skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Krugman responded to this:

https://www.businessinsider.com/paul-krugman-responds-to-int...

> The reason people are dredging up this old quote is that Krugman jokingly said Bitcoin is Evil. He doesn't think it's evil, but he is skeptical that Bitcoin can be a real store of money, and actually work as a currency.

[...]

> We emailed Krugman for a comment on the quote and here's his explanation:

Krugman:

> Well, two things.

> First, look at the whole piece. It was a thing for the Times magazine's 100th anniversary, written as if by someone looking back from 2098, so the point was to be fun and provocative, not to engage in careful forecasting; I mean, there are lines in there about St. Petersburg having more skyscrapers than New York, which was not a prediction, just a thought-provoker.

> But the main point is that I don't claim any special expertise in technology -- I almost never make technological forecasts, and the only reason there was stuff like that in the 98 piece was because the assignment required that I do that sort of thing. The issues about Bitcoin, however, are not technological! Everyone agrees that it's technically very sweet. But does it work as money? That's a very different kind of question.

> And the fact that people are throwing around my 98 quote actually shows that they don't get this point -- that they're confusing technology with monetary economics.
That's a pejorative take on capitalism.

Given a list of possibilities for action, profit is merely an ORDER BY mechanism to prioritize them.

Incentives matter in the buyer/maketplace/seller realm of economics.
13 years and absolutely nothing interesting has happened with it, except people saying "You need to get in on this!!!" so they can push the value up and buy low and sell high.

The internet was doing interesting stuff well within 5 years. Modern smartphones were interesting and taking over the world within 5 years. Graphics cards came and revolutionized the gaming industry immediately. Crypto has been around for 13 years and all we've seen are pump and dump schemes, and by extension randomly generated chimpanzee pictures whose market has already collapsed.
Other way round for me.
Having more time for family/kids because I don’t have to commute is great.
Also, starting out in a completely remote setting sounds a bit daunting to me.
An open source cloud migration tool for AWS, Azure and GCP
This is pretty disengenuous.

At the end of the day Star Citizen isn't a blank canvas. There is a real playable game, not tech demo, right now. Sq42 is a bloody circus, but this pervasive belief that the project is a scam is trivial for anyone to prove false without spending a dime: just wait for the next free fly weekend.
Will not work. All 49 state legal mods come off before smog and go right back on after. Some exhausts have a removable insert in the tip that restricts flow but also dampers the noise. Also the penalty for modification when I got pulled over and hood popped back in high school was a $400 state referee ticket. I could take my car to a state ref to get signed off or pay the fine. The motor was swapped and 100% illegal per California of course I just paid. It's just lip service with a racket on top.

Quick edit: the swapped engine actually blew cleaner than the original engine before anyone chimes in there. If California cared about emissions they would only judge a car on what it blows out the tailpipe, not what is in it.
If the main concern was not identity theft, I would just say consider it as a blessing and forget about google.

What I would do now is concentrate on right now is buy a new comouter and phone, swap the sim card to it, shutdown all other connected devices, change my main password manager password, the login on each service / account I have in my password manager and change the password, email address and credit card number (get a new one from your bank asap). The point is that anyone who own my email account now cannot login to them or do some social engineering using recepts found in old emails. More often than not acccount recovery support ask you to verify your identity by asking you the last 2 to 4 numbers of your credit card numbers...very often the very same numbers that are left in clear text in receipt, you may still have some in your email history.

Once done, do an offline backups of your other computers and wipe them all as well and factory reset your original smartphone.

Start now and already call you boss to take a day off if needed it will probably take you more than a day if you have hundreds of accounts.

A best practice should be to unsubscribe to any automatic newsletter and delete all mail that relate to an account so that someone who compromise our accounts cannot figure out which service we consume based on our email history. This is better kept locally without staying on the email servers. Most people don't do that because they want their email archive accessible from any device out of conveniency.
> Problem solved.

Sure, apart from all the energy use, and the predatory scammers and all the other bad effects on society this stuff seems to promote.

But sure, other than those things, problem solved!
Is this pet-friendly? Dogs can hear in excess of 50 kHz, the article states >=32 kHz carriers.
I think there's an in theory use for the "digital gold" aspect of something like bitcoin, and some use for something like a smart contract to eliminate the need for middlemen in some exchanges.

The issue of course being that there's a LOT of new and exciting issues with things like this, and more importantly, some ancient and critical issues....like mass scamming and inconsistent tech. Decentralization sounds great until all your money goes out the window, never to be seen again.

I do think there's a home for the tech, and I think there's a small chance some of this really explodes (in the understanding that i don't understand something about it, which is likely), but I do feel that it's impossible to find any reasonable discussion of the topic because it's COVERED in bullshit.

It seriously reminds me of marketing. No one would say that marketing doesn't work. There's plenty of evidence it does. But actually trying to learn about certain facets of the industry is a NIGHTMARE because it's just other marketing people marketing to you, and sifting the bullshit from the legit is hell.
... Neither?

It's a superior alternative to cmd.exe. bash has never been a serious contender for Windows. Before PS you always wrote .bat scripts for cmd.exe (or .vbs for cscript.exe if you were really depraved). Nobody except Linux-first FOSS authors would expect Windows users to have cygwin / msys / mingw32 installed.

PS gave us a saner choice, though we would still usually bundle it with a .bat wrapper, just to a) make it double-clickable and b) set `-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted`.

If you're asking "is PS better than bash", then sure it's better in some ways and worse in others, but that question only makes sense on Linux where bash is actually an option.
Nothing really. A nice vehicle to strip retail investors that don't understand money or tech, or the tech of money.

Funnily enough, the only thing I see any value in are NFTs. (Remember crypto currencies are essentially just the T in NFT). But not the url asset nonsense.

Rather as a distrubuted authentication system. Concert tickets, system access etc. are all viable.
HN is actually very technology optimistic. People really think that tech can be used for good, and part of the ethos is that we should try to improve the world using tech.

The result is that HN as a whole is quite judgemental about whether people are doing that. People here will regularly tell you that AirBnB rides on externalities, Amazon treats everyone badly, and FB is destroying democracy. Basically, HN tries to hold the world accountable to the optimistic promise of technology, and to do so we have to point out some things that aren't working well.

Crypto is no different. There's some interesting stuff in there for sure, especially if you just look at the tech. But in terms of making the world a better place, it gets held to a standard just like all the tech giant firms. At the moment there's a lot of minuses on the board and we've yet to see the positives that justify the optimism.
In exchange, now you have proper record of everything said and done.

I love the fact that I can always go back to Slack and say “See? This is what we agreed upon”, instead of having to recall the specifics of a meeting where notes weren’t taken in detail.
> a solution in search of a problem

Ding ding ding.

I'm still in the "new and exciting" part of my life, but crypto just doesn't solve any interesting problems.

The decentralisation of crypto currencies is great (i.e. there's no central bank that can devalue its currency to prop up their national economy), but it's way too volatile to actually be useful as a currency. Would you agree to be paid your salary in bitcoin? Without adjustments if it drops relative to the dollar? Heck no. It's a speculative device, not a currency.

Smart contracts are cool too. Zero trust transactions etc. Conceptually I think these are really cool, but I see no practical need for them (for 99.99% of people).

Blockchain as a data structure, again for 99.99% of applications a DB and PGP do the trick. (And I'm still waiting on that 0.01% to show up.) I'm a software engineer by trade, and firmly believe you should pick the simplest way to solve a problem, not the coolest.

All of the different uses of crypto are "cool" but pretty useless. A solution in search of a problem indeed.
I don’t see a price or in app purchase. How is this being monitized?
You can buy the Gurkha LAPV[1] as a civilian, and I would argue it's at least as much a tank as some of the light troop transport tanks from the cold war. And it's quite the SUV. :D

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terradyne_Armored_Vehicles_Gur...
> 1: It is hard to grasp.

Yes, and the complexity is not necessary, it is there to obscure conceal the scams and central vacuity of the idea.

This idea, that complexity is a hallmark of scams, is discussed (in other contexts) in more details here

https://pluralistic.net/2022/05/04/house-always-wins/#are-yo...

https://pluralistic.net/2022/05/05/mego/#A09948
If you consider the definition of mean for a continuous variable you can see that you can indeed break up the operations into different partitions of the data then add them up. The weight in continuous case is explicit while for discrete case it is sometimes implicit (1/N).

When I think Simpson’s paradox I think of regressions.

It is indeed true that if you do regression on half your data and then regression on the other half, you won’t get the same result as doing regression on the full data.
If it’s illegal that explains why everything is moving towards a subscription model. Well, that, and online retailers are realizing that ads don’t have as much effectiveness as they thought so market prices are falling precipitously.
So, spending hours in a car instead of with my own kids is "mature".

Spending the family income on cars and gas and paying an extra million for a house in order to make commuting even feasible is "mature".

Destroying the environment, wasting precious resources and spewing out poisonous particles that enter the lungs and bloodstream of other human beings is "mature".

And engaging in office maneuvering and chit-chatting instead of producing great value for my employer is "mature".

I'd rather be immature then.
> Is there a way I can recover my account?

I assume you tried contacting Google's online support and got nowhere. Try writing Google a _physical_ letter. Maybe even make it registered mail. In your letter, ask them sternly to make either the account or a dump of its contents available to you. Explain that, since it is of extremely importance for your personal and professional life, they must understand you will use any legal means at your disposal to obtain the data associated with that account. Also consider mentioning this situation is damaging your personal or professional life.

This may or may not solicit a response. If it does, then good, you've probably succeeded (unless it's a "taking under advisement" response). If not, contact a lawyer and check whether you can legally force them to give you access to your information. IANAL, but it stands to reason that you may be able to - either at their expense or at yours.

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And I too will join the advice given by others: *A Google account is not under your control.* It is read by others, and can be blocked by others. You must back-up your emails and other content, rather than relying on its availability via Google. I would go as far as recommending avoiding a Google account altogether (I do).
Similar thing happened recently with my Amazon account. They said I can make a new one, and otherwise to get fucked.
Python (and any other general purpose languages) shouldn't be considered a replacement for shell pipelines but rather an extension tool. Actually, the pipelines survived 50 years in big
part due to how easy to extend them: just define something that can read from stream of bytes, and write to another one (use what ever language you like).

The origin of composing simple programs that do one thing well is likely was originated as the consequence of the introduction of shell pipelines (or the genius pre-designed property).

Pipelines is a good example of "less is more" concept.
Applying Google's Testing Methodology to Functional DDD for Scalable Testing
I find this twitter thread frustrating.

Q: What was the justification for the demotion? What became of the leaders that made that decision?

A: It was stranger than you can possibly imagine

I think the gist of the story is that he was assigned to work on X but worked on Y instead. Notwithstanding how great Y idea turned out to be it seems he was demoted for insubordination?
>> "I had to replace my fried router twice within the span of 2 days"

That should not cause your IP address to change. Either you have a static IP and always get that static IP assigned to your account (which you'd know as you'd likely pay for that).
Or 'replacing the router' is just seen as 'connecting to the internet' from your ISP's point of view. So from Google's POV you're connecting from the regular region that your home connection always is from.
I know it doesn't help, but I'm pretty sure whatever you're facing isn't because of your home router issues.
Lending requires the ability to seize assets, and the ability to seize assets requires a legal system. There's no way around it. Without this lending can't work, because otherwise the borrower can just walk away with the money.
>like that time when there's a bug and something like 40 thousand dollars just goes to waste because

If you are that worried about losing the money you lent you can pay for insurance. Here are some examples.

https://app.nexusmutual.io/cover

https://app.insurace.io/Insurance/BuyCovers
This is a great insight, thanks for sharing.

I wonder how developers at companies like Apple and Microsoft are able to be productive with hidden code.
I suspect HN chatter adamantly against decentralized governance and value storage experiments are often by intelligent people that are simply too distracted by the loud voices of greed and hype to take an objective look at the quiet yet major technological innovations happening that will change the world forever just like the internet did.

The early 90s internet was pretty rough too and also had a lot of annoying hype and greed that made a lot of people swear it off instead of looking closer at what it could become over time.

Some 90s engineers managed to look past the short term hype and greed problems of the early interent to see the true innovations and think long term. They did very well.

The Bitcoin whitepaper started a chain reaction of demand that produced better human friendly backups for private keys like BIP39, cheap general purpose personal hardware security modules like Ledger and Trezor, better privacy with innovations like zero knowledge proofs, greener datacenters and computational effeciency improvements to reduce energy waste, and massive improvements in quorum computing patterns so no one malicious sysadmin can manipulate societially critical network services.

Visa, Mastercard, virtually every bank, supply chain companies, governments, general sysadmin teams at companies everywhere, etc, etc, have huge think thanks harvesting and incorporating technology from decentralized value storage and governance experiments that spun out of Bitcoin.

The entire field of mathematics and cryptography has gotten a massive cash injection as a result of these too. Ask anyone that works in the cryptography departments at Universities like Stanford.

Sure, traders and people who hype things without understanding the fundamentals are annoying. They annoy me too, but I look at this from my role as a security researcher. Crypto-assets have seemingly overnight generated massive demand for security technology that can reduce theft and scams online. As a result those invested in crypto-asset technology are often light years ahead in security from your typical SaaS company in other industries. Crypto-asset holders and those against them all have a common interest in a safer internet.

We would all do well to learn to find common ground instead of taking unproductive stances against major technological advancements just because the early stage versions of them are a bit rough.
>>"Are managers supposed to be like daycare supervisors of children or something?"

I mean... Yes, sometimes? Coding skill and emotional intelligence don't necessarily have an embedded linear relationship :D. But more seriously, a lot of team members need anything from emotional support to soft skill coaching to nurturing and encouragement etc. But that again to me is orthogonal to the remote vs office. I can be a daycare supervisor to an adult remotely if need be :).
It's a distributed ledger that is verified via proof-of-work. People have decided to assign it speculative value, largely as a sort of fin-tech smart-banking pitch. Ultimately though, there just aren't many non-financial usecases for a _public_ distributed ledger. Simply verifying transactions doesn't solve much - you need to vet the _nature_ of the transaction to make sure that screwy things aren't happening using _other_ stores of value (not bound by the laws of proof-of-work). Centralization will appear to "solve" these problems, just as it does with USD.

That's why I feel that bitcoin is always going to be ripe for abuse and highly adjacent to scams, even if the original paper is impressive and an interesting result.
> These all offer rates competitive or superior to traditional methods thanks to being able to access a global pool of capital through a single programming interface that simplifies coordination and risk sharing between counter-parties.

(Genuinely curious about the answer) How would that be different from, or better than centralized platforms like kickstarter?
Donations I think.
Because a shell script is supposed to be a lowest common denominator. Run this, and it'll ensure you have Maven, it'll ensure you have Java 11+, then it'll build the thing and run the thing.

And now I'm needing to sniff your OS, detect whether or not Homebrew is installed, install it if not, then install Bash >3, then run the actual meat of the script.

All because of Apple's lawyers being scared of GPLv3.

At this point, I may as well insist that you install pyenv and Poetry and deliver it as a Python package.
Maybe you need to re-pitch this role as a contract and hire a remote contractor. I think you would get plenty of interest from experienced analysts if you could hire nationally. I might even be interested with that generous PTO policy, but on-site is like going back to the stone age for me. Whatever metro area you are in that salary must be a show stopper. Many younger people are stuck with incredibly high housing costs without the benefit of being grandfathered into rent control or mortgage payments from 7 years ago.
it's a descriptive take on capitalism. profit is the motivating force for businesses, and in the crypto economy the profit is primarily derived from speculation and scamming. in the real world, at least capitalism is driven by demand that often comes from actual utility. crypto is like if the entire economy was wall street, including boiler rooms and market manipulation.
ISP sees a new MAC address; it's perhaps quite likely that if you don't have a static IP it'd change on router replacement.
Yes, Krugman responded after throwing something like that in ether. Doesn't make him right or more knowledgeable having to reassess his original thinking.

Also, Krugman had to go back on his take of the internet, all I'm saying is that none can predict future and the "smartest" of us can be and often are wrong.
> It might be an extreme problem to you, not to everyone else.

So mass inflation is only an extremely problem to me? This is probably the most false claim possible.

> This has been solved again and again by different companies, be it wise.com or others

Except they constantly freeze user accounts for no reason.

> Except for the fact that nobody can get their money back after they have been scamed. There is no authority to complain to or reverse a transaction. Wich makes it useless for the masses.

Of course there is, all the exchanges have to comply by with law enforcement and that’s what they are doing. This way, since the transactions are all public and can be traced endlessly it’s very difficult to evade law enforcement through scams.

Thats also why this $4.5B scam was caught https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-09/nyc-coupl...
They have something for ML: https://machinelearning.apple.com
> "Senior" is a title with a different meaning everywhere

And so is meaningless. Can we just get rid of this "I am a senior" nonsense? Also "I am a junior", come to that.
I teach that kind of stuff at university — I would never think about teaching JS before HTML and CSS. Students should understand what ia possible with HTML and CSS alone. Then we look at the server side, and understand infrastructure and how servers can potentially deliver different HTML and CSS depending on the request and then we start introducing JS as a means to replace serverside stuff, to enrich HTNL and CSS or to interact with REST APIs without reloading the page etc.

But understanding the infrastructure is key here. Understanding the "M" in HTML, understanding the "C" in CSS, understanding http etc.
I wonder if you are in Europe or somehow related? Would anyone know of any success case where you can GDPR them to receive all the data associated to you in this way? It's not "your account", but at least might give you your data back.
It should give crypto folks something to think about. The %-age of people who know Merkle trees is probably higher on HN than among crypto users. Personally, I went from curious to skeptical twice already - once for plain blockchains, then for web3.

I still find the idea of decentralizing web services interesting it just seems to me that most projects heavily rely on their front end and not seldom on a centralized backend too (eg OpenSea, the platform for NFTs, which themselves in most cases are just links to centrally hosted resources, contrary to what most seem to believe). At that point, you just have a normal web app with horrendous UX. The idea that you can create protocols as sort of a public good is interesting in theory, but effectively it's still whoever owns the domain name (+ usually Discord server, Twitter handle,...) that effectively controls everything.

But there are some interesting approaches to mitigate that. I believe Aave hosts their app on IPFS now, Liquity has an incentive mechanism for front end hosters for their protocol. And there are some interesting aspects beyond decentralization, the ability to make binding promises to anyone is powerful.
To be honest, I am actually kind okay with that, at least the public now knows what is being tracked and not, so in a sense, there is no secrecy in the trace-together saga.