skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe you. I mean I know you think you're making stupid-sounding shit up, but you are not. There are real loans like that. There's extra steps in between, the loan shark has game. But borrow $10 from the wrong guy and it will get worse. It can absolutely be that slippery.
CoffeeScript was not in fact just Javascript. Litestream literally is just sqlite3; it's not an app dependency, and doesn't interpose itself between your app and sqlite3. You could add it to an existing single-process SQLite-backed app without changing any code or configuration, other than running the Litestream process.
“The Last Imperialist: Sir Alan Burns's Epic Defense of the British Empire” by Bruce Gilley should have won the Pulitzer for Biography.
It's not that the pig is dancing badly, it is the fact that the pig dances at all that makes it impressive.
Platforms like Robin Hood make money off delaying the transaction slightly and microtrading in advance of it, as well as compiling a 'bigger picture'.

The "geniuses" in GME, Stonks, WSB, etc telegraph to the entire world what they're going to do via their subreddit, then give the trading house even more data showing how many people follow through on particular "talk", allowing the trading house to accurately predict what sort of activity a post will generate.

They think they're incredibly smart when really all they did was fuel the world's largest pump-and-dump scam. /r/GME was deeply depressing during some of the crashes, with people sharing poverty-food recipes not just to help people get by who had lost more than their disposable income, but to help people buy even more stock.
Google is in the S&P500.
100% agree but note that the AMA's limits are at a national level. So the [very high] base salaries are indeed driven by scarcity (as dictated by medical boards.) However the local scarcity is not driven by the AMA (note the salaries just get even higher! in remote locales as the local scarcity compounds atop national scarcity.)
This article answered questions I’ve had since I was the age my child is now.
>How much net worth do you need to find a bank that's doesn't have a branch or other offices in the USA which would require them to obey USA seizure requests? Can't you just look for a small local bank that's not part of an iternational bank with offices in the USA?

It was unclear whether you were talking about american or foreigner in that context. For a foreigner, you'd have to contend with local banks that are subject to requests from local police.

>I meant specifically, not general hand waving "anything that makes authorities suspicious".

literally any of the civil forfeiture horror stores that show up on HN from time to time.
The big medical bill is a lie concocted by those with a political agenda.

Nobody ever pays the $100,000+ sticker prices of medical bills. Never. Doesn't happen. Firstly, if you have no insurance (very rare), you can negotiate very steep discounts with hospital and medical providers, as much as 90%+ off.

Secondly, tech companies give out either free or highly subsidized health plans, of which none would require you to pay $100,000 out of pocket.

Thirdly, out-of-pocket health expenses in the UK for example recently matched expenses in the US, so acting like Europe is a utopian health paradise seems exaggerated at best. Especially with 2 year long waiting lists for essential procedures like hip replacements.
My wife and business partner had no payroll, because they do things themselves. Some people were telling her she could still get PPP, but it was not possible to get an informed bank human on the line to ask about it, and then all the money was gone and she moved on.
Yeah he really messed up by jumping to conclusions. Pretty akward with the confident wording
The geniuses are the ones that regularly take gains when stocks are green for so long, and regularly buy on deep "blood in the streets" reds.

If you can successfully flip the colors, long green is sell, red is a sale, then you can beat the market in the only way small investors can. It is very difficult to do, because of that FOMO.

Some of the better stocks like Apple, Google, Amazon will be splitting in summer, that is a nice regular bump. Prices on some of these will never be this low again. Good time to start dipping buys into index funds (VOO, VTI, VOOG, VOE) etc if you can.
NET is massively overvalued here, given the selling and repricing context. It could drop by another 50% and still be very richly priced. It's trading for 28 times sales, which is absurd. I say that as a big fan of the company's long-term prospects. Wait a while yet, it can be had for below $45 at least.
That is a good thing
> In normal times, the person saying things like this would have been chided by a few of their friends.

The first 50+ comments on the blog are supportive, as they would be "in normal times" as well.

https://fringeassociation.com/2019/01/07/2019-my-year-of-col...

In case anyone is curious, here is the paragraph including the "pretty stupid" comparison:

> I’ve wanted to go to India for as long as I can remember. I’ve a lifelong obsession with the literature and history of the continent. Photos of India fill me with longing like no other place. One of my closest friends from that pink-striped tube skirt era (we originally met at JC Penney) is Indian, and her family had offered back then that if I ever wanted to go with them on one of their trips, I could. To a suburban midwestern teenager with a severe anxiety disorder, that was like being offered a seat on a flight to Mars. It was fun to think about, but are you kidding me? I was so young and dumb then that I didn’t even partake of her mother’s Indian cooking. (Talk about regrets!)
Historically, these guys seem pretty shady.

https://coingeek.com/usdc-coinbase-is-involved-with-2-stable...

https://fortune.com/2021/08/12/usd-coin-stablecoin-circle-cr...
If you use that logic, 100% of Bobby's money goes to Uncle Sam after a long enough chain of transactions.
> Rendering HTML server-side is just nice. It's simple and easy to work with. Weird states are unusual. The user gets a really normalized, predictable experience. And done well/quickly, there's little actual difference.

It has also been forgotten that people used to complain about 100ms of latency. Since then, modern users (especially mobile) have been trained to accept horrible latencies that would have gotten you excoriated back in 2000.

100ms of latency is MUCH more difficult to deal with server side than 2-3 seconds of latency. 2-3 seconds is an eternity with modern clouds and modern network connections.
Strange that protocol wasn't to move the train to somewhere an ambulance could reach
Isn’t this a problem with _any_ type of 2FA?

I agree insofar as, this is exactly why I strongly believe that 2FA should always be optional. But, if the user has chosen to use 2FA (or has not opted out), what’s wrong with SMS?
Also most of the posts on wallstreetbets have a (non)survivorship bias. I know plenty of retail traders who have 200%+ returns in last 6 months but dont post about it.
Why is a link to a Google search result to of the feed!?
Basically what you're doing is you're shuffling risk using an algorithm. If USD is less volatile than something else, you can park money in an asset that correlates close to 100% with it without actually having to worry about banks and KYC and all of that.

Of course, if you're going to use it, you'd better understand the system behind it. There's a DAO called MakerDAO that maintains a pegged stablecoin called DAI that is pegged to USD using actual crypto reserves. It works very, very well. Of course, given time, all pegs break. But it's miles ahead of this Terra system that was an obvious sham from the get go.
>it doesn't anymore

https://app.anchorprotocol.com/ lists the deposit APR of UST to be 20.41%. Maybe it only says 20% due to the value of UST dipping?
Ask HN: Crypto wipeout would do much to reduce inflation?
There was a lot of shadow money creation the past 2 years, so much wealth was seemingly generated out of thin air. Question is: Would a sizable crypto wipeout meaningfully reduce inflation?
Local-first software is the future:

[1]Local-First Software:You Own Your Data, in spite of the Cloud:

https://martin.kleppmann.com/papers/local-first.pdf
Sort of. But if you read the article:

"""Consumers in New York are protected from surprise bills when treated by an out-of-network provider at a participating hospital or ambulatory surgical center in their health plan’s network. Additionally, consumers with health insurance coverage provided by an insurer or HMO are protected from surprise bills when a participating doctor refers them to a non-participating provider. Consumers in New York are also protected from bills for emergency services in hospitals, including inpatient care following emergency room treatment."""

Note that part of balance billing is from in network providers who are billing the difference, that doesnt seem to be covered in the above ban from what I'm reading.
>I suppose people are willing to overlook a lot to avoid tax exposures...

I don't see how that's the case? Doing any sort of trade is a taxable event. The tax is due in the year that the trade was made, not when it hits your bank account.
There were some very long term backup devices using microfiches, not quite active logic but at least a form of memory.
I sold enough to pay off double my initial investment, so i'm not too mad about cloudflare, but i agree and will be buying more.
> "app people forget about."

as in, there's no hype or news about preview.app - it just gets used quietly in the background amidst the news cycle of the next great apps.
Well it would be difficult to determine that from first principles. Fortunately for you, we are about to find out from empirical data...
I do say the same about high school, and would also argue that mandatory education as a whole is a massive failure except as a means to babysit small children and eventually give them an opportunity to socialize, something which could also be done more effectively without the enormous apparatus of laws, policies, and folk beliefs we have built around what it's supposed to do and how that can be done
Give it a few iterations though and it could become very useful, at least they have something working, usually from there it is incremental improvements to the limit of the tech in a reasonably short time.
P/E is back. Funny how irrational exuberance is seen as a normal market and a return to fundamentals is a financial crisis.
Author here. A while back the book I’m writing on computer networks made it to the top of HN. Someone in the comments asked me a question about things that programmers don’t know about networks that cause problems.

The 2 Generals Problem was the first thing that popped into my head, so I decided to write this guest blog post about it.
Just guessing, but maybe it allows more throughput in single track territory (that often used to be double track but... efficiency).
FWIW many of these yield generation products work by selling options under the hood.
Page zero is amazing. It felt like having 256 registers to use.
Gay dating app Grindr to go public in SPAC deal
be greedy when others are fearful, be fearful when others are greedy. - someone pretty damn smart
Which is OK as long as you arent leveraged and dont need the money in the near term.
It goes so much further than this, but mainly I think it's a matter of disposable time, or lack thereof.

Poor people these days have to work numerous jobs concurrently (partly because they need the cashflow, but even if they don't their jobs often aren't stable so they need to build up reserves for the "dry" times).

When you have adequate time to cook, and have built-up the capacity to actually cook, you can take advantage of that benefit.
So I'm a crypto non-believer. I see it as the ultimate solution looking for a problem.

But that doesn't apply to Coinbase because, at its core, Coinbase should be a transactional business that is a proxy for the size of the crypto market (or, more specifically, the crypto trading volume).

I don't know enough about the financials of Coinbase however. It could be they have risks unrelated to their transaction business. For example, Robinhood was almost made insolvent by excessive exposure to GameStop. Does Coinbase engage in some weird margin business where they're exposing themselves to proprietary risk? If no, it seems like a good buy.
Thanks, yeah .app is a good idea
I second this. Having been off of social media for two years and off of online news for one year, I’m nonetheless still amazed by people’s ability to forget that none of this “woke panic” stuff exists in the real world (certainly not where I live anyway). If you don’t seek it out, you won’t find it.

Also, I think your point about it being a distraction tactic is exactly right. I remember back around the 2012-ish era, when Tumblr started getting really weird with blogs promoting some pretty insane things in the name of “social justice.” Turns out, some Russian troll farm was posing as Black activist bloggers to sow chaos. I was very active on Tumblr at the time and remember thinking how weird all those blogs felt, and when the news of the Russian campaign broke, it all made sense instantly.

I get that same feeling from today’s woke/anti-woke discourse. It doesn’t feel honest. It feels like someone is playing us again.
I've used both as well as the 6809, in order of preference 6809, 6502 and very distant third the 8051.
>> 20% is risk parity for keeping your money in smart contracts

That is an insane sentence.
Catchy phrase, but what is actually wrong with dollar cost averaging through a downturn? It seems to be the only effective way to invest for the long term.
Oh really? Still not for me :(
Lots of things seem "off" in this version of events. For example, the assertion that all Jews strictly observe Yom Kippur as a day of rest is clearly false.

And the implication that, if anyone (company or individual) schedules some random tech even to open or close (or otherwise overlap with) Yom Kippur as evidence of discriminatory tendencies -- and that this must somehow be more true if that company or individual is German -- is just innuendo. The basic fact of the matter is, if you're not Jewish, chances are you have very little of what Yom Kippur is at all (let alone what date it happens to fall on).

Other stuff the author is saying might have happened the way he said it, and might have significance. Or perhaps not. But either way -- the set of claims is mixed with innuendo and distortion. So I would have to way for an independent telling of the basic event history to come along in order to make any kind of judgement.
I own some dumb pot companies that are trading at 1x revenue. This market has a ways to go but for people with capital to deploy it’s a gift.

Lots of people who figured they could borrow against their rapidly skyrocketing holdings that are all receiving margin calls at the same time.
That is exactly how it is meant to be used. Nice little tidbit: the 6809 allowed you to move the 'zero page' anywhere you wanted (of course not really a zero page when you move it to another page than zero, but you get the idea).
> The benefits will include comprehensive outpatient and inpatient
medical care, long-term care, primary and preventive care, prescription
drugs, laboratory tests, rehabilitative, dental, vision, hearing, etc.
all benefits required by current state insurance law or provided by the
state public employee package, Family Health Plus, Child Health Plus,
Medicare, or Medicaid, and others added by the plan.

I'm struggling to understand what is not covered beyond that.
It's still returning 404 in incognito mode for me.
> They didn't say a word about "disbelievers" (which implies faith).

Sciencism is rooted in faith — faith in institutions and authority.

Science is dispassionate and rooted in empiricism and logical reasoning. Enforced truth isn’t required — any claims can be tested and refuted.

> They spoke of the "rise of pseudo-science and the glorification of ignorance", which are two things very much separate from belief/faith.

Could have been written “the rise of heresy and the glorification of idolatry”.

There’s no rise of pseudo-science; that’s been with us all along, and generally far more prevalent than it is today.

The science continues to win regardless, because it can be proven without appeal to emotion or authority.
My personal rule is living expenses should be salary-bounded, as you can’t have security if you’re living off equity.

But everybody assumes a risk level they’re comfortable with, this works for me.
I have used .io for tech sites, its a region specific domain (Indian ocean) but mostly understood as input/output
In my experience the size limitations of localstorage keeps this from really being viable. And I just really like SQL. But your point is well taken, it is possible to do it today. My hope back then is that there would be libraries over it that would have made it easy and commonplace.
Wouldn't it be a problem for Coinbase if the crypto market all but evaporates?
>Most Americans have never experienced a system like that, and will fight tooth and nail against things they don't understand or have experienced. They are told by billionaires who run the media empires that universal healthcare is expensive, will ruin the country, will remove their ability to get appointments scheduled.

My wife, a practicing physician, did fellowships in multiple countries like this.

I asked her for her opinion given her experience with their systems, and our systems, and also being on the provider end.

"excellent emergent care, comparable to better US hospitals"

"horrible waiting periods for elective care, and non-emergent surgeries"
Yeah - that’s not lost on me. I didn’t even pass the full cost on. I’m still down. Just trying to hedge my losses at an acceptable rate.
Notably this is the first website I’ve seen ads on in a very long time thanks to a combination of Duck Duck Go and PiHole and various other things. I found the ads so objectionable and attention-grabbing that I updated my PiHole block lists and checked that it was still working. Turns out the ads are served from the same domain as the article, which is kinda neat.

I didn’t finish the article because I went down an Ad-bashing rabbit hole though.
2 days ago it was 17.5%. The rate used to be fixed at 20% (until last month) and was recently changed to variable. Today the rate is up because a lot of people removed UST from Anchor (deposits decreased by about 50% since Friday). Less depositors collecting interest from the yield reserve.

OP implied the fixed 20% rate is what is currently offered, but that is not true, the rate is variable.
"The Shogun", as it happened. And, a movie shot on actual film, as was then done, not TV.
Do casinos prey on the vulnerable? Does the state lottery? That's not where I draw the line for "preyed upon." When I think "preyed upon", I think of a con artist who is orchestrating bad situation to make it very difficult to escape from. That bar is much higher than what I see with crypto.
Indeed, I was looking for a minimum bending radius but did not find it. I'm pretty sure they have that data though, it would be one of the first things that people looking at applications for this tech would want to know about.

What interests me is that given the bending radius that you could simply roll up a whole device to some given diameter and be done with it, a typical case would be an aluminum tube that could be very easily totally sealed.
i don't see why anyone would want to buy coinbase stock. it's extremely correlated to the broader crypto market with less upside. In a bull market, you could buy bitcoin or maybe be a bit more risky and buy some of the higher tier alt-coins and it would probably give you a 1.00 correlation in bull and bear cycles, but during the bull cycles the coins would skyrocket because they are tied to any major fundamental metrics like balance sheets.
This story isn't about knitting or any other of 1000 other similar hobbies. It's about Instagram promoting toxicity for engagement.

non-Influencer knitters aren't affected at all.
Could be a good time to switch companies and get a new grant on the other hand.
"it is rational then"

Something can be rational and unreasonable at the same time. It seems you answered your own question from your previous comment - it creates a problem for others based on them acting on their own self interest.

"they are beneficial from the point of view of the person doing it."

Just because it's beneficial for one person doesn't mean it can't be a problem for others.

"It isn't the activity that causes the problem - it's that those activity is funded by taxpayer money, not their own!"

Even if it were their own money, it would still cause problems. Although it's questionable if they would have participated in that behavior without the extra money.
I love CloudFlare engineering, I love the products they build. I don't see how they become something more Akamai 2.0 with a similar market size.
Netflix really seems like a loser to me. Every production company has a streaming service now, and most make better content than Netflix. Sure Netflix’s app might be better, but it’s also twice as expensive as every other service. I guess that Netflix’s “replace basic cable” package might work for people who only want one service, but from what I remember most people did not especially like basic cable. Wouldn’t be surprised if Netflix is gone in 20 years.
So did I, after calling it on their IPO prospectus at the time. [0] It was a good ride from <$20 and still is a good stock to buy even at these prices now.

But at one point [1] it was hyped very quickly and had to sell most of it at >$200 after asking and reading the responses from this [1] it was really not a surprise to see through the hype at the time and why it crashed so quickly. [1]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20707306

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29355360
DeckDeckGo: Make More Than Presentations
Huge win, congrats. :-)
It's brilliant that a person can ship their WAL from an app that doesn't know anything about Litestream. That's cool. But it is not in fact just SQLite. If it were, there wouldn't be a blog post, or an additional binary to download, or a backup of my database in S3, or...
The core builtins help you to write idempotent playbooks, but it is far from a guarantee.

One simple example would just be to use the command task, which executes an arbitrary command. You, the developer, are responsible for telling Ansible how that should be made idempotent.
Uh, I stand corrected. I've been developing Haskell for nearly a decade and somehow never saw this.

Thank you for bringing this to my attention!
Agree that his potential could have been put to better action, like YouTube.
Teladoc. Two times sales, a lot of negative sentiment on the stock (which I like to see so long as the business is sustaining).

Bet on the long-term for the segment and their position. Their operating condition is sound and they have plenty of cash. Future returns were pulled forward during the pandemic era for things like remoting xyz (eg Zoom is suffering from that beating now as well). Let the bearishness rip these stocks up (a hard swing back from the insane bullishness previously, which is typical of speculators), take advantage of the stupidity that will abound in the selling down (exactly as it did on the way up).

This is when you start looking at buying opportunities, to generate the returns later (even if it takes years). You take advantage of the big runs to sell to the fools chasing stocks like Teladoc at 6x-7x the present valuation. Buy sound companies with good growth horizons, bet longer-term in your calculating, buy cheaply enough to have a great moat / margin of safety. Rinse and repeat over time. It's all about taking advantage of the rampant irrationality, either direction.

Just don't make the mistake of significantly overpaying and the odds are tilted that much more in your favor.
Just depends on your time frame