skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is Coinbase specifically being singled out?

Google went down from $3000 to $2270 in recent months. Affirm is down 27% ... today.

Is this because HN was cynical and hating on Coinbase that it would go no where and then it did?
>I don't have time to dive into

Just admit that you would rather state your opinion without informing it. How anchor offered 20% (it doesn't anymore, as you are not aware) and why that 20% was not sustainable is perfectly understandable without reverting to "it's a Ponzi scheme!" That's like the Godwin's Law of finance, if you have no idea what you're talking about but want to be sensational the lowest effort thing you can say is point at a thing and call it a Ponzi scheme. There are valid criticisms of Anchor - anyone even remotely familiar with the protocol could and would speak about the yield reserve, how Anchor yields are generated from stake rewards of other tokens, the risks and failure scenarios of that design etc - but you clearly have no clue about any of this. Usually the appropriate thing to do when you have nothing useful to contribute is not contribute.
It doesn't matter if you believe speech policing is valid or not. It does and will happen. I mean, look here: right now the top two top-level comments here are about the name, rather than talking about the project itself.

It's irrelevant what should or should not be, in this case. If you want to avoid people discussing potential controversy around the name you've chosen, then don't choose a name that has controversy potential (and if you do that by accident, graciously change it). I'm talking about outcomes here, not about what anyone might think should or shouldn't happen.
The efficient market hypothesis is a myth
This is great and I'm definitely going to be using it this week in a client project.

That being said, you don't get an innovation rebate for using a new tool, even if, as here, it's a parsimony-enabler. It's still a new tool.

A description from TFA reads "The most important thing you should understand about Litestream is that it's just SQLite." (This reminds me an awful lot of the tagline for CoffeeScript: "It's just JavaScript" -- where did that leave us?) But that info box is just under a description of how the new tool is implemented in a way that makes it sound (to someone who's never looked at the SQLite codebase) like it's breaking some assumptions that SQLite is making. That's the sound of an innovation token being spent.
That’s the problem, crypto as an asset class has been nothing but a QAnon-fueled meme “stock”. Unfortunately, I don’t think this is the end of it until we see much more pain.

I can’t believe that real friends and family members that I know seriously invested in Dogecoin.
Yeah, I read that as Sean Connery saying "Bastard".
A broken clock is right at least twice a day.

I hope you made out like a bandit shorting the stock.
A new job site just for open-source jobs opens its doors
Good point. 3D film wasn’t new by any means. I remember doing some of those 3D movies (or actually ’4D’ movie ‘rides’) at Disneyworld, as late as the early 2000’s that we’re still using the older ‘red/ blue’ lenses.

Avatar however, took us to a whole new level. The modern CGI, along with the incredible amount of effort that went into planning out the cinematography to integrate with the 3D, is truly unmatched.

Many big ‘Blockbuster’ still have 3D versions, but it’s so clearly just something they add on after the fact, and they weren’t designed with that in mind. Very forgettable.
> long-term

what's your time horizon exactly?

also there may be a steeper discount tomorrow, when the forward estimates in the conference call talk about how something related to the macroeconomic environment and declining volumes and empty NFT marketplace, but who knows

its just that its not always about the earnings themselves
::cries in almost vested RSUs that I really need::
Yes, but that's the opposite problem: a dysfunctional bureaucracy will tend to become more dysfunctional over time until people have had enough of it and reverse the direction of the spiral usually by main force. Morocco could be a very nice country on all fronts but it would take an entirely different government including a significant part of the civil service to start realizing that potential.

France would not be the France that we know today without the French Revolution, which both remade France and put the rest of Europe's royals on notice that they were expendable in the most literal sense. Get rid of the parasites and suddenly you'll find there is budget for all kinds of improvements.
I'm glad you're getting to the bottom of your health issues. Sounds like you're on the right track.

I'm fascinated by it because of my history:

I've had acne my whole life. Starting at 11, I'm 39 now. Still have it. I've tried every medication known to man. Nothing works. Dermatologists can't explain it, they just give me the same canned answer "You produce too much sebum". "Ok, how can we control that?". "We're trying".

I take two showers a day to try to ward off the sebum oil from clogging my pores. I wash my face, hands, and all multiple times a day and wipe with clinical strength salicylic acid (6% instead of 3% you can get over the counter).

Still, nothing works. Except one thing which could have adverse affects on me later. The Sun.

When I get a tan, all my acne clears up for a brief while. Maybe that's the cis-urocanic acid doing it's thing. Maybe it's the sun burning that sebum and sealing the pore. I'm not sure. I'm pretty sure I'll get skin cancer if I continue this line of "treatment" but I'm out of options. It's ridiculous.

It's on my face, my arms, my back, my ass, my legs, my chest and has been since middle-school. I'm ready to just graft the whole body.

So thanks again as I have some other avenues to discuss with my doctors as well as some research to show them.
You can incorporate in both, the problem is in which country the bank account is located.
exactly, the market mooned on the same information after Jerome Powell's speech than the ongoing decline the day after
If you sell spreads you have time on your side. Still need direction generally correct.
> We were looking at "cyber insurance" for our college and found out that we would be disqualified because every network connected device (even those on isolated networks) needs to have 2FA. Well, we have a network connected CNC machine at it has no provision for it.

How enforceable is this? Why could you not just leave that machine out of your inventory?
Healthy markets have that fear. It’s been gone for a long time.
Being poor is agonizing. Having an overdrawn bank account or no bank account and more bills past due then I’ll be able to pay with my next two checks while worrying about my empty fridge, my gas tank on e, my lapsed car insurance, the donut that’s been on the car for 500 miles, the pile of dirty clothes, and on and on and on. Just listing everything is exhausting and physically painful. It hurts to know so viscerally that there’s nothing I can legally do in a sane timespan to fix these problems. Trying to think even two weeks out is impossible because something else is going to happen that destroys any progress I made. So I’ll tackle the most pressing first. Scrounge couches, the car, and spend a sleepless night wandering the city collecting cans so I can wash my nasty clothes so I won’t get fired. Hopefully I won’t have an accident at work that’ll cost way more than I got for a nights work.
I'm starting to get interested in buying (emphasis on starting).

Keep the destruction coming sellers, it's appreciated.
Recent post is good reading: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31287464
With pleasure. Feedback welcome! :)
Oh man that's a riot. Thanks for sharing.

There are several classes of problem that really seem to bring out the patent crackpots, of which perpetual motion is the most classic. Apparently data compression is another.

The one I've personally run into is "secure" or "trusted" embedded systems. I've been contacted by a lot of people who believe that they can make a perfectly secure and trustworthy secret storage system just by building it out of an embedded Linux system. When I try to explain how a secure element is basically exactly the opposite of a Linux box, the excuses and bluster prevent me from actually making any progress in explaining.

There's a term for this: "Not even wrong." That is, so off base that "wrong" is generous!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_even_wrong
Kornia: Differential Computer Vision
Don’t try to catch a falling knife.
> didn't he lose everything?

.... 5 years ago? how do you think that works?

I just don't think there is enough information to extrapolate anybody's financial position, anyone anywhere
Cloudflare might have been a frothy valuation, but it's still growing 54% YoY. I'm buying at these prices.

($NET bagholder)
It’s a neat software and has tons of hidden features like for example, you can redact parts of a document. You can also combine different documents into a single pdf file.
Thanks - neither did I!
Litestream is a database server, isn’t it?
Congrats! Love it
Web 2 was a set of features on top of web 1, which gave room for the existing features to catch up ever so slightly to flash, activx and java applets. Instead of largely static pages with some interactive content, the entire page itself became interactive, without many of the drawbacks of plugins. Anyone could see the magic the first time they saw gmail or facebook or whatever load content without reloading the entire page.

Web3 brings features that are only surfaced to users indirectly... just implementation details, really.
The thing that bothers me about the people who dig in and insist on continuing to use "master" is that... well... this is the hill they want to die on? If changing was some big expensive process, or if it was a name that held some sort of special historical significance (or whatever), I could maybe see the argument against. But it's... the original default branch name of a source control tool. Get over it and move on, maybe?

(Having said that, I still haven't gotten around to renaming all my existing repositories...)
I mean it is called an “exit” right?
Same. I've also bought Affirm, Shopify, Netflix, Peloton and Roblox in addition to Coinbase since they've all dropped ~70-90% in the last 6 months. I agree they were overvalued, but we seem to be in overreaction territory now. Even if we haven't seen the bottom yet, I think we'll see a lot of upside in these over the next 2-5 years.
Yup. AirBNB's darling beat expectations but also lost 50% from ATH. Just this week it went down 30%.
Can't your number be spoofed?
that function is correct when it agrees with me.
Diffraction spikes from occluding support poles:

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/james-webb-spikes/
All pegs are solid until they break, though. Unless the two currencies are affected exactly equally by all events and treated exactly equally by everyone, there is no single price that won't eventually be "fundamentally mispriced".
Yes, I recall borrowing books from the library in order to type in the programs. Can't say I recall punch cards, but I'm sure someone around here does.
Take .app or something that corresponds to your service (.io, .ai, etc, just go to namecheap and then browse through all the extensions).

Then, say you make foobar.app, also buy foobarapp.com so you can use both.
Have you seen time square anytime over the last 2 years? its atrocious, worse than the ICO days
As with the Lebanese Pound, if you are getting >10% on savings deposits you are being scammed.
I’m particularly sad to see Cloudflare’s stock having plummeted.

Out of all the tech companies that IPO’d in the past few years, Cloudflare is one that the most potential to excel long term. Developer sentiment towards Cloudflare is comparable to Apple fanboys of the previous decade, and their products are legitimately good, backed with tangible assets (datacenters). They also have consistent growth quarter over quarter.

It’s surprising how many not as impressive companies (pre-revenue!) got away with entering the public market last year. Good company or bad company, they all seem to be sharing the same freefall.

(Disclosure, I own NET)
If you don’t think there’s a huge demand for cannibalistic products, you haven’t been listening to Q. Which is good news for you. Of course confusion about the plausible goals of large actors is kind of their thing.
oh gotcha, apologies for jumping to conclusions.
If your net worth is high enough to afford such an arrangement, by all means do that.

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?

activities that generate enough suspicion for the authorities to target you (ie. civil forfeiture) but for which the authorities don't have enough evidence to convict you.

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

I just want to know what the legitimate use case is for using crypocurrency to shield your funds from the USA that couldn't also be done at a traditional bank.
No; there's no such thing as a sqlite3 server. The database is the file(s). Litestream runs alongside everything else using sqlite3 and ensures that it's replicating. If Litestream crashes, reads from the database keep working fine (though, of course, they'll start to stale if it doesn't come back up).

This is why we called out in the post that Litestream is "just sqlite3". It's not sitting between apps and the database.
This particular algorithmic stablecoin is and has always been 100% a scam. If you actually look at the way the system works, it's pegged by exactly nothing, the only demand for LUNA is to burn it for UST, or to hold it for speculative purposes. Terra was never going to survive a bear, and this is only a little blip compared to past bear markets (so far).
Intuit. Their P/E is high but they pay dividends, they're fairly recession-proof, and they have a big moat vs competition.
I think you answered your own question there: Google is down 25%, Coinbase is down 3x that at 75%.
That's a hypothetical legal issue, not an actual one. Also, the companies involved in AV1 did their best to avoid that pitfall in development and have also shown a willingness to go after patent trolls who might try to pull something.
Based on the blurb in the article, I think (though it's not fully clear) that the author intends "bash retard".
It's not a loss if you don't sell ;)
I've always had the sense that this is a very vocal minority of emacs users, and that there's a heavy overlap with the people who, say, spend time "ricing" their i3 configs.

I spent a few tens of minutes setting up LSP for the languages I use, a few hours browsing and trying out themes, and then I maybe spend less than an hour a year on my config
As someone who works at a...semi competitor, I think you're absolutely right about Cloudflare.

They've got a strong team, strong products, and a lot of users. I think they're in a great position to start making tons of cash if so inclined...
Yes, this link points to the HNews itself. Recursion would be an unbeatable name ;-)
It doesn't need to be mutually exclusive. Did these people ultimately make the decision themselves? Yes. Do people know that those in poverty are prone to being nudged to make these sorts of "investments" because of the psychology behind scarcity? Also yes. I certainly have sympathy that they're preyed upon.
It's not the P/E itself but ALL the future earnings discounted to the present using an appropriate discount rate that counts. See the uncertainties involved here? :)

If you can predict a range for the future earnings and discount them and if it is underpriced , do buy :) .
If a property sells for $10M and it's assessed at $100K that's objectively unfair. NYC's deficit spending means that their intentional under taxation of property is subsidized by the rest of the state.
Introduction to Microsoft Excel 1992
> We recently expanded the privileges of nurse practitioners which is great, but two large nursing unions are less than 60 days away from striking.

The problem is that NPs are not fundamentally trained in diagnosis and have huge gaps in their medical training compared to physicians.

In the best case you go to an NP for a simple scrip. In the worst case you see a series of NPs and never get an accurate diagnosis, leading to a circular series of appointments.

NP = 2 year program on top of a 4 year nursing degree.

Physician = 1-3 years of fellowship (optional) + 3-7 years of residency + 4 year medical school on top of a 4 year bachelors degree
Don’t touch anything Cathie Wood buys (for now).
The market will stay irrational for longer!
As @perihelions just noted, the explanation for the stripes you can see is provided in the article, just as you seem to be hoping for?
In addition to this, it wasn't typical to test your code every ten seconds. A good programmer can write a significant piece of functionality and have it work reasonably well right away (and even start on the next item while it's compiling!).
> > Any read (GET or LIST request) that is initiated following the receipt of a successful PUT response will return the data written by the PUT request.

> So this is stronger than RYW.

I'm not sure that it is? The examples listed below that description only specify making an update and then immediately reading it back from the same process.
I can't read OP's mind, but their earnings call is tomorrow.

Coinbase is a very successful business with actual earnings and a large profit margin, it's just people's opinions of its future income that have changed.
It's back up. What a bummer
> Out of all the tech companies that IPO’d in the past few years, Cloudflare is one that the most potential to excel long term

If you think this, you should be happy and buy more of the stock. I don't know enough to say if I think it's a good idea, but if you do, don't be sad, buy more of it.
Look at the chart in the article. It seem to have defined the "meme stock era" as starting in jan 2020, and compared the performance of "estimated retail trading" against "S&P 500 total return". During that timespan the former lost all gains, but the latter is still up around 20%.
I have the vague sense that this is a "scaling problem", similar to how a software architecture that works just fine with 1,000 users will break down at 1,000,000. The mechanism for accepting input is not ready for so much, and it becomes a DDOS of sorts.
I know you're making fun of me, and trying to humiliate me, but I actually read up on that and will say your post has merit despite "your" bad intentions. Terry Davis acted in good faith. And it compiles. What more do you want?

Yeah the racism and bigotry, yeah. Am I supposed to disqualify him out of hand? What he went through?
You know, he worshipped GOD with everything he had, everything he did, and apparently at some point he ran out of ability to worship and that's why he died, that's how the Wikipedia I read three days ago told it. "You" did the exact opposite, sacrilegious, that's no joke, flag your human handler, she has to read this herself.

You think it's easy sticking up to torture? You think it's easy recovering blacked out memories? Takes a long time I can tell you.

But in the most favorable interpretation of what "you" wrote, I agree with the following:

Praise the LORD!
I think part of the problem, alfalfa and rice and almond trees, among other thirsty plants, are allegedly being ripped up as they're unprofitable and unsustainable. I think @azemetre is correct in holding up growing crops as a virtue, but we should be careful as to which, where, and how we grow.
So we've been in one of the longest bull markets in modern history. I have been amazed at the wilful ignorance of Crypto Andys when it comes to why financial markets, the financial system, central banking, debt and debt markets are the way they are.

There's a certain delight [1] in watching increased market volatility exposing how understanding merkle trees and consensus protocols doesn't make you an expert on what the financial system is, how it works and why it is the way it is.

So lots of countries have tried pegging their currencies to other currencies, most commonly the US dollar. Your ability to do so is limited by how much money you are prepared to throw at it to counterbalance market forces. I mean this is one reason why we moved from Bretton-Woods to floating exchange rates.

Central banks have far more ability to defend a peg. Still a pet can be attacked (eg [2]) if the peg is sufficiently out of line with the market.

It's going to be funny to watch these crypto trainwrecks learn these lessons (again) the hard way.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCQGQ5qBQTA

[2]: https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/08/george-soros-ban...
Sounds like a form of Parkinson's Law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law
Every mp3 player I owned had a removable battery.
Terra's multi-billion dollar algorithmic stablecoin UST blew up today
Agree, Cloudflare is doing some great stuff and always trying new things. Remember the Cloudflare TV Channel (if that still is around). I hope the loss in market cap doesn't hurt their innovation.

(Disclosure also, I own NET)
Non-elitist take:

Rust seems harder but it allows for compiler guided development. So there's a bit of an upfront learning cost but the maintenance cost is lower. If you change something in an enum variant, the compiler will basically tell you what to change everywhere in your codebase.

Specifically, Rust code has less assumptions, with lifetimes, mut, etc., Rust code is much easier to read. If I read a function, I need less awareness of other parts of the codebase because so much of the information is just there.

Counter-point: This is clearly not perfectly true, considering that I would still recommend Typescript over Rust for web dev.

More elitist take:

Rust is not hard. If you can pass a college algorithms class (i.e you can understand BFS/DFS/DP/Network Flow), you can understand Rust.

If your developers cannot write Rust code, you will probably pay the price in whatever language they write.

Counter point: This is clearly not 100% true since I would not say the same thing about Haskell even though arguably I could.
Genuine question, why would you still use firefox v56 in 2022? isn't that a massive security issue?
>Very curious what objective measures you’re referring to.

Take this one with pretty graphs. Political polarization in the usa has been ongoing for quite some time. Many groups have been recording it.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/06/12/7-things-to...

>The downfall of leftish media itself kind of suggests the opposite: mainstream left-leaners are rejecting their more extremist media wings. Meanwhile the right is galvanizing around their most extreme.

I find it telling you see fox news as 'most extreme'.

To me, the polarization is objective. We need to evaluate to determine if perhaps that is the path. In 50 years from now we might be talking about how ridiculously conservative we all are back in those antiquated 2020s. What we would see is the far left doing really well. They did do pretty well while they pushed various disinformation campaigns.

The evaluation though is obviously the opposite. The polarization has derived largely because of echo chambers and identity politics. Those who are failing discovered this reality and have publicly admitted to this failure.

The USA is now sitting at the choice posed in strange new worlds. We dont need to keep fighting. We need to get back to talking to each other. This is the essence of why elon musk is buying twitter. End the censorship and get everyone talking again.
IMHO, companies that IPO and stay stable, or IPO and drop, are doing their early employees a favor at the market and institutional investors' expenses.

I can't fault that.

If the market's willing to overpay, and the money goes the people who actually built a company, where's the harm?