skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There is no free lunch.

It's just a bait and switch. These journalists want all the benefits of the web: free indexing and archiving, free global distribution and rendering, virtual word-of-mouth advertising; a huge and easy revenue generation model. Their production and design costs are nothing compared to two decades ago. They don't own printing presses. The internet pretty much bends over backwards to throw traffic at them, and on top of that, they rip the rug out under your feet as soon as you land there! Like you can't even read the words that they wrote unless you agree to more bother, and they've already made a few cents off you just from the ads that were served! And to boot, the whole show shoved megabytes of crap in your face, which actually costs you money, and they follow you around the internet like an unimaginable creep.

It's like they feel entitled to all this free stuff and the one thing they offer of value they pull back at the last second. Shitty.
Consider their ownership, and what it could mean for those parties if Coinbase were sacrificed.

It's an interesting theory.
Ask a CEO to flip burgers and you'll find they'll make a lot of mistakes too.

CEOs have specific education and/or experience to help them make better decisions. They suck just as much as anyone else at unknowns.
I’ve lived in Airbnbs full-time for the last two years. While the existence of the service has enabled a fun lifestyle for me, my opinion of the company has fallen and fallen over that time:

* I’ve paid them tens of thousands of dollars in service fees. Yet the customer service experience is on par with an airline or cable company. Getting bounced from person to person every hour, having to explain the situation a dozen times (really, a dozen), and in the end they rarely help me.

* Easily 90% of listings contain some kind of misrepresentation. Probably half it’s something egregious. Airbnb doesn’t seem to care.

Hopefully they’re trying to turn the ship here. We’ll see.
Didn't it take a fairly long while before client money laws came in even in traditional banking? I don't have a date so I could be wrong, but taking the history of british banking I have a feeling this was a relatively recent thing. Being generous, we're still within the first decade of crypto as an investment instrument, I imagine regulations haven't quite caught up so really it's no surprise newer crypto companies like Coinbase aren't particularly serious about keeping client money/assets separate.

And as much as client money should be segregated, some big names are still getting dinged with CASS breaches - Charles Schwab in 2020, for example.
I'm guessing that it's so that when you search for a long duration of stay, many of the listings will be unavailable but with split stays they can make it easier to figure out how to plan a longer stay, so you don't have to look at the availability calendars of a bunch of different listings.
How Noise Shaped a City (2020)
If it was only druggies, that'd be great, cuz it'd be relatively confined, really. But I don't think that can explain the ridiculous valuations on its own. It's clear there are far larger parties than just drug trafficking and hobbyists and crypto-promoters and "retail investors".

My guess is large movements of capital out of places like Iran, China, and Russia.
It does not look reasonable in any way to me.

> Your funds are safe at Coinbase, just as they’ve always been.

You won't lose your funds, don't worry.

> For our retail customers, we’re taking further steps to update our user terms such that we offer the same protections to those customers in a black swan event. We should have had these in place previously, so let me apologize for that.

Unless we have your keys, in which case I'm sorry we're not protecting you yet (but don't worry, everything's fine).

> We have no risk of bankruptcy

Said directly after their worst quarter to date. Always a lie regardless.

> however we included a new risk factor based on an SEC requirement called SAB 121, which is a newly required disclosure for public companies that hold crypto assets for third parties.

A rule made specifically for their type of companies that clarifies risks of storing assets in a non regulated bank.. somehow shouldn't make you scared that your assets might get taken away since it's very "unlikely".
where does "global treasure" begin and "sovereign autonomy" end? who decides?
>> The Third Reich had cultural Bolshevism

> The Reich didn't "have" it - Bolshevism was a real movement, and its adherents have wreaked massive havoc in Russia

Sigh. "Cultural Bolshevism" is not Bolshevism. It's a rhetorical device invented by the Nazis to attack various people and things they didn't want in the Third Reich. It had nothing to do with actual Bolshevism but was things like art, music and authors that didn't reflect their values. See "Degenerate Art" etc.
Coinbase barely has an "us too" web3 wallet — they're not a proper web3 company, they're a tradfi bank in sheep's clothing.
This article is extremely accurate about fatigue from wrangling and prepping large amounts of data. One thing it oddly ignores is the YTD inflation rate of 8.5% but it acknowledges that salaries increased 6.9% since 2020.
Got it - that makes a lot more sense.

Instead of having to try and piece meal it yourself they give you great options.

Actually now that you have clarified it -- it sounds pretty great once I test the functionality!
I've built a SaaS service for this in 2017. After a year, I killed the service to concentrate on another project (which I'm currently continuing). A couple of reasons why I stopped it

> 1. I did not spend any marketing efforts because it was not making any money

> 2. I had doubts if a recruiter will come to this platform only to check a Fake resume

> 3. As I have no experience in recruiting I couldn't decide on what would be the best pricing for the service

> 4. Lastly, I stuck with another idea, that is more generic for the people on the internet to use it
So they are still quite inefficient even if accept your efficiency range.
Then there's the high costs associated with the catalysts or membranes, etc depending on what technology you use.

We're not even using pumped storage nowhere near enough where possible and it's the vast majority of all utility scale storage but the amount of people that somehow champion power to gas as this grand thing that's anywhere close to being able to compete with it at scale is staggering.
A redesign is nice but please consider a secure Airbnb app-controlled electronic door lock. Hardware is hard but it could reduce entry/exit and check-in friction and confusion.
If you look closely you’ll find that the broker and the holding company have similar but distinct names - it’s supposed to be setup so that if the broker goes under the holding company can be transferred and continue.

Similar to banks and FDIC the financial industry is good at this kind of thing and brokers can go bankrupt without customers ever really noticing.
Now about that question you absolutely refuse to answer, let's try it again shall we? Give me a legitimate reason why the government wouldn't charge him with a crime. They talked to the family countless times over that 18 months and received repeated assurance he would turn himself in as soon as he was charged, since it would guarantee his safety. So why didn't the government charge him?
They absolute most elite colleges lose money on the kids but...like it's a human resources thing, the administration transitions into senior jobs at other, less flash but equally expensive universities for a remarkable salary for how little work it is, and a crazy amount of power over the most politically active, and legally vulnerable because now they're responsible for debts, tried as adults of course, their parents are technically absolved of any responsibility to help them (except when there's a contract to pay for college, which is rare) so paying is totally optional, and poorest age bracket. And they're legal to have sex with, and at their peak of appearance in most respects, and they can't get a decent job without that degree if they're in a bind to get a lawyer. Especially in a bear market like right now, or 2008, youngest adults are fucked the most. I once asked about legal representation against a groundless and provably false rape accusation where the court would say this is a total lie, the scenario was proof sufficient to absolve someone from a murder, meaning court-valid proof all the way. The guy quoted me $25,000, will financial aid help with that I wonder? And he said there's like a delay (when they kind of sniff out if you've got legal firepower if you're rich you obviously do or politically connected), but then once it gets going it's like, it gets going strong and disgusting.

But it's the best time of your life!
That's the rise of the dollar symbols for eyeballs period. There were plenty of people making things with 0 regard to profit. Think back to all the random little websites or flash games people put countless hours into.
> I have four USB-C ports on my laptop and I need six.

I have four USB ports on my laptop and I need three. Unfortunately two are C and all my cables are A.

I really wouldn't mind if USB-C just went away. I've got a single device with a C plug (which came with an A to C charging cable, of course) and some other brand new charging cables won't charge it if I don't hold the cable pushed in manually. Not sure if the cables are bad or the hole. I also find it harder to plug in than micro (maybe because there's no narrow point on the plug which you can put in the middle of the hole and then move it to the edge to automatically align it perfectly) and hate the metal on metal sound/feeling this gives. The plug seems to be badly designed compared to the other USB ports (never had this issue, from A to B to mini to micro to micro B) and very often has incompatibilities where you're just guessing whether a display is going to work at all.

And then there's the ports problem. I've got a number of old cheap USB hubs laying around, like every techie I guess, but C hubs? Well... So this can now all go in the trash. We should stop this madness and come up with a better plug rather than a worse one, if we need to change all hardware anyway we might as well do it right the first time.
Ask HN: What do you use to monitor system calls on Windows and Mac?
I don't agree with government regulation of what should or should not be in a site's code of conduct. Requiring codes of conduct to be enforced equally on all users, however, merits some thought.
What happens in the US elections, is more likely to have a bigger impact in your own country than your own country elections. Think of the major strategic implications of a pro-Russia or anti-democratic US administration for example...
Oh so they're usurers.
You aren't there to fix them or help them hide their faults to future candidates.

Mainly you want to leave a good impression on the other people in case you meet them elsewhere in the future and only show a lot of initiative fixing something like that if you are being hired in a role that actually focuses a bit on those soft skills.

Personally, I once got far too involved in discussions with HR at a place where it clearly wasn't going to work out and they are high enough volume that it never mattered.. but I would prefer to have practiced the skills of never showing my hand and continuing along to learn more about their part of industry.
The problem with society 2 is that people have very few incentives to start new companies, except if they can use the startup to reach into the pot of government subsidies for less effort than any other job. In other words, the people who start companies will be the nephews of the officials who control the pot of money.

This is what happened in the Soviet Union. The economy hollowed out under this set of "fair" rules because human nature was left out of the equation. Corruption wasn't allowed, but it happened on a massive scale because it was effective. The more "fair" system resulted in greater income inequality than the unfair capitalist countries!

Forget income inequality. The metric we should be tracking is median income (in real terms). Wealth of the normal household is what we want to optimize, so optimize for it. Horribly unequal capitalism has been great for the average person. "Fair" systems, not so much.

"Meritocracy" is a bad word for what people who like capitalism actually want.
A. speculation

B. diversification against more tradional assets

C. store of value if you don’t have access to any better financial instruments

D. keeping some ready on hand to pay off ransomware attacks
These hubs need some sort of power indicator. Red flashing = running out of power.
It's definitely a stupidity tax. I don't think our world is very hard to operate in though...

George Carlin said "think of how stupid the average person is, then realize that half of them are stupider than that"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKN1Q5SjbeI
Businesses Seek to Soften SEC Cyber Rules
Ok here are some actual quotes then:

"We have no risk of bankruptcy" - objectively false statement

"it is possible, however unlikely, that a court would decide to consider customer assets as part of the company in bankruptcy proceedings" - goes against the entire point of his thread, and is also exactly why this disclosure was required

The quote above seems like a completely accurate and fair characterization.
I'm not saying it makes up for the difference in the arguments, but please note that people seem to be talking past each other in this thread by talking about home price to income ratios and mortgage to income ratios without making a distinction.
In C++ I very often find myself wanting to have the ability to define a type inline - e.g. my ideal syntax would look like

int z = 1;
auto x = [=] { .foo = z, .bar = {4,5,6}, .baz = "" };

Combined with the ability to introspect things at compile-time available in c++20, I think that this would get 99% there for common data-oriented design designs, without the need for a completely new programming language such as Ballerina.
"Is there any reason why these two values should be the same?"

Are you producing the same value for the company as you did last year? If inflation is higher, then you are receiving less value via your pay from producing the same or more value for the company.
I think it's because it's because his buckets are not around time management, but energy management.

And it works both ways. If you are drained by your job, you get home exhausted and want to just lay on the couch. If you are energized by your job, you get home excited. You feel like you can take on the world and then might be up to go to dinner with friends instead of drained and depressed and want to stay home and eat ice cream to console yourself (my personal go to).

The same goes in the other directions. If you are healthy, you will have more energy for other things. If you are unhealthy, your body will drag you down, it will be harder to do other things. Think of having a broken leg or a lot of pain. You just don't feel well and will bring that feeling into other parts of life.

Energy management isn't a zero sum game.

However, I think you do point out something else. Throwing yourself into work because you want to avoid dealing with issues in your other buckets is not an energy gain. But there is a key difference between working more to avoid painful things and reigniting a spark of joy in your work.
I thought "AirCover" was already the standard? Also this still doesn't address the issue that host can cancel your stay at any time and then you are left without any kind of accommodation in the middle of nowhere or unknown area
Its still useless. If the government is paying the interest to itself it literally does nothing. Its just an accounting.
I've never understood it either, and always wondered if it was some American thing? Do they have a favourite lawyer like I have a favourite barber?
Also, char is a distinct type from both signed char and unsigned char (even though it has the same size as both and the same signedness as one of them).
it's only a security issue if you don't know what you're doing.
Well I think to be fair-minded if "call to arms" is idiomatic, then you have to assume that "stand back, and stand by" is as well.

You can't arbitrarily take one literally and one not. If they both idiomatic, then they are both equally harmless.
> Evaluate on their salary and job prospects.

Salary and job prospects presumably have some correlation with one's ability to repay a loan. However, a much more reliable data point is saving capacity i.e. Income - Expenses. How far your income takes you inherently varies based on the life-style you live.

Does it suck throwing money down the toilet on rent? Absolutely! However, in most (not all) markets, home loan repayments will be quite a bit greater than rental repayments. If someone is unable to pay rent and simultaneously save a deposit - then chances are they aren't going to be able handle the loan repayments.

Also, looking at someone's current salary is not a good indicator of someone's ability to pay off a home loan over an extended period of time. Deposits typically take a while to save i.e. it's not a matter of having a high paying job at one point in time, it's a matter of whether one can sustain their income (keep their job) and budget for an extended period of time (many data points).

Even then - this is only part of the equation. Deposits aren't just a method for banks to assess potential borrowers. Initially banks buy/own the majority of the house (all with zero deposit), not the borrower. A deposit (and often insurance) are required to protect the bank in case the borrower does default - they need to be able to sell without losing money if prices fluctuate. Actually, it's not just price fluctuations. There's expenses involved with selling - agent fees, taxes etc.

An alternative to all this would be to significantly increase interest rates to mitigate the risk - which is also non-ideal.
Well, as the man page itself says:

HISTORY
A hier manual page appeared in Version 7 AT&T UNIX.
Similar idea, yes! But I'm imagining a single planet where each players island is specified by a set of GPS coordinates. You'd only be able to travel by boat, so initially only islands close to one another would feasibly be able to interact.
I got a 1.5% raise. It's a 4.5% paycut after inflation.
The basic principle is that known unknowns are better than unknown unknowns.
It shouldn't be showing ads at all, ever while in a car regardless of whether the car is moving or not.

Maybe these ads are part of the reason every third stoplight I have to honk my horn because the guy ahead of me is dicking around on his phone after it turns green?
I never would have thought a CEO would make a statement like this:

>We have no risk of bankruptcy

Reality is that every company has greater than "no risk" of bankruptcy. That's why regulators force them to spell out their risks in filings.
Your post reminds me of a reddit comment by a Russian who said they would welcome Communism back so they can be like children again.
“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain” would have worked just as well.

Before reading that tweet chain I was on the “SEC always requires horribly pessimistic outlooks” and now I’m in the “they’re going bankrupt very soon” camp.
> You have all these folders and files and no README.md to explain what is what.

Markdown is a novelty. Back then, it would be just README (with no file extension at all).

> In windows there's like a single place where you install all your stuff.

Windows was even worse. Whenever you installed something, parts of it were in a new directory at the root of C:\, and parts of it were dumped in C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM together with all the rest that's already there, often overwriting files of the same name (and the names were limited to 8 characters plus the extension, so they were quite opaque) used by other software you had installed earlier (that's the original scenario of what is now called "DLL hell"). On later Windows versions, instead of a new directory at the root of C:\ it was a new directory within "C:\Programs Files" (or is it "C:\PROGRA~1"? Or perhaps "C:\Arquivos de programas" aka "C:\ARQUIV~1"? Or something else?), and instead of C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM it was now C:\Windows\system32, and there's also the "Common files" directory somewhere. And since there's no package manager (actually there is one, but not everything uses it, and it's very complex), you don't know which file came from which software. Oh, and if the program you installed overwrote a "protected" system file, the operating system overwrites the file again with its own copy.
Why not to a non-custodial wallet…?
Exactly, this is a dark pattern because it uses up the visitor’s bandwidth before dropping a paywall in front.

On a similar note it’s using unnecessary power (quite possibly from a battery of limited capacity) rendering a paywall with an effect nobody wants to see, except probably the people who made it.

There’s an easy solution:
HTTP response 402: payment required
It's horrifying that any software developer would participate in a scheme that required people to get permission to go outside. That was a fundamental violation of human rights that can't possibly be justified for any public health reasons. Developers need a better sense of ethics, and the courage to refuse such projects.
Not to mention improve the safety of guests...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-06-15/airbnb-sp...
Ask HN: Any known attempts/implementations of metacircular VCS?
Any data about something like version control system which is a version control system for itself (but not limited for this only task, like regular vcs but with a fancy developing process) in single peace of software?
LFP will hit 260 wh/kg, with superior cell-to-pack density, no cobalt/nickel/manganese AFAIK. That is the 350-500 mile range cars and anything shorter.

Sodium Ion will hit 160 wh/kg so that's the 200-300 mile city cars, and no need to even source Lithium. And grid storage.

I haven't done the napkin math, but the high-density LFP should also be the 100 mile range PHEV, which would solve the middle america / rural Africa/Siberia/etc range issues.

That Li-S paper that went through HN about a month ago will probably do those densities, so that would supplant SSB, and would probably (speculating here) drop into existing battery factories more seamlessly.

The drop-in conversions would be a huge boon though, I just don't think SSB will get there soon enough.

SSBs would probably still be able to rule mobile/laptops though, still a big market.

We'll see what happens!
I would agree this. That said, good luck trying to change this in the first place. Not only is it incredibly ingrained into our system, the status quo has a lot to lose and would not be willing to give it up, while it is incredibly difficult to unionize the masses and not have them defect for a pittance.

Either way this will have to be answered by the time paradigm shifts and automation eventually question the worth of human labor as a whole.
Yes, and the solution has traditionally been to vote for principled leaders. Now, I don't think people know what principled means. They don't understand why "hypocrite" is a bad thing, and neither does anyone they know. Nor do they understand why allegations without evidence are dangerous - unless it's leveled against them, of course. Something deep and important is missing from many millions of minds; it was either there and suppressed or removed, or it wasn't there and didn't get nurtured. Of course, maybe it's always been this way and that's why small-scale illiberal leaders of the rabble, who themselves see the value in these things, have always been important to large scale liberal rule.
Looks like a misspelling of "surveillance".