skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well of course there is plenty of speculative investment going on in this field (also not unique to cryptos, just look at what's has been going on with tech stocks and the Nasdaq), there is no doubt about that. But at the same time all adoption metrics have been increasing like crazy. Two things can be true at once here. There are plenty of people gambling (no bueno) and there is also plenty of other people using the tech/network/etc with other intentions as well. You have governments (at regional and country level) adopting the tech (like it or not), you have people in South America using it inflation hedging (yes it works for this when you country's currency devalues like crazy on a weekly basis) and for remittances, etc. The speculation part fuels the volatility, but it is also obvious that it has proven to withstand many bubbles while at the same time increasing its reach an adoption as this (like it or not) fills a need. A need for an alternative that while not the most efficient, is inclusive, fair, and open by design.
There are too many streaming services, people will only pay a recurring fee for a small number of them. Journalism is probably at the bottom of the priority list for what people would pay for as well, with the plethora of free journalism available online, or the services that workaround paywalls.
Tesla would crush it if they had an offering outside the luxury market segment. They have 2.5% of US sales and operate completely in the luxury segment which is 5% of US sales altogether. Model 3 starts at $46k, a BMW 3 series is cheaper.

If they built a lower range, no frills, compact commuter car with lower margins (their margins are insane - like 20%+) and higher quantity produced they would end up so far ahead of anyone else because they could be in that market segment now-ish. The traditional car companies are probably 1-3 years away from mass producing EVs, maybe longer. How many households have a primary "family car" and a secondary commuter/small trip car? That 2nd car could easily be an EV with a smaller range (200mi). Its a much larger market segment than luxury.

If Tesla just sticks to luxury segment, their story could be similar to Netflix or maybe close to the betamax vs VHS story (betamax was better technically but lost).
If TWTR holders want to trade for TSLA they can simply do it on the open market
>The Bretton Woods system never fully ended in reality

Sure, we still have the IMF, but I'm specifically referring to part referring to the "gold standard". Again, it wasn't really a gold standard because the deal only extended to governments that happened to be desperate for capital. Regular people couldn't even own significant quantities of gold at the time.

>the fiat currencies of all countries around the world were still pegged to the USD.

This isn't true. Otherwise, exchange rates wouldn't be changing every second. Countries were allowed to choose how their currency was exchanged, and most of the major players allowed their currency to float freely.

>USD to hyperinflate relative to other currencies because all countries were still trying to maintain a stable exchange rate relative to the USD.

The USD never hyperinflated at all. I think the gist of what you're saying is true, like how Japan started to devalue its currency after the Yen started increasing in value. However, this precisely shows the problem with deflation. If your money grows just by sitting on it, there is little reason to invest in businesses, and it may be profitable to even downsize your business.

>You should watch 'Hidden Secrets of Money'

That was produced by the founder of goldsilver.com, so it's hardly an unbiased source. His business gains from sowing distrust in the financial system. I didn't watch this particular series, but I'm familiar with their arguments after I started investing in precious metals. I don't think their history is wrong, but IMO, they miss the entire point of money. Money isn't meant to be stored because it doesn't do any work. Money is something made up to facilitate trade as easily as possible. That's why it never makes any sense to artificially place constraints on it (e.g. pegging it to gold). This doesn't mean that we should abuse this freedom to print money on a whim either, but that's a completely separate problem.
ffs apple just use usb-c. Just like NFC, it doesn't need to take a decade to figure this crap out.
Completely tangential to the actual content of this blog, I really (really really really) appreciate the look. Simple dark text on light background. Obvious hyperlinks. Charts and tables that tell the story without distracting. Effective minimalism.

I wish more of the internet looked like this.
That's awesome.

A comment on a recent thread about a train IT failure went on a bit of an interesting tangent about ahead-of-time network scheduling in (IIUC) the Netherlands' TURNI system - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30902585

(The whole thread was a bit of a wide-spectrum ramble, as one might expect for a downtime event.)

So you're saying you were actually doing JIT routing as opposed to AOT? The linked system apparently precomputed the trip<->driver/conductor schedules overnight. I wonder if they're still using that approach today. It does feel like a JIT approach is much more amenable to handling the unpredictable non-spherical real world (eg electricity issues, track breakage, crashes at crossings, train malfunctions that block tracks (right on junctions >:D), etc).

This sorta thing is definitely beyond my own mental level :) but for reference, how would someone interested get their foot in the door in this area?
> How many people speak Greek these days

At least a couple of billions, when they have 'tachycardia', 'hydraulic', 'geosynchronous', 'Uranus' in their vocabulary.

> A lot more people hear

Well, they are missing a module, aren't they?

> coolness

The label you choose for "knowing your language" is "cool"? Some would say, "duly".

> today's world

What entitlements has that "world" you are mentioning?

> the choice of language

Unclear. If that is arguing against the choice of the ancients, entitlement for judgement remains appropriate. But sure, if you want to call it "S7" in your papers, it will probably work and nobody will stop you. Of course, others will call it as they deem appropriate - oftentimes with reason.
Compare the lack of ads on HN with the ads found on (I don't know any offhand, but imagine a site dedicated to a game run on a PHP forum with ads).

I remember finding some patches for Heroes III that were only available on some .ru site and there were lots of ads if you turned the adblocker off.

I couldn't read Russian but it was pretty clear they were not the highest quality of ad.
When playing mandolin I rarely play thirds (https://www.jefftk.com/p/mandolin-teaching-videos), but I'm also playing traditional music, acoustic, where "power chords" sounds strange?
Most people would also understand that there's no 3rd if you call it a G5.
Also mirror.xyz
DIY Service Mesh with Envoy
This only obviously holds locally. If we imagine a world where the only use for money was to bid in an auction for a single good against others subject to the same taxes (and without pre-existing savings), changing these rates shouldn't affect how much I want to work.

I expect that our world does not sufficiently resemble that one for your conclusion to be wrong, but I think we don't get it for free.
Let’s say this happens and Musk buys a lot of the new shares so he now owns more than 15 % too. Does the pill get triggered again?
Back in the day, it somewhat made sense that polyphonic synthesizers were expensive, since the electronics itself was expensive. Today, if you have a few weekends time, you can rather easily design your own custom analog polyphonic synthesizer in e.g. Eurorack format, manufacture it for something around 30-50€ (e.g. using some Chinese PCB manufacturer + their SMT assembly service), and the resulting module will outperform modern commercially available modules that cost multiple times more (think of a factor of 10x for the price difference).

It's even crazier if you look at digital synthesizers or samplers. Remember the E-MU Emulator from 1981, which cost more than $8000 when it was released? Today, a cheap 5€ microcontroller together with a 2€ DAC will give you more of everything already (more polyphony, more RAM, higher sample rate, more resolution per sample, stereo output instead of mono, …).
I literally downloaded 20.04 LTS yesterday for a new vm. What terrible luck. I dont want to rebuild it now :(
Extremely safe assumptions given the investments being made by Tesla, not to mention other carmakers. The electric grid responding to the burden is almost certain as well, given the history of the grid handling decades of rising year-over-year energy usage in most localities.

As for mistakes, the company can afford many small to intermediate missteps and still accomplish what I described, because the company's momentum is already pushing it to accomplish these achievements.
Apple even presented that stance in court, but they seem to have rejected it because of the USB C plug rather than the older style.

They also didn't buy that it reduced waste since they sell it separately.

Personally, it would reduce waste for me. I have a ton of those plugs and cables in many combinations.

But I could see how some people might not have it yet.

Perhaps Apple should have offered it for free for a couple years if you ask for it, rather than include it by default, and maybe they would have been better off here.

Edit: I'm wondering if I misread it. Is it a proprietary plug on the charger end of the cord? If so, that makes a little more sense, though there are generics for it for a while now anyhow.
D major and A major are the other ubiquitous beginner-friendly keys for guitar. I distinctly remember a few months into getting my first guitar concluding that G major was so much better because Em is so much easier to play than Bm or F#m. :)
Democracy- straight democracy- is a terrible way to avoid authoritarianism. So long as a majority agrees, anything goes.

Un-democratic checks are required in any such system to prevent a tyranny of the majority. Unelected judges, co-equal to but with different powers than a legislative or executive body, are one such example.

There's not a perfect system yet, because at the end of the day, it's always just a bunch of imperfect people in a shared imaginary game. I'm not holding my breath for technology to save us either, because I don't imagine any AI will do a better job- it'll have to be trained on human interpretations of that imaginary playground, after all.
Why not just buy a wall wart for yourself then?
Eh, we're a hardy weed. Barring a threat like none we've seen thus far, we'll get there.
Kinda drives me nuts when OEMs in windows decide they don't want to integrate with the Window power manager and instead want to offer their own take. Granted that seems to have mostly gone away in Win 10 and 11.
Ha there's so many assumptions (driven by bad experience -- I'm sorry about that). But I don't know where to begin.

One indication that I work with the best is where they go when their work here is done. In some cases, the finest work e.g. SpaceX has done is done with our alumni in leadership and contributor positions.

Another indication is top tier publications. Or the fact that our tech does what has never been done before by definition.

Another indicator is how many people are willing to work for a pay cut to be here and work on what we do. Speaking of coming from SpaceX and every major aerospace company.

Another indication comes from the partnerships we have where we collaborate as equals with any of those mythical "better" places.

It may not fit your world view or experience, but it is possible for good people with top notch skills to choose a career that does not focus solely on pay. We just work in an unprofitable domain. We don't work with incompetent people.
Tied sales are about requiring you to buy another of your products only, no? Like if I buy a remote control without batteries included, that's not a tied sale. Is it a tied sale because to get the full fast speed charging it has to be Apple or Apple-licensed in some way because they don't fully support PD?

EDIT: > But the judge rejected the argument, saying the cable didn't work with wall adapters lacking a USB-C port, with which the Apple charger was designed.

I really don't follow this reasoning. It sounds more like Apple is having some political trouble in Brazil and this is the evolution of it.
This sounds like something is changing somewhere, for a company to admit defeat that quickly either indicates there are internal politics at play, or the industry as a whole thinks the streaming pie is drying up fast.
Government: Motorists in self-driving cars will not be liable for crashes
48khz max in 2022. The converters must be where they skimped. You can get a proper RME unit at that price.
It looks cute though.
I appreciate what you are saying, but it was over decades ago!

Node is just insane, always was, along with the curl | bash crowd.

Madness.
But why? Why would this be the number he wanted?
The problem with suing apple in the US is that they can lose and give you compensation but then they can also disable your iCloud account and now all you have is a paperweight .
Brilliant. Wish you the best of luck!
Why don't you like fun?
Another way to put this is that for most pop music, you could often degrade gracefully to three triads of major or minor quality.

But even for something discussed previously on HN-- the Beach Boys "God Only Knows"-- this doesn't work. Wilson really wants a half-diminished seventh chord at the high point of the melody. One could perhaps degrade to a diminished triad in the accompaniment, but he's literally singing the seventh of the chord so it's there regardless. Substituting a major or minor triad there is a qualitative change and sounds suspicious.

If you're making your own instrument you might want to be aware that there's a "suspicious" sound that some types of consistent chord substitutions can have on certain classes of instruments.

For example, a bagpiper can make severe simplifications to the harmony or even change melodic intervals to fit what they have available. Audiences generally accept this because the strictures of the instrument have made that a common practice. (Even if you're unaware of the strictures, you've probably gotten used to hearing the result of the common practice.)

However, if one consistently employs major/minor triad substitutions on the guitar people are eventually going to hear that as a lack of quality. As in the Beach Boys example, this will often happen during key points. The guitarist may get lucky if the singer happens to fill out the missing note of the chord-- e.g., guitarist plays a minor triad and the singer fills out the seventh at the beginning of the chorus of "Last Dance with Mary Jane"-- but eventually the audience will figure out that the guitarist is missing a vital skill.

Anyway, unless your instrument is so novel it doesn't have any associations with extant instruments, make sure you have some kind of "escape hatch" so that skilled performers can play the chords they need. :)
It can vary from neighborhood to neighborhood. It depends on what type of demand there is too (sfh vs apt, etc).

If the majority of people had a preference for condos, then we wouldn't see large single family homes being developed. Even in areas where zoning is more lax (many suburbs).
Tesla giving high school grads opportunity to work full-time at Giga Texas
You’ve misunderstood the analogy.

The analogy is about misusing a high minded principle to further selfish - or even morally negative - ends.

It is, indeed, a good analogy.
Toys'R'Us comes to mind.
Easy: there's no such thing as absolutes. Just because one thing is gaining momentum it doesn't automatically means the other thing is no longer required.
There are also more important things than this DRM rage boner. Surely, providing the entire country with fast internet has priority over DRM?

I just see this as an attempt to increase the amount of bureaucracy for no real reason other than to let people specialize in navigating the bureaucracy and using that as a weapon against other people.
They've posted (admittedly large) losses only 2 quarters since Q4 2017.

https://www.alphaquery.com/stock/TWTR/earnings-history
This. He communicated his plan pretty overtly: He made no secret that his buy attempt is mostly for political reasons and that his selloff will be a means to the end of securing funding for the takeover. None of this has anything to do with actual investment decisions.

So maybe he hopes to sell his shares to "activist buyers" who want the takeover to succeed and therefore have no interest in dropping the share price.

Of course that is assuming any of the purported motives are real and not just an act.
Well put, my thoughts exactly! I really wish we returned to brut (raw) web pages in general. Without JS, SPAs, etc.
As someone whose internet experience is firmly in the Anglosphere, when you see Cyrillic on a website, you think "I'm downloading malware". Keep in mind, I'm not going to Cyrillic sites for news, recipes or something else, it's usually related to software. And malware at least back in the day was endemic on those sites.
The Marx quote is

"Therefore, for working people to be free, they must seize control of the means of production."

Marx is explicit about a class here, the working class, and implicit about who it should be seized from. His full oeuvre is not implicit though and is quite clear that it is the capitalist class it should be seized from. The term seizing the means of production has for 150 years been widely understood as a call or reference to class struggle. Missing the framing of class in the title is a misreading.
https://www.atlassian.com/team-playbook/health-monitor/proje...
I am torn between "I give them credit for trying and failing quickly" and "How on earth did user/market research not show them this would be the result?" I.e. I would love to know if the latter had been optimistic and disproven by the reality.
Is one allowed to sell a bicycle in brazil without also selling a pump for the tires?
My point is that I don't believe there is a "general movement away from downloading binaries" evidenced by the rise of package managers for Windows. That most linux package managers also use binary packages only strengthens my belief that there's no such trend.
We know Uber has some great internal tooling (there's even a paper published on their merge queue: https://eng.uber.com/research/keeping-master-green-at-scale/). We had various Uber engineers using Mergify on open source repositories those last years. I didn't check recently if that was still the case, I'll make sure our lis is not too much outdated.

I definitely agree with your view on how pipelines can be different. I think none of our customers has something that is exactly the same. However, many of them don't have the workforce to build in house or even to optimize as far as you would do in a (very) large company.
It's also the site for the unimportant news that journalists decide to transform into "important" news. Too many "click bait" news stories end up being "xxx is outraged" and the story links to 3-4 random twitter comments
bye bye :) CNN's reputation is severely damaged and they'll never recover
They chose terrible timing to launch it.

They should have either done it while Trump was in office or whenever Democrats lose the election next time... because that's when their primary audience seems to seek comfort in their stories about how they are in the right and how the opposition are the bad guys.

In CNNs defense, they propably planned this with the expectation that Trump would win the second term.
This sounds more like new developments (where they level the land before building anything). Most older neighborhoods are much more diverse.
The Decimo is a great form factor, it's also just about the most inconspicuous fountain pen possible so you won't get weird looks from people who've never seen a fountain pen before. That said I have one as well as a Custom 74, both in EF, and somehow I like the 74 a lot more in that size. The Decimo nib seems finer and is noticeably softer (18k vs 14k), and I'd prefer it with a medium nib for maximum smoothness. I think it also dries out a little bit, something that I've never had with the Custom 74.

On the other end of the spectrum I have to recommend the Lamy Safari and Kaweco Sport for their utilitarian design and timeless aesthetics.
I never stated anything about "complete control of society", I am merely making the point that money is essentially an abstraction of power and that modern society does nothing to prevent that, maybe it even is built to amplify that. Accordingly, to say "it's none of your business what others do with their money" is to say "it's none of your business how others use their power", and if you can't see how it's pretty directly everyone's business what everyone else does in our shared world, I think you and I understand ethics a little differently.

Edit: parent comment cleanly and completely changed due to my response, what a world. Cowards.
Finally the road to make type checking at runtime opt-in has begun. Took them some time (173 releases) to discern arguments from noise ([^1], [^2]). But rather late than never.

[1]: https://github.com/denoland/deno/discussions/8549

[2]: https://github.com/denoland/deno/issues/11340
If you give me something of value (stock, steaks, money) in return for work I owe taxes on it. As I understand it, I owe taxes when such an item (eg RSUs) become something I can acquire and control, aka vest.

I can go online right now and buy options in Uber (or any other publicly traded company). Options clearly have some value.

Options in a private company with a strike price of FMV have essentially no value, and have no taxes.

Options in a private company with a strike price of $0.01 and a FMV (per share) of $20.00 are worth at least $19.99.

Therefore, options with a very low strike price should create a taxable event when they vest, whereas options with a FMV strike price would create a taxable event of $0 when they vest.

So a very low strike price seems to force employees to pay taxes when they vest.

It's possible I'm wrong (I'm not a tax accountant or attorney), but I would like the problem in my logic pointed out.
There are lots of desktop mixers with regular-size connectors available, some with audio interfaces and effects. This one is super small and based on mini jacks - that's its differentiator.

Main difference from the similar-space BlueBox seems to be having little faders instead of a touchscreen. And it's twice the price. Design looks nice, hard to evaluate the usability from pictures. Menu diving on little screens can be rough.
I think the house analogy is a good one. You should buy the domain and use it, that's how they work, just like houses, but you can also be intentional about being clear that there were people there before you. Establishing redirects to archived versions of the URLs is one.

I recently sold a previously personal domain to a company that was going to use it for a new product. I added contractual provisions to address some of the issues that would come up, and I experimented with explicitly archiving a marker file to leave a record in web archives that the domain had changed hands, and a human being could consider treating the site as having different owners (and thus different archival permissions) before and after that point in time.

I wrote up my findings here: http://vitor.io/archival-markers and the proposed "/.well-known/archival-ownership-markers/ resource prefix" is described there along with examples.