skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's another. There used to be people who'd cut slices into sidewalks using a hand held circular saw, and then reporting it to the city as a trip hazard, and then offering to fix it and get it resolved with the city. Being a house owner is a punishment in NYC.
Mastering something like trading to the point where you can earn a living from it is probably pretty meaningful to a lot of people.
That sounds good, is there evidence this is actually happening?
Try banana bread too!
If you are sophisticated (or even just have a functioning brain instead of a void between your ears) you can easily see that the largest exchange is minting it's own crypto. And amazingly, it remains pegged regardless of how much they mint.

This is being used in more than half of all crypto trades and can easily be used to influence crypto prices across the board.

There is really nothing "free" about a market where the market makers are also active players with an unlimited supply of funds. And without a "free market", most everything else is irrelevant.
Good luck to you! I remember back in the late 90's / early 2000's when The Stock Market Only Goes Up, and 1/4 of my software peers quit to "become day traders." Well when the bear market inevitably came, I started seeing them back in scrum meetings... Do your due diligence and and preserve your capital :)
I've been exploring day trading recently and have not yet found the angle that works for me and also fits my lifestyle/budget. It's hard to find reliable sources of education on the topic because it seems like so many materials are teaching hindsight technical analysis that looks good on paper but is really just BS to sell a e-book or Discord subscription. I'm still exploring what time frames I want to trade and if I should go with option strategies or stock scalping. Do you have any advice for learning materials?
I read Fooled By Randomness while in business school and it completely changed the way I think about economic systems.
I wonder if most people fleeing Ukraine now do actually use crypto.
Synthetic stocks have arbitrage discounts/premiums that shouldn’t exist.

Decentralized markets often cause the liquidity provider to lost value from “impermanent loss”

The capital controls thing is a fairy tale. When was the last time someone accepted a ruble in exchange for any major crypto currency? If someone can but BTC with a dollar, why don’t they just evade the control with their dollars?

Major cryptos are all down 20%+ from their peak. That’s wild inflation.
As a longtime crypto & blockchain skeptic- I have to be fair and note that, according to this FT article, HSBC and Wells Fargo are using (non-crypto) blockchain specifically to settle currency trades. And this is apparently past the testing or experimentation stage, this is live implementation.

I don't really understand how it works (if you have a fat finger error, is it reversible?) or why it's better than a simple relational database, but apparently this is a use case

https://www.ft.com/content/1a4dcaf5-2b4b-4f0b-8c58-a8fa173f2...
https://archive.is/qs8Cg (archive.is link to bypass the paywall)
My guess is that you do the more "meaningful things" in your spare time. Likely day trading affords you a little more of that?
Blockchain isn't private. It is anonymous, but the whole point is that it isn't private.
Does anyone actually use nslookup.io? Why wouldn't they just run `nslookup` and/or `dig` from their terminal?
Interesting, have you leveraged your tech background to help the business?

I'm in a similar spot--my wife bought a retail business (gift shop + dress boutique) with her sister around 2018. My tech background made some things easier, like modernizing how they operate (bluetooth scanners, iPads, inventory management vs. the old clunky stuff that was in place).

Retail is a hard way to make a dollar, but very interesting -- I manage the business's finances and bought the commercial building they operate out of (and rent it to their business at a loss), so I've been learning a lot. For context, the business has grown ~30% YoY the last few years. But to continue growth I think we'll need to expand business online (90%+ of sales are in person).

"Sell online" seems harder and harder these days due to the competition--building to thrive in brick and mortar is different than online. During COVID they started weekly Facebook live shows which do well, but the audience is mostly local.

Since it is a brick and mortar businesses they already have processes for inventory, etc. in place with thousands of SKU's and are next door to the local post office, so I think there are some opportunities to leverage that into unique business opportunities. For example, they are a gift shop and specialize in helping people find gifts. What if they turned that into a service where people submit who they need a gift for + their budget and the store sends a gift to the person?

If I ever take a few months off I'd probably spend time thinking about how to leverage the unique advantages of old-school brick and mortar businesses like this.
This dovetails nicely with Google unilaterally deciding to age-restrict things like presidential candidate campaigns.

https://www.lefigaro.fr/medias/la-video-d-eric-zemmour-restr...
I've been a full time dev since 2000 – 22 years.

Right now I'm in training for ordained ministry in a Christian denomination. I came back into regular church worship a few years ago, and then started studying theology through my diocese and found I loved it. Now I'm close to completing a Masters of Divinity at university, and I'm in my third year of training at theological college.

Software skills have been much more useful to all of this than you might think. In the church the idea of 'calling' has a particular prominence; sort of doing those things that you find rewarding, that you have the skills and aptitude for, and that also help others – God is seen to be in all of that, too.

It took a while but at a certain point I just realised that while I'm really good at software, it's not the other two things for me. It's a funny thing to let it go, slowly, and if I am ordained I think it'll be my equivalent of playing with train sets in the garage.

I guess what I'd take from all of this is that even in a secular sense, we're always learning about ourselves, and it's never too late to be brave and explore something new.
You're comparing a quote from an article clearly being written in the context of this Australian law to the actual quote from Google's implementation of DMCa law. There is nothing in your quote indicating they are "protesting" DMCA law.

Here is the full quote.

> Over the coming month, we will also be introducing a new age assurance step on YouTube and Google Play. This added step is informed by the Australian Online Safety (Restricted Access Systems) Declaration, which requires platforms to take reasonable steps to confirm users are adults in order to access content that is potentially inappropriate for viewers under 18.

> This is in line with the actions we took in the European Union in response to the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD).

> As part of this process some Australian users may be asked to provide additional proof of age when attempting to watch mature content on YouTube or downloading content on Google Play. If our systems are unable to establish that a viewer is above the age of 18, we will request that they provide a valid ID or credit card to verify their age. We’ve built our age-verification process in keeping with Google’s Privacy and Security Principles.

Pulling out a quote and then saying "they don't mention the law", when they actually do mention the law a few lines above is frankly... a bad objection.
I totally agree removing friction is key. I have really enjoyed Korg Gadget https://www.korg.com/us/products/software/korg_gadget/ - most people are familiar with the iPad version, but the Mac version has the keyboard mapped out like sampulator for immediate playing like an instrument.
State as in not federal. Not state as in nation.

1/8th of the country takes a different approach to a public health crisis and suddenly every hot take American conservative talks about invading the country. But the federal government uses us as a testing ground for technological authoritarianism for the better part of a decade and it doesn't get reported at all, even within Australia, except for on tech sites and other left-leaning places.

If you, as an American, are worried about authoritarianism within your own country, stamping this steady ramping of it out in other allied western nations should be a key priority. But the only time I've ever heard an American news network even talk about Australia was about the Melbourne lockdowns, with completely incorrect facts everywhere, making an absolute mountain out of a molehill.
I don’t disagree with anything you said, but some countries, like the US, don’t have a national ID system. So we usually have the option of using one of several different ways to verify our identities[1] for commercial services. Unfortunately most still do give you fixed numbers that don’t change unless you move to another state.

1. https://help.id.me/hc/en-us/articles/360017833054
How about kilometers per litre?
The USA has an adversarial political system: half the people associate with Democrats, half associate with Republicans. But in China, you are either for or against the CPC, and being against it almost means being a traitor. The other political parties exist just for appearances. Unity then is just the default.
It’s all good, I’m eligible for farmersonly.com now…
Just because it is mckinsey stating something does not mean they are right or wrong.

Most often than not, companies hiring tend to be very different from what they sell to candidates because the jobmarket has also been much more competitive. HR today is also about sales & marketing where closing a sale is getting a candidate onboard.

If I am not asking what's wrong with the company and not stating upfront I expect them to be clear on this matter, then yes, I am being naive.

Not even accounting for those who could afford to move or pause until they find something they feel might be better (I know a few) due to rising asset prices. Let's see how it plays going forward with another tech bubble deflating.
I just wanted to add one cent here to the conversation - European climate is harsher, and this difficulty of survival drives people to cooperate and innovate. That would be a good reason why countries where “food just jumps into your basket” did not outpace Europe. As in my thought here is that technological progress and cooperation isn’t in our human nature by itself. Discomfort could have been a big driver in that case.
Presupposing the "west" has already made reparations with money to the affected peoples via social programs and foreign is a very elitist point of view. No money could replace all the gold and silver stolen from the America's under Spanish rule. The gold was used as religious decoration. It culturally meant something; you can't just presume you can pay it off; it's non-fungible. Can money account for all the indigenous languages and cultures that have been lost because of colonialism?

In the 70s, the Ford administration and Henry Kissinger cobbled together $50,000,000.00 to go to Argentina. This "foreign aid" was given to dictator Jorge Rafael Videla to disappear communists and dissidents all over the country on the behest of the U.S.

Has "the West" truly paid their dues, or do they have even more blood on their hands?
I thought it was beehives
Where is your bakery/store located? I would love to visit a bakery owned by another HN user.
It certainly matters that Mesopotamian agriculture had a collapse in ca. 2,200 BCE, but it doesn't matter whether you point out that it was the Akkadian empire founded by Sargon which collapsed, as the OP wanted to correct me about, or that, in fact, the agricultural collapse wasn't specific to the Akkadian empire, and affected areas outside of Mesopotamia. Similarly, it matters that the Roman empire fell, whether it was a gradual collapse or a sudden one - a point which the short post didn't discuss, despite the OP's complaint about inaccuracy.

And claiming that I was "ignoring the community of experts" is making unwarranted assumptions. I spent time getting feedback on the early draft of the paper which this was taken from from several people who do academic research on ancient cultures and collapse, and got minor notes about some of the points raised, as well as many more. But given the topic of the post, I didn't think that anyone needed a digression about the fascinating debate I took notes about regarding the timing of the collapse of the Akkadian empire compared to data about the broader climatic collapse from cores GeoB 5836-2 and M5-422, and other data from Buca della Renella and Soreq Cave in Israel.
Not only that, but CPUs have a maximum number of instructions they can dispatch per cycle (typically 4 or 6). Even in microbenchmarks, the difference there could show up.
Authentication and payment for online content (micro-payments), or services which process information (such as AI based summarization of content).

Put an NGINX proxy in front of content or an API and then wire it up to Lightning. Requests can be done without site authentication and the site still gets paid for the content or service.

This would finally implement 402s: https://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html#sec1...

418 I'm a teapot
yeah its called the Great Bengal Famine - 3 million dead (across the territories of what is now India, Pakistan and Bangladesh). That's how the second world war was funded.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943

The financing of military escalation led to war-time inflation, as land was appropriated from thousands of peasants. Many workers received monetary wages rather than payment in kind with a portion of the harvest.[14] When prices rose sharply, their wages failed to follow suit; this drop in real wages left them less able to purchase food.[15] During the Japanese occupation of Burma, many rice imports were lost as the region's market supplies and transport systems were disrupted by British "denial policies" for rice and boats (a "scorched earth" response to the occupation). The Bengal Chamber of Commerce (composed mainly of British-owned firms),[16] with the approval of the Government of Bengal, devised a Foodstuffs Scheme to provide preferential distribution of goods and services to workers in high-priority roles such as armed forces, war industries, civil servants and other "priority classes", to prevent them from leaving their positions.[17] These factors were compounded by restricted access to grain: domestic sources were constrained by emergency inter-provincial trade barriers, while aid from Churchill's War Cabinet was limited, ostensibly due to a wartime shortage of shipping.[18] More proximate causes included large-scale natural disasters in south-western Bengal (a cyclone, tidal waves and flooding, and rice crop disease). The relative impact of each of these factors on the death toll is a matter of debate.
XR Pioneer Calls for Metaverse Regulation
Vimeo: “We are a B2B solution, not the indie version of YouTube.”
Doesn't matter if they have missed rent, they still need 30 days notice. These laws exist for a reason, they weren't created to address a problem that didn't exist at the time.
>Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

In the past 24 hours, you've submitted 20 CNN articles and 12 from NPR. There is no need to mirror those sites here on HN.
I'm surprised you made it 5 years. It seemed like the App Store collapsed to free within a year or two.
> There was a time when Apple has email mailing lists. Here is the MAE User list. And Apple published the archives for people to search. I tell ya. Was a different time at Apple.

Apple still has a handful of mailing lists (they’re mostly dead though): https://lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo

Unfortunately many of the archives are restricted to members.
I just left, after some decades, not switched to anything else.

Friend of mine though, he became a postman, about ten years ago. He was never quite happy being a software engineer. I see him occasionally and he's always happy with a job where he gets to work by walking around in the open most of the day.
Ukraine has received between USD50-100m in crypto donations since the start of the war and there isn’t a damn thing Putin can do about it.
Older leafs (don't know about the new ones) don't have thermal management and are literally useless in cold weather.

IMO Leafs do a disservice to the adoption of electric cars because many of peoples' gut reactions to buying an EV (what if I run out of battery! Does it work in cold weather? Will the battery last? What about resale value) are actually showstoppers for these glorified golf carts. There are more and more options for 200+ mile range EVs that will work for more than a niche subset of Americans, but "you can buy a leaf for cheap" isn't helpful and helps spread FUD about EVs.
That's because you're, perhaps correctly, choosing not to own anything? If you rent and ride a bike and only ever take the subway and occasional Uber, then this stuff seems foreign. If you want to buy a property then you'll see for yourself the joys of bureaucracy. When you get a Kafkaesque fine that you can't reach a human being to talk about, and discover a byzantine system of 'expeditors' you might reconsider.
If China only had higher standards for its wet markets and disallowed the wild trade all together, this whole pandemic would probably never have happened. At some point, Chinese medicine (which the wild animal trade supports) is doing much more harm than good (if pseudo medicine does any good at all).
I remember. So easy to day trade when everything was going up, ha ha.
I use both Meld and Diffuse[1] depending on what I do. I find Diffuse represents diffs better visually, while Meld being better for actually merging contents since you can just click on those arrows.

[1]: https://github.com/MightyCreak/diffuse
Private actors optimizing for their local maximum is in and of itself a sort of inefficiency.

In any case, it doesn't have to be an either-or situation (and arguably shouldn't be). For most of the last century we were able to juggle private needs with public works, using private talent to cooperatively tackle problems of national scale.

It was only in the last 2-3 decades that we really stopped believing in the country, and the government became increasingly dysfunctional. Then the last 5-10 years we really started circling the drain. I don't know what happened. Some of it looks to me like deliberate sabotage, a concerted effort to decrease public faith in government so that deregulation can benefit the elite. Some of it just looks like sheer incompetence.

Maybe it's just the natural end of our golden age. We've hit the limits of the sort of problems our system can reliably tackle, while the nationalists are still on the upward trajectory -- for now. China is especially scary because they've managed to invent a whole new sort of capitalism hybridized with nationalism-authoritarianism. It has the hallmarks of a free market at the lower levels, but the government has the final word on any business and can nationalize/co-opt corporations whenever they want. In that way they get the benefits of private innovation and enterprise along with the ability to essentially eminent domain entire businesses and sectors at will. It's worked scarily well for them, and they are on the verge of eclipsing our model in the next few decades. The severe cost of it, of course, is measured in lives and liberties, something that West would not (and should not) accept.

But the thing is, we have no answer to that at all. We don't really even discuss it anymore as a nation. There is no national debate about public works or long-term planning from anyone except a tiny portion of the left, while the rest of the political class argue about gender and race and toilets and guns and abortions. It's almost like all the culture wars are an intentional distraction from our failing system of government and economics, where the rich keep getting richer every year -- especially during covid -- and everyone else falls further and further down the ladder. We're so fucked without some sort of forward thinking. Wish we could see some actual leadership for once...
Thanks! I will remove duplicates.
> If you have time, listen to one of Lex’s conversations with Hotz while you are getting exercise, gardening, etc.

That’s a good way to do it. I really wanted to like Lex’s podcast based on the hype and his impressive guest list, but I walk away from every episode feeling like it was full of good vibes but empty calories. It seems his trademark is softball questions delivered in the gentlest possible format, which I suppose is disappointing given his positioning as a hard-hitting intellectual.

The Hotz episode was great for getting a sense of his energy and ambition, which are both impressive and hard to match. However, it’s lacking if you’re expecting more serious discussion, as is typical for Lex’s podcasts. Go in with the right expectations and it’s still enjoyable, though.
They aren't required to disclose any DMCA removals, but choose to anyway, citing the law by name. Pointing out that a law is requiring them to do something is the least anybody can do if they object to that law's requirements. The omission of such a statement is sufficient evidence to conclude they are willing collaborators. A tech corporation like Google does not deserve the benefit of the doubt anyway.
I also think teaching is thousand times more rewarding and motivating than the 500th CRUD app.
>Synthetic stocks have arbitrage discounts/premiums that shouldn’t exist.

So somebody is making mad money from arbitraging them?

>Decentralized markets often cause the liquidity provider to lost value from “impermanent loss”

Someone's loss is someone's gain.

>The capital controls thing is a fairy tale. When was the last time someone accepted a ruble in exchange for any major crypto currency? If someone can but BTC with a dollar, why don’t they just evade the control with their dollars?

Please try sending money from China to the outside and report back.

>Major cryptos are all down 20%+ from their peak. That’s wild inflation.

You can do other things with assets than "buy and pray".
> Yes but these are generally linear - if an x86 chip supports extension N it will support extension N-1 too. Not true for RISC-V.

Not if you include AMD and Intel cores in that.
Orbis is a decentralized alternative to Twitter:

https://orbis.club/

All data is stored on blockchains, so in contrast to the old social networks, your post history, likes and comments can not be taken away from you.
It adds a layer of control which is very much the way legislation is going right now.

Gone are the days where parents could educate their children on how to behave on the net it seems.

We should not accept slogans such as "For the children", doing that leads to ever more restrictions and control.

I don't have any solution to turn the tide, other than making sure to vote for a party that supports freedom on the net.
ukraine?