skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be great if a section about BEC [0] was included. At $WORK we see a lot of "Smishes" that pretend to be our CEO/CTO that ask for the user to send them money. E.g. "Hello it's $CEO, I'm in a meeting currently and need your help. Can you send me 300 dollars in apple gift cards?"

[0] https://www.fbi.gov/scams-and-safety/common-scams-and-crimes...
> You don't "need" any of those things, humans got on with life just fine without them for 100,000s of years, smartphones have only existed for the last 15.

That's an odd thing to say. Humans got on with life just fine without electricity, central heating, public education, public transportation, computers, and the internet. I'm grateful I have access to them.

What's the cutoff for things that didn't exist for the majority of the humankind, but are good to have?
In Paris, 3.5% of households own 50% of apartments on the rental market. Add institutional investors, you are probably looking at 70%+. I'm sure it is the same in every large city. In the whole country, 24% of people control 68% of the housing. Tell me again what needs to be built?

Source: https://www.nouvelobs.com/economie/20211126.OBS51459/3-5-des...
It was roundly disproven by many schools of naturalism in the 19th century. The notion that competition is somehow inherent to life is convenient to justify zero sum games but not observable, especially within a single species. Peter Kropotkin was famous during his life as a scientist because of how rigorously he demonstrated this.
How much harder than you did the CEO work for how much more pay than you got at any of these companies?
Thanks! a common theme seems to be getting rid of push notifications.
I just moved all my crypto off Coinbase, just to be sure. Coinmotion seems to be a stable-ish option. At least they're not looking for hockeystick growth and aquisition.
I'm on the same page but that was kind of my point. Say I buy a house in 2010 for 100k. In 2022 my house is worth 300k. Now say I want to move to a similar house next door that went through similar price changes. It likely went through the same appreciation. It's a lot easier for me to buy that house when I've got the equity in my own then if I'd been renting the whole time.

And to the prop tax and cap gains notes - we distort things by giving people carveouts for property tax (note Prop 13 in California) and not charging capital gains taxes on houses, at least below a certain limit (250/500 single/married in the US, for instance)
Neoliberalism hasn’t actually been the world order at all, but rather soft fascism in which government and corporation walk hand in hand. If you add to this the cartelization of global banking, the situation starts to look more like neo-feudalism. I would hasten to say that there has never and will likely never be a “neoliberal” world order; people in power don’t typically just give up their power.

Also, don’t start an article with words like “findings” and then use the article to spout your own moral values.
Yes, the liberals are the libertarian left.
As a teacher (former sysadmin) I find that ignorance and aggression often work closely together. I would have seen out the interview and moved on.
That doesn't really help you as if you want to use the website you already allow connections to that host and as far as I know these are mostly aimed at hostnames not the endpoint where the "creepy" request is being fired at.
Sounds like your soul is already profoundly shaped by neoliberalism - Thatcher would be proud...
If you don't have significant liabilities you can't really go bankrupt.

(I didn't look to see if that was the case, just making the point in general)
El Salvador is using the Lightning network where fees are much cheaper.
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Not entirely, they have bought exclusive licenses for some clubs like Juventus and Manchester United, which has resulted in said clubs being renamed in other football-relates games like ~FIFA~ EA Sports FC and Football Manager. Juventus is either Piemonte Calcio or Zebre, keeps the same colours and players, and is pretty obvious what it is
use they/them when unsure about someone's pronouns
This isn’t true unfortunately. I recommend reading a biography of the man because he was, amongst other things, an old school Fascist and this ideological belief helped him succeed.
A lot of the framework is tautological. Income for work, that he receives more money for an hour of labor than him, has always been of minor concern to people who have not bought into the neoliberal system. It's a concern for some at the top of the system. Social relations between those who work and the heirs who expropriate surplus labor time from those who work might be more of a concern.

I don't know what market friendly psychological tendencies are or free-market reforms. Large corporations have instituted reforms to quash the market. Don't rely on me, Warren Buffett, Peter Thiel and others have said the same thing. Industries are oligopolies from music (Universal controls more than half of US music) to breakfast cereals.

I am not sure what a free market is, in the Soviet Union people were free to go to a small market owned by the proprietor and buy potatoes or radishes with rubles, just like in the UK (with pounds) or US (dollars). So what is a free market? Or are they talking about control of the commanding heights of the forces of production? But that is not a market.

Also a country can be run by FDR and he says a New Deal economy is good and this idea is promoted from the top. It can be run by Reagan, with control of the media becoming consolidated and corporatized, and promoting another view if the economy. It is no surprise if all people hear 24/7 from people from Bush to the Clinton's how great so called free trade agreements etc. are that more will echo that sentiment. The reality is working people have been and are resistant to these economic agreements which harm them, relative to the opinion of the decision makers.
As opposed to some alternative economics which doesn't have inadequacies?
While not standardized, restrict or __restrict are indeed supported by most C++ compilers. Visual C++ even supports a declspec(restrict) that can apply to the function rather than just individual arguments.
Your taxes could go to help the poor, or to police them. Both cost money.
Do you think it would be okay for him to say there's no risk of bankruptcy to some friends in a public bar? How about at a BBQ in his backyard? Would it be okay for him to say this on a flyer stapled to a public board?

Why is twitter special?
It's a historical unix thing. Things in /usr/games (which were not all games) were frivolous and not essential to the OS, and were distributed as a separate tape or archive so that admins could easily choose whether or not to install them.
OK, so let's remove thing like corporations and private land ownership and IP, all government inventions that interfere with non-aggressive freedom.
> Since coinbase isn’t FDIC insured

Coinbase Pro is FDIC insured, makes one wonder why Coinbase itself isn't.

https://pro.coinbase.com/?1416
Robert Reich is saying the war is already happening?

>The second American civil war is already occurring, but it is less of a war than a kind of benign separation analogous to unhappily married people who don’t want to go through the trauma of a formal divorce.

So not a civil war... the definition of civil war requires deaths.

Reading further down the article... he never actually justifies this claim. He explains why there's polarization and such but never legitimately argues there's a civil war ongoing.

We haven't gotten there. There is no civil war yet.
I had to write business logic in C++20 for an embedded Linux box and o-m-g. It sucked. So much. The developer experience was horrendous. All the PRs dragged along because of micro-optimizations every step of the way. "Let me see the generated assembly in Godbolt" why, why?

I know this is probably not all due to the language, but at least one bit of it has to be. It's really cool if you're writing bare-metal/RTOS level embedded stuff and you're worrying about how many assigments can you put into a loop round to optimize the cache lines, but I don't understand why anyone would ever try to talk to the web using C++.
It’s not exactly that. It’s more like an application with two modes, with the application in one mode (the task bar mode) set as the shell. There is no instance of Explorer in file browsing mode open, waiting to show a window. You can even choose to have each instance of Explorer open in a new process, then kill them individually (including the taskbar) without impacting the other instances.
It's "fair" only in a very tautological sense of the word, and in the sense that literally any wealth distribution system is "fair". Like yes, a hedonistic trust fund baby who spends their life buying luxury goods and going on vacations may "create value" merely through allocating wealth to goods and services which bring him pleasure. I think that's an extremely stupid way to look at the concept of value though.
> I think both absolute and relative poverty are important to consider

I would be interested to learn your (or others) thoughts on why relative poverty is important. I've thought frequently, but probably superficially, about this quite a bit over the years. Many people who are considered impoverished in the U.S. are: obese (AKA not hungry), housed, and have a smart phone and cable TV. It is very hard to wrap my mind around their "hardship" when we have real world examples of people in other places who lack all of these things. My mind, likely due to my own biases, tends to conclude that it is a function of a country that has become too wealthy and thus abstracted away from the resources and efforts that created and sustain that wealth–natural resources, rule of law and due process, hard work, training and experience, risk taking, innovation and creativity, etc etc.

Is relative poverty important simply as a system feature that elevates political risk? Or is there something more tangible in terms of human need that I miss?
You can have a disproportionate demand while still avoiding capital concentration and rent extraction. I don't see those two issues as the same, at all. People who can pay more will get the properties that are most in demand, but it doesn't mean they should get ALL of them and leave the others to scrap for the rest.
This is happening in the US right now

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59214544

https://www.plannedparenthoodaction.org/planned-parenthood-a...
> We praise canonical authors for their boundless imagination. Then why do all their plots feel the same?

These plots do not feel the same to me.
This sound expensive and probably does not net results while making confidential communication far less trustworthy.

I don't think CSAM is shared on the large social networks and the others just won't implement this anyway because it is an unrealistic technical challenge for anyone smaller than large tech companies.

The article is bad. It frames the discussion as a compromise between privacy advocate and "child advocates". That is not really a good case. Privacy of children is pretty effective in shielding them from abusers.
Straight to Nazis huh...

Context matters. People might support a free market where they can excel and see their hard work rewarded. That isn't quite the same as wanting income equality. It's a 2nd order effect of the first desire.
They just posted a quarterly loss of $430 million.
"One might define simplicity as the length of the equation, say, and accuracy as how close the curve gets to each point in the data set, but those are just two definitions from a smorgasbord of options."

"..the algorithm evaluated candidate equations in terms of how well they could compress a data set. A random smattering of points, for example, can’t be compressed at all; you need to know the position of every dot. But if 1,000 dots fall along a straight line, they can be compressed into just two numbers (the line’s slope and height). The degree of compression, the couple found, gave a unique and unassailable way to compare candidate equations."
Obviously, but your examples are too obvious.

Should a subpopulation of entrepreneurs be able to coast by on brand recognition and first mover advantage after an initial burst of effort?

Should manual laborers be paid jack for doing a job which puts them at high risk of being stuck socioeconomically, despite putting in loads of effort?

People want harder work to be more rewarded, but the saying is "work smarter, not harder" for a reason.
Seems like you have been 'scamed' by the 'solid state' hype.

What matters is what the price is for most applications. And when you are actually competing on specs, silicon additives to current anodes batteries can achieve many of the same specs.

And silicon additives can easily be added to existing giga-factories. While QS will need to invest 10s of billions if they want to match that.

In my opinion by 2028 existing battery factories will spit out batteries with the specs QS claims at a lower price.
>Most popular website are tracking your mouse movements and clicks on their website. It's called a user heatmap and it's meant to be used to see what users are actually clicking on when they drop into your website i.e. everyone highlighted this word on you copy or stopped scrolling after this section that sort of thing.

It's even worse than this. They have full HD screen recordings of every single user session, including all values typed into any input field regardless of submission. I can pull up hundreds of thousands of unique user sessions right now and sit there watching everything they did on our sites, going back for years.

Say it with me now:

Every. Single. Interaction. With. Any. Computer. Is. Tracked.
I cannot begin to express my rage at windows changing focus when typing. Is there no way for it to not do this when receiving input? Feels like it should be an OS feature
In PyTorch:

a = torch.tensor([2., 3.], requires_grad=True)
b = torch.tensor([6., 4.], requires_grad=True)
Q = 3*a**3 - b**2
external_grad = torch.tensor([1., 1.])
Q.backward(gradient=external_grad)
print(a.grad, b.grad) # the computed gradients.

All this is done on the GPU. Automatic Differentiation is the workhorse of modern NN.
There are 3 ways of doing differentiation in a computer: numeric, X and symbolic, where X is the technique we're discussing. Personally I don't think "automatic" really captures what's different about this technique. It's no more "automatic" than the other options.

"Algorithmic" differentiation is intended to evoke the idea that we are "differentiating the algorithm" piece by piece, although it's certainly true that it can be misunderstood as saying that the differentiation process itself is an algorithm, which is again no different to the other techniques.

It's a shame the terminology in this area is so fragmented. I assume it's because the technique has been rediscovered many times. In machine learning, for example, what I would call "adjoint algorithmic differentiation" is called "backpropagation".
Once upon a time, the manpages were a printed object. This, coupled with some of Bell and later BSD's quirks about naming things, led to some historic naming conventions. See also: this entire damn conversation on naming directories.

One wasn't intended to call man directly, instead calling apropos first, finding the appropriate page to open.
TerraUSD Stablecoin Plunges as Crypto Market Awaits Rescue
Wasn't the exchange that stole the user funds?
Probably true but "preference" almost feels like a loaded word.

I suspect few people want inequality directly, but it's a means to an end.

Looking throughout history, extreme inequality, while unfair for most people, still achieves some useful progress. All attempts for a perfectly equal economy, that I'm aware of, have ended in disaster. Sometimes horrifically.

For that reason, I think it's fair to see some level of income inequality as a necessary evil until someone can convincingly demonstrate otherwise.
That’s not helpful for the remittance use case.
Further he was famous while he was still alive amongst scientists for his writings on this topic. It wasn’t until later that he became an icon of the Mutualist / Anarchist movements.
Such as? There are half a dozen definitions being used in this thread already, none of which really overlap with each other.
Non-aggression is when people who completely disagree don't attack each other.

Solidarity is when people who substantially agree on something act in concert.

I can't see how one can substitute the other.
Okay, but that isn't a liability in an accounting sense, it is a cash flow.

Edit: looking at the 10K, other than customer assets (where they have a net holding), they have like $6 billion in cash and equivalents against less than $5 billion of debts and other obligations).

So if they shut it all down, there would be funds left over.
Been using Linux for years and it still trips me up when it tells me "command not found".
Also read the fine print about the "insurance" Coinbase carries against loss of bitcoin through an attack. It's limited to the hot wallet only. Cold storage is not insured.

In other words, the insurance is probably worthless. People with the good sense to realize that Coinbase is not a bank in any sense of the word are unlikely to be affected.
>> For a public company ceo to say that, isn't that securities fraud?

Cryptocurrencies are not regulated securities.

What laws protect cryptocurrency "investors"?
If compensation was all about hard work then coal miners would be billionaires. The arguments about income inequality largely come down to the fact that there is very little correlation between hard work and compensation. Instead the large difference in income are correlated with factors generally considered beyond people's control. I would have a hard time becoming a real estate tycoon because I don't have a father who can grant me a small loan of a million dollars, for instance.
No ridiculous changes in life after quitting Instagram for 1 year
No, it's not. The simple truth is, Jewish culture is very absent from Germany. You hear about cases of antisemitism, but you barely learn anything about what Jews are doing. There is more coverage on Islamic topics than Jewish routines in German media.

I think for most people the primary source of knowledge about jewish culture nowadays are hollywood-movies and TV-Series like "The Nanny", not the actual people themselves.
In a simple poll like this though more complex topics won’t be on peoples minds, that’s a flaw in how this was conducted.
That is basically how every fractional reserve banking system ends.
Montreal was quite affordable alongside many other cities like Halifax, Calgary, etc.

They’ve seen a run up but still aren’t that high - 400-500k up from 200-300k. Could see a correction, but it’s nothing like Ontario and BC where small towns are >$1M already.
Are global averages meaningful to look at, though? You could have millions lifted out of poverty in countries that are becoming more developed, counterbalancing changes elsewhere, without neoliberal policies being correlated.

In Brazil, extreme poverty was reduced by 75% during a decade of a left-wing, welfare focused government, and then promptly went up again as soon as neoliberal (not exactly, but close enough for the purpose of this argument) politicians came back to power. And the averages didn’t improve either - quality of life has deteriorated for everyone else too.
ArchLinux symlinks /sbin, /bin and /usr/sbin to /usr/bin. And also /lib, /lib64, /usr/lib64 to /usr/lib:

$ ls -la / | grep -e bin -e lib
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Dec 6 23:41 bin -> usr/bin
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Dec 6 23:41 lib -> usr/lib
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Dec 6 23:41 lib64 -> usr/lib
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Dec 6 23:41 sbin -> usr/bin
> I don’t wanna be callous but on a scale of 0=I stubbed my toe and 10=children are starving in [insert location] this seems to be a -3.

Not sure what we are measuring here but the issue of this particular article annoying you seems like a -25 by comparison, so maybe just ignore it?
This feels similar to buying a stock’s street name (a proxy for the actual share) vs directly registering a stock in your name. A key selling point of crypto has always been eliminating central control. If someone else is managing your keys, it’s a given that they’ll borrow against those entries in one way or another (putting the money to work so to speak). Risk assessment depends on which someone thinks is more likely, a lost key, or a default. We are living in some pretty wild times given that the later may trump the former.
That doesn’t sound bad to me? Email attachments and file uploads have worked like that on the web way before instagram.
I’m in the same situation. I open new browser windows all the time, to display information on one screen, and interact with something in a browser, on another screen. Having to switch the keyboard shortcuts up because certain windows are owned by a different app is quite jarring. Most of the time I just want to go back to the window I was last looking at, regardless of which app it was.
CEOs are not paid for working hard, they are paid for BEING RIGHT, aka making the right strategic decisions. Bad CEO can bankrupt the company, good CEO can grow it's revenue ten times. You pay CEOs for their experience and expertise in running companies, not for the number of hours worked.
Considering the millions of people fleeing to the US and EU every year- including many from El Salvador- I would say the marketplace of ideas has spoken.
I would imagine many of the controlling maintainers are GitHub/Microsoft employees. GitHub created it. Microsoft owns GitHub and has important software built upon Electron.
I've been messing with crypto long enough to know how this goes and my coins are already in a local wallet.

Coinbase had a good run but don't be stupid. Crypto exchanges aren't insured like consumer checking accounts are in the US and when they're gone they're gone. Geth isn't hard to set up for most of us, it took me about 20 minutes to have it up and running after not using a local wallet for nearly a decade.

Remember to write down your password (I can't emphasize that enough. I'd be retired by now if I had done that with the wallet I made in 2011) and back up your wallet. I keep mine in git.
Thanks for posting this link. I'm glad I got to see artsandculture.google.com before Google killed it.

There's a lot of really cool stuff:

https://artsandculture.google.com/explore
i love library genesis.
It's not that meritocracy in abstract is bad, it's that it is a fiction which does not really exist, certainly not in our capital-skewed status quo.
The more likely reason for the current labor shortage is Boomers who took an early retirement at the beginning of the Covid lockdowns who won't be returning to work. I suspect labor shortages will be the new normal as the number of workers retiring will continue to exceed the number entering the workforce.
It makes sense... in an idealized version of neoliberalism, but the reality is that people are kept poor and indentured despite the "individual effort" they put in. There's eugenics happening, from people unable to pay for health care because one, health care is too expensive, two, wages are too low, and three, there is not enough assistance for people to be able to pay for health care. This has led to loss of life and limb, where people had to, for example, ration their insulin, or they couldn't afford to keep a fridge running to store said insulin. It is literally killing people for being sick and not rich enough.
I'm not familiar with how any of this works, but I kind of thought coinbase was less like a bank—paying interest on deposits—and more like a user friendly web ui for managing your assets, because dealing with private keys is hard for a user.

If, for example, Dropbox declares bankruptcy I'd be shocked if creditors could search through the user data for things of value.

It seems like there would be plenty of money to be made just charging transaction fees and holding assets 1-1 for the users, but what do I know.