skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Again, mostly not wrong but a bit annoying. I enjoy money that works with a programmable remote procedure call system (what I refer to as aesthetic, as sure, I can't call this super useful in real economic terms) and I'm quite willing to take a loss. Not sure what you're adding to what hasn't already been said; you effectively ignored my post.
The Model S was the first EV that “happened to be” an EV. You didn’t have to compromise on range, power, comfort, or anything else to own it. That’s why it succeeded. It was a great car, and happened to be an EV.

Tesla’s chief designer himself: “We are past the idea of an environmentally friendly vehicle needing to look different. People don't want to sacrifice anything, including style, to own an efficient car.”
Now the reason the ponzi was needed should be clear. (To generate the required demand for LUNA)
The problem with Tether is that the exchanges themselves have huge stakes in it. If Tether were to lose its peg all of a sudden by a significant amount, the exchanges themselves would have huge holes in their balance sheets. They may refuse to allow redemption of any crypto during that period where they're trying to raise capital otherwise they themselves might go bankrupt. A liquidity crisis in Tether could cause a bank run at every exchange, which could take down the entire crypto ecosystem.
See it: Tesla crashes into Columbus convention center at 70 MPH
Would love someone experienced with wind turbines to chime in.
Generating 2.4A at 5v from "hardly any wind" (8mp/h) would put this in another league to similar consumer options.
Any guesses to their "patent-pending" technology?
What do you mean baseline?
Seeing users as their enemy would explain their windows 8+ and msteams strategy.
You are somewhat correct in that yes most crypto is not private. However this isnt a binary state, often pseudo-anonymity (which most crypto can do) is sufficient.

Except to a well informed person with the proper tools, its difficult to follow even relatively basic transactions more than a few hops. How many of these kind of people do we think are employed by the IRS?

Even the FBI have been famously bad at tracking criminal funds, and they do have the expertise and tools.
Nature may ultimately solve that for us.
For all we know, a portion of that is now UST that they scooped at a discount. It's "equivalent to dollars"
Unlikely that georgist system would get adopted gradually. It never worked in history.

Denmark georgist party (Justice party of Denmark) never got a strong popular support. When they got some attention and implemented georgist policies, vested interests would take the new gains and roll the policies back, capturing the profits only for themselves.

There are pockets in the US which are adopting georgist policies out of desperation.
https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2019/3/6/non-glamorous-g...

The only model that was sustainable on a country level was Singapore and the eastern colonies like Hong Kong or Jiaozhou Bay.

Unless there is dire disperation or a threat of a bigger enemy attempting to swallow you, the population gets complacent and always goes back to the humanity default of trying to outcompete their immediate neighbors, instead of working together to survive the threat of the poverty or the surrounding enemy.

I admire your optimism. My hopes are that humanity gives georgism a chance this time. Instead of repeating the cycle by falling into yet another great war and then bringing prosperity back only as a post-war restoration.
I would say it is due to a bureaucracy that does not value those skills- they don't want developers making more than some managers.
Almost all of the companies with power on the web are invested in continuing with it as it is. Given that, the only way to change it so substantially would be to create some kind of grassroots movement for a new version. That's an uphill battle--how are you going to get ordinary people to care? How are you gonna get the average, urgh, "content creator" to ignore network effects and use your platform? What's the "killer app", especially considering it's meant to have less features than the original web?
Linux and iOS integration now possible with the KDE Connect app
Ok, I’ll bite: his goal is for every stakeholder to feel listened to, for their lives to get better, for no one to have an undue advantage, and for people to generally have what they need and want to the extent possible.

What’s the next step, then?
They can, by using docker.
Once you have a fractional reserve system a run on the banks becomes inevitable.
AliExpress Russia slashes 40% of staff
As long as there are actors in the system who can liquidate Tether at ~$1, the peg will be maintained. If it goes to 99 cents, those actors would buy and immediately liquidate for risk-free profit. Who cares if you personally can redeem them -- you don't need to, as long as someone can.

Whether someone always will be able to is the critical question, and there are certainly enough red flags that I wouldn't touch tether personally.
I remember me and my friends played “tag” by landing on top of each other’s cells.
Funny site.
Reminds me of a Sam Altman quote about Airbnb:

> for all that people worry and for all that the press loves to say, 'Ah, this happened; this thing is over,' and whip themselves up in this frenzy, it never actually kills the startup. It's a problem; people love to talk about it. And there's this schadenfreude of loving to hate on someone's perceived missteps or someone's problem. So people love to talk about it. But then they go back and they book AirBnB for their next vacation.

Econtalk Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAYXUgNHHc4&t=16m25s
Make something people need. Get them to know about it. Charge for it. There is no magic formula.
I was born in the US and came to Portugal 2.5 years ago. After dealing with the typical California urbanite, I feel for my people. The issue isn't just the price increases in many things in my home country. It is also that these people, once they are allowed to vote in Portugal, will push for the same stuff that they did in California and screw my politically/socially moderate home country. Very sad, maybe I will start voting accordingly to counterbalance this.
Stealing photos of people's private lives and passing them around isn't humorous. In some cases, such as teens at schools, it has caused the victims to commit suicide.

Even if you don't care if your photos were leaked, that doesn't give you a right to victimize others.
The way i can see robotaxis getting out of the thin-margin category is to ensure they have proprietary AI etc for the nagivation and safety.

This way, there would be a huge barrier for entry to any competition, and they can keep the price high.

And thus, i would want to see the gov't set legislation to prevent this from happening - the AI and navigation software must be made open (ostensibly for audit purposes...but it would be something that is hard to prove you've copied it?). After all, the thin margins of such a business means benefits to society at large.
Friendlier sql is MySQL "insert into set".

Normal insert, hard to read:

INSERT INTO table1 ( field1, field2, field3, ... ) VALUES ('value1', 'value2', 'value3', ... );

vs

Easier to read:

INSERT INTO table1 SET field1='value1', field2='value2', field3='value3', ...
Not that long ago, California paid $2B in fraudulent benefits.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-12-07/bank-of-...

That’s a single program. Forget it, Jack. It’s China Town.
The number of pirates has drastically decreased since abandoning the gold standard. Sure you're not carrying water for Big Pirate?
> I think using Svelte was a mistake

Why do you think that?
That party is only socialist in name. LOL
God, surely there are better text to speech implementations these days than whatever that is.
Yes but conversely nerve gas exists, and is far more destructive - as well as just regular pathogens.

Unless these things are capable of replication (they're not) then they're just an advanced version of regular drugs.
The problem with attacking Tether is, how do you keep your money if by crashing Tether you also bankrupt all the major exchanges?
I live in a suburban single-family home in the US with a yard and garden in a small town just outside a small city. I use my car once a week at most (but normally not at all), usually just to enjoy a day trip into the city. From home we walk or bike to restaurants, groceries, coffee, library, parks, breweries, boutique stores, etc. I think this is the ideal, and if someone gave me all the money in the world I’d honestly be hard pressed to find a place I’d rather live. But even money isn’t an issue, because cost of living is fairly low here.

I think it’s a mistake to assume that outside the cities it’s all highways and endless suburbs.
Technically you could've still sold it even when the chain was "halted", since there were still a few exchanges that kept their various Luna markets open, and centralized exchange trades happen off chain. The problem was that you couldnt transfer your Luna from your private wallet to exchange wallet.

Now the chain has resumed, and you can transfer Luna between wallets, but they have disabled on chain swapping between Luna and UST, and closed the IBC channels which allow you to "bridge" your Luna or UST from the Terra chain, to another sovereign blockchain.
It's nicer to hike on a sunny day than a windy day.
None that I know of. Of course it would be nice to have an open-source editor as well, but an open-source player is much more important. You can get by with abandonware for the creation side of things, but you can't ask your site visitors to install abandonware that is known for an astonishing amount of scary vulnerabilities (if they use an OS that was supported in the first place).
Why do those with higher IQs live longer? A new study points to answers
Shit, the supply of Action Comics #1 was also limited. I argue that it would had been wise to invest in those ones.
Looks really interesting. We’re using a hand rolled solution on top of JSON schema but it’s pretty unforgiving and sometimes requires very invasive changes to add support for new requirements. One thing I didn’t get a good grasp on from the examples is what the error responses should look like from the server. I would love to use this as the per field and error groups are a very nice feature IMO.
No - the FDIC has basically eliminated the possibility of an old-fashioned bank run on traditional regulated banks.
I think you’re misreading the article… the one and only conclusion for the article is that “Miller recreated in his experiments the atmosphere and waters of the primtive Earth. The role of the rocks was hidden in the walls of the reactors.” The article is only saying that other, inorganic, roots of life may have been a part of the origins of life. The ultimate conclusion of abiogenesis are still the same.
Are these hiring freezes related to tech stock tumble?
What is sad when you have an idea. You just know it will work, but you can't afford to develop it yourself. And you tell yourself that there's no way that anybody else will think of your idea and, worse, patent it!

This was one of mine. I invented it in 1978, when I built a house with a pool in the central atrium. You want that swimming pool to be both indoors and outdoors at the same time. Note the year that "they" invented it.

https://vergola.com/

Pardon me while I just slink off and cry.
So far, the column has been thoroughly misrepresented to wind people up.

Levine, the "lib reporter" in question, made it very clear that despite Musk not having a legal, ethical, or logical leg to stand on, it's quite likely that he can do what he wants and get away with it.

Levine acknowledged that the fact that Twitter could sue and theoretically win doesn't mean they want to go through the hassle. Even if they did win, something external might happen that would make the deal closure impossible.

Levine has pointed out several times that Musk is a guy who has gone out and tried to ruin the careers of SEC personnel, and this must have some chilling effect on regulators enforcing the rules. Other people might have noticed that the richest man in the world is pretty vindictive.

He further points to news the SEC is "investigating" the incorrect filing of forms related to buying Twitter stock and ridicules the idea - look at the calendar and look at when the forms were filed, he says - as he called it in an earlier column.
I’ve been thinking about this as well. Something like an application markup language.

index.aml with an application object model. No idea what it would look like, but I’d love for html to just be allowed to be html.
I'm no bitcoin defender, but that's not really how inflation works. Inflation is not just an increase in the base money supply. For example, a supply chain crisis can cause inflation without the money supply changing at all. And central banks can control inflation by controlling lending without printing or destroying money. Lending creates "virtual money" that contributes to inflation, so one of the ways central banks control inflation is by increasing or decreasing interest rates.

Bitcoin makes these things much more difficult, of course, and would never be a good currency compared to what we have now. But the gold standard has almost exactly the same properties as bitcoin, and gold-backed currency worked okay in the US for a long time.
Good luck to the devs who worked at Luna protocol. Or the dozens of other *Finance Yield Farms that got hacked. Or to the ones who worked at Yuga Labs and cost hundreds of millions of dollars in gas fees to their investors.

Good intentions don’t seem to be helping this space imo, they keep getting dragged down by the realities of “Code will have Bugs”, and “I can’t trust anyone to manage their private keys”, or “scaling issues”.
And what if that company with 5 million in revenue has a net profit margin of 20% and the company with 50 million in revenue has a negative profit margin?
They are reliable enough but not exactly perfect. It’s pretty common to have the chain slip off. Even on a well adjusted setup the chain can still slip sometimes. It’s just acceptable because it’s easy to pull back on. But if it was a deeply internal part like on a car, it wouldn’t be acceptable
Interesting. Seems possible then to send your own signals spoofing drone locations. You could fill the receiver with drones that are not there.
If it is going to die or become a clearly bad neighborhood forever, better it dies sooner.

Your enthusiasm, skills and expenditure of life can be applied to many things.
Consider this: subsidize something societies want more of, tax something society wants less of.

Wouldn't this be a pragmatic way to raise tax revenue? What do we want less of?

Pollution.

What do we want more of?

Jobs, prosperity, the good things in life.

So tax pollution instead of things like jobs, prosperity, etc.
Has it though? If piracy is the act of invading someone’s private space where they can be isolated them from help and taking from them, is ransomware just modern piracy with less violence?

Of course the sea pirates are still very active on some areas.
It's a political viewpoint yes but a relevant one to explain what the attempted creation of model minority does to actual people and their minds, my mind, due to odd ball immigration policies. I don't think we are "model/special" in any way, skilled immigrants aren't superior to any other racial group iMO.

The same dichotomy I talk about might be created in other countries as well but what is different weird is that in the US they intentionally chose[1] to make this community to show to the world, in part, how they liberal and progressive America can be (which has its own contradictions). The intention was and is very clear and the policy really screws with the mind.

To me(and maybe others) being in the reference is very relevant because we, I, in many ways live a privileged, sheltered life and I wanted to highlight how odd that is for my mind to comprehend that that privilege is at the whims of people and circumstances barely in my control and in ways that if I were in my country of citizenship such privilege would be be interpreted by me as laissez faire.

The other thing is that being a part of choosing the reference is that I have done nothing special to get here. I am lucky. And then there are other people that some apparatchik did not choose who were exactly as good as me but are living in tough circumstances back in my home country. This makes the dichotomy of living here even more crazy for me

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_minority#Selective_immig...
LTC is down 70% from its 2017 peak, during which time BTC doubled. What will happen to LTC when BTC loses 50%?
>Where I think the key point is is either side willing to go to court to expose the dirty laundry.

This was all covered in the other half of the column:

"As one merger arbitrageur put it to me, “If you’re reading the contract, you’ve lost. Lots of people reading the contract this morning.” Sadly I am one of them, and I do feel like I’ve lost."

...

"Elon Musk has made it very clear that the rule of law simply does not apply to him, and this has worked well for him. If he wants to ignore the merger agreement that he signed, he will. If you take him to court, he will put up a brutal fight and make things as unpleasant as possible for you. This puts his counterparties, like Twitter, in a tough position. They have a contract. But so what?"
HTMX is fantastic. Today I built a proof of concept in Django+HTMX+D3.js. Fully reactive, interactive, HTML-first widgets with no npm nor "build" stage. Do anything with good ole HTML templates and just HTMX and D3!
Indeed. The "Free Market" can elevate a ruthless plutocracy of robber barons with private armies far longer than the little people can stay alive.

As the Bezos Battalion, the Zuckerberg Zealots and the Musk Machines close in around your hometown's lithium supply, you can of course die with pride knowing that you believed in the Constitution and lived as the Founders intended.

(plz no ban, I love Free Markets, I'm just working on my creative writing)
Yes, this is the nature of arbitrage opportunities. You are leveling the price of two assets by moving liquidity. You keep doing it until the prices normalize and the arbitrage opportunity dissapears.

In this case "normalizing" was going to zero for luna because that is what became the shared understanding of the value of what it was backed by.
Ask HN: From the software you used last week – which to replace first?
Which of the software that you used last week are you most keen on replacing with something better?

For me, it is mostly internal company software.
I would often listen or check for children breathing, well into their grade school years.

You learn when to switch off and honor their privacy. I don't know how to articulate the signals that would tell me they were fast asleep, such a visceral experience.
Dead wrong. This is the major take away from 2008 that has been widely reported on in pop media. The junk was repackaged so it could be stamped AAA
I'm thinking of my buddy back in Missouri -- not wealthy; not a lobbyist, PR professional, or any kind of professional -- who told me (more or less):

"It's unfair. It's the one tax you can't avoid. No matter what you do, you can't opt out. It's like you don't even own your own property. The government owns it. You never really own anything, as long as they can tax you just for existing on your own land."

That's the intuitive, everyman objection.
Ah yes, that old study/book "The Limits to Growth" from 1972. How it haunts me still. Along with the first IPCC report I read 10 years ago. I do wonder what the future (present) holds. Of course, you're right about running out of sand. I hope our standard of living doesn't fall that much. In my lifetime. As was said by everyone for a century.
Sad little mobile users are sad. And little. And immobile.
It's almost as if scarcity alone is not sufficient for something to go up in value.
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People have been absolutely positive that Tether is going to collapse any second now for about 6 years now and so far it hasn't happened.
Did some human create my ability to work in a factory stacking boxes or to work as a software developer, both things that I have done? Which human created that?

And suppose no human did that, to talk about sharing that value equally? That sounds really creepy to me.
Managed to make a massive cursor and it was broadcasted to the whole party. Had some fun hacking this with Chrome dev tools.

Was simple as breakpointing in dev tools on "mousewheel", setting h.scale = 15, and then resuming. Massive cursor and massive fun. I'm sure people were wondering how I got mine so big. Considering it was clamped to 1.

I've thought about injecting a non-zero number to crash the app or perhaps inject some XSS to run some fun code on everyone's machine but...I decided to be nice and not literally crash the party. ;-)

All that's needed to fix this "exploit" is to properly sanitize data on the way in. Classic example of why sanitizing I/O is important!

All in all-- fun app OP.
When I was in the biz we called it "write a word, take a third."
The gold-backed currency did not, in fact, work okay in the US for a long time. Between 1836 and the Great Depression, the economy went 3 or more years between recessions only 4 times. By comparison, the last three gaps between recessions were 7, 10, and 6 years; and it's now been 13 years since the last one.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recessions_in_the_Unit...
$15k per year if you include paper bonds from your tax return. And that is dramatically more than the median American saves every year.
The reason might not be for the health of the individual - as evolution emphasize reproductive fitness and not longevity.

Evolution make individuals of a specie healthy and fit until they reproduce and raise their young, and after that the evolutionary pressure becomes negative (are now competing against offspring success in limited resources).
Making fifty TIC-80 carts in a weekend
This happened during the Asian financial crisis of the late 1980s, late 90s, and early to mid 2000s, depending on the country. Some people speculate that the currencies were manipulated to crash so that people could swoop in and buy assets for cheap in Asian countries. Samsung to this day has large foreign investor ownership for example.
Sorry, what? Terribly sorry to hear about it, but you didn't bring your own trauma into this until just now, so I'm not sure how you'd think I was mocking it. I said that I don't need the consolation.

Please talk to a therapist about your trauma. The internet is not kind.
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Thanks, I might if I continue to stick with Synology. (Not sure that I will, but still.)
I've always been shocked that HTML forms only support GET and POST and there's zero interest in supporting more HTTP methods in forms even in 2022. If forms supported the whole range of HTTP methods we could have a user facing web that's identical to a REST API, with different Accept and Content-type headers. Imagine how much development time we could save if forms supported DELETE and PUT!
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>...does that by itself mean the slaves were treated worse?

No, but specifically targeting Black people for marginalization by doing things like removing their ability to vote does count as being "treated worse".

>... just want to work good land, which by this point they often own.

If you think that the end of slavery automatically resulted in Black people owning land they farm on you need to read about what actually happens.
Tax rates for the wealthy have also declined massively.
To be fair, you are comparing a cryptographic algorithm to a consensus (leader election) algorithm. Not exactly apples to apples