensive and slow option in both cases (with uncertain outcomes).
No one keeps money in fiat. It goes into stocks, real estate, etc. Because fiat is going to zero.
Unsurprisingly, they blame conservatives. But the city has been a stronghold of Labour for a very long time. BoJo’s tenure was after this happened.

Mind Gell-Mann Amnesia. Remember last time this outlet covered a subject you know about.